The Dead and the Living ( Павшие и Живые, premiered in October 1965 ) included Vysotsky's Stars ( Звёзды ), The Soldiers of Heeresgruppe Mitte ( Солдаты группы " Центр ") and Penal Battalions ( Штрафные батальоны ), the striking examples of a completely new kind of a war song, never heard in his country before.

Small wonder Vysotsky's 1968 songs were crushingly heavy and ultra depressive.

Then came another blow: Vysotsky's got the role in ( and wrote some songs for ) The Sannikov Land, an adaptation of Vladimir Obruchev's science fiction, then got the boot – only for the reason of his face " being too scandalously recognizable ", as a state official had put it.

The problems of his long-distance relationship with Vlady inspired several of Vysotsky's songs.

Shortly after Vysotsky's death, many Russian bards started writing songs and poems about his life and death.

Most Soviet veterans would say that Vysotsky's war songs described the truth of war far more accurately than more official " patriotic " songs.

Nearly all of Vysotsky's songs are in the first person, although he is almost never the narrator.

Vysotsky's father said that " War veterans thought the author of the songs to be one of them, as if he had participated in the war together with them.

Musically, virtually all of Vysotsky's songs were written in a minor key, and tended to employ from three to seven chords.

Vysotsky's war songs were praised by veterans for their extreme success in portraying war, despite the fact that the poet did not actually serve in the military.

The problems of his long-distance relationship with Vlady inspired several of Vysotsky's songs.

Just several months later Riga-based chess grandmaster Mikhail Tal was heard praising the author of " Bolshoy Karetny " 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.

In years to come, Vysotsky's flower-adorned grave became a site of pilgrimage for several generations of his fans, the youngest of whom were born after his death.

No official announcement of the actor's death was made, only a brief obituary appeared in the Moscow newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, and a note informing of Vysotsky's death and cancellation of the Hamlet performance was put out at the entrance to the Taganka Theatre ( the story goes that not a single ticket holder took advantage of the refund offer ).

On Vysotsky's death his associates and relatives put in much effort to prevent a post mortem being carried out.

This was the height of his popularity, when, as described in Vlady's book about her husband, walking down the street on a summer night, one could hear Vysotsky's recognizable voice coming literally from every open window.

In such moments Volodya trusted him totally ", Oksana Afanasyeva, Vysotsky's Moscow girlfriend ( who was near him for most of the last year of his life and, on occasion, herself served as a drug courier ) remembered.

What follows in the rest of this section is based on accounts by Vysotsky's close friends and colleagues compiled in the book by V. Perevozchikov

They met in 1956, being both MAT theater instutite students, lived for some time at Vysotsky's mother's flat in Moscow, after her graduation ( Iza was 2 years older ) spent months in different cities ( her – in Kiev, then Rostov ) and finally married on April 25, 1960.

While still married to Ludmila Abramova, Vysotsky's got romantically linked with Tatyana Ivanenko, a Taganka actress, then, in 1967 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.

Every year on Vysotsky's birthday, festivals are held throughout Russia and in many communities throughout the world, especially in Europe.

" With the advent of portable tape-recorders in the Soviet Union, Vysotsky's music became available to the masses in the form of home-made reel-to-reel audio tape recordings ( later on cassette tapes ).

Vysotsky's lyrics and style greatly influenced Jacek Kaczmarski, a Polish songwriter and singer who touched on similar themes.

An autopsy was prevented by Vysotsky's parents ( who were eager to have their son's drug addiction remain secret ), so the true cause of death remains unknown.

Among other publications of note were Valery Zolotukhin's Vysotsky ’ s Secret ( 2000 ), a series of Valery Perevozchikov's books ( His Dying Hour, The Unknown Vysotsky and others ) containing detailed accounts and interviews dealing with the bard's life ’ s major controversies ( the mystery surrounding his death, the truth behind Vysotsky Sr .' s alleged KGB reports, the true nature of Vladimir Vysotsky's relations with his mother Nina's second husband Georgy Bartosh etc.

Creatively, Vysotsky's catalog was enriched by such gems as humorous The Instruction before the Trip Abroad and At the Customs, lyrical Of the Dead Pilot, and philosophical The Strange House and Train to Heaven.

In 1958 Vysotsky's got his first MAT ( Moscow Art Theatre ) role: that of Porfiry Petrovich in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.

Vysotsky's second and third films, Dima Gorin ’ s Career and " 713 " Requests Permission to Land, were interesting only for the fact that in both he had to be beaten up ( in the first case by Aleksandr Demyanenko ).

Press reaction was mixed, some reviewers disliked the actor's overt emotionalism, but it was for the first time ever that Vysotsky's name appeared in Soviet papers at all.

Meanwhile, at least one " proper " love song appeared in Vysotsky's repertoire for the first time, documenting the beginning of his passionate love affair with French actress Marina Vlady.

Vysotsky's first wife was Iza Zhukova.

Two of Vysotsky's 1968 films, Gennady Poloka ’ s Intervention ( premiered in May 1987 ) where he was cast as Brodsky, a dodgy even if highly artistic character, and Ye.

A clear evidence of this can be seen in a video ostensibly shot by the Japanese NHK channel only months before Vysotsky's death, where he appears visibly unwell, breathing heavily and slurring his speech.

Despite this, by the end of the day millions had learned of Vysotsky's death.

After Vysotsky's death in 1980, all of Lyubimov's productions were banned by the Communist authorities.

In the Autumn 1981 Vysotsky's first-ever collection of poetry was officially published in the USSR, called The Nerve ( Нерв ).

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