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This is the first song in my three song trilogy about the Turkish invasions of Ukraine.
This piece sets the backdrop of a proud nation with high aspirations for their future and a hint at what is to come.
Hear the huge Dnieper River roar, the tall mountains, and the thick forests of the Ukrainian landscape.
Listen as the Ukrainian peoples hopes, dreams, and aspirations come to reality in this epic and grand piece.
Little do they know, they have invaders from the south crossing the Black Sea with plans to kidnap and enslave them.
To find out more, check out the 2nd song in the trilogy, entitled "Invaders From the South."
I hope you enjoy and leave suggestions.
***MORE TWISTED HISTORY***
The word “Ukraine” or “Ukrayina” has an ancient slavic meaning of “Borderland” and has been actually a no man’s land for some time between the forest tribes of slavs and the western people (the polish, the lithuanians, and others).
Another interesting fact is that the first capital of slavic civilization was Kiev (or Kyiv as it is now, again, called).
So it is rather true to say that Ukraine as we know today is the birthplace of the Slavs, even though their capitals have moved up north gradually to Moscow and then to St. Petersburg and now back to Moscow again.
As the mighty Tzars directed their eyes to the arctic emptiness of Siberia (maybe they have prophesied the riches lying underneath) and the dusty steppes of Central Asia, a group of people found their way to the vast lands between the Russian forests up north and the Black Sea down south.
They would rush to these fertile lands (which is called Chernozem, black earth) and live a life not dissimilar to those in the Wild West.
These rural nomadic warriors were called “Cossacks”.
Although being farmers, those guys were well fed and well educated fighters with a bit of vodka to light up the mortal spirits, so they became the slavic cowboys and formed a roaming posse that took more than 3 centuries to suppress.
They resisted invaders by not shaving off their signature ponytails and by not paying homage to an authority other than a "Hetman", a leader of a Cossack community.
The Ukrainian Cossacks formed colonies through the mighty Dnieper River that ran through the black earth and developed a unique dialect of Russian.
In 1621 a big battle against the Turks took place on the South side of the Dnister River near Khotyn with participation of 40,000 Cossacks and 35,000 Polish soldiers. It ended with the retreat of the Turkish army.
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This piece sets the backdrop of a proud nation with high aspirations for their future and a hint at what is to come.
Hear the huge Dnieper River roar, the tall mountains, and the thick forests of the Ukrainian landscape.
Listen as the Ukrainian peoples hopes, dreams, and aspirations come to reality in this epic and grand piece.
Little do they know, they have invaders from the south crossing the Black Sea with plans to kidnap and enslave them.
To find out more, check out the 2nd song in the trilogy, entitled "Invaders From the South."
I hope you enjoy and leave suggestions.
***MORE TWISTED HISTORY***
The word “Ukraine” or “Ukrayina” has an ancient slavic meaning of “Borderland” and has been actually a no man’s land for some time between the forest tribes of slavs and the western people (the polish, the lithuanians, and others).
Another interesting fact is that the first capital of slavic civilization was Kiev (or Kyiv as it is now, again, called).
So it is rather true to say that Ukraine as we know today is the birthplace of the Slavs, even though their capitals have moved up north gradually to Moscow and then to St. Petersburg and now back to Moscow again.
As the mighty Tzars directed their eyes to the arctic emptiness of Siberia (maybe they have prophesied the riches lying underneath) and the dusty steppes of Central Asia, a group of people found their way to the vast lands between the Russian forests up north and the Black Sea down south.
They would rush to these fertile lands (which is called Chernozem, black earth) and live a life not dissimilar to those in the Wild West.
These rural nomadic warriors were called “Cossacks”.
Although being farmers, those guys were well fed and well educated fighters with a bit of vodka to light up the mortal spirits, so they became the slavic cowboys and formed a roaming posse that took more than 3 centuries to suppress.
They resisted invaders by not shaving off their signature ponytails and by not paying homage to an authority other than a "Hetman", a leader of a Cossack community.
The Ukrainian Cossacks formed colonies through the mighty Dnieper River that ran through the black earth and developed a unique dialect of Russian.
In 1621 a big battle against the Turks took place on the South side of the Dnister River near Khotyn with participation of 40,000 Cossacks and 35,000 Polish soldiers. It ended with the retreat of the Turkish army.
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magnatone
This is BEAUTIFUL! Congratulations on this incredible work!