Librettist Song 1: Aleksey Tolstoy (Songs 2 ans 11: Fyodor Tyutchev. Song 3: Anton Chekhov. Song 4: Aleksey Koltsov. Song 5: Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov. Songs 6 and 8: Dmitry Merezhkovsky. Song 7: Aleksey Khomyakov. Song 9: Ivan Bunin (after Taras Shevchenko). Song 10: Glafira Galina. Song 12: Ivan Bunin. Song 13: Yakov Polonsky. Song 14: Aleksey Koltsov. Song 15: Daniil Rathaus)
Date of composition 1906
Dedicated to Arkady Kerzin and Mariya Kerzina
Type Romance
Catalogue Op. 26
Approx. duration 35 minutes
Spoken language Russian
Instruments Voice
Piano
Autotranslations beta Sergueï Rachmaninov: Fifteen Songs, Op. 26
Sergej Vasil'evič Rachmaninov: Fifteen Songs, Op. 26
Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow: Fifteen Songs, Op. 26