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The Song of the Volga Boatmen
"The Song of the Volga Boatmen" is a traditional Russian song of the burlaks, the barge-haulers of the Volga River, who dragged boats upstream from the bank. In Russian it is named after its refrain, a hauling call. Ilya Repin's painting Barge Haulers on the Volga shows such burlaks at their labour in Tsarist Russia.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). The Song of the Volga Boatmen. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/the-song-of-the-volga-boatmen
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