by Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849)
Translation by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893)
Step`yu idu ya uny'loyu
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the Hungarian (Magyar)
Step`yu idu ya uny'loyu, net ni czvetochka na nej; [Netu zelyonogo dereva]1, gde by' mog spit solovej. Mrachno tak vecher nasupilsya, zvezd ni sleda v vy'shine... Sam ya ne znayu, chto vspomnilas` vdrug v e`tu noru ty' mne! Vspomnilas`, ty', moya milaya, s krotkim [i yasny'm liczom]2... Vizhu tebya i, mne kazhetsya, mgla uzh redeet krugom: i budto pesn` solov`inaya v chashhe zelenoj zvuchit: volny' czvetov koly'xayutsya, v zvezdax vse nebo gorit...
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1 Gretchaninov: "derevca netu zeljonogo"
2 Gretchaninov: "ja jasnym chelom"
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1 Gretchaninov: "derevca netu zeljonogo"
2 Gretchaninov: "ja jasnym chelom"
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Authorship:
- by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893), "Степью иду я унылою", first published 1868 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Hungarian (Magyar) by Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849) [text unavailable]
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 Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Степью иду я унылою", op. 5 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa) = Vier Lieder) no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) , "Over the steppe"
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-09
Line count: 16
Word count: 72