Farewell to the Slavs
Farewell to the Slavs (Прощание славянки) is one of the most famous marches in Russia . It was composed in 1912 by Wassili Agapkin (1884–1964).
In the original lyrics by V. Lasarew (1912) the march is about a soldier during the Balkan wars of 1912/1913 who bids farewell to his wife. But there are two more recent texts by A. Mingalew and M. Galich with a more patriotic content.
In the war film The Cranes Pull (1957) the march accompanies a key scene when those called up march off without the main hero and main heroine being able to say goodbye.
In Sergei Bodrov's film Captured in the Caucasus (1996) , Farewell to the Slavs is an important tool in the narrative.
The march is also played in the film Attack on Leningrad , interpreted by a military brass band under the direction of I. Petrov.