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  1. Очи чёрные Ochi chornyye (Black Eyes) (1884)
    The song is about the black, passionate eyes of a gypsy woman, for whom the singer would sacrifice „all the best that God has given us“. The text was written by the Ukrainian poet Jewhen Hrebinka, who translated his own poem into Russian in 1843. The melody is a waltz by the German-Russian composer Florian Hermann. It became world famous after it was published in 1910 by the Italian-born British Adalgiso Ferraris under the title „Schwarze Augen“ in Germany.