Ksenia Kardonova, Folk Songs
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‘Togryash’ Ksenia sings a song ‘Togryash’: Crowns of very tall trees are wobbling. From the wind the hemline of Togryash’s skirt is fluttering. A blue silk blanket for whom I will keep? Who am I supposed to think this old grey-haired man is? ‘Yalukha’ Ksenia talks about the hard life of women and sings the song ‘Yalukha’: black silky shivrlg (braids’ covers) play in the light that emanated from the girl’s cheeks called Yalukha. Dark-skinned beauty Yalukha came back home and she has calmed down. She woke up in the morning calm, she walked around the cooking pot calm. Round-faced beauty Yalukha, she became the iron fetters on the feet of her husband’s relatives. This song is about the cases when a bride runs away to her parents’ house. Then her husband’s relatives would pursue her, that is why it is sung about the iron bindings on feet. Songs were created because of such cases.