In the following video the Fanfare Band of the Royal Netherlands Army Mounted Regiments performs "Farewell of Slavianka," which was composed in 1912 by V. Agapkin, a cavalry-man and student of trumpet and composition at the Tambov Music College.
The march commemorates events in the Balkan wars of liberation from the five-hundred-year-long power of the Ottoman Empire, and was dedicated to all Slav women who sent their men to fight for freedom. (Slavianka means "Slavic woman").
The march commemorates events in the Balkan wars of liberation from the five-hundred-year-long power of the Ottoman Empire, and was dedicated to all Slav women who sent their men to fight for freedom. (Slavianka means "Slavic woman").
