- A popular prison song after the Revolution about Lake Baikal
- Perhaps a play on appearance vs. reality. It appears the people are happily singing when they are actually suffering
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It would take years to identify all the references in this masterpiece. Here is compilation of information we collected from various sources (namely the Jan Vonhellemont Annotations and the Middlebury Annotations), but remember that there are always more references!
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