Russian folk songs

Russian song and Russian concert folk dance

Chastushka (, chastushki) is a traditional musical genre of short Russian humorous folk song. Usually associated with high beat frequency, thus the name, coined from in the meaning of "quick". While the root of chastushki can be traced to ancient folklore of dance and wedding songs as well as performances of balagurs (Russian version of minstrels), the genre itself had crystallized fairly recently, in the last third of the 19th century, under the influence of social shifts caused by the abolition of serfdom and industrialization. Spread of the squeezebox in the mid-19th century and its use for

thumb|upright=1.3|A song book cover, 1900 "Korobeiniki" () is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells the story of a meeting between a korobeinik (peddler) and a girl, describing their haggling over goods in a metaphor for seduction. Outside Russia, "Korobeiniki" is widely known as the '''Tetris theme''' tune.

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"Smuglyanka", "Smuglianka", or "Smugljanka" ( "the dark girl", from смуглый "dark, swarthy"; also , romanized: Smugljanka-Moldavanka "the dark Moldovan girl" (swarthy)) is a Russian song written in 1940 by Yakov Shvedov (lyrics) and Anatoliy Grigorevich Novikov (music). It was commissioned by the Kiev Military Districts political office for the District Song and Dance Ensemble, as part of a suite in honour of Grigory Kotovsky, leader of two Moldovan rebellions in Bessarabia Governorate against the Russian Empire in 1905 and 1915. It is written in the style of a Moldovan folk song.

right|thumb|300 px|M. Germashev. «With a Star». 1916

thumb|right|200px|Yablochko performance melody|right thumb|Yablochko in an experimental 1946 Soviet short thumb|right|200px|Sailors from The Red Poppy ballet dancing Yablochko in the backplane Yablochko ( "little apple") is a chastushka-style folk song and dance, traditionally presented as a sailors' dance.

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Russian romance, song performed by Lidia Ruslanova

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1846 song composed by Pyotr Bulakhov

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