Nam zvyozdy' krotkie siyali,
chut` veyal tixij veterok,
krugom czvety' blagouxali,
i volny' laskovo zhurchali
u nashix nog.

My' by'li yuny', my' lyubili,
i s veroj v dal` smotreli my';
v nas gryozy' raduzhny'e zhili,
i nam ne strashny' v`yugi by'li
sedoj zimy'.

Gde zh e`ti nochi s ix siyan`em,
s blagouxayushhej krasoj
i voln tainstvenny'm [rontan`em]1,
nadezhd, vostorzhyonny'x mechtanij
gde svetly'j roj? 

Pomerkli zvyozdy', i uny'lo
ponikli blekly'e czvety'...
Kogda zh, o serdce, vse, chto by'lo,
chto nam vesna s toboj darila,
zabudesh` ty'?

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¹ Tchaikovsky: "журчаньем" ("zhurchan'jem")

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Text Authorship:

• by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893), "Слова для музыки" [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 Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1866 - 1901), "Нам звёзды кроткие сияли" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1870 - 1927), "Нам звёзды кроткие сияли" [ chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Нам звёзды кроткие сияли", op. 60 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve romances) = Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 12 (1886) [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Sergey Vladimirovich Yuferov (1865 - 1927), "Нам звёзды кроткие сияли" [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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