Русская азбука в песнях - Russian ABC in songs

The fourth letter in Russian ABC is Г - G

Г is for гора (gora) - mountain

This word is the same in Polish and similiar in Chech an Ukrainian - Hora

Maybe you've read it at a map (Jelenia Gora, Kutnà Hora and others)

Other languages I don't know...

гора is the noun, the adjective is горный (gornyj) - mountainous

The song, what I've chosen is "Горные вершины" (Gornyje vershiny) - mountain peaks

( in plural the ending is "y" by the noun and "yje" by the adjective)

The words of this song are written by Michail J. Lermontov.

Really it was at first a German poem by Johann Wolfgang Goethe 

and Lermontov has translated it in his own poeticaly kind.

Here is the poem in three languages:

The German original by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Über allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh',

In allen Wipfeln

Spürest du

Kaum einen Hauch;

Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde.

Warte nur!

Balde

Ruhest du auch. 

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The Lermontov poem in Russian:

Горные вершины

Спят во тьме ночной;

Тихие долины

Полны свежей мглой;

Не пылит дорога,

Не дрожат листы...

Подожди немного,

Отдохнёшь и ты.

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and a Translation in English:

Peaks of distant mountains

Sleep in nightime gloom

Deep and soundless valleys

Filled with gentle brume

Dust unstirred on footpath,

Leaf stilled in the tree…

Wait a little longer,

Peace will come to thee

-  Translation by Masha Blokh, found here -

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There are two compositions of this song, one of A. E. Varlamov and one of Anton Rubinstein.
 This is the song of Varlamov, the singer must be Oleg Pogudin
 (information is  missing at youtube)

Here is the Rubintsein-Version, sings Ivan S. Kozlovskij and the Sveshnikov-Boys Choir

Posted for Mrs. Nesbitt's ABC Wednesday