When Masha sang a few lines with her trademark voice, Mate at first even got scared: "Cool! But we can not sing like this! Too Western. " However, we recorded the song, and I took it to Ostankino. Editors put the tape on the shelf: so, they say, the girl can not sing. A year later, when the pirates began to twist the "Musician" across the country, the TV crew rushed to search for the performer: "Such a cool guy is singing! Genius! Where can I find it? "In the end, they called me:" Lead your nugget faster! The authorities beg. "
From the very first broadcast of "Morning Post" Masha became famous throughout the country, and not so long ago Masha Rasputina's second husband also appeared on the blue screen. The first her album we "took" in the studio of Alexander Kalyanov, a great friend of Pugacheva. He told her about Masha and told him. The next day Rasputin was invited to an audience in Pugacheva's apartment on Tverskaya Street. The prima donna always kept her hand on the pulse and tracked talents, so she decided to personally get to know the rising star ...
The door was opened by a woman. Without make-up, uncombed, in a home blouse. We did not immediately recognize Pugachev in it. It became clear: they took the landlady by surprise. And we have come out in full parade! There was an awkward pause. Masha embarrassedly went into the room right in the coat. They sat down. We were offered tea with cakes. And then I notice that Pugacheva began to leave the living room under various pretexts. Twenty times she left and every time a new one came back: first she made up her eyes, then her lips, then she changed her blouse to a dress, she put on her high heels ... In the end she was completely transformed. "Vov, play along with me!" - she told Presnyakov and performed several songs. Then we put the cassette with the song "Play, musician!" Pugacheva immediately invited Rasputin to perform at the concerts of her Song Theater.
Very soon we conquered the whole country, and on charges even drove the very Pugacheva! Formerly, at government concerts, Alla Borisovna sang in the final section, and beginning in 1992, they began vying to invite Masha to the Kremlin. This could not but hurt Pugachev.
I remember how she called us herself. I picked up the phone, and then the voice - "Come on, call your star ..." - "Who's asking her?" - "This is the queen of the world calling her." Then I realized who it was. "Well, so, call Masha?" - I ask again. "Do not. You got me! "- and the phone is slammed.
"Are not you jealous of your wife?" She had a sea of admirers ...
- Yes, we once had such nonsense to do! Masha gave forty concerts a month! Australia, America, Europe, our vast country. Tours, tours, tours ... We worked around the clock! Records on television, radio, in the studio, concerts, interviews. I remember, on some program Masha sang "Live, country!". Alexander Malinin came up to us and expressed his admiration: "Well, you fellows! Prete as tanks. Only dust is a pillar! "
And then ... Masha did not give me cause for jealousy. With the second husband Masha Rasputina everything turned out well. Naturally, the men complimented her constantly, the restaurants ran to her, pulling each other elbows, composers: "Masha, we want to write you a song." We were carrying sacks of letters, on envelopes was the address: "Moscow. Masha Rasputina. " Once in a newspaper a contest was announced: "Who dreams at night of soldiers". And Masha won! I have no doubt that the soldiers saw her only in erotic dreams ...
I remember how they laughed at one letter. The enamored soldier wrote: "Masha, I will serve and come. Do not doubt, I will earn a million and marry you! "
Yes, and I remained faithful to Masha for a long time. I, like the head of the team, had, incidentally, excellent opportunities for adultery: I after all selected girls for backing vocals. And I could choose any beauties by setting certain conditions. But I did not need it ...
Masha was wildly popular. I remember the case when she was offered to appear in advertising of domestic boots, I saw these "felt boots", immediately warned: "Do not put them on. Throw a pair over your shoulder, and take pictures. " Three days later, boots of dubious quality were bought. For this their manufacturers gave Masha a Mercedes.
I remember that in the evening in the Russian restaurant on Brighton Beach Masha was seen by the representative of the house Versace. And right after the concert he sent me a dress and boots in the room. This outfit was like sewing for her. At the same time, a solid magazine New York Magazine took Masha an interview, prefacing him with a compliment: "The Russian singer has a unique voice timbre. There are only three or four such voices in the world. "
- At one time there were persistent rumors that Masha Rasputina had an affair with Philip Kirkorov ...
- Yes, I made it up myself! It so happened that Masha often performed at concerts with Kirkorov. Philip - in the first department, Masha closed the second. Naturally, the rumor of them immediately and married, the more I always remained in the shadows ...
One summer, Philip and I were on a cruise along the Mediterranean Sea. The ship was full of stars. Artists gave concerts in the evenings, and journalists interviewed them. And then it dawned on me: "What if I throw some firewood on the fire?" At breakfast I propose to Masha and Philip: "Do not you want to pretend that you have an affair?" Masha and Filey immediately picked up this idea and began to defile on the deck, arms. Behind them ran photographers and vying with each other to remove a couple embracing. Once before the next "walk" Philip went to our cabin in shorts. Masha, seeing this "disgrace", was angry: "Why are you dressed like that? I'm not going with you! At you legs or foots Iksom! »She in fact always the truth-mother to anybody spoke ...
One day a big company gathered at dinner and Phil asked: "How would I learn to sing like this?", And she sharply replied: "You will never learn. You do not know how to sing! "Phil got up angry and proudly said:" But I'm beautiful! "" Oh, "Masha laughed. - Also, I'm handsome! Eyes bulging, legs ixom. " For Kirkorov, even Angelina Vovk intervened: "Mash, do not offend Philo."
Once I'm standing in the bathroom. Suddenly I heard - I slammed the door of the cabin. Inside, with a laugh, Masha and Philip fell in. I hear: hee-hee, ha-ha, and then suddenly Masha cried out: "What are you, Phil! It hurts me! "I instantly jumped out of the bathroom and began to pull Phil. I see he clamped her hand hard. "Crazy! - I say. - You have two meters of growth, and you are all over the body on her arm! "And gently pushing him. No jealousy, I believe, was not in sight. I would not touch him with a finger, but he suddenly started to fight. So funny! I got up in the boxing rack and let's wag my fists in front of my nose. I had to defend myself, and I drove into his eye. Masha attacked me: "What are you doing ?! He's going to perform today! "
Filya, covering the bruise, ran out of the cabin. Comes after a while and Masha asks: "Cover with tonalnik. Well, how am I going to sing for a TV show now? "I advised him:" Come out as it is. They will say that he suffered for a woman. This is great! The bruises adorn the real man! "
Is it true that your daughter also wanted to become a singer?
- Lida had amazing vocal abilities. She went to music school, she personally gave lessons to the director of "Gnesinka." I dreamed of spinning my daughter, as her mother used to be. But Masha objected: "Do not do this." At one time Lida acted with Masha under the name of Angela Ermakova. None of the audience knew that on the stage behind Masha, along with other dancers, her daughter. Lida was even a back-vocalist ...
She grew up a very emotional child. And with her second husband Masha Rasputin had extraordinary, and even restless, one can say, relations. Unsettled, restless, she was very difficult to learn. Teachers constantly complained about her. Therefore, she switched from one school to another. Finally they found an expensive, paid one. But the daughter again nothing went wrong. She could not be shouted at, forced to do something. And then there's the stellar illness: "I'm Masha Rasputina's daughter!" At the age of fourteen, we sent Lida to study in England. There she stayed for six months and again: "I do not want to!" I graduated from school with a grief in half. Thank God, the school paid, issued a certificate - and all.
And then Lidin died a pedagogue on vocals. This death shocked her. Here we Masha and I started to get divorced. In short, the girl had the first emotional breakdown ...
I remember that the first hospitalization I came to see her in the hospital. I was not allowed into the ward. Lida came to me pale, in a dressing gown and smiles. "Everything is fine!" - says. And then she suddenly confessed that she constantly hears someone's voices. "I have a chip in my head, dad, someone is talking to me ..." she whispered.
"Why did you break up with her mother?"
"They lived together for almost twenty years!" The passions subsided, love passed ... It was possible, of course, to close your eyes and imagine that you are hugging Marilyn Monroe, but you can not deceive nature ...
I spent twenty-four hours a day dedicating to Masha, I did not sleep at night, I was thinking about the repertoire, tours, her hair, dresses, voice ... Sometimes I would stop the car in front of traffic lights and, while the red lights, I close my eyes for ten seconds and cut myself. Masha completely filled my life. I was her spokesperson, director, husband, stylist, adviser, producer, photographer ...
For two decades I had only one romance with a nurse. In the mid-1980s, when Masha and I were not yet painted. It lasted only three days. And after seventeen years with Masha, I fell in love with Lidin, an English teacher. She was studying with my daughter at home. Vika was only nineteen ...
Once Masha found on the pillow someone else's long hair and made a grand scandal. Tried to even scratch my face, barely managed to grab her by the hand. After some time, Vika's parents called from Masha and threatened: "Let your daughter leave Volodya alone! It will be worse! "Masha immediately dismissed the teacher. But our relationship with my wife was already completely destroyed ...
Because of this novel, we separated.
- And who was the first to pronounce the word "divorce"?
- We took this decision together. I wanted in an amicable way: we live separately, but we continue to work together. It never occurred to me that it could be otherwise. I surrounded Masha with such care that she had only to relax and enjoy life while working in show business - no problems. I did not think that she would refuse it ...
When we parted, I wished her only good: to meet my love, staying on the pedestal to which I raised it ... But she could not resist it ...
We already lived in a country house in Krekshin. When they left, Masha stayed there with her daughter, and I moved to the apartment. Lida was sixteen.
To me all around said: "Well, you and the fool! What are you doing? "But I went to the registry office with a statement, and we are here, and dissolved. "Are you applying for the division of property?" They asked me. "No. I leave everything to my wife and daughter. " By mutual agreement, Lida was to inherit a mansion in Krekshin. I still had an apartment, and I was hoping to get a car, one of five, but I did not wait for it. A few days after the divorce, the phone suddenly disconnected. Ten days later Masha and Viktor immediately sold our house ...
And I still continued to hope that we will work together. He took two hundred and fifty thousand dollars under her clips. We would have "repulsed" this money for six months, giving concerts, but ... we had to do it ourselves. I even sold my father's apartment ...
If I remained producer Rasputina, she would still be in the top three stars of our stage for a long time. Without a doubt! But her new husband Victor decided that he himself could "rule the empire" ... He thought it was easy. And they removed me. And so Masha from such a height managed to fly down. And outwardly changed, but this could not be done. Her face is a brand! And she had nothing more to sing ...
- Is not it strange that in the interview and on the official websites of the singer there is not a word about you?
"Masha does not specifically mention my name." But still it was the best years of my life. This is a victory, equal to which I do not know - the American fairy tale about Cinderella in the Land of Soviets! We even made plans to shoot a musical film about a village girl, who became a star, called "The Last Drive." Such a dramatic story. At the end of the movie, the heroine is almost killed, the producer at the last moment closes it with his body. After that, the last disc of the singer instantly becomes platinum ...
My dreams of producing work, perhaps, will come true. Recently I had an illegitimate adult daughter from Krasnoyarsk. She came to Moscow and is trying to make a singer's career. She has a great voice. Katia showed me a photo of her mother. This is the same nurse with whom I had a short novel, when I was lying in the hospital. But, unfortunately, I remember only a white robe ... Of course, I want to believe that this is really my daughter. In any case, I will take care of the girl and untwist her, as once Masha. I really need it, because I dream to help Lida, who was in trouble ...
Once, from Victor, my old husband Masha Rasputina, I learned that Masha and Lida have a bad relationship. Soon my daughter moved to me. She told me that she was not allowed to go to her little sister. If she tried to help, Mom was angry, and all the time she stopped: "Get away from her!"
I called Victor: "Can not you buy Lida an apartment? I gave Masha millions. "
We argued about this for a year. I said one thing: "Buy Lida apartment." Then the apartments cost only fifteen thousand dollars. Masha and Victor bought, only when they realized - otherwise I'm not tearing them off!
I was at Lida's on Mosfilmovskaya Street. A typical studio apartment. Furniture and everything that is necessary for life, she had. The daughter tried to start an independent life there. But she became more and more isolated in herself. Neither friends nor relatives. I did not communicate with my mother, and this appalled her terribly ...
- And why their relationship did not work out?
- You need to ask Masha about this. Only she never talks about Lida, but answers all questions about her daughter: "No comment". True, she once casually dropped: "Lida has disappeared somewhere." Masha pretends that she does not have the eldest daughter. She struck me and Lida from her life ...
One day a doorbell rang at my door. I opened, Stand militiamen with a piece of paper: "Hello, citizen Ermakov. We have a search warrant! Your daughter wrote a statement to the police that you beat her and stole all her things from her. " "Do not you understand," I told the investigator, "that it was written by a person who is being treated in a psychiatric hospital?" The next day I went to Lida and asked: "Why did you do this?" "They told me that it's so necessary .. "She answered. Lida wrote a letter to the police asking her to give her statement to her father. In it, she asked me to forgive ... The case was immediately stopped. Why and who needed it, I do not know ...
- And where is Lida now?
- He is in the regional psychiatric clinic in Sergiev Posad ...
Once in the hospital to Lida, when she got there for the second time, Masha came. She promised her daughter that she would live with her, and asked him to sign a document. As I understand it, it was a general power of attorney for the sale of Lidin's apartment. By the way, its value grew by that time from fifteen thousand to two hundred! Lida swept all the papers. After the hospital she moved to her mother. But three days later she came to live with me again. And I'm a pensioner, how can I help her? "Why did you sign the documents for the apartment?" I ask my daughter. "I did it voluntarily. I do not need an apartment. I can not do without my mother, but I was promised that I will live with her ... I do not feel sorry for my mother. " So Lida was left without an apartment. Moreover, she was discharged from Moscow and registered in the suburbs. Once she came to Sergiev Posad in the place of her registration and found that there was simply no shelter at the address: Serova Street, which is listed in her passport! There is a half-ruined barn, where, as it turned out, a hundred people are registered.
I suggested to her: "Lida, we have a shop in the yard. Try, maybe you can work there. " She settled down, walked like a week, and then she was fired, citing the fact that the girl was too absent-minded ...
"Did they know in the shop whose daughter she was?"
- Of course not! She was there as Lydia Ermakova. One day a camera crew came to our yard. No one could understand what was the matter. Men with cameras broke into the store and began to pester everyone: "Where does your daughter Rasputina work here?" From the saleswoman's surprise, the jaw dropped: "What daughter?"
Lida wanted to go to the monastery some time ago. And Masha made her into a nunnery somewhere far from Moscow. She has a familiar abbess there. But Lida did not live long in the monastery. She was difficult ... Now she wants to go back, but it's very difficult ...
I consulted with doctors, they are encouraging, they say, by the age of thirty, the daughter's health can be normalized. But for this she needs attention, care and good treatment. And what can I give her treatment if the pills cost fifteen thousand rubles? We do not have anything to buy with her ... And a daughter without medicines like a fish is choking and she herself is asking to go to the hospital. In addition, you need to deal with her pension, which must be given. Walk, ask ... And all this while on me.
For the past five years, Lida has been treated in psychiatric clinics. It will be a maximum of a month - and again falls into the hospital. The last time she called from my house from my house in the hospital and asked her to take it, feeling the deterioration. An ambulance came for her ...
For the past two years I have been traveling to Lida in Sergiev Posad alone. I buy some fruit and get on the train. To visit her, I have to get there two and a half hours. But I know that she is waiting for me ... And still hopes that my mother will also come to her ...