And lips as scarlet as Vysotsky poppies. Girl from Nagasaki

An amazing and even mysterious song. Many classify her as a thieves, although she is not at all purely a thieves. And, although this is not at all an old port song, as many believe, it has firmly entered the collection of “sea romance” songs, such as “In the Port of Cape Town”, “Ships Came into Our Harbor”.

And, in addition, disputes over the authorship of both poetry and music are still ongoing. Vertinsky and even Vysotsky were listed 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 didn’t sing it! It was performed by Vadim Kozin, the bards of the 60s, Kira Smirnova, and Vladimir Vysotsky.

The lyrics of the song “The Girl from Nagasaki” were 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, a famous Soviet writer, laureate of the Stalin Prize (for the poem “Pulkovo Meridian”), is the author of the words of this song. In 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, a criminal song.

Inber Vera Mikhailovna, (1890 - 1972). Born in Odessa. She was published there in the newspaper under the pseudonyms Vera Litti (little), Vera Imbert.

Vera Inber was the cousin of Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the October Revolution of 1917 and organizer of the Red Army. Survived the Leningrad siege. She was not touched for her relationship with Trotsky, but she took part in the persecution of Boris Pasternak.

Her husband, the talented journalist Nathan Inber, wrote about her: “a little woman whose lips smelled of raspberries, sin and Paris.”

The music for the song “The Girl from Nagasaki” was written by composer Paul Marcel Rusakov (1908 - 1973), also known as Pavel Aleksandrovich Rusakov. Born in Marseille, France, into a family of Russian Jews who emigrated from Russia due to the Jewish pogroms of the early 20th century. His father protested against the military intervention in Russia of 1918-1920, and the family was exiled to Petrograd.

This is how Pavel Rusakov ended up in Soviet Russia, began to be called Paul Marcel, wrote romances based on poems by 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 gaze), which was included in the repertoire of V. Kozin, K. Shulzhenko, and L. Utesov, although disputes about his authorship have not subsided to this day (the authorship is attributed to V. .Sidorov, accompanist V.Kozin).

The original lyrics of the song “The Girl from Nagasaki” were repeatedly corrected and supplemented by both known and unknown “co-authors”. The original text contains only four quatrains (verses). But the main difference is at the beginning: “He is a cabin boy...”. This is the highlight, the essence, because young Vera Inber wrote romantic girlish poems.

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
A girl from Nagasaki dances.

Amber, corals, scarlet as blood,
And a khaki silk skirt,
And ardent hot love
He's bringing a girl from Nagasaki.

Having arrived, he hurries to her, barely breathing,
And he finds out that the gentleman is in a tailcoat,
Tonight, after smoking hashish,
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki to death.

original text from the book `Fleeting Words` published in Odessa (1922)

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. (download) Listen, and the “moment of truth” comes: many performers do not understand at all the “soul” of this song, they are trying to remake it “for themselves”, and not grow to the romantic heights of this song.

For example, in a rock and roll performance, the port romance, the flair of dreamy sadness, and the unforgettable charm of the “yard” song completely disappear (Alexander F. Sklyar, the group “Bullet” and others). This is the same as the ballet “Lenin in October” - can you imagine Lenin in tights, jumping onto an armored car?

But there are performers who treat the original quite carefully.

Gemma Khalid

Lyrics of the song “Girl from Nagasaki” performed by Vladimir Vysotsky:

Arkady Severny

Bullet group

The authorship of Paul Marcel, as a composer can be filmed.
This is what the Theater Magazine writes (No. 7 of December 22, 1918) regarding the opening of the Red Zucchini Actors' Basement in Kharkov on November 3, 1918 (Sumskaya, 6)
“A guitar is ringing from somewhere. Drunken, gentle guitar by de Lazari. “My charabanc, charabanc.” This is Raisova. Raisa Mikhailovna herself. “He is a cabin boy, his homeland is Marseille.” “The Girl from Nagasaki”......taking the violin from the Romanian, someone plays “Charochka”. Music, wine, smiles. Of course it's a blast. But if you’re having fun at all, it’s a joy to be having fun.”
That is, it turns out that in 1918 the song was already popular, and Marcel was only 10 years old in 1818.

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

Having arrived, he hurries to her, barely breathing
And he finds out that the gentleman is in a tailcoat,
Tonight, after smoking hashish,

The last two lines are repeated

From the soundtrack of Kira Smirnova, CD “Ships came into our harbor: Kira Smirnova”, “Vostok”, 2001.

Song based on a poem by Vera Inber from the collection “Frainable Words” (1922):

Girl from Nagasaki

He is a cabin boy, his homeland is Marseille,
He loves quarrels, swearing and fights,
He smokes a pipe, drinks strong ale
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.

She has such small breasts
She has tattooed marks on her...
But then the cabin boy goes on a long journey,
After breaking up with a girl from Nagasaki...

He has arrived. Hurries, barely breathing,
And he finds out that the gentleman is in a tailcoat
One evening, after eating hashish,
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki to death.

The author of the music is often called Paul Marcel (Pavel Aleksandrovich Rusakov, 1908-1973), but without evidence. Paul Marcel was born in Marseille into a family of Jewish emigrants from Rostov, then the family was exiled 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. He worked as a 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 Evgeniy933 posted the following:

"... the authorship of Paul Marcel, as a composer you can film. This is what the Theater Journal (No. 7 of December 22, 1918) writes about the opening on November 3, 1918 of the actors' basement "Red Zucchini" in Kharkov (Sumskaya, 6 ): "A guitar is ringing from somewhere. A drunken, gentle guitar by de Lazari. “My charabanc, charabanc.” This is Raisova. Raisa Mikhailovna herself. “He is a cabin boy, his homeland is Marseille.” “The Girl from Nagasaki.”...... Taking a violin from a Romanian, someone plays "Charochka". Music, wine, smiles. Of course, it's a blast. But if you're having a blast at all, it's a joy to have a blast." 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. The Girl from Nagasaki

The song about the girl from Nagasaki is actually not a purely criminal song. The text was written in the late 20s by poetess Vera Inber (1) to music by Paul Marcel. The song was popular among criminals along with many other works of “sea romance” (“In the port of Cape Town”, “Sailors walk gloomily on a ship”, “Ships came into our harbor”, etc.) Among the tramps there were many former sailors, the influence was significant sailor subculture on the criminal world (tattoo themes, nautical words in thieves' jargon, etc.)

But that’s not why I included this particular song in the collection. An incident told by Valery Priyomykhov played a role. The actor recalled how on the set of one of the films he had to perform some “classic” Urkagan song. The film crew went to Butyrka prison. Priyomykhov and his comrades were taken through many cells, where he talked with the prisoners. Imagine the artist’s surprise: practically none of the inhabitants of the cells knew a single real camp song! They sang mainly Vysotsky, Rosenbaum, or some modern low-grade “blatota”. And only in one of the cells the old mossy “inmate” performed, confused and confused, “thieves’ 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 the lips, the lips are scarlet, like poppies,
And in the evenings jig (3) in taverns (4)
A girl from Nagasaki dances.

She has tattooed marks on her...
(5)

And in those hours when the thunderstorm roars,
Or in quiet hours on the forecastle
He remembers narrow eyes

Coral, scarlet rubies like blood,
And a khaki silk jacket,
Both wild and tender love

He arrived, hurries to her, barely breathing,
But he finds out that the gentleman (6) is in a tailcoat,
One evening, after eating hashish, (7)
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki to death.

She has such small breasts
And lips, lips as red as poppies...
The captain goes on a long journey,
(8)

(1) At that time, Inber, who later became a pro-Soviet poetess, dabbled in “exotic” poems. By the way, in the sheet music of the 20s, the publishers made a typo in the surname Inber - “Imber”. Although it is curious that Odessa residents still pronounce the poetess’s surname this way. The song about a girl from Nagasaki is dedicated to Alexander Mikhailov. I don't know who this is.
(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 to the rank.
(3) Jig - a spirited English folk dance.
(4) In the notes of the 20s there is a slightly different version of this line -
“And, leaving Jigu, in the taverns
A girl from Nagasaki is dancing."
That is, it turns out that Jigu is the cabin boy's name. Most likely, the text is somewhat distorted. Which, however, is not surprising, given that the publishers also distorted the name of the author of the words.
(5) In the original - “But the cabin boy is leaving on a long journey.”
(6) In later versions - "gentleman".
(7) In later versions - “One day, after 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. The 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 has traces of leprosy on her hands,
She has tattooed marks on her.
And in the evenings jig in taverns
A girl from Nagasaki dances.

She has such small breasts
And the lips, the lips are scarlet like poppies.
The captain goes on a long journey,
Kisses a girl from Nagasaki.

He remembers brown eyes
And raves about a girl from Nagasaki.

Coral threads are red as blood,

And faithful and tender love
He's bringing a girl from Nagasaki.

The captain returned from far away,
And he found out that the gentleman in a tailcoat
Once I smoked hashish,
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki to death.

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, swearing and fights.
He loves a pipe, drinks the strongest ale
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.

She has traces of leprosy on her hands,
And there are tattooed marks on the back.
And in the evenings jig in taverns
A girl from Nagasaki dances.

She has such small breasts
And the lips, the lips are scarlet, like poppies.
The captain goes on a dangerous journey,
He loves a girl from Nagasaki.

When a fierce storm, when a thunderstorm roars,
And in quiet hours, sitting on the forecastle,
He remembers brown eyes
And he remembers the girl from Nagasaki.

And a khaki silk blouse
And faithful and tender love
He's bringing a girl from Nagasaki.

And he finds out that the gentleman is in a tailcoat
One day, after smoking hashish,
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki to death.

She has such small breasts
And the lips, the lips are scarlet, like poppies...
Our captain has gone on a long journey,
Not seeing the girl from Nagasaki.

Songs of our yard / Author-comp. N. V. Belov. Minsk: Modern writer, 2003. (Golden collection).

4. The Girl from Nagasaki

He is a captain, and his homeland is Marseille.
He loves quarrels, swearing and fights.
He smokes a pipe, drinks strong ale
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.

She has traces of leprosy on her hands,
She has tattooed marks on her.
And in the evenings jig in taverns
A girl from Nagasaki dances.

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 thunder roars,
And in quiet hours, sitting on the forecastle,
He remembers brown eyes
And raves about a girl from Nagasaki.

Coral threads are red as blood,
And khaki silk blouses,
And faithful and tender love
He's bringing 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 I smoked hashish,
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki to death.

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. M.: Eksmo, 2007.

An amazing and even mysterious song. Many classify her as a thieves, although she is not at all purely a thieves. And, although this is not at all an old port song, as many believe, it has firmly entered the collection of “sea romance” songs, such as “In the Port of Cape Town”, “Ships Came into Our Harbor”.

And, in addition, disputes over the authorship of both poetry and music are still ongoing. Vertinsky and even Vysotsky were listed 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 didn’t sing it! It was performed by Vadim Kozin, the bards of the 60s, Kira Smirnova, and Vladimir Vysotsky.

Authors

The lyrics of the song “The Girl from Nagasaki” were 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, a famous Soviet writer, laureate of the Stalin Prize (for the poem “Pulkovo Meridian”), is the author of the words of this song. In 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, a criminal song.

Inber Vera Mikhailovna , (1890 - 1972). Born in Odessa. She was published there in the newspaper under the pseudonyms Vera Litti (little), Vera Imbert.

Vera Inber was the cousin of Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the October Revolution of 1917 and organizer of the Red Army. Survived the Leningrad siege. She was not touched for her relationship with Trotsky, but she took part in the persecution of Boris Pasternak.

Her husband, the talented journalist Nathan Inber, wrote about her: “a little woman whose lips smelled of raspberries, sin and Paris.”

Vladimir Mayakovsky dedicated a very ambiguous poem 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 composer Paul Marcel Rusakov (1908 - 1973), also known as Pavel Aleksandrovich Rusakov. Born in Marseille, France, into a family of Russian Jews who emigrated from Russia due to the Jewish pogroms of the early 20th century. His father protested against the military intervention in Russia of 1918-1920, and the family was exiled to Petrograd.

This is how Pavel Rusakov ended up in Soviet Russia, began to be called Paul Marcel, wrote romances based on poems by 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 gaze), which was included in the repertoire of V. Kozin, K. Shulzhenko, and L. Utesov, although disputes about his authorship have not subsided to this day (the authorship is attributed to V. .Sidorov, accompanist V.Kozin).

Original text

The original lyrics of the song “The Girl from Nagasaki” were repeatedly corrected and supplemented by both known and unknown “co-authors”. The original text contains only four quatrains (verses). But the main difference is at the beginning: “He is a cabin boy...”. This is the highlight, the essence, because 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) was released, which collected 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 to the romantic heights of this song.

For example, in a rock and roll performance, the port romance, the flair of dreamy sadness, and the unforgettable charm of the “yard” song completely disappear (Alexander F. Sklyar, the group “Bullet” and others). This is the same as the ballet “Lenin in October” - can you imagine Lenin in tights, jumping onto an armored car?

But there are performers who treat the original quite carefully.

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 strong ale
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.

She has traces of leprosy on her hands,
She's got tattooed marks
And in the evenings jig in taverns
A girl from Nagasaki dances.

She has such small breasts
And lips, lips as scarlet as poppies.
The captain goes on a long journey
And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.

Corals as scarlet as blood
And a khaki silk blouse
And ardent and passionate love
He's bringing a girl from Nagasaki.

The captain returned from afar,
And he learned that the gentleman in tails
Once I smoked hashish,
Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki to death.

She has such small breasts
And lips, lips as scarlet as poppies.
The captain goes on a long journey,
Not seeing the girl from Nagasaki.

And, nevertheless, the interpretation of the song made in 2012 based on the film “Wasabi” is of interest, something like “The Girl from Nagasaki. 20 years later":

“The years flew by, the captain turned gray.
Arrived with the team again in Nagasaki.
And, finding myself in an old tavern,
He saw his love and the same signs...

This is like a new “edition” of the song “The Girl from Nagasaki”, only with a happy ending.

Living memory of love from Nagasaki

Also in the “Forgotten Melodies and Songs” section:

Ignatova Claudia

"She has such small breasts..."

Today in Logrono it’s hot +26C, real summer. Nothing can be done - Spain!

I’ve been getting used to the changeable Ukrainian weather for several days now. It's always sunny and warm here...

So, all the necessary introductions have been made, so I begin my story.

At the Madrid airport I was met by a good friend, Luis Cano. He just shone with his clean-shaven head among the diverse crowd of visitors. And his white-toothed smile sparkled welcomingly in the crowd. It was simply impossible not to notice this handsome man!

“Welcome, Julie,” Lou greeted me briefly and, with a kiss on the cheek, easily picked up my huge occupation suitcase.

Hola, Luis! - I barely had time to say. And this athletically built man has already stomped towards his brand new Seat Leon car. We quickly left our things in the trunk and... drove to the town of Logrono.

On the way we chatted a lot about this and that. We remembered mutual acquaintances from Kyiv, where Louis once studied for someone at the Polytechnic University. He doesn’t speak Russian very well, but he has mastered various interesting words from the vocabulary of movers and hooligans quite well. That’s why he inserts them anywhere. The three and a half hour trip flew by. By the end of the journey, I no longer blushed like a young girl, listening to Louis's perky chatter, because... I got used to its features.

Actually, he’s a good guy, a business guy. “Family treasure,” as my friend Anka affectionately calls him, whom he kidnapped from Ukraine several years ago and brazenly married her, not me.

Logroño is a small town in northern Spain - the capital of the province of La Rioja. Local Rioja winemakers are absolute virtuosos in making famous wines. And Rioja is the most popular Spanish wine in the world.

This is what we drank that day with my girlfriend on the veranda of their small but cozy two-story house under a red tiled roof. Luis preferred the solid “Gran Reserva Castillo”...

The owners gave me a small room with a beautiful view of the Ebro. The Ebro is a river crossed in the city by four beautiful bridges.

Look on the bookshelf in the living room, maybe you’ll find something,” my friend said sleepily.

I looked and... found a thin brochure - a lifetime edition of Vera Inber's poems. What a find! And where, in Spain!

Later I realized that this was Anka’s merit - on the book there was a blue stamp from one of the Kyiv libraries. She stole it, she’s an excellent student...

I leafed through it with interest. On pages fragile from time to time there are poems. Melodious, deep, still pre-revolutionary... Suddenly my eyes caught a familiar name - “The Girl from Nagasaki”. And where did the dream go!

But first, I’ll say a few words about the poetess herself.

Vera Inber stands out among the poets of the Silver Age. First of all, she was talented. Secondly, she was loving (she had three husbands and many lovers). Thirdly, she was the cousin of Stalin's enemy No. 1 - Leon Trotsky. For some reason, she wasn't even imprisoned. Fourthly, Vera Inber survived the siege of Leningrad during the war, where she wrote her famous “Pulkovo Meridian”. Fifthly, when she was a big shot in the USSR Ministry of Culture, she horrified her former fellow writers. She trampled Pasternak so badly with her white little feet that there are bad legends about it.

Okay, I digress a little from the poem about the girl from Nagasaki.

The original text is slightly different from what we are used to when listening to Vladimir Vysotsky’s performance of the hit based on the verses of Vera Inber.

Here are the modern lyrics to this song.

He is a captain and his homeland is Marseille.

He loves arguments, noises, fights,

He smokes a pipe, drinks strong ale

And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.

She has traces of leprosy on her hands,

She's got tattooed marks

And in the evenings jig in taverns

A girl from Nagasaki dances.

She has such small breasts

And lips, lips as scarlet as poppies.

The captain goes on a long journey

And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.

Corals as scarlet as blood

And a khaki silk blouse

And ardent and passionate love

He's bringing a girl from Nagasaki.

The captain returned from afar,

And he learned that the gentleman in tails

Once I smoked hashish,

Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki to death.

She has such small breasts

And lips, lips as scarlet as poppies.

The captain goes on a long journey,

And raves about a girl from Nagasaki.

But in the original the poetess wrote much more modestly:

He is a cabin boy, his homeland is Marseille,

He loves drinking, noise and fighting.

He smokes a pipe, drinks English ale,

And he loves a girl from Nagasaki.

She has beautiful green eyes

And a khaki silk skirt.

And a fiery jig in taverns

A girl from Nagasaki dances.

Amber, corals, scarlet as blood,

And a khaki silk skirt,

And ardent hot love

He's bringing a girl from Nagasaki.

Having arrived, he hurries to her, barely breathing

And he finds out that the gentleman is in a tailcoat,

Tonight, after smoking hashish,

Stabbed a girl from Nagasaki to death.

Personally, I prefer the reading of Inber’s poems supplemented by the performers.

They, these poems, with their “such small breasts” and “lips as scarlet as poppies,” sound more touching. And Gemma Khalid's performance of the hit song is the best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4owvK9ElQ0

At one time it was believed that the music for these poems by Vera Inber was written by a certain Paul Marcel Rusakov, but meticulous researchers found out that back in 1918 this song was already being sung with might and main in taverns. Paul Marcel was barely 10 years old at that time...

I will say a few more words about the poetess.

They say that in her declining years she lost her poetic gift. She published little and rarely met with young poets and writers. Even so, it was precisely during this troubled time of Vera Inber’s departure from the literary Olympus that she wrote such lines.

My reader, there is no need to be afraid,

That I will burden your bookcase

Posthumous volumes (fifteen in number),

Clad in embossed armor.

No. It was not published magnificently, not richly,

In a simple blue-gray cover,

It will be a small format book,

So that you can take it with you...

I think that if this thin book contains only one poem about a young girl from Nagasaki, it should be cherished as a memory of the wonderful Silver Age poetess Vera Inber.

The next day Louis organized us a great picnic outdoors. And Anna gave me a book of poems. So I'm quite happy. True, I miss Ukraine a little...

Logrono is a nice Spanish town and the people live here are kind.

Written Ivanova Judith Alibabaevna(Julie Trini)

Jewish spiritual teachers say: "Leprosy (tsaraat) — illness of the soul. Leprosy is caused by an evil tongue, gossip, the desire to harm people... 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 man 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 spread to 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 Russian Ministry of Health diagnosed President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.

He explained: the incomprehensible “crust” of pockmarks and acne that disfigured the politician’s face is the medieval disease of leprosy. Leprosy, which without treatment causes amputation of arms and legs, and the face changes beyond recognition. Lepers were hung with bells around their necks and driven out of the cities, later locked up for life in leprosariums...

The scandal was forgotten until February of this year, when Yulia Tymoshenko was taken to the revolutionary Maidan. The bright beauty disappeared: a woman was sitting in a wheelchair with a bloated face, on which familiar features were almost invisible...

The audience shuddered, and a joke began to circulate on the Internet: “Yulia Tymoshenko was played on the Maidan by actor Sergei Bezrukov”, - and then Doctor Gundarov came onto the stage again. And said: "I warned you".

Igor Alekseevich, are you sure of the diagnosis? How can you say such things?

I'm one hundred percent sure. With Yushchenko - by one hundred, and with Tymoshenko - by ninety-eight: one can still assume some problems with the blood there... I will say this. I'm a professor twice, it doesn't happen that often. If after publication my colleagues respond and prove that I am wrong, I will tear up both my diplomas in front of everyone.

From the medical history: “On the night of September 5-6, 2004, presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko has dinner at the dacha of his friend, the deputy chairman of the SBU. In the morning, the politician begins to complain of severe headaches, he vomits, neurologists are invited to the patient. On September 7, Yushchenko’s eyes swell. On September 8, journalists arrive: they note the candidate’s unnaturally pink complexion and unclear diction, Yushchenko himself complains of severe back pain, and facial paralysis is added to this on September 9. The patient is urgently sent to Vienna, to a private clinic, where doctors discover total gastrointestinal damage. -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 unclear, the patient can no longer walk, cannot get out of bed. They treat the pain with opium substances, like after a major operation, thanks to this the politician is conscious."

Later, cysts and ulcers will cover the entire 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 admire 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 be amazed at the short-sightedness of the Ukrainians, who they elect a rotting man alive president.

I am familiar with leprosy theoretically and practically: I conducted examinations of patients at the Terek leper colony for my candidate’s dissertation “Electrocardiographic changes in patients with long-term leprosy,” sometimes I had difficulty figuring out how to take a cardiogram if an arm or leg was missing... I drove 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...

I immediately guessed what Yushchenko was ill with. Leprosy is a neuroinfection: it lives in the nerve trunks. The affected nerves thicken, and where they pass through the bone canals, the openings become narrow for them, the compression causes severe pain: such that the patient thinks about suicide. Moreover, the leg may hurt, or the arm may hurt, depending on which nerve is damaged. Gastritis, pancreatitis, various paralysis and loss of sensitivity due to leprosy are also classic manifestations, not to mention leprosy on the skin...

All the doctors who treated Yushchenko noted the atypical course of the disease and could not come up with a common reason for such different symptoms. But once you think about leprosy, everything becomes typical. Just like in the textbook.

From the medical history: "Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium Hansen and is transmitted by conversation. Hundreds of thousands of bacteria swarm around the patient and affect 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 after twenty to thirty years, when the fatal meeting will already be erased from memory. All this time, a healthy carrier and a leprosy patient during the incubation period will be spreaders of the infection."

Leprosy has many faces: a person will be treated for five years for a hernia in the spine and not realize that it is leprosy. Or complain about a sore stomach, swallow intestines and porridge - and this will be leprosy again. Leprosy is a great imitator, its symptoms are those of different diseases. For example, the author of this note has a numb hand, and this could be leprosy. Leprosy is invisible: it is not detected in the blood and in half the cases it is not found in the affected tissues. That is, a third of the patients in leper colonies never had leprosy in the tests. Until recently, it seemed that the disease had been defeated: now only six hundred people are kept in leper colonies in Russia. Scientists debate whether leprosy is curable: the disease can be easily treated with drugs, but relapse can occur even after decades. Leprosy doesn't kill: it just makes life miserable.

Igor Alekseevich, actually Yushchenko was diagnosed with dioxin poisoning.

It's not even worth talking about. This is a well-crafted campaign narrative to give the candidate the aura of a martyr. I have a photograph where Viktor Yushchenko, with his face slanted to the right, says from the rostrum of the Rada: “You know who this murderer is. The killer is power! - and from the photo, paralysis of the left facial nerve is clearly diagnosed, which is characteristic of leprosy...

But in order. When information about the poisoning was spread, the Viennese clinic where Yushchenko was treated issued a denial. Doctors said that the poisoning version is not true! Later they changed their minds, but the head physician of the clinic did not. He was fired for refusing to sign a report on Yushchenko’s poisoning, sued the clinic over this issue and was reinstated.

Further: dioxin appeared in the tests only three months after the onset of the disease; before that, the blood tests were clear. It is impossible to establish where it came from, who added the poison and whose blood samples they were, 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 you believe those controversial analyses, was only three or four Russian standards: in infants in Chelyabinsk it is higher... 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 lacking facts. You make a diagnosis on TV, and this is not scientific and unethical.

I make a diagnosis based on video and photography, as well as medical documents. Ethical or unethical, but due to political publicity, Yushchenko’s medical record, his tests and examinations ended up on the Internet. I don’t need to examine the patient, excellent professionals did it for me!

You cannot be sure of the authenticity of the documents...

I know deputies of the Verkhovna Rada who checked everything thoroughly. I can be confident in the testimony of doctors that they gave in court, I can be confident in the published reports of commissions... Besides, sometimes just photographs are enough!

In medicine, there is the concept of “stigma”: this is a sign that occurs only with a given disease. Only with leprosy does the face change beyond recognition. It inflates, the brow ridges increase, the nasolabial folds cut more sharply, the nose thickens... In medicine, this is called the “lion mask” - the mask of leprosy patients, which even erases racial differences. Compare the photograph of Yushchenko and the portrait of the patient from the textbook: they are almost identical. Only leprosy affects the earlobes: they enlarge, resembling a plum. Why are there examinations here? Everything is completely 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 a lot of assumptions about Yushchenko’s double. People compare and write: this is not him!

Only leprosy affects the branch of the facial nerve responsible for the movement of the upper eyelid. The whole nerve - please, but one branch - only trauma and leprosy. I have a photograph: Yushchenko’s left eye is like a thorn. This is because the eyeball rolled back when blinking, but can’t go back - the nerve doesn’t work...

In the case of Yushchenko, I would teach students what tubercular leprosy is. He even has orange peel on his face, even rashes around his nose in the shape of butterfly wings...

If everything is so obvious, why doesn't anyone support you? Yushchenko's attending doctors sharply refuted this version.

They sharply refused to discuss it. Yushchenko's attending physician, cosmetic surgeon Olga Bogomolets, said that leprosy lasts for decades, but Yushchenko allegedly developed the disease in a few days. She just 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 doctors could not determine, 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 doesn’t have enough money for proper nutrition. It's the Prime Minister!

Yushchenko had such back pain that he was unable to attend the parliamentary meeting where the issue of his resignation was discussed: he underwent surgery at the Institute of Neurosurgery, where the nerve was freed from bone compression.

I'll tell you more. Thanks to my diagnosis, Yushchenko began to be treated.

Any evidence?

The director of one of our skin and veterinary institutes received a call from Ukraine and was asked to come and consult Yushchenko. He refused, then he was asked directly: “Could this be leprosy?” - “Yes, it could be leprosy”, - and this conversation took place just after my speeches.

Another indirect proof: it is known that from the very beginning Yulia Tymoshenko told her ally: “Do plastic surgery, remove this Pokemon mask”. Doctors in Switzerland tried to operate - and it was unsuccessful: the tissues do not heal, they are spreading because they are stuffed with mycobacteria, and then I read that Yushchenko underwent several dozen operations, and I see scars in the photographs instead of lumps, and this is only possible thanks to powerful anti-leprosy therapy.. .

I'm surprised at something else. 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! There has never been a serious consultation and not even discussed the problem! But in epidemiology there are clear rules for what to do when a patient with leprosy is detected. And most importantly among them: It is necessary to register everyone who communicated with a leper at the dispensary...

That's it. And that’s why all the colleagues I turn to say: "Don't meddle". I gave materials to many of our healthcare leaders: “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 we are talking about public health. Young guys who have been in contact with those affected by tubercular leprosy are not accepted into the army! The risk of infection is small, only three percent, but it's Russian roulette... And, in the end, there are already victims. The 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 announced that she was sick: bruises the size of her palm appeared all over her body. Yulia Vladimirovna is famous as a woman with peculiar concepts of morality, so no one believed in her illness (later the Ukrainian Iron Lady confirmed her bad temper, saying that she was beaten by guards). Bruises and hematomas were recorded by photography: they appeared and disappeared over time."

At the same time, Tymoshenko began to complain of back pain: the prisoner was transferred to a ward and filmed with a hidden camera, although doctors invited from abroad confirmed: Yulia was not a malingerer. After a couple of months, the body of the non-simulator was covered with a rash.

Igor Alekseevich, in your first interviews about Yushchenko many years ago you said: “It would be a pity if the beautiful features of Yulia Tymoshenko, the president’s closest ally, were distorted by a terrible disease...”

How I scribbled! 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 is extremely stressful. For Yushchenko, everything also came out due to stress, during the elections... I humanly empathized with Yulia. The woman screamed: "I'm sick, save me", - but the authorities didn’t move much. She was examined in Kharkov by doctors known to me, I asked: you will separate the personality of the politician and the symptoms. There is a rash, check it out!

Then German doctors from the Charite clinic began visiting Yulia and found that she had a Schmorl’s hernia, which eighty percent of older people have, as well as systemic damage to the nerve trunks. Most often this happens with three diseases: lues (syphilis), lupus (lupus erythematosus), leprosy...

They led her into court by the arms, and there you could see how her face was swollen. It's already different. Then they said: prison doesn’t look good on anyone. But Tymoshenko was not in prison, but in a first-class hospital, in a separate room, 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 occurred, or the doctors have started anti-leprosy treatment. Leprosy is easily controlled with modern drugs. It used to be that in leper colonies everyone was fingerless and legless - but now the problem is to identify the disease. Just think: Yushchenko and Tymoshenko have been collapsing for years in front of their colleagues! European doctors forgot the leprosy clinic and 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 personal privacy - or society to the safety of people's lives?

Did US congressmen have the right to know that a Ukrainian was speaking before them, whose entire body under his suit was covered with oozing sores, presumably leprosy? Yushchenko's attending physician, Bogomolets, writes about this with feminine enthusiasm: they say, if only members of Congress knew how painful it is for the man who stands in front of them at the pulpit. But congressmen who constantly measure sugar - did they really sign up for such a risk? What about their wives and children?

Well, okay, perhaps the US knows the truth: Yushchenko’s presence of American advisers has never been 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, for example, syphilis and cancer. “Why am I the only one suffering? Why am I being punished like this?” - and they walk and infect in order to share the pain. This psyche is breaking...

In July, Yulia Tymoshenko donated blood for ATO fighters: this is terrible... A leprous leadership and a leprous country... Or maybe leprosy also affects the brain? And this explains the current explosion of Russophobia in Ukraine?

This is a stretch: the effects of the bacterium on the central nervous system have not been described. The point is different. Symptoms characteristic of leprosy began to appear in politicians in other countries. Unexplained bruises and bruises, changes in facial features, back pain, deformation of the ears...

One prominent oppositionist completely disappeared from the screen two years ago, I began to find out: it turns out that he had left-sided paralysis of the facial nerve, 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.

Who did you meet? With Boris Nemtsov, who visited the 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 as US Secretary of State a couple of days after suddenly suffering from dehydration in her stomach and intestines. Dehydration is just uncontrollable diarrhea and vomiting, it is treated with an IV in any rural hospital, and, of course, simple poisoning could not be the reason for the resignation of the second person in the United States. So they explained to Hillary that this was a lifelong illness...

Leprosy has spread to the elite. Nature decided to punish the political elite. It's a slow epidemic.

Have you informed the suspected patients, those you suspect?

Necessarily. I took the oath of 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, here and throughout the world there is no mechanism for diagnosing senior political figures. Remember Yeltsin with his ischemic brain disease: this is not a harmless condition. It is enough to pat such patients on the shoulder, laugh at their joke - and in return you will receive anything you want, including the disarmament of the army...

Therefore, today the evidence-based opinion of the expert community is extremely important. If it publicly confirms: yes, Yushchenko has leprosy, then all the politicians who met the patient will run to get checked themselves.

And this is our salvation for now.

FIGURE: According to WHO, eight hundred thousand new cases of leprosy are detected annually in the world. There are about fourteen million old treated patients who can relapse on earth.

APPLICATION:

“Leprosy is a disease of the soul. Leprosy is caused by an evil tongue, gossip, and the desire to harm people...”

Article announcement:

"God's chosen or God's damned?!"

Now you can only hear from different sides: "The Holy Land is Israel!" . Both Jewish priests in synagogues and Christian priests glorify Israel by reading prayers in the temples of Christ. But the ancestral home of the Jews was never 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 came out of 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. This is what they called her: "God's Curse". This is exactly what the Jews suffered from when they were led out of Ancient Egypt by Moses.

Nowadays it is customary to tell a fairy tale about how Moses led his people through the desert for 40 years. And for what purpose did he lead those unfortunates through the desert - a mystery shrouded in darkness! 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: treating their souls, minds and removing God’s curse from them!

Today it is customary to remain silent about why Moses entrusted the first “law of God”—the Ten Commandments—to someone else, namely the Jews: “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.

That's why 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 bore false witness 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 treating the mentally and physically sick. Jesus justified his coming to the Jews with these 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 unimaginable fact that the ancestors of modern Jews were punished in ancient times with leprosy for their numerous crimes against God and humanity explains, for example, why modern Jews have such a heritage “rich” in 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 the children for the iniquity 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).

Genetics

Many genetic diseases are specific to specific ethnic groups or nationalities.

For example, 25 percent of Jews whose ancestors come from Eastern Europe are 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 couple will have an affected 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 amniocentesis, performed at 15-18 weeks of pregnancy, or hornal villus analysis, usually performed at 10-12 weeks of pregnancy.

Jews planning to become parents will find it very helpful to learn about genetic diseases that are common among Ashkenazi Jews. These diseases include:

Bloom's 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 face; various pathological disorders; they are more susceptible to respiratory and ear infections and have a higher risk of certain types of cancer. About one in 100 Ashkenazi Jews are carriers.

Canavan syndrome. This disease usually appears in children between 2 and 4 months of age, and they begin to forget previously learned skills. Most children die before the age of 5. One in 40 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of this disease.

Cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis causes the body to produce thick mucus that accumulates mainly in the lungs and digestive tract, causing chronic lung infections and stunted growth. A carrier is every 25th Ashkenazi Jew.

Hereditary dysautonomia. This disease affects body temperature control, motor coordination, speech, blood pressure, stress reactions, swallowing, and the ability to produce tears and digestive juices. Found in every 30 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. A carrier is every 89th Ashkenazi Jew.

Gaucher syndrome - type 1. Every 1,000 Ashkenazi Jews suffer from this disease. Its symptoms usually appear in adulthood. Patients suffer from pain in bones and joints, are sensitive to fractures and other pathologies associated with the skeletal system. Susceptible 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 Jews. It is caused by the accumulation of harmful substances throughout the body. People with ML IV suffer from a variety of progressive motor and mental impairments that begin around 1 year of age. Early signs of the disease may include corneal clouding, strabismus, and retinal degeneration. Currently, there are known patients with ML IV aged from 1 year to 30 years, but there is no data yet on the life expectancy of these patients. The percentage of people who carry it 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. Every 90th Ashkenazi Jew is a carrier.

Tay-Sachs disease (children's type). Tay-Sachs disease is the most famous genetic disease of Jews, affecting approximately one in 2.5 thousand newborns. Children with Tay-Sachs disease develop normally until 4-6 months, 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 mute. Death usually occurs by age 4 years. Late manifestations of Tay-Sachs disease are less common, when the disease progresses more slowly and the symptoms are less pronounced. A carrier is every 25th Ashkenazi Jew.

Ideally, all parents wishing to have a child should be tested to determine whether they are carriers of one of these diseases. In most cases, at least one parent will test negative, and their children will be born without these diseases. If the test results of both parents are positive, then they should consult a doctor to look for a solution to this problem.

Before making a difficult decision, it may be helpful to reach out to a rabbi. Many Orthodox communities insist on premarital testing to cancel the marriage of two carriers of genetic diseases.

Sephardi 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, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and glycogenosis type III.

Although these genetic diseases are usually not as severe as those afflicting Ashkenazi Jews, they can cause serious health problems and require treatment.

The beta thalassemia gene is found in every 30 people from the Mediterranean, while every 5-7 Jews from North Africa, Iraq, Armenia and Turkey carry the gene for hereditary Mediterranean fever. The glycogenosis type III gene occurs in one in 35 North African Jews and can only be inherited if both parents have it.

Unlike other Sephardic genetic diseases, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, the most common enzyme deficiency disease in humans that affects about 500 million people worldwide, is passed from mother to son. There is currently no test to determine the carrier.

Translation by G. Charushnikov for