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Alexander Rosenbaum. Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum of the indigenous Leningraders - and this has already been said. Remember how your acquaintance with his work began. Maybe you heard many times rewritten Bobin with Odessa songs performed by some emigrant? Or bought an epitaph record of an unknown author unknown to you? Most likely, you first listened to a lot times his songs, which it is impossible to pass by: “Waltz-Boston”, “Draw me a house”, “Cossack”, “Esaul”, “Duck hunt”, “prophetic fate”, “Baby Yar”, “Black Tulip” and many others, absorbed their special and unexpected meaning, and only then became interested author.

Until now, you can still meet people whose attitude to Rosenbaum is based on gossip and rumors, which were and remained. Until now, television, radio and press often bypass the category of people who at all times have their own, pronounced other opinion - namely, such people can be attributed to Alexander Yakovlevich. So let's clarify the situation with the biography of Rosenbaum from the moment of birth to the beginning of solo activity.

Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum was born on September 13 in Leningrad, in a family of one-year students of the 1st Medical Institute, Yakov Rosenbaum and Sofia Semenovna Milyaeva. The year of the institute issue of the parents of Sasha, the last year of Stalin’s reign, was marked by the famous case of the Kremlin doctors and the surge of anti -Semitism in the USSR. The Rosenbaum family was forced to go to live in East Kazakhstan, in a very small city of Zyryanovsk - railway tracks were not even laid there.

For six years, the father and mother of Sasha have been engaged in the healing of the inhabitants of Zyryanovsk - basically, these were Kazakhs and few exiles who got there after concentration camps. Yakov, by profession, a urologist, was the chief doctor of the city hospital, the profession of Sophia is an obstetrician-gynecologist. During this period, another son was born in the family - Vladimir Rosenbaum.

At the age of five, Sasha Rosenbaum began to go to the music school organized by exiles, and learned to play the violin. He learned to read early, but only his grandmother, Anna Arturovna, immediately saw her unrealized talents in him and said: "Sasha is exceptional." Boys spent a lot of time in the courtyard, in companies fastened by their courtyard brotherhood, where Sasha was a tower.

Mom gave him to the figure skating section, but the passion for boxing affected: at twelve years he was admitted to the Boxing Section “Labor Reserves”. Musical education had to continue, studying the game not on the violin, but at the piano, first under the guidance of the future teacher of the conservatory Larisa Yanovna Ioffe, and then the talented teacher Maria Aleksandrovna Glushenko.

Sasha studied reluctantly, obviously preferring the yard game to football or boxing on the piano stubborn classes on the piano. However, at some point, Sasha was impressed by the performance of a jazz ensemble for dancing, especially the pianist. Pulled to the piano. He began to select his favorite melodies, accompaniment to them. ” Sasha received a diploma of graduation from the music school only at the insistence of his mother, and then he was very useful in the “Len Conf this”.

The grandmother’s neighbor in the apartment was the famous guitarist Mikhail Alexandrovich Mini, from whom Sasha learned the first guitar tricks, and in the future he studied the guitar on his own. About fifteen to sixteen years, his first verses appeared: rhymes involuntarily born in consciousness on school and home topics, sometimes merrified friends with humorous poems.

He began to listen and repeat the then banned songs of Galich, Vysotsky and Okudzhava. This period in the life of Alexander Rosenbaum directed him to the author’s song. He decides to connect his future fate with the profession of his parents - medicine. Having stood a huge competition, Sasha, immediately after school, in the year, enters the first medical institute in Leningrad. Responsive, companion, he willingly participated in student gatherings, singing his poems.

For the institute cabbage, they were almost simultaneously, with ease, Odessa songs inspired by the hero of Isaac Babel Benay Crick were written. Even in the first year, one of the songs performed by Alexander at the citywide show in the House of Culture of the Leningrad City Council fell into the record for the Kiev festival, where it was awarded the prize "For the audience sympathies." In the institute’s life, Sasha also had trips to the construction squad to a distant Ukhta, where he receives the qualification of the fourth -bit sawner, and the inconsolable “tail”, which remained for the fall, and even absenteeism of a traditional student trip to clean potatoes, for which he is deducted from the institute with all severity.

Astigmatism and myopia do not give Sasha the opportunity to go to the service of the army, and he is arranged by the orderly in the postoperative department, to the most severe patients.Introduction to practical medicine prompts to evaluate the possibility of training and, when a year later, the authorities allow him to return to study, he masters the medical course stubbornly, with excellent results.

With his specialization he chose therapy and in its assimilation showed outstanding medical intuition. The first marriage of Alexander Rosenbaum lasts only 9 months. A year after the divorce, he marries a second time, Elena Savshinskaya, a student of the same medical institute, and after a while a daughter, Anya is born in a family of Rosenbaumes. In the year, having passed all state exams perfectly, Alexander receives a diploma of a general profile.

Its specialization is anesthesia, resuscitation. Therefore, he went to work in a non -prestigious ambulance, at the first substation located on Popov Street, the village of Rosenbaum worked for almost five years - an ambulance doctor - in the front edge of the medical battle for human life. Subsequently, he will say: “A doctor for me, if he is not a craftsman, although there is nothing wrong with the craft, but if he is a doctor, then he is primarily a psychologist, that is, when you come to the patient, you must quickly establish psychological contact with him and feel him.” And one more thing: “The fact that I grew up in a dressing gown was born in a dressing gown - this brought a person’s recognition: when I listened from my parents a lot about their patients, a lot of tragic, and when I raced to the patients, like an ambulance doctor, I matured to create people on behalf of people.

Therefore, I’m not afraid of conceit - I think of a mass of people: and not because I am a kind of Jesus Christ, but because my humanity is always a huge number of patients, with difficult fate that I have not known, and because of my normal medical profession, I absorbed, and survived. Without medicine, I, as aist-creator, would not have happened. ” At the same time, already feeling a craving for writing and fulfilling his songs, Alexander enters the evening jazz school at the Kirov Palace of Culture.

Three times a week, in the evenings, he tried to comprehend the basics of arrangement, jazz compositions, and as a result he receives a diploma of the end of the evening jazz school. Subsequently, Rosenbaum recalled that the decision on the change was made with unexpected swiftness, within three days. This is only partly true. What he called the command of fate was brewing for several years, when he, being a doctor, performed with songs even in pop groups, see him, as he admitted, "he wanted to be the best in his business." The doctor "was all right while the song was a hobby." And when it became essentially a second profession, it was necessary to choose.

And inevitably “I felt that I was sitting on two chairs, that it was not only inconvenient, but also dishonest. You have to be either a doctor or an artist. ” The beginning of solo activities can be considered a memorable performance on October 14 in the House of Culture of the Dzerzhinsky Ministry of Internal Affairs. Such a bold step as the organization of the singer’s concert with the Jewish surname Rosenbaum, the director of the House of Culture Raisa Grigoryevna Simonova decided.

The material was compiled according to the book of Sophia Hentova “Alexander Rosenbaum: The Power of the Song” Alexander Rosenbaum - a participant in the annual ceremony of the Chaneson of the Year Award, which last March of the year in the State Kremlin Palace. News are artists who easily collect full halls. And there are those who are not enough to accommodate all their fans.

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