Ты помнишь ли вечер | Ты помнишь ли вечер, как море шумело

by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Ty' pomnish` li vecher, kak more shumelo

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Ty' pomnish` li vecher, kak more shumelo,
  V shipovnike pel solovej,
Dushisty'e vetki akacii beloj
  Kachalis` na shlyape tvoej?

Mezh kamnej, obrosshix gusty'm vinogradom,
  Doroga by'la tak uzka;
V [molchan`e]¹ nad morem my' exali ryadom,
  [S rukoyu sxodilas`]² ruka.

Ty' tak na sedle nagibalas` krasivo,
  Ty' aly'j shipovnik rvala,
Bulanoj loshadki kosmatuyu grivu
  S lyubov`yu ty' im ubrala;

Odezhdy' tvoej neposlushny'e skladki
  Czeplyalis` za vetvi, a ty'
Bespechno smeyalas` — czvety' na loshadke,
  V rukax i na shlyape czvety'!

Ty' pomnish` li ryov dozhdevogo potoka
  I penu i bry'zgi krugom;
I nam nashe gore kazalos` dalyoko,
  I kak my' zaby'li o nyom!

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• S. Rachmaninov

S. Rachmaninov sets stanzas 1-2, 5

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Confirmed with А. К. Толстой, Сочинения : в 2 т., М.: Художественная литература, 1981. — Т. 1. Стихотворения.

¹ Rachmaninov: "молчании" ("molchanii")
² Rachmaninov: "к руке прилежала" ("k ruke prilezhala")

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Text Authorship:

by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, written 1856, appears in Крымские очерки (Krymskije ocherki), no. 4 [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 César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Ты помнишь ли вечер как море шумело", op. 67 (Восемьнадцать стихотворении А.К. Толстого = Vosem'nadcat' stikhotvorenii A. K. Tolstogo (18 Poems of A. K. Tolstoy)) no. 14, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Moscow, P. Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
by Georgy Eduardovich Konyus (1862 - 1933), "Ты помнишь ли вечер" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Ты помнишь ли вечер", 1893?, stanzas 1-2,5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Anton Bespalov) (Rianne Stam) , "Do you remember the evening", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Rianne Stam

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