The hymns of Euromaidan

The singer and songwriter Misha Lusin is one of the Russians who, at the command of the soul, went to the Kiev Maidan of Nezalevniy. COLTA . Ru I asked him to bring a musical report from Kyiv.

On the night of December 11, the Berkut special forces (this is Ukrainian riot police) and the internal troops tried to take the Maidan of Nebulia by storm, and it was one of the most emotional and dramatic moments of the confrontation between power and protesters. A prayer of chanting sounded from the stage. The bells of the Mikhailovsky Cathedral rang. The Kyivians, holding hands, stood face to face with the line of special forces. From the bonfires behind the scene there was smoke, from the mouth - steam, on the street minus 13. What the confrontation would end, no one knew. What intensity was this long pause, in words cannot be conveyed.

Calls to the Kyivians sounded from the scene to go to help. Priests performed, deputies performed, the winner of the Eurovision-2004 Ruslan and the frontman of the Ocean Yelzy Svyatoslav Vakarchuk said. The microphone did not stop for a second. After several hours of confrontation, the police went away. They survived - the chant helped.

A typical night on the Maidan of Nezalevniy (the night of the assault does not count) is as follows. Every hour, the singer Ruslan goes to the microphone and sings the anthem of Ukraine, and thousands of people gathered in the square are singing with her, waving national flags. Can you imagine that the conditional swamp square sang “Russia - our sacred power”? I can't. Even the conditional worship of the mountain does not sing like that. We seem to be shy of the anthem. It is clear why - a purely official, rewritten glass hundred times a song cannot become.

Then Ruslan (in addition to singing, she is engaged in the scene of Euromaidan with an entertainer) invites representatives of the clergy to the microphones who continue the night by singing the prayers “Our Father” and “The Virgin Mary, Rejoice” in Ukrainian:

Then follows the block of folk songs. That night that I shot, they were performed by students of the Lviv seminary:

Songs, like the anthem, go with a bang. Ukrainians love and know how to sing - the songs helped to stay to the defenders of the Maidan in these intense days no less hot tea and barricades from bags with snow. What is happening on the stage around the clock is broadcast on a huge screen installed on the building of the House of Trade Unions, which is clearly visible from the entire area and Street Khreshchatyk. This broadcast can be seen on the Internet. Want to know what is happening on the Maidan right now? Please!

On weekends on the stage of Maidan, performances of large artists happen. On Saturday, December 7, the Belarusian ska-anarchists “Lipis Trubetskoy” performed-a couple of hours in front of their Kyiv concert. The leader of the group Sergei Mikhalok turned from the stage to the Kyivians gathered on the Maidan: “We, Belarusians, look at you with enthusiasm, admiration and respect. By your example, you showed that with the help of courage, heroism and popular unity you can not only fight for your rights, but also repulse state and police lawlessness ”:

A week later, last Saturday, the Ocean Yelzy was reunited to perform on the Maidan in the Golden Composition: Pavel Gudimov, Dmitry Shurov and Yuri Khustochka came out with Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. Before the stage, according to some estimates, about 200 thousand people gathered. “This is our best concert,” commented the leader of the Ocean Yelzy, looking at thousands of lanterns and included mobile phones in the hands of the audience. “On the song“ Friend ”(the concert ended with it. - M.L. ) I could not restrain myself and burst into tears,” Anya’s friend wrote to me from Maidan.

It seems that in the last two weeks, everyone has performed in the last two weeks - from the stars of the Ukrainian ethno -evacency of Dakh Daughters to local Russian (and Russian -speaking!) Artists . What can I say if even Nikita Dzhigurda visited the Euromaidan stage and made success .

And if you dial in YouTube in the search for “Euromaidan Anthem”, you can see the real competition of songs claiming this title. “To whom is the revolution, and to whom the event,” Kiev journalist Anton comments on the evenings on the Daidens of Nebulia.

There is a crowd - sings folk songs.

On the night of last Thursday, I watched the local rapper in the embroidery shot a clip on the Maidan, expressively gesturing against the background of barricades. And on Friday he himself became, on occasion, the star of the revolutionary song. We go with Anya in Khreshchatyk, time - fourth in the morning, in the morning a plane in Moscow. I carry a guitar home from a spontaneous apartment. We see how the Kyiv city administration has a crowd - sings songs. The same yellow-blue piano, which where just did not appear on these revolutionary days, a pipe and an accordion. I could not join and played for three hours the guitar of Ukrainian folk, for the first time in my life, grasping chords on the fly. When the journalists came and asked who, from where, the trumpeter began to represent the musicians: “I and the accordionist - from Lugansk, I am not familiar with the maestro on the piano, unfortunately. And the guitar? " "Guitar - from Moscow!" - I replied proudly. The people answered this with a cry of joy. Hands sting. So myths are all about the Ukrainian-Russian discord. The song brings us closer: