Mark Samoilovich Lisyansky (1913-1993) - Russian Soviet poet and songwriter. One of the most prominent and revered poets of the Soviet era. In the article, we briefly dwell on the biography of Lisyansky, talk about his main works. In addition, both versions of the appearance of the famous song about Moscow will be considered.
The beginning of the way
The future poet was born on January 13, 1913 (according to the old style - December 31, 1912) in the city of Odessa. His father was a simple port loader. Mark received education in Nikolaev in one of FZU - seven-year school of Factory-factory apprenticeship. The first poem of the boy was published in 1924 on the pages of the newspaper "Red Nikolaev". It was dedicated to V.I. To Lenin.
Young Mark Lisyansky began his career in the same city, at a local shipyard, mastering the specialties of a tinsmith and a ship scribbler. But in the early 30s, his fate changed dramatically - Lisyansky became a student at the Moscow Institute of Journalism. After graduating, he began to work in Kiev, and then in the Ivanovo newspaper.
Further, fate connected the young man with Yaroslavl - the military service to which he was called up, Lisyansky held in this city, and remained there after demobilization. He worked as a correspondent for a local youth newspaper, from time to time published poetry on the pages of local publications, and joined the VKPb.
The first collection of Mark Lisyansky - "The Coast" - was released in a small circulation at that time and was released in 1940. He did not go unnoticed - Yaroslav Smelyakov in the Literary Newspaper responded with a commendable review of his release.
During the war
Mark Lisyansky could remain in the rear - in 1941 he was entrusted with the affairs of the regional branch of the Union of Writers of the USSR, but the young man signed up as a volunteer. He commanded a detachment of sappers, but in 1941 fell under the bombing in the Smolensk region, was shell-shocked, broke his leg and then underwent treatment in a Yaroslavl hospital. By the time Lisyansky was discharged, the army was already at the approaches to Moscow. It was one of the most difficult and tragic periods in the Great Patriotic War.
Returning to his division, passing the front-line city, which had been an elegant capital not so long ago, the young poet wrote the famous poem My Moscow.
Due to severe lameness, Lisyansky could no longer fight, so he was appointed correspondent to the editorial office of the division newspaper. So the poet continued his service as a special correspondent of this and a number of other printed publications. Together with the 43rd Army, Mark Lisyansky and his wife, who worked as a radio operator and proofreader, were in East Prussia and Pomerania, and worked in Poland.
Mark Lisyansky is a holder of the orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War and several medals.
Post-war period
After the victory, when the couple moved to live in Moscow, the poetry collections of Mark Lisyansky began to appear: "My Golden Moscow", "Spring after Spring", "Beyond the Mountains, beyond the Forests".
The poet lived and worked in Moscow, was familiar with many writers and writers, his contemporaries - Mikhail Svetlov, Lev Oshanin, Tamara Zhirmunskaya, Evgeny Dolmatovsky and others. He worked extensively and actively with famous Soviet composers - in those years, a song based on poems by Mark Lisyansky with Soviet pop was performed by Vladimir Troshin, Muslim Magomayev, Eduard Gil, Yuri Bogatikov and others.
In gratitude for the long and fruitful creative work, the poet was awarded government awards.
Mark Samoilovich Lisyansky died in 1993. His grave is located at the Vagankovsky cemetery.
"My Golden Moscow!"
Mark Lisyansky immortalized his name in history as the author of the words “Anthem of Moscow”. True, the song was approved by the official anthem only in 1995, but in Soviet times it remained one of the most popular and often performed from the stage and among the people. Here is for sure the well-known initial fragment of her text:
I walked around the world a lot
He lived in a dugout, in the trenches, in the taiga,
He was buried twice alive
He knew separation, loved in longing.
But I'm used to being proud of Moscow
And everywhere I repeated the words:
My dear capital,
My golden Moscow!
This song was repeatedly performed by such prominent pop artists as Zoya Rozhdestvenskaya, Mark Bernes, Lev Leshchenko, Joseph Kobzon, Lyudmila Zykina and many other performers, including choirs and ensembles.
In short, the story of its creation is as follows. Written by Lisyansky in 1941, a poem about Moscow was published only in 1942 by the New World magazine. This happened due to the evacuation of the editorial office in Kuibyshev.
Returning to the division, Lisyansky offered the text to local amateur enthusiasts. They quickly made a song out of it, putting the verses on a simple, uncomplicated melody. But in 1942, Isaac Dunaevsky himself, having read a poem in the New World, was inspired and wrote music (moreover, the notes were recorded by him directly on the pages of the magazine). Since he could not contact Lisyansky, he asked sound engineer Sergei Agranyan to edit the text. He added some additional stanzas - and the song was ready. Partially, it was devoted to military everyday life, therefore, in peacetime, its text was supplemented and edited several times.
For the first time, the song was performed by singer Marina Babialo with an ensemble led by Dunaevsky - the premiere was held at the Central House of Culture of Railway Workers. Then, in the performance of the same musical collective, the song was performed with triumph at one of the government concerts, Stalin liked it, and a record was soon released. Previously, the Radio Committee asked again to amend the text, so the words about Stalin appeared in it:
Above Moscow in the radiance of glory
The sun of our victory will rise.
Hello to the city of the Great Power,
Where does our beloved Stalin live ...
According to another version ...
There was evidence that the initial version of the poem "I used to walk around the world a lot ..." was written by Sergei Agranyan. He showed it to the poet Mark Lisyansky, who was then passing through Moscow. Tom supposedly liked it and, having edited it, he immediately gave it to Dunaevsky so that he would write music.
Whether it is true or not, it is indisputable that Agranyan nevertheless added the following stanzas of the “journal variant” at the request of Dunaevsky.
Controversy over authorship went on for quite some time, until finally, at a meeting of the Bureau of the Moscow branch of the Writers' Union in 1965, a co-authorship order was issued. That is, according to the official version, the authors of the lyrics are two - Mark Lisyansky and Sergey Agranyan. Apparently, this was that rare case in poetry when the authors worked on one poem without notifying each other.