Ever heard "The Partisan", as sung by Leonard Cohen...well, guess what...

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...there's an Alaska connection to the song.

The original verses were written in Russian by a Russian exile in London named Anna Marly(original name Anna Yurievna Betulinskaya)



After the lyrics were translated into French(they are the verses Cohen sings in French in his rendition) and given the title "La Complainte du Partisan" Anna recorded the song in that language and it became known as the unofficial anthem of the French Resistance.

After the war, Anna married a former White Russian colonel and the two of them settled in, of all places, Lucky Mountain, Alaska(a place I hadn't heard of until last night, when I discovered this fact). Anna Marly died in 2006.

Wondering if any of you in the Mat-Su area had ever met Anna Marly or had known of this.