Rendering 13: the rendering of the article: "Commemorating Vladimir Vysotsky - Russia's best-loved bard poet"

The article reports at length that RBTH met the son of Soviet prominent artist Vladimir Vysotsky and several other Russian performers at the Jan. 19 tribute concert at Crocus City Hall commemorated Vysotsky’s 75th birthday.

For what would have been his father’s 75^th birthday, Nikita has brought together a sprinkling of famous performers to sing. That’s why we may say that Vladimir Vysotsky continues to draw crowds in Moscow. The singer’s motto was: ‘I want people to remember me.’ Nikita Vysotsky he has honored his father’s wishes to the letter.

Speaking of this event it’s necessary to note that Vladimir Vysotsky recalled: “When I recited poetry at the age of six, my parents’ friends said that I had the voice of a real drunkard. My imitators had quite a difficult task...”

It’s important to emphasize that he was an actor at the Taganka Theatre in Moscow. It’s very unlikely that Vysotsky’s songs were never officially permitted in the Soviet Union; he was only recognized officially as a theatre and cinema actor.

There is every reason to believe that he gave a revolutionary performance of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” and he made a lasting impression on the big screen with “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” (1979).

There is a lot of comment that “Even without posters and leaflets, everyone knew when and where his next underground concert would take place,” says actor Sergei Bezrukov, who played Vysotsky in the film “Vysotsky, Thank You for Being Alive” (2011).

Giving appraisal of the situation we are to point out that Vladimir Shakhrin, leader of the group Chaif, was taught by his father used Vysotsky’s songs to play guitar. It’s an interesting fact that Shakhrin will turn 54 this year, and his group continues to fill concert venues. Shakhrin says: “Each of his songs is like a whole drama: a piece of theatre that can be read, again and again…” By the way, there is every likelihood that Shakhrin worked on the construction of a new district in Yekaterinburg according to which his friends and he himself insisted that their street should be called Vysotsky Street, and they succeeded! He was very proud that this address was in his internal passport. By way of summing up, Shakhrin makes an interesting comparison Vysotsky with the Beatles: “Europe had its Beatlemania. We didn’t have the Beatles at that time – but we did have Vysotsky.”

Ilja “Chjort” (a devil) Knabengof is impressed by Vysotsky’s legacy, as well. “Chjort" emphasize that: “Through his attitude and his deep, intellectual lyrics, he created Russian rock in the way it exists today. Vysotsky was the first Russian rocker.”

The reporter gives no details to his personal opinion, but I’d like to add that Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky is our legend of art. Personally I think that his songs, many of them I know, are the mirrors of our culture.