Vadim Yegorov, a teacher by education, a psychologist by profession and a poet by vocation, for many years managed to combine scientific work and literary work. Strange as it may seem, music helped the candidate of psychological sciences and a member of the Writers' Union make a choice in favor of what he loves. These were unpretentious melodies that sounded in the depths of his soul.
Vadim Vladimirovich Egorov today is a recognized classic of the author's song genre. The owner of the gold medal "Bard of Russia" was awarded the national public award "Gratitude" for his outstanding contribution to the golden fund of the author's song. Egorov has repeatedly headed the jury of the largest Russian author's song festival named after V. I. Valeriya Grushina is the godfather of the Singing Source KSP and the Young Winds festival. One of his famous songs "Clouds" gave the name to the Voronezh association of bards. And it all began a little more than half a century ago. In the 70s, the young Vadka Egorov least of all saw his poetic future as a songwriter.
With literature and music - since childhood
A post-war child, Vadim Egorov was born on May 7, 1947 in a military garrison stationed in the city of Eberswald (GDR). Since 1949, the Egorov family began to live in Moscow.
Parents worked as school teachers. My father taught Russian language and literature. Vladimir Alekseevich Egorov loved and knew poetry very well, he wrote poetry himself. There were a huge number of books in the house, and Vadim read a lot. The boy grew up surrounded by the incredible love of his mother, Rebekah Iosifovna Gurevich. She insisted that her son receive a musical education. The boy was reluctant to study violin, but he liked to play the piano.
At the age of 11, Vadim heard on the radio the song of Ada Yakusheva "Blue Snowdrifts". This became a motivation for a very young boy to express his thoughts on paper and create. In an interview with Tatyana Vizbor, Egorov once admitted: "In words," listen, forget for a while, I died. " Vadim wrote his first poems at the age of 14, the first song at 16.
"Singing flock" MGPI
The choice in favor of the Faculty of Philology of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute was made not because the teachers were Vadim's parents. The young man dreamed of success in the literary field. But it was impossible to enter the Literary Institute without experience and serious publications. And in the arsenal of the aspiring poet were only the first teenage epigone poems published in the Smena magazine. Here there was an opportunity to get a liberal arts education, to improve under the guidance of a talented professors. And most importantly, he began to study in a powerful literary association, together with the future poets T. Kuzovleva, V. Delone, A. Yudakhin.
The university, in which the novice poet Vadim Egorov entered in 1964, was called the "Moscow Singing Institute" at that time. A whole galaxy of first-generation bards emerged from the walls of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, among whom were Y. Vizbor, Y. Kim, B. Vakhnyuk, A. Yakusheva, V. Dolina. They passed on the baton of song traditions to the following students, gathering them into a “song flock” led by “leader Bulat” (as it is sung in one of Yegorov's songs). Vadim performed at the institute's amateur concerts, published poetry in the large circulation "Leninist". Finding a place in the student folklore of the capital, by the fifth year he became the recognized poetical leader of the institute.
From 1964 to 1969 the first songs were written, which were sung by others - "Traces", "Lanka", "Friends are leaving", "Pierrot". At Pirogovka, the author's poetic and song formation took place. A kind of springboard was the flexible disc with the recording of the song "I love you, my rains", which was performed by S. Nikitin, published in 1970 in the magazine "Krugozor". For a long time Egorov was embarrassed to sing himself, giving his creations to other performers. At the institute it was the duet of T. Komissarova and L. Freiter, which was popular at that time. His songs were performed and still include in their repertoire many bards and KSP-Schnicks.
Egorov performed his first stage performances to the accompaniment of a piano, and at the age of 30 he mastered the six-string guitar. Vadim has 4 guitars, one of them is author's, handmade by master Perfiliev. But most of all he loves his first six-string, which he managed to buy for two and a half engineering salaries. "Usually the instrument smells like wood and varnish, and this guitar smells like my life!" - sighs Egorov.
How much a wife and children mean
As a third-year student at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, desperately in love with Tanechka Petrovskaya, the first beauty of the region and the muse of institute poets and artists, Vadim married at the age of 19. The born weather - a daughter and a son - became the characters of his popular songs ("Daughter's Monologue", "Children's Aeronautical", etc.). Everything in the family was traditional, as it was supposed to be in Soviet times: mom raised children, dad earned money.
Vadim Vladimirovich worked at the Research Institute of Defectology of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. He gave concerts on weekends and evenings. Being engaged in scientific activities, Egorov received the title of candidate of psychological sciences, but refused to write his doctoral dissertation. The choice was made in favor of poetry and music. Since 1996, Egorov has become a "free artist", devoting himself only to literary and concert activities.
While the father was traveling with performances around the country and abroad, two chicks flew out of the parent's nest.
Daughter Anastasia first graduated from medical school, then worked at the Russian Open University, and is currently realizing her creative abilities as a photo artist. Son Ilya is a well-known cardio-rheumatologist, doctor of medical sciences, a consultant to television and radio programs on health topics. The hereditary physician through his mother has literary and musical talents inherited from his father. He is the author of textbooks and scientific papers, is one of the ten best medical lecturers in Russia. And Ilya Vadimovich also plays the guitar and sings: he has repeatedly participated in bard festivals; he performed one of the songs on his father's disc "Waltz by the Light of Lanterns"; in 2009 he released his solo album "Deconstructing the Lines of Letters".
Romantic lyrics on stage and in life
In an interview with the press, when asked what he loves most, Vadim Vladimirovich jokingly replies: "Milk, honey and women - of course, in the person of his wife." For many years in the "relevant group" the poet-psychologist had only one person, his wife. Tatiana was the main critic of the poetic lines he wrote and the first listener to the songs he created.
The poet's current muse is the laureate of the Grushinsky festival Vesta Solyanina, a meeting with whom took place at one of the concert venues of the AP. The creative and family union participates in various bard song festivals. The repertoire of the performer, who has a deep, soulful voice, includes songs by Vadim Egorov, written both several decades ago and more recently.
Cheerful author of sad poems
Vadim Egorov's creative luggage consists of 4 vinyl records and 8 CDs, on which about 200 songs are recorded. The poet's bibliography reads 5 collections and one two-volume edition.
Vadim Vladimirovich considers A. Voznesensky, E. Evtushenko as landmarks in poetry. Respects such poets of his generation as Y. Levitansky, B. Samoilov, Y. Moritz, B. Chichibabin. Among his favorite authors and performers in the genre of bard songs, he names Yu. Vizbor, Yu. Kim, E. Klyachkin, V. Berkovsky, S. Nikitin, A. Dulov. Bulat Okudzhava is recognized as a teacher, with a capital letter, and the highest criterion of artistry and lyricism.
Much of what Vadim Egorov wrote over several decades is autobiographical, and most of the songs and poems can be called confessional. It is amazing that a person who is slightly stuttering by nature, putting soul and emotions into the written lines, reads them without hesitation. The main thing for the author is the Word. This is probably why he does not even consider his singing to be music, but says that it is just an uncomplicated melody. In his opinion, only that author's song is good, which “with all four paws stands on the word”.
Seldom does Yegorov have an exact script plan for a performance. Sometimes everything develops spontaneously and depends on the mood, on the smile of the girl in the third row, on the looks of the audience directed to the stage. He is sensitive to notes from the audience with a request to perform this or that work. This largely simulates the program, determines the atmosphere and character of the concert. Therefore, today, as in the distant 70s, people go to a meeting with Yegorov not only to listen to his quiet voice and amazing (and he says "gloomy") poetry. They go to talk to a man who came on stage with a guitar, a notebook and a desire to sing what his heart wants. The main thing for him is to convey the embedded thought to the public, to evoke emotions. Well, if he sang badly, it means “he didn’t burn the soul”.
Recognized as a classic of the bardic genre, Yegorov does not pursue widespread fame. He simply refers to the fact that many of his songs are "popular" without attribution. “The fact that your songs are sung gives a feeling of inner self-sufficiency,” says Vadim Vladimirovich. Some of the journalists asked him what he would do in a situation where everything he wrote should disappear, except for one song. Egorov replied that he would not leave what was popular ("Rains", "Friends are leaving", "Bathing"), but "Don't rush" - a southern romance. And he added: "I really love this song … as if it were not mine."
In one of the recently written songs, the cheerful author of sad poems urges: “Let's live, let's live! And the rest is a trifle of life!"
