The intelligentsia sings "thieves" songs + CD. Kravchinsky M.

Since the invention of sound cinema on the Soviet screen, songs that were officially prohibited from the stage felt freely: thieves, Odessa, White Guard, street, emigrant...

The paradox was often observed: “forbidden” songs The recognized poets and composers composed, and the people's artists performed.

Do you know that one of the well -known "thieves" huts were composed by Evgeny Yevtushenko, and the Yesenin's "letter of mother" was heard in Shukshin Kalina Red, thanks The personal request of L. I. Brezhnev?

the intelligentsia sang thieves' songs not only from the Soviet screen, but also outside it. Magnetic ribbons with records of city romances performed by actors Evgeny Urbansky and Nikolai Rybnikov, sports commentator Viktor Nabutov, correspondent Anatoly Agranovsky enjoyed great success in the bohemian environment. And many samples of supposedly “street” folklore were composed for the sake of jokes by famous screenwriters, scientists or artists.

about how, when and why “anti -Soviet” songs sounded from the Soviet screen, about the history of the creation of many hits, oh The fate of their authors and even who could still write “Murka”, read in the new book of the series “Russian Chansonnier”!