Ilya, tell us a little about your childhood. What are your very first memories? Do you remember your toys?
Ilya Lagutenko: I remember that I sang songs. My grandmother never tyrannized me with boring lullabies, she sang to me many songs from her revolutionary childhood and youth - from "Shelle Detachment on the Bank" to "Sopok Manchuria". As for the toys, in our Soviet childhood, their set was very limited: the cars were, and the toy railway was already a transcendent happiness not in fact of possession, but in fact the opportunity to see and touch it at all! So many things that I dreamed about and saw with friends or in pictures, I imagined in my head. My world was the characters I painted. Sometimes I even arranged a semblance of such puppet theaters, where dolls were painted on cardboard fantastic characters - from astronauts to rock musicians. Now this would be called the clever word "installation".
Did you really bring up your grandfather?
Yes, my father , unfortunately, was killed when I was just an infant. My mother's family was from Vladivostok. I made my first flight there, from Moscow to Vladivostok. I was an awfully naughty kid about five years old. And then some kind of lightning flew by. I still remember this moment, as the Voice from the top said: "Ilyusha, look: all the people around you love and care for you - mother, grandmother, grandfather. They are not easy in this life, and if not, please, be a dumb uncomprehending child, understand them, appreciate them and respect their attention and love. " Since then, we have peace and harmony in the family.
Your sensations: paternity in twenty years differs from paternity in forty?
Understanding the importance of the moment has not changed at all, only now are completely different circumstances. I am more responsible for myself and can afford the luxury of family planning, however dry it may sound. And it is much more pleasant to adjust life plans to the family situation, and not vice versa.
What does Igor do?
My son studies at university. He himself chose his future profession. Despite the fact that he spent a lot of time with me on tour trips, his decision was not to connect his life with show business, but to go his own way, and I respect him for that very much. He dreams of being a sports coach, probably like Guus Hidding.
How do you and your new wife have relations with him now?
We all have wonderful relationships: we are all grown-up people, and this is one big family. We still spend a lot of time on the road, and the reason for this, of course, is what I do. And while the tour is not yet quite a terrible burden, but a vital joy, you have to find difficult solutions, how to do what you love and at the same time be with your loved ones. I still have not found a recipe, already by the end of Ani's pregnancy it was a very difficult matter.
Do you have time to communicate with Anya?
New technologies like skype, sms and e-mail make communication possible literally 24 hours a day in any geographical point of the planet. Sometimes, it seems that the post and telegrams of the last century allowed for far more romantic intercourse than now. But this time is running along with the world ahead of us, and if you want - you do not want to, you have to keep up.
And why did you decide not to give birth in Russia?
Many, we will tell so, "vital questions" at us are solved on circumstances. In addition, Ani had her duties to work in her agency, from which she could not get away.
Were you present at the birth of your wife?
Oh sure. It was very important for me, I could not miss this day. And he heard a lot of feedback from all his friends and doctors on how different men react differently to this. Well, you know all these tales, probably as a fireman who carried dozens of people from the fire on the 32nd floor, faints on the birth of his own wife ... Or as a loving husband at a crucial moment for some reason wants to run into the kiosk and to buy all the employees of the hospital for an eskimo ... Or as in the Russian tradition: the wife in the hospital - my husband and friends in a drinking-bout for three weeks (laughs) ... I did not want to check myself. Just trying to relieve my wife this moment.
They wrote that you went on maternity leave ...
I made it for myself. Despite the current crises, I decided to give up at least a couple of months from all the speeches in order to be with my wife and daughter in the first days and weeks. Especially since it turned out that neither the grandmothers nor the nannies at our place were not there, so they managed themselves. And you know how you start living on a schedule, completely new and unknown to you, and you understand that your tours, night concerts and others that seemed exhausting turn almost into a resort in comparison with feeding every two hours, with experiences, because suddenly a child does not breathe like that, does not look like that, screams so much, does not want to sleep ... In general, a whole new world where the commander is no longer you.
Anna Zhukova:
Anna, are you tired? How does a girl sleep at night?
I'm tired, of course. We protect our father and try not to tug him at night without need. But here he rises in the morning and says that I look fine, and for me his caring words are better than any means. Well, when you start to get back into your things after pregnancy, which have been lonely in the closet for the last few months, then everything generally falls into place. And I noticed that at the concerts of Mumiy Troll for an hour of dancing to your favorite songs all the fatigue for a month as a hand removes! Maybe I think Ilyusha's songs are charged with positive energy of some kind? ..
We have in this issue a special project: "Games and toys." What do you buy for your daughter?
She is still very young to be particularly interested in toys, but my mother always puts her songs to Mumiy Troll and convinces me that Papa's voice calms her even in the most energetic songs. By the way, a few years ago we recorded music for the cartoon "Neznayka and Barrabas", there besides the instrumental songs there were also songs, for example, "Come back to me, Petals". This music has never been published as a separate disc, but now I'm putting her daughter on and she's starting to smile and even sing along. It made me think of sharing notes with other parents. I think in 2000. we will publish a record where the main characters will be mummies-trolls, - here's a toy for you!
What toys does she have now? Have you bought something yourself?
My sister gave her a wonderful bear, who now accompanies her everywhere.
Apparently, Albina, like his smiling face. I understand that I still have many daughters of whims to fulfill, but so far I rely solely on the choice of friends. They all have a taste: we have at home a minimum of pink circus-ryusha and many unusual creatures - a whole zoo, and pleases that they are all kind and smiling.
Anna, tell us a little about your childhood. What did you like to play?
We had a big family - we have four brothers and sisters. I am the oldest, so my "dolls" are my brothers and sisters. Mom and Dad - athletes, were constantly in endless competitions, so, as they say, often the whole house was on me. We had fun together the four of us. We lived in St. Petersburg in a large old apartment and often played hide and seek. Loved to hide in the stove until my rat sister fell out of the pipe! We were very funny, and since then, parents gave us a lot of soft toy-mice. So our daughter was born in the year of the Mouse, so this is a happy sign.
How do you feel when you need to start learning a foreign language?
If there is a possibility, then the earlier, the better: we have all polyglots in our family. I know Chinese and English, and my son too. My sister speaks ten languages at all, including Khmer! In general, in practice, knowledge of languages makes you more open to the world and elementary understanding of other people. And mutual understanding, in my opinion, is the basis of everything, including relations between people.
Think about the future of the daughter?
Maybe I'll say banality, but I believe that it will be just happy. It's enough.
Now the wife does not work?
While Anya completely devotes herself to the child. We have absolutely no desire to give Albina a nanny. It seems to me that now the most important thing for parents is to be with a crumb, to share his first steps in this world.
Now the child is moving everywhere with you? Where do you live?
While settled in the suburbs, maybe not quite close to civilization, but I put first place fresh air and peace. Around little fuss and people - the child is good. Well, and parents have plenty of time for the past few years, so that the balance of power in nature still exists. So we learn life on contrasts. In our article on the topic of Ilya Lagutenko - signs of love you have learned a lot about the famous singer and his family.