Template:Did you know nominations/Stenka Razin (film)
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The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 18:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
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Stenka Razin (film)
Russian film poster for Stenka Razin (1908)
- ... that producer Alexander Drankov encouraged viewers to sing a "drunkard's ballad" while watching his 1908 film Stenka Razin (poster pictured)? Source: "Drankov found opportunity within the ten minutes that the film lasted to encourage the audience to sing a song that had long been connected with the fumes of the saloon and with sprawling in gutters-'Down the Mother Volga', familiarly called the drunkard's ballad." - Kino by Jay Leyda, p. 35 (https://archive.org/details/kinohistoryofrus0000jayl/page/34/mode/2up)
- ALT1: ... that the first Russian feature film, Stenka Razin (poster pictured), depicts the historical Cossack leader throwing a princess into the Volga? Source: "Sten’ka Razin recounts an episode from the seventeenth-century robber, rebel and folk hero’s life— his ill-fated infatuation with a princess he had captured during his Persian campaign [...] the jealous Razin throws the princess overboard as a gift to the Volga river." - Salys, Rimgaila (2013). "Sten'ka Razin". In Salys, Rimgaila (ed.). The Russian Cinema Reader. Boston, [Massachusets]: Academic Studies Press. p. 45
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5x expanded by Ghosts of Europa (talk). Self-nominated at 17:06, 16 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Stenka Razin (film); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
