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8 unusual facts about Vladimir Vysotsky


Future of the Russian Navy

According to Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky work on the new destroyer class will start in 2012.

Marina Vlady

From 1969 until his death in 1980 she was married to Russian poet and songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky.

She wrote "Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight" a memoir of her great and tragic relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky, translated into Russian, German, Armenian and many other languages.

Murzik

Murzik claims its influences from more traditional artists such as Vladimir Vysotsky, Leonard Cohen, and Édith Piaf which can be seen in Murziks romanticized soundscapes and dark poetic lyrics.

Vladimir Vysotsky

Just several months later Riga-based chess grandmaster Mikhail Tal was heard praising the author of "Bolshoy Karetny" (Большой Каретный) and Anna Akhmatova (in a conversation with Joseph Brodsky) was quoting Vysotsky's number "I was the soul of a bad company..." taking it apparently for some brilliant piece of anonymous street folklore.

He was even more impressed by his Russian literature teacher Andrey Sinyavsky who along with his wife often invited students to his home to stage improvised disputes and concerts.

Wojciech Młynarski

Several of his songs became hits in Polish Television in late 1960s, Młynarski also gained popularity as a translator of French and Russian songwriters, including Jacques Brel, Gilbert Bécaud and Vladimir Vysotsky.

Yekaterina Gradova

In 1979 she played a small but significant role (Svetlana Volokushina) in the another Soviet blockbuster "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed" (starring another great Soviet film star and bard Vladimir Vysotsky).


Iosif Kheifits

In the films of Iosif Heifits bright, sometimes with completely unexpected quarter, opened an actor of outstanding individual artists, as Iya Savvina, Alexei Batalov, Anatoly Papanov, Oleg Dal, Vladimir Vysotsky, Lyudmila Maksakova, Ada Rogovtseva, Elena Koreneva, Elena Proklova.

The Ugly Swans

Among those included in this image, Strugatsky named Alexander Galich, Yuliy Kim, Bulat Okudzhava and Vladimir Vysotsky.


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