Gusarskaya ballada

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"The old chestnut about a feisty young maiden who in her impatience to stick it to the enemy passes for a lad by the simple expedient of donning breeches and boots. On this particular telling the time is 1812 and the enemy is the French. The heroine as played by the late Larisa Golubkina is a sturdy young lassie who gallops around the steppes accompanied by a collection of distinctly unobservant soldiers who consistently fail to see through her disguise; one of the few to figure out her ruse being veteran comedian Igor Ilynsky in a guest spot as Kutuzov. To the accompaniment of a whimsical sc..."