Кто при звёздах и при луне | Кто при звёздах и при луне

by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Kto pri zvyozdax i pri lune

Language: Russian (Русский)

Kto pri zvyozdax i pri lune
Tak pozdno edet na kone?
Chej e`to kon` neutomimy'j
Bezhit s stepi neobozrimoj?

Kazak na sever derzhit put`,
Kazak ne xochet otdoxnut`
Ni v chistom pole, ni v dubrave,
Ni pri opasnoj pereprave.

Kak stklo bulat ego blestit,
Meshok za pazuxoj zvenit,
Ne spoty'kayas` kon` retivy'j
Bezhit, razmaxivaya grivoj.

Chervoncy' nuzhny' dlya goncza,
Bulat -- potexa molodcza,
Retivy'j kon` -- potexa tozhe,
No shapka dlya nego dorozhe.

Za shapku on ostavit` rad
Konya, chervoncy' i bulat,
No vy'dast shapku tol`ko s boyu,
I to lish` s bujnoj golovoyu.

Zachem on shapkoj dorozhit?
Zatem, chto v nej donos zashit,
Donos na getmana-zlodeya
Czaryu Petru ot Kochubeya.

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Text Authorship:

by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, written 1828, appears in Полтава (Poltava), first canto, first published 1829 [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 Aleksei Nikolayevich Verstovsky (1799 - 1862), "Казак", 1829, published 1829 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Mikhail Yur'yevich Viel'gorsky (1788 - 1856), "Кто при звёздах и при луне", 1831 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi) , "The song of the Kazak", appears in Russian Lyrics, first published 1916 [an adaptation]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 109