Here's all you need to know about the balalaika. When did the balalaika first appear in Russia? Historians differ on when exactly the balalaika first appeared in Russia. The first written records ...

A balalaika is a triangle-shaped string instrument with a fretted neck, hollow body and three strings. Two of them are tuned to the same note and the third is tuned a perfect fourth higher.

Alexei Navalny has had his sarcastic demands to Russian prison administrators of a pet kangaroo, a balalaika, and a bottle of moonshine liquor denied. The list of outlandish requests included a ...

Members of the Kalinka Balalaika Orchestra recently starred in Ewan McGregor's A Gentleman in Moscow television series Britain's only balalaika orchestra is struggling for members partly because ...

The instrument is similar to a guitar, but with only three strings Credit: ITV Granada The Balalaika is a Russian string instrument, similar to a triangular guitar, but with only three strings.

Britain's only balalaika orchestra is struggling for members partly because of anti-Russian sentiment within the UK, its founder has said. Common in Eastern European folk music, balalaikas usually ...