Also an actor, he founded Moscow's renowned Taganka Theater By The Associated Press Soviet and Russian actor and director Yuri Lyubimov, founder of Moscow’s renowned Taganka Theater, which he led for ...

The iconic Russian balladeer, actor, and poet Vladimir Vysotsky wrote some 600 songs during his short, turbulent life, only a tiny fraction of which were ever officially released in the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Vysotsky, who died 35 years ago this month, was never given any recognition by the Soviet government. He became popular through bootlegged cassettes passed from hand-to-hand. Next week marks ...

This piece of dance theatre with the subheading “Solo for Three” is a ravishing performance inspired by the lives and songs of three singer-poets of the 1960s and 1970s – Jacques Brel, Vladimir ...

At a concert hall in southeastern Ukraine, Svetlana Balabukha, 70, says she can remember when she first heard Vladimir Vysotsky. She was 18, a schoolgirl in Donetsk, a town in now-occupied eastern ...

The iconic Russian balladeer, singer, and poet Vladimir Vysotsky wrote some 600 songs during his short, turbulent life, only a tiny fraction of which were ever officially released in the Soviet Union.