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by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842)

Translation © by Johann Winkler

Ты прости‑прощай

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Ты прости-прощай,
Сыр-дремучий бор,
С летней волею,
С зимней вьюгою!

Одному с тобой
Надоело жить,
Под дорогою
До зари ходить!

Поднимусь, пойду
В свою хижину,
На житьё-бытьё
На домашнее.

Там возьму себе
Молоду жену;
И начну с ней жить —
Припеваючи…

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• A. Dyubyuk

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Confirmed with А. В. Кольцов, Полное собрание стихотворений, Ленинград, Советский писатель, 1958.

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Text Authorship:

by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Русская песня", written 1841 [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 Vladimirovich Abutkov (1875 - 1945), "Ты прости прощай", op. 12 (10 Писен) no. 4 [ voice and piano ], Москва (Moscow), Советвенность Издателя `Симфония' [sung text checked 1 time]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "Две русские песни" [ voice and piano ]

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

Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2020-11-30
Line count: 16
Word count: 41

Farewell, you

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Farewell, you,
moist, slumbering forest,
with your summerly freedom
and your winterly blizzards!

With you alone
I'm sick to live,
to walk on your path
until dawn!

I shall rise, I shall
go into my hut,
into an indoor life,
a domestic life.

There I shall
take a young wife
and start together with her
a life without worries.

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Русская песня", written 1841
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This text was added to the website: 2020-11-30
Line count: 16
Word count: 59