Love Russia Automatic translate

“Hello, dear Kaluga, the city of my youth!” - the lines of this lyrical Soviet song, written in 1965, based on the words of Mikhail Plyatskovsky, are known to many Kaluga residents and guests of the city. It glorifies the reverent love and tender nostalgic feelings of a person for his small homeland. It is no coincidence that everyone who hears this song feels a special warmth in their heart, perhaps because the music for it was written by a native of the city of Kaluga, a Soviet and Russian composer, Honorary Citizen of the city and region, People’s Artist of the USSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the Stalin Prize, State Prize of the RSFSR named after M. I. Glinka Serafim Sergeevich Tulikov.

Seraphim Tulikov was connected with our city by memories of childhood, early youth and the first stages of the development of his musical talent. At the age of 18, the young man graduated from the Kaluga Music College and left his hometown to continue his studies in Moscow. Throughout his creative career, Seraphim Tulikov worked in various musical genres: he is the author of instrumental and choral music, the creator of music for plays and films. However, the song occupied a special niche in the composer’s creative biography. The songs of Seraphim Tulikov are included in the golden fund of Russian song classics: “We are for peace”, “March of the Soviet Youth”, “Love Russia”, “Motherland”, “Song about the Volga”, “Veterans do not grow old in soul”, “This will never happen again” " and many others. Throughout his life, the author of music collaborated with such outstanding performers as Claudia Shulzhenko, Lyudmila Zykina, Maya Kristalinskaya, Valentina Tolkunova, Joseph Kobzon, Muslim Magomayev, Lev Leshchenko and others. He worked together with famous groups, ensembles and orchestras of the USSR.

Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Kaluga Region, Children’s Art School No. 2 named after. S. S. Tulikov and the Moscow Museum of Music implemented the idea of ​​the music and exhibition project “Love Russia”, which includes the combination of fine and musical arts. A combination of picturesque, graphic stock works of the museum, photographic materials and a musical component in the form of songs by the composer, united by several large themes: Kaluga, Love for the Motherland, Space exploration, the Great Patriotic War, Communist construction projects, Love lyrics.