Musical camp "Moksha regiment. On the hills of Manchuria", 1911

The original sheet music is in excellent collector's condition. The format is 340*260 mm. The volume is 6 pages. Guarantee of authenticity.

Russian Russian waltz on the Hills of Manchuria (originally, the Moksha Regiment on the hills of Manchuria) is a Russian waltz of the early 20th century dedicated to the soldiers of the 214th Reserve Moksha Infantry Regiment who died in the Russo—Japanese War. The author is the military bandmaster of the regiment Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov.

In February 1905, the 214th Moksha Infantry Regiment (deployed during the war from the infantry reserve regiment of the same name) fell into the Japanese encirclement in the heaviest battles between Mukden and Liaoyang (see the Battle of Mukden) and was constantly attacked by the enemy. At a critical moment, when ammunition was already running out, the regimental commander, Colonel Pyotr Pobyvanets, gave the order: "The banner and the orchestra — forward!..". Kapellmeister Shatrov led the orchestra to the parapet of the trenches, gave the order to play a column march and led the orchestra forward behind the regiment's banner[2]. Inspired, the soldiers rushed into a bayonet attack. During the battle, the regiment continuously attacked the Japanese to the music of the orchestra and, eventually, broke through the encirclement. The commander of the regiment was killed in battle, 700 people remained from the 4,000 personnel of the regiment[2], only 7 musicians remained alive from the orchestra. For this feat, all the musicians of the orchestra were awarded St. George Crosses, Ilya Shatrov was awarded the officer's Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd degree with swords (the second such award for bandmasters), and the orchestra was awarded honorary silver trumpets.

After the end of the Russian-Japanese war, the Moksha regiment remained in Manchuria for another year, where Shatrov, once on the orders of the new regiment commander in the guardhouse, began to write the waltz "Moksha Regiment on the hills of Manchuria", dedicated to the fallen comrades.

In May 1906, the Moksha regiment returned to its location in Zlatoust and was folded back into an infantry reserve regiment. In the summer, Ilya Shatrov created the first version of the waltz, which was called "The Moksha Regiment on the hills of Manchuria." Shatrov dedicated the waltz to his dead friends. On September 18, 1906, the Moksha regiment was relocated to Samara. Here Shatrov met and became friends with the teacher, composer and music publisher Oscar Filippovich Knaub, who provided the novice composer with serious assistance in completing work on the waltz and its subsequent publication. In the summer of 1907, the notes of Ilya Shatrov's waltz "Moksha Regiment on the hills of Manchuria" were sold in the store of cheap editions by Oscar Knaub.

In Samara, on April 24, 1908, the first performance of the waltz by a brass band took place in the Strukovsky Garden. At first, the public received this waltz rather coolly, but later the popularity of the waltz began to grow, and since 1910, the circulation of gramophone records with the recording of the waltz began to surpass the circulation of other fashionable waltzes. In the first 3 years after writing, this waltz was reprinted 82 times.

At the end of World War II, the waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" was often performed on the radio and at concerts in connection with the solemn moments marking the victory of the Red Army over Japanese troops in Manchuria.