Mityaev Wiki. Oleg Mityaev: biography, photo, personal life

The famous Russian bard does not like to talk about his personal life - it was not easy for him. He was married three times children of Oleg Mityaev born from three different women. His eldest son, Sergei, was born to him by his first wife, Svetlana, whom he met when, after serving in the army, he was a first-year student at the Institute of Physical Education. The romance between them broke out on potatoes, after returning from which they immediately got married. Oleg tried his best to provide for his young family - he received a Lenin scholarship at the institute, and also worked part-time in the pool. But the marriage was short-lived - according to the bard himself, it was all his fault new love.

In the photo - Oleg Mityaev with children

He met a charming girl Marina, fell in love with her, and decided to immediately tell his wife about everything. For her, this was a real shock - Svetlana perceived Oleg’s betrayal as a betrayal, and he left his first wife with a small son in his arms and married Marina. By this time, Mityaev had already graduated from the institute, and some time later he was invited to work at the Chelyabinsk Philharmonic. Marina gave birth to Oleg two sons - Philip and Savva, but he saw them very rarely - he was completely captured by touring life. However, Marina did not create scandals about this and treated his lifestyle with understanding. She patiently waited for him, was engaged in raising Oleg Mityaev’s children, and he, nevertheless, was terribly jealous of his wife, but at the same time he was having endless affairs right and left, which ultimately destroyed his family.

In the photo - Oleg Mityaev with his wife Marina Esipenko and daughter Dasha

Bard in once again fell in love, this time with the Moscow actress of the Taganka Theater Marina Esipenko. Their romance lasted for several years, and, in the end, Mityaev decided to leave his family to create a new one, despite the fact that he left his wife with two children, the second of whom was still very small.

Oleg Mityaev married Marina Esipenko when their daughter was already five years old.

For tourists and the sociable public, Mityaev is “It’s great that we are all gathered here today.” For the restaurant public it is “Unsharpened Knives” and other songs from the repertoire of M. Shufutinsky. Of those who love an original song, some unconditionally appropriate... Read all

Honored Artist of Russia, member of the Writers' Union, winner of the national Ovation award, winner of the Russian Poetry Foundation awards, and the Golden Ostap award.

For tourists and the sociable public, Mityaev is “It’s great that we are all gathered here today.” For the restaurant public it is “Unsharpened Knives” and other songs from the repertoire of M. Shufutinsky. Of those who love the original song, some unconditionally assign him first place in the “new wave” of bard songs, others just as unconditionally declare that Mityaev is not an original song at all.

Oleg Mityaev's concerts are always a pleasant surprise for the public. He communicates with the audience sincerely and simply, he is unpredictable, witty and lyrical.

IN lately Oleg Mityaev works with accompanist and arranger Leonid Margolin, with whom the albums were recorded: “Be strong, people, summer is coming!”, “ Best songs”, “Not the best songs”, “Heavenly calculator”, “Neither country, nor graveyard” (poems by I. Brodsky, music by L. Margolin), “It’s great that we are all gathered here today! A quarter of a century later" and "The Smell of Snow".

Nikita Dzhigurda was wildly jealous of Marina for Gordon and Sukhanov, and at night he took her to the cemetery

The Rossiya channel continues to broadcast the series “Everything is just beginning.” One of the prominent roles there is played by an infrequent guest on the screen - the prima of the Theater. Vakhtangova Marina ESIPENKO. Very soon Marina Nikolaevna will celebrate her 50th birthday, on which, of course, her husband, the famous bard Oleg MITYAEV, is preparing to congratulate her. The actress’s previous life partner, Nikita DZHIGURDA, also did not want to stay away from important date and through our newspaper shared his memories of the difficult but happy years lived together. Nikita was joined by other people who were not strangers to Marina.

Marina and I are classmates at the Shchukin School,” Dzhigurda began the story. - We met in 1983 upon admission, when Esipenko answered our master Evgeny Simonov with the question “Why did you come to the theater university?” answered directly: “To become a brilliant actress!” It was different from what others were saying and I knew right away that she would be mine! Unpainted, independent, proud, a real Siberian. I boarded her!
Marina’s friend from her native Omsk, director Elena Shilyaeva, remembers those years well:
- Before entering Shchuka, we played in the amateur Omsk People's Theater of Poetry with Lyubov Ermolaeva. Back in her homeland, Marina (the daughter of a nurse and an ambulance driver) became a prima singer and brilliantly performed her role in “Duck Hunt.” Of the nine people who came from Omsk in those years, only Esipenko grew up in a real star. True, it passed only in the second year. In terms of everyday life things were difficult then: we ate only pasta, there was no money at all, how we returned home from Moscow after exams, only God knows! Thank you kind people for your help. And this despite the fact that we were both still practically children, so naive and pure. Before Dzhigurda, Marina had no one, but she had a whirlwind romance with him that lasted 12 years.

Nikita himself also does not hide the fact that he took the girl without being kissed:

Marina turned out to be the only virgin in my life. I never touched them - neither before nor after - because I am a very responsible comrade. But I couldn’t resist Esipenko. Our master Simonov told me that if it weren’t for me, Marinka would have been quickly expelled from the university: at first she behaved wildly - such a desperate chastity, but very real! She perceived this student nonsense in her own way, we went to the Taganka Theater, ran on the roofs, walked at night through the Vagankovsky cemetery, where we had to climb over the fence (Dzhigurda’s idol, Vladimir Vysotsky, is buried there, at whose grave Nikita often sang his songs. - G.U.). Marina blossomed in front of me. In her second year, she was taken to the Vakhtangov Theater for the role of Princess Turandot - that’s what her love for me did to her!
According to the king of outrageousness, over time, other classmates, now very famous, began to pay attention to his companion:
- Sasha Gordon (Marina played excerpts from “The Seagull” with him. - G.U.) was in love with her. But I was always there: young, hot, could clean up anyone’s face. And then the three of us - me, Marina and Gordon - rebelled against the party organizer of our university in 1985. We didn’t like how we were being brainwashed, and we were able to get this party member removed. A unique situation for that time! Emboldened, we wrote a letter to the Ministry of Culture, trying to get the leadership of our institute replaced. Marina desperately rushed at the KGB officers coming for a conversation, shouting: “Fascists, scoundrels!” After that, even more of our boys began to stare at her.

Nikita assures that another of his rivals was Maxim Sukhanov:
- During the rehearsal of the play “A Glass of Water,” Marina and Maxim began, to put it mildly, flirting. At that time, Esipenko and I had already been together for five years. And then, continuing to love each other, they separated for six months. Of course, she was free to experiment with anyone, due to the fact that, perhaps, she became a little bored with the first man and wanted a different experience. But a few months later they got back together. She confessed her love to me, and we were together for another six years.

Marina herself several years ago in an interview with my close friend- Inessa Lanskaya - spoke about her relationship with Dzhigurda:
- So sometimes I ask myself: “How did I live so for a long time with Nikita? Yes, he is my first great love. And I, like everyone else the right girl, I thought it was forever. However, no matter what is done, everything is for the better. If I didn’t have such previous experience, I wouldn’t understand how happy I am now with Oleg Mityaev. Nikita and I first lived in a hostel, then wandered around communal apartments. Maybe my relationship with him became a test sent from above for me?
Elena Shilyaeva, a friend of our heroine, agrees with these words:
- Nikita is explosive, impulsive, and two of them are a lot. Dzhigurda himself left Marina and then returned. And she never reproached him for anything. That says a lot!

Flying in dreams and in reality

When we met, Marina gave me a magazine in which Richard Bach’s famous story-parable “A Seagull Named Jonathan Livingston” was published,” said Dzhigurda. - She said, “It’s about you, read it.” It turned out that it was true about me. To this day I live in a reckless flight, but Marinka chose something else - family, motherhood. Alas, after breaking up with me, Esipenko did not play a single significant role - neither in the theater nor in the cinema. All this cannot be compared with her images of Turandot and Cleopatra, which she embodied in front of me.
It was I who introduced her to Mityaev. This happened when we had already broken up. But the fact that she left me for him, as they write in the newspapers, did not happen. Oleg owes me a box of champagne for raising him such a woman! And I am very grateful to her for the fact that she was in my destiny and directed me into space with Bach’s book. When we parted, I told Esipenko that there was no need to be afraid of esotericism and the fact that I was going on a 20-day fast. I just wanted to comprehend what the great Pythagoras, Plato, and Socrates comprehended. The psychology of Blavatsky and Roerich interested me both 20 years ago and now, but Marina did not. Esipenko begged me to stop doing all this, they say, from the evil one, from Satan. Those around her were buzzing the same thing. Marina was afraid of our conversations like fire, but her own current wife I captivated Anisina with this flight, with the actions of the spiritual “Kama Sutra”!
Of course, not all ladies are ready to succumb to such pressure, and Esipenko sometimes speaks with pity about Dzhigurda’s other women. But about her husband Oleg Mityaev - always with admiration:
- We met Oleg in Sochi at the festival. He was married at that time. But, like any noble person, he would never have allowed himself anything if the relationship in his family had not exhausted itself. WITH ex-wife Oleg, we don’t communicate. I think she hasn’t forgiven me, which she has every right to do. Mityaev has three sons from previous relationships. And our daughter Dasha was born. And I’m happy that it was then that God sent me a child, and not earlier. Everything has its time.

Dzhigurda believes that Esipenko and Mityaev have a wonderful marriage:

I saw them on TV, how they sing beautifully together. Although Mityaev had little influence on his wife, because she had the makings of a brilliant actress, and he invested in himself, in the family, and not in her specifically. They have good daughter. I think Dasha would like me! On the eve of Marina’s 50th birthday, I would like to play with me in an enterprise performance. I'm sure it will turn out great!
Natalya Menshikova, assistant to many legendary directors from Esipenko’s native Theater. Vakhtangov, believes that Marina has everything ahead:
- Pyotr Fomenko called her not an actress, but “a splash of champagne.” I completely agree with him. For actors, a lot depends on luck, and it has always accompanied Marinochka in her profession. Besides, she good mom, wife, daughter. It is very sad that her mother Maria Grigorievna recently passed away; before that she was seriously ill. Marina ordered a special walker for her, hoping that her mother would get up. But, alas, Maria Grigorievna never had time to use them.
The cheerful Ivan Shabaltas, with whom our heroine starred in the TV series “Everything is Just Beginning,” literally lost his head over her while working:
- Marinochka is an amazing woman. According to the film, I am in love with her. And in life, when Esipenko first saw him on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater, he fell in love, as she knows. And let Oleg not be jealous!
In the film, we lived only on jokes: we showed off, laughed constantly, it was hard to leave... 50 years is not much. At this age, a woman is still just a child.

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Oleg MITYAEV in an interview with Channel One:
- Of course, I wanted me to have a modest, hardworking, flexible village woman with pies, but I got this one: bright, fastidious, with her own ideas. And you have to somehow adapt. People usually fall in love with women like Marina and marry others. But I was unlucky, I fell in love, and married her, and now I live.

Oleg Mityaev - people's Soviet and Russian poet, famous singer and songwriter. The whole country loves his work, his poems and music are included in the golden archive of bard songs, and individual lines from his works are still quoted among many generations of listeners. The contribution of this artist to the development of culture and music is truly incredible.

The poet was born in 1956 into a modest family of a factory worker and a housewife. The family lived amicably; Oleg and his brother were taught from childhood to help their parents with the housework and to put the interests of the family above their own. That is why young Mityaev spends his entire salary for many years I brought it home and gave it to my mother. And the boy started earning money early - at first these were scholarships for good studies, then - royalties for songs, as well as for good job as an electrician.

With parents and older brother

Being an enthusiastic person, Oleg dreamed of becoming either a dog handler or a swimmer, but he felt bored at school and with great joy, at the first opportunity, he transferred to a technical school to major in editing. There he studied well and received a scholarship, however true love I had no interest in the profession. Having received a secondary specialized education, he then entered the local university to study at the Faculty of Physical Education. The young man had no desire for creativity until he went to work as a teacher at a camp, where he heard bard songs and was imbued with an inexplicable sympathy for them.

Arriving from the camp, he independently mastered the guitar, began recording and singing his warm and kind poems and songs. But the singer himself did not expect that his musical talent would manifest itself. Imagine his surprise when the very first song became a real hit.

Success did not go to the composer’s head. He decided to get a specialized education and therefore entered GITIS. Oleg Mityaev began actively creating and writing songs based on his poems in 1979, and began performing his works himself a few years later. Oleg’s collaboration with good friend Peter Startsev.

Once Oleg Mityaev acted as a theater actor - in the production of “Big Vladimir” he successfully played the role.

Oleg Mityaev has repeatedly received prizes, awards, orders and insignia for his outstanding creativity. He bears the proud title People's Artist Russia.

Songs

The first song, first performed for a wide audience at the bard song festival, immediately made Oleg Mityaev incredibly popular. He often ends his performances with this song. And he doesn’t get tired of singing these kind lines over and over again: “It’s great that we are all gathered here today.”

His second song appeared the next year; the poet wrote it in honor of the birth of his son. Next, the poet composed songs on various topics - from politics to love. The best songs of Oleg Mityaev are imbued with kindness and warm energy. Works "With good morning, beloved”, “Let’s talk to you” and many others have become very popular among bards throughout the country.

The collaboration with a composer named Konstantin Tarasov turned out to be productive - the singer created three albums in a duet with him.

Over the course of his entire career, Oleg Mityaev has released 9 CDs and the same number of collections. His songs are still heard on television and radio, proven hits and new songs are performed by modern pop stars.

Concerts in honor of Oleg Mityaev attract full houses, a whole list of honored Russian performers perform at them, and I broadcast recordings of performances on federal channels. Discs with video recordings of the singer and composer's performances are also being bought up by devoted fans of his work.

During his career, Mityaev managed to perform in many countries, his songs have been translated into many languages, including German and Hebrew. His work is known, appreciated and loved by millions of people. It has become a kind of window into Russia for European listeners - after all, it is bard songs that convey the real mood of the inhabitants of our country, their experiences and feelings.

According to Mityaev himself, some Soviet realities were incomprehensible to an unprepared foreign viewer. After all small details form the cultural code of the country and its inhabitants, and these little things cannot always be clearly and adequately translated into another language so that listeners understand what is being said.

Personal life

As Oleg Mityaev stated in an interview, love is a certain substance that is not subject to planning and prediction. The singer said this based on personal experience. In his youth, he dreamed of getting married and living his whole life in love with one woman. However, this wish was not destined to come true. He is currently married to his third marriage. He has children from all three marriages. In total, Oleg has four children.

Oleg Mityaev does not like to talk about his personal life, and if he has to, he speaks reluctantly and sparingly. However, it is known that Mityaev left his first wife Svetlana because he suddenly fell in love with a new acquaintance named Marina. Everything happened like in a movie, I saw it - and that’s it, love! Divorced and married his wife new lover. first wife and little son I didn’t give up - I helped with housing, helped in raising the boy.

With his third wife Marina Esipenko

The union with Marina was long-lasting, but the wife rarely saw her husband, because he literally disappeared on tour. Where I fell in love again - this time with an actress. After much emotional torment, the new lovers left their families and began to live together, and then got married.

The character of the famous composer is perfectly reflected in his work - by nature, Oleg Mityaev is very soft, calm, kind person. Although he moved to Moscow many years ago, he is still very attached to his small homeland - the poet visits Chelyabinsk with concerts and just for fun several times a year.

Oleg Mityaev today

The artist does not have much free time - his busy schedule is scheduled by day and hour for many months in advance. Oleg admits that he could perform less, allocating the free time to his family. However, he cannot afford this - having learned that in some city there is a full hall of people who want to hear his songs and communicate with the legendary artist, he cannot refuse to perform.

This composer's concerts are held in a unique way - to some extent, it is a singer's performance, a creative evening, and a one-man performance. Much of a long performance (a concert lasts an average of three hours) is given over to improvisation. The artist communicates with the audience, captures the general mood and performs his sometimes sad songs with a smile on his face.

Oleg Mityaev is a social activist. He initiated the creation of a special public Fund, which supports all kinds of cultural projects. Recently, a separate Association began its work under his auspices, whose activities are aimed at the formation and transfer cultural values to the younger generation. As part of his activities at the foundation, Oleg Mityaev acts as a kind of patron of several music festivals and cultural initiatives.

The composer's height is 186 cm, weight - 88 kg.

Among all the famous bards, Oleg Mityaev, whose biography is now connected with Moscow, stands somehow apart. Firstly, he is very popular, and not only among fans of the original song - without exaggeration, everyone knows him. And secondly, the number of songs written by him is very large, and they are performed, besides himself, by his favorite singers - Valeria and Sergei Bezrukov, Shufutinsky and Lolita.

Clips of the songs “Be strong, people! Summer is coming! and “Summer is a Little Life” are still shown on TV, but there was a time when they did not leave the screens at all, taking first places in the popularity ratings. What can we say about the song “Good morning, my love!”

Hometown

Oleg Mityaev, whose biography began in the city of Chelyabinsk, was born on February 19, 1956. The family was mixed: the father was Russian, the mother was Mordovian. Oleg has an older brother, Stanislav. Oleg Grigorievich’s father was a worker, and worked for 35 years (he was recruited at the age of 16) at the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant. Mom was a housewife and the head of the family - everyone obeyed her. My father died quite early (he was only 54 years old) - hard work and a tendency to drink do not contribute to longevity.

But Oleg, having seen enough of all the delights of the life of drinkers, although his father was not a hard drinker, did not take wine into his mouth until he was 30 years old. The Mityaev family was friendly and correct (for example, they were never taught to work from an early age.

School years

Chelyabinsk boy Oleg Mityaev, whose biography until a certain age was typical for all boys from the working environment of those times, spent most of his time in the yard, which was still not entirely ordinary - world-famous hockey players and Sergei Starikov also grew up there. Oleg Mityaev studied at several schools in Chelyabinsk - No. 59, 55, 68... His grades were satisfactory, the boy dreamed of becoming a dog breeder, but... under the impression of his beloved “March of Installers” he entered after high school to the assembly college, where he encountered strength of materials and immediately realized that this was real male profession not for him. But he received a specialty.

Not a bard at all

At the same time, Oleg was seriously interested in swimming, and the coach sought his release from the army, because the boy showed promise. But the summons from the military registration and enlistment office still came. The future bard is still a very impressive man (photo of Oleg Mityaev is attached). A handsome young man (height 186 cm and Blue eyes at dark hair) were noticed and taken into service as a guard for the Admiral of the USSR Fleet in Moscow.

By that time, Oleg had already mastered the guitar (his training took place at the entrance, where he even learned to play “Gypsy Girl” on two strings), but he didn’t even think about music. After the army, he entered the Chelyabinsk Sports Institute, which he graduated with honors, and throughout his years of study he received a Lenin scholarship - 100 rubles.

First family and the beginning of creative activity

At the institute, “on potatoes,” he meets the beauty, athlete and Komsomol member Svetlana, who soon becomes his first wife. Beautiful couple formalized the marriage, and then a son, Sergei, was born. Oleg Mityaev's wife Svetlana got along well with her mother-in-law.

Oleg worked well and there were no signs of trouble. But Mityaev turned out to be amorous, and every time it seemed to him that the new love would last his whole life. The future bard graduated from the institute in 1981, and while still a student he began to regularly write songs, and since 1980 - to sing them to everyone who listens.

Certified Artist

Oleg remains a teacher at the institute, at the same time works as a club manager in a boarding house near Chelyabinsk and is listed as an artist of the city philharmonic. And this last area of ​​activity began to occupy everything more space in his life. Mityaev enters and graduates in 1992 distance learning at GITIS.

Laima Vaikule and Mikhail Evdokimov studied with him, with whom Mityaev had a strong friendship. The Bard is already known, Bulat Okudzhava praised him, and in 1992 Oleg Mityaev and Konstantin Tarasov (they met in 1987), with whom they performed on stage, as well as some actors of the Mossovet Theater staged the play “Big Vladimir”, in which Oleg plays the role of Mayakovsky. The premiere was in Italy.

Second family

After that, Oleg began to go to concerts, performing quite successfully. And a trip to Germany allowed him to use the fees to buy an apartment in Moscow, where he moved with his new wife Marina, with whom his thoughts, songs (“Good morning, beloved!” were dedicated specifically to her), and the life of Oleg Mityaev were now connected. He left his first wife and son a two-room apartment in Chelyabinsk and always helped them - his son and now works as the head of the Oleg Mityaev Foundation in Chelyabinsk.

sons

In his second marriage, the artist had two sons. The eldest, Philip, devoted himself to hard rock and changed his surname Mityaev to August. He motivates this by the fact that, having heard his father’s last name, people tune in to specific music, different from what the Stymphonia group performs. Different musical preferences came between father and son. Philip says that Oleg calls his songs demonic. Youngest son, Savva, works for his father.

The second wife was a beauty, and, they say, Oleg was incredibly jealous of her, although his own touring life was not particularly sanctified. But maybe the family wouldn’t have broken up if it weren’t for new love...

Current family

The leading theater actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation - the wife of Oleg Mityaev, whose biography began in Omsk, says that Oleg was destined for her, since at the age of 6 she dreamed of a tall, blue-eyed man, whom she immediately recognized when she saw Mityaev. But they were both not free - Marina Evseeva was common-law wife And no matter how they resisted the surging feeling, the families broke up all the same. Now the Mityaevs live in country house. One might add that their neighbor is the writer Victoria Tokareva.

Albums

O. Mityaev recorded his ninth album together with S. Manukyan and the group “Ariel”. Accompanist and arranger and Oleg Mityaev have been recording their albums since 1998. Known throughout the country, “The Best Songs” and “Not the Best Songs,” “Heavenly Calculator” and “ZhZL” were recorded in the first years of close and constant cooperation. Then the album “Neither Country, nor Cemetery” was released. It is interesting that the music for it was written by L. Margolin based on poems by Joseph Brodsky. IN recent years the collections “It’s great that we are all gathered here today! A quarter of a century later”, “The Smell of Snow”, “There will be no more romance” were recorded.

Social activities

In 2004, the Oleg Mityaev Foundation and the government of the Chelyabinsk region established the “Bright Past” award. It is a figurine called “Centaur with a Flower in His Chest” by Ernst Neizvestny. Award given to people who have distinguished themselves through their activities Chelyabinsk region, owes its emergence primarily to Oleg Mityaev. In 2009 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In addition, the author huge number songs, including such popular favorites as “The Neighbor” and “The Frenchwoman”, famously performed by Shufutinsky, is a laureate of the “Ovation”, the Russian poetry prize “Petropol” and a member of the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation. Many articles indicate that the poet and musician Oleg Mityaev, whose biography, however, is well known, does not really like to talk about his life.