Славное море, священный Байкал (TV version of M&M)
In Chapter 17, Vasily Stepanovich visits the Commision branch on Vagankovsky Lane to report the events of the previous day at the Variety Theater. He enters the office and witnesses a mass hypnosis on people, who are singing "Славное море, священный Байкал," or "Glorious Sea, the Sacred Baikal." It is a very popular folk song, composed by prisoners working in the Nerchinsk mines.
"You see, doctor, there's some sort of a mass hypniosis here, and you must ..." He did not finish the sentence, began to gag on his words, and suddenly burst out in a tenor, "Shilka and Nerchinsk..."
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