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The post -war years. Lydia Ruslanova, the performer of folk songs, Lidia Ruslanova, gave more concerts, and on May 2 on the steps of the defeated Reichstag, the first facts in the years of the Great Patriotic War. She was a simple peasant on stage and a sophisticated art connoisseur in life. And either the labor camps or the Vladimir Central did not break her voice and the obstinate character.

With the beginning of the Russian-Japanese war, the father was taken to the front, her mother got a job at the factory, but she got seriously and died. Soon they sent a funeral to his father. Praskovya was the eldest in the family, she had to help her grandmother take care of the younger ones - the sister of Julia and brother Avdee. At that time she was only six years old. Soon, a rich widow drew attention to Leikin on Praskovya.

She helped to arrange Julia and Avdeya in shelters, and the young singer - in a boarding school at the Kinoviy Church with her own choir. The children of the peasant class were not taken there, so the girl had to change the name to a more harmonious one - so she became Lydia Ruslanova. The conductor of the choir set Ruslanov by the soloist, soon she involuntarily found the stage pseudonym - an orphan.

So she was called the parishioners of the temple. And the voice sounded stronger, and there was something mystical in him, something so incomprehensible ... And I was scared, in contact with this magic, trembled, he heard the whisper of the nurse standing nearby: “Angel! The heavenly angel! .. And I, the timid, looked at the ceiling, hoping to see how - this little angel, called an orphan in the city, will fly through the roof - in his celestial chambers.

Joseph Prut, the playwright of Lydia Ruslanova’s song after a shelter Ruslanova worked in a furniture factory, sometimes sang in between or after a shift. At that time the well -known baritone, teacher Mikhail Medvedev, was at that time. He arranged Ruslanov in the conservative class, but she soon abandoned her studies: “She realized that I would not be an academic singer. My whole power was in immediacy, in natural feeling, in unity with the world where the song was born.

” She sang in simple peasant clothes - a multi -layer skirt with an embroidered hem, a folk shirt, in a scarf and bast shoes. She performed the songs that I heard in childhood - the folk “I went to the hill”, “The month”, “Golden mountains”, as well as ritual sowing, wedding, round dance, city romances. She usually ended the concert with traditional Saratov mental chorus - “suffering”.

Last night I listened to the radio. Caught Moscow. The Russian woman sang. She sang in our opinion, in Volga. And the voice itself is rustic. The song ended, I only then noticed that the roar of Beluga.

And suddenly the mischievous Saratov accordion rushed and the Saratov chorus rushed. All my childhood stood in front of me. They announced that Lidia Ruslanova performed. Who is she? Peasant, probably. She sang very truthfully. If you know her, give me a lot of Russian thanks. I want to sing and I sing. " Fans called her - "Saratov Bird." The personal life of Ruslanova Lidia Ruslanova got married four times.

For the first time - at the age of 17, for a small military official Vitaly Stepanov. The marriage did not last long - a little over a year. In Moscow, she began to collect her own library. Here we could meet bibliographic rarities and popular publications, classics of Russian and world literature, albums with views and photographs of all members of the State Duma in a luxurious folder, with biographies.

In the year, marriage with Naumin broke up, and in the life of Lydia Ruslanova a new man appeared - the famous entertainer Mikhail Garkavi. With him, the singer toured all over the country. Garkavi shared her passion for collecting - in the collection of Ruslanova, paintings of Russian artists, objects of antiquity appeared. The singer was familiar with the owners of large antique shops and learned about interesting artifacts of the first.

The husband introduced her to the Soviet bomber - artists, writers, poets. Ruslanova and Garkavi lived together for 13 years. In the year, the singer performed in the camp of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps. Here she met the commander of the unit-Major General Vladimir Kryukov. Kryukov was widowed before the war - Ruslanova became his wife. She brought up his five -year -old daughter as her own.

She not just performed songs, but lived them, counting every small performance. She managed to revive old songs that lost their popularity. One of the most famous songs was the gypsy dance "felt boots." Ruslanova was not the first to perform it - earlier the work was in the repertoire of the St. Petersburg singer Nina Dulkevich, the gypsy performer Nastya Polyakova, the pop star Isabella Yuryeva.

Ruslanova's song sounded completely different - both the melody and the order of the verses were distinguished. The writer Viktor Ardov noted that the Ruslanovsky “felt boots” have “aesthetics of folk joke”. I went to the front and tell the harmonist: "At the first concert we will try one song." I took a ready-made melody, which I had somewhere in my head, and attached this refrain to it-“felt boots”.Lidia Ruslanova singer sang this song at every concert, and on May 2, she performed “Valenks” on the steps of the Reichstag, after which she signed on the wall of the German parliament.

Lydia Ruslanova, Lydia Ruslanova, was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree “for the successful fulfillment of command tasks on the front of the fight against Nazi invaders and the manifested courage”. After the war, the singer was one of the most popular in the country. Her records came out with million circulations. Concerts brought a good income - Ruslanova replenished her collections of paintings, bought gold jewelry, precious stones, antique furniture and rare books, and expensive cars appeared in General Kryukov’s garage.

In the house, which contemporaries compared with the museum, often spent festive evenings. The daughter of General Kryukov, Margarita, recalled: “Mom was an excellent storyteller, invented funny charades, gifts, and draws. Yes, and our pies were the most delicious - mom herself baked. " Everything has changed in the year. At first, Ruslanov was deprived of the Order of the Patriotic War, and a year later her husband Vladimir Kryukov was arrested in a “trophy case”: they attributed to him looting in Germany.

Confiscated all property and deprived of his titles. Kryukov was convicted for 25 years, Ruslanov for “anti -Soviet propaganda” - they banned her songs - they could not be performed in open concerts, use in broadcasts and radio programs. The prisoners built a part of the BAM between these cities, harvested a forest for sleepers and wooden houses. Ruslanova, along with other prisoners, built a club in the camp, and then performed in it.

What I saw in the camp made me the most sincere and the hottest of her [Ruslanova] fan. It was an actress with a capital letter. It was a master in the very meaning of the word. Amazing beauty and timbre voice, amazing ability to reincarnate. Tatyana Baryshnikova, a pianist, former lapberry prisoner, the artists did not rely on the applause, but Ruslanova was always applauded.

After the working day, Ruslanov found the strength to make delicious dishes from simple products, to feed exhausted cellmates. The artist did not stay in the Ozerlag for long - three months. The overseer reported to her, as if she had distributed “anti -Soviet, slanderous fabrications,” gathered a team of like -minded people around him. In March, she was transferred to the Vladimir Central - a prison for especially dangerous state criminals.

Due to the obstinate character and the “sharp tongue”, Ruslanov was sent several times to the ice punishment cell, from where she came out with pneumonia and in feverish delirium. They liberated and rehabilitated the singer and her husband after the death of Stalin - in August. The first concert at large at first spouses lived with the writer Viktor Ardov.