Nightingale singer biography

A significant date, news, the Chernogolov city library published Nadia, or the “gull”, as its relatives affectionately called it, grew up in a God -fearing, hardworking peasant family. Education, only two and a half classes of the parish school, the hope of “conquering” the mother who forbade the girl to attend classes. The passion for singing led a chorus to the choir of the Holy Trinity Convent, in which she lived for more than two years a novice.

The people who listened to her singing on the clergy showed: “When the gush will pound, already the flame of candles trembles! The monastery existence did not like a sixteen-year-old girl: “When I went to the monastery, she wished the truth pure, but sensed that there was no perfect purity-truth. The soul rebelled and rushed away ... ”, Nadezhda Vasilievna wrote in her autobiographical notes.

Having accidentally hit the circus performance in Kursk, she decides to become a circusage, and after a few days the girl is accepted into the troupe, but her mother learns about this and interferes with her daughter's plans. Hope is arranged by the maid in a rich merchant family, and having moved to Kyiv, he enters the choinist in the chapel of Alexandra Vladimirovna Lipkina, where after some time he begins to perform solo parties.

An illiterate peasant girl who did not know the notes possessed not only an amazing voice, but also an absolute musical hearing and easily coped with the most complex solo batches, which soon became a professional singer. Nadia later joined the ballet troupe of Stein, where she met with the former soloist of the ballet of the Warsaw Theater Edmund Palevitsky, who married at the age of 19.

Over the next five years, already under the name Polevitskaya, the young artist sang in the popular “choir of Lapotnikov” Monkevich, and then in the Moscow Restaurant “Yar”, where she won the loud glory of the soloist - performer of Russian folk songs. The year in the fate of Nadezhda Vasilievna Palevitskaya was a year when at the Nizhny Novgorod fair, Leonid Sobinov heard her.

With his assistance, she performed at the Moscow Conservatory, was friendly with Chaliapin, who heard her singing said: “Help God, dear Nadya, sing his songs that she brought from the earth! From the very beginning of his solo career, Polevitskaya included popular folk songs in his repertoire: “Luchinushka”, “There is a cliff on the Volga”, “Kalinka”, “I remember, I was still young”, “I drove all the universe”, “On the wild steppes of Transbaikal”, “Because of the island for the Crescent”, “Khaz-Bulat Obthalya”, “glorious Sea-Holy Baikal” “The sea spread widely” and others.

These songs poured from the very heart of the singer and gave birth to a lively response in the hearts of the listeners. In the year, the artist signed a contract for forty concerts throughout the empire. This successful deal was preceded by an invitation to speak in Tsarskoye Selo for the imperial family. Empress Alexandra Fedorovna, in one of these tricks, gave Nadezhda Vasilyevna a BRANCH with diamonds in the form of a beetle for inspired singing.

According to eyewitnesses, listening to the singer, the emperor lowered his head low and cried. When the First World War began, Nadezhda Palevitskaya went to the front, where she became a nurse in the infirmary, including near the front line. The singer saw the horrors of war - blood, death, suffering of the wounded. Her husband fought in the same places and died in battle in January.

After that, with a nervous disorder, she was sent to Petrograd. In the summer and years, Vladimir Gardin in the Palevitskaya estate shot two films “Scream of Life” and “The Power of Darkness” with Nadezhda Vasilyevna in the title role. In the year, both films were shifted in one called Agafya. Alexander Blok in his notebook wrote that Polevitskaya was shot in the movie "Young Olshansky Barin".

During a tour in September, she was captured by the white. From the execution of her, a participant in the White Movement, the commander of the horse intelligence commander of the Kornilov Division Nikolai Vladimirovich Skoblin, who later became her last husband. Later she lived in exile - in Germany and France, where she was successful: emigrant newspapers wrote about the genuine "Plevitskomania".

She performed mainly in front of Russian -speaking compatriots. In October, she gave a concert in New York. In the year she began to cooperate with the NKVD. In the year, she was arrested and condemned by the French court for 20 years of hard labor for complicity with her husband in the abduction of the head of the ROVS of the White General Yevgeny Miller from Paris. Simultaneously with the abduction of Miller, her husband, Nikolai Skoblin, fled from the country and died under unclear circumstances in Spain.

France President Albert Lebren refused to pardon it. Polevitskaya died in a women's prison in Renna on October 1 of the year of France by this time was already occupied by the Third Reich. She died in oblivion and poverty. Her death is shrouded in secret, since the agent of the farmer and farmer are still in closed special storage facilities. Nowadays, especially in the last two decades, the name of Nadezhda Vasilievna Palevitskaya has come out of oblivion.

She was the first to perform Russian folk songs on our stage.It became known that she collected, recorded and performed two thousand Russian songs, influencing L. Ruslanov, K. Shulzhenko, L. Book of memoirs of the singer “Diegkin Karagod”, consisting of “my path to the song” and “My path with the song”, was written and published in exile. The dramatic fate of Polevitskaya is dedicated to the story of Vladimir Nabokov “Assistant Director”.

In Vinnikov, a museum dedicated to its life is opened and the Russian festival-competition of children's folklore groups “Diezhkin Karagod” is held annually. Rudomino: Kursk region. Irina Raksha.