Otchalila lodka… Chut` brezzhil rassvet…
V ushax razdavalsya [proshhal`ny'j]1 privet,
Dy'shal on nezhdannoyu laskoj…
Svinczovoe more shumelo krugom…
Vsyo e`to mne kazhetsya sladostny'm snom,
Volshebnoj, nesby'tochnoj skazkoj!

O net, to ne son by'l! V dali goluboj
Dve bely'e chajki neslis` nad vodoj,
I sery'e tuchki leteli, --
I vsyo, chto skazat` ya ne mog, ne uspel,
Kipelo v dushe... i vostok chut` alel,
I volny' shumeli, shumeli!

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Confirmed with А.Н.Апухтин, Стихотворения. Библиотека поэта. Большая серия. 2-е изд., Ленинград: Советский писатель, 1961.

¹ Prokofiev: "последний" (poslednij)

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Text Authorship:

• by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893), no title, written 1879 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Pallady Andreyevich Bogdanov (1881 - 1971), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Отчалила лодка", op. 63 (Двенадцать романсов (Dvenadcat' romansov) = Twelve Romances) no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Sergei Grigorevich Golitsyn (1803 - 1868), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vladimir Mitrofanovich Ivanov-Korsunsky (1891 - 1942), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Razumnikovich Kochetov (1864 - 1925), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Boris Vladimirovich Podgoretsky (1873 - 1919), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), "Отчалила лодка", op. 9 no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Andrey Vladimirovich Shcherbachyov (1869 - 1916), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sofya Aleksandrovna Zybina (d. 1897), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]

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

• ENG English (Jennifer Gliere) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le bateau s'en va", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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