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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Белеет парус одинокий
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  CHI
Белеет парус одинокий
В тумане моря голубом.
Что ищет он в стране далёкой?
Что кинул он в краю родном?

Играют волны, ветер свищет,
И мачта гнётся и скрипит;
Увы, он счастия не ищет
И не от счастия бежит!

Под ним струя светлей лазури,
Над ним луч солнца золотой,
А он, мятежный, просит бури,
Как будто в бурях есть покой!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Парус", first published 1832 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev (1884 - 1949), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Mikhail Mikhailovich Bagrinovsky (1885 - 1966), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Valerian Mikhailovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky (1903 - 1971), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Serge Bortkiewicz (1877 - 1952), "Парус", op. 47 no. 2 (1931?) [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Russische Gedichte. Lieder für Gesang und Klavier, no. 2, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sergey Illiarionovich Bulatov (b. 1908), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Anatoly Nikolayevich Drozdov (1883 - 1950), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Fyodor Grigoryevich Golitsyn (1819 - 1887), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Matvey Akimovich Gozenpud (1903 - 1961), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Soltan Ismayil ogli Hajibeyov (1919 - 1973), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vladimir Mitrofanovich Ivanov-Korsunsky (1891 - 1942), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Murad Magamedovich Kazhlayev (b. 1931), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vsevolod Vladimirovich Kovalyov-Krymsky (b. 1909), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Anna Abramovna Kozakevich (1909 - 2008), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vera Vladimirovna Krasnogliadova (1902 - 1970), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Anatoly Nikolayevich Kremlev (1859 - 1919), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by A. B. Kurakin (flourished c1877), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Grigory Ivanovich Kuzminsky (1794 - 1877), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Zara Aleksandrovna Levina (1906 - 1976), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Grigory Alekseyevich Marenich (1803 - 1918), "Белеет парус одинокий" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by I. Marenich , "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev (1878 - 1942), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Andrey Pavlovich Petrov (1930 - 2006), "Белеет парус одинокий" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Tamara Aleksandrovna Popatenko (1912 - 1991), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vasily Pavlovich Prokudin (1848 - 1910), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georgy Mikhailovich Rimsky-Korsakov (1901 - 1965), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Белеет парус одинокий", op. 36 (Zwölf Lieder aus dem Russischem von F. Bodenstedt) no. 3 (1849-51) [ voice and piano ], Wien, Spina, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksandr Vasilyevich Shaverzashvili (b. 1919), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ivan Petrovich Shishov (1888 - 1947), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Valentin Vasilovich Silvestrov (b. 1937), "Белеет парус одинокий", 1974-1977 [ baritone and piano ], from Тихие песни, no. 10, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Antonio Spadavecchia (1907 - 1988), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nikolay Mikhailovich Strelnikov (1888 - 1939), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov (1915 - 1998), "Парус" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Viktor Konstantinovich Tomilin (1908 - 1941), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Белеет парус одинокий" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Yury Pavlovich Yefimov (b. 1923), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksey Ivanovich Yermolov (1859 - 1925), "Парус" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Zorov , "Белеет парус одинокий" [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892) , "Das Schiff", appears in Russische Dichter, first published 1866 ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Serge Bortkiewicz (1877 - 1952) ; composed by Serge Bortkiewicz.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi) , "The sail", appears in Russian Lyrics, first published 1916


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 59

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