Czvetok zasoxshij, bezuxanny'j,
Zaby'ty'j v knige vizhu ya,
I vot uzhe mechtoyu strannoj
Dusha napolnilas` moya.

Gde czvel, kogda, kakoj vesnoyu?
I dolgo l` czvel, i sorvan kem?
Chuzhoj, znakomoj li rukoyu?
I polozhen syuda zachem?

Na pamyat` nezhnogo l` svidan`ya
Ili razluki rokovoj,
Il` odinokogo gulyan`ya
V tishi polej, v teni lesnoj?

I zhiv li tot, i ta zhiva li?
[I gde ix ny'nche]1 ugolok?
Ili [uzhe oni]2 uvyali,
Kak sej nevedomy'j czvetok?

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¹ Medtner: "И нынче где их" ("I nynche gde ikh")
² Medtner: "они уже" ("oni uzhe")

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• by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), first published 1832 [author's text not yet checked 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 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Цветок", published 1832 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Olga Ivanovna Baramishvili (1907 - 1956), "Цветок" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd (1852 - 1920), "Цветок", op. 7 (Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 3, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in German (Deutsch), also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mikhail Aronovich Brailovsky (1899 - 1942), "Цветок" [sung text not yet checked]
• by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Цветок", op. 19 (Семь романсов и дуэтов = Sem' romansov i du`etov (Seven romances and duets)) no. 3 (1881), published 1881 [ voice and piano ], St Petersburg, Bessel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Цветок засохший" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Цветок" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Цветок", op. 36 (Шесть стихотворений А. Пушкина (Shest' stikhotvorenij A. Pushkina)) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Цветок засохший", op. 51 (5 романсов на слова Пушкина, с сопровождением фортепиано (5 romansov na slova Pushkina, s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 4 (1897) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Цветок", VWV 1018 [ voice and piano ], from Douze Mélodies sur les Poésies Russes, no. 1, Éd. E. Gérard & Cie., anciennement Meissonnier, also set in French (Français), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Louis Pomey (1835 - 1901) ; composed by Pauline Viardot-García.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by A. Aleksandrova ; composed by Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Maria Bach, Sigizmund Mikhailovich Blumenfel'd.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892) ; composed by Pauline Viardot-García.
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• CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Catulle Mendès) , "La Petite fleur", appears in Petits poèmes russes, in 1. Pouchkine, no. 2, Paris, G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle, first published 1893

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