Bogoslovsky Nikita Vladimirovich

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Biography

May 22, 1913 composer Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky was born.

Theological among the most prominent Soviet composers stands apart because he is a Russian nobleman.

The future author of several dozen cult songs of the Stalin era is from nobles.

He wrote his very first essay at the age of eight. For his fifteenth birthday he wrote the operetta "The Night Before Christmas." The premiere took place at the Leningrad Theater of Musical Comedy, but the author was not allowed there by his childhood.

Since 1929 he studied at the composer's department of the Leningrad Central Music College - along with another future great composer - Solovyov -gray-haired.

After the murder of Sergei Kirov, Bogoslovsky was subject to expulsion from Leningrad as a native of a noble family to Syktyvkar, but decided to take a chance and not go there. And I didn't go. And they did nothing to him.

At the same time - not to say that he lived discreetly. More than noticeable! Since 1937 he began to write music for cinema. He became a star immediately - at 24, the whole country knew him and sang his beautiful songs.

Since 1938 - Member of the Union of Composers of the USSR.

He wrote music for one hundred nineteen films and eighty performances. Well, more than three hundred songs.

Masterpieces of Bogoslovsky:

• Another pre-war song about the old driver - "Well, loyal girlfriend ,/Tpru, ancient old lady ,/Stand up, Maruska aside..." - a peculiar variation on the theme of this composition will be then "The Carrier" by Alexander Rosenbaum.

• "You are waiting, Lizaveta" - from the 1942 film "Alexander Parkhomenko."

• "Dark mounds sleep" - from the 1946 movie "Big Life." "Three Years I Dreamed" from the same film.

• "Favorite city," of course, - which can sleep calmly. And to see dreams. And get green...

Surprisingly, and obviously, it would seem, the "Jewish" song - "Shalands full of mullet" - about the Odessa sailor Kostya, was also composed by Theologian, a Russian nobleman.

And of course, you can't help but recall Bogoslovsky masterpiece, probably Dark Night. A thing for all time - and, as often happens, composed almost like, in a few minutes.

This is one of the main front-line songs.