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The story of the creation of the song "Alyosha"

There is an old swimmer on Bulgarian land. Over his more than thousand -year history, he witnessed many events. His streets, houses, monuments can tell about them. One of them is a majestic hill of liberators. He is crowned with an eighteen -meter figure of a Soviet soldier, carved from granite - a monument to the Soviet soldiers who liberated the city and the whole country from fascism. It was opened in 1957, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the great October. His author is the Bulgarian sculptor Vasil Radoslov. A hundred wide steps are leading to the pedestal, along which the Bulgarian children who enter the pioneers rise often solemn system, worrying. Happy newlyweds come to him on the day of the wedding. This place is sacred and expensive for each Bulgarian.

In the fall of 1962, Soviet composer Eduard Savelyevich Kolmanovsky arrived in Bulgaria. He was told about how in September 1944 the residents of the city with rose bouquets met their liberators and how one of the soldiers said that while his hands were able to hold their weapons, roses will never be sprayed with blood. The folk memory also preserved the name of the soldier - the affectionate, melting Russian name Alyosha. With roses, he is immortalized in stone.

Returning home, the composer shared his impressions of what he saw and heard in Bulgaria, with the poet Konstantin Yakovlevich Vanshenkin, a longtime co -author, showed him a photograph of the monument to the Soviet soldiers - “Alyosha”.

“Poems were born very quickly, in a single breath,” the poet recalls. - The topic is dear, close. I went through the war, fought in Hungary, in Austria, in Czechoslovakia, lost many combat friends, comrades in arms, could die myself. If it is written that it is suffered and expensive, it finds an echo in the hearts of people. And the topic of war is always bleeding for us.

Until 1971, I could not visit Bulgaria, although I really wanted to. And when I first came there and saw Alyosha, when I saw his enormous stone boots, a tunic ... I felt as if I had met an old and close friend ... ”

For the first time, the song “Alyosha” was published in 1966 in the magazine “foreman-sergeant” (today it is called “Znamenoster”) in the issue dedicated to Soviet-Bulgarian friendship.

This beautiful song was included in his repertoire by the Red Banner Ensemble of the Song and Dance of the Soviet Army named after Alexandrov, and in 1967 the Red Banies brought it to Bulgaria. There, in Plovdiv, at the foot of the Alyosha monument, in the presence of many thousands of listeners its first performance took place.

The Moscow choir of youth and students at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Sofia performed with great success with great success.

For our Soviet listeners, this song was truly “discovered” by the Bulgarian singers, a wonderful duet-Margaret Nikolov and Georgy Cordov.

Since then, Alyosha is a kind of musical symbol of Soviet-Bulgarian friendship and the indestructible friendship of our peoples. And let, as it is in the song, “His tunic is made of stone, from the stone of his boots,” Alyosha lives in our hearts, in our dreams and hopes, in our affairs ... ”