Bulat okudzhava biography of christopher

Bulat Shalovich Okudzhava( – ) is a poet-bard and a writer, one of the founders of the Russian genre called author’s song or an underground Guitar-Poetry movement.

The son of Georgian father and Armenian mother, he was born in Moscow. In , his father was murdered in prison, and his mother was arrested the same year and spent a decade in labor camps.

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In , at the age of 17, Okudzhava volunteered for the Red Army infantry and from participated in the war World War II. After his discharge from the service in , he graduated from the Tbilisi University to become a teacher. For the five years, he taught in a village school in the Kaluga area, where his first volume, Lyrics () appeared.

Although he had no formal training in music, he performed his verses self-accompanied by a seven-string guitar.

By the s Okudzhava gained widespread popularity within Russia as a poet-performer. He was among the first to perform poetic compositions with messages per