Smuglyanka (Смуглянка) - EPIC Russian Instrumental/Orchestral Song

“Smuglyanka“, “Smuglianka“, or “Smugljanka“ (Russian: Смуглянка “the dark girl“, from смуглый “dark, swarthy“; also Смуглянка-Молдаванка, romanized: Smugljanka-Moldovanka “the dark Moldovan girl“ (swarthy)) is a Russian song written in 1940 by Yakov Shvedov (lyrics) and Anatoliy Grigorevich Novikov (music). Subscribe!: Twitter: The song was commissioned by the Kiev Military District’s political office for the District Song and Dance Ensemble, as part of a suite in honour of Grigory Kotovsky, leader of two Moldovan rebellions in Bessarabia Governorate against the Russian Empire in 1905 and 1915. It is written in the style of a Moldovan folk song. The song was intended to glorify the female partisans of the Russian Civil War. The lyrics tell how the singer met a pretty girl gathering grapes and tried to seduce her, but how the girl turns out