Every year the night 20-21st of June is one of the most beautiful celebrations in St. Petersburg – “Алые Паруса” (Scarlet Sails). Pupils who just finished school are celebrating the end of school and the start of new life.
Every year we are looking for the most beautiful videos of this performance and share them with our readers.
Let’s watch the best videos of Scarlet Sails – 2009:
If you like the videos maybe you want to find out more about this festival and watch Scarlet Sails – 2008!
Today we are watching a very interesting old documentary about Russian outstanding ballet couple: Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasliev. They met each other when they just got to ballet school and they were together for whole life!
Sometimes after all these sad news you want just come home turn on a nice music and smile. Today we are watching Show-Theater “Cinematograph” Moscow, Russia: Flirt, Solo by Alexey Znamenskiy.
Just to make you smile 🙂 Russian Video from Russia Svet and Kyle
The same like you we love all beautiful things in the life! So today we all watch absolutely amazing video: Russian Dancing-Acrobatic Group “Pearls”:
For our readers who wants to know more:
These girls are studying and training in Moscow Dancing-Acrobatic School “Pearls”, the chief is Valentina Nikiforova. The school took a lot of awards in different international competitions. And now we know why!
Let’s watch a Classical Russian Ballet tonight! We just found a very beautiful video of this! Ekaterina Krisanova ( Krysanova ) and Dmitri Gudanov dance Esmeralda in Bolshoi Theater:
Beautiful music by Cesare Pugni and beautiful dancers make our life more beautiful and full it with light!
Best wishes, Russian Video from Russia Svet and Kyle
PS Today for the first time we published for you this two-part video as a playlist. That was an experiment if you like this we will do playlists instead publishing several videos separately.
I think that today we will listen to one more song from Ballad of a Hussar movie. Now it will be a funny song one of my most favorite!
What is the song about?
Some King lived a very full life: he loved wine, war and women and even when Death came for him he fought her — but Death was “treacherous” and finally caught him… and the old reprobate died as he lived!
Today I want to show you one more scene from this great movie and of course with a Good Song! The Russian name of this song is “Давным-давно” and I would translate it like “Long time ago”. That is typical marching song with refrain “Давным-давно, давным-давно, давным-давно…”
Best wishes, think after this song we all feel like Hussars, what means pretty good! And if someone doesn’t feel good enough they for sure should watch this video again! 😉
For our reader who is intrigued of this fragment we’ll tell more about this old soviet movie:
Ballad of a Hussar (Гусарская баллада), 1962 was directed by outstanding Soviet-Russian director Eldar Ryazanov and screenplay was written by Aleksandr Gladkov:
This musical comedy takes place during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. Young woman Shura (Larisa Golubkina) decides to teach her boorish, braggadocio suitor Rzhevsky (Yuri Yakovlev) a lesson in humility by dressing herself as a man, joining the army and becoming a hero. – That is about the movie.
But the most amazing thing about this movie: it tells us a real story!
Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova (Russian: Надежда Андреевна Дурова) also known as Alexander Durov, Alexander Sokolov and Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov (1783, Kiev – March 21, 1866, Yelabuga ) was a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars. She was the first known female officer in the Russian military. Her memoir is a significant document of its era because few junior officers of the Napoleonic wars published their experiences and The Cavalry Maiden is one of the earliest autobiographies in the Russian language. You can read more about Nadezhda Durova in Wikipedia.
As for the song what we just heard:
The music is composed by Tikhon Khrennikov, lyrics by Aleksandr Gladkov.
The main character Shura is going to leave home and go to the Russian Army fight against Napoleon’s Army. She is singing the last Lullaby Song to her doll Svetlana .
Best wishes and maybe it would be nice to recollect your favorite lullaby song, Svet and Kyle
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