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A French algorithms in the fate of Vysotsky. A note on chapters 10 - 28 of the book by Vladimir Novikov "Vysotsky".


People, places, circumstances, situations are replacing each other.

The feeling of a lack of a creative environment.

In general, - of a favorable social environment.

What human qualities can be considered positive?

 Their list, abstractly speaking, is not so small ...

Let's call, for example, nobility, self-sufficiency, courage, generosity, selflessness ... and so on ...

Courage and self-sufficiency in the conditions of a bureaucratic system are, generally, a wolf tickets (to the other world?) ...

Someone helps to receive a some income, someone helps in everyday situations ...

But the main thing is to fit into the system of habits, standards, and norms of behavior. Then they will tolerate and treat you more or less loyally ...

We will not deny such qualities as friendliness, as the natural manifestations of a (situational) partnership, of a (situational) friendly relations ...

A family, a family ties were a support  ...

We move to the creative environment.

And who can be called a creative personalities?

Yuri Lyubimov? - He is the head of the theatre.

Andrei Tarkovsky? - He is aside, and, according to conventional perceptions, he is a little on another level (he is the director). Tarkovsky is aside.

“Andrei Tarkovsky once dreamed: “ Guys, let us, when we become rich, build a big house in the village and we will all live together there! ” In the meantime, Andrei is preparing for the production of his first big film - "Ivan's Childhood". (...) ... Vysotsky is again advised to grow up, because he's not fit for the role of the wise Cholin. The preference is given to the experienced Zubkov. But there is still a young lieutenant Galtsev... Why didn’t Andrei offer this role to Vysotsky? ” (Here and further - quotes from the book by Vladimir Novikov "Vysotsky").

Govorukhin - here you can talk not only about different levels (director and actor). But a history, also, has preserved a nice joke:

“And Slava suddenly makes a stern, alienated face and begins to tell something about Ostap Bender [swindler], who composed “I remember a wonderful moment” at night, and in the morning remembered that Pushkin had already written this before him. What a nonsense? Pushkin have any relations to this [Vysotsky's] verses?

- Yes, you sing to me an old Baksan climbing song, from the war years. There is such a lines (in this climbing song): “Put off the conversations! Forward and upward, and there ... After all, these are our mountains, they will help us. ”

What is going on! Is it a clouding of mind really? But then Govorukhin admits that before the meeting he managed to go into the room, he saw a draft of the song on the table and memorized the refrain. For such jokes ... "

[In other words, Govorukhin (jokely) presented a version, that Vysotsky gave out a someone else's an old Baksan climbing song as the product of own original creativity].

What would Vladimir Vysotsky lose if this episode weren’t in his biography? ...

In any case, but in "his" films Govorukhin shot Vysotsky  and even gave a director's helm during Govorukhin's absence (we refrain from commenting).

Abdulov? Zolotukhin? (To consider them an elements of a creative environment?) ...

One gets the impression that many of the positive roles in the life of Vladimir Vysotsky were played by Marina Vlady - including the role of a creative friend, like-minded ...

An absolute stupidity and a mental, intellectual insignificance of the system of party-state management of art demonstrated themselves in a changing of attitude towards Vysotsky after his marriage to Marina Vlady.

If earlier he was simply an object of a pressing and a throwing (they frozening him out and gave him a something to preserve in him elements of taste for life), then after the marriage to a Frenchwoman he can even be recepted at the embassy.

(Yesterday they were “unattainable great gods.” And tomorrow they will become an eaten and digested hot dogs).

One of the episodes is admirable:

“Marina, feeling that something was amiss, appealed her Parisian friends, they connect to the leader of the Communist Party, Georges Marchais, who makes a phone call to Moscow - may be, to Brezhnev. On April 17, Vysotsky received a passport with a visa, although there is still no a real feeling of peace. ”

A French algorithms. An influential women in the field of art ... In the history of French literature, we can see many positive and influential women ...


May 10, 2020 07:20


Translation from Russian into English: May 10, 2020 09:50.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский “Французские алгоритмы в судьбе Высоцкого. Заметка о главах 10 – 28 книги Владимира Новикова «Высоцкий»”.