Life is like love: beloved women and songs by Yuri Vizbor

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Whatever they called them in the turmoil of centuries: minstrels, meistersingers, bards. But the essence is the same - they will always exist, because their music is the notes pouring from the heart, and their poems are the harmony of the soul, which is generated by youth pulsating with happiness. And love, such as the love of Yuri Vizbor.

There are many paths and roads ahead

Yuri Vizbor was born on June 20, 1934 in the international family of Lithuanian Józef Vizboras and Ukrainian Maria Shevchenko. When the boy's father, the commander of the Red Army, was repressed, Yura and his mother moved to Sretenka. Here the future poet created his first poem and learned to play the guitar. Here he met with people who introduced him to the romance of hiking. At first, these were travels around the Moscow region. and then to Karelia. Impressions from the fresh wind, evening bonfires and canvas tents became the basis of Vizbor's first songs.

Yuri entered the Lenin Moscow Pedagogical Institute. Soon, not only at the literary department, where he studied, his songs were sung. They became popular among the entire Moscow student body. At first, Yuri wrote poetry to already existing music, and soon he himself became the author of the author's song, which was just beginning to emerge. Dozens of popular compositions date from this period, including Madagascar, The Kid from Kentucky, and the anthem of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.

In the final year of the pedagogical institute, the poet and musician meets a girl who was transferred to their course from the evening department.

Like the moon in the night

In those days, student skits became extremely popular. On one of them, Yuri saw Ada Yakusheva, who also composed songs and poems. And with what an extraordinary and heartfelt feeling the girl performed them! Although a crowd of admirers always swirled around Vizbor, and he was not deprived of female attention, at the moment when Ada took the last chord, everything around, except for her, ceased to exist for Yuri.

They were young and happy. Yura accompanied his classmate home after lectures, and he himself, standing at the entrance and looking at her windows, was already mentally humming another new song. And his muse in her cramped communal apartment took a guitar, and love rang in new sounds: "You are my breath …" Soon Vizbor went into the army and even from there continued to write letters and songs for his beloved.

After demobilization in February 1958, the young got married, and in November of this year they had a daughter, Tanya. During this happy time, Yuri composed one of his best lyric works "You are the only one with me", dedicating it to his wife. But talents always live according to some unpredictable rules. This was also Vizbor. He often repeated the words of Blok that only a lover has the right to be called a real person. And his lovingness knew no bounds.

As Yakusheva recalls, her husband was in a state of love all the time. He made attempts to create for himself the image of an ideal woman, and his "sculptural work" did not see the ending. There was no point in being jealous of such a person. But Ada suffered immensely because she loved. And he left and came back again. And she again forgave … The whole singing country, with bated breath, followed the development of relations of this union of two unusually talented people. But "the avalanches did not bypass them," and after a few years the couple still broke up.

Forest Sun

In 1965, director Marlen Khutsiev invited Vizbor to star in his film. Then the popular bard had no idea how the painting "July Rain" would change his fate. The name of Evgenia Uralova at that time was already known outside the Yermolova theater. She was a successful actress and wife of Vsevolod Shilovsky. Fate pushed her with Vizbor in the Mosfilm elevator. This was the moment that they say: "Eye to eye, and then - come what may." They held hands, wandered through the park and kissed for hours in the rain. Leaving her husband, Zhenya heard: "The cat's tears will pour out from the mouse."

The prophecy came true after a few years. In the first years of their life together, the couple were in seventh heaven: their creative careers were developing successfully, they got a cozy nest on the Country Highway, their daughter Anechka was born. Yuri gave the keys to the old apartment to Ada Yakusheva, who had a very hard time with the divorce, and created a new family with Tanya. The famous song of Vizbor "My dear, forest sun", which he dedicated to Eugenia, belongs to that period of creativity.

But soon the "March cat", as some friends called Yuri, became interested in Tatyana Lavrushina, a wealthy, practical and demanding woman. There was passion in their relationship, but there was no spiritual closeness. And this marriage collapsed, lasting only six months. The bard left, taking his daughter and his simple belongings - a backpack with a tracksuit and skis.

Love "Bormann"

In the fall of 1974, Vizbor was invited to a holiday to his friends, who celebrated it with their neighbor. For Yuri, they left a note to go into the next apartment "on dumplings". The door was opened by a pretty woman with very kind eyes. Yuri fell in love at first sight. It was Nina Tikhonova, who turned out to be his colleague. She worked in the international department of Central Television, but she practically did not know anything about Yuri, she did not even watch films with his participation.

The guest sang all night, and even then Nina felt that he was singing only for her. And when we went into the kitchen to smoke, he, looking out the window at night Moscow, said: "I would never leave this cozy house." And he stayed. Until the end of my life. Nina was a very wise woman and perceived the poet as he was. Charming, but not at all adapted to life, Yuri loved mountains, worn out spikes and an alpenstock.

Vizbor liked the Spartan way of life. Therefore, when he and Tikhonova went to stay with friends at the dacha, the poet chose an abandoned bathhouse as his study and bedroom. And Nina came there to visit him. His last wife wrote that she seemed to dissolve in her husband - she began to live by his interests. He was, among other things, a professional journalist, and often told her about his past life, but never about his former women.

Later, Tikhonova - Vizbor admitted to reporters that her husband could write a textbook for men, as he was a fantastic connoisseur of women. Not a single bard had such a number of songs dedicated to the fair sex. In this family, they often remembered with laughter the incident that happened after Nina's acquaintance with Yuri. On the eve of her birthday, Vizbor went on a business trip and sent his beloved congratulations to the solemn event, which ended with the words: "Kisses. Borman."

Since Tikhonova was on a working visit to Hungary for a long time, she missed the series, which shocked the entire Soviet Union, and did not know that Bormann was played by Vizbor. Nina painfully went over in her mind all the friends with Jewish surnames, but from whom there was a congratulation, she did not understand. They would have lived together happily ever after, as in good fairy tales, but fate decreed otherwise. Vizbor died at the age of fifty. But such creative years filled with seething events, where every new day was like a breath of fresh mountain air …

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