World Piero-Shaksandr Vertinsky

On March 21, 1889, in Kiev, Alexander Vertinsky, Poet, composer, singer, Cummy stage of the first half of the 20th century, film actor was born.

His parents were not officially married, since the Father, the private attorney Nikolai Petrovich Vertinsky could not achieve a divorce with the first wife
Alexander's mother, Evgenia Stepanovna Skolatskaya, noble origin, died very early - the son turned out to be
3 years. When the boy turned 5 years old, his father died.
Alexander and his sister Hope became round orphans. Children were taken by relatives in different families, Sasha said that his sister died and he was in this confidence for many years, until he finally happened to her sister.

At 9 years, Vertinsky enters the first imperial Alexandria gymnasium. But learns and behaves badly. Therefore, in two years later, it is transferred to the gymnasium "simpler".
In these, gymnasium years, the boy begins to write poems and get involved in theater.
He played an amateur scene and was a statist in the Kiev theater Solovtsov. Wrote theatrical reviews and small stories in local newspapers and in the weekly Lukomorye

In 1910, Vertinsky moved to Moscow and together with the sister of Nadi, actress, settled in Kozitsky Lane, in the house of Bakhrushin.
He looked around in the literary and theatrical life of the city. Alexander is delighted with poetry bloc, he meets futurists, Mayakovsky. He admires the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky. He likes Igor Northerner.

In early 1912, Vertinsky enters the theater Miniature M. A. Artzibusheva, where he performs with small parodies that were successful.
"His first room here," Tango, "was performed using erotic elements: at the scene in spectacular costumes danced Ballerina and her partner, and Vertinsky, standing at the Kulis, performed a song - a parody of what was happening. The premiere was successful and a beginner The artist bothered one line at the review of the Russian Word: "Witty and Jummy Alexander Vertinsky". Subsequently, continuing to cooperate with M. Artzebushevoy theater, Vertinsky wrote a topical parodies ("Furlan", "warm sin", etc.): They brought he is the first earnings. "-

In 1913, Alexander tried to enter the Moscow Art Theater, but was not adopted due to the defect of Dickey - Stanislavsky did not like it that the young man does not speak the letter "P". In 1912, Vertinsky begins to film "On the set by A. Vertinsky made friends with the stars of the Russian cinema of the beginning of the twentieth century, Ivan Mojukhin and Cold Vera. Moreover, according to D. K. Sam himself, the author of the book" The Most Famous Emigrants of Russia ", specifically Vertinsky Vera Cold was obliged to be his rapid takele. He was the first to see the "demonic beauty and talent of actresses in a modest, no one who was not famous wizard of Cold," and led her to Khanzhonkova's fibrilian. Alexander Vertinsky was secretly in love with the actress and dedicated her first songs - " Little Creoleshchik, "" Behind the scenes "," Your fingers smell like incense "http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/vertinsky ,_Alexandr_nikolaevich

In 1914, the First World War begins, and Alexander Vertinsky goes to the front by Sanitar Volunteer. He works by Sanitar on the 68th Sanitary Train of the All-Russian Union of Cities to Wound in 1915. Returning to Moscow, Alexander learns about the death of his sister. Now he is quite alone.

In 1915, Vertinsky proposes the Arzybushevsky theater miniature his new program: "Piero's songs".
Begins the creation of a pop genre - Masca Piero.
First, the White Piero mask is created. The artist performs in a white suit, fired illuminated by the "lunar light". In the repertoire there are poems of the poets of the Silver Age, but the songs of their own essay are dominated by: "Little Creoleshchik", "Lilac Negro", "Your fingers smell incense" (dedicated to the Faith Cold), "Amerginous", "Mop", "I laugh today ourselves "and others.

The author of the book: "The most famous emigrants of Russia", SAMIN D. K writes about the "White Piero": "At the same time, in his verses, he sought to show that it was not understood by anyone, a lonely man defenseless in the face of a huge ruthless world. That's why Vertinsky's songs turned out to be "It's easy for anything," everyone could see himself in them. He got rid of the traditions of the Russian romance, who had already become Rutina, and suggested the stage another song related to the aesthetics of the newest currents in art and culture, and, above all, the author's art song. Vetinsky It was possible to create a new genre, which was not yet on the Russian stage. " Alexander Vertinsky comes to glory.

Later, the image of the "white" Pierre is replaced by "Black Piero". "Dead-white makeup on the face replaced the Mask Domino, the White Suit Piero is a completely black robe, the only white spot on which the cervical scarf was distinguished. The new Pierrot became ironic and more vasitive in his songs, because he lost naive dreams of youth, saw the budnite simplicity and Clearness of the surrounding world, "the SAMIN writes.

In the pre-revolutionary 16 and 17 years, Vertinsky refuses Pierro's mask and begins to perform in the concert trick. In this image, he will perform all his life. In these years, Alexander Vertinsky carries around all major Russian cities in which he performs with a triumph. He becomes an all-Russian celebrity.

The 1917 revolution put an end to the brilliant career of the artist.
His romance "What I have to say," written under the impression of the death of three hundred Moscow junkers, was negatively perceived by the Soviet population. Vertinsky was called in the CC and explained that it was possible and that it was impossible.

At the end of 1917, Vertinsky goes to the south to tour, and two years speakers in the south, in Yekaterinoslav, Odessa, Kharkov, Yalta, Sevastopol. In 1919 he emigrates from Russia.

Walking abroad begin. Constantinople, Romania, Poland, Germany. The glory of Vertinsky becomes global. However, he hurts in his homeland and in 1922-193 is making the first attempt to return to the USSR, but he refuses him.

By the mid 20s, Vertinsky undertakes the second attempt to return to Russia. And again receives a refusal. By that time he became a global celebrity and moves to live in France.

Vertinsky lives in France for 10 years, from 1925 to 1934 years. He loved France, the French fell in love with him. Vertinsky wrote about France the following lines: "My France is one Paris, but one Paris is the whole France! I loved France sincerely, like anyone who lived in her for a long time. Paris could not be loved, as it was impossible to forget it or prefer to him another city. Nowhere abroad, the Russians did not feel so easily and freely. It was a city where the freedom of the human person is respected ... Yes, Paris ... This is the birthplace of my spirit! ".
In France, the work of the artist reaches a complete heyday. He tours a lot in Europe and America. And everywhere has a huge success.

In October 1935, Alexander Vertinsky went to China. He hoped to find a new listener in Shanghai, where there was a big Russian emigrant community. But he calculated. "Living in China, Vertinsky for the first time in his emigrant life learned the need; In addition, for the artist, accustomed to rotate in world centers, life in China looked very provincial. He sang in the Renaissance cabaret, in the Arkady Summer Garden, in Kafeshenthan. "Marie Rose", but it was very modest places. ", Writes the SAMIN.

And here, unexpectedly, in 1937, Vertinsky offered to return to the USSR. Vertinsky rushes to his homeland, he begins to work in the Soviet newspaper "New Life" in Shanghai, entering the club of Soviet citizens, participates in the transmissions of the TASS radio station, prepares memories. But in 1939, the Second World War begins. Registration of documents in Russia is suspended.
And only in 1943, after the letter of Vertinsky Molotov, Alexander Nikolaevich returns to the USSR. Leaving behind the emigration, during which many of his famous songs were written, http: //ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.Vikipedia.org/wiki/_._Anexandr_nikolaevich Blue and the distant Ocean "," Madame, already falling leaves "," Jimmy "," Tin Heart "," Marlene "," Yellow Angel "and others.

Returning to Moscow, Vertinsky settled on Gorky Street. Alexander Vertinsky lived in his homeland for 14 years.
All this time he worked intensively, he constantly performed with concerts, had a huge success.
During the war, Vetya spoke at the front, performing patriotic songs - both Soviet authors and their own: "About us and about the Motherland," "Our Mountain", "in the snow of Russia" and others. In 1945, he wrote a song "He" devoted to Stalin. He toured a lot.
Vertinsky starred in the cinema: "Conspiracy of doomed" (1950, the role of Cardinal, State Prize 1951), "The Great Warrior of Albania Skandardbeg" (the role of the Venice Dadzha), Anna on the neck "(1954, the role of Prince).

"It would seem that life in the homeland was happily and successfully. However, from a hundred and more songs from the Vernet's repertoire for execution in the USSR was admitted not more than thirty, moreover, at each concert there was a censor who vigilantly watched the artist did not go beyond The raised frames. Concerts in Moscow and Leningrad were rare, they were not invited to Vertinsky's radio, the plates were almost not published, there were no reviews in the newspapers. ", Writes the SAMIN.

"A year before the death of Vertinsky wrote the Deputy Minister of Culture: Somewhere there: Upstairs still pretend that I did not return, that I am not in the country. They do not write about me and do not speak a word. Newsipers and journalists say:" No Signal ". Probably, it will not be. And meanwhile, I have! People love me (forgive me this courage). I have already traveled our country to the 4th and 5th time, I finish the third thousand concerts!"
"The artist in the last years of life was in a deep spiritual crisis. In 1956, he wrote his wife: I went through today in the mind of all my friends and" friends "and realized that I had no friends here! Everyone goes with his Avoska and grabs in She is all that he needed, spitting on the rest. And all the psychology he has "Avoschny", and you - at least died - he does not care!<…> You look at this story with Stalin. Everything is false, meanly, incorrect<…> At the congress, Khrushchev said: "Almost up to the memory of 17 million people, tortured in camps." Wow?! Who, when and what will pay for "mistakes" of all these bastards?! And the counter will be messed over our homeland? Docome? ...
Vertinsky (on the memoirs of the daughter of Marianna) spoke about himself: "I have nothing but the world name." "Http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/vertinsky ,_Alexandr_nikolaevich

Alexander Nikolaevich Vertinsky died on May 21, 1957, during the tour, at the Astoria Hotel in Leningrad, from acute heart failure. He is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow
He songs continue to live.

18-06-2007


Galich recalls Vertinsky

[From the transfer of "Galichi from microphone"]

It all started with an unexpected morning call thirty already with an obey year ago. My friend called me and some strange, slightly mocking voice said: "Listen, I have a free ticket. You would not want to go to the house in the house in the house, at the concert of Alexander Vertinsky?" I also grunted a little bit, said - on whose concert? He replied: "On Vertinsky. You know, he came, he is in Moscow." I really heard that Vertinsky came to Moscow, and I even talked; that somewhere in a very narrow circle; For the actors of the artistic theater, he sang, but that he will speak publicly and the fact that I can hear him seemed to me completely incredible. And so I went to the concert of Vertinsky. He had to perform in the Cinema House, in the old house of the movie, which was placed at the area of \u200b\u200bthe uprising, where the film actor theater is now.

The atmosphere itself in the lobby and in the hall was rather strange. People walked a little with incredulous smiles, stumbled, said: "Well, well, is it really true?".

I would like to be presented to those of you who were born during the war years or after the war and who do not know why we were strangely reacted that Vertinsky arrived.

For many years, Alexander Vertinsky was not that banned, but was a man from some other, fantastic life. He emigrated in the twenties, and sometimes before us accidentally reached some of his plates, the erased-primer.

We listened to them, barely disassembled words ... and the fact that he, the legendary Vertinsky, about whom our mother told us is that he is today; Now we will see it; It seemed completely incredible. Here, in the sidelines, they told such a joke-anecdote, half-adhesive, maybe; It was also true that Count Alexey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the proletarian writer, arranged in honor of the arrival of Alexander Nikolaevich Vertinsky reception. For some reason, the guests were tomilized for a long time in the living room, did not call for the table, - something was not ready at the owners, and here one of the guests, who was glad to the gathering Society: Count Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Count Ignatiev, Metropolitan Nikolay Kruitsky, Alexander Nikolaevich Vertinsky , - asked: "Who are we still waiting?". The coarse voice of the witty of Smirnova-Sokolsky replied: "The sovereign!".

And here we came to the hall. The scene was empty, the curtain was opened, the piano stood, and then on the stage, without any warning, came out a tall man in Siza Frace, with some kind of extremely inexpressive, erased face, with the face, on which the eye was not at all, with such Whiteish-gray hair. He signed up a small accompanist, sat down to the piano. The person came forward and without any ad, clearly, although not loud, said: "In the steppe of Moldavanian". The pianist played the accession, and this man with an erased, inexpressive face uttered the first lines:

Quietly stretch sleepy drows
And sighing wandes for slough ...

And we saw the Great Master with an amazingly beautiful face shining with shining eyes, with such an expressive plastic of hands and movements, which is given for years of great work and which gives people great talent. You can evaluate the creativity of Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky in different ways, but the fact that he left a noticeable mark in the life of not one, but several generations of Russian people and in the Soviet Union, and abroad, is no doubt. His songs, it would seem, in no way contacting with life, such as "I know, Jim", "Lilac Negro gives you a manot", "farewell dinner," - it would seem - what are they there in the Soviet Union? What did these songs mean to us, what about our life? I remember the verses of Mobility: "Citizen Vertinsky spinning calmly, the girls are dancing English focusl; I do not understand what it is, as it is for the soul takes ...".

But he was blocked, Yaroslav Mozelkov. He understood why this was taken by the soul, why in this lyrical, salon piercing was for us such a new feeling of freedom.

Then, after this concert of the year two or three, I had a chance to meet Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky. We even lived next to him in the neighboring rooms, in the hotel "European", in Leningrad, and a half months. I then worked at the film studio "Lenfilm", made a script, and Vertinsky had concerts. He spoke in the Garden "Aquarium". And here in the evenings, after
Oncert he entered his cup of tea. He invariably wore his glass of tea with lemon, sat down and told me: "Well, let's read the poems." I read him Mandelstam, Pasternak, Zabolotsky, Salvinsky, Akhmatov, Harms, reading him no longer known even for the names of Boris Kornilov and Pavel Vasilyeva, read everything that he, for many years torn off from Russia, could not know. He was not only the performer, not only a wonderful master, he was a striking listener. Himself - actor, singer, poet, he knew how to listen, especially able to listen to poems. And his taste on poems was unmistakable. He could smell himself, could sometimes put an unsuccessful line, he could even unsuccessfully (if he was more convenient) to change the stitching of the poet, whose poems wrote a song, "but he felt poems unmistakably. And when I read him the first time the poem of Mandelstam "I returned to my city, familiar to tears," he cried, and then told me: "Write me, please write me down."

I had another funny evening with him. We decided not to sit in the room, but to go dinner in the "European". In the summer, the restaurant is running on the roof, and Leningraders go there. I do not know how now, but at my time, - I already speak, at my time, as old men say, - so at my time it was a pretty favorite place of Leningradians. And here we went with Alexander Nikolayevich dinner. We sat together at the table, and suddenly some kind of unusually enthusiastic was running towards us, he was already a lady in the years, said: "My God, Alexander Nikolaevich Vertinsky!". He got up, I naturally got up after him (he was a man extremely brought up and gallant) and said: "For God, I ask you, sit down to us." She said: "No, no, there we have a big company, I just saw you. I was, of course, at your concert, but I did not take a risk to go to you for the scenes, and here I took advantage of such a joyful case and just wanted to tell you As we are happy that you have returned to your homeland. "

Alexander Nikolaevich repeated: "I ask you, sit with us, at least a few minutes." She said: "No, no, I really hurry. I just want you to know what happiness was for us - when we got plates with your songs, with your or songs of Leshchenko ...". Suddenly I saw the face of Alexander Nikolaevich petrified. He said: "Sorry, I did not understand the second surname that you just called." The lady repeated: "Leshchenko".

"Sorry, but I don't know this. Among my friends in emigration there were Bunin, Chaliapin, Rakhmaninov, Dyagilev, Stravinsky. I did not have such a friend, no friend on the name Leshchenko."

The lady moved away. Alexander Nikolaevich was a man with humor, but sometimes he lost him when his work was perceived as the creativity of the restaurant - under vodka, under herring, under the pie, under drunken tears and longing in his homeland. He believed that she was doing where however more important, and I think he was right.

I sit this somehow in the WTO restaurant, I ordered, of course, a great gentleman set, I can not, I confess, if you deny yourself the pleasure of leaving. I'm sitting myself, I drink vodka, I'm honey, I climb steam sturgeon, as they say, Kum King and benefactor, Kabatka. The waiters around me around me are clinging, look into your eyes, they know, I'll climb it - I will not hurt anyone, I loved, I loved in my youth to buy. But only me for the dessert, I hear: "Allow?" Raise my eyes from a plate, Flyushki-Sveti, Vertinsky's own person! "Make, I say, - a favor, Alexander Nikolaichi, Milicia I ask!" It sits down this against me, with a slight job calls to himself the waiter, lived there from the old time an old man of Gordic, the purple such an old man, but in his case the master is unsurpassed, and adumbly orders him: "Bring me, my boyfriend, a cup of seagull, And to the seagull, if possible, one biscuit. " At Gordeich, Alto Lysin went away from surprise: from orders such, it can be seen from the Oktyabrskaya Zavar, and it is necessary to think about tea, it's necessary to think about tea, it's it, there is this, there, probably, and brewed a long time ago . But the eye of our Gordeich was tenacious, he felt a serious client for the mile, it was surprised, it was old surprised, and I ran into half-bent, I immediately teach, the sly, that there were bad jokes here. And after all, you can imagine how to whitewashing omen, and tea was found, and the biscuit was writing.

So far, I brought the bill to me, while I flew in a tsarist, I bought this my chapters, the biscuits-com climbed, a tiny in
The palm crushed, the mouth was tilted and also stretched behind the wallet. It counts the pride exactly in the account - fifty two kopecks with copper trifle, adds three kopecks for tea and rises: "Thank you, kindly!", And then to me: "I will apologize for anxiety." And top top to the exit. I must say, the scene turned out Gogolevskaya: I measure our Gordech in one hand with my chervonians, and to another with the trifle of Vertinsky, it looks after the guest, and in the eyes of his delight and admiration indescribable. "Sasha," asks, - But who can this be like that? " "What are you, Gordych," I'm staring, "Vertinsky did not recognize?"

He still caught fire, even in his holy I write with him, and whispers in complete prostration: "Immediately Barin is visited!"

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Important about Vertinsky

Alexander Nikolaevich Vertinsky (1889-1957), Russian pop artist. He spoke from 1915 (from 1919 abroad), from 1943 in the USSR. His exquisite intimate manner of performance was distinguished by a variety of intonations, expressiveness of gestures. The author of the music and texts of a number of songs. Removed in the movies. State Prize of the USSR (1951).

In the distant pre-revolutionary Russia of 1917 in one of the small Moscow theaters, where only three hundred places for the audience, appeared a high thin young man, dressed in Pierrot's costume. On a white face mask - tragic black eyebrows, scarlet mouth. He picked up extraordinarily expressive hands with long fingers and bought ...

His little songs - novels were called "aryietses", or "Sad Songs Piero." Whether the themes of the songs were guessing with a young artist, or the young man himself liked the public, but these songs were singing, and the texts were transferred from mouth to mouth. The young artist was called "Russian Piero", he became famous, he was imitated, they admired, they scolded his newspapers and adored the public, and his career promised to be brilliant. This young celebrity was Alexander Vertinsky - poet, singer and composer.

The elements of the October Revolution of 1917 washed off the wave of the best children of their culture. Bunin, Shalyapin, Mozyzhukhin, Pavlova, Vertinsky - Stars of Russian Culture, the Children's "Silver Age" of Russia - were forced to lose their homeland forever and persecute themselves for many years of spiritual wanders. Without accepting the revolution, Vertinsky emigrates, leaves Russia and leaves for Europe. From this day begins the thorny road "Russian Piero". His abreast up. Thick hands prayed no longer about the joy of the soul, but about the salvation of Russia. Nostalgia has become his muse. Songs turned into small ballads. Characters of these songs: clowns and cocaines, cabaret dancers and movie stars, capricious ladies in luxury manot and tramps, artists and pimpets, pliers and lords. They all love, suffer, dream of happiness, jerk, rushing in a rapid pursuit of life and bother bitterly from her slap.

The artist now stood before the public dressed in a frak, dazzling white manica and lacquer shoes. His skill reached virtuosity. He was called the "Shalyapin pop", "the teacher of the Russian scene."

Vertinsky is the theater! Vertinsky is the era! Vertinsky is Russia herself! His voice fascinates, his songs are called you in distant, mysterious countries! He remains forever in memory! He applies Paris, London, New York. He is listening to Russians, the French, the British. They admire Fokin, Dyagilev, Shalyapin. Glory secondly overlaps Alexander Vertinsky.

Paradoxically, but at the top of my success, the artist tirelessly writes to the Soviet government: "... let me go home, let me go, let the soul rush to Russia, to the homeland, where it is now bad, scary, where hunger and cold."

Only at the end of 1943, the Soviet government Vertinsky was allowed to return to Russia. Another wage was. The country hardly left the grave years of meaningless slaughter. Here, on his crippled homeland, Alexander Vertinsky gave a lot of charitable concerts in favor of starving, cookers, orphans. He sang throughout Russia: in Siberia, in the Far East, in Asia, sang so many, to hoarseness, as if believing that his songs heated by the hearts of people. This country was not for him. The Soviet Union, on the contrary, was still "His Russia", his mother, his beloved. Here he was missing the last years of his life. Glory, whose ballet he was twice, came to him on the third and last time. Russian culture, in whose bosom he returned to a mature master, took it into his arms as a true mother, without asking where he was all these years.

The name of Vertinsky - Legend. His songs were not painted with a tint of revolutionary pathos, he remained the free Son of his great culture. He did not destroy Stalin, and it was sheepdown the legend years of his stay in the Soviet Union. Isn't it because in the soul of the despot there is a secret door, from which the poet has a small key? His poetry, music, singing is a masterpiece of the Russian decades era, the last star in the silver century chain of Russia.

Anastasia Vertinskaya

And now, as in fact, Vetinsky returned to the USSR

There is a legend that when the Vertinsky request reached Stalin (about returning to the USSR), he, with him inherent in him, said: "Let it be good." I do not know how it was carried out technically, but the legend is and consists that Vertinsky sang to Stalin his song "What kind of wind in the steppe Moldavanian". The song is full of nostalgia. Moldova then was part of Romania. But she bored with Russia. And here Vertinsky toured, obviously, in Romania and found himself in Moldova near the border.

Quietly stretch sleepy drows
And, sighing, crawl under the slope,
And sadly looks on the roads,
At the wells crucified Christ.

How all these pictures are close to me,
How many I see familiar fuck,
And two swallows like gymnasics,
Concert me to the concert.

Ringing fast i will get
Dniester on a green meadow,
And Russian cute earth
I see on the other side.

And when birchs fall asleep
And the fields subside to sleep,
Oh how sweet how hurts through tears
At least take a look at the native country.

After listening to this song, Stalin with the inherent laconism said: "Let him come."

Of course, it was before this letter Molotov from China.

"Twenty years I live without a homeland. Emigration is a big and difficult punishment. But every punishment is the limit. Even a permanent cautious boat is sometimes reduced by modest behavior and repentance ... Let me return home ... I have a wife and my wife's mother. I'm not I can leave them here and so I ask for all three ... let us go home. "

It seems to me that the letter does not exclude legends. After all, it was when Molotov reported Joseph Vissarionovich about the letter of Vertinsky, Stalin and could break with Laconism inherent in him: "Let him sleep."

Vertinsky was allowed to give concerts, and the halls were packed with a bit. One concert took place in the theater. Pushkin (in the former chamber), and this is side by side with our literary institution. We went to this concert. So I saw in the first and last time and listened to the living Vertinsky.

But the climate is climate. Moreover, Stalin died, and he was, apparently, although not very zealous, but still by the patron of Alexander Nikolayevich. At least Vertinsky gave to play in several films: "Anna on the neck" in Chekhov, where he played the old prince and ... not the "secret mission", not that "conspiracy doomed." For participation in this film Vertinsky (together with the team, of course) received the Stalinist Prize. After all, only to think: Vertinsky - Winner of the Stalinist Prize!

Nevertheless, in 1956, the singer is forced to contact a letter to the deputy. Minister of Culture S. V. Kafianov. Here are some lines from this letter.

"... I already went through our country on the 4th and 5th time. I sang everywhere - both on Sakhalin, and in Central Asia, and in the Polar, and in Siberia, and in the Urals, and in the Donbas, not to mention Already about the centers. I finish the third thousand concerts ... All this gives me the right to think that my creativity, even if not very "Soviet", you need to someone and maybe it is necessary. And I have 68th Year! .. How long can I live? .. All this torments me. I'm not vain. I have a world name and no one add to him. But I am a Russian man! and the Soviet man. And I want one thing - to become Soviet actor. For this, I returned to my homeland ... So I want to ask you a number of questions:

1. Why don't I sing on the radio? Is Eve Montan, whose language is nobody understands, closer and more or more than me?

2. Why are there no my plates? Does the songs, say, Berse, Rockov, above my content and quality?

3. Why are there no my notes, my poems?

4. Why there are no reviews on my concerts? I get thousands of letters, where they ask for all this. I am silent ... And the years go. Now I am still a master. I can still! But soon I will bother everything and leave the theater life. And it will be too late. And I will have a bitter precipitate. I loved the people and did not notice his rulers! .. "

Well, each has its own bowl.

BOWL. Vladimir Soloohin
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Comforter Alexander Vertinsky

In the 37th, when Vertinsky lived in China, he was offered to return to his homeland, presenting the official invitation to the Mescik on the initiative of Komsomol. The return of Vertinsky would have been a steep PR for the country of advice at that time, and he himself wanted to return, but everything did not develop. International recognition was very necessary then the USSR - Kupper, for example, have gained two years, threatened a bunch of currency, settled in a gorgeous estate, a whole company of specially trained red Army teams during the "meeting with the writer" asked questions "on creativity" ... USSR dreamed of getting and other "lost" with a world name - it was the task of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and I try to imagine the then Kremlin Parashka, who is entrusted to engage in "returnees" ... It is necessary that the person does not just come back, and it is not at all that he I did some admiring statements - we will do, - but he must sympathize with the return itself, to embody some simple idea. "... the great Russian writer (singer, actor), in his works (songs, images) perpetuating his homeland, returned ... I wandered ... I sought all my life ...", etc. Shalyapin - I come back in the USSR - I would be called some kind of nightingry, Rachmaninov - a Russian singer, Bunin - a lover of his native nature ... But who was Vertinsky? Despite all the simplicity of his "Songs", Vertinsky for some reason was not placed in one simple Russian-Soviet scheme of "suffering" or "inseparable communication" - with the exception of, of course, the romance of the killed junkers ... It is funny to say, but He did not have "Russian motives" in the earliest songs - on the contrary, he was emphasized removed: "... anyway, wherever we moor, do not raise us with tired eyelashes" ... under what sauce to send his return? What do we present to the people? "I remember this night - you cried, baby ..."? Vertinsky was some kind of idleness, he did not symbolize anything to himself, did not express. He didn't even give up for something specific, and so, in general ... it was hardly no more dangerous of ideological discrepancies with a new government, so it was pulling it for a long time, and then the war began and was not up to him.

Watering as soon as possible to divide with debts to leave to the Soviet Union, Vertinsky joined the risky enterprise: became the co-owner of the Kabar "Gardenia", but after a month, Kabare was crashing. In order to somehow come true for his "exciderability," to demonstrate loyalty, he began writing to the Soviet newspaper "New Life" in Shanghai, played at the club of Soviet citizens, participated in TASS's transmissions, prepared memories of his life abroad ... then He wrote a whole cycle of atypical, patriotic songs, and a little later, after returning, - two songs about Stalin: "A little gray, like a silver poplar, he stands, taking the parade ..." Stalin reported. "It was composed of an honest person. But do not perform "...

A little gray, like a silver poplar,
He stands, taking a parade.
How much did Sevastopol cost him?
How much did Stalingrad cost him?

And in gray, cold nights,
When the front noticed the Purga,
Its clear, bright eyes,
Immediately saw the enemy.

In these black grievous years
All hope was on him.
What supermarine breed
Created the nature of it?

By winning military science,
Enemy blood painting snow,
He's mighty hands in the people
Stunned enemy accepted.

And when the vandals came
To our ancient capital fathers,
Where he found such generals
And such legendary fighters?

He tried them.
Above their upbringing
He thought of night and days long.
Oh how fatal testing
They were prepared!

And in the battles for the gravestone
Walked fearlessly
to death for him
For his fair word
For the great truth of it.

How high hesitated the power,
Power of Soviet peoples-friends.
And what great glory
He created for her deception.

Same look
The same speeches are simple,
Also wisers and simple words.
Over a broken map of Russia
He graced his head.

Later, all this served as a reason for conversations that Vertinsky was almost a Soviet spy. Interestingly, during the defense of Odessa, the romance converted into the campaign march "Your fingers smell like incense ..." sang the shelter for advanced students from ... Battalion named after A. Vertinsky, although for his records officially still given the "top ten". Vertinsky no authority did not like the soul - innocuous songs during a big slaughter annoy the same on both sides of the front. Harbinskaya newspaper wrote from the beginning of the occupation: "We need to protect our fascist youth from the poison vertex," and in Germany, he was scolded for the song "Brazilian cruiser" - when Brazil declared war to the countries "Axis" ...

In May 1942, Vertinsky married Lydia Tsirgwawa, a 19-year-old daughter of the employee of the CER. She was younger than 34 years old, and Vertinsky brought her from Shanghai, affected by the appearance of the Georgian Princess. After the Japanese occupation, the material position of the family became very heavy - nothing to buy even a breast stroller. In the 43rd Vertinsky took the last attempt: wrote a letter to Molotov. Permission unexpectedly was obtained. There is a legend that when on the table before Stalin once again put a list of surnames, the leader said about Vertinsky: "This let him live - in the homeland." At the end of 1943, Verietary family with four-month-old daughter Marianna moved to Moscow. Alexey Tolstoy, Count and Proletarian writer, made a reception in honor of the return of the singer. Guests have been tomitized for a long time in the living room, and someone looking at the gathered Tolstoy, Count Ignatiev, Metropolitan Nikolay Kruitsky and Vertinsky, asked: "Who are we still waiting?" And the wit Smirnov-Sokolsky replied: "The sovereign!" ... The Stalinist Vertinsky Prize was given in the 51st, on the background of the persecution of Zoshchenko and Akhmatova, which gave rise to bad sensations ...

Vertinsky lived in his homeland for another 14 years, but it was a strange life! .. He was not pursued, but they turned to him as a museum exhibit, archaeological value and did not allow them to reality. That is why, apparently, the subsequent generations have developed such an idea of \u200b\u200bVertinsky - a kind of rattling vessel from pre-revolutionary life, canned, settled by the Soviet authorities. This was a kind of raw exclusive fiction of the Soviet system, but, on the other hand, for the Vertinian only acceptable role on his return, it was this metaphorical barin, to the horror of the servant returned from there. Power This, oddly enough, has satisfied: many aesthetes, loyal to Soviet power, as the last argument led the thesis: "But Vertinsky returned! So he sings! And the apartment is three-room, by the way. " The case is unique - to others and dreaming about it could not. And in essence, that's what it was - from a hundred and more songs from the repertoire of Vertinsky to execution in the USSR, no more than thirty was allowed, at each concert there was a censor, concerts in Moscow and Leningrad were uncommon, they were not invited to Vertinsky's radio, the plates were almost not Published, there were no reviews in newspapers. He performed mainly in the province, in small remote towns, where there were heavy domestic conditions, long tedious moving, concerts went without poster ... Desperate, he wrote the very two supercathrothic, according to Soviet standards, poems, but no one either I wanted to print. Vertinsky sent the poems of Prakrebyshev, the Stalinist secretary, together with the letter, where he asked whether he could feel his own on the newly acquired homeland ... "The furnaces were not shied, and the work hard boils. And above us, the name is illuminated as a star high burns. This is the name of Marshal sleepless, day and night will fly away ... "In addition to these, in the last recent years, Vertinsky wrote a little more than twenty poems.

IN The late XIX century is born out of marriage meant a lot of problems - especially if parents belonged to different estates. An unequal union, an illegal child - it was a lifelong cross, but it happened more and more often, and as a result, extramarital connections presented the Russian culture of the 20th century a whole placer, so to speak: the King of Fakenov and the writer Vlas Doroshevich, a brilliant lawyer Plemako ... Vertinsky was also considered An extramarital child, since the marriage between his father Nikolai Vernet and Mother Evgenia Skolatsky was not decorated, and he could not, since the first wife of Nikolai Petrovich divorce was not given to his spouse. In a strange way, the extramarity was for Vertinsky a certain metaphysical vector of future fate and career. Born in Kiev, which was always somewhat "extramarized" in relation to Moscow, Vertinsky remained "out of marriage" and in relation to the official stage of the beginning of the 20th century, and later to the emigrant culture, refusing the main temptation of the middle of the century - Hollywood. Returning to the Soviet Union and "Having" with the Soviet official culture of 14 years, he never "married" on it.

Vertinsky. He did not have musical training and even truly did not know the note, but he understood that the viewer wants two simple things: a) dreams, b) truth. On the one hand, Singapur Bananas, on the other, the stories about the beggars, poor maids and unfortunate soldiers. Social - what is considered to be now on radio stations and TV inexpresenting theme, at the beginning of the last century (the blessing there was no stupid program directors) quickly found a response. Vertinsky sang with sadness about evil - and, naturally, was relevant. As his forerunner Vertinsky, bards and rock poets were usurped, but in fact he was the forerunner and the entire pop, only a very high sewing: for some reason Vertinsky fell very long to love not only Bohemia, but all-all, even the employees of the CC, who later were withmired Martial records from NEPMANOV and did not destroy, as it should be, and for many years secretly stored at home.

Vertinsky gave the tea exactly ten percent - in the same way in his songs measured, six percent, there was pain, and pity, pity, even such, and ridicule, and sarcasm, and self-irony ... Vetinsky did not hurt in restaurants and Although they did not like them at all, but he considered a good school for an artist.

America tired him with a bustle. Nevertheless, he was successful here - to such an extent that he was offered to be filmed in Hollywood. The script was written in English. Knowing perfect German and French, Vertinsky completely did not tolerate English. He walked with a language for several months. Marlene Dietrich gave him "Philological Council" - "overcome the disgust of any normal person and take himself in hand." But it did not help, and he refused to filming. At that time A.N. It was a real, real world star, although he sang in Russian, helping himself only with gestures. Besides him, the status of world stars at that time had only Shalyapin, Bunin, Rakhmaninov, Stravinsky ...

Alexander Vertinsky created a completely special genre of musical novels - "Songs of Vertinsky". At his concerts, we cried alone, others were mockingly shrieled, but there were no indifferent ...

Alexander Nikolaevich was born in Kiev, in 1889, in the family of a private attorney. The childhood of the future artist was not quite joyful. His father could not marry the mother, although they had already born two children, since the first wife did not give a divorce. His grandchildren had to adopt his grandchildly, and after the death of his parents, brother and sister were generally in different families from the relatives of the mother and for a long time they did not know anything about the fate of each other.

For the first time, Alexander Vertinsky spoke at the stage in 1915 in Piero costume. At that time he sang about "poor dealers, cocaine crucified on the wet boulevards of Moscow."

Gradually, he developed his own style of speeches, he learned to exploit his speaking-singing voice - and even the fact that he did not quite clearly pronounced the letter "P", just gave him a charm. These songs of Vertinsky were first called the "sad songs of Piero", or "aryietses". The fans literally besieged the young performer, and he allowed himself to passibly.

Vertinsky's fate changed dramatically in the 1920s. Like many other figures of Russian culture, he did not accept the revolution, and he had to emigrate. The events of the civil war led Alexander Nikolayevich to Sevastopol, from where in November 1920 on the ship running from the Red Army of the White Guard, he crossed himself to Turkey.

Among the numerous emigrants Vertinsky settled in Constantinople, continued to speak. But gradually the position of concerned from Russia began to deteriorate. Performances Vertinsky hardly earned only for food.

In 1923, Vertinsky moves to Germany, two years later - to France. In Paris, he meets with representatives of the Romanov House - the Grand Princes Dmitry Pavlovich and Boris Vladimirovich. There Vertinsky again returns to the profession of the singer. Together with Shalyapin, Mojukhin and Anna Pavlova, Vertinsky toured first in Europe, and then in America. Collections of poems and songs of the singer went abroad, but in the USSR, despite his general popularity, attempts to elaborate the works of Vertinsky were vain. There was not a single review of his concerts: Vertinsky remained faithful to his decadent style, which was annoyed by Soviet official.

In the autumn of 1934, Vertinsky leaves in the USA. There, he tours with great success, fulfilling his songs, among which new "other people's cities" and "About us and about our homeland."

After successful tours in the US, Vertinsky returned to France again, but did not stay there for a long time. In 1935, he moved to China, settled in Shanghai. There he married the second time on Lydia Vladimirovna Zirgwava, and in July 1943 they had a daughter Marianna.

Vertinsky has repeatedly appealed to Soviet representative offices with a request to allow return, but he was refused to be visa. The situation changed only in 1943, when the return of Vertinsky became almost a symbol of the cohesion of the Soviet people. At this difficult time he was allowed to return with his family.

He arrived in Moscow in November 1943 with his wife and a three-month-old daughter Marianne, and a year later (in November 1944), the spouses were born a second daughter - Anastasia. Veritsky wrote about his daughters of Vertinsky, one of the most touching songs - "Daughters" ("I had an angel ...").

The artist immediately joined the cultural life of the country. Veritsky's emigration did not press the state, so in 55 years had to start all over again, to give 24 concerts per month, to drive around the Soviet Union, where the necessary conditions for speeches were not always created (only in a duet with Pianist Mikhail Brooches for 14 years he gave More than 4,000 concerts).

Vertinsky performed and songs of new content, and old who became exotic. It has not yet ended the war, but people continued to live and already thought about the world. Therefore, the creativity of Vertinsky turned out to be a close and clear general public.

Unfortunately, the life of Alexander Nikolayevicho return turned out to be far from cloudless. Soon after the end of the war, a campaign against lyrical songs was deployed, allegedly leading listeners from socialist construction tasks. Directly overthuta was not mentioned, but it seemed to be meant. And now his plates are withdrawn from the sale, strike out from directories. None of his song sounds on the air, newspapers and magazines on the triumphant concerts of Vertinsky are kept ice silence. An outstanding singer, no matter how exists. All this hurt Alexander Nikolayevich. Only from the late 1970s began to leave his plates again.
"The Long Road…"

After the war, Vertinsky continued to film. In Russia, in the 1950s, it was used by its characteristic appearance and, in the opinion of cinematographers, congenital aristocracy, which Vertinsky with brilliance demonstrated as Prince in the famous film 1954 "Anna on the neck". One only his appearance in the frame created the necessary effect desired by the atmosphere. The work of the actor in the film "The Great Warrior Albania Skandardbeg", where he played the role of Dadza Venice.

At the end of his life, Vertinsky wrote a book about the emigrant wanders of the "quarter of a century without a homeland", the stories "smoke", "Stepa", the film "Smoke without the Fatherland", the book of memories "Dear Long ...". Memories remained unfinished. 13 final pages Vertinsky wrote on the last day of his life.

Today, the early songs of Vertinsky again consonant with time. They sing Grebelchikov and Sklyar, Sviridov and Agatha Christie, Malinin and Dramatic actors. We can say that in this century, Alexander Nikolaevich returned to his homeland again.

Talented singer and actor Alexander Vertinsky had no titles. Only once for the execution of the role of Cardinal in the now the forgotten film "Conspiracy of doomed", he was awarded the state (Stalinist) USSR award (1951). Marianna Vertinskaya recalls: "Dad said:" I have nothing but the world name. "

One day Vertinsky gave a concert in a small club Lviv. Before the speech, he, together with Pianist, decided to try how the piano sounds. It turned out that terrible. Called the club director. He spread his hands, sighed and said: "Alexander Nikolaevich, but still this is a historic piano - it refused to play himself Chopin himself!"

To this date, cinematographers and journalists have prepared documentary films, video interviews, poetic meetings. But everything is very difficult to tell about Vertinsky. After all, he was not only a piercing artist who fascinated and the West and East of the Planet. An innovator of pop layers, the cummy of the multi-million public during the First World War served as an ordinary Sanitar - selflessly, before the expansion, without mercing his own health. By the way, the Kabar's song performer without medical education saved the life of a combat colonel, conducting this operation. From the colonel, the surgeon of the sanitary composition still refused, recognizing the patient the hopeless - the bullet lasted the officer through the belly and sat down near the heart, to extract her doctor was not possible on road conditions. Colonel in an unconscious state was transferred to the compartment of medical staff so that after fixing death, download at the nearest stop. "Cut" wounded sanitary VertinskyOf course, I did not dare. But he suddenly remembered the amicing instrument acquired by him on the occasion of almost the aesthetic considerations - the brilliant thing of the original design. But she had no use in any way, and the boss advised her to remove her from his eyes. With these special long tongs with the capture Vertinsky got through the wound in the abdomen of the colonel to the bullet in the chest, he managed to hook her and get it. The officer's wokeering officer was transferred to the hospital, and the Savior never found out his name.

Close recalls about Vertinsky as a strong person, a hilarious Balaguere, who knows how to silence money, but under other conditions, it is difficult to produce heavy labor. His stage image contrasts sharply with the artist's nature - the subtitle character of the tragicomedy Pierrot with a singery speaking, performing dramatic ironic and smart texts. Ever, it was not songs, but verses - sensual, spiritual, but also with a civil and personal position - against the background of the melody. And this phenomenon is equally hypnotically affected by the decisive elite public, and in the townships. Sasha Vertinsky's theater and literature in the gymnasium, and then fate gave him participation in the Kiev Literary Assembly Sofia Zelinskaya, and this is poets Mikhail Kuzmin, Vladimir Elsner, artists, Alexander Osmertkin, Kazimir Malevich, Nathan Altman. Then Moscow Bohemia, acquaintance with futurists; Strong passion for verses Alexander Blok. Vertinsky was not an ordinary pop chanson, this is an innovator, the creator of his own genre based on the progressive creative methods of the latest aesthetics, on original creative thinking. The first review on his speeches was placed in one phrase: "Crazy and Zhemal Alexander Vertinsky". So he seemed to the author of the notes in the "Russian Word", looking at the beginning of the 1910s by the Erotic Erotica "Tango".

Loved ones remember Vernets as a strong person, a Balaguere-merchant, who knows how to silent money, but under other conditions, it is difficult to produce hard labor

Alexander Vertinsky on the cover of the White Journal "Theater", where he is named Pierrot Arquenovich Kolyombyinin (1919)

After returning from the war was born White Pierrot.Performing Ariektiki, now famous to the whole world, despite their Russian-language: "Little Creoleshchik", "Lilac Negro", "Your fingers smell incense" and others. After all, according to the reviews of his contemporaries, it was on a par with the texts, his intonation was played and, especially, the hands are painfully absorbed, then fluttering, then falling. More often Vertinsky wrote the melodies to his poems, sometimes on the poems of the already recognized masters of the poetic word Marina Tsvetaeva, Igor Northergyn, Alexander Bloka.

In early 1918, Vertinsky transformed on stage in Black Pierreo. And this type from Mask-Domino and in black robe has become much more ulcer, he spoke of cruelty of what is happening around: "I laugh at myself on myself", "behind the scenes", "smoke without fire", "Panhid Crystal", "Shooting" , "Lord's Ball." Soviet power such a Pierrot was not at moral, it was reported to him. Alexander Vertinsky emigrated, wandered over many countries in Europe, Asia, lived in the United States. There he wrote the famous "wreath", "Ballada about the gray-haired Mrs.", "in the blue and distant ocean", "crazy collapse", "Madame, already falling leaves", "Tango" Magnolia "", "Tin Heart", "Yellow angel".

The world famous artist is not from the first attempt, but received permission to return to the USSR in 1943. There were about 30 songs from its repertoire of 100 essays. And at each concert there was a censor, and the concerts took place in the outback, they were very rare in the large cities of Vertinsky. Imagine, smooth hairstyle, baroque posture, a fracture with a carnation in a loop - and it is in the midst of state farms, partners and transparencies. The Decadacy of Piero was annoyed by Chinush, because a campaign against lyrical songs was deployed, taking listeners from the tasks of socialist construction. But, judging by the memoirs of his loved ones, Alexander Vertinsky loved his homeland, although he took not all the views of the Soviet ideology. "Evening Moscow" The portrait of a great artist from the quotes of his relatives and a close girlfriend.

Chapter "About Alexandra Vertinsky" from the book of Natalia Ilyina "Roads and Fate":

"Always elegant (I knew how to wear things, besides, the growth, figure, manners), neat, tightened (shoes are stuck, shawls and collars are white), externally, the representative of Bohemia does not look like perfectly. And by character - Bohemia, actor ... Prices I didn't know the money, they were - spread, handed out, strolled, was not - gloomy, sat without them ... ".

"What is he big, broadly, and in a gait, in a manner to bow something developed, capricious, almost feminine, but it goes to him, it's in the style of his song, he is beautiful. And the hall believed that - beautiful! This An elegant figure, who arrived to us from Parisian restaurants and San Francisco, did not fit into the provinciality of Harban, she miraculously appeared on his stage, Harbin felt it, was appreciated, came applause ... "

"Vertinsky is a night man. Meet him in the first half of the day was not often possible, and if it was possible, then only in the empty and dark hall of the Renaissance. Morning Vertinsky Ugryum, Khmur, on the face of the expression of squeezing ... Night Veritsky Cheerful, Cheerful, Bodra, Junior. Beautiful narrator, improviser, mydifier.

"To those who saw him only on the stage, who knew him only as the performer of a song about" Bananova-Lemon Singapore ", about" lilac blacks "and" Spanish-suices ", - these people are hard to imagine, what a joker, a witness, humorist , the lover of the drawing was Vertinsky. And with what speed reacted himself to the joke, laughed to the tears, all giving a laughter. "

"This tramp" with the soul of Gypsy "on the slope of the years has gained family hearth, durability, recognition, material well-being. But - for the time".

Daughter Anastasia Vernets in television interview December 14, 2013 said that she was working on a film about the father, who removes the Dunya Smirnov.

"When dad, it was impossible to smoke us - he was enough for Validol, escaped, and we hid under the floors of his home dressing. And now he stood so thin, but the book expanding, and when Mom flew with a ruler - she pores us a ruler - and asked: "Sasha, where children?" "He could not lie to her, said quietly:" Lileka "and lowered his eyes down."

"When dad returned home with a tour, the presentation of gifts began. But he was a pedant, he was smoothly folded in his suitcase, sometimes he even brought the abducted half of the lemon, wrapped in a napkin. The suitcase unpacking painfully slowly, winding our nerves. No way It was impossible to rush it, and we just got waiting in anticipation. "

"Dad stunningly told fairy tales. For example, he had an endless series about Coterdon's cat."

After the shooting of the "nameless star" Anastasia Vetinskaya gave an interview with ITAR-TASS.

"The father saw the crowd of people near the mansion of the merchant daughter Mary Morozova on Arbat. It was brought from the station the wounded. They were taken out on a stretcher from the carriage, and the doctor had already worked as a doctor. The father just came up and began to help. The doctor looked at a high boy and called to himself In the dressing room - unwind dirty bandages and rinse wounds.

Why me? - I will ask Vertinsky later.

And hear:

I liked your hands. Thin, long, artistic fingers. Sensitive. Such will not hurt. "

"From the fatigue in the eyes of the circles, and suddenly someone grabs Vertinsky for his feet:

Pierosha, spoose me anything.

My God, you are raped or serious?

I beg you, spoil, I will die soon ...

Vertinsky sees a bandage, wet from the blood. Soots on the edge of the stretcher and sings "lullaby" to the words of Balmont.

In the morning, the sisters found Pierrot in the pile of human bodies. He slept, putting his head on the chest of a soldier who "lullaby" facilitated the transition to the world of others. "

At the opening in the museum of one street of the exhibition dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Vertinsky, his daughter Marianna spoke about the first visit to the artist of Kiev after orphanage:

"He wrote a letter home:" Huge posters with my surname missed the whole city. The excitement is incredible ... if Moscow was a return to the homeland, then Kiev is a return to the father's house. "

From the same letters: "I recalled how a seven-year-old boy drove me Natasha (Kuzina, approx. M. S.), as I silent from singing the choir and how I envied the boys in white and gold stimals ... I have a concert in the evening The most former Solovtsovsky Theater, where ... unscrewed binoculars from the chair (I wanted to sell it - I was always hungry) and where did you come from a crash! "

"About Kiev Father remembered almost every day. I thought to buy a small house here, to start a cow, but my mother did not want to move from Moscow ... Father wanted to write any of the old people, her husband and wife so that they could prepare yummy - blood sausage , pork ham bored. Dad even built a cellar, such as they had in Kiev, but he never lay anything. "

In an interview with the magazine "Vestnik" No. 7 of March 28, 2002, Marianna Vertinskaya says:

"Love seen them, it's yes. Father, leaving, every day I wrote my mother's mom - every God's day! She was idle, he, in fact, made her personality, an outstanding woman. After all, she married him at 18 years old! He climbed him And she brought it up like Pygmalion Galatei. Marry, Ovdov at 34, Mom no longer went out, although the proposals were - and very good. But whom, tell me, she could compare with Alexander Nikolayevich? Now she writes memories of sixteen years old. .

Wife Lidia Vertinskaya wrote in the book "Blue Bird of Love":

"And there is a man in an elegant black tuxedo. Vertinsky! What is he high! The face is elderly. Hair smoothly combed. Profile of the Roman Patricia! He instantly looked around the hasty hall and sank."

"His performance was made to me a great impression. His delicate amazing and expressively plastic hands, his manner to bow - always a little careless, slightly down. The words of his songs, where every word and phrase spoken by him sounded so beautiful and exquisite. I have never beyond I did not hear that Russian speech sounded so beautifully, the words were struck by their rich intonation. "

"We often began to meet - on Saturdays or on Sunday. But on the rest of the days, Alexander Nikolaevich missed, and then we began to correspond. From this time, I had all his letters and poems ... In these letters, the whole Vertinsky, as I knew him . Passionate, generous, loving, who knows what a true feeling, true suffering. Now you do not write so ... "

"War in Russia stirred in us, Russians, love for their homeland and anxiety about her fate. Alexander Nikolaevich Gorothelyly convinced me to go to Russia and be with my homeland in a hard time for her. I also began to dream about it."

"We sailed in a good calute of the first class, but Alexander Nikolaevich went to sleep all the way, even the shoes did not shoot, dumped only the jacket. It was surprised me, but then I guessed: Apparently, he did not undress, because I was going to save us in case of flooding steamer. "

"By the way, for the first time my husband was confused when the border guard came up at the station, on the border, it came to him and strictly asked how much costs he was lucky. Alexander Nikolaevich replied that he had three suit, from which one on it, another concert Frak and one tuxedo. After listening to the answer, the border guard shook his head disapprovingly, and Vertinsky stood with a guilty face. "

"Vertinsky stood by the window at every station and waited that the milk would be taken out ... But it was not here! It turned out that during the war Tara, that is, a bottle, in itself a rarity and value, and give it only. In exchange for another bottle. Vertinsky threw money on a bottle, but no one agreed. We went further, the girl began to capricious, we gave her water, sweet tea, but she wanted to eat ... Alexander Nikolaevich approached a woman who sold milk, put She is 400 rubles, pulled out a bottle and ran to the train. Large, huge, he fled, pressing a bottle to his chest. "

"When we arrived in Russia, then many ordinary people decided that we had very rich people. They have burned with big money and wealth. Alexander Nikolaevich said that here people think fried partridges fall from the sky. Sometimes we were offered which Well, things that were needed by our family, and requested unthinkable high prices. And somehow Alexander Nikolaevich told me in thought: "You know, they want to recoup for the whole revolution!"

"Vertinsky, being a round orphanage, never celebrated his birthday. In the family where he lived, no one marched this day ... Having arrived at home, I decided to refund Alexander Nikolayevich for all the lost birthdays."

It is said that when Vertinsky sang, the listeners were as if under hypnosis. By fulfilling his "Aryetki", Alexander Nikolayevich dressed and grimized by Piero's character and sang under the "lunar lighting".

It was in some kind of author's songs, but on the poems of the Silver Century and Russian poets. Pierreo, the sad friend of Pinocchio, we remember from the fairy tale "Golden Key", but there was another character - a dexterous servant, speaking at fairs. But Vertinsky liked the fabulous Piero. The singer, who called his works by "Arietacles", was called "Russian Piero".

Alexander Vertinsky in Piero

Vertinsky was born during royal mode in March 1889 in Kiev. The boy's father worked as a lawyer and composed Fakelon. Mother-noblewoman - the second wife (cohabitant) Nikolay Vertinsky briefly brought up children, Sasha lost her to a three-year-old child. A couple of years after that, the father died. Alexander and sister Nadius turned out to be orphans. They took them under the custody of the grandfather, but soon other relatives took the children to their upbringing. The kids were excommunicated from each other, hitting different families.

Starting to learn in the best gymnasium of Kiev, Sasha Vertinsky in 2 years was excluded from her. The teachers did not like the behavior of the student, and the performance of the boy "Chrome". Alexander tried to study in another gymnasium, but and from there they were kicked out (from the 5th grade).

Sasha began his way to the art of Sasha, with the composition of poems. Loved the theatrical productions. I went to work as a statist, and another person received a salary for this work. Vertinsky kicked out of the house. The aunt did not like feeding the "fucking". I had to get a job to Sasha to another place where the money paid him in his hands. He changed several professions from the seller of postcards to the accountant.

Vertinsky in Moscow

Alexander Nikolayevich fell in 1913 by 24 years old. He removed the room in Kozitsky Lane, raised a tie with the bohemian world, began to speak in public places, but with reading literary works.

Family with Mayakovsky, Vertinsky admired poetic poems. But Igor northernik Alexander liked more. Comparing the speeches of futurists with "PE-SocHoncerts" of Northerner, Vertinsky was convinced where the poetry is ingenious.

Alexander Cartvil, it prevented him from entering the Moscow Dramatics. Stanislavsky himself did not accept a young man.

When in Petrograd, the sailors with soldiers took the Winter Palace, Vertinsky already sang on the Moscow stage, dressed in Frak. Before that, he toured a lot in Russia with his "aryietses". From 1917 and up to 1919, the singer performed in Odessa, Rostov, other southern cities and in the Caucasus, until he was in his native Kiev. After moved to Kharkov, from there again in Odessa, then in Sevastopol.

In the late autumn of 1920, Vertinsky emigrated from Sevastopol along with the ongoing soldiers from the Crimea. He fell into Romania, from there to Bessarabia, where he spoke in front of the Russian-speaking population. His sister died back in 1916 from the overdose of drugs.

Vertinsky in the spring of 1957 passed away, living in Astoria. Green raged on the streets, the birds were happy with May Days, on May 21, the artist was the last time. He died in the hotel room. The ashes of the singer burned on the Novodevichy cemetery.

Just for the emigration, Vertinsky traveled half of the world, performed in the USA and China, was familiar with monarchs and star actors. He talked with Charlie Chaplin and Marlene Dietrich, made friends with Shalyapin. For the speeches on the stage decently earned, which made it possible to live in luxury hotels.

But the singer in emigration extremely missed Russia. He wrote in memoirs that he was ready to give all the well-being and money in one day of stay in his homeland. Vetinsky sang often in the kabaks, which was disgusting for him, cursed his profession. The rudeness and rudeness of visitors were painful for the thin soul singer.

Homecoming

In the USSR, Alexander Nikolaevich arrived only in 1943, was November, when Soviet troops fought for the Dnieper, Kiev was liberated. Molotov allowed Vertinsky and other cultural figures to return home.

The singer made his contribution to the future victory - began to perform on the fronts. Lydia's wife and Marianne's daughter remained in Moscow. In 1944, the spouses were born the second daughter, Anastasia. Both girls Vertinsky dedicated one of his most famous songs of that period "daughter" (below the video and lyrics).

Alexander Vertinsky with daughters. The beginning of the 1950s.

In 1945, even one of his song dedicated to Joseph Stalin. In addition to the singing talent, Vertinsky had a gift of the actor, starred in several movies. His prince from Anna on the neck turned out to be very similar to the true nobleman.

Living in the Soviet Union, Vertinsky continued to tour in the country. For 14 years, about 2 thousand times went on stage, he performed in concert halls and workers' teams, orphans and hospitals.

The artist believed to the brain of Kostya Kyivanin. Passed a harsh vital school. Seeing the mass construction of "Palaces of Culture" in the USSR, sarcastically noticed once that "it would be better to build sorts" - with them culture and begins.

Below are two songs ("Tango Magnolia" and "Daughters") in the lively execution of Alexander Vertinsky:

Tango Magnolia (Text)


When sings and crying windows
And drives in dazzling lazuries
Birds far caravan,

In banana-lemon Singapore, in a bore,
When you have silence on your heart
You, eyebrows Dark blue frowning,
Toscut one ...

And, gently remembering
Other than May,
My words, and affection, and me,
You cry, Ivette,
What is our song Spet,
And the heart is not shed without love of fire.

And, sweetly silence from the screams of the parrot,
Like wild magnolia in color
You cry, Ivette,
That the song is missing,
That this summer is somewhere
Walked in a dream!

In banana and lunar Singapore, in a bore,
When a banana breaks under the wind,
You dream all night on yellow skin
Under screams monkeys.

In banana-lemon Singapore, in a bore,
Wrists and ringing rings
Tropical lazuria magnolia,
You love me.

Daughters (text)

I started the Angel
Wound among the White Day.
Everything, what I laughed at once,
Everything now admires me!

I lived noisy and fun, I repent,
But the wife is all to the hands of the hands,
Absolutely with me
I gave birth to two daughters.

I was against. Pelainka will begin ...
Why complicate your life?
But we climbed into the heart of the girl,
How kittens in someone else's bed!

And now with a new meaning and purpose
I, like a bird, nest your view
And sometimes over their cradle
Surprisingly sing himself:

Daughters, daughters,
My daughter!
Where are you, my nights,
Where are you, nightingales? ..

Many Russian Sun and Light
It will be in the life of my daughter.
And most importantly is
The fact that the motherland will have them!

There will be a house. There will be many toys.
We will hang a star on the tree.
I am some kind old women
Especially for them will be sent.

To the songs of them Russian sang,
To fairytale nights,
So that quietly we rustle
To forget the childhoods.

True, I'll try a bit
But the soul will be Yun as they!
And ask will be a good god,
So that I extended my sinful days.

Daughters grow up
My daughters ...
They will have nights,
Will nighty!

And closed her daughters
Mother Mer
I sleep in the cemetery
The same nightingaws!