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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
A chastushka (plural: chastushki) is a simple rhyming poem which would be characterized derisively in English as doggerel.The name originates from the Russian word "часто" ("chasto") – "frequently", or from "частить" ("chastit"), meaning "to do something with high frequency" and probably refers to the high beat frequency of chastushki.
The movie with an American Catholic protagonist was released one month before the 1936 anti-abortion law. [22] Just after that, America and Americans disappeared from Soviet cinema. [ 23 ] Lyubov Orlova had to participate in the anti-abortion law promotion company: "I myself want a child, and I will certainly have one.
Heart of a Dog (Russian: Собачье сердце, romanized: Sobach'ye serdtse, IPA: [sɐˈbatɕjɪ ˈsʲertsə]) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov.A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the New Economic Policy, a period during which communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union. [1]
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 ...
Paul Robeson recorded the song in 1942 under the title "Song of the Plains", sung both in English and Russian. It was released on his Columbia Recordings album Songs of Free Men (1943). The Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson recorded a version of the song in 1967 under the title "Stepp, min stepp" (steppe, my steppe) on the album Jazz på ryska ...
Cantata; words by Olidor; Russian words by Ilya Fyodorovich Tiumenev (Илья Федорович Тюменев) Choral: Русская песня: Russian Song: for voice, chorus and piano: words by Anton Delvig: Choral: 1828: La notte omai s'appresso: La notte omai s'appresso: for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and string orchestra ...
"14 Minutes Until Start" (Russian: Четырнадцать минут до старта, romanized: Chetyrnadtsat' minut do starta), also known as "I Believe, My Friends" (Russian: Я верю, друзья, romanized: Ya veryu, druz'ya) is a popular Soviet and Russian mass song composed in 1960 by Oscar Feltsman, to lyrics by Vladimir Voinovich. [1]