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A star called the Sun

The accident in which Viktor Tsoi crashed left a lot of questions to which we never knew the answers.

Even in the sad ranking of those who died early outstanding poets and musicians, Viktor Tsoi set a kind of record - he passed away at the age of 28, and was preceded, perhaps, only by Lermontov, who lived two years less. In that ill-fated August 90, Tsoi and his five-year-old son were vacationing in the Baltic states. Returning from fishing, he lost control, and at the 35th kilometer of the Sloka-Talsi highway near Tukums he flew into the oncoming lane, where he collided with an Ikarus. The speed at which Tsoi’s “Muscovite” was driving (130 km/h) left him with no one chance survive. The blow was so strong that he was buried in a closed coffin. The examination showed that the musician was absolutely sober - according to the official conclusion of the investigation, Viktor Robertovich Tsoi simply fell asleep at the wheel... Viktor has been gone for a long time, but his songs are alive. Their energy is still so strong today that it gives you goosebumps.

VIKTOR TSOI'S FATHER ROBERT: "THE SON HAD ONE TRUE LOVE - NATALIA: HE WANTED TO MARRY HER, BUT CAN'T HAVE TIME"

I couldn’t possibly have guessed the average Soviet family Tsoev - engineer Robert Maksimovich and physical education teacher Valentina Vasilievna, what are their The only son will become a cult figure in the USSR. The boy, who looked like his dad, was a real mother’s son - she not only loved, but also understood him like no one else. Valentina Vasilievna outlived Victor by 19 years.

- Robert Maksimovich, judging by the photographs, your son was a charming child.

Victor's childhood photos circulated in all newspapers and magazines, somewhere I even saw a picture of him when he was almost one year old. When he was one year and four months old, we were forced to send our son to a nursery - my wife Valentina Vasilyevna had to go to work, because I was still a student at that time. In the nursery, Vityusha cried all the time, it was possible to calm him down only by holding him in your arms, so he spent almost all the time in the arms of the teacher. Growing up, like everyone else, did not cause us much trouble. When he was three or four years old, we calmly let him out into the street, where he had friends, and he disappeared for half a day. It was difficult to get him back home.

- It’s hard to imagine Viktor Tsoi as a good boy and an excellent student. School teachers didn't they complain about him?

He was an average student, he didn’t have enough stars in the sky, but he didn’t fall into bad grades either, he was a solid student. Only in the eighth grade did he start getting C grades. But Vitya behaved well, without hooligan antics, in any case, we were never called to school. Actually, his mother, a teacher, first took him to her school. But after finishing primary classes we transferred our son to another one - closer to home, in our Moscow region. Victor was only glad of this; he did not really like being under constant maternal control.

- To whom does he owe his love for music?

I think for me. Since childhood, I have been fond of playing the guitar and, already as an adult, I often strummed it - however, it was difficult to call my “performance” a game in the full sense of the word. And Victor listened and at the age of 10-12 he also became interested. I showed him the first chords, and then he started playing himself. Sometimes he would lock himself in the bathroom and play something there, picking out a melody.

Of course, the son wanted to have his own guitar, and soon he got one - this is connected with whole story. I’m a passionate fisherman, so Valentina Vasilievna and I usually spent our holidays somewhere on the river bank. They left for a month, and Victor was left alone, but under the supervision of his grandmother and aunt - his wife’s mother and sister. They left him 100 rubles for food, quite decent money at that time. And as soon as we left, he immediately ran and bought some cool guitar for 120 rubles (he saved 20 from the money we gave him to school), which he had long dreamed of. And then I lived from bread to water for the whole month...

Then my son already went fishing with us, but he always took one of his friends with him. They fished on the other side of the river, he even had a favorite stone there, which locals still call “Tsoi’s stone.”

- Who did you want your son to be?

His mother was sure that Victor would become an artist, since he had been drawing very well since childhood—probably since he was six. For several years, in parallel with general education, I studied in art school and was there for in good standing. His paintings were even exhibited at an art exhibition in New York. By the way, he never gave up painting completely, even at the height of his musical career I painted a lot, sometimes just in between performances. I still have all his paintings and sketches.

In one of his interviews, Victor said: “Now my parents think that I am doing my own thing. But, for sure, they did not always think so.” Didn't you accept his passion for music at first?

It’s not that they didn’t accept him, they just didn’t believe that he was serious about it. We thought it was just another hobby that would soon pass. And they couldn’t even imagine that, in addition to musical talent, he would also manifest poetic talent.

Now there is an opinion that he was not only an outstanding composer and performer, but also a poet. He is even sometimes called a classic: they say, if a person’s popularity does not decrease 20 years after his death, but increases, as happens with Victor, then he can rightfully be classified in this category. After all, he walked for a long time towards his calling - he was a bathhouse attendant, a rescue boatman here on the ponds, and a fireman.

- From last place You probably weren’t particularly delighted with the work?

I was more upset when it didn't work at all. In those days, that’s how it was: if you don’t work somewhere, that means you’re a parasite, and for this you could get imprisoned. And Victor, when he was expelled from the Serov Art School “for poor academic performance,” initially got a job at a factory as a stamper, but did not last long there, and then did not work at all for two years - he lay on the couch. His famous song "Idle Man" is dedicated to that time.

I was very worried then, but my mother somehow reacted calmly to this and never reproached him. She said: “If you don’t want to, don’t work. Do what you love.” And his soul always lay towards music. I think her mother’s intuition told her that he would be good. Victor was generally closer to his mother than to me. Firstly, she spent more time with him; I was constantly missing at work. Secondly, it’s no secret that I left my family once - the sins of my youth, so to speak. In general, Valyusha turned out to be right: I thought that Victor had been idle for two years, but it turned out that he had been creating all this time.

- Fame covered your son instantly...

But, alas, it did not last long - only five years. When “Needle” came out in 1988, his name was already thundering throughout Soviet Union. Well, after the albums “Blood Type” and “A Star Called the Sun,” he was generally in great demand.

- Do you often communicate with your grandson Alexander?

Unfortunately, less often than we would like. He is 25 years old, he has his own affairs, he has no time for us. He tried to make music like his father (someone even filmed his experiments), but without much success. But he became a great computer scientist, worked for six months in Moscow on Channel One - Konstantin Ernst invited him there. It cannot be said that he is a copy of Victor, but, of course, there are similarities. And not so much in his facial features as in his manners - for example, he lifts his chin just like his father. I just blew it out - I don’t even know who it was! - under two meters tall. All our relatives are simply amazed.

- Not married?

Not yet, although he had a lot of girls. In this sense, he is not at all like his father, who in his youth was not particularly interested in either drinking or the female sex. Victor, until Maryana married him to herself, didn’t really have anyone. Then Sashenka was born immediately, and besides, music took up all his time. He had one true love - Natalya, he wanted to marry her, but did not have time. Neither Maryana nor Valentina Vasilievna are alive anymore: Victor’s wife died five years ago, and my Valyusha died in November last year...

DIRECTOR OF THE FILM “NEEDLE” AND “NEEDLE. REMIX” RASHID NUGMANOV: “HE RESPECTED HIS FAME WITH INTEREST AND AT THE SAME TIME WITH CARE”

Rashid Nugmanov did what no film director had managed before - in leading role in his new film "Needle. Remix" he played a man who has been dead for 20 years. The director plans to finish the film by August 15, and it will be released in mid-September.

Rashid Musaevich, 22 years have passed since the release of the film “The Needle”, why did you decide to return to this topic?

Because this year marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Viktor Tsoi, and he is still popular and in demand by a new generation of young people. They deserve to see their hero on the big screen, as their older brothers and sisters, and for some, perhaps their fathers and mothers, once did.

- How do you determine the genre of a new film - sequel, remake, extended version?

Neither one, nor the other, nor the third. My film is a remix, that is, a special form of work when new material is added to the original material; I borrowed this term from music and transferred it to cinema. I have three sources of new material - my archival materials from filming with Victor, additional filming with Pyotr Mamonov, Alexander Bashirov, Marina Smirnova and other actors, and modern comic graphics.

- According to rumors, the film will feature a song based on an unknown poem by Tsoi.

The poem is widely known, but the music is unknown, since Victor never recorded or performed this song on stage. It's called "Children of Minutes". The music was written by the group "U-Piter". Slava Butusov sang it, and Yuri Kasparyan recorded a guitar solo.

- Did Tsoi’s common-law wife Natalya Razlogova take part in the work on “Needle. Remix”?

We have been friends with Natasha all these years, and of course, she witnessed all stages of the creation of the film. Her opinion is extremely important to me.

- Why doesn’t she communicate with the press?

She just doesn't have time. In addition, Natasha herself publishes a lot, under different pseudonyms.

- What do you most often remember in connection with the first picture?

In 1987, the film “Igla” was already in production at the Kazakhfilm film studio: it was supposed to be shot by a completely different director, but his screen test was not accepted. And when in August I arrived in Alma-Ata on vacation after my third year at VGIK, I was unexpectedly offered to accept the film.

I agreed to three conditions: firstly, I invite my friends to act in the film, secondly, I am free with the script material and, thirdly, my brother Marat Nugmanov, also a third-year student, will be the cameraman. The studio accepted my terms, and I immediately called my friends - Viktor, Mamonov, Bashirov - and we immediately plunged into work. By the way, the atmosphere on the site was truly warm, one might say that we lived as one friendly family.

Were you not afraid to include a fight scene using karate in the film, although this type of fighting, to put it mildly, was not welcomed in the Soviet Union?

Victor did a lot of martial arts, his idol was Bruce Lee. It is quite natural that he demonstrated his plasticity in the film. And why did we care that the struggle was not welcomed by the ideologists in power? They didn't like rock music either, but that didn't stop Victor from becoming a star.

- Did you think then that the film would be such a resounding success?

You may not believe me, but I knew what I had found. gold mine. I was just wondering: will Goskino release the film or put it on the shelf as anti-Soviet? Still, a story in which main character saving his girlfriend from drug addiction was, to put it mildly, atypical for the cinema of that time.

- How long did you know Tsoi?

A total of five years - we met in the winter of 1985 in Leningrad and remained friends until his death. Perhaps Victor seemed withdrawn and cold to some, but we knew him as a very open and cheerful person. I remember we laughed often during the filming of the first “Needle.” The most difficult episode for us, oddly enough, was the episode of Moreau’s meeting with a man on a handcar in the steppe. We had to remove the trolley from the hill where Moreau stood, through his back. But the actor’s movements were so ridiculous that Victor could not stop laughing. The sun was setting quickly, and we still weren’t able to film a single “serious” take. In the end, we had to film the passage separately.

Victor didn't like to be alone, but he also big companies unfamiliar people did not attract him for long. He preferred to have friends around him. It is generally accepted that geniuses are not adapted to Everyday life, to everyday life. In my opinion, this is misleading. Victor was well versed in everything related to life and everyday life...

- Was Tsoi ready for the glory that befell him?

He treated her with interest and at the same time with caution. Like anyone to a normal person, he was flattered by the recognition of a huge number of people. But Victor also felt the discomfort that fame inevitably entails. After all, after love and worship there is always a shadow of envy, ill will, misunderstanding, and sometimes inexplicable hatred...

- In your film, Tsoi’s hero died, and many subsequently saw in this a certain sign...

All this is nonsense, idle fiction and old woman’s superstitions. I believe that none mystical coincidences, none literary works like “The Master and Margarita” or “Macbeth” are not capable of influencing a person’s life. All these so-called “scenarios” arise in the heads of mystically minded people after the fact, in hindsight. And the reason for this is human weakness, the eternal fear of the future and the transience of one’s own life. In addition, the main character in “The Needle” does not die, but gets up from his knees and continues on his way.

- Having filmed “Igloo. Remix”, you promised to answer the question: “Is Tsoi alive?”

For me, Victor never died.

FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE KINO GROUP, WRITER YURI BELISHKIN: "SUCH PEOPLE JUST DON'T FALL ASLEEP AT THE DRIVING"

Yuri Belishkin organized the first rock festival in the Soviet Union in 1974. After the death of the frontman of the Kino group, he worked with DDT for some time, and then, in his own words, he quit music because he became “bored, sad and uninteresting.” Today Yuri Vladimirovich is involved in KVN, writes books of aphorisms and invariably participates in organizing and holding festivals and evenings in memory of Viktor Tsoi.

- Yuri Vladimirovich, how long have you been the director of the Kino group?

We communicated closely for a year and a half. I remember the first time I met Victor... For my long life No one else made such an impression on me. As a rule, rock and rollers are, to put it mildly, not very neat people, but Victor was slender, handsome, and well-groomed. If I were a woman, I would immediately fall in love with him. Not yet knowing that it was Tsoi, I drew attention to him: wow, what an extraordinary young man is coming! And I must say that during the entire time we knew him, he did not disappoint me.

Victor valued his time very much, devoting it to creativity. He did not have multi-day binges, nor so-called creative absent-mindedness - he was very organized: he came to all meetings on time, was never late for either the station or the airport, even if he had to fly out at five in the morning. And Tsoi never sang to plywood - it would never have occurred to him.

- Legends are made up and stories are told about Victor...

The most ridiculous rumor about him that I have ever heard is that he brought Tsoi into the public eye: he found him in a fireplace, washed him and made him a star last producer Yuri Aizenshpis. Yes, Aizenshpis only worked with him for the last six months! By that time, Victor was already assembling stadiums on his own. If he had simply gone out into the street and said that he was going to sing now, a crowd of thousands would have immediately gathered around him.

- And no signs of star fever?

He had neither star fever nor delusions of grandeur - unlike representatives of the current stage that I ardently dislike. About four years ago, the magazine, whose editor-in-chief was Leonid Parfenov, published “troikas” outstanding people different times. The “troika” of the twentieth century included Gagarin, Vysotsky and Tsoi. Indeed, the last phenomenon in the art of the last century was Victor, and then - an abyss, emptiness.

The car in which Tsoi crashed was a Muscovite, even if it was latest model- cannot be compared with the cars that modern stars drive. Was Victor indifferent to material wealth?

He really didn't give them any credit special significance. He did not buy himself gold chains, signets, or branded rags. No matter how pretentious it sounds, the most important thing for him was his music. And the time was different then, the “Muscovite” was considered a pretty decent car. Victor bought this car with the money he received for several concerts. As it turned out later, the “Muscovite” had an unreliable steering system.

- If I’m not mistaken, Tsoi just began a period of domestic unsettledness?

Yes. The girl he lived with was a Muscovite, and Victor, who had a residence permit in Leningrad, left for Moscow, where he did not even have an apartment. It was necessary to re-settle in a new place, and he simply did not have enough time for all this. I think in the end it was Moscow that destroyed him - if he had not moved there, you would have interviewed him, not me.

You are one of the few who believe that the accident near Tukums is not an accident, but someone’s malicious intent. Why?

100 percent that this is not the case. People like Victor don’t just fall asleep while driving. Unfortunately, the investigation, which was supposed to establish what really happened, was carried out superficially. Victor's family and friends were so overwhelmed with grief that they did not insist on a serious investigation. For some reason, the people who worked with him then, in particular, the same Aizenshpis, did not do this. But there were a lot of questions to which we never knew the answers.

- But in this case, the natural question is: who benefited from the musician’s death?

Do you want me to tell you your last name? Such things are not said even to close people. How can I, without knowing you at all, entrust this to you! Listen to his latest "Black Album", remember the death of Michael Jackson and draw parallels. The answer will be obvious.

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Natalia Emilievna Razlogova(October 20, Sofia, Bulgaria) - journalist, film critic and translator, sister of the famous film critic Kirill Razlogov, best known for her relationship with Viktor Tsoi.

Biography

After the death of Viktor Tsoi in November 1991, she married journalist Evgeny Dodolev.

Videography

Publications

• “With invisible threads, “Igla” sews a shroud of pseudo youth cinema” (published in the Soyuzinformkino Collection “Think about Advertising”, issue 6, 1988) - review of the film “Igla”
• “A Star Called Kino”, “Musical Truth” No. 25, August 2005

• “Expired Doom”, “New Look” No. 2, March 2010 (author - J. Bastener, translated from French by N. Razlogova)
• “Tsoi in the flesh” (author - J. Bastener) “Musical Truth”, No. 11, June 2011

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• in France

An excerpt characterizing Razlogov, Natalya Emilievna

In St. Petersburg at this time, in the highest circles, with greater fervor than ever, there was a complex struggle between the parties of Rumyantsev, the French, Maria Feodorovna, the Tsarevich and others, drowned out, as always, by the trumpeting of the court drones. But calm, luxurious, concerned only with ghosts, reflections of life, St. Petersburg life went on as before; and because of the course of this life, it was necessary to make great efforts to recognize the danger and the difficult situation in which the Russian people found themselves. There were the same exits, balls, the same French theater, the same interests of the courts, the same interests of service and intrigue. Only in the highest circles were efforts made to recall the difficulty of the present situation. It was told in whispers how the two empresses acted opposite to each other in such difficult circumstances. Empress Maria Feodorovna, concerned about the welfare of the charitable and educational institutions under her jurisdiction, made an order to send all institutions to Kazan, and the things of these institutions were already packed. Empress Elizaveta Alekseevna, when asked what orders she wanted to make, with her characteristic Russian patriotism, deigned to answer that government institutions she cannot make orders, since this concerns the sovereign; about the same thing that personally depends on her, she deigned to say that she will be the last to leave St. Petersburg.
Anna Pavlovna had an evening on August 26, the very day of the Battle of Borodino, the flower of which was to be the reading of the letter from the Eminence, written when sending the image of the venerable saint Sergius to the sovereign. This letter was revered as an example of patriotic spiritual eloquence. It was to be read by Prince Vasily himself, famous for his art of reading. (He also read for the Empress.) The art of reading was considered to consist in pouring out words loudly, melodiously, between a desperate howl and a gentle murmur, completely regardless of their meaning, so that, quite by chance, a howl would fall on one word, and a murmur on others. This reading, like all Anna Pavlovna’s evenings, had political significance. At this evening there were to be several important persons who had to be shamed for their trips to the French theater and encouraged into a patriotic mood. Quite a lot of people had already gathered, but Anna Pavlovna had not yet seen all the people she needed in the living room, and therefore, without starting to read yet, she started general conversations.
The news of the day that day in St. Petersburg was the illness of Countess Bezukhova. A few days ago the Countess unexpectedly fell ill, missed several meetings of which she was an adornment, and it was heard that she did not see anyone and that instead of the famous St. Petersburg doctors who usually treated her, she entrusted herself to some Italian doctor who treated her with some new and in an extraordinary way.
Everyone knew very well that the illness of the lovely countess was due to the inconvenience of marrying two husbands at once and that the Italian’s treatment consisted of eliminating this inconvenience; but in the presence of Anna Pavlovna, not only did no one dare to think about it, but it was as if no one knew it.

She is the last love of a great artist, talented musician, a man with amazing charisma, who died in a car accident at the very peak of his fame. Their chance acquaintance turned the fates of both of them upside down. For three years they were together inseparably, until a fatal tragedy put an end to their love story. We must give Natalya her due: she did not share intimate secrets and did not participate in ugly squabbles. The woman was in the shadow of the great musician, avoiding unnecessary publicity. On the day of the funeral, the artist’s parents, official wife Maryana and Natalya Razlogova stood together at the coffin.

Fateful meeting

The meeting with Tsoi, which changed a lot, took place in 1987, during the filming process of “Assy”, where Natalya Razlogova was in the film. Her biography is little known, except for the basic facts. She was born in Bulgaria in 1956, and after graduating from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, she worked as a translator and journalist. Classmates recalled that she was always distinguished by her erudition and a certain bohemian spirit. The ensuing romance between the young people continued until the singer’s death. The musician left the family, saying that he had fallen in love. He maintained a relationship with Maryana and missed his son Sasha, feeling his responsibility to them.

Lovers Viktor Tsoi and Natalya Razlogova lived in Moscow and were planning to buy an apartment. A year before his death, the singer introduced the women to each other, not realizing how painful it was for Maryana, who was explosive in character. “A keg of gunpowder,” as she said to herself. And as the opposite of her, she is a self-possessed, self-controlled, happy rival.

In 1991, Natalya married famous journalist E. Dodolev and leaves for America, and after many years returns to work on television. She has repeatedly said that she is not going to share her personal life and publish memoirs.

last love

The musician’s father said that Victor broke up with his wife without a scandal, the marriage was not officially dissolved, and after death all rights to the creative heritage passed to Maryana. My parents met Natasha at the funeral. Robert Tsoi, seeing his son’s last love, understood why he was crazy about her.

“The sophisticated Natalya Razlogova is beautiful in heart and face. And not everyone deserves such a woman,” shared in frank interview musician's father. And he added that his son’s true love was only Natasha, he dreamed of marrying her, but did not have time.

Closed book

By the way, many of Victor’s friends expressed their admiration interesting woman. Alexey Vishnya, a sound engineer and musician who worked with the Kino group, said that Tsoi simply could not help but fall in love with the smart and silent beauty. In his opinion, it resembled a closed book. Natalya Razlogova was a woman of a different level, which Victor did not have before.

And Joanna Stingray, the guitarist, hid that Tsoi had felt loneliness all his life and found himself only with Natasha.

Return of a Legend

The idol of millions, who gathered crowds of thousands, was a monogamous man. While building a relationship with one woman, he did not pay any attention to others. R. Nugmanov, the director of the sensational “Needle”, in which Victor played the role of Moreau, recalled that he became very domestic, and he wanted to have his own corner with Natasha. By the way, in 2010, in the film “Needle Remix,” Viktor Tsoi returned to the screen, and Natalya Razlogova provided some of her archival materials especially for this project. This modern vision previously released film. Nugmanov said that there were no doubles; in all frames there was a living Victor, “assembled” from particles of film. Tsoi's hand-drawn footage was used for the film, and Natalya approved his virtual image. The main message of the new “Needle” is to portray the musician as a real actor, and not to focus on what he was like.

A sensation for fans

A huge surprise for all fans was the release of the film “Tsoi - Cinema” on the occasion of the musician’s 50th anniversary in 2012. What exactly common-law wife Tsoi, Natalya Razlogova, who never comments on her relationship, became the narrator in this documentary story, which was a real sensation.

At that time she worked on Channel One television. Razlogova does not appear in the frame; she is filmed exclusively in the shadows. While sorting through archival records, she discovered a song that Victor sang long ago. Natasha meets with her son and the band’s musicians in St. Petersburg. The result is a recording of the found composition “Ataman”, written in the tradition of Russian songs. The voice of the young musician sounds together with the instruments of his friends, who have become twenty years older and gathered for the first time after so many years.

Embodied meaning

Critics noted the spontaneity of the film, shot with emotional intensity. The author in his work tries to open for everyone the mystical signs in the paintings and music that Tsoi wrote. And Natalia Razlogova deliberately calls this “embodied meaning.” She seems to derive a formula for the uniqueness of a person with a pronounced sense of self-worth, incompatible with the crowd. The tape does not tell anything about Victor's personal relationships.

All emphasis is placed on the reasoning of the musicians of the “Kino” group; Natalya emphasizes that only they have the right to talk about the life of the “last hero”.

Ironic and tough Natalya Razlogova clearly points out errors in the memories of Victor, noticing lies in the memoirs about him. She wants to convey her message about the extraordinary personality of an independent musician, believing that the scale of his work was underestimated by those close to him at that time. She does not share her personal experiences, believing that ethics does not allow her to answer many questions.