Video: How the famous romance about Lieutenant Golitsyn appeared, and who became its real prototype
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the late 70s - early 80s of the twentieth century, this song was so popular that many considered it folk, and Lieutenant Golitsyn became one of the symbols of the White movement. But, nevertheless, this song has an author, and the lieutenant and the cornet had very real prototypes.
Recorded for the first time in the spring of 1977 by Arkady Severny in Odessa, this song, like many of his other recordings, began to spread semi-underground, with caution, throughout the country and abroad.
Later, many performers began to openly include it in their repertoire, in various variations of text and music, and some even attributed the authorship to themselves.
As for the true author of this romance, disputes about this are still ongoing. As Mikhail Weller said on this occasion: "". Most researchers nevertheless agreed that this romance was written by Major General of the White Army Georgy Goncharenko, who had gone through both the First World War and the Civil War. In literary circles, he is better known under the pseudonym Yuri Galich (not to be confused with Alexander Galich).
Real prototypes of the heroes of the romance
Some consider Lieutenant Golitsyn and the cornet Obolensky from this romance to be only poetic images that personify the White movement, but this is not so. Both had real prototypes in life.
Lieutenant Golitsyn
In 1919, fate brought Major General Goncharenko to Kiev, where he served under Hetman Skoropadsky. When the Petliurists entered the city, he did not have time to escape and ended up in prison. Soon a young lieutenant, Prince Konstantin Golitsyn from St. Petersburg, who was arrested by misunderstanding, instead of his uncle, was placed in his cell. They spent a week in one cell. On the eighth day, when the prisoners were transferred to another prison, by a happy coincidence they managed to escape. And they never met again. But, apparently, the meeting and conversations with the lieutenant left a mark on the soul of General Goncharenko.
The further fate of Lieutenant Golitsyn
Escaping from the Petliurists in Kiev, Golitsyn moved south, where he joined Denikin's Volunteer Army. In 1920, in the battles near Odessa, he was captured by the Reds. At that time, the Red Army was sorely lacking military specialists, and instead of prison, Golitsyn was sent to the front as a red commander to fight against Poland. After the Civil War, Golitsyn did not manage to live in peace for long. In 1931, Operation Spring was carried out, during which the former officers of the White Army were to be destroyed, regardless of their merits. During this operation, 160 death sentences were signed for former officers. Among them was Golitsyn.
The further fate of the author of the romance
Fate did not spare Georgy Goncharenko either. Escaping from a Kiev prison, he made it to Odessa. From there, in search of a wife and daughter, he moved to Vladivostok. After the Far East went to the Reds, he left for the Baltics. There he began to engage in writing, wrote books, articles. He could not accept Soviet power.
In December 1940, Latvia became part of the USSR. Georgy Goncharenko understood that such a turn of events did not bode well for him. And having received a summons to the NKVD, he committed suicide.
Cornet Obolensky
Little is known about the Obolensky cornet. He served in the 1st Sumy hussar regiment, which was disbanded at the beginning of 1918. A few months later, Obolensky ended up in Ukraine as part of the Volunteer Army, and in December he participated in the liberation of Odessa from units of the UPR. Apparently, it was then in Odessa that he met General Goncharenko, who had fled from the Petliurists.
In early 1920, Obolensky took part in the defense of Novorossiysk. After the city was surrounded by the Red divisions, the surviving defenders were evacuated to the Crimea. There Obolensky managed to find his fellow soldiers. In October 1920, as part of the Infantry Cavalry Regiment, they had to engage in an unequal battle with the Reds during the retreat. Nothing more is known about him.
Controversy around romance
"" - This line of the verse has received the most criticism. The fact is that the cornet is the lowest officer rank in the cavalry of the tsarist army until 1917. He could be presented to three orders - St. Anne 4 degrees (this order was not "put on", but was attached to the hilt of a saber), St. Stanislaus 3 degrees ("put on") and St. George 4 degrees ("put on", but, having received this order, the cornet was immediately produced in the next rank). Thus, the cornet in the tsarist army could "wear" only one order - St. Stanislaus 3 tbsp., And not "orders", as it is sung in the song. But during the years of the Civil War, the white armies were often awarded not at all according to protocol, and it is possible that the cornet could wear several orders.
The question of the time when the romance was created also remains open. It really looks more like a stylization of White Guard songs than the real poetry of White emigrants. But, nevertheless, the romance could have been written precisely in the 20s. One of the verses mentions the ship-Emperor ("… …"). Apparently, we are talking about the English battleship "".
Along with other ships, he participated in the operation to cover the Volunteer Army during its evacuation from Novorossiysk in the spring of 1920. This real, not invented detail indirectly testifies in favor of the fact that the romance was written around this time, in hot pursuit of what was happening in Novorossiysk.
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