Biography of Louise Khmelnitskaya

Wolf Grigoryevich is always with you! Today, June 27, the artist beloved by millions of spectators would have turned 68 years old. Sister Boris Khmelnitsky Louise Alekseevna speaks of him in the present tense. This means that for her he is alive. However, as for millions of admirers of the artist’s talent. He stuttered and therefore did not answer in the lessons ” - Louise Alekseevna, what are your most vivid memories of your brother's childhood?

At one time we lived in the city of Spassk, where dad worked as the head of the house of officers, and there, Borea and I went to kindergarten. Once Borya, he was then four or five years old, enters the room and cries. And Borya never cried! Dad turns around and asks: “Why are you crying? The fact that he stuttered, you know ... - Yes. And why? After all, stuttering was not innate.

In Spassk, we had a Russian stove, which was drowned with firewood. Borya got up very early and prepared to eat: he opened the oven, put a potato there. And so he quietly went into the kitchen, dark, of course, there was no light. And at that moment the rooster, having heard that something was happening below, flew off the chest of drawers, waved his wings and sank to Borina's head!

Well, here any person would be scared! From that time he began to stutter. He was treated for a long time. Later, knowledgeable people said that immediately after the incident, it was necessary to take a rooster and chop off the bird with a bird, then the child would stop stuttering. Because at first he did not understand what happened! It is a pity that it was said when the time was lost.

Borya stuttered very strongly, always. When he studied in the second grade, we no longer lived in Spassk, but in Ukraine, in Zhytomyr, where the dad was sent in the service, parents learned that in Kyiv there was Professor Derazhne, who was treating stuttering. Mom took Borya to Kyiv, rented him an apartment where he lived alone - at eight years old! He went to a school, who was next to the hospital, where Professor Derazhne took.

The doctor invented the correctivephone, which was inserted into the ears. When the patient was talking, he had noise in his ears, and the man stopped stuttering. After all, people, having heard their stuttering, begin to get even more nervous. Borya began to read with a correctphone and did not stutter at all. He went to school, and after the lessons he went to Derazhne. He studied very weakly.

So stuttered all the time that he did not answer in the lessons. I wrote everything. So that he is not teased. We were still small when my mother realized that we would be the musicians of Louise Khmelnitskaya became a composer. Music accompanied us from childhood. Speaking to the audience, I often say: “Our dad served in twelve cities. Upon arrival at a new place, my mother went somewhere in the morning.

Where do you think? No, not to the store, not to the market ... ” - to a music school. What is a music school? What are you talking about?! For example, there was no music school in Spassk! I remember once my mother brought a boxer who played by hearing. Therefore, we first selected and played by ear. In general, I found out notes only at twelve years! Borea and I listened to Vertinsky’s records, Utesov and tried to play.

Now I released the disk - Borya helped me! I looked at the sky and said: “Borik! Help me! There, a book in it is inserted, where I say that this disc is a dialogue between a brother and a sister about life. There are songs to my music. We lived then in Lviv. Borin's acquaintance Valera Somov arrived, in my opinion, he is no longer alive. And Borya then studied in the third year of the music school in Lviv on the conductor of the orchestra of folk instruments and in the Bayan class.

He is a wonderful teacher, a teacher from birth, was able to explain everything perfectly. He asks Valera: “What are you doing? Transfer, what does that mean? And we always played the theater with him as a child-we changed clothes, played something. My brother says to me: “Let's go to do! What can be the theater institute if Borya Zaika?! I handed over the documents and negotiated the commission so that no one would hear that he was stuttering.

The first year did not enter. Boris was delicately said: you graduate from a music school. After all, he arrived from the third year, remained only a year of study. The next year we have already prepared better, took a poem, prose, everyone carefully studied and slowly acted. But here he played a very large role ... Wolf Grigorievich Messing. He came there on tour. After the concert, dad and mom went backstage, and I think Messing fell in love with our mother.

As a further life showed, it was really so! Because the next day we are sitting with Borey, playing near the house we always lived in the courtyard of the houses of officers so that dad from the window of the office can see his children, and suddenly Messing appeared. Before that, we saw him only in the pictures. It was summer, I run into the room and scream: “Mom, there is a Wolf Messing!

Messing tells us: “Luzochka, Borya, hello! But he knew! I tell him: “Mom is not at home! Mom in the second room lies on a sofa, on a pillow embroidered with a cross! Wolf Messing! And he said: “How glad I am that I am again with you! He is in Moscow. " We have not seen him for fifteen years.We arrived in Moscow, approached the reference kiosk, which used to be many on the streets, where we were told that Messing lives at the Sokol metro, on Leningradsky Prospekt, and called the house and apartment.

We go there, we have no phone, of course. We approach the apartment, click on the call. There are no eyes on his door. Wolf Grigoryevich from the door says: “Luisochka, Borechka, I’ll open it now! We sat, he fed us. I must say, as soon as we came in, Messing says: “Borya, you want to go to the theater institute! He had a bump - wen, and we all our lives thought that this bump was a sensor, that it was all the thing.

He put his hand on the wen and said: “Borya, never be afraid of anything. Wolf Grigoryevich, he always called himself so with you! Then was the most important - in the technique of speech. We come to the Schukin school, and there is no one there. And the secretary, in my opinion, Irochka, so painted for us, because he sees-the brother and sister go to the hand all the time.

Irochka asks us: “Why did you come? She says: “Luzochka, an exam on speech technique was yesterday! You are late!