E`ti letnie nochi prekrasny'e,
Yarkim svetom luny' ozaryonny'e,
Porozhdayut trevogi neyasny'e,
Probuzhdayut pory'vy' vlyublyonny'e.

Zaby'vaetsya skorb` neob``yatnaya,
Chto daruetsya zhizn`yu uny'loyu,
I blazhenstva kraya blagodatny'e
Raskry'vayutsya tajnoyu siloyu...

I otkry'li drug drugu nevlastny'e
Nad soboyu serdczamy' vlyublyonny'e, 
V e`ti letnie nochi prekrasny'e,
[Yarkim svetom]1 luny' ozaryonny'e.

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¹ Rachmaninov: "Светом ярким" ("Svetom jarkim")

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Text Authorship:

• by Daniil Maximovich Rathaus (1868 - 1937), "Эти летние ночи" [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 Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev (1878 - 1942), "Эти летние ночи" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev (1878 - 1942), "Эти летние ночи", op. 12 no. 1 (1904) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Эти летние ночи", op. 14 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve songs)) no. 5 (1896) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "These summer nights", copyright © 2015

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