Maya Kristalinskaya - biography, creativity, personal life

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Many extraordinary personalities attract attention not only during their

life, but also after its completion. Real talent has no statute of limitations. This article will focus on just such a person - a folk singer from the times of the Soviet Union.

Maya Kristalinskaya: biography

Who is she and how was her talent born? Maya Vladimirovna Kristalinskaya was born on February 24, 1932 in Moscow. Her father, Vladimir Kristalinsky, made a living by inventing and creating all sorts of puzzles and charades for print publications. But the love of music and singing was instilled in the girl by a gift made by her uncle (husband of her father's sister), who worked as a director in a musical theater and gave her an accordion. She learned to play this instrument on her own.

The first successes of Maya Kristalinskaya

The girl studied well at school. She wasdiligent child. She combined school with classes in the children's choir, which was called Folk

song and dance ensemble”. The leader of this team was Semyon Osipovich Dunaevsky. But Maya's shyness prevented her from fully demonstrating her singing abilities. Which did not immediately allow her to discover extraordinary talent in her. Even solo, she sang exclusively in the family circle.

At the school graduation party (June 1950) Maya finally made up her mind and sang for passers-by on Manezhnaya Square. She performed such songs as "The Blue Handkerchief", "Fellow Soldier Friends", as well as other works of the war years.

After school, Maya Kristalinskaya entered and studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute as an engineer-economist. There she continued to express herself creatively, participated in amateur performances. In 1955, after graduating from the institute, Maya left for Novosibirsk on assignment. There she worked at the Chkalov Aviation Plant. Soon the girl returned back to Moscow and she was hired by the design bureau (design bureau) of Yakovlev. But Maya did not leave amateur performances and attended a variety ensemble.

Flourishing activities

Already in 1957, at the World Festival, which was held in honor of youth and students, Maya performed with the First Steps ensemble, led by Y. Saulsky. The performance of the singer made an impression on the audience. She was even called "a nugget from KB" and began to be invited to sing at various concerts. Although there were those who weredissatisfied with the performance of Kristalinskaya. She was heavily criticized in the "Musical Studs" article.

In musical circles, Maya Kristalinskaya began to gain more and more popularity. Her first tour took place in Transcaucasia. She successfully performed in Yerevan, Tbilisi, Baku. The audience accepted Kristalinskaya very enthusiastically. After the tour, Maya was offered to perform with well-known jazz orchestras at that time, led by Eddie Rosner and Oleg Lundstrem. After 1960, Kristalinskaya recorded the composition of the heroine Masha (poetry by G. Pozhenyan), which was called “We are two shores with you …”, which brought her even greater fame.

Songs performed by Maya Kristalinskaya brought her unprecedented popularity and universal love. These include such compositions: “Perhaps”, “Silence”, “The Unsmiling Princess”, “It's raining in our city”. And the songs were also very famous: “August is coming soon”, “Thank you, stork”, “Ah, Arbat” and many others. Soon the girl earned the title of the best pop singer in 1966. Kristalinskaya successfully sang songs in English: "The Volga Flows", "Moscow Evenings". And that is not all! She performed the composition "Old Maple" in Polish.

A period of stagnation of creativity

After performing the song “It's raining in our city” on Blue Light (early 70s), the channel's management accused Maya of promoting sadness and sadness with this work. This led to the fact that Kristalinskaya practically ceased to be shown on television. But the reason for everythingit turned out that S. Lyapin was appointed chairman of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, after which many artists found themselves in the same position as Kristalinskaya. Our heroine did not stop touring, did not despair, and in moments of stagnation she wrote articles in Evening Moscow, translated Marlene Dietrich's book Reflections into Russian. But despite this, in 1974 Kristalinskaya was awarded the title of "Honored Artist".

Private life

In 1957, our heroine - Maya Kristalinskaya - became a married lady. Her chosen one was Arkady Arkanov, at that time a medical worker, who later became a famous satirical writer. They met on April 30 at the Polytechnic Museum at the International Festival, which was held in honor of youth and students. And already on May 9, Arkady Arkanov made an offer to Maya, to which she responded with her consent. And on June 1, 1957, the marriage of Arkanov and Kristalinskaya took place. Our heroine first saw her husband's parents at her wedding. The couple lived in a rented apartment.

Their marriage lasted about a year, after which the newlyweds broke up. The reason for the breakup of the family was different views on life. Already during the marriage, Maya Kristalinskaya, a biography whose personal life shows us that the girl was a purposeful person, quit the design bureau to devote herself entirely to music.

Disease

When Maya was 29 years old, she was diagnosed with a tumor of the lymph glands. During the illness, rumors constantly appeared in society aboutthe death of the singer, about her cancer, about suicide. But after a long treatment, Maya recovered. Only a mark on her neck reminded her of the disease, which she later had to carefully hide with a scarf.

Second attempt

Singer Maya Kristalinskaya continued her creative path just as successfully, which cannot be said about the personal life of our heroine. The love of the people, fame and many fans did not bring Kristalinskaya family happiness with her common-law husband. In the 60s, she met a journalist. At that time he worked in the magazine "Soviet Union". Due to the weakness of the chosen one and the predisposition to alcohol, quarrels constantly occurred, which led to their separation. After a short time, Kristalinskaya agrees to the proposal of the sculptor Eduard Barclay and marries him. The couple met at a dinner at the famous doctor A. Vishnevsky, where Barclay showed signs of attention to Maya all evening, after which he took him home. And after a few months, Kristalinskaya moved to Barclay in his one-room apartment. Thanks to her second husband, Maya stopped performing on stage in trouser suits with a scarf around her neck and changed them to elegant dresses with a high collar. Kristalinskaya had no children from either her first or second husband. Therefore, she gave all her maternal love to her niece Maryana.

Last year of life

The marriage of Kristalinskaya and Barclay lasted 20 years (until June 19, 1984). Exactly until her husband died. After that, Maya Kristalinskaya faced illness. Ather legs and arms began to fail. Then speech disappeared. And exactly one year later, on June 19, 1985, Kristalinskaya herself died. But the listener still remembers the beautiful performance of the singer. We must not forget the soulful play of music and the pure voice of our heroine. The music of those years touches the strings of our soul, excites or calms, sometimes even makes us cry. But she leaves no one indifferent.