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    Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Плеще́ев; 4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1825 – 8 October 1893) was a radical Russian poet...
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    were the writers Dostoevsky and Saltykov-Shchedrin, and the poets Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Apollon Maikov, and Taras Shevchenko. Nicholas I, alarmed at the...
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    words by Aleksey Pleshcheyev There Was an Old King (Был старый король) for voice and piano (1894); words by Heinrich Heine in translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev...
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    his brother Valerian. In 1846, on the recommendation of the poet Aleksey Pleshcheyev, he joined the Petrashevsky Circle, founded by Mikhail Petrashevsky...
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  • Tchaikovsky's song was originally set to a Russian translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev of a poem in English called "Roses and Thorns" by the American poet...
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    a text by Aleksey Koltsov "Leaves Rustled Sadly" 1859 1859 Original version, revised in 1863-1866; based on a text by Aleksey Pleshcheyev "What Are Words...
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    published Six Songs (Op. 8), a group of songs set to translations by Aleksey Pleshcheyev of Ukrainian and German poems. Rachmaninoff returned to Moscow, where...
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    feet. With mysterious sadness the stars will shine down on us. (Aleksey Pleshcheyev) Juillet (July): Chant du faucheur (Song of the Reaper) Move the...
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    Stoddard’s 1856 poem "Roses and Thorns", in a Russian translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev, was set for voice and piano by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as "Legend"...
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  • Plekhanov (1857–1918), writer, revolutionary and Marxist theoretician Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825–1893), radical poet, Step Forward! Without Fear or Doubt Pyotr...
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