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Borzoi is the masculine singular form of an archaic Russian adjective that means 'fast'. Borzaya sobaka ('fast dog') is the basic term for sighthounds used by Russians, though sobaka is usually dropped. The name psovaya derived from the word psovina, which means 'wavy, silky coat', just as hortaya (as in hortaya borzaya) means
Statue of Chizhik-Pyzhik near the First Engineer Bridge. In 1994 in Saint Petersburg, one of the city's 1990s' yearly festivals of satire and humor Golden Ostap [] was held, bearing the name of a most popular main character of the 20 century Russian language Soviet humorous / satirical prose Ostap Bender, an ingenious conman mastermind from two filmed novels by Ilya Il'f and Evgeniy Petrov The ...
The Chortai, sometimes spelt Chortaj, is a breed of sighthound from Ukraine. The Chortai is said to resemble a cross between a Greyhound and a short haired Borzoi, being a quite heavily built running hound but nevertheless displaying typical sighthound features. [1] [2]
The song is performed in the key of E minor [6] and Attwood sees the desolate lyrical landscape as being reflected in the descending chord progression of the music: "the chords of E minor and D rock back and forth, and the verse ends with a descent of E minor, D major, B minor, A major – and the descent is a descent in every respect. It feels ...
The film Khrustalyov, My Car! shows a young Jewish boy singing the song in Russian. The song is used in the film Swing by Tony Gatlif. The song is used in the play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner and the film based on this play. It is sung by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg to Roy Cohn, dying of AIDS.
Notably, her song in collaboration with twins M&A "Simple Dimple Pop It Squish" went viral [3] on TikTok in 2021, with videos about stress-relief toys using the sound. [ 4 ] Other Betsy's songs that went viral on social media were "Я тебе поставлю лайк" ("I'll Give You a Like") [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and "Pump It Up".
Sleep, baby, my dearest, Hushabye, a-bye. Quietly the bright moon Is looking at you in the cradle. I will start telling a story, Sing a song; You dream a dream, closing the eyes, Hushabye, a-bye. Over the rocky bed flows the Terek River, And splashes the dark waves; A sly Chechen crawls over the bank, Sharpening his dagger;
"Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" is not a song in the normal sense of the term: it is a rhyming list of fifty Russian composers' names, which Kaye rattled off (in a speaking, not singing, voice) as rapidly as possible.