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by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842)

Ne strashna mne, dobru molodczu
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Ne strashna mne, dobru molodczu,
Volga-matushka shirokaya,
Lesa temny'e, dremuchie,
V`yugi zimnie kreshhenskie.

Uzh kak by'lo po temny'm lesam
Piroval ya zimy' krugly'e;
Po chuzhim krayam na svoj talan
Pogulyal ya, pooxotilsya.

A po Volge, moej matushke, 
Po rodimoj po kormilice,
Vmeste s brat`yami za doby'ch`yu
Na kraj sveta letal sokolom.

No ne Volga, lesa temny'e,
V`yugi zimnia, kreshhenskiya,
Pogubili moyu golovu,
Sokrushili moshh` zheleznuyu...

V nekreshhenom slavnom gorode,
Na krutom, vy'sokom ostrove,
Zhivet devicza krasavicza,
Dochka gostya novgorodskago...

Ona v tereme, chto zoryushka,
Pod oknom cidit raztvorenny'm:
Poet pesni zadushevny'ya,
Nashi bratskiya, otczovskiya.

„Ax, dushal` moya ty', dushen`ka!
Ty' begi so mnoj is terema;
My' s toboyu pticy' vol`ny'ya,
Zhit` poedem v Moskvu krasnuyu.“

Otbechaet emu devicza:
„Za lshhbov` tvoyu, moj mily'j drug
Rada kinut` otcza s mater`yu`
No boyus` suda ya strashnago!“

Zabushuj zhe, nepogodushka,
Razgulyajsya, Volga matushka!
Ty' vozzhmi moyu kruchinushku,
Razmechi volnoj po berezhku!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   M. Balakirev 

M. Balakirev sets stanzas 1-3

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842) [author's text not yet checked 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 Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837 - 1910), "Песня разбойника", stanzas 1-3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Sergey Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1859 - 1924), "Песнь разбойника", op. 43 no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Friedrich Ludwig Konrad Fiedler) , "Lied des Räubers"


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 36
Word count: 148

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