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Across the tundra, along the railway. And again the criminal songs are heard!

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Across the tundra, along the railway. And again the criminal songs are heard!
9.99 €
"Along the tundra, along the railroad" - a continuation of a series of books by Alexander Sidorov about blatnye, arrest and camp songs ("Song of my Murka", "On Moldavanka music plays" and "I remember that Vanino port"), which has already managed to gain popularity not only among fans of the genre. After all, in his essays the author goes far beyond the "information field" associated directly with the songs, and provides extensive and interesting information about the traditions, life, language, manners, reflected in the "grassroots folklore", and often - in the history and culture of our country. Thus, the book gives a detailed history of escapes from prison - from pre-revolutionary penal servitude to the Gulag; describes the peculiarities of the prison system in tsarist and Soviet Russia; details of "blatnaya fashion", which influenced the fashion "civil". Deciphering the expression "arap to tuck in" will connect seemingly incompatible criminal "specialties" counterfeiter and card cheat, and with the cute word "bear" will be associated not only the son or daughter of a bear, but also a massive bank safe ...
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