Tanich Mikhail Isaevich biography. Mikhail Tanich - biography, information, personal life

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich (1923-2008) - Russian songwriter, wrote lyrics to many popular and beloved songs: “Black Cat”, “We choose, we are chosen”, “How good it is to be a general”, “A soldier is walking down the street” ", "Weather in the house", "Komarovo", "The knot will be tied." Since 2003, People's Artist of Russia.

Family

Misha was born on September 15, 1923 in the city of Taganrog. His real name is Tanhilevich.

My paternal grandfather was a devout Orthodox Jew and prayed constantly. The family told a legend that the grandfather was well acquainted with the Jewish playwright and writer Sholom Aleichem. When Sholom Aleichem left for permanent residence in America, he entrusted his grandfather with his unique library for safekeeping. My grandfather lived in Odessa at the time, and during the pogroms of the Jews, all the books were burned.

The second maternal grandfather, Boris Traskunov, lived in Mariupol and worked at a metallurgical plant as a chief accountant. When I quit my job, I moved to Rostov-on-Don.

Father, Tankhilevich Isaac Samoilovich, born in 1902, served in the Red Army during the Civil War. Then he came to Mariupol, where at the age of nineteen he took the post of deputy head of the Cheka. After working in this position for a while, he was sent to Petrograd for training and graduated from the Institute of Public Utilities there. After studying, he was sent to Taganrog, where he was appointed to the position of chief in the management of public utilities.

Childhood

Isaac Samoilovich loved sports very much, especially football. When his son turned five, he gave him a leather soccer ball. At that time, this was a real treasure; a cherished dream came true for the child, because he, just like his father, could not imagine his life without football.

From morning to evening, the boy kicked this ball around the wastelands of Taganrog, the child did not need fairy tales or sweets, he was delirious only about football.

In addition to sports, Misha tried other hobbies. By the age of four he learned to read, and a little later he began to rhyme words and write his first poems. He tried to draw, he liked it at first, but soon realized that he was not the first in this matter, there are many artists, and he abandoned the album with paints. He had such a character that from childhood he wanted to be a winner in everything and did not admit losses.

The parents were very busy at their jobs, however, the child did not feel deprived of their attention and affection. He considered his childhood happy and bright. It was during these years that Misha received moral training from his mother and father for the rest of his life.

Unfortunately, his serene childhood was cut short early. The terrible times of Stalin's repressions began. At night it was scary to go to bed, because the black funnels of the NKVD were driving through the streets, and no one knew who they would come for that night. Dad was accused of stealing socialist property on an especially large scale, was arrested and shot in the fall of 1938.

Following her father, her mother was arrested, and less than a year later she was released, but with limited rights and with a certificate stating that her husband had been sentenced to ten years without the right to correspondence.

War

After his mother’s arrest, Misha’s grandfather took him to Mariupol.

Here the guy graduated from school, and in June 1941 received a certificate of secondary education. He had plans to go to college, but everything collapsed in an instant, as the war began. Misha even forgot about his favorite poems, which he continued to write periodically since childhood.

In 1942, Mikhail joined the Komsomol and was drafted into the Red Army. To undergo training in 1943, he was sent first to the North Caucasus, then to Tbilisi. Here Mikhail entered the artillery school. He later admitted that at that moment he was more interested not in his studies, but in the hot food provided at the school.

Soldiers were trained for the front for six months, but Mikhail was kept for a whole year, due to the fact that his father was an enemy of the people. This stigma also influenced the fact that upon graduation he was a senior sergeant, and not a lieutenant, like the other guys.

In the summer of 1944, Misha entered the active army. He fought on the 1st Belorussian and 1st Baltic fronts. He commanded a gun in an anti-tank artillery regiment. He was wounded and shell-shocked several times. In December 1944, after being wounded and severely concussed during the defensive battle of Priecula, he was almost buried alive in a mass grave.

In January 1945, in the battles for Clauspussen, despite heavy enemy artillery fire, a gun under the command of Sergeant Tanhilevich destroyed 2 German dugouts and 2 machine gun points. During the battle, the platoon commander was killed, and Mikhail took command, having completed the assigned tasks.

Misha met the victory in the homeland of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the German town of Zerbst. Polish soldiers told them about the end of the war. There was silence, and there was no need to fight anymore, but I absolutely couldn’t believe it, just like the fact that they remained alive. At first, every new day without war, shooting and surrounding death seemed unreal.

Mikhail returned home to Rostov on a train, which was more suitable for transporting livestock. There were no amenities, but there were German trophies tied to the walls all around - bicycles and other junk. For his military services, Misha received awards - the Order of Glory, III degree and the Order of the Red Star.

Arrest

Returning to his homeland, Mikhail looked around a little and decided to enter the architectural faculty of the Rostov Construction Institute. He passed the exams successfully and was enrolled as a student, but he failed to graduate from the educational institution. A new wave of punitive scenarios has begun, now against those who praised foreign countries, their way of life, roads, and equipment. Such people were supposed to be taken into account, and even better, isolated from Soviet society.

Misha had the imprudence to blurt out somewhere that he really liked the German-made Telefunken radio receiver and that it was better than our Soviet models. One of the students reported what he had heard, and Mikhail was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation. Then there was an investigation, during which they did not beat them too much, but they were constantly kept from sleeping so that the arrested would be confused in their testimony. At the trial, no evidence of his guilt was ever made public. The prosecutor asked for five years, but for some reason they awarded six.

Then there was a stage to Solikamsk for transfer, where fate turned out to be favorable to Mikhail. He met the famous prisoner Konstantin Rotov, who before his arrest worked in the Krokodil magazine as the chief artist. Rotov was tasked with creating visual propaganda in the camp, and he took Misha into his brigade. Thus, the future poet managed to avoid a logging site, where all the prisoners who arrived with him in Solikamsk died.

Takhilevich was released just before Stalin's death. On the day of the funeral of the tyrant who destroyed the life of a young guy, Mikhail had tears flowing from his eyes. He considers this a paradox, but admits: “We were all just children of that time”.

Creation

After Mikhail’s release, a cousin was waiting in Moscow, but the former convict could not leave for the capital, since he had not been rehabilitated. He stayed on Sakhalin, where he got a job at Stroymekhmontazh as a foreman. He began publishing his poems in a local newspaper under the pseudonym Tanich.

In 1956, he was rehabilitated and moved closer to the capital, first to the town of Orekhovo-Zuevo near Moscow, then moved to the Zheleznodorozhny district of Balashikha.

In 1959, the first collection of poetry by Mikhail Tanich was published. A fairly well-known composer by that time, Jan Frenkel, after reading the collection, came to Mikhail with a proposal: he would write music for his poem “Textile Town”, and the result would be a song. They met in the corridor of the publishing house of the Soviet newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. Tanich then repeatedly admitted that he did not know how his fate would have turned out if not for this meeting with Frenkel.

And then away we go. The song was broadcast on the air and immediately, without any promotion, became popular; it was sung by saleswomen in kiosks, taxi drivers in cars, students and pensioners. The collaboration with Frenkel continued and resulted in the songs “Someone loses, someone finds”, “Well, what can I tell you about Sakhalin”. Tanich began working with other composers:

the song “The White Light Came Like a Wedge on You” was written with Oscar Feltsman;
with Eduard Kolmanovsky “We choose, we are chosen”;
with Vladimir Shainsky “In secret to the whole world”, “A soldier is walking through the city.”

The poet collaborated fruitfully with almost all famous Soviet composers: Nikita Bogoslovsky, Vadim Gamaliy, Arkady Ostrovsky, Igor Nikolaev. With Yuri Saulsky they wrote the hit “Black Cat”, which became Tanich’s calling card. His songs were sung by the most famous Soviet pop performers: Maya Kristalinskaya, Larisa Dolina, Alena Apina, Muslim Magomaev, Eduard Khil, Joseph Kobzon, Edita Piekha, Valery Leontyev. Young Alla Pugacheva made her debut on Soviet radio with the song “Robot”, written by Mikhail Tanich and composer Levon Merabov.

At one time, Tanich defended the young Yuri Antonov in the Union of Composers. Together they later wrote two songs, “Mirror” and “A Dream Comes True,” with which Antonov ends any of his concerts.

In the mid-1980s, the poet collaborated with the most popular composers of that time, Raymond Pauls and David Tukhmanov.

In 1990, together with composer Sergei Korzhukov, Tanich created the group “Lesopoval”, the group performed songs in the style of Russian chanson. Their most famous musical compositions:

“I will buy you a house”;
“Steal, Russia!”;
"Commandment";
"Homeboy";
“Three tattoos”;
"Bird Market";
"Stolypin carriage."

In 1994, Sergei Korzhukov died tragically, fell from the balcony of a multi-story building, and Lesopoval ceased to exist for some time. Then new musicians joined the team, and the group was revived. After the death of Mikhail Tanich, the artistic director of “Lesopoval” is his wife Lydia Kozlova.

Since 1968, Tanich has been a member of the USSR Writers' Union and is the author of many poetry collections.

Personal life

Tanich's first love happened immediately after the end of the war. In the German city of Bernburg, he and his fellow soldiers went into a restaurant, where he met the niece of the owner of the establishment, Elfriede Lahne. They began dating, but Misha did not marry her, although at that time the law prohibiting marriages with foreign citizens was not yet in force (it was adopted two years after the war).

In the early 1980s, Tanich was on tour in the GDR and wanted to meet Elfriede, but it turned out that she lived on the other side of the Berlin Wall (in Germany). But he found her aunt, the same owner of the restaurant, and gave her a record with songs based on poems by the poet Mikhail Tanich.

The poet's first wife was a girl named Irina, whom he married before his arrest. Ira was not expecting him from prison; after Mikhail’s release, a divorce was filed, and he left, taking his simple belongings: a cross-stitched pillow, a cupronickel teaspoon and the book “12 Chairs.”

One day, on November 7, Mikhail wandered into the dormitory of young specialists. They celebrated, a luxurious table was set: several jars of squash caviar and pickled beets, Odessa sausage and herring with onions. Nevertheless, the evening was intellectual: young people read poetry and sang songs with a guitar.

A girl was sitting at the table, thin as a reed, in a blue almost metropolitan dress made of crepe de Chine. It seemed to Mikhail that she was fifteen years old. She amazed him with her green eyes and incredible length of eyelashes. And then she said: “Now I’ll sing you two songs by our poet Mikhail Tanich,” not even suspecting that this very poet had wandered into their party and was sitting at the same table. The girl's name was Lydia Kozlova, she became for Mikhail the greatest reward in his life.

Tanich almost guessed right, Lida was eighteen years old, he was thirty-three at that time. They got married and lived in a happy marriage for more than half a century. The couple have two daughters, Inga and Svetlana.

Until the end of his life, Mikhail retained his love for football and was an ardent fan. Another passion of his in life was dogs.

The poet died on April 17, 2008 from chronic renal failure. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

Name: Tanich Mikhail

Place of Birth: Taganrog, Russia

Activity: Soviet and Russian songwriter

Family status: married from 1958 to 2008

Mikhail Tanich is a legendary poet, composer, songwriter, whose biography and personal life is filled with ups, personal tragedies and compositions that have gone down in the history of Soviet and Russian music.

Childhood and family

The poet spent his childhood in Taganrog - it was in this city that Mikhail Tankhilevich was born into a Jewish family on September 15, 1923 (the songwriter had this surname at birth). Already at the age of 4, the boy learned to read, and soon began writing poems.

Mikhail Tanich with his family

The future producer showed great interest in football, which became even stronger after his father’s gift - a soccer ball. Mikhail Tanich also tried his hand at drawing, but quickly realized that this activity was very popular, so it was better to focus on poetry. Moreover, already at such a young age the poet realized that he was good at text compositions.

Mikhail Tanich in his youth

At the age of 14, Mikhail Tanich had to forget about most of his hobbies - his biography and personal life were saddened by the breakup of his family. His mother was arrested, and his father was a victim of execution, so the young songwriter had to go to his relatives in order to continue living after such a shock. The house of his maternal grandfather, who lived in Mariupol, becomes a haven for Mikhail Tanich in the coming years. A year after graduating from school (according to another version - 2 years later), he was drafted into the Red Army.

Mikhail Tanich

Arrest

After the end of the war, a native of the Donetsk province comes to Rostov-on-Don and becomes a student at the Civil Engineering Institute. Unfortunately, my studies did not reach the finish line due to my arrest. The poet disseminated information about the structure of German life, everyday life, and technology. He was charged with anti-Soviet agitation, but attention was paid to an ordinary student, most likely thanks to a secret informer from the institute.

The author of the poems spent 6 years in prison. The initial stage was limited to imprisonment in a cell, but over time he joined a group that was sent to logging. However, hard work was avoided, since Mikhail Tanich became part of the visual team. Release was determined by the death of Stalin, in connection with which many prisoners were released under an amnesty.

Works of Mikhail Tanich

Start of activity

Having freed himself, the poet revived his passion for poetry. In the mid-1950s, he lived on Sakhalin, where he made his debut as an author of works published on the pages of a local newspaper. His personal life was not going well at that time, so the poet devoted a lot of time to creativity. In the same publication, he first began to use the surname Tanich, and after moving to the capital in 1956, he officially approved the mentioned surname. About 10-12 months have passed since the start of the Moscow stage of life, when the songwriter released his own collection of rhythmically organized speeches.

National recognition

The composer considers his acquaintance with Jan Frenkel within the walls of the Moskovsky Komsomolets publication to be special. Through joint efforts, Mikhail Tanich’s first hit, “Textile Town,” was created.

Subsequently, the poet collaborated with many colleagues from the music workshop and created hits for Alla Pugacheva, Igor Nikolaev, Vladimir Kuzmin, Igor Sarukhanov, Edita Piekha, Larisa Dolina. A particularly intense working duet came out with Alena Apina, since he highly valued the artist as a professional and as a woman. Tanich often called Apina “his singer.”

Mikhail Tanich and Alla Pugacheva

It is difficult to list in one material hundreds of creations, the author of which was Mikhail Isaevich. Here are just a few hits that remain relevant to this day:

“A Dream Comes True”, Yu. Antonov
"Black Cat", "Bravo"
“I’ll buy you a house”, “Leoping”
“Yes-yes-yes-yes”, VIA “Jolly Fellows”
“The Ninth of May”, Soso Pavliashvili
“A soldier is walking through the city”, Lev Leshchenko
“Guy with a Guitar”, Igor Sarukhanov

Tanich with his wife

Lesopoval Group

“Lesopoval” is the brainchild of Mikhail Isaevich. Based on the stage of the biography of the songbook, the name of the group does not raise questions regarding the nature of its origin. There was a high probability of the project being closed after several years of existence due to the death of lead singer Sergei Korzhukov.

Tanich and the Lesopoval group

However, soon enough the group was restarted thanks to the appearance of Sergei Kupriku, who assumed the status of the voice of the group. Composer Alexander Fedorkov also influenced the successful rebirth. Tanich created over 300 compositions for the group, which were distributed over 16 albums. According to the idea of the initiator of music education, “Lesopoval” was supposed to become a conductor of Russian chanson. The journalistic wing characterized the group’s work much more simply, classifying their songs as “blatnyak”.

Personal life

German love

Mikhail Tanich had a rich biography and a segment of his personal life was not missed, although his first lover did not become his wife. We are talking about the German woman Elfried Lana, with whom the poet was connected at the front, but the end of the battles put an end to the relations between citizens of rival countries. Mikhail Isaevich returned to his homeland, and Mrs. Lane decided to stay in Germany.

Two spouses - one happiness

The first legal wife was compatriot Irina, but the marriage ended at the stage of the composer’s conclusion. But with the third love, Lydia Kozlova, the relationship developed much better, as did the marriage itself.

Tanich with his wife

Tanich was attracted by the manner in which his future wife performed songs written based on his works. The woman did not know that the authors of the poems were in the hall. And so an acquaintance began, which quickly grew into a wedding, and now Mikhail and Lydia are already legal spouses, and not participants in the party in Volzhsky, where their first meeting took place.

Tanich with his wife Lydia Kozlova

Subsequently, the couple had two daughters, who in the future will add two more grandchildren to the family. Actually, Mikhail Tanich’s third love became the crown of his biography and personal life, which brought two children into this world. Having established harmony and tranquility in the rear, the composer was able to devote more energy to creativity.

Tanich and daughter Inga

As a child, Mikhail Isaevich reacted sharply to defeats. For him, there was only one result in any endeavor - positive.
During the Great Patriotic War, the poet defended his Motherland in the Belarusian and Baltic directions. Having been seriously wounded, he barely survived. However, his fate could have been sealed back in 1944, when they were going to bury the fighter in a mass grave because they thought he was dead.
Tanich pulled out his second lucky ticket at a logging site - his involvement with the members of the brigade saved his life, since the prisoners who directly worked at the logging site died.
The sixteenth album of “Lesopoval” was released after the death of the group’s founder.

Mikhail Isaevich Tanich (real name is Tanhilevich). Born on September 15, 1923 in Taganrog - died on April 17, 2008 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian songwriter. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2003).

Mikhail Tanhilevich, who became widely known as Mikhail Tanich, was born on September 15, 1923 in Taganrog.

Father - Isaac Samoilovich Tankhilevich (1902-1938), fought in the civil war, at nineteen became deputy head of the Mariupol Cheka, then graduated from the Petrograd Institute of Public Utilities and worked as head of the Taganrog Public Utilities Department. Shot on October 6, 1938 during repressions on charges of theft of socialist property on an especially large scale.

His mother was also arrested.

My paternal grandfather was a devout Orthodox Jew. According to family legend, the grandfather knew Sholom Aleichem well.

From the age of 14, the boy lived with his maternal grandfather, Boris Traskunov, a former chief accountant of metallurgical plants in Mariupol.

Mikhail studied at Taganrog secondary school No. 10. Tanich received his secondary education certificate on June 22, 1941.

Member of the Komsomol since 1942.

Since June 1944 - in the active army with the rank of senior sergeant. Since August 1944 - commander of a gun as part of the 168th anti-tank artillery regiment of the 33rd separate Cherkassy anti-tank artillery brigade on the 1st Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts. Traveled from Belarus to the Elbe. On December 27, 1944 he was wounded. Tanich said that he was almost buried alive in a mass grave after a severe shell shock. For military distinctions he was awarded the Order of the Red Star (order of the 92nd Rifle Corps dated January 29, 1945 No. 06) and the Order of Glory III degree (order to the troops of the 51st Army dated May 19, 1945 No. 129/n).

The award sheet with the nomination for awarding the Order of the Red Star dated January 18, 1945 stated: “In the battle for Clauspussen on January 12, 1945, Sergeant Tanhilevich’s gun destroyed 2 machine gun points and 2 dugouts under heavy artillery fire. In the defensive battles of Priekula on December 27, 1944, when Tankhilevich’s entire crew was knocked out by an enemy shell, the gun commander Tankhilevich, despite being wounded and concussed, did not leave the gun until help was provided to all the victims, being the last to leave the gun...”

The award sheet with the submission for awarding the Order of Glory, III degree, dated February 12, 1945, stated: “On January 26, 1945, supporting the infantry, the crew was in the assault group for breaking through the defense of the pr-ka, being in infantry combat formations. The crew was given the task of breaking up the bunker, which was hindering progress. Comrade's weapon Tankhilevich was moved 150 m from the bunker. The firing point was destroyed. During the battle, a platoon leader, Comrade, was killed. Tanhilevich took command and completed the platoon’s assigned mission.”

After the end of the war, he entered the Rostov Civil Engineering Institute, from which he did not have time to graduate, because in 1947 he was arrested under Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (anti-Soviet agitation). In a friendly company, he said that German radios and highways were better than Soviet ones. One of those who heard this reported on him.

I was in a camp near Solikamsk, working in a logging camp. Once he was almost killed by thieves because he refused to divide the bread ration in their favor. The entire camp then stood up to defend the daredevil. Then he had 3 years of disqualification. In one of his interviews, he recalled: “I served 6 years in one of the most terrible Stalinist camps for some nonsense, for an anecdote, for a word. At first I was angry, but then I realized: they imprisoned me correctly. The state has the right and must defend itself.”

After liberation, he lived on Sakhalin and worked as a foreman at Stroymekhmontazh. Without being rehabilitated, he could not settle in Moscow, although his cousin lived there. He published his poems in the local press under the name Tanich.

In 1956, Tanich was rehabilitated.

The first collection of poems was published in 1959.

He took his poems to the editorial offices of Moscow newspapers. And one day, at the editorial office of one of the youth publications, composer Jan Frenkel approached him and offered cooperation. This is how the song “Textile Town” was born, which was performed by and. Simple, unpretentious poems about the love suffering of unmarried weavers literally captivated millions of listeners. The song was first performed on the radio program “Good Morning” in 1960 and became incredibly popular. Then the songs “Well, what can I tell you about Sakhalin”, “A soldier is walking through the city”, “A white light has converged on you like a wedge” appeared.

Thanks to Tanich, she woke up famous - she was the first to sing a song based on his poem “Black Cat”. Today this song is in the repertoire of many stars - from to. And then, in the mid-1960s, the lyrics of the song were viciously criticized by many honored cultural figures.

In addition to Frenkel, he collaborated with other composers, including Nikita Bogoslovsky, Arkady Ostrovsky, Oscar Feltsman, Eduard Kolmanovsky, Vladimir Shainsky, Vadim Gamalia. Together with Levon Merabov, Tanich wrote the song “Robot”, with which she made her radio debut when she was still very young.

A native of Sakhalin, having arrived in Moscow, he often visited the house of Tanich and his wife Lydia Kozlova, on whose poems he wrote his first hit “Iceberg”. He also collaborated with Tanich himself - the basis of the hit “Komarovo” was a poem from a collection donated by the poet.

It was Tanich who advised the aspiring singer to sing not pop music, but romances. He obeyed, and became extremely popular in this genre. The poet knew how to feel the performers and generally preferred to work with young people.

Tanich is called her godfather both (the song “Plantain-Grass” brought her deafening fame in the 1980s) and (the singer is still associated with the hit “Knots”). The same thing happened with: the actor has many roles in films, but they know and truly love him only for one hit based on Tanich’s poems - “Komarovo”.

The poet’s widow Lydia Kozlova recalled: when, after an audition at the Union of Composers, he was subjected to “powerful obstruction by the venerable composers of those years,” Tanich, who was present, could not stand it and said: “Why are you mocking a person? The whole country sings his songs, and you are trying to portray him as mediocre! Well, if you are so smart, sit down at the piano and show us how to compose!” Together with Antonov, Tanich wrote two songs, but he called “Mirror” one of his favorites, and their other common hit was “Don’t Forget” (“A Dream Comes True...”) - Antonov likes to end his concerts.

Tanich called the patriotic song “Declaration of Love,” written together with Serafim Tulikov, one of his favorite songs. He completely rejected the conjuncture and spent a long time approaching this serious topic.

In 1985, Tanich helped, who, thanks to a song based on his poems, first performed in the “Song of the Year” competition. In the mid-1980s, Tanich began composing poems for the then most popular composers, David Tukhmanov and Raymond Pauls. He also wanted to help Alexander Barykin, who with his group “Carnival” was the first to record the joint song “Three Minutes” between Pauls and Tanich. But Barykin didn’t like the song. And “Three Minutes” became famous when performed by. shot his first video clip for his own song “Guy with a Guitar,” the author of the lyrics was Tanich. In the 1990s, a very important event occurred in the life of Mikhail Tanich: he decided to found a group- in memory of those days that I spent in the zone. One of the first songs Tanich wrote for Lesopoval, “White Swan on the Pond,” literally blew up the airwaves. It turned out that this genre - a prison, camp and at the same time very sentimental song - was unusually in demand by the public. At first, the leader of the group was composer and singer Sergei Korzhukov, who died tragically in 1994. The group was reborn a year later thanks to the new soloist Sergei Kuprik and composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist Alexander Fedorkov.

The group released sixteen numbered albums (the last one after Tanich's death), the poet wrote more than 300 songs for them. After Korzhukov’s death, songs based on Tanich’s poems were written by both famous composers and band musicians.

Mikhail Tanich and the Lesopoval group

In 2000, Mikhail Isaevich starred in the video for his song “Pleasure Motor Ship” (music by Rustam Nevredinov) performed by Valery Syutkin. In 2005, Tanich appeared in the video for his brainchild “Lesopoval” for the song “There were three of us friends.”

In 2005, a joint duet song between Alexander Dobronravov and Mikhail Tanich “Men as men” was recorded (music by A. Dobronravov - Art. M. Tanich). And in 2013, Alexander Dobronravov released the album “Territory of Love” based on poems by Mikhail Tanich.

Tanich has been a member of the USSR Writers' Union since 1968, the author of almost twenty collections. He published the final collection of poems “Life” in 1998, at the same time he released the first song collection “Weather in the House”. In 2000, he published a book of memoirs, “Music was Playing in the Garden.” Tanich wrote (or rather dictated) this book in the hospital, being already seriously ill.

The last public event in which Mikhail Isaevich took part took place on March 29, 2008 at the State Kremlin Palace at the Chanson of the Year award ceremony. Even then, the poet was seriously ill, but found the strength to go on stage.

Death of Mikhail Tanich

In the early 2000s, Tanich suffered two heart attacks one after another. He underwent heart surgery when he was already over 70. But the worst thing happened when the writer was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He suffered from unbearable pain, but he spared his wife and did not admit how painful it was for him.

Mikhail Tanich died on April 17, 2008 in Moscow; the cause of death was chronic renal failure and long-term oncology.

His widow said: “At 3.10 am he died. But no one told me. I went to see him at ten in the morning, fully confident that he was still alive. When I found out that he died, I asked to see him. The doctor says that when a loved one comes to see someone who has just died, they may react to it. I walk in, Tanich is an absolute corpse. I understand that it is not possible to return it. But I start saying words that I didn’t finish. And when I said, “Mishenka, I’m here, I’m with you,” a tear appeared in his eyes, he parted his lips and almost silently said, “You and I can’t stop loving each other.” This was our farewell to him.”

He was buried on April 19, 2008 in section 25 (behind the columbarium building) of the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.

Personal life of Mikhail Tanich:

During the war, Tanich had a relationship with a German woman, Elfriede Lahne. They met in the German city of Bernburg. However, after the end of World War II, the couple had to separate. Later, Mikhail Tanich visited Germany, looked for his first love, but was only able to meet her aunt, to whom he presented a CD with songs based on his poems.

First wife- Irina. We met in Rostov-on-Don. However, when Tanich was arrested, his wife broke off relations with him.

In his first marriage, a son, Yuri, was born. Irina forced her son to write a letter in which he abandoned his father. Tanich met his son later, when he had already entered Moscow State University, but a warm relationship never developed between them. Yuri died very early from heart disease.

Second wife- (born November 19, 1937), Soviet and Russian poetess, author of the lyrics to Alla Pugacheva’s song “Iceberg”. After Tanich's death, he became the artistic director of the Lesopoval group. They met in Saratov at a friendly party. At that time, Lydia already knew and even sang his songs - in 1953, an eighteen-year-old student liked the poems of Mikhail Tanich, published in one of the Stalingrad newspapers, so much that she set them to music and performed them herself at a student party: “Don’t expect from me advice and don’t expect a hint from me, I myself got lost somewhere, like Ivan the Fool from a fairy tale...”

As Lydia recalled, she learned about his prison term after the wedding: “I learned that he was imprisoned only after the wedding. If I had known earlier, would I have changed my decision? No, absolutely! I spent my entire childhood communicating with “criminals” and realized that everything depends on a person’s soul. Therefore, when Tanich told me about prison, it did not scare me. I realized how pure he is towards people.”

She recalls that at the time of the wedding, the husband was a beggar, he had only a small teaspoon and a small pillow. Lidia Nikolaevna herself was living in a hostel by that time and had already managed to accumulate some things and household items, but before moving, someone told her that the marriage would be happy if all the things were given away. “And I arrived completely empty, we had nothing, but we gradually made money, love helped create this,” said Kozlova.

According to her, Tanich has always been popular with women. One day she got up in the morning, where she saw Alena Apina, Larisa Dolina and several young singers at the table, who literally hung on his neck, hugged him and kissed him on the cheek. But she did not become jealous of her husband, because he never gave a reason, and he himself always asserted: “Mine is the best!”

The marriage produced two daughters - Svetlana Mikhailovna Kozlova and Inga Mikhailovna Kozlova (both daughters took their mother's surname so as not to be in the shadow of their famous father). Inga gave her parents grandchildren Lev and Veniamin. Svetlana has never been married, lives in her parents’ apartment and works on her father’s archive.

Svetlana - daughter of Mikhail Tanich

Filmography of Mikhail Tanich:

2010 - Sung in the USSR. Black cat (documentary)

Filmography of Mikhail Tanich (songs for films):

1967 - The Mysterious Monk
1972 - Big change
1973 - There lived three bachelors
1973 - Incorrigible Liar
1976 - In secret to the whole world
1977 - The Magic Voice of Gelsomino
1977 - For family reasons
1977 - Three fun shifts
1979 - Who will receive the prize
1979 - The Amazing Adventures of Denis Korablev
1981 - Waiting
1981 - Take care of women
1982 - 4:0 in favor of Tanya
1983 - White dews
1984 - Wedding of the Jays
1985 - Dance floor
1996 - Old songs about the main thing-2

Songs of Mikhail Tanich:

“A du yu spik” (music by A. Dobronravov) - group “Lesopoval”;
“And love is right” (music by Evgeny Martynov) - Evgeny Martynov, Galina Nevara;
“You’re not a pilot” (music by Natalya Stupishina) - Natalya Stupishina (Anka);
“Isadora” (music by E. Vanina) - Spanish. Alexander Malinin;
“Angel” (music by I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. Alexander Kalyanov;
“Anka” (music by I. Azarov) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“Anka in America” (music by N. Stupishina) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“Anka in the Duma” (music by N. Stupishina) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“Anka-Nep” (music by N. Stupishina) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“Pansies” (music by N. Stupishina) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“Watermelons-watermelons” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Aty-Bati” (music by V. Miguli) - Spanish. VIA "Plamya" (soloist - Vyacheslav Malezhik), Eduard Khil;
“Aelita” (music by Roman Mayorov Lyrics by Mikhail Tanich) - Spanish. Oleg Anofriev (instrumental ensemble of O. Anofriev);
“Airport” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. group "Carnival" (soloist - Alexander Barykin), Alexey Glyzin;
“Au” (music: Nikita Bogoslovsky Lyrics: Mikhail Tanich) - Spanish. Valery Zolotukhin (film “Shores”);
“There is no market” (music by A. Fedorkov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Balalaika” (music by I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. Alla Pugacheva;
“Bath” (music by D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. VIA “Jolly Fellows” (soloists - Valery Durandin and Alexey Glyzin);
“Velvet Season” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. Valery Leontyev;
“White bird cherry” (music by N. Stupishina) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“White Leaf” (music: Mikk Targo) - Spanish. Maryu Lyanik;
“White Light” (“White light has come together like a wedge on you...”) (music by O. Feltsman - lyrics by M. Tanich and I. Shaferan) - Spanish. Edita Piekha and the Druzhba ensemble, Joseph Kobzon, Frida Boccara, Kapitolina Lazarenko, Olga Voronets, Irina Allegrova;
“Shores” (music: Nikita Bogoslovsky Lyrics: Mikhail Tanich) - Spanish. Vocal quartet “Smile”;
“Plane Ticket” (music by A. Ukupnik) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Fuck” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Marriage Newspaper” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“I will” (“Little boat”) (music by S. Aliyeva) - Spanish. Radmila Karaklaich;
“Be the first” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Olga Zarubina;
“Come what may” (music by J. Frenkel) - Spanish. Aida Vedishcheva;
“There are days in life” (music by Nikita Bogoslovsky) - Spanish. Lev Leshchenko (film “Day and Night”);
“There was a boy...” (music by A. Fedorkov) - Spanish. group “Lesopoval”, Joseph Kobzon, Lyube (performed by the latter, the song is called “Ment”);
“In an abandoned tavern” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. Laima Vaikule;
“Music is playing in the garden” (music by V. Miguli) - Spanish. Vladimir Migulya;
“Party” (music by E. Kobylyansky) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Vintorez” (music by I. Slutsky) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Vitek” (music by I. Demarin) - Spanish. Igor Demarin, Lyubov Uspenskaya;
“Cherry” (E. Doga) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Garrison in Love” (music by J. Frenkel) - Spanish. Valentin Budilin;
“Take me with you” (music by A. Mazhukov) - Spanish. Anna Veski, Lyubov Uspenskaya;
“Sparrows” (music by N. Stupishina) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“Thieves' Law” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Steal, Russia!” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Bad habit” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Come in” (music by A. Zhurbina) - Spanish. Pavel Smeyan;
“I invented you” (music by E. Martynov) - Spanish. Evgeny Martynov;
“A year in two” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“The years do not grow old” (music by A. Mazhukov) - Spanish. Lev Leshchenko;
“Blueberries” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Guests” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Blood type” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Geese-swans” (music by J. Frenkel) - Spanish. vocal quartet “Soviet Song”, Tula State Choir;
“Yes-yes-yes-yes” (music by V. Matetsky) - Spanish. VIA “Jolly Fellows” (soloist - Alexander Buinov);
“I give you Moscow” (music by D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. VIA "Plamya", VIA "Nadezhda", Larisa Dolina;
“Country Romance” (music by V. Bystryakov) - Spanish. Valery Leontyev;
“Two” (music by V. Rainchik) - Spanish. VIA "Verasy";
“Second-hand girl” (music by A. Pugacheva) - Spanish. Alla Pugacheva;
“Nine Meter Girl” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“The Ninth of May” (music by S. Pavliashvili) - Spanish. Soso Pavliashvili;
“Dolphins” (music by I. Slovesnik) - Spanish. Ilya Slovesnik;
“Take the blow” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Day of Love” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Detective” (“Save, save, save...”) (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Tõnis Mägi and the Music Safe group;
“Diet” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Day and Night” (music by Y. Saulsky) - Spanish. VIA “Good fellows”;
“Rain” (music by K. Breitburg) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“House by the Road” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Semyon Canada;
“Brownie” (music by L. Merabov) - Spanish. Klavdiya Shulzhenko;
“Goodbye” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Roll of Honor” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“DPS” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“A friend died” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“If only...” (music by V. Miguli) - Spanish. Vladimir Migulya;
“The taiga has a law” (music by N. Bogoslovsky) - Spanish. VIA "Red Poppies";
“Wives of Knights” (music by V. Malezhik) - Spanish. Vyacheslav Malezhik;
“Zhenya the Sponsor” (music by E. Kobylyansky) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Waiting for an order” (music by V. Malezhik) - Spanish. Vyacheslav Malezhik;
“Magellans live in Russia” (music by J. Frenkel) - Spanish. Yuri Gulyaev;
“Commandment” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Look at Haiti (Port-au-Prince)” (music by V. Malezhik) - Spanish. Vyacheslav Malezhik, Valery Leontyev;
“Curtain” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. Valery Leontyev;
“Hello and goodbye” (music by S. Muravyov) - Spanish. Alisa Mon and the Labyrinth group;
“Mirror” (music by Y. Antonov) - Spanish. VIA "Red Poppies" (soloist - Alexander Losev), Yuri Antonov and the group "Araks";
“Winter” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Lesopoval group, Grigory Leps;
“Golden Heart” (music by I. Demarin) - Spanish. Igor Demarin;
“Cordon zone” (music by I. Demarin) - Spanish. Igor Demarin;
“I play with black” (music by S. Sarkhan) - Spanish. Sarkhan Sarkhan;
“A soldier is walking through the city” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. VIA "Plamya", Lev Leshchenko;
“It seems” (music by P. Bul-Bul ogly) - Spanish. VIA "Gems";
“How is it serving you?” (music by J. Frenkel) - Spanish. Maya Kristalinskaya, Irina Brzhevskaya, Valentina Dvoryaninova, Valentina Tolkunova;
“How good it is to be a general” (music by V. Gamalia) - Spanish. Eduard Khil, Vadim Mulerman;
“Kalahari” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Picture of Love” (music by V. Malezhik) - Spanish. Pavel Smeyan and Natalya Vetlitskaya;
“Kartishki” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Carousel” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. Valery Leontyev;
“Klikuha” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“When we love” (music by V. Miguli) - Spanish. VIA "Flame";
“When I come...” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Komarovo” (music by I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. Igor Sklyar;
“Horses in Apples” (music by D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. group "Electroclub" (soloist - Viktor Saltykov), group "Fidgets";
“Beauty Contest” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Queen Margot” (music by A. Fedorkov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“The King composes tango” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. Laima Vaikule;
“The Breadwinner” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Handsome” (music by V. Syutkin) - Spanish. Valery Syutkin;
“Beautiful Women” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Kuma” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Forest, field” (music by V. Malezhik) - Spanish. Vyacheslav Malezhik;
“Lesopoval” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Lumberjacks” (music by A. Ostrovsky) - Spanish. Eduard Khil;
“Falling Leaves” (music by R. Nevredinov) - Spanish. Zhurga (Galina Zhuravleva);
“Personal date” (music by A. Fedorkov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“I promise to love” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Philip Kirkorov;
“Dear and dear” (music by A. Mazhukov) - Spanish. VIA "Flame";
“Love is a ring” (music by Y. Frenkel) - Spanish. Nina Brodskaya;
“Love begins simply” (E. Doga) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Mama” (music by A. Dobronravova) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov with his sons Daniil, Andrey and Dmitry;
“Mama Street” (music by I. Slutsky) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Maradona” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. * “The Channel Tunnel” (music by V. Sevastyanov) - Spanish. Anne Vesky;
“Marmalade Tale” (music by V. Malezhik) - Spanish. VIA "Flame";
“Extras” (music by B. Timur) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“Lighthouse” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. Valery Leontyev;
“Peace” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“I don’t need something beautiful” (music by E. Hanka) - Spanish. Alexandra Strelchenko, vocal quartet “Smile”;
“My problems” (music by A. Ukupnik) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Prayer” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Sea Song” (music by Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. Lev Leshchenko;
“The sailor came ashore” (music by A. Ostrovsky - lyrics by M. Tanich and I. Shaferan) - Spanish. Eduard Khil;
“Moskvichka” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Moscow Airplane” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“The bridge is swinging” (music by I. Azarov) - Spanish. Igor Azarov, Olga Zarubina;
“Men like men” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Mikhail Tanich and Alexander Dobronravov;
“At the last movie show” (music by V. Malezhik) - Spanish. Vyacheslav Malezhik;
“I’ll get off at the distant station” (music by V. Shainsky) from the film “In Secret to the Whole World” - Spanish. VIA "Plamya", Gennady Belov;
“Reliable man” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Joseph Kobzon, Alexander Dobronravov;
“Call me beautiful” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Tatyana Antsiferova;
“Cover my shoulders” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. Laima Vaikule;
“Tax” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“At the last movie show” (music by E. Dogi) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Our disco” (music by V. Rainchik) - Spanish. VIA "Verasy";
“Our Life” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. group “Lesopoval”, Alexander Dobronravov;
“Our song” (music by V. Gamalia) - Spanish. VIA “Jolly Fellows” (soloist - Alexander Lerman);
“Our girls” (music by Y. Frenkel) - Spanish. Victor Vujacic;
“Don’t be sorry” (music by S. Namin) - Spanish. group of Stas Namin (soloist - Alexander Losev);
“Don’t forget” (music by Y. Antonov) - Spanish. Yuri Antonov and the Araks group;
“Unsociable” (music by A. Basilaia) - Spanish. Nikolay Karachentsov;
“Don’t be offended by me” (music by V. Dobrynin) - Spanish. VIA “Blue Bird” (soloist - Yuri Metelkin);
“Don’t get used to it” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Don’t Rock the Boat” (music by V. Presnyakov Sr.) - Spanish. Alexander Kalyanov;
“I can’t say that I love...” (music by A. Dobronravova) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Don’t lose your loved ones” (music by I. Slovesnik) - Spanish. Ilya Slovesnik;
“Netochka Nezvanova” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Don’t slam the door” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. Laima Vaikule;
“Housewarming” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Zero degrees” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Norilsk” (music by D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Felix Tsarikati;
“Well, what can I tell you about Sakhalin?” (music by J. Frenkel) - Spanish. Ian Frenkel, Yuri Vizbor;
“I’m offended” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Declaration of love” (music by A. Ukupnik) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Odessa” (music by V. Matetsky) - Spanish. group "Poppies" (soloist - Konstantin Semchenko);
“Odessa” (music by A. Ukupnik) - Spanish. Arkady Ukupnik;
“Waiting for Love” (music by V. Matetsky) - Spanish. Ekaterina Semyonova and VIA “Jolly Fellows” (soloist - Alexey Glyzin);
“Autumn Flowers” (music by B. Timur) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“Tent City” (music by O. Feltsman) - Spanish. Joseph Kobzon;
“A guy from our city” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Guy with a Guitar” (music by I. Sarukhanov) - Spanish. Igor Sarukhanov;
“Steamboats” (music by I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. Valery Leontyev, Igor Nikolaev;
“Spiderweb” (music by L. Lyadova) - Spanish. Lyudmila Zykina, Nina Panteleeva, Valentina Tolkunova;
“Paparazzi” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Pelmennaya on Pyatnitskaya” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“First Love” (music by S. Aliyeva) - Spanish. Lyubov Privina;
“The first insult” (music by A. Ukupnik) - Spanish. Angelica Varum;
“First term” (music by A. Fedorkov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Variable rains” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Alexey Glyzin;
“Song of Friends” (music by A. Babajanyan) - Spanish. Anatoly Korolev;
“Song of Our Summer” (music by V. Matetsky) - Spanish. Sofia Rotaru and VIA “Jolly Fellows”;
“Song of Neptune” (E. Doga) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Song of Friendship” (music by N. Bogoslovsky) - Spanish. VIA "Gems";
“Song about cinema” (music by Y. Frenkel) - Spanish. Mark Bernes;
“Petka” (music by I. Azarov) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“Letter to the teacher” (music by J. Frenkel) - Spanish. Vladimir Makarov, Gennady Kamenny;
“Scarf” (music by S. Muravyov) - Spanish. Alisa Mon and the Labyrinth group;
"Lucky!" (music by E. Martynov) - Spanish. Evgeny Martynov;
“Escape” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Pick mushrooms” (music by V. Gamalia) - Spanish. Alla Pugacheva, Anna German, Gelena Velikanova;
“Look into my eyes” (music by I. Dukhovny) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Weather in the house” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Plantain” (music by S. Muravyov) - Spanish. Alisa Mon and the Labyrinth group;
“Girlfriend” (music by I. Demarin) - Spanish. Irina Allegrova;
“I allow” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Half a bed” (“Rowan tincture”) (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. Alena Apina, Lyubov Uspenskaya;
“Political education” (“Comrade Furmanov”) (music by I. Azarov) - Spanish. Natalya Stupishina;
“Remember about me” (music by S. Muravyov) - Spanish. Alisa Mon and the Labyrinth group;
“In the cold, in the winter” (music by Z. Binkin) - Spanish. VIA "Gems";
“Songs” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Hitchhiker” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Parcels” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“The Outsiders” (music: Mikk Targo) - Spanish. Maryu Lyanik;
“Lost Paradise” (music by D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. group "Carnival" (soloist - Alexander Barykin);
“Like a dream” (music by V. Kuzmin) - Spanish. Vladimir Kuzmin;
“Why did I tell you no?” (music by I. Azarov) - Spanish Edita Piekha;
“The Motherland is Beautiful in Winter” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. group “Lesopoval”, Alexander Dobronravov;
“Declaration of Love” (music by S. Tulikov) - Spanish. Victor Vuyachich, Lyudmila Zykina, Maya Kristalinskaya;
“Attraction of Love” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. Valery Leontyev;
“Hairstyles” (music by A. Fedorkov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Provincial” (music by V. Malezhik) - Spanish. Vyacheslav Malezhik;
“Farewell to Love” (music by G. Movsesyan) - Spanish. Vakhtang Kikabidze;
“We passed” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Register me, Moscow!” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Forgive me” (music by A. Ukupnik) - Spanish. Irina Ponarovskaya, Larisa Dolina, Irina Krug;
“A simple plot” (music by V. Kuzmin) - Spanish. Vladimir Kuzmin;
“Just tango” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Farewell, little town of Chisinau” (music by M. Marmara) - Spanish. Misha Marmar;
“Bird Market” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Slave of Love” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Nadezhda Chepraga;
“To please” (music by A. Dneprov) - Spanish. Anatoly Korolev, Anatoly Dneprov;
“Rainbow” (music by A. Flyarkovsky) - Spanish. Edita Piekha and the Druzhba ensemble, Valentina Tolkunova;
“Let's figure it out” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Jaak Joala;
“Divorce” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Range” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Olga Zarubina;
“Jealous of me” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Restaurant” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Ring” (music by A. Barykin) - Spanish. group "Carnival" (soloist - Alexander Barykin);
“Rita-Rita-Margarita-Daisie” (music by A. Ukupnik) - Spanish. Arkady Ukupnik;
“Robot” (music by L. Merabov) - Spanish. Alla Pugacheva;
“Rosinka” (music by O. Molchanov) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Russian girl” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Knight's Song” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Tatyana Kochergina;
“Rowan tincture” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. Alena Apina, Lyubov Uspenskaya;
“With you” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. VIA “Guitars Sing”;
“Plane-plane” (music by O. Ivanov) - Spanish. Lev Leshchenko;
“Stopwatch” (music by I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. Tõnis Mägi and the Music Safe group;
“Family Album” (music by D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Edita Piekha, VIA “Jolly Fellows” (soloist - Alexander Dobrynin);
“Sentimental Waltz” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Symphony Orchestra” (music by A. Ukupnik) - Spanish. Arkady Ukupnik;
“Blue Rains” (music by G. Movsesyan) - Spanish. VIA "Flame";
“Tell me everything” (music by A. Basilaya) - Spanish. VIA "Iveria" (soloist - Manana Totadze);
“I’ll have to go out soon” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
SMS (music by I. Demarin) - Spanish. Igor Demarin;
“The Snowman” (music by V. Rainchik) - Spanish. VIA "Verasy";
“Nightingales” (music by I. Dukhovny) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Thank you, people” (music by E. Kolmanovsky) - Spanish. Lyudmila Senchina;
“Special milk” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Istanbul” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“The Old Boatswain” (music by I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. Valery Leontyev;
“The Wall” (music by A. Ukupnik) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Canteen” (music by A. Fedorkov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Stolypin carriage” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“One Hundred and First Kilometer” (music by A. Fedorkov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Suffering” (music by Y. Frenkel) from the film “White Dew” - Spanish. Nikolay Karachentsov;
“Strict Corporal” (music by V. Gamalia) - Spanish. Vadim Mulerman;
“Surgut” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Tamara Gverdtsiteli and Alexander Dobronravov;
“Crusks” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“So recently and long ago” (music by V. Malezhik) - Spanish. Vyacheslav Malezhik, Albert Asadullin;
“It just happens” (music by O. Feltsman, lyrics by M. Tanich and I. Shaferan) - Spanish. Maya Kristalinskaya, Edita Piekha and the ensemble “Friendship”, Eduard Khil, VIA “Hello, Song”;
“Talisman” (music by Evgeny Zharovsky Words by Mikhail Tanich) - Spanish. Vladimir Troshin;
“Toastmaster” (music by A. Ekimyan) - Spanish. Vakhtang Kikabidze;
“Dance floor” (E. Doga) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Textile Town” (music by J. Frenkel) - Spanish. Raisa Nemenova, Maya Kristalinskaya, Ian Frenkel, Valentina Tolkunova and the “Weavers” ensemble;
“Telegram” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. Laima Vaikule;
“Pleasure motor ship” (music by R. Nevredinov) - Spanish. Valery Syutkin;
“Terema” (music by Y. Loginov) - Spanish. Alexander Kalyanov;
“Territory of Love” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov, Alexander Malinin;
“The Channel Tunnel” (music by V. Sevastyanov) - Spanish. Anne Vesky;
“Tosya” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Three Lines” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Nadezhda Chepraga, Svetlana Yankovskaya;
“Three minutes” (music by R. Pauls) - Spanish. group "Carnival" (soloist - Alexander Barykin), Valery Leontyev;
“Three tattoos” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“The third call” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Three” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Meet you” (music by Y. Frenkel) - Spanish. VIA "Gems";
"You are!" (music by B. Zhuravlev) - Spanish. Igor Talkov;
“I dream about you” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“Knots” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“Smile, Russia!” (music by I. Demarin) - Spanish Igor Demarin, group “Lesopoval”;
“Fantômas” (music by K. Semchenko) - Spanish. group "Poppies" (soloist - Konstantin Semchenko);
“Shovel windows” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Football” (Grooms) (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Yulia Nachalova and Alexander Dobronravov;
“Hit Parade” (music by A. Ukupnik) - Spanish. Alena Apina;
“The song goes around in circles” (music by O. Feltsman - lyrics by M. Tanich and I. Shaferan) - Spanish. Eduard Khil, Nina Dorda;
“Good guy” (music by I. Azarov) - Spanish. Igor Azarov;
“I want to be loved” (music by R. Gorobets) - Spanish. Larisa Dolina;
“I want to go on a cruise” (music by I. Demarin) - Spanish. Igor Demarin;
“Colorful dreams” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev, VIA "Verasy";
“Tsimes” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Tap dance” (music by A. Dobronravov) - Spanish. Alexander Dobronravov;
“Black and White” from the t/f “Big Change” (music by E. Kolmanovsky) - Spanish. Svetlana Kryuchkova;
“Black fingers” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Black Cat” (music by Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. Tamara Miansarova, Bravo group;
“Chertanovo” (music by V. Matetsky) - Spanish. VIA “Jolly Fellows” (soloist - Alexander Buinov);
“Miracle Land” (music by D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. group "Poppies" (soloist - Konstantin Semchenko), Valery Leontyev;
“Slut” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Shchipachi” (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“I love you” (music by I. Azarov) - Spanish. Edita Piekha;
"I believe!" (music by V. Malezhik) from the film “One for All” - Spanish. Nikolay Karachentsov;
“I’ll buy you a house” (“And a white swan on a pond shakes a fallen star...”) (music by S. Korzhukov) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“I love my Moscow” (music by N. Peskova) - Spanish. Oleg Anofriev;
“I’m not calling” (music by V. Kuzmin) - Spanish. Vladimir Kuzmin;
“I’m from there...” (music by A. Dobronravova) - Spanish. group "Lesopoval";
“Mailboxes” (music by I. Sarukhanov) - Spanish. Igor Sarukhanov;
“New Star” (music by A. Malinin) - Spanish. Vanya Popov, Alexander Malinin, Laima Vaikule, Alexander Serov, Larisa Dolina, Valery Leontiev, Alla Pugacheva and Sergei Chelobanov

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich
Born: September 15, 1923
Died: April 17, 2008 (age 84)

Biography

Mikhail Isaevich Tanich is a Soviet and Russian songwriter. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2003).

Youth, war, repression

Born in Taganrog. “My paternal grandfather was a devout Orthodox Jew... He prayed constantly...” There was a family legend that the grandfather knew Sholom Aleichem well and “as if it was he who, during the pogroms in Odessa, burned down the library of the writer who had left for the States, entrusted for safekeeping.” Mikhail studied at Taganrog secondary school No. 10.

Mikhail Tanich's father, Isaac Samoilovich Tanhilevich (1902 - 1938), was a Red Army soldier during the Civil War, at nineteen he became deputy head of the Mariupol Cheka, then, after graduating from the Petrograd Institute of Public Utilities, he became the head of the Taganrog Public Utilities Department; executed according to Stalin's lists with charges of theft of socialist property on an especially large scale (October 6, 1938). The mother was also arrested, and fourteen-year-old Mikhail settled with another grandfather, her father - the former chief accountant of the metallurgical plants of Mariupol Boris Traskunov, who now lived in Rostov-on-Don. Tanich received his secondary education certificate on June 22, 1941. Member of the Komsomol since 1942.

In May 1943 (according to other sources in July 1942), Mikhail was drafted by the Kirov district military registration and enlistment office of the Rostov region into the Red Army. He studied at the Tbilisi Artillery School. Since June 1944 in the active army. Senior sergeant, since August 1944 - commander of a gun as part of the 168th anti-tank artillery regiment of the 33rd separate Cherkassy anti-tank artillery brigade on the 1st Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts. Traveled from Belarus to the Elbe. On December 27, 1944 he was wounded; according to Tanich himself, he was almost buried alive in a mass grave after a severe shell shock. For military distinctions he was awarded the Order of the Red Star (order of the 92nd Rifle Corps dated January 29, 1945 No. 06) and the Order of Glory III degree (order to the troops of the 51st Army dated May 19, 1945 No. 129/n).

The award sheet with the submission for awarding the Order of Glory, III degree, dated February 12, 1945, stated: “... 01/26/45, supporting the infantry, the crew was in the assault group for breaking through the defense of the pr-ka, being in the infantry combat formations. The crew was given the task of breaking up the bunker, which was hindering progress. Comrade's weapon Tankhilevich was moved 150 m from the bunker. The firing point was destroyed. During the battle, a platoon leader, Comrade, was killed. Tanhilevich took command and completed the platoon’s assigned mission.”

In the city of Bernburg, shortly after the Victory, 21-year-old Mikhail met a young German woman, Elfriede Lahne. He did not marry her, although the law prohibiting marriages with foreigners was adopted only two years later. In the early 1980s, having arrived in the GDR, I wanted to meet Elfriede, but she lived in Germany. Tanich met with her aunt, the former owner of that restaurant, where he met Elfrida; He gave his aunt a record with songs based on his poems.

Tanich spent the six years he received in prison and then in a camp (near Solikamsk, at a logging site). Then he had 3 years of disqualification.

Many years later, he said in a television interview: “I served 6 years in one of the most terrible Stalinist camps for some nonsense, for an anecdote, a word. At first I was angry, but then I realized: they imprisoned me correctly. The state has the right and must defend itself.”

Creative activity

He quickly divorced his first wife, Irina, who, according to his admission, did not wait for him, like Penelope, while he “wasted his logging term.” At thirty-three, he married eighteen-year-old Lydia Kozlova, whom he met at a party. She sang with a guitar, choosing suitable melodies, two songs based on his poems, calling him “our poet” and having no idea that the author was nearby.

Then, in 1956, Tanich was rehabilitated. The couple moved to Orekhovo-Zuevo, and after some time to Zheleznodorozhny. The first collection of poems was published in 1959. In the early 1960s, his song, co-written with composer Jan Frenkel, “Textile Town”, performed by Raisa Nemenova and Maya Kristalinskaya, became very popular. Tanich met Frenkel in the corridor of Moskovsky Komsomolets. Tanich wrote that he does not know what his fate would have been like without this meeting. Later he found other co-composers, among whom were Nikita Bogoslovsky, Arkady Ostrovsky, Oscar Feltsman, Eduard Kolmanovsky, Vladimir Shainsky, Vadim Gamalia. Together with Yuri Saulsky, the poet wrote the hit song “Black Cat,” which became Tanich’s calling card (the black cat appears in the video clips “I’ll Buy You a House” by the group “Lesopoval” and “Knots” by Alena Apina). Together with Levon Merabov, Tanich wrote the song “Robot”, with which the very young Alla Pugacheva made her radio debut.

As the poet’s widow Lydia Kozlova recalls, when, after listening to Yuri Antonov at the Union of Composers, he was subjected to “powerful obstruction by the venerable composers of those years,” Tanich, who was present, could not stand it and said: “Why are you mocking a person? The whole country sings his songs, and you are trying to portray him as mediocre! Well, if you are so smart, sit down at the piano and show us how to compose!” “After that,” as Kozlova says, “Antonov was ‘pecked,’ but less so.” Together with Antonov, Tanich wrote only two songs, but he called “Mirror” one of his favorites, and Antonov likes to end his concerts with their other common hit, “Don’t Forget” (“The Dream Comes True”).

A native of Sakhalin, Igor Nikolaev, having arrived in Moscow, often visited the house of Tanich and his wife Lydia Kozlova, on whose poems he wrote his first hit “Iceberg”. He also collaborated with Tanich himself; The basis of the hit “Komarovo” was a poem from a collection donated by the poet.

In 1985, Tanich helped Vladimir Kuzmin, who, thanks to a song based on his poems, first performed in the “Song of the Year” competition. In the mid-1980s, Tanich began composing poems for the then most popular composers, David Tukhmanov and Raymond Pauls. He also wanted to help Alexander Barykin, who with his group “Carnival” was the first to record the joint song “Three Minutes” between Pauls and Tanich. But Barykin apparently did not like the song; he sang it without any emotion. And “Three Minutes” became famous performed by Valery Leontyev. Igor Sarukhanov shot his first video clip for his own song “Guy with a Guitar,” the author of the lyrics was Tanich. In 1991, he wrote poems for Alexander Malinin’s song “New Star,” which was performed by 6-year-old Vanya Popov along with all the stars.

Subsequently, Tanich collaborated with Alena Apina, whom the poet considered “his singer,” like Larisa Dolina, with composer Ruslan Gorobets, Arkady Ukupnik, Vyacheslav Malezhik, and continued his long-standing collaboration with Edita Piekha. He organized the group “Lesopoval”, the leader of which was the composer and singer Sergei Korzhukov, who died tragically in 1994. The group was reborn a year later thanks to the new soloist Sergei Kuprik and composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist Alexander Fedorkov, although, according to some, it discredited Tanich.

Journalist Kapitolina Delovaya also called the song “Lesopoval” a scam, and received “kicks and pokes” for it, as another journalist Sonya Sokolova wrote (the composers also got it, Sokolova claims). “...what is this, if not a thieves?..”, Sokolova is surprised.

“Lesopoval” was the main project of Mikhail Tanich at the end of his life. The group released sixteen numbered albums (the last one after Tanich's death), the poet wrote more than 300 songs for them. After Korzhukov’s death, songs based on Tanich’s poems were written by both famous composers and band musicians. “Lesopoval” began to more often move away from the so-called Russian chanson; Tanich and Fedorkov wrote the song “There Was a Boy...” about a soldier who died in the Chechen war.

Lesopoval continues to perform and record after the death of its producer (as Lydia Kozlova says, he was not a producer, but a father), despite the departure of Fedorkov and Kuprik. According to her, Tanich left many poems for songs.

Tanich has been a member of the USSR Writers' Union since 1968, the author of almost twenty collections. He published the final collection of poems “Life” in 1998, at the same time he released the first song collection “Weather in the House”. In 2000, he published a book of memoirs, “Music was Playing in the Garden” (Vagrius Publishing House, “My 20th Century” series). Tanich wrote (or rather dictated) this book in the hospital, being already seriously ill.

Mikhail Tanich died on April 17, 2008 in Moscow, the cause of death was chronic renal failure. He was buried on April 19, 2008 in section 25 (behind the columbarium building) of the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.

The hero of the song “Vitek,” which composer and singer Igor Demarin wrote based on the poetry of Mikhail Tanich, is the poet’s closest childhood friend, Viktor Agarsky.

Tanich was very fond of football from childhood until his death. In childhood, according to the poet: “For me he was everything - both Gogol-Mogol and Arina Rodionovna’s fairy tale.”

Soon after his first hit, “Textile Town,” became popular, Tanich, while buying a cake, suddenly heard the stall saleswoman singing a song. He couldn’t resist saying that this was his song. She didn’t believe it and replied: “It didn’t come out!”

Using the 220 rubles he received for the year of performing “Textile Town” on air (after the denomination of 1961), Tanich immediately bought a Czechoslovak bed and a polished bedside table at the Furniture store. All the money was spent, but Tanich believed that he received the furniture for free.

“We fell in love and got married to your song “The white light has converged on you like a wedge,” the writer’s wife Vilya Lipatova told Tanich.

Vladimir Vysotsky, repeatedly expressing his negative attitude towards mass culture in general and pop songs in particular, often cited the example of the song “White Light” as an example of a text that carries absolutely no semantic meaning, such poems for the sake of poetry: “... many pop songs, well it’s just this..., some are examples of such obscenity that you even wonder, you think, why is there... For example, I always give as an example: “A white light has converged on you like a wedge, a white light has converged on you like a wedge, a white light has converged on you like a wedge.” ... And a sled track flashed around the corner... I could run around the corner...” only, something doesn’t work there. I don’t remember, age or something else... And what’s most surprising is that there are two authors of the text, which means one failed - they express very complex thoughts, which means there are two of them.” This meant Mikhail Tanich and Igor Shaferan, who co-wrote the poems. Tanich was indignant: “God grant me to write such a popularly beloved song again! It was sung by a 170 million-strong choir! Such songs are beyond our jurisdiction, but Vysotsky only laughed at us.” In his book, Tanich spoke very well of Alexander Galich and Bulat Okudzhava, but he mentioned Vysotsky only on this occasion, without writing anything about his attitude to his work. It is also mentioned in the book that almost fourteen years after Vysotsky’s death, at a wake for Shaferan, a married couple unfamiliar to him approached Tanich. They, introducing themselves as friends of Vysotsky and his eldest son, said that Vysotsky, shortly before his death, called his interview (meaning an interview with a Western journalist, in which Vysotsky also cited “White Light” as an example of mediocrity) a mistake, “asked to apologize for him in front of the authors,” he wanted to do it himself. However, the above quote dates from July 16, 1980, that is, a little over a week before the poet’s death. Judging by the sarcasm with which this was said, it is unlikely that Vysotsky somehow changed his opinion. Moreover, neither any personal attacks were made against M. Tanich, nor any assessments of his work as a whole; they were talking about only one single song. Moreover, in 1998, the Lesopoval group took part in a concert dedicated to Vysotsky’s 60th anniversary at the Olimpiysky sports complex, and their performance was recognized as one of the best.

In Glavpur Tanich was asked that at his creative evening in Hungary, in a group of our troops, the song “How good it is to be a general” would not be performed. The reason is that the generals don’t like her. “But the colonels like it!” Tanich answered.

The poet Vladimir Tsybin (according to Tanich’s definition, “not one of the worst on the long list of the Writers’ Union”) said in his presence: “We’ve lost another one.” Tanich thought that someone had died, but it turned out that Anatoly Poperechny “gone into song!” Tanich ironically commented on this in his book: “... the family of poets lost one of their own, went to strangers, fell into song - died for real poetry. And Tolya, by the way, has always been no stranger to the song, and he still does it well. Tsybin has no, but Tolya has yes!”

The slightly blatant song “Netochka Nezvanova” from the repertoire of “Lesopoval” may seem like a mockery of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, the author of the novel of the same name. But Dostoevsky did not finish his novel, because he was arrested and convicted on political charges (specifically, just for reading Belinsky’s letter to Gogol in a Petrashevsky circle), and ended up in hard labor. There are many similarities in Tanich’s fate.

Translated by Mikhail Tanich, Revaz Lagidze’s famous song “Tbilisi” (Tbiliso) sounds in Russian.

Famous children's songs based on poems by M. Tanich

“When my friends are with me” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Big Children's Choir of the All-Union Radio and Central Television, soloist Dima Golov
“In secret to the whole world” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Big Children's Choir, soloist Dima Viktorov
“Catch crocodiles” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Igor Sklyar
“Adults and Children” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Irina Muravyova
“What does our world consist of” (music by B. Savelyev) - Spanish. Oleg Anofriev
“Song about Dad” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Big Children's Choir of the All-Union Radio and Central Television, soloist Dima Golov
and etc.

Song filmography

1967 - The Mysterious Monk
1972 - Big change
1973 - There lived three bachelors
1973 - Incorrigible Liar
1976 - In secret to the whole world
1977 - The Magic Voice of Gelsomino
1977 - For family reasons
1977 - Three fun shifts
1979 - Who will receive the prize
1979 - The Amazing Adventures of Denis Korablev
1981 - Waiting (TV)
1981 - Take care of women
1982 - 4:0 in favor of Tanya
1983 - White dews
1984 - Wedding of the Jays
1985 - Dance floor
1996 - Old songs about the main thing-2

Family

The widow is the songwriter Lydia Nikolaevna Kozlova (born November 19, 1937). Daughters - Svetlana Mikhailovna Kozlova and Inga Mikhailovna Kozlova. Grandchildren: Lev and Benjamin.

Memory

On April 20, 2008, the memory of a passionate fan of the CSKA football club, the author of the lines “The Army must be first, / The Army cannot be second,” was honored with a minute of silence before the match of the 6th round of the Russian Championship.

Since 2010, a river cruise ship has been named after Mikhail Tanich.

On May 9, 2012, at his solo concert in St. Petersburg, People's Artist of Russia Alexander Rosenbaum sang his new song “Zakolbasilo,” which he dedicated to the memory of Mikhail Tanich.

On September 13, 2013, in Taganrog, on a site near the Youth Palace, a memorial sign was laid on the site of the future monument to the poet.

When the war began, Mikhail Tanich had not yet turned 18. But, having graduated from artillery school, he immediately went to the front. For the courage shown in battles, Mikhail was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but the application was rejected: Tanich turned out to be the son of an enemy of the people. After the victory, the poet himself found himself in the dungeons of the NKVD for casually praising a German radio.

Son of an "enemy of the people"

In fact, the poet’s surname is not Tanich at all, but Tanhilevich. Subsequently, the poet began to use the pseudonym that became known throughout the country precisely after serving a 6-year prison sentence. But first, about my father. Isaac Samoilovich served as the head of the municipal services of the city of Taganrog. In 1937, he was arrested and accused of theft of socialist property. A few months later, Tankhilevich was shot.
Since the NKVD took Misha’s mother along with his father, the 14-year-old teenager went to his grandfather in Mariupol. At the beginning of the war, the family had to move again: this time to Tbilisi. It was there that Mikhail graduated from the artillery school. He was supposed to become a lieutenant, but received only the rank of senior sergeant. There's nothing you can do about it: "enemy of the people."

Nice radio!

Tanich showed courage in military operations, for which he was awarded the Order of Glory, III degree and the Red Star. The command petitioned to award Mikhail Isaevich the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but was refused. As part of the Red Army, the poet marched from Belarus to Germany itself, where he heard the joyful news of victory. While in the German city of Bernburg, Tanich accidentally met a certain Elfriede Lahne. Warm relations began between the young people. But it didn’t come to marriage.
Mikhail returned to his homeland and submitted documents to the Civil Engineering Institute in Rostov. However, he did not have time to finish his studies. In 1947, Tanich was taken away by a black funnel. Someone from the student fraternity reported on him. Like, Tankhilevich praised abroad and said that it was better there than in the Union. But in fact, in a conversation with classmates, Mikhail admired only the German Telefunken radio. The investigator was not interested in such details, and the young man was accused of anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to 6 years.

Camp

Tanich was sent to a logging site near Solikamsk. In the harsh camp conditions, the convicts died one after another, never waiting to be released. Mikhail Isaevich would certainly have shared their fate. His legs were already swollen, and his whole body was covered with boils. But the poet was lucky: he was transferred from the logging site to the office.
Tankhilevich was released in 1953, when Stalin died. But this freedom was relative, as it was limited by the mark “loss of rights.” Therefore, Mikhail lived on Sakhalin for some time. He wrote poems that were published in one of the local newspapers. It was then that the poet took the pseudonym Tanich.
In 1956, Tanich was rehabilitated, and therefore he finally received the right to settle in the capital. Tankhilevich finally changed his real last name to the one with which he signed his poems and went to Moscow. There he soon became friends with composer Jan Frenkel and became famous throughout the country.