“Trailblazers“ (Russian Colonist Song) — English subs and translation

Russian Federation, 2011 A song from the play “Jakov Pokhabov” of the Irkutsk Folk Drama Theater, directed by Mikhail Kornev. It is performed in a dashing Cossack manner, imitates the ancient language and rhythms of the old Russian “Bylina” epic, transferring the listener to the world of brave “zemleprokhodtsy“ (trailblazers) - heroic Russian people who conquered the vast expanses of Siberia and the Far East in the 16th-18th centuries, expanding our empire and thereby gaining a new home for theirselves and