Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble's lyrics & chords

The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble (Ансамбль Дмитрия Покровского) is a Russian group performing traditional music. Dmitry Pokrovsky was founder and leader of the Ensemble, which he founded in 1973 as a workshop for the conservation of real Russian folklore. He studied music at the Moscow Gnessin Institute and during one research excursion he came into contact with the unchanged, true folk music of Russia and instantly he realised the danger this culture lived in. Stalinist agricultural politics destroyed the old tradition...read more