Son Rakhili (Kukol'nik, set by M. Glinka) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Ja vidala jego,
zhenikha mojego,
v tikhom radostnom sne,
gde-to v rajskoj strane,
gde-to v rajskoj strane!

Kak on staten, prigozh!
Kak moguch, kak khorosh!
Obnjala ja jego,
zhenikha mojego!
Zhenikha mojego!

Stal i mrachen,
i dik moj surovyj zhenikh!
On nevestu svoju
s smekhom brosil v reku,
s smekhom brosil v reku!

I v volnakh golubykh,
moj uzhasnyj zhenikh,
ja ljubila tebja...
i prosnulas' ljubja,
i prosnulas' ljubja!

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Note on Transliteration

Authorship

Nestor Vasil'yevich Kukol'nik (1809-1868)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)

Muzyka k tragedii N. V. Kukolnika ,,Knjaz' Kholmskij``

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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