Мюзикл Б. Окуджавы «Приключения Буратино»: детям и взрослым

Детские чтения. 2025. Т. 27. № 1. С. 77–91.

Gelfond M. M.

The article examines Bulat Okudzhava’s song cycleGolden Key: TheMusical, conceived during the production of Leonid Nechaev’s filmTheAdventures of Buratino(1975) and published in 1993. Based on the mem-oirs of Okudzhava and Nechaev, the study reconstructs the creative historyof the cycle and the circumstances surrounding the creation and existenceof the songs that formed the musical. Okudzhava’sGolden Keyis ana-lyzed as a complexly structured text that, like Alexey Tolstoy’s fairy tale,has a clear dual audience. While it is intended for children at the plotand character level, it also contains numerous markers that allow it to beinterpreted as the poet’s reflection on the historical processes of the “Thaw”and two adjacent historical eras. A key theme in Okudzhava’s reflectionsis the relationship between society and government across various periodsof Soviet history. The abundance of self-reminiscences, both serious andparodic, in turn, allows the cycle to be examined within the broader con-text of Okudzhava’s oeuvre and in relation to the ideological and stylisticcharacteristics of his poetic world — “fairy-tale, medieval, and toy charac-ters” (Alexandr Zholkovsky) — which trace back to the poetry of AlexandrBlok and Alexandr Vertinsky. The text embodies “ambivalence,” balancingbetween the hope for a miracle and the recognition of its impossibility.

Keywords: "оттепель", Alexey Tolstoy, Толстой А.Н., Б.Ш. Окуджава, Нечаев, Bulat Okudzhava, Leonid Nechaev, “The GoldenKey. Musical”, "The Adventures of Pinocchio”, two-address installation, auto-reminiscences, parody, “thaw”, "Золотой ключик. Мюзикл", "Приключения Буратино", двухадресная установка, автореминисценции, пародийность