Anastasia Vyaltseva is an incomparable queen of romance

This amazing singer who has an exciting mezzo-soprano, covering two and a half octaves, a voice that is scattering silvery trills, then gently enveloped with a deep velvety timbre, "incomparable" Anastasia Vialtseva devoted a lot of enthusiastic lines, although almost a hundred and fifty years after her birth . So her art is alive, and her life goes on in him.

Start

Of course, in the Vyaltsev family, when the pretty little girl Nastenka was born in 1871, no one could have guessed what future was for her. When his father died, the family from the settlement of Altukhovo near Orel moved to Kiev. I had to start working early. Anastasia Vyaltseva was a student in the workshop of a lady's dress, a saleswoman of mineral water, a podgornichnoy in a hotel. Removing the numbers, she sang. This voice and pretty appearance was noted by the female singer and prompted the 13-year-old girl that she was on the stage. She was accepted into a ballet group, but she could not dance well.

St. Petersburg

Anastasia Vyaltseva moved to the northern capital, and in 1893 was admitted to the troupe of the Maly Theater. She sang in the choir, and now she was entrusted with a small role of a gypsy in which she sang the song "I Want to Love". The sweet coquetry of this performance has led the audience into raptures. But to become a real singer, the girl needed study. Participation in her fate was accepted by the lawyer NI Kholev. Maecenas gave money to expensive teachers on vocals, even sent her to Italy, then picked up her repertoire, developed her stage image and released on stage in Moscow.

Moscow

In 1897, the first performance at the Hermitage Theater took place. The debut was received with enthusiasm and the public, and the press, with which a young photogenic and benevolent singer quickly found contact. So the star was born, and touring the cities of the country in Kursk, Orel, Kiev, Kharkov, Baku, Tiflis, Rostov-on-Don consolidated their success and brought unprecedented money. Such fees were only for Chaliapin.

Tour

These huge money allowed Anastasia Dmitrievna to order abroad a convenient railroad car. In it, besides a room for rest and residence, there were a bath, a kitchen, a place for servants. This was necessary, since, in addition to the recordings of the records, which dispensed with insane print runs, Anastasia Vialtseva constantly traveled around the country, winding a verst beyond the verst. They were typed for her tour of 175 thousand. And in each city an enchanting success. At the station it was greeted and followed by enthusiastic admirers. She was loved by the students, students, millionaires. Nemirovich-Danchenko spoke of her as an undoubted talent. But there were music critics who were negative about her work, considering it vulgar.

Singer of joy

Yes, Anastasia Vialtseva, having a repertoire of about three hundred songs and romances, has never sung the bitter share of the people. Very often she went to the audience in a dress decorated with hydrangeas. Lush flowers emphasized the elegance of the performer. The fragile beauty of flowers, the pensive singer is Anastasia Vialtseva. The photo brought to us through time its poetic and gentle image. In her songs and romances the audience was available to the carefree world of flying triplets, the ringing of guitar strings, an easy flirtatious love. Champagne froze in there. It was a fairy-tale world, which the listeners liked so much that Anastasia Vyaltseva went to the encore twenty and thirty times. That is, she, not sparing herself, gave two concerts for the evening. Very often, her speeches were "on demand", when she did not select the program, but sang what the listeners asked. Performing, for example, "Give, my dear friend, for the happiness of your hand ...", she stretched her graceful hands into the hall, and it seemed to everyone that she gives her hand to him and sends his smile.

Especially fruitful was her work with the composer N. V. Zubov, who wrote, not being a professional, the most popular romances, of which it is impossible not to mention "Do not go, stay with me ...". In recent years, she liked to perform in the Kurzal Hall of Sestroretsk, designed for fifteen hundred seats. A huge room housed many admirers of her talent. To this day it has survived only in photographs.

Charity

In life, singer Anastasia Vyaltseva was very active in charity. For the collections of Sedov's expedition to the North Pole, she, along with Sobinov and Shalyapin, gave charity concerts. Her brother was a member of the Society for the Care of Homeless Children. And in her will, Vyaltseva asked to transfer to St. Petersburg her apartment houses for the establishment of a children's shelter and a hospital in them. During the Russo-Japanese War, she transferred part of the money from the concerts to support the wounded.

Love and marriage

In 1910, in her hard life came love. And despite the serious obstacle that stood in the way of the lovers, and these were class distinctions, they were married in Moscow. A young guards officer, Vasily Victorovich Biskupsky, a nobleman, was forced to resign - his colleagues considered this marriage a misalliance. But before he managed to get a serious wound in the stomach in the Russo-Japanese War. Their happiness was interrupted by a serious illness of blood, which was found in the singer. Then all the eminent doctors, even the Tibetan healer Badmaev, who treated Rasputin, were invited, but nobody could help.

Death

Knowing that the disease was fatal, she held with dignity. So not everyone can make a will, choose a dress for a funeral, a hairdress, and specify how to decorate a room in which farewell will take place. Bury the singer came the whole of Petersburg - 150 thousand people were walking behind the coffin. In the guard of honor were Matilda Kshesinskaya and Anna Pavlova.

Thus, on a dank February day in 1913, the Queen of the Romance, Anastasia Vialtseva, passed away. The biography of the "Russian Cinderella", as it was sometimes called, served as the basis for the book "Green Shores" and the feature film "The Incomparable."