White Movement (1917–1923) "March of the Drozdovsky Regiment"

March of the Russian White Guard Drozdovsky (2nd Officer Rifles) Regiment, written by Colonel Pyotr Batorin to the tune of the March of Siberian Riflemen (1915). The lyrics of the march are devoted to the legendary campaign of volunteers led by Drozdovskij on the Iasi-Don route, from the Romanian front to the theater of operations of the Civil War. Later the popular melody of this march would become a basis for the Soviet partisan song "Through valleys and over hills" ("Po dolinam i po vzgor'jam") and a number of other musical compositions.