Sisters Fedorova Biography Songs

The sisters of the Fedorov, Catherine, Nina, Ninel and Anastasia are very popular in the middle of the last century, the vocal quartet from the city of all of them natives of the Pskov region, from the village of Old Borok. They performed mainly Russian folk songs that have long lived in their family. She sounded both in her native village in the Pskov region, and on the Baltic Street in Leningrad, where the Fedorovs moved before the war.

Everyone sang: father, mother, children. The girls had an extraordinary talent. Parents, Ivan Fedorovich and Daria Yakovlevna, often sang together. The sisters sat on the old chest, listening carefully to their voices. The day did not pass even as the mother had already heard this song from her daughters. Teach your daughters to music, ”they advised her,“ they will say a good one.

However, the war violated family plans. Father went to the front.

For more than a year, the sisters and their mother lived in a blockade city, then evacuated to the Urals, in Sverdlovsk. We will work everything except Gali - Mala still, ”Daria Yakovlevna decided. Katya got a job in a sewing workshop, Nastya became a shoe, Nina - a builder, Ninel got up to the machine. They worked a lot, hard, very tired, but after work, hastily snacking, fled to the club - singing in the choir.

Having returned to the city, this wonderful singing team arose. The sisters dedicated all his free time to their beloved art. They were nominated in the district shift of amateur performances, from there to the city, then sent to Moscow for the All -Union Show, where they took first place. Fame came to the city, they spoke on the stage, on the radio, sang in the houses of culture, in the workshops of factories and factories, went to international competitions in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Finland.

At the World Festival of Democratic Youth in Budapest were awarded the title of laureates. November G. Record of the performance in the Chelyabinsk television studio. The notes of the Fedorov sisters came out on the records of “Selected Russian Songs”. Having become professionals, they did not lose the folk tradition of performance, and the song poured from the very heart - freely, easily, joyfully.

Ninel Ivanovna left with her husband in Switzerland. From that moment on, the path to a large scene was closed to them - then there was a time. They were forbidden to speak with concerts, seized all phonograms, all notes. A little later, in order to reassure the people and extinguish rumors, information was launched about the death of the entire composition of the ensemble in the plane crash.

Disinformation worked - thousands of fans of their work, who sincerely mourned their favorites, believed in the death of the sisters. And all the sisters lived until the end of their life in oblivion. And God still holds me. I am very glad, I thought that they had already forgotten everything about us, ”said Anastasia Ivanovna, who was not so long ago invited to the talk show of one of the Russian television channels.

The last of the famous sisters of the Fedorovs with tears in her eyes remembered the days when her and her sisters applauded full halls, and under their performances on blue lights celebrated the New Year. She can only hope that the memory of their work remained in the hearts of many listeners, despite oblivion and undeserved persecution by the then authorities.