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Note: before the poem was first published, the last eight lines were removed by imperial censors. They were rediscovered later and published in 1925. They read as follows:

Пусть на земле не будет, братья,
Ни властелинов, ни рабов,
Умолкнут стоны и проклятья,
И стук мечей, и звон оков, --

О лишь тогда, как гимн свободы,
Пусть загремит: “Христос воскрес!” 
И нам ответят все народы:
“Христос воистину воскрес!”

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Text Authorship:

• by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865 - 1941), no title, first published 1888 [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 Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Христос воскрес", op. 26 (Пятнадцать романсов = Pjatnadcat' romansov (Fifteen songs)) no. 6 (1906) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Shawn Thuris) , "Christ is risen", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 61