Tuchi

Tuchki nebesnyje, vechnyje stranniki! 
Step'ju lazurnoju, cep'ju zhemchuzhnoju
Mchites' vy, budto kak ja zhe, izgnanniki
S milogo severa v storonu juzhnuju. 

Kto zhe vas gonit: sud'by li reshenije? 
Zavist' li tajnaja? zloba l' otkrytaja? 
Ili na vas tjagotit prestuplenije? 
Ili druzej kleveta jadovitaja? 

Net, vam naskuchili nivy besplodnyje... 
Chuzhdy vam strasti i chuzhdy stradanija;
Vechno kholodnyje, vechno svobodnyje,
Net u vas rodiny, net vam izgnanija.

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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814-1841) , "Tuchi", published 1840

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 Asafiev (1884-1949) , "Tuchki nebesnyje", from Liricheskije Stranicy (na temu "Odinochestvo Lermontova"), no. 4.
by Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg (1841-1907) , "Tuchi"
by César Antonovich Cui (1835-1918) , "Tuchi", op. 19 (Sem' romansov i du`etov) no. 6. [duet]
by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813-1869) , "Tuchki nebesnyje"
by Nikolai Platonovich Ogaryov (1813-1877) , "Tuchi"
by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) , "Tuchi"
by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829-1894) , "Tuchi", op. 36 (Zwölf Lieder aus dem Russischem von F. Bodenstedt) no. 4 (1849-51) [voice and piano], Wien, Spina, also set in German
by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948-) , "Tuchi", op. 159 no. 2 (2009) [voice and violoncello], from Ot sosny do luny, no. 2.
by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801-1848) , "Tuchi"

by Jules Bouval (1867-1914) , "Les nuages"

by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829-1894) , "Die Wolken", op. 36 (Zwölf Lieder aus dem Russischem von F. Bodenstedt) no. 4 (1849-51) [voice and piano], Wien, Spina, also set in Russian

ENG English [singable] (Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov)

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The clouds

Clouds in the sky, you are ceaselessly wandering!
As pearly chains in the azure steppes glimmering
Exiled as I have been, constantly hurrying
From native North into South you are quickening.

What drives you there: the command of your destiny?
Some secret jealousy? Or open wickedness?
Or crimes hang heavy on you or some mutiny?
Or your friends' calumny is cruel and poisonous?

No, you were bored to death with these fields' fruitlessness
With all these passions and alien misery,
Ice cold eternally, in steady idleness
You have no homeland and suffer no outlawry.

Singable translation by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948-) , "The clouds", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

a text in Russian by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814-1841) , "Tuchi", published 1840 FRE

Date added to the website: 2009-11-04.