The cultural heritage of the Soviet Union is not fully understood and studied. This can be confirmed by the work of the famous composer Boris Mokrousov. His biography can serve as a role model for our contemporaries.
On the Volga shores
Nizhny Novgorod was originally formed as a center of trade, production and commercial activity. Cultural life was also seething here. Boris Andreyevich Mokrousov was born on February 27, 1909 in a working class family. Parents at that time lived in a small village near the Lower. Father worked on the railway. Mother was engaged in housework. The future composer was the eldest child in the family. According to established tradition, he had to look after his younger brothers and sisters.
Boris showed creativity. He drew well. He independently mastered playing the guitar, balalaika and mandolin. At school, Mokrousov studied well, but gave preference to music lessons. In that chronological period, clubs were created throughout the country for workers and peasants. In these institutions, the "Kukharkin children" joined the treasures of art and culture. And in Nizhny Novgorod opened a club of railway workers. At age 13, Mokrousov heard the piano sound, which from that moment became his favorite musical instrument.
Two years later he worked as a taper in one of the choreographic studios. It is interesting to note that Boris worked as an electrician, and engage in music in his spare time from work. When the guy turned 16 years old, he entered the music college. I must say that he was reluctantly accepted, since the applicant was considered an overgrowth. After some time, Mokrousov, as an excellent student, was sent to the rabfak of the Moscow Conservatory. Here he worked hard and moved to the composer faculty.
Treasured stone
In 1936, Mokrousov received a diploma and continued his creative studies. It is interesting to note that the composer's thesis was the Anti-Fascist Symphony. When the war began, the young composer did not hide and asked to serve in the Black Sea Fleet. Even in war conditions, he did not forget to make music. In 1942, he wrote The Song of the Defenders of Moscow, and a few months later, The Treasured Stone. According to contemporaries, the "Treasured stone" of the table is a real anthem of resistance to the Nazis.
In 1948, Boris Mokrousov received the Stalin Prize for the songs “The Lonely Harmony”, “About the Native Land”, “The Treasured Stone”, “Flowers Are Good in the Garden in the Garden”. Since he was a man of a wide soul, the monetary equivalent of the prize "went" to treat friends and even unfamiliar people. In the next decade, Mokrousov worked hard and delighted Soviet people with the new songs “Sormovskaya Lyric”, “Autumn Leaves”, “We Are Not Friends with You” and further on the list. Without the slightest exaggeration, we can say that the whole country knew the melodies and words of these songs.
