Булат Окуджава и Владимир Высоцкий: История знакомства

The study of writers' biographies is an integral part of literary history. Very often in this context most important is information about the contacts and personal relations between major authors. Of course, for literary scholars biographical material is mainly auxiliary and assists them in comprehending the writer's work. However, in any case this material should be based on reliable and controllable information.The history of the Russian bard song (“author song”) has only begun to be written, but already after a short time, one can easily observe a great number of unreliable and/or mythologized data, that will not pass the test of available correct information. In our article an attempt is made to set more or less exact points of orientation for the investigation into an important event: the acquaintance with each other's works, and subsequently the personal acquaintance of two authors, whose significance for the “author song” is beyond doubt: Bulat Okudzhava and Vladimir Vysotskii.