Alexander Galich

Aleksandr Galich (Russian: Александр Аркадьевич Га́лич , October 19, 1918 – December 15, 1977), was a Russian poet, screenwriter, playwright and singer-songwriter. Galich is a pen name, a sort of acronym of his last name, first name, and patronymic (Ginzburg Aleksandr Arkadievich). Image File history File links Galich_lebedev. ... October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Poet is a term applied to a person who composes poetry, including extended forms such as dramatic verse. ...

Biography

Alexander Ginzburg was born on October 19, 1918 in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk) into a Jewish intelligentsia family. His father Arkady Samoilovich was an economist, mother Fanni Borisovna Eksler worked in a music conservatory. Most of his childhood he lived in Sevastopol. Before WWII he entered the Gorky Literary Institute, then moved to Operatic-Dramatic Studio of Stanislavsky, later (in 1939) to Studio-Theatre of A. Arbuzov and V. Pluchek. October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: Дніпропетровськ, Dnipropetrovs’k; Russian: Днепропетро́вск, Dnepropetrovsk, formerly Екатериносла́в, Yekaterinoslav) is Ukraines third largest city with 1. ... Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: Дніпропетровськ, Dnipropetrovs’k; Russian: Днепропетро́вск, Dnepropetrovsk, formerly Екатериносла́в, Yekaterinoslav) is Ukraines third largest city with 1. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Sevastopol (Севастополь, Sevastopol’ in Russian and Ukrainian; Aqyar in Crimean Tatar), formerly known as Sebastopol (from a mistransliteration of the Russian v), is a port city in Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of Crimean peninsula at , . It has a population of 328,600 (2004). ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... Konstantin (Constantin) Stanislavski (Константи́н Серге́евич Станисла́вский / Алексе́ев) (January 5, 1863 - August 7, 1938) was a Russian theatre and acting innovator. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He wrote plays and screenplays, while in the late 1950s he started to write songs and sing them with his own guitar accompaniment. He practically single-handedly created the genre of "bard song". Many of his songs spoke of the second world war and the lives of concentration camp inmates, subjects which Vladimir Vysotsky also began tackling at around the same time. They became popular in the public and were made available via magnitizdat. Bulat Okudjava, a pioneer of the Bard genre For other meanings of the word, see Bard (disambiguation). ... Vladimir Vysotsky Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий) (January 25, 1938 – July 25, 1980) was a Russian singer, song-writer, poet, and actor, whose career has had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture. ... Magnitizdat (in Russian магнитиздат) is a term used to describe the process of re-copying and self distributing live audio tape recordings in the Soviet Union that were not available commercially. ...

Galich's increasingly sharp criticism of the Soviet regime in his music caused him many problems. He was excluded in 1971 from the Soviet Writers' Union, which he had joined in 1955. In 1972 he was expelled from the Union of Cinematographers. That year he became baptised in the Orthodox Church. Eastern Orthodoxy (also called Greek Orthodoxy and Russian Orthodoxy) is a Christian tradition which represents the majority of Eastern Christianity. ...

Galich was forced to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1974. He initially lived in Norway for one year, where he made his first recordings outside of the USSR. He later moved to Munich, where he joined the Russian anti-communist organization NTS. He finally moved to Paris where in 1977 he died of an electric shock, apparently when trying to hook up an antenna to his new stereo system (he had already suffered three strokes before). While his death appears to have been an accident, some believe it was a KGB assassination. Munich and the Bavarian Alps Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the largest city and capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ... NTS can refer to: National Topographic System Nevada Test Site National Trust for Scotland This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language acronym for State Security Committee, (Russian: (help· info); Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ...

In 1988, he was posthumously re-instated into the Writers and Cinematographers Unions. In 2003, the first memorial plaque for Galich was put up on a building in Novosibirsk where he performed in 1968. That same year a memorial society in his name was founded. Novosibirsk (Russian Новосиби́рск, pop. ...

External links

• ((Russian)) The Alexander Galich Club
• ((English)) More on Galich including sound samples and lyrics
• ((Russian)) Galich page on the bard.ru site