Kupola vladimir vysotsky biography

Russian performer Vladimir Vysotsky (1938-1980) was an underground folk hero in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s, and attained genuine icon status after his untimely death at age 42.

The widely admired poet, singer, and actor is sometimes referred to as the “Bob Dylan” of Soviet Russia for the subversive themes in the lyrics of his songs and in his poetry. In 1981, on the first anniversary of his death, Serge Schmemann wrote in the New York Times about the stature accorded Vysotsky both during his lifetime and now, as fans flocked to his gravesite. “Vysotsky's remarkable popularity was, and remains, in the uncanny power of his ballads to reflect the hardships, degradation, hope, humor, profanity, weariness and drunkenness that officially do not exist,” Schmemann noted, “but that so many Russians live by.”

Vysotsky was born on January 25, 1938, in Moscow, during the darkest period of Soviet history, when the country's increasingly authoritarian leade