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by Glafira Nikolayevna Mamoshina (1870 - 1942), as G. Galina
Translation © by Emily Ezust

Как хорошо... Взгляни, вдали
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE GER ITA JPN POL SPA
[Как]1 хорошо... Взгляни, вдали
Огнём горит река;
Цветным ковром луга легли,
Белеют облака.
Здесь нет людей... Здесь тишина.
Здесь только Бог да я.
Цветы, да старая сосна,
Да ты, мечта моя...

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   S. Rachmaninov 

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Confirmed with «Любовь – небес святое слово». Классика русской женской поэзии, Litres, 2022, accessed through Google Books.

1 Rachmaninov: "Здесь"

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Text Authorship:

  • by Glafira Nikolayevna Mamoshina (1870 - 1942), as G. Galina, no title, first published 1902 [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 Boris Vladimirovich Podgoretsky (1873 - 1919), "Как хорошо" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Здесь хорошо", op. 21 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve songs)) no. 7 (1902) [ voice and orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Nikolay Andreyevich Sass-Tisovsky (1877 - 1942), "Здесь хорошо" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nikolay Andreyevich Sass-Tisovsky (1877 - 1942), "Как хорошо… взгляни в дали" [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "How nice it is here", copyright ©
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ici il fait bon", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Hier ist es schön", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Quanta bellezza", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • POL Polish (Polski) (Michał Czaposki) , "Tak dobrze tu", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Sol Crespo) , "Aquí todo está bien", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 32

How nice it is here
Language: English  after the Russian (Русский) 
How nice it is here... Look - far away,
The river is a blaze of fire;
The meadows lie like carpets of colour
The clouds are white.
Here there is no one... Here it is silent...
Here is only God and I,
The flowers, the old pine tree,
And you, my dream!

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 51

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