Sergei Shnurov's wife
Matilda Shnurova, by birth Elena Mozgovaya is a rare beauty, a crazy fashionista and a laid-back businesswoman. Owns in St. Petersburg ballet school and a restaurant of Russian cuisine, where for 200 rubles you can eat bread and butter, and for 990 – beef tenderloin with kvass sauce.
They gossip about her that she is a virtuoso in bed and before the Cord she changed lovers like gloves. Actor Evgeny Tsyganov allegedly was among them.
She met the leader of Leningrad at the age of 20, and 4 years later the following happened. Matilda: “He was looking for sausage in the refrigerator, he couldn’t find it, and I helped him. And he made an offer during this search. We were both looking at the refrigerator and he said, “Let's get married.” And I say: “Of course, it’s time” (from an interview with ELLE).
This year in ideal family“the young lady and the hooligan” have two anniversaries at once - the 30th anniversary of “Buzyu” (as Sergei lovingly calls his wife) and 10 years of joint happiness.
Do you remember that once Shnurov’s friend was the young actress Oksana Akinshina?
Ilya Lagutenko's wife
Anna Zhukova, model and master of sports in rhythmic gymnastics.
And this is Nadya Skazka (Nadezhda Silenskaya), a fashion designer with whom the leader of Mumiy Troll lived for three years, from 2002 to 2005. Then she was a superstar of the Moscow elite.
Yuri Shevchuk's wife
Catherine, not a public person, about whom, in fact, nothing is known except her name. The leader of “DDT” does not advertise his personal life, only once, jokingly, he said that his wife “feeds” him so that he is “well-fed”, and that she is sometimes shocked by his “rudeness”. Journalists concluded that she is a “great cook” and “often criticizes” the musician.
In Rome at the premiere of the film “Hard to Be a God” in 2013
Ekaterina is Shevchuk’s third wife. The first, Elmira, died of cancer at age 24. The second, former Soviet and Russian actress Maryana Polteva, emigrated to Germany, changing her citizenship. Now lives in Austria.
Maryana in the 1985 film “I Want to Tell You...”
Wife of Vyacheslav Butusov
Anzhelika Estoeva, art critic
She met the leader of Nautilus on the street, she was only 18. And until that moment she knew him only by his voice - and suddenly he, in her words, “materialized.”
And it was also a shock for Angelica to find out that Butusov was married. His first wife Marina is a costume designer.
True, by the time of Butusov’s new novel, the couple lived practically separately - he with the rock party in St. Petersburg, she at home in Sverdlovsk. We met on visits. “Peter eventually divorced us: everyone began to live their own lives,” Marina recalls.
Wife of Konstantin Kinchev
Alexandra Panfilova(Panfilov is Kinchev’s last name according to his passport), journalist and art critic, daughter of the Soviet actor Alexei Loktev, famous for the film “I Walk Around Moscow.”
Armen Grigoryan's wife
Natalia Seraya, director of the Crematorium group (all photos from her Facebook)
The media knows that their marriage is unofficial. At the same time, Natalia’s Facebook status says: “divorced.”
Wife of Garik Sukachev
It’s a rare case when a rock legend lives with one woman all his life: the leader of “Brigade S” and “The Untouchables” is inseparable from Olga for 40 years now (since we met in 1975).
Garik: “I have a feeling that I was born married. I’ve been married since 1983, count how many years for yourself, and so successfully that the problem of mistresses and admirers simply does not exist for me.”
“We met when I was almost 16, and she was almost 14. I keep saying: “Olya, why the hell did I go to this skating rink? I had other plans that day.” I'm henpecked. Why have I been with her all my life, with this woman? Of course, henpecked. I think in everyone happy families, where people have lived their lives together, one way or another, the man is henpecked.”
In 2014, Garik caused a lot of gossip by attending a film premiere accompanied by a “nice young lady.” Everyone realized that this was not his wife, and assumed that the musician had finally found a new girlfriend. But she is well known to fans of Sukachev’s work: this is the fiery Lana Shemankova, keyboardist and accordionist of his groups.
Boris Grebenshchikov's wife
The leader of Aquarium stole all three of his wives from the musicians of his own group. Current Irina- ex-wife of bassist Alexander Titov.
Before her there was the artist Lyudmila Shurygina, ex-girlfriend cellist Vsevolod Gakkel.
Well, the first one is Natalya Kozlovskaya, now a mother famous actress Alisa Grebenshchikova, previously dated bassist Mikhail Fainstein.
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Olga, whom the vocalist of the group “SerGa” met at school. Sergei: “We’ve been an eyesore for each other for quite some time now, and there’s some kind of fun in that.”
Parents with their eldest son Pavel
Vladimir Shakhrin's wife
The personal life of the Chaifa leader is also connected with one woman - Elena, whom he met while studying at a technical school. Vladimir: “There is one very famous musician, a well-known polygamist who only officially married five times and four more times unofficially. I once asked him: “My friend, tell me honestly, does this make any sense?” - “You know, each next one is a little worse than the previous one.” I always remember this very well.”
Girlfriend of Andrei Makarevich
Secular gossips attribute to the 62-year-old leader of the Time Machine an affair with a 43-year-old Mashey Katz, the Russian “Lady Blues” and the queen of backing vocals - on the grounds that they have often been seen together in the last couple of years. They even wrote that he bought an apartment in Israel “for himself and his beloved.” The singer refused to comment on her personal life, but noted: “I have a great and very warm friendship with Andrei Vadimovich. I'm very proud to have him in my life."
Both Katz and Makarevich have three official marriage. The musician divorced his third wife Natalya Golub in 2010.
And Makarevich also had secret (at one time) novels: with the press attaché of “The Time Machine” Anna Rozhdestvenskaya...
...and from the legendary presenter of the Europe-plus radio station Ksenia Strizh (on the right in the photo is the DJ of the former Radio Classics Oleg Donskoy).
Vyacheslav Butusov is a Soviet and Russian rock musician, leader and vocalist of the groups Nautilus Pompilius and U-Piter. In addition, he wrote music for cult Russian films.
Childhood and youth
Vyacheslav was born in the small village of Bugach, located near Krasnoyarsk. The boy's parents are Gennady Dmitrievich and Nadezhda Konstantinovna. The family lived in Bugach for only a short time. Soon the Butusovs moved to Khanty-Mansiysk, then to Surgut, and Vyacheslav graduated from high school in Yekaterinburg. After school, the young man became a student at the local architectural institute.
At the university, Butusov met Dmitry Umetsky, with whom he would later create one of the leading Soviet rock bands. But for now the guys just spent time playing guitars and trying to compose music. The musicians even recorded their debut album almost at home.
Despite his serious passion for rock, Vyacheslav managed to graduate from college and receive higher education. Assigned as a design engineer, the young man ended up in an architectural bureau and even participated in the development appearance stations of the Yekaterinburg metro.
Music
Music attracted Butusov like a magnet. Every evening, the young man and his friends gathered at a local rock club and rehearsed for hours, honing their guitar skills and vocal timbre. Only in 1986, when the whole country learned about the Sverdlovsk group, Vyacheslav was able to fully concentrate on what he loved.
In the second half of the 90s, Vyacheslav Butusov began collaborating with director Alexei Balabanov. The director invited the musician to cameo role V social drama“Brother”, for which Vyacheslav also recorded the soundtrack. Later, the director used for the second part of the blockbuster with Sergei Bodrov Jr. leading role Butusov’s song “Gibraltar-Labrador”, which he created for the disc “Pentagonal Sin”.
The musician wrote soundtracks for a number of films - “War”, “Zhmurki”, “Needle Remix” and appeared as a cameo in a dozen documentaries and feature films.
In 2016, the artist performed on the Blue Bird project. In the finale, Vyacheslav Butusov and Vitaly Kis took the stage with show participant Maria Klimova.
Personal life
Vyacheslav Butusov got married for the first time when he still lived in Yekaterinburg. Spouse young man became an architect and costume designer Marina Dobrovolskaya. The couple met at an architectural institute and got married six months after their first meeting. The young people lived in marriage for 13 years. The couple had a daughter, Anna, in 1980.
Divorce followed when the singer had another woman. Later Marina remembered that last month before parting I was like honey. And when Slava left, his wife found a letter in the hallway in which her husband asked Dobrovolskaya to live his own life and announced a divorce. The documents at the registry office were completed quickly: when the employees saw Butusov, they did everything in one day without any questions, although according to the rules, if there is a child, a husband and wife must be divorced through the court.
The musician played his second wedding after moving to St. Petersburg. Butusov's chosen one was Anzhelika Estoeva. The future spouses met when the girl was 18 years old, and the singer turned out to be 9 years older than his lover. Then Angelica did not yet know that Vyacheslav was a star. The presence of a wife did not interfere with the developing romance: the artist said that the spiritual connection with Marina had long been lost.
Estoeva was able to make friends with Slava’s eldest daughter, Anna. The girl was nine years old at the time, and she trusted her dad’s new wife with all her secrets.
In marriage with Angelica, three children were born - daughters Sofia and Ksenia, who in 2013 made Butusov a grandfather, giving her father a granddaughter Divna, and a son, Daniil, born in 2005.
Once Vyacheslav said that he found himself when he met his second wife. Until the moment he met Angelica, the man seemed to be in a gaseous state. This is exactly how he described his life without Estoeva.
It should be noted that Vyacheslav is a creative person. In addition to music and lyrics for songs, Butusov writes poetry and prose.
In 2007, the singer published his first book, “Virgostan,” which included the musician’s stories. Then the works “Antidepressant” came out. Co-Search" and "Archiya".
In 2013, Butusov, together with Chulpan Khamatova, Andrei Makarevich and Sergei Makovetsky, performed in the charity animated project “Flying Animals”. Proceeds from the concerts went to help sick children.
Vyacheslav and his family live on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. According to Vyacheslav, this makes life very easy and helps create: strangers rarely wander into this area.
The artist also remembered his long-time passion for drawing. A collection of poems by Ilya Kormiltsev was published with illustrations created by Butusov. In one interview, Vyacheslav shared that it would be nice to become an animator or director of a choir of very young children.
At the peak of his popularity, Vyacheslav Butusov had problems with alcohol. Somehow famous artist admitted that he had almost reached the brink. Angelica said that in 10 years life together Slava realized that because of his addiction he could lose his family. Then the couple went to the temple, and this helped the singer. Now the author helps people suffering from alcoholism.
Thousands of fans follow their favorite celebrity on the social network Instagram. Vyacheslav has been running a microblog there since 2017. The artist shares personal and work photos with subscribers.
Male fans often wonder what the nationality of their idol is. According to some, Butusov looks like a gypsy. The artist himself does not talk about this. But as far as we know, Vyacheslav is Russian.
Even today, when Vyacheslav’s age has crossed the 50-year mark, fans note the beauty and attractiveness of the idol. The stately (height 173 cm, weight 68 kg) artist still attracts the attention of the fairer sex.
Vyacheslav Butusov now
The singer leads a rich creative life, performing in the capital and other cities of Russia with the repertoire of the Nautilus Pompilius group. Since creation musical group 35 years have already passed, and a number of anniversary concerts as part of a tour that lasted until the spring of 2018.
At performances that once again draw full halls and stadiums, Vyacheslav presented the collection “Goodbye, America!” With best songs"Nautilus", recorded with new versions of arrangements. In addition to the rock lineup of the group - bass guitarist Ruslan Gadzhiev, guitarist Slava Suori, drummer Denis Marinkin - the concerts include: children's choir radio and television of St. Petersburg, soloists of the vocal quartet Backin Black, trumpeter Vadim Eilenkrig and Indians with ethnic instruments. Together with pianist Ekaterina Mechetina, the musician performed two compositions - “Poor Bird” and “Golden Spot”.
In the fall of 2017, Vyacheslav Butusov visited with concert program Volgograd, in February the musician will go to Khabarovsk. Photos from the performances are posted on the official website of the Nautilus Pompilius group.
At the beginning of 2018, information was received that filming was underway for the continuation of the multi-part film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed.” Vyacheslav will play one of the key roles in the television series. In addition to Butusov, the film will star Zhenya Lyubich and artists from the Komik-Trust theater. The film will be directed by Dmitry Shagin. Dmitry, in tandem with Andrey Kuzmin, wrote the script for the project.
Discography
1983 - “Moving”
1985 - “Bridge”
1985 - “Invisible”
1986 - “Separation”
1989 - “Prince of Silence”
1990 - “At Random”
1991 - “Born on this night”
1992 - “Foreign Land”
1994 - Titanic
1995 - “The Man with No Name”
1996 - “Wings”
1997 - “Apple China”
1997 - “Atlantis”
1997 - “The Illegitimate Alchemist Doctor Faustus the Feathered Serpent”
1998 - “Ovals”
2000 - “Elisobarra-torr”
2001 - “Star Puzzle”
2001 - “Silent Games”, acoustic live album.
“became a man whose songs are the anthem of an entire generation, and he himself is a symbol of the end of the USSR era. Vyacheslav Butusov came to Yulia Menshova’s studio with his wife and the mother of his three children Anzhelika Estoeva.
Now Butusov is an exemplary family man, a father of many children: the singer, in addition to Ksenia, Sophia And Daniel, whom Angelica bore to him, there are eldest daughter from her first marriage, Anna. And in 2013, he also became a grandfather. And only now, according to the rock star, holding his granddaughter Divna in his arms, he is thinking about the topic: could he imagine 20 years ago that he would become the head of such a large family.
Butusov’s wife said that she met Vyacheslav without knowing that he was a superstar. She was only 18 years old, and, moreover, she had no idea that the singer was married. However, Angelica explained, her beloved reassured her, a girl who believed, that the spiritual connection with her first wife had long been lost.
“... I saw a man in the detached state of a space alien, wearing glasses. He took off his glasses, I saw a big black eye under his eye...” - Anzhelika Estoeva recalls meeting her future husband.
Angelica was able not only to find common language, but also make friends with the daughter of a rock legend, Anna. The girl, who was nine years old at the time, trusted her with all her secrets.
Vyacheslav Butusov and Anzhelika Estoeva
Butusov openly confesses his love to his wife, saying that he found himself only after meeting Angelica: “By the age of fifty, I realized that throughout the first half, relatively speaking, of this series, I was in some kind of gaseous state and materialized only when the this meeting. And my whole life, it turns out, was prepared for me to materialize at the moment when we met...”
Vyacheslav and his wife were generally open to communication and ready to answer all, even very uncomfortable, at first glance, questions from Yulia Menshova. About how Butusov then, at the peak of his popularity, almost reached the brink. About licentiousness, permissiveness, imaginary freedom and elements that cannot be controlled... It turns out that going on stage in front of a huge crowd of fans, everyone’s attention is, as Butusov calls it, “a disgrace.”
Vyacheslav’s wife said that after ten years of marriage, the singer came to the understanding that due to alcohol addiction he could lose her love, children, and family. And then they, holding hands, went to the temple... As a mystical and deep person, Butusov was always difficult to convince anyone of anything - he himself found the answers to all the questions and came to the truth. Now Butusov helps people suffering from alcoholism...
This time the conversation in the studio “Alone with Everyone” proceeded sedately, without scandals and exchange of barbs, which was observed the other day - in Yulia’s conversation with Lyudmila Maksakova. An atmosphere of prosperity and relative position between the guests and the presenter filled the studio. Only now the audience is already divided in opinion. Some write that the program was not with Butusov, but with Angelica, and that it was boring. Others say that Butusov and his wife are bright and pure, integral and multifaceted people who were very interesting to listen to.
Vyacheslav Butusov - famous rock musician and vocalist legendary group"Nautilus Pompilius". He is also the founder of the U-Piter group. The biography of Vyacheslav Butusov will be discussed in our article.
Childhood
The biography of Vyacheslav Butusov says that he was born in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the small village of Bugach, on October 15, 1961. Since childhood he was interested in music. In the fourth grade, he persuaded his parents to buy him his first guitar, which was very difficult to get at that time. However, the parents, despite the difficulties, wanted to help develop their child’s talent and did everything possible to find a guitar for him. But they could never have imagined that this instrument would become the basis for his famous future.
In his last grades, Vyacheslav Butosov, whose biography is discussed in the article, really wanted to go to his native Krasnoyarsk, but his parents did not let him go, but the musician, without listening to them, collected all the certificates from the school and left. He soon returned from there because he was disappointed in his friends, who began to drink and smoke. He had completely different interests and goals that he could not realize there.
Until the ninth grade, his family often had to move to different cities in Siberia because of his father’s work. The future musician graduated from school in Surgut.
Vyacheslav Butusov: biography, youth
Having moved to Sverdlovsk (currently Yekaterinburg), Vyacheslav entered the Institute of Architecture. The singer found it easy to study, he could easily complete any task, he drew and drew wonderfully. During his studies, Butusov was involved in the design of the Sverdlovsk metro station.
At the institute, the musician became friends with Dmitry Umetsky (member of Nautilus Pompilius). They were both interested in music from childhood, and often played together in college. There Vyacheslav met the now famous poet and musician Ilya Kormiltsev. It was with them that he began his musical career and released his first professional album.
At the institute, Butusov meets his first love, whom he soon marries.
Music career
The biography of Vyacheslav Butusov told us that in 1983 future star Together with Umetsky, he recorded his first album entitled “Moving,” but it did not gain much popularity. Two years after meeting Kormiltsev, they released their second album, “Invisible,” which, unlike “Moving,” was made at a professional level.
Together with the musician, he created another group in parallel with “Nautilus Pompilius” - “Step”. They released the album "Bridge" in 1985, which was re-released in 1999 as solo album Butusova.
In 1986, Vyacheslav, Dmitry and Ilya recorded another record, called “Separation,” which made their group famous. Local newspapers and magazines began to write about Nautilus Pompilius, and cassettes with their work flew off the shelves. They continued their activities for another ten years.
In 1997, Vyacheslav Butusov, the biography whose personal life is presented to your attention in the article, began independent musical activity. In the same year, together with the former guitarist of the Kino group, he recorded another album, “Illegitimate.” A year later, in 1998, his solo album, called “Ovals,” was released. At the same time, he recorded a song for the film “Brother-2”, where he also starred in a cameo role.
In 1999, he collaborated with Boris Grebenshchikov and took part in the creation of the Terrarium project.
In 2000, Butusov, together with Dead-ears, released the album Elisobarra-torr, which combined the styles of rock and electronic music. A year later, the musician, together with the Kino group, recorded an album called “Star Puzzle”. Later he formed the group “U-Piter”, which consisted of the guitarist “Kino”, former members"Aquarium" and "Caught Anteaters". The group released its first single in 2001, and in 2003 a full-length album. In 2004, the group released another album, called “Biography”
In June 2008, U-Piter released the album “Mantis,” and in 2010, “Flowers and Thorns.”
The group released its latest, fifth album in February 2015. Its name is “Gudgora”.
Writer's career
The biography of Vyacheslav Butusov is rich and interesting. He also tried himself as a writer. His trilogy was released in 2007. The first is “Verika”, this is an everyday tale, then “Conditions”, the so-called guide to everyday conditions, and the last everyday novel is “Virgostan”. The books were published in small editions, but gained great popularity. A couple of months later, the musician, together with Nikolai Yakimchuk, wrote another book called “Antidepressant. Co-Seeking.” Four years later, another book, “Archiya,” was written.
Awards
Butusov received his first award in 1989, it was the Lenin Komsomol Prize for his work “Nautilus Pompilius”.
In 2004, he won the Golden Gramophone thanks to the song “Girl Around the City,” which is still popular today.
In 2005, the singer was awarded the Muz-TV Prize for his great contribution to Russian rock music.
In 2007, Vyacheslav received the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize for his creative contribution.
Movies
In 1987, he starred in the short film “There Was a Different Time Before,” at the same time he was offered a small role in a science fiction film by Vladimir Khotinenko called “Mirror for the Hero.”
A year later, in 1988, Butusov appeared in a cameo role in documentary film“Rock from Russia” and in the film “Sickle and Guitar”.
In 1989, Vyacheslav played in one episode in the short film “Nastya and Egor”, and received the role of a passenger in “Sleeping Car”.
In 1997, the musician was offered a role in the popular film “Brother,” for which he wrote the soundtrack. In 2000, he wrote the music for the second part of the film.
In 2002, he created tracks for the film “War”. Also in 2005, he wrote a song for the film “Zhmurki”, and in 2010 for “Needle Remix”.
In 2008, Butusov starred in the film “Day of Oil”. In all films, the actor played himself.
Vyacheslav Butusov: biography, family, personal life
Butusov first got married during his final years at the architectural institute; his wife was fellow student Marina Dobrovolskaya. Soon, in 1980, they had a daughter, Anya. But for almost the entire marriage, the couple lived separately, she hometown Yekaterinburg, and he was in St. Petersburg, this was the reason for their divorce.
Family, whose personal life is interesting to all his fans, met his second wife, art critic Anzhelika Estoeva, in St. Petersburg. She was eighteen years old when they met. Angelica and Vyacheslav accidentally ran into each other on the street; she recognized him only by his voice. Then the young girl fell in love with the musician almost at first sight. They still live together and are happily married. The couple have three children. In 1991, their daughter Ksenia was born, who recently gave her parents a grandson. After 8 years, Butusov and Angelica gave birth to Sofia, and in 2005 a boy, Daniil, was born.
Butusov Vyacheslav Gennadievich (b. 1961) – Russian rock musician, leader and vocalist of the groups “Nautilus Pompilius” and “U-Piter”, writer.
Childhood
Slava was born on October 15, 1961 in the suburb of Krasnoyarsk - the village of Bugach. In those years, grandiose construction was underway in Siberia, and Butusov’s parents, on Komsomol tickets, went there to build a hydroelectric power station, where they met.
Vyacheslav spent his childhood against the backdrop of this gigantic construction site. He calls these years beautiful, he remembers big house barracks type, in the middle of the yard there is a huge tree. Now, when he looks at his childhood photos, the musician experiences a feeling of some kind of infinity. The barracks where they lived, the dirt and poverty all around, and everyone’s faces glowed with happiness.
Butusov has lived for more than half a century, but, according to him, he regularly returns to the happy moments of his childhood; for him it’s like a short vacation. Only in these moments can one feel a state of absolute joy and divine touch.
It cannot be said that Slava was overly kind; his father never coddled him. But dad has such a soul-saving ability that his son, both in childhood and as an adult, could take off all his armor next to him and exhale.
As a boy, he dreamed of becoming an Indian. He had everything to make his dream come true - arrows and a bow, trousers with fringes, a hair feather, moccasins, a tomahawk and a photograph of the Yugoslav film actor Gojko Mitic, who always played Indians in films.
Among his childhood sports hobbies, hockey occupied the main place; Vyacheslav really liked this sport, and in the winter he often played the puck with the boys. But his mother took him and enrolled him in art school. The boy took it for granted and did not particularly resist. He began to draw, and was happy about it, because he discovered a completely different world for himself.
School years
Vyacheslav was raised as a law-abiding child, so school years he showed no rebellious spirit. Because of his father’s profession, the family often had to move from one city to another, so Butusov changed several schools while receiving secondary education - in Surgut, Khanty-Mansiysk, Krasnoyarsk. For the child's psyche, these moves were not very useful; each time the boy had to join in new team, get used to the new environment. But, on the other hand, this helped expand his horizons, which stimulated his imagination.
He grew up as an enthusiastic child, and if the school teacher was interesting to him as a person, then Slava taught his subject well. But what he was not good at was memorizing poetry from literature. And then he began to compose himself. Young Butusov had an agreement with the teacher; she allowed him not to learn poems from school curriculum by heart in exchange for Slava reading the lyrics in class own composition. This is how the first texts written by Vyacheslav appeared.
When Butusov was in ninth grade, his family once again moved, now to Sverdlovsk (now the city of Yekaterinburg). Here he graduated from school and received a certificate. By this time, Vyacheslav had already begun to slowly become interested in music, listening to the radio stations “Yunost” and “Voice”. His main passion was the band Led Zeppelin, whose records he began listening to when they bought him a tape recorder in the seventh grade. And when in high school his parents gave Slava a guitar, he little by little began to compose his own music and even put together school group"BIGVIRUS".
Development musical abilities Vyacheslav was also helped by the fact that his mother worked at the Philharmonic. The guy had the opportunity to regularly attend concerts of popular Soviet performers of that time. The first domestic rock performers that Butusov heard live were Alexander Gradsky’s group “Skomorokhi”. He still remembers the shock they caused the audience by appearing on stage with disheveled hair and rumpled clothes.
Institute
To continue his further studies, Slava chose the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute. Student life began with a trip to the autumn potato harvest. Each workday of the youth ended with evening gatherings around the fire, where they took turns playing the guitar. Vyacheslav played the tunes of the group " The Rolling Stones,” but he didn’t know the words, so he muttered something not entirely intelligible under his breath. Nevertheless, the guys listened to him with their mouths open.
Already in 1979, in his first year, Vyacheslav met fellow student Dmitry Umetsky. The guys were united by their passion for music, they began to get together and play together in the evenings. It turned out that Vyacheslav good voice, and Dmitry is almost fluent in English and has a whole collection of foreign records. The guys played what they knew and what they were able to pick up. From domestic groups they preferred “Time Machine”, Konstantin Nilsky and “Sunday”, from foreign ones - “Led Zeppelin”.
Five student years, the very atmosphere in the creative university became euphoria, some kind of bliss for Butusov. The institute's aura nourished him, he found his bearings in it, lived and breathed easily. Despite the fact that after the first year Butusov was married and had a child, he had enough for everything - for his family and his studies. At the same time, he made sure to find time for creativity and always went to rehearsals with the guys.
Closer to receiving their diploma, Butusov and Umetsky began to write their own songs, which led to the recording of the amateur album “Moving” in 1983. In the same year, Vyacheslav and Dmitry made a significant acquaintance with the poet Ilya Kormiltsev.
Immediately after receiving his diploma, Vyacheslav got a job as an architect at a design institute. Together with his colleagues, he was involved in the development of the Sverdlovsk metro. And in the evenings they continued rehearsing with Dmitry in the city rock club. And then the idea of creating his own rock band came to Butusov’s head. First you had to buy good guitar. To purchase it, Vyacheslav’s wife pawned all her gold jewelry in a pawnshop.
"Nautilus Pompilius"
In 1985, Butusov, Umetsky and Kormiltsev recorded their first professional album, called “Invisible”. And the following year, 1986, the same trio recorded a record called “Separation,” with the release of which began the triumphant march across the vastness of the USSR of the rock group “Nautilus Pompilius.”
Their official date of creation is considered to be 1982-1983, when Butusov and Umetsky worked on their first album “Moving”. Since that time, both the composition of the group and their musical style.
And after the record “Separation” literally scattered across a huge Soviet Union, the group not only thundered throughout the country, it covered it with “nautilus mania.” Now the musicians have realized that they cannot engage in creative work casually; they need a professional approach. It was very difficult to make such a decision, but Butusov still quit his job. From that day all my later life he devoted himself to music. Dmitry Umetsky did the same.
Both musicians had children growing up in their families, they needed a stable income, and so began a series of endless tours around the country. On stage they were completely new - in quasi-military uniform, with expressive, but stingy plasticity. They challenged the gray, flawed and ordinary everyday life. The musicians diffused an atmosphere of intoxicating freedom among their fans.
There is hardly a person from the generation of the late 80s - early 90s of the twentieth century who would not have heard or themselves sung “Nautilus” compositions:
- “Pea grains” (clap-clap);
- "Doctor of your body";
- “I want to be with you”;
- "Bound by one chain";
- "Casanova";
- "Khaki ball";
- "Prince of Silence";
- "Apostle Andrew";
- "Lonely Bird"
The success was deafening, and in Russia the birth of show business was just beginning, which led to disagreements in the team. The composition changed feverishly, and quarrels began. All this led to Umetsky leaving the group in 1988. Vyacheslav made an attempt at reconciliation, they even began work on the album “The Man with No Name,” but disagreements continued, and in 1989 the group’s breakup was announced.
In the same year, Butusov, Umetsky and Kormiltsev were awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize. Kormiltsev, for ideological reasons, categorically refused it, since at one time the Komsomol organization caused rock musicians many unpleasant moments, and now receiving a reward from it was unacceptable. Butusov did not appear at the presentation of the prize, but transferred it partially to the Soviet Peace Fund, and the second part to the Sverdlovsk orphanage. Umetsky came for the prize and took the money.
After this, Vyacheslav moved to the northern capital Leningrad and formed new line-up groups. Fans of the former Nautilus Pompilius were skeptical, and the first performances were disastrous. But soon new albums “At Random” (1990) and “Foreign Land” (1992) were released, thereby Vyacheslav proved that the new team was creatively established. The new compositions became no less hits than the songs of “Nautilus Pompilius” of the late 80s:
- "Goodbye America";
- “On the Bank of the Nameless River”;
- "Walking on Water";
- "Labrador, Gibraltar";
- "Black Birds"
In 1996, the group recorded their last album, “Yablokitai”. In June 1997, at the state concert hall"Russia" held a concert with symbolic name“The Last Voyage”, after which they went on a farewell tour around the country and ceased to exist.
"Jupiter"
In 2001, Vyacheslav Butusov and guitarist of the Kino group Yuri Kasparyan founded new rock band"Jupiter". They performed songs by the groups “Kino”, “Nautilius Pompilius”, as well as new original material.
The group has released several albums, greatest hits became the compositions “Song of the Walking Home” and “Girl Around the City”, which received the Golden Gramophone award in 2004.
“U-Peter” existed for fifteen years; in the fall of 2016, it celebrated its anniversary with a big concert in Moscow. Then a long Siberian-Ural tour took place, at the last concert in Chelyabinsk the termination was announced musical activity team.
Personal life
Vyacheslav met his first wife Marina Dobrovolskaya in his first year at the institute. They went to the collective farm together as freshmen. Marina loved to listen to Butusov sing with a guitar in the evenings. Returning from the collective farm, they began dating and soon lived together.
Soon, grief happened in Marina’s family: hooligans on the street attacked her dad and hit him on the head, perhaps this was due to his professional activity, since he worked as a judge. Vyacheslav all this time, while Marina’s father was in the hospital, was next to her and her mother, supported, and then decided organizational issues at the funeral. A month after her father was buried, Marina realized that she was pregnant. In January 1980, she and Vyacheslav got married, his parents helped organize a luxurious wedding.
And in the summer their daughter was born. At first, Butusov jokingly suggested calling the girl the Olympics, since she was born right in the midst of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. But then they decided to give their daughter the name Anna, and among themselves they affectionately called her Little Butusik.
However, this relationship was not destined to last long. After thirteen years of living together, Marina and Vyacheslav divorced.
Having moved to Leningrad, Butusov met his second wife Anzhelika Estoeva. They got married in 1990. This marriage turned out to be happy; the couple already celebrated their silver wedding. Angelica gave Vyacheslav three children:
- in 1991, daughter Ksenia;
- in 1999, daughter Sophia;
- in 2005 son Daniel.
Now Vyacheslav Butusov is a happy grandfather. His daughter Ksenia got married and at the end of 2013 pleased her parents with a wonderful granddaughter with interesting name Divna.
Vyacheslav does not live in St. Petersburg itself, but in its suburb - Pushkin. Leads the life of a calm, balanced and wise person. He took up the pen and wrote the books: “Virgostan”, “Antidepressant. Co-Search", "Archiya".