Lyubasha is asked by Malyuta to sing for the company of Ivan the Terrible's bodyguards - the oprichniks - of which he is a member. Knowing that she has lost the affection of Grigory, her beloved, (also an oprichnik), she sings a song of grief and death.

I've always like the irony of the sensitive response of the oprichniks, the bloody and ruthless group of select guards that surrounded Ivan.

Lyubasha - Natalya Rudnaya (voice: Larissa Avdeyeva)


Lyubasha is played by Natalya Rudnaya; Larisa Avdeyeva sings the part.

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