Perhaps a good place to start in understanding the particular characteristics of Russians would be to notice the titles of their songs. Here are thirteen of them, taken entirely from Tchaikovsky:
Both painfully and sweetly
A tear tremblesNone but the lonely heart
As over the burning ashes
As they kept on saying, “Fool”
No answer, or word, or greeting
The love of a dead man
Was I not a little blade of grass?
I’ll tell you nothing
I did not love you at first
Disenchantment
Mid sombre days
Again, as before, alone
Quite different from German, French, Italian, Spanish, English,
American song titles…
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