Sergey Bogolyubsky - Smuglyanka / Смуглянка

Sergey Bogolyubsky&performance as an honored guest at the celebratory concert for veterans to the Victory Day, Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Concert Hall, St. Petersburg, April 27, 2017. The video was rec. on iPhone. The video editing by Julia Bogolyubskaya. The concert accompanied by the Youth Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg. Conductor - Ekaterina Pomendyukova. "Smuglyanka" (English: "The Dark Girl") is a Russian song written in 1940 by Yakov Shvedov (lyrics) and Anatoliy Novikov (music). It is written in the style of a Moldovan folk song. The lyrics tell how the singer met a pretty girl gathering grapes and tried to seduce her, but how the girl turns out to be a partisan, and convinces him to join the partisans as well. «Smuglyanka» was used in 1973 Soviet film «Only "Old Men" Are Going to Battle» («В бой идут одни "старики"»). In the film, a young fighter pilot introduces the song to his squadron and so gets nicknamed "the dark girl".