“Here’s the Mail Troika Rushing“ - Leonid Kharitonov (1987)

Leonid Kharitonov - “Here’s the Mail Coach-and-Three (Troika) Rushing“ Russian folk song Performance by the singer in the television show Song, Romance, Waltz, accompanied by the Osipov Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments, under the leadership of conductor Nikolay Kalinin, 1987. IMPORTANT! I have added English subtitles! Be sure to turn Captions (CC) on in your YouTube player to view the subtitles! It’s the last right button on the player’s tool bar. Short description: Winter. The mail troika is rushing along the frozen Volga river. The coachman, a young guy is humming some sad tune shaking his head. Then a friendly passenger asked him , why he looked so sad. And the coachman tells him his life story. He told him that he had been fallen in love for already a year. But the village headman, the infidel Tatar, scolded him all the time about it. Very soon Christmastide would come and his beloved should marry another man, rich and hateful one... An