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Something for the weekend.  Kalinka, perhaps the best known Russian song.  It was written in 1860 by Iran Larionov.  It quickly achieved a popularity of epic proportions and has been sung with endless variant lyrics among Russians from that day to this.  Here are the original lyrics: Little snowberry, snowberry, snowberry of mine!  Little raspberry [...]

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Donald R. McClarey (685 Posts)