Nightcore - On the Hills of Manchuria / На сопках Маньчжурии (Finnish Version)

NOTE: I do not own anything except the Nightcore in this video, all belong to the respected owners. --- Performed by: Laila Kinnunen Original audio: Background image: “On the Hills of Manchuria“ (Russian: На сопках Маньчжурии, romanized: Na sopkah Manchzhurii) is a waltz composed in 1906 by Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov. The original and orchestral arrangement is written in E-flat minor while the folk arrangement is in F minor. The original title of the waltz was “The Mokshansky Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria“ and referred to an incident during the Battle of Mukden, the disastrous final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, when the Mokshansky Infantry Regiment was encircled by Japanese forces for 11 days, during which it sustained considerable casualties. Shatrov served in the regiment as bandmaster and composed the tune on returning from the war. While the regiment was stationed in Samara in
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