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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Ja vas ljubyl: ljubov' eščё, bыt' možet
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG FRE ITA
Ja vas ljubyl: ljubov' eščё, bыt' možet,
V duše moej uhasla ne sovsem;
No pust' ona vas bol'še ne trevožyt:
JA ne choču pečalyt' vas nyčem.

JA vas ljubyl bezmolvno, beznadežno,
[To robost'ju, to revnost'ju tomym]1:
JA vas ljubyl tak yskrenno, tak nežno,
Kak daj vam Boh ljubymoj bыt' druhym.

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1 Tolstoy: "То ревностью, то страстию томим " ("To revnost'ju, to strastiju tomim")

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, 1829, first published 1830 [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 Fyodor Stepanovich Akimenko (1876 - 1945), "Я вас любил", op. 6 (4 Romansa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano (4 Романса с сопровождением фортепиано) = Vier Romanzen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Я вас любил", 1834, published 1834 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Vladislav Frantsevich Aloiz (1860 - c1917), "Я вас любил", op. 43 no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931), "Я вас любил", op. 30 no. 5, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Souvenir de Kozatskoé, no. 5, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Я вас любил", 1972 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Я вас любил", op. 33 no. 3 (1885-1886), published 1886 [ voice and piano ], St. Petersburg: Bessel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869), "Я вас любил" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Kara Abulfaz ogly Karayev (1918 - 1982), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko (1896 - c1938), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Grigory Aleksandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko (1832 - 1870), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Viktor Ivanovich Lipchenko , "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Я вас любил", op. 32 (Шесть стихотворений (Shest' stikhotvorenij)) no. 4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Olga Vasilyevna Nikolskaya (b. 1916), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sergey Yevgenevich Novikov (d. 1944), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sergey Vladimirovich Protopopov (1883 - 1954), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sergey Alekseyevich Razoryonov (1909 - 1996), "Я вас любил" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov (1864 - 1920), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by A. D. Sheremetev (1859 - 1931), "Я вас любил" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Boris Sergeyevich Sheremetyev (1822 - 1906), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Yevgeny Vikentevich Slavinsky (1897 - 1978), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Feofil Matveyevich Tolstoy (1809 - 1881), "Я вас любил", published 1831 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Nikolay Apollonovich Tutkovsky (1857 - 1931), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Я вас любил" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Mikhailo Mikhaylovych Zherbin (1911 - 2004), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation possibly by Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859 - 1951); composed by Josef Bohuslav Foerster.
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  • Also set in English, a translation by Zola Essman ; composed by Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork.
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  • Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Julian Tuwim (1894 - 1953) , no title ; composed by Henryk Czyż.
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  • Also set in Russian (Русский), [adaptation] ; composed by Aleksandr Lvovich Gurilyov.
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  • Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Yaroslav Yosypovych Lopatynsky.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "曾经爱你", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "I loved you", copyright ©
  • ENG English (Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi) , "I loved thee", appears in Russian Lyrics, first published 1916
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Je vous aimais", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Ti ho amata", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 50

Ja vas ljubyv
Language: Ukrainian (Українська)  after the Russian (Русский) 
Ja vas ljubyv, ljubov pohasla može,
Ta šče v duši moïj vona horyt',
Vas bil'še vže vona ne potryvožyt',
JA ž ne bažaju ničym vas žuryt'.

JA vas ljubyv, kochannjam tychym, ščyrym,
A v serci strast', a dušu ljak hnityv,
JA vas ljubyv tak nižno, tak bez miry,
Jak, daj vam boh, ščob druhyj vas ljubyv.

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Based on:

  • a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, 1829, first published 1830
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Yaroslav Yosypovych Lopatynsky (1871 - 1936), "Я вас любив" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2023-03-21
Line count: 8
Word count: 56

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