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The meaning of the lyrics of the song "Bolshoy Karetny" (Bolschoy Karetnyiy) the performer of the song "Vladimir Vysotsky"

- Where are your seventeen years?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

- Where are your seventeen troubles?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

- Where is your black pistol?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

- Where are you not today?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

Do you remember, comrade, that house?

No, you don't forget about it!

I'll say that he lost half his life,

Who has never been to Bolshoy Karetny.

Of course...

- Where are your seventeen years?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

- Where are your seventeen troubles?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

- Where is your black pistol?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

- Where are you not today?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

It has been renamed now,

Everything is new there, believe it or not!

And yet, wherever you have been, wherever you wander -

No, no, you will walk along Karetny.

Of course...

- Where are your seventeen years?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

- Where are your seventeen troubles?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

- Where is your black pistol?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

- Where are you not today?

- On Bolshoy Karetny.

- Где твои семнадцать лет?

- На Большом Каретном.

- Где твои семнадцать бед?

- На Большом Каретном.

- Где твой черный пистолет?

- На Большом Каретном.

- Где тебя сегодня нет?

- На Большом Каретном.

Помнишь ли, товарищ, этот дом?

Нет, не забываешь ты о нем!

Я скажу, что тот полжизни потерял,

Кто в Большом Каретном не бывал.

Еще бы ведь...

- Где твои семнадцать лет?

- На Большом Каретном.

- Где твои семнадцать бед?

- На Большом Каретном.

- Где твой черный пистолет?

- На Большом Каретном.

- Где тебя сегодня нет?

- На Большом Каретном.

Переименован он теперь,

Стало все по новой там, верь-не верь!

И все же, где б ты ни был, где ты не бредешь -

Нет-нет, да по Каретному пройдешь.

Еще бы ведь...

- Где твои семнадцать лет?

- На Большом Каретном.

- Где твои семнадцать бед?

- На Большом Каретном.

- Где твой черный пистолет?

- На Большом Каретном.

- Где тебя сегодня нет?

- На Большом Каретном.

In Vladimir Vysotsky's song "Bolshoy Karetny", a street in Moscow becomes a metaphor for youth, recklessness, but also the dangers associated with it.

The recurring refrain "Where are your seventeen years? - On Bolshoy Karetny" creates an image of a place where the lyrical hero's youth is concentrated. Bolshoy Karetny becomes a symbol of a carefree time, youthful maximalism, and first love experiences.

However, Karetny is not only happy memories. "Seventeen troubles" and a "black pistol" hint at risky adventures, conflicts with the law, perhaps even the criminal world that the hero was associated with in his youth.

The phrase "he who has not been on Bolshoy Karetny has lost half his life" sounds ambiguous. On the one hand, it emphasizes the unique atmosphere of this street, making it a symbol of a certain life experience. On the other hand, it implies that this experience was not always positive.

Renaming the street ("It has been renamed now, everything is new there, believe it or not!") cannot erase the past. The memories of youth, of "Bolshoy Karetny", remain with the lyrical hero forever, weaving themselves into his present.

Vysotsky's song is not just nostalgia for the past. It is a reflection on how a place can become a symbol of an entire period of life, about the inevitability of the past, which always remains with us, even if everything has changed outwardly.

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