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by Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819 - 1898)

За окном в тени мелькает
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
[За окном]1 в тени мелькает 
  Русая головка.
Ты не спишь, моё мученье!
  Ты не спишь, плутовка!

[Выходи ж]2 ко мне навстречу!
  С жаждой поцелуя
[К сердцу сердце]3 молодое
  Пламенно прижму я.

Ты не бойся, если звёзды
  Слишком ярко светят:
Я плащом тебя [одену]4
  Так, что не заметят.

[Если сторож нас окликнет,]5
  Назовись солдатом; 
Если спросят, с кем была ты?
  Отвечай, что с братом.

Под надзором богомолки 
  Ведь тюрьма наскучит,
А неволя поневоле 
  Хитрости научит.

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•   A. Dargomyzhsky 

A. Dargomyzhsky sets stanzas 1-4

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1 Dargomyzhsky: "У окна" ("U okna")
2 Dargomyzhsky: "Выходи" ("Vykhodi")
3 Dargomyzhsky: "сердце к сердцу" ("serdce k serdcu")
4 Dargomyzhsky: "накрою" ("nakroju")
5 Dargomyzhsky: "Если часовой окликнет" ("Jesli chasovoj okliknet")

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Text Authorship:

  • by Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819 - 1898), "Вызов", written 1844 [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 Nikolai Vasil'yevich Artsybushev (1858 - 1937), "Вызов" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pavel Petrovich Bulakhov (1824 - 1875), "Вызов" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869), "Русая головка", stanzas 1-4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "Вызов" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Karl Engel (1824 - ?), "За окном в тени мелькает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nikolai Vladimirovich Galkin (1856 - 1906), "За окном в тени мелькает" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "За окном в тени мелькает", op. 60 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve romances) = Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 10 (1886) [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bruno Tutenberg) , "Durch das Fenster seh ich schimmern..."


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 79

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