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On August 15, 1990, Viktor Tsoi passed away. 25 years have passed since then, but Kino's songs are still popular. How the super hits were created, what is the name of the girl from the song “Eighth Grader”, who was the first listener of “A Star Called the Sun” and to whom Tsoi sang: “Baby, you excite me”, Woman’s Day was told by the friends of the deceased musician and real women - the heroines of his songs.

"Eighth Grader", 1982

"Desert street together

We are going somewhere with you.

And I smoke, and you eat sweets ... "

Even Tsoi's close friends did not know her name. And they considered a beautiful image to be a fantasy of a rock musician. But the real eighth-grader still exists and still lives in the city on the Neva. The well-known St. Petersburg designer Jenny Yasnets told our journalist about her acquaintance with Viktor Tsoi.

“He made an impression: tall, stylish, all in black,” recalls her first meeting with Tsoi Jenny Yasnets, at that time a student at the Leningrad Art School. Serov. - We were introduced by a mutual friend - the artist Andrei Medvedev, he prepared me for admission. I was already in my first year, entered after the eighth grade, and Medvedev said: "Here is my student, an eighth grader." We met and chatted. Choi invited us to the concert. My friend Ulyana Tseitlina (now a famous socialite. - Approx. Woman's Day) and I went to the Leningrad rock club, although this was not welcomed, it was almost banned. And people were often taken from there to the police.

I was 15 years old, Viktor - 20. And, probably, at the first moment I seemed to Tsoi a child, I was wearing children's sandals, painted with tempera. And then came Eighth Grader. I really liked the song, and only after many years I found out that it was about me. Andrey Medvedev told how Tsoi brought him a cassette with a recording and said that the song was dedicated to Jenny.

Of course, I didn’t complain to Tsoi about the “troyak in geography”, as in the text of the song, and I didn’t call him to the cinema. Although we then were friends with Victor. I remember that Choi and his wife Maryana came to my birthday and gave me glass earrings. I think that at the age of 15 I had only one coincidence with the heroine of the song: at that time, my parents demanded that I appear at home at exactly ten. And I was always late. So we got such a poetic image: an eighth grade girl who is waiting for her mother, ”says Jenny Yasnets.

"My friends are marching through life", 1981

"My house was empty

Now it's full of people.

Which time

My friends drink wine there…”

This was the first song that Viktor Tsoi, then still very young, far from fame and crowded stadiums, performed for his friends and acquaintances.

“We lived happily at that time, there was also enough beer and port wine,” recalls the beginning of the eighties, the St. Petersburg musician and close friend of Tsoi Maxim Pashkov. - We could get together with a company and sunbathe naked in Victory Park, this is in the south of St. Petersburg, Tsoi's parents had an apartment there next door. The police were after us. They could be taken to the department simply for the appearance, but we were all punks: sticking out hair, green lips. Although Vitya stood out among us: he called himself a hippie punk and always wore long hair and a pin in his tie. The policemen didn't like it. We were constantly running from them. Once they took us all, and Tsoi escaped: he jumped into the underpass on Nevsky Prospekt - from the very top, broke his leg, but got home. Then he walked with a stick.

Maxim Pashkov knew Viktor Tsoi from childhood - together they studied at the same art school in the center of St. Petersburg, then still Leningrad, on the corner of Lomonosov Street and the Griboyedov Canal.

“We were 12 years old when we met,” Maxim recalls. - Actually, I taught Vitya to play the guitar. Father Robert Maksimovich showed him the first chords, but Tsoi did not succeed very well. At first we thought that we would become artists, but then we fell head over heels into rock and roll. I created the Ward No. 6 group, invited Tsoi to it. And since there are only four strings on the bass guitar, we thought that it would be easier for Vita to master it. We bought a tool for 40 rubles in a commission shop. And it began. Although at first I composed and sang only me. He sometimes offered his rhymes and some guitar passages.

And, of course, I remember how Vitya, excited, sang his first song to me. He blushed very quickly, just instantly put burgundy. And then again - and the song! I liked her right away."

In the video, Maxim Pashkov performs Tsoi's song "My Friends March Through Life" at a concert at the Kamchatka Boiler Room club, 2008.

When Your Girlfriend is Sick, 1987

"Day like day

For some reason, you're just sad.

And everyone is singing around

Only you alone are silent ... "

Rashid Nugmanov's film was released in 1989, and people went to the Igloo to look at Tsoi. His popularity just skyrocketed. No one was even surprised when Viktor Tsoi was recognized as the best actor of the USSR at the Golden Duke film festival in Odessa. And who, if not him! And few people know that the birth of another super hit by Viktor Tsoi, “When Your Girlfriend is Sick,” is associated with the Needle.

He dedicated this song to Marina Smirnova, an unprofessional actress who played the second main role in The Needle - the drug addict girl Dina, Moro's lover (that was the name of the hero Viktor Tsoi. - Approx. Woman's Day).

When the "Needle" was released, the audience decided that in real life, Viktor Tsoi and Marina had love. But it was a sincere friendship. Moreover, Smirnova had an affair with another member of the Kino group, guitarist Yuri Kasparyan.

“I was often sick, and Yuri ran around me with medicines. Vitya couldn't get him anywhere because of me. Then the song "When your girlfriend is sick" was born, which became a hit of that time. This song and the role in the film “The Needle” is the only thing left for me from Viti,” says Marina Smirnova.

Probably, then on the set, she, young and beautiful, could have an affair with Tsoi, but she chose another. Yes, and the rock musician was married at that time, although his marriage was rather conditional.

"Kid", 1987

"When I see you dancing

Honey you are making me worry.

When you look so serious

Baby, I love you..."

This song was not included in any of the official albums of the Kino group, and fans for a long time believed that it was dedicated to the only child of a rock musician, son Sasha.

But Sasha Tsoi was born on July 26, 1985, and the song was recorded either at the end of 1987 or in 1988 - there is no exact data on this. And close friends of Viktor Tsoi associate her not with the birth of a son, but with the last and, perhaps, the most important love of Viktor Tsoi - Natalia Razlogova, a Moscow journalist, sister of the famous film critic Kirill Razlogov.

It was in 1987 that Viktor Tsoi met Natalya, it happened on the set of the film Assa, where Razlogova was an assistant to the second director. Tsoi had a very bright, albeit episodic, role in the film: he appeared in the finale as a musician named Viktor, actually playing himself.

Feelings for Natalya Razlogova turned out to be so strong that Tsoi left the family, having lived with his famous wife Maryana for less than four years. The couple met for quite a long time, but Viktor and Maryana did not reach the registry office right away, so the marriage turned out to be short.

“In 1989, Tsoi officially introduced me to this girl,” Maryana later recalled. - I threw a banquet in a restaurant on such an important occasion. He did not understand how much I was in pain at that moment. Surprisingly, Natasha and I turned out to be different. As much as I did not control myself, so she controlled herself. I am a powder keg. She is a rock. But even after parting, we continued to communicate with Tsoi. And one day he told me: “We have a son, so we will still remain a family. When we are gone, let's make a wish so that we are buried next to each other as relatives.

And so it happened. Viktor Tsoi died in August 1990, and on June 27, 2005, 15 years later, Maryana passed away. She was buried at the same Bogoslovsky cemetery, where Viktor Tsoi was buried. Friends made sure that the graves of the former spouses were located very close to each other.

Natalya Razlogova went to live in the USA back in the 90s and soon married her colleague, journalist Yevgeny Dodolev. But the song remains. In 2000, Ilya Lagutenko recorded a tribute to her, after which "Kid" gained all-Russian popularity, incredible even for many of Tsoi's hits. Although with the super hits "Cinema", "Blood Type" and "A Star Called the Sun", it still could not be compared. They are still out of competition.

Zarathustra, the first psychologist of the good, is therefore the friend of the evil. When a decadent kind of people rises to the level of the highest kind, this can only happen at the expense of the opposite kind, the kind of people who are strong and confident in life. When a herd animal shines in the brilliance of the purest virtue, then the exceptional person must be reduced to the level of evil by judgment. When falsity, at all costs, seizes the word "truth" for its optics, then everything that is truly truthful must bear the most bad names. "

F. Nietzsche

For a person who has long been brewing in the party of Tsoi's fans, the contradictory attitude of Victor's fans (more precisely, fans) towards the woman who played a big role in his life, Natalia Razlogova (M. Lesko), is very noticeable. Both as a person and as an author of articles and a media ideologist. Some admire her, consider her perfect in every respect, an ideal couple for their idol, defend her in every possible way, the latter treat both her and her with misunderstanding and hostility. "defenders". This rather amusing situation of a split in the Internet environment of Tsoi's fans has escalated since the appearance of the VKontakte group dedicated to Marina Lesko, which has now died in the bose group. Referring not only to the camp of "supporters", but to the administration of this now murdered group of them. M. Lesko, who has always been on good terms with this person, I will consider some of the ideological moments of our holivars.

The arguments of our opponents, both from people we know and from strangers, are always repeated and reduced to a set of established theses.

Thesis: I still understand how different people Natalia and Viktor are - just an abyss between them ...

Victor is generally from another world, from another reality, with other values: with such energy, with such a radiant smile, with such positivity.

Naturally, two people cannot be alike in everything. And not always the difference of natures prevents people from being happy together. Don't demonize it. For some reason, after all, many do not notice that the gap between Tsoi and other people from his entourage is much larger than between Tsoi and Natalia. And this abyss does not prevent them from treating these people with great reverence and considering them to be those who truly loved Tsoi.

Besides, how big was this abyss? Some fans are of the opinion that Victor and Natalia were the perfect couple, and this can be seen supposedly even in the photographs. The environment formulates similar thoughts:

“They were somewhat similar. That is, there was a feeling that they were cut down by one sculptor from one piece of marble: the same two magnificent shocks of black hair, very slender figures. (S. Bugaev).

The difference between their worlds, of course, takes place, but it lies, in my opinion, rather in the fact that they both express the same message in different forms. The meaning of their messages comes down to the liberation of a person from dogmatic thinking and the burden imposed by society. Tsoi expressed this more simply, but at the same time more vaguely, Natalia, due to her mindset, profession and background - more specifically, ironically, harshly, with references to her intellectual baggage, and because of this - less clear and pleasant for the average movie fan.

Yes, and as for Dodolev himself - as he calls himself "a receptacle of sin, unlike his father." It is very clear that they are a couple - they have a common manner of speaking, common arguments, they both give off a feeling of stench for all their groomed. Their sarcasm, packaged in an intellectual vyser, is somehow an extremely unpleasant feeling .. Arrogance emanates from both of them and a condescending tone is heard when they explain their point of view.

Here are all the convictions of Marina and Natalia - in this speech, "Art should belong to the people." By the way, Dodo is also from an intellectual family, like Razlogova. world, a reflection of her own complexes and fears - she does not feel the warmth of human emotions, only cold calculation, the systemic existence.

Such hostility is explained by the fact that Natalia, like Dodolev, often touches on topics in her articles that shock the target audience of the so-called Russian rock groups, which are somewhat inert. Which, by the way, was not inherent in their idol at all.

For example, M. Lesko in her articles and interviews has repeatedly raised the question of how ethical it is to tell the truth in the media and memoirs, and, probably, it was the attempts of Evgeny Dodolev and Marina Lesko to convey to people that in the pursuit of "decency" we forgot about honesty, exposes them as "immoral" in the eyes of an ordinary fan of Russian rock.

And the collectors of information about Tsoi, by the way, face similar ethical problems in real life, which create barriers for fans to understand and know the truth. Perhaps that is why the position of Dodolev and Lesko is more understandable for the “researchers” and not for the fans. (Even these notorious arguments about “copyleft”, which the unknown critic of M. Lesko’s statements did not like so much, are very understandable and close to collectors, bloggers who are forced to provide information in a truncated form, since the authors, say, interviews or photographs require for publication (yes and just for the ransom of photographs) crazy sums or forbid copying of the material at all.)

Reality in general often offends the feelings of believers, and in this regard, Tsoi was creatively a little less merciless, but this does not mean that, in contrast to Natalia, he is a simple, pleasant and comfortable positive boy. His paintings, wood carvings and prose often do not carry a special “positive”, and some works from the point of view of “morality” should shock all the same fans. And Natalia has nothing to do with it, some of them were made at the time of punk youth. True, some "movie fans" who had at least the courage to see the truth were really disappointed in the "holiness" of their idol and began to vehemently denounce him, which was also an excess.

There are also taunts in Tsoi's texts. For example, Georgy Guryanov admits that the "filmmakers" loved to wash everyone's bones, and in the song "Boshetunmai" Tsoi bulldozes over famous figures of Soviet rock.

There is no need to talk about how many vices Choi was attributed to his former friends. By the way, the list of these vices also includes arrogance and prudence. Yes, and complexes are often attributed to him, in fact, complexes cannot be understood in the way in which most people who are not familiar with psychoanalysis understand him). But after all, many fans are well aware that this can be an estimated error. And it is quite likely in relation to Razlogova.

So all this only proves the similarity of the characters of Natalia and Tsoi and the similarity of their vision by people with the opposite worldview.

And if we approach Tsoi’s work and personality with the same standards with which Tsoi’s fans approach Natalia’s statements and her articles, then it turns out that no less vices attributed to Razlogova can be found there. But after all, almost all "film fans" are neutral to this in Tsoi, but hostile to this in M. Lesko.

A possible reason for the negative attitude towards Natalia is subjective attitudes. The so-called prejudices, which can be figuratively defined by the statement "I have not read Pasternak, but I strongly condemn." After all, in fact, none of the fans are familiar with the REAL Natalia and not her media image.

Affects this perception and the so-called "gala effect". Fans, having read a lot of negative reviews of other similar fans about Razlogova, without delving into the topic, automatically begin to perceive it exclusively from one side. We see an absolutely identical phenomenon in the perception of other people who are familiar with Victor. So, Aizenshpis is an enemy, a representative of the enemy side, and any rocker familiar to Tsoi is an authority by default. Even if he is wrong.

Further, it is generally accepted that Natalia allegedly wanted to lead or even led Tsoi in fact. Many people talk about this both with positive connotations (for example, Yu. Shumilo or M. Smirnova expressed the opinion that Natalia enriched Tsoi's inner world by becoming his teacher of life), and with negative connotations (Yu. Belishkin believes that her influence had a negative impact on him, because because of her and Aizenshpis, Tsoi moved to Moscow, which was allegedly his tragic mistake). The comments in LiveJournal by S. Stillavin that Razlogova allegedly “spoiled” Tsoi, making him more sarcastic and cynical, are also indicative. Apparently, this is where the fans come from:

I think that what he perceived as an equal relationship, she apparently considered as a relationship with a teacher who opens up a new world for him ...

And I don’t really like that this communication still affected him, somehow there were a lot of sarcastic notes in his voice - this can be seen in interviews, especially on Chaliapin ...

However, no one took into account the opinion of Natalia herself - and she denied that she perceived herself in relation to Tsoi as a teacher. Moreover, she even sometimes claimed the opposite. In her answers to questions from fans, she noted that it was the strength of Tsoi's character that attracted her.

It is unlikely that a woman who seeks dominance would be attracted to a man with such a strong character as Natalia saw in Tsoi.

as for the appearance of supposedly "sarcastic notes" in Tsoi's voice in recent interviews -

Probably, the fact that fans now fit Tsoi into a completely alien context played a role. And they are surprised when Tsoi as a rock musician and Natalia as a film critic talk about this artificial context with sarcasm. In general, specifically in the topic of this interview on the ship "Fyodor Chaliapin", the sarcasm of Tsoi and Natalia was associated with the phenomenon when various honored figures of a completely different generation began to use the rock party in their works, with completely different aesthetic attitudes. They were alien to rock. There really was an abyss between whom and Tsoi. And the fact that the film "Needle" got to the film festival "old-style cinema" was very funny for people from "Tsoi's world". Not without reason, Soloviev, in the program "Closed Screening", timed to coincide with the film "Classmates", admitted that he "understood what Tsoi was singing about only now."

Thesis: I understand why she treated his work so coolly, and indeed, she did not treat him as a talented person - just, apparently, as an ordinary man.

Partly - yes, Natalia does not belong to the number of fans of rock music. However, with regard to her assessment of Tsoi's personality, this judgment is clearly erroneous.

A. Lipnitsky : « perhaps the main thing that she singled out in her lover and why she distances him from many people from his company, who, as she believes, just make an image against his background, is his self-esteem. It was completely unprecedented against the background of the general Soviet squalor. And she emphasizes this all the time, his self-esteem and the fact that he never stooped to the point that other musicians and people of his company allow themselves. Therefore, ononyms do not communicate.

M. Smirnova : And she told me about Tsoi that it was simply impossible not to notice him, because his intellect, his abilities were simply amazing - from playing chess, when in an hour he could be taught to play so that he began to win against everyone, to some paradoxical understanding of the essence of things. She generally perceived him as an alien. There aren’t any more and probably won’t be.”

In the program "Cult of Cinema" Natalia called him a man from nowhere, a man from the future, whole, listening to all opinions, but at the same time acting as he saw fit, smart, grasping everything on the fly. According to her, he attracted attention both here and abroad. This can hardly be called an attitude like an ordinary man.

A star called the sun

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

Even in the sad rating of outstanding poets and musicians who died early, Viktor Tsoi set a kind of record - he passed away at the age of 28, and perhaps only Lermontov, who lived two years less, was ahead of him. In that ill-fated August of the 90th, Tsoi and his five-year-old son rested in the Baltic states. Returning from fishing, he lost control, and on the 35th kilometer of the Sloka-Talsi highway near Tukums, he flew into the oncoming lane, where he collided with the Ikarus. The speed with which the "Muscovite" Tsoi was driving (130 km / h) did not leave him a single chance to survive. The blow was so strong that he was buried in a closed coffin. The examination showed that the musician was absolutely sober - according to the official conclusion of the investigation, Viktor Robertovich Tsoi simply fell asleep at the wheel ... Viktor has long been gone, but his songs are alive. Their energy is still so strong today that goosebumps run down the skin.

VICTOR TSOI'S FATHER ROBERT: "THE SON WAS ONE REAL LOVE - NATALIA: HE WANTED TO MARRY HER, BUT DID NOT HAVE TIME"

The average Soviet Tsoev family, engineer Robert Maksimovich and physical education teacher Valentina Vasilievna, could not have imagined that their only son would become a cult figure in the USSR. The boy, outwardly similar to dad, was a real mother's son - she not only loved, but also understood him like no one else. Valentina Vasilievna outlived Viktor by 19 years.

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

Childhood photos of Victor went around all the newspapers and magazines, somewhere I even saw his picture at almost a year old. When he was one year and four months old, we were forced to send our son to a nursery - his wife, Valentina Vasilievna, had to go to work, because at that time I was still a student. In the manger, Vityusha cried all the time, it was possible to calm him down only by picking him up, so he spent almost all the time in the arms of the teacher. Ros, like everyone else, did not give us much trouble. At the age of three or four, we calmly let him out on the street, where he had friends, buddies, and he disappeared for half a day. They drove him back home with difficulty.

- It is difficult to imagine Viktor Tsoi as a good boy and an excellent student. School teachers did not complain about him?

He studied averagely, there weren’t enough stars from the sky, but he didn’t roll down to twos either, he was a solid good student. Only from the eighth grade he began to get triples. But Vitya behaved well, without hooligan antics, in any case, we were never called to school. Actually, at first, his mother-teacher took him to her school. But after graduating from primary school, we transferred our son to another - closer to home, in our Moscow region. Victor was only glad of this, he did not really like being under constant maternal control.

To whom does he owe his love of music?

I think me. Since childhood, I was fond of playing the guitar and, as an adult, I often played it - however, my "performance" could hardly be called playing in the full sense of the word. And Victor listened and at the age of 10-12 he also got carried away. I showed him the first chords, and then he started playing by himself. It used to close in the bathroom and play something there, picking up a melody.

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

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

- Who would you like to see your son?

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

In an interview, Victor said: "Now my parents think that I'm doing my own thing. But, for sure, they didn't always think so." At first, did you not accept his passion for music?

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

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

- From the last place of work you, probably, did not come to special delight?

I was more upset when it didn't work at all. In those days, after all, as it was: if you don’t work somewhere, it means you’re a parasite, and they could have been imprisoned for this. And Viktor, when he was expelled from the Serov Art School "for poor progress", at first got a job as a stamper at the plant, but did not last long there, and then did not work at all for two years - he lay on the couch. His famous song "Blazard" is dedicated to that time.

I was very worried then, but my mother somehow calmly reacted to this, she never reproached him. She said: "If you don't want to, don't work. Do what your soul lies to." And his soul has always been for music. I think her maternal intuition told her that he would be good. Victor was generally closer to his mother than to me. Firstly, she spent more time with him, I constantly disappeared at work. Secondly, it's no secret that I once left the family - so to speak, the sins of youth. In general, Valyusha turned out to be right: I thought that Viktor had been doing nothing for two years, but it turned out that he had been creating all this time.

- Fame covered your son instantly ...

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

- Do you often communicate with your grandson Alexander?

Unfortunately, less often than we would like. He is 25 years old, he has his own affairs, he is not up to us. He tried to make music, like his father (someone even filmed his experiments), but without much success. But he became a great computer scientist, worked for six months in Moscow on Channel One - Konstantin Ernst invited him there. It cannot be said that he is a copy of Victor, but, of course, there are similarities. And not even so much in facial features as in manners - for example, he raises his chin just like his father. I just waved it - I don’t know who! - under two meters tall. All our relatives are simply amazed.

- Not married?

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

THE DIRECTOR OF THE FILM "NEEDLE" AND "NEEDLE. REMIX" RASHID NUGMANOV: "HE TREATS HIS Fame WITH INTEREST AND AT THE SAME TIME WITH WARNING"

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

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

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

- How do you define the genre of a new picture - a sequel, a remake, an extended version?

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

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

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

- Did Tsoi's common-law wife Natalya Razlogova take part in the work on "The Needle. Remix"?

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

Why doesn't she talk to the press?

She's just bored. In addition, Natasha herself publishes a lot, under various pseudonyms.

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

In 1987, the film "The Needle" was already in production at the film studio "Kazakhfilm": a completely different director was supposed to shoot it, but they did not accept a screen test. And when in August I arrived in Alma-Ata for the holidays after the third year of VGIK, I was unexpectedly offered to take the picture.

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

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

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

- Did you think then that the picture was waiting for such a resounding success?

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

- How long have you known Tsoi?

A total of five years - we met in the winter of 1985 in Leningrad and remained friends until his death. Perhaps, Victor seemed closed and cold to someone, but we knew him as a very open and cheerful person. I remember we often laughed during the filming of the first Needle. Strange as it may seem, the episode of Moro's meeting with a man on a railcar in the steppe turned out to be the most difficult for us. We had to take the railcar down the hill where Moro was standing over his back. But the actor's movements were so ridiculous that Victor could not help laughing. The sun was setting fast, and we weren't able to shoot a single "serious" take. In the end, I had to shoot the passage separately.

Victor did not like to be alone, but large companies of unfamiliar people did not attract him for a long time either. He preferred to have friends by his side. It is generally accepted that geniuses are not adapted to everyday life, to everyday life. In my opinion, this is a delusion. In everything that concerns life and everyday life, Victor was perfectly oriented ...

- Choi was ready for the glory that fell upon him?

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

- In your picture, the hero of Tsoi died, and many subsequently saw this as a kind of sign ...

All this is nonsense, idle fictions and grandma's superstitions. I believe that no mystical coincidences, no literary works like "The Master and Margarita" or "Macbeth" are able to influence a person's life. All these so-called "scenarios" appear in the minds of mystically inclined people after the event, in hindsight. And the reason for this is human weakness, eternal fear of the future and the transience of one's own life. In addition, the main character in "The Needle" does not die, but gets up from his knees and continues on his way.

- Having removed the "Igloo. Remix", you promised to answer the question: "Is Tsoi alive?"

For me, Victor never died.

FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE KINO GROUP, WRITER YURI BELISHKIN: "SUCH PEOPLE JUST DO NOT FALL ASLEEP WHEN DRIVING"

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

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

We kept in touch for a year and a half. I remember the first time I met Viktor... In my long life, no one else has made such an impression on me. As a rule, rock-n-rollers are not very neat people, to put it mildly, and Victor was slender, handsome, and well-groomed. If I were a woman, I would immediately fall in love with him. Still not knowing that it was Choi, I drew attention to him: wow, what an extraordinary young man is coming! And I must say that for all the time of our acquaintance with him, he did not disappoint me.

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

- They make up legends and tell stories about Victor...

The most ridiculous rumor about him that I have ever heard is that he brought Tsoi into the people: he found him in the boiler room, laundered and made him a star - his last producer, Yuri Aizenshpis. Yes, Aizenshpis worked with him only for the last six months! By that time, Victor had already assembled stadiums on his own. If he just went out into the street and said that he would sing now, a crowd of thousands of people would immediately gather around him.

- And no signs of star disease?

He had neither star disease, nor megalomania - in contrast to the representatives of the current stage, which I ardently dislike. About four years ago, the magazine, whose editor-in-chief was Leonid Parfyonov, published "triples" of prominent people from different times. The "troika" of the twentieth century included Gagarin, Vysotsky and Tsoi. Indeed, the last phenomenon in the art of the last century was Victor, and then - the abyss, emptiness.

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

He really did not attach much importance to them. He did not buy himself gold chains, seals, branded rags. No matter how pathetic it sounds, but for him the most important thing was his music. And the time was different then, "Muscovite" was considered quite a decent car. Victor bought this car with the money he received from several concerts. As it turned out later, the Muscovite had an unreliable steering system.

- If I'm not mistaken, did Tsoi then just begin a period of everyday disorder?

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

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

100 percent that this is not the case. People like Victor just don't fall asleep while driving. Unfortunately, the investigation, which was supposed to establish what really happened, was carried out superficially. Relatives and friends of Victor were so crushed by grief that they did not insist on a serious investigation. For some reason, the people who worked with him then, in particular, the same Aizenshpis, did not do this either. But there were a lot of questions to which we did not know the answers.

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

Do you want me to give you your last name? Such things are not even said to close people. How can I, not knowing you at all, trust you with this! Listen to his latest "Black Album", remember the death of Michael Jackson and draw parallels. The answer will be obvious.

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