@ARTICLE{Sadowski_Jakub_Vysotsky:_2020, author={Sadowski, Jakub and Рахманов, Игорь}, volume={vol. LXIX}, number={No 3}, pages={471-491}, journal={Slavia Orientalis}, howpublished={online}, year={2020}, publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN}, abstract={In the summer of 1980, following the death of Vladimir Vysotsky, the Taganka Theatre in Moscow received more than 130 mourning telegrams. Their collection (although not all the items have survived) represents an invaluable source for the study of late Soviet culture. The descriptions of Vysotsky contained make it possible to reconstruct a certain collective portrait of the bard – this being one of the purposes of this article. The reasonableness of this task is justified by the fact that a number of the declarations sent testify to the articulation of emotions perceived by the authors as collective ones. The portrait we have created is a picture that perpetuates the personality, in which all the main features of the Russian cultural concept of “the Poet” are fully realized. It is also a portrait of a person who – according to the author of one of the telegrams – “lived ultimate states”, or – according to another – was permanently “standing on the edge.”}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Vysotsky: a Mournful Portrait. An Attempt at an Analysis of the Telegrams to the Taganka Theatre}, URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/117763/PDF/2020-03-SOR-03-Sadowski.pdf}, doi={10.24425/slo.2020.134731}, keywords={Vladimir Vysotsky, bardic song, authorial song, Taganka Theatre}, }