Поэзия А. Вертинского в период эмиграции A.Vertinsky s poetry of immigration period

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Vertinsky Aleksandr (1889 - 1957) was a Russian poet, artist, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing. Born out of wedlock, Vertinsky was brought up by his father s sister in Kiev. He was ousted from school in 1905 and tried a variety of jobs before starting to earn his living by contributing short stories to the Kievan periodicals. In 1912 Vertinsky moved to Moscow where he failed in his ambition to join Stanislavski s Moscow Art Theatre. By 1916, Vertinsky started to employ a scenic figure of Pierrot, with powdered face, singing miniature novellas-in-song known as ariettas, or Pierrot s doleful ditties . Each song contained a prologue, exposition, culmination, and a tragic final. The novice performer was christened the Russian Pierrot , gained renown, became an object of imitation, admiration, vilified in the press and lionized by the audiences. By November 1920, Vertinsky decided to leave Russia with the bulk of his clientele. He performed in Constantinople and toured Romanian Bessarabia, where he was declared a Soviet agent. In 1923 he performed in Poland and Germany then moved to Paris, where he would perform before the Russian migr clientele at Montmartre cabarets for nine years. After several successful tours in the Middle East, Vertinsky followed the majority of well-to-do Russians to the USA, where he debuted Dietrich. The Great Depression forced him to join the community of Shanghai Russians. It was in China that he met his wife. In 1943 the Soviet government allowed Vertinsky to return to Russia. Despite lack of media coverage, he performed about two thousand concerts in the USSR, touring from Sakhalin to Kaliningrad. In order to feed his family, he also appeared in Soviet films. Tarlysheva Ekaterina A. received Ph. D. in Philology in 2004 at Far Eastern State University (Vladivostok), associate professor, Head of the Department of Russian as a foreign language in Ussuriisk State Pedagogical Institute. Major field - Russian literature of the twentieth century, silver age of Russian poetry, song poetry.