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by Nikolai Porfiryevich Grekov (1810 - 1866)

Translation © by Sergey Rybin

Где ты, звёздочка?

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE GER GER

Где ты, звёздочка, ах, где ты, ясная?
Иль затмилася тучей [мрачною]¹?
Где ты, девица, где ты, красная?
Иль покинула друга милого?²

И я с горести, со лютой тоски,
Пойду во поле, поле чистое,
Не увижу ли ясной звездочки,
Я не встречу ли красной девицы?

Туча чёрная скрыла звёздочку,
Земля хладная взяла девицу.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• M. Musorgsky

M. Musorgsky sets stanzas 1, 3

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¹ Musorgsky: "чёрною, тучей чёрною, тучей мрачною" ("chjornoju, tuchej chjornoju, tuchej mrachnoju")
² Musorgsky adds "Друга милого, ненаглядного" ("Druga milogo, nenagljadnogo?")

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Text Authorship:

by Nikolai Porfiryevich Grekov (1810 - 1866), "Где ты, звёздочка?", written 1840? [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 Konstantin Petrovich Galler (1845 - 1888), "Где ты, звёздочка?" [sung text not yet checked]
by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881), "Где ты, звёздочка?", 1857, published 1911, stanzas 1,3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by N. V. Pilikin , "Где ты, звёздочка?", 1903 [ chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Где ты, звёздочка?", published 1840? [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Erin Franklin) , "Where are you little star?", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "Where are you, little star?", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Où es-tu, petite étoile ?", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Frieder Anders) , "Wo bist du, Sternlein?", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Sternlein, wo bist du?", copyright © 2018, (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.
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Word count: 54

Where are you, little star?

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Where are you, little star? Where are you, bright one? 
Have you been eclipsed by a black cloud, by a black cloud, a fearsome one? 
Where are you, young maiden, where are you, beautiful one? 
Have you left your dear friend, your dear friend, your beloved one? 






A black cloud has covered the little star, 
Cold earth has taken the young maiden.

Note: this is a translation of Musorsky's version.

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