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 | | With the coming of the Industrial revolution, the number of burlaks declined: in the begining of the nineteenth century about 600,000 burlaks worked on the Volga and Oka rivers; in the middle of nineteenth century, 150,000, and by the beginning of the twentieth burlaks had all but disappeared. |
 | | The burlak was a popular hero of Russian proverbs ("Dog, do not touch the burlak—he is a dog himself"), songs (Russian: Ekh, dubinushka, famously performed by Feodor Chaliapin), and artwork (Burlaks on the Volga by Ilya Yefimovich Repin). |
 | | Burlaks on the Volga (painting by Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1870-73) |
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