Vera Derbeneva Biography

Poems to songs from the picture were written by Leonid Derbenev. After all, it is unnecessary to say that for the success and unquenchable popularity of this picture, Krylatov’s beautiful songs on Derbenev’s poems played no less role than an exciting storyline and magnificent cast. But the fact is that I can’t remember a lot about this picture. Not because the memory fails - just during the time when Lenya wrote songs for the "sorcerers", I was in Hungary, I was there for about three months.

One thing I can say for sure: remember the song “Witch-River”, which in the film is the voice of Irina Otieva, performs Alexander Yakovlev? So, the famous refrain “In the heat and in the cold, burning, so that there is no trouble, do not drink witch water in any case. It’s in vain from the sun hidden in nettles and burdock, and you, damned, do not drink, don’t drink, don’t drink ” - this Lenya wrote about vodka smiles.

After all, he drank tightly at one time, although in the end he completely quit this addiction, they decided to write a few things, the result was a wonderful cycle of songs for the New Year's picture, but there was no cooperation for a long time. Some cat ran between them-then, however, fortunately, ran back, which Lenya was very happy. But this is, as they say, another story.

How did all these “oaks-sides appeared, volcanoes of passions, hares mowing at midnight Tryn-grass, bears, rubbing their backs against the earth's axis? Although I was always his first, if not a censor, then certainly an appraiser. One of Derbenev’s main qualities as a poet was the ability to absorb, like a sponge surrounding information and lay it out on the shelves. Once upon a time, when our relations were just tied, we went to the country to get acquainted with his mother.

She didn’t accept me very warmly. I was upset, complained to Lena: “And so, now I have been suffering all my life? He said this in M, and wrote a song many years later. This is to the fact that for valuable verbal passages and phrases, a certain “pantry” was prepared for him, into which he looked from time to time. The famous "song about hares" was born almost from despair. He copied this text endlessly, edited, but each time something did not suit him.

As a result, in his hearts he waved his hand: “Ah, anyway! I’ll write what comes to my mind. ” So the refrain picked up by all appeared “but Lenya was very nervous for us, because we had to compose a tearful text about love, but so that it was not very serious-after all, a comedy. He began to sort through all kinds of lyrical cliches: “About the sea of ​​charm, or something, write?

What other "pearls" are there? I did not know how to love so fiery, fiery, in my soul inadvertently you woke a volcano, it will certainly be more difficult than the conditional "sea of ​​charm". It is curious to recall the story of the birth of “Songs about me” “Just as everything Zatsepin offered music, but Alla did not really like it. And Lena - on the contrary, liked it very much.

And he says: "I will write such words that you will sing her." And indeed, although not the first time, the lines were born, which many are still in hearing. He was very fruitful? According to my approximate estimates, he created about two and a half thousand verses in his life. However, there is nothing to be surprised here: it is not so easy to recall the famous composer or artist, with whom Lenya would not work from what Leonid Petrovich was repelled when creating his poems?

It was she who inspired him, Derbenev-one of the few poets who would work with the existing melodic-harmonic material. I can’t say that I liked all lenins, but I was delighted with some of his images. For example, “Christmas trees in triangular dresses” from the same “sorcerers” - after all, it is just magical! But, let's say, “let me go into the Himalayas” that he composed for Masha Rasputina, he was not too pleased even in love, he was never explained by prose - he preferred to do this with the help of a rhymeed word.

I will say more. He will write, it happened, a poem, I ask him: “Lenechka, is that dedicated to me? Star disease sometimes did not overcome? True, he was very painful to criticism. Although sometimes it was not necessary to take her seriously. It reached the funny. Once for the children's film “Where it will go! So, this poem served as an occasion for the artistic council, whose members previously turned to biologists with the question: really, why should the second leg?

As a result, the answer was voiced in all seriousness: the science has not yet been established for the “island of bad luck” to Derbenev. Furtseva “Diamond Hand” liked it, but at first she wanted to throw out the song, in a hurry by Andrei Mironov. Believing that, having left the screens to the people, this thing can emit the grain of dissent in the minds of citizens.

Say, what kind of hints are these as other bad luck? Despite the fact that, of course, Lenya did not even think to invest any political subtexts - he simply wrote a funny song. However, in his poetic arsenal there are works where the theme of the Motherland is brought to the foreground.It is enough to recall things such as “Russian soul”, “what can be better than Russia”, “native land”, “Live, country!

How, in your opinion, would Leonid Petrovich react to the current situation in the country and the world? Lenya has always been for his own, understand? He has lines that confirm this more than eloquently: "There was no closer and relatives in the world, it was not more beautiful than my homeland." My husband loved his country very much what to say. After all, he was often invited to leave somewhere, but it never occurred to him.

He reasoned extremely simply: what will I do in this conditional Paris, when here is nearby - all native and close? Therefore, Lenya would certainly react to the difficult situation now in the world. How exactly it looks in poetic form, I don’t even take the assumption - because Derbenev was a unique person.