Kak nebesa, tvoj vzor blistaet
Ėmal'ju goluboj,
Kak poceluj, zvučit i taet
Tvoj golos molodoj;

Za zvuk odin volšebnoj reči,
Za tvoj edinyj vzgljad,
[Ja rad otdat']1 krasavca seči,
Gruzinskij moj bulat;

I on poroju sladko bleščet,
I sladostnej zvučit,
Pri zvuke tom duša trepeščet,
I v serdce krov' kipit.

No žizn'ju brannoj i mjatežnoj
Ne tešus' ja s tech por,
Kak uslychal tvoj golos nežnyj
I vstretil milyj vzor.

N. Rimsky-Korsakov sets stanzas 1-2

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¹ Rimsky-Korsakov: "Я бросить рад" ("Ja brosit' rad") ; Sviridov : "Я бросить рад, отдать" ("Ja brosit' rad, otdat'")

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• by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title [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 Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki (1846 - 1919), "Как небеса твой взор блистает", op. 18 (4 Романса с сопровождением фортепиано (4 Romansa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano) = Quatre mélodies) no. 4 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
• by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Как небеса твой взор блистает", op. 13 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 3 (1878), published 1879 [ voice and piano ], St Petersburg, Bessel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Yulyevich Davidov (1838 - 1889), "Как небеса твой взор блистает", published [1890] [ voice and piano ], Moscow: Gutheil [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eduard Stefanovich Kabella (b. 1855), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Yury Vladimirovich Kochurov (1907 - 1852), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
• by A. B. Kurakin (flourished c1877), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mikhail Nikolayevich Kurbatov (1863 - 1934), "Восточная песня" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Mikhailovich Miklashevsky (d. 1935), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Arkady Aleksandrovich Nesterov (1918 - 1999), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko (1883 - 1972), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sergey Vladimirovich Protopopov (1883 - 1954), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Как небеса, твой взор блистает", op. 7 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 4 (1867), stanzas 1-2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ilya Aleksandrovich Sats (1875 - 1912), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (1820 - 1871), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolay Ivanovich Sizov (1866 - 1962), "Как небеса твой взор блистает" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov (1915 - 1998), "Как небеса, твой взор блистает" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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