“Here’s the Postal Troika Rushing“ - Leonid Kharitonov (1987)

The Russian operatic and chamber singer Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov (bass baritone) performs the Russian folk song “Here’s the Postal Troika Rushing“ accompanied by the Osipov Orchestra of the Russian Folk Instruments, the conductor is Nikolay Kalinin. This is the clip from the musical TV-show of the artist “Russian Song, Romance, Waltz“, the Central Television of the USSR, 1987. Short description of the song: Winter. The mail troika is rushing along the frozen Volga river. The coachman, a young guy is humming some sad tune shaking his head. Then a friendly passenger asked him , why he looked so sad. And the coachman tells him his life story. He told him that he had been fallen in love for already a year. But the village headman, the infidel Tatar, scolded him all the time about it. Very soon Christmastide would come and his beloved should marry another man, rich and hateful one... And that she would never see again those beautiful days they had... The coachman told