Amazing and even mysterious song. Many consider her to be among the thieves, although she is not at all purely thieves. And, although this is not at all an old port song, as many believe, it has firmly entered the treasury of “sea romance” songs, such as “In the Cape Town Port”, “Ships Came to Our Harbor”.
And, besides, disputes about the authorship of both poetry and music still do not subside. Vertinsky and even Vysotsky were recorded as authors. The original text, written back in the late 1920s, has been changed and supplemented by performers an endless number of times.
And who just did not sing it! It was performed by Vadim Kozin, bards of the 60s, Kira Smirnova, and Vladimir Vysotsky.
Authors
The text of the song "The Girl from Nagasaki" was written in the late 20s by the poetess Vera Inber, the music was composed by the then young composer Paul Marcel.
Yes, yes, that same Vera Inber, the famous Soviet writer, winner of the Stalin Prize (for the poem "Pulkovo Meridian"), is the author of the words of this song. In the years of her youth, she wrote romantic poems, and this poem of hers, "The Girl from Nagasaki", even in the pre-war years, became almost a folk song, even in some way, thieves.
Inber Vera Mikhailovna , (1890 - 1972). Born in Odessa. It was published there in the newspaper under the pseudonyms Vera Litti (small), Vera Imbert.
Vera Inber was the cousin of Lev Trotsky, one of the leaders of the October Revolution of 1917 and the organizer of the Red Army. Survived the Leningrad blockade. They did not touch her for her relationship with Trotsky, but she took part in the persecution of Boris Pasternak.
Her husband, talented journalist Nathan Inber, wrote about her: "a little woman whose lips smelled of raspberries, sin and Paris."
Vladimir Mayakovsky dedicated a very ambiguous rhyme to her, which is perceived very rudely by ear (especially if read “with expression”), and is therefore considered a rather caustic epigram on Inber.
Paul Marcel . The music for the song "The Girl from Nagasaki" was written by the composer Paul Marcel Rusakov (1908 - 1973), also known as Pavel Aleksandrovich Rusakov. Born in French Marseille in a family of Russian Jews who emigrated from Russia because of the Jewish pogroms of the early 20th century. His father protested against the military intervention in Russia in 1918-1920, and the family was deported to Petrograd.
So Pavel Rusakov ended up in Soviet Russia, became known as Paul Marcel, wrote romances to the verses of Yesenin, Blok and Pasternak. He did not escape repression and spent 10 years in camps.
It was he who wrote the music for the famous song "Friendship" (When with a simple and tender look), which was part of the repertoire of V. Kozin, K. Shulzhenko, and L. Utyosov, although disputes about his authorship have not subsided so far (authorship is attributed to V .Sidorov, accompanist V.Kozin).
original text
The original text of the song "Girl from Nagasaki" was repeatedly corrected and supplemented by both known and unknown "co-authors". There are only four quatrains (verses) in the original text. But the main difference is in the beginning: "He is a cabin boy ...". This is the highlight, the essence, because the young Vera Inber wrote romantic girlish poems.
Already in our time, the CD “Anthology of one song - The Girl from Nagasaki” (Genre: Chanson, Format: MP3) has been released, which contains as many as 21 performers of this song. You listen, and the “moment of truth” comes: many performers do not understand the “soul” of this song at all, they try to remake it “for themselves”, and not grow up to the romantic heights of this song.
For example, in a rock and roll performance, the port romance, the veil of dreamy sadness, and the unforgettable charm of the “yard” song (Alexander F. Sklyar, the Bullet group and others) completely disappear. It's the same as the ballet "Lenin in October" - can you imagine Lenin in tights, flying up on an armored car?
But there are performers who are quite careful about the original.
Gemma Khalid
Vladimir Vysotsky
This recording of "Girls from Nagasaki" by Vladimir Vysotsky was made in a Paris studio.
Lyrics of the song "Girl from Nagasaki" performed by Vladimir Vysotsky:
He is a captain and his homeland is Marseille.
He loves arguments, noises, fights,
He smokes a pipe, drinks the strongest ale
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.
She's got leprosy on her hands
She's got tattooed marks
And in the evenings jig in taverns
Dancing girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
And lips, lips as red as poppies.
The captain goes on a long journey
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.
Corals as red as blood
And a khaki silk blouse
And ardent and passionate love
He's taking a girl from Nagasaki.
The captain returned from afar,
And he learned that the gentleman in the evening dress,
Once smoking hashish
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
And lips, lips as red as poppies.
The captain goes on a long journey,
Not seeing the girl from Nagasaki.
And, nevertheless, of interest is the interpretation of the song, made in 2012 based on the movie "Wasabi", something like "The Girl from Nagasaki. 20 years later":
“The years have passed, the captain has become gray-haired.
With the team again arrived in Nagasaki.
And, being in an old tavern,
He saw his love and the same signs "...
It's like a new "edition" of the song "Girl from Nagasaki", only with a happy ending.
Living memory of love from Nagasaki
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Here is the original text of the poem by V. Inber. Folk art made a song out of an innocent girlish verse, which even eminent singers did not disdain to perform.
Vera Inber - Girl from Nagasaki
He is a cabin boy, his homeland is Marseille,
He loves quarrels, abuse and fights,
He smokes a pipe, drinks the strongest ale
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
She has tattoos...
But now the cabin boy goes on a long journey,
After breaking up with a Nagasaki girl...
He arrived. Hurry, barely breathing
And he finds out that the gentleman in a tailcoat
One evening, after eating hashish,
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki.
Was it a boy?
She has traces of leprosy on her hands, she has tattooed signs ...
Often the authorship is attributed Paul Marseille(real name - Pavel Alexandrovich Rusakov; 1908-1973). However, this version is wrong. There is documentary evidence that "The Girl from Nagasaki" was sung at the opening of the cellar of actors "Red Zucchini" in Kharkov on November 3, 1918. And the poem by Vera Inber, which I cited above, was published in the collection of poems “Frail Words”, published by the author in 1922 in Odessa. It is unlikely that the young son of Rostov Jewish emigrants who lived in Marseille in 1905-1918 was at that time familiar with the work of the Soviet poetess.
I also met opinions that the music for the song “Girl from Nagasaki” was written by Alexander Vertinsky. There are references that the artist performed this song during his stay in China. But Vertinsky's Chinese emigration lasted from 1935 to 1943. And the song “Girl from Nagasaki”, as we have already found out, became popular much earlier. So Alexander Vertinsky could hardly be the author of the song. At least there is no evidence for this. Even the recordings of this song in his performance have not been preserved.
She has such small breasts, and her lips, lips are scarlet, like poppies ... Photo: Momoyama
And the sometimes encountered version that the author of the music for the song “The Girl from Nagasaki” is completely ridiculous is Gemma Khalid, in whose performance the song is quite popular. Dzhemma Iosifovna Khalid was born in 1962 and in no way could influence the birth of this touching song.
Therefore, at the moment, we can safely say that the author of the music for the song “Girl from Nagasaki” is unknown.
New surge in popularity
It should be noted that the song about the captain's love for a Japanese girl, very popular in the 20-30s, was forgotten for some time and was remembered only in the 50s-60s of the last century.
Since then, the song “Girl from Nagasaki” has been performed by famous and not so famous singers: Vadim Kozin, Vladimir Vysotsky, bards of the 60s, Kira Smirnova, Dzhema Khalid, Arkady Severny, Alexander F. Sklyar, Alexander Malinin, the Bullet group and many other. On the Internet you can find collection “Anthology of one song - Girl from Nagasaki”, where the song is presented in 30 versions.
The song "Girl from Nagasaki" was sung by several dozen performers
I suggest you listen to the song "Girl from Nagasaki" performed by Vladimir Vysotsky. For many, this performance is the reference.
Listen to V. Vysotsky's song "Girl from Nagasaki"
Happy ending... Unexpected
Now the song about a Japanese girl is not very popular, the younger generation does not know her, and the older one sings only occasionally. In 2012 Valerian Proskuryakov decided to revive the forgotten song and wrote a sequel, that is, its continuation. Now the story about the Marseille captain and his beloved ends quite happily:
Years passed, the captain became gray-haired.
With the team again arrived in Nagasaki.
And, being in an old tavern,
He saw his love and the same signs ...
A new version of the song with a happy ending performed by singer Sabina. Two videos were made for the song, which use fragments of popular films on the maritime and East Asian themes. The new text fits especially well with the plot of the film “Wasabi” with Jean Reno. I suggest you watch this clip. Ignore the fact that the authorship of the music there is attributed to Gemma Khalid. We have already understood that this version is fundamentally wrong.
Listen to the continuation of the song “Girl from Nagasaki”
I hope, friends, it was interesting for you to learn more about the song “Girl from Nagasaki”. Personally, I was especially pleased with the continuation of the romantic love story. It's not a bad idea to come up with a "second series" for a tragic song. What do you think of this idea?
If you hear a song about a girl from Nagasaki for the first time, then write your opinion about it in the comments - did you like it or not, is it possible to sing it in our time or is it hopelessly outdated. And if the song is familiar to you, then share your memories associated with this song.
Next time, friends, I will tell you. I promise that some of the myths and misconceptions associated with this song will be debunked by me. Follow the publications!
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The beautiful song "The Girl from Nagasaki", whose title and lyrics mention a Japanese city widely known for its tragic history, will be 100 years old next year. Once, a very long time ago, in the late forties, back in my student years, I heard it, but I forgot, and recently, as it happened, one day, I listened to a song performed by Vladimir Vysotsky, Jemma Khalid and Alexander Malinin.
It seems to me that I know the work of Vysotsky and Malinin quite well, and I heard the name Gemma Khalid for the first time, although I also love chanson and have been listening to it for many years.
Chanson lovers and music critics are right to say that the song "Girl from Nagasaki" is amazing and full of mysteries. Too many myths and legends were around this song.
Previously, many considered the song "thieves" and "port", although musicologists did not agree with this. The song has long and firmly become one of the hits of the "marine theme", but it is still not one.
For a long time they argued who owns the words and who owns the music of the song. The famous Alexander Vertinsky and many other singers and composers were considered the author of the song, and then even Vladimir Vysotsky turned out to be the authors.
It was believed that the text of the song was written in the late 20s of the last century. But meticulous musicologists found information in the archives that the song appeared much earlier and it sounded back in 1918!
It is also known that the lyrics of the song were changed and supplemented repeatedly. As a rule, this was done by the performers. And it was sung by Vadim Kozin, Arkady Severny, bards of the 60s, Kira Smirnova, Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Malinin and many other artists. On the CD “Anthology of one song. The Girl from Nagasaki” there were more than two dozen performers.
Now the passions have subsided and connoisseurs of "marine romance" have come to the conclusion that the words of the song belong to the poetess Vera Inber (1890-1972), a famous Soviet writer.
The question of the composer who wrote the music for the song "Girl from Nagasaki" has remained open to this day. For a long time it was believed that the composer Paul Marcel Rusakov (1908 - 1973), also known as Pavel Aleksandrovich Rusakov, wrote the music. But here is information from the Internet: “... the authorship of Paul Marcel, as a composer, can be removed. Theatrical magazine` No. 7 dated December 22, 1918 writes about the opening on November 3, 1918 of the basement of the Actors “Red Zucchini” in Kharkov: “A guitar is ringing from somewhere. Drunken, gentle guitar de Lazari. "My charaban, my charaban." This is Raisova. Raisa Mikhailovna herself. "He is a cabin boy, his homeland is Marseille." "Girl from Nagasaki"...
It turns out that in 1918 the song was already popular, and Paul Marcel was then only ten years old.
The song "Girl from Nagasaki" I explored the history, dug deeper on the first Internet sites in general. Cautious samizdat revelations in the past. They didn’t write me reviews for the publication, I’ll answer on your page, maybe someone is interested.
The author of the music, she is the author of the words - Vera Inber. She played music not above average, at an amateur level. I was embarrassed to announce.
All other authors "attached" to the popularity of the text, as is usually the case with bards.-
These are the "stove-shops" that are obtained ... Vera Inber is the author of poetry and music!
Where is the truth? No one knows...
The poem "The Girl from Nagasaki" became a folk song even in the pre-war years.
The text of the song was repeatedly corrected and supplemented by both known and unknown "co-authors".
There were only four verses in the original lyrics of the song. Vera Inber has been writing romantic, “girlish” poems since 1910. The beginning of the song then sounded like this: "He is a cabin boy ...". In subsequent texts, through the efforts of numerous editors, the young man turned into a captain: "He is a captain ...".
The original text of the song was published in the book "Perishable Words" (Odessa, 1922) There are four verses in total. If the first three were repeated in many versions of the song subsequently, then the first line of the last verse in such an edition never sounded.
Arriving, he hurries to her, breathing a little,
And he finds out that the gentleman is in a tailcoat,
Tonight, smoking hashish
The song "Girl from Nagasaki" has included dozens of performers in their repertoire for many decades.
Music critics believe that many of them have not understood the "soul" of this song. They tried to remake it for themselves, and not rise to the romance of this piece of music. They lost port romance, and dreamy sadness, and the unforgettable charm of the "yard" song.
Gemma Khalid and Vladimir Vysotsky treated the original carefully. Although, the text of the song performed by Vladimir Vysotsky is somewhat different from the text sung by Gemma Khalid and Alexander Malinin. The text is well known, but I will quote it in full. It will be easier for the reader to understand the continuation of this extraordinary story.
He is a captain, and his homeland is Marseille.
He loves arguments, noise and fights,
He smokes a pipe, drinks the strongest ale
She's got leprosy on her hands
She's got tattooed marks
And in the evenings jig in taverns
Dancing girl from Nagasaki.
The captain goes on a long journey
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.
Corals as scarlet as blood
And a khaki silk sweater
And ardent and passionate love
He's taking a girl from Nagasaki.
The captain returned from afar,
And he learned that the gentleman in the evening dress,
Once smoking hashish
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
And lips, lips as red as poppies.
The captain goes on a long journey,
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.
And in a wild storm, when the storm roars,
And in quiet hours on the forecastle,
He remembers those brown eyes
And raves about the girl from Nagasaki.
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In March 2012, a sequel to the song "Girl from Nagasaki" appeared, only now with a happy ending. The author of the text is a Ukrainian poet from the city of Zaporozhye Valerian Proskuryakov (), and the famous singer Sabina performed the song "Living Memory of Love from Nagasaki". The music stays the same...
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Lyrics of the continuation of the song "Girl from Nagasaki"
Years passed, the captain became gray-haired,
With the team again arrived in Nagasaki.
And, being in an old tavern,
He saw his love and the same signs.
She has such small breasts
And lips, lips as red as poppies.
He couldn't believe his own eyes
But he lost consciousness in the twilight.
And so, when the captain woke up,
He noticed a gentleman in a tailcoat,
Brown eyes were having fun with him -
His favorite from Nagasaki!
She's got tattoo marks on her arms
And the lips, the lips are scarlet, like poppies.
And with amazement the captain learned
It contains the daughter of that girl from Nagasaki.
The story of a never ending dream
To the beloved girl, that lips are like poppies.
Our captain continued not in the seas -
He stayed forever in Nagasaki.
He disappeared in a familiar tavern,
I looked at my daughter and her signs,
And I saw French features in her,
And the girl he fell in love with in Nagasaki.
The captain has no other fate
He does not like noise or fights now.
He is immensely happy that his daughter is near -
Living memory of holy love from Nagasaki!
On the pier in the storm when the storm roars
And the cry of the seagulls, the cry of victory in the darkness.
The Loving Captain
Eagerly swallows the spray of sea attack waves!
GIRL FROM NAGASAKI
He is a cabin boy, his homeland is Marseille,
He loves drinking, noise and fighting.
He smokes a pipe, drinks English ale,
She has beautiful green eyes
And a khaki silk skirt.
And a fiery jig in taverns
Amber, corals, scarlet as blood,
And a khaki silk skirt
And ardent hot love
Arriving, he hurries to her, breathing a little
And he learns that the gentleman is in a tailcoat,
Tonight, smoking hashish
The last two lines are repeated
From the phonogram of Kira Smirnova, CD “Ships came into our harbor: Kira Smirnova”, “Vostok”, 2001.
A song based on a poem by Vera Inber from the collection Frail Words (1922):
Girl from Nagasaki
He is a cabin boy, his homeland is Marseille,
He loves quarrels, abuse and fights,
He smokes a pipe, drinks the strongest ale
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
She has tattoos...
But now the cabin boy goes on a long journey,
After breaking up with a girl from Nagasaki...
He arrived. Hurry, barely breathing
And he finds out that the gentleman in a tailcoat
One evening, after eating hashish,
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki.
Paul Marseille (Pavel Alexandrovich Rusakov, 1908-1973) is often cited as the author of the music, but without proof. Paul Marcel was born in Marseille into a family of Jewish emigrants from Rostov, then the family was deported to Russia as an unreliable element. In the USSR he graduated from the Conservatory in piano and composition theory. Some sources call him the author of the song "Friendship". Arrested in 1937, received 10 years, sent to Vyatlag. Released in January 1947, rehabilitated in 1956. Worked as musical director and conductor of the Leningrad Circus.
In the spring of 2011, the problem of Paul Marcel's authorship was discussed at the "Musical Light" forum. On April 4, user Evgeny933 posted the following post:
"... the authorship of Paul Marcel, as a composer, can be filmed. Here is what the Theater Journal writes (No. 7 of December 22, 1918) about the opening on November 3, 1918 of the cellar of the Red Zucchini actors in Kharkov (Sumskaya, 6 ): "A guitar is ringing from somewhere. A drunken, gentle guitar de Lazari. "My charaban, a charaban." This is Raisova. Raisa Mikhailovna herself. "He is a cabin boy, his homeland is Marseille." "A girl from Nagasaki ...... taking a violin from a Romanian, someone plays "Charochka". Music, wine, smiles. Of course, intoxication. But if you get mad at all, then it's joyful to be mad. " That is, it turns out that in 1918 the song was already popular, and Marcel at 18- I was only 10 years old."
OPTIONS (4)
1. Girl from Nagasaki
The song about the girl from Nagasaki is not really one of the pure thieves. The text was written in the late 1920s by the poetess Vera Inber (1) to the music of Paul Marcel. The song was popular among criminals along with many other works of "marine romance" ("In the Cape Town Port", "On the ship the sailors walk gloomily", "Ships entered our harbor", etc.) In the tramp environment there were many former sailors, a significant influence sailor subculture to the criminal world (plots of tattoos, sea words in thieves' jargon, etc.)
But that's not why I included this particular song in the collection. The case told by Valery Priemykhov played a role. The actor remembered how on the set of one of the films it was necessary to perform some kind of “classic” Urkagan song. The film crew went to Butyrka prison. Priemykhov and his comrades were taken to many cells, where he talked with the prisoners. Imagine the surprise of the artist: practically none of the inhabitants of the cells knew a single real camp song! They sang mostly Vysotsky, Rosenbaum or some modern low-profile "blatota". And only in one of the cells the old mossy "inmate" performed, confused and confused, "criminal folklore" - "The Girl from Nagasaki" ...
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He is a captain, and his homeland is Marseille. (2)
He loves quarrels, noise and fights,
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.
And lips, red lips, like poppies,
And in the evenings jig (3) in taverns (4)
Dancing girl from Nagasaki.
She has tattoos...
(5)
And in those hours when the storm roars,
Or in quiet hours on the forecastle
He remembers narrow eyes
Coral, rubies as scarlet as blood,
And a khaki silk sweater
And wild and tender love
He arrived, hurries to her, breathing a little,
But he finds out that the gentleman (6) is in a tailcoat,
One evening, eating hashish, (7)
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
And lips, red lips like poppies...
The captain goes on a long journey,
(8)
(1) At that time, Inber, who later became a pro-Soviet poetess, dabbled in "exotic" rhymes. By the way, in the notes of the 20s, the publishers made a typo in the surname Inber - “Imber”. Although it is curious that the inhabitants of Odessa still pronounce the name of the poetess in this way. The song about a girl from Nagasaki is dedicated to Alexander Mikhailov. Who that is, I don't know.
(2) In the original, instead of the captain, the cabin boy appears - "He is a cabin boy, his homeland is Marseille." Later, unknown performers promoted the cabin boy in rank.
(3) Jiga is a temperamental English folk dance.
(4) In the notes of the 20s, a slightly different version of this line -
“And, leaving the Jigu, in the taverns
Dancing girl from Nagasaki.
So it turns out that Jigu is the name of the yoongi. Most likely, the text is somewhat distorted. Which, however, is not surprising, given that the publishers at the same time distorted the name of the author of the words.
(5) Original - “But now the cabin boy goes on a long journey.”
(6) In later versions - "gentleman".
(7) In later versions - "Once, while smoking hashish."
(8) In the original, everything ends with the previous verse. The last verse is a later addition.
Zhiganets F. Blatnaya lyrics. Collection. Rostov-on-Don: Phoenix, 2001, pp. 302-305.
2. Girl from Nagasaki
He is a captain, and his homeland is Marseille,
He smokes a pipe, drinks the strongest ale,
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.
She's got leprosy on her hands
She has tattoos on her.
And in the evenings jig in taverns
Dancing girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
And the lips, the lips are scarlet like poppies.
The captain goes on a long journey,
Kissing a girl from Nagasaki.
He remembers brown eyes
And raves about the girl from Nagasaki.
Coral threads are red as blood,
And true and tender love
He is carrying a girl from Nagasaki.
The captain returned from afar,
And he learned that the gentleman in a tailcoat,
Once smoking hashish
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
Not seeing the girl from Nagasaki.
unknown source
3. Captain from Marseille
He is a captain, and his homeland is Marseille.
He loves quarrels, abuse and fights.
He loves his pipe, he drinks the strongest ale
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.
She's got leprosy on her hands
And tattoos on the back.
And in the evenings jig in taverns
Dancing girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
And the lips, the lips are scarlet, like poppies.
The captain leaves on a dangerous path,
He loves a girl from Nagasaki.
When a violent storm, when a thunderstorm roars,
And in quiet hours, sitting on the tank,
He remembers brown eyes
And he remembers the girl from Nagasaki.
And a khaki silk blouse
And true and tender love
He is carrying a girl from Nagasaki.
And learns that the gentleman in a tailcoat
Once, smoking hashish,
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
And lips, red lips, like poppies...
Our captain has gone on a long journey,
Not seeing the girl from Nagasaki.
Songs of our yard / Ed.-comp. N. V. Belov. Minsk: Modern Writer, 2003. (Golden Collection).
4. Girl from Nagasaki
He is a captain, and his homeland is Marseille.
He loves quarrels, abuse and fights.
He smokes a pipe, drinks the strongest ale
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.
She's got leprosy on her hands
She has tattoos on her.
And in the evenings jig in taverns
Dancing girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
And her lips are scarlet, like poppies.
The captain goes on a long journey,
Leaving the girl from Nagasaki.
When the storm rages, when the storm roars
And in quiet hours, sitting on the tank,
He remembers brown eyes
And raves about the girl from Nagasaki.
Coral threads red as blood
And khaki silk blouses
And true and tender love
He's taking a girl from Nagasaki.
And then he returned, in a hurry, barely breathing,
And he finds out that the gentleman is in a tailcoat,
Once smoking hashish
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki.
She has such small breasts
And her lips are scarlet, like poppies ...
Our captain has gone on a long journey,
Not seeing the girl from Nagasaki.
Anthology of student, school and yard songs / Comp. Marina Baranova. Moscow: Eksmo, 2007.
Jewish spiritual teachers say: "Leprosy (tsaraat) — disease of the soul. An evil tongue, gossip, a desire to harm people lead to leprosy ... The only cure for leprosy at all times was repentance, and the treatment was very long. Retribution always came quickly - in the form of isolation from society and shame, because everyone who saw a leper understood that this person had sinned " (http://www.evrey.com/sitep/nedglav/ar...)
The topic brought to the attention of the reader is not new. But it has no statute of limitations, so it can and should be repeated, repeated, repeated ... so that millions of people understand what kind of world we live in.
Gundarov: leprosy has gone through the political elite...
The name of Doctor of Medical Sciences Professor Gundarov thundered eight years ago, when the head of the laboratory of the State Research Center for Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of Russia diagnosed President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.
He explained: an incomprehensible "crust" of pockmarks and acne, disfiguring the face of a politician, is a medieval leprosy disease. Leprosy, from which, without treatment, amputation of arms and legs occurs, and the face changes beyond recognition. Lepers were hung with bells around their necks and driven out of the cities, later they were locked up in leper colonies for life...
The scandal was forgotten until February of this year, when Yulia Tymoshenko was taken to the revolutionary Maidan. The bright beauty disappeared: a woman with a swollen face was sitting in a wheelchair, on which familiar features were almost invisible ...
The audience shuddered, a joke began to circulate on the Internet: “Yulia Tymoshenko on the Maidan was played by actor Sergei Bezrukov”, - and then Dr. Gundarov came on the stage again. And said: "I warned you".
Igor Alekseevich, are you sure about the diagnosis? How can you say such things?
I'm one hundred percent sure. With Yushchenko - one hundred, and with Tymoshenko - ninety-eight: there, after all, one can assume some kind of blood problems ... I will say this. I've been a professor twice, it doesn't happen that often. If, after publication, colleagues respond and prove that I am wrong, I will tear both my diplomas in front of everyone.
From the medical history: "on the night of September 5-6, 2004, presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko is having dinner at the dacha of his friend, deputy chairman of the SBU. In the morning, the politician begins to complain of severe headaches, he vomits, neuropathologists are invited to the patient. On September 7, Yushchenko's eyes swell. Journalists arrive on September 8: they note the candidate's unnaturally pink complexion and fuzzy diction, Yushchenko himself complains of severe back pain, and facial paralysis is added on September 9. The patient is urgently sent to Vienna, to a private clinic, where doctors discover a total lesion of the gastrointestinal tract. -intestinal tract: multiple ulcers, acute pancreatitis, gastritis, colitis ... The skin begins to change, but the skin is not the main thing: Yushchenko has severe back pain. The nature of the pain is not clear, the patient can no longer walk, cannot get out of bed. Anesthetize with opiates substances, as after a major operation, thanks to which the politician is conscious."
Later, cysts and ulcers will cover the whole body, they will fester and hurt, the poor politician will have to change three or four shirts a day so that his jacket does not get wet ...
One can only bow before the courage of Viktor Yushchenko, who in such a state (with a catheter in his back, on drugs) is participating in the election race. And one can only marvel at the short-sightedness of the Ukrainians, who elect a rotting man alive president.
I am familiar with leprosy theoretically and practically: I conducted examinations of patients in the Terek leper colony for my Ph.D. thesis “Electrocardiographic changes in patients with long-term leprosy”, sometimes I had a hard time figure out how to take a cardiogram if an arm or leg was missing ... I traveled until my wife knocked fist on the table: “I don’t want to get leprosy in twenty years!” This disease has a long incubation period...
What Yushchenko fell ill with, I immediately assumed. Leprosy is a neuroinfection: it lives in the nerve trunks. The affected nerves thicken, and where they pass through the bone channels, the holes become narrow for them, compression causes severe pain: such that the patient thinks of suicide. Moreover, the leg may hurt, or the arm may - depending on which nerve is damaged. Gastritis, pancreatitis, various paralysis and loss of sensation in leprosy are also classic manifestations, not to mention lepromas on the skin ...
All the doctors who treated Yushchenko noted the atypical course of the disease, could not come up with a common cause for such different symptoms. But once you think about leprosy, everything becomes typical. Like a textbook.
From the medical history: "Lepra is caused by Hansen's mycobacterium and is transmitted by talking. Hundreds of thousands of bacteria swarm around the patient and infect those who come closer than one and a half meters. A person can become infected, but not get sick. Or he can get sick, but in twenty to thirty years, when the fateful meeting already erased from memory. All this time, a healthy carrier and a leprosy patient in the incubation period will be the spreaders of the infection. "
Leprosy has many faces: a person will be treated for a hernia in the spine for five years and not guess that it is leprosy. Or complain about a sick stomach, swallow intestines and cereals - and this will again be leprosy. Leprosy is a great imitator, its symptoms are the symptoms of various diseases. For example, the author of this note has a numb hand, and it may be leprosy. Leprosy is invisible: it is not found in the blood and in half of the cases is not found in the affected tissues. That is, a third of leper colony patients have never had leprosy in their analyzes. Until recently, it seemed that the disease was defeated: now only six hundred people are kept in leper colonies in Russia. Scientists argue whether leprosy is curable: the disease is well stopped by drugs, but a relapse can occur even after decades. Leprosy doesn't kill: it just makes life miserable.
Igor Alekseevich, in fact, Yushchenko was diagnosed with dioxin poisoning.
It's not even worth talking about. This is a well-conceived version for the election campaign, to give the candidate the aura of a martyr. I have a photograph where Viktor Yushchenko, with his face slanted to the right, speaks from the podium of the Rada: “You know who this killer is. The killer is power!" - and according to the photo, paralysis of the left facial nerve is clearly diagnosed, which is typical for leprosy ...
But in order. When information about the poisoning was spread, the Vienna clinic where Yushchenko was treated issued a refutation. The doctors said that the poisoning version is not true! Later, they changed their minds - but the head physician of the clinic did not change. He was fired for refusing to sign the report on Yushchenko's poisoning, sued the clinic over this, and was reinstated.
Further: dioxin appeared in the tests only three months after the onset of the disease, before that the blood tests were clean. It is impossible to establish where he came from, who added the poison and whose blood samples were generally, since Yushchenko categorically refused to do tests at home in the presence of independent experts, even as part of a criminal case. For years he did not appear for interrogations, although he was a victim!
The concentration of dioxin in Yushchenko's blood, even if those controversial analyzes are to be believed, was only three or four Russian norms: it is higher in infants in Chelyabinsk ... Five or six parliamentary and medical commissions in Ukraine came to the conclusion: there is no evidence of poisoning, all this unfounded.
But you are also accused of lack of facts. You make a diagnosis on TV, which is unscientific and unethical.
I make a diagnosis based on video and photography, as well as medical documents. Ethical or not ethical, but due to political publicity, Yushchenko's medical record, his tests and examinations ended up on the Internet. I do not need to examine the patient, excellent professionals did it for me!
You can't be sure of the authenticity of the documents...
I know the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, who thoroughly checked everything. I can be sure of the testimonies of doctors that they gave in court, I can be sure of the published reports of the commissions ... Besides, sometimes just photographs are enough!
In medicine, there is the concept of "stigma": this is a sign that occurs only with this disease. Only with leprosy does the face change beyond recognition. It inflates, the superciliary arches increase, the nasolabial folds cut sharper, the nose thickens ... In medicine, this is called the "lion mask" - the mask of leprosy patients, which even erases racial differences. Compare the photo of Yushchenko and the portrait of the patient from the textbook: they are almost identical. Only leprosy affects the lobes of the ears: they increase, resembling a plum. Why are surveys here, everything is absolutely clear. I appeal to all doctors: well, colleagues, admit the obvious!
Only leprosy deforms the ear cartilage. Normally, the pattern of the auricle is specific, like fingerprints, hence the mass of assumptions about Yushchenko's double. People compare and write: it's not him!
Only leprosy affects the branch of the facial nerve, which is responsible for the movement of the upper eyelid. The whole nerve - please, but one branch - only trauma and leprosy. I have a photograph: on Yushchenko's left eye - like a thorn. This is because the eyeball rolled up when blinking, but it doesn’t go back anymore - the nerve does not work ...
In the case of Yushchenko, I would teach students what tubercular leprosy is. He even has an orange peel on his face, even rashes around his nose in the form of butterfly wings ...
If everything is so obvious, why is no one supporting you? Yushchenko's attending physicians sharply denied this version.
They bluntly refused to discuss it. Yushchenko's attending physician, cosmetic surgeon Olga Bogomolets, said that leprosy has been going on for decades, while Yushchenko, they say, developed the disease in a few days. It's just that she didn't read his outpatient card, but I did. Viktor Yushchenko had been ill for ten years by 2004!
Gastritis, damage to the entire digestive system, dermatitis, the nature of which the doctors could not establish, erysipelas, short-term paralysis. Viktor Yushchenko was the most frequently ill employee of the Ukrainian government! In 2002 - sixty-five visits to the doctor, seven per month! And this is not some hard worker who does not have enough money for good nutrition. It's the prime minister!
Yushchenko's back pain was such that he could not attend a meeting of parliament where the issue of his resignation was discussed: he went to the Institute of Neurosurgery, where the nerve was released from bone compression.
I'll tell you more. Thanks to my diagnosis, Yushchenko was treated.
Is there evidence?
The director of one of our leather institutes received a call from Ukraine, asking him to come and consult Yushchenko. He refused, then he was directly asked: "Could it be leprosy?" - "Yes, it could be leprosy"- and this conversation was just after my speeches.
Another indirect proof: it is known that from the very beginning Yulia Timoshenko told her colleague: "Get plastic surgery, remove that pokemon mask". Doctors in Switzerland tried to operate - and unsuccessfully: the tissues do not heal, they spread, as they are stuffed with mycobacteria, and then I read that Yushchenko had several dozen operations, and I see scars in the photographs instead of bumps, and this is only possible thanks to powerful antileprosy therapy .. .
I'm surprised otherwise. For ten years I have been knocking on all doors: I was at the FSB, at a reception with leading scientists, wrote open letters to Yushchenko, met with the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Moroz. No reaction! A serious consultation never gathered and did not even discuss the problem! But in epidemiology, there are clear rules for what to do when a patient with leprosy is found. And most importantly among them: it is necessary to take into dispensary records all those who communicated with a leper...
That's it. And that's why all the colleagues I turn to say: "Don't Climb". I gave materials to many of our leaders from health care, they: “No, I didn’t read, I don’t see!”- because if you read it, this is a 100% diagnosis, then you need to take action!
But it's about public health. Young guys who have been in contact with the affected tubercle leprosy are not taken into the army! The risk of infection is small, only three percent, but this is Russian roulette... And, in the end, there are already victims. Victim...
From the medical history: “Yulia Tymoshenko, who repeatedly hugged and kissed Viktor Yushchenko on the Maidan in 2004, was arrested in August 2011.
And almost immediately she declared that she was ill: bruises the size of a palm appeared all over her body. Yulia Vladimirovna is famous as a woman with peculiar notions of morality, so no one believed in malaise (later the Ukrainian Iron Lady confirmed her bad temper, saying that she was beaten by the guards). The bruises and bruises were photographed, appearing and disappearing over time."
At the same time, Tymoshenko began to complain of back pain: the prisoner was transferred to the ward and filmed with a hidden camera, although doctors invited from abroad confirmed that Yulia was not a malingerer. A couple of months later, the body of the non-simulant was covered with a rash.
Igor Alekseevich, you said in your first interviews about Yushchenko many years ago: “It’s a pity if the beautiful features of Yulia Tymoshenko, the closest associate of the president, are distorted by a terrible disease ...”
How he croaked! But in fact, the seven years that have passed from “dioxin poisoning” is the standard incubation period for leprosy (lasts from five to thirty years. - Ed.). Arrest - the strongest stress. Yushchenko, after all, also got out of stress, during the elections ... I empathized with Yulia as a human being. The woman screamed: "I'm sick, save me"- and the authorities did not move painfully. She was examined in Kharkov by doctors known to me, I asked: you will separate the identity of the politician and the symptoms. There is a rash, check it out!
Further, German doctors from the Charite clinic began to visit Yulia, they found that she had Schmorl's hernia, which eighty percent of older people have, as well as a systemic lesion of the nerve trunks. Most often this happens with three diseases: lues (syphilis), lupus (lupus erythematosus), leprosy ...
They led her to the court by the arms, and there you could see how swollen her face was. It is already different. Then they said: prison, they say, does not paint anyone. But Tymoshenko was not in prison, but in a first-class hospital, in a separate ward, with good nutrition and the best Western doctors...
Now Yulia Vladimirovna looks almost the same as before. She was photographed in a store in Germany: walking with her daughter, light, in a white dress...
This means that the exacerbation has passed and remission has come, or the doctors have begun anti-leprosy treatment. After all, leprosy is well stopped by modern drugs. It used to be that in leper colonies everyone was fingerless, legless - and now the problem is to identify the disease. Just think: Yushchenko and Tymoshenko have been destroyed for years in front of their colleagues! European doctors forgot the leprosy clinic, mistakenly attributed this infection to completely defeated ...
Now let's talk about ethics. We have the right to discuss the possible infection of a particular person with a dangerous infectious disease or not. Who has more rights: a person to his secret identity - or society to the safety of people's lives?
Did the US congressmen have the right to know that a Ukrainian was speaking in front of them, whose entire body under the suit was covered with oozing ulcers, presumably leprosy? Yushchenko's attending physician, Bogomolets, writes about this in an enthusiastic feminine way: they say, members of Congress would know how painful it is for the person who stands in front of them on the pulpit. But congressmen who constantly measure sugar - did they subscribe to such a risk? What about their wives and children?
Well, maybe the US knows the truth: Yushchenko's presence of American advisers was never hidden. What about ordinary Ukrainians? There was no president who kissed the people as much as Viktor Yushchenko!
Here we can recall the atypical behavior of patients with diseases rejected by society, such as syphilis, cancer. “Why am I the only one suffering? Why am I punished like this?" - and go, and infect, to share the pain. This mentality is broken...
Yulia Tymoshenko donated blood for ATO fighters in July: it's terrible... A leprous leadership is a leprous country... Or maybe leprosy also affects the brain? And this explains the current explosion of Russophobia in Ukraine?
This is a stretch: no effects of the bacterium on the central nervous system have been described. The point is different. Symptoms characteristic of leprosy began to appear in politicians in other countries. Unexplained bruising and bruising, changes in facial features, back pain, deformity of the ears...
One prominent opposition leader completely disappeared from the screen two years ago, I began to find out: it turns out that he had left-sided facial paralysis, like Yushchenko, he was treated unsuccessfully twice, recovered a year later, but traces remained. Has he ever met the former president of Ukraine?
No, I haven't met.
And who did you meet? With Boris Nemtsov, who visited Maidan in 2004.
Simple logic says that both of them should be tested for leprosy. Here it is important not to go too far, but also not to miss the danger.
Or Hillary Clinton. Obama fired her from the post of US Secretary of State a couple of days after the sudden defeat of the stomach and intestines with dehydration. Dehydration is just uncontrollable diarrhea and vomiting, it is treated with a drip in any rural hospital, and, of course, simple poisoning could not be the reason for the resignation of a second person in the United States. So Hillary was told it was a lifelong illness...
Leprosy went to the elite. Nature decided to punish the political elite. It's a slow but epidemic.
Have you informed suspected patients, those you suspect?
Necessarily. I took an oath as a Soviet doctor and consider it my duty to warn of danger.
But people still think that dysentery, hemorrhoids or leprosy cannot happen to a high-ranking official. As a result, we and all over the world do not have a mechanism for diagnosing top political figures. Remember Yeltsin with his ischemic brain disease: this is not a harmless condition. It is enough to pat such patients on the back, laugh at their joke - and get anything in return, up to the disarmament of the army ...
Therefore, the evidence-based opinion of the expert community is extremely important today. If it publicly confirms: yes, Yushchenko has leprosy, then all the politicians who met with the patient will run to be checked themselves.
And this is our salvation.
FIGURE: According to the World Health Organization, 800,000 new cases of leprosy are diagnosed every year. There are about fourteen million old treated patients who can relapse on earth.
APPLICATION:
"Leprosy is a disease of the soul. An evil tongue, gossip, a desire to harm people leads to leprosy ..."
Article announcement:
"God's Chosen or God's Cursed?!"
Now only heard from different sides: "Holy Land - Israel!" . Praise Israel and Jewish priests in synagogues, and Christian, reading prayers in the temples of Christ. But the ancestral home of the Jews has never been a holy land! On the contrary, it was the land of people cursed by God, whom the healer and prophet Moses once brought out of Ancient Egypt.
A careful study of the Torah and the Bible leads to an unequivocal conclusion: the people who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses suffered from terrible skin diseases. One of them was leprosy. Leprosy (leprosy) in ancient times was considered a disease sent as punishment by God. That's what they called her: "God's Curse". The Jews, brought out by Moses from Ancient Egypt, were sick with it.
Now it is customary to tell a fairy tale about how Moses led his people through the desert for 40 years. And for what purpose he led those unfortunate people through the desert - a mystery shrouded in darkness! The religious figures of Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, do not want to admit that at the source of all three Abrahamic religions is the feat and hard work of the prophets to save leper villains: to treat their souls, minds and remove God's curse from them!
Today, it is customary to keep silent about why not to someone else, but to the Jews, Moses handed over the first "law of God" - the ten commandments: "Thou shalt not kill!", "Thou shalt not steal!", "Thou shalt not bear false witness!" and so on. But, if you think about it, the mind should tell any person the answer to this question.
Moses brought these to the Jews ten Commandments, carved in stone, for centuries (!) that they originally lived robbery, theft, murder of people , and at the same time they also testified falsely against those whom they robbed, robbed or killed ...
When Christ came to the sinful land of the Jews, he tried to continue the work of Moses in the treatment of the mentally and physically sick. Jesus justified his coming to the Jews with the following words:“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (Luke 5:31-32).
The uncontrived fact that the ancestors of modern Jews were punished in ancient times with leprosy for their many crimes against God and humanity, explains, for example, why modern Jews have such a "rich" heritage of genetic diseases. What kind of inheritance is this, says an article published on a Jewish website www.sem40.ru
"I am the Lord, your God, a jealous God, punishing children for the guilt of the fathers to the third and fourth generation"(Deuteronomy 5:9).
"There were also many lepers in Israel under the prophet Elisha, and not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian"(Luke 4:27).
Genetic diseases of the Jews
Genetics
Many genetic diseases are specific to specific ethnic groups or nationalities.
For example, 25 percent of Jews whose ancestors come from Eastern Europe turn out to be carriers of certain genetic diseases that can be passed on to their children. If one of the partners is a carrier of a genetic disease, then there is a 25 percent chance that the spouses will have a sick child. There is also a 50 percent chance that the child will be a carrier of the defective gene, like the parents, and only a 25 percent chance that he will not inherit it at all.
Fortunately, very accurate methods have been developed to determine whether a fetus has inherited genetic diseases or not. This can be either an amniocentesis, performed at 15-18 weeks of gestation, or a hornal villus analysis, usually performed at 10-12 weeks of gestation.
Jews who are about to become parents will benefit greatly from learning about the genetic diseases that are common among Ashkenazi Jews. These diseases include:
Bloom syndrome. Children suffering from this rare disease are born very small and rarely grow above 1.5 meters. They have red and very sensitive skin on their faces; various pathological disorders; they are more prone to respiratory and ear infections and have a higher risk of getting certain types of cancer. The carrier is about one in 100 Ashkenazi Jews.
Canavan syndrome. This disease usually appears in children between the ages of 2 and 4 months, and they begin to forget previously learned skills. Most children die before the age of 5. The carrier of this disease is one in 40 Ashkenazi Jews.
cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis causes the body to produce thick mucus that accumulates mainly in the lungs and digestive tract, which causes chronic lung infections and stunted growth. The carrier is every 25th Ashkenazi Jew.
hereditary dysautonomy. This disorder affects body temperature control, motor coordination, speech, blood pressure, stress responses, swallowing, the ability to produce tears, and digestive juices. Occurs in every 30th Ashkenazi Jew.
Fanconi syndrome - type C. Fanconi syndrome is associated with short stature, bone marrow failure, and a predisposition to leukemia and other cancers. Some children may have hearing problems or mental retardation. The carrier is one in 89 Ashkenazi Jews.
Gaucher syndrome - type 1. Every 1,000 Ashkenazi Jews suffer from this disease. Its symptoms usually appear in adulthood. Patients suffer from pain in the bones and joints, are sensitive to fractures and other pathologies associated with the skeletal system. Subject to anemia, bruising and poor blood clotting. This disease can currently be effectively treated with enzyme replacement therapy. Every 12th Ashkenazi Jew is a carrier.
Mucolipidosis IV (ML IV). ML IV is one of the recently discovered genetic diseases of the Jews. It is caused by the accumulation of harmful substances throughout the body. Individuals with ML IV suffer from various progressive motor and mental deficiencies beginning at about 1 year of age. Early signs of the disease may include corneal clouding, strabismus, and retinal dystrophy. At the moment, patients with ML IV are known at the age of 1 to 30 years, but so far there is no data on the life expectancy of these patients. The percentage of people who are its carrier is also unknown.
Niemann-Pick disease - type A. Niemann-Pick disease is a neurodegenerative disease in which harmful amounts of fat cells accumulate in various parts of the body. Symptoms include loss of brain function and enlargement of the liver and spleen. The average life expectancy of children suffering from this disease is 2-3 years. The carrier is one in 90 Ashkenazi Jews.
Tay-Sachs disease (children's type). Tay-Sachs disease is the most famous Jewish genetic disorder, affecting approximately one in 2,500 newborns. Children with Tay-Sachs disease develop normally until 4-6 months of age, after which their central nervous system begins to degenerate due to a lack of an essential hormone. Affected children lose all motor skills and become blind, deaf and dumb. Death usually occurs at the age of 4 years. Late manifestation of Tay-Sachs disease is less common, then the disease progresses more slowly and the symptoms are less pronounced. The carrier is every 25th Ashkenazi Jew.
Ideally, all parents who wish to have a child should be tested to determine if they are carriers of one of these conditions. In most cases, at least one of the parents will test negative, and their children will be born without these diseases. If the test results of both parents are positive, then they should contact the doctors to look for a solution to this problem.
It may be helpful to consult a rabbi before a difficult decision ahead. Many orthodox communities are pushing for pre-marital testing to cancel the wedding of two carriers of genetic diseases.
Sephardic Jews, whose ancestors come from Spain, Portugal, North Africa and parts of the Mediterranean, also suffer from certain genetic diseases. These include: beta-thalassemia, familial Mediterranean fever, deficiency of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, and glycogenosis type III.
Although these genetic diseases are usually not as bad as those that Ashkenazi Jews suffer from, they can cause serious health problems and require treatment.
The beta-thalassemia gene occurs in one in 30 Mediterraneans, while one in five to seven Jews from North Africa, Iraq, Armenia and Turkey carries the gene for hereditary Mediterranean fever. The Type III glycogenosis gene occurs in 1 in 35 North African Jews and can only be inherited if both parents have it.
Unlike other Sephardi genetic diseases, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, the most common human disease caused by an enzyme deficiency, which affects about 500 million people worldwide, is transmitted from mother to son. There is currently no carrier test.
Translation by G. Charushnikov for
