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

Grust' devuški
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Otčego, skaži,
Moj ljubimyj serp,
Počernel ty ves',
Čto kosa moja?

Il' obryzgan ty,
V skuke-goresti,
Po [milu družku]1
Slezoj devič'ej?

V širokich stepjach
Dona [tichova]2
Zelena trava
Davno skošena;

Na sele koscy
Davno ženjatsja
Tol'ko net ego,
Jasna sokola!

Il' on brosil dom,
Razljubil menja,
I ne pridët už
K svoej device?...3

Ne k dobru ž toska
Davit belu grud',
[Ach]4, ne k radosti
Plakat' chočetsja.

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•   A. Gurilyov 

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1 Gurilyov: "милом дружке" (milom druzhke)
2 Gurilyov: "тихого" (tikhogo)
3 Gurilyov follows this stanza with the following stanza:
Ах, не птица там
Летит по небу:
То печальный слух
Об нём носится...
4 Gurilyov: "Нет"

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Грусть девушки", written 1840 [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 Nikolay Yakovlevich Afanasyev (1821 - 1898), "Грусть девушки" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksandr Lvovich Gurilyov (1803 - 1858), "Грусть девушки" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko (1870 - 1921), "Грусть девушки", op. 28 (8 романсов) no. 7, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], Moscow, P. Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Грусть девушки", <<1866 [ high voice and piano ], from Douze Mélodies sur les Poésies Russes, no. 11, Éd. E. Gérard & Cie., anciennement Meissonnier, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Louis Pomey (1835 - 1901) ; composed by Pauline Viardot-García.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 67

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