The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
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A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevish, the Young Oprichnik, and the Valorous Merchant Kalashnikov, often abbreviated as The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, is a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written in 1837 and first published in 1838.
The plot of the poem is set during Oprichnina times. Rhythmically, Kalashnikov is patterned after bylina, the Russian folk epic. Its most famous scene describes a fistfight between the protagonists, Kalashnikov and oprichnik Kiribeevich.
[edit] Adaptations
- The Merchant Kalashnikov - opera by Anton Rubinstein
- Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov (film) - 1909 Russian film directed by Vasily Goncharov
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