Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi
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Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoi was a Russian
classical composer who was born and died in Saint Petersburg
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Solovyov-Sedoi composed the music for the songs Solovi and Moscow Nights
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d as "Podmoskovnye Vechera"). Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Russian "Composer's Union" he added the suffix "Sedoi", meaning grey, to avoid confusion with another composer with the same name.
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classical composer who was born and died in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
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Solovyov-Sedoi composed the music for the songs Solovi and Moscow Nights
Moscow Nights
"Moscow Nights" or "Midnight in Moscow" is a Russian song, and one of those best known outside its homeland.The song was originally created as "Leningradskie Vechera" by composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Matusovsky in 1955 , but at the request of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, the...
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d as "Podmoskovnye Vechera"). Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Russian "Composer's Union" he added the suffix "Sedoi", meaning grey, to avoid confusion with another composer with the same name.