This piece by Aleksey Yermolov is a characteristic late-Romantic cradle song featuring a gentle, rocking accompaniment. It is distinctive for its lush harmonic vocabulary typical of the Russian salon tradition.
The primary challenge is maintaining a consistent, seamless legato line while balancing the soft harmonic support.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Berceuse is rated Henle level 3 of 9 — late beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 4–5. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 4.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 3 — meaning you can already play level 2–3 pieces cleanly. Learning it one level early is possible as a stretch piece, but more than that usually leads to months of frustration.
A typical performance of Berceuse lasts about 3 minutes.
Berceuse is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.
Pieces at a comparable difficulty and character include Albumblad by Oskar Merikanto, Berceuse by Adolf Gutmann, Berceuse by Georges Marty — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.