Shcherbakov harmonist biography

Issue - from the photo of the author. The background in the spring of this year we proudly learned that President V. Putin awarded the honorary title of “Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation” to the Cossack from the Volgograd region, our countryman, a well -known expert on Cossack folklore Yu. After this news thundered in many media, the head of the district N. Moiseyev outlined the urgent request to write an essay on the famous countryman in the newspaper.

We picked up the idea, but it turned out that it was very difficult to meet Yuri Alexandrovich. Here they just announced a wide celebration of the Trinity in the village of Filonovskaya and that the spouses of Shcherbakov - Yuri and Natalya - will take part in the stage production of an old celebration. They phoned Natalya Vladimirovna, she sent us the publication of colleagues from Volzhskaya Pravda, interesting, well illustrated.

We began to study the Internet versions of materials about this amazing person-we found a lot of things, but because of this informative abundance, the journalistic task became more complicated. After all, the essay is one of the most important and difficult genres of artistic journalism, although the most interesting. However, according to the laws of the genre, such materials should have a cognitive diversity, but will we be able to find something that has not yet been said unknown to the reader in his fate?

We decided to do this. Collect the most capacious and interesting materials of colleagues and supplement them with the fact that it was possible to draw from a short interview, which consisted between performances in the past Trinity celebration. The singer and the musician recorded and released 10 albums, the biographical aspect, Sherbakov performed many Cossack songs for the first time.

He was awarded with anniversary medals and commemorative signs. The work of the performer is known far beyond the region, which is helped by rich solo tour activities. In folklore expeditions, Shcherbakov collected a unique archive of Cossack songs that make up his song repertoire. This is a singer recognized by the listeners, a harmonist, actor. Yuri was born on February 12 in Volzhsky.

Hereditary Khopersk Cossack: his family comes from the Bocharovsky farm of our region. Now the soloist of the ensemble of the Cossack song “Stanitsa” G. Member of many concert projects, laureate of various festivals and creative competitions. His work was admired by Nikita Mikhalkov and Alexander Rosenbaum. He participated in the recording of the soundtracks to them. Starts in childhood learned to play button accordion at a music school in Volzhsky, but a year later he quit.

I tried to make music in high school in Volgograd, but also without much success. We then lived in the Novoanninsky district, I slowly picked up the harmonica and “roared,” recalls Yuri Alexandrovich. I picked up the songs by ear, more and more carried away by the sound of the instrument. Even before serving in the army, Shcherbakov began to engage in folklore ensembles, went with them on expeditions in the region, collected folk songs.

I came to him later, met already as friends. In the film by Nikita Mikhalkov “Tired of the Sun 2”, the Schcherbakov soldier sings not the heroic “Get up, the country is huge”, but goes into battle with the old Kabatsky song “I had the money of the subjects”. The viewer recognized the tragic story of an alcoholic who drank his wife, lost his son into cards and, in the end, sheds tears, realizing that it was impossible to return the past.

Many scold Nikita Sergeyevich for inaccuracies in the “tired of the sun 2”, but Shcherbakov has their own point of view: the film is artistic, not documentary, the director has the right to his vision. Yuri traveled twice to Mikhalkov. For two weeks they shot scenes in the railway museum near Peter, then a month - near Nizhny Novgorod. Actors, even such stars as Sergey Makovetsky and Andrei Merzlikin, lived in the same hotel, ate porridge from the field kitchen on the set: “They made friends that I didn’t want to part,” the fellow countryman admits.

The centner of bread and a box of vodka in the spring on the Internet appeared a video of the amazing military song “Stalingrad Waltz”, which was together performed by the capital's rock musician Garik Sukachev and Yuri Shcherbakov. Born on May 9 in the village of Kachalinskaya Stalingrad region. In the year, he was called up to the front, in M ​​received two bullets in the stomach.

In the hospital, it was already recorded by Sergey. His elder brother died in Hungary in the year. Avdeev Ivan Andreevich went through the whole war and died on March 8 of the year. His son handed over the song to Yuri Shcherbakov. Its plot is simple: the regimental intelligence officer met a nurse and fell in love. During a mortar shelling, the scout was injured, his beloved woman found him and delivered him to the medical battalion.

The fighter survived, returned to the front and continued to beat the Nazis until the end of the war. Of course, this composition can hardly be called a waltz. Yes, and dance in general. The song resembles a bully dance, which a soldier could afford in the breaks between battles, exhaling all his dare and accumulated passion. But in the dry remnant, this is a harsh front lyrics, a birch heart that does not allow to diagnose.And in order to explain how the duet of the Khopersky Cossack-Harmonist was formed with one of the most non-standard rockers of the USSR, we will tell the story of the formation of this original songwriter, who once conquered famous directors and stars of the Russian stage.

Grandfather Yuri - Vasily - was a postpone master of the manufacture of felt and a groom. He really wanted to go to the construction of the Volga hydroelectric power station, but the chairman did not let. Then they argued: if the grandfather is saddened by an unheard of horse in three days, he will receive a centner of bread, a box of vodka and permission to leave the collective farm. Otherwise, it will remain at the state farm.

Grandfather mastered the fateful bet and safely departed with a win to Volzhsky, where he built a house on the island of Zelen. It was he who introduced his grandson to Cossack songs ... Although the love of musical instruments from Yura appeared from a relative along his mother’s line, from grandfather Alexei. I started to master the Shuisky bifurc with him for five years. And at the age of seven, when on May 9, grandfather Vasily gave me Bayan, he began to learn to choose a melody by ear, although I was still hard to see me because of the button accordion.

Lambada on the parade ground later, the Shcherbakov family moved to Volgograd. There, as a teenager, Yura settled down a locksmith at the Barricade plant and earned himself on the Sonata tape recorder, on which he began to record his favorite Cossack songs. On the Lambada train, we mastered it, we even rehearsed it in the vestibule. Then they performed on the parade ground, rubbing the hips with trumpedly ...

Lying, of course, had to be accepted more than once ... And then one day our company heard me singing “vividly, vividly” and ordered it to learn for a drill review. No sooner said than done. We go out onto the parade ground, marching, in full throat, an Orem's song about a guy who really wanted to marry: “E-hey, lively, lively, give a couple of beer, and a couple of girls, so that there was someone to start with” ...

The battalion was heard-this time we already squeezed with the whole company with the company. And I still fell out of the three outfits out of turn ... The song after the army Yuri became the soloist of the ensemble "The village" of the Volgograd Institute of Arts and Culture and the Folklore ensemble of the old Cossack song "Buzuluk". And in M, he played a wedding with the Khopersky Cossack Natalia, also a soloist of the “village”.

And then the head of the "village" Olga Nikitenko convinced my wife and my wife to get an education. In M, Yuri Shcherbakov recorded his first disc “The Romances of the Upper Don”, which immediately went in the hands, recorded, rewritten. Once he found himself with a friend of Yuri, a famous Russian actor Viktor Pavlyuchenkov, now deceased. And two years later, in M, he entered the series “Father” about an experienced sailor who became a priest, in which Viktor Pavlyuchenkov played the main role.

The feast with Mikhalkov in the year of the harmonist and songwriter was invited to the filming of the film "Tired by the Sun 2: Citadel". But Nikita Mikhalkov, who appeared on the site, looked at me incomprehensibly and asked: “Why are you sitting at the table? Where they planted, I’m sitting there ... ”The master of Russian cinema, waiting for the old man who absorbed the Cossack history, did not believe that the summer Yuri Shcherbakov was the owner of the voice that he heard on the disk.

And he demanded: "Well, sing" I had the money of the subjects. " And then it began: “But come on, and now there,” the artist recalls. So many songs only a gray -haired old man can know ... ". And once, a man went to Yuri, who was waiting on the platform to Peter, and handed a bag with a bottle of cognac, saying that he was his fan and had long wanted to make such a gift. And the film was supposed to rain, so we were watered from the fire engine.

In a couple of hours, my jacket was delayed from the frost.

And then I asked: “Maybe cognac? The guys took out a bottle and whistled: “Not a damn thing for themselves, the periphery! Yuri was also remembered by one of the powerful scenes of the movie, when he, a soldier from a penal battalion, raises the instrument of the murdered harmonist and, under the old Kabatsky song “I had money ...” leads people armed with cuttings to the last mortal attack on the citadel.

For some reason, his eyes stood the face of Grandfather Vasily in front of his eyes. As if he heard a song performed by his grandson and understood her true, not Kabatsky, meaning. Following - shooting in the New Year's melodrama "Pension" Tale ", or miracles are turned on" with Zhigalkin's wife, Svetlana Antonova. And every time he calls to chat. No less interesting was the project in the series “Spasskaya” directed by Vladimir Shevelkov, with whom he had already recorded songs to the series “The village” about Kushchevka.

In the year, Yuri had a "sun blow", in which Nikita Mikhalkov was again guilty. Filming of the historical melodrama went in Odessa, Yuri played in the episode of the Cossack with the accordion. His unique performance, completely reproducing the old Cossack singing, did not go unnoticed. In Odessa, his concert was held, the audience even filled the halls of the hall ...

“When we celebrated the premiere of“ Citadel ”,” Yuri continues the conversation, “and I waited for Karen Shakhnazarov, offering a cigar, cognac and shooting in Anna Karenina ... The Cossack agreed in the drama, played the episodic role of a soldier who sings to a hospital. A song about the bleeding gypsy "woke me a groan."In the creative fate of Yuri Shcherbakov and documentary-the film work of Oleg Storm “Cossacks-robbers” about the most difficult time for the Cossacks: the years of the 20th century.

Musical projects are interwoven with film works, among them performances with Pelagia, theater of Nadezhda Babkina, with whom Yuri traveled half the country as part of the project “Song of Russia”; He sang with Elena Vaenga in St. Petersburg ... Many times he performed with Alexander Rosenbaum, who every year in November holds 10 concerts in the theater of the Russian army.

The director imagined this duet, and the acquaintance of the performers took place at Easter in Moscow. The clip was recorded on May 2 at the Contemporary Theater. This song was waiting for the guys in the Donbass, where Shcherbakov came with concerts. Yuri and Natalya Shcherbakov - repeated guests of the television program “Hello, Andrey!