“Troika“ - Yevgeny Belyaev & The Red Army Choir (1968)

The coachman’s song “Troika rushes, troika gallops“ (or just “Troika“) performed by Yevgeny Belyaev (tenor), the People’s Artist of the Soviet Union and the soloist of the Twice Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army named after A.V. Alexandrov. This is a clip from the New Year musical TV show “Blue Light“. Central Television of the USSR, 1968. This song is from the series of the coachmen’s songs which were very popular in Russia before the revolution. According to some reports, more than a hundred of them were written. The poem of this particular song was written by Prince Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky, a nobleman and a friend of the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. It was first published in 1832 or in 1834. Initially, the poem was called “Another Troika” and was created as an answer to another poem written by Fyodor Glinka called “Troika” (“Here’s the mail Troika rushing”), also about coachmen. One can say that it was sort of a battle between the famous poets of that time. There were sev