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Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Russian: Владимир Семёнович Высоцкий, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr sʲɪˈmʲɵnəvʲɪtɕ vɨˈsotskʲɪj]; 25 January 1938 – 25 July 1980) was a Soviet singer-songwriter, poet, and actor who had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet culture.
Vysotsky was an immensely popular figure who continued to be revered, read, and listened to long after his death. Vysotsky’s parents were divorced soon after his birth, and he lived mostly with his mother (a technical translator), first in Buzuluk and then (from 1945) in Moscow.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Vladimir Vysotsky earned himself the accolade of being ‘the voice and the heart of a nation’ before drug and alcohol addictions cut his life short in 1980. A popular poet and singer-songwriter, his words and music were the eloquent voice of dissidence, which continue to resonate with the Russian people today.
On July 24, 1980 Vladimir Vysotskii, the most popular actor of his time, troubadour of a declining Soviet society, fast liver, hard drinker and inveterate smoker, died of a heart attack.
Vladimir Vysotsky, who died 35 years ago this month, was never given any recognition by the Soviet government. He became popular through bootlegged cassettes passed from hand-to-hand.
Oct 18, 2013 · Commemorating Vladimir Vysotsky - Russia's best-loved bard poet On the empty stage were two microphones: for vocals and for guitar. When he emerged from behind the scenes, the audience burst...
“Vysotsky's remarkable popularity was, and remains, in the uncanny power of his ballads to reflect the hardships, degradation, hope, humor, profanity, weariness and drunkenness that officially do not exist,” Schmemann noted, “but that so many Russians live by.” Origins Obscure.
