The Volga Boatmen - sung by Paul Robeson video free download

Serenoj69

Very nice version. Kharitonov is of course very difficult to equal by anyone. And he has not got a great choir behind him....

Мебель Онда

good, but very far from the performance of Leonid Kharitonov

Jeanne-Gwenaëlle Pagnon

Wonderful...but so expressive, the pain is palpable..

Юрий Шестаков

В ДЕНЬ РОЖДЕНИЯ ПОЛЯ РОБСОНА

Josev Slotnikow

В ДЕНЬ РОЖДЕНИЯ ПОЛЯ РОБСОНА

Achille Signoriello

RAGAZZI CHE VOCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Gary Dumaresq

They were free men. Read up on Wikipedia.

1manuscriptman

Absolutely Astonishing Performance by Robeson. Only the voice of the Oppressed and those with Pain can sing like that.Many people are unaware that the Russian Peasants were literally enslaved for longer than Black Africans.

waikarimoana

STRENGTH!!you remember your childhood?and tell me how many times you went to bed with empty stomach?Mom,mom i am hungry when is papa coming home to brig us food mama?That was my cry every night when i was a little boy.My mom would hug me and with tears the size of pearl running on her colourless cheeks, desperately tried to comfort me.He would come home with face cut up and eyes black and blue and closed,from bare Knuckle fight in the street to collect a few pennies because there were no work for anyone. With a handkerchief covered with his blood and weighted down with 2 or 3 tomatoes a bit of cheese and a loaf of bread to feed 6 sibling my mom and grandma.As young as i was, one day my older brother grabbed my throat with one hand and forced me to the ground saying""NEXT TIME YOU BRING TEARS TO MOM'S EYES I WILL KILL YOU.""and i never did till she died!!!My old man is my HEROE and let me tell you one thing good about being poor is you become a MAN very quickly in your life,and soon you find your STRENGTH and you know WHO YOU ARE!!! 

magemaatikko

Very nice presentation. I have chilling because I have feeling all Russian nation all singinng with you!!

Олег Иваноф

This painting was made by great russian artist Ilia Glazunov in late 19 th century.

тот который

Robson is American Shalyapin! Great Bass! And this perfomance is greatly high after Fedor Shalyapin has sung this folk song! Thanks! 

vkorchnoifan

The work is both a celebration of the men's dignity and fortitude, and a highly emotional condemnation of those who sanctioned such inhumane labour.[3] Although they are presented as stoical and accepting, the men are largely defeated; only one stands out: in the centre of both the row and canvas, a brightly coloured youth fights against his leather binds and takes on a heroic poiseThere were many Burlaks hauling huge barge down stream on not only the Volga but many other rivers in Russia. Google "Rurlak" and you'll find pictures of them. Luckly, America didn't have these boat haulers. We had the steam boats with the pinwheel.

Joe Jackson

Voice of god....

Steven Yourke

Look at the figures in the painting, pulling the boat. Have you ever seen such figures of despair, of utter hopelessness and degradation? Were these prisoners, I wonder, these poor starving wretches? 

Mal Fabian

. Yo, heave ho!Yo, heave ho!Once more, once again, still once moreYo, heave ho!Yo, heave ho!Once more, once again, still once moreNow we fell the stout birch tree,Now we pull hard: one, two, three.Ay-da, da, ay-da!Ay-da, da, ay-da!Now we pull hard: one, two, three.Now we pull hard: one, two, three.Yo, heave ho!Yo, heave ho!Once more, once again, still once moreAs we walk along the shore,To the sun we sing our song.Ay-da, da, ay-da!Ay-da, da, ay-da!To the sun we sing our song.Hey, hey, let's heave a-long the wayto the sun we sing our songYo, heave ho!Yo, heave ho!Once more, once again, still once moreOh, you, Volga, mother river,Mighty stream so deep and wide.Ay-da, da, ay-da!Ay-da, da, ay-da!Volga, Volga, mother river.Yo, heave ho!Yo, heave ho!Once more, once again, still once moreYo, heave ho!Yo, heave ho!

Wideador

why they didn't use speedboats insted of rowing??? that's absurd

Jimmy Conway

I met Paul Robeson, a great guy.

Diana van Eyk

Does anyone have any recordings of this and other songs he did with the Red Army Choir? So incredibly moving!

regina m

Famous for my mind★

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