[Za oknom]1 v teni mel'kajet 
  Rusaja golovka.
Ty ne spish', mojo muchen'e!
  Ty ne spish', plutovka!

[Vykhodi zh]2 ko mne navstrechu!
  S zhazhdoj poceluja
[K serdcu serdce]3 molodoje
  Plamenno prizhmu ja.

Ty ne bojsja, jesli zvjozdy
  Slishkom jarko svetjat:
Ja plashchom tebja [odenu]4
  Tak, chto ne zametjat.

[Jesli storozh nas okliknet,]5
  Nazovis' soldatom; 
Jesli sprosjat, s kem byla ty?
  Otvechaj, chto s bratom.

Pod nadzorom bogomolki 
  Ved' tjur'ma naskuchit,
A nevolja ponevole 
  Khitrosti nauchit.

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]

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• 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..."

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