Stepan Skitalets

Stepan Skitalets
BornStepan Gavrilovich Petrov
(1869-11-09)9 November 1869
Samara Province, Russia
Died25 June 1941(1941-06-25) (aged 71)
Moscow, Soviet Union
An early version of the song «On the Hills of Manchuria» performed by Michael Vavitch, 1912

Stepan Gavrilovich Skitalets (Russian: Степан Гаврилович Скиталец, born Petrov, Russian: Петров; 9 November 1869 – 25 June 1941) was a Russian and Soviet poet, writer of fiction and folk musician. The name Skitalets means "wanderer" in Russian.