Vladimir Vysotsky is an idol for several generations, a poet, actor, songwriter, and a performer. His lines, familiar to everyone, and now being classics, sound modern even today. Vysotsky's theatrical and film roles have become classics.
Ilya Filipov will tell us about the era's brightest symbol, and how's remembered on his 80th birthday.
The area from the Vagankovski gate to the monument is full of people. The grave is covered with flowers, and various guitars.
Which place in Moscow is most connected to Vladimir Vysotsky? Here it is, the intersection of Petrovka and Strastnoy boulevard. After all, his childhood is here: the Hermitage Theater, where he went to Utesov's concerts. The Criminal Investigation building is also here: since Gleb Zheglov is the most famous detective, invented by Weiner and embodied by Vladimir Semyonovich. His youth is also here: "Where are my 17 years? On the Bolshoi Karetny". His younger years are also close: along Petrovka, on Kamergersky lane is the Moscow Art Theater school, and on Strastnoy blvd into Tverskaya is the Pushkin Theater. The monument was placed at the crossroads of these streets. This is how the sculptor imagined Vysotsky. Another Vysotsky place is the house of the artist, Boris Messerer. He shows us the old workshop steps.
Boris Messerer: "And always, while sitting on these steps, while we were drinking, walking, talking, laughing, he convulsively corrected his verses".
The "Metropol" anthology was born here. Messerer and his wife, Bella Akhmadulina, went to Paris to visit Vysotsky and Marina Vlady. They say even until now, that the poets didn't recognize Vysotsky as a poet. He was, and is often called a bard.
- Bard. Can I say that?
Vladimir Vysotsky: No, I don't like this word. I'm not a bard, no. I just write poetry and perform it with a guitar.
In 1966, a young director, Stanislav Govorukhin, got Vysotsky to act in the movie "Vertical." First time on the screen with a guitar.
Larisa Luzhina: "They said, okay, let Vysotsky be in the film, but no songs. And when the art council saw it, they were horrified! 5 songs were written".
Rumors that Vysotsky was banned was spurred by the fact that his creations weren't published. His songs were copied from one tape to another in people's homes.
Although later even in France he released 14 records.
Mikhail Shemyakin, Painter, and friend: "For some reason, he called me "birdy," even though I was taller than him. I don't know why "birdy," he just liked it".
He could have stayed many times, and avoid the bureaucracy, conflicts in the theater, and half-legal performances. But he always came back. Played Hamlet, went up to the microphone with his guitar, acted in films.
Vladimir Konkin: "Now I understand many things, I understand why we sometimes had no contact with him because he thought that I was a Komsomol Central Committee guy".
The highest Vysotsky "Vertical" is in Yekaterinburg. With a "V" monogram. Businessman Andrei Gavrilovsky built the skyscraper, where he arranged a 2-storey Vysotsky private museum. And the most expensive exhibit: Vysotsky's last poem, bought at an auction.
"Standing before the Almighty I have something to sing. I have something to justify myself with, before Him."
A sheet of paper, worth a quarter million euros. Part of the exhibits came here from Moscow, from the Vysotsky house-museum.
Nikita Vysotsky, son, actor, director: "A person matures by creating. He and many people in that generation were lucky in this regard, they started to actualize themselves very early on".
Not the first time cast in bronze, and now on silver coins. But each person has their own Vysotsky, in their memory and their heart.
"I love, and that means that I live."
Ilya Filipov, Artem Gregoryan, Viktor Kazakov, Viktor Prihodka, Filip Poddubinsky for Vesti
