More feeling in the original Russian.
Ivan Stolyar (b.Kostroma, 16 September 1977 - 25 December 2016). Bass-baritone. Graduated from the A. Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music in 2002. He was a soloist of the Tver Philharmonic from 1999 to 2000, then joined the Ensemble in 2005. As of 2010 he sings for the Ensemble as a guest soloist. With the Ensemble he has performed in various concerts including Quebec 2008, where he sang the song known in the west as Those Were the Days, but which is a Russian song called Дорогой длинною ("Dorogoi dlinnoyu") or By the Long Road by Boris Fomin.