The Legend of Ataman Stenka Rasin

[jj]

Does anyone know what that's on about?

Neat bit of chorus music.

[LW]

Originally posted by jj
Does anyone know what that's on about?

Neat bit of chorus music.

I can remeber only one verse of the original Russian text of the song, and I pronounce it horribly wrong:

Volga, Voolga, mats radnaaja,
Volga Ruuskaja rieka,
nie vidaalu ti padarka,
oot Donskaava kazaka,
nie vidaalu ti padarka,
oot Donskaava kazaka.


But anyway, Stenka Rasin was a cossack chieftain who rebelled against the Czar in 1669. He lost and was executed, IIRC.

The song tells an old warrior story fitted into Stenka's life. The story itself is significantly older and one version has been told about the Turkish Sultan Mehmed II Conqueror (lived in the 15th century) and perhaps also about some other famous warrior figures.

But in short, the plot is that Stenka and his band are rowing along Volga and Stenka is playing with his new lovely wife. His men accuse him of becoming soft because of a girl so he gets angry and throws the girl into the river to prove that he is a tough guy after all.

[jj]

Originally posted by LW

But in short, the plot is that Stenka and his band are rowing along Volga and Stenka is playing with his new lovely wife. His men accuse him of becoming soft because of a girl so he gets angry and throws the girl into the river to prove that he is a tough guy after all.

Thanks.

So THAT is why it's so dreadfully lubrigious, too.