Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije

Lieutenant Kije, Prokofiev

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• Kije;
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[behrooz4]

@bryngOneOn The artist is Ilya Repin, and the painting is called "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks." As you can see, the Cossacks are crowded around a feller writing a letter and laughing, as they are sending a very rude and vulgar response to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed IV (reigned from 1648 - 1687), who had commanded them to stop their raiding.

[flandrensis]

hey ! Prokofiev stole that one from Sting's "Do the Russians love their children too" :-)

[Atvishees]

@flandrensis Time-travelling git!

[padredemishijos12]

@behrooz4 The writer was perhaps a Cossack Jew. They served as administrators. Moreover, some Tatars fought with Poles against fellow muslims. Some Tatars converted to Christianity such as the family of Rachmaninoff.

[ddrew237]

@behrooz4 yes indeed, and the french poet Guillaume Apollinaire imagined the content of that letter. In case you were interested...

[Eminem7688]

doesnt anyone know a link to a normal version ( no singing )

[Bruchag]

Perfidity

[Jtiger987]

accent much ? lol

[southmatt154]

Ilya Efimovich Repin: The Zaporozhye Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan, 1890-91

[bryngOneOn]

as i listen i look at the picture, the more i look the more i'm fascinated by the story shown, what's the painting called and who is it by please so i can learn more about it?