On March 5, 1919, a fourth child, Alyosha, was born into the family of Ivan Nikolaevich Fatyanov and Evdokia Vasilievna Menshova. The Fatyanovs lived in the Vladimir region in the village of Maloye Petrino and were quite wealthy people - they had sewing and icon-painting workshops, sold beer and shoes, owned a private library and a cinema. But in the 30s, the new government nationalized all their property, and the house was taken away. Despite the difficulties of life, parents devoted a lot of time and attention to their children and were engaged in their spiritual education.
The Fatyanov family had a huge library, where little Alexei spent all his free time, since he learned to read early. It was the parents, being highly educated people themselves, who instilled in their son a love of music, literature, singing, and theater. He successfully graduated from high school and music school (drama class), enjoyed going to exhibitions and the theater, and began writing poetry.
Fatyanov Alexey Ivanovich: biography and creativity
In the period from 1937 to 1940, Fatyanov, according to colleagues from the Central Theater of the Red Army, was one of the best actors in the troupe. In May 1940, he was called up for military service, where he actively participated in the regiment’s amateur performances, and three months later he was appointed director of the District Ensemble of the Oryol Military District. At this time he published his first poems and essays.
Alexey Fatyanov, together with his ensemble, visits the forward positions of the front. Knowing no fear or rest, he gives concerts where he jokes, amuses, and raises the morale of the soldiers. Alexey Ivanovich had an extraordinary ability to work, combined with extraordinary literary data. According to the recollections of contemporaries, songs based on his poems were heard on the All-Union Radio every day. Fatyanov becomes a famous and recognizable author in the country.
Lyrics of Alexey Fatyanov's songs
The popularity of songs written to Fatyanov’s poems is explained by the fact that they are easy to remember, simple in essence, and go well with music. The heroes of his works are ordinary people - girls and boys, romantic and noble, seeking love and happiness. The poet sang the life and feelings of his contemporaries in his piercing, tender and sincere poems. And this leaves no one indifferent, it always finds a response in souls and hearts.
The works that came from the pen of Alexei Ivanovich outlived the author for a long time, but have remained popular for more than sixty years. Without exaggeration, we can say that these songs are an integral part of any feast (especially for people of the older generation, veterans), they add a special flavor and awaken nostalgic memories of past youth. Melodious and simple-minded, based on folklore traditions, songs always create a favorable emotional climate.
There are a lot of songs based on Fatyanov’s poems (about 100), of which the most famous and popular are:
- "Nightingales";
- “First things first, planes first”;
- “A brass band is playing in the city garden”;
- “Where are you now, fellow soldiers?”;
- « … »;
These and other songs are heard in films of the Soviet era - “Wedding with a Dowry”, “Soldier Ivan Brovkin”, “Ivan Brovkin in the Virgin Lands”, “The House Where I Live”, “Spring on Zarechnaya Street”.
Alexey Ivanovich Fatyanov died young at the age of 40 and was buried in Moscow. Thousands of fans came to see him off on his last journey. The fact that the coffin was carried by ordinary people, who were the heroes of his works, speaks of truly popular love for the poet and respect for the creative heritage of the author of the lyrics of his favorite songs.
05 March 1919 - 13 September 1959
Russian Soviet poet, author of many popular songs in 1940-1970
Biography
Origin
Alexey Fatyanov’s grandfather is Nikolai Ivanovich Fatyanov, the owner of icon painting workshops and auxiliary production in Bogoyavlenskaya Sloboda (now the village of Mstera, Vyaznikovsky district, Vladimir region). Another grandfather, the father of the poet’s mother, is Vasily Vasilyevich Menshov, a flax expert at the Demidov flax spinning factory. Both grandfathers were Old Believers.
The parents of the future poet, Ivan and Evdokia Fatyanov, built a two-story stone house with columns in the center of the city of Vyazniki opposite the Kazan Cathedral. Parents sold beer, shoes, which they sewed in their workshops, owned a private cinema and an extensive library. After the October Revolution of 1917, all the property of the Fatyanovs was nationalized, the house was taken away - it housed a telephone exchange, now there is a museum of Alexei Fatyanov. The family moved to the Menshovs’ house in the suburb of Vyazniki, where Alexey, the last child of Ivan and Evdokia Fatyanov, was born in his grandfather’s room. The three eldest children are Nikolai (1898), Natalya (1900), Zinaida (1903).
Childhood
Alexey Fatyanov was baptized in the Kazan Cathedral in the city of Vyazniki.
During the NEP in 1923, the Fatyanov family again settled in their house in Vyazniki opposite the Kazan Cathedral. Parents were engaged in shoe production. It was there, in his parents' house, that Alexey received his first upbringing and education. Alexey's parents instilled in him a love of literature, theater, music and singing.
In 1929, the Fatyanovs' property was finally taken away by the Soviet government - the NEP policy ended. The Fatyanov family left Vyazniki and moved to the village of Losinoostrovsky, Moscow Region, now within the city limits of Moscow. We settled on Turgenevskaya Street. Alexey studied at a music school, visited Moscow theaters and exhibitions.
Youth
He entered the theater studio of Alexei Denisovich Diky at the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions theater, after which in 1937 he was accepted into the theater school of the acting troupe of the Central Theater of the Red Army. Played in plays; since 1940 in the ensemble of the Oryol Military District. Since the beginning of the war with the ensemble at the front, he was wounded while leaving the encirclement. After being wounded, he was accepted into the song and dance ensemble named after. Aleksandrov, from where, on false charges, in 1943 he ended up in the penal company of the 6th Tank Army; was wounded a second time in the battles for Hungary and acquitted.
Fatyanov’s post-war songs, such as the best lyrical song of the Great Patriotic War “Nightingales”, “Where are you, my garden?”, “First of all, first of all, planes”, “A brass band is playing in the city garden”, “Silence behind the Rogozhskaya outpost” , “We haven’t been home for a long time,” “Where are you now, fellow soldiers?” artless and melodic, based on folklore traditions and gaining great popularity. However, during Fatyanov’s lifetime, only one small book of his poems, “The Accordion Sings” (1955), was published, and they began to be published widely only in 1960-1980.
Fatyanov was not only a poet, but also an artist, played the accordion and piano, and had a singing voice. At creative evenings, along with reciting his poems, he sang songs based on his own poems, which were very popular then.
Fatyanov's poems are simple, but piercingly sincere, tender and elegant. Fatyanov is one of the finest Soviet lyricists, his heroes are simple guys and girls, young, fresh, noble and romantic, usually of peasant origin, who came to study and work from the village to the city or were demobilized. The life and feelings of such people were sung by Fatyanov; many poems became songs that were popular for more than 60 years and outlived the author for a long time. Among them are songs from the films “Soldier Ivan Brovkin” (“If only the accordion could…”, “The third company was coming from training”), “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” (“When spring will come, I don’t know…”), “Wedding with dowry” (“I won’t brag, my dear...”), “The house in which I live.”
During his lifetime, Fatyanov’s poems were rarely published; this was facilitated by numerous administrative penalties due to the abuse of alcoholic beverages.
Last years
In 1946, after demobilization, he married Galina Nikolaevna Kalashnikova.
He died suddenly in 1959 from an aortic aneurysm. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
Awards
Awarded the Order “For Services to the Fatherland”, IV degree (posthumously, Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin dated February 16, 1995 No. 148), the Order of the Red Star, the medal “For Courage” (he was the first to fight in a tank in the Hungarian city of Székesfehérvár), the medal “ For victory over Germany."
In honor of Fatyanov, an annual song festival has been held in Vyazniki since 1974.
In 1996, the Union of Writers of Russia established the Fatyanovskaya Literary Prize.
Poet. Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
Born on March 5, 1919 in the village of Maloye Petrino, Vyaznikovsky district (now part of the city of Vyazniki) into a wealthy merchant family of Old Believers.
He studied at the theater school at the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions theater, which in February 1936, after the theater was closed, was transferred to the Central Theater of the Red Army (CTKA). After graduating from drama school, he remained at the Central Theater Theater as an actor. During the Great Patriotic War, he was a member of the song and dance ensemble of the Oryol and then the South Ural military districts. Since 1944 - at the front as a correspondent for an army newspaper. In April 1945, Fatyanov was appointed to the song and dance ensemble of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet.
In a creative collaboration with the composer V. Solovyov-Sedy, he created lyrical songs: “On a sunny clearing”, “Star”, “Nightingales”, “She didn’t say anything”, “We haven’t been home for a long time”, “Where are you now, friends- fellow soldiers? and others.
“The most distinctive feature of Fatyanov’s talent is the unusually developed rhythmic principle in his poems. He seemed to impose his own rhythms on the composer…” noted composer V. Solovyov-Sedoy.
Fatyanov wrote about 30 songs for 16 films, including: “Wedding with a Dowry”, “Heavenly Slug”, “Big Life”, “Good Morning”, “Missing in Action”, “The House in Which I Live” and “Spring” on Zarechnaya Street."
“The song is a bird. She has two wings - verse and melody. For a song to fly well, both wings must be equally strong,” said A. Fatyanov.
In the summer of 1954, Alexey Ivanovich worked on songs for the film “Soldier Ivan Brovkin”. Then “My Chamomile”, “The Third Company Was Coming from Training” and “The Heart of a Friend” appeared. Having sounded from the screen, they immediately entered the life of the country. These songs set the mood. In 1958, in the film “Ivan Brovkin in the Virgin Lands,” another song was performed based on Fatyanov’s poems, “The Orenburg Steppes,” which, after the film’s release, was picked up by students and virgin lands.
Alexey Fatyanov loved cinema, understood it well, worked hard for it, and his songs for films will remain among the best songs of our cinema.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth, the Vladimir Regional Scientific Library has digitized and released the literary and biographical calendar “The Accordion Sings...”, made in the format of the familiar Melodiya record, and is implementing a large-scale cultural and educational project “A Year with Alexei Fatyanov” .
Since 1974, the All-Russian Fatyanovo Festival of Poetry and Song has been held annually in Vyazniki.
During his lifetime, the famous poet Alexei Fatyanov, whose biography was cut short at the age of 40, published only one collection of poems. But his work was known to the general public thanks to the huge number of songs based on his words, which became truly beloved by the people.
Songwriter Alexey Fatyanov: biography
A photo from the forties presents us with the absolutely Russian appearance of a handsome hero. His friends even called him Alexey Fatyanich in the manner of Ilya Muromets. Born in the Russian outskirts (outskirts of Vyazniki in a family with Old Believer roots, the future poet spent his childhood in the house of his grandfather Vasily Vasilyevich Menshov, an aristocratic peasant, a famous flax expert who achieved European recognition. In 1919 he would become Ivan and Evdokia Fatyanov, known by those standards entrepreneurs. This was an enlightened family (its own cinema, library), which had a two-story mansion in the center of Vyazniki. During the years of the revolution, the house was expropriated, but during the NEP it was returned again. After the second attempt in 1929, the family moved to the Moscow region.
Alexey Fatyanov studied music, ran to theaters and exhibitions, joining the cultural life of the capital. Under the influence of Yesenin and Blok, at the age of 10 he wrote his first poems, but preferred the profession of an actor to poetry. Having lost his mother early (1934), he moved to his sister in Moscow, where he studied at a studio school. Since 1938, he already worked as an actor in Central, actively traveling on tour. He was successful in concert programs where he had to sing and read poetry, because he had Fatyanov drafted into the ranks of the Red Army on the eve of the war.
The Great Patriotic War
From the first days of the war, songs and poems of its participants fought together with weapons for victory. In just a few days in June, more than a hundred of them were written. And each has its own life. Some melodies and rhymes did not reach the soldier’s heart, but the songs of others still sound. Alexey Fatyanov met the war in the Oryol region, where, as part of the District Ensemble, he performed on the front line, fulfilling the duties of an artist, an author of poetry, and a director. The work is dangerous, he was even wounded, but he was still eager to go to the front. Since 1944, the poet has been in the active army. For courage in the battles for the liberation of Hungary, Private Fatyanov will be awarded the Medal “For Courage” and the Order of the Red Star. A new wound will return him to the ensemble of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, where he will meet the end of the war.
From the poems of the war years, three of his songs rightfully included in the collection of the best works of the Great Patriotic War: “Nightingales” (1942), “In a sunny clearing” (1942), “We haven’t been home for a long time” (“Where are you now, fellow soldiers ?, 1945), written by composer V.P. Solovyov-Sedy, whom he would meet in Orenburg. The first will become Marshal Zhukov’s favorite, which he will repeatedly talk about in interviews.
Creative tandem with Mokrousov
Being very musical, Alexey Fatyanov, along with the poems, immediately sang or whistled a melody, which was amazingly superimposed on the words. But in 1946 he met the composer from Nizhny Novgorod Boris Mokrousov, who created songs where music played the primary role. They turned out to be so close to each other in spirit that the merging of text and music in their works occurred at some almost unconscious level. In the eyes of those around them, they seemed like brothers: two broad-shouldered handsome men, full of youth, strength and desire to create for ordinary people from the people. Former front-line soldiers created thirty songs that convey the cheerfulness of the post-war era and the breadth of the Russian soul: “Guest”, “Slanders”, “Third Battalion”.
Their greatest fame was brought to them by the song for the film “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” (1956). The director admitted that the authors brilliantly captured the concept of the film and the character of the characters: “The whole film is in this song.” It has long become the calling card of the aspiring actor Nikolai Rybnikov and is still performed in concerts (Boris Grebenshchikov, Zaur Tutov).
"Most Desirable"
Among the outstanding composers with whom Alexey Fatyanov, a songwriter born of his time, will want to work will be one of the most lyrical songs, “For Three Years I Dreamed of You” (1946), which was included in the film “Big Life” and immediately spread among the people. It was dedicated to the author’s main woman, whom he met after mobilization from the army in 1946. Galina sang in the N. Sats choir and was a real “general’s daughter.” True, it was not his own father, but his stepfather, but he took an active part in organizing the wedding, because the aspiring poet had no funds. He got married in a suit from someone else’s shoulder, but in the restaurant of the Moscow Hotel, having partied to the fullest, as expected.
The couple would live in marriage for 13 years, until the poet’s death in 1959. They will have two children - daughter Alena and son Nikita.
Fatyanov, who was Russian by nature, had even his shortcomings that were originally Russian. Everyone knows that he loved to drink and did not even accompany his wife to the maternity hospital for their first child. But it was impossible to be angry with him, because he loved sincerely and truly. Could the song included in the film “Soldier Ivan Brovkin”, “If the Accordion Could Do It” (1955) to the music of A. Lepin, have been born without feelings?
Alexey Fatyanov was offended when he was called a songwriter and was worried about the difficult attitude of his colleagues towards him: he was either accepted or expelled from the Writers' Union. They compared the poet’s work with “tavern melancholy.” They were removed from the list of authors when awarding state prizes. Before his death, he completed a serious poem, the text of which, unfortunately, was lost. Director Dmitry Sukhachev restored it from memory.
During his short creative biography, the poet co-authored more than 200 songs. The most fruitful was the collaboration with V.P. Solovyov-Sedy - 80 joint works. Among those not mentioned, its composers were also M. Blanter, Y. Biryukov, Y. Milyutin, A. Kholminov. His songs were featured in 18 films released in those years.
His statement about whether it is possible to learn to be a poet is interesting. A poetess I knew told me the good news that she had entered the Literary Institute. He, who highly appreciates her work, advised her to quickly leave the educational institution and not take someone else’s place: “It’s the same as Mozart entering the conservatory, what would they teach him there?”
Death of poet
On the night of November 13, 1959, Alexei Fatyanov passed away. There was a heart attack that no one could have foreseen. A few days later, he was escorted out of the conference hall of the Writers' Union on his final journey. This was the largest funeral since the death of M. Gorky, attracting tens of thousands of admirers of his talent. Alexey Fatyanov - the poet of his people - is buried at
Every year Vyazniki becomes the center of the Fatyanovsky festival, which attracts composers, poets, singers and simply lovers of his work. The house of the Fatyanov family turned into a museum of Russian song, and the Writers' Union established a literary prize named after. A. Fatyanova. In 1995, justice was restored, and the poet was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, and collections of his poems are published in thousands of copies. The best pop singers continue to include his creations in their repertoire - songs of deep warmth, warming with their warmth.
Poet Alexey Fatyanov lived only 40 years, but his songs are still popular“The poet Alexei Fatyanov died on November 13, 1959. His death was very easy. On the evening of November 10, he went to bed, and on the morning of November 11, his wife found him no longer showing signs of life. Doctors stated that the tragedy occurred due to a bad heart. If only the attack occurred not at night, but during the day, the poet, most likely, would have been saved. But life gave him nothing at all, and the people’s love for the songs that are still sung without even knowing the name of the poet became an eternal monument to Alexei Fatyanov.
I don’t know when spring will come.
It will rain... The snow will melt...
But you are my dear street,
And in bad weather the road.
On this street as a teenager
I chased pigeons across the rooftops,
And here, at this crossroads,
I met my love.
Now I myself am not glad that I met, -
My soul is full of you.
Why, why in this world
There is unrequited love!
When on Zarechnaya Street
The lights in the houses are off,
Open hearth furnaces are burning,
They burn day and night.
I don't want a different fate
I wouldn't trade it for anything
That factory entrance,
What brought me to people.
There are many glorious streets in the world,
But I'm not changing my address.
In my destiny you became the main one,
My home street.
He wrote these lines when they were filming a film about a simple working guy who fell in love with an evening school teacher, but did not immediately dare to admit it to her, after all, he is a hard worker, and she is an intellectual, orders musical numbers from the classics on the radio...
Not everyone knows that the song was not born in 15 minutes, like, say, “In a Dugout” by the poet Alexei Surkov, but was nurtured by Fatyanov for more than one day or even a month. At first there were completely different words in it, but through long painful searches the poet crossed out one word, replaced it with another, until, finally, what we are so accustomed to appeared. But how organic it turned out! Simple, simple words, my father still loves this song very much; by the time the film was released, he was only 18 years old. But in his destiny, five years later, after serving in the army, there was a factory entrance, which brought him into the public eye, and open-hearth furnaces, which were located next to his workshop.
Or another song, without which it is impossible to imagine any celebration of the Great Victory. Any concert, whether it was for a quarter of an hour or half a day, always included a song that made the front-line soldiers’ hearts ache. It was usually sung by my grandfather’s brother, also a front-line soldier, who survived the terrible meat grinder of the Great Patriotic War, which he fell into as a 19-year-old boy...
Short May nights.
My combat companions?
I walk at a good hour of sunset
At the brand new board gates.
Maybe we can bring a soldier we know here
Will there be a fair wind?
We would remember how we lived with him,
How we lost track of the difficult miles.
For victory we would drain it completely,
I would add more for friends.
If you happen to be unmarried,
You, my friend, don’t worry at all:
Here in our area, rich in songs,
The girls are too pretty.
We will build you a collective farm house,
So that everything can be seen -
The family of a Soviet hero lives here,
With the breast of the one who defended the country.
On short May nights,
Having died down, the fighting ended...
Where are you now, fellow soldiers,
My combat companions?
And one of the most favorite songs of the People's Marshal - Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov - was “Nightingales”, the poems for which were written by Alexey Ivanovich Fatyanov.
Nightingales, nightingales, do not disturb the soldiers,
Let them sleep a little.
Spring has come to our front,
The soldiers had no time to sleep -
Not because the guns are firing,
But because they sing again,
Forgetting that there are battles here,
Crazy nightingales are singing.
Let the soldiers get some sleep
Let them sleep a little.
But what is war for a nightingale!
The nightingale has its own life.
The soldier does not sleep, remembering the house
And the green garden above the pond,
Where the nightingales sing all night,
And in that house they are waiting for a soldier.
Nightingales, nightingales, do not disturb the soldiers,
Let the soldiers get some sleep
Let them sleep a little.
And tomorrow there will be a fight again, -
It's so destined by fate,
So that we can leave without loving,
From our wives, from our fields;
But with every step in that battle
We are closer to home in our native land.
Nightingales, nightingales, do not disturb the soldiers,
Let the soldiers get some sleep
Let them sleep a little.
This song was born in the terrible year of 1942, and I, frankly, thought that it happened a little later, when the war was already rolling across Europe, and Victory was just a stone’s throw away...
An even more surprising fact is that in his entire short life, Alexey Fatyanov released only one single collection. The words of his songs were copied into notebooks, but he did not besiege the publishing houses with a request to release a collection of the front-line poet. But he prepared that one and only collection during his lifetime very carefully, he did the proofreading, made corrections, in a word, brought it into divine form...
One day, a young poetess, whom he took care of, happily informed Alexei Ivanovich that she had been accepted into the Gorky Literary Institute. I thought Fatyanov would be happy, but he began to dissuade her: “You will take someone’s place there. Maybe someone will need the institute more..."
- How so? – the girl was surprised.
– Tell me, did Pushkin study at the Literary Institute?
- No!
- And Yesenin?
- No!
- I?
- No!
- That's it! For talent, going to the Literary Institute is the same as Mozart enrolling in a conservatory! Write - and rejoice!
By the way, Fatyanov himself was more than once expelled from the Writers’ Union, then reinstated in it...
In Soviet times, it was not customary to talk about the older generation of Fatyanov. They simply said: a poet from the people. But, meanwhile, both of his grandfathers were very unique people.
The poet's maternal grandfather, Vasily Vasilyevich Menshov, was born into a peasant family, but became a well-known European expert on flax, he could determine not only the quality of flax by touch, but also tell where it was grown and in what month it was harvested. He took care of his hands, avoided rough work, and never took off his gloves. Aristocrat!
Another grandfather, Nikolai Ivanovich Fatyanov, owned a copper-rolling factory and icon-painting workshops. The dowry of Fatyanov’s parents was taken to Vyazniki on twelve carts. Alexei’s father, Ivan Fatyanov, personally built a two-story house in the very center of Vyazniki; by the beginning of the First World War, Ivan had a cinema, a rich library, a collection of musical instruments that were used by the whole city, his workers produced shoes.
Alexey was born on March 5, 1919 and was the youngest in the family. I was brought up in my grandfather’s house, in the settlement of Maloye Petrino; the city was turbulent. The baby was given a lot of attention (the older grandchildren had already grown up by that time), he had an excellent musical education, which is probably why the songs turned out melodic...
In the 30s, when the family moved to Moscow, Alexey entered the theater studio, became an actor in the Central Theater of the Red Army, then a soloist of the Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble. In the ensemble I met the beginning of the war. Few people know that Fatyanov also experienced “four steps to death”; one day their ensemble was surrounded and had to fight their way through advanced German units. That time Alexey was wounded for the first time...
In 1942, a creative union was born: Fatyanov - Solovyov-Sedoy. Together they wrote many interesting songs. For example, “Nightingales”, “We haven’t been home for a long time”, “Where are you, my garden?”, “Where are you now, fellow soldiers?” and others…
This is how Vasily Vasilyevich Solovyov-Sedoy recalled their acquaintance several years later...
– I met him in Orenburg... I immediately liked him - a young, handsome hero guy. Mighty shoulders were bursting with a washed-out and faded tunic of the third period of wear. The dapper cap miraculously sat on her beautiful, slightly curly wheat-colored hair. Blue, kind, clear, slightly mischievous eyes shone, looking at the interlocutor with curiosity and undisguised interest... I didn’t think then, didn’t guess that this guy was destined to enter my life so firmly and forever. On the second day he brought me a poem, carefully written on a sheet torn from some barn book. It immediately captivated me. The poems were fresh, touching, devoid of literary beauty or the desire to seem original. Confidential intonation, simple Russian colloquial language. After reading the poem, I felt the heady aroma of fresh hay, blooming lilacs, and wildflowers. Fatyanov conducted a conversation in verse, face to face, one on one with his peer, a soldier... The verses were sung, they already had a melody...
And how many sincere lines Alexey Fatyanov gave us after 1946, when he met “the most beloved, the most desired.” They met by chance, in the same company, 27-year-old Alexey and 20-year-old Galya. I introduced myself to her right away: “I was at the front with the rank of general.” She didn’t believe it and laughed. And two weeks later he rushed to his future mother-in-law to ask for the girl’s hand in marriage. The bride’s mother was taken aback: “Does Galya know? She didn’t tell me anything like that...” To which Alexey assured: “She doesn’t know yet, but she will agree!”
I would like to compare you
With the nightingale's song,
On a quiet morning, with a May garden,
With flexible rowan.
With cherries, with bird cherry,
My foggy distance
The farthest
The most desirable one.
How did it all happen
What evenings?
For three years I dreamed of you,
And I met yesterday.
And suddenly my heart opened,
That it's time for me to love.
For three years I dreamed of you,
And I met yesterday.
I would like to compare you
With the first beauty
That with your cheerful look
Touches the heart
What a light gait
An unexpected one came up
The farthest
The most desirable...
The song, as does not often happen, immediately after the music was written by Nikita Bogoslovsky, ended up in the second episode of the film “Big Life” and was immediately loved by the people.
What about his songs for other films? Let’s take the same “Soldier Ivan Brovkin”.
Are there cherries in our gardens for you?
Did they start to ripen so early?
The cheerful stars came out early,
To look at you.
If only the accordion could
Don't tell me everything,
Where are you, my daisy?
Birds greet you everywhere with their songs,
The breeze is waiting at the window.
At night it lights your way,
The moon came out to meet you.
I, dear, have heartache
They don't let me sleep until the morning.
After all, everyone in the area is talking about you
The best songs are sung.
If only the accordion could
Don't tell me everything,
A fair-haired girl in a white blouse,
Where are you, my daisy?
They did not live with Galya for long, about 13 years. But they loved each other so deeply, they had a daughter and a son...
I want to cite one of Fatyanov’s last poems, written by him shortly before his death. It's called "Ode to Bread."
The morning makes you dizzy, intoxicating,
Like wine, it intoxicates me.
Drowning in the dawn fog,
The young rustle the greenery.
I want them not to bow down
To grow faster
And crepe
Our reliable assistant,
Breadwinner,
Our hero,
Our father is Bread.
