Shatrov served in the regiment as bandmaster and composed the tune on returning from the war. 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. The original and orchestral arrangement is written in E-flat minor while the folk arrangement is in F minor. " On the Hills of Manchuria" (Russian: На сопках Маньчжурии, romanized: Na sopkah Manchzhurii) is a waltz composed in 1906 by Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov. An early version of the song "On the Hills of Manchuria" performed by Michael Vavitch 1912
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