Tatyana Dmitrievna Demyanova ( gypsy Tanya ; 1808 - 1877 ) - Russian gypsy singer.
| Tatyana Demyanova | |
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 1875 photo | |
| basic information | |
| Date of Birth | 1808 |
| Date of death | 1877 |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Professions | singer |
| Instruments | |
| Genres | folk song , romance |
Biography
According to various sources, Tatyana Demyanova was born in 1808 [1] or in 1810 [2] . It was very popular in Moscow in the years 1830-1850 [1] . She sang in the choir of Ilya Sokolov , and later in the gypsy choir of Ivan Vasiliev . Tatyana Demyanova’s repertoire included Russian folk songs. She recalled: “ At that time we sang little romances, more and more Russian songs, folk ... But when I started to sing, romances already appeared ” [2] . She was especially good at performing the nightingale romance by composer A. A. Alyabyev to poetry by A. A. Delvig [1] .
The singing of Tatyana Demyanova was admired by A.S. Pushkin . In her company, he met the new year 1831 [1] . In a letter to Vyazemsky, Pushkin said: “ I spent the New Year 's meeting with gypsies and with Tanyusha, the real Tatyana-drunk ” [2] . The poet N. M. Yazykov dedicated three poems to her: “Spring Night”, “Elegy” and “Ring” [1] . Tatyana Demyanova was friends with gypsy Olga Soldatova, the civil wife of P.V. Nashchokin [3] . In recent years, she lived on a pension, which Princess Golitsyna paid her [1] . According to various sources, she died in Moscow in 1876 [2] or 1877 [1] .
Tatyana Demyanova lived in Moscow on Sadovaya Street in the house of Chukhin, on Bronnaya Street and in the Georgians [1] .
The guitar of Tatyana Demyanova’s work by Ivan Krasnoshchekov is stored in Moscow at the Russian National Museum of Music [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Demyanova, Tatyana Dmitrievna // Encyclopedia “Moscow” / Ed. S.O. Schmidt . - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 1997 .-- 976 p.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Pushkin and 113 women of the poet. All love affairs of the great rake , books.google.com. Date of appeal October 16, 2014.
- ↑ Moleva N.M. Moscow is the capital . - M .: OLMA-PRESS, 2003 .-- S. 394.