"Russian Rag" is a 1918 ragtime jazz piano composition by George L.

[1][2] The composition was published by Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd.[1] The composition is based on the opening chord progression of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op.3, No.2.

The piece was such a hit that Cobb wrote The New Russian Rag in 1923 in an attempt to arrange more of the Rachmaninoff prelude for ragtime piano.

[3][4] Elena Kats-Chernin wrote another later piano composition entitled Russian Rag in 1996.

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