Russian Folk facts
While investigating facts about Russian Folk, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The Tetris theme is actually a Russian folk song called "Korobeiniki."
The "Tetris" tune is actually a 150 year old Russian folk song in which a street vendor flirts with a customer while haggling over goods.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 24 of the best facts about Russian Folk I managed to collect.
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The famous Tetris theme is a Russian Folk Song called "Korobeiniki"
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The melody of the iconic 'Tetris theme' actually comes from a 19th century Russian folk song called 'Korobelniki' (Коробейники)
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The "Tetris Theme Song" is actually an old Russian folk song.
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The Russian folk song 'Korobeiniki' was rearranged and used as Tetris' main theme.
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Stenka Na Stenku" (wall to wall). A Russian boxing folk-sport where men lined up in walls to fight opposing walls. The sport could have hundreds of participants with commanders, battle plans with movements and formations. The sport left its mark in Russian distaste of punching a man who is down
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The melody of the song 'Those Were the Days' was originally from a Russian folk song.
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The Tetris theme song is actually a Russian folk song
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The Survivor Theme Song "Ancient Voices," commonly thought to be incoherent chanting, is actually based on an old Russian Folk Song. - source
About music artist Neiromonakh Feofan (Neuromonk Feofan), who play a mix of drum 'n' bass and Russian folk music - source
Russian folk doctor Popov tells how to quickly cure hemorrhoids. This doctor became famous in the Russian YouTube for his not standard methods of treating various diseases. This is his most popular video. - source
The Tetris theme is actually a Russian folk song called "Korobeiniki".
Composer Alexander Desplat just won Best Original Score for The Grand Budapest Hotel at the Oscars, but the music was actually adapted from an old Russian folk song called "Светит месяц" or "The Moon Is Shining".
Survivor's theme song, Ancient Voices, is not meaningless chanting as it is commonly believed, but rather contains the lyrics of a Russian folk song thats title translates to "I'll go and get outside"
Song of the Volga Boatman (Russian folk song played on cartoons when doing work) was #1 in the US in 1941.
