Vcherashnjaja noch' byla tak svetla

Vcherashnjaja noch' byla tak svetla.
Vcherashnjaja noch' vsjo zvjozdy zazhgla tak jasno,
Chto, gljadja na kholmy i dremljushchij les,
Na vody, blestjashchije bleskom nebes,
Ja dumal: o, zhit' v `etom mire chudes prekrasno!

Prekrasny i volny i dal' stepej,
Prekrasna v odezhde zeljonykh vetvej dubrava;
Prekrasna ljubov' s vechno svezhim venkom,
I druzhby zvezda s nejizmennym luchom,
I pesen vostorg s ozarennym chelom, i slava!

Vzgljanul ja na nebo, tam tverd' jasna;
Vysoko, vysoko voskhodit ona nad bezdnoj;
Tam zvezdy zhivyje katjatsja v ogne...
I detskoje chuvstvo prosnulos' vo mne;
I dumal ja: luchshe nam v toj [tishine]1 nadzvjozdnoj!

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by Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov (1804-1860)

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by Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837-1910) , "Noktjurn", 1895.
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) , "Vcherashnjaja noch'", op. 60 (Dvenadcat' romansov) no. 1 (1886).

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