Searching for origin of Pleshcheyev's Legenda

[Anthony Antolini]

Dear Colleagues,

I am editing a new edition of Tchaikovsky's partsong "Legenda" to the
poetry of A. Pleshcheyev. The song appears as No. 5 in Tchaikovsky's Op.
54 "Sixteen Songs for Children" published in 1883 first as a solo song
and then as a choral song.

The poem by Pleshcheyev is entitled "Legenda" and begins "Byl u Khrista
mladentsa sad...:  The poem has a subtitled "S angliiskogo" but no poet
or title from the English is given in any edition of Tchaikovsky's works.

Does anyone know the English origin of Pleshcheyev's poem?

Thank you!

Anthony Antolini, Ph.D.
Department of Music
Bowdoin College
Brunswick Maine 04011

<aantolin at bowdoin.edu>