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"We lived in an apartment
Forty four,
Forty four
Merry siskin..."

People! I am hopeless:(

I bought a book: thin, grimy, crumpled, on disgusting paper, which almost turned into a "rag" and I am in seventh heaven with happiness.

There I read information about how they were composed.

Here are the artist's memories Boris Semyonov from the words of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.

“Once, in the car of a country train (we lived then in the neighborhood in Kavgolov), Marshak told me how they wrote “Merry Siskins” together with Daniil Ivanovich.

The poem was created on the motif of an allegretto from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Kharms liked to repeat this tune - this is how the first lines appeared: "Forty-four Forty-four funny siskins lived in an apartment ..." Then it was told how siskins worked together, did housework, played music - and so on.

A lot of verses of comical, merry-singing content were written (what a pity that they were all sent to the trash!). In the end, the co-authors began to put their feathered friends to bed and placed them in different places: "Siskin - on the bed, siskin - on the sofa, siskin - on the basket, siskin - on the bench ...".

That's all: the job is done, the siskins sleep peacefully. Finally, you can straighten your tired backs. Outside the window it is deep night, crumpled drafts, empty cigarette boxes on the table and under the table...

But then Kharms, having already gone into the front hall of Marshak's sleeping apartment, suddenly sang softly, raising his finger above his head:

Lying in bed, forty-four cheerful siskins whistled in unison ...

Well, what could Marshak argue ?! Of course, such an unexpected turn seemed to him very lively and funny. Indeed, the restless siskins could not fall asleep without whistling to their heart's content... I had to go back to the table and write a funny ending..."

(Boris Semyonov. True and joyful eccentric. In the journal: "Aurora", 1977, No. 4, p. 70).<…>

Not only have I loved this poem since childhood, it was also illustrated by one of my most adored artists - Georgy Karlov

Praise the publishers for the fact that "the ice broke" and they noticed that it was time to start printing his drawings again.

In the depiction of animal facial expressions, perhaps, Karlov has no equal (as well as Migunov's "human" facial expressions)

"FUNNY siskins"
("Edition of the art workshop of the Central House of Arts", 1948, artist G. Karlov)

These poems of two poets opened the first issue of the new magazine "for children younger age", which began to be published in Leningrad," Chizh ". Poems were associated with the name of the magazine and, as it were, set the tone for its content.

The artist Boris Semyonov recalled how they were composed from the words of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.

“Once, in the car of a country train (we lived then in the neighborhood in Kavgolov), Marshak told me how they wrote “Merry Siskins” together with Daniil Ivanovich. The poem was created to the motif of an allegretto from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. and the first lines appeared: "Forty-four Forty-four funny siskins lived in an apartment ..." Then it was told how the siskins worked together, did housework, played music - and so on.

But then Kharms, having already gone into the front hall of Marshak's sleeping apartment, suddenly sang softly, raising his finger above his head:

Lying in bed, forty-four cheerful siskins whistled in unison ...

V. Glotser "About writers and artists, about their poems, stories, fairy tales, novels and drawings".

If you don’t know that “Chizhi” was written to the allegretto motif from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, then you will probably read them at a brisk pace, provocatively and abruptly, but after you sing at least once under Beethoven, it’s already difficult to adjust to a more carefree wave. The ordered and well-coordinated joint life order of forty-four siskins grows in scale, which is why the mischievous humor becomes sharper, and natural travesty comes out. For me, this poem-song caused an unexpected association with the novel "We" by Zamyatin due to the parodic-heroic spirit of the description of the life of chizhy numbers calculated according to the Hourly Tablet.

"All of us (and maybe you too) as children, at school, read this greatest of the monuments that have come down to us ancient literature- "Schedule railways". But even put it next to the Tablet - and you will see graphite and diamond side by side: in both the same thing - C, carbon - but how eternal, transparent, how diamond shines. rush through the pages of the "Schedule" But the Tablet of Hours turns each of us into a steel six-wheeled hero great poem. Every morning, with six-wheel precision, at the same hour and at the same minute, we, millions, get up as one. At the same hour, we start work for one million people - we finish work for one million people. And, merging into a single, million-armed body, into one and the same second appointed by the Tablet, we bring spoons to our mouths and at the same second we go for a walk and go to the auditorium, to the hall of Taylor's exercises, go to sleep .. ."
E. Zamyatin. We

Chizhi, one might say, have reached the ideal of the United State, having completely entered the day into their Hour Tablet - they have no personal hours left at all. "We" was just published in Russian for the first time in 1927, however, abroad, and, I think, were known to Marshak and Kharms in 1930, when "Chizhi" was written.

Lived in an apartment
Forty four,
Forty four
Merry siskin:

Chizh - dishwasher,
Chizh - scrubber,
Chizh - gardener,
Chizh - water carrier,
Chizh for the cook
Chizh for the hostess
Chizh on parcels,
Chizh is a chimney sweep.

The stove was heated
Cooked porridge
Forty four
Merry siskin:

Chizh with a cook,
Chizh with a stalk,
Siskin with a yoke
Chizh with a sieve.
Chizh covers,
Chizh convenes
Chizh spills,
Chizh distributes.

finished work,
We went hunting
Forty four
Merry siskin:

Chizh - on a bear:
Chizh - on a fox,
Chizh - on a grouse,
Chizh - on a hedgehog,
Chizh - for turkey,
Chizh - to the cuckoo,
Chizh - on a frog,
Chizh - on the snake.

After the hunt
Grabbed the notes
Forty four
Cheerful siskins.

Played together:
Chizh - on the piano,
Chizh - on a cymbal,
Chizh - on the pipe,
Chizh - on trombone,
Chizh - on the accordion,
Chizh - on the comb,
Chizh - on the lip.

We went to my aunt
To aunt tap dance
Forty four
Cheerful siskins.

Chizh on the tram
Chizh in the car
Chizh on a cart
Chizh on the cart,
Chizh in a taratayka,
Siskin on the heels
Chizh on the shaft,
Chizh on the arc.

Wanted to sleep
Beds are being made
Forty four
Tired siskin:

Chizh - on the bed,
Chizh - on the couch,
Chizh - on the bench,
Chizh - on the table,
Chizh - on the box,
Chizh - on the reel,
Chizh - on paper,
Chizh - on the floor.

Lying in bed
They whistled together
Forty four
Merry siskin:

Chizh - triti-liti,
Chizh - tirli-tirli,
Chizh - dili-dili,
Chizh - ti ti-ti,
Chizh - tiki-riki,
Chizh - ricky-tiki,
Chizh - tyuti-lyuti,
Chizh - bye-bye-bye!

The poem about siskins opened the first issue of the magazine of the same name "for young children". It seems that the only evidence of the history of writing "Chizhey" was the story of the artist Boris Semyonov from the words of Marshak:

“Once, in the car of a country train (we lived then in the neighborhood in Kavgolov), Marshak told me how they wrote “Merry Siskins” together with Daniil Ivanovich. The poem was created to the motif of an allegretto from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. and the first lines appeared: "Forty-four Forty-four funny siskins lived in an apartment ..." Then it was told how the siskins worked together, did housework, played music - and so on.
A lot of verses of comical, merry-singing content were written (what a pity that they were all sent to the trash!). In the end, the co-authors began to put their feathered friends to bed and placed them in different places: "Siskin - on the bed, siskin - on the sofa, siskin - on the basket, siskin - on the bench ...".
That's all: the job is done, the siskins sleep peacefully. Finally, you can straighten your tired backs. Outside the window it is deep night, crumpled drafts, empty cigarette boxes on the table and under the table...
But then Kharms, having already gone into the front hall of Marshak's sleeping apartment, suddenly sang softly, raising his finger above his head:
- Lying in bed, forty-four cheerful siskins whistled in unison ...
Well, what could Marshak argue ?! Of course, such an unexpected turn seemed to him very lively and funny. Indeed, the restless siskins could not fall asleep without whistling to their heart's content... I had to go back to the table and write a funny ending..."
Boris Semyonov. The eccentric is true and joyful. // "Aurora", 1977, No. 4, p. 70.

There is something very piercing in this story, especially when you know the circumstances of Kharms' work in children's literature and how he ended his life.

When publishing "Chizhi", their dedication to the 6th Leningrad orphanage is indicated (it was located on the Fontanka Embankment, 36). As the culturologist I.V. Kondakov writes, "this gives modern researchers reason to consider it as an allusion to the St. Petersburg song" Chizhik-pyzhik, where have you been? without a past, without names, without surnames, adopted by the Soviet government, hatched from a common nest.Here they are - "new people", born revolutionary "today" for the sake of a communist "tomorrow". fun, spiritual work, life in flight... "The homunculi of the new world!".

True, the author of the article does not believe that the presented image of Soviet collectivism is so optimistically harmless. He finds the basis for doubts in the stanza about the hunt for siskins (this stanza was excluded in later publications):

“What hunting is there! It’s just some kind of roundup of all conceivable animals, birds and reptiles: both large and small predators (bear, fox), and game (grouse), and poultry (turkey), and completely innocent representatives of the fauna, which no one has ever hunted (hedgehog, cuckoo, frog, already ...) This is a class struggle with everyone who is not a "siskin", who does not belong to the "44th" zealots of equality who are not in the same flock with homeless activists ... We can say that this poem is not only about the orphanage, but also about the RAPP (the organization launched by M. Bulgakov under the name of Massolit was at that time stronger than ever, and easy to By the way, it is not for nothing that among the creatures hunted by siskins there is a hedgehog ("Hedgehog" and "Siskin" are two Leningrad children's magazines in which Kharms was mainly published). Further, we can conclude that this is also a poem about collectivization. After all, just past 1929 was the year of the Great Turning Point!”

Forty-four merry siskins

Comrade K dug up somewhere and quoted me a poem that I had not heard before. Marshak and Kharms, "Merry Siskins". As it turned out later, there are several versions of this poem of varying degrees of curtailment and adaptation, but the general meaning is preserved.

And these siskins really hung my brain with their irrational reality. Absolutely everything in the poem seemed illogical to me and raised many questions.

Well, how could forty-four of them live in one apartment! - I was indignant. - Are they migrant workers?

Judging by the list of professions listed, most siskins really occupied low-paid positions: siskin dishwasher, siskin scrubber, siskin on parcels, siskin chimney sweep. But among them was a siskin "for the mistress", which confused me. For the owner of the apartment? Or was it meant that this is a siskin hostess in the meaning of "a woman on the farm"? The structure of the chizhin society remained unclear. For example, are these positions on duty, or, being a siskin dishwasher, are you doomed to wash dishes for forty-three of your feathered brothers for the rest of your life?

Again, the siskin-gardener strongly stood out from the general row: what kind of garden does he do in the apartment? Or does he have a separate garden somewhere? Why then does he live in a city apartment with forty-three other siskins? (oh, the nightmare of an introvert!)?

Then the siskins prepared dinner, and then "took notes", which also raised questions. Firstly, as a musician, my set of instruments provoked soreness. A combination of piano, cymbal and accordion. Okay, let's say they're avant-garde. But tell me, how can a siskin play on the lip? Where does the siskin's lip come from?

And he played on someone else's lip, - comrade K. calmly replied.
- Whose?!
- Another siskin.

Comrade K. was definitely in the paradigm of the logic of Marshak and Kharms.

Then the siskins went to visit their aunt, and everyone chose different types transport, which for me was an obvious evidence of their social disunity.

If they have an aunt, then they are relatives, I reasoned. - Is it logical to go to the aunt all together? But why didn't they all take the tram? Why is one on the tram, the other on the car, and the third in general on the shaft?

Well, let's say a siskin-marginal like me was driving a shaft, but why was that siskin in a car driving alone when he could give at least three more rides? It drove me crazy and raised a lot of new questions. Did he hate other siskins? Maybe it was played on his lip and he was offended? And it is still not clear which of these siskins could afford a car - a scrubber, a dishwasher? Or was it a siskin not listed in the list of previous ones - a major siskin living among poor relatives?

Night fell, and I still could not calm down. Siskins also went to bed and distributed sleeping places. Someone got a bed, someone a sofa, someone a bench. But most of all I was outraged that the outsiders got places on the reel, on a piece of paper and on the floor.

Sleeping on the floor was, at the very least, an honest lumpen.

But the siskin, sleeping on a piece of paper, touched my heart endlessly: it was a siskin that had not yet completely descended, which had not yet stepped over the last threshold. Obviously, the paper does not protect against cold or drafts, it was just a gesture of a desperate heart, struggling to maintain dignity while other siskins took over the bed and sofa.

I was especially perplexed as a bedding by a coil.
- How can you sleep on a coil?
- Well, there are different coils, - Comrade K answered. - For example, cable reel.

The cable coil as a whole did not raise any questions, I agreed that it was possible to sleep on it. In addition, I remembered how I myself once slept on the lid of the piano on the stage of the Bryansk Philharmonic.

Siskin, sleeping on the bed, caused me boundless indignation. Why, why does one sleep on a bed and the other gets to sleep on a coil?

Actually, it’s quite comfortable to sleep on the coil, - said Comrade. K. - Siskins sleep sitting up.
- Then what the hell was it to occupy the whole bed with one siskin ?! Yes, they could all sit there and sleep!
- It was a small, chinese bed. They wouldn't all fit.
- Then we could buy a set of coils instead of a bed!

Studying the question, Comrade K read an article about the history of writing a poem, and it turned out that Kharms and Marshak wrote about homeless children (much became clearer), and then I read that when writing Kharms was inspired by Beethoven's seventh symphony, on which the text of the poem fit perfectly.

It was impossible to stop here, and we listened to the corresponding fragment of the seventh symphony, which turned out to be completely in the spirit of Beethoven, that is, heartbreaking. As a result, the last few days I can not stop and sing about forty-four. Listen too, and you will understand me.

Pure postmodern to imagine how Kharms sings this with a serious and tragic face. Soooooo fouryyyyre, sooooorok fouryyyre, soooooty fouryyyyre merry siskins.

AND or in an apartment
Forty four,
Forty four
Merry siskin:

Chizh - a dishwasher,
Chizh - scrubber,
Chizh - gardener,
Chizh - water carrier,
Chizh for the cook
Chizh for the hostess
Chizh on parcels,
Chizh is a chimney sweep.

The stove was heated
Cooked porridge
Forty four
Merry siskin:

Chizh with a cook,
Chizh with a stalk,
Siskin with a yoke
Chizh with a sieve.

Chizh covers,
Chizh convenes
Chizh spills,
Chizh distributes.

finished work,
We went hunting
Forty four
Merry siskin:
Siskin on a bear
Chizh on a fox,
Chizh on a grouse,
Siskin on a hedgehog,
Chizh on a turkey,
Cuckoo siskin,
Siskin on a frog
Chizh on snake.

After the hunt
Grabbed the notes
Forty four
Cheerful siskins.

Played together:
Chizh - on the piano,
Chizh - on a cymbal,
Chizh - on the pipe,
Chizh - on the trombone,
Chizh - on the accordion,
Siskin - on the comb,
Chizh - on the lip.

We went to my aunt
To aunt tap dance
Forty four
Cheerful siskins.

Chizh on the tram
Chizh in the car
Chizh on a cart
Chizh on the cart,
Chizh in a taratayka,
Siskin on the heels
Chizh on the shaft,
Chizh on the arc.

Wanted to sleep
Beds are being made
Forty four
Tired siskin:

Chizh - on the bed,
Chizh - on the couch,
Chizh - on the bench,
Chizh - on the table,
Chizh - on the box,
Chizh - on the coil,
Chizh - on paper,
Chizh is on the floor.

Lying in bed
They whistled together
Forty four
Merry siskin:

Chizh - triti-liti,
Chizh - tirli-tirli,
Chizh - dili-dili,
Chizh - ti ti-ti,
Chizh - tiki-riki,
Chizh - riki-tiki,
Chizh - tyuti-lyuti,
Chizh - tu-tu-tu!

- END -

And now the same thing, but with illustrations by May Miturich:

Interesting information about how they were composed.

The artist Boris Semyonov, according to Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak, recalls:

“Once, in the car of a country train (we lived then in the neighborhood in Kavgolovo), Marshak told me how they wrote “Merry Siskins” together with Daniil Ivanovich.

The poem was created on the motif of an allegretto from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Kharms liked to repeat this tune - this is how the first lines appeared: “Forty-four Forty-four funny siskins lived in an apartment ...” Then it was told how siskins worked together, did housework, played music - and so on.

That's all: the job is done, the siskins sleep peacefully. Finally, you can straighten your tired backs. Outside the window it is deep night, on the table and under the table there are crumpled drafts, empty cigarette boxes ...

But then Kharms, having already gone into the front hall of Marshak's sleeping apartment, suddenly sang softly, raising his finger above his head:

- Lying in bed, Forty-four cheerful siskins whistled in unison ...

Well, what could Marshak argue ?! Of course, such an unexpected turn seemed to him very lively and funny. Indeed, the restless siskins couldn’t fall asleep without whistling to their heart’s content… I had to go back to the table and write a funny ending…”

(Boris Semyonov. True and joyful eccentric. In the journal: "Aurora", 1977, No. 4, p. 70).

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