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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Translation © by Anton Bespalov, Rianne Stam

Не пой, красавица, при мне

(Sung text for setting by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)

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Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG ITA JPN

Не пой, красавица, при мне
Ты песен Грузии печальной;
Напоминают мне оне
Другую жизнь и берег дальний.

Увы, напоминают мне
Твои жестокие напевы
И степь, и ночь, и при луне
Черты далекой, бедной девы!

Я образ милый, роковой,
Тебя увидев, забываю;
Но ты поёшь, и предо мной
Его я вновь воображаю.

Не пой, красавица, при мне
Ты песен Грузии печальной;
Напоминают мне оне
Другую жизнь и берег дальний.

Note: modern Russian would spell "оне" as "они" ("oni")

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Composition:

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

Text Authorship:

by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, 1828, first published 1829

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ENG English (Anton Bespalov) (Rianne Stam) , "Do not sing, my beauty, to me", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Non cantarmi mia bellezza", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 69

Do not sing, my beauty, to me

(Sung text translation for setting by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)

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Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Do not sing, my beauty, to me
your sad songs of Georgia;
they remind me
of that other life and distant shore.

Alas, They remind me,
your cruel melodies,
of the steppe, the night and moonlit
features of a poor, distant maiden!

That sweet and fateful apparition
I forget when you appear;
but you sing, and before me
I picture that image anew.

Do not sing, my beauty, to me
your sad songs of Georgia;
they remind me
of that other life and distant shore.

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