Smuglyanka is a song to the words of Yakov Zakharovich Shvedov and the music of Anatoly Grigoryevich Novikov .
As a result of a sociological study conducted in 2015 by the Russian Reporter magazine, the lyrics took 24th place in the hundred most popular poetic lines in Russia, including, inter alia, Russian and world classics [1] .
History
The song was part of a suite written by composer A. Novikov and poet Yakov Shvedov in 1940 by order of the ensemble of the Kiev Special Military District [2] . A partisan girl from the Civil War was praised in it. And the whole suite was dedicated to G.I. Kotovsky . However, the song was not performed in the pre-war years. Its clavier was lost, the authors had only drafts. The composer remembered this song four years later, when the artistic director of the Red Banner Ensemble A.V. Alexandrov phoned him and asked him to show songs for his new program. Among other Novikov, he also showed Smuglyanka, which he grabbed just in case. But it was precisely Alexandrov who liked her, who immediately began to study her with the choir and soloists [3] .
For the first time, the ensemble sang a song in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in 1944. The soloist of the Red Banner Ensemble Nikolai Ustinov sang to her, to which this song owes much of its success. The concert was broadcast on the radio. Thus, a "dark-skinned" was heard by a lot of people. She was caught in the rear and at the front. The song, which spoke about the events of the civil war, was perceived as a song about those who fought for the liberation of Moldova in the Great Patriotic War [4] .
After the war, the song "Smuglyanka" in various arrangements was included in the repertoire of such famous artists as Joseph Kobzon , Sofia Rotaru , Nadezhda Chepraga , Zdob şi Zdub and many others. The song sounded in the 1973 movie "Only Old Men Go to Battle" (in the story one of the main characters of the film, a young pilot, introduces his squadron to this song and immediately gets the nickname Smuglyanka; during the show of the credits for the film, it sounds performed by Murad Sadykov ), as well as in the fourth part of the epic “Soldiers of Freedom” of 1977, where the song is performed at a concert before the beginning of the Iasi-Chisinau operation . In the role of soloist Valentina Tolkunova . In 1975, the song performed by Mika Evremovich and Sofia Rotaru became the laureate of the Song-75 festival (one of the rare cases when the song was repeated in encore).
Notes
- ↑ Vitaly Leibin, Natalia Kuznetsova. Words cannot be thrown out. What songs do we sing in our souls and what verses do we say (inaccessible link) . rusrep.ru (June 26, 2015). Date of treatment April 10, 2016. Archived April 19, 2016.
- ↑ Tsitsankin V. The Thorny Path of the Smuglyanka // Red Star. - June 30, 2001. Archived on February 25, 2009.
- ↑ "Dark-skinned girl" was not allowed to the front. Moskovsky Komsomolets No. 25343 dated May 5, 2010. Archived on March 17, 2013.
- ↑ Musical Fund of the USSR, 1945.
Links
- Guitar chords, notes and versions of a song performed by different singers
- "Dark-skinned girl" performed by Nadezhda Chepragi
- "Smuglyanka" performed by Vika Tsyganova and the children's choir "Pioneer", accompanied by an orchestra of Russian folk instruments "Soul of Russia" of the Russian Academy of Music named after Gnesins