Alexander Nikolayevich Wertinsky

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Alexander Wertinski
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Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky ( Russian Александр Николаевич Вертинский ; born March 9, jul. / 21st March  1889 greg. In Kiev , Russian Empire ; †  21st May 1957 in Leningrad , Russian SFSR ) was a Russian and Soviet artists, singers, cabaret and Film actor .

Life

Wertinski - born out of wedlock - was orphaned at the age of five . He grew up with his father's sister in Kiev. In 1905 he was expelled from school and wrote some short stories for Kiev magazines to make a living. In 1912 he moved with his sister in Moscow , where he the entrance examination at the Moscow Art Theater of Stanislavsky not exist. At that time the siblings became addicted to cocaine ; his sister died of an overdose during the First World War .

Around 1916, Wertinski began to perform as Pierrot and sang Arietten with a powdered face with a tragic outcome. In this role he became famous and was indeed in press reports panned , but celebrated by the audience. In addition to his career as a singer, he also appeared as an actor in Alexander Chanschonkov's silent films . At that time a lifelong friendship developed with Ivan Mosschuchin .

In November 1920, Wertinski decided to leave Soviet Russia . After appearing in Constantinople and the Romanian Bessarabia , where he was suspected of being a Soviet agent, Poland and Germany, he moved to Paris in 1923 , where he performed in cabarets in Montmartre for nine years in front of a Russian émigré audience .

After several successful tours in the Middle East , Wertinski followed his audience of wealthy Russian emigrants to the United States , where he performed in front of personalities such as Rachmaninoff , Chalyapin and Marlene Dietrich . As a result of the global economic crisis , however, he had to move to Shanghai , where he met his wife Lidija (née Zirgwawa).

In 1943 the Soviet government allowed him to return to the USSR. Here he gave about two thousand concerts, from Sakhalin to Kaliningrad . He also appeared in Soviet films, often impersonating pre-revolutionary aristocrats. He even received the Stalin Prize in 1951 for his role as an anti-communist cardinal .

His two daughters Marianna and Anastassija became successful cinema actresses. Anastassija married the film director and actor Nikita Michalkow . To this day, Wertinski, along with Chalyapin , Okudschawa and Vysotsky, is considered one of the greatest Russian singers of the 20th century. He is known as the interpreter of the song Dorogoi dlinnoju , the melody of which was used in 1962 for the world hit Those Were the Days .

The asteroid 3669 Vertinsky , discovered in 1982 by the astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina , is named after Wertinsky.

Filmography

Discography

  • 1969 Александр Вертинский ( Мелодия , Д 026773-4 | (Soviet Union))
  • 1989 Александр Вертинский (Мелодия, М60 48689 001; М60 48691 001 | (Soviet Union))
  • 1994 То, что я должен сказать (Мелодия, MEL CD 60 00621 | (Russia))
  • 1995 Песни любви (RDM, CDRDM 506089; Boheme Music, CDBMR 908089 | (Russia))
  • 1996 Vertinski ( Le Chant du Monde , LDX 274939-40 | (France))
  • 1999 Легенда века (Boheme Music, CDBMR 908090 | (Russia))
  • 2000 Vertinski (Boheme Music, CDBMR 007143 | (Russia))

bibliography

  • 1992 Alexander Vertinsky, Heart in a Tuxedo: Songs, Poems . Ed. And trans. by Igor Severjanin, with an essay by Alexander Nitzberg . Moscow 1992.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Vertinsky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names , 5th edition 2003, Springer Verlag, New York 2003, p. 308
personal data
SURNAME Wertinsky, Alexander Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Вертинский, Александр Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian and Soviet artist, singer, cabaret artist and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1957
Place of death Leningrad , Russian SFSR