One of Pushkin`s uncles came from Moscow to see little Pushkin for the first time. The uncle was red-haired and pocky. After glancing at his nephew he couldn"t help exclaiming: `O my! He is a real little blackamore!` The five-year-old Pushkin was quick to answer: `Yeah! Not like you, ...
These lines were discovered after Tchaikovsky`s death in his personal papers and published in the literary journal Русский вестник (Russkiy Vestnik - Russian Herald) in 1894. The poem was written in Italy. In the letter to brother Modest the great composer confessed: `For the first ...
A superstar of the 19 c., great Hungarian pianist and composer Ferenc Liszt , or as he was called that time Franz Liszt (Actor pianist Svyatoslav Richter), performing in front of the Russian High society. Young Slava Richter playing the part of Ferenc Liszt in the motion picture ...
MERRY GRAVEDIGGERS - HAMLET V. Savinov Drama Theatre, 2011. The song sung by the Clowns https://youtu.be/T_sOEOS_Slk in the scene (starts from 3:47) is a parody of lyrics of the song composed by L. Schwartz from the Golden Key feature film of 1939. The scene starts as it"s supposed ...
The Moscow Windows played by Tigran Osipov and Alexandre Zelenkov in a style of a Gypsy romance and then develop`d in a style of the Russian retro music of the 50s of the 20c. https://youtu.be/CztolA3I1p8 The Moscow Windows played and taught by Vitaliy Budyak From the MoscowGuitar ...
DON`T WET YOUR PANTS! HAVE NO ANTS IN`EM! JUST WEAR YOUR MOUSTACHE! Igor `Bulldog` Kharlamov & The Lips Group - Гарик "Бульдог" Харламов - Группа Губы https://youtu.be/wAQ-0HSebLA
Josie Carr-Harris, born from Russian mom and Canadian dad, then aged 11, sings `With Nanny` by Mussorgsky. Record of 2010. `With Nanny` is a song from The Nursery (Детская, literally Children's Room) cycle, composed by Modest Mussorgsky between 1868 and 1872 and set to his own ...
`Napoléon, yes, Napoléon`. Russian folk song of 1812 dedicated to Prince Koutouzoff, Mikhail Illarionovich Koutouzoff, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army and guerillas. The song expresses a view-point of the ordinary Russians, peasants of that epoch. Sung by ...
The Caramel - Poom-pum! (Карамель - Пум пам) The R-pop evergreen oldie related to the 2000s https://youtu.be/YdR1dmv-Gxw A nice, catchy melody and not silly lyrics as it may seem. The song sounds something like J-pop anime songs. The Caramel duo was comprised of Lyusia Kobelko and ...
Teodoro`s Song from the Russian version of Lope de Vega`s play `EL PERRO DEL HORTELANO NO COME NI DEJA COMER` sung by Mikhail Boyarsky https://youtu.be/KH2x1lrodHM
МУЖИЧОК С ГАРМОШКОЙ THE LITTLE MAN WITH ACCORDEON - ain`t they dandy, those catchy song, nice performance and excellent choreography? https://youtu.be/_ujUcFz10hk
Initially the song `It`s snowing, it`s snowing` ("А снег идет, а снег идет") was a number of the score of the feature film `The Career of Dima Gorin` ("Карьера Димы Горина") (1961), but then the film was forgotten unlike the very song. An unforgettable song was written within three ...
An iconic Russian children`s song from a no less iconic cartoon https://youtu.be/7EVHdRk9e4g. By this very reason it is a frequent object for the various parodies and even new interpretations https://youtu.be/t7FtxBQapn4
The Spacemen`s Song. Performed by Vladimir Troshin. https://youtu.be/EYK-sNNgce8 March of the Russian Aerospace Forces from the Song of the Spacemen https://youtu.be/6Q9d6UK-46A
Мира Шамвэй ХОЧЕШЬ, ПОДАРЮ ЗВЕЗДУ? THE STAR GIFT by Myra Shumway. Myra Shumway is a character of the novel `Miss Shumway Waves a Wand` (1944) by British writer James Hadley Chase.
Taffy was extraordinarily famous in Russia for her short stories full of humour. Fewer knows as well that she was a poetess. Of course, she was not as great as her sister Mirra (Maria) Lokhvitskaya-Gibert who was an immediate predecessor of Anna Akhmatova, Xenaida Gippius and Marina ...
I`ve kept untouched the old vocabulary of the original text and chose the equivalent, intelligible words in Old Slavonic that are still being used in the Russian poetry.
A very nice children`s song - "Поезд мчит издалека" `Train is going from afar` (Jedzie Pociąg z Daleka)(Polish tekst-karaoke) https://youtu.be/_YRgbUNJtB8
P. Tchaikovsky `The Queen of Spades`. Arya of Hermann `What`s our life? A game!`is sung by Mikhail Didyk. Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2010 П. И. Чайковский. Опера "Пиковая дама". Ария Германа "Что наша жизнь? Игра!" Герман - Михаил Петрович Дидык. Gran Teatre del Liceu, ...
The poem by Evgeniy Yevtushenko that I dared to translate has got an alliteration of `sh-sh` in the original that I replaced with the sound of `w-w` in English.