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Now, Mikhail Matusovsky drafted the lyrics and the song “Leningrad Evenings” was born. According to the scenario of the movie, the song would sound on the background of the Moscow region views where athletes would rest at the sports base gaining strength before important starts. So Matusovsky change the “Leningrad” to “Moscow”.
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There were several reasons for the move. First, the former Tsarist civil servants boycotted the Bolshevik government. In the civil institutions in Petrograd – the State Bank, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Central Telegraph, and others, the servants either didn’t show up to work, destroyed documents, or simply locked themselves in their offic...
During his life, Lenin was firmly against the renaming of any cities, towns, streets, etc. after him. After his death, his widow Nadezhda Krupskaya repeated on numerous occasions that Lenin would have found the idea distasteful, but her voice was left unheard. On January 26th, 1924, just five days after Lenin’s death, the Second Congress of Soviets...
The first time the idea was floated, in 1927, about 200 Bolshevik civil servants filed a plea to rename Moscow to Ilyich (the patronymic of Vladimir Lenin), writing that “Lenin founded the free Russia.” Stalin refused the proposal on the grounds that having two large cities renamed after Lenin would have been too much (with Petrograd having then ju...
"Midnight is Moscow" had a decidedly unusual beginning. Here's what we think happened. In 1955 two experienced Russian creators, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi (composer) and Mikhail Matusovsky (lyrics) wrote a song called "Leningrad Nights," Leningrad being another Russian city. But a powerful force requested a change.
Leningrad poets wrote many poems dedicated to their city and the courage of its citizens. On the day when the Siege was lifted the famous poet Anna Akhmatova wrote: On a starless January night.
Jan 4, 2019 · 1991: St. Petersburg. Fast-forward through almost 70 years of the communist government to the fall of the USSR. In the years that followed, many places in the country were renamed, and Leningrad became St. Petersburg once again. Historical buildings saw renovation and rejuvenation. Changing the city name back to its original name did not come ...
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Everybody knows Moscow is now the capital of Russia, but not many know about the other places that once reigned supreme over the land. Here they are. 1. (Staraya) Ladoga. This place is now a ...
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"Moscow Nights", [lower-alpha 1] originally titled "Leningrad Nights", [lower-alpha 2] is a Soviet Russian patriotic song written by Mikhail Matusovsky and composed by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy. It was later covered as " Midnight in Moscow " by Kenny Ball .
