Biography of Kutdusov

The history of life “Documentary Tale H. A man of unusually bright talent, it was only because of belonging to the Crimean Tatars that was expelled from the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theater. It was such blows of fate that cut off her life at only 46 years old. ” This annotation of a book called “Shafy Kutdusov” could be made an epigraph to describe her life. No doubt a lot of good books will be written about Shafika Kutdusova.

But during a lifetime, people were afraid to speak loudly about her outstanding granting, because this talent grew up in the bowels of the disgraced people, about which the communist regime that prevailed in the country forbade even mentioning. As if he had never been. However, the regime fell, but the people remained. And now the time has come to recall his bright representatives, one of whom was the Shafy of Kutdusova - an actress from God, who burned in creativity, selfless and ...

hopeless. Shafy was born in Sevastopol on March 18 in the family of the only mullah of the city of Yusuf Rakhimov. Shafy became the sixth, penultimate, child of Yusuf-Efendi. Shafy received the name in honor of the daughter of a family of the Rakhimovs Ismail Gasprinsky. The families of the Rakhimov and Gasprinsky immediately came closer to the Yusuf-Efendi move to the Crimea. The wife of Ismail Bey Zore was from the same places as the Yusuf-Gazes, belonging to the famous surname Akchurins-merchants, philanthropists, enlighteners, and, like a countrywoman of Rakhimov, contributed to the friendship of two famous families in the Crimea.

When the Gasprinsky came to Sevastopol, they invariably stopped at the Rakhimovs, and vice versa. However, Rakhimov and Gasprinsky united not so much education as, to a much greater extent, the unity of views on their purpose in life. Thus, the family environment, in which a little Shafy was brought up, from the very first days contributed to the instruction of noble moral and spiritual principles.

And, being naturally generously gifted with abilities, she, like a sponge, eagerly absorbed life in all her rich diversity. I must say, all the children of Rakhimov turned out to be talented people. Only not everyone was able to survive the revolution and the Second World War. Miraculously survived after the war, the older brother of Shafiki Kamil Rakhimov, a famous composer, Honored Artist of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and the younger sister of Nuria Rakhimova, a writer and teacher.

The craving for knowledge of the girl manifested itself from early childhood. At the age of five, she already brought Arabic to a sheet of paper, and at home asked her father to speak with her only in French, which he owned perfection. She went to the Russian school immediately to the third grade and studied easily, without tension. The Rakhimov family was very musical.

The older Brothers Shafiki - Camille, Phasil and Nail played many musical instruments - from guitar and mandolina to winds - and in the evenings arranged impromptu concerts with theatrical performances. Over time, Shafy got into these games, but she dreamed of piano. She asked her brother Nail, the future of a Moscow artist, to draw a keyboard for her on a faner. Playing this imaginary instrument, she forgot about other children's games.

Seeing that this passion dragged on for a long time, the parents, after long thoughts, decided to purchase the instrument to their daughter. The fact is that Yusuf-Efendi worked alone, and the family consisted of nine people, not counting the relatives who lived in the same court, without the main breadwinner. So the prosperity in the family was, as they say, below the average - without excesses and luxury.

However, the family sacredly observed two life principles, which did not spare any means: healthy nutrition and education of children. All children in the family received the best education that could be obtained at that time. The piano, which was considered a great luxury at that time, was not found immediately. One expropriate sailor, apparently, was able to take out the old “Shreder” from the Lord’s house and sold it to Rakhimov at a similar price.

Following this, the question arose about the teacher of music. The pupil of the Institute of Noble Maidens, the former maid of honor, Elena Frantsevna Stroganskaya or Ostronskaya, entered the wind of the revolution to the Crimea. And this secular lady instilled in her beloved student a pan -European and musical culture. Having prompted four years, Shafy achieved fantastic successes.

She outplayed almost all of Chopin, many piano and vocal works of Schubert, Grieg. Starting at the same time to engage in vocals from the age of 15, she performed Aria from the opera Guno, the songs of other Western composers. Seeing her exceptional giftedness and feeling that she couldn’t give her anything else, the teacher advised Shafik to go to Moscow and continue her studies at the conservatory.

Moscow made an indelible impression on a young Shafik, and she fell in love with this city for life. The Moscow professor listening to her gave the highest appreciation to her abilities, predicting great opportunities for her talent. But ... the selection committee refused to enroll the capable applicant, referring to class belonging: by naiveness, Shafy wrote to the autobiography that her father is a mullah.From the point of view of the Bolsheviks who stood on the guard of education, the daughter of the “universal element” could not study together in children of cooks and proletarians.

Returning to Sevastopol, Shafy healed the mental trauma, again leaving her head into creativity. At the request of the Tatar population, a club was opened in the city, which was called the Tatar Club. Not only young people, but also representatives of the older generation, who willingly attended performances and concerts, stretched to him. The repertoire was international.

In the year, when Shafik was 17, one of these ideas was visited by a summer young man who came to Sevastopol on a business trip. Seeing Shafika on the stage, he realized that if this girl does not become the husband, then the future life will lose all meaning to him. Born in Simferopol and graduating from a gymnasium there, he, the leader by nature, was a “thunderstorm” of his area. And he fought against the whites on the side of the green or the Reds captured by the storm of the revolution and the Civil War: a generic hostility was vaccinated from his diapers from the diapers of Russian tsarism.

All his ancestors, belonging to the Higher Muslim clergy, consisted in an irreconcilable opposition to the royal regime. And although his father Kuddu-Efendi died not from the king, but from the Bolsheviks, this happened after the stormy events of the Civil War. Abduraim Kuddusovich Kutdusov buried his father, hiding from the authorities his abduction from the cell of suicide bombers.

By the time of the meeting with Shafika, he was known as an ideological communist, whose father died his death in the year. As for origin, he, not as an example of Shafik, in all official papers, this skillfully hid the good, he worked as a lawyer. Shafika was conquered by a fearless knight, surpassing all her boyfriends with a brilliant mind, determination and perseverance.

But Yusuf Rakhimov refused a marriage, sensibly reasoning that marriage could ruin still fragile talent, which he no longer doubted. However, the female nature at that moment prevailed over all other emotions, because there was no free love then, the Shafy, “stolen” from the parental house, left not only Sevastopol, but also the spiritual and creative life, which nurtured it, plunged into everyday life, hitherto unfamiliar and unusual.

True, the family life with the child that appeared, although the aspirations for sublime art were not buried in it, but for several years it detained its development in this direction. In Kerch, when the son of Javid dumb, and free time appeared, Shafik was invited as a pianist-concertmaster on the radio, where a professional chamber symphony orchestra and choir was created. And when the orchestra was reduced, she was persuaded to work at the Vodnikov club, to voice the silent cinema.

The work of the tape is specific, because you have to play in the light turned off, that is, blindly. Therefore, such work requires technical skills. Shafy had this technique and played Chopin's ballads, plays by Schubert, sheet and, in general, improvised modern melodies on topics. At the end of the year, she had another son - Ernst Eric. And before that, Abduraim was expelled from the party, fired from work and intended to "put it on the wall." The reason is the concealment of his origin "The enemy entered the ranks of the Leninists.

To survive, Shafik had to work with an infant in two works at once: in the afternoon - an economist at the factory, and in the evening - a tapeir at the Vodniki club. Four months later, the mother of Shafiki Fatyma came to the rescue from Sevastopol and took the chest grandson to her. This was the first meeting of the mother and daughter after a long separation.

After all, Abduraim, as a communist, did not have the right to communicate with “hostile elements”, which, it turns out, was the parents of Shafiki. But after leaving the party, the ban, of course, was lifted because he himself became a “class enemy”. True, Abduraim at that time was hiding in Moscow, where he got a job at the Revolution Museum. Shafy, having gained some freedom - one son in Sevastopol, and her husband in Moscow - began to visit the drama theater team with the same club of watermen.

For a provincial city, the team turned out to be extremely strong, and a professional director led it. Shafy there became an indispensable star-with such vast talents, this was not surprising. In the year, the Kutdusov family left Kerch forever. In general, this year turned out to be rich in events, some of which became Shafiki determining in the future life. In Sevastopol, the mosque was ruined, and the Imam-Hatip was reduced to the watchman.

Having become the daughter of a representative of the working class, the Shafy was finally accepted at a specialized educational institution - the Simferopol Musical School. She entered two faculties - piano and vocal. At this time, Abduraim returned from Moscow and began to work in the Simferopol colleague of lawyers. Finally, the eldest son went to school. At the piano faculty, Shafika took to her, determining immediately on the second year, a strong and solid teacher Eva Pavlovna Seferov by nationality, many students of which continued to study at the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatory.And she also intended Shafika to make a great pianist.

There were no strong teachers at the vocal faculty, and the director of the school Ardatov himself began to deal with it. Shafica's voice turned out to be a lyric-column soprano of a beautiful timbre. Being a pianist herself, the Shafy quickly learned the proposed repertoire, and the voice in the process of study developed, acquiring various timbre colors that she perfectly owned, subsequently becoming an opera singer.

In the year, Shafy completed her studies at the piano department of the school, having finally gained time for a labor career. Just at that time, the Crimean Tatars and Shafika dance ensemble was created in Simferopol. At the same time, part-time, she began to work in the Crimean Radio Committee with a pianist-account, where over time she began to act with independent concert programs as a singer in the year, she graduated from the vocal department of the music school.

However, there were no operas in the Crimean Republic. During this period of his work up to a year, Shafy expanded the range of his executive creativity from folk Tatar and Crimean Tatar songs to classical romances and opera arias. In the fall of the year, a group of music specialists, led by composer Jaudat Fayzi, arrived in the Crimea for selection on a competitive basis of opera vocalists for the upcoming decade of Tatar art in Moscow.