How old was Vysotsky at the time of his death. Why did Vysotsky die? The last days of the life of Vladimir Vysotsky

Vladimir Vysotsky performed The Road Story.
And we also have a road story. We continue about one of the most famous trips of Vladimir Semenovich on the territory of the Union - his tour in Uzbekistan in 1979.

In the story about the tour in Uzbekistan, we try to let you listen to not only singing, but also speaking Vysotsky.
Often at his performances, he said about the same thing between songs - it's not a secret. And it's no wonder: when you give four concerts a day, and the set of numbers is repeated, and in general the performances are counted in hundreds, it is difficult every time to find new words and remember new stories - after all, everything has already been retold many times.

Uchkuduk, House of Culture "Sovremennik", July 21, 1979. Photo by G. Yakovlev

But on that trip, Vysotsky more than once departed from the usual set of his concert stamps and tales.
And sometimes he remembered songs that he did not perform in public so often.

There is no me - I left the Race:

Finishing the first concert in Uchkuduk, Vysotsky, saying goodbye to the audience, decided to tell her about his creative plans.
To which we will certainly still reach in our cycle:

From grateful viewers. Uchkuduk, House of Culture "Sovremennik", July 21, 1979. Photo by G. Yakovlev

The most striking thing is that after working for four concerts in the hot 40-degree heat of Uchkuduk, Vysotsky went to visit at night, where he actually gave one more performance.
It was the birthday of one of the organizers of Vysotsky's visit to Uzbekistan - Anatoly Katsay. Anatoly Ivanovich held a serious post in the Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combine, which also included mines in Zarafshan and Uchkuduk. In all these cities, Vladimir Semenovich then went on stage.

And on the night of July 21-22, Anatoly Katsai's birthday was celebrated in the local hunting farm, and during these gatherings there were quite interesting conversations, and Vysotsky sang several songs for the birthday man and guests.

By the way, you and I have heard a rare version of this piece, the verse of which has never sounded on other well-known phonograms: "Krasnoyarsk is a familiar route to me ...".

In these table conversations, it is curious how respectful, without any stardom and arrogance, Vysotsky is holding, quoting, in between times, Okudzhava - "let's say compliments to each other."
He saw these people for the first and last time in his life.

Vsevolod Abdulov, Vladimir Vysotsky, Anatoly Katsai, Valery Yanklovich with industrial workers on the road from Uchkuduk to Zarafshan, July 22, 1979. Photo by Yuri Tyrin

And at night, tired, after four performances, he sang for them with no less dedication than at a concert.
Despite the fact that the atmosphere at the table disposed, of course, to relaxation and homely ease.

"To the great Russian poet Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky from the grateful miners of Uchkuduk, July 21, 1979"

Vysotsky moved from Uchkuduk, where he gave five concerts, almost all in an open summer cinema, in the hellish heat, in a wild wind raising clouds of dust.

Zarafshan, Palace of Culture "Golden Valley", July 22, 1979

And there he starts having serious throat problems.
It's getting harder and harder to sing. However, ahead of Navoi:

You, of course, hear that Vysotsky's voice is already unhealthy.
He continues to work, sings. Vsevolod Abdulov and Elena Obleukhova appear on the stage with him, as in Zarafshan and Uchkuduk. They fill in the pauses, giving Vysotsky a break and take a breath. But in Navoi, he still speaks with the audience much more than usual between songs.

And today these conversations are no less interesting to listen to than well-known songs:

In Navoi, Vysotsky performed on the stage of the Farhad Palace of Culture.
He was already here during his first visit with the Taganka Theater in 1973.

Valery Zolotukhin, Vladimir Vysotsky, Boris Khmelnitsky and Yuri Lyubimov at the Farhad Palace of Culture (Navoi), September 1973. Photo by Victor Crassus

Luxurious building, built in the early 70s according to the project of Leningrad architects.
Here, both before and after Vysotsky, Soviet pop stars of that time and simply famous artists performed more than once.

Vladimir Vysotsky, Valery Zolotukhin and Veniamin Smekhov in the courtyard of the Farhad Palace of Culture (Navoi),
September 1973 Photo by Anatoly Vasiliev

Ironically, it so happened that in the late 80s, one of the co-authors of our program, Alexander Kovanovsky, served in Soviet army exactly in Navoi.

Alexander Kovanovsky. Navoi, 1988

And he organized a concert brigade there, performing for two years with a production dedicated to Vysotsky.
And by chance I met an employee of the Farhad Palace of Culture, who recorded one of the very concerts, fragments of which we are listening to now.

Navoi, Palace of Culture "Farhad". Late 80s

A copy of this concert recording, later brought by Kovanovsky to Moscow as a most valuable relic for those times, became one of the first sound exhibits in the archive of the future Vysotsky Museum.

This song sounded in Navoi with unexpected meaning.

Navoi, Palace of Culture "Farhad", July 26, 1979. Photo by Arkady Chernyshev (correspondent of the newspaper "Industrial Navoi")

As you already know, Vysotsky was hosted by the local mining and metallurgical plant.
An enterprise of allied, moreover, strategic importance. Uranium was mined here. Therefore, supplies were supplied to Navoi, Uchkuduk, and Zarafshan no worse than Tashkent - at the level of the best cities in the country. In addition, a lot of Russian-speaking specialists worked at these enterprises. Therefore, the halls were overcrowded, and the reaction of the public was very lively, and the audience understood and reacted well to all of Vysotsky's jokes.

Navoi, Palace of Culture "Farhad", July 26, 1979. Photo by Arkady Chernyshev (correspondent of the newspaper "Industrial Navoi")

On this trip, next to Vysotsky, there was another very interesting person - mining engineer Vasily Poverennov.
He also worked at the plant. He had an apartment in Zarafshan. It was there that a lot of the photographs from that trip that later became famous were taken.

Vladimir Vysotsky and Vasily Poverennov. Zarafshan, Vasily Poverennov's apartment, July 24, 1979

If you see these photos - pay attention: Vysotsky is wearing a mustache both in these pictures and in the frames taken at concerts!

From Zarafshan to Uchkuduk and back, Poverennov arranged a helicopter ride for Vysotsky, showed from above the very pits and waste heaps where uranium was mined in an open way, and from that trip there were also interesting pictures.

Vsevolod Abdulov, Vladimir Vysotsky, Anatoly Fedotov with industrial workers on the road from Uchkuduk to Zarafshan, July 22, 1979. Photo by Yuri Tyrin

A year later, in July 1980, shortly before his death, Vysotsky would send Poverennov a letter with a photograph and an autograph just from the shooting in Vasily Vasilyevich's apartment.

From Navoi, the road went to Bukhara and Samarkand.
Vysotsky never made it to Samarkand.

Vladimir Vysotsky and Vladimir Goldman. Stop on the road from Uchkuduk to Zarafshan, July 22, 1979.
Photo by Yuri Tyrin

And we do not really know anything about the performance in Bukhara, and the recording of phonograms has not survived.
But it was in Bukhara that a dramatic episode took place, which is called the "clinical death of Vysotsky." This episode has been repeatedly described and even filmed.

With your permission, we will not savor all the details of this story.
But let's make two important clarifications. First, it is generally accepted that this happened exactly one year before his death, on July 25, 1979. But this is not true. Even on the 26th, Vysotsky was still in Navoi and spoke there.

Navoi, Palace of Culture "Farhad", July 26, 1979. Photo by Arkady Chernyshev (correspondent of the newspaper "Industrial Navoi")

The true date of the incident is different, but also symbolic - July 28.
Exactly one year not before death, but already before the funeral of Vladimir Semyonovich.

Well, and secondly, almost all professional doctors, having familiarized themselves with the details of Vysotsky's so-called clinical death from the descriptions of eyewitnesses, confidently say that it was still not a clinical death, but a deep fainting.

Zarafshan, Vasily Poverennov's apartment, July 24, 1979. Photo by Vasily Poverennov

I would like to thank Yuri Gurov and our friends from the Rakurs Creative Association Alexander Kovanovsky, Alexander Petrakov, Igor Rakhmanov, Oleg Vasin, Nikolai Isaev, Valery and Vladimir Basin for their help in preparing this program.

The tour in July 1979 was the last visit of Vladimir Vysotsky to Uzbekistan.

Navoi, Palace of Culture "Farhad", July 26, 1979. Photo by Arkady Chernyshev (correspondent of the newspaper "Industrial Navoi")

It was a very interesting, but very difficult trip, which ended ahead of schedule.
Vysotsky never made it to Samarkand. But it was in this city in 1988 that one of the first Vysotsky Street in the Union appeared. Unfortunately, in 1996 it got a different name.

When preparing the program, we used:
- photographs from the archives of Sergei Alekseev, Oleg Vasin and the Creative Association "Rakurs";
- phonograms from the archives of Alexander Petrakov and Valery Basin;
- Mark Tsybulsky, "Vysotsky in Central Asia and Death, which did not exist ";
- Sergey Kiryukhin, Vysotsky Street, Samarkand.

Let us remind you that our multimedia edition consists of two parts.
The first volume is the book itself. The second “volume” is exactly the part where the full sound of all one hundred Chapters and the electronic version of each Chapter “live”.

We have already informed you that all the sound was recorded by us on flash drives.
And now we report that the second volume has been printed in its entirety in the printing house. Incidentally, from a technical point of view, it was more difficult to make than to print a book.

As evidence that the work, albeit with incredible difficulties, but is stubbornly moving forward - a few more excerpts from the book in already drawn up form.

Look at the chapter numbers, and you will understand that the finish is really getting closer.

And we will try, as Vladimir Semyonovich said at his speeches, to work out in the coming weeks “not only the entire program, but even overfulfillment,” that is, to accelerate as soon as possible - BUT! - not at the expense of quality!

Anton Orekh and the Creative Association "Rakurs"

The death of V. Vysotsky, about which a lot is known, remains a mystery to this day, since its circumstances are covered in fog and are known only from the words of various people interested in telling a lie. So, you can find a large number of witnesses who were in his apartment that day, who know all the conversations, those who told M. Vladi and his mother, and so on. But in fact, no one knows what the true cause of Vysotsky's death is.

Rumors about the death of this brilliant man often arose long before the incident. Some claimed that he had opened his veins, others that he had shot himself. Gossip was born at lightning speed. In fact, Vladimir was repeatedly in intensive care, survived several car accidents. And when he was visiting Abdulov, he suddenly felt bad, but the ambulance did not want to take him, because the doctors were afraid that the actor would die on the way.

The exact cause of Vysotsky's death was not established, as his relatives refused to conduct an autopsy. Some data suggest that he died from drugs and alcohol, others claim that from self-strangulation, but the medical report says - acute heart failure.

Many people knew about the problem of the bard with drugs, as much as about alcohol addiction. At one time, Vladimir Semyonovich lay in hospitals with the aim of curing this ailment, used many folk methods, but always failed.

On July 18, 1980, the actor Vysotsky played his last role at the Taganka Theater. Even then, his condition was bad. Within a few days it worsened, and the twenty-fourth of July became the last day of his life. On that day, Vladimir was almost unconscious, he had a presentiment of his death.

The artist died in the midst of the Olympic Games, which were held in the capital of Russia. For this reason, the authorities tried to hide given fact from people. And only "Evening Moscow" and "Soviet Russia" wrote small obituaries, which indicated the cause of Vysotsky's death - a heart attack.

Vladimir Semyonovich was seen off on his last journey by about forty thousand people. For several days after the funeral, people did not disperse.

The documentary film by V. Mansky “V. Vysotsky. Death of a Poet ”, which came out six years later. It reveals the actor's struggle with a disease that progressed into last months his life. According to the authors of the film, everyone is free to decide for himself what is the cause of Vysotsky's death, however, they cannot claim to be true. They hope that the attempt to convey the truth to the viewer about the circumstances of his death will not shock them. After all, the poet himself loved the truth and hated the lie.

Mansky's film excited the public. The question arose whether such a truth about Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was necessary, would she not discredit the bright image of the idol of millions of people? However, the director replied that a documentary filmmaker cannot be a sissy, since every time he reveals the true circumstances of people's lives.

On the monument located on is the date of birth of Vysotsky - 01/25/1938 and the date of his death - 07/24/1980.

The author and performer of songs, actor and author of many works, laureate of the State Prize and the favorite of millions of people died. According to polls, V. Vysotsky ranks second in the list of idols of the twentieth century after Yuri Gagarin.

Thus, to date, there is no exact data on the reasons for the death of the poet. To date, many films have been released that tell about the life and work of Vladimir Semyonovich. From what he died, let everyone decide for himself.

Here's another piece of information:

THE SECRET OF THE DEATH OF VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY ................

Andrey Berezhny ...........................

Thousands of pages have been written about Vladimir Vysotsky. It is all the more difficult to bring something new here, especially for a person who has never been close to a poet who has not communicated. But I know his work well, I try not to miss out on publications about him, especially if their authors are people who knew Vysotsky enough.

I have always been interested in the mystery of the death of Vladimir Vysotsky. I remember very well those days of July, the days of the Olympics ... The news of his death spread quite quickly, although the authorities tried to muzzle information about this event.

I remember how the bitterness of loss was mixed with a feeling of bewilderment, annoyance - why, and why - so early? Why did he leave so suddenly, being at the height of his fame and popularity? Indeed, for many years we did not know anything about the events associated with his death. We do not know much even now. People who could shed light on many of the questions that were next to the poet during the last days, hours and minutes of his life, remain silent. They do not write memoirs, although they knew the poet, perhaps, like no one else.

This article and the questions posed therein are based solely on eyewitness accounts. Based on the materials of scanty interviews related to the memories of Vysotsky, our comparison and analysis of these materials. It follows from them that the last people who communicated with the poet, people who played a special (sinister?) Role in his life (death?), Were the chief administrator of the Taganka theater, Valery Yanklovich, and Vysotsky's attending physician Anatoly Fedotov.

In this work, we will restore and consider the last days of Vladimir Vysotsky's life. These last days, according to V. Yanklovich, begin on July 18, 1980: “From July 18, the“ last days ”begin ... Perhaps I am also mistaken. Conclusions and assumptions given here , are purely subjective.

In the morning, screenwriter Igor Shevtsov dropped in to see V. Vysotsky. They discussed, first of all, the future filming at the Odessa film studio of the film "Green Van", the director of which was going to be V. Vysotsky. In the conversation, the latter dropped the following phrase to his doctors: “They don’t heal me, bastards ...” He felt fine, had a meaningful conversation, and did not bode well. But by the evening everything changed dramatically.

Before the play "Hamlet" Vysotsky was already in a very serious condition. The emergency doctor gave him injections. For five minutes, the actor-poet felt better, but then even worse. After the injection of the doctor Fedotov, Vysotsky finished his role in the play.

Nikolai Tamrazov, entertainer: "Vladimir Sidorovich Potov was at this performance, he told me:

Volodya had glass eyes.

Vladimir Sidorovich's wife went up to the stage, gave flowers. Volodya took the flowers, completely not understanding from whom, although they were well acquainted. She said:

An almost insane person stood on the stage, took the flowers. I stand with an idiotic smile, waiting for him to react somehow ... Absolutely no reaction. "

V. Vysotsky visits OVIR to obtain a visa to travel to France to his wife. He was denied a visa that day.

Kvecheru, according to A. Fedotov, the poet "left at the peak". But he not only drank, but found time to work. “In these last days, - as V. Yanklovich testifies, - he was still working ... Volodya begins to modify the Second Aeroflot. Writes - "Again I got a chill."

Therefore, there are no eyewitness memories of the day. Most likely, V. Vysotsky spent him at home And spent "stormy", judging by his state of health the next morning.

In the morning Vysotsky felt bad. But by evening he felt better. That evening he played his last play, Crime and Punishment.

Heinrich Pavda, a lawyer, recalls: “I went to see him the day before the last performance. Maybe at twelve, maybe at one o'clock ... I remember well how it happened. We intended to discuss one question, but I found Volodya in a very serious condition - and left.

Valera and I called back: "I don't know if he can play today ... Okay, come to the theater."

In the evening I arrived at Taganka - and was completely shocked (this scene is still in front of my eyes) when I saw Volodya: collected, taut, going down the stairs near the sideboard. And just a few hours ago ...

Volodya was a little embarrassed because we were not that close ...

You see, I had such a state a little ...

Yes, nonsense ... "

Valery Yanklovich: "The twenty-first -" Crime and Punishment "? Yes, I remember that Volodya really did not want to play. Lyubimov called him ... Galina Nikolaevna rang a few (Vlasova is the head of the troupe), she said that there would be Japanese ... But it is very problematic whether Volodya played ... "

He played in this performance. This is how Ilya Poroshin, V. Yanklovich's son, recalls this: “On the 21st, with my friend Sashka, who did not fully believe in such a high acquaintance of mine, he came to the theater just to chat, and to see Volodya in Crime and Punishment. on the posters there were performances with HIS participation, the theater resembled a pitiful fortress besieged by a countless horde. I no longer went to the whole performances - I saw everything many times - so I watched my favorite pieces, Volodin's pieces. Shelper act. Sasha and I were sitting in the buffet for sandwiches. Near the opposite wall, three of my acquaintances, ardent "Tagan fans", were talking.

Suddenly HE enters. And straight to me. I was somehow extraordinarily happy. I just say: "Here, Uncle Volodya, please meet: Sashka is my friend, we are doing karate together." Sashka was dumbfounded, like a nudawa rabbit, looking, shaking his hand. And Volodya, exhausted like that, says to me: "Drink out, and then go to the hall. There will be a very important stage." I TO HIM: "Of course, absolutely." And HE suddenly bent down, kissed my forehead, turned and left. I somehow froze. On the one hand, I was very flattering, joyful - that's all, and Sasha too, they saw how Uncle Volodya was loving me. But there was something itching inside. "

Elizaveta Avaldueva, head of the personnel department of the Taganka Theater: “Volodya called on July 22 ...

Elizaveta Innokentyevna, this is Volodya ... - The voice is completely different ...

What Volodya?

Volodya Vysotsky.

Lord, Volodya, what's wrong with you ?!

I'm sick ... I'll probably die soon. "

Valery Yanklovich: "On the twenty-third he received a call from OVIR:

Vladimir Semenovich, go for your passport.

Ivot July 23 Volodya left the house for the last time. He received a foreign passport at OVI and bought a ticket to Paris for July 29. “After that he was in the theater.

Elizaveta Avaldueva: "On July 23 he arrived at the theater. Pale, no, not even gray, I have never seen him like that. Then he turned the old brooch back to Galina Nikolaevna Vlasova. He took it to evaluate and it is possible to buy it for Marina ..."

Valery Yanklovich: “On the twenty-third evening there were doctors ... They offered to put Volodya on the apparatus: a shell conversation in order to do it at the dacha ... they will take Volodya on the twenty-fifth ... And when a person is in the hospital, there is always some kind of hope - albeit an illusory one ... "

Anatoly Fedotov: "They wanted to put him in the hospital, they persuaded him. It's useless! Now it is clear what had to be taken away by force. On July 23, a team of resuscitators arrived from Sklifosovsky. They wanted to hold him on artificial respiration to interrupt the dip-mania. It was planned to make this apparatus Probably, the guys were in the apartment for about an hour - they decided to pick it up every other day, when a separate box was vacated.

I was left alone with Volodya - he was already asleep. Then Valera Yanklovich replaced me.

Barbara Nemchik, V.Yaiklovich's wife, US citizen: "On July 23 - we talked on the phone ... (B.Nemchik called from Rome - V.P.).

How are you doing there? Valera replied:

Can't you hear it yourself?

(Volodya could be heard moaning: "A-a! A-a!")

And so all the time?

All time..."

Then the fun begins. Vysotsky left the house again. One. Without Yanklovich. Why and why did he let him go? And why is he silent about this? We do not know when and where he left, or rather, Vysotsky left. But we know for sure that at about 11 pm he arrived at the restaurant of the All-Union Theatrical Society with a large amount of money, which for some reason he wanted to get rid of. We will come back to this issue later. In the meantime, let's listen to what he says:

Anatoly Balchev, composer: "I met Vysotsky on July 23 at the restaurant of TO 6. Volodya was in bad shape. He arrived at about eleven in the evening. We sat down at the same table, began to eat something ... All the time people came up: it seemed that they They hadn't seen him for a thousand years, and everyone wanted to have a drink with Volodya ... Seeing his condition, I tried to drive this crowd away ...

Then Volodya asked me:

Tolya, take the bottle with you ... I won't drink - we'll just treat you ...

Stillya remembered well that he had a lot of money with him - a whole bundle. It seemed to them that he wanted to get rid of them, tried to give them away ... As if he had a presentiment ...

Yes, I took the bottle ... Volodya, who very rarely trusted anyone with a car, asked him to drive the Mercedes himself. Gave the keys ...

Let's go...

The actor Druzhnikov went with us. When we drove up to the house, he still took this bottle of vodka from me:

I take her, they have to come to me ... Well, it was simply impossible to convince him, to persuade him. It began on the twenty-fourth of July ...

I went home, from home I called Malaya Gruzinskaya. They told me that Volodya was already asleep. I calmed down a bit. "

Valery Yanklovich: "These days Volodya was supposed to speak at the Flight Control Center - direct communication with space. There was a firm agreement, and the representatives of the Mission Control Center arrived at Malaya Gruzinskaya. And Volodya had already not left the house, rushed about the apartment ...

Seva Abdulov and I had to meet these people and say that Volodya is in the hospital ... We met them, explained everything. And we and they left. Nina Maksimovna (mother of V. Vysotsky - V.P.) remained with Volodya.

But these people did not believe us and returned after a while. They went up to the eighth floor, called ... Nina Maksimovna came out ... Fortunately, at this time Volodya didn’t moan. After all, for the last two days he just growled, rushed around the apartment ... Probably, he walked tens of kilometers. But at that moment he fell silent. Nina Maksimovna said that Volodya was not at home. Then they left completely.

Honestly, I'll tell you - until the very end I believed that he would "jump out", that this time too, he would cheat death. I had such a hope. On the day before his death, Volodya gasped, groaned, kept trying to go somewhere ... Almost unconscious. And suddenly he comes up to me, looks at me with perfectly clear eyes and says:

You know, I'll probably die today. I could not resist:

Aren `t you ashamed! See how many people are spinning around you, have pity on them. Shame on you to throw such phrases! Calm down, lie down. After all, everyone's strength is already running out.

I was really at the end of my life. After all, all the rest more or less changed, and I was with him practically around the clock. After a while Volodya still looked at me with sober, sober eyes and said a perfectly reasonable thing ... It was with such deceptive enlightenments that he aroused some hopes ... "

Retreating, it should be said that such external enlightenment was observed at this time by Vysotsky (albeit a few days earlier) not only he. Here is what, for example, I. Poroshin recalls:

As I understood from the conversations, "Volodya is in a deep binge." I have arrived. He sat down. I watch ... Everyone is running, rushing - everything is somehow not right.

I hear Volodin's voice: HE no longer speaks, but something growls terribly. He runs into the room with a glassy gaze (as in the photo in the role of Svidrigailov), looks at me point-blank and ... does not see ... He looks for something convulsively, jumps out onto the stairs, then back. Suddenly it stops, the face suddenly softens, instantly becomes kind, and he says in a very quiet, even gentle voice: "Ah, Ilyushka, hello!" And that's it, turned off again. It started. I was very worried. And literally every other day, at night, Volodya and his father picked me up to go to HIM to spend the night. He was fresh, "like a cucumber", all tucked up. Only as if very, very tired. I was terribly happy, I think it's over, thank God. "

Anatoly Fedotov: “On July 24 I worked ... At about eight o'clock in the evening I dropped into Malaya Gruzinskaya (home to Vysotsky). He was very bad, he rushed about the rooms. He moaned, clutched at his heart. Then, in front of me, he said to Nina Maksimovna:

Mom, I'm going to die today ...

I left on urgent business for a while. Somewhere after twelve Valera (Yanklovich) calls:

Tolya, come and stay with Volodya. I need to shave, rest. I have arrived. He rushed about the apartment. Moaning. This night was very difficult for him. I got an injection of sleeping pills. He toiled all the time. Then he was quiet. "

Valery Yanklovich: “That day I left home at 2 am. And Nina Maksimovna and Seva Abdulov left even earlier. Volodya calmed down a little, Tolya Fedotov and I carried him from his study to the living room. We had to calm him down ...

Anatoly Fedotov: "He fell asleep on a small ottoman, which was then in a large room.

Aya was from shift - tired, exhausted. He lay down and fell asleep - probably three hours later. I woke up from some ominous silence - as if someone had tugged me. And to Volodya! The pupils are dilated, there is no reaction to light. Let me breathe, and my lips are already cold. Late.

Between three and a half of five, there was a cardiac arrest on the background of infar

kta. Judging by the clinic - there was an acute myocardial infarction. And when exactly did it stop

heart - hard to say ... Called resuscitation, although it was clear that nothing could be done

it is impossible. Summoned to calm my conscience. I called the police so that later there was no

rumors of a violent death. "

Valery Yanklovich: I came home, turned off the phone, lay down. I already had no strength: all this had been going on for almost a week. But suddenly, as if they pulled me up, I jumped up and turned on the phone. The bell rang immediately. How long has passed since my return home, I do not know. Tolya Fedotov, the doctor who stayed with Volodya in the apartment, picked up the phone:

Valera, come urgently! Volodya is dead!

I jumped out of the house in shock, immediately caught a taxi.

In Sklifosovsky!

I ran to the intensive care unit, the frightened taxi driver followed me. I was hitting like a fever, there I was given some kind of injection ... The doctors immediately said:

We're going after you!

I am in a taxi, they are in a resuscitation car. We enter the house, there is already Vadim Tumanov with his son. Soon Seva Abdulov drove up. Everyone is in a feverish state. Nobody knows what to do, how to behave ... I say:

Guys, first of all, you need to call the police. This is Vysotsky. "

Vadim Tumanov, a close friend of V. Vysotsky: "On July 25, 1980, at twenty four in the morning, a telephone call rang in my apartment. The doctor called:" Volodya died. "

Very serious discrepancies in the testimonies of all these people are striking. First of all, questions arise about the two faces who were the last to see Vysotsky alive - V. Yanklovich and A. Fedotov. Some of them are not telling the truth, maybe both. Attention is drawn to the fact that both mention the summons of the police, although no one seems to ask them about it, and this, it would seem, is not such an important detail. A. Fedotov says that he called the police immediately or almost immediately after Vysotsky's death was ascertained: "so that later there would be no rumors of a violent death." But for the arrival of V. Yanklovich, who, besides, on the way still stopped by the Institute. Sklifosovsky (why? Is it because there are "their" doctors?), There was no police in the house yet, although Vadim Tumanov and his son had already been there. By the way, according to Tumanov's testimony, A. Fedotov called him and reported his death at 3:40. A. Fedotov himself says that death occurred "between three and a half past five." The police, according to V. Yanklovich, Vich, offers to call him himself, and "first of all" (also worried about the syndrome of "violent death"?). According to him, the police arrived at six in the morning. The city duty officer, a militia general, demands that the body be taken for an autopsy. Vysotsky's father is categorically opposed. Here is how V. Yanklovich testifies to this: “And here we must pay tribute to Semyon Vladimirovich: he categorically forbade the autopsy. And he acted very decisively. Cancellation of the diagnosis would follow. "(?)

They would have learned about the disease ... Everyone who had close contact or worked with him knew that Vysotsky was drinking too much alcohol. Marina Vlady and V. Yanklovich knew about drugs. Undoubtedly, the attending physician A. Fedotov knew about this. Moreover, one gets the impression that in recent days it was he who gave drugs to Vysotsky. Let us recall the play "Hamlet" on July 18 - Vysotsky did not feel better after the injection given by the ambulance doctor, but he was able, albeit with difficulty, to play the role after A. Fedotov's injection, and at the end of the performance he had glass eyes (a characteristic sign of narcotic euphoria !) and did not even recognize Lotova, whom he knew well. At the same time, A. Fedotov himself in his memoirs does not speak (deliberately?) About the injection he made behind the scenes to Vysotsky, referring only to the call to the ambulance:

son of the epic "Hamlet" - I was found by Valera Yanklovich. - Volodya is very bad. I am behind the scenes. They called an ambulance, gave an injection - he barely finished playing, "

But V. Yanklovich quite clearly indicates that there were two injections: “I called an ambulance - Igor Godyaev arrived. it got better - he came to life, but then - even worse ... They called the doctor ... Volodya ran away from the stage: Fedotov gave an injection ... With great difficulty he finished the performance ... "

Further. We suspect that A. Fedotov did not give V. Vysotsky an injection of sleeping pills a few hours before his death. We suspect that he gave the poet a drug, but did not calculate the dose, which was the immediate cause of death. And on autopsy, it really would have been revealed with complete evidence. Vysotsky already did not care, but for Fedotov it was a prison (the theft of narcotic drugs was punished very severely in those years).

Let us recall Vysotsky's departure from home on the evening of July 23, which V. Yanklovich is silent about. Let us recall the money that Vysotsky had in the WTO restaurant. These money (and the amount was large) were not found. Is it because the poet never had them? But in a restaurant he could not and did not spend them, although, as A. Balchev shows, "he wanted to get rid of them, tried to give them away." Yes, knowing what this money would be spent on, V. Vysotsky wanted to get rid of them, subconsciously realizing that he should not take drugs, although he was already physically unable to resist the “withdrawal”. By the way, that is why, leaving the restaurant, he asked Balchev to buy a bottle of vodka, which he took from him in front of the house - in this way he hoped to "interrupt" the craving for drugs.

V. Yanklovich: “Therefore, it was necessary to fill out all the documents very quickly, to obtain a medical certificate of death, without an autopsy it is impossible. Father is categorically against an autopsy. They called a doctor we know from Sklifosovsky and through him convinced the pathologists that the prohibition of an autopsy was a settled matter. In the end, at about twelve o'clock we receive a death certificate - Tolya Fedotov went to the clinic "(of course Fedotov, who else? - AB)

This is how V. Yanklovich and A. Fedotov solved this issue. One may ask why Vysotsky's father objected to the autopsy? Here everything is explained simply: the fact is that without the relatives of the deceased, no efforts by Yanklovich and Fedotov to avoid an autopsy would have been successful. Yanklovich himself informed Vysotsky's father about the death of Vladimir. Here is his testimony about this: "They began to discuss who would call mother, father, Marina ... I said that I could still call my father, but I couldn’t call my mother. Vadim called Nina Maksimovna, I was my father." Further, apparently at the meeting, and perhaps by telephone, the poet's father was "convinced" of the undesirability of an autopsy, probably playing on his paternal feelings, which were expressed in his unwillingness to harm his son's reputation with an "alcohol diagnosis", using also his authority as a front-line soldier in solving this issue with the medical and licensed authorities.

Let us also recall that on July 24 after 20:00 A. Fedotov drove to Vysotsky's home and soon left, as he put it, “on urgent matters,” in order to return again later. What urgent matters might be at such a time? Did he go for drugs? Narcotic drugs cost a lot of money. Wherever Fedotov got them, you had to pay for them. That is why they did not later find in the apartment the wad of money that Vysotsky had with him in the restaurant. She was paid for drugs, the injection of which killed the poet.

This year marks 24 years since the death of Vladimir Vysotsky. So many years later, can we find out the secret of his death? Criminologists, with whom it was necessary to communicate, argue that the light exhumation of Vysotsky's remains could have shed much on. But in order to do this, you need permission from the authorities and the obligatory consent of the Poet's relatives.

Vladimir Vysotsky has become a legend in Soviet music, theater and cinema. Vysotsky's songs have become classics and undeniable eternal hits. His work is very difficult to classify, as he goes beyond and expands them. Usually Vysotsky is referred to as bardic music, but at the same time his manner of performance and subject matter of the texts were completely different from those adopted in the bardic environment. The musician himself also denied this movement.

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Childhood and youth

Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky was born on January 25, 1938 in Moscow in a huge communal apartment. The poet's father is a bard and actor, a native of Kiev, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, and his mother is a translator-assistant. When the war began, Vladimir Semenovich was only four years old, so his mother decided to leave with her son to the Orenburg region. Vysotsky lived there for about two years, and after the evacuation, the family returned to Moscow.

Two years after the end of the war, the parents separated. At the age of nine, Vladimir Vysotsky ended up in occupied post-war Germany, so his childhood cannot be called rosy, unlike his peers in the capital of the USSR. While in Germany, Volodya attended piano lessons. His mother got married a second time, with his stepfather Vysotsky was in a difficult relationship. His own father also married a second time, but the musician had a better relationship with his stepmother.

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The young poet returned to Moscow in 1949, settling with his father and his wife. It was there that Vysotsky got acquainted with music, or rather, with the cheerful youth of the 50s, which pushed him to sing. The first chords of Vladimir Semenovich are motives of thug romance, a popular trend for those whose childhood was spent during the war. In the evenings, the companies gathered to play songs about Kolyma, Vorkuta and Murka on the guitar. Then Vladimir Vysotsky began a serious love affair with the guitar.

At the age of 10, Vladimir Semenovich began to attend a drama circle. Then he still did not quite understand that his future belongs to the theater. After graduating from school, Vysotsky entered the Moscow construction site, but six months later he realized that he had gone “in the wrong place” and dropped out of school.

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According to legend, Vladimir did it suddenly and rather eccentrically. All New Year's Eve, the future actor, together with a classmate, spent preparing for the session, making drawings, without which it was impossible to get admission to exams. After several hours of painstaking work, the drawings were ready - and then Vysotsky grabbed a can of ink from the table and poured it onto his sheet. Vladimir realized that he could no longer be in this educational institution, and decided to spend the remaining six months on preparing for a new admission.

After that, the young charismatic guy entered the Moscow Art Theater and three years later made his debut on the theater stage in the educational play "Crime and Punishment". Then Vladimir Semenovich played the first small role in the film "Peers".

Theatre

After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, Vysotsky went to work at the theater. Pushkin. Soon the actor went to the Theater of Miniatures, playing there in small episodes and extras, which did not cause much enthusiasm. There were also unsuccessful attempts break into the Sovremennik theater.

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As a result, Vladimir Semenovich liked the Taganka Theater, in which he worked until his death. Here Vysotsky tried on the images of Hamlet, Pugachev, Svidrigailov and Galileo. Together with the Taganka Theater, the actor toured a lot, he practically traveled all over the world, performed in France, Poland, Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria, was able to travel to the United States several times, visited Mexico, Canada and Tahiti.

Music

Lyrics for songs Vladimir Vysotsky wrote himself. Vysotsky wrote his first poems at school. The young poet dedicated the poem "My Oath" to Stalin and in a lyrical manner grieved over the death of the leader. Vysotsky himself calls the first song "Tattoo", which was performed in Leningrad in 1961. This song began in the poet's work a cycle of courtyard, "thieves" works.

Despite the statements of the performer himself, there is another of his songs, dated a year earlier. This song is called "49 days". It is written about a feat russian soldierswho drifted across the Pacific Ocean. The poems were dedicated to a noble topic, but this did not make Vysotsky fall in love with his creation. He called this song a tool for hacks and spoke very negatively about it. According to the author, you can compose many such poems by simply opening the heading of current events in any newspaper and rewriting the names. It was important for the poet to let the creativity pass through himself, so he did not recognize the "hacky" song "49 days".

Vladimir Vysotsky drew his author's inspiration from whom he considered his mentor until the last day of his life. "Song of Truth and Lies" was dedicated to him. The actor began to write music and lyrics in the 60s. The first listeners did not appreciate the musician's "yard" motives, and Vysotsky himself did not particularly like them. As a musician, Vladimir Semenovich matured a little later. In 1965, the song "Submarine" became a sign that the youthful creativity of the early poet ended. Later, the actor wrote songs for films, in which he starred and took an active part in their creation.

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In 1968, the first gramophone record with Vysotsky's author's songs was released. It was a collection of his songs for the film "Vertical", including the song about a friend, which was first performed in this film, and later became one of the musician's calling cards.

In 1975, for the first time, and, as it turned out, for the last time, Vysotsky's poem was published in the official Soviet collection. Lucky for the verse "From the road". In the same year, the musician recorded a new disc “V. Vysotsky. Self-portrait ". It was a large compilation, with the author's digressions before each song and the accompaniment on three guitars. But the recording was released only partially and only after the death of the author.

In 1978, Vladimir Vysotsky received the highest category of pop vocalist-soloist. This showed that the Ministry of Culture recognizes Vysotsky's work and is ready to recognize him as a professional performer.

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In 1979, the musician toured a lot, he performed in New York and Toronto. Vysotsky's songs impressed the audience so much that in law-abiding America in the same year, without the permission of the singer himself, a pirated recording of a concert with a mixed order of compositions was released.

In the same year, Vladimir Vysotsky took part in the creation of the famous self-published almanac Metropol. It was an uncensored publication, a collection of texts by those authors who could not be published officially. A total of 12 copies were published, but one of them was smuggled out to the United States, where the almanac was officially published.

Vysotsky continued to tour. In France, he met a gypsy musician, in a duet with whom he sang many songs and romances. The singers planned to record a disc, but Vladimir did not have time to do this.

IN last years life, the artist did not stop giving concerts. He performed in Leningrad, Kaliningrad and Moscow, continued to play Hamlet at the Taganka Theater.

The repertoire of the musician and poet includes more than 600 songs, as well as about 200 poems. Crowds of fans attended his concerts. The creativity of Vladimir Vysotsky to this day does not lose its relevance. The musician has given more than one and a half thousand concerts around the world. During his lifetime, Vysotsky released 7 of his own albums and 11 collections of songs by other musicians performed by him.

It is almost impossible to create an accurate discography of all albums and collections in which Vysotsky participated, since they were published in different countries, withdrawn from sale, rewrote. After the death of Vysotsky, his songs continued to be released on records.

Movies

In the biography of Vladimir Vysotsky, theater, cinema and music were equally intertwined. Vysotsky played his first cameo role in the film "Companions" while still studying at the Moscow Art Theater. But he really discovered Vladimir Semenovich as an actor in 1961, after filming the film "Dima Gorin's Career". This was followed by "713th requests landing" and other films. But the main roles did not exist, Vysotsky began to abuse alcohol. This turned a lot for the worse.

Serious success came only in 1967 with the release of the film "Vertical", to which he wrote all the songs. The whole country immediately learned about Vysotsky, both as an actor and as a musician.

Vysotsky's songs were criticized in the Central Committee of the CPSU and the subordinate press. Vysotsky could not ignore this, and after caustic articles on what Vysotsky was singing about, he sent a letter to the Central Committee, where he called this criticism harsh and unsubstantiated.

The idol of millions, Vladimir Vysotsky, became despised by the Soviet regime. He was often denied roles, and the songs did not go on the air, so during the 70s the actor starred a little. At the Taganka Theater, he was fired for drunkenness, then again approved for the main roles. Vysotsky several times almost "thundered" to the next world because of a weak heart, overwork and prolonged drinking. But at the same time, it was during this period that Vysotsky played his Hamlet, which was remembered by millions. The most difficult and attractive role, Vladimir embodied in his own special manner and endlessly talented.

An Estonian program dedicated to Vysotsky, "The Guy from Taganka", went out on television. This was the artist's first television appearance outside of a feature film. A lot has been written and filmed about the actor. An article about him was published in the magazine "Theater", later Vysotsky was invited to speak on the French TV channel, where he performed his biographical "Ballad of Love". But on Central Television, not a single interview or concert of Vladimir Vysotsky was shown during his lifetime. Sometimes there were attempts to record interviews for Central Television. For example, Vysotsky talked with Valery Perevozchikov, but later the film with the broadcast was washed off, leaving nothing but a small final fragment for a few minutes.

A significant role for Vladimir Vysotsky was work in the multi-part film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed", where the actor played "his" favorite hero - Gleb Zheglov, and also acted as a director. In this film, the songs of Vladimir Semenovich do not sound, although initially he expressed such a desire. Then the director was against such creativity, since, in his opinion, the charismatic Vysotsky could overshadow the image of his hero.

Vladimir Vysotsky really wanted to star in the American film The Reds. He recorded a video message to Warren Beatty, who was to direct the film. But the recording never made it to the United States.

Personal life

When Vladimir Semenovich was in his first year at the Moscow Art Theater, he met a fellow student, who eventually became his first wife in 1960. The marriage did not last long, the couple often quarreled and, not having lived together for a year, divorced.

The second wife of the actor became. They met a year after Vladimir Semenovich's divorce from his first wife. In this marriage, Abramova gave the musician two children, which could not save the family, and already in 1968 the couple also separated. Both Vysotsky's sons later also became artists and linked their lives with cinema. Younger son, manages the State Cultural Center-Museum of V.S. Vysotsky.

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For the third time, Vysotsky married, whom he first saw in the film "The Witch" and immediately fell in love with the actress. For many years, the musician dreamed of beautiful woman, revising the picture with her participation. Their acquaintance nevertheless happened. Once, after watching the play, Vysotsky visited the restaurant where Vladi was just resting. Then the man went straight to her, took her by the hand and did not take his eyes off Marina for a long time. In 1970, Vladi and Vysotsky got married.

The personal life of Vladimir Vysotsky then turned upside down, his old dream came true. This went on for 10 years, until the musician's death. During this period, Marina Vladi remained for the actor not only the beloved woman, support, but also the main muse.

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But even in this family, everything was not so smooth. Vysotsky had a scandalous reputation, there were many rumors about him and his women. Already in our time in the biography “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive ”tells about the artist's romance with a certain Tatiana Ivleva in the last years of his life. A girl with such a name never existed, but this does not at all mean that the famous musician was slandered and attributed to a married man non-existent love on the side.

Vysotsky's last love was student Oksana Afanasyeva. He fell in love by accident and at first sight. As she later said, Oksana, he became her first and, probably, the only true love. The difference between the lovers was more than 20 years. Oksana was the daughter of a famous writer, so she did not feel any trepidation before famous personalities, she was much more afraid that for a popular musician with a reputation as an alcoholic and womanizer, she would become only entertainment. But these were real feelings with tender courtship and admiration.

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Vysotsky's wife at that time was living her life in Paris, but she knew about her husband's mistress. Oksana even moved to Vladimir's apartment, she knew that he was married, but she perceived it as something distant and insignificant. The musician cheated on her too. Vladimir Vysotsky did not hide his relationship, openly introduced the girl to his friends and colleagues.

Death

Vladimir Vysotsky, despite his confident appearance and tall stature, did not differ in good health. It is difficult to say whether there were innate prerequisites for this or whether the artist's addiction to alcohol played a role. Vysotsky smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and was addicted to alcohol for many years. He was creative personality, but his works were constantly criticized, crushed and postponed. With all this, he helped many of his famous friends quit or at least get coded. He caught them around the city during periods of exacerbations, persuaded, gave pills brought by Marina from France. So he pulled out at least Dahl and Livanov. Many acquaintances of the musician claim that in the last years of his life Vysotsky himself stopped drinking alcohol.

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However, for a long time Vysotsky had heart and breathing problems.

The first serious attack occurred in 1969. Vysotsky's throat started bleeding, an ambulance was called by a frightened wife. At first, the doctors even refused to hospitalize the musician, considering his case fatal, but Vlady blocked the door for them and threatened a diplomatic scandal. Vysotsky was saved by the persistence of his wife and the fact that the doctors recognized the famous singer and actor. The operation lasted 18 hours.

Alcohol addiction has had its consequences, causing kidney and heart disease. Doctors tried to deal with especially serious conditions with drugs of the narcotic series. It is not known whether this became the reason for the addiction or the musician himself decided that drugs would help him give up alcohol and cope with his illness, but the fact remains: by the mid-70s, Vysotsky had developed drug addiction. He constantly increased the doses of morphine and amphetamine; by 1977, Vysotsky could no longer live without the daily use of drugs. At that time, the musician was already doomed, attempts at treatment had no effect, and Vysotsky was predicted death within several years, either from an overdose or from abstinence.

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In 1979, in Bukhara, Vysotsky may have experienced clinical death. Biographers are still arguing about this fact.

On July 25, 1980, Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky died suddenly. Death occurred in a dream in the apartment where the musician lived. The artist rushed around the room and told his mother that he knew that he would die that day. He fell asleep only after an injection of a sedative and died in his sleep.

At the request of relatives, an autopsy was not carried out, so the exact cause of Vysotsky's death has not been established. According to several sources, it can be assumed that the poet, musician and talented actor died of myocardial infarction or asphyxiation due to an overdose of sedatives.

Friends and spouse admitted that Vysotsky was killed by drugs, but indirectly, an overdose is never mentioned as a probable cause of death.

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In newspapers and on television, the death of Vladimir Vysotsky was practically not advertised. This happened not so much because he was a poet disliked by the authorities, but because of the very date of his death. Vysotsky died during the Summer Olympics in Moscow. Nobody wanted to spoil such a major international event with an obituary. The message about the death of the actor was posted in the box office window of the Taganka Theater, and a huge crowd gathered around the theater almost instantly. None of those who bought tickets for the failed performances of Vysotsky surrendered them.

Information about the funeral was actively hushed up, but it seemed that the whole city came to say goodbye to the musician. As Marina Vladi later described this, even kings were not buried like that. To get to the Vagankovskoye cemetery, the coffin with Vysotsky had to drive past the Kremlin. The official authorities tried to wash off the flowers and knock down the portrait so that it would not be visible who was being carried through the center of Moscow, but before that, a quietly grieving crowd of people stood up to protect the procession. People covered flowers with umbrellas, shouted at the police. Photos of this mess have gone around the world.

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In order for the great musician to be buried near the entrance, the cemetery director had to sacrifice his position. Vysotsky's grave was simply littered with flowers. Fans of the genius did not forget about him for many years. Until now, many admirers of Vysotsky visit his last refuge and leave flowers. In 1985, the standard gravestone was replaced by a monument to the musician. The statue echoes his song "monument" and depicts a man trying to escape from the stone shell and from the chains of creative canons.

Filmography

• Peers
• Dima Gorin's career
• The living and the dead
• War under the roofs
• Two comrades served
• Fourth
• The Flight of Mr. McKinley
• Zodiac signs
• There are two of them
• Meeting place can not be Changed

Thirty years ago is gone Vladimir Vysotsky.

It makes no sense to talk about the significance of his work, about the scale of his talent - these things are as obvious as Pushkin's genius is obvious. Probably, Vladimir Semenovich was the last Soviet genius, whose departure became a symbol of the end of an era. But this topic must be urgently mined, because otherwise you will certainly fall into pretentious garbage, to which the deceased himself felt an undisguised disgust.

Today all TV channels remember Vysotsky. They show shots from "Hamlet", repeat films with his participation. And ... they lie. I have already heard a strange babble about the team from Sklif, which arrived on July 23 and did not do anything because of the terrible "consequences of alcohol addiction." Surely, they will tell more than once about the bard who was ruined by vodka.

So let's be honest with an honest person like Vysotsky.

For the last three years, alcohol dependence did not occupy a large place in the life of Vladimir Semenovich. Because she was replaced by another, even more severe, namely, a narcotic one. The first narcotic experiments of Vysotsky belong to the 76th, when a kind doctor advised him to use morphine as a way out of a binge. Like, one ukolchik, and again in shape. Vysotsky's friend, Mikhail Shemyakin, claims that it was almost a KGB special operation. As a matter of fact - now no one knows, but Vysotsky reacted to drugs with great enthusiasm. Because they allowed you to relax without the strong external effect that accompanies the use of vodka. And to be constantly in good shape for Vysotsky was very important because of the very tough work schedule and high social status. After all, despite the lack of noticeable official recognition, he was a real Soviet superstar.

Until the 77th, drugs did not play a special role in life, and only became a serious problem by the end of the 78th. Prior to this, according to the testimony of an actual common-law wife (and her name was not Marina Vlady, whom they rarely saw), morphine injections were given only after the exhausting performances of Hamlet in order to “recuperate”. It must be understood that in those years, morphine was not considered a horror-horror, and its abuse was perceived as a relatively innocent game. Therefore, he had no problems with the “medicine,” as Vysotsky called drugs. Familiar doctors brought something, sometimes injections were given by nurses in hospitals, and there are cases when Vladimir Semenovich simply stopped an ambulance and imitated renal colic. He was an actor! And how much drug was transferred to him over the hill by Aeroflot pilots under the guise of heart drops ...

The well-known clinical death on July 25, 1979 in Bukhara is the result of an injection of an unknown drug that was slipped to Vysotsky in the local market under the guise of morphine.

In 1980, when the addiction became too obvious, Vysotsky made several attempts to recover. He was doing hemosorption - a painful purification of blood. He went to a Paris clinic. Finally, he left with Marina Vlady to an abandoned corner in the south of France and tried to jump off himself. Alas, all is in vain.

By the beginning of August, Vysotsky firmly promised Vladi to quit, and when the Olympics began, he blocked many channels for obtaining drugs, especially did not insist on their production. Although it was possible to find. Vodka and - at times - cocaine became the "substitutes" for morphine. However, the team from Sklif was not afraid of alcoholic intoxication, Vysotsky was almost out of it (he drank very heavily in early July, when one old actor of the Taganka Theater, Oleg Kolokolnikov, died). It's just that Vysotsky's personal doctor, who in the last days of his life was constantly nearby, so pumped him up with various, opposite drugs, that transportation anywhere was simply impossible. It was decided to wait until July 25 for Vysotsky to recover at least a little. Well, they waited ...

What exactly happened on the night of July 24-25 is also not very clear. The official version is a heart attack. The same doctors from Sklif said that in fact Vysotsky, who was under the influence of a large dose of chrolal hydrate (the strongest sedative and relaxant), suffocated with his swollen tongue, and the personal doctor slept through it and woke up when it was too late. The district police officer, who studied the circumstances of the death, insisted that friends, tired of the antics of the dying Vysotsky, tied him with sheets and went to bed, and the addict's fragile vessels could not stand it.

In any case, no autopsy was done, and true cause of death was literally taken to the grave. But, pardon the frankness, it was already impossible to save Vysotsky from himself. He would have died anyway, the bill went on for months. The body was undermined to the limit - the liver refused, the heart could not cope, the strongest inflammation from injections developed on the leg (those who saw Hamlet and Khlopusha performed by Vysotsky know that he could not give injections into the veins in his arms, he had to play with a naked torso ). Strictly speaking, a normal person from such experiments on himself would die at the age of twenty-five. Vysotsky's powerful body lasted much longer, and until recently his physical form was impressive. Watch the later videos - already in the summer of 1980 he makes on the Taganka stage such a stand that cannot be repeated even by a much younger and healthy person... But, alas, everyone has their own limits. Vysotsky groped his own at 42. Like Elvis, by the way.

So explain - why is there so much written everywhere about booze, but not a word about drugs? Are they afraid to lower the image of the national hero? Well, I don’t know, I don’t know. Dozens of books have been written about Elvis Presley's addiction, and this does not prevent us from loving his work. But Vysotsky, unlike Elvis, found the courage to fight addiction and, in fact, died in the fight against it. Why is this not an example for young people who are familiar with drugs firsthand? Why can't you say that drugs have killed even such a strong person as Vladimir Semyonovich, and therefore you, a young drishch, shouldn't even touch them?

Instead, they impose on us the image of a bardik, who sadly collapsed from the fact that he was not recognized by the Soviet regime. No guys, it's not like that.

P.S. For those who are interested in not the most joyful details, I recommend Valery Perevozchikov's book "The Truth of the Hour of Death".