On the Hills of Manchuria | Seeds 34 Keys Chromatic Kalimba Cover With Number & Letter Notations

On the Hills of Manchuria is a haunting waltz, concern thousands of fallen Russian soldiers lying in their graves in Manchuria, in the course of the Russo-Japanese war*. The original title of the waltz was “The Mokshansky Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria“, composed in 1906 by Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov (1879-1952), a Russian military musician, conductor and composer. The song referred to his experiences as the bandmaster of the Mokshansky Regimental Orchestra at the Battle of Mukden, the disastrous final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, where the regiment commander perished, and of the original 4000 members of the regiment only 700 people, including 7 musicians of the orchestra, were left alive. The lyrics written by the poet Stepan Petrov or Skitalets (1869-1941) soon after the song published. There are alternative words were adapted to the tune later. *)The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904-1905 over rival imper