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Sans rien laisser de leur velours. leaving no trace of their velvet touch.<br />
Je rêve aux baisers qui demeurent I dream of kisses that last<br />
toujours. forever.<br />
Ici-bas tous les hommes pleurent Down here men mourn<br />
Leurs amitiés ou leurs amours. for their friendships and loves,<br />
Je rêve aux couples qui demeurent I dream of couples who last<br />
toujours. forever.<br />
Pauline Viardot<br />
Poem by Alexander Pushkin<br />
‘Зак л ин ан иe’ Zaklinanie (Incantation) [CD 2 Track 21]<br />
(pub. 1864)<br />
VLADIMIR CHERNOV<br />
ANOTHER FROM the group of songs in Russian that Viardot published, as<br />
a tribute to her dedicated admirers in Russia, as a souvenir for old friends, as<br />
part of the legacy of her friendship with Turgenev. Pushkin went to his death,<br />
in a senseless duel, aged only 38. In one of his ‘Poems in Prose’, Turgenev,<br />
thinking of Viardot perhaps, wrote of a woman ‘wise and good…everything is<br />
alien to you, and you do not need anyone’. She asks for no sympathy, nor does<br />
she offer any, her glance is deep and inscrutable. ‘So, in the Elysian Fields, to<br />
the sublime sound of Gluck’s melodies, without sorrow and without joy, pass<br />
the graceful shades.’<br />
О , есл и прав да, что вноч и, Oh, if it’s true that in the night<br />
O esli pravda, shto v nochi,<br />
Когда покоятся живы е When the living repose<br />
–101–
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