Russian Soldiers’ Melody

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Russian Soldiers’ Melody

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Ralston, William Ralston Shedden (1828-1889)

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 26:152, 640, October 1889.

First line

The powerful army of the White Tsar

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Russian

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Notes and attribution research

Song accompanied with musical composition, cited in Laura Alexandrine Smith’s essay On Some War Songs of Europe (pp. 628-650). (HR) According to the essay, Ralston’s discussion of the songs sung by Russian soldiers originally appeared in his book Songs of the Russian People. (CE)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8322

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Russian Soldiers’ Melody