Which real-life Russian did Boney M sing about in 1978?
"Cool"", ""Ma Baker"", ""Sunny"", ""Rasputin"", ""Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord"" and ""Rivers of Babylon"". German singer-songwriter Frank Farian (real name Franz Reuther) recorded the dance track ""Baby Do You Wanna Bump"" in December 1974. Farian sang the repeated line ""Do you do you wanna bump?"" in a deep voice (entirely studio created) as well as performing the high falsetto chorus. When the record was released as a single, it was credited to ""Boney M."", a pseudonym Farian had created for himself after watching the Australian detective show ""Boney"". He said: After a slow start, the song became a"
"Rasputin (song) ""Rasputin"" is a 1978 euro disco hit single by the Germany-based pop and euro disco group Boney M., the second from their album ""Nightflight to Venus"". With a tune resembling the second half of the Turkish folk song ""Kâtibim"", it is a semi-biographical song about Grigori Rasputin, a friend and advisor of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family during the early 20th century. The song variously sensationalizes Rasputin as a playboy, mystical healer, and political manipulator. ""Rasputin"" references the hope held by Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna that Grigori Rasputin would heal her hemophiliac son, Tsarevich Alexei of"
"Vinod"" there is a Hindi-language song titled ""I'll Do the Talking""; the song is a partial interpolation of ""Rasputin"". Rasputin (song) ""Rasputin"" is a 1978 euro disco hit single by the Germany-based pop and euro disco group Boney M., the second from their album ""Nightflight to Venus"". With a tune resembling the second half of the Turkish folk song ""Kâtibim"", it is a semi-biographical song about Grigori Rasputin, a friend and advisor of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family during the early 20th century. The song variously sensationalizes Rasputin as a playboy, mystical healer, and political manipulator. ""Rasputin"""
"Variants of the song exist, and in some versions the wounded escapee asks his comrade to bury him, while in others he asks that his friend relay to his mother that he died in combat. Willi Tokarev became famous in the Soviet Union during the 1980s for his songs depicting life as a Russian émigré in New York City. Two of his songs that express the difficulty of assimilating to American society and the struggle to abandon the criminal way of life include ""New Yorkskiy Taksist"" (""New York Taxi Driver"") from his 1981 album ""V Shumnom Balagane"" (""In a Noisy"
"Kamaliya Kamaliya Zahoor (, ; born Nataliya Shmarenkova on 18 May 1977), known professionally as simply Kamaliya, is a Ukrainian singer, actress, television personality, model, former beauty pageant titleholder, and philanthropist. She has become widely known in the United Kingdom through her participation in the British reality television programme ""Meet the Russians"". Kamaliya (real name Natalya Shmarenkova; ) was born in 1977 in Zabaikallye, Chita Oblast, Soviet Union. When she turned three, her military father was deployed to Budapest, where she danced and sang in the children's ensemble called ""Kolokol’chik"" (the Jingle). When her family later moved to Lviv, she"
"the man she has been looking for her whole life. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears () is a 1980 Soviet film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Vera Alentova and by Aleksey Batalov. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981. The film is set in Moscow in 1958 and 1979. The plot centers on three young women: Katerina, Lyudmila, and Antonina, who come to Moscow from smaller towns. They are placed together in"
"in 1939; the couple had two sons and a daughter. Boris Polevoy Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy (or Polevoi) (; March 17 [4], 1908 – July 12, 1981) was a notable Soviet writer. He is the author of the book ""Story of a Real Man"" about a Soviet World War II fighter pilot Alexei Petrovich Maresiev (or Alexej Petrovich Maresjev). Boris Polevoy was a pseudonym for Boris Nikolaevich Kampov (1908–1981). He was born in Moscow in 1908, the son of a lawyer from a Russian Orthodox priest family. His parents were Nikolay Petrovich and Lidiya (Vasilyevna) Kampov. He was a graduate of"
"Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov ( or – 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky (), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were ""The Lower Depths"" (1902), ""Twenty-six Men and a Girl"", ""The Song of the Stormy Petrel"", ""My Childhood"","" Mother"", ""Summerfolk"" and ""Children of"
"Katerina Ksenyeva Katerina Yuryevna Ksenyeva (, born December 5, 1975) is a Russian actress, singer, composer and journalist. New York-based singer, composer, actress, author and journalist from Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2013, Ksenyeva started working on permanent basis in New York City singing in English and Hebrew. She is known as the leading actress in the film ""Don't Think About White Monkeys"" and in the TV series ""Grim Tales From Russia"". Her music album ""Lullaby for a Man"" is noted for its original style and high vocal quality. Katerina Ksenyeva was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (formerly Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR)."
"Boris Polevoy Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy (or Polevoi) (; March 17 [4], 1908 – July 12, 1981) was a notable Soviet writer. He is the author of the book ""Story of a Real Man"" about a Soviet World War II fighter pilot Alexei Petrovich Maresiev (or Alexej Petrovich Maresjev). Boris Polevoy was a pseudonym for Boris Nikolaevich Kampov (1908–1981). He was born in Moscow in 1908, the son of a lawyer from a Russian Orthodox priest family. His parents were Nikolay Petrovich and Lidiya (Vasilyevna) Kampov. He was a graduate of the Tver Industrial Technical College (now Kalinin Industrial College). Prior"
"Ilya Lagutenko Ilya Igorevich Lagutenko (; born 16 October 1968) is the founder and lead singer of MTV Award-winning band Mumiy Troll. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. Soon after his birth his father died, and the family moved to Vladivostok. In school he became engrossed in studying Chinese. He sang with a children’s choir that took him to many Russian cities as they traveled through half of the country. Ilya formed his first psychedelic punk band named ""Boney P"" (ostensibly drawing on the name of the band Boney M, which was quite popular in the Soviet Union around"
"Venus"", then picked it as one of his ""track picks"" from the album. Although the song was written and performed in English, with single German and Russian words – ""But the kasatschok he danced really wunderbar""! – it enjoyed great popularity in the Soviet Union, and is credited with reviving the fame of Rasputin there. The song was omitted, however, from the Soviet pressing of the album and Boney M. were barred from performing the song during their ten performances in Moscow in December 1978. During their visit to Poland in 1979, the band performed the song despite being asked"
"Mother Russia (Renaissance song) ""Mother Russia"" is the closing song on Renaissance's 1974 album ""Turn of the Cards"". It also appears on the 1976 live album ""Live at Carnegie Hall"", the compilation ""Tales of 1001 Nights, Vol. 1"", and several other Renaissance concert albums. The song is a tribute to Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who had been forced by the Communist regime to leave the Soviet Union earlier in 1974. Written as usual by poet Betty Thatcher, the lyrics are based on Solzhenitsyn's famous novel about Soviet repression, ""One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"". Because fans of the"
"Mikhail Krug Mikhail Vladimirovich Krug (, the pseudonym literally means ""circle""; April 7, 1962 – July 1, 2002), born as Vorobyov (Воробьёв) , was a Russian singer, one of the leading singers of the style of songs known as ""blatnaya pesnya"" (songs about criminal life), or shanson, which has been part of Russian culture since the beginning of the twentieth century. Mikhail Krug was born in Morozovskiy Gorodok, a suburb of the city of Tver. In 1987 Krug participated in a song competition, taking first place. As a result, he took up song-writing seriously. By 1994, he had recorded three"
"B. B. Gabor Gabor Hegedus (1948 – 17 January 1990), known by the stage name BB Gabor, was a Hungarian-born Canadian pop singer. Gabor is best known for his 1980 single ""Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewellery)"", and had other minor hits with ""Metropolitan Life"", ""Consumer"" and ""Jealous Girl"". Gabor fled with his parents to England in 1956 at the time of the Hungarian Revolution. In a 1980 interview by Paul McGrath of ""The Globe and Mail"", the family was said to have made their exit just ""one step ahead of the Russian tanks"". In the same interview, Gabor recalled that"
"Sofia Rotaru Sofiya Mykhaylivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru (born 7 August 1947), known as Sofia Rotaru ( ; ; Romanian: ""Sofia Rotaru""), is a former Soviet Union and Ukrainian pop singer. Rotaru, nicknamed ""Bukovinsky Solovey"" (""the Nightingale from Bukovina""), emerged in 1966 as a pop folk star in the movie ""Solovey iz sela Marshintsy"" (Nightingale from Marshyntsi) in the Romanian and Ukrainian-speaking world after her manager and future husband Anatoliy Yevdokymenko made her change her music style from folk to pop music with Chervona Ruta. In 1972, she released the multilingual album ""Sofia Rotaru"", re-released three times and covered by numerous singers, establishing"
"production. B. B. Gabor Gabor Hegedus (1948 – 17 January 1990), known by the stage name BB Gabor, was a Hungarian-born Canadian pop singer. Gabor is best known for his 1980 single ""Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewellery)"", and had other minor hits with ""Metropolitan Life"", ""Consumer"" and ""Jealous Girl"". Gabor fled with his parents to England in 1956 at the time of the Hungarian Revolution. In a 1980 interview by Paul McGrath of ""The Globe and Mail"", the family was said to have made their exit just ""one step ahead of the Russian tanks"". In the same interview, Gabor recalled"
"Lotte Lenya Lotte Lenya (18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in ""The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone"" (1961). She also played the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie ""From Russia with Love"" (1963). In 1922 Lenya was seen by her future husband, German"
"on his albums ""Heart on Snow"" and ""Orpheus in Exile"". Russian chanson Russian chanson (; from French ""chanson"") is a neologism for a musical genre covering a range of Russian songs, including city romance songs, author song performed by singer-songwriters, and Blatnaya Pesnya or ""criminals' songs"" that are based on the themes of the urban underclass and the criminal underworld. The Russian chanson originated in the Russian Empire. The songs sung by serfs and political prisoners of the Tsar are very similar in content to the songs sung in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation today. However, during the"
"Zhenya Belousov Evgeny Viktorovich Belousov (; September 10, 1964, Zhikhar — June 2, 1997, Moscow), better known as Zhenya Belousov () was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, popular in the late 1980s — early 1990s. His best-known hits include ""My Blue-Eyed Girl"", ""Night Taxi"" and ""Alyoshka"". Evgeny Viktorovich Belousov was born on September 10, 1964 in the village of Zhikhar, Kharkiv Oblast. He graduated from vocational school No 1 as mechanic-repairman and later studied at the Kursk Music College, learning bass guitar. He was not conscripted to the army due to heavy concussion he suffered in a car crash"
"in the category Best Actor in a Musical. Körberg was born in Norsjö. In July 2007 he married Anne-Charlotte Nilsson. Tommy Körberg Bert Gustav Tommy Körberg (; born 4 July 1948) is a Swedish singer, actor, and musician. English-speaking audiences know him best for his role as Anatoly/""The Russian"" in the musical ""Chess"". He played the role on the 1984 concept album, and again on stage in the 1986 world première West End production in London. He has also performed the role several more times since then. Körberg has also played the lead role in many Swedish productions of other"
"Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears () is a 1980 Soviet film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Vera Alentova and by Aleksey Batalov. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981. The film is set in Moscow in 1958 and 1979. The plot centers on three young women: Katerina, Lyudmila, and Antonina, who come to Moscow from smaller towns. They are placed together in a workers' dormitory room and eventually become friends. Antonina (Raisa"
"Tommy Körberg Bert Gustav Tommy Körberg (; born 4 July 1948) is a Swedish singer, actor, and musician. English-speaking audiences know him best for his role as Anatoly/""The Russian"" in the musical ""Chess"". He played the role on the 1984 concept album, and again on stage in the 1986 world première West End production in London. He has also performed the role several more times since then. Körberg has also played the lead role in many Swedish productions of other musicals. He represented Sweden in the 1969 and 1988 Eurovision Song Contests. He has also appeared in the Swedish productions"
"Valery Leontiev Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (; born 19 March 1949 in Ust-Usa, Komi ASSR, RSFSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer whose popularity peaked in the early 1980s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996. He is known as one of the most prominent artists of Soviet and Russian music. Over the course of his decades-long career, he has recorded more than 30 albums, many of which sold millions of copies. The media refers to Leontiev as a megastar and a legend of the Russian scene. Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev was born on 19 March"
"great Soviet writer who emerged from the common people, a loyal friend of the Bolsheviks, and the founder of the increasingly canonical ""socialist realism"". Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov ( or – 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky (), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous"
"acute pancreatitis. A month later he suffered a stroke (earlier head injuries and alcohol abuse cited as possible causes) and underwent a brain surgery. On 2 June 1997 Belousov died at the Sklifosovsky hospital, and was interred in the Kuntsevo Cemetery. Zhenya Belousov Evgeny Viktorovich Belousov (; September 10, 1964, Zhikhar — June 2, 1997, Moscow), better known as Zhenya Belousov () was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, popular in the late 1980s — early 1990s. His best-known hits include ""My Blue-Eyed Girl"", ""Night Taxi"" and ""Alyoshka"". Evgeny Viktorovich Belousov was born on September 10, 1964 in the village"
"Willi Tokarev Vilen ""Willi"" Tokarev (born 11 November 1934) is a Russian-American singer-songwriter. In the 1980s, he became famous all over the Soviet Union for his songs about life as a Russian émigré in New York in Brighton Beach. He was born Vilen Tokarev in the small Cossack village of Chernyshov in Adyghe Autonomous Oblast, North Caucasus Krai, Soviet Union, on 11 November 1934. His father was a Kuban Cossack by birth. His parents named him in honor of Vladimir Lenin, as the Soviet name ""Vilen"" is an acronym for ""Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"". In 1941 his family moved to the"
"himself, believing it to be too radical a step to take, and so the Soviet Union never entered the contest before dissolving. Valery Leontiev Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev (; born 19 March 1949 in Ust-Usa, Komi ASSR, RSFSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer whose popularity peaked in the early 1980s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996. He is known as one of the most prominent artists of Soviet and Russian music. Over the course of his decades-long career, he has recorded more than 30 albums, many of which sold millions of copies. The"
"Olga Voronets Olga Borisovna Voronets (; 12 February 1926 – 2 August 2014) was a leading Russian mezzo-soprano folk singer of the 1960s and 1970s. She was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1978. Voronets was born in 1926 in Smolensk. She attended the VGIK and the Sokolniki opera school. Having made her debut at the age of 21, Voronets gained a wider audience after the International Folk Song Festival in 1956. In the 1960s, Voronets rivalled Lyudmila Zykina in popularity. Her best known songs include ""Zachem vy devushki krasivykh lyubite"", ""Sladka yagoda"", ""Glyazhu v ozera siniye"", ""Ya Zemlya""."
"show. On 22 January 2013 Vorobyov was seriously injured and suffered brain trauma after a car crash accident in Los Angeles, United States. Alexey was taken to hospital with a traumatic brain injury and several other injuries and put in intensive care. He recovered and slowly returned to recording and acting. Alexey Vorobyov Alexey Vladimirovich Vorobyov (; 19 January 1988) is a Russian singer and actor who performs both in Russian and English. For international purposes Vorobyov is also credited as Alex Sparrow, a translation of his Russian name. He is best known for appearing on the Russian version of"
"Konstantin Podrevsky Konstantin Nikolayevich Podrevsky (; 14 January 1888 in Turinsk, Tobolsk Governorate, Russian Empire – 4 February 1930 in Moscow, USSR) was a Russian Soviet poet of Polish origin on mother's side, a translator and lyricist, co-author of more than 150 popular songs of the 1920s, including ""Dorogoi dlinnoyu"" which he wrote with Boris Fomin. Konstantin Podrevsky was born in Turinsk, Tobolsk, to Nikolai Nikolayevich Podrevsky (1855-1916), a Chernigov-born Ukrainian raznochinets (later journalist and editor of ""Sibirsky Listok"" newspaper), and Zoya Ignatyevna, (born Vincentina Wilhelmina Lisowska, 1862-1925?), a daughter of the Polish revolutionaries who were deported to the Siberia"
"Boris Fomin Boris Ivanovich Fomin (Борис Иванович Фомин, 12 April 1900, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 25 October 1948, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet musician and composer who specialized in the Russian romance. Several of Fomin's songs became popular in 1920s, most notably ""Dorogoj dlinnoju"" (, By the long road), commonly known for its English version ""Those Were the Days"", made world-famous in 1968 by Mary Hopkin and credited to Eugene Raskin who in 1962 wrote the English lyrics for the tune and claimed the song for his own. It was composed by Boris Fomin in 1924, first interpreted and"
"outdoing their American counterparts was a common theme of Soviet Realism. His later works, ""Poema o topore"" (""A Poem about an Ax"", 1930"")"" and ""Moi Drug"" (""My Friend"", 1930) also touched on themes of soviet industrialism and ingenuity. His plays frequently mixed ""factual reports"" with dramatization.His most popular play was ""Chelovek s ruzhyom"" (""Man with a Gun"", 1937), about Shadrin, a soldier who comes to Petrograd in October 1917 and gets involved in the Revolution; the climax of the play is his meeting with Lenin. The second play in his Lenin trilogy, ""Kremlyovskie kuranty"" (""The chimes of the Kremlin"", 1940),"