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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Старый муж, грозный муж
 (Sung text for setting by S. Rachmaninov)
 See base text
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Старый муж, грозный муж,
Режь меня, жги меня:
Я тверда, не боюсь
Ни нока, ни огня.

Ненавижу тебя,
Презираю тебя,
Я другого люблю,
Умираю любя.

Режь меня, жги меня;
Не зкажу ничего;
Старый муж, грозный муж,
Не узнаешь его.

Он свежее весны
Жарче летнего дня;
Как он молод и свеж
Как он любит меня!

Как ласкала его
Я в ночной тишине!
Как смеялись тогда
Мы твоей седине!

Note: this is an excerpt from a much longer poem titled "Цыганы" [ru.wikisource.org, external website]

See also Pomey's very loose translation Désespoir.

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Note on Transliterations

Composition:

    Set to music by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Старый муж, грозный муж"

Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), appears in Цыганы (Cygany), first published 1824

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Sofia Peycheva) , "Old husband, terrible husband", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 68

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