Proschanie Slavianki - Videos

with Ceremonies and Marches

with a Soviet soldier in Berlin (2010).

Soviet soldiers in Moscow (1990).

with a T-34 tank, a lady and two soldiers in Kharkov where this legendary tank was developed and produced.

Russian musicians in St.Petersburg became very happy when I asked them to play Proschanie Slavianki (2003).

Russian sodiers in Moscow (2010). For security reasons, they do not want their their faces to be photographed.

Stalin Organ in St. Petersburg. I was there to attend a conference in 2003. I am with a young Russian lady in this photo.

• Why do I like this music so much? Click here. written in Korean.

• Vasily Agapin was the composer.

  1. Military Parade (2008).

  2. without commentary.

  3. With Kremlin fireworks.
  4. Another video.

  5. Red Square Ceremony and Parade (2007).

  6. Central Ministry of Defense Band.

  7. Another Version of Ministry of Defense Band at the Kremlin Theatre in Moscow.

• Aemrican High School Band.
  1. Another High School Band,

  2. Egyptian Band.
  3. Isralei Soldiers.

  4. Chinese female soldiers.
     
  5. Another Chinese video.

  6. Norway Band.
  7. Norway Orchestra,
  8. Norwegians like Proschanie Slavianki.

  9. German Band.

  10. Israeli Army.

  11. Japanese Army Band.

  12. Scottish Band.

  13. American High School Band.

  14. Another American band.

  15. Swedish band.

  16. Chinese Female Soldiers.

  17. Netherland Army Band.

  18. Video from concert in Sofia 24.10.2010, Farewell of Slavianka (Russian: Proshchanye Slav1anki) is a Russian patriotic march, written by the composer Vasily Agapkin in honour of the Bulgarian women bidding farewell to their husbands who left for the First Balkan War. The march premiered in Tambov in 1912 and was subsequently released as a single. Slavianka means "Slavic woman".

• Soviet Movie entitled Letyat Zhurablie (Cranes are flying), made in 1957. I saw this movie in 1960 while I was a graduate student in Princeton. The Proschanie Slavianki is played when volunteers to march to the army.

with Vocal Music

1. Female Voice with photos of Soviet soldiers.

2. Male and Female Voices with tragic war-time scenes.

3. Female Voice with English subtitles.

4. Cossack Chorus.

5. with Russian and English Subtitles.

6. with Chinese Subtitles.

7. Accordion Version.
8. Annother Accordionist.

with Combat Scenes

1. with Fierce Battles.

2. Russian Revolution.

3. Stalingrad (1944).

4. Stalin, T34, Stalin Tanks, etc.

5. Photos of Russian Soldiers.

Story

While I was in my high school before (1948-50) the Korean War, the school band played this music every morning. I was in South Korea, fiercely anti-communist and anti-Soviet. How did this happen?