Yakusheva Ada: biography, education and family, musical career, cause of death

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

When talking about Soviet bards, such great names immediately come to mind as Alexander Galich, Yuri Vizbor, Bulat Okudzhava, Vladimir Vysotsky… There are no female names in this list. And very few people know that Yuri Vizbor had a wife, a talented poetess and performer, worthy of standing on a par with her eminent husband, Ada Yakusheva. We will tell you more about her life and biography later.

Childhood

A girl with an unusual and rare name Ariadna was born in the Leningrad Yakushev family at the very end of January 1934. Information about her parents and early childhood is extremely scarce. It is known that her father's name was Adam, that in the first months of the war he joined a partisan detachment and died in Belarus. Information about the mother and how the girl lived in the first years of her life has not been preserved.

Ada was fond of music from a young age, studied at a music school - she started playing the cello, but later she quit, did not finish her studies. She was sociable, laughter; it was not for nothing that the already adult Ada Yakusheva was later called the sun of the author's song, without which it would become dark and sad.

Student years

In 1952, Ariadna entered the institute- Moscow Pedagogical. She chose this university and this direction (Russian language and literature, in other words, philology) for two reasons. The first - a strong love for the word (Ada wrote poetry from an early age), the second - the above-mentioned institute in those years was considered the most musical, most songful university in the country.

It was from its walls that people came out who later became famous artists, performers, musicians. Among them is the first husband of our heroine, the famous Yuri Vizbor. However, we will tell a little more about the personal life of Ada Yakusheva later. In the meantime, back to her biography…

Courses at the Conservatory

What was good about the Soviets was the comprehensive support of talented and creative people. So, for example, at the conservatory of the capital, where it was quite difficult to enter, there was a so-called free seminar, a kind of course where students could get absolutely free all exactly the same information as the students of the conservatory. The only difference was that the students of these courses did not have a state-recognized diploma upon graduation.

In 1959, Ada Yakusheva became one of the students of the courses, thus receiving a musical education.

After college

After graduating from pedagogy, Ada was already quite famous as a songwriter. For some time she led a women's song ensemble, traveled around the country with him. Her colleagues later reported that Ada wrote songs incredibly quickly. Once they tried to count how many of them she had, reached the number300 and lost count.

In the sixty-sixth year of the last century, Ada Yakusheva came to work at the Yunost radio station. She worked as an editor, and also hosted two programs. One was called "Song, guitar and me", the other - "Hello, comrade!" As an editor, Ada traveled a lot around the country, including Siberia and the Far East. Yakusheva remained at Yunost for two years. There is no exact information about where she later went and what she did. It is known that she continued to write poetry, songs that sounded from everywhere. They were published in different collections. She also visited social shelters, where she gave bard concerts for the disabled.

Personal life in the biography of Ada Yakusheva

As mentioned above, the first husband of the poetess, who chose her as his muse for life, was Yuri Vizbor. A sincere man, but amorous, like many creative people, he could not remain faithful to one woman throughout his life, however, after parting with Yakusheva, he repeatedly repeated that if he could return his youth, he would again marry only her and no one else.

The history of the acquaintance of Vizbor and Yakusheva, their life together is described very well and in detail in the book dedicated to the bard from the ZHZL series (it is called "Vizbor"). Yakusheva herself also published their correspondence, from which one can get a completely complete impression of the relationship of the couple. We will not go into deep jungle and touch only the "tip of the iceberg".

Yura and Ada met ininstitute - both studied at the Moscow Pedagogical Faculty of Philology, only Vizbor - a year older. He was a very popular student; perhaps his thick mop of curly red hair also gave him popularity. Be that as it may, there were always a lot of girls near Yura, and the modest Ada, not counting on success, was quietly jealous of Vizbor on the sidelines. However, he noticed the girl, and the spark that broke out between them led to love - first by correspondence (having graduated from the university a year earlier, Yuri went to work far from the capital by distribution), then, in 1958, they registered their relationship.

Their marriage was strong but short-lived. As already mentioned, Vizbor was very amorous and considered dishonorable to deceive his wife. In the end, he left Ada, and she remarried in 1968. For Maxim Kusurgashev, who also studied at the pedagogical school, was Vizbor's best friend, was a witness at their wedding with Ada, and looked after her since her student days. Then Yakusheva preferred Yuri, but then Maxim still got his way. Their marriage lasted until Kusurgashev's death in 2002.

Family

Besides two husbands, Yakusheva also has children. From marriage with Vizbor, daughter Tatyana was born, from marriage with Kusurgashev - son Maxim and daughter Daria. The poetess also has four grandchildren: Varvara and Yuri - Tatyana's children, as well as Mikhail and Vladimir from other children.

Varvara Vizbor - by the way, she looks incredibly similar to her grandmother - followed in the footsteps of her grandparents: by educationthe actress, however, is engaged in music, sings, releases records. The girl performs, including the songs of the famous grandfather.

Books and songs by Ada Yakusheva

Yakusheva had a lot of well-known compositions that brought her fame, but nevertheless, the first song that made the girl famous in her college years was "Evening wanders along the forest paths." Even during her lifetime, Ariadna Adamovna released the disc "Melody" with a recording of her songs. There were several compositions on this original collection. Among them is one of the most popular songs of Ada Yakusheva "You are my breath". Now this composition has found a new life - it is performed by the granddaughter of Ada and Yuri Vizbor Varvara. You can hear this song in a TV commercial.

In addition to the record, Ada Yakusheva has also released three books. These are her essays, memoirs - about the people she met, about the events that took place in her life, about places, about things, her thoughts about some phenomena, and so on. And besides, this is the story of the personal life of the poetess - her relationship with both her second husband and her first, Yuri Vizbor. Yakusheva even shared the letters that she and Vizbor wrote to each other.

Departure

Ada Yakusheva passed away in October 2012. She was 78 years old. According to her eldest daughter Tatyana, one of the initiators of the author's song in our country "burned down" in just a few months - she was diagnosed with cancer late.

Interesting facts

1. In the sixties and seventiesof the last century, the already well-known poetess Ada was close friends with the still unknown aspiring singer Alla Pugacheva. Later, the children of the girls, the son of Ada Maxim and the daughter of Alla Kristina, also became friends. Subsequently, the paths of her friends parted, but Ada remembered Alla with warmth until the end of her life.
2. The daughter of Ada and Yuri Vizbor Tatyana works for Radio Russia.
3. When Tatyana was born, Vizbor was not in Moscow. Ironically, Ada and the baby were taken from the hospital by her husband's best friend, who was in love with her and became her second husband, Maxim Kusurgashev.

This is the biography of Ada Yakusheva, poetess and performer of her own songs.