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by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941)

Поэт и Царь
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Потусторонним
Залом цареи. 
-- [Кто]1 непреклонный
Мраморный сей?

Столь величавый
В золоте барм? 
-- Пушкинской славы
Жалкий жандарм.

Автора -- хаял,
Рукопись -- стриг. 
Польского края --
Зверский мясник. 

Зорче вглядися!
Не забывай:
Певтсоубийтся
Царь Николай
Первый!

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1 Tsvetaeva: "A"

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Text Authorship:

  • by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941), written 1931 [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 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Поэт и Царь", op. 143a no. 4, from Шесть стихотворении Марини Цветаевой = Shest' stikhotvorenii Marini Cvetajevoj, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "The Poet and the Tsar", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le poète et le tsar", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 33

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