it’s been 40 years after he stopped beating heart Vysotsky, and it still attracts people. What? The first thing that immediately comes to mind – songs.
Vysotsky lived in the country. Not from second hand information. Said at a concert in Lytkarino: “I Have the happy opportunity to talk about the fact that I was scratching on the nerves, a catch in the throat, concerned and worried about…” He was the voice of the people. He expressed the ideas of the people. And whose else?
Shortly before his death, in February 1980, say at a concert at MIPT, responding to a question from the audience, what is the role of life experiences in art: “First of all, I think there should be a vision of the world. It all comes down to one thing: personality, individuality. That’s the main thing. You can create a work of art, with a heightened sensitivity and receptivity. Can and not having life experience. You can… But better to have it. Under life experience you’ll probably understand more what life used to beat us with a hammer on the head, and seriously suffering. Right? Art without real suffering there. Not necessarily the person harassed, shot him, tortured him, took the relatives and so on. No, if even in the shower, even without these manifestations have experienced this feeling of compassion for people, for family, for the situation and so forth, that already means a lot… And suffer even very young people and very much”.
he experienced so much suffering, that would be enough for several lives. But, while suffering, he gave hope.
Without hope, how to live? Only in the loop. Yes, sometimes hope is cheating, but what to choose: the hopelessness, or the ability to live and love beautiful? Almost any song there is faith and hope. What faith? What is hope? Yes all the same – the dignity which was lacking to the man in the Soviet times. And now is not enough, what is really there.
Spiritual and moral culture creates specific Vladimir Vysotsky, whose talent is random, that is likely the same was the situation that he would remain a singer for a narrow circle of people, and the people, raising the personality, creativity, spiritual breakthroughs. Talent – this is a misfortune for its owner: he does not give any right to exclusivity, but at the same time and load burden of huge liabilities. Self-esteem is available to anyone who feels in need.
I seem to be accurate Rolan Bykov: “Volodya not be called dissenters. He thought befitting. His work is purely moral, purely humane, it is purely chivalrous. And it is in our age of global immorality, the inhumanity, antiraciste not divorced from life, and Vice versa. Nowadays, immoral crying about morality, bastard – ricarte, the villain laments humanity. Volodya folk, folk, folk!”
As a lot of passion in this romanowska: folk, folk, folk!
a Stunning case of Vysotsky indifferent to what is happening in the country, leads Zolotukhin. Vysotsky suddenly filed a companion claim: “Zolotukhin, your Altay plan 16 quintals per hectare, you are at best in the circle harvested 12 quintals per hectare. And the plan you are doing?! You where did the bread come from?”
Zolotukhin wrote: “I vitrified. I was petrified. I could not enter his question in his care. And when she entered – furious. I was filled with a sort of inner resentment, rage from powerlessness something to him a coherent answer.” And when Zolotukhin came to her senses, cried: “Yes what do you care about our bread?! What do you care where we get yeast and where the fly spray?! And how’d you know?” – “From “Truth”.
Zolotukhin shocked: “He was reading the “Truth” on which eight pages of some numbers and we took it straight to the right place, and he read it with pencil in hand, and it didn’t make sense! Believed!!! Because he was sick!!! Suffered. I am ashamed to say, I have that man out of here, I have not been sick, and if sick, then sometimes a little bit, and he was sick and in the gap. And if you believe sazithromycin the words of the poet Heine, that “crack in the world passes through the heart of a poet”, the “crack” in Altai, the harvest truly is passed through the heart of a poet Vysotsky”.
Vysotsky was sincerely worried about the country. Rides with a buddy in the car. To “Mercedes” truck with a solution – the solution stream flows on the road. Vysotsky overtook the truck stopped , the driver shows: “you Have the people’s good is lost.” Drove shrugged, “Yeah, fuck you to hell. I don’t care!” Vysotsky few days could not calm down, poured out the indignation of everyone: “why so?! Why does everyone care? And what good could we be with that attitude.”
Vysotsky involved in the transfer of popular American TV of si-bi-es “60 minutes.” Sings, answers questions of the presenter and viewers. And he point-blank question: you want to stay in the free world?
the Answer is direct: “to Leave Russia? Why? I’m not a dissident, I’m an artist.”
Presenter insists: “But just as the artist and that the West is free to work. Russian totalitarianism, which destroys all living things…”
Vysotsky poured paint, he has white eyes. “I work with the word, I need my roots, I’m a poet. Without Russia, I am nothing and nobody. Without the people for whom I write, I’m not. Without an audience who adores me, I can’t live. Without their love I’m suffocating. But without freedom, I die.”
However, these American viewers do not hear is the internal monologue. He will tell you later Marina. And she writes: “When an important official of the American television menu��t you, why don’t you choose freedom and how you even got to the West, you can be as hard to answer him as pressurized official from the local police Department, asks: “Why are you going there? You mean there’s not enough space?”
Enough space in Russia, is quite enough. But as the officer to explain that the human soul is wider than the state boundaries. The nuances of their relationship with the authorities Vysotsky left the house in the new York airport named after John F. Kennedy would say to the reporters: “don’t you think that if I have problems with my government, I came here to solve them here?”
And yet: if you were to go abroad and stay there? Shemyakin testifies: “Vysotsky never wanted to stay in the West. Volodya knew everything and saw everything. He saw it on the example of Galicia, which was in Paris and nobody has died.” Michelle Kahn adds: “of Course, Vladimir could serve in the “Comedie Francaise”. But his songs outside of Russia did not make sense…” . You can’t escape yourself. And Paradise will howl if you need someone to talk to, if anyone there is interested.
I do not want to say, what the intensity of the quarrels raged in the Russian colony of the third emigration. Free for all! Everyone against everyone! Read Dovlatov and you will understand what I mean.
Wysocki’s only good at home, no matter how absurd or cut here life. And besides, he was not pushed out of the country as Galich, Maximov as as Aksenov as dozens of other…
Leonid Filatov thinks: “His life was incredibly complicated, I many times observed myself. At the absolute glory, despite the fact that, as they say, the people loved him. Loved him, but taunted him. And the notes were of every kind, and aggressive attack after the concerts: “why are you singing the song criminal?” – “No, I don’t sing, it was a styling”. Sometimes, jokingly, said, “you Know what? In Russia from Sumy Yes from prison do not promise…”
Vysotsky will write a letter to the Minister of culture P. N. Demicheva, in which the following lines:
“after Receiving for the first time in several years an official offer to speak to the workers of Kuzbass, I accepted the offer with joy and I can say that giving speeches without a trace. The concerts were a success. The workers at the end of speeches gave me specially cast steel medal in appreciation, party and government leaders of the region thanked me for speaking, was called to come back. Joyful returned to Moscow for the last time, I had hope that my work buenache put into official channels.
And here’s a gratuitous slap in the face, offensive comments, organized by A. V. Romanov in the newspaper “Soviet culture”, which can serve as a signal to campaign against me, as has happened before.
In the town of astronauts, in dormitories, in classrooms and academic in any ��abcam village of the Soviet Union the sound of my songs. I want to put their talents at the service of promoting the ideas of our society, with such popularity.
Strange that I care about this one. This is a difficult problem, but surely to solve it, trying to shut me up or coming up for my public humiliation?
I just want to be a poet and an artist for the people I love, for people, whose pain and joy, I seem able to Express.
And the fact that I am not like the others, this is maybe part of the problem that requires the attention and participation of leadership. Your help will give me the opportunity to bring much greater benefits to our society…”
Oh, my God, to whom he is trying to prove that he wants to put his talent at the service of society?! They are, in high party offices, recognized its harmful, disruptive. Triumphed this perverse psychology.
Eldar Ryazanov thinks on this subject: “If you remember the democratic literature of the XIX century in Russia, literature was the conscience of the nation. And when I think about the thread that today I read and watch, I realize that our art to the conscience is still very far away. People sees everything, knows everything and remembers everything. For the artist the criterion of conscience, pain for the people should be the priority. Vysotsky’s death and Shukshin clearly showed who is the country’s masters of doom…”
Vysotsky diverse, multifaceted. In his songs there is no hint of officialsin. The stories, the language, the liveliness of the topic, the approach is democratic, they all need people. Protected Vysotsky, Vysotsky Vysotsky assault, and nobly defended. More precisely, to protect the people. The fight against evil he was chivalrous positions that people appreciated. He never did that in poems about democracy, not hysteria about the violation of human rights – these rights it was administered without prior arrangement. Vysotsky was among the few in Soviet times who was truly free. In the beautiful he saw an ugly and terrible – wonderful.
Snobs enjoyed the films of Tarkovsky and Fellini, and ordinary viewers – comedies Gaidai and Hollywood blockbusters. It is a spiritual problem. So Vysotsky – the-art for the pretentious snob from the restaurant, and for the workers of KAMAZ.
Vysotsky was not an enemy of the country. He was a national spokesman for civil position towards the great Patriotic war. He rebelled against bad people, against the people of grey – in grey uniforms, grey suits, with grey thoughts. He did not accept those who were banned, who pressed, who restricted freedom. Vysotsky and Mists the year in 1977, arguing: how old is to stand still the Soviet system? Fog claimed to stand her no more than fifteen years, Vysotsky was more optimistic: will hold the Soviet government not less than one hundred years.
