One Million Roses. a Latvian Song, Instrumental Version.

A True love story about a famous Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani. Niko fell in love with The French actress “Margarita …” who loved flowers. Pirosmani loved her so much that he finally sold his house and paintings and bought her one million roses. But the painter failed and lived lonely in poverty with just million roses in his memory. It is a Latvian song composed by Raimonds Pauls with lyrics by Leons Briedis. It was performed at the 1981 Mikrofona aptauja by Aija Kukule and Līga Kreicberga. The song is one of Pauls’s most popular. It has been also performed by several artists, most notably by the Russian Icon-Singer Alla Pugacheva in 1982 with lyrics by Andrei Voznesensky. Pugacheva’s cover was written by Andrei Voznesensky as “Миллион алых роз“ (Million alykh roz, “Million Scarlet Roses“), and Voznesensky drew inspiration for the Russian lyrics from the life of Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani: allegedly, Pirosmani once filled with flowers the square of the hotel where his