Russia mourns ‘Paganini of the balalaika’
mainThe virtuoso balalaika player Mikhail Rozhkov has died at the age of 99.
It was none other than Herbert von Karajan who gave him the Paganini title.
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“Oh Oksana, oh don’t cry for me, I come the Ural Mountains with a balalaika upon my knee”
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