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Vladimir Vysotsky
Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer, songwriter, poet and actor who had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often-humorous street jargon. He was also a prominent stage- and screen-actor. Though the official Soviet cultural establishment largely ignor…
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entertainment · Soviet entertainer and poet (1938–1980) · poet · writer · film actor · stage actor · singer-songwriter · guitarist · lyricist · composer · screenwriter · songwriter · also Vladimir Vysotsky, Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky, Vladimir Visotskii, Vysotsky, Vladimir Semyonovich Visotskii, Vladimir Visotskiy
Born 25 January 1938 · Died 25 July 1980 · Q512
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 3 entries
Published video “Владимир Высоцкий - Подборка песен с комментариями автора”.
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Published video “Владимир Высоцкий - Песни с комментариями автора”.
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Published video “Владимир Высоцкий - Архивные видео | Выступления и кинохроники”.
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2023· 3 entries
Published video “Владимир Высоцкий - весёлые песни | Архивные кадры”.
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Published video “Владимир Высоцкий - Архивные записи | Концерты и кинохроники”.
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Published video “Владимир Высоцкий - Подборка живых выступлений из концертов и кинохроник”.
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2018· 1 entry
Abramova said that she was largely happy while they were together, even if there were occasional bad times
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2011· 1 entry
A controversial movie Vysotsky
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1996· 1 entry
It became an independent publication and was closed in 2002
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1995· 1 entry
In Moscow the Vysotsky monument was officially opened at Strastnoy Boulevard, by the Petrovsky Gates
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1989· 2 entries
The official Vysotsky Museum opened in Moscow, with the magazine of its own called Vagant (edited by Sergey Zaitsev) devoted entirely to Vysotsky's legacy
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Another important book of memoirs was published in the USSR, providing a bulk of priceless material for the host of future biographers, Alla Demidova's Vladimir Vysotsky, the One I Know and Love
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1986· 1 entry
The official Vysotsky poetic heritage committee was formed (with Robert Rozhdestvensky at the helm, theater critic Natalya Krymova being both the instigator and the organizer)
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1982· 2 entries
The second one followed (100,000), then the third (1988, 200,000), followed in the 1990s by several more
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The motion picture The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe was produced in the Soviet Union and in 1983 the movie was released to the public
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1981· 1 entry
Yuri Lyubimov staged at Taganka a new music and poetry production called Vladimir Vysotsky which was promptly banned and officially premiered on 25 January 1989
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1980· 1 entry
Died 1980-07-25.
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1977· 3 entries
Under the title Vladimir Vissotsky and contained eleven songs
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Three of Vysotsky's LPs were released in France, including the one he recorded with RCA during his trip to Canada in the previous year
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Vysotsky's health deteriorated to such an extent that in April he found himself in a Moscow clinic's reanimation center in a state of physical and mental collapse
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1976· 2 entries
The Taganka Theatre made a visit to Bulgaria, where Vysotsky filmed an interview and recorded 15 songs for the Balkanton record label
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Included "Kupola" ("Cupolas") and "Ballada o Lyubvi" ("Ballad of Love")
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1975· 2 entries
Vysotsky was granted membership in the Cinematographers Union of the USSR
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Vysotsky made his third trip to France, where he took the risk of visiting his former tutor, Andrey Sinyavsky, by then a celebrated dissident émigré
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1974· 2 entries
Melodiya released a 7-inch EP featuring four of Vysotsky's war songs: "On ne vernulsya iz boya" ("He Didn't Return From Battle"), "Pesnya o novom vremeni" ("Song About New Times"), "Bratskiye mogily" ("Mass Graves"), and
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Filmed in The Only Road, a joint venture between Mosfilm and the Yugoslav Filmski Studio
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1973· 1 entry
Vysotsky also starred alongside Oleg Dahl in Bad Good Man, playing the role of von Koren
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1972· 2 entries
Included "Pevetz u mikrofona" ("Singer at the Microphone"), "Kanatohodetz" ("The Tightrope Walker"), "My vrashaem zemlyu" ("We Turn the Earth"), "Cherniye bushlaty" ("Black Pea-Coats"), "Beda" ("Disaster"), "Zhertva tele
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Vysotsky starred in The Fourth
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1971· 2 entries
Vysotsky was invited to play the lead in The Sannikov Land, the screen adaptation of Vladimir Obruchev's science fiction novel
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A drinking spree-related nervous breakdown sent Vysotsky to the Moscow Kashchenko clinic
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1969· 2 entries
Vysotsky starred in two films: Master of the Taiga, where he played a villainous, timber-floating Siberian labour-brigade foreman, and Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich's Dangerous Tour
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Vysotsky took Marina Vlady to director Victor Turov's place to investigate her Belarusian roots
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1967· 3 entries
Had already suffered several physical breakdowns, and once was sent (by the director of the Taganka Theatre) to a rehabilitation clinic, a visit he had to repeat multiple times thereafter
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Vysotsky fell in love with Marina Vlady, a French actress of Russian descent, who was working at Mosfilm on a joint Soviet-French production at that time
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Vysotsky also starred in Kira Muratova's Brief Encounters, which featured another off-the-cuff musical piece, this time the melancholy "Dela" ("Things to Do")
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1965· 1 entry
And had two sons, Arkady (born 1962) and Nikita (born 1964)
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1964· 1 entry
Vysotsky auditioned at the Taganka Theatre
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1962· 1 entry
Did a short stint at the Moscow Theater of Miniatures, then directed by Vladimir Polyakov, which ended with his being fired
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1961· 2 entries
Vysotsky also wrote his first proper song, called "Tatuirovka" ("Tattoo"), starting a long and colorful cycle of artfully stylized criminal underworld romantic stories, full of undercurrents and witty social comments
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And 1962 Vysotsky appeared in the films Dima Gorin's Career and 713 Requests Permission to Land, respectively
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1960· 1 entry
Studied at Moscow Art Theatre School (1956–1960).
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1959· 1 entry
Was cast in his first cinema role, that of the student Petya in Female Age-Mates
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1958· 1 entry
Vysotsky got his first role at the Moscow Art Theatre: that of Porfiry Petrovich in Crime and Punishment
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1956· 1 entry
As fellow students at the MAT theater institute and lived for some time at Vysotsky's mother's flat in Moscow
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1955· 3 entries
Vladimir moved into his mother's new home at No
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Studied at Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (1955).
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Vladimir enrolled in the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, but dropped out after just one year to pursue an acting career
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1953· 1 entry
Vysotsky, by this point very interested in theater and cinema, enrolled in drama courses led by Vladimir Bogomolov
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1949· 1 entry
Vladimir and his stepmother returned to Moscow
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-01-25.
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