The text of the poem begins "Мой голос для тебя и ласковый и томный..", in English translation: "My voice for thee, my love, with languorous caresses, Disturbs the solemn peace the midnight dark possesses". The poem was also set by Anton Rubinstein.

Librettist Alexander Pushkin
Date of composition 1864 (April the 10th, 1864. Revised in 1868)
First published 1871
Dedicated to Dedicated to N. P. Opochinina
Type Song(s)
Tonality F-sharp Minor
Approx. duration 4 minutes
Spoken language Russian
Instruments Voice
Piano
Autotranslations beta Modeste Moussorgski: Night en fa dièse mineur
Modest Petrovič Musorgskij: Night in fa diesis minore
Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski: Night fis-moll