" It's definitely in the Swedish folk music, you can hear it in the Russian folk songs, you can hear in in the music from Jean Sibelius or Edvard Grieg from Norway, you can see it in the eyes of Greta Garbo and you can hear it in the voice of Jussi Björling.

The balalaika (, ) is a Russian folk stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular body and three strings.

Sometimes the balalaika is tuned " guitar style " by folk musicians to G-B-D ( mimicking the three highest strings of the Russian guitar ), whereby it is easier to play for Russian guitar players, although classically trained balalaika purists avoid this tuning.

Andreyev patented the design and arranged numerous traditional Russian folk melodies for the orchestra.

Interest in Russian folk instruments has grown outside of Russia.

Orchestras of Russian folk instruments exist in many countries of western Europe, Scandinavia, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.

A centaur-like half-human half-equine creature called Polkan appeared in Russian folk art, and lubok prints of the 17th – 19th centuries.

By that time his works were influenced by Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Russian avant-garde painters who were particularly interested in Russian folk art called lubok.

Nasreddin often appears as a whimsical character of a large Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Judeo-Spanish, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Turkish and Urdu folk tradition of vignettes, not entirely different from zen koans.

Many other " national epics ," epic poetry considered to reflect the national spirit, were produced or revived under the influence of Romantic nationalism: particularly in the Russian Empire, national minorities seeking to assert their own identities in the face of Russification produced new national poetry – either out of whole cloth, or from cobbling together folk poetry, or by resurrecting older narrative poetry.

Category: Russian folk music

In 2004, the Russian Cossack folk dance had nine concerts in Port of Spain, San Fernando, Couva, and Tobago

The group had top 10 hits in the 1960s with " I'll Never Find Another You ", " A World of Our Own ", " Morningtown Ride ", " The Carnival Is Over " ( Russian folk song which the Seekers have sung at various closing ceremonies in Australia, including World Expo 88 and the Paralympics and still stands as the 30th best selling song in the United Kingdom ), " Someday One Day ", and " Georgy Girl " ( the title song of the film of the same name ).

Single with Russian folk song, " The Carnival Is Over ", appeared in November, which reached No. 1 in both Australia and the UK.

These three works have several characteristics in common: they are scored for an extremely large orchestra ; they use Russian folk themes and motifs.

Maslenitsa (, also called Pancake Week or " Cheese Week ") is a Russian folk holiday that incorporates some traditions that date back to pagan times.

Cultural extensions of the traditional circus style include: Chinese circus — using mainly rings and badminton racquets, fantastic costumes, concentrating on numbers juggling ; Russian folk — colourful costumes and characters, unique props with acrobatics.

His memory was also kept alive by innumerable Ukrainian and Russian folk ballads and legends, which refer to him as Krasno Solnyshko, that is, the Fair Sun.

Nevertheless, to select works for his analysis, Propp used all Russian folktales classified as a folk lore Aarne-Thompson 300-749 – in a cataloguing system that made such a distinction – to gain a clear set of tales.

Lake Baikal has been celebrated in several Russian folk songs.

A girl in folk costume performing a Russian folk dance.

* 1990 – Natalya Milnichenko, Russian guitarist and singer ( Ranetki Girls )

* 1985 – Elena Temnikova, Russian singer ( Serebro )

* 1949 – Mikhail Boyarsky, Soviet / Russian actor and singer

* 1969 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer ( d. 2007 )

Murakami, a song by Russian rock singer Svetlana Surganova, widely perceived as a lesbian anthem

* 1987 – Yulia Savicheva, Russian singer

* 1981 – Vitas, Russian singer

* 2008 – Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer ( Grazhdanskaya Oborona ) ( b. 1964 )

* 1971 – Anita Tsoy, Russian singer

* 1980 – Regina Spektor, Russian / American singer and songwriter

* 1974 – Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer

* 1983 – Zara, Russian singer and actress

He also met a singer called Matiska in the hamlet of Lonkka on the Russian side of the border.

Lönnrot made his eighth field trip to the Russian border town of Lapukka where the great singer Arhippa Perttunen had learned his trade.

* Maria Kuznetsova ( 1880 – 1966 ), Russian opera singer

* 1984 – Lena Katina, Russian singer ( t. A. T. u.

* 1937 – Joseph Kobzon, Russian singer

* 1933 – Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov, Russian opera singer

** Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer

** Lena Katina, Russian singer

* May 2 – Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer

* September 4 – Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer

* October 6 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer, poet and composer ( b. 1956 )

* March 21 – Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer and actor ( d. 1957 )

* February 13 – Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass opera singer ( d. 1938 )