Откуда такая нежность? | Откуда такая нежность?

by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941)

Otkuda takaya nezhnost`?

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE

Otkuda takaya nezhnost`?
Ne pervy'e -- e`ti kudri
Razglazhivayu, i guby'
Znavala temnej tvoix. 

Vsxodili i gasli zvyozdy'
-- Otkuda takaya nezhnost`? --
Vsxodili i gasli ochi 
U samy'x moix ochej. 

Eshhyo ne takie pesni 
YA slushala noch`yu temnoj
[Venchaemaya — o nezhnost`! —]¹
Na samoj grudi pevcza.

Otkuda takaya nezhnost`,
I chto s neyu delat`, otrok
Lukavy'j, pevecz zaxozhij, 
S resniczami -- net dlinnej?

Available sung texts: ← What is this?

• D. Shostakovich

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Text Authorship:

by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941), no title, first published 1916 [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 Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Откуда такая нежность" [sung text not yet checked]
by Zhanneta Lazarevna Metallidi (1934 - 2019), "Откуда такая нежность?", from Вокальный цикл на стихи М. Цветаевой (Vokal'nyj cikl na stikhi M. Cvetajevoj) = Vocal Cycle to the Verses by M. Tsvetayeva, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Откуда такая нежность?", op. 143a no. 2, from Шесть стихотворении Марини Цветаевой = Shest' stikhotvorenii Marini Cvetajevoj, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

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