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Poetry and songs

Vysotsky wrote over 100 poems, about 600 songs and a poem for children (in two parts), in total, he wrote about 700 poetic works.

Quite a few songs were written specifically for movies, but most of them, sometimes technical reasons, but more often due to bureaucratic prohibitions, it was not included in the final versions (for example, in the films Sannikov Land, "Second attempt by Viktor Krokhin", "Special Opinion" and others).

Style and theme of songs

Vladimir Vysotsky:

The guitar didn't show up right away. First I played the piano, then the accordion. At that time I had not yet heard that it was possible to sing verses with a guitar, and I simply pounded the rhythm of the song on the guitar and sang my own and other people's verses to the rhythms.

- “I have been writing for a very long time…”)

As a rule, Vysotsky is reckoned among bard music, but a reservation must be made here. The theme of the songs and the manner of Vysotsky's performance differed markedly from most other, "intelligent" bards, in addition, Vladimir Semyonovich himself did not consider himself a "bard" movement:

“So, “How do you feel about the current minstrelism and what do you think is a bard song?” Firstly, I hear these two words for the first time - the word “minstrelism” is “bard song”. You know what's the matter - I don't care. I never had anything to do with this, I never considered myself to be either a “bard” or a “minstrel”. Here, and here, you understand ... I never took part in any of these “evenings” that were organized. Now there is such a wild number of these so-called “bards” and “minstrels” that I don’t want to have anything to do with them.

- Transcript of Vysotsky's speech in Voroshilovgrad on January 25, 1978 (21 hours))

In addition, unlike most Soviet "bards", Vysotsky was a professional actor and, for this reason alone, cannot be classified as amateur.

It is difficult to find aspects of life that he would not have touched in his work. These are "thieves" songs, and ballads, and love lyrics, as well as songs on political topics: often satirical or even containing sharp criticism (direct or, more often, written in Aesopian language) of the existing system and state of affairs, humorous songs and fairy tale songs. Many of the songs are written in the first person and subsequently received the title "monologue songs". In other songs, there could be several heroes, the “roles” of which Vysotsky played, changing his voice (for example, “Dialogue in front of the TV”). These are original "songs-performances" written for performance by one "actor".

Vysotsky sang about Everyday life and about the Great Patriotic War, about the life of workers and the fate of peoples - all this brought him wide popularity. The accuracy and figurativeness of the language, the performance of the songs "in the first person", the sincerity of the author, the expressiveness of the performance created the impression in the audience that Vysotsky sang about the experience own life(even about participation in the Great Patriotic War, after which Vysotsky was only 7 years old) - although the vast majority of the stories told in the songs were either entirely invented by the author, or based on the stories of other people.

Vysotsky's songs are different increased attention, first of all, to the text and content, and not to the form (with opposition to the stage).

Vysotsky received great fame for "songs on an anguish" - such as "Picky Horses" or "Paradise Apples".

He also differed in an unconventional manner of singing - he pulled not only vowels, but also consonants.

Vysotsky deliberately played the detuned guitar. The professional musician Zinovy ​​Shersher (Tumanov), who met him shortly before his death, recalled:

I tuned his guitar. He tried very hard, but he took the instrument in his hands and lowered all the strings a little. "I love her humming..."

Prose and dramaturgy

"Life without sleep(Dolphins and Psychos)." 1968 The presence of the author's name is unknown.

The first known publication of the story in the Parisian magazine "Echo" in 1980. The title "Life without sleep" was given by the editors of the magazine. Under the title "Dolphins and Psychos" the story was distributed in the Soviet samizdat.

"Somehow it all happened". 1969 or 1970.

"Where is the center?"(scenario). 1975

« A novel about girls» . 1977 The novel is not finished. There is no title in the author's manuscript.

"Viennese holidays". Film story (together with E. Volodarsky). 1979

"Black Candle"(1 part). Together with Leonid Monchinsky. Vladimir Semyonovich did not live to see the end of the joint work, and the 2nd part was written only by Monchinsky.

Theatrical work

Basically, the name of Vysotsky as a theater actor is associated with the Taganka Theater. In this theater, he participated in 15 performances (including "The Life of Galileo", "The Cherry Orchard", "Hamlet"). More than 10 performances (not only the Taganka Theater) performed his songs.

Radio

Main article: Radio performances with the participation of V. S. Vysotsky

Vysotsky took part in the creation of 11 radio performances (including Martin Eden, Stone Guest, Stranger, Behind the Bystryansky forest»).

Cinema

Vysotsky starred in almost 30 films, many of which feature his songs. He was not approved for many roles, and not always for creative reasons. Vysotsky also participated in the dubbing of one cartoon - "The Wizard of the Emerald City." In addition, originally the Wolf in the cartoon "Well, you wait!" it was supposed to voice Vysotsky, but censorship did not allow him and Anatoly Papanov replaced him.

In 1975, Vysotsky became the author of the advertising film "Signs of the Zodiac", where he composed and performed the song "About the signs of the zodiac." This film was not initially accepted by Soviet censorship, including in connection with Vysotsky's participation in its creation.

Filmography:

  • 1959 - Peers - Peter
  • 1962 - 713th asks for landing - Marine Corps Soldier
  • 1962 - Dima Gorin's career - Sofron
  • 1962 - Shore leave - Peter, friend of Valezhnikov
  • 1962 - Free kick - Yury Nikulin
  • 1963 - Living and dead - cheerful soldier
  • 1965 - Our house - Mechanic
  • 1965 - On tomorrow's street - Peter Markin
  • 1965 - Cook - Andrey Pchelka
  • 1966 - Vertical - Volodya(also performs songs)
  • 1966 - I come from childhood - tank captain Volodya
  • 1967 - Short meetings - Maksim
  • 1967 - War under the roofs - cop at the wedding
  • 1968 - Intervention - Michel Voronov/Evgeny Brodsky(also performs songs)
  • 1968 - Two comrades served - Brusentsov
  • 1968 - Master of the taiga - pockmarked(also performs songs)
  • 1969 - Dangerous tour - Georges, Nicholas(also performs songs)
  • 1971 - White explosion - Captain
  • 1972 - Fourth - He
  • 1973 - Bad good man - Von Coren
  • 1974 - The only road - Solodov
  • 1975 - The Flight of Mr. McKinley - Bill Seeger(also performs songs)
  • 1975 - Signs of the Zodiac (script, music)
  • 1975 - The only one - Boris Ilyich
  • 1976 - A tale about how Tsar Peter the arap got married - Hannibal
  • 1977 - The two of them ("Mafilm", Hungary)
  • 1979 - The meeting place cannot be changed - Captain Zheglov
  • 1979 - Little Tragedies - Don Guan

Friends

In his interviews, Vysotsky often talked about his friends - primarily about famous people, but noting that there were also "a few people who were not related to ... public professions."

So, the first friends who later gained fame were Vladimir's classmates: the future poet Igor Kokhanovsky and the future screenwriter Vladimir Akimov. Then this group grew: “We lived in the same apartment in Bolshoi Karetny, ... we lived like a commune ...”. This apartment belonged to the poet's older friend, Levon Kocharyan, and actor Vasily Shukshin, director lived or often visited there Andrei Tarkovsky, writer Artur Makarov, screenwriter Vladimir Akimov, Anatoly Utevsky. Vladimir Semenovich recalls these people: “It was possible to say only half a phrase, and we understood each other by gesture, by movements.” One of Vysotsky's closest friends was the mime clown Leonid Yengibarov.

Over time, theater colleagues were added: Vsevolod Abdulov, Ivan Bortnik, Ivan Dykhovichny, Boris Khmelnitsky, Valery Zolotukhin, Valery Yanklovich. In addition to them, at different stages of his life, Vysotsky also made new friends: David Karapetyan, Daniel Olbrykhsky, Vadim Tumanov, Viktor Turov, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sergei Parajanov and others.

In Paris, Vysotsky met Mikhail Shemyakin, who in the future would create many illustrations for Vysotsky's songs, and a monument to the poet was erected in Samara. However, perhaps the most important thing that Mikhail Mikhailovich did to perpetuate the memory of his friend was Vysotsky's recordings made in Paris in 1975-1980 in the studio of Mikhail Shemyakin. Accompanied Vysotsky on the second guitar Konstantin Kazansky. These recordings are unique not only for the quality and purity of sound, but also for the fact that Vysotsky sang not just for the record, but for a close friend, whose opinion he valued so much. Also during these years in Paris, together with Konstantin Kazansky, who acted as an arranger, Vysotsky managed to record three of his records.

A close friend was Pavel Leonidov, the impresario of Vysotsky and his cousin.

Discography

Lifetime discs published in the USSR

Personal editions

During the life of Vysotsky, only 7 minions were released (they came out from 1968 to 1975). Each of the records contained no more than four songs.

1978 also saw the release of an export giant disc, which included songs recorded in different years by Melodiya, but never published.

With the participation of Vysotsky

Since 1974, four disc performances with the participation of Vysotsky have been released, including in 1976 the double album "Alice in Wonderland" was released (the EP "Alice in Wonderland. Songs from a musical fairy tale" was also released separately).

In addition, 15 records are known, which included one or more of Vysotsky's songs, mostly songs from films and collections of military songs (for example, "To fellow soldiers", "Victory Day").

Also, Vysotsky's songs sounded on 11 records in music magazines (mainly Krugozor), and in 1965 in the same Krugozor (No. 6) excerpts from the play "10 Days That Shook the World" with the participation of Vysotsky and other Taganka actors.

In the USSR and Russia after death

  • The largest publication is a series of records "At the concerts of Vladimir Vysotsky" on 21 discs (1987-1992). There are also 4 records released in 1993-94. firm "Aprelevka Sound Inc", with rare and previously unreleased songs.
  • In the first half of the 2000s, the company "New Sound - New Sound" 22 CDs with remastered songs by Vladimir Semyonovich were released. The tracks were presented by modern remakes, which were based on Vysotsky's vocals, cleared of the author's sound accompaniment and overdubbed with modern musical arrangements. Such a bold experiment caused conflicting opinions of the audience: on the one hand, music has become quite good quality sound, and on the other hand, a certain “pop” was added.
  • To the 30th anniversary of the death of V. Vysotsky, the newspaper " TVNZ" prepared a special issue with the film on DVD: "Vladimir Vysotsky. Frames of unknown newsreel. "Road Story"" with footage that has never been shown in Russia: material from Polish newsreels, as well as unique footage from various private archives (screen tests of a failed role, amateur footage, interview fragments).

List of albums released since 1996:

  • Tattoo - (1963-1965)
  • Formulation - (1964)
  • But I do not regret - (1964-1978)
  • Talk to me at least - (1964-1974)
  • Journey to the Past - (1967)
  • Say thank you again for being alive - (1969-1980)
  • Songs for the film "Ivan da Marya" - (1969-1976)
  • Ballads for the film "The Flight of Mr. McKinley" - (1974-1976)
  • Own island - (1964,1973-1974,1976)
  • Long jump - (1974-1976)
  • Concert at the Palace of Culture "Mir" - (1967)
  • Concert at the Central Puppet Theater - (1973)
  • Concert at DC VAMI - (1974)
  • Concert in DC "Commune" part 1 - (1980)
  • Concert in DC "Commune" part 2 - (1980)
  • Tikhoretskaya - (1961-1965)
  • I come from childhood - (1965-1979)
  • Song about the Volga - (1968-1979)
  • Domes - (1968-1979)
  • I will lose true faith - (1963-1967)
  • Lukomorye is no more - (1967-1972)
  • Bath in white - (1969-1974)
  • Don't Worry - (1969-1976)
  • Weight taken - (1969-1978)
  • Monument - (1973-1979)
  • Case history - (1969-1979)
  • River - (1967,1977-1980)
  • Alice in Wonderland - (1970, 1973)
  • My Hamlet - (1966-1978)
  • Concert at the Eureka Shop Club - (1966, 1973, 1976)
  • Concert in Kazan - (1977)
  • Concert in Severodonetsk - (1974, 1978)
  • Criminal Code - (2001)
  • Recidivist - (2002)
  • Everyone went to the front - (2002)

Abroad

In France, 14 records were released between 1977 and 1988.

IN The United States from 1972 to 1987 released 19 records (including a series of 7 records "Vladimir Vysotsky in the recordings of Mikhail Shemyakin").

In Finland, in 1979, 1 disc was released.

In Germany, from 1980 to 1989, 4 records were released.

In Bulgaria, from 1979 to 1987, 6 records were released (4 author's records and 2 collections).

In Japan with 1976 to 1985 4 records were released (2 author's records and 2 collections).

IN Korea in 1992 released 2 records.

Also in Israel in 1975, the disc “Unreleased Songs of Russian Bards” was released, on which there are 2 songs by Vysotsky.

Guitars by Vladimir Vysotsky

Vysotsky always played seven-string guitars.

The first guitar that stood out from the general range appeared with him in 1966. Vladimir Semyonovich bought it from the widow of Alexei Diky. He later said that this guitar “was made by some Austrian master 150 years ago. It was bought by the princes Gagarins, and the artist Blumenthal-Tamarin bought it from them and presented it to Wild ... ". Probably, this guitar participated in the photo session of Vysotsky and Vladi in 1975 (photographer - V.F. Plotnikov).

Photographs date back to 1975, in which Vladimir Semyonovich is captured with the first guitar made for him Alexander Shulyakovsky(with a headstock made in the form of a lyre). This master made 4 or 5 guitars for Vysotsky.

Vysotsky also had a guitar with two necks, which he liked because of the original shape, but Vladimir Semyonovich never used the second neck. With this guitar, Vladimir Semyonovich is depicted on the back of the sleeve of the 9th disc of the series "At Vladimir Vysotsky's Concerts".

In the play "Crime and Punishment", which was released in 1979, Vysotsky played a guitar that belonged to film director Vladimir Alenikov, who gave him his guitar for this role, since Vysotsky liked the guitar for its outdated look, color, and sound. This guitar was once made by the St. Petersburg master Yagodkin. After the death of the poet, Alenikov asked the theater to look for a guitar, and in the end it was returned to him, but in an extremely deplorable, broken state, she did not have enough pieces, no one undertook to fix it. In 1991, Alenikov took the broken guitar to the United States, where it was finally put in order by the guitar master, Indian Rick Turner. (English)Russian. The photo of the guitar appeared on the cover of Acoustic Guitar magazine. (eng)Russian under the name Vysotsky.

Cars of Vladimir Vysotsky.

According to the recollections of friends, Vladimir Vysotsky loved fast driving at a speed of about 200 kilometers per hour and often crashed his cars.

Vladimir Vysotsky's first car was a gray Volga GAZ-21, purchased by him in 1967, and then smashed by him.

In 1971, he was one of the first in the USSR to buy a VAZ-2101 (“penny”) with a license plate 16-55 MKL. The life of the car was short - Vladimir smashed the car to smithereens after several trips behind the wheel.

Marina Vlady brought him a Renault 16 from Paris, which she received for shooting in advertising. Vysotsky crashed the Renault on the very first day, driving into a bus at a bus stop. The car was nevertheless restored, but it had Paris numbers, and according to the rules of those years, the traffic police did not let it out further than 100 km from Moscow. In 1973, the actor's friends helped to make a certificate for crossing the border, and in this broken car, Vladimir and Marina traveled from Moscow to Paris. In the same place, in France, they sold this car (after an announcement in the Paris Match magazine: “Marina Vladi is selling a car ... Ask by phone ...”).

A year later, Vysotsky went to Germany with concerts and brought back two BMWs - one gray, the other beige. But the beige one was among the stolen ones, so the metropolitan traffic police registered only one car. The second one was in the garage, although Vysotsky drove both - he simply rearranged the numbers from one car to another, and no one noticed it. In the end, Interpol caught the beige BMW, and it was sent back to Germany, while Vysotsky drove the gray one to Paris, where he sold it.

In 1976, Vysotsky got the first "Mercedes" of 1975, the color "blue metallic" ( model 450SEL 6.9 on platform W 116 (English)Russian) is a four-door sedan. Marina Vladi brought from France about 10 cars in a row for her husband, but they definitely had to be taken away from the USSR a year after import - those were the rules. Mercedes became the first foreign car for Vysotsky officially registered in Moscow. By the way, it was this Mercedes that was the first to appear in the traffic police file with registration number 7176MMU. Another one was with Brezhnev, and a month later appeared with Sergei Mikhalkov.

At the end of 1979, on tour in Germany, Vladimir bought a Mercedes 350 sports two-seat coupe yellow- Brown color.

Serush Babek ( V. K. Perevozchikov): “The next time he came to me in Germany, he said:“ You have to sell me your car! ... “And I had a sports Mercedes, it’s not so easy to buy it, you have to wait a while ... This second one is small“ He bought a brown Mercedes from me… Volodya then had a permit to import the car without duty, this permit was signed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Zhuravlev.”

But Vysotsky didn’t get to Moscow on it: on the Moscow-Brest highway under construction for the Olympics, right behind Minsk, at a speed of about 200 km / h, he lost control and flew into a ditch. "Mercedes" was restored after the death of the actor. No one took the car from the car service.

Posthumous recognition and cultural impact

Vysotsky touched on a number of taboo topics, but despite the restrictions that existed, Vysotsky's popularity was (and still is) phenomenal. This is due to the human charm and scale of the personality, poetic gift, the uniqueness of performing skills, the utmost sincerity, love of freedom, the energy of the performance of songs and roles, the accuracy of the disclosure of song themes and the embodiment of images. It is no coincidence that according to the results of a survey conducted by VTsIOM in 2009-2010. on the topic “Who do you consider the Russian idols of the twentieth century”, Vysotsky took second place (31% of respondents), losing only to Yuri Gagarin (35% of respondents) and significantly ahead of writers (L. N. Tolstoy - 17%, A. I. Solzhenitsyn - fourteen %).

Official recognition came to V. S. Vysotsky only after his death. At first, these were separate steps: in 1981, through the efforts of R. Rozhdestvensky, the first major collection of works by V. Vysotsky - "Nerv" - was published - and the first full-fledged ("giant disk") Soviet record was released, as befits a great poet. In 1987, he was posthumously awarded the State Prize of the USSR, for playing the role of Captain Zheglov in the film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed" and the author's performance of songs (the prize was received by his father, S. V. Vysotsky).

Onomastics

  • More than 30 streets bear the name of Vysotsky (including in Bulgaria and Germany). In Russia, streets in the cities of Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk, Samara, and Tomsk are named after V. S. Vysotsky.
  • Almost 20 rocks and peaks, passes and rapids, canyons and glaciers are named after Vysotsky. Even a mountain plateau on the Tierra del Fuego archipelago has been given his name.
  • In honor of Vysotsky, the asteroid "Vladvysotsky" (2374 Vladvysotskij) is named.
  • Theaters, ships, planes, cafes, even a variety of gladioli are named after Vysotsky.
  • Several sports tournaments are dedicated to his memory.
  • Also, a 200-meter skyscraper (54 floors) in Yekaterinburg is named after him.
  • Embankment in Volgograd

Museums

There are at least 6 museums of Vysotsky. The State Cultural Center-Museum of V. S. Vysotsky (“Vysotsky's House on Taganka”) is the most famous museum of Vysotsky, which gives a fairly complete picture of his life and work.

Cultural and leisure center

  • In the city of Norilsk, Talnakh district, there is a Cultural and Leisure Center. V. S. Vysotsky.

Monuments

Within the territory of former USSR more than 20 monuments (and the same number of memorial plaques) have been installed; 4 more monuments to the poet were erected in far-abroad countries.

Monuments to Vladimir Vysotsky were erected in several cities of Russia (in Barnaul, Voronezh, Kaliningrad, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Samara, Pokachi, Naberezhnye Chelny), as well as in Ukraine (Melitopol, Odessa, Mariupol) and in Montenegro (Podgoritsa). In 2013, a monument was laid in Rostov-on-Don.

Coins, medals and stamps

In honor of Vysotsky, 2 commemorative medals, 2 travel tokens and 4 coins were issued, two of them by other states.

In January 1988, the 50th anniversary of Vladimir Vysotsky was widely celebrated. The first collections of Vysotsky's poetry were widely sold, memorial evenings were held, articles about him were published in the press. In 1999, a postage stamp of Russia was issued from the series “ Popular singers Russian stage", Vladimir Vysotsky. 2 rubles, Russia, 1938-1980.

In 2010, the State of Niue (on the island discovered by James Cook) released silver coin$2 denomination in the series "Great Personalities of Russia" Vladimir Vysotsky 1938-1980 with a portrait of Vysotsky and the text "If you did not have time to live, then at least finish singing." In the same year in African Republic Malawi issued a 50 kwacha commemorative coin depicting Vladimir Vysotsky.

Influence on other authors

The work of Vladimir Vysotsky is studied by a special cultural research direction, called "vysotskovedenie".

The work of Vladimir Vysotsky, which contributed to a wider recognition of the author's song, indirectly helped the formation of Soviet rock. His poetry had a direct influence on rock musicians such as Alexander Bashlachev, Yuri Shevchuk ("DDT"), Konstantin Kinchev ("Alisa"), Andrey Makarevich("Time Machine") and Igor Talkov. So, for example, there is a direct connection with Vysotsky's poems of such songs as Bashlachev's "Time of Bells", Kinchev's "Twilight", Yuri Shevchuk's "Gypsy Girl". Indirectly, Vysotsky also influenced Viktor Tsoi (“Cinema”), Boris Grebenshchikov(“Aquarium”), Yuri Klinsky (Khoi) (“Gas Sector”), Yegor Letov (“Civil Defense”) and many others.

Vysotsky's work influenced not only Russian culture. It had big influence on the work of the popularly famous Polish bard Jacek Kaczmarski. Impressed by a personal meeting with Vysotsky in 1974, he wrote his first Roundup, as a free translation of Vysotsky's famous "Wolf Hunt", for which he received the first award at the Student Song Festival in Krakow. From this began his creative path.

After the death of Vysotsky dedicated to his memory poems and songs of many poets (for example, B. Akhmadulina, A. Voznesensky), bards and performers of urban romance (for example, Vladimir Asmolov, Yu. Vizbor, B. Okudzhava, M. Shcherbakov, A. Rosenbaum, A. Zemskov), rock musicians and performers of the author's song (for example, A. Bashlachev, A. Makarevich, Yu. Loza, A. Gradsky) and others.

Films

In 1987, the first film about Vysotsky was released - the documentary " Four meetings with Vladimir Vysotsky”, director Eldara Ryazanova. In the future, different directors filmed more than 10 documentaries.

Based on his works, the film "Lucky" (2006, based on the novel "Black Candle") was staged.

The image of Vladimir Vysotsky is also used:

  • as one of the prototypes of the protagonist of the story by A. and B. Strugatsky "Ugly Swans" - Viktor Banev. With the permission of Vysotsky, his song is used in the story in a slightly modified version « I'm fed up to the throat, to the chin ...» ;
  • in film Ivan Dykhovichny"Penny" - in the role of Vysotsky Igor Artashonov;
  • in the series "Galina";
  • in Garik Sukachev's film "House of the Sun" - the director himself starred in the role of Vysotsky;
  • in the film "Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive ”(2011)
  • in the TV series back side moon "(2012) - artist Artur Fedorovich.

VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY - THE GUY FROM TAGANKA

The full scale of talent Vladimir Vysotsky difficult or almost impossible to convey simple phrases. The significance of his personality in the history of culture of the 20th century is as boundless as his soul was deep.

He was lucky, most of his contemporaries Vladimir Semenovich understood his work and adored the poet himself, the performer of the author's song and the actor. He is the idol of the past century, whose art is alive and relevant.

From the intelligentsia

Born on Tatiana's Day - 1938 in Moscow. His family was not ordinary and average. Paternal grandfather was also called Vladimir Semenovich, although at birth he was given the name Wolf Shliomovich. He was originally from Brest, then moved to Kyiv, received three higher educations - economic, legal and chemical. And the grandmother - Deborah Bronstein - worked as a cosmetologist and did not look for the soul in her grandson. She was a passionate admirer of his work.

Father Vladimir Vysotsky was born in Kyiv, became a military signalman, fought during the Second World War, he rose to the rank of colonel and became an honorary citizen of the cities of Prague and Kladno. No less educated and intelligent was the mother Vladimir. Nina Maksimovna graduated from the institute foreign languages, then worked as a referent translator German language. When the war began, she was transferred to the transcription bureau of the Main Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On the Bolshoi Karetny

Vladimir and his mother spent several war years in evacuation in the Orenburg region, but he already went to school in Moscow, in the year of victory. Unfortunately, it so happened that the parents Vysotsky divorced. My father lived in Germany, where he was left in the service, where he took and Volodya for a couple of hungry post-war years. The boy had an excellent relationship with his father's new wife. He called Evgenia Stepanovna "mother Zhenya." Under her scrutiny Vysotsky started learning to play the piano. In 1949 Vladimir returned to Moscow and went to school on Bolshoy Karetny Lane, which he later immortalized in his song called "Bolshoi Karetny".

Passion for art

theater Vysotsky got carried away in school years, he went to the classes of the drama circle under the guidance of the artist of the Moscow Art Theater Vladimir Bogomolov, but after the final exams, he listened to his parents and entered the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute. Fortunately, after the first semester, he realized that this was not his path and left the university.

One of the many stories connected with this decision, only true or fictitious, is already difficult to figure out. Before the winter session, we prepared the necessary drawings with my friend Igor Kokhanovsky. At night they were completed, but Vladimir suddenly took ink and poured it over his work, announcing that he would now try to enter a theater university.

The doors were opened before him by the Moscow Art Theater School, where he studied with famous Boris Vershilov, Pavel Massalsky and Alexander Komissarov. Already in 1959 Vysotsky performed his first theatrical role in the student Crime and Punishment, and soon followed his debut on the screen in an episodic role in the film Peers.

"Thieves" songs of Vladimir Vysotsky

Having received a diploma from the Moscow Art Theater School, Vladimir came to serve in the Moscow Pushkin Theater, then he worked in the theater of miniatures for only a couple of months, unsuccessfully tried to get a job at Sovremennik, after which he went to the theater, which forever became “his own” for him. It was the newly opened Moscow Theater of Drama and Comedy. When he came to be hired by Yuri Lyubimov, he asked what he would read to the head of the theater. Vysotsky without too much modesty said that he had recently written several songs and would like to perform them. Lyubimov was determined to finish the interview in five minutes, but could not tear himself away from creativity Vysotsky an hour and a half.

write poetry Vladimir started in my school days. Then the reason for the first attempt at writing was the death of Stalin. With his poetic writing young Vysotsky decided to express a feeling of sorrow for the leader of the peoples. His first song is considered to be "Tattoo", which he composed in the summer of 1961. It also became the basis of the cycle of "criminal" topics. Then he signed them with the pseudonym Sergey Kuleshov.

But those who have seriously studied his work argue that it was not at all "Tattoo" that became the first song Vladimir Vysotsky. A year before, he wrote the composition "49 days", which he dedicated to the feat of soldiers who drifted and survived in pacific ocean. The attitude of the author to this song is also known. Vysotsky He spoke very critically about it and called it a manual for beginners and finished hacks, hinting that poems on any topical topics can be created according to this template, replacing only the names of the characters.

Not form, but content

Wrote 100 poems and about 600 songs. He created several songs specifically for films. Unfortunately, most of these works technical reasons, and due to bureaucratic pressure, were not included in the final version of the films.

The statement, of course, is very controversial, but connoisseurs of talent Vysotsky they say that songs are the brightest facet of creativity Vladimir Semenovich. He always performed them live, his voice hoarsely captivated the audience so that they could not take their eyes off the artist. Once someone noticed that the stage seemed to spring from the nervous kick of the foot, which Vysotsky beats the rhythm. His focused gaze always stopped in one place, and the audience, with bated breath, listened to his idol, because he sang exactly what occupied the minds of thinking people.

Songs Vysotsky It is customary to call bards, although both the subject matter and the manner of performing these compositions differed from the work of other bards. Just unlike many Soviet performers of the author's song Vysotsky was a professional actor and that is why he never considered himself an amateur.

Probably there was no topic that would Vysotsky did not affect in his compositions - ballads, lyrical, satirical or humorous songs. He sang in an inimitable manner about the simple life ordinary people, his contemporaries, which earned him wide popularity. The audience liked the special expressiveness of his performance, the sincerity and genuineness of the artist's emotions, even the events from the songs about the war seemed to them own experience Vladimir Semenovich. Vysotsky he did not focus on the form of his songs, the content was much more important to him.

Movie heroes and unplayed roles

In his favorite Taganka Theater, he played the main roles in the productions of Hamlet and The Life of Galileo, participated in the performances good person from Sesuan, "The Fallen and the Living" The Cherry Orchard”,“ Pugachev ”and“ Crime and Punishment ”. He played dozens of bright and memorable roles.

Each of his creative side was inextricably linked with the other. Songs Vysotsky are small monologues on behalf of different characters. The same variability can be traced in the characters he created in the theater and cinema - he was Galileo and Hamlet on stage, and on the screen he became a geologist in the film "Short Encounters", a White Guard officer in "Two Comrades Served" and the legendary Gleb Zheglov in the television series "Place appointments cannot be changed. He participated in 30 feature and television films, and the first film fame came to Vysotsky after entering the screens of "Vertical". The song "If a friend turned out suddenly" made the film popular.

But despite these images, the talent Vladimir Semenovich as a film actor was not fully revealed. Many roles bypassed him for several reasons, the main of which was the unwillingness of the authorities to allow artist on the screen. The directors went to all sorts of tricks to get permission to shoot. Vysotsky to the cinema. His name acted on officials like a trembling muleta on a bull during a bullfight.

One of the images that could replenish the filmography Vladimir Semenovich, was Stepan in Andrei Tarkovsky's film Andrei Rublev. Some say that the director was banned from Goskino, others are sure that Tarkovsky did not work with the actor because he was in again started drinking heavily. In 1964, Vasily Shukshin wanted to shoot Vysotsky in the film "Such a guy lives", but the role went to Leonid Kuravlev.

The tragedy of Vladimir Vysotsky

It is impossible to talk about the creativity of such outstanding person without mentioning his relationship with women. While still in his first year at the Moscow Art Theater School, he met Izolda Zhukova, who became his first wife in 1960. But a year later, on the set of the film "713th Requests Landing," he began an affair with Lyudmila Abramova. She became the mother of his two sons - Arkady and Nikita. A few years later, the couple broke up, and they filed an official divorce, when all of Moscow was already whispering that Vysotsky won the favor of a French actress with Russian roots, Marina Vladi. Their relationship wasn't perfect. Vladimir Semenovich often went into a binge, scandalized and showed aggression. He smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and was treated for alcohol addiction more than once. His kidneys were failing serious problems with a heart that he tried to treat with the help of drugs - morphine and amphetamine. At first, these were single injections, and then the doses began to increase, and by the end of 1977 it became regular.

Once he had an attack, a vessel burst in his throat, bleeding began. It was Marina who saved him from death. She called the doctors in time, who then fought for his life for another 18 hours at the Institute of Emergency Medicine.

with Marina Vlady

Marina Vlady said that her attempts to rid her husband of this addiction did not give the expected results, and during the tour in the summer of 1979 Vladimir Semenovich survived clinical death.

His last public performance was on July 18, 1980 on the stage of the Taganka Theater. Seven days later Vladimir Vysotsky did not. It happened in a dream when he was in his apartment. The Olympics were in full swing in Moscow, but an incredible number of people came to say goodbye to their favorite artist, although his death was reported only in a small article in the Evening Moscow newspaper. A month and a half earlier, he wrote his last poetic lines:

“I have something to sing, having appeared before the Almighty,
I have something to justify before Him.”

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A death notice was hung over the box office of the Taganka Theater Vysotsky. A crowd of people immediately gathered around the building and did not disperse for several days, even filling the roofs of the nearest houses. Nobody handed over tickets for the performance with his participation. During the funeral, Marina Vladi said that she had seen the funerals of princes and kings, but she could not even imagine such a number of people.

Updated: April 8, 2019 by: Elena

In Moscow in the family of a military man.

His mother in the first years of the war served in the transcription bureau at the Main Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, then worked as a German language translator in the foreign department of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, as a guide at Intourist. Father is a military signalman, colonel, veteran of the Great Patriotic War, holder of more than 20 orders and medals.

After the divorce of his parents, in 1947 Vladimir moved to live in new family father and until 1949 lived at his place of service in the city of Eberswalde (Germany).

Returning to Moscow, the family settled in Bolshoi Karetny Lane, where Vladimir entered the fifth grade of school No. 186.

Since 1953, Vysotsky attended the drama circle in the Teacher's House, which was led by the artist of the Moscow Art Theater Vladimir Bogomolov.

In 1955, at the insistence of his relatives, he entered the mechanical faculty of the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute, which he left after the first semester.

In 1960 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, the course of Pavel Massalsky.

His first theater work was the role of Porfiry Petrovich in the educational play "Crime and Punishment" (1959).

In 1960-1962, Vysotsky worked at the Moscow Theater named after A.S. Pushkin, where he played the role of Leshy in the play "The Scarlet Flower" based on Aksakov's fairy tale, as well as about 10 more roles, mostly episodic.

In 1962-1964 he was an actor in the Moscow Theater of Miniatures.

In 1964-1980, Vladimir Vysotsky worked in the troupe of the Moscow Taganka Drama and Comedy Theater under the direction of Yuri Lyubimov. He played the main roles in the performances "The Life of Galileo" and "Hamlet", participated in the performances "The Good Man from Sezuan", "Antiworlds", "The Fallen and the Living", "Listen!", "Pugachev", "The Cherry Orchard", "Crime and punishment, etc.

He made his film debut in 1959 in the episodic role of student Petya in the film directed by Vasily Ordynsky "Peers". At the beginning of his film career, Vysotsky was mainly engaged in episodes and supporting roles. He starred in such films as Dima Gorin's Career (1961), The 713th Requests Landing (1962), Sinner (1962), Our House (1965), The Cook (1965), Sasha -Sashenka" (1966), "Vertical" (1966), "Intervention" (1968). He played the main roles in the films Short Meetings (Maxim, 1967), Two Comrades Were Serving (Brusentsov, 1968), Master of the Taiga (Pockmarked, 1968), Bad Good Man (von Koren, 1973), Tale about how Tsar Peter the Arap married" (Arap, 1976), "Little Tragedies" (Don Guan, 1979), "The meeting place cannot be changed" (Zheglov, 1979).

Vysotsky wrote his first poem "My Oath", dedicated to the memory of Joseph Stalin, as a student of the 8th grade, in March 1953. In the early 1960s, Vysotsky's first songs appeared. One of the first were the songs "49 days" (1960) about the feat of four Soviet soldiers, who drifted and survived in the Pacific Ocean, and "Tattoo" (1961), which marked the beginning of a cycle of "thieves" themes.

At first he performed his first songs in a narrow circle, since 1965 he sang from the stage.

Poetic and song creativity, along with work in the theater and cinema, became the main business of his life. Vysotsky's songs were performed in 32 feature films.

In 1968, the first flexible disc of Vladimir Vysotsky with songs from the movie "Vertical" was released, in 1973-1976 - four author's minions, in 1977 three more author's discs were released in France.

On February 13, 1978, by order of the Minister of Culture of the USSR, according to the entry in the artist's attestation certificate, Vladimir Vysotsky was awarded the highest category of pop singer-soloist, which was the official recognition of Vysotsky as a "professional singer".

Vysotsky's many years of concert work constantly encountered external difficulties, the widest popularity of his texts was accompanied by an unspoken ban on their publication. For the first and last time during his lifetime in the USSR, Vysotsky's poem ("From the Road Diary") was published in 1975 in the Soviet literary and artistic collection "Day of Poetry".

In total, Vladimir Vysotsky wrote about 600 songs and poems.

In the second half of the 1970s, he often traveled abroad, gave concerts in France, the USA, Canada and other countries. Vysotsky gave more than one thousand concerts in the USSR and abroad.

The last performance of the artist took place on July 16, 1980 in Kaliningrad (now Korolev) near Moscow. On July 18, 1980, Vysotsky made his last appearance in his most famous role at the Taganka Theatre, as Hamlet.

July 25, 1980 Vladimir Vysotsky died in Moscow. There was no official announcement of death - at that time the Moscow Olympics were taking place. On the day of the funeral, about 40 thousand people came to say goodbye to their favorite artist. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow.

In 1981, Vysotsky's first poetry collection "Nerv" was published, in 1988 - the collection "I, of course, will be back ..."

In 1986, Vladimir Vysotsky was posthumously awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR; in 1987 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (posthumously, for participation in the television series "The meeting place cannot be changed" and the author's performance of songs).

On the grave of Vysotsky at the Vagankovsky cemetery there is a monument to the sculptor Alexander Rukavishnikov, opened on October 12, 1985.

At the Petrovsky Gates in Moscow on July 25, 1995, on the day of the 15th anniversary of the death of the poet, a monument to Vysotsky was erected by the sculpture of Gennady Raspopov.

The actor and singer were opened in various cities of Russia and abroad.

A monument to Vladimir Vysotsky by sculptor Alexander Apollonov was unveiled in Simferopol, Crimea.

In 1992, the State Cultural Center-Museum of V.S. Vysotsky "Vysotsky's House on Taganka".

In 1997 charitable foundation Vladimir Vysotsky, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Committee for Culture of the city of Moscow established the annual Vysotsky Prize "Own Track". The award is given to people whose life and work are in tune with the themes of Vysotsky's poetry.

The Commonwealth of Taganka Actors staged the play "Air Force" (Vysotsky Vladimir Semenovich).

A huge number of documentaries and television programs have been shot about the life and work of the actor and poet.

On December 1, 2011, the film "Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive" was released, directed by Pyotr Buslov, based on the script by Vysotsky's son Nikita.

Vladimir Vysotsky was married three times. The first wife is actress Iza Zhukova, the second is actress Lyudmila Abramova. Two sons were born in this marriage: Arkady (born in 1962), who became a screenwriter, and Nikita (born in 1964), who, like his parents, became a theater and film actor. Since 1996, Nikita Vysotsky has been the director State Museum my father.

The third wife of Vladimir Vysotsky is a French actress of Russian origin Marina Vlady.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

Vysotsky Vladimir Semyonovich (1938-1980) - brilliant poet, who lived and worked in the Soviet Union, film actor, author of prose works; was a leading actor in the Taganka Theater, performed his own written songs on the Russian seven-string guitar. In 1987 he was posthumously awarded State Prize THE USSR.

Parents

Vladimir was born on January 25, 1938. This happened at 9:40 a.m. in the morning in the Dzerzhinsky district of the capital of the USSR, on Third Meshchanskaya Street, there was a maternity hospital No. 8. Now much has changed its name, now it is Shchepkina Street, and the building of the maternity hospital belongs to the MONIKI Institute. But there is still a sign that he was born here on January 25 great person- Vladimir Vysotsky.

His father, Vysotsky Semyon Vladimirovich, was from the Ukrainian capital, the city of Kyiv. He was a military signalman, went through the Great Patriotic war, had about 20 medals and orders, rose to the rank of colonel. Vysotsky's paternal grandfather was also called Vladimir Semyonovich, he was from Brest and at one time received three higher educations at once - a lawyer, a chemist and an economist. The poet's grandmother, Daria Alekseevna, worked as a nurse, later as a cosmetologist, she adored her grandson Vladimir and was a passionate admirer of his work.

Mom, Nina Maksimovna ( maiden name Seryogin), had a diploma from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages higher education. She worked as a referent-translator from German, later as a guide in Intourist.

Both father and mother outlived their brilliant child. Semyon Vladimirovich died in 1997, Nina Maksimovna in 2003.

The Vysotsky family lived in a huge communal apartment located in an old house on 1st Meshchanskaya Street. Many years later, in the Ballad of Childhood, the poet will write about his first apartment: “There is only one toilet for 38 rooms.”

Childhood

With the outbreak of war, dad went to the front, and little Volodya and his mother were evacuated to the village of Vorontsovka near the city of Buzuluk, Orenburg Region. There they lived for two years and in 1943 returned to Moscow.

Vladimir's father met the young widow Yevgenia Likhalatova at the front, and when he returned home, Vysotsky's parents divorced. Mom soon got married a second time, but little Volodya did not have a good relationship with her stepfather, and Nina Maksimovna herself, due to being busy at work, did not have time to raise her son at all.

Then the father decided to take the child with him to Germany, where he was sent to serve. Volodya, of course, missed his own mother, but he also liked his stepmother very much. Evgenia Stepanovna is Armenian by nationality and, in order to show how respectfully he treats her, Vladimir was baptized in an Armenian apostolic church. He called her mother Zhenya, and the woman was practically alone in raising her stepson, because Semyon Vladimirovich disappeared for days at a time in the service. In the future, it is she who will stand up for Volodya, when he decides to connect his fate with creativity, his mother and father will be categorically against this.

Vladimir began his schooling at Moscow school No. 273, where he studied for two years. Then training took place in German city Eberswalde, where his father served. Immediately, he first began to master cycling and playing the piano. In the autumn of 1949, he arrived with his father and mother Zhenya in Moscow, where he went to study at the secondary male school No. write his famous song. It is here, at house number 15, that the first memorial plaque to the national idol will be installed.

Studying at institutes

Artistic data manifested itself in Volodya back in his school years, he studied in a drama circle under the guidance of the Moscow Art Theater actor V. Bogomolov. And in adolescence Vladimir spent all his evenings in the company of courtyard youth, the main entertainment of which at that time was strumming on the guitar and singing sentimental songs about Kolyma, Murka and Vorkuta.

In 1955, Volodya received a certificate of secondary education and, at the insistence of his parents, became a student of the mechanical faculty at the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute. But here he did not study for a year. IN new year's eve, when all the students celebrated the holiday, Volodya and his friend Igor Kokhanovsky made drawings, without which there would be no admission to the exams. When everything was drawn, Vladimir took the ink and poured it onto the drawing paper with the finished drawing, saying: "Enough. I have 6 months left to prepare for admission to the theater. And this is all not for me ... ". He wrote a statement to the dean's office, and he was expelled from educational institution on own will.

In the summer of 1956, Volodya entered the acting department at the Moscow Art Theater School. In the third year, he first played on the theater stage. It was an educational production of "Crime and Punishment", he got the role of Porfiry Petrovich. At the same time, his first work in the cinema falls. In the film "Peers" Vladimir played a small role as a student Petya.

Theatre

After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater, Vysotsky went to work at the Pushkin Theater. Here he played a little, about 10 characters, mostly minor ones. The most significant role was Leshy in The Scarlet Flower.

Vysotsky's next place of work was the theater of miniatures, but even here he did not receive much joy, he was given episodic roles or even involved in extras. Many frankly laughed at his low voice with a hoarseness, which later became his signature feature. Here the actor worked for less than two months.

Vladimir tried to get into the Sovremennik Theater as well. From 1960 to 1964, he was in search until he got into the Taganka Theater. From now on, the two words "Taganka" and "Vysotsky" will forever be inextricably linked, here he will work until his death, despite the fact that he did not always have a relationship with the theater director Yuri Lyubimov.

Quite a bit of time passed, and people were already going to the Taganka Theater only because of Vysotsky. He furiously turned on the audience, to the point of groaning and exhaustion, as only greatest actors.

It is impossible to replay him, the roles he performed will remain the best forever:

In the Taganka Theater, Vysotsky had envious people, but there were also real ones. faithful friends– Filatov Lenya, Demidova Alla, Valery Zolotukhin. Together with the team, Vladimir often traveled abroad on tour: to Bulgaria and Poland, Hungary and Germany, France and Yugoslavia.

Cinema

The audience especially loved and continues to love the role of Vysotsky in the cinema.

He played in almost 30 films, sang his own songs in 6 films, and other people performed his songs in 11 films.

In what year was the film released? Movie title The role of Vysotsky V.S.
1961 "Dima Gorin's Career" Sofron (high-altitude fitter)
1962 "713 requests landing" American sailor
1963 "Free kick" Yuri Nikulin (gymnast)
1965 "Cook" Andrey Pchelka
1965 "On Tomorrow Street" Pyotr Markin (brigadier)
1967 "Short Encounters" Maxim (geologist)
1967 "Vertical" Volodya (radio operator)
1968 "Intervention" Voronov/Brodsky
1968 "Master of the Taiga" Pockmarked (foreman of rafters)
1968 "Two comrades served" Brusentsov
1975 "The Flight of Mr. McKinley" Bill Seeger (singer)
1976 "The Tale of How Tsar Peter the Arap Married" Ibrahim Hannibal
1979 "Little Tragedies" Don Guan

Well, and, of course, the most famous film "The meeting place cannot be changed", where Vladimir brilliantly played the captain of the Moscow police Gleb Zheglov. It was not easy for director Stanislav Govorukhin to work with the actor. Vladimir did not like second doubles, if he had already played once, he carried everything through himself, had already experienced these emotions and was not going to repeat them again. And he wound up his partners in such a way that they also played everything from the first double.

Songs

Vysotsky wrote more than 850 poetic works (poems and songs).

It is difficult to name that side of life that he would not touch in his work. He wrote about love and politics, humorous and satirical poems, in which he sharply criticized the social system, he composed ballads, fairy tale songs, monologue songs. He sang about how ordinary mortal people relate to life, about their honor and dignity, about the strength of human character, about the hardships of fate.

Reel-to-reel tape recorders began to appear in Soviet apartments at that time, and there was probably not a single family in which Vysotsky's recordings would not be listened to. The government forbade him, and the people made an idol out of Vladimir. Especially touched the soul of his "songs on anguish":

  • "About paradise apples";
  • "Two Fates";
  • "Horses are finicky";
  • "Giraffe";
  • "Banka in white";
  • "I dont like";
  • "The pacer's run";
  • "Sail";
  • "Hunting for wolves";
  • "Song of a friend";
  • "Big Karetny";
  • "He did not return from the battle";
  • "Save our souls";
  • "Ships".

Unfortunately, the great poet was recognized after his death. In 1981, a collection of poetic works by Vysotsky "Nerv" was published.

Personal life

Vladimir met his first wife, Iza Zhukova, in student years. They got married in 1960, but living together turned out to be quite short lived.

In 1961, Vysotsky met the most beautiful actress of the Soviet Union, as he then described his future wife to his friend. It was Lyudmila Abramova. In their union, two sons were born - in 1962 Arkady and in 1964 Nikita.

Vladimir divorced Lyudmila Abramova in 1968. Nevertheless, many years after his death, she founded and is the guardian memorial museum V. S. Vysotsky.

His third wife and muse was Marina Vladi, an actress from France.

Vladimir knew her from the film "The Witch", in which she played at the age of 17. Then men all over the world were in love with the beautiful Marina. Vladi also heard a lot about the actor Vysotsky and his songs from her French colleagues.

Their meeting took place in 1967. Marina came to work Soviet Union, came to the Taganka Theater, to the play "Pugachev", where Vysotsky screamed and rushed so furiously, chained, playing Khlopusha on stage. She was overwhelmed by this power. After the performance, they first met each other in a restaurant.

She went to Paris, but an incomprehensible longing haunted her, at first Marina could not figure out why her heart ached so much. When it resounded phone call, and she heard a hoarse voice on the other end of the wire, she immediately understood why she felt so bad. Marina Vlady disappeared because she fell in love.

The Soviet leadership was favorable to them and allowed them to get married in 1970. But they did not have enough time to be happy. Marina constantly looked for some loopholes to come to her husband in the USSR. It was impossible for her to leave for the Soviet Union for permanent residence; her sons from previous marriages lived in Paris.

Endless visas and vast distances tormented them, but those days when they were together became a real holiday for Volodya and Marina. It was overshadowed only by the fact that each time she noticed how much Vysotsky fell into alcohol addiction. Vladi constantly fought for him, tried to win him back from this addiction. She almost succeeded: on his last visit to Paris, Vladimir promised her that he would quit this business forever.

Yes, he stopped. Forever... July 25, 1980 in Paris in Marina's apartment phone rang at 4 o'clock in the morning. She felt at once that she would now hear; on the other end of the wire they said: "Volodya is dead."

Death and funeral

He died in his Moscow apartment in his sleep. Relatives refused to do an autopsy, so no one knows the exact cause of death (heart attack or asphyxia).

The country hosted the Summer Olympics. It was forbidden to report the death of the great poet and musician. A small piece of paper was hung on the ticket window of the Taganka Theater, where they wrote that the performance would not take place, the actor Vladimir Vysotsky died. Not a single person who bought a ticket for the performance returned it.

Despite the fact that neither radio nor television reported about the death of the poet, the whole country found out, and it seemed that all of Moscow came to the Vagankovskoye cemetery. The people carried huge armfuls of fresh flowers and on a scorching July day hid them under umbrellas so that they would not wither. Vysotsky sincerely loved and pitied ordinary people and they idolized him for it.