“Dark-Eyed Cossack Girl“ - Leonid Kharitonov & The Alexandrov Red Army Choir (1969, FHD)

Leonid Kharitonov & the Alexandrov Red Army Choir perform the popular Soviet song the “Dark-Eyed Cossack Girl“ (or “Chernoglazaya Kazachka“, “Черноглазая казачка“ with English Subtitles). Music by Matvey Blanter, lyrics by I. Selvinsky. Conductor - Boris Alexandrov Subtitles: English, Russian, Russian-Lat (Transliteration). This is a clip from a musical TV film “The New Year Kidnapping“, the Central Television of the USSR, 1969. This song is about Cossack Soldier who once met a dark-eyed Cossack girl and asked her to shoe his horse. The girl agreed and asked for a very small price. The man asked her name since he liked her very much. The girl refused to tell her name and answered that the cossack would hear it right from under his horse’s shoes when he rides it. The cossack started riding his horse and guessing her name - Masha? Zina? Dasha? Nina?.. No, they were all wrong... KATYA, KATYA, KATERINA - the horseshoes knocked her name...