Rubaiyat, Alone with Myself
1 hr. 43 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Omar Khayyam
Author
Omar Khayyam
Narrators
Yakov Smolensky, Sergey Lukyanov, Mikhail Astangov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Makhmud Vakhidov
Narrator
Yakov Smolensky
Narrator
Sergey Lukyanov
Narrator
Mikhail Astangov
Narrator
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Narrator
Makhmud Vakhidov
Description
Rubaiyat
* “Where did we come from...”
* “Tomorrow, alas, is hidden from our eyes...”
* “The prohibition of wine...”
* “Even if you have lived your life...”
* “The sheikh said to the harlot...”
* “A sage appeared to me in a dream...”
* “If a mill, a bathhouse...”
* “An ocean made of drops is great...”
* “If suddenly grace has descended upon you...”
* “My heart never shunned knowledge...”
* “I do not fear death...”
* “In this world there is a trap at every step...”
* “I shake the branch of hope...”Performed by: Ya. Smolensky * “Fashioning skulls...”
* “My jug...”
* “Dawns shone for people before us too”
* “Our coming and our going...”
* “Some argue about heresy and faith...”
* “The prohibition of wine...”
* “Where a palace once towered...”
* “Among those holding high offices...”
* “Can one find a sinless person in this world...”
* “The dead and the living have one lord...”
* “He who created life...”
* “From fear of death...”
* “The crown from the tsar’s head...”
* “Of all those who set out on that distant road...”
* “In the company of a fool, you will not escape disgrace...”
* “With that handful of ignoramuses...”
* “To please fate...”
* “My enemies call me a philosopher...”
* “Whose heart does not burn...”
* “O sky...”
* “Tell me, why do you persecute me...”
* “Wealth, true enough, cannot replace intelligence...”
* “He on whose table stands a cracked jug...”
* “We drink not because we are drawn to merriment...”
* “Though I am a drunkard...”
* “Oh, if only one could have a crust of bread each day...”
* “I know the look of these pompous asses...”
* “To live life wisely...”
* “If I had the power...”
* “There is no plant nobler or dearer...”
* “The rose said...”
* “Who smiled for a moment...”
* “No one kissed rose-like cheeks...”
* “Men by whose wisdom this world was captivated...”
* “We are the goal and the highest summit of the universe...”
* “No one has beheld either paradise...”
* “You know why...”
* “The spirit of slavery is hidden...”
* “It is not my fault...”
* “He who stitched countless tents of wisdom...”Performed by: S. Lukyanov and M. Astangov * “For many years I reflected on earthly life...”
* “I, a schoolboy in this best of all worlds...”
* “To illuminate the whole world instead of the sun...”
* “If the good were in power...”
* “It is well if your clothes have no tears...”
* “I am doomed to suffer...”
* “Everything will pass...”
* “The cypress with tongues beyond count...”Performed by: I. SmoktunovskyAlone with Myself
A monoperformance in two parts
* “Where did we come from...”
* “Tomorrow, alas, is hidden from our eyes...”
* “The prohibition of wine...”
* “Even if you have lived your life...”
* “The sheikh said to the harlot...”
* “A sage appeared to me in a dream...”
* “If a mill, a bathhouse...”
* “An ocean made of drops is great...”
* “If suddenly grace has descended upon you...”
* “My heart never shunned knowledge...”
* “I do not fear death...”
* “In this world there is a trap at every step...”
* “I shake the branch of hope...”Performed by: Ya. Smolensky * “Fashioning skulls...”
* “My jug...”
* “Dawns shone for people before us too”
* “Our coming and our going...”
* “Some argue about heresy and faith...”
* “The prohibition of wine...”
* “Where a palace once towered...”
* “Among those holding high offices...”
* “Can one find a sinless person in this world...”
* “The dead and the living have one lord...”
* “He who created life...”
* “From fear of death...”
* “The crown from the tsar’s head...”
* “Of all those who set out on that distant road...”
* “In the company of a fool, you will not escape disgrace...”
* “With that handful of ignoramuses...”
* “To please fate...”
* “My enemies call me a philosopher...”
* “Whose heart does not burn...”
* “O sky...”
* “Tell me, why do you persecute me...”
* “Wealth, true enough, cannot replace intelligence...”
* “He on whose table stands a cracked jug...”
* “We drink not because we are drawn to merriment...”
* “Though I am a drunkard...”
* “Oh, if only one could have a crust of bread each day...”
* “I know the look of these pompous asses...”
* “To live life wisely...”
* “If I had the power...”
* “There is no plant nobler or dearer...”
* “The rose said...”
* “Who smiled for a moment...”
* “No one kissed rose-like cheeks...”
* “Men by whose wisdom this world was captivated...”
* “We are the goal and the highest summit of the universe...”
* “No one has beheld either paradise...”
* “You know why...”
* “The spirit of slavery is hidden...”
* “It is not my fault...”
* “He who stitched countless tents of wisdom...”Performed by: S. Lukyanov and M. Astangov * “For many years I reflected on earthly life...”
* “I, a schoolboy in this best of all worlds...”
* “To illuminate the whole world instead of the sun...”
* “If the good were in power...”
* “It is well if your clothes have no tears...”
* “I am doomed to suffer...”
* “Everything will pass...”
* “The cypress with tongues beyond count...”Performed by: I. SmoktunovskyAlone with Myself
A monoperformance in two parts
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00:19
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00:23
01-2
36:47
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00:22
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00:30
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40:26
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00:25
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00:18
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00:35
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00:22
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00:41
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00:29
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00:25
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00:23
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00:35
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