Arkady Pogodin Biography

Pogodin, Arkady Biography Arkady Pogodin was born in the year in the family of the Odessa doctor Solomon Piliver, where they loved theater and music. He took the first stage steps at the age of nineteen years during the period of revolutionary events and civil war. This is not surprising: after the revolution, many amateur and semi -professional theaters appeared.

In the mid -twenties, he moved from Odessa to Moscow, participated in the programs of the Blue Blouse agiteater. In parallel with this, Arkady spoke on the stage in the so -called “torn genre”, performing the “songs of the Parisian Gamen”, tried his hand into the cinema. To this day, only the dumb film comedy of the year “unpaid letter” of the now forgotten director Leonid Molchanov has been preserved.

In the year, Pogodina was invited to the theater at the Moscow Press House. The musical director of this theater was another Odessa - composer Konstantin Listov, the future author of the Tachanka, Zemlyanka, Sevastopol Waltz and many other popular songs. It was he who recommended that the friend seriously engage in vocals. Pogodin, without interrupting the work in the Theater of Small Forms, began to prepare himself for an opera career.

In the year, the artist is entrusted with the party of Albert in the operetta I. Strauss “Thin Diplomacy”. Then the famous director A. Arnold offers him the main role in the operetta “Chocolate Soldier” composed by the brothers Crasses based on the works of B. this performance, which opened the summer season of the year in the Park of the Central Code, played a decisive role in the fate of the artist.

The fact is that the jazz organ of Alexander Tsfasman participated in it, and the composer invited A. Pogodin to become the soloist of his team. With this orchestra, the singer performs before the start of sessions at the Artistic Cinema - the most famous at that time in Moscow, and after the end of the program, also on the night air of the All -Union radio, is recorded on grampes.

His friend Konstantin Listov made the singer a wonderful gift, offering to become the first performer of his song “In the Chair Park”. The Chair Park is one of the attractions of Yalta, the former estate of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov and his wife Anastasia Nikolaevna. According to eyewitnesses, two thousand bushes of roses bloomed here all year round, which inspired many poets and artists.

One of them was Pavel Arsky, at one time a rather famous poet, moreover, a participant in the assault on the Winter Palace. He composed many revolutionary “Virshe”, but for descendants, apparently, he will forever remain the author of the poems to the hike K. This song made Arkady Pogodin “a fashionable performer”. At the heart of the plot of the romance of the memoirs of a sailor who went into a distant northern voyage.

The modest dance melody "in the Chair Park" sounded everywhere - from the open windows of houses, on dance floors, in parks, broadcast on the radio. The writer Yuri Nagibin recalls in one of his stories how, in the pre -war years, he regularly visited the Moscow restaurant with his beloved, because “Arkady Pogodin, which we liked there” ... The first all -Union artists of the stage was announced there.

By the high level of qualifications of the jury and the composition of the participants, this creative competition had no equal. The fifth place and title of laureate, which Arkady Pogodin won at the competition, was a significant success. The singer’s career went uphill, in OM he was included in the program of the final concert of the decade of the Soviet stage. And who knows how the creative fate of the artist would have if not for the Great Patriotic War.

Pogodin already in the early days of the Great Patriotic War connected to the chief work. He performs mainly in the Northern Fleet, in the Arctic. A long absence in the capital, the inability to sign up on gramplasts affected the post -war fate of the singer. In fact, he was pushed to the pop periphery and gave concerts mainly in the province.

At the end of the x, he practically leaves the stage. At the end of his life, Arkady Pogodin began to write memoirs. Arkady Pogodin died in the year. The urn with his ashes is buried in the Don cemetery.