Video: "Burn, burn, my star": debunking the legends about one of the most famous romances
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The romance "Burn, burn, my star" is not only widely popular, but may well be considered a champion in the number of legends about its creation. Whoever was credited with writing it: Bunin, and Gumilyov, and even Kolchak …
There was a time when the writing of the romance "Burn, burn, my star" was actively attributed to Bunin and Gumilyov. But this version did not last long. Literary scholars who studied their work stated that they did not have such lines. But the "Kolchak" version turned out to be tenacious, and many today are perceived at face value.
Immediately after the revolution, some émigré composers and artists said that they personally saw the autographed score of the romance, which supposedly was a confirmation that he was the author of the lines. It was even said that shortly before the execution, the admiral sang "Burn, burn …".
It is almost impossible to prove whether or not he sang today. He could not become the author of this romance. The fact is that Kolchak was born in 1874, and the romance was included in the collection, which was published by Maykov's publishing house in Moscow 6 years earlier.
Musicologists call the time of the creation of the romance that December 1846, then January 1947 and associate it with a number of events.
So, at the beginning of 1847, the 700th anniversary of the capital was celebrated in Moscow on a large scale. Many different creative contests were dedicated to this date, and a general writing and singing began among the people. And the star mentioned in the romance is most likely not just a symbol, it is about a specific Christmas star. And besides, it was at that time that an amazing astronomical discovery took place - the astronomer Le Verrier predicted the existence of the planet Neptune, and literally two months later it was seen through a telescope. It was in such an amazing atmosphere that the romance "Burn, burn, my star" appeared. The words were written by a student of Moscow University, lawyer Vladimir Chuevsky, music - by composer Pyotr Bulakhov.
The romance did not gain popularity immediately. He did not win any competitions, although he was performed quite often in the student and creative environment. And then they forgot about the romance … He got a second life thanks to the arrangement of the talented singer Vladimir Sabinin, a volunteer in the army. In his performance, the romance became a real patriotic anthem, a declaration of love to the only cherished star - Russia. And after the disc with Sabinin's recording saw the light in 1915, the whole country swept the romance without exaggeration. And the romance suffered the fate of all popular songs - it became "folk".
Already in the 1920s, the Soviet government stuck the label "White Guard" on the romance, and its performance was equated with anti-Soviet activity. Sometimes Kozlovsky or Lemeshev allowed themselves to perform it at concerts, but they sang it almost underground.
The return of the novel to its homeland took place in 1957. It sounded in the American film War and Peace, and all of Russia sang it again. True, for three long decades, the novel was performed without naming the authors. And only not so long ago, researchers were able to find notes in the archives of 1847 with the names of Bulakhov and Chuevsky.
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