The tall, handsome and Paul McCartney-like Gennady Ponomarev at first did not impress the singer Zhanna Bichevskaya.
At the first acquaintance he gave the future wifea cassette of his songs, and then sent a long postcard with his own composition of poetry without a signature. Zhanna Bichevskaya did not immediately guess who her most ardent admirer was.
Biography of Ponomarev Gennady Robertovich
The birthplace of Gennady is the city of Tula, which heGently loves and comes on tour. The house and apartment where the poet and musician was born are still preserved and are his place of inspiration, peace and memories. Year of birth of Gennady Ponomarev - 1957, this year the songwriter anniversary - 60 years.
Gennady's father Robert Serafimovich was very fond ofmusic, had his own tape recorder and, noticing his son's musical abilities, gave it to a music school. Mom was in solidarity with her father, she herself sang very well. To play the guitar the boy learned himself, the guys in the yard showed only a few chords. It turned out that the guitar is "his" instrument, which produces unique sounds, the boy almost immediately wrote several songs.
Thanks to his own creative work, Gennady Ponomarev, after graduating from high school, was accepted into the professional collective of the city of Tula, who conducted rehearsals at the local Palace of Culture.
Army
In the late seventies, when to him from a military registration and enlistment officecame the agenda, Major Eleyev, the chief of the club of the Kremlin regiment, arrived in Tula. Beautiful and tall Gennady Ponomarev got into his troops and it so happened that he began to play in the ensemble of the Kremlin regiment. Together with other soldiers Gennady performed at concerts, festivals and even managed to write a song about the post number 1.
It was a time of physical and spiritual maturityyoung man. Driven by uncertain feelings, Gennady Ponomarev went to the library of the Kremlin regiment and at that time, the Soviet, godless time, wanted to read the Bible. His desire was satisfied and the young man periodically began to study the book of life.
Spiritual development
But this did not go unnoticed, one of the participantsensemble reported to the authorities that Ponomarev "inside the rotten and the Bible reads." The young man was summoned "on the carpet" and the lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, Yeliseyev, issued a strict verdict. He was exiled to the city of Solnechnogorsk for higher military courses "Shot".
About this page in biography Gennady Ponomarevargues as a believer. On the eve of his transfer, he was sent to an attire in the St. George's Hall of the Kremlin, where soldiers were ordered to take out tables after Brezhnev's jubilee. Together with a friend Gennady was carrying a heavy carpet somewhere upstairs, when the young men stopped to rest, Gennady looked up, and suddenly the face of Christ appeared in front of his eyes. It turned out that they climbed to the very top of the church and someone put an icon of the Savior there.
Геннадий убежден, что Господь таким своим the phenomenon strengthened the spirit of the young man. From the army he returned fully to the believer and accepted Holy Baptism. Service in Solnechnogorsk was successful, the rest of the time the future composer served in the ensemble.
Singing Ponomarev
Back in the army, Gennady Ponomarev decided that ifa musical career is not going to work, he will be asked to sing in the temple. And it so happened that when he became one of the members of the "Fantasy" group and performed in the Tula concert halls, he was spotted by the regent of one of the local churches Lyubov Borisovna Sobinina. It is interesting that she approached exactly Gennady and invited me to sing in the choir in the choir. This pleased and horrified Gennady, because, in his opinion, after worldly songs, singing in a holy place is not proper, but the regent reassured him, saying that the singers of the temple where only they do not work.
Thus, the composer Gennady Ponomarevserved ten years in the temple of the city of Tula. During this time he discovered a whole layer of unique Russian singing and composer culture. This enriched him not only as a musician and composer, but also as a believer, a spiritual person.
Creativity of Gennady Ponomarev
So when Jeanne Bichevskaya became a littlemore favorable to the young man, the first thing he asked her was: "Are you baptized?". This simple question introduced Jeanne into a stupor, it turned out that she had no idea about this, but wanted to be baptized.
As well as it is necessary to people thoughtful and believing, they have passed not only a civil registration, but also were married in church. Since then they have not parted for twenty-nine years.
Under the influence of Gennady Robertovich Zhanna Bichevskayachanged the repertoire, now she sings more spiritual songs, almost all of Gennady Ponomarev's songs are performed by the spouse, and some of them are completely devoted to it. Here are some of them:
- "Tsar Nicholas".
- "Too short a century."
- "Autumn of a musician".
- "Anyone, brothers, whatever."
- "To your name, O Lord."
- "The fear of the Lord."
- "Farewell, free element."
- "Stars raced, capes washed in the sea."
- "Maybe you do not need me."
- "Pineapples in champagne, pineapples in champagne."
- "The Russians are going through."
- "I saw in the autumn dreams."
- "I'll break the silence with a sigh."
- "Oh! How the birds sing! ".
- "God, give us the King."
- "In torment having learned".
- "I would like to wear a magnificent crown."
These and other compositions were written eitherentirely by Gennady Ponomarev, or to poems by poets such as A. S. Pushkin, B. Pasternak, O. Mandelstam, S. Bekhteev, N. Zhdanov-Lutsenko, hieromonk Roman and so on.
Conclusion
Currently, Gennady Ponomarev is notonly a poet and composer, but also a sound producer, sound producer. Spouse, Zhanna Bichevskaya, a folk singer, also writes music and poems. Joint cooperation only strengthens their marriage.
Interestingly, fifteen years ago, Ponomarevwrote a song with the prophetic words: “Russian Sevastopol will return Russia. Will again become the Russian peninsula of Crimea ... ". And his love for the royal passion bearers, whom he called saints back in the nineties, prompted him to create a cycle of songs that are well known to lovers of the creativity of Bichevskaya and Ponomarev. Such is the biography of Gennady Ponomarev, a true Russian nugget.
