page_title: Evgeny Belyaev
section_title: What the songs are about
hierarchical_section_title: Evgeny Belyaev / Repertoire / What the songs are about
caption_attribution_description: English: Red army soldiers Русский: Бойцы РККА с пулемётом Максима, около 1930 года, фотография деда (он держит коробку с лентой справа от пулемётчика).
context_page_description: Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev, was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov. He is remembered in the Soviet Union as the Russian Nightingale and in the West as one of the definitive singers of Kalinka.
context_section_description: In alphabetical order of titles, with links to auto-lyrics:
  "Accidental Waltz": Probably a love song (lyrics unavailable).
  "And Again I Am in Line": Song of the veteran pilots of World War II, and their replacement by younger pilots 
  "Baikal Beauty" recalls beautiful Lake Baikal and a girl at home for the homesick soldier.
  "Before the Long Journey" remembers preparations for people's long journeys in the past; comparing them with the preparations of modern astronauts. Possibly sung as a tribute to Yuri Gagarin and his fellow astronauts.
  "Bryanski Partisan Song": A guerilla song about Soviet partisans that mentions an ambush, burnt houses and revenge.
  "By Mostochku Narrow": Possibly a veteran soldier's reminiscences (lyrics unavailable).
  "Choir of Sailors from the Opera Dawn": (lyrics unavailable).
  "Click the Guy": About soldiers, girls and Moscow (lyrics unavailable).
  "The Cruiser Aurora": "What do you dream of, cruiser Aurora, in the hour when the morning comes on the Neva?"  The Aurora is a symbol of the Communist Revolution, and she has been a museum ship on the Neva at St. Petersburg since 1957.
  "Donetski Night": refers to the horror of the Battle of Stalingrad, and optimism about a woman  (lyrics unavailable).
  "Evening on the Road"/"Night on the Road": A sailors' song about going to sea.
  "Far Far Away": About border guards far from home, protecting their homeland.
  "Favourite Remember Us": Possibly about soldiers under orders, who know they will not come back (lyrics unavailable).
  "Immortelle": Ballad about the death by the River Don of a heroic Cossack soldier, his body guarded by a single immortelle or everlasting Helichrysum flower, which according to the lyric does not bend with the wind.
  "In a Sunny Forest Clearing": A soldier's love song.
  "In the Dugouts"': A soldier in his dugout in the snow, sings to his accordion about his girl far away, and feels warm at the thought before he dies.
  "Kalinka": A song about a snowball tree.
  "Nightingales" ("Solovii"): The lyric of "Nightingales" asks the nightingale to be quiet as the soldiers are sleeping.  The song says that they need to sleep in preparation for the next battle, and there is an implication in the music that they may not come home. It is possible to interpret their next battle in relation to the afterlife, so the audience has the option to infer that they have died
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  "Ogonek": Possibly about a girl and a soldier. It may refer to Ogonyok, (Russian: Огонёк), which means "little flame", as a symbol of love (lyrics unavailable).
  "Oh You Rye": A love song (lyrics unavailable).
  "Cold Waves Lapping": (lyrics unavailable).
  "'Ridna My Mother": (lyrics unavailable).
  "Rodina": About the Russian landscape.
  "Russian Field"': The Russian landscape as Fatherland.
  "Shooting Kommunarov": A war story to give encouragement to fight.
  "Sing Soldiers": A hearty song for military morale.
  "Song of Russia": The Russian landscape and Vladimir Lenin.
  Two Maxim: a machine-gun song (lyrics unavailable).
  "Where Are You Now, Friends": About soldiers returning from World War II.
caption: Red Army soldiers with the Maxim gun, c. 1930.
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