The most famous bards of Russia: list, brief information. Bards of Russia
The phenomenon of Russian author's (as it is also called, amateur or bard) song has not yet been sufficiently studied. Some are indifferent to it, others consider it a distant past. But it is difficult to deny that the original song, with its subtle, deep lyrics and melody, was an important component of the cultural life of the USSR. “These songs penetrate not into the ears, but directly into the soul,” said Vladimir Vysotsky
Keepers of traditions
There is an ancient word, beautiful in its strangeness, “bard”. Among the tribes of the Gauls and Celts, this was the name given to singers and poets. They kept the rituals of their peoples, their traditions. And the people believed them, trusted them, honored them, loved them. In our country, the bard song movement took shape in the 50-60s of the 20th century. When bards first began to appear, they looked completely ordinary. They were students in baggy pants. They did not yet know that they would be called bards, and the songs they wrote would be original or amateur. For them, these were just songs about what worried them...
The bard song appeared as if by itself, in different places, one of which was the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University. A wonderful girl Lyalya Rozanova studied here in the early 1950s. She had the gift of attracting talented people and inspiring them to create. It is not surprising that it was under her that the student propaganda team became the center of youth life. At first, the biologists sang ordinary songs, but one day one of the propaganda brigades, Gena Shangin-Berezovsky, sang a song that he composed himself. It was dedicated to his close friend Yuri Yurovitsky and was called “Song about a True Friend.” The guys liked the song so much that it was immediately included in the repertoire. And after her, there were songs written by Lyalya herself and another talented biology faculty member, Dmitry Sukharev.
These songs had some incredible magic - simple melodies with three chords, simple lyrics, but very unusual for those times, because they sounded not “we”, but “I”. And in this “I” everyone recognized themselves and their anxieties, feelings, tossing... Yuri Vizbor recalled: “... with Lyalya Rozanova’s poems we saved suicides. And myself, to be honest..."
Liliana Rozanova as part of the propaganda team (in the center, third to the right of the accordionist):
"Singing Institute"
A similar picture was at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V.I. Lenin, which in the 1950-1960s received the unofficial name “singing institute”. It was there that Yuri Vizbor’s first song “Madagascar” was written. Everyone liked the result so much that the whole faculty began to sing the song, and then all the Moscow tourists. Soon Vizbor composed a whole series of songs about trips to famous melodies, and over time he began to invent his own music. The later famous bard Ada Yakusheva recalled that when Vizbor was graduating from college, several volunteers volunteered to urgently learn to play the guitar. One of them was Ada herself.
Bard Ada Yakusheva:
Yuliy Kim with a guitar:
KSP - from and to
At first, the author's song did not arouse much interest among the state. But bards began to graduate from institutes and universities, but they still had the desire to meet, create and share their songs. And they began to unite in KSP - amateur song clubs. First in Moscow, and then in other cities of the Union. In May 1967, the Bards held the “First Theoretical Conference”, and in the fall of the same year the first all-Moscow meeting of the KSP took place. Then, on March 7, 1968, the First Union Festival of Art Song was held in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok. It was there that the only public concert of Alexander Galich in the USSR took place, at which he performed the song “In Memory of Pasternak.”
And Julius Kim and many other bards were forbidden to perform. The state could not allow musicians to openly sing about “entrances for bosses”, “offices with lackeys and secretaries”, “stompers” under the windows, about dachas and “Seagulls”, “cekov rations” and “vintage motorcycles”.
"Magnitizdat"
However, the ban only fueled the already great interest in the original song, which became a contrast to the official stage. A Soviet person could not listen to “the hope of a small orchestra led by love.” He had to listen to the Red Army choir, Kobzon's songs and walk in formation. But not everyone wanted this. “Informal” songs performed with an acoustic guitar were perceived as a revelation. Okudzhava and Vysotsky were copied from reel to reel, fortunately tape recorders were no longer uncommon. This distribution was called “magnitizdat”.
Interestingly, the attitude of the state and the attitude of individual party bosses towards the bards may not have coincided. For example, Secretary General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev had a love for Vysotsky’s songs. One of the pilots of the government air squad said: “When we were flying from the Far East, suddenly Vysotsky’s songs began to sound in the cabin. We said to the flight attendants: “Are you crazy?” And they say that the tape was handed over from Brezhnev’s own entourage...”
Since 1969, Vysotsky also knew Brezhnev’s daughter Galina, who not only loved his work and attended his performances at the Taganka Theater, but also helped the artist.
"Songs of our century"
In the 1980s, PCBs were not only allowed, but they began to turn a blind eye to their revival. And the songs of the bard Sergei Nikitin could even be heard on the radio! In the 1990s, the concept of bard classics appeared, a series of albums “Songs of Our Century” began to be released, and you could simply buy them in a store. However, such accessibility did not reduce interest in the original song.
And today people pick up a guitar to sing about what concerns them. The author's song continues to live...
Great bards of the 20th century
Alexander Galich born in 1918 in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk). After ninth grade I entered the literary institute. In the early period of his work, Galich wrote several plays for the theater: “Taimyr is calling you” (co-authored with K. Isaev), “The paths we choose”, “Under a lucky star”, “March”, “An hour before dawn ", "The steamboat's name is "Eaglet", "Does a man need much", as well as scripts for the films "True Friends" (together with K. Isaev), "On the Seven Winds", "Give me a Book of Complaints", "The Third Youth", " Running on the waves". Since the late 1950s, Galich began to compose songs, performing them to his own accompaniment on a seven-string guitar. His songs were politically acute, which led to a conflict with the authorities... So Galich turned from a zealous Komsomol member into a conscious opponent of the regime and was expelled from the boundaries of first the official culture, and then the country. Galich was prohibited from giving public concerts. But despite the prohibitions, he was popular, famous, loved. In 1971, Galich was expelled from the Union of Writers of the USSR, of which he had been a member since 1955, and in 1972 - from the Union of Cinematographers, of which he had been a member since 1958. After this, he was deprived of the opportunity to earn his own bread and was reduced to a state of poverty. In 1974, Galich was forced to emigrate, and all of his previously published works were banned in the USSR. Galich settled in Paris, where he died on December 15, 1977.
Alexander Galich:
Bulat Okudzhava- one of the creators and recognized patriarch of the genre, which later received the name “art song”. In 1942, ninth-grader Okudzhava volunteered to go to the front, where he was a mortarman, machine gunner, and radio operator. After the war, he studied at the Faculty of Philology at Tbilisi University, after which he worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature in a rural school near Kaluga. Okudzhava's first book was published in Kaluga. In 1956 he moved to Moscow, worked as an editor at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, and headed the poetry department at Literaturnaya Gazeta. Okudzhava composed his first song “Fierce and Stubborn...” while still a student. Tape recordings of Okudzhava scattered throughout the country. Many of his songs are still relevant today:
Bulat Okudzhava:
Fierce and stubborn
burn, fire, burn.
To replace December
Januarys are coming.
Live through the summer
and then let them lead
for all your deeds
to the most terrible judgment.
Vladimir Vysotsky. Born in 1938 in Moscow. Among the many bards, Vladimir Vysotsky is perhaps the most famous. Vysotsky began writing his first songs in the early 1960s. These were songs in the style of “yard romance”. Around this time, Vladimir Vysotsky came to the Taganka Theater. In parallel with his work in the theater, he acted in films. Vysotsky’s most famous role is Zheglov in the television series “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed.” He wrote his songs mainly at night. He came home after the performance and sat down to work. Vysotsky’s work is usually divided into cycles: military, mountain, sports, Chinese... Front-line soldiers who listened to his songs about the war were sure that he personally experienced everything he wrote about. People who listened to his songs with a “criminal slant” were sure that he was sitting. Sailors, climbers, long-distance drivers - everyone considered him one of their own. Vysotsky said this about the author’s song: “This song lives with you all the time, does not give you peace, day or night.”
Vladimir Vysotsky:
Alexander Gorodnitsky- one of the founders of the art song. Until today, he actively works, writes poetry and songs.
Alexander Gorodnitsky:
Yuri Vizbor:
Victor Berkovsky- Russian scientist and prominent representative of the bard movement of the seventies. “To the Music of Vivaldi”, “Grenada” and more than 200 other songs written by Berkovsky are very popular among the people.
Bard (author's) song became an important component of the cultural life of the USSR. Let's remember those famous Soviet bards who are no longer with us, but whose work left a bright and unforgettable mark.
ADELUNG GEORGE(Yuri) NIKOLAEVICH(April 3, 1945 – January 6, 1993).
Born in Moscow. Graduated from the 3rd year of the Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers. Worked as a geologist. Since 1962 he wrote songs based on his own poems. He regularly took part in difficult raft trips and went mountaineering. In recent years he has been an industrial climber.
The author of many songs, one of which - “You and I have not been the same for a long time...” - has become, as they say now, a cult favorite in certain circles, incl. geological
He died in Moscow while working on a high-rise building. ANCHAROV MIKHAIL LEONIDOVICH(28 March 1923 - 11 July 1990). 
One of the founders of the art song genre in the USSR.
Born, lived and died in Moscow. In 1941, from the first year of the Architectural Institute, he went to the front, fought as a paratrooper, and was demobilized in 1947. He graduated from a music school with a degree in piano, the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, and the Moscow State Art Institute. Surikov. Writer, poet, playwright, translator, architect, painter. The author of the amazing stories “The Theory of Improbability”, “Golden Rain”, the novels “Notes of a Wandering Enthusiast”, “Boxwood Forest”, etc., which influenced the worldview of more than one generation. Since 1967 - member of the USSR Writers' Union. The first Soviet television series “Day by Day” was filmed based on his script.
He wrote songs from the second half of the 30s, mainly based on his own poems. He played the seven-string guitar. The author of such well-known songs at the time as “MAZ”, “Drip-Drip”, “Ballad of Parachutes”, “Big April Ballad”, “Anti-Phibitsh Song”, “Song about a psycho from the Gannushkin hospital who did not give it to the orderlies” your border cap”, etc.
Vladimir Vysotsky called Ancharov his teacher.
BASAEV MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH(January 2, 1951 – November 2, 1991). 
Born in Ivanovo. Graduated from music school, violin class. He studied at the Ivanovo Energy Institute (1968-1973), during his studies he began to study original songs. Tourist-waterman, candidate for master of sports in water tourism. Laureate of art song festivals in Kostroma, Ivanovo, Kalinin, Sosnovy Bor. His “Kostroma”, “Mame”, “Night Station”, “Mood” are still heard at art song festivals, and the song “Catamaran” has become the anthem of several generations of water tourists.
Tragically died on November 2, 1991. In 1995, the Ivanovo creative association “Reform” released a collection of his poems and songs, “For Those Who Can’t Get There.”
BACHURIN EVGENY VLADIMIROVICH(25 May 1934 - 1 January 2015). 
Born in Leningrad, lived in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Printing Institute. Painter, graphic artist, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1968). He played six- and seven-string guitar. He began writing poetry at the age of 7, and songs based on his poems since 1967. For some time he performed with the ensemble “Golden and Blue”. Several records were released by the Melodiya company (the first, “Chess on the Balcony,” was released in 1980).
Bachurin’s songs are heard on radio and television, in films and performances - for example, the famous songs “Trees” (from the television play “Lika”), “Fly blue, little dove” (from the play “Cliff”).
BASHLACHEV ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH(“SashBash”. May 27, 1960 - February 17, 1988). 
Born in Cherepovets, where he lived until 1984. Since 1977 he worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant as an artist. In 1978 he entered the Ural State University (Sverdlovsk) at the Faculty of Journalism. In 1983, Bashlachev’s first famous song appeared - “Griboyedov Waltz” (“The Ballad of Stepan”). After graduating from university, he returned to Cherepovets and worked for the newspaper Kommunist. In September 1984 he showed his songs to A. Troitsky, whom he had met shortly before. At the suggestion of Troitsky, he went to Moscow with a series of apartment shows (concerts held in an ordinary apartment, at home). Then he went to Leningrad, where he stayed. He played countless apartment shows in Leningrad, Moscow and other cities. In the spring of 1987, he began filming in A. Uchitel’s documentary “Rock,” but during the filming process he refused to participate in them. All footage of Bashlachev was removed from the film. In June he performed at the V festival of the Leningrad rock club, where he received the “Nadezhda” prize. In August I wrote my last song (not preserved). From that day on, I didn’t write any new songs and was in constant depression. In September, he began filming in P. Soldatenkov’s documentary “Bards Leave the Yards, or Playing with the Unknown,” but during the process he refused to appear in film.
On February 17, 1988, he committed suicide by jumping from the 8th floor. 
Bashlachev’s songs “Time of Bells”, “Vanyusha”, “Funeral of a Jester”, “Musician” and others received real recognition.
BERKOVSKY VIKTOR SEMYONOVICH(July 13, 1932 – July 22, 2005). 
Born in Zaporozhye, lived in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS) and graduate school, metallurgist. He worked at a factory in Zaporozhye for 8 years, and taught rolling in India for several years. Candidate of Technical Sciences (1967), Associate Professor at MISiS. 
He wrote songs based on other people's poems. The names of the poets speak for themselves: Yu. Levitansky, D. Sukharev, R. Rozhdestvensky, R. Kipling... He was one of the leaders of the famous project “Songs of Our Century”. The songs “Remember, Guys”, “Gloria”, “On the Distant Amazon”, “Night Road”, “Cinematograph”, “To the Music of Vivaldi” and many others are widely known.
VAKHNYUK BORIS SAVELIEVICH(October 16, 1933 – June 2, 2005). 
Born in the village. Grishki of the Volkovinets district of the Kamenets-Podolsk region of the Ukrainian SSR (now Derazhnyansky district of the Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine). Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Lenin with a degree in “teacher of Russian language, literature, history of the USSR.” Since 1955, he wrote songs based on his poems and played the 7-string guitar. He was a laureate of the tourist song competitions of the I and II All-Union Youth Marches in Brest (1965) and Moscow (1966), and was an active participant and member of the jury of the Grushinsky and Ilmensky art song festivals. Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR, then - the Union of Journalists of Russia. Master of Sports of the USSR in football. In 1964-1968. - correspondent for the radio station “Yunost”; in 1968-1978 - correspondent for the sound magazine "Krugozor". Since 1978 - film playwright.
Vakhnyuk’s songs “Terema”, “Running Headlong”, “Calm Down” were sung by Alla Pugacheva; Some of his songs were sung by other famous performers: Nani Bregvadze, Muslim Magomaev, Joseph Kobzon, Lyudmila Zykina, Vladimir Troshin.
He died in an accident: he and his two granddaughters, 6 and 9 years old, were hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing.
VIZBOR YURI IOSIFOVICH(20 June 1934 – 17 September 1984). 
Born, lived and died in Moscow. He had Lithuanian-Ukrainian roots (his future father Jozef Vizboras arrived in Moscow in 1917, where he met Maria Shevchenko, who came from Krasnodon), but considered himself a Russian person. Graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature, Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Lenin. He worked as a teacher in the North, and served in the army there. He was a correspondent for the Yunost radio station, Krugozor magazine, and a screenwriter at a documentary film studio. Member of the Union of Journalists and Cinematographers of the USSR. As an actor, he starred in the films “July Rain” by Marlen Khutsiev, “Retribution” by Alexander Stolper, “Red Tent” by Mikhail Kalatozov, “Rudolfio” by Dinara Asanova, “You and Me” by Larisa Shepitko, “The Beginning” by Gleb Panfilov, “Seventeen Moments of Spring” » Tatiana Lioznova (the role of Borman). He was engaged in mountaineering, participated in expeditions to the Pamirs, the Caucasus and the Tien Shan, and was a ski instructor. 
A generally recognized luminary of the art song genre. He has been writing songs based on his poems since 1951 (with a few exceptions). The author of three hundred wonderful songs, including the iconic “My Darling” (“Forest Sun”), “Dombai Waltz”, “You Are the Only One for Me”, “Seryoga Sanin”, “The Story of Technologist Petukhov...” (“But we do rockets, / And blocked the Yenisei, / And also in the field of ballet / We are ahead of the rest."
VYSOTSKY VLADIMIR SEMYONOVICH(January 25, 1938 – July 25, 1980). 
Born in Moscow. After graduating from school, he studied for some time at the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering, but soon left it and entered the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School. He worked at the Pushkin Moscow Drama Theater, and from 1964-1980 at the Moscow Taganka Drama and Comedy Theater. His songs were performed on stage in several performances. Since 1959 he acted in films; he composed a significant number of songs for films, although not all songs were eventually included in films. In the second half of the 60s, he began performing songs, accompanying himself on a 7-string guitar, in friendly companies, and later at public evenings and concerts. Thanks to tape recordings, the circle of his listeners rapidly expanded; in a short time, Vysotsky gained nationwide popularity and discontent among Soviet official circles. His reputation acquired a certain shade of “seditiousness.”
In the second half of the seventies, he often visited abroad and gave concerts in France, the USA, Canada and other countries. Until the very end of his life he continued active concert activities.
It is difficult to find aspects of life that he would not touch upon in his songwriting. These include love lyrics, ballads, stylizations of “thieves” songs, as well as songs on political topics (often satirical or even containing sharp criticism of the social system), songs about the attitude of ordinary people to life, humorous songs, fairy tale songs and even songs from the perspective of inanimate “characters” (for example, “Microphone Song”). Many songs are written in the first person and were later called “monologue songs.” In others there could be several characters, whose “roles” Vysotsky played by changing his voice (for example, “Dialogue in front of the TV”). These are original “songs-performances” written for performance by one “actor”. 
In 1987, Vysotsky was posthumously awarded the USSR State Prize, according to the official wording, for creating the image of Zheglov in the television feature film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” and the original performance of songs.
In 1989, the State Cultural Center-Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky was created in Moscow.
GALICH ALEXANDER ARKADIEVICH(real name - Ginzburg. October 19, 1918 - December 15, 1977). 
Born in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk), he spent his childhood in Sevastopol and lived in Moscow before emigrating. Since 1972 - Orthodox. Graduated from the theater studio named after. Stanislavsky. During the Great Patriotic War, he was declared unfit for military service due to health reasons, and was one of the organizers, leaders and participants of the Komsomol Front Theater. He has been composing songs based on his poems since the late 50s. Author of about 20 plays and film scripts. Winner of the KGB Prize for the script of the film “State Criminal”. His work developed, as it were, in two directions: on the one hand - lyrical major and pathos in drama (plays about communists, scripts about security officers), on the other - mockery and satire in songs. When Galich first performed several satirical songs at an amateur song rally in Petushki, many participants in the rally accused him of insincerity and duplicity.
Since 1955 - member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, expelled in 1971. Since 1958, member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR, expelled in 1972. The events that followed his expulsion from the Unions showed that Galich was completely unprepared for them and did not expect reprisals against himself. Although this was strange: while composing his anti-party songs, he could not help but understand that he was playing with fire... Galich’s situation became catastrophic. He had just been one of the most successful authors in the country, received a lot of money, which he spent heartily in expensive restaurants and foreign voyages - and all this disappeared overnight. Performances were withdrawn from the repertoire, and the production of films that had started was frozen. Galich began to slowly sell off his rich library, earn extra money as a “literary black” (write for others), and give paid (3 rubles for admission) home concerts.
In June 1974 he left the USSR. He joined the NTS (People's Labor Union), worked at the Radio Liberty station. Died in Paris. On December 15, 1977, a Grundig stereo combine was delivered to Galich’s apartment from Italy, they said that the connection would be tomorrow, for which a master would come, but Galich decided to try out the TV immediately, fortunately his wife went to the store. Little familiar with technology, he inserted the antenna instead of the required socket into the hole on the back wall of the equipment, touching it with high voltage circuits. He was electrocuted, he fell, rested his feet on the battery and thus closed the circuit...
Western media (and, naturally, Soviet dissidents) without any reason attributed Galich’s death to “the machinations of the KGB.”
DULOV ALEXANDER ANDREEVICH(May 15, 1931 - November 15, 2007). 
Born and lived in Moscow. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University, worked at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences, and defended his doctoral dissertation.
He has been writing songs since 1950 (mainly based on other people's poems). He accompanied himself on a 7-string guitar; he had no musical education. His most famous song, “The Lame King,” is available in Russian, French, German, and also in Esperanto. Dulov’s songs “Taiga”, “Smoky Tea”, “Telepathy”, “Unhappy Girl” and others also became widely known in the Russian-speaking environment.
Zhdanov ALEXANDER MIKHAILOVICH(February 10, 1948 – February 9, 2013). 
Born in the village of Shirokiy, Donetsk region. He received his musical education from a blind music teacher, bringing his button accordion to his lessons from the farm to the city recreation center. Then I learned the guitar. Philologist, environmental engineer. Lived and worked in Moscow.
Since 1960, he has written more than 400 songs, two thirds of which were not materialized in recordings. Many of his songs became famous, in particular, “Where We Are Not,” “Skif,” “Master of the Void,” “White Boat” and others.
He died suddenly from viral pneumonia half an hour before his sixty-fifth birthday.
ZAKHARCHENKO LYUBOV IVANOVNA(April 4, 1961 – January 21, 2008). 
Born in Rostov-on-Don. At the same time, she took five preparatory courses at Rostov State University: philology, history, law, biology and mechanics, and eventually chose the Faculty of Law, from which she graduated in 1984. She worked as an investigator and assistant prosecutor, and taught public law at the university for 3 years.
She has been writing songs based on her poems since 1975. In 1986, she received the Grand Prix of the First All-Union Festival of Art Songs, after which she began active touring. Traveled all over the Union. For several years she was the organizer of the Rostov Metro festival.
The most famous songs are “Garden” (“Blackcurrant”), “Light Bulb”, “There is a war, but this is not an event...”, “Monologue of a modern Hunchback”, etc.
On January 21, 2008, she died suddenly: her heart could not stand it. There are persistent rumors that it was suicide.
IVANOVA LYUDMILA IVANOVNA(June 22, 1933 - October 7, 2016). 
Born in Moscow. She graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School in 1955 and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Traveling Drama Theater. In 1957 she moved to the Sovremennik Theater. She starred in more than 80 films (one of her most memorable film roles is, of course, the accountant Shurochka in the film “Office Romance”). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989). In 1990, she founded the children's musical theater "Improvt" at GITIS, where she directed the children's acting studio. She taught a course at the acting department of the International Slavic Institute named after. Gabriel Derzhavin. She was a professor at the Slavic Academy of Humanities.
She started writing songs in the 60s. Lyudmila's husband was a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, bard and writer Valery Milyaev. They met in the 60s, Valery was already a famous bard. In one of their first meetings, he sang “Gorky Street” and said: “I really like this song. Ada Yakusheva wrote it.” Lyudmila was offended: “How is this Yakusheva?!” This is my song!
In addition to “Gorky Street”, Ivanova wrote the famous “Maybe”, “Half”, “About the Chief”, etc.
KLYACHKIN EVGENY ISAAKOVICH(March 23, 1934 – July 30, 1994). 
Born in Leningrad. In April 1942, during the blockade, Evgeniy’s mother died, his father was at the front, and the boy was evacuated to the Yaroslavl region, where he was raised in an orphanage. In September 1945, the father returning from the front took his son to Leningrad.
Graduated from the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute. He worked as a design engineer in construction organizations in Leningrad, then in the Leningrad branch of the Art Fund.
He has been writing songs since 1961. Laureate of the I and II Leningrad amateur song competitions (1965 and 1967), the tourist song competition of the I All-Union rally of winners of hikes to places of military glory in Brest (1965), the II All-Union competition for the best tourist song in Moscow (1969). He was a member and chairman of the jury of many festivals. He performed as an artist of Lenconcert and Rosconcert. Wrote more than 300 songs.
In 1990, he and his family left for permanent residence in Israel, where he lived until his death.
KRUPP ARON YAKOVLEVICH(“Arik.” October 30, 1937 – March 25, 1971). 
Born in Daugavpils (Latvia). During the war he lived in evacuation in Alma-Ata, then in Latvian Liepaja. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers (1964), was assigned to Minsk, and worked as an optical engineer at the S.I. Vavilov plant.
He began writing songs in 1959 based on his poems. Laureate of the tourist song competitions of the I and II All-Union Youth Marches in Brest (1965) and Moscow (1966). He was the chairman of the first Minsk KSP (amateur song club) “Svitsyaz”.
He was interested in mountain tourism and mountaineering. On March 25, 1971, A. Krupp and eight of his comrades: Misha Koren, Anya Nekhaeva, Volodya Skakun, Sasha Nosko, Vadim Kazarin, Sasha Fabrisenko, Fedya Gimein, Igor Korneev died in an avalanche during a hike in the Eastern Sayan Mountains.
KUKIN YURY ALEXEEVICH(July 17, 1932 – July 7, 2011). 
Born in the village of Syasstroy, Leningrad Region, until 1973 he lived in Peterhof, then in Leningrad. Graduated with honors from the Leningrad Institute of Physical Education. Lesgaft in 1954. He worked as a figure skating coach in children's sports schools in Petrodvorets, Lomonosov, Leningrad.
He began writing songs in 1948, first for jazz, where he played the drum, then for institute skits. Since 1963, songs written during geological expeditions to Kamchatka, the Far East, the Pamirs, and Mountain Shoria appeared. Laureate of the tourist song competition of the II All-Union Youth March in Moscow (1966). Since 1968 he has performed for Lenconcert, since 1971 he has worked at the Leningrad Regional Philharmonic, since 1979 - at Lenconcert, since 1988 - at the Leningrad theater-studio "Benefit". Author of the songs “Behind the Fog”, “Train”, “Little Dwarf”, “Paris”, “You Say I Stay...” and others that have become bard classics.
LANTSBERG VLADIMIR ISAAKOVICH("Berg". June 22, 1948 - September 29, 2005). 
One of the classics of bard song. Born in Saratov, lived in Moscow and Nuremberg. He graduated from the Saratov Polytechnic Institute, worked as a mechanical engineer in a design bureau, an engineer for gaming machines, a laboratory assistant at a school, a musician at a boarding house, the head of a design and communication center, a teacher-organizer, and a deputy. director of a children's rehabilitation center, methodologist of the school local history center. Founder of Kostrov and Channel Two. Member of initiative groups of summer labor camps “Zucchini”, “Bonfire” rallies, “Second Channel” competitions and workshops, “LDPR” children’s bard camp (“Flying Children’s Singing Republic”) at the Grushinsky festivals, head of creative workshops, incl. children's Laureate of many art song festivals. Author of the famous songs “Scarlet Sails”, “Cat Waltz”, “Artist”, etc., as well as the wonderful book “And we sing, and we sing merrily!” - a kind of collection of KSP jokes.
LARIONOV VALERY GRIGORIEVICH(28 June 1953 - 14 May 1994). 
Lived in Kaliningrad. Since 1985, he actively participated in the activities of the Kaliningrad KSP “Parus”. He wrote songs based on his poems. He willingly took part in various bardic festivals. He organized a youth motorcycle club, bought spare parts for old motorcycles with his own money, which “at the dawn of perestroika” he tried to earn by ferrying cars from Germany. He was killed by robbers for one of these cars imported from Germany.
We are left with his wonderful songs “Africa”, “Princess” and others. Since 1994, on the shores of the Baltic Sea near the city of Pionersk, an annual festival of art songs in memory of Valery Larionov, organized by activists of the Parus Communist Party, has been held.
LOPATIN ALEXANDER ANATOLIEVICH(February 5, 1965 - May 15, 1993). 
Born in Vitebsk. He graduated from the College of Light Industry, receiving the profession of radio engineer. He stood at the origins of the Vitebsk art song club “Accord” and the first AP festival in Vitebsk “Hat”, which later became the famous “Vitebsk Leaf Fall”. He was one of the authors of the literary and journalistic magazine "Idiot", published first in Moscow (1983-1985), then in Vitebsk.
The author of many songs that were never recorded during his life, which tragically and absurdly ended on May 15, 1993.
The festival in memory of Alexander Lopatin “Islands” is being held in Vitebsk.
LUFEROV VIKTOR ARKHIPOVICH(20 May 1945 - 1 March 2010). 
Born and lived in Moscow. He graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the Moscow Veterinary Academy and the variety department of the State Musical Pedagogical College named after. Gnessins in guitar class. He worked as a laboratory assistant at the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, as a poster putter, as a janitor, and as a fireman on duty. He wrote songs since 1966, mainly based on his own poems, and played a 6-string guitar. In 1967 he created the ensemble "Osenebry" (existed until 1970). In February 1985 he founded the Perekrestok theater studio (the project was closed in 2003 for financial reasons). Luferov is the author of the famous songs “Hat”, “Song for Two Voices”, “Before I came to you, I went to the Lord...” and others.
MATVEEVA VERA ILYINICHNA(23 October 1945 - 11 August 1976). 
Born in Kuibyshevka-Eastern Amur Region. (now the city of Belogorsk), lived and died in the city of Khimki, Moscow region. She has been writing songs since 1967, mainly based on her own poems. She graduated from the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering (1970) and was sent to work at the Moscow Institute "Hydroproject". But she did not have the chance to work at Gidroproekt due to a tumor on the dura mater of the brain discovered by doctors. 10/16/1970 at the Neurosurgical Institute named after. Burdenko Matveeva was operated on and the tumor was removed. The doctors carried out radiological treatment, but the doctors determined Vera’s remaining life to be 4-6 years, and Matveeva knew about it. Because of this, the concentration and strength of feelings in her songs reached impossible heights, which, probably, no one, neither before Matveeva nor after, could achieve in an original song.
Having managed to write only about 60 songs, Vera Matveeva joined the ranks of the classics of the genre. Her songs are still in the repertoire of many performers today and are published in collections and anthologies of original songs. Since 1981, tourist rallies in her memory have been held in the Moscow region.
MATVEEVA NOVELLA NIKOLAEVNA(October 7, 1934 – September 4, 2016). 
Born in Tsarskoe Selo (now the city of Pushkin), Leningrad region. Poetess, prose writer, bard, playwright, literary critic. From 1950 to 1957 she worked in an orphanage in the Shchelkovsky district of the Moscow region. She wrote poetry from childhood and published it since 1958. Graduated from the Higher Literary Courses at the Literary Institute named after. Gorky. Member of the USSR Writers' Union since 1961. More than 20 books and more than 10 music albums have been published (a record of her songs, released in 1966, was the first music album of bard songs in the USSR). The entire Soviet Union knew N. Matveeva’s songs “Gypsy”, “Dolphin Country”, etc.
MILYAEV VALERY ALEKSANDROVICH(August 5, 1937 – December 16, 2011). 
Born in Kuibyshev, grew up and lived in Moscow. Graduated from the physics department of Moscow State University. One of the founders of the physics department's propaganda team. Physicist, director of the Tarusa branch of the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head. Department of Environmental and Medical Devices of the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Scientific Secretary of the Academy of IPRB, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor.
In recent years, he has worked closely with the children’s musical theater “Improvm”, organized by his wife, actress Lyudmila Ivanova, for whose performances he wrote many texts.
The authorship of Milyaev’s most famous song, “Spring Tango” (also known as “The Time Is Coming” or “Here is an eccentric man walking through the world...”), is mistakenly attributed by many to Sergei Nikitin, who often performed it. “Spring Tango” sounds in the “Songs of Our Century” project as one of the most famous and “folk” songs.
OKUDZHAVA BULAT SHALVOVICH(9 May 1924 - 12 June 1997). 
Born in Moscow into a family of communists who came from Tiflis to study at the Communist Academy (father is Georgian, mother is Armenian). In 1942 he went to the front, served as a mortarman, and after being wounded and hospitalized, he served as a signalman. In 1945 he was demobilized. In 1950 he graduated from the philological department of Tbilisi State University and worked for two years as a teacher of Russian language and literature in the village of Shamordino, Kaluga region. In 1952 he transferred to a school in Kaluga, then worked in the publishing house of the regional Kaluga newspaper “Young Leninist”. In 1956 he returned to Moscow, worked as an editor at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, head. poetry department at Literaturnaya Gazeta. In 1961 he left the service and was engaged in creative activities. Since 1962 - member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
I wrote poetry since childhood. The first song appeared in 1943. He also wrote prose and film scripts.
With the beginning of “perestroika,” he actively plunged into politics, declaring himself a democrat. In 1990 he left the CPSU, where he had been a member since 1955. He approved the shooting of the White House in October 1993, signed the “letter of the 42” addressed to Yeltsin, calling for a ban on all types of communist parties and movements, and the closure of the newspapers “Soviet Russia”, “Den”, “Pravda”, “Literary Russia”, and the television program “600”. seconds”, recognize as illegitimate the Congress of People’s Deputies, the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation and all bodies formed by them, incl. even the Constitutional Court. Gave a corresponding interview to the newspaper Podmoskovnye Izvestia. As sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky later said, “I somehow don’t want to listen to Okudzhava’s songs about “commissars in dusty helmets” after his statements that he doesn’t feel sorry for the unarmed people who died in the White House.” The wonderful actor Vladimir Gostyukhin publicly broke and trampled on a record of Okudzhava’s songs. The famous literary critic, literary scholar, and publicist Vadim Kozhinov publicly refused to shake hands with those who signed this “execution” letter.
Okudzhava died in Paris. The last thing he wrote was a congratulatory poem for A. Chubais’ birthday.
SEMAKOV LEONID PAVLOVICH(7 July 1941 - 8 August 1988). 
Born in the village of Slobodishchi, Vologda region, he lived and died in Moscow. He graduated from the Odessa Naval School, then the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. He worked as an actor and director in theaters in Vladimir, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Leningrad, and Moscow. He began writing songs based on his poems in 1968, when he worked at the Taganka Theater (for some time he was an understudy for V. Vysotsky).
Due to a rare genetic disease, Semakov’s joints began to enlarge and his voice changed. In 1972, Leonid was forced to leave the theater and was a laborer, geologist, taxi driver, and fisherman. He spoke about this period of his life: “I could barely move, the pain was terrible. The doctor advised me to walk more, so I went. First to the Urals and back, then to the south.” Since 1981, he has worked as a screenwriter and director of documentaries and popular science films. He left us many original songs, incl. “Strawberry Glade”, “Mom”, “Monologue of Foma Gordeev”.
STERKIN SERGEY YAKOVLEVICH(25 May 1942 – 25 April 1986). 
Born and lived in Moscow. Graduated from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of the Moscow Energy Institute. He worked at the Moscow Electric Tube Plant (MELZ), as a shop manager at the Chromotron plant, as a chief project designer at VNIIKA Neftegaz, and in the last year of his life he was the director of the MELZ House of Culture.
Since 1959, he has written songs mainly based on other people’s poems, less often on his own. He usually accompanied himself on the accordion. He was an active participant and author of performances of STEM (student theater of variety miniatures) MPEI; he became famous as a songwriter after a trip to 1960 with a student propaganda brigade, then he appeared in the songs “Lotoshinskaya Propaganda Brigade” and “Dorozhnaya”.
Many of his songs became famous thanks to guitar arrangements made by other performers. He opened for the musical community songs based on the poems of A. Aronov “If you don’t have an aunt...” and R. Rozhdestvensky “Moments”, which later became widely known with the music of M. Tariverdiev.
TKACHEV ALEXANDER VASILIEVICH(January 18, 1955 – November 9, 2010). 
Born in Moscow. He graduated from high school (with a gold medal in piano) at the Yurlovsky choir, which was under the patronage of the Gnessin School. Graduated from MITHT (Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology named after Lomonosov). Chemical engineer. PhD in Chemistry.
He worked at the department of MITHT, at the Physicochemical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and since 1996 - in a private company.
He has been writing songs based on his poems since 1970. Winner of the “Physical Song” festival (1976), laureate of the II and III Moscow amateur song competitions (late 70s), laureate of the MEPhI-76, “Moskvorechye-76” competitions, and many others. He is widely known for his highly social songs “Lecture on the international situation in a prehistoric tribe”, “In memory of Vysotsky”, etc.
CHUGUEV GENNADY IRAKLIEVICH(October 6, 1960 – June 30, 2009). 
Born in Tbilisi. He studied at the Leningrad University of Aviation and Space Instrumentation, majoring in radio engineering. Worked as an electronics engineer in Baku. He was a member of the Baku Art Song Club (1984-1987). Diploma winner of a number of festivals in the Southern region. He was engaged in mountain tourism and mountaineering. Rescue instructor. In 1986 he took part in the liquidation of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In recent years he lived in Taganrog. Author of the famous songs “Underwater Snake”, “Knock”, “Pain”, etc.
YAKUSHEVA(Kusurgasheva) ARIADNE(Ada) ADAMOVNA(24 January 1934 – 6 October 2012). 
Born in Leningrad, lived in Moscow. Graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature, Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Lenin. Radio journalist, member of the Union of Journalists. In 1966-1968 she worked as editor of the Yunost radio station.
She wrote songs based on her poems. The first - “Song to Moscow” (“At the institute under the arches of the stairs ...”) - was composed in 1954. She was the organizer and director of the ensemble of the MGPI song studio. The author of many favorite songs “Evening wanders along the forest paths...”, “You are my breath”, etc. Some songs were written by Yakusheva together with Yu. Vizbor, whose wife she was from 1958 to 1968 (in 1968 she married radio journalist Maxim Kusurgashev).
Modern pop music does not have many performers who can not only sing a song well (which is already rare), but also write words and music.
Modern pop music does not have many performers who can not only sing a song well (which is already rare), but also write words and music. Unfortunately, the skill of modern “stars” is descending lower and lower from the marble staircase, leaving modern connoisseurs of quality music with much to be desired. The music of the bards of the 20th century is different! We invite you to remember the 5 most famous bards in Russia, who have already become legends.
Who hasn't heard of Vladimir Vysotsky? He had a unique poetic gift - the lyrics of his songs are filled with sharp sarcasm about reality, but at the same time they do not lose optimism. Among other things, the songwriter was an incredibly talented theater and film actor. The cause of his death still remains a mystery, but in the hearts of his fans, Vysotsky is still alive.
Bulat Okudzhava is also one of the brightest representatives of the genre of art song; he is the author of more than 200 compositions, including the famous and covered in various ways “Song of the Street Child”, “Your Honor” and many, many others. Even one of the asteroids in the solar system is named after Okudzhava.
The songs of Yuri Vizbor, in comparison with the painful problems of the two above-mentioned authors, on the contrary, are distinguished by their amazing melody and tenderness. His songs (for example, “My dear, forest sun”) were especially popular in the 60s and 70s. And today many bardic festivals are held in his name.
Alexander Rosenbaum is alive and well to this day, and continues to delight his fans with magnificent songs of his own performance. A unique feature of this author is that he is either adored or simply not perceived, but his talent does not evoke middle emotions. Interestingly, Rosenbaum was originally an emergency doctor, and only in 1980 did he go on stage.
Oleg Mityaev is best known for his song “It’s great that we are all gathered here today,” which was sung at any feast and on any hike. He was born into a simple working-class family, and followed in his father's footsteps. But in the early 80s, music in his heart still triumphed over everyday life, and
Bard songs are a unique genre, both close to souls and far from the everyday life of big cities.
The bard appears to us as a traveler who exchanged comfort and constancy for romance: a fire in the forest, a tent, an old guitar and a starry night sky.
Bards cannot live as expected in society, because the song presses on them from within. They continue the long tradition of minstrels, troubadours, traveling musicians who for centuries walked the world to bring people a song about real feeling, about true beauty, about pure love and about a real, hard, but beautiful life.
Deep meanings, attentiveness to truly valuable moments in life - this is what distinguishes this genre of song. Author's songs are always deeply touching, natural and sincere. This is music that evokes awe, awakens memory, and cleanses a person from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Every person who has once touched the bottomless wisdom and eternal kindness of this musical direction dreams of attending the bard song festival.
Russian bards are a powerful style movement, an independent unique group of musicians that even influence global trends.
Representatives of this group formed their own unique genre, combining the breadth of the Russian soul with love for the greatness of Russian nature, the strength of feelings and experiences that only our soul can encounter. Russian bards create songs that instantly become folk songs, music that remains forever playing in the soul. They tell stories about the forgotten side of life to which we are drawn with all our being. They restore peace and the ability to love the world, no matter what obstacles it puts in our way.
The songs of bards seem to be devoid of an author. They are created by the soul, they reflect the fate of an entire generation, an entire era. This is smart and subtle music that awakens the best traits in a person. Every day you are surrounded by a world where the weak face defeat, and the strong are forced to fight every minute. In these circumstances, it is very important to find support from those who know how to love this difficult life and share their love for it with listeners.
High-quality music performed by Russian bards is a decoration for any holiday or event. This is a piece of soulfulness that we so lack in modern fast life. The author's song shares philosophy and strength with listeners, energizes and calms.
We offer the organization of concert programs with the participation of participants in the “Songs of Our Century” project: V. Berkovsky, Dmitry Bogdanov, A. Mirzayan, L. Sergeev, G. Khomchik, Lidiya Cheboksarova, Konstantin Tarasov, Dmitry Sukharev, Sergey Nikitin, Alexey Ivashchenko, Vadim and Valery Mishchuki, Sergey Khutas, Evgeny Bykov, the ensemble "Songs of Our Century", the MISiS choir and others.
Bard song performers:
IVASI (Alexey Ivashchenko and Georgy Vasiliev)
Vyacheslav Kovalev (St. Petersburg)
Kukin Yuri
Bokov Valery
Alexander Heinz and Sergey Danilov
Leonid Sergeev
Galich Alexander
Mischuki Vadim and Valery
Boldyreva Ekaterina
Starchenkov Nikolay
Danskoy Grigory
Zakharchenko Lyubov
Vysotsky Vladimir
Makarenkov Alexander
Okudzhava Bulat
Vizbor Yuri
Klyachkin Evgeniy
Lanzberg Vladimir
Sukhanov Alexander
Kozlovsky Andrey
Grandmaster group
Smekhov Veniamin
Krupp Aron
Tretyakov Victor
Shcherbakov Mikhail
Matveenko Sergey
Dudkina Natalya
Kim Yuliy
Panshin Vladimir (Snezhinsk)
Anatoly Kireev
Baranov Andrey
Kalachev Victor
Rozanov Vladimir
Bokhantsev Sergey
Naumov Sergey
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE MOSCOW REGION
GOU VPO "STATE SOCIAL AND HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY"
Extracurricular activity
on the topic of:
"Bard's Song"
5th year student
Part-time study
Faculty of Philology
Liseytseva K.V.
Target: Introducing the bard's song.
Tasks:
Educational: acquaint students with the history of bard song, with the best representatives of this song genre.
Developmental: stimulate the development of artistic worldview, aesthetic and moral consciousness of students.
Educational: use the power of influence of a bard's song on the formation of students' personalities, their moral beliefs, patriotism, negative attitude towards low-quality examples of mass musical culture.
Methods and techniques: verbal and illustration, slide presentation, conversation, musical accompaniment, literary story.
Equipment: multimedia equipment, music center.
Musical arrangement:
B. Okudzhava “Let’s join hands, friends”
S. Nikitin “Everyone chooses for himself”
V. Vysotsky. "I do not like"
B. Okudzhava “Georgian song”
O. Mityaev “How cool”
Visual aids, equipment: using the computer program “Power Point” to display portraits of famous bards; recordings of songs performed by the author.
/Bulat Okudzhava’s song “Let’s join hands, friends” sounds/
Introduction.
I tell you - Good afternoon!
I want to see your smiles.
So that the shadow disappears from the face,
And our meeting was warm.
Let's try to forget, at least for a while, everything sad that happened to you today: someone received a bad grade, someone was offended by an unkind word, someone was simply in a bad mood. Now you are here among like-minded people. We are all different, but we all have one thing in common - the guitar. And she is the most reliable and devoted friend for each of us. She always helps us in difficult times. When we take it in our hands, press it to our heart, play or sing our favorite songs, our soul becomes lighter, and we look at the world with different eyes.
/Slide No. 1 “Bardovskaya song”/
Today we will talk about bard song and get acquainted with representatives of this genre. Some names you already know. Some of you yourself perform songs of famous bards. We will try to understand the characteristic features of these songs. And I think that the words spoken by the famous Russian bard Yuri Vizbor, to some extent, will help us with this.
/Slide No. 2 Words by Yu. Vizbor/
“And the guitar does not play by itself, but is given to a person as the voice of the soul...”
Bard song.
Please tell me, do you know any famous bards?
To understand the essence of the bard's song, let's turn to the origin of this word. There is a well-known parable. Long before the birth of Christ, people called Celts lived on earth. They called their wise teachers Druids. Many peoples who then inhabited the Earth bowed before the knowledge of the material and spiritual worlds of the Druids. To receive the title of initial degree of druids, the chosen ones had to study for 20 years with a priest - a druid. Having passed the tests, training and initiation, the chosen one was called BARD.
Now he had the moral right to go to the people and sing, instilling LIGHT and TRUTH in people with his song, forming images with words that heal the soul.
/Slide No. 3 A bard song is.../
A bard's song, like no other song, promotes the work of the soul, and therefore its healing. A bard's song can only be perceived when the listener's attention is not distracted by anything. The listener is presented only with a soulful melody and the images that the song creates. You need to completely immerse yourself in the sensory-imaginative world of the song, you need to create your own figurative pictures, thoughts, experiences, respond to the song with your heart, and this requires just work, the work of thought, feelings, memory, heart. This is the work of the soul.
A bard's song is the language of the heart, the soul. The performer of a bard song must convey, first of all, the meaning of the song, its feelings. Convey beautifully, elegantly, intelligibly. Each author has his own intonation. It is recognizable among other songs. These songs are not for entertainment. You can't listen to them casually.
Bard songs are not written to order. These are songs written in a state of high emotional highs. These can be emotions of enthusiastic contemplation of nature, feelings of pride, respect, hope, tenderness, gratitude and many other aspects of mental tension. The main thing is what the song itself is.
Bard song is a holistic art. The author writes poems, comes up with music for them and performs his work himself. Therefore, very often a bard’s song is called an author’s song. The advantage of this genre is that it puts poetry and poetic text at the forefront.
“What to sing, and not how to sing – that is the essence of the author’s performance.”
/The song performed by Sergei Nikitin “Everyone chooses for himself”/
Many people compose, many sing, but only a few can be called bards.
/Slide No. 4 with portraits of bards/
To correspond to the true destiny of a bard, the author-performer must be a good poet, musician, singer. He must be a comprehensively developed, educated, cultured, literate person. He must have rich life experience, a rich spiritual world.
Mikhail Leonidovich Ancharov is one of the founders of bard song, writer, poet, playwright, translator, architect, painter, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1967).
Gorodnitsky Alexander Moiseevich - geologist, oceanologist, poet. Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Author of more than 230 scientific papers and articles in journals. Member of the Moscow Union of Writers (1972), Laureate of the 1st All-Union competition for the best tourist song in 1965. Famous songs: “Atlantas”, “Rolls”, “Snow”, “Betrayal”.
Bulat Okudzhava is a whole era in the history of art song. One of the founders of the bard song genre. Born in Moscow, lived on Arbat. In 1934 he moved with his parents to Nizhny Tagil. In 1937, the parents were arrested, the father was shot, the mother was exiled to a camp. He returned to Moscow, where he and his brother were raised by their grandmother. In 1940 he moved to relatives in Tbilisi. In 1942, at the age of 17, he volunteered to go to war. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Tbilisi State University, worked as a teacher, editor at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, then as head of the poetry department at Literaturnaya Gazeta. In 1956, he began to perform as the author of poetry and song music and perform them with a guitar. In 1961 Okudzhava made his debut as a prose writer. Member of the Writers' Union of the USSR, since 1992 - member of the commission on pardons under the President of the Russian Federation, since 1994 - member of the commission on State Prizes of the Russian Federation. Famous songs: “Georgian Song”, “Let’s Exclaim”, “Ah, War”, “Arbat”, “Birds Don’t Sing Here”, etc.
/Sounds “Georgian song” by Bulat Okudzhava/
Bulat Okudzhava and Mikhail Ancharov were the first. They came for them:
Viktor Berkovsky - metallurgist, candidate of technical sciences (1967), associate professor at the Institute of Steel and Alloys. He composed songs based on poems by M. Svetlov, E. Bagritsky, N. Matveeva, R. Rozhdestvensky, B. Okudzhava, D. Sukharev and other Russian and foreign poets. Famous songs “Grenada”, “On the distant Amazon”, “Remember, guys”, etc. He was one of the leaders of the project “Songs of our century” (1999).
Yuliy Kim. By education - teacher. After graduating from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, he worked for five years in Kamchatka, then in Moscow at a physics and mathematics boarding school. In 1968 he left teaching and professionally writes plays and songs for theater and cinema. Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR (1987).
Yuri Vizbor is one of the most brilliant and gifted representatives of the older generation of bards who stood at the origins of the original song. Born in Moscow, graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Journalist, creator of the radio station “Yunost”, the magazine “Krugozor” with flexible records. The artist is a playwright who has written several plays and film scripts. Cinematographer, author of documentaries, actor who has played more than 15 roles in feature films. He was interested in traveling and mountain hiking. The poet was engaged in mountaineering, participated in expeditions to the Caucasus, Pamir and Tien Shan, and was a ski instructor. Poet and singer, author of more than three hundred songs. Famous songs “Pass”, “Forest Sun”, “Dombay Waltz”, “Serega Sanin”, “Let’s fill our hearts with music”, etc. Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Cinematographers. Records, cassettes, books of poetry and prose were published.
/Yuri Vizbor’s song “My Darling” sounds/
In the late 60s and early 70s, professional song made a qualitative leap. VIA became popular. The song addressed issues that concern young people, and new forms of presenting the song appeared. The original song also changed. New authors and performers also appeared:
/Slide No. 5 with portraits of Vadim Egorov, Novella Matveeva, Alexander Sukhanov, Alexander Dolsky, Yuri Kukin/
A prominent representative of the bard song of this time is Vladimir Vysotsky.
/Slide No. 6 with a portrait of Vysotsky/
Born in Moscow. In 1955 he entered the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute. From the first semester he leaves the institute. From 1956 to 1960 Vysotsky is a student in the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School. In 1960-1964 worked (with interruptions) at the Moscow Drama Theater. A. S. Pushkin. In 1964, Vysotsky created his first songs for films and went to work at the Moscow Taganka Drama and Comedy Theater, where he worked until the end of his life. In 1968, his first author's gramophone record, “Songs from the film “Vertical,” was released. Author of several film scripts. Together with the actors of the Taganka Theater he went on tour abroad - to Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Poland. He recorded about 10 radio plays and gave more than 1000 concerts in the USSR and abroad.
Let's listen to the song “I Don’t Love” performed by the author.
/Vladimir Vysotsky’s song “I Don’t Love” is performed/
It was Vysotsky who coined the term “art song”. This is what he said about this: “There is no real art without suffering. And a person who has not suffered cannot create. It is not necessary that they oppress him or shoot him, torture him or threaten him with prison; it is enough that in his soul, even without external influences, a person experiences a feeling of suffering for people, loved ones, for the situation in general. An author's song - there is no deception here, here one person with a guitar will stand in front of you all evening, eye to eye. And the author’s song relies on only one thing - that you are worried just like me, by the same problems, human destinies, by the same thoughts. And just like me, injustice and human grief tear your soul and scratch your nerves. In short, everything is based on trust, that’s what you need for an original song: your eyes and ears and my desire to tell you something, and your desire to hear something.”
In the 70-80s, the self-affirmation of bard and author's songs continued. Bard song is becoming one of the most popular and democratic forms of art. This is evidenced by the numerous audiences of bard song festivals that take place all year round in all corners of the country.
The most famous of them is the Grushinsky Festival.
/Slide No. 7 from the Grushinsky Festival/
It traditionally takes place on the first weekend of July in Samara. The idea of the Grushin Festival arose in 1967 after Valery Grushin, a student at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute and performer of tourist songs, tragically died on the Uda River while rescuing children from an overturned boat.
In the 90s, the number of concerts with the participation of bards increased. The content of the original song changes. She responds to the most current events of the era, and her level of guitar proficiency has increased significantly. Many singer-songwriters became participants in the famous project “Songs of Our Century”.
/Slide No. 8 “Songs of our century”/
These are Sergey Nikitin, Alexey Ivashchenko, Georgy Vasiliev, Vadim and Valery Mishchuki, Sergey Leonidov, Galina Khomchik, Lidia Cheboksarova.
Probably the most popular and famous bard of our time can be considered Oleg Mityaev.
/Slide No. 9 Oleg Mityaev/
He graduated from the Chelyabinsk Assembly College with a degree in electrical engineering, served in the army, entered and graduated with honors from the Chelyabinsk Institute of Physical Education. Specialty: swimming coach. From 1986 to 1991 he graduated from GITIS. Lunacharsky. Starred in several films. The most famous songs: “Neighbor”, “How cool”, “Let’s talk to you”, “Summer is a small life”, “Be strong, people, summer is coming!” The artist’s work was appreciated by residents of Germany, France, Italy, South Africa, Israel and America.
Let’s all sing Oleg Mityaev’s song “How Great” together now.
/Slide No. 9 with the lyrics of the song, the song performed by Oleg Mityaev “How cool”/
So, what is a “bardic song”?
Bard song is an independent phenomenon of our national culture.
The genre of bard song is one of the most popular forms of creativity.
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