Zvezdinsky biography. Radio chanson broadcast. The most famous songs of Mikhail Zvezdinsky

Mikhail Zvezdinsky... The whole country knows this performer and author of Russian chanson today. IN different time his songs were sung by Maya Kristalinskaya and Joseph Kobzon, Mikhail Gulko and Alexander Malinin, Zhanna Bichevskaya and Stas Mikhailov, the group “White Eagle” and Mikhail Shufutinsky, Mikhail Chuev and many others.

Biography

Zvezdinsky Mikhail Mikhailovich was born in Lyubertsy, in the Moscow region, on March 6, 1945. His real name on his father's side - Deinekin. However, as Mikhail himself always says, Zvezdinsky is not a creative pseudonym. This is how the surname of his ancestors from Poland is translated into Russian, sounding like “Gvezhdinsky”, who after the gentry uprising moved to St. Petersburg and became Russian in spirit.

The singer's grandfather, who was a colonel in the tsarist army, was shot seven years before his birth. He was a military builder and built bridges. The father, in order to avoid the fate of his grandfather, went back to Poland. Mikhail's mother, Lidia Semyonovna, who worked in the design bureau at an aircraft plant, was repressed.

The future performer of Russian chanson was raised by his grandmother. She was a real noblewoman who graduated from the Smolny Institute. It was the grandmother who instilled in her grandson a great love for pre-revolutionary Russia. Based on her stories about the tsarist empire and its officers, about Mikhail’s grandfather, his memories of civil war Later, songs from the White Guard cycle were created.

Childhood memories

On summer months the family went to Tomilino, where they had a dacha, and in winter they returned to the city, to a Moscow apartment on Nastasinsky Lane. Later, Mikhail Zvezdinsky will recall that from the very early childhood He was incredibly restless, which caused a lot of trouble for his mother and grandmother. He was expelled from school several times, despite his academic upbringing. If the rest of his peers read fairy tales about Moidodyr, then Misha was already school age was familiar with the works of M. Tsvetaeva and N. Gumilyov, and knew Pasternak’s poems.

Love for music

At the age of nine, the future chansonnier was already keen on Mikhail Bulgakov and by that time even managed to read “ White Guard" and "Running". Also in preschool age Mikhail Zvezdinsky began to get carried away musical creativity. His first instrument was a guitar, inherited from his colonel grandfather.

Lidia Semyonovna, noticing how many hours a day his son was “tormenting” the family heirloom, imbued with understanding, enrolled the child in music school, located in the town of Zhukovsky. But, to Misha’s great chagrin, guitar was not studied there. Therefore, he had to temporarily retrain as a drummer. But the boy was not very upset. At that time, jazz was just coming into fashion, so good drummers in bands were “worth their weight in gold.”

Musician career

From the age of fifteen, the future celebrity has already been performing in various cafes and clubs, singing on dance floors. Since the late fifties, Mikhail Zvezdinsky has appeared in Moscow jazz centers as part of a variety of musical groups. He performed in very popular cafes at that time: “Molodezhnoe”, “Aelita” and “ Blue bird" His partners at jazz parties were the then middle-aged Georgy Garanyan, Leonid Chizhik, Alexey Zubov, Alexey Kozlov and others.

First independent work

However, in adult companies of already “venerable” musicians, Mikhail Zvezdinsky felt like a supporting figure. Moreover, he was often offended by the fact that his senior comrades treated him condescendingly, in a fatherly manner, not allowing him to reveal his talent in full force. Mikhail himself believed that his work was much wider than the boundaries that his senior colleagues outlined for him. From the age of fourteen, the future chansonnier wrote songs. They could well compete with the works that were played in restaurants in those years, Zvezdinsky believed.

Mikhail, all of whose songs at that time had the same theme - emigration and the White Guard movement - was still impressed by the work of the writer Bulgakov. And close communication with his cousin Igor Gorozhankin also left its mark on his first works. The latter, as a graduate student, studied the history of the white movement.

It is thanks to these factors that in the early sixties Mikhail Zvezdinsky created a large cycle of songs on this topic. The most famous of them - “Paris is waiting for you” and “Lieutenant Golitsyn” - are popular until today. True, over time he admits that the author of the latter melody is Major General of the Kolchak army G. Goncharenko.

Concert activities

Many works performed by Russian chansonniers today are Soviet years were prohibited. But they were still listened to. Mikhail Zvezdinsky was also involved in organizing underground concerts more than once. “Candles”, “Lieutenant Golitsyn” and his other songs were first performed there.

In 1980, he, together with the vocal and instrumental ensembles “Favorit” and “Joker”, recorded their first concerts. In the same year, Mikhail Zvezdinsky was arrested and received six years for private entrepreneurship and bribery. However, the singer did not forget about music for a minute. Already in a forced labor camp in 1986, he was able to record his famous songs: “The Son of a Cook and a Patterner,” “They’re Going North,” “I’ll Tell You About My Own,” “The Embezzlers Are Being Transported from Leningrad,” “The Process Is Over,” “By the plan was born,” “Pigeons are flying over our zone.” All of them were included in the album called “In a zone with two guitars.”

Discography

In 1988, Zvezdinsky, returning to Moscow, continued his creative activity. He is a registered author of many songs. It must be said that many performers sang songs written by Mikhail Zvezdinsky. “Enchanted, bewitched” to the words of Zabolotsky, “Wolves” and “Haymaking”, “Black Cat”, “Raider Boys”, “Going North”, “We are going on the attack”, “The roses have withered”, “Bacillus and the Plague” “... And although all these works in the Russian Authors' Society are registered in his name, some “comrades in the shop” have doubts about Zvezdinsky’s involvement in their creation.

Songs written by Mikhail Zvezdinsky - “Burning, the candles are crying”, “Bacillus and the plague”, “Embezzlers are being transported from Leningrad”, “Gentlemen officers”, “Last dawn”, “I walked all over Russia”, “Prostitute Burelomova” - also performed by A. Severny.

Personal life

Mikhail Zvezdinsky's wife is Nonna Gennadievna. She waited for him from prisons and camps for sixteen years, for which the singer is incredibly grateful to her. Their relationship began to develop in 1979, and in 1980 Zvezdinsky was imprisoned. A year later, Nonna came to see him in a forced labor camp. Mikhail secured a long-term date for five days, and after nine months the couple had their son. The boy's parents named him Art - from the word "art". However, close relatives, changing it to the more familiar one, Artem, began to call him that.

Until now, Mikhail Zvezdinsky drinks to his wife’s health while standing. The singer considers his wife a real Decembrist: after all, she traveled to him from Moscow ten thousand miles, not only by train or plane, but also by helicopter, dogs and even deer.

Curious facts

In 1990, Russian bard Alexander Lobanovsky began a lawsuit against Mikhail Zvezdinsky. In his lawsuit, he indicated that the latter appropriated his songs, including such hits as “Burning, the candles are crying” and “Enchanted, bewitched,” “Roses have faded” and others. And despite the fact that Lobanovsky managed to win the case, in the Russian Authors’ Society, nevertheless, both authors are listed as the creators of the controversial works, with the exception of “Prostitute Burelomova”, “I Walked into the Night” and “Non-Rus”.

Zvezdinsky had problems with the law several times during his life. In 1962, he was imprisoned for one year for stealing jewelry and a car. He was sentenced again in 1966 for desertion to three years, and in 1973 to another three for having a relationship with a foreign citizen.

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Prison universities"Lieutenant Golitsyn"

Mikhail ZVEZDINSKY

The first troubles with the law occurred with Mikhail Zvezdinsky in 1962. In the evening, after one of the concerts, young singer invited to take a ride in his luxury car by one of the fans of his work. In addition to its owner, there were two girls sitting in the car, who no less actively invited the singer into the salon. Zvezdinsky agreed. However, before they had time to drive even a few hundred meters, gunmen (current traffic cops) stopped them at the nearest intersection. And then the unexpected happened. The owner of the car and his companions scattered, and Zvezdinsky, burdened with the guitar with which he never parted, got stuck in the door and was captured by the valiant police. But even when he found himself in the police station, he did not lose his presence of mind, believing that he owed his arrest to the absurd oversight of the Orudovites - after all, it was not he who was driving, but the owner of the car, who should be held accountable for violating the rules traffic. However, everything turned out to be much more complicated.

In the trunk of the car, the police found some valuables that were listed as stolen. To all Zvezdinsky’s assurances that he had never seen these things, the police only grinned skeptically and advised him to confess everything frankly. As a result, a criminal case was opened against the singer. On September 19, 1962, the People's Court of the Baumansky District of Moscow sentenced Zvezdinsky under Article 144, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to one year in prison. There is a version that in this way the authorities dealt with a 16-year-old boy who had the courage to sing White Guard songs in public.

Zvezdinsky served a little less than 10 months of his sentence; he was released on July 2, 1963. Returning to Moscow, he again went on stage - he began performing in various musical groups, accompanying the then pop stars: Maya Kristalinskaya, Gelena Velikanova, Margarita Suvorova. Along the way, he wrote new songs and performed them in a variety of audiences. In particular, he wrote the following works: “Burning, the candles are crying” (1962), “Fragile Heart” (1963), “Enchanted, Bewitched”, “Trace of Love” (both 1964), etc.

In 1965, Zvezdinsky was drafted into the army. Then he got into trouble with the law for the second time. One day he received a telegram from his relatives, in which he was informed that his mother was seriously ill. Zvezdinsky appealed to the command of the military unit in which he served with a request to grant him leave. However, the command considered that the mother’s illness was not a convincing reason for granting the soldier a short-term leave, and Zvezdinsky’s request was denied. And then he left the unit without any permission. For this he was declared a deserter and prosecuted. The trial took place on October 19, 1966. Under Articles 255a and 246a of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (escape from a unit, desertion), Zvezdinsky was sentenced to three years in prison.

Zvezdinsky was released on May 18, 1969. His criminal record was expunged and he returned to Moscow. I took up creativity again. At one time he worked as a drummer in the vocal-instrumental ensemble “Norok”, where at that time the very young Ksenia Georgiadi made her debut, then he moved to the ensemble “ Funny boys" However, Zvezdinsky soon got bored of being in the second, or even third, plan all the time, and he resumed solo performances. By that time, the songs he composed in the early 60s were already sung by half the country (in particular, they were performed in the Union by Arkady Severny, abroad by Willy Tokarev, Grigory Dimont, etc.), so the ground was well prepared for his return. And Zvezdinsky began performing as a soloist in a variety show at the Arkhangelskoye restaurant. It was 1972. However, his solo work was soon interrupted by a new arrest.

Once again Zvezdinsky was arrested in the fall of 1973 during a sea cruise from Odessa to Batumi. Moreover, KGB officers took part in that arrest. Why them? The fact is that Zvezdinsky at that time was in love with an Italian woman, and such matters were within the competence of the state security agencies. The Italian was sent home, and Zvezdinsky was accused... of raping her and on October 19, 1973, he was given a new sentence - three years in prison. True, the singer did not have the chance to serve his entire sentence - on January 15, 1974, he was released from serving his sentence in a correctional labor colony and sent to construction sites National economy- for "chemistry". Zvezdinsky worked there until 1976.

Returning to Moscow once again, Zvezdinsky got a job at the restaurant " Pinery", where he began performing with his own program. In his words: “Sergei Apollinarievich Gerasimov often came to my restaurant. And in general, the whole House of Cinema was gathering at my place. Vysotsky, Borya Khmelnitsky, Dolinsky, Misha Kozakov, Evstigneev, Zhvanetsky, Kartsev and Ilchenko. It’s funny for me to call... You ask, who didn’t come to me?

Many guys started with me. Those who became stars today: Volodya Kuzmin, Barykin, Sasha Serov played the saxophone. Presnyakov Sr., Misha Muromov was then an administrator at the Old Castle, and I taught him to play the guitar, Malezhik... “Let's go to Zvezdinsky” sounded about the same as “let's go to the Moulin Rouge or Maxim.”

For four years the authorities patiently watched as Zvezdinsky “corrupted” Soviet people songs about the White Guards and earns fabulous money (several thousand rubles per evening). Finally her patience came to an end. In March 1980, on the eve of the Moscow Olympics, it was decided to destroy the “nest of anti-Sovietism.” Eyewitnesses tell how this happened.

Nikolai Mironov (now a retired police major general, and then the head of the BHSS Directorate): “At the end of the day, the head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate Trushin called me into his office and said that, supposedly, the first secretary of the city party committee Grishin gave instructions to catch and imprison within a month Mikhail Zvezdinsky. The reason is that “all foreign “radio voices” are trumpeting that Moscow is communist during the day and merchant at night. And this discredits the name of the capital, an exemplary communist city.

One employee reported that at approximately 9-10 pm this person usually leaves the restaurant on Kalininsky Prospekt, warning the regulars: “Today I will sing in such and such a place...”

They sent agents there. Entrance was not cheap: foreigners were charged 100 “greens”, and Soviet citizens – a thousand rubles. All sorts of crooks, “shady people,” gathered there, wasted money left and right—in a word, they caroused on a merchant scale until five in the morning. Then the “cab drivers” delivered the gentlemen and their ladies to their “numbers”. Such orgies often took place in the Yuzhny restaurant on Leninsky Prospekt. Zvezdinsky performed songs on request, accompanied by a small orchestra. During the evening I collected revenue from 20 to 50 thousand rubles.

For us, the difficulty was to determine in which establishment the “object” would appear next and how, without arousing suspicion, to give him a microphone without a cord in order to secretly record on radio equipment. We looked for such a microphone for a long time (at that time it was a rarity), we finally got it, but the singer, alas, did not take the bait. Our people were very worried, because Trushin gave the command to record the audition repertoire for Grishin. Apparently, he was curious about what Zvezdinsky was doing. As my subordinates reported to me, there is no obvious anti-Sovietism, mostly emigrant songs like “Lieutenant Golitsyn.” By the way, my kids liked them. However, Trushin was dissatisfied: the quality of the recording was poor, and for this reason he did not show it to Grishin.

A lot of employees were involved in the operation - about three hundred people, as if they were catching a particularly dangerous repeat offender. We learned that before March 8 he “rented” a restaurant in the Sovetsky district.

Guests began to arrive at two in the morning, many in luxury foreign cars. The less wealthy are on the buses. The capture group hid in a nearby unfinished house. Everything was covered with ointment. But the cards were mixed up by one of Zvezdinsky’s admirers, who was late for the concert. Driving up to the restaurant, he spotted traffic police cars and suspected something was wrong. Concerns intensified after he copied patrol crews stationed on all access roads. Having flown into the hall, he calls Zvezdinsky back: “Misha, get away, you’re surrounded!”

There was a commotion, foreigners jumped up from the tables, indignantly: “You have no right!” One of the Murovites did not mince words: “Do you know that by decree of the Moscow Council, restaurants are allowed to operate until 11 p.m.? How much now? Why are you violating our rules? In general, he put them in their place..."

Next, let’s listen to the story of M. Zvezdinsky: “The police burst into the hall just at the moment when the soloist, orchestra and the entire audience thundered the famous chorus from my song: “Eh, boys!” Yes, you are raiders! Wallets, wallets and wallets!..” „Everyone stay in their places! - the policemen shouted. “Weapons and documents on the table!” The women in the hall screamed in fear. Someone protested and demanded an explanation. Dishes rattled from overturned tables. The girls were frightened and stuffed jewelry into the salad that they shouldn’t have. Someone rushed to the exit, but that was not the case - the path was blocked by a barrier. They ran to the attic, someone jumped through the windows into the snowdrifts, where they fell into the hands of police officers from the cordon. I also tried to hide. He was young, strong, cool. He jumped out the window and knocked down the policemen who arrived in time. But still they overtook me, threw me into a snowdrift, twisted my arms, and threw me into a “crater.”

N. Mironov: “The capture group took the drunken crowd out and put them on buses. The detainees were taken to Petrovka, 38. To pick them all up, three trips had to be made. About two hundred people, more or less sober, were interrogated. They immediately split and told in detail how much they paid their idol. And soon Zvezdinsky himself was brought here..."

M. Zvezdinsky: “After the interrogation, I was taken to a cell. Imagine, I get to the thieves in the top three from Cardin. I spoke at festive concert and was dressed accordingly. Some people didn't like the way I dressed up. I had to put two dissatisfied people on the floor - I was seriously into karate. While they were coming to their senses, I heard from the corner: “Are you Zvezdinsky?” So I was convinced with my own eyes that the fans of my work were not only the “cream” of society, writers, artists, actors, but also... thieves in law who frequented my concerts. The prison telegraph immediately flashed: “Don’t touch Zvezdinsky!”

Soon after this, a trial was held that convicted Zvezdinsky under Article 153 Part 1 and 174 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 4 years in the camps and 2 years in prison for giving a bribe and private entrepreneurship. Zvezdinsky served the first half of his sentence in a camp near Ulan-Ude. It was there that he soon received the news that his son, Artem, was born in freedom.

Zvezdinsky met the mother of his child, Nonna, about a year before this arrest. Nonna studied at the Institute of Asian and African Countries, was a Komsomol activist, and was fond of amateur performances. And then one day Zvezdinsky came to perform at her institute, and after the concert there were dances. They met at a dance. When Zvezdinsky was convicted in 1980, Nonna did not renounce him and spent almost every vacation with him - in the zone near Ulan-Ude.

In 1988, Zvezdinsky was released and returned to Moscow. At that time he had neither housing nor registration. The same Nonna came to the rescue, whom he married and under whose roof he moved with all his meager property. Since 1989, Zvezdinsky has returned to the stage and has not left it to this day.