Solzhenitsyn’s camp poem became a song

Glory is free. Evening snow. Premiere

The history of the creation of this song goes to the distant 1974, when Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union. In the West, the Gulag Archipelago already thundered, and one smart producer, Janusz Christ, occurred to release the soundtrack to the famous book. Thus, the Gulag Song record was born, camp songs performed by the young chansonnier of the fame of the free (Mazura), who emigrated from the USSR. At first it was assumed that he would sing in 5-6 European languages, but in the end they limited themselves to the Russians. The album included the “Comrade Stalin” by Aleshkovsky, “I am going after the fog” of Kukin, “now all the deadline are over” Vysotsky, that is, songs written already in the post -plastic era. But for the Western audience, this was a discovery.

It was there and “in Dali behind” Alexandrov, converted by free in the anti -Soviet way: “A hundred of old fighters from the Budyonnovsky troops in the camps still rot.” And on the back cover there was a portrait of Solzhenitsyn with the signature: "The most famous Soviet prisoner." It was unrealistic to import this product into the Soviet Union, and they planted much more harmless things. However, attempts were made. The person who tried to do this in 1976 was captured at customs and received a year of “chemistry”.

Last year, the free disc was reprinted at the legendary Emigrant Label Kismet. And a year later, by the centenary of Solzhenitsyn, his new album “Snow over the prison” was released. The name is a quote from the Solzhenitsyn poem "Evening Snow", written in 1949. As far as is known, these are Solzhenitsyn’s only poems that have become a song. But how I read this poem by the author: