Marina shamshonkova, the director of Mikhail Krug's concert programs, recalled about Mikhail Krug. Around the circle. Forty Years of Life and Forty Days After Death A Short Guide to Memorial Sites

The round date is covered with sadness, but at the same time with a certain solemnity. Despite the fact that almost 10 years have passed since the singer's death, he is still remembered, his songs are still heard, his work is still loved.

Igor Poleitsev, director of the Art-Siyanie concert agency:

I knew Mikhail when he was just starting his creative career. These were the 80s. We were buddies, I went on tour with him a couple of times. Then Misha sang with Katya Shubkina, she worked for him as a backing vocalist, and Igor Barmanov was the constant sound engineer. As I remember, he was always the soul of the company, he knew many anecdotes.

Even in the 80s he was well received at concerts. It is difficult to talk about some special audience. Everyone listened to the circle: students, brothers, and women. I especially remember how he became a star literally overnight, when 1000 discs were printed and distributed in kiosks. In the morning, Mikhail Krug had already sounded all over Tver.

Denis Chernykh, head of the traffic police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tver region:

In 2002, a video was filmed in Tver for the 65th anniversary of the formation of the service State traffic inspectorate in Russia . The idea of creation belonged to the "Patrol Service" program. She did the filming.

In the story, on the Moscow-Peter highway, traffic police officers listen to the music of Mikhail Krug in a patrol car. However, they notice a violation on the highway and, stopping the car, see that the Circle itself is driving ... It goes without saying that they recognize him ..

I was then offered to play just an employee of the State Traffic Inspectorate. I didn’t refuse. And then and now I like to listen to the songs of this artist when I am driving a car.

Leonid Teleshev, close friend of Mikhail Krug, singer:

He was eccentric, yes. Strict, but at the same time with huge soul... He could suddenly scream, but he was the first to ask for forgiveness. Despite all the controversy, he was very human.

Misha has always been his own for everyone. He did not divide people into crime bosses or not, and he behaved equally with everyone.

Vitaly Shamshonkov, director of the "Poputchik" group, where Mikhail Krug sang from 1998 to 2002:

He was an extremely talented person, very hard-working. Thanks to him, there was always order in the team and there were no liberties. He was very fond of humor and he himself loved to joke.

Misha always wanted a quiet life. When Irina appeared in his life, and they were expecting a child, he changed a lot. I became calm and turned a blind eye to problems. It was evident that he was comfortable and very happy. If he was alive now, he would definitely continue to sing and would be among the leaders of the stage. V last years he was drawn to the lyrics, "adult" songs, as he called them: about eternal, love, life.

Igor Yaroslavtsev, admirer of Mikhail Krug's talent:

In the 80s I was a regular in Tver restaurants. It was cheap, and the lifestyle was like that. I remember how Krug, then a beginner singer, grew into a professional before our eyes. At one of the concerts in "Lazurny" I could not resist and strummed his guitar. So I almost got it. Mikhail stamped his foot like that, I remembered it for a long time.

Marina Shamshonkova, concert director of the "Hitcher" group:

The audience loved him because he loved the audience. There was never: "I went out - listen to me!" He took the audience from the first song, and you could feel it. I think his sincerity is hard to learn. It was innate.

It is difficult to say who listened to him the most. Everyone found something about himself in his songs. Once a very old woman came backstage and thanked Misha for the song "Vladimirsky Central". At that time, there were many political people who did not agree with the existing system and were imprisoned unjustly. Her husband was sitting there just under this article.

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On April 7, Mikhail Krug would have turned 50 years old.Oleg ZINCHENKO, Irina TARASOVA

Forty years of life
And forty days after death

M ihail Krug could have died in a car accident.
Drown. Die of a heart attack.
The only thing that did not threaten him was
violent death status of the most popular
The artist was better protected than service
safety of the president. Everyone thought so.
This is probably why what happened to
July night, caused such a shock to everyone.
Those who loved the Circle, those who did not love him,
even those who knew his name only from the column
incidents in the newspaper. This is probably why
Mikhail's relatives still cannot come to their senses and refuse to communicate
with journalists. And the singer's friends and acquaintances
talk about him with tears in their eyes,
this is not an exaggeration - it is true.

Katya OGONEK, singer:

He was very worried about how to adequately convey his work to the public. It happened that the sound engineer confused the backing tracks, the light was installed in a wrong way - it was very upsetting for him, because such trifles formed an opinion about the artist. After all, for the viewer it is not "the lighting (or sound engineer) is to blame", but "the artist made a bad concert." Once it happened, the organizers dragged Mishin's concert very long. I don’t remember exactly, but it seems that something was wrong with the equipment. People in the hall waited for almost an hour for Misha to come out. And he rushed backstage, swore, was nervous, several times tried to go out to the microphone - he was told: no, not ready ... He was very worried. And the people in the audience were worried. But, surprisingly, when he went on stage, he was received perfectly, as if this one hour waiting was not there.

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA, director of concert programs of Mikhail Krug:

Due to my activity, I very often attended concerts, and not only at the Circle. There is such a concept in show business - "take the hall". Many singers did it from the second or third song. And Misha went on stage, said: "Hello." And that's all - his hall. He loved the audience. Such an extraordinary energy came from him. Many came just to listen to Mikhail. Not to watch the show, but to listen. If after the concert we were in no hurry to get to the station, Misha spent hours signing autographs. How many people fit, so many will sign. I considered it disrespectful to refuse.

Leonid, friend:

I was the first to hear most of Misha's songs. In his house there is a luxurious bathroom, large, with armchairs. I came to him, let's sit and have some tea. "Well, let's go," he says. And we went up to this room. He took the guitar and began to sing ... "Well, how?" I did not remake the songs later. Only in one, I remember, the words changed - "We drink vodka, pour vodka." It was already recorded, but Misha rewrote it with "The Pearl Brothers" and changed a few words - I was even surprised.
I have a house in the village. Quite far from Tver. How many normal songs were born there. Misha came there, rested, took a steam bath, immediately took a guitar, began to hum something.
Once Misha showed me the first lines of "Vladimir Central". "Mish, - I say, - this is such ... crap" (we both swore obscenities with him). He: "Ah! You don't understand anything!" We had a fight. And the song became famous. Then I was present at the studio when it was recorded. And then I already began to understand her. I even advised Misha something. It was my idea with backing vocals - so that Timur would prescribe the backing. I am a musician myself (I don’t say "in the past", because there is no person in the past), I played the guitar and sang too. But at first "Vladimirsky Central" did not understand. And Misha had a flair for songs. He knew how to build what, he sat inside and out at the studio, told everyone: here you have to sing like this, play like this ...

Vadim TSYGANOV:

I can say that Vika has a very warm relationship with Misha. They began to chat right away, heart to heart, and at first the commercial side came out on top. At the same time, our alliance with him was developing interesting, because Misha himself considered himself a producer, like me. And at first the discrepancies were powerful, because I saw everything a little differently, but still we worked together, it even seems to me that I more often yielded to him. If I made any decisions on my own, he met it with hostility. Or I could, for example, tell him sharply: Misha, this is not a hit. And he was a touchy person, he dropped his guitar and said that then he would not sing any more. He was very touchy, but cooled down quickly. So the character was difficult, but at the same time, as an Orthodox person, he knew how to forgive. Even if they quarreled, he said: "Vadka, you know how I feel about you." He knew how to smile, joke. In fact, he opened up to me just two months before that, when I learned that he spent a lot of money on the construction of temples and schools. This shocked me.

TROFIM, singer:

His songs did not leave anyone indifferent. I have friends for whom the thug language is very close. So they really liked how Misha could express himself on it. They said that they had never heard such a beautiful language. Not a prison fenya, but an intelligent one. Unique. And Mikhail did it easily. In general, he was a very talented stylist.

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:

Some ran into Misha, they say, he was not in prison, so he has no right to sing such songs. And at one concert he was asked a question about this. He replied: "Well, I did not sit. Yes. And Daniel Defoe, by the way, wrote about the sea, but was not a sailor."

Katya OGONEK:

There were many different things in my life. Both the prison and the zone. But Mishka never sat. But he sang about it. And, you know, it didn’t irritate me at all. Vice versa. I think it's brilliant when a person can sing about something that he has not seen, and so, what a soul he takes! After all, Vysotsky has wonderful songs about the Great Patriotic War.
Misha and I met when we worked with him in one concert in St. Petersburg. “It's time for you, Katya, to meet Misha,” said Sasha Fru-min. And he took me to his dressing room before the concert. To be honest, I was even a little scared. She knew: Misha is a domineering person with character. In addition, he was already known then, and I, one might say, a beginner. Well, I think it will be now. But I did not see any pathos. And I saw a cultured, correct, benevolent person. Misha made me quite warm. I was surprised. Joyful returned home to Moscow. Everyone wanted to tell: I met Misha Krug.

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:

Misha's tour requirements were minimal. No tyranny. In the room - hot water and a bed. No "suite" - okay. Tea, still water in the dressing room. Well, when they went to eat, so that there were no onions and garlic in the dishes. But this is not just some kind of whim, he was allergic to these products, but also to tomatoes and red peppers. As he smelled them, he began to choke and tears from his eyes. Once we arrived in the city, and there only one room remained in a good hotel - all the foreigners occupied. Misha was accommodated there, and the rest were simpler in the hotel. He was indignant: "I want with everyone. Why did you put me in a separate place! And how to play dominoes?" I told him: "Misha, you know, the numbers here are not very good." - "So what? We'll play dominoes anyway." And he moved to us. Gambling was. She freaks out when she loses. Throw the chips, leave. But it quickly departs. We always played in tandem with him, he would reprimand: "Marin, well, you look at me! You watch what I walk about."

Vlad SAVOSIN, accordion player, "Hitcher" group:

Mikhail played dominoes gorgeous. Again, chess. During the tour: after concerts or on the way, on the train. The road was long, but Misha didn't really like airplanes - not only he was afraid to fly, his pressure was rising. We played charades and games. Misha was a cheerful and cheerful person.

Igor RYBAKOV, classmate:

Together with Misha we studied from the first to the eighth grade. Sometimes they sat at the same desk, sometimes both were kicked out of class. Our class was divided in half: "Germans" and "British". So we were "Germans" with him. For some reason, it was in the lesson German language Misha loved to sing his songs. Silence. The teacher reads some text aloud. Suddenly he whispers: "Would you like to sing a song? Just composed" - "Come on" And Mikhail incrementally: "Kirimindyrs - Kirimindyrs. Kirimindyrs - Kirmanda". The teacher slowly raises her eyes from the textbook ... The girls look first at me, then at Misha. "And now the translation:" The sun rises over the country of the Yellow River. The Chinese go to the fields. "All:" Ha-ha-ha. "Teacher:" Sparrows! (it is his real surname) Get out of class! "This is how we learned German." Four "is the highest mark.

Marina BATURINA:

He sat at a desk right in front of me. After school, I constantly remembered: "You didn't let me cheat." I laughed it off: "Yeah, I didn't." Yes, I myself tried to write off someone. Misha, although he did not go to the honors, was a leader by nature. He was a person. I could directly, in the eyes, express everything to both peers and teachers. Once we had a school "light" and we collected money for tea drinking, for cakes. And not all donated money. And everyone came. And Misha, right at the table, said: "Why did I hand over the money, but such and such did not hand over it, but he still sits at the table and eats?" Bear - he was very fair, did not tolerate injustice.

Vlad SAVOSIN:

Mikhail was strict in his work. I could have fined. For the cause. And none of the musicians took offense at him - a normal working moment. There was no despotism. There was discipline. Each of the musicians had something to advise in terms of work. And Mikhail listened. But the decisions were made only by himself. As a leader in charge of the final musical product. There were, of course, creative disputes. But they were resolved peacefully. And you thought, like in "Funny Fellows": "This phrase is played like this"?

Irina Petrovna LYUBIMOVA (worked with the Circle in the convoy):

Misha was a hot-tempered person. He loved very much to have everything as he said. He could raise his voice, slam the door, quarrel with the authorities. He never yelled at me. In general, I tried not to swear in front of women. We had such a deputy general director on traffic safety. A mischievous man. And he had three mechanics as assistants. He constantly forced them to do something for his personal car. Either pump up the wheels, then fix something. And suddenly one day a newspaper appears on our blackboard. It depicts this boss and three mechanics who are pulling wheels to his car. And so everything is similar. It turned out to be Misha's work. He did not hide it. Uncle tore this newspaper, crumpled it up, threw it on my table. Of course, there was no scandal - you cannot punish for that. But after all, not everyone dares to make fun of the authorities. I kept that newspaper for a long time, glued it piece by piece, and then, when we moved, threw it away. In vain.
He was the life of the party. Never whined. An optimist in life. And then he began to study music more and more seriously. To go to Moscow. This, of course, was not approved, caused ridicule among others. They even laughed at him openly: "Here, Mishka began to sing!"

Leonid:

I knew him well even before the army - I walked in the area where he lived. And after the army, in the 90s, we already became close friends. At that time, few still understood that something needed to be done, for the most part they lived with old, communist views, trying to keep their place. Misha worked in a convoy, but he seriously thought about the fact that he needed to do something in his creativity. Since then, we have begun to communicate. And help each other. In creativity and in life. It is no secret that Misha was famed for his second album, Zhigan-Lemon. I participated in his recording. In the sense that I was already in commerce, and Misha was still working. The album was recorded at a studio in Tver, Misha quit his job, and the tour slowly began.

Anatoly DNEPROV:

We met Mikhail several years ago, in one of the nightclubs, where many performers working in the chanson genre performed. Backstage a guy came up to me, introduced himself as Misha Krug, gave me his cassette and asked me to listen. Many people who work in this genre come up to me, bring cassettes, ask me to give my opinion. Because everyone considers me to be one of the founders of chanson, but I believe that I have nothing to do with this, that's for sure. My opinion was also important to Mikhail. At the same time, there was no way out on television or on the radio, young guys were not allowed anywhere at all, but I still played songs somewhere. Misha and I did not communicate very closely, but I did not feel that he was somehow withdrawn, in any case. He was just like me - he was not afraid to say everything he thinks in the face. In this I found something right.

Irina Petrovna LYUBIMOVA:

Few believed that he would succeed. It seems to me because of envy. He began to do business that was unusual for many. As I already said, we had a company, which included Mishin's immediate boss. He approached him like a friend, asked for time off to go somewhere on his musical business. And he at one point stopped letting him go. And then Misha waved his hand. After all, at that time he received good money - more than 300 rubles, but he went nowhere. Made up my mind. His act then surprised many. There was a scandal, they wanted to fire him under the article. Because Misha still left on his own business, and they put him on truancy for this. But he himself quit, by on their own... After all, it was convenient for him to work as a driver. Not bad permanent earnings, growth perspective, respect. How could he know that success awaits him on the new path. Misha took a big risk. And I was worried about this. But he was an independent man, accustomed to being responsible for his actions. Then his cassettes began to appear. Many were proud that he had risen. Some, on the contrary, were jealous. But Misha did not change with the advent of popularity. Recently, the guys and I recalled how he met the very boss who wanted to fire him under the article near the bakery. He was so cheerful, bought a cake. Misha himself approached him and told him that his son was born. But he could come up and recall old grievances or even pretend not to notice. After all, we were left there, far behind. Who are we to him? And in the convoy he came to us. True, less and less - there was not enough time for everything.

Galina PANKRATOVA, classmate:

Misha hasn't changed at all. What it was 20 years ago, it has remained the same. The same plump, calm, simple. Once he gave a concert at our school 39 (I teach there). As a local teacher, she decided to look into the director's office and look at the celebrity. And Misha was waiting for the start of the concert there, when the guys gathered in the hall. "Oh, Gal, come in." - "Do you recognize me? We haven't seen that much." - "You were a pebble. Pebble and remained." Then they shot a movie about him. Also in our school. Misha took me in an armful, and while they were interviewing him, I stood next to him - he did not let go. On the street met: "Hello" - "Hello" And that's all. He left after the eighth grade, and we somehow parted with him. I talked more with those with whom I studied in the ninth or tenth. And when they met with him, they talked about life, like all former classmates, who where, like in a family, etc.

Alexander FRUMIN:

There are very few people in the world who are strong inside. Here is a person who has gained popularity, began to make money, and it does it to others. Let's not say that it corrupts, it just changes. This is especially true for people of public professions: artists, musicians, TV presenters. And Mikhail Vorobyov did not become like that. He appreciated immensely that he was once recognized as the best author of Tver at the author's song contest in 1987. The jury was chaired by our St. Petersburg bard Evgeny Klyachkin. By the way, this tragic song "Day as Day" is dedicated to the memory of Klyachkin. And then in some of the newspapers they wrote that this song became a requiem for Mikhail himself. This is not true.

Mikhail SHELEG, singer, publicist:

He communicated with us quite calmly without any arrogance characteristic of many, favored by fame and fans. He talked very funny about filming a movie. He played the role of crime boss, thief in law Viktor Petrovich in the film by Konstantin Murzyanko "April". He told me what a dreary occupation it was: six hours of make-up, twenty minutes of filming. And you only need to say two phrases, which for some reason do not climb into my head. We also talked about Shansone. The circle said that he organized his own direction in music, which is called the "Russian genre". He said: "Now all the albums will be released only in such a series. Moreover, we will receive the artists at a meeting. We must already separate this tinsel, which is rushing into chanson. Let them be chanson musicians, and we will work in the Russian genre."

Katya OGONEK:

We were brought together by the similarity of characters. As far as work is concerned, I am a tough person. And Michael was like that. He gave himself to work one hundred percent and demanded the same from others. V he could not be "tired", "ill", "bad". That is, of course, it used to happen that you came to him before the concert, and he: "Oh, Katya, my throat hurts, I don't know how I'm going to work now" ... But I went on stage, and it was as if someone had waved a magic wand: not sick throat, no fatigue. Due to his poor health, he could not cancel the concert. Because he loved his audience and could not deceive their expectations. Misha was a workaholic. I respect him for that. He lived his work, was proud of it. I'm sure he would never go after the song to sell something, to do business like others. If not for this tragedy, he would have been singing all his life, he would not have changed his profession.

Leonid:

They came to Misha with different projects: let's invest money here and there. But he was not a businessman, he was well versed in music, but he was not a businessman, and he went to consult me. I said: "Misha, the market has been divided for a long time. And so-and-so know them. If you want to go out, go to them." And he got started: "Come on, Lesh, you always start." I explain: "This project is deliberately dead-end, it's like taking and

just throw the money away. Buy equipment, recruit people - and there are not so many good specialists in Tver - and nothing will be obtained. " music He took it very seriously.

Vlad SAVOSIN:

I recorded all the albums with Misha. We met at some kind of musical get-together. I worked in one restaurant-type establishment as an accordion player. And Mikhail came there to visit a friend who worked there as a security guard. This acquaintance knew that Mikhail was participating in competitions, in festivals of author's songs. Well, he introduced us - sort of like colleagues. During the evening, Mikhail and I played several songs together, he immediately offered to perform with him at an amateur song contest, which was soon held in Tver. Since this all started. At one time we were three of us - the third was Volodya Ovcharov. Then Misha started bringing in other musicians. Heard the guitarist - brought him. Colleagues advised him of a good violinist - Viktor Chilimov. So, gradually, after a year and a half, the "Fellow traveler" group was formed - six people. The composition then changed several times, for all the time in the "Hitcher" worked about twenty people. But this happens in many teams.

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:

I have been working with Mikhail for 6 years. Yes, he is demanding - this is what I say as a director, but demanding is fair and logical. He loved order, so that everything was clear. Sometimes he would get angry and scold. But he was quick-witted, did not use foul language. In the collective we had a dry law. They were invited to sit at every concert. Imagine what these gatherings could result in, and the next day a concert, another city. One musician is no longer working for us. Somehow he really wanted beer. "If you want - drink." The guys warned him that our beer is expensive, but he did not understand. Got drunk, none in the morning. I did everything badly at the concert. And the beer cost him the cost of the concert. So we have it really expensive. But next time he didn't want more. In general, Misha brought together wonderful guys. Workaholic. Nobody was late, everyone tried.

Mikhail GULKO, singer:

I remember being very interesting moment... I then visited him in Tver. The night is deep. After the concert we came home, had supper and went to rest. Suddenly a call: "Misha, help me out!" His friends drank a little, and the police stopped them in this state. Well, Misha, let's get together to the rescue, and he himself swears, but in a kind, fatherly way. I went with him. Center of Tver. Cars are standing, traffic cops, his men are guilty faces. Suddenly Misha whispers to me: "Uncle Misha, sign the records to the traffic cops." And I had them with me. I go up to them: "I am here on tour, singer, let me make presents," etc. And Misha was ashamed to use his name, did not like to be recognized. In general, the guys were released. We got to know him interestingly. At night in the dining car. We went to an evening of chanson to St. Petersburg, to the Gorky Palace of Culture. I then took vodka, dinner. And he: "I don't drink." So we met, I already knew the name Krug. In 1993 he gave a concert in a zone near Krasnoyarsk. Just flew in from New York. And suddenly I heard a voice from a civilian who was bringing up a chipboard from the car. And sings with a kind of shy anguish. "Who is this?" - "Mikhail Krug". Then I realized who they listen to in Russia. After our nightly acquaintance, we performed together and took the train to Moscow. When he went out to his Tver, for some reason it became so melancholy. We exchanged phones. At first his director was such a frivolous boy. Misha, I remember, constantly said to him: "You are a slob." And then Marina appeared.

Mikhail Krug could have died in a car accident. Drown. Die of a heart attack. The only thing that did not threaten him was a violent death. The status of the Most People's Artist was protected better than the president's security service. Everyone thought so. Perhaps that is why what happened that July night caused such a shock to everyone. Those who loved the Circle, those. who did not like him., and even those who learned his name only from the column of incidents in the newspaper. This is probably why Mikhail's relatives still cannot come to their senses and refuse to communicate with journalists. And the singer's friends and acquaintances talk about him with tears in their eyes, this is not an exaggeration - it is true.

Katya OGONEK, singer:
- He was very worried about how to adequately convey his work to the public. It happened that the sound engineer confused the backing tracks, the light was installed in a wrong way - it was very upsetting for him, because such trifles formed an opinion about the artist. After all, for the viewer it is not "the lighting (or sound engineer) is to blame", but "the artist made a bad concert." Once it happened, the organizers dragged Mishin's concert very long. I don’t remember exactly, but it seems that something was wrong with the equipment. People in the hall waited for almost an hour for Misha to come out. And he rushed backstage, swore, was nervous, several times tried to go out to the microphone - he was told: no, not ready ... He was very worried. And the people in the audience were worried. But, surprisingly, when he went on stage, he was received perfectly, as if this one hour waiting was not there.

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA, director of concert programs of Mikhail Krug:
- Due to my activity, I very often attended concerts, and not only at the Circle. There is such a concept in show business - "take the hall". Many singers did it from the second or third song. And Misha went on stage, said: "Hello." And that's all - his hall. He loved the audience. Such an extraordinary energy came from him. Many came just to listen to Mikhail. Not to watch the show, but to listen. If after the concert we were in no hurry to get to the station, Misha spent hours signing autographs. How many people fit, so many will sign. I considered it disrespectful to refuse.

Leonid, friend:
- I was the first to hear most of Misha's songs. In his house there is a luxurious bathroom, large, with armchairs. I came to him, let's sit and have some tea. "Well, let's go," he says. And we went up to this room. He took the guitar and began to sing ... "Well, how?" I did not remake the songs later. Only in one, I remember, the words changed - "We drink vodka, pour vodka." It was already recorded, but Misha rewrote it with "The Pearl Brothers" and changed a few words - I was even surprised. I have a house in the village. Quite far from Tver. How many normal songs were born there. Misha came there, rested, took a steam bath, immediately took a guitar, began to hum something. Once Misha showed me the first lines of "Vladimir Central". "Mish, - I say, - this is such ... crap" (we both swore obscenities with him). He: "Ah! You don't understand anything!" We had a fight. And the song became famous. Then I was present at the studio when it was recorded. And then I already began to understand her. I even advised Misha something. It was my idea with backing vocals - so that Timur would prescribe the backing. I am a musician myself (I don’t say "in the past", because there is no person in the past), I played the guitar and sang too. But at first "Vladimirsky Central" did not understand. And Misha had a flair for songs. He knew how to build what, he sat inside and out at the studio, told everyone: here you have to sing like this, play like this ...

Vadim TSYGANOV:
- I can say that Vika has a very warm relationship with Misha. They began to chat right away, heart to heart, and at first the commercial side came out on top. At the same time, our alliance with him was developing interesting, because Misha himself considered himself a producer, like me. And at first the discrepancies were powerful, because I saw everything a little differently, but still we worked together, it even seems to me that I more often yielded to him. If I made any decisions on my own, he met it with hostility. Or I could, for example, tell him sharply: Misha, this is not a hit. And he was a touchy person, he dropped his guitar and said that then he would not sing any more. He was very touchy, but cooled down quickly. So the character was difficult, but at the same time, as an Orthodox person, he knew how to forgive. Even if they quarreled, he said: "Vadka, you know how I feel about you." He knew how to smile, joke. In fact, he opened up to me just two months before that, when I learned that he spent a lot of money on the construction of temples and schools. This shocked me.

TROFIM, singer:
- His songs did not leave anyone indifferent. I have friends for whom the thug language is very close. So they really liked how Misha could express himself on it. They said that they had never heard such a beautiful language. Not a prison fenya, but an intelligent one. Unique. And Mikhail did it easily. In general, he was a very talented stylist.

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- Some of them ran into Misha, they say, he was not in prison, so he has no right to sing such songs. And at one concert he was asked a question about this. He replied: "Well, I did not sit. Yes. And Daniel Defoe, by the way, wrote about the sea, but was not a sailor."

Katya OGONEK:
- In my life there were many different things. Both the prison and the zone. But Mishka never sat. But he sang about it. And, you know, it didn’t irritate me at all. Vice versa. I think it's brilliant when a person can sing about something that he has not seen, and so, what a soul he takes! After all, Vysotsky has wonderful songs about the Great Patriotic War. Misha and I met when we worked with him in one concert in St. Petersburg. “It's time for you, Katya, to meet Misha,” said Sasha Fru-min. And he took me to his dressing room before the concert. To be honest, I was even a little scared. She knew: Misha is a domineering person with character. In addition, he was already known then, and I, one might say, a beginner. Well, I think it will be now. But I did not see any pathos. And I saw a cultured, correct, benevolent person. Misha made me quite warm. I was surprised. Joyful returned home to Moscow. Everyone wanted to tell: I met Misha Krug.

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- Misha's tour requirements were minimal. No tyranny. In the room - hot water and a bed. No "suite" - okay. Tea, still water in the dressing room. Well, when they went to eat, so that there were no onions and garlic in the dishes. But this is not just some kind of whim, he was allergic to these products, but also to tomatoes and red peppers. As he smelled them, he began to choke and tears from his eyes. Once we arrived in the city, and there only one room remained in a good hotel - all the foreigners occupied. Misha was accommodated there, and the rest were simpler in the hotel. He was indignant: "I want with everyone. Why did you put me in a separate place! And how to play dominoes?" I told him: "Misha, you know, the numbers here are not very good." - "So what? We'll play dominoes anyway." And he moved to us. Gambling was. She freaks out when she loses. Throw the chips, leave. But it quickly departs. We always played in tandem with him, he would reprimand: "Marin, well, you look at me! You watch what I walk about."

Vlad SAVOSIN, accordion player, "Hitcher" group:
- Mikhail played dominoes gorgeous. Again, chess. During the tour: after concerts or on the way, on the train. The road was long, but Misha didn't really like airplanes - not only he was afraid to fly, his pressure was rising. We played charades and games. Misha was a cheerful and cheerful person.

Igor RYBAKOV, classmate:
- We studied with Misha from the first to the eighth grade. Sometimes they sat at the same desk, sometimes both were kicked out of class. Our class was divided in half: "Germans" and "British". So we were "Germans" with him. For some reason, it was during the German lesson that Misha loved to sing his songs. Silence. The teacher reads some text aloud. Suddenly he whispers: "Would you like to sing a song? Just composed" - "Come on" And Mikhail incrementally: "Kirimindyrs - Kirimindyrs. Kirimindyrs - Kirmanda". The teacher slowly raises her eyes from the textbook ... The girls look first at me, then at Misha. "And now the translation:" The sun rises over the country of the Yellow River. The Chinese go to the fields. "All:" Ha-ha-ha. "Teacher:" Sparrows! (this is his real name) Get out of class! "This is how we learned German." Four "is the highest mark.

Marina BATURINA:
- He sat at the desk right in front of me. After school, I constantly remembered: "You didn't let me cheat." I laughed it off: "Yeah, I didn't." Yes, I myself tried to write off someone. Misha, although he did not go to the honors, was a leader by nature. He was a person. I could directly, in the eyes, express everything to both peers and teachers. Once we had a school "light" and we collected money for tea drinking, for cakes. And not all donated money. And everyone came. And Misha, right at the table, said: "Why did I hand over the money, but such and such did not hand over it, but he still sits at the table and eats?" Bear - he was very fair, did not tolerate injustice.

Vlad SAVOSIN:
- Mikhail was strict in his work. I could have fined. For the cause. And none of the musicians took offense at him - a normal working moment. There was no despotism. There was discipline. Each of the musicians had something to advise in terms of work. And Mikhail listened. But the decisions were made only by himself. As a leader in charge of the final musical product. There were, of course, creative disputes. But they were resolved peacefully. And you thought, like in "Funny Fellows": "This phrase is played like this"?

Irina Petrovna LYUBIMOVA (worked with the Circle in the convoy):
- Misha was a hot-tempered person. He loved very much to have everything as he said. He could raise his voice, slam the door, quarrel with the authorities. He never yelled at me. In general, I tried not to swear in front of women. We had such a deputy general director for traffic safety. A mischievous man. And he had three mechanics as assistants. He constantly forced them to do something for his personal car. Either pump up the wheels, then fix something. And suddenly one day a newspaper appears on our blackboard. It depicts this boss and three mechanics who are pulling wheels to his car. And so everything is similar. It turned out to be Misha's work. He did not hide it. Uncle tore this newspaper, crumpled it up, threw it on my table. Of course, there was no scandal - you cannot punish for that. But after all, not everyone dares to make fun of the authorities. I kept that newspaper for a long time, glued it piece by piece, and then, when we moved, threw it away. In vain. He was the life of the party. Never whined. An optimist in life. And then he began to study music more and more seriously. To go to Moscow. This, of course, was not approved, caused ridicule among others. They even laughed at him openly: "Here, Mishka began to sing!"

Leonid:
- I knew him well before the army - I walked in the area where he lived. And after the army, in the 90s, we already became close friends. At that time, few still understood that something needed to be done, for the most part they lived with old, communist views, trying to keep their place. Misha worked in a convoy, but he seriously thought about the fact that he needed to do something in his creativity. Since then, we have begun to communicate. And help each other. In creativity and in life. It is no secret that Misha was famed for his second album, Zhigan-Lemon. I participated in his recording. In the sense that I was already in commerce, and Misha was still working. The album was recorded at a studio in Tver, Misha quit his job, and the tour slowly began.

Anatoly DNEPROV:
- We met Mikhail several years ago, in one of the nightclubs, where many performers working in the chanson genre performed. Backstage a guy came up to me, introduced himself as Misha Krug, gave me his cassette and asked me to listen. Many people who work in this genre come up to me, bring cassettes, ask me to give my opinion. Because everyone considers me to be one of the founders of chanson, but I believe that I have nothing to do with this, that's for sure. My opinion was also important to Mikhail. At the same time, there was no way out on television or on the radio, young guys were not allowed anywhere at all, but I still played songs somewhere. Misha and I did not communicate very closely, but I did not feel that he was somehow withdrawn, in any case. He was just like me - he was not afraid to say everything he thinks in the face. In this I found something right.

Irina Petrovna LYUBIMOVA:
- Few believed that he would succeed. It seems to me because of envy. He began to do business that was unusual for many. As I already said, we had a company, which included Mishin's immediate boss. He approached him like a friend, asked for time off to go somewhere on his musical business. And he at one point stopped letting him go. And then Misha waved his hand. After all, at that time he received good money - more than 300 rubles, but he went nowhere. Made up my mind. His act then surprised many. There was a scandal, they wanted to fire him under the article. Because Misha still left on his own business, and they put him on truancy for this. But he himself quit, of his own free will. After all, it was convenient for him to work as a driver. Not a bad permanent income, growth prospects, respect. How could he know that success awaits him on the new path. Misha took a big risk. And I was worried about this. But he was an independent man, accustomed to being responsible for his actions. Then his cassettes began to appear. Many were proud that he had risen. Some, on the contrary, were jealous. But Misha did not change with the advent of popularity. Recently, the guys and I recalled how he met the very boss who wanted to fire him under the article near the bakery. He was so cheerful, bought a cake. Misha himself approached him and told him that his son was born. But he could come up and recall old grievances or even pretend not to notice. After all, we were left there, far behind. Who are we to him? And in the convoy he came to us. True, less and less - there was not enough time for everything.

Galina PANKRATOVA, classmate:
- Misha hasn't changed at all. What it was 20 years ago, it has remained the same. The same plump, calm, simple. Once he gave a concert at our school 39 (I teach there). As a local teacher, she decided to look into the director's office and look at the celebrity. And Misha was waiting for the start of the concert there, when the guys gathered in the hall. "Oh, Gal, come in." - "Do you recognize me? We haven't seen that much." - "You were a pebble. Pebble and remained." Then they shot a movie about him. Also in our school. Misha took me in an armful, and while they were interviewing him, I stood next to him - he did not let go. On the street met: "Hello" - "Hello" And that's all. He left after the eighth grade, and we somehow parted with him. I talked more with those with whom I studied in the ninth or tenth. And when they met with him, they talked about life, like all former classmates, who where, like in a family, etc.

Alexander FRUMIN:
- There are very few people in the world who are strong inside. Here is a person who has gained popularity, began to make money, and it does it to others. Let's not say that it corrupts, it just changes. This is especially true for people of public professions: artists, musicians, TV presenters. And Mikhail Vorobyov did not become like that. He appreciated immensely that he was once recognized as the best author of Tver at the author's song contest in 1987. The jury was chaired by our St. Petersburg bard Evgeny Klyachkin. By the way, this tragic song "Day as Day" is dedicated to the memory of Klyachkin. And then in some of the newspapers they wrote that this song became a requiem for Mikhail himself. This is not true.

Mikhail SHELEG, singer, publicist:
- He quite calmly communicated with us without any arrogance characteristic of many, favored by fame and fans. He talked very funny about filming a movie. He played the role of crime boss, thief in law Viktor Petrovich in the film by Konstantin Murzyanko "April". He told me what a dreary occupation it was: six hours of make-up, twenty minutes of filming. And you only need to say two phrases, which for some reason do not climb into my head. We also talked about Shansone. The circle said that he organized his own direction in music, which is called the "Russian genre". He said: "Now all the albums will be released only in such a series. Moreover, we will receive the artists at a meeting. We must already separate this tinsel, which is rushing into chanson. Let them be chanson musicians, and we will work in the Russian genre."

Katya OGONEK:
- We were brought together by the similarity of characters. As far as work is concerned, I am a tough person. And Michael was like that. He gave himself to work one hundred percent and demanded the same from others. V he could not be "tired", "ill", "bad". That is, of course, it used to happen that you came to him before the concert, and he: "Oh, Katya, my throat hurts, I don't know how I'm going to work now" ... But I went on stage, and it was as if someone had waved a magic wand: not sick throat, no fatigue. Due to his poor health, he could not cancel the concert. Because he loved his audience and could not deceive their expectations. Misha was a workaholic. I respect him for that. He lived his work, was proud of it. I'm sure he would never go after the song to sell something, to do business like others. If not for this tragedy, he would have been singing all his life, he would not have changed his profession.

Leonid:
- They came to Misha with different projects: let's invest money here and there. But he was not a businessman, he was well versed in music, but he was not a businessman, and he went to consult me. I said: "Misha, the market has been divided for a long time. And they know them, so and so. If you want to go out, go to them." And he got started: "Come on, Lesh, you always start." I explain: "This project is deliberately dead-end, it's like just throwing money away. Buy equipment, recruit people - and there are not so many good specialists in Tver - and you won't get anything." He turned on even more ... Although, by the way, none of the commercial projects really hooked him so seriously. All the same, music was closest to him. He took her very seriously.

Vlad SAVOSIN:
- I recorded all the albums with Misha. We met at some kind of musical get-together. I worked in one restaurant-type establishment as an accordion player. And Mikhail came there to visit a friend who worked there as a security guard. This acquaintance knew that Mikhail was participating in competitions, in festivals of author's songs. Well, he introduced us - sort of like colleagues. During the evening, Mikhail and I played several songs together, he immediately offered to perform with him at an amateur song contest, which was soon held in Tver. Since this all started. At one time we were three of us - the third was Volodya Ovcharov. Then Misha started bringing in other musicians. Heard the guitarist - brought him. Colleagues advised him of a good violinist - Viktor Chilimov. So, gradually, after a year and a half, the "Fellow traveler" group was formed - six people. The composition then changed several times, for all the time in the "Hitcher" worked about twenty people. But this happens in many teams.

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- I have been working with Mikhail for 6 years. Yes, he is demanding - this is what I say as a director, but demanding is fair and logical. He loved order, so that everything was clear. Sometimes he would get angry and scold. But he was quick-witted, did not use foul language. In the collective we had a dry law. They were invited to sit at every concert. Imagine what these gatherings could result in, and the next day a concert, another city. One musician is no longer working for us. Somehow he really wanted beer. "If you want - drink." The guys warned him that our beer is expensive, but he did not understand. Got drunk, none in the morning. I did everything badly at the concert. And the beer cost him the cost of the concert. So we have it really expensive. But next time he didn't want more. In general, Misha brought together wonderful guys. Workaholic. Nobody was late, everyone tried.

Mikhail GULKO, singer:
- I remember there was a very interesting moment. I then visited him in Tver. The night is deep. After the concert we came home, had supper and went to rest. Suddenly a call: "Misha, help me out!" His friends drank a little, and the police stopped them in this state. Well, Misha, let's get together to the rescue, and he himself swears, but in a kind, fatherly way. I went with him. Center of Tver. Cars are standing, traffic cops, his men are guilty faces. Suddenly Misha whispers to me: "Uncle Misha, sign the records to the traffic cops." And I had them with me. I go up to them: "I am here on tour, singer, let me make presents," etc. And Misha was ashamed to use his name, did not like to be recognized. In general, the guys were released. We got to know him interestingly. At night in the dining car. We went to an evening of chanson to St. Petersburg, to the Gorky Palace of Culture. I then took vodka, dinner. And he: "I don't drink." So we met, I already knew the name Krug. In 1993 he gave a concert in a zone near Krasnoyarsk. Just flew in from New York. And suddenly I heard a voice from a civilian who was bringing up a chipboard from the car. And sings with a kind of shy anguish. "Who is this?" - "Mikhail Krug". Then I realized who they listen to in Russia. After our nightly acquaintance, we performed together and took the train to Moscow. When he went out to his Tver, for some reason it became so melancholy. We exchanged phones. At first his director was such a frivolous boy. Misha, I remember, constantly said to him: "You are a slob." And then Marina appeared.

Katya OGONEK:
- Misha's character, of course, is not easy ... He was. He could get angry, shout. But this creative person... Personality! First of all. If he had no character - would he become Misha Krug? .. Moreover, it was easy for me to communicate with him, for example. Although, of course, we quarreled and were offended, it happened, at each other ... There was such a case. Misha and I both hate onions. And he also did not eat garlic. In restaurants he and I were seated at a separate table, fed separately from the rest. So, once in Israel, when we were on tour, we argued over something in the supermarket. Because of some nonsense, a price tag, or something ... So at the last concert, in Tel Aviv, when everyone was making jokes to each other, I took Mishin's microphone and cleaned it with an onion. When he went on stage and approached him, he had such a face! He threw down the microphone, gets nervous - the people will not understand what the matter is. And the hall was so decent. Sveta - Misha had such a back-wok-list - understood what was going on and began laughing loudly right on the stage ... When Misha went backstage, he thought about another person and poured a bottle of sweet water on him. And I stayed on the sidelines. And then she did not confess to him for a long time. No, I think we'd better get to Moscow - I'll say there, Misha was quick-tempered, but quick-witted. That I did it, someone else told him before me. He only: "Katya, well, what are you, Katya" ... Then for a long time he could not forget it, he told me: "Well, Katka, wait, I'll arrange something for you too." Not satisfied. Because I didn't have time. But, probably, he would have come up with something funny. With his rather harsh appearance, he loved to joke, had an excellent sense of humor. For example, he played tricks on me, scared me a little. For example, we have concerts with him in the same city. He calls me on the phone or comes backstage: "Katya, your concert has been canceled." Or: "Your business is bad, I interrupted you, two people are sitting in the hall." And I began to worry terribly.

Vlad SAVOSIN:
- Misha was very worried if the hall was not full. We were constantly sold out. But the organizer will overdo it and will do four concerts in one city in a year. But you need one or two. When we come for the fourth time in a year, of course, there was no full hall. So in Chelyabinsk, for example, it happened. Mikhail was very upset, did not understand: "The city seems to be good, what's the matter?" But he passed the day, and the next - another city. Not up to frustration. There could be 20-25 concerts a month. Once, during a long and difficult tour, on one of the last concerts On the stage, Mikhail forgot a few lines in the song and, according to the melody and rhythm, finished: "And then I just forgot. And there is something else there, I don't remember." The people were stunned. But he applauded.

Igor RYBAKOV:
- When Misha began to go on tour, he changed a lot. Time began to appreciate. Smart, businesslike, he counted the seconds. I also lived with my mother on Zeleny Proyezd. She expresses something to him. And he: "Mom, that's it, there is no time." And he ran away. That's who the military should have become. He would have been promoted to general. We once talked about this with him. I wanted to leave the army and decided to consult with him. And he told me this: "You don't have to go anywhere. You are a military man, and be him. It's very hard in civilian life."

Katya OGONEK:
- We have always tried to help each other out. Not money, no ... There was no need for that. I also don’t remember any critical situation. But we have always supported each other. When Misha had a birthday, I always came to him. If a concert was scheduled for that day, I rescheduled it. And Misha came to my birthday. Artists are often invited to the holidays. They asked me: "How much money have you given to the Circle so that it comes?" I was indignant: "Why? What do you mean: how much did you give? We are friends. Misha came to me as a friend. Do you think everything is for money?"

Marina BATURINA:
- Misha was always ready to help his friends. Twice he was very helpful to my son Vovka. When he failed his exams at the institute - the first time when he entered, the second time - already during his studies, I called Misha. He responded immediately: "Marin, well, of course, I will help you." And he helped. Financially, I needed money then. Leonid: How we got along with him, the whole city was surprised. I have been asked so many times: how can you communicate with Mishka, he's such an explosive person, he can get lost, but you don't seem to swear and are always together everywhere. I said: I don't know why this is ... Because it is explosive, and I am like water. It caught fire and - shhh, cooled down. After all, I was not only helping Misha. But those in whom I put my soul into, rose and then such detached walked past me: hello, Lech, that's all. And Mishka - this is where I did not expect - he was ready to lay his head for me. I had a chance to help him, so after the very first concert that he brought money, he came to me: "Here, Lesha. This is for you." I say: "Stop it, I have money, you let’s develop. I won’t take anything." He then: "Well, become my director, my producer." It is true, Misha was harsh, impudent, but there was still more soul in him.

Mikhail GULKO:
- Misha knew the value of people. Whom he didn’t love, he didn’t love. Didn't bring it closer to me. And he did good unnoticed. He didn't have any show off. And on stage - like a child. She bites her lips, antennae. If you look closely when he sings, you can see how his upper lip twitches ... I can't speak in the past tense ... Misha and Irochka (second wife) stayed with me here in New York. I didn’t know then that he didn’t eat onions and garlic, I had prepared everything for the meeting. But the food went to the trash can. Misha asked me for sausages with cabbage. And he had very tasty borscht at home - this is the main dish, under which one drinks well. Irochka cooks well with him. He is a very broad-minded person. In his house, the front door did not close for 24 hours. He was friends with all segments of the population. When I visited him in Tver, he always sent a car to Moscow for me. I asked my friends to take me there. And we always got there so fast. And they did joint concerts there and just celebrated some holidays. V Misha had not so many friends, and I am very glad that I got into the circle of those close to him. It was not closed, but, as the people say, you cannot drive up to it. I didn’t try to find a common language with everyone.

Mikhail SHELEG:
- We often crossed paths with the Circle at group concerts, all kinds of festivals and in a recording studio on Ryazansky Prospekt. It was impossible to call our communication friendship, it was just companionship. Mikhail is an introverted person, quite self-sufficient, self-confident, proud and did not make contact with everyone. There are always many different personalities hovering around a famous person - both fans and adventurers. Therefore, Mikhail treated everyone quite carefully, but since we were old acquaintances with him, he invited me to his studio in Tver. It was June 13, he took us to a restaurant, where we talked. We took ice cream, coffee, he was dressed in a T-shirt and sweatpants like that at home. Misha accidentally dropped a piece of ice cream on a T-shirt and then, when I was photographing it, covered the soiled place with a saucer.

Igor RYBAKOV:
- It so happened that Mishka lived in the last houses of Zeleny Proezd, and I lived in the middle. And we practically did not intersect after lessons. Their company gathered in the yard, with guitars. The best "lads" of the school. They didn’t bother me, because I was involved in sports, and I was not considered a “botanist” either. They got together, decided with advice: "We are touching this, this is not." When I was indignant, Mishka would say in a friendly way: "You, Igor, be silent. It's not your business. Be quiet." In general, an ordinary boyish life. At first, high school students threw us out of the queue in the buffet, then we, when we grew up. Normal army school. Misha was a very serious boy since the first grade. He loved to be obeyed.

Leonid:
- I saw him differently. Seen angry. Just this summer we went swimming with him to the quarry. We took a glass of vodka, a can of beer. General mood! He says: "Lech, how well you bathed! Come to me, let's eat." We arrive, and Irina cooked borscht. And I forgot to put one thing there. Misha lifted the lid of the pan - I see it is boiling. "That's it, Lech, we won't eat!" And he threw the lid down. I told him: "Stop it." And he already wound up with nothing: "Again she did not put it down!". Me: "Misha, okay, let's warm it up, eat, I want to eat." He left: that's it, I need to be fed. We went with him, pulled the table out into the street, put the chairs, ate borscht. And he blossomed again - as if nothing had happened. He always walked away in two minutes.

Vlad SAVOSIN:
- Mikhail was quick-tempered, but quick-witted. Sometimes, he scolds a person, and then immediately begins to praise him in order to charge him with optimism and kindness. For example, I had an organizational miscarriage. Alcohol related. Mikhail sent me on vacation for a month - something between vacation and dismissal. And when I returned it back a month later, I began to patronize my work. Come on, he says, in the middle of the concert you will sing your song or two.

Alexander FRUMIN:
- Misha appreciated people very much, respected his musicians. He had a very strict discipline in the group. All musicians knew that they came to work and had to do it very thoroughly. Misha appreciated each of the guys. Could scold, but not in front of strangers. If he came to St. Petersburg alone, he stayed with me, if with a group, then only with them, in a hotel. Misha knew my parents well. And at concerts he dedicated the song to my mother and father. We were actually friends with families. Every time he brought us gifts from Tver. Usually drinks. Me - their local beer. And to my wife some kind of liqueur, very peculiar. Sometimes he stayed with us after concerts. Once I stayed for a day to watch a football match between Spartak and Zenit. He called me twice a year. For my birthday and for New Year... Although, in fact, our meetings happened more often, during these two days he rang the train. I even found it abroad. I considered it my duty to congratulate. All eight years of our communication. And always the conversation ended in the same way: "End of communication."

Marina BATURINA:
- He and Irinka (a classmate) always congratulated us on our birthday. This year I also invited him, but I almost certainly knew that he would not be able to come - in recent times Misha was very busy. And for sure. He said, "I'm sorry, but I'm on tour." And he had a tour in Krasnodar, where another classmate of ours lives. Misha later said: “After the concert, I heard someone shouting from the crowd, from behind the guards:“ Let me go to him, I studied with him. ”“ Oh, ”I say,“ who studied there with me? "It turned out, Vika. We sat for a long time, talked. She began to ask:" How are the girls? "And then I felt so ashamed that I did not congratulate you and Ira." And so on Valentine's Day, February 14, Misha came to my work with flowers and brandy. Didn't find me. He went to my house, I quickly fried a chicken, sat down ... I really miss talking with him. Misha's V speech was interesting - such turns! And you could chat with him about everything. About personal. He supported me emotionally, with advice. I was worried in a friendly way that I did not have a reliable wealthy groom. And once he even introduced me to a man. It was my birthday. Misha came with flowers, a gift and - with his former director. With whom we then really even talked for some time. And there was also a funny incident. One very well-known company in our city celebrated the day of its foundation. There was a concert, and Misha took part in it. And he led me and two other girls from my job to this concert. We were in his dressing room when suddenly we came to see Misha from television. He immediately grabbed us into an armful and gives an interview worth it. I thought one was being filmed. They ask: "What do you expect from this company?" He says something about gasoline, about the fact that he always refills at the gas stations of this company. And then suddenly the microphone is handed to me: "What do you expect from this company." I got lost. The bear whispers: "Grooms, grooms" ... I automatically repeat: "And from the company of such and such, I expect grooms." They showed it all over Tver (laughs). The bear prompted in a friendly way. In general, he somehow treated women with understanding, pitied us. He took great care of my mother. And my mother was proud of him: after all, from a simple family, and what kind of son turned out. I bought a car for my sister Ole for her birthday - a brand new "six", a good apartment.

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- When we were on tour in Germany, he brought my mother a huge suitcase of hand-embroidered bed linen. And it is expensive there. "Mommy". Mom was everything to him. And Irishka got pregnant - in every city he asked me: "Marin, let's go together. We'll choose booties, diapers." Brought suitcases. I asked him: "Why do you need so much?" - "Nothing. Ira will choose."

Marina BATURINA:
- Misha had a very coherent theory about the relationship between a man and a woman. Slim and correct. There was no licentiousness in him. Another would be - the money would be brought in, there is glory - and let's take pictures of the girls right and left. And Misha dreamed of meeting true love, dreamed of a family so that there was one more child - after a divorce from his first wife, he kept his son Dimka for himself. We talked about personal things with him. I asked: "Misha, how do you feel that this is real?" He replied: "But you will feel: you embrace, cuddle up and you will understand that nothing else is needed." And so he met Irina, and we were all so happy for him, Sasha was born to them ... I don’t remember that girls especially liked Misha at school. In our class, another boy was the first "groom" in our class. And he had a childhood love for a girl with whom they lived in different entrances of the same house. Of course, it was as it was: to pull the pigtail, bring the briefcase ... She did not like it. She kicked him, pushed him away. After finishing the eighth grade, he left school, we once celebrated the New Year together. I was with a friend, and he came with a girl. And it was so interesting, we were 15-16 years old, and he was like an adult: "This is my girlfriend. Marina." They got up and kissed. Marina was a pretty, tall girl. But for some reason we didn't like it right away. When Misha went to the army, she did not wait for him, she got married. He was very worried. A few years later, there was a moment - they got back together. But nothing good came of it.

Irina Petrovna LYUBIMOVA:
- He had an unhappy love. The girl from the army did not wait for him. He suffered. Said: "I feel bad." I was worried. Then I met Sveta, my first wife. I remember I came with her to the evening. So proud. Their son was born, Dimochka. But something went wrong with them. At first, Sveta did not find a common language with her mother-in-law, and she and Misha moved to the hostel. And then for some reason she decided that Misha and Dima were "eating up" her aura. I don't know what happened to her there. In general, Misha and his son moved to his mother.

Igor RYBAKOV:
- Misha and I began to communicate more actively after school. V us, somehow, by itself, a company of classmates formed, and we periodically got together. True, the girls - Ira Frolova, Marina Baturina - saw him more often, they went to his mother, Zoya Petrovna. And our meetings can be called phased. After school, I entered a military school and went to North Ossetia for 4 years, then to the Far East. I arrived in Tver as a lieutenant, somewhere in the 86th year. We crossed with Misha near the shopping center. "Where are you from?" - "WITH Of the Far East". -" And I have a holiday today - my son was born. He called him Dimka. "-" I also have Dimka. It should be noted this case. "-" Of course. "We stood for 1.5-2 hours. We talked about life. We drank purely symbolically and said goodbye. The next time we met in 1991. Then everything was according to coupons. Bear worked by car , he delivered milk to the shops. Even then he began to study music seriously, performed at the chemical institute. I asked how he was with the money. "As you can see, I earn."

Irina Petrovna LYUBIMOVA:
- I was the chairman of the trade union committee when Misha came to us. He was a competent, proactive worker, and literally a month later he became a driver in a GAZ-52. Carried milk. And after a while he was appointed head of the column, but he did not like to be in command, so of his own free will he moved back to the drivers, as a foreman. Misha in those years was my most important and faithful helper... We formed a small company, and we often went to the camp site or just got out into nature. Misha was a fireman and was responsible for the barbecue, since he did not eat onions and garlic, he made a marinade according to his own recipe. You have no idea what it means to lead a brigade of milkmen. V he had 20 people subordinate to him. He had to get up early, about 4 in the morning. Medical control is daily, if someone did not come, it was necessary to find a replacement. Often he himself went on a flight instead of someone. It is a very responsible business. By 6 am to the dairy kitchen, then to the shops. But you could rely on him. There is such a backbone of drivers about whom you know that they will not get drunk, as if they will go to work. After all, in the evening all sorts of applications were drawn up, plans were signed, and it was very difficult to find a replacement in the morning. He also repaired the car himself. A self-respecting driver will never give her to a locksmith who does not know her as he does. Since I was a union worker, I was in charge of all recreational activities. Misha helped me with this. Once we came up with a number - "the dance of the little swans". Imagine a few guys (and they were all big, like Misha) dancing in ballet tutus. I specially sewed the packs for them. Misha still bared one shoulder so flirtatiously ...

Galina PANKRATOVA:
- If we knew that he would become a celebrity ... Just a couple of years ago, I did not even imagine that our Bear was Mikhail Krug. I am not fond of this kind of music, therefore, when I heard his songs out of the corner of my ear, I could not even think that it was him. And somehow I met girls, classmates, and they told me about our celebrity. Then I went specifically to a neighbor to ask for a tape of Mikhail Krug. I listened - exactly, his timbre. I didn't even know that he knew how to play the guitar.

Igor RYBAKOV:
- I was finishing the last course of the Zhukov Military Academy. The lesson is in progress. Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and a person I knew appeared in the doorway: "Major Rybakov is not studying with you?" I asked to leave: "What are you doing here?" "I met the foreman from your course. He asked us to play at your graduation party. Listen, do you have a cigarette?" I bummed a cigarette at my comrades. We stood and talked. "You know, there was one price per show. Now it's different. We play almost free." He rehearsed with us several times with the "Hitcher" group. Already he has become a respectable one, he has grown fat. That evening I saw the Mishka performing for the first time. Even then people from Moscow came to listen to him. In general, he began to rise slowly. The money went.

Alexander FRUMIN:
- For the first time, Misha went abroad with us. November 97th. Together with the "Pearl Brothers" on a 10-day concert tour in Germany. He was very afraid, did not want to fly. Misha did not like airplanes and preferred to travel by train. We persuaded him with difficulty by taking tickets for the best plane. In Germany, he laughed all the time, because he did not believe that he was abroad. In principle, it could be understood, since we were staying with emigrants. Our former compatriots also came to the concerts. Everywhere they spoke in Russian, and Misha was very surprised. In Germany, he bought souvenirs for all relatives and friends. I spent on this almost all the earned fee, which at that time was rather big. For himself, he acquired a leather jacket made of such reddish leather. Absolutely wonderful black sunglasses. Real ones, dear ones. A music center, since he did not even have a laser player at that time. And with the rest of the money, Misha bought the best Rhine wine. He was a little drinker. I practically did not drink alcohol. But he loved good wine. He bought wine, which was sold in a special shop at the winery. At an insane price. Moreover, the bottles were huge, each about half a meter high. There, probably, three liters were included. I remember saying to him: "Maybe you can bring at least some money to Russia?" He was making a little money then. And the organizers of the concerts paid in Deutschmarks. Misha looked at a currency unknown to him and said: "We have only one bank in Tver, and I'm not sure if this money will be exchanged for rubles or dollars. So come on, Sasha, I will celebrate my first trip abroad and return home with gifts ".

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- Many people think that he has saved up a lot of money. But this is not the case. He built a house for his mother, for himself. I helped my sister with an apartment and other relatives. He did not have a money-box in which he put his savings. Misha was a believer and believed that hoarding is a sin. Sometimes she would come from a tour; "Marin, I need to meet with the priest. How is the chapel there?" Only from the train will he enter the house, immediately into the car and watch how the chapel is being built. Saint Michael of Tverskoy is his own patron. I walked and looked. He was happy as a child. He donated money not only for this chapel, but also for other temples in the city. Once we arrived from Ufa. And the orphanage children greeted us there, they presented us with handmade boards. And so we just arrived in Tver: "Marine, let us give those children a video camera. Find out the address." They collected the package - a video camera, videotapes, and a bunch of gifts - and sent it off. He had no hoarding. Father helped our local to write and record spiritual songs, invested a lot of money in this, attracted his musicians. In every city, we went to church, whenever possible, visited holy places. It became easier for him there. I went to confess.

Vika TSYGANOVA:
- Misha's son became my godson, so Misha and I now also have a spiritual connection. This is the second such death in my life, very hard for me. I recently celebrated the anniversary of my father's death. Before that, friends left, but they lived far away and, as it were, did not have time to open up. And with Misha this happened literally in the last months of our communication. Here he, sitting down at the table, was always baptized. He could swear, but immediately apologize and repented heartily. This speaks of his great sincerity, of the purity of his soul. These two deaths have reborn me so internally. The feeling came that the time is very fleeting and there is a lot to be done.

Leonid:
- I'll put it this way: I had one friend, and Misha had one. Both of his sons are my godchildren. Now, I believe I have two families. We had a life competition with Misha. I have three children, the youngest was born in December. He has three: Dima from his first marriage, Marishka, daughter Irinina, and now the common Sasha was recently born. I named my youngest Michael. Misha wanted to call his own Leonid. But somehow we were with him in the same company, and they asked me: did you name your son in honor of the Bear of the Circle? I say, "Why?" (Although this was the idea.) My father was Mikhail, and my father, my confessor, was also Mikhail, and he was born on St. Michael's Day ... It's true, I have only Bears around me. But there was no need to talk about it out loud. Misha was offended. And he named his son Sasha. But I was not upset.

Marina BATURINA:
- So everything went well for Misha. And then this happened ... last time I spoke to him on the phone. On Thursday, and on Sunday, Misha was gone. As if someone pulled me: call me. Congratulated him on the birth of his son. She asked, what was the name, when will our school company wash the legs? He replied: closer to autumn, now he is very busy. I also asked if he will perform at the City Day? He says: no, I'm leaving. This was probably the first time Misha did not perform at the City Day.

Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- A few days after the tragedy happened, we gathered with the musicians to decide what to do next. Because offers to work with other performers or in other groups immediately poured in. Misha was known as a demanding person, and since we worked together for so long, it means that everything is in order there. If something did not suit him, he immediately parted with the person. You know, I have such an association. Here was a man walking with a banner, he was killed, he dropped the banner, and all the others turned around and went back. A banner is like a song. How to quit everything? It's easier to run away like cockroaches, work calmly with others, forgetting about everything. And you can find an excuse for yourself - all families, they need to be fed. What about Misha? V us concerts were scheduled until February 2003. Naturally, there could be no talk of anything. But there were calls that the concerts would not be canceled, so that we would just come with the group and sing the songs of the Circle. The guys know how good musicians... Misha called them multi-musicians, because each of them plays several instruments. They are professionals. For example, a keyboard player fell ill with us, and they went with a smaller cast. Misha sang the song, Vlad Savo-sin played the button accordion. And while Misha was saying something, Vlad moved on to the keys, and the one behind the keys took the guitar. We are not planning something for the distant future. But for now we will work out the concerts to which we were invited. Copyright family will go, mom, wife. Ira stayed with three children in her arms. Can you imagine?

Vlad SAVOSIN:
- Someone says: "Yes, you are now, like" Queens "without Mercury, riding on his songs, trying to make a launch pad for yourself." But we don't care about such conversations. Mikhail's relatives want his songs to sound. And the audience wants to hear them. We will all sing for Mikhail. This is very responsible. How many such concerts will be - I do not know. But we indicated for ourselves that after the anniversary of Mikhail's death it would be blasphemy - to perform with these songs.

Leonid:
- After the death of Mikhail, I have been in charge of his affairs. Who else? No one knew him better than me. I am slowly beginning to understand show business. Although any domestic business, and especially show business, is very difficult ... The worst thing is when, after the death of the performer, they begin to forget about him and his family, each of his "friends" begins to drag everything in his direction little by little ... for forty days we want to arrange an evening in memory of Mikhail Krug. Now I am doing this. Fully. And after all, how happens: you call some artist - you need to help. And he says: if the entrance to the concert is free - I will come, but if you take some money - no. Guys, well, we are all mortal, we all walk under God. I have always called on everyone and I am calling: there is an opportunity - help today. This money will be brought to the family. I do not pretend to them, I just organize everything. So that we do not have this: a person died, and he was forgotten.

Leonid, friend:
- I was the first to hear most of Misha's songs. He has a luxurious bathroom in his house, large, with armchairs. I came to him, let's sit and have some tea. "Well, let's go," he says. And we went up to this room. He took the guitar and began to sing ... "Well, how?" I did not remake the songs later. Only in one, I remember, the words changed - "We drink vodka, pour vodka." It was already recorded, but Misha rewrote it with "The Pearl Brothers" and changed a few words - I was even surprised. I have a house in the village. Quite far from Tver. How many normal songs were born there. Misha came there, rested, took a steam bath, immediately took a guitar, began to hum something. Once Misha showed me the first lines of "Vladimir Central". "Mish, - I say, - this is such ... crap" (we both swore obscenities with him). He: "Ah! You don't understand anything!" We had a fight. And the song became famous. Then I was present at the studio when it was recorded. And then I already began to understand her. I even advised Misha something. It was my idea with backing vocals - so that Timur would prescribe the backing. I am a musician myself (I don’t say "in the past", because there is no person in the past), I played the guitar and sang too. But at first "Vladimirsky Central" did not understand. And Misha had a flair for songs. He knew how to build what, he sat inside and out at the studio, told everyone: here you have to sing like this, play like this ...

People who sit in air-conditioned offices, read fashion magazines and listen to advanced radio stations probably believe that there is no musician more popular in the country than Zemfira. The more sane will name Philip Kirkorov. Within the Garden Ring, this dispute may have some meaning. But in Russia there is only one leader - Mikhail Krug. If you think that you do not know him, you are mistaken. Suffice it to say: the song "Vladimirsky Central", which is popular with us, approximately like in England - Yesterday, was written by him.
40 days ago Mikhail Krug was killed.
And the songs remained ...

Mikhail Krug could have died in a car accident. Drown. Die of a heart attack. The only thing that did not threaten him was a violent death. The status of the Most People's Artist was protected better than the president's security service. Everyone thought so.
Perhaps that is why what happened that July night caused such a shock to everyone.
Among those who loved Krug, those who did not love him, and even those who learned his name only from the column of incidents in the newspaper. This is probably why Mikhail's relatives still cannot come to their senses and refuse to communicate with journalists. And the singer's friends and acquaintances talk about him with tears in their eyes.
This is not an exaggeration - it is true.

Marina BATURINA, classmate:
- After Mishka's death, I saw him twice in a dream. Alive. I ask: “Misha, how is that? After all, you died. " And he: "Yes, I played it all." It's just that those who knew him cannot believe that he is no longer there. When Misha was not yet such a star, he lived with me in the neighborhood and we met, respectively, more often, we somehow unearthed notebooks with his poems. He wrote poems from school, although then no one took it seriously, of course. He also started playing guitar and singing at school. Our class was musical: those who wanted to study music were recruited into it. All applicants were tested for hearing and voice. There was a teacher at the school who studied with us. The first year we did not approach the instrument at all: solfeggio, chorus ... Children, of course, all seemed boring, and the people began to be eliminated. Misha, who studied accordion, dropped out too. As a result, eight people graduated from our music school. And in the class there were more than thirty - forty. The teacher said: "Will one of you become a singer or a musician?" Alone and became. Misha. Although, probably, no one really counted on him.
Alexander FRUMIN, general director of the St. Petersburg radio studio "Chanson":
- I collect chanson music, of course, I am also friends with other collectors who record and distribute this music. It was they who suggested that I meet the Tver author. It was in the 94th year. We phoned. Misha was waiting for the call, but he was surprised that I was not just a collector, but from the radio, that we have a professional studio and there are live "Pearl Brothers". It turned out very funny with them. Misha loved these musicians very much and for some reason thought that they were no longer alive. Therefore, I was sincerely glad that I was wrong. We spoke on the phone. We agreed that he would come to us in St. Petersburg to take part in the Night Taxi program. By that time, there was still no radio "Chanson" or "Russian Radio". We worked for Radio Rocks. And this was the first program about Russian chanson. Naturally, they did not hear her in Moscow, only in St. Petersburg. I met him at the Moscow railway station. This is how I imagined it to myself. A tough guy, strict, with a military hairdo. Short, but not a prison. Small antennae. He matched his voice, timbre. Misha was very happy with Peter, such an unusual reception for him. There was a concert dedicated to the first year of the Night Taxi release. Studio, musicians, live radio and listeners' calls. Misha was not allowed anywhere: unformatted, impossible. And we met him, as we should have met talented person... He was very worried before meeting with Alexander Rosenbaum, who, of course, had not heard anything about him. Misha took a picture with him and then showed everyone this picture. He was very proud to be standing next to Rosenbaum. It was a tremendous joy for him, because he idolized him.
Alexander ROSENBAUM, singer:
- Mikhail Krug is sympathetic to me, first of all, from a purely human point of view. It was a real man. A kind-hearted and courageous man, it was pleasant to communicate with him. We coincided in views on many things: love, war, sports. And I really like a number of his songs, which brought him well-deserved popularity.
The circle cannot be attributed to the outstanding poets and composers of our time. But to those who say about his work: "Just think, three thieves chords", I will notice this. Stop it, citizens. Have the courage to admit that his songs are popular with huge amount of people. And people are not cattle. They have a head and a soul and a heart. He liked the professors of the conservatory, and taxi drivers, and teachers, and journalists ... And for me, for example, it is much more valuable than the opinion of snobs, than the "great" works of "outstanding" poets and composers, which no one listens to or reads. The Beatles are the same three thugs. Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava argued that he was not a composer, he melodies his works. Galich was generally new to music ...
The song of the Circle "Vladimirsky Central" has already become a classic of the genre. And if you have written at least one song that will not die, then this is already a great success and a huge victory.
Katya OGONEK, singer:
- He was very worried about how to adequately convey his work to the public. It happened that the sound engineer confused the backing tracks, the light was installed in a wrong way - it was very upsetting for him, because such trifles formed an opinion about the artist. After all, for the viewer it is not "the lighting (or sound engineer) is to blame", but "the artist made a bad concert." Once it happened, the organizers dragged Mishin's concert very long. I don’t remember exactly, but it seems that something was wrong with the equipment. People in the hall waited for almost an hour for Misha to come out. And he rushed backstage, swore, was nervous, several times tried to go out to the microphone - he was told: no, not ready ... He was very worried. And the people in the audience were worried. But, surprisingly, when he went on stage, he was received perfectly, as if this one hour waiting was not there.
Marina SHAMSHONKOVA, director of concert programs of Mikhail Krug:
- Due to my activity, I very often attended concerts, and not only at the Circle. There is such a concept in show business - “to take the hall”. Many singers did it from the second or third song. And Misha went on stage, said: "Hello." And that's all - his hall. He loved the audience. Such an extraordinary energy came from him. Many came just to listen to Mikhail. Not to watch the show, but to listen. If after the concert we were in no hurry to get to the station, Misha spent hours signing autographs. How many people fit, so many will sign. I considered it disrespectful to refuse.
Leonid, friend:
- I was the first to hear most of Misha's songs. He has a luxurious bathroom in his house, large, with armchairs. I came to him, let's sit and have some tea. “Well, let's go,” he says. And we went up to this room. He took a guitar and began to sing ... "Well, how?" I did not remake the songs later. Only in one, I remember, the words changed - "We drink vodka, pour vodka." It was already recorded, but Misha rewrote it with The Pearl Brothers and changed a few words - I was even surprised.
I have a house in the village. Quite far from Tver. How many normal songs were born there. Misha came there, rested, took a steam bath, immediately took a guitar, began to hum something.
Once Misha showed me the first lines of "Vladimirsky Central". “Misha,” I say, “this is such ... crap” (we both swore obscenities with him). She! You do not understand anything!". We had a fight. And the song became famous. Then I was present at the studio when it was recorded. And then I already began to understand her. I even advised Misha something. It was my idea with backing vocals - so that Timur would prescribe the backing. I am a musician myself (I don’t say “in the past”, because there is no person in the past), I played the guitar and sang too. But at first “Vladimirsky Central” did not understand. And Misha had a flair for songs. He knew how to build what, he sat inside and out at the studio, told everyone: here you have to sing like this, play like this ...
Vadim TSYGANOV:
- I can say that Vika has a very warm relationship with Misha. They began to chat right away, heart to heart, and at first the commercial side came out on top. At the same time, our alliance with him was developing interesting, because Misha himself considered himself a producer, like me. And at first the discrepancies were powerful, because I saw everything a little differently, but still we worked together, it even seems to me that I more often yielded to him. If I made any decisions on my own, he met it with hostility. Or I could, for example, tell him sharply: Misha, this is not a hit. And he was a touchy person, he dropped his guitar and said that then he would not sing any more. He was very touchy, but cooled down quickly. So the character was difficult, but at the same time, as an Orthodox person, he knew how to forgive. Even if they quarreled, he would say: "Vadka, you know how I feel about you." He knew how to smile, joke. In fact, he opened up to me just two months before that, when I learned that he spent a lot of money on the construction of temples and schools. This shocked me.
TROFIM, singer:
- His songs did not leave anyone indifferent. I have friends for whom the thug language is very close. So they really liked how Misha could express himself on it. They said that they had never heard such a beautiful language. Not a prison fenya, but an intelligent one. Unique. And Mikhail did it easily. In general, he was a very talented stylist.
Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- Some of them ran into Misha, they say, he was not in prison, so he has no right to sing such songs. And at one concert he was asked a question about this. He replied: “Well, I didn’t. Yes. And Daniel Defoe, by the way, wrote about the sea, but was not a sailor. "
Katya OGONEK:
- In my life there were many different things. Both the prison and the zone. But Mishka never sat. But he sang about it. And, you know, it didn’t irritate me at all. Vice versa. I think it's brilliant when a person can sing about something that he has not seen, and so, what a soul he takes! After all, Vysotsky has wonderful songs about the Great Patriotic War.
Misha and I met when we worked with him in one concert in St. Petersburg. “It's time for you, Katya, to meet Misha,” said Sasha Frumin. And he took me to his dressing room before the concert. To be honest, I was even a little scared. She knew: Misha is a domineering person with character. In addition, he was already known then, and I, one might say, a beginner. Well, I think it will be now. But I did not see any pathos. And I saw a cultured, correct, benevolent person. Misha made me quite warm. I was surprised. Joyful returned home to Moscow. Everyone wanted to tell: I met Misha Krug.
Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- Misha's tour requirements were minimal. No tyranny. In the room - hot water and a bed. There is no "luxury" - and okay. Tea, still water in the dressing room. Well, when they went to eat, so that there were no onions and garlic in the dishes. But this is not just some kind of whim, he was allergic to these products, but also to tomatoes and red peppers. As he smelled them, he began to choke and tears from his eyes. Once we arrived in the city, and there only one room remained in a good hotel - all the foreigners occupied. Misha was accommodated there, and the rest were simpler in the hotel. He was indignant: “I want with everyone. Why did you put me separately! How to play dominoes? " I told him: "Misha, you know, the numbers here are not very good." - "So what? We will play dominoes anyway. " And he moved to us. Gambling was. She freaks out when she loses. Throw the chips, leave. But it quickly departs. We always played in tandem with him, he would reprimand: “Marin, well, look at me! You watch what I walk on. "
Vlad SAVOSIN, accordion player, "Hitcher" group:
- Mikhail played dominoes gorgeous. Again, chess. During the tour: after concerts or on the way, on the train. The road was long, but Misha didn't really like airplanes - not only he was afraid to fly, his pressure was rising. We played charades and games. Misha was a cheerful and cheerful person.
Igor RYBAKOV, classmate:
- We studied with Misha from the first to the eighth grade. Sometimes they sat at the same desk, sometimes both were kicked out of class. Our class was divided in half: "Germans" and "British". So we were "Germans" with him. For some reason, it was during the German lesson that Misha loved to sing his songs. Silence. The teacher reads some text aloud. Suddenly he whispers: “Would you like to sing a song? Just just composed "-" Come on "And Mikhail incrementally:" Kirimindyrs - Kirimindyrs. Kirimindyrs are kirmanda. " The teacher looks up from the textbook so slowly ... The girls look now at me, then at Misha. “And now the translation:“ The sun rises over the country of Huanghe. The Chinese are going to the fields. " All: "Ha-ha-ha." Teacher: “Vorobyov! (this is his real name) Get out of class! " This is how we learned German. "Four" is the highest mark.
Marina BATURINA:
- He sat at the desk right in front of me. After school, I constantly remembered: "You didn't let me cheat." I laughed it off: "Yeah, I didn't." Yes, I myself tried to write off someone. Misha, although he did not go to the honors, was a leader by nature. He was a person. I could directly, in the eyes, express everything to both peers and teachers. Once we had a school "light" and we collected money for tea drinking, for cakes. And not all donated money. And everyone came. And Misha, right at the table, said: "Why did I hand over the money, but such and such did not hand over it, but he still sits at the table and eats?" Bear - he was very fair, did not tolerate injustice.
Vlad SAVOSIN:
- Mikhail was strict in his work. I could have fined. For the cause. And none of the musicians took offense at him - a normal working moment. There was no despotism. There was discipline. Each of the musicians had something to advise in terms of work. And Mikhail listened. But the decisions were made only by himself. As a leader in charge of the final musical product. There were, of course, creative disputes. But they were resolved peacefully. And you thought, as in "Merry Fellows": "This phrase is played like this"?
Irina Petrovna LYUBIMOVA (worked with the Circle in the convoy):
- Misha was a hot-tempered person. He loved very much to have everything as he said. He could raise his voice, slam the door, quarrel with the authorities. He never yelled at me. In general, I tried not to swear in front of women. We had such a deputy general director for traffic safety. A mischievous man. And he had three mechanics as assistants. He constantly forced them to do something for his personal car. Either pump up the wheels, then fix something. And suddenly one day a newspaper appears on our blackboard. It depicts this boss and three mechanics who are pulling wheels to his car. And so everything is similar. It turned out to be Misha's work. He did not hide it. Uncle tore this newspaper, crumpled it up, threw it on my table. Of course, there was no scandal - you cannot punish for that. But after all, not everyone dares to make fun of the authorities. I kept that newspaper for a long time, glued it piece by piece, and then, when we moved, threw it away. In vain.
He was the life of the party. Never whined. An optimist in life. And then he began to study music more and more seriously. To go to Moscow. This, of course, was not approved, caused ridicule among others. They even laughed at him openly: "Here, Mishka began to sing!"
Leonid:
- I knew him well before the army - I walked in the area where he lived. And after the army, in the 90s, we already became close friends. At that time, few still understood that something needed to be done, for the most part they lived with old, communist views, trying to keep their place. Misha worked in a convoy, but he seriously thought about the fact that he needed to do something in his creativity. Since then, we have begun to communicate. And help each other. In creativity and in life. It's no secret that Misha was famed for his second album, Zhigan-Lemon. I participated in his recording. In the sense that I was already in commerce, and Misha was still working. The album was recorded at a studio in Tver, Misha quit his job, and the tour slowly began.
Anatoly DNEPROV:

- We met Mikhail several years ago, in one of the nightclubs, where many performers working in the chanson genre performed. Backstage a guy came up to me, introduced himself as Misha Krug, gave me his cassette and asked me to listen. Many people who work in this genre come up to me, bring cassettes, ask me to give my opinion. Because everyone considers me to be one of the founders of chanson, but I believe that I was completely not involved in this, that's for sure. My opinion was also important to Mikhail. Then there was no access to television or radio, young guys were not allowed anywhere at all, but I still played songs somewhere. Misha and I did not communicate very closely, but I did not feel that he was somehow withdrawn, in any case. He was just like me - he was not afraid to say everything he thinks in the face. In this I found something right.
Irina Petrovna LYUBIMOVA:
- Few believed that he would succeed. It seems to me because of envy. He began to do business that was unusual for many. As I already said, we had a company, which included Mishin's immediate boss. He approached him like a friend, asked for time off to go somewhere on his musical business. And he at one point stopped letting him go. And then Misha waved his hand. After all, at that time he received good money - more than 300 rubles, but he went nowhere. Made up my mind. His act then surprised many. There was a scandal, they wanted to fire him under the article. Because Misha still left on his own business, and they put him on truancy for this. But he himself quit, of his own free will. After all, it was convenient for him to work as a driver. Not a bad permanent income, growth prospects, respect. How could he know that success awaits him on the new path. Misha took a big risk. And I was worried about this. But he was an independent man, accustomed to being responsible for his actions. Then his cassettes began to appear. Many were proud that he had risen. Some, on the contrary, were jealous. But Misha did not change with the advent of popularity. Recently, the guys and I recalled how he met the very boss who wanted to fire him under the article near the bakery. He was so cheerful, bought a cake. Misha himself approached him and told him that his son was born. But he could come up and recall old grievances or even pretend not to notice. After all, we were left there, far behind. Who are we to him? And in the convoy he came to us. True, less and less - there was not enough time for everything.
Galina PANKRATOVA, classmate:
- Misha hasn't changed at all. What it was 20 years ago, it has remained the same. The same plump, calm, simple. Once he gave a concert at our school 39 (I teach there). As a local teacher, she decided to look into the director's office and look at the celebrity. And Misha was waiting for the start of the concert there, when the guys gathered in the hall. "Oh, Gal, come in." - “Do you recognize me? We haven’t seen that much. ” - “You were a Pebble. Pebbles and remained. " Then they shot a movie about him. Also in our school. Misha took me in an armful, and while they were interviewing him, I stood next to him - he did not let go. On the street met: "Hello" - "Hello" And that's all. He left after the eighth grade, and we somehow parted with him. I talked more with those with whom I studied in the ninth or tenth. And when they met with him, they talked about life, like all former classmates, who where, like in a family, etc.
Alexander FRUMIN:
- There are very few people in the world who are strong inside. Here is a person who has gained popularity, began to make money, and it does it to others. Let's not say that it corrupts, it just changes. This is especially true for people of public professions: artists, musicians, TV presenters. And Mikhail Vorobyov did not become like that. He appreciated immensely that he was once recognized as the best author of Tver at the author's song contest in 1987. The jury was chaired by our St. Petersburg bard Evgeny Klyachkin. By the way, this tragic song "Day as Day" is dedicated to the memory of Klyachkin. And then in some of the newspapers they wrote that this song became a requiem for Mikhail himself. This is not true.
Mikhail SHELEG, singer, publicist:
- He quite calmly communicated with us without any arrogance characteristic of many, favored by fame and fans. He talked very funny about filming a movie. He played the role of crime boss, thief in law Viktor Petrovich in the film by Konstantin Murzyanko "April". He told me what a dreary occupation it was: six hours of make-up, twenty minutes of filming. And you only need to say two phrases, which for some reason do not climb into my head. We also talked about chanson. The circle said that he organized his own direction in music, which is called the "Russian genre". He said: “Now all albums will be released only in this series. Moreover, we will receive the artists by a meeting. We must already separate this tinsel, which is rushing into chanson. Let them be chanson musicians, and we will work in the Russian genre. "
Katya OGONEK:
- We were brought together by the similarity of characters. As far as work is concerned, I am a tough person. And Michael was like that. He gave himself to work one hundred percent and demanded the same from others. He could not be "tired", "ill", "bad". That is, of course, it happened that you would visit him before the concert, and he: "Oh, Katya, my throat hurts, I don't know how I'm going to work now." no fatigue. Due to his poor health, he could not cancel the concert. Because he loved his audience and could not deceive their expectations. Misha was a workaholic. I respect him for that. He lived his work, was proud of it. I'm sure he would never go after the song to sell something, to do business like others. If not for this tragedy, he would have been singing all his life, he would not have changed his profession.
Leonid:
- They came to Misha with different projects: let's invest money here and there. But he was not a businessman, he was well versed in music, but he was not a businessman, and he went to consult me. I said: “Misha, the market has long been divided. And they know that, that and that. If you want to go out, go to them. " And he got started: "Come on, Lesh, you always start." I explain: “This project is deliberately dead-end, it's like taking and just throwing money away. Buy equipment, recruit people - and there are not so many good specialists in Tver - and you won't get anything. " He turned on even more ... Although, by the way, none of the commercial projects so seriously hooked him. All the same, music was closest to him. He took her very seriously.
Vlad SAVOSIN:
- I recorded all the albums with Misha. We met at some kind of musical get-together. I worked in one restaurant-type establishment as an accordion player. And Mikhail came there to visit a friend who worked there as a security guard. This acquaintance knew that Mikhail was participating in competitions, in festivals of author's songs. Well, he introduced us - sort of like colleagues. During the evening, Mikhail and I played several songs together, he immediately offered to perform with him at an amateur song contest, which was soon held in Tver. Since this all started. At one time we were three of us - the third was Volodya Ovcharov. Then Misha started bringing in other musicians. Heard the guitarist - brought him. Colleagues advised him of a good violinist - Viktor Chilimov. So, gradually, after a year and a half, the "Hitcher" group was formed - six people. The composition then changed several times, for all the time in the "Hitcher" worked about twenty people. But this happens in many teams.
Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- I have been working with Mikhail for 6 years. Yes, he is demanding - this is what I say as a director, but demanding is fair and logical. He loved order, so that everything was clear. Sometimes he would get angry and scold. But he was quick-witted, did not use foul language. In the collective we had a dry law. They were invited to sit at every concert. Imagine what these gatherings could result in, and the next day a concert, another city. One musician is no longer working for us. Somehow he really wanted beer. "If you want - drink." The guys warned him that our beer is expensive, but he did not understand. Got drunk, none in the morning. I did everything badly at the concert. And the beer cost him the cost of the concert. So we have it really expensive. But next time he didn't want more. In general, Misha brought together wonderful guys. Workaholic. Nobody was late, everyone tried.
Mikhail GULKO, singer:
- I remember there was a very interesting moment. I then visited him in Tver. The night is deep. After the concert we came home, had supper and went to rest. Suddenly a call: "Misha, help me out!" His friends drank a little, and the police stopped them in this state. Well, Misha, let's get together to the rescue, and he himself swears, but in a kind, fatherly way. I went with him. Center of Tver. Cars are standing, traffic cops, his men are guilty faces. Suddenly Misha whispers to me: "Uncle Misha, sign the records to the traffic cops." And I had them with me. I go up to them: “I'm here on tour, singer, let me make presents,” etc. And Misha was ashamed to use his name, did not like being recognized. In general, the guys were released. We got to know him interestingly. At night in the dining car. We went to an evening of chanson to St. Petersburg, to the Gorky Palace of Culture. I then took vodka, dinner. And he: "I don't drink." So we met, I already knew the name Krug. In 1993 he gave a concert in a zone near Krasnoyarsk. Just flew in from New York. And suddenly I heard a voice from a civilian who was bringing up a chipboard from the car. And sings with a kind of shy anguish. "Who is this?" - "Mikhail Krug". Then I realized who they listen to in Russia. After our nightly acquaintance, we performed together and took the train to Moscow. When he went out to his Tver, for some reason it became so melancholy. We exchanged phones. At first his director was such a frivolous boy. Misha, I remember, constantly said to him: "You are a slob." And then Marina appeared.
Katya OGONEK:
Misha's character, of course, is not easy ... He was. He could get angry, shout. But this is a creative person. Personality! First of all. If he had no character - would he become Misha Krug? .. Moreover, it was easy for me to communicate with him, for example. Although, of course, we quarreled and took offense at each other ... There was such a case. Misha and I both hate onions. And he also did not eat garlic. In restaurants he and I were seated at a separate table, fed separately from the rest. So, once in Israel, when we were on tour, we argued over something in the supermarket. Because of some kind of nonsense, a price tag, or something ... So at the last concert, in Tel Aviv, when everyone was making jokes to each other, I took Mishin's microphone and cleaned it with an onion. When he went on stage and approached him, he had such a face! He threw down the microphone, gets nervous - the people will not understand what the matter is. And the hall was so decent. Sveta - Misha had such a backing vocalist - understood what was going on and began laughing loudly right on the stage ... When Misha went backstage, he thought about another person and poured a bottle of sweet water on him. And I stayed on the sidelines. And then she did not confess to him for a long time. No, I think we'd better get to Moscow - I'll say there, Misha was quick-tempered, but quick-witted. That I did it, someone else told him before me. He just: "Katya, well, what are you, Katya" ... Then for a long time he could not forget it, he told me: "Well, Katka, wait, I'll arrange something for you too." Not satisfied. Because I didn't have time. But, probably, he would have come up with something funny. With his rather harsh appearance, he loved to joke, had an excellent sense of humor. For example, he played tricks on me, scared me a little. For example, we have concerts with him in the same city. He calls me on the phone or comes backstage: "Katya, your concert has been canceled." Or: "Your business is bad, I interrupted you, there are two people sitting in the hall." And I began to worry terribly.
Vlad SAVOSIN:
Misha was very worried if the hall was not full. We were constantly sold out. But the organizer will overdo it and will do four concerts in one city in a year. But you need one or two. When we come for the fourth time in a year, of course, there was no full hall. So in Chelyabinsk, for example, it happened. Mikhail was very upset, did not understand: "The city seems to be good, what's the matter?" But he got over the day, and the next - another city. Not up to frustration. There could be 20-25 concerts a month. Once, during a long and difficult tour, at one of the last concerts, Mikhail on stage just forgot a few lines in the song and, according to the melody and rhythm, finished: “And then I just forgot. And something else there, I don't remember. " The people were stunned. But he applauded.
Igor RYBAKOV:
When Misha began to go on tour, he changed a lot. Time began to appreciate. Smart, businesslike, he counted the seconds. I also lived with my mother on Zeleny Proyezd. She expresses something to him. And he: "Mom, that's it, there is no time." And he ran away. That's who the military should have become. He would have been promoted to general. We once talked about this with him. I wanted to leave the army and decided to consult with him. And he told me this: “You don’t have to go anywhere. You are a military man, and be one. It's very difficult in civilian life. "
Katya OGONEK:
We have always tried to help each other out. Not money, no ... There was no need for that. I also don’t remember any critical situation. But we have always supported each other. When Misha had a birthday, I always came to him. If a concert was scheduled for that day, I rescheduled it. And Misha came to my birthday. Artists are often invited to the holidays. They asked me: "How much money have you given to the Circle so that it comes?" I was indignant: “Why? What does it mean: how much did you give? We are friends. Misha came to me as a friend. Do you think everything is for money? "
Marina BATURINA:
Misha was always ready to help his friends. Twice he was very helpful to my son Vovka. When he failed his exams at the institute - the first time when he entered, the second time - already during his studies, I called Misha. He responded immediately: "Marin, well, of course, I will help you." And he helped. Financially, I needed money then.
Leonid:
How we got along with him, the whole city was surprised. I have been asked so many times: how can you communicate with Mishka, he's such an explosive person, he can get lost, but you don't seem to swear and are always together everywhere. I said: I don't know why this is ... Because it is explosive, and I am like water. It caught fire and - shhh, cooled down. After all, I was not only helping Misha. But those in whom I put my soul into, rose and then such detached walked past me: hello, Lech, that's all. And Mishka - this is where I did not expect - he was ready to lay his head for me. I had a chance to help him, so after the very first concert that he brought money, he came to me: “Here, Lesha. This is for you". I say: “Stop it, I have money, you go ahead and develop. I won't take anything. " He then: "Well, become my director, my producer." It is true, Misha was harsh, impudent, but there was still more soul in him.
Mikhail GULKO:
- Misha knew the value of people. Whom he didn’t love, he didn’t love. Didn't bring it closer to me. And he did good unnoticed. He didn't have any show off. And on stage - like a child. She bites her lips, antennae. If you look closely, when he sings, you can see how his upper lip twitches ... I can't speak in the past tense ... Misha and Irochka (second wife) stayed with me here in New York. I didn’t know then that he didn’t eat onions and garlic, I had prepared everything for the meeting. But the food went to the trash can. Misha asked me for sausages with cabbage. And he had very tasty borscht at home - this is the main dish, under which one drinks well. Irochka cooks well with him. He is a very broad-minded person. In his house, the front door did not close for 24 hours. He was friends with all segments of the population. When I visited him in Tver, he always sent a car to Moscow for me. I asked my friends to take me there. And we always got there so fast. And they did joint concerts there and just celebrated some holidays. Misha did not have many friends, and I am very glad that I got into the circle of those close to him. It was not closed, but, as the people say, you cannot drive up to it. I didn’t try to find a common language with everyone.
Mikhail SHELEG:
- We often crossed paths with the Circle at group concerts, all kinds of festivals and in a recording studio on Ryazansky Prospekt. It was impossible to call our communication friendship, it was just companionship.
Mikhail is an introverted person, quite self-sufficient, self-confident, proud and did not make contact with everyone. There are always many different personalities hovering around a famous person - both fans and adventurers. Therefore, Mikhail treated everyone quite carefully, but since we were old acquaintances with him, he invited me to his studio in Tver. It was June 13, he took us to a restaurant, where we talked. We took ice cream, coffee, he was dressed in a T-shirt and sweatpants like that at home. Misha accidentally dropped a piece of ice cream on a T-shirt and then, when I was photographing it, covered the soiled place with a saucer.
Igor RYBAKOV:
- It so happened that Mishka lived in the last houses of Zeleny Proezd, and I lived in the middle. And we practically did not intersect after lessons. Their company gathered in the yard, with guitars. The best "lads" of the school. They didn’t bother me, because I was involved in sports, and I was not considered a “botanist” either. They got together, decided with advice: "We are touching this, this is not." When I was indignant, Mishka would say in a friendly way: “You, Igor, keep quiet. It's not yours. Keep quiet. " In general, an ordinary boyish life. At first, high school students threw us out of the queue in the buffet, then we, when we grew up. Normal army school. Misha was a very serious boy since the first grade. He loved to be obeyed.
Leonid:
- I saw him differently. Seen angry. Just this summer we went swimming with him to the quarry. We took a glass of vodka, a can of beer. General mood! He says: “Lech, how well you bathed! Come to me, let's eat. " We arrive, and Irina cooked borscht. And I forgot to put one thing there. Misha lifted the lid of the pan - I see it is boiling. "That's it, Lech, we won't eat!" And he threw the lid down. I told him: "Stop it." And he already wound up with nothing: "Again she did not put it down!". Me: "Misha, okay, let's warm it up, eat, I want to eat." He left: that's it, I need to be fed. We went with him, pulled the table out into the street, put the chairs, ate borscht. And he blossomed again - as if nothing had happened. He always walked away in two minutes.
Vlad SAVOSIN:
- Mikhail was quick-tempered, but quick-witted. Sometimes, he scolds a person, and then immediately begins to praise him in order to charge him with optimism and kindness. For example, I had an organizational miscarriage. Alcohol related. Mikhail sent me on vacation for a month - something between vacation and dismissal. And when I returned it back a month later, I began to patronize my work. Come on, he says, in the middle of the concert you will sing your song or two.
Alexander FRUMIN:
- Misha appreciated people very much, respected his musicians. He had a very strict discipline in the group. All musicians knew that they came to work and had to do it very thoroughly. Misha appreciated each of the guys. Could scold, but not in front of strangers. If he came to St. Petersburg alone, he stayed with me, if with a group, then only with them, in a hotel. Misha knew my parents well. And at concerts he dedicated the song to my mother and father. We were actually friends with families. Every time he brought us gifts from Tver. Usually drinks. Me - their local beer. And to my wife some kind of liqueur, very peculiar. Sometimes he stayed with us after concerts. Once I stayed for a day to watch a football match between Spartak and Zenit. He called me twice a year. For my birthday and New Years. Although, in fact, our meetings happened more often, during these two days he rang the train. I even found it abroad. I considered it my duty to congratulate. All eight years of our communication. And always the conversation ended in the same way: "End of communication."
Marina BATURINA:
- He and Irinka (a classmate) always congratulated us on our birthday. This year I also invited him, but I almost certainly knew that he would not be able to come - recently Misha has been very busy. And for sure. He said, "I'm sorry, but I'm on tour." And he had a tour in Krasnodar, where another classmate of ours lives. Misha later said: “After the concert, I heard someone shouting from the crowd, from behind the guards:“ Let me go to him, I studied with him. ” - "Oh," I say, "who studied there with me?" It turned out Vika. We sat with her for a long time, talked. She began to ask: "How are the girls?" And then I felt so ashamed that I did not congratulate you and Ira. " And so on Valentine's Day, February 14, Misha came to my work with flowers and brandy. Didn't find me. He went to my house, I quickly fried a chicken, sat down ...
I really miss talking to him. Misha had an interesting speech - such turns! And you could chat with him about everything. About personal. He supported me emotionally, with advice. I was worried in a friendly way that I did not have a reliable wealthy groom. And once he even introduced me to a man. It was my birthday. Misha came with flowers, a gift and - with his former director. With whom we then really even talked for some time. And there was also a funny incident. One very well-known company in our city celebrated the day of its foundation. There was a concert, and Misha took part in it. And he led me and two other girls from my job to this concert. We were in his dressing room when suddenly we came to see Misha from television. He immediately grabbed us into an armful and gives an interview worth it. I thought one was being filmed. They ask: "What do you expect from this company?" He says something about gasoline, about the fact that he always refills at the gas stations of this company. And then suddenly the microphone is handed to me: "What do you expect from this company." I got lost. The bear whispers: "Grooms, grooms" ... I automatically repeat: "And from the company of such and such, I expect grooms." They showed it all over Tver (laughs). The bear prompted in a friendly way.
In general, he somehow treated women with understanding, pitied us. He took great care of my mother. And my mother was proud of him: after all, from a simple family, and what kind of son turned out. I bought a car for my sister Olya for her birthday - a brand new "six", a good apartment.
Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- When we were on tour in Germany, he brought my mother a huge suitcase of hand-embroidered bed linen. And it is expensive there. "Mommy". Mom was everything to him. And Irishka got pregnant - in every city he asked me: “Marin, let's go together. Let's choose booties, diapers ”. Brought suitcases. I asked him: "Why do you need so much?" - "Nothing. Ira will choose. "
Marina BATURINA:
- Misha had a very coherent theory about the relationship between a man and a woman. Slim and correct. There was no licentiousness in him. Another would be - the money would be brought in, there is glory - and let's take pictures of the girls right and left. And Misha dreamed of meeting true love, dreamed of a family so that there was one more child - after a divorce from his first wife, he kept his son Dimka for himself. We talked about personal things with him. I asked: "Misha, how do you feel that this is real?" He replied: "But you will feel: you embrace, cuddle up and you will understand that nothing else is needed." And so he met Irina, and we were all so happy for him, Sasha was born to them ...
I don’t remember the girls especially liked Misha at school. In our class, another boy was the first "groom". And he had a childhood love for a girl with whom they lived in different entrances of the same house. Of course, it was as it was: to pull the pigtail, bring the briefcase ... She did not like it. She kicked him, pushed him away.
After finishing the eighth grade, he left school, we once celebrated the New Year together. I was with a friend, and he came with a girl. And it was so interesting, we were 15-16 years old, and he was like an adult: “This is my girlfriend. Marina". They got up and kissed. Marina was a pretty, tall girl. But for some reason we didn't like it right away. When Misha went to the army, she did not wait for him, she got married. He was very worried. A few years later, there was a moment - they got back together. But nothing good came of it.
Irina Petrovna LYUBIMOVA:
- He had an unhappy love. The girl from the army did not wait for him. He suffered. He said: "I feel bad." I was worried. Then I met Sveta, my first wife. I remember I came with her to the evening. So proud. Their son was born, Dimochka. But something went wrong with them. At first, Sveta did not find a common language with her mother-in-law, and she and Misha moved to the hostel. And then for some reason she decided that Misha and Dima were "eating up" her aura. I don't know what happened to her there. In general, Misha and his son moved to his mother.
Igor RYBAKOV:
- Misha and I began to communicate more actively after school. We somehow formed a company of classmates by itself, and we got together from time to time. True, the girls - Ira Frolova, Marina Baturina - saw him more often, they went to his mother, Zoya Petrovna. And our meetings can be called phased. After school, I entered a military school and went to North Ossetia for 4 years, then to the Far East. I arrived in Tver as a lieutenant, somewhere in the 86th year. We crossed with Misha near the shopping center. "Where are you from?" - "From the Far East". - “And I have a holiday today - my son was born. He called him Dimka. " - “I also have Dimka. This case should be noted. " - "Of course". We stood for 1.5-2 hours. We talked about life. They drank purely symbolically and said goodbye.
The next time we met was in 91st. Then everything was according to coupons. Mishka worked in the car, delivered milk to the shops. Even then, he began to study music seriously, performed at the chemical institute. I asked how he was with the money. "As you can see, I earn."
Irina Petrovna LYUBIMOVA:
- I was the chairman of the trade union committee when Misha came to us. He was a competent, proactive worker and literally a month later he became a driver for a GAZ-52. Carried milk. And after a while he was appointed head of the column, but he did not like to be in command, so of his own free will he moved back to the drivers, as a foreman. In those years Misha was my most important and loyal assistant. We formed a small company, and we often went to the camp site or just got out into nature. Misha was a fireman and was responsible for the barbecue, since he did not eat onions and garlic, he made a marinade according to his own recipe. You have no idea what it means to lead a brigade of milkmen. He had 20 people subordinate to him. He had to get up early, about 4 in the morning. Medical control is daily, if someone did not come, it was necessary to find a replacement. Often he himself went on a flight instead of someone. It is a very responsible business. By 6 am to the dairy kitchen, then to the shops. But you could rely on him. There is such a backbone of drivers about whom you know that they will not get drunk, as if they will go to work. After all, in the evening all sorts of applications were drawn up, plans were signed, and it was very difficult to find a replacement in the morning. He also repaired the car himself. A self-respecting driver will never give her to a locksmith who does not know her as he does. Since I was a union worker, I was in charge of all recreational activities. Misha helped me with this. Once we came up with a number - "the dance of little swans." Imagine a few guys (and they were all big, like Misha) dancing in ballet tutus. I specially sewed the packs for them. Misha still bared one shoulder so flirtatiously ...
Galina PANKRATOVA:
- If we knew that he would become a celebrity ... Just a couple of years ago, I did not even imagine that our Bear was Mikhail Krug. I am not fond of this kind of music, therefore, when I heard his songs out of the corner of my ear, I could not even think that it was him. And somehow I met girls, classmates, and they told me about our celebrity. Then I went specifically to a neighbor to ask for a tape of Mikhail Krug. I listened - exactly, his timbre. I didn't even know that he knew how to play the guitar.
Igor RYBAKOV:
- I was finishing the last course of the Zhukov Military Academy. The lesson is in progress. Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and a person I knew appeared in the doorway: "Major Rybakov is not studying with you?" I asked to leave: "What are you doing here?" “I met the foreman from your course. He asked us to play at your graduation party. Listen, do you have a smoke? " I bummed a cigarette at my comrades. We stood and talked. “You know, there was one price per show. Now another one. We perform almost free of charge. " He rehearsed with us several times with the "Hitcher" group. Already he has become a respectable one, he has grown fat. That evening I saw the Mishka performing for the first time. Even then people from Moscow came to listen to him. In general, he began to rise slowly. The money went.
Alexander FRUMIN:
- For the first time, Misha went abroad with us. November 97th. Together with the "Pearl Brothers" on a 10-day concert tour in Germany. He was very afraid, did not want to fly. Misha did not like airplanes and preferred to travel by train. We persuaded him with difficulty by taking tickets for the best plane. In Germany, he laughed all the time, because he did not believe that he was abroad. In principle, it could be understood, since we were staying with emigrants. Our former compatriots also came to the concerts. Everywhere they spoke in Russian, and Misha was very surprised. In Germany, he bought souvenirs for all relatives and friends. I spent on this almost all the earned fee, which at that time was rather big. For himself, he acquired a leather jacket made of such reddish leather. Absolutely wonderful black sunglasses. Real ones, dear ones. A music center, since he did not even have a laser player at that time. And with the rest of the money, Misha bought the best Rhine wine. He was a little drinker. I practically did not drink alcohol. But he loved good wine. He bought wine, which was sold in a special shop at the winery. At an insane price. Moreover, the bottles were huge, each about half a meter high. There, probably, three liters were included. I remember saying to him: "Maybe you can bring at least some money to Russia?" He was making a little money then. And the organizers of the concerts paid in Deutschmarks. Misha looked at a currency unknown to him and said: “We have only one bank in Tver, and I'm not sure that this money will be exchanged for rubles or dollars. So come on, Sasha, I will celebrate my first trip abroad and return home with gifts. "
Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- Many people think that he has saved up a lot of money. But this is not the case. He built a house for his mother, for himself. I helped my sister with an apartment and other relatives. He did not have a money-box in which he put his savings. Misha was a believer and believed that hoarding is a sin. Sometimes, he would come from a tour: “Marin, we need to meet with the priest. How is the chapel there? " Only from the train will he enter the house, immediately into the car and watch how the chapel is being built. Saint Michael of Tverskoy is his own patron. I walked and looked. He was happy as a child. He donated money not only for this chapel, but also for other temples in the city. Once we arrived from Ufa. And the orphanage children greeted us there, they presented us with handmade boards. And so we just arrived in Tver: “Marine, let us give those children a video camera. Find out the address. " They collected the package - a video camera, videotapes, and a bunch of gifts - and sent it off. He had no hoarding. Father helped our local to write and record spiritual songs, invested a lot of money in this, attracted his musicians. In every city, we went to church, whenever possible, visited holy places. It became easier for him there. I went to confess.
Vika TSYGANOVA:
- Misha's son became my godson, so Misha and I now also have a spiritual connection. This is the second such death in my life, very hard for me. I recently celebrated the anniversary of my father's death. Before that, friends left, but they lived far away and, as it were, did not have time to open up. And with Misha this happened literally in the last months of our communication. Here he, sitting down at the table, was always baptized. He could swear, but immediately apologize and repented heartily. This speaks of his great sincerity, of the purity of his soul. These two deaths have reborn me so internally. The feeling came that the time is very fleeting and there is a lot to be done.
Leonid:
- I'll put it this way: I had one friend, and Misha had one. Both of his sons are my godchildren. Now, I believe I have two families. We had a life competition with Misha. I have three children, the youngest was born in December. He has three: Dima from his first marriage, Marishka, daughter Irinina, and now the common Sasha was recently born. I named my youngest Michael. Misha wanted to call his own Leonid. But somehow we were with him in the same company, and they asked me: did you name your son in honor of the Bear of the Circle? I say, "Why?" (Although there was such an idea.) My father was Mikhail, and my father, confessor, was also Mikhail, and he was born on St. Michael's Day ... It's true, I have only Bears around me. But there was no need to talk about it out loud. Misha was offended. And he named his son Sasha. But I was not upset.
Marina BATURINA:
- So everything went well for Misha. And then this happened ... The last time I spoke with him on the phone. On Thursday, and on Sunday, Misha was gone. As if someone pulled me: call me. Congratulated him on the birth of his son. She asked, what was the name, when will our school company wash the legs? He replied: closer to autumn, now he is very busy. I also asked if he will perform at the City Day? He says: no, I'm leaving. This was probably the first time Misha did not perform at the City Day.
Marina SHAMSHONKOVA:
- A few days after the tragedy happened, we gathered with the musicians to decide what to do next. Because offers to work with other performers or in other groups immediately poured in. Misha was known as a demanding person, and since we worked together for so long, it means that everything is in order there. If something did not suit him, he immediately parted with the person. You know, I have such an association. Here was a man walking with a banner, he was killed, he dropped the banner, and all the others turned around and went back. A banner is like a song. How to quit everything? It's easier to run away like cockroaches, work calmly with others, forgetting about everything. And you can find an excuse for yourself - all families, they need to be fed. What about Misha? We had concerts planned until February 2003. Naturally, there could be no talk of anything. But there were calls that the concerts would not be canceled, so that we would just come with the group and sing the songs of the Circle. The guys are known as good musicians. Misha called them multi-musicians, because each of them plays several instruments. They are professionals. For example, a keyboard player fell ill with us, and they went with a smaller cast. Misha sang the song, Vlad Savosin played the button accordion. And while Misha was saying something, Vlad moved on to the keys, and the one behind the keys took the guitar. We are not planning something for the distant future. But for now we will work out the concerts to which we were invited. Copyright family will go, mom, wife. Ira stayed with three children in her arms. Can you imagine?
Vlad SAVOSIN:
- Someone says: "Yes, you are now, like" Queens "without Mercury, riding on his songs, trying to create a launching pad for yourself." But we don't care about such conversations. Mikhail's relatives want his songs to sound. And the audience wants to hear them. We will all sing for Mikhail. This is very responsible. How many such concerts will be - I do not know. But we indicated for ourselves that after the anniversary of Mikhail's death it would be blasphemy - to perform with these songs.
Leonid:
- After the death of Mikhail, I have been in charge of his affairs. Who else? No one knew him better than me. I am slowly beginning to understand show business. Although any domestic business, and especially show business, is very difficult ... The worst thing is when, after the death of a performer, they begin to forget about him and his family, each of his “friends” starts to drag everything in his direction little by little ... For forty days we want arrange an evening in memory of Mikhail Krug. Now I am doing this. Fully. And after all, how happens: you call some artist - you need to help. And he says: if the entrance to the concert is free - I will come, but if you take some money - no. Guys, well, we are all mortal, we all walk under God. I have always called on everyone and I am calling: there is an opportunity - help today. This money will be brought to the family. I do not pretend to them, I just organize everything. So that we do not have this: a person died, and he was forgotten.

From an interview with Mikhail Krug:

“I was born in Tver on April 7, 1962. Studied at music school accordion class, but then dropped. he played hockey, was a goalkeeper. After the eighth grade, he entered a vocational school and received the profession of a car mechanic. He joined the army, served as a driving instructor at a military school for junior specialists. After the army, he married and entered the preparatory department of the Polytechnic Institute. In the same place, at the Polytechnic, I came across an announcement that the eighth regional festival-competition of author's songs will take place. He became a laureate from the first visit, left the institute. I was then working as the head of the convoy, but soon I also left my job. He recorded the first album, then the second, the third. True, they were not replicated. But the fourth album, Zhigan-Lemon, gained popularity. It was 1994. After that, other discs were released: "The Green Prosecutor", "Live String", "Madame" and "Rose". So, in short ... "

“I hate communists and homosexuals. I will never shake hands with these sexual perverts and I will not perform with them in the same concert. "

“This is a Russian thug song. Although the genre is defined by the French word "chanson". Vysotsky called it a courtyard romance. Neither Novikov, nor Rosenbaum, nor Tokarev accept the name "chanson". But time passes, and somehow it is heard. After all, you can't write on posters - a thug song. "

“I dream of buying myself a Seagull, but I can't. I have a six hundredth Mercedes, Volkswagen, but this is all such nonsense compared
with "The Seagull". There is no better car in the world. But it costs 200 thousand dollars. This, unfortunately, is still an unacceptable price for me. Though
I am sure that the times will come when I will acquire my dream. "

“Every second person was in prison or his relatives.
I myself was twice under investigation, but, thank God, I was not in prison. Errors of youth. Let's not talk about it. I hate to remember
all your experiences. I did it according to my conscience, honor ... This is the first time. And the second time - already for speculation, there was such an article. "

“Imagine that in 1380 at the Battle of Kulikovo or in 1812 at Patriotic War mothers would not let their children go. Who, then, will go to restore order in Chechnya? Everything that happens there is really barbarism that is not included in any UN rules. Only men can bring order to the country. "

“I am a former alcoholic! Drank at the store counters. He got drunk and slept in dens. In general, I lived as all my schoolchildren lived.
and courtyard friends, not dreaming about anything, not striving for anything ... "

“I will never forgive laziness to my beloved woman! If she doesn't cook, iron, wash and look after me, I'll just kick her out. I don't understand why people hire housekeepers at all. A warm woman's hand warming up the family hearth is just what children need, and first of all me. A lazy woman will never live next to me. With the same success, you can buy a rubber doll in a specialized store and use it for its intended purpose. And for a woman who does not understand such banal things, I would never buy gifts. In this regard, I am a conservative, a man of old views ... You know, one of my songs contains the following lines:
“And wives - do not wash, do not wash.
Cars, clothes, money on my mind
Street b. Will be cheaper,
And what is in the bed, there is no difference! "
My first wife was in that category. She was a lover of wearing expensive things, giving nothing in return. My current wife Irina fully meets my requirements. She is tall, beautiful, cheerful ... She knows how to walk and relax, but at the same time she always watches over the house. I wake up and have clean panties and socks every morning. I hold on to her with both hands. I’ll move mountains for such a woman, I’ll do everything for her. I love and respect my wife. And by the way, during the year that we are together, I have never cheated on her ... "

“We have the largest circulation. All six of my albums have sold over 50 million. Another thing is that I did not get it from this
not a penny, since in Russia for one licensed album -
10 pirate. Therefore, Russian artists only make money at concerts. "

“Five years ago I turned to God and repented of all my sins. Now I think that cheating is a very big sin! I also gave up alcoholism. I go to church. I pray before meals, at night and in the morning. There is no such old person who would say that there is no God. God exists. Even the most ardent atheists come to this ... "

“The times of the bulls are long gone. And if someone “forgets”, I can go into the horny compartment myself. I am a man not deprived of strength, and I was engaged in
up to 30 years of sports "

“Happiness is when mom is alive, dad is alive, your children are healthy and there is a wife who can take care of you. This is happiness, and the rest ...
At first you think: to become famous, to earn money, and when all this comes, you understand that, except for mom, dad, children and wife, nothing is needed in this life. "

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