Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky
Born: 22nd May 1913, St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 4th April 2004, Moscow, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky was a Soviet and Russian composer. Author of more than 200 songs, 8 symphonies (1940–1991), 17 operettas and musical comedies, 58 soundtracks, and 52 scores for theater productions.
Bogoslovsky is best known for two Mark Bernes's trademark songs from the war film Two Soldiers (1943): "Tyomnaya noch" (Dark Is the Night) and "Shalandy polnye kefali" (Boats Full of Mullets).
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