Les Yeux Noirs is a famous traditional Russian gypsy romance of the 19th century, and a gypsy jazz standard.

The lyrics were written in 1843 by the Ukrainian Romantic poet-writer Yevhen Hrebinka (1812-1848), dedicated to his first wife Maria Vasilyevna. The poem was first published in the Russian literary gazette Literatournaïa gazeta on January 17, 1843. The very moving music, full of elation, joy, melancholy and nostalgia, is inspired by a waltz by the Russian-German composer Florian Herman...