Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Moscow Nights (Подмосковные вечера) (2013)

“Moscow Nights“ (Russian: Подмосковные вечера, tr. Podmoskovnie vechera) is a Russian song, one of those best known outside its homeland. The song was originally created as “Leningradskie Vechera“ (“Leningrad Nights“) by composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Matusovsky in 1955 (when both had well-established careers), but at the request of the Soviet Ministry of Culture, the “Подмосковные вечера“ (transliterated as “Podmoskovnye Vechera“; more or less “Evenings in the Moscow Suburb“) version was prepared, with corresponding changes to the lyrics. In 1956, Podmoskovnye Vechera was recorded by Vladimir Troshin, a young actor of the Moscow Art Theatre, for a documentary about the athletic competition Spartakiad of the Peoples of the RSFSR, for a scene where the participants rest in Podmoskovye, the Moscow suburbs. It went little noticed in the context of the film, but gained considerably popularity thanks to radio broadcasts.