Friends!

Today we celebrate 80 years since the birth of famous Ukrainian Mykola Vingranovsky. I want you to rememberhim, because honor of such wonderful artists, who lifted Ukraine have to be remembered through the centuries. I shall tell some interesting facts you may not know about him.

Mykola Vingranovsky was born in the Mykolaiv region. Now we know him as a famous actor, director, and most of all - the poet of the sixties, but at the childhood he was a simple country boy, perhaps a little dreamy, who could go to feed the flock and lose half of it because of dreams. But he noticed all that the eye of the average person passed, and was able to enjoy it.

Vingranovsky was extremely talented and charismatic. It helped him to enter the university in Kiev. All decided the exam where a man had to play a spectator of film with Charlie Chaplin. All entrants before him laughed and pretended fun and Vingranovsky just sat down on a chair and fell asleep. Commission was impressed, and later so was Olexander Dovzhenko. Master arrived to Kyiv to recruit a group of top students who later went to study with him in Moscow. Mykola Vingranovsky became his student and it influenced his work a lot.

Vingranovsky starred in Dovzhenko’s film "Tale of ardent years," for which he even received an award in Los Angeles. After the university he began to work at the Kiev Film Studio. It seems it was so long ago, but while working he saw the difference between Ukrainian and Russian, which became apparent to all just now:

"Directors of the studio in Kiev were slightly strange, they spoke slowly, with pauses, like thay breathed deep into and could notbreath the air out. But when they spoke, their voices were copper! But pople from Russia behaved - as if they were Marshal Zhukov! And this directors looked at all like from the height of the Kremlin ruby ​​stars! This way they looked on Roland Sergienko and me. But after the grand success of "The Tale of ardent years," all of them were nothing for me.”

At the student times Vingranovsky began to write poetry, and after the success of Dovzhenko’s film he released the first book of poems "Nuclear preludes." His words were very important for Ukraine at the time, when only 5 years ago the Stalin cult wasdebunked and all began to evolve differently. Critics said that Vingranovsky had something from two - from Shevchenko and from Dovzhenko and this can not but argued. The strong image of Ukraine, love and understanding of people and their fate - are the main features of the works of Mykola Vingranovsky. He had an unique language, in which he spoke about the homeland, the parents, thelove. His words became a guide for many past and future generations.

Mykola Vingranovsky unfortunately died before his people again began to struggle for independence and freedom - things that he respected the most. But despite this, his immortal words were heard repeatedly from the Maidan stage in different years, urging Ukrainian fight for their country and justice.

Until his death he lived in Kiev, and ardently wanted to return to the village – he wanted to buy a small tractor and cultivate the land. And not because he was old, he was only 67 years old. That is how he saw further development of Ukraine, which, like his life, started with work on the land, which for some reason the next generation stopped to appreciate. Friends, value your landyou’re your heroes!