Biography
Peter Leshchenko was considered one of the brightest pop artists of the beginning of the 20th century. The singer began with the fact that the execution of the "Nacre" and "My Maglug" filled the pauses between sessions in cinemas, later entertained the public from the theater scene, while the wife-dancer rested and disguised himself.The solo career of the artist started when he turned 32 years old - it seems to be late, but no. Capricious listeners as if waiting for such an elegant handsome man with a non-mild, soft voice, a kind of pronunciation and a romantic repertoire. Modern musicians Leshchenko's songs may seem naive, but for that time they were masterpieces.
Childhood and youth
Peter Leshchenko was born in the village of Isaevo, which is located in the Odessa region. Mother Maria Kalinovna Leshchenkova gave birth to a son out of marriage, and he never learned his biological father. As illegitimate Peter did not give out the metric, and the first document was the certificate of baptism, which took place on July 3, 1898. Peter had younger Summer Sisters Valentine and Catherine.
9 months after the birth of the firstborn, Maria Kalinovna leaves with his parents in Chisinau. Up to 8 years old, the boy stayed at home education, which was engaged in mother, grandmother and stepfather Alexey Vasilyevich Alphimov, who worked as a dental technician. Mary possessed an absoritious musical hearing, loved and knew how to sing, knew the very heart of the set of landlord songs.
These abilities were inherited and Peter, whom in 1906 for manifested abilities in the field of vocal and dance, are taken to the soldier's church choir, and after a few months they are credited to the parish school in Chisinau. Thus, in 17 years, Peter Leshchenko graduated and general education and music schools. At the same time, the young man is taken to the front. At first, Peter served in the 7th Don Cossack shelf in the 7th Don Cossack shelf, and after the end of the Kiev Infantry School of Inport - in the Odessa 40th spare shelf, even later became the commander of the platoon of the Podolsky infantry regiment.
At the end of the summer of 1917, Leshchenko was contused, received a difficult injury and sent for treatment in Chisinau Hospital. The recovery was delayed, and the Peter was released from the hospital after the October Revolution. Since Bessarabia moved to Romania, then the future singer turned out to be Romanian subjects. After the army, the artist worked in different directions - was tokarem, held posts in the church, soap dishes in the cafe, solired in the vocal quartet, danced and sang in the theater.
At the end of 1919, Peter Leshchenko switches exclusively on pop activities. He touches a lot in the composition of the dance group "Elizarov", with the Balalalache ensemble "Husar", acts as a solo singer and in a guitar duet. Once in 1923 in Paris, the Contractor enters the Trefilova Ballet School, after the end of which he has been completed in the prestigious restaurant "Normandi" with dance and vocal numbers.
Music
Since 1926, for 2 years, Leshchenko tours in Europe and the countries of the Middle East for 2 years. After the tour returns to Romania and is working for some time in the theater "Theater Nostra", but soon leaves for the Baltic States, then to Ukraine, where he performs in various restaurants.At the end of 1931, the singer meets the prominent composer Oscar row, which wrote popular tango and focus style tunes, as well as pop compositions and mental romances. At the suggestion, the Line Peter first records his voice. Gramophone plates with songs "Black Eyes", "Blue Rhapsody", "Tell me, why", and later - Tatiana, Miranda and Nastya-Rodka.
The success of these songs leads to the fact that Leshchenko offers a contract Romanian branch of the British COLUMBIA Reconciliation Company, on which he recorded over 80 plates. Works were also published by other gramzaping firms - German Parlophone Records, Romanian Electrecord and Latvian Belaccord. Just for some reason, it was not preserved on the vinyl a lot of performance by Peter Song "Cranes". The one is distributed online, it is assumed, the version of the Kiev artist Grigory Balbera.
Sound recording raises the fame of Peter Leshchenko, and he touches a lot not only on Bessarabia, but also performs in the best halls of Vienna, London, Riga, Chisinau. Then the artist with his family ass in Bucharest, where he opened the restaurant. Visitors entertained both the owner himself and the trio as part of the spouse and his sisters.
At the end of 1941, the vocalist gave a number of concerts in Odessa's occupied by Romanian troops in the Central Hall of the Bristol Hotel. The first military agenda Peter ignored, settled in the artistic group and spoke to the soldiers. According to the second order, Leshchenko went to the front line in the Crimea, where he served at the headquarters of the Romanian army and headed the dining room.
With the arrival of the Soviet Army, together with his wife, sang in hospitals, garrisons, officer clubs. Since the summer of 1948, the spouses perform in various cafes and cinemas of Bucharest, then find a job in the most created pop theater.
Personal life
Partners of Leshchenko for creativity became companions and in personal life. In the ballet school in France, Peter met with Latvian Zhenya Zakitt, who came to learn from Riga. In the same year, the couple officially registered marriage. Spouses for all tour went together and performed a lot in a duet. In this union in January 1931, the son of Icca (Igor) was born.
During the Second World War, being on tour in Odessa, Peter Konstantinovich meets a 19-year-old student of the conservatory faith Belousova. In one of the first nights, the artist makes the girl a sentence and leaves to Bucharest for divorce with Zakitt, which was still officially scheduled. Because of the war and threats of mobilization, the wedding was postponed. Only in 1944, Leshchenko and Belousov were able to get married, but they did not have time to acquire children.
Petr Leshchenko freely owned by Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, French and German languages.
Death
Peter Leshchenko wanted to return to the Soviet Union, applied to the leadership of the country with the appropriate request, but letters remained unanswered. Rather, on the contrary, these statements played a tragic role in the fate of the artist.Cooperation with the German gramzapi and tour studio in Western countries attracted the attention of the NKVD. The Socialist System, to which Romania joined after World War II, considered the singer in uncompromising, non-dissolutely vulgar and even anti-communist. Also, Peter was as if he was forced to move to Romania, Belousov's Soviet citizen, who after marriage with Leshchenko began to be officially reckoned in the USSR traitor to the Motherland.
According to Moscow, the state security authorities of Romania are arrested by Peter Leshchenko directly in the intermission of the concert, which took place in the city of Brasov at the end of March 1951.
For 3 years, he was translated from one prison to another. Leshchenko was in Zhilava, Kapula Midia, Briter, and in 1954 translated into the prison hospital of Targu-window, as he opened the old ulcer of the stomach. Local doctors made an operation, but from the hospital, the performer did not comply with. The cause of the death of Peter Konstantinovich in July 1954 was a new exacerbation, which the organism weakened by imprisonment did not suffer. The spouse learned about it only in 1956.
Faith was arrested in July 1952, he was sentenced to shooting on the 58th article for treason, but in 2 years amnestied. The woman tried to find the grave of her husband, but the materials of the criminal case were classified as this day. Belousov, before you go away from life in 2009, twice was married and managed to release a book dedicated to Peter, which I provided photos from a personal archive.
The son of Leshchenko Igor worked as a balletmaster in the Bucharest Theater of the Opera and Ballet, brought up Kristin's daughter. The granddaughter of the singer chose the technical profession, but sometimes participated in musical competitions.
Memory
In the late 80s, the firm "Melody" released a plate "sings Peter Leshchenko", and only then new generations of Soviet citizens found out about this page of history. According to rumors, a disc with the records of the "Untyful Belleemigrant Kabatsky singer", as Comrade Stalin said, eclipsed by the popularity of the then stars of the scene.
In 2013, the film "Peter Leshchenko" was removed on the life of the Russian artist by the director Vladimir Kott on the scenario of Edward Volodarsky. All that has gone before…". True, individual facts of biography gave way to artistic fiction. For example, a vocalist spoke without impresario, in the picture there is such a Jew Zeltser, son replaces the daughter of Katya, sisters - Brother Alexander.
The image of the singer on the screen was embodied 2 actors: in the youth - Ivan Stebunov, what older is Konstantin Khabensky. Women's characters got Olga Lerman and Victoria Isakova. To the Russian viewer, the series reached only in 2017. Prior to this, the picture appeared on the Internet and in Ukrainian television.
In Chisinau and Odessa, the street and alley are named after Peter Leschenko.
Famous songs
- "Black eyes"
- "My last tango"
- "Tell me why?"
- "Samovar"
- "Nastya-Berry"
- "Sing Gypsy, Crying, Gypsy"
- "Tatyana"
- "Miranda"
- "Candles faceted"
- "Blue Rapese"