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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)
Translation © by Lyle Neff

Если жизнь тебя обманет
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Если жизнь тебя обманет,
Не печалься, не сердись,
В день уныния смирись:
День веселья верь, настанет.

Сердце в будущем живёт;
Настоящее уныло;
Всё мгновенно, всё пройдёт;
Что пройдёт, то будет мило.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, 1825, first published 1825 [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 Konstantin Kralovich Albrekht (1836 - 1893), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Anatoly Nikolayevich Aleksandrov (1888 - 1982), "В альбом", op. 13 (Два стихотворения А. С. Пушкина (Dva stikhotvorenija A. S. Pushkina) = Two Poems by Pushkin) no. 2 (1918), published 1919 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Если жизнь тебя обманет", published 1829 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Yury Karlovich Arnold (1811 - 1898), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Boris Aleksandrovich Chaikovsky (1925 - 1996), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Если жизнь тебя обманет", op. 57 (Двадцать пять стихотворении Пушкина = Dvadcat' pjat' stikhotvorenii Pushkina (25 Poems of Pushkin)) no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Dellen (1896 - c1927), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georgy Aleksandrovich Demidov (1837 - 1870), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Если жизнь тебя обманет", op. 12 (Шесть романсов (Shest' romansov) = Six Romances) no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Iosif Karlovich Gunke (1802 - 1883), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Leonid Leonidovich Lisovsky (1866 - 1934), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Если жизнь тебя обманет", op. 61 (Acht Lieder = Восемь песен (Vosem' pesen)) no. 4, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Vanno Ilyich Muradeli (1909 - 1970), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sergey Alekseyevich Razoryonov (1909 - 1996), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020), "Если жизнь тебя обманет", op. 19a (Dva stikhotvorenija Aleksandra Pushkina) no. 2, published 1976 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Otar Vasilyevich Taktakishvili (1924 - 1989), "Не печалься, не сердись" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Boris Mikhailovich Terentyev (1913 - 1989), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nikolai Andreyevich Tivol'sky (b. 1834), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Mariya Vasilyevna Vorontsova , "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vsevolod Nikolayevich Vsevolozhsky (1869 - 1904), "Если жизнь тебя обманет" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Застольная песнь No. 1", op. 31 no. 2 [ mixed chorus a cappella ], Moscow, Leipzig: Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by L. Weinhold ; composed by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Lyle Neff) , "If life deceives you", copyright © 2012, (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: 31

If life deceives you
Language: English  after the Russian (Русский) 
If life deceives you,
Do not mourn, do not be angry,
On the day of dismay, resign youself:
Believe a day of merriment will come.

The heart lives in the future;
The present is dismal;
All things are momentary, all things will pass;
What will pass will be nice.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © 2012 by Lyle Neff, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

  • a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, 1825, first published 1825
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This text was added to the website: 2012-12-12
Line count: 8
Word count: 49

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