Moja balovnica, otdavšis' vesel'ju,
Zal'etsja, kak ptička, serebrjanoj trel'ju,
Kak ptička, načnët ščebetat'-lepetat',
Tak milo načnët lepetat'-ščebetat',
Čto daže dychan'em bojus' ja narušit'
Garmoniju sladkuju devstvennych slov,
I celye dni, i vsju žizn' ja gotov
Krasavicu slušat', i slušat', i slušat'!

Kogda ž [živost' reči]1 ej glazki zažžët
I ščeki sil'nee rumjanit' načnët,
Kogda pri ulybke, skvoz' alye guby,
Kak perly v korallach, blesnut eë zuby,
O, v ėti minuty ja smelo opjat' 
Gljažusja ej v oči i ždu poceluja,
I bolee slušat' eë ne choču ja,
A vsë -- celovat', celovat', celovat'!2

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¹ Rimsky-Korsakov: "смех задором" ("smekh zadorom")
² Tchaikovsky adds here: "Мою баловницу всю жизнь я готов целовать, целовать, целовать" ("Moju balovnicu vsju zhizn' ja gotov celovat', celovat', celovat'").

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Text Authorship:

• by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862), "Моя баловница" [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

• a text in Polish (Polski) by Adam Mickiewicz (1798 - 1855), "Do D... D...", written 1825
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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 Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Моя баловница", op. 42 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 4 (1897) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Моя баловница", op. 27 (Шесть романсов и песни = Shest' romansov i pesni (Six romances and songs)) no. 6 (1875) [sung text checked 1 time]

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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Sergei Grigorevich Golitsyn (1803 - 1868) ; composed by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Eduard Frantsevich Nápravník.
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