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Merry Christmas to all of my readers who celebrate today!

I went to the local art gallery for a screening of Bolshoi’s Nutcracker today. It was magnificent! Today is a good day to listen to Tchaikovsky. Here’s my gift to you - Soviet animation and timeless music. Enjoy!

Nutcracker, directed by Boris Stepantsev (USSR, 1973)

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Профессий много, но прекрасней всех кино!

(This song’s just randomly popped up in my head in the kitchen and now I’m singing it out loud!)

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“14 Minutes To Launch” by Vladimir Troshin aka the #1 Soviet song about space.

Music by O. Feltzman, lyrics by V. Voinovich. Recorded and published in the autumn of 1960, it became an anthem after Gagarin’s space flight in April 1961.

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Луч солнца золотого (Ray of the Golden Sun) from “On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians”, Soviet 1973 cartoon. Performed by Muslim Magomayev. For context, I want to say that to this day, this song is a favourite among Russian ladies. It’s a...

Луч солнца золотого (Ray of the Golden Sun) from “On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians”, Soviet 1973 cartoon. Performed by Muslim Magomayev.

For context, I want to say that to this day, this song is a favourite among Russian ladies. It’s a personal favourite of mine, too. My ex sang it really well and I used to ask him to sing it like twice a week. %)

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April 23 - birthday of Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev (born in 1891). Here’s one of my favourite pieces, Dance Of The Knights from “Romeo and Juliet” (1935).

(This theme was sampled in Robbie William’s “Party Like a Russian”.)

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