Alexei Fatyanov - Russian Soviet poet, participant in the Great Patriotic War, author of many popular songs in the 1940s-1970s.
Fatyanov was born on March 5, 1919 in the village of Maloye Petrino, learned to read early, spent a lot of time in the home library - his father ordered books especially for him. Parents instilled in their son a love of literature, theater, music and singing. Young Alexei began to write poetry under the influence of Blok and Yesenin.
Fatyanov graduated from high school in the village of Losinoostrovskiy, Moscow Region, in the evenings he went to study at the drama class of the music school. He visited Moscow theaters and exhibitions.
In 1935, Alexei Fatyanov entered the theater studio of Alexei Diky at the theater of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. In 1937 he was admitted to the theater school of the acting troupe of the Central Theater of the Red Army Alexei Popov. He played in performances, toured with the theater in the garrisons of the Far East.
In May 1940, Fatyanov was drafted into the army, he ended up in the Yelets regiment of railway troops, and participated in the regiment's amateur performances. Since that time, he began to write a lot, publish his essays and poems in the Oryol regional "Molodezhka".
Fatyanov met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War on tour of the ensemble in the Seshcha air garrison near Bryansk. The poet wrote reports to the leadership of the ensemble demanding that he be sent to the active army. However, he was refused: only he could, under the conditions of a military road, quickly write a whole program for front-line performances, process newspaper materials into poems and songs, and write a new topical scenario. Then Alexei received his first wound.
The ensemble gave concerts in hospitals in Bashkiria, Orenburg, Kazakhstan, performed in front of the echelons leaving for the front.
In December 1944, during the storming of the city of Szekesfehervar (Hungary), Fatyanov was wounded a second time, later he was awarded the medal "For Courage" and a ten-day vacation.
For his work in the ensemble, the poet was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
Fatyanov's fame grew - according to the memoirs of contemporaries, there was not a day in 1945 that songs based on his poems did not sound on the All-Union Radio. They walked in whole blocks, several times a day. From February to June 1946, Fatyanov wrote at least ten songs. After 1946, 18 films with Fatyanov's songs were released.
In 1947, Fatyanov was admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR as a songwriter. At the same time, many composers were repeatedly awarded the Stalin Prize for songs based on Fatyanov's poems, but the author of the words himself was not awarded.
Most of Fatyanov's works are written in the style of civil and love lyrics, his poems organically fit the music, were simple, easy to remember the first time.
Post-war songs based on the poet's verses gained great popularity. Nevertheless, during Fatyanov's lifetime, only one small book of his poems, The Accordion Sings (1955), was published, and his poems began to be widely published only in the 1960s-1980s.
Fatyanov was not only a poet, but also an artist, played the accordion and piano, and had a singing voice. At creative evenings, along with the recitation of his poems, he sang songs based on his own poems.
Track list of the collection of songs by composer Alexei Fatyanov:
01. I don't know when spring will come (From the film "Spring on Zarechnaya Street") (00:00)
02. We, friends, are migratory birds (From the movie "Heavenly slug") (03:21)
03. On the porch (05:45)
04. Kurochkin's couplets (08:41)
05. In the city garden (11:01)
06. Nightingales (13:54)
07. Where are you now, fellow soldiers (16:47)
08. Silence behind the Rogozhskaya Zastava (From the film "The House I Live in") (19:52)
09. We haven't been at home for a long time (22:45)
10. Where are you, my garden (25:21)
11. On a sunny meadow (28:52)
12. Took a childhood friend ... (From the movie "Ivan Brovkin in Virgin Lands") (31:46)
13. I dreamed about you for three years (34:01)
14. Yura's song (From the movie "Spring on Zarechnaya Street") (39:05)
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