Farewell Slavianka (Прощание Славянки) subtitle in Russian, English
Behind the Farewell Slavianka (by win081, The music was composed in 1912 by Vasily Agapkin who was inspired by the Bulgarian women who sending their husbands or boyfriends to fight the First Balkan War against the Ottoman Turks. Vasily Agapkin was a trumpetmajor in the marching band of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in Tambov, he was also invoved with the class of brass insruments in the Tambov Music School. It was Yakov Bogorad, a music publisher in Simferopol, who came up with the name
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