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Thread #46265   Message #695726
Posted By: Haruo
22-Apr-02 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: Russian Folk Songs with English translations
Subject: RE: Russian Folk Songs with English translat
BTW FWIW, Stenka is Russian for "Steve". But "Steve Razin" doesn't fit the metre, so we'd probably better not emend it, eh? I was reading the other day in Metropoliteno, the great early-Soviet Esperanto novel by Vladimir Varankin, and for a moment didn't even realize the reference to a "well-known tune about Stefano Razin" meant "Stenka".

Liland