Talk:Leonid Kharitonov (singer)

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Thank you for your cooperation.--Storye book (talk) 16:32, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Jewish
Based on the fact that I know of a musical Jewish family Kharitonov, I wouldn't be surprised if Leonid Mikhalovitch was also Jewish. Can this be confirmed? Debresser (talk) 21:26, 17 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi. No I am quite certain that he is Russian Orthodox. In fact, in the Private Life Section in the article, you will see a mention about the return of an icon that he had restored to the church in his home village of Golumet. DSjersey (talk) 12:05, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

NOT Jewish! L. Kharitonov (about self):"Russian - it sounds proudly!"read (rus lang) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.31.204.21 (talk) 21:33, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Overuse of fair use images
This article has inexcess of 20 non-free images on it. That's pretty excessive, making it one of the top 50 articles on Wikipedia for the number of non-free images on it. I've placed the non-free template on this article. We don't need a sound clip and screenshot for every video listed. It's unnecessary. --Hammersoft (talk) 20:47, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * These jpg and ogg files were in the process of being replaced by two editors, one of whom owns the copyright to all of them, along with Leonid Mikhailovich himself. Now, by deleting some of the jpg files, you have made it difficult to replace them with the exact same ones, as they have many of these.  Please do not delete any more files until they have had time to replace them with free licences under their own copyright.  Please could you put the deleted files on the user page of MKharitonov, as user-read-only files, to make it easier for him to know which ones to replace. Please give him time as he is extremely busy right now. Thank you.--Storye book (talk) 22:44, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Update and comment: The five screenshot images now have free licences, and the images files are linked to copyright permissions on L.M. Kharitonov's own website. I strongly disagree with the comments made by Hammersoft above, on the following grounds:
 * I could not see 20 non-free images when Hammersoft made the above comment in April, unless he/she meant items in the navbox at the bottom of the page. If this is the case, let us know, because if we must sacrifice images, it is obviously better to sacrifice navbox images than to wantonly delete article images which were originally correctly licensed (which deletion was the effect of Hammersoft's tag and above comment).
 * This article is a special case in which we do indeed need a sound clip and screenshot for every video for which there is a commentary (not for every video listed, as Hammersoft puts it). The reason for this is that Kharitonov is the last remaining great operatic soloist from the Cold War years when these singers were effectively hidden from the West.  This is our last chance to try and see, hear and understand a school of music which is almost entirely gone for ever.  It involved groundbreaking singing techniques promoted by Kanger, the music teacher who gave them that extraordinary ability and prowess.
 * The West still does not have singers of this type, and Russia probably could not produce such singers again, now that Kanger is gone. Therefore these aids are very necessary to help the West to understand what we have missed and what we may completely lose in due course.
 * This is the first time that this school of music has been written about in a serious and encyclopaedic manner in the West. It has necessitated a massive and very difficult international effort involving people in Russia, the U.S.A and the U.K.  Please do not destroy this unique and necessary work.  Thank you.--Storye book (talk) 23:16, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

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On Alexander Navrotsky, the "Cliff"'s author

 * Re: The lyrics were written in 1864 by novelist Alexander Alexandrovich Navrotsky who was also a member of Narodnaya Volya (Russian: Народная Воля), a secret revolutionary organization perhaps best known for assassinating Tsar Alexander II on 13 March 1881. - While the song indeed was popular with Narodnaya Volya, Alexander Navrotsky has never been a member of it. In fact, since 1903 he was a member of something of the opposite, the right-wing, proto-fascist Russian Assembly. Surely, he held more liberal views in 1864 when he wrote the song, but in 1879-1884, when Narodnaya Volya was functioning, he was already serving as a high-ranking Russian military official in Vilno, writing pro-monarchist essays, glorifying Tsar Alexander II. So, sorry, but I have to remove this bit. -- Evermore2 (talk) 21:15, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your helpful edit and information. This is much appreciated.  However, bearing in mind tht this kind of subject can be controversial, it would help if you could kindly attach a reference link here on the talk page?  It's fine if the link is in Russian, because there are regular Russian watchers of this page. Storye book (talk) 10:35, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, my choice would be this one for it contains two enries, from the 1999 Biographical Dictionary and the 1969 Literary Encyclopedia. Indeed, I wonder if somebody could provide details (for me to use in the Navrotsky article) as to the circumstances of The Ciff's creation, for it was written apparently when the author was convalescing from the injury he received in Poland, and full of hard feelings, aimed, curiously, against not the Poles, but rather the Russian 'Imperial Eagle'.
 * And thank you for this fantastic work you've done on Leonid Kharitonov! My favourite clip of his is this one, for the song itself is a wonder. More like a scary prog rock suite. Preceded King Crimson/Arthur Brown for some 3-4 years, I'd say) -- Evermore2 (talk) 18:10, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I have added the ref to the article. That song means a lot to Kharitonov also, because on the day he sang that concert at the Tchaikovsky Hall, two of his military friends were blasted into space where they were to do a spacewalk, and no doubt he was thinking of their bravery. Storye book (talk) 18:31, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Update 20 September 2017
An anonymous editor has just updated the article to say that Leonid Kharitonov has died. I am currently checking the truth of this information before adjusting the article further. Thank you for your patience. Storye book (talk) 07:41, 20 September 2017 (UTC)


 * According to the Сlassical Muic News site, yes. No mention of the cause of death, though. news.sputnik.ru seconds this, citing CMNews as a source. And that is all? Looks implausible. It would have been on all the major channels, here in Russia. Hardly a hoax, but - some kind of mistake, maybe? -- Evermore2 (talk) 20:05, 20 September 2017 (UTC)


 * It has now been confirmed to me that Leonid Kharitonov indeed died on 19th September 2017 of a heart attack. I have updated the wording of the article accordingly, but we await appropriate citations, e.g. an obituary from a Moscow newspaper. Meanwhile, thank you Evermore2 for the links which I shall add as a source for the present.Storye book (talk) 08:01, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

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