More than six hundred songs, 30 movie roles, 15 unforgettable images from the Taganka Theater and the USSR State Prize received posthumously ... Of course, this is all about him. But it’s the same as saying nothing, the biography of Vysotsky is so many-sided and unexpected. He was loved then, they continue to love to this day, his songs are equally familiar to the academician and taxi driver, businessman and educator. Many friends of Vladimir Semenovich noticed that his eyes hypnotized the audience, riveted to the scene. And he valued this power without wasting it. Vladimir Vysotsky is a myth, a legend of the 20th century. How could a simple guy from the outskirts of Moscow, armed with one guitar, win the love of an entire country?
Childhood and youth
Volodya was born in Moscow on January 25, 1938. He grew up a calm and understanding child. Together with his mother, Nina Maximovna, as well as other family members, he lived in an old unheated house on 1st Meshchanskaya Street, the family led a very modest lifestyle. His father, Semyon Vysotsky, served as a signalman, went through the Second World War, had the rank of colonel. After the war, they moved to live in a town near Berlin, and later his mother brought the boy back to Moscow. After graduating from school, Volodya wanted to get a mechanic education at IISS. He even went there. But the theater attracted him more, therefore, having abandoned the first place of study, he devoted himself to the Moscow Art Theater.
The first place of his work was the Moscow Theater. Pushkin, where the aspiring actor, unfortunately, did not take root. But already in 1964, the biography of Vysotsky was turned in such a way that he was taken into the troupe of the Taganka Theater. This place became his favorite work for him, where he played more than two dozen roles. Director Lyubimov was friends with Vladimir Semenovich and supported his creative ideas both as an actor and as a poet.
Biography of Vysotsky-poet
Volodya composed poems from an early age, and the first song was written by him in 1961. His life can be traced from his songs, because Vysotsky’s biography and work were always interconnected, he wrote and sang about what he experienced. Starting with courtyard hooligan couplets, he developed his ability to wield people's souls through a song. In his repertoire you can find comic texts, fables and tales, marches and lyrics.
Biography of Vysotsky-artist
He composed for films too. Vysotsky himself played in the movie 3 dozen roles. “Vertical”, “Little Tragedies”, “Two Comrades Served” - the audience is still attracted to the characters played by him in these films.
Vladimir Vysotsky: biography of recent years
In June 1969, Vladimir Semenovich experienced a
clinical death. At this time, he has been familiar with his future wife, Marina Vladi, for 2 years. In December of the same year, the couple played a wedding. Marina takes her husband to France and the United States, where Vysotsky also easily won fans. He spent his last 5 years on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, in an apartment that the state allocated to him and his wife. The second clinical death found Vladimir Semenovich in Bukhara in 1979, right during a tour there.
1980 was a fateful year for the artist. He managed for the last time to play the role of Hamlet so beloved by him, to please with a concert in Bolshevo and to leave behind him the last verse: “I wash the ice from below and wash from above ...” July 25 at 4 hours 10 minutes he was gone ....