Memory. Zhanna Bichevskaya

On June 17, 1944, Zhanna Bichevskaya, singer, was born.

Personal business

Zhanna Vladimirovna Bichevskaya (73 years) was born in Moscow in the family of an electrical engineer Vladimir Bichevsky and ballerina Lidia Kosheleva. Far ancestors in the father are Polish nobles, whose family was mentioned back in the time of the Commonwealth. “I don’t even know where the mother’s grave is, I don’t know the name of my own grandmother,” said the singer. - Mom was a ballerina, died of an abscess of the lungs when I was barely five years old. Everyone hid everything from me, and now there is no one to ask about it. ” Jeanne was raised by the stepmother Elena Bichevskaya, an accountant by profession.

She graduated from a music school in the guitar class. Having received a certificate, in 1966 she entered the school of circus and pop art. During her studies, she began to record Russian folk songs. In parallel, she worked as a teacher in the guitar class in the Zagorskaya Music School. After graduating from the school, from 1971 to 1973 she was the soloist of VIA “Kind well done” (sang in a duet with Julius Slobodkin), then moved to the Moskontzert (1973-1979).

In 1973, she became a laureate of the All -Russian contest of pop artists. She visited many cities of the USSR, as well as in Finland and Eastern Europe - Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Bichevskaya records with notes of folk songs arranged with the addition of country and folk diverge in large circulations in more than 40 countries of the world.

In the 1970s, the singer gathered a full house for the Olympia Paris Hall for eight times in a row. Then she had an interest in Orthodox culture. “In 1975, Okudzhava expelled me, Vysotsky. Three outers who declared war on the Bolshevik blasphemy! Then, after the collapse of the USSR, the Democrats came, my Orthodox songs, ballads listened, most of which were written by Hieromonk Roman and my husband Gennady Ponomarev. They listened and ... also forbidden! " - Assesses that period Bichevskaya.

Since the late 1980s, the White Guard theme has also been carried away. In 1989, at a song contest in San Remo (Italy), the title of Golden Guitar was awarded the outstanding contribution to world performing art. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the singer released several albums with the songs of Andrei Makarevich, Alexander Vertinsky and Bulat Okudzhava, as well as a number of Patriotic-oriented compact disks.

In 1999-2008, she conducted the author’s program “From Heart to Heart” at the Road of Russia radio station, broadcasting abroad.

In 1988, Zhanna Bichevskaya met with the Tula poet and composer Gennady Ponomarev, a fan of her work. In the same year, she was baptized and married with him in the church. The couple has no children.

What is famous

The Russian singer of the author’s song, singing mainly about Orthodoxy and Russian patriotism. In his songs, love for traditional values ​​and hostility to the West preaches. In the first half of the 1990s was also known for the performance of White Guard romances.

A significant part of religious compositions was written by hieromonk Roman (Matyushin), as well as the husband of singer Gennady Ponomarev (albums “Autumn of the Musician”, “Your name, Lord”, “Russian Calvary”, “Believe”, “White Night” and others).

What you need to know about

The Orthodox Church is ambiguous of Bichevskaya. So, the famous Russian preacher Deacon Andrei Kuraev previously called her a sectarian.

Here is what he wrote in the early 2000s: “Zhanna Bichevskaya was destroyed by the fact that she seriously imagines herself as a prophetess, teaches everyone and everything. In the church language, this is called the word "charm": a person begins to treat himself too seriously, he trusts his revelations, intuition, impressions and opinions too much. She performs in a new genre-concerts-certificates. When the music is something decimal, and most importantly - to say your word, strictly exposing everyone and everything, even the president, at least the Patriarch.

(At the concert) sounded "Russia will be free again, and the world will fall at her feet!" Then even more specifically: "Russians spit on the power of America and Europe!" And after this phrase, Jeanne in a fit of sacred anger shouted: "So that they die!" The anger of Bichevskaya was aimed not only at the “West”, but also to the church hierarchy, which refuses to transfer the title of “Redeemer” from Christ to Tsar Nicholas II: “Probably, the Lord sent me here. I serve God and the king. Hell is already full! And not only worldly - monks and priests, even bishops are full of hell!”

The scandal also called the video clip of Bichevskaya to the song “ We are Russians! "(2007), in which staged shots from the film" Independence Day "with burning American cities were mounted with video missiles running from Russian aircraft.

Direct speech:

About the way to God: “All my life I knew that God was, I was looking for Him. And when she was small, she also always felt that some kind of power was keeping me. Although in his youth there were secular life, and friendship with the Krishnas, and the hobby of yoga. But after all this, the Lord somehow directed me. I met Gena, my spouse, in 1988, he had been sang in the temple for ten years. And he asked me: "Are you baptized?" I say: "No." In Tula, in the cathedral not far from the husband’s house, I was dubbed a very good priest, hieromonk.

After that, my husband and I somehow naturally came to the veneration of the king and the royal family. We read three books "Miracles of the Tsarist Martyrs." Gennady wrote "The Song of the Holy Tsar’s Martyrs." And went and went. In the spring of 1994, they recorded the disc "Love, brothers, Love", which included the anthem "God, keep the king." And in the fall of the same year, a cumulative anti -tank shell flew into our apartment. It was a time if you remember when the Klykovsky monuments were blown up by Nikolai. I think that it was for the anthem "God, King the Tsar" we received a message from the devil and his servants. "

About the relationship with colleagues and miracles: “Once Pugacheva called me and said:“ Jeanne, what are you not participating in our parties? ” And I answered her with a direct text: "Alla, you and I are from different trade unions." I do what I put in my hands, in my mouth, my Lord in my soul. And I will also report to the Lord for this. In any case, the songs that I sing bring people to God, to the church. The head doctor of the oncology center in Moscow once said to me: "Jeanne, I have to tell you a very important thing: some patients, listening to your record with the songs of Hieromonk Roman, are healed from the last, fourth, cancer stage." Not all, but some. Evil is very difficult to heal. We must get rid of anger, everyone should forgive everyone. ”

About the West and Russia (November 2014): “When we are baptized, we spit three times west. And say: "I deny you, Satan." From the west there is all the muck, all the rubbish from the antichrist of this filthy. Therefore, all that comes to us from the West, all this must be ... throw it out of my head, from home. Do not dance under the western tune! ”

5 facts about Jeanne Bichevskaya

• She studied singing from a chamber singer, People's Artist of Belarus Irma Yaunzem. In her youth, I traveled a lot around the villages near Moscow, where she collected half -forgotten folk songs.
• It has a blessing of Patriarch Alexy II to the release of plates of spiritual content (1997).
• By his own admission, the TV has not watched for thirty years.
• The last album “From Farewell to Farewell” was released by the singer in 2014.
• Then Bichevskaya supported the “Russian spring” and the department of Crimea from Ukraine, but then did not dare to come to the peninsula then. “In the early days of the“ Russian Spring ”I was eager for Sevastopol. But local entrepreneurs told me: "We are afraid for your life!" A year flew by, now a new fairy tale: “You will not collect the halls!” ”She told the new Crimea newspaper. In March 2015, she participated in a concert in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in support of the children of Donbass.

Materials about Zhanna Bichevskaya:

Article about the singer on Wikipedia

Biographical certificate on the official website

Biography on the site "Find out everything"