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by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921)

V oktyabre
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Otkry'l okno. Kakaya xmuraya
Stolicza v oktyabre!
Zabitaya loshadka buraya
Gulyaet na dvore.

Snezhinka legkoyu pushinkoyu
Porxaet na vetru,
I elka slaben`koj vershinkoyu
Motaet na yuru.

Zhilos` legko, zhilos` i molodo –
Proshla moya pora.
Von - mal`chik, posinev ot xoloda,
Drozhit sredi dvora.

Vsyo, vsyo po staromu, by'valomu,
I budet kak vsegda:
Loshadke i mal`chishke malomu
Ne sladki xoloda.

Da i menya bez vsyakix povodov
Zagnali na cherdak.
Nikto moix ne slushal dovodov,
I vy'shel moj tabak.

A vsyo xochu svobodnoj voleyu
Svobodnogo zhit`ya,
Xot` net zvezdy' schastlivoj bolee
S tex por, kak zapil ya!

Davno zvezda v stakan moj kanula, -
Uzheli navsegda?..
No vot dusha opyat` vospryanula:
So mnoj moya zvezda!

Vot, vot - v glazax ply'vet manyashhaya,
Kachaetsya v okne...
I zhizn` nachnetsya nastoyashhaya,
I kry'l`ya budut mne!

I dazhe vsyo moe imushhestvo
S soboyu zaxvachu!
Poznal, poznal svoe mogushhestvo!..
Vot vskriknul... i lechu!

Lechu, lechu k mal`chishke malomu,
Sred` vixrya i ognya...
Vsyo, vsyo po staromu, by'valomu,
Da tol`ko - bez menya!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921) [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 Yevgeny Nikolayevich Ptichkin (1930 - 1993), "В октябре" [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-09-25
Line count: 40
Word count: 163

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