The Landler is a folk dance in 3/4 time which was 
popular in Austria, Bavaria, German Switzerland, and 
Slovenia at the end of the 18th century.

It is a partner dance which strongly features hopping 
and stamping. It might be purely instrumental or have a 
vocal part, sometimes featuring yodeling.

When dance halls became popular in Europe in the 
19th century, the Landler was made quicker and more 
elegant, and the men shed the hobnail boots which 
they wore to dance it. Along with a number of other 
folk dances from Germany and Bohemia, it is thought 
to have contributed to the evolution of the waltz.

This arrangement was originally made by the Soviet 
guitarist and guitar teacher Pavel Veshchitsky for the 
Russian seven-string guitar (the book "Guitarist's 
repertoire. The seven-string guitar". Moscow, "Soviet 
composer" 
Publishing House, 1972, page 20), but it is easily 
played on a classical guitar from a lowered to D note 
sixth string. In this case, both of these options are 
presented in two tracks of this tab.

The Russian guitar (sometimes referred to as a "Gypsy 
guitar") is an acoustic seven-string guitar that was 
developed in Russia toward the end of the 18th 
century: it shares most of its organological features 
with the Spanish guitar, although some historians insist 
on English guitar ascendancy. These guitars are most 
commonly tuned to an open G chord as follows: D2 G2 
B2 D3 G3 B3 D4.