Whose lines do not part with your loved ones. “The Ballad of a Smoky Car”, or don’t part with your loved ones! The history of writing "The Ballad of a Smoky Car"

Read poetry on this page "The Ballad of a Smoky Car" Russian poet Alexandra Kochetkova written in 1932 year.

How painful, dear, how strange, Bonding in the ground, intertwined with branches, How painful, dear, how strange To split in two under the saw. The wound on the heart will not heal, It will be shed with pure tears, The wound on the heart will not heal, It will be shed with fiery resin. - As long as I am alive, I will be with you - Soul and blood are indivisible, - As long as I am alive, I will be with you - Love and death are always together. You will carry with you everywhere - You will carry with you, beloved, - You will carry with you everywhere your native land, sweet home. - But what if I have nothing to hide from incurable pity, But what if I have nothing to hide from cold and darkness? - After the parting there will be a meeting, Don’t forget me, my love, After the parting there will be a meeting, We’ll both come back - you and me. - But if I disappear unknown - The short light of a daylight ray - But if I disappear unknown Behind the star belt, into the milky smoke? - I will begin to pray for you, So that you do not forget the earthly path, I will begin to pray for you, So that you return unharmed. Shaking in a smoky carriage, He became homeless and humble, Shaking in a smoky carriage, He was half crying, half asleep, When the train on the slippery slope Suddenly bent with a terrible list, When the train on the slippery slope tore the wheels off the rails. Superhuman force, In one winepress, crippling everyone, Superhuman force threw the Earthly from the earth. And the promised meeting in the distance did not protect anyone, And the Hand calling in the distance did not protect anyone. Don't be separated from your loved ones! Don't be separated from your loved ones! Don't be separated from your loved ones! With all your blood, sprout into them, - And each time say goodbye forever! And every time say goodbye forever! And every time say goodbye forever! When you leave for a moment!

Russian Soviet poetry. Moscow: Fiction, 1990.

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In the famous comedy “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”, released in 1975, songs were performed based on poems by Akhmadulina, Pasternak, Yevtushenko, and Tsvetaeva. In one of the last scenes, the actors read a touching poetic work by a then little-known author. The poem is called "The Ballad of a Smoky Car". The author's name was Alexander Kochetkov.

“The Ballad of a Smoky Car” is imbued with anxiety, melancholy and a premonition of imminent disaster. The history of the creation of this work is quite interesting. One day an incident happened to Kochetkov that inspired him to create a poem that was unusual in both form and plot. In 1932, the poet miraculously escaped death.

Before telling the story of the creation of “The Ballad of a Smoky Car,” a few words should be said about the author.

Alexander Kochetkov

Future poet born in 1900. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Kochetkov began writing poetry in his youth. At the age of seventeen, he met the poets Vera Merkuryeva and Vyacheslav Ivanov, and they had a huge influence on his work. During his lifetime, not a single collection of his poems was published. Several works appeared in 1926 in the magazine "Golden Zurna".

The poet was actively involved in translations. He wrote poetry less often. He wrote “The Ballad of a Smoky Car” in 1932. Other works of Alexander Kochetkov are plays in verse “The Free Flemings”, “Copernicus”. The poet translated works by Schiller, Racine, Beranger, Corneille into Russian. Kochetkov died in 1953. He could not even imagine that the poem he wrote in the early thirties would become a real anthem for all lovers.

The history of writing "The Ballad of a Smoky Car"

It became a hit in the second half of the 20th century. Few people would know about him today if it were not for the aforementioned film by Eldar Ryazanov. The poet was inspired to create “The Ballad of a Smoky Car” by an incident from his life.

Kochetkov and his wife spent the summer of 1932 in Sochi. They lived with relatives for several months, and in the fall the poet bought a ticket to Moscow. My wife had to go later. She accompanied him to the station, but in the last minutes, when the departure of the train was announced, she suddenly persuaded him to stay. They changed the ticket. Kochetkov delayed the trip by three days. The train he was supposed to travel on met with an accident at the Moskva-Tovarnaya station.

Three days after that terrible accident, Kochetkov finally left. In the capital, his appearance by his colleagues was perceived as a resurrection. Acquaintances and friends knew that he had bought a ticket for the train that crashed, but did not know that he changed his mind at the last moment and handed it over. Among the dead were the poet's acquaintances - Muscovites were returning from a Sochi sanatorium that day. Kochetkov was saved from death by love. This is how the idea for the poem “The Ballad of a Smoky Car” appeared.

The poet transferred his emotions to paper. The first letter that his wife received from him was “The Ballad of a Smoky Car.” The terrible event that happened that day made Kochetkov think about the role of chance in a person’s life, as well as about the power of love, which can protect from death.

“Don’t part with your loved ones” are the key words in the verse “The Ballad of a Smoky Car.” Many believe that this is the title of Alexander Kochetkov’s work. The poem was first published 34 years after it was written. It was published for the first time in the collection. In the sixties it was included in the anthology “Song of Love”. Today, Kochetkov’s “Ballad” can be found in many collections of lyrical works.

Kochetkov's work is a story full of tragedy. It can be roughly divided into three parts:

Parting.
Parting.
Death.

Parting

“The Ballad of a Smoky Car” is filled with melodic refrains and metaphors. In the opening lines, the characters - a man and a woman - say goodbye. The first part of the poem is built in the form of a dialogue. It’s painful for the heroes to part, “splitting in two under the saw.” A man talks about how difficult it will be for him to be separated from his beloved. The woman answers him that no matter where he is, she will always be with him. After parting there will certainly be a meeting. You just need to survive a short separation.

Parting

Why did Alexander Kochetkov name his work that way? There is nothing romantic or touching in the phrase “smoky carriage”. This is, perhaps, the main advantage of the poetic work - in the contrast of the scene depicting a touching farewell, and the cold, smoky carriage in which the hero feels homeless and lonely.

Death

The man is absorbed in his thoughts. He was "half crying, half sleeping." At this moment an accident occurs in which he dies. Neither love nor prayers saved him. The promised meeting did not prevent death.

In cinema

Ryazanov's films are loved by audiences, but not all critics. But even the most strict film critic cannot deny: this director knew how to select poetic and musical accompaniment for his films.

“The Ballad of a Smoky Car” is heard in the last scenes of a romantic comedy released in the mid-seventies. The hero buys tickets for the Leningrad - Moscow train. He leaves, leaves his beloved woman, seemingly forever. And at this moment the work of Alexander Kochetkov, performed by Myagkov and Talyzina, sounds. The actors read the poem simply, without pathos. Perhaps this is the best scene in the film "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath."

There are few people who are unfamiliar with the lines from the poem “Don’t part with your loved ones!”, especially after the release of the film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath.” In fact, the poem is called differently - “The Ballad of a Smoky Car”, and its author is Alexander Kochetkov. During the course of their creative life, most poets develop lines that become apotheosis, and for Alexander Kochetkov the lines from “The Ballad of a Smoky Car” became such lines.

This poem has interesting story creation, which the poet’s wife Nina Grigorievna Prozriteleva spoke about in her notes.

The couple spent the summer of 1932 with relatives, and Alexander Kochetkov had to leave before his wife. The ticket was purchased to Kavkazskaya station, after which it was necessary to transfer to the Sochi - Moscow train. According to Nina Grigorievna’s recollections, the couple could not separate and, already during boarding, when the conductor asked the mourners to leave the train, Nina Grigorievna literally rescued her husband from the carriage. It was decided to return the ticket and postpone departure for three days. After three days, Kochetkov left and, arriving in Moscow, discovered that his friends already considered him dead in the crash that occurred with the Sochi-Moscow train. It turned out that those three days of delay saved the poet from inevitable death. The very first letter from her husband that Nina Grigorievna received contained the poem “The Ballad of a Smoky Car.”

Everything that happened made the poet think about the role of accidents in a person’s life and about the great power of love that can protect a person from the tragic vicissitudes of fate. Despite the fact that the poem was written in 1932, it was published only 34 years later in the collection “Poetry Day”. However, even before publication, these heartfelt lines left no one indifferent and were literally passed on by word of mouth, like the very story of its creation. After its publication, the poem “The Ballad of a Smoky Car” began to be included in numerous collections of poems as one of the best lyrical works of that time.

Alexander Kochetkov wrote many wonderful poems, but he remained in memory thanks to his “Ballad...”. More than a dozen years have passed since the writing of “The Ballad...”, and the lines from this poem continue to remain the anthem of all lovers. And in any life’s ups and downs, the most important thing is to always follow the poet’s order: “Don’t part with your loved ones!”, and then even the inevitable will recede.

Ballad about a smoky carriage (A. Kochetkov)

How painful, honey, how strange,
Connected in the ground, intertwined with branches, -
How painful, honey, how strange
Split under the saw.
The wound on the heart will not heal,
Will shed pure tears,
The wound on the heart will not heal -
It will spill with fiery resin.

As long as I'm alive, I'll be with you -
Soul and blood are indivisible, -
As long as I'm alive, I'll be with you -
Love and death are always together.
You will carry it with you everywhere -
You will carry with you, my love, -
You will carry it with you everywhere
Native land, sweet home.

But if I have nothing to hide with
From incurable pity,
But if I have nothing to hide with
From the cold and darkness?
- After parting there will be a meeting,
Don't forget me, darling,
After parting there will be a meeting,
We'll both come back - you and me.

But if I disappear into obscurity -
Short daylight beam -
But if I disappear into obscurity
Beyond the star belt, into the milky smoke?
- I will pray for you,
So as not to forget the earthly path,
I will pray for you,
May you return unharmed.

Shaking in a smoky carriage,
He became homeless and humble,
Shaking in a smoky carriage,
He was half crying, half sleeping,

Suddenly he bent with a terrible list,
When the train is on a slippery slope
The wheels were torn off the rails.

Superhuman strength
In one winepress, crippling everyone,
Superhuman strength
She threw earthly things off the ground.
And didn't protect anyone
The promised meeting in the distance,
And didn't protect anyone
A hand calling in the distance.
Don't be separated from your loved ones!
Don't be separated from your loved ones!
Don't be separated from your loved ones!
Grow into them with all your blood, -

And every time say goodbye forever!
And every time say goodbye forever!
When you leave for a moment!

Don't be separated from your loved ones!

He became homeless and humble,
Shaking in a smoky carriage,
He was half crying, half sleeping,

Suddenly he bent with a terrible list,
When the train is on a slippery slope
The wheels were torn off the rails.

Don't be separated from your loved ones!
Don't be separated from your loved ones!
Don't be separated from your loved ones!
Grow into them with all your blood, -

And every time say goodbye forever!
And every time say goodbye forever!
When you leave for a moment!

A. Voznesensky

Translation of the lyrics of the film Irony of Fate - Don’t part with your loved ones (verse)

How painful, dear, how strange,
Aligned in the ground, interwoven branches,-
How painful, dear, how strange
To be sawed in two.
Not heal the bleeding heart,
Shed pure tears
Not heal the heart wound -
Poured fiery pitch.

Still alive, I"ll be with you -
Soul and blood are inseparable. -
Still alive, I"ll be with you -
Love and death are always together.
You will carry with you, beloved,-
You will carry with you everywhere
Native land, sweet home.

Pity incurable,
But if I have nothing to cover myself
From cold and dark?
- For the separation will be meeting,
Remember me, beloved,
For parting will be a meeting,
Back both me and you.

But if I sink into oblivion, -
A flash of daylight,-
But if I vanish into eternity
The star belt, the milky smoke?
- I pray for you"ll,
So do not forget the way back to earth,
I pray for you"ll,
That you come back unharmed.

Shaking in a smoky car,
He felt homeless and humble,
Shaking in a smoky car,
He was half-crying, polypal,
When on a slippery slope
The train curved with a horrible list,
When on a slippery slope
From the rail wheel tore off.

superhuman strength,
In one mill all maiming,
Superhuman strength
The earth was thrown off of the earth.
And no one defended
In the distance promised a meeting,
And no one defended
Hand, stretched out far away.

Miracles!
Miracles!
Miracles!
All blood prirastajte in them,-
And every time say good-bye forever!
And every time say good-bye forever!
When you leave for a moment!

These poems by A. Kochetkov are heard by everyone New Year, for 35 years now, behind the scenes in E. Ryazanov’s film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!” Valentina Talyzina reads them brilliantly.

In general, this is "The Ballad of a Smoky Car"
Usually she is recognized by the lines “Don’t part with your loved ones.”
About three years ago I learned the history of the creation of poems that became the anthem of all lovers in Russia and abroad for these many years, especially on New Year’s Eve and the Christmas holidays. I think these verses have a great mission and they have the right to be the ANTHEM OF ALL LOVERS FOR ALL TIMES.

I think this poet deserves to be read and remembered, although the full fruits of his titanic labor have not yet been shown to the reading public. We must hope that this will be done by Russian publishers, and perhaps also foreign ones, by those who care about real high poetry.
Just listen to how they sound!
It’s as if all the angels of the world have gathered in one place and are playing harps....

Soul and blood are indivisible, -
As long as I'm alive, I'll be with you -

Sometimes the reader learns about a poet from one poem that he accidentally read. For the poet Alexander Kochetkov, author of “The Ballad of a Smoky Car,” this is that very happy occasion. Although the ballad is not the only remarkable creation.
You see?
This is truly wonderful poetry and a rare luck to be glorified for centuries with just a few lines.

Only the poet’s wife, Nina Grigorievna, knows for sure about the history of the appearance of “Ballad”.
Prozritelev, in those remaining after her death and still unpublished
in the notes we read: “We spent the summer of 1932 in Stavropol with my father. In the fall, Alexander Sergeevich left earlier, I had to come to Moscow later. The ticket had already been purchased - the Stavropol line to the Kavkazskaya station, there on the direct train Sochi - Moscow. It was time to part. It was difficult, and we delayed it as best we could. On the eve of departure, we decided to sell the ticket and delay the departure for at least three days. These same days are a gift of fate - to experience these as a continuous holiday.

The reprieve was over, it was necessary to go. A ticket was bought again, and Alexander Sergeevich left. A letter from him from Kavkazskaya station illustrates the mood in which he was traveling. (In this letter there is an expression “half sad, half asleep.” In the poem - “half crying, half asleep”)

In Moscow, among friends whom he informed about the first day of his arrival, his appearance was accepted as a miracle of resurrection, since he was considered dead in a terrible crash that occurred with a Sochi train at the Moskva-tovarnaya station. Acquaintances who were returning from a Sochi sanatorium died. Alexander Sergeevich escaped death because he sold a ticket for this train and stayed in Stavropol.
In the first letter Nina Grigorievna received from Alexander Sergeevich from Moscow, there was a poem “Wagon”.

Protected by fate from the train crash that happened the day before, the poet could not help but think about the nature of chance in human life, about the meaning of meeting and separation, about the fate of two beings who love each other.

This is how we find out the date of writing - 1932 - and the dramatic story
poem, which was published thirty-four years later. But also
not printed, it is an oral version, passed from one person to
another, received enormous publicity. They knew his poems during the war days, many
seemed written on the front. These are almost the same famous lines as Simonov’s
"Wait for me "
And they were also among our favorites.
For the first time, "The Ballad of a Smoky Car" was published with an introductory
a note about the poet in the collection "Poetry Day" (1966).
Then “Ballad” was included in the anthology “Song of Love” (1967), published in “Moskovsky Komsomolets” and since then has been increasingly and more willingly included in various collections and anthologies.
The stanzas of the "Ballad" are taken by the authors as epigraphs: a line from the "Ballad" became the title of A. Volodin's play "Don't Part With Your Loved Ones", readers include the "Ballad" in their repertoire.
It was also included in Eldar Ryazanov’s film “The Irony of Fate...” We can say with confidence: it has become a textbook.
Perhaps the success of the film was largely ensured precisely thanks to these poems by A. Kochetkov.
I want to re-read them again and again not only because of the touching and even mystical content, but also because of the melody of the lines, which are associated in memory with the birth of the New Year.
I wish all readers not only happiness and all the best, but also
DON'T PART UP WITH YOUR LOVED ONE!
Don't quarrel over trifles...