on the hills of manchuria

More than years after its composition, On the Hills of Manchuria Waltz remains widely popular in Russia, and was featured in the American film Onegin, starring Ralph Fiennes. While the regiment was stationed in Samara in , he made the acquaintance of Oskar Knaube — , a local music shop owner, who helped the composer to publish his work and later acquired ownership of it. The original title of the waltz was "The Mokshansky Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria" and referred to an incident during the Battle of Mukden , the disastrous final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War , when the Mokshansky Infantry Regiment was encircled by Japanese forces for 11 days, during which it sustained considerable casualties. Rest in peace, heroes of the Russian land,. And Russian weeping is canot be heard.

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