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"Mokshan regiment on the hills of Manchuria". Regimental Kapellmeister Ilya Shatrov in February 1905, under an unfurled banner, repeatedly led his orchestra during desperate attacks of the 214th reserve Mokshan Infantry Regiment in the Mukden battle of the Russo-Japanese War. Out of almost 4,000 people in the regiment, 700 survived, and out of 60 musicians-only 7, the commander of the regiment also died. The Japanese were put to flight, the combat missions were completed. Ilya Alekseevich dedicated the waltz "Mokshan regiment on the hills of Manchuria" composed by him in 1906 to the memory of his comrades in arms. The authors of the words were rather unceremonious about the theme set by the composer. As a result, the Mokshan regiment disappeared from the title of the work. The stunning heroic pages of Russian history make us look differently at the events of the Russian-Japanese war, try to imagine what prompted Ilya Alekseevich to immortalize the name of his regiment.
1906 Masterpieces of Russian Romance/Red. (Songs for the soul). The original name was "Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria". Dedicated to the soldiers of the 214th Moksha Infantry Battalion, who died in February 1905 in the Russo-Japanese War in the battles near Mukden. The author of the melody is the Kapellmeister of the Moksha regiment Ilya Shatrov.
All versions of the text were written later, including many years after the war-for example, the texts of A. Mashistov (see below) and the text of 1945 by Pavel Shubin; new versions continue to appear-see below the text of G. Venediktov 2017 There is a song of the same name by Alexander Galich <1969> dedicated to the memory of the writer Mikhail Zoshchenko. On the same melody is singed comic song "Quiet in the woods, just does not sleep badger ...".
From. sb.: Antologiya military pesni / Sost. and the author of the pre-writing. V. Kalugin. M.: Eksmo, 2006: The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 was unsuccessful and fatal in its consequences for Russia, but the memory of it was preserved in two songs that became one of the most popular-"Varyag" and the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria". They are based on real events: the death of the cruiser "Varyag" in a sea battle and the death of the soldiers of the Moksha regiment-in land. "Varyag"-the first of the cruisers of the Far Eastern squadron, which took an unequal battle in Port Arthur with 14 Japanese ships. With his death began a tragic war for the Russian fleet. The bloody battle on the hills of Manchuria of the Moksha Regiment is just an episode of this war. But it was he who was destined to become no less significant than the naval battle. The regiment included 6 staff officers, 43 chief officers, 404 non-commissioned officers, 3548 privates, 11 horse ordinary and 61 musicians. These musicians had a decisive role to play. Eleven days the regiment did not leave the battle. On the twelfth ring of encirclement closed. But at the most critical moment, when the forces and ammunition dried up, the regimental band burst out. Military marches followed one after another. The Japanese flinched. Russian "Hooray!" sounded in the final. For this battle, seven orchestra members were awarded the soldier's George Cross, and the Kapellmeister-the Officer Combat Order of Stanislav of the 3rd degree with swords. Soon the name of this Kapellmeister, Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov, was recognized by the whole of Russia. In 1906, the first edition of his waltz "Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria" was published, which withstood more than a hundred reprints. Gramophone records with waltz music diverged in fabulous circulations. And soon there were words to the music of the waltz. The most famous was the poetic text of Stepan Wanderer, the author of the song "Bells-bells ring..." to the music of Y. Prigozhego. In Soviet times, Shatrov's waltz, like "Varyag", continued to be among the most popular, but on new words, more consistent, as it was then believed, with the "spirit of the time": "We will go towards a new life, / We will throw off the burden of slave shackles", etc. In the 20s - 30s, not only "On the hills of Manchuria", but also other old songs sounded in a new way. Now, in the XXI century, they have also become the property of history.
Wanderer (Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov) (1869-1941) VARIANTS (7) 1. On the hills of Manchuria Variant, performed by I.S. Kozlovsky Quietly around, the hills are covered with mist, Here because of the clouds the moon flashed, the Graves keep peace.
"On the Hills of Manchuria" (Russian: На сопках Маньчжурии, romanized: Na sopkah Manchzhurii) is a waltz composed in 1906 by Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov. The original and orchestral arrangement is written in E-flat minor while the folk arrangement is in F minor. "On the Hills of Manchuria" 1909 instrumental version, performed by the 1st Grenadier Artillery Brigade's orchestra Problems playing this file?
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. Shatrov served in the regiment as bandmaster and composed the tune on returning from the war. While the regiment was stationed in Samara in 1906, he made the acquaintance of Oskar Knaube (1866-1920), a local music shop owner, who helped the composer to publish his work and later acquired ownership of it.
"On the Hills of Manchuria" achieved colossal success and Knaube boasted of having published some 82 different editions of the piece. Soon after its publication, the poet Stepan Petrov, better known by the pen-name of Skitalets, provided the lyrics which contributed to its wider success. The original words concern fallen soldiers lying in their graves in Manchuria, but alternative words were adapted to the tune later, especially during the Second World War. During the 1990s the song was featured in two films. In Nikita Mikhalkov's Urga (Close to Eden, 1991), the drunken lorry driver Sergei has the notes tattooed on his back and later sings the song in a nightclub, with the band playing from his back. Then in the British-American Onegin (1999) it was used anachronistically as the tune played at Tatyana's naming day. The song was also included in the 2010 movie Fortress of War. Israeli television drama series Shtisel (season 2, 2016) features an accordion performance of the song by one of the main characters, Giti Weiss.
Urga (Russian: У́рга-территория любви, Urga-territoriya lyobvi; "Urga-Territory of Love") is a 1991 film by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov. It was released in North America as Close to Eden. It depicts the friendship between a Russian truck driver and a Mongolian shepherd in Inner Mongolia. The film was an international co-production between companies based in Russia and France. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Plot. Gombo, a Mongolian shepherd, lives in a yurt in Inner Mongolia with his wife, three children, and mother. They are portrayed as unsophisticated and traditional people. Gombo desires sexual intercourse with his wife, which puts his wife at unease due to Chinese law as it is likely to result in a fourth child. Shortly after, Sergei, an intoxicated, buffoonish Russian truck driver, has stranded himself by driving his truck into a river, and is picked up by Gombo, taken to his family's yurt, to join him in dinner. Gombo's family are particularly taken with Sergei's back tattoos, later revealed to be music notation for the popular waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria." Gombo and Sergei become mutually dependent despite their language and cultural differences. Gombo and Sergei go into the nearest city together, where Gombo is supposed to buy condoms; buying a television set and other goods, but not contraceptives. Sergei, a former army bandsman, becomes drunk and sings "On the Hills of Manchuria" in a nightclub, with the band playing from tattoos on his back. He is arrested and bailed out of jail by Gombo's uncle who lives in the city. Gombo returns home, and along the way stops to eat. He has a strange dream featuring his drunk, horseback-riding relative as Genghis Khan and his wife as the Khan's wife. In the dream both he and Sergei are captured and killed, while the TV set is destroyed. Gombo awakes from his dream and arrives home with the TV. He and his family switch between watching a broadcast of the President of the USA and a badly sung variety show. Gombo's wife, although saddened when learning that he bought no condoms, leaves the yurt, inviting him to follow her with a gesture. Gombo follows her out onto the prairie, sticking an urga (a long stick with a lasso on the end used to capture animals) into the ground in a traditional signal that a couple is being intimate. A voiceover from Gombo's fourth son, who was conceived at this time, concludes the film, and a chimney belching smoke now stands where Gombo placed his urga.
Onegin is a 1999 British-American romantic drama film based on Alexander Pushkin's 1833 novel in verse Eugene Onegin, co-produced by British and American companies and shot mostly in the United Kingdom. Onegin is Martha Fiennes' directorial debut and stars her brother Ralph Fiennes in the role of Yevgeny (Eugene) Onegin, Liv Tyler as Tatiana, Irene Worth as Princess Alina and Toby Stephens as Lensky. Two other Fiennes siblings were involved in the project: Magnus Fiennes wrote the music and Sophie Fiennes appeared in a minor role. Plot. In early 19th century Russia, a bored St. Petersburg socialite named Onegin inherits his uncle's estate in the country. There, he meets a neighbouring landowner and aspiring poet, Lensky, and a widowed mother and her two daughters. The poet is engaged to the elder daughter Olga. Her sister, Tatiana (Tanya), writes Onegin a passionate love letter but he turns her down because of her youth and inexperience. He instead dances with her sister, which the jealous Lensky interprets as flirtation, and challenges his friend to a duel. The duel is arranged to take place in a secluded place by a local lake, and unknown to the participants, Tatiana secretly witnesses the duel from a safe distance. She observes Lensky taking the first shot and missing, followed by Onegin taking careful aim and disposing of Lensky with a shot to his opponent's head. Onegin departs from his country estate. Six years later, he returns to St Petersburg, he encounters Tatiana, the woman whom he spurned, who is now a woman of refinement and married to a prince. Onegin immediately sees Tanya as desirable, and falls in love with her. He begs her forgiveness for his past behaviour. Tanya refuses Onegin, explaining to him that he has missed his chance with her; she will be faithful to her husband. He receives her rejection with despair. The film compresses the events of the novel somewhat; for example, the Naming Day celebrations take place on the same day as Onegin's speech to Tatyana. As a result, Onegin's reasons for dancing with Olga and insulting Lensky are left somewhat confusing. Much like the 1988 film version, Onegin gives the impression that, during the duel sequence, Onegin shoots to kill.
Fortress of War (Russian: Брестская крепость; translit. Brestskaia krepost; festival title: The Brest Fortress) is a 2010 Russian-Belarusian war film recounting the June 1941 defense of Brest Fortress against invading Wehrmacht forces in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Events are narrated from the perspective of 15-year-old Sasha Akimov, centering on three resistance zones holding out against the protracted German siege. The defending forces are led by regiment commander Major Pyotr Gavrilov (44th Rifle Regiment of the Red Army), with Regimental Commissar Yefim Fomin (84th Rifle Regiment of the Red Army), and the head of the 9th Frontier Outpost, Lieutenant Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. The film makers claim that the plot is as close as possible to historical fact, and that the Brest Fortress Museum supervised the plot thoroughly. Plot. The film opens on Saturday, June 21, 1941. Sasha Akimov, a 15-year-old musician, and his older brother, Andrey, whose parents were killed in the Spanish Civil War, are serving in the 333rd Rifle Regiment of the Red Army at the Brest Fortress. Elsewhere, a commissar, Yefim Fomin, discovers he is unable to bring his family to Brest due to a shortage of train tickets. Another officer, Gavrilov, continues to express concern about the readiness of the fort's defenses should an attack come, despite warnings from his friend, officer of the NKVD Special Department Lieutenant Vainshtein, about an imminent war with Germany. That evening, the fortress loses power due to sabotage by German commandos. The next morning, at 3:58, German forces invade the Soviet Union. The fortress is subjected to heavy bombardment by German artillery and Stuka aircraft, killing many Soviet soldiers and civilians. At 6:30, German infantry attack the fortress, capturing hospital staff and patients, many of whom they kill. Fomin takes command of the defenders around the Kholm Gate, while Gavrilov rallies the defenders around the Eastern Fort. Elsewhere, NKVD border guards under command of Lieutenant Kizhevatov, repel a German sortie into the fortress and Vainshtein thwarts a German commando's attempt to undermine the defense of the 132nd Independent NKVD Convoy Battalion barracks. As the siege commences, Sasha finds himself stranded in one of the barracks. During the fighting for the East Fort, Junior Lieutenant Andrey Akimov (brother of Sasha) is killed while destroying two Panzer IIIs with a 45mm anti-tank gun, helping Gavrilov repel a German attack. By the end of June 22, the Soviet defenders are divided into groups: one force under Fomin defending the Kholm Gate, a second force under Gavrilov defending the Eastern Redoubt, while Kizhevatov defends the 9th Frontier outpost, along with a group of civilians and Vainshtein holds on to the barracks of the 132nd NKVD Battalion. The next day, fighting continues for the fortress and Sasha makes it to the Kholm Gate. An I-16 Soviet fighter aircraft of the 123rd Fighter Aviation Regiment is shot down over the fortress and the pilot is rescued by Fomin's men. He reveals that the Red Army is retreating toward Minsk and Fomin realizes that the men must leave the fortress or die. On June 24, Sasha leaves the Kholm Gate to alert the other pockets about Fomin's plan for a breakout. While Sasha finds the 132nd has been overrun and Vainshtein dead, he manages to deliver the message to Kizhevatov and Gavrilov. That night, a breakout is attempted by all three remaining groups but is driven back by the Germans, suffering heavy losses. The next morning, realizing he can't properly defend them, Kizhevatov reluctantly orders the surviving civilians (including his own wife and daughter and also Sasha) to vacate the fortress during a cease-fire. On June 26, the Germans drop a two-ton bomb on the fortress, causing massive damage. The Germans quickly move to eradicate the surviving pockets. The defenders at Kholm Gate are forced to surrender and Fomin is immediately executed by a German firing squad, as a Jew, a communist and a commissar. Gavrilov orders his remaining men to attempt to break out individually. Kizhevatov and his surviving men manage to regroup in the barracks; Sasha returns to meet them there. After ordering Sasha to take the regimental colors and remember the truth about the defenders, Kizhevatov takes a machine gun to cover his men while they attempt a breakout. The breakout fails and the remaining defenders, including Kizhevatov, are killed as Sasha manages to escape. Years later, an elderly Sasha pays tribute to memorial of Brest Fortress, accompanied by his grandson, to remember the good days and memories of the life before the Nazis took everything.
The first version of the text to the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria", which formed the basis of the subsequent variations, was written by the Samara poet and writer Stepan Petrov (Wanderer). Mashistov seems to own the third version of the text.
Aleksei Ivanovich Mashistov, Birth and death dates unknown, Aleksei Ivanovich Mashistov is mainly remembered today for his work as a librettist and translator. He created the texts for two pieces by Sergei Prokofiev. In 1947 he wrote an anthem for the city of Moscow, using music by Mikhail Glinka. Mashistov collaborated with composers to adapt literary works as operas. He was one of the most prolific writers for the TASS studio, contributing to dozens of posters from 1941 to 1946, though his texts were sometimes criticized for shoddy craftsmanship.
On the hills of Manchuria. Vyacheslav Platonov. Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov was born on April 1, 1879 into a merchant family. His father had a bakery and a tea shop. Ilya graduated from a four-year primary and a three-year district school. After the death of his father, Ilya in 1893 became a pupil of a platoon of trumpeters in the Grodno Hussars in Warsaw. In 1895 he entered the Warsaw Institute of Music, from which he graduated in 1900 with the rank of military conductor. In March 1903 he was appointed Kapellmeister of the 214th Moksha Reserve Battalion. Arriving in the city of Zlatoust - the place of deployment of the battalion - Ilya Alekseevich took over the leadership of the orchestra. Before the Russo-Japanese War, the 214th Mokshansky reserve battalion was deployed into the regiment of the same name, for which a second battalion was formed in Yekaterinburg under the command of Lieutenant Colonel A.P. Semenov. On May 28, 1903, I.A. arrived there with his orchestra. Shatrov. The Yekaterinburg newspaper Ural on June 1, 1903 reported: “The military band of the Mokshan reserve battalion, including 18 people, recently arrived in Yekaterinburg for permanent residence, since from January of the future 1904 another 2 companies of the aforementioned battalion are being transferred here. Now the musical ear of local residents will not be cut by the disharmonious sounds of the wind Krylov Quartet that we have, playing on the skating rink. Two days later, on June 3, the same newspaper reported in the Yekaterinburg Hippodrome information: “During the races, the music choir of the 214th Moksha battalion played. The execution is excellent: one can see the knowledge of the matter and great preparation. It was worth it for people who were not interested in sports to be on the run even in order to listen to the music of a military band, which surpasses our ballroom bands in performance. The playing of the military band impressed Yekaterinburg, but the musicians did not please the townspeople for long - at the end of January 1904, the Russo-Japanese War began. In Zlatoust, the formation of new units began: the 214th Moksha and 282nd Chernoyarsk infantry regiments. For this, the second battalion was transferred from Yekaterinburg to Zlatoust, which included the orchestra of I.A. Shatrov, assigned to the Moksha regiment. In the summer of 1904, the recruitment of military units was completed, and on June 30, Emperor Nicholas II arrived in Zlatoust, accompanied by the heir to the throne, Grand Duke Mikhail and a large retinue. The orchestra, under the direction of bandmaster Ilya Shatrov, played at the parade in front of the sovereign. Nicholas advised the soldiers and blessed the regiments for feats of arms in battles with the Japanese. On July 4, 1904, Chrysostom solemnly led the Moksha regiment to the war. For about a month, Mokshans traveled along the Trans-Siberian Railway to Manchuria. On 31 July they arrived in Mukden. The regiment took up positions on the left flank of the Russian army - near Liaoyang on the Dalinsky Pass, which it successfully defended during the Liaoyang battles. Further, warriors from the Urals participated in the September battles on the Shahe River. The Mukden battle in February 1905 glorified the name of the Moksha regiment. On February 18, the regiment entered into battle with the attacking forces of the Japanese army. The Mokshans held the line for ten days and counterattacked the enemy. They did not allow the Japanese to surround the Russian troops and covered the retreat of the army. In these battles, the regimental band led by I.A. Shatrov - at crucial moments, the regiment commander commanded: "The banner and the orchestra - forward" and the musicians accompanied the sounds of the march of the regiment's counterattack. In the heroic battles near Mukden, he was seriously wounded and the regiment commander, Colonel P.P., died soon after. Visited. The result of the war for the 214th Moksha Regiment turned out to be sad - out of the four thousandth regiment, about seven hundred survived, and seven people out of 61 remained from the orchestra. For heroism in battles, Moksha warriors were presented with awards and distinctions: breastplates - for officers, hats - for lower ranks with the inscription "For distinction in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905." Seven musicians of the regimental orchestra were awarded the insignia of the Military Order, and the regimental orchestra received silver trumpets. The military merits of Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov were also noted by the authorities. By order of the commander of the 1st Manchurian Army dated April 2, 1905, “for excellent and diligent service in a military situation,” he was awarded a silver medal with the inscription “For Diligence” to be worn on the chest on the Annen ribbon. On October 24 of the same year, bandmaster Ilya Shatrov was awarded a silver medal "for excellent, diligent service and special work", but this was a violation of the award rules - the same medal was awarded twice. Therefore, by a new order to the Kapellmeister of the Moksha Regiment, the last silver medal was replaced with a gold one. Soon I.A. Shatrov received the first rank in the table of ranks - a collegiate registrar, and could qualify for the order. On January 20, 1906, an order followed: “Kapellmeister of the 214th Moksha Regiment, Ilya Shatrov, in return for the complaine…In September 1905 the war with Japan ended. The Moksha regiment was in Manchuria for another eight months. In May 1906 he was demobilized to Zlatoust. It is known that Moksha soldiers stayed in Zlatoust and Yekaterinburg only until the autumn of 1906, since many of them were sympathetic to the participants in the revolutionary events. At that time, all of Russia was seething in a revolutionary cauldron. Unrest began in the regiment. The head of the Yekaterinburg garrison reported to the district headquarters on July 11, 1906: “I ask you to intercede with the commander ... about the transfer of the Moksha regiment to another city, since revolutionary propaganda has built a strong nest in it. The consequences of leaving the regiment in Yekaterinburg could be dire.” On September 14, 1906, the Mokshansky regiment was transferred to Samara, and in 1910 the regiment was disbanded. The war left a deep mark on the soul of Ilya Shatrov. He was shocked by the suffering and death of his comrades, by the general madness. The composer's feelings were expressed in the waltz The Mokshan Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria. It is not known where the music was composed. Obviously, this is not a one-time process. The idea of a new work originated with I.A. Shatrov at the front, and the first edition of the waltz appeared in the summer of 1906, when the bandmaster was in Zlatoust. In September of the same year, his regiment was transferred to Samara. Here the bandmaster met the teacher and composer Oscar Filippovich Knaub (1866-1920). He helped I.A. Shatrov to complete work on the waltz, and then publish the notes. In Samara in 1907 the first musical edition of the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" appeared. In 1908 O.F. Knaub moved to Moscow and organized a publishing house, where he actively published notes of a new popular melody. Until 1911, the notes were reprinted 82 times! Waltz gramophone records appeared. Thus, in the first half of December 1910 alone, the Zonofon firm sold 15,000 records. In Samara, the young bandmaster composed the waltzes "Country Dreams" and "Autumn Has Come". New waltzes were also published by O.F. Knaub and gained popularity. The composition of Ilya Shatrov reflected the moods and feelings of the entire Russian society. The music expressed the grief of a huge country that mourned the dead Russian soldiers. In terms of its popularity, the waltz “On the Hills of Manchuria” had practically no equal for a long time, abroad it was even called the “Russian national waltz”, and only “Amur waltzes” could compete with it. waves", the author of which Max Avelevich Kyuss, like Shatrov, was a regimental bandmaster during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. In April 1913, Kapellmeister Ilya Shatrov was fired into the army reserve. Before the revolutionary events of 1917, the composer lived in Samara. In 1918 he ended up in Siberia. In Novonikolaevsk (now Novosibirsk), the musician became seriously ill with typhus, when he recovered, the city was already occupied by the Reds. In 1919, he was mobilized into the Red Army and appointed bandmaster in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment of the Fifth Army. Later, in one of the questionnaires, I.A. Shatrov noted that he took part in the battles against the whites and the Japanese near Verkhneudinsk and Chita. In 1921 he was demobilized. In the 1930s served as bandmaster in the 2nd reserve cavalry regiment in Pavlograd, and then in the United Red Banner Cavalry School in Tambov. During the Great Patriotic and Soviet - Japanese wars, the waltz experienced a rebirth: new words appeared, and the music reminded of the events of forty years ago and called the soldiers to exploits. In the war I.A. Shatrov was awarded two medals and the Order of the Red Star. In 1945, the last work of the famous bandmaster appeared - the waltz "Blue Night over Port Arthur", but it was not widely used. Since 1947, Ilya Shatrov led the military band of the 100th Regiment of the 31st Guards Mechanized Division in the Transcaucasian Military District. In 1951 he returned to Tambov and taught at the Tambov Suvorov School. The composer and creator of the "Russian national waltz" died on May 2, 1952 and was buried at the Vozdvizhensky cemetery in Tambov. Above his grave there is a slab of white marble with an inscription in gold: “Major of the Guards, composer Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov. Creator of the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria". Memorial plaques were erected in his memory on the building of the current Tambov Military Aviation Engineering Institute and on the house where Ilya Shatrov lived. But the best monument to Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov was his truly “folk” waltz, which used to sound on old discs in the recording of the voices of the artist of the Mariinsky Opera A.M. Bragin, the famous Yukhov choir, the military orchestra conducted by V.E. Brandt and other Shatrov waltz performers , then in the excellent performance of the legendary singers I.S. Kozlovsky, L.O. Utyosov and K.I. Shulzhenko, and today sounds not only in the performance of brass bands, but also on the most prestigious world stages performed by the People's Artist of Russia, the world-famous baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky and the Honored Artist of Russia Oleg Pogudin. Several versions of the poems were set to music. The most widespread were the words that belonged to the famous Russian poet and writer Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov (better known under the pseudonym Wanderer). CANONICAL TEXT OF THE WALTZ "ON THE HILLS OF MANCHURIA": It is quiet around, the hills are covered with haze, The moon shone from behind the clouds ,The graves keep peace. White crosses - the heroes are sleeping. The shadows of the past are circling again, They say about the victims of the battles. It 's quiet all around, the wind has blown away the fog, On the hills of Manchuria the soldiers are sleeping And the Russians don't hear tears. Crying, crying mother dear, Crying young wife, Everyone is crying as one man, Cursing evil fate and fate!... Let Gaoliang bring dreams to you, Sleep, heroes of the Russian land, Sons of the Motherland. You fell for Russia, you died for the Fatherland, Believe me, we will avenge you And celebrate a glorious feast. I.A.Shatrov himself and Stepan Skitalec are also indicated as the author of this text. However, it is known that Shatrov had a negative attitude towards the performance of his waltz with the text, since he believed that these words turn the work into a "requiem in waltz rhythm", and he wrote music about selfless love for the motherland and devotion to it. Most sources indicate that the author of the earliest text is the Wanderer. The earliest recording of the waltz with the singing of the text is dated 10/14/1910 and these words are sung in it. It's scary all around, And the wind on the hills is crying. Sometimes the moon comes up from behind the clouds, It illuminates the graves of soldiers. The crosses of beautiful distant heroes are turning white. And the shadows of the past are circling around, They tell us about the victims in vain. In the midst of everyday darkness, Everyday everyday prose, We still cannot forget the war, And burning tears are shed. The father is crying, The young wife is crying, All Russia is crying, like one person, Cursing the evil fate of fate. So tears run, Like the waves of a distant sea, And the heart is tormented by longing and sadness And the abyss of great grief! The bodies of the heroes have long since decayed in their graves, but we have not repaid our last debt to them , and have not sung eternal memory. Peace to your soul! You died for Russia, for the Motherland. But still believe we will avenge you And celebrate a bloody feast! The following text is often cited Wanderer: It is quiet around, the hills are covered with haze, The moon flashed from behind the clouds, The graves keep peace. White crosses - the heroes are sleeping. The shadows of the past are circling for a long time, They talk about the victims of the battles. It 's quiet all around, the wind has blown away the fog, On the hills of Manchuria the soldiers are sleeping And the Russians don't hear tears. Crying, crying mother dear, Crying young wife, Crying all as one man, Cursing evil fate and fate!... Let the kaoliang bring you dreams, Sleep heroes of the Russian land, native sons of the Fatherland. You fell for Russia, you died for the Fatherland, Believe me, we will avenge you And celebrate a bloody feast. It is this text that is best known. There are also hybrid options. Another interesting recording of a waltz performed by M. BRAGIN - the disc was recorded at the Sirena Record studio in January 1911. The verses are as follows: We will never forget this terrible picture And the fact that Russia was able to survive the Troubles and shame of the time. In the Chinese land On the distant plains of the east, thousands of ours remained to lie At the behest of an unfortunate fate. In their hearts now remains the hope of a feast. that we are dying for Russia, For Faith, Tsar and Fatherland. great grief And tears involuntarily run from the eyes Like the waves of a distant sea. Sobbing fathers, mothers, children, widows And far away in the Manchurian fields Crosses and tombs turn white Peace to your soul ...Accept the last farewell greetings From woeful mournful Russia. In 1910-1918, the waltz was very popular . Abroad it is called "Russian national waltz". It is played, sung, recorded on records. After the revolutions, the waltz ceased to sound, but during the Great Patriotic War it was actively performed - it was sung and recorded by Utyosov and KOZLOVSKY. There are several variants of the Soviet text. For example, the author of the following is A. MASHISTOV. The night has come Twilight fell on the ground, The desert hills are drowning in the mist, The east is covered by a cloud. Here, underground, Our heroes sleep, The wind sings a song above them ,And the stars look down from heaven. It was not a volley from the fields that flew-It was thunder in the distance. And again everything is so calm around, Everything is silent in the stillness of the night. Sleep, fighters, sleep peacefully, May you dream of your native fields, Father's distant home. May you die in battles with enemies, Your feat calls us to fight, We will carry the banner washed by the blood of the people forward. We will go towards a new life, Let's throw off the burden of slave shackles. And the people and fatherland will not forget the Valor of their sons. Sleep, fighters, glory to you forever! Our homeland, our dear land Do not conquer the enemies! Night, silence, only the kaoliang makes noise. Sleep, heroes, the Motherland keeps the memory of you! POET - FRONT-LINE SERVER PAVEL SHUBIN: The fire is fading, The hills are covered with fog. Delicate sounds of the old waltz Gently leads the button accordion. With music in tune, I remembered the hero-soldier Dew, birch, blond braids, irly cute look. Where they are waiting for us today, In the meadow in the evening hour, With the most strict touchy We danced this waltz. Evenings of dates timid Long gone and disappeared into the darkness... The Manchurian hills sleep under the moon In powder smoke. We saved the Glory of our native land. In fierce battles, here in the East, Hundreds of roads have passed. But even in battle, In a distant foreign land, They recalled their motherland in bright sadness . She is far, far From the soldier's light. In the night, gloomy clouds from Manchuria Float away towards her. Into the dark expanse, Past the night lakes, Higher than the birds, beyond the borders Above the Siberian mountains. Leaving the gloomy land, ly after us in joy, let All our brightest thoughts, Our love and sadness. There, behind the blue ribbon, The banner of the motherland is above you. Sleep, my friend! The shots fell silent, your last battle died down. Materials used: Wikipedia, Alexander Rifeev. Immortal Melodies. On the hills of Manchuria. © Copyright: Vyacheslav Platonov , 2019 Certificate of Publication No. 219120500746
The history of the waltz Moksha regiment on the hills of the Manchurians. Marsha. HISTORY OF THE WALTZ "MOKSHA REGIMENT ON THE SOPS OF MANCHURIA". On January 19, 1878, during the reform of the Russian army, 44 reserve infantry battalions were formed. In Penza, the 59th reserve infantry battalion (commander - Colonel K. M. Akimfov) is being formed on the basis of a cadre expelled from the Ryazan local battalion. In 1891, the battalion received the name Mokshansky, according to the quartering of one of the companies in the city of Mokshan, located on the Moksha River. In the city of Mokshan, the population of Mokshan nationality lived compactly. It cannot be argued that the Mokshansky battalion consisted only of Mokshans, since it was located in the Penza province, 40 versts from Penza. The composition of the Moksha regiment could include Erzyans living nearby, as well as Russians and citizens of other nationalities. But the main part of the battalion still consisted of persons of Moksha nationality. On December 26, 1899, the battalion was renamed the 214th infantry reserve Mokshansky battalion (commander - Colonel Nikolai Gavrilovich Pirotsky). Mokshans had their own traditions, banner, music choir (orchestra). Every year on May 21 they celebrated the holiday of the unit. At the beginning of the 20th century, the situation in the Far East escalated. Ahead was the Russo-Japanese War. On November 24, 1901, the Mokshansky battalion left the Finogeevsky barracks in Penza forever and relocated to Zlatoust. On February 1, 1902, the commander of the 54th reserve brigade, Colonel Semenenko, informed the commander of the 214th Moksha battalion, Pobyvanets, about the proposed reorganization of the battalion into a two-battalion regiment. In the spring of 1903, two more companies were added to six companies so that the battalion could be converted into a regiment of two battalions, and a separate unit of the Mokshansky battalion in Yekaterinburg (5-8th company) was formed under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Petrovich Semenov. The Russo-Japanese War began. On May 27, 1904, martial law was declared and the reserve units in the Kazan, Moscow and Kiev military districts were "reinforced". On June 8, the Mokshansky reserve battalion deployed into two field infantry regiments: the 214th Mokshansky in Zlatoust and the 282nd Chernoyarsky in Yekaterinburg (from a separate unit of the 214th battalion). The Mokshansky regiment included: 6 staff officers, 43 chief officers, 391 non-commissioned officers, 3463 privates, 11 equestrian orderlies and 61 musicians with the bandmaster of the regiment I. A. Shatrov. On June 30, the sovereign emperor arrived at the front in Zlatoust for a solemn farewell to the soldiers. Many Moksha residents received memorable gifts. Colonel Pobyvanets was presented with an excellent combat saber. The regiment set out from the city in six echelons and arrived in Mukden on July 31, and on August 14 took up positions on the left flank of the Russian army near Liaoyang on the Dalinsky Pass, which was successfully defended throughout the Liaoyang battles. On September 26, the Mokshans took part in the attack on Bensikha, but they especially distinguished themselves in the battles near Mukden, where for more than 10 days, stubbornly defending and fiercely counterattacking, the regiment held positions near the railway, preventing the Japanese from encircling the Russian army. The heavily shell-shocked colonel remained in the ranks and in the most difficult moments commanded: “Banner forward! Orchestra forward! To the sounds of an orchestra with a thunderous "Hurrah!" Mokshans rushed after the 56-year-old commander in a bayonet attack and repulsed the enemy attacks. On February 27, 1905, near Mukden, the regiment covered the retreat of artillery and the last convoys of the 22nd division, then left the old positions itself. The war is over, there are barely 700 Mokshans left. Unfortunately, not only was shell-shocked, but the commander of the Moksha regiment, Pobyvanets, was seriously wounded in the leg, who demanded to collect all the wounded from the battlefield, and only after collecting all the wounded, the commander was taken out of the battlefield. The visitor was sent for treatment, but on the way home, the combat commander died. Chernoyarsk citizens were again attached to them. In January 1906, the first spares were sent home. The Moksha regiment returned to Zlatoust on May 8, 1906. For heroism in battles, Moksha warriors were presented with awards and distinctions: breastplates for officers, hats for lower ranks with the inscription "For distinction in the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905." On May 21, on the day of the traditional regimental holiday of the Moksha people, the Zlatoust people watched with interest a vivid picture of the parade of the famous regiment, marching under the banners of the Moksha and Chernoyarsk regiments under pierced bullets and shrapnel. The skill of the regimental band was highly appreciated. Orchestra members always went to the enemy together with the soldiers, inspired the soldiers with their skill and courage. Even when the orchestra was not allowed to participate in battles, they often voluntarily threw themselves into the thick of battle, assisted the wounded, taking them out from under fire. For this feat, all the musicians of the orchestra were awarded the St. George crosses, the bandmaster of the regiment Ilya Shatrov - the officer order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree with swords (the second such award for bandmasters), and the orchestra was awarded honorary silver pipes. But loud fame was brought to the Mokshan regiment not by military exploits, but by the waltz “The Mokshan Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria” composed in 1906 by the bandmaster of the regiment I.A. infantry regiment. Which in a very short period has become one of the most performed and popular works of art, in the sense of the memory of the heroism of the Mokshan warriors. However, the name of the waltz was shortened and it became known as the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria". The waltz is known not only in Russia, but also far beyond its borders. Almost all of Europe, all the Scandinavian countries, the USA, Japan, Israel still remember the courage of the Mokshan warriors. This February marks the 112th anniversary of the battle on the hills of Manchuria between Mukden and Liaoliang in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. REMEMBER THEM...© Copyright: Marsha , 2017 Certificate of Publication No. 217020802081
https://web.archive.org/web/20120330164945/http://aarticles.net/biographies/1019-na-sopkax-manchzhurii-kak-vals-rodivshijsya-na-gauptvaxte-stal-dlya-rossii-superxitom.html/// http://aarticles.net/biographies/1019-na-sopkax-manchzhurii-kak-vals-rodivshijsya-na-gauptvaxte-stal-dlya-rossii-superxitom.html///Remember performed Shulzhenko - "Waltz fought it in his coat was dusty, the waltz of singing to the Manchurian hills. And how many wars took place this waltz, now and do not count. Even today, the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" is in the repertoire of almost every brass band. Waltz of the long life of its own, and few today know that he wrote in 1906 a simple regimental bandmaster Ilia Alekseevich Shatrov, who actually fought in the hills of Manchuria.
"On the Hills of Manchuria". How to Waltz, born in the stockade, began to Russia superhits? Military conductor Ilya Ilya Shatrov Shatrov born in a small provincial town Zemlyanskiy April 1, 1885 in the family of a retired noncommissioned officer. The boy appeared early musical abilities, he taught himself to play the balalaika and accordion. After the death of his father Elias managed to do a graduate musician in command of the Grodno Hussar Regiment stationed in Warsaw. A young military musician quickly learned to play the drum, and then the wind instruments. In 1900 at the request of the commander of the regiment he was admitted to the Warsaw Music Institute. Three years of training at the Department of Military conductors passed quickly, and in 1903 a graduate conductor Ilya Shatrov was assigned to the 214th Moksha infantry battalion stationed in Zlatoust. The staff of the battalion was enlisted Shatrov conductor without class rank. A brief excursion into history. In the regiments and separate battalions of the Russian army before the revolution there were musician team, sometimes significant - up to 50-60 soldiers and noncommissioned officers. Team chief, as a rule, were the regimental adjutant (officers), and the Kapellmeister (conductor) - Military officials, who have the appropriate state councilors titles. The duties included the training of regimental bandmaster musicians, drummers and horn, conducting the orchestra. Also served as bandmaster of the regiment, and other officials: doctors, treasurer, clerk, kvartirmistr. They wore uniforms officer sample, but distinct from the officer signs the differences, embroidery, stripes, lace and etc. Officials who do not have class ranks, wore uniforms without insignia, embroidery and lace, and the sword without strap.///"On the Hills of Manchuria". How to Waltz, born in the stockade, began to Russia superhits? 58th Infantry Regiment Pragsky to move into Sandepu. Manchuria. Not later than March 1905///
By the beginning of Russian-Japanese war on the basis of the battalion was set up 214-th regiment of Moksha, which was sent to the army in Manchuria. The regiment participated in many battles, including the famous battle of Liaoyang. Apparently the conductor Shatrov showed them not only a musical genius, as is already the summer of 1904 for "excellent diligent service with the military situation" was awarded the Silver Medal "For Diligence" to wear on Ann's tape. In February 1905, the regiment took its last battle of Mukden. Ten days Mokshantsev fought off fierce attacks the Japanese, the last day, fought in the full environment. In the latest attack regimental commander, Colonel Peter Pobyvanets lifted the soldier under the banner unfurled to the sounds of the march. In front of the regimental band, conducting a sword, was the Kapellmeister tents. Significantly depleted the regiment fought his way out of encirclement, relegate killed in a bayonet charge commander. The courage of military musicians have appreciated, awarding seven surviving non-commissioned officers and soldiers of St. George's crosses. Polk also did not go unrewarded, getting high tsenivshiesya in the Russian Army St. George's silver trumpets. Do not be left unchecked and a military bandmaster. He was awarded the rank of a civic collegiate registrar (consistent rank ensign) and for various times the difference against the Japanese was awarded a military decoration, Stanislav 3 degrees with swords and bows. In the spring of 1906 Mokshantsev returned to Chrysostom, bringing with him the remains of the dead commander, who was buried near the Simeon church (even in our days on this site is set cross). For the regiment began a peaceful life. Some believe that the new regimental commander sent for any transgressions of Kapellmeister at the guardhouse, where he wrote the first notes of a waltz, dedicated to the victims near Mukden colleagues./// "On the Hills of Manchuria". How to Waltz, born in the stockade, began to Russia superhits?///In September 1906 the regiment was transferred to Samara. Here in the city park in the performance of the regimental band first performed the waltz "Moksha regiment in the hills of Manchuria", which was greeted with indifference parade. But soon came to Elijah Shatrova deserved recognition, but the waltz was spreading rapidly in Russia. The spread of the waltz many contributed Oscar Filippovich Knaub, with whom Shatrov met in Samara. The self-reflective and composer notoizdatel Knaub helped "polish" the waltz and publish it music notation. By 1911, notes reprinted more than 80 times. Established and a short title waltz - "The Hills of Manchuria". And throughout Russia with gramophone resounded: "All around was silence, hills covered with mist, That's because the clouds flashed moon Graves kept quiet ... "Before the revolution, was created a significant number of versions of the text of the waltz, but the recognition of these poems were written by a writer and poet Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov, better known under the pseudonym Wanderer. As its popularity waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" for a long time had little to none, while abroad it was even called "the Russian national waltz, and compete with them could only "Amur Waves" written by Max Avelevich Cussey how and tents, a regimental conductor passed the Japanese war. The new peak of popularity of the waltz was at the Great Patriotic War, when he played Ivan Kozlovsky and included in their repertoire of many front-line music brigade.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160307102739/http://www.editionsorphee.com/repertoire/shatrov.html/// http://www.editionsorphee.com/repertoire/shatrov.html///Ilya Shatrov: On the Hills of Manchuria, Waltz 4 pp. $4.95. Presser Order number 494-02869 (PWYS-99) ISMN-979-0-60004-158-9///Here is a period guitar arrangement of a song that today, 104 years after it was first composed, still enjoys wide-spread popularity in Russia, in both private and public occasions. The song made a brief appearance in the West when it was used in the 1999 film Onegin, starring Ralph Fiennes. Imbued with heart-rending emotions, its performance does not fail to deeply affect both performer and listener. On the Hills of Manchuria was written by Ilya Alexeyevich Shatrov (1879-1952), based on the events of the 1905 battle of Mukden during the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905 (original title: Мокшанский Полк На Сопках Манчжурии [The Mokshansky Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria]). In that battle, the Mokshansky Infantry Regiment was encircled by Japanese forces for 11 days, during which it sustained considerable casualties. This was one of the most ignoble debacles of the Russian Czarist army, an event that eventually led to the humiliating defeat Russia suffered in that war. As some scholars suggest, this was the beginning of the decline of the Czarist regime and the onset of the 1917 Revolution. Ilya Shatrov, at the rank of a major, was the bandmaster of the Mokshansky regimental orchestra, and was present on the battlefield in 1905. On returning from war in 1906, the Mokshansky regiment was stationed in the town of Samara, where the young bandmaster made the acquaintance of a local music shop owner, one Oskar Knaube (1866-1920), who helped the composer to publish his work. Knaube himself was a composer and publisher of popular music, and in a short time managed to acquire the rights to this waltz. On the Hills of Manchuria achieved colossal success soon after it was composed in 1906, and Knaube boasted of having published some 82 different editions of the song. It was also recorded on gramophone and set in Pianola rolls. The original long title, The Mokshansky Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria, could not be set across the label of the records, so it was shortened to the variant of the name with which the song is known today. Ashort time after its publication, descriptive lyrics were written for the song, further enabling its wide dissemination by making it available to singers. Actually, there are several sets of lyrics to the song, composed at different times during the ensuing 104 years since its composition, always reflecting a sense of national pride in the magnificent accomplishments of its armed-forces, even though the original song was a commemoration of one of its most spectacular failures. The present edition is based on a rare copy, in my private collection, of an arrangement for the Russian seven-string guitar, made by Alexander Petrovich Soloviov (1856-1911), and published, by O. F. Knaube in Moscow, in March of 1911, several months before Soloviov’s death. Alexander Soloviov was well-known performer/teacher/arranger for the Russian seven-string guitar at the turn of the twentieth century, and assigning the arrangement to him would have been the natural action on the part of a publisher intent on promoting his editions. While presenting the user with intermediate technical demands, the arrangement, as an instrumental solo, still manages to express the intense emotions the melody induces in both performer and listener, irrespective of any nationalistic or political over-tones the title, or the circumstances of the composition, may have had for the composer. One peculiar aspect of the Soloviov arrangement, is that it was published in both standard pitch notation and in tablature./// Matanya Ophee///
https://web.archive.org/web/20160120071014/http://accordeonworld.weebly.com/on-the-hills-of-manchuria.html/// http://accordeonworld.weebly.com/on-the-hills-of-manchuria.html///On the hills of Manchuria///On the hills of Manchuria, in Russian Na sopkach Mantchzhurii, is a popular Russian walz, composed of mostly minor notes and sub-4th octave arrangements. Ilya Aleksevitch Shatrov, at the rank of a major, was a Russian composer and bandmaster of the Mokshansky regimental orchestra. He had served in the Russo-Japanese war and in 1906 he composed "On the Hills of Manchuria". The melody refers to the Battle of Mukden that was fought during the war between Russia and Japan. The Russian regiment suffered to a long encirclement by Japanese troops. Military musicians decided to raise the soul of their soldiers and led the attack performing their music. Most of them were killed, but the unit escaped from the encirclement. The Kapellmeister Shatrov stood untouched. In that conflict the Russian army was defeated and thousands of soldiers were killed. Shatrov had written his waltz in 1906, and already in 1907 the score was being sold in stores. The lyrics were written by Stepan Petrov, a poet who was better known under the name of Skitalets. The Russo-Japanese War was fought from 8 February 1904 till 5 September 1905. Reason for the conflict was the common interest of Russia and Japan in the region of Korea and Manchuria, where Port Arthur was an important harbor. The original lyrics of the song "On the Hills of Manchuria" are about the fallen soldiers lying in their graves in Manchuria. Later on alternative lyrics were written, especially during World War II. "On the Hills" impacted the common people impressions about the war in the epoch when there were no radio and no total people`s literacy, and has become one of the most popular Russian melodies. The poems of the waltz have been transformed into urban folklore, with different versions coexisting with the original…///Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Hills_of_Manchuria/// http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/514017/Russo-Japanese-War/// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War/// http://www.snipview.com/q/On%20the%20Hills%20of%20Manchuria///Russian lyrics:Тихо вокруг, сопки покрыты мглой, Вот из-за туч блеснула луна, Могилы хранят покой. Белеют кресты - это герои спят. Прошлого тени кружат давно, О жертвах боёв твердят. Плачет, плачет мать родная, Плачет молодая жена, Плачут все, как один человек, Злой рок и судьбу кляня! Тихо вокруг, ветер туман унёс, На сопках маньчжурских воины спят И русских не слышат слёз. Пусть гаолян вам навевает сны, Спите герои русской земли, Отчизны родной сыны. Плачет, плачет мать родная, Плачет молодая жена, Плачут все, как один человек, Злой рок и судьбу кляня! Вы пали за Русь, погибли вы за Отчизну, Поверьте, мы за вас отомстим И справим кровавую тризну!///English translation Around us, it is calm; Hills are covered by mist, Suddenly, the moon shines through the clouds, Graves hold their calm. The white glow of the crosses — heroes are asleep. The shadows of the past circle around, Recalling the victims of battles. Dear mother is shedding tears, The young wife is weeping, All like one are crying, Cursing fate, cursing destiny! Around us, it’s calm; The wind blew the fog away, Warriors are asleep on the hills of Manchuria And they cannot hear the Russian tears. Let sorghum’s rustling lull you to sleep, Sleep in peace, heroes of the Russian land, Dear sons of the Fatherland. Dear mother is shedding tears, The young wife is weeping, All like one are crying, Cursing fate, cursing destiny! You fell for Russia, perished for Fatherland, Believe us, we shall avenge you And celebrate a bloody wake!
https://vestiprim.ru/news/ptrnews/5398-istoriya-napisaniya-znamenitogo-valsa-na-sopkah-manchzhurii.html///The waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" celebrated another anniversary - a well-known work dedicated to Russian soldiers who fell in the war with Japan. The beginning of its writing was laid in the Far East.///More recently - 20 years ago - this melody could be heard everywhere: in squares and gardens, in parks and on the embankment. In general, wherever brass bands played. Today, alas, brass bands are a curiosity, but this melody is remembered by everyone, from young to old.///"Moksha regiment on the hills of Manchuria" - this is the correct name of this work. In 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War, the regiment was surrounded near Mukden. When the cartridges ran out and the soldiers began to lose their last hopes, the commander gave the command: the banner and the orchestra to the parapet. Having perked up, having gathered the last forces into a fist to the sounds of the march, the soldiers rose to a bayonet attack and were able to break through the encirclement. Out of 4,000, 700 people survived, and seven musicians from the orchestra. The bandmaster of the regiment, Ilya Shatrov, was awarded the officer order of St. George, which is a rarity for a musician, and the orchestra was awarded honorary silver pipes.///en.altkrupa.ru///Andrey Popov, head of the Pacific Fleet orchestra, major: “The work greatly influenced the development of national culture. It is permeated through the events that took place in Manchuria. It remained, for sure, in the hearts of all listeners and musicians and conductors and ordinary listeners, because it was written from the heart.///After the end of the war, the Moksha Regiment remained in Manchuria for another year. At one fine moment, Ilya Shatrov, on the orders of the commander, ended up in the guardhouse. It was here that he began to compose a waltz in memory of his comrades who fell in battle. In May 1906, the regiment returned to its permanent deployment in Zlatoust. It was here that the composer created the first version of the waltz. And here Ilya Shatrov met the teacher and composer Oscar Knaub. He helped the bandmaster to finish work on the work and publish the notes. Already in the summer of 1907, they appeared on the counter of the Knaub store.///The waltz "Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria" was performed for the first time by a brass band in Strukovsky Park in Samara on April 24, 1908. At first, the audience greeted this melody rather coolly. Critics also found a lot of comments on the new waltz.///Andrey Popov, head of the Pacific Fleet orchestra, major: “Firstly, it was an innovation on the part of Shatrov - to play a waltz in Strukovsky Park. Because people are accustomed to the performance by brass bands of bravura works with the participation of the famous, at that time popular, Turkish drum, copper cymbals. And then suddenly people heard a waltz. It was something new. Therefore, the waltz initially accepted such criticism, but soon this music became popular and began to develop. Along with this waltz, many patriotic songs were written about those times, about those events in the Far East. And I think that many composers, taking an example from that work, began to write more about the exploits of the Russian people. And this began to be strongly reflected in art.///The popularity of the waltz grew by leaps and bounds. In the first three years alone, it was reprinted 82 times. The circulation of records surpassed all other fashionable hits. It was played everywhere - on playgrounds, in restaurants, waltz music poured from almost every window. Soon the Samara poet and writer Stepan Petrov wrote the first version of the poems for the waltz. It was she who formed the basis of subsequent options.///During the First World War, all military bands during a lull on the front line performed this waltz. It did not lose popularity in Soviet times. On all dance floors, in clubs, on holidays, "On the Hills of Manchuria" and "Amur Waves" played first. In 1945, the waltz was performed on the radio, at concerts and at solemn moments, in connection with the victories of the Red Army in the battles with Japan.///Tatyana Selitskaya, Concentrator of the Pacific Fleet Orchestra: “This is precisely the secret of the composer's talent. He put his soul, his emotions into music. He invested to such an extent that it became clear to everyone and passes through music. Music in general is magic.///Several variants of texts were written for this waltz in different years. Such masters of the Russian and Soviet stage as Kozlovsky, Leshchenko, Utesov, Zykina took it for him, and performed it at the most solemn events. Yes, and ordinary people, especially those who are older remember and sing this waltz with pleasure. More than once or twice it has been used in feature films.///The popularity and value of this waltz is also evidenced by the fact that more than once or twice at different times, in the era of completely different musical styles, “Manzhurian bit” - this is how the name sounds in English, was performed by various groups. The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Ventures, Spotnics… This is just a small honor of foreign performers.///Evgeny Kalestratov, musician of the Pacific Fleet orchestra, midshipman: “In my opinion, because it was written for people. And written, apparently, by a very good person. And when they write not for anyone, but for ordinary people, music, it takes on other forms, some kind of spiritual, there is a lot of this Orthodox music in this music.///A year ago, on April 24, the 105th anniversary of the first waltz performance was celebrated in the Strukovo Park of Samara. The concert was attended by such famous performers as Mark Kogan and Georgy Tsvetkov. Now a project of annual festivals of brass bands dedicated to the waltz "Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria" has been launched in Samara.
https://histrf.ru/read/articles/na-sopkakh-manchzhurii- patriotichieskii-vals-prieodolievshii-vieka-i-kontinienty?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc///“With a word you can kill, with a word you can save, with a word you can lead the regiments behind you,” these lines of the wonderful poet Vadim Shefner, written in 1954, could be taken out as an epigraph. But I would like to add: when wonderful words are set to appropriate music, then it is even difficult to imagine any obstacles for our soldier.///Banner - forward! Orchestra - forward!///This is the kind of music that made its debut in the city of Samara on November 24, 1908. It seems that the city of Samara has always been far from hostilities. The Russo-Japanese War ended three years ago. Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov, a participant in the war in the Far East, lived in Samara, and he was the author of this music.///Shatrov was born in 1879 in the district town of Zemlyansk, Voronezh province, in the family of a retired non-commissioned officer of the Lithuanian Life Guards Infantry Regiment. The young man's military musical career began after the death of his father - at the age of 14 he became a pupil in a platoon of trumpeters of the Grodno Hussar Life Guards Regiment. Here he mastered playing both the drum and the trumpet. In 1900, Ilya graduated from the Warsaw Musical Institute, where he was sent by the regiment commander. After graduating from the institute, Shatrov headed the musical team of the Moksha reserve battalion. But after being converted into a reserve regiment, the unit was sent to the Far East, where the Russo-Japanese War was going on.///The regiment took on especially heavy battles in the battles near Mukden . One day, the Japanese surrounded the regiment, and the Russian soldiers were subjected to numerous attacks. When the ammunition began to run out, the regiment commander Pyotr Pobyvanets decided to raise the regiment to break through the encirclement. He gave the order: "The banner and the orchestra - forward!". Bandmaster Shatrov led the orchestra to the front line, and military marches began to play. The soldiers rushed into a bayonet attack, broke through the encirclement, but luck was given in great blood. The regiment commander died, out of 4,000 soldiers only 700 people broke through to their own. Of the entire musical team, only seven musicians survived. All orchestra members were awarded the St. George Crosses, Ilya Shatrov - the Order of St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree, and the entire orchestra was awarded silver trumpets. No wonder Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov He said that music doubles, triples the army.///Russian national waltz///After the war, the regiment was in Manchuria for another year, and an event occurred here that gave impetus to the writing of this patriotic waltz. Once Ilya Alekseevich, on the orders of the new regiment commander, ended up in a guardhouse. It turned out that the guardhouse is a great place where you can compose music. It was here that the first version of the waltz "Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria" was born. Waltz dedicated to fallen comrades.///After the war, Shatrov moved to Saratov and wrote a new version, which he performed in the city square with a brass band. Oddly enough, initially the audience greeted this performance with a chill, but a year later gramophone records with waltz recordings scattered throughout Russia, and the popularity of the melody only grew. By 1911, the notes of the waltz had been published 82 times, and the waltz received a new name, which is still alive today. We all know the work of Ilya Shatrov "On the Hills of Manchuria". The popularity of the waltz grew by leaps and bounds. It was played almost everywhere - at summer variety venues, in restaurants, in concert halls. A little later, the first version of the text appeared on this music. Its author was the Samara poet and writer Stepan Petrov (Wanderer), it was this version that formed the basis of subsequent versions. Over the years, several versions of the texts were born. In this field, the masters of the Russian and Soviet stage were noted - Ivan Kozlovsky, Petr Leshchenko, Leonid Utesov and Lyudmila Zykina.///During the First World War, all military bands on the front line performed this waltz. The waltz did not lose its popularity in Soviet times either. On all holidays, “On the Hills of Manchuria” and “Amur Waves” were performed without fail. And in 1945, this waltz became the main song in connection with the victory of the Red Army in the battles with Japan.///The popularity of the melody is evidenced by the fact that many foreign performers included the Manchurian beat in their repertoire. The Glen Miller Orchestra, Ventures, Spotnics are just some of the musical groups that performed it in various variations. Shatrov's creation was called "Russian National Waltz" abroad.///Bandmaster of the Great Patriotic War////But the life of the author of the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" was forever associated with orchestral music. After the revolution, he joined the Red Army, became bandmaster of the Red Cavalry Brigade. Then he served in Pavlodar, and from 1935 to 1938 he was the head of the orchestra of the Tambov cavalry school. The Great Patriotic War again called the elderly musician into the army. He served as bandmaster of the division. His military path is marked by state awards.///After the war, Shatrov continued to study music: he led the orchestra of the Kirovabad garrison in Transcaucasia, and later was in charge of the musical part of the Tambov Suvorov School. Ilya Alekseevich died in Tambov on May 2, 1952.///One-sided stamped postcard 130 years since the birth of composer Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov///In conclusion, I want to quote the words from the very first version of the song: Sleep heroes of the Russian land, native sons of the Fatherland. You fell for Russia, you died for the Fatherland, Believe me, we will avenge you And celebrate a bloody feast.
https://www-chitalnya-ru.translate.goog/work/2608594/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc///A Brief History of the Creation of the Waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria"///[ Writer Yevgeny Morozov ] print version///A Brief History of the Creation of the Waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria"///In February 1905, the 214th Reserve Moksha Infantry Regiment, in the most difficult battles between Mukden and Liaoyang, fell into the Japanese pocket and was constantly attacked by the enemy.///When the last ammunition remained, the regiment commander, Colonel Pyotr Pobyvanets, gave the order: "The banner and the orchestra - forward!"///Kapellmeister Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov led the orchestra to the parapet of the trenches, gave the order to play a military march and led the orchestra forward behind the banner of the regiment. Encouraged soldiers rushed to the bayonet charge.///During the battle, the regiment continuously attacked the Japanese to the music of the orchestra and, after a brave attack, broke through the encirclement.///During the battle, the commander of the regiment Pobyvanets died, and seven hundred people remained from the four thousand personnel of the regiment, only seven musicians from the orchestra survived.///For this feat, all the musicians of the orchestra were awarded St. George's crosses, Shatrov was awarded the officer's order of St. Stanislav, 3rd degree, and honorary silver trumpets were issued to the orchestra.///After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the hero regiment remained in Manchuria for another year. But it so happened that Ilya Alekseevich, by order of the new regiment commander, was sent to the guardhouse. It was during this period that he began to write his waltz "The Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria", which he dedicated to his dead friends and colleagues.///https://zvezdaweekly.ru/news/2020922155-p5Ghc.html///"Moksha regiment on the hills of Manchuria"///It was not the feats of arms accomplished during the Russo-Japanese War that brought great fame to the Mokshan Regiment, but the waltz composed in 1906 by the bandmaster of the regiment Ilya Shatrov///Viktor Saprykov-Saminsky, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation///September 26, 2020, 08:11///"Moksha regiment on the hills of Manchuria"///Band of the 214th Moksha Infantry Regiment.///Read us on: In one of the television programs dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory over militaristic Japan, the legendary waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" was performed. Among the people of the older generation, he resurrected the heroic events that gave birth to it. Some of them even kept an old gramophone record with a waltz, which has become a kind of relic of the unforgettable Russian past. And he attracted younger people with his melody and beauty of sound.///"Musicians, our hour has come!"///The creation of the waltz, which became famous, brought to life the feat of Russian soldiers who fell in the war with Japan in 1904-1905. On June 30, 1904, the Mokshan reserve infantry regiment deployed in Zlatoust went to the front. It was commanded by Colonel Pavel Petrovich Pobyvanets, a participant in the Russian-Turkish war, who was awarded military orders and golden weapons for personal courage and distinction in battles in the Transcaucasus.///The regiment successfully participated in the battles. On August 14, he took up positions on the left flank of the Russian army near Liaoyang on the Dalinsky Pass and selflessly defended it during the Liaoyang battles. On September 26, Moksha took part in the attack on Bensikha.///The Mokshans especially distinguished themselves in the battles near Mukden, becoming famous forever. Here, for more than 10 days, they fought the hardest bloody battles with the Japanese. The Russian soldiers repelled the fierce attacks of the enemy, they themselves counter attacked, holding positions near the railway, preventing the Russian army from being surrounded.///At a critical moment, ours ran out of ammunition. And the shell-shocked regiment commander Colonel P.P. The visitor commanded: “Banner forward! Orchestra forward! Bandmaster I.A. Shatrov exclaimed: “Musicians, our time has come!” - waved his hand and struck a military march. Inspired soldiers and officers to the sounds of an orchestra with a thunderous "Hurrah!" rushed with a 56-year-old commander in a bayonet attack.///Kapellmeister Shatrov walked ahead of the orchestra. An enemy artillery shell hit the orchestra, the musician was killed, and the shock wave was thrown towards Shatrov. The bandmaster got up and walked again at the head of the orchestra. The musicians inspired the soldiers with their skill and courage, they voluntarily threw themselves into the thick of the battle and helped the wounded. Under the banners pierced by bullets and shrapnel, with a swift bayonet attack, the Mokshans threw the enemy back and left the encirclement. We left at the cost of heavy losses.///The commander of the regiment died. Of the personnel, 700 people remained, only 7 musicians left the orchestra alive. Whereas in the regiment there were 6 staff officers, 43 chief officers, 31 non-commissioned officers, 3.463 privates, 11 horse orderlies and 61 musicians. The famous commander Suvorov said: "Music doubles, triples the army, I took Ishmael with unfurled banners and loud music." With valor and heroism, the Moksha people confirmed the commander's statement.///For heroism in battles, Moksha warriors were presented with awards and insignia: breastplates for officers, hats for lower ranks with the inscription "For distinction in the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905." All musicians of the orchestra were awarded with St. George crosses, I.A. Shatrov - an officer order of St. Stanislav III degree with swords, and the orchestra was awarded honorary silver pipes.///The waltz glorified the Mokshans///After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, in May 1906, the Moksha Regiment returned to its place of deployment in Zlatoust. Here I.A. Shatrov began to compose a waltz in memory of his comrades who fell in battle. So he created the first version of the waltz, which was called "Moksha Regiment on the hills of Manchuria." Soon the regiment was relocated to Samara, where Shatrov met the composer and music publisher Oscar Filippovich Knaub. An experienced composer provided serious assistance in completing the work on the waltz. As a result, in the summer of 1907, waltz sheet music began to be published, which went on sale in Oscar Knaub's cheap editions store. Also in Samara in the Strukovsky Garden on April 24, 1908, for the first time, the waltz "Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria" was performed by a brass band. At first, the audience greeted him rather coolly, as people were used to the performance of bravura works by brass bands with the participation of the Turkish drum and brass cymbals, which was popular at that time.///However, the prejudice began to pass quickly. And the popularity of the waltz increased literally by leaps and bounds.///Since 1910, gramophone records began to appear with waltz recordings performed mainly by military bands. In the first three years alone, it was reprinted 82 times, circulations surpassed even fashionable hits.///Waltz music sounded in the squares, in restaurants, it poured from almost every window. Samara poet and writer Stepan Petrov wrote the first version of the text for the waltz, which formed the basis of the following versions. Singers began to sing it. The waltz brought loud glory to the Moksha regiment.///But the long name of the waltz did not fit in one line on the record label and it was shortened. So the name of the legendary regiment, to which the waltz was dedicated, disappeared from the name. "On the Hills of Manchuria" could be interpreted as celebrating the heroism and glory of all Russian soldiers in the war with Japan, who gave their lives in the name of the Fatherland. And this did not contradict reality. Russian soldiers fought heroically not only near Mukden, and if they died, then with dignity. However, the waltz glorified the Mokshans.///"And as a friend of the front, he will not be forgotten"///During the First World War, all military bands during a lull on the front line performed this waltz. He did not lose popularity in Soviet times. "On the Hills of Manchuria", like "Amur Waves", played on dance floors, in clubs, at holidays. In 1943, a jazz orchestra conducted by L.O. Utyosov in a patriotic potpourri used the motif "Hills". In 1945, on the eve of the war with Japan, the waltz was sung by J.S. Kozlovsky.///The waltz was sung from the heart by Soviet soldiers on September 16, 1945 after the Victory Parade over Japan in Harbin. Soviet soldiers managed to compose a new waltz text. A young strong baritone sang: You fell for Rus' Died for the Fatherland The time has come, we have avenged you And they celebrated a glorious feast ...///So the Soviet soldiers commemorated their heroic ancestors of that past war. So they avenged them by defeating the Japanese Kwantung army in Manchuria. Thus, they made a decisive contribution to the victory over militaristic Japan - an ally of Nazi Germany in the East.///And after the end of the war in the West and East, the waltz continued to sound. "On the Hills of Manchuria" was performed by L. Leshchenko, L. Zykina and other masters of the Russian and Soviet stage. It also sounds in modern Russia - evidence of reverence, respect and pride of Russians for the heroic history and our Motherland.
https://www-zaxodi--v--internet-ru.translate.goog/na-sopkax-manchzhurii.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc///Waltz "On the hills of Manchuria" - the memory of the fallen heroes///The old waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" (which can be downloaded for free on the Internet, where specifically - more on this at the end of the article) is one of the most famous instrumental melodies that appeared at the beginning of the 20th century, when the Russian Empire still existed.///The waltz "On the hills of Manchuria" was written in 1906-1907 by the composer Ilya Shatrov , and he did it in memory of his comrades who died on the battlefields.///When the Russo-Japanese War began in 1904, the 214th Moksha Infantry Regiment, in which Ilya Shatrov served as a bandmaster (leader of a military band), was sent to the front, and participated in the battles that unfolded in Northeast China.///This, by the way, explains such an unusual “name” of the waltz as “On the Hills of Manchuria”. Sopki - the so-called hills and low mountains with a rounded top in the Far East, China and Korea, this is a typical landscape in those places, and Manchuria is the historical name of the northeastern part of China.///If we discard any propaganda husks and speak as it really was, the Russo-Japanese War was the result of an irreconcilable rivalry between the ruling circles of the Russian Empire and Japan over the territories of Korea and China - they could not agree on who would get what territory. The Russian imperial army occupied Manchuria as early as 1900, and in 1904-1905 the Japanese, on the principle of "rob the loot", tried to recapture Manchuria from the Russians.///And in this bloody meat grinder, tens of thousands of lives of ordinary Russian people, soldiers and officers were ground for nothing, and without any benefit to the people and the Fatherland, including the 214th Moksha Infantry regiment, from which only a few people survived, including Ilya Shatrov himself.///The original name of this waltz is “The Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria”, Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov called it that way, but subsequently such a long name was shortened by numerous performers: it is much easier to remember, and not only the Moksha Regiment was ruined in this senseless war. Both names, both full and abbreviated, have the right to exist - the first as author's, and the second as folk.///Ilya Shatrov's waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" has become one of the most frequently performed instrumental melodies performed by military and brass bands, and in our time it is often listened to in recordings, in mp3 format.///Despite its popularity, and perhaps just for this reason, the melody "On the Hills of Manchuria" has become truly long-suffering.///As soon as the music took a leading position among the pre-revolutionary waltzes, and became known throughout the country, a dispute arose over authorship. Conductor of the military band of the Kazan Cavalry Regiment S.V. Grigoriev in 1910 declared himself the real author of the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria", in connection with which I.A. Shatrov had to prove his authorship in court, which was unprecedented for that time. Everything ended happily, and the court confirmed that the true author of the waltz music "On the Hills of Manchuria" is Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov.///Then another attack happened. Like mushrooms after the rain, various texts set to the melody "On the hills of Manchuria" began to multiply rapidly. And if some texts were generally more or less successful, for example, the text by an unknown author, which has already become a classic, “Quietly around, the hills are covered with darkness ...”, then some, so to speak, “texts” were clearly inappropriate and completely inappropriate. Let's take the most typical example.///If you remember, in the film by Eldar Ryazanov “Office Romance”, the main character Novoseltsev (played by Andrey Myagkov), trying to look after the boss, begins to sing her the song “Quiet in the Forest, Only the Badger Doesn’t Sleep” - just to the motive “On the Hills of Manchuria” . If the director had known the history of the creation of this melody, he would hardly have allowed it to be used in a comedy version.///But it is known for sure that Ilya Shatrov himself conceived the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" precisely as an instrumental melody for a brass band, and no text was supposed, that is, it was not a song, but purely instrumental music.///It seems to me that the author's intention should be respected, so the waltz by I.A. Shatrov's "Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria" should always sound exactly in the instrumental version for a military brass band.///When you listen to the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria", do not forget that this is not just a pleasant melody: it is a requiem for Russian soldiers and officers who became victims of political games, who died for nothing, forever left to rest in a foreign land saturated with Russian blood.
https://samsud-ru.translate.goog/blogs/vals-napeval-pro-manchzhurskie-sopki-den.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc///The waltz sang about the Manchurian hills. Birthday of a favorite waltz/// "Chronicles of Samara"/// 04/24/2014 10:36/// 135/// Olga Mikhailova///We recall the forgotten ritual... blow off the dust, carefully place the needle and start the record... Unusual concert... It's///scary all around, And the wind on the hills is crying Sometimes the moon comes up from behind the clouds, Lights up the graves of soldiers. The crosses of beautiful distant heroes are turning white. And the shadows of the past are circling around, They tell us about the victims in vain. In the midst of everyday darkness, Everyday everyday prose, We still cannot forget the war, And burning tears are shed. The father is crying, The young wife is crying, All Russia is crying, like one person, Cursing the evil fate of fate. So tears run like the waves of a distant sea, And the heart is tormented by longing and sadness. And the abyss of great grief! The bodies of the heroes have long since decayed in their graves, And we have not repaid their last debt And we have not sung eternal memory. Peace to your soul! You died for Rus', for the Motherland. But believe - we will avenge you again And celebrate a bloody feast!///(the first version of the text "On the hills of Manchuria" in 1906 by Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov (Wanderer), Samara poet and writer)///In the Russian army, love for brass bands has been observed since the time of A.V. Suvorov. A special place in wind music is occupied by works on a military theme. Even in peacetime, military bands covered with military glory were indispensable propagandists of the best musical works, playing them at parades, in city gardens and at festivities. And the military conductors themselves composed beautiful melodies that are still popular today. Such are I. Shatrov's waltz "On the hills of Manchuria", the waltz "Amur Waves" by M. Kyus, the march "Farewell of the Slav" by V. Agapkin, etc. Such are many songs and waltzes of the times of the Great Patriotic War.///The music of brass bands is part of the memory of our people about the history of the country, and it does not leave most people calm. It is also important to know about the authors of musical works, about what events influenced and inspired them to create these works.///To the sounds of the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" performed by your favorite singer, you probably heard the waltz performed by M. Vavich, our parents danced on the city's playgrounds. Or a waltz recorded by I.S. Kozlovsky. In 1943, a jazz orchestra led by Utyosov prepared a new concert program, in which Shatrov's waltz was performed. Filled with new, patriotic content, he spoke of the Russian soldier's love for the Fatherland: "You are a brave warrior, you are worthy of your ancestors, you are a faithful son of the Motherland!" - Today I invite you to remember that it was in Samara in the Strukovsky Garden on April 24, 1908 that the first performance of the waltz by a brass band took place. Old waltz...///"Old Waltz" - this is the highest degree of recognition of the author during his lifetime! Could there be a higher reward for its creator!///In the note brought to your attention, we will talk about the military conductor (since 1947 - about the military conductor) Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov and his waltz “The Mokshan Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria” (later the name of the waltz will be shortened to the words “On the Hills of Manchuria”).///Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov (1879-1952), Russian army conductor, author of this waltz.///The history of the creation of this musical work is connected with the events of the Russo-Japanese War (January 27, 1904 - August 23, 1905) for control over Manchuria and Korea.///He was born on April 1, 1879 in the family of a tradesman (according to other sources, a merchant) in the city of Zemlyanek, Voronezh province. He grew up in a large, friendly and musically gifted family. From childhood, the boy absorbed ingenuous folk motives and played various folk instruments. His cousin Elena Mikhailovna Fafinova-Shatrova, who sang on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR (1936-1949), and then educated vocalists at the I.V. Kurchatov House of Culture, became a professional musician.///After the death of his father in 1893, Ilya was brought up in a platoon of trumpeters of the Grodno Hussars. In 1900, he graduated from the Warsaw Institute of Music in absentia and received the title of military bandmaster. Since 1903, I.A.Shatrov served as bandmaster of the 214th Moksha Infantry Regiment in Zlatoust.///He spent his leisure time in the circle of local amateur musicians, tried his hand at composition. Returning to the Urals after the Manchurian battles, Shatrov created a piece of music that glorified him - the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria".///In those years, many works inspired by Far Eastern events appeared. These were songs about the feat of the cruiser "Varyag" (among others, engineer-general Caesar Cui responded to this topic), "Heroic Feat" by A. Taskin, "Prayer for Victory", "The Death of Rurik", "In Memory of Vice Admiral Makarov", the march "Port Arthur" and "From the fallen strongholds of Port Arthur" by A. Danilevsky, "On Baikal" by V. Katansky, "The Trans-Baikal Waltz" by V. Bekner and others.///The musicians, together with the army, endured all the hardships of the war, took a direct part in the battles. The lists of awardees testified to the heroism of the musicians. Kapellmeisters of the Russian army did not have officer ranks, most of them were civilians, and, according to the charter, were awarded medals. But as an exception for service or combat merit, some of them were granted civil ranks corresponding to officer ranks and awarded orders.///Upon the announcement of mobilization on June 1, 1904, the Mokshansky regiment turned into field infantry regiments - the 214th Mokshansky (54th division) and the 282nd Chernoyarsky (71st division). The 214th Moksha Regiment included: 6 staff officers, 43 chief officers, 404 non-commissioned officers, 3548 privates, 11 horse orderlies and 61 musicians. In February 1905, the regiment took part in bloody battles near Mukden and Liaoyang. Mokshans did not leave the battles for eleven days, holding their positions. On the twelfth day the Japanese surrounded the regiment. The forces of the defenders were running out, ammunition was running out. At this critical moment, a regimental band began to play in the rear of the Russians, conducted by Kapellmeister Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov. Marches changed each other. Music gave the soldiers strength, and the encirclement was broken.///The regiment was practically destroyed, 7 musicians survived, who were later awarded St. George's crosses, honorary silver trumpets. Bandmaster I.A. Shatrov for "excellent diligent service to the assigned environment" in the summer of 1904 was awarded the silver medal "For diligence" to be worn on the Anninsky ribbon, and in the winter of 1904/05 "for differences at different times against the Japanese" was awarded (the second of military conductors in Russia), an officer order - Stanislav of the third degree "with swords" (According to another version - 1st).///On May 8, 1906, the Moksha Regiment returned to the Urals. In the summer of 1906, in the city of Zlatoust, Shatrov created the first edition of his waltz. He acquired a piano and was engaged in playing music, composing military music and musical lyrics. He was a member of the local musical circle, which met at the apartment of the priest of the railway station church, a great music lover Lavr Fenelonov. This was later told by Evgenia Chertopolokhova, who was one of the first to hear the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" performed by the author. Shatrov dedicated the waltz to his dead friends and created the first version of "On the Hills of Manchuria", the title of which was "The Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria". Soon this waltz became known not only in Russia, but also abroad. At the time of writing the waltz, Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov was 27 years old.///After the excitement of the Moksha people from September 18, 1906 until the disbandment in July 1910, the Moksha regiment was redeployed to Samara. Here Shatrov became friends with the teacher, composer and music publisher Oscar Filippovich Knaub (1866-1920), who provided the novice composer with serious assistance in completing work on the waltz and its subsequent publication. In June 1907, the notes of I. Shatrov's waltz "The Moksha Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria" were already on sale in O. Knaub's cheap editions store.///In Samara, the first performance of the waltz by the regimental orchestra took place. This happened on April 24, 1908 in the garden of the city estate (Strukovsky Garden) . However, the Samara audience did not accept the waltz - the provincials silently dispersed, not bothering with applause.///On April 29, 1908, the newspaper Gorodskoy Vestnik wrote about this: “The orchestra of the Moksha regiment quartered in Samara has been playing in Strukovsky Garden since April 24, under the direction of Kapellmeister Shatrov, who, apparently, set out to eliminate bravura pieces from the musical works played by the orchestra. , with the indispensable participation of a rumbling Turkish drum and the crackling of copper cymbals. The audience, accustomed to the bravura system of all sorts of medleys, silently greeted the orchestra playing, although the plays played were developed quite solidly and conscientiously.///However, a year later, the waltz was warmly appreciated and accepted by the public: the circulation of notes (and since 1910 of gramophone records) significantly exceeded the circulation of other fashionable waltzes. His popularity was extremely high. Only in the first three years after writing the waltz was reprinted 82 times. Gramophone records with music written by Shatrov were produced in huge numbers. Abroad, this waltz was even called the "national Russian waltz".///As for the song, it was only in the pre-revolutionary years that several versions of the text were written for a popular melody, which were based on the first version of the text for the waltz.///Until the end of his days, I. Shatrov himself insisted that "On the Hills of Manchuria" was not a requiem to the rhythm of a waltz, but a declaration of love for the Motherland. However, we have to admit that this work is really very similar to a requiem. The reason is in the text. The waltz, written by the composer, had no text at all, he was not conceived in order to turn into a song. The text, written by the Wanderer, anticipated the emergence of an artistic movement that became popular, later called decadence. For the course of the established poetic currents of that time, this text was not at all something outstanding. This explains such a large number of rather free texts, composed in parallel by the common people. Rus' mourned the victims, but the song in which it was sung was for some reason performed in such a way///“You fell for Russia, died for the Motherland...Believe me, we will avenge you. And we will celebrate a glorious feast!///At the end of the Great Patriotic War, the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" was often performed on the radio and in concerts in connection with the solemn minutes that marked the victory of the Soviet Army over the Japanese militarists in Manchuria.///The waltz melody is loved all over the world and is often called the "Russian waltz".///Due to its popularity, the waltz became the object of "audio pirates" who released records without the permission of the author and without paying a fee. And many gramophone firms, having paid a fee to the author, repeatedly replicated records, no longer paying a fee to either the author of the work or the performers. Only with the adoption in 1911 of the first copyright law in Russia, Shatrov managed to defend his right to a part of the proceeds from the sale of records.///Lawsuits have been filed against a number of companies. The result of this campaign was that most of the companies began to release records with copyrighted labels, and the Sirena Record company lost a lawsuit to the author of the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" and was forced to pay him an author's fee in the amount of 15 kopecks from each sold record.///After the revolution, Shatrov joined the Red Army, was bandmaster of the Red Cavalry Brigade. After the end of the Civil War until 1935 he served in Pavlograd. From 1935 to 1938, Shatrov led the orchestra of the Tambov Cavalry School, in 1938 he was demobilized and stayed to work in Tambov. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he returned to the army again: he served as the bandmaster of the division. Has been repeatedly awarded. After the war, Shatrov led the orchestra of the Kirovabad garrison in the Transcaucasian military district (the military band of the Transcaucasian military district) for a long time.///He retired in 1951, returned to Tambov, where he became head of the musical department at the Tambov Suvorov School.///Awards: Silver medal "For Diligence" (1904)///Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd class with swords (1905)///Order of the Red Star///Medal "For Courage"///Medal "For Military Merit".///I.A. died. Shatrov in Tambov on May 2, 1952, was buried at the Vozdvizhensky cemetery. Above the grave is a white marble slab with an inscription in gold: “Major of the Guards, composer Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov. Creator of the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria".///On April 24, 2013, in the Strukovsky Park of Samara, at the initiative of local deputies, the municipal brass band celebrated the 105th anniversary of the first ///performance of the waltz “On the Hills of Manchuria” with a concert by the municipal brass band, announcing the start of the project of the annual festival of wind bands in Strukovsky Garden, timed to coincide with the birthday of the waltz. Mark Kogan conducted the Samara Municipal Orchestra, Georgy Tsvetkov sang.///April 1, 2014 marks the 135th anniversary of the birth of Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov (1879-1952), military conductor, author of one of the most popular waltzes of the last century, On the Hills of Manchuria.///Birthday of the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria". Samara is famous for the waltz. A brass band is playing in the city garden...
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