by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)
Pust` ya kogo‑nibud` lyublyu
Language: Russian (Русский)
Pust` ya kogo-nibud` lyublyu: Lyubov` ne krasit zhizn` moyu. Ona, kak chumnoe pyatno Na serdce, zhzhet, xotya temno; Vrazhdebnoj siloyu gonim, YA tem zhivu, chto smert` drugim: Zhivu — kak neba vlastelin — V prekrasnom mire — no odin.
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- by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title, written 1831 [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 Viktor Aleksandrovich Khodyashev (1918 - 2000), "Пусть я кого-нибудь люблю" [sung text not yet checked]
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