Pref. and notes on transliteration, p. ii-iv.

Cyrillic and transliterated Russian words; transliterations also printed as text with English translations, p. v-x.

Noch'noy smotr = Night parade / Vasily Zhukovsky, Mikhail Glinka

Ya pomn'u chudnoye mgnoven'ye = I remember the wondrous moment / Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Glinka

F krovi gorit ogon' zhelan'ya = The flame of desire is burning in my blood / Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Glinka

Zhavoronok = The lark / Nestor Kukolnik, Mikhail Glinka

Noch = The night / Alexander Pushkin, Anton Rubinstein

Gruzinskaya pesn'a = Georgian song / Alexander Pushkin, Mily Balakirev

Yevreyskaya pesn'a = Jewish song / Lev Mei, Modeste Mussorgsky

S n'aney = Tell me, dear Nanny / Modeste Mussorgsky

Otchevo? = Why? / Heinrich Heine (Russian version by Lev Mei), Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

To bïlo ranneyu vesnoy ... = It was in the early days of spring ..., op. 38, no. 2 / Alexey Tolstoy, Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

Sred' shumnovo bala ... = Amidst the noise of a ball, op. 38, no. 3 / Alexey Tolstoy, Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

Nam zv'ozdï krotkiye siyali ... = The stars looked tenderly upon us, op. 60, no. 12 / Alexey Pleshcheyev, Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

Rastvoril ya okno ... = I opened my window, op. 63, no. 2 / K.R. (Konstantin Romanov), Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

Redeyet oblakov letuchaya gr'ada = The light flock of clouds disperses, op. 42, no. 3 / Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.