Many experts and connoisseurs of beauty consider the author's song a purely Russian phenomenon. Perhaps this is not entirely true, but no official denials have been reported yet. Anton Dukhovskoy continues to compose and perform his songs.
Children's hobbies
Mathematics puts the mind in order, and literature teaches the correct communication with people around. Proceeding from these postulates, the program of a general secondary school was made up in Soviet times. Anton Vladimirovich Dukhovskoy was born on February 21, 1967 in an intelligent family. Parents lived in the capital of the Russian provinces, the city of Leningrad. My father worked as a surgeon in a hospital. Mother taught economic geography at one of the higher educational institutions.
Anton grew up as an inquisitive and active child. I studied well at school. The boy's favorite subjects were history and literature. Among his peers, he was distinguished by his sociability. I easily found a common language with classmates and children from the neighboring yard. In high school, he attended classes at a literary studio, which operated in the palace of pioneers. It was in this chronological period that he began to write poetry. He mastered the technique of playing the six-string guitar. He loved to reread the poem "Woe from Wit" and learned it by heart.
Creative activity
After school, in 1984, Dukhovskoy entered the department of literature and Russian language at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. However, the future poet failed to complete his education, he was drafted into the army. I had to serve in the Far East. As soon as Anton took a guitar in his hands, he was immediately assigned to the army song ensemble. At the final stage of his service, for his successful work, he was temporarily assigned to the troupe of the Russian Theater in the city of Birobidzhan.
Returning to his native Leningrad, Dukhovskoy entered the department of dramatic art of the famous Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. In the spring of 1988, Anton first appeared on the stage of the Variety Theater as a performer of his own songs. The career of a singer-songwriter was going well. Two seasons later, Dukhovskoy became a laureate of the All-Union Festival, which was held in Kiev. Two more years later, the first collection of poems, The Musical Box, was published.
Theater and personal life
At a certain stage of his multifaceted activity, Anton acted as the chief editor of the publishing group "Chanson". As an organizer and leader, he made a decisive contribution to the creation of the children's theater "Anthill". For this, Dukhovsky was awarded the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize.
Anton does not talk about his personal life. He is known to have had relationships with various women who inspired him to create poetry. However, he has not yet chosen a wife. There are rumors about Dukhovsky's unconventional sexual orientation. There is no confirmation or denial of this information in open sources.
