Which group's lead singer was Andrei Makarevich? Women of Makarevich

An interview and photo shoot were scheduled at Andrei Makarevich’s house near Moscow. Having learned that his son Ivan was going to visit the musician, we asked them to appear together for the publication. We knew that Andrei Vadimovich is extremely punctual and does not like being late, so, despite the constant traffic jams, we arrived on time. Immediately Ivan appeared in the courtyard of the house. "Ooo! You changed your hairstyle! Looks like it was painted!” - Andrei Vadimovich exclaimed. “I shaved my hair for the new film,” explained the younger Makarevich.

— Andrey Vadimovich, let’s start our conversation with the topic of fathers and sons. How often do you see Ivan?

— Somewhat less often than I would like, because he is as busy as I am. Vanya acts in films, plays in the theater - here, he brought a few copies to show - he makes his own electronic music, which I know little about. They performed with the guys at our club a couple of times (Andrey is a co-owner of the jazz club JAM Club. - TN note). But this half-DJ story is a mystery to me, as a person of the last millennium. I don’t understand how you can create music in computer programs, from chopped “cubes”. Nevertheless, such musical culture exists all over the world.

— For me, education is about showing a child things that he himself is unlikely to become familiar with. With son Ivan. Photo: Mikhail Korolev

— Besides music, what topics do you talk about with your adult son? Are there any that you never pick up?

- No, it’s hard for me to imagine this. We talk about everything that interests both of us. If it comes out on screen New film With Vanka’s participation, of course, I watch it, although I don’t like TV. Excuse me, readers of “TELENEDELI”... And if he then calls and asks: “Well, how do you like it?” - I will answer frankly, perhaps even criticize. I don’t know how much he needs me, but I hope that it’s about the same as I need him. We call each other and correspond. Not a hundred times a day, but not once a month.

— Is it necessary to build relationships with adult children? If only for the sake of not getting lost with them in this chaotic world...

“I never built anything or made the slightest effort when communicating with my children. And as for not getting lost... Then you need to lead them along with you on a string. You know, a person feels like an adult long before those around him, including his parents, begin to consider him as such. At the age of five, I felt like a completely sane person. I read 12 volumes of Jules Verne before I entered 1st grade. And my grandmothers and mother still turned to me: “Wow, little one...” My father never had this, he always talked to me like an adult. I was four years old when he drew with me, listened to Rachmaninov’s records, read aloud “A Cloud in Pants” by Mayakovsky. Grandma was surprised: “Vadim, what are you doing? He doesn’t understand anything yet!” “Yes, he understands everything perfectly,” my dad answered her. Where do you think I know a huge number of Mayakovsky’s poems from memory? It was very interesting for me and my father. Parenting, it seems to me, consists of showing a child things that he is unlikely to become acquainted with without you or will become acquainted with later than he should. I am deeply convinced that it takes two to five years to teach something, to instill a taste for it. It's already useless. In my opinion, genes are 70% to blame for what a person ultimately turns out to be, and upbringing is 30% to blame.

With parents - Vadim Grigorievich and Nina Markovna (1970s). Photo: From the personal archive of Andrei Makarevich

— I read in your book about how your father walked with you, while still a preschooler, in the monstrous frost around Leningrad, introducing you to architecture...

— He took me with him on a business trip (Andrei’s father, Vadim Grigorievich Makarevich, taught at the Moscow Architectural Institute. — Note “TN”). But who knew that such frosts would strike? I was dressed warmly, so I remembered the insane beauty around me, and not that it was cold. Even then, in the early 1960s, the center of St. Petersburg - the Exchange, the General Staff, the Winter Palace - was illuminated with beautiful yellow lights, and Moscow at that time was completely dark. We walked around the city, and dad talked about architects, about the style in which the buildings were built. And on the walls there were still inscriptions “Bomb shelter”.

— We all come from childhood. What was your mother like, Nina Markovna?

“My mother is a person who was born to worry.” Even if there was no reason to worry, she still found it. At the same time, she worked as a doctor at the Institute of Tuberculosis, wrote her dissertation, and, accordingly, was very busy. But the rest of the time she was worried. And she dragged me to doctors she knew, fearing that I would get sick with something terrible. Because of this, I was constantly sick, because she still managed to look for illnesses. And so that the boy would grow up healthy, she force-fed me.

I hated food; my love for this simple joy began in adulthood. As a child, I could not imagine that food could be enjoyable.

— In your books you often remember your parents. It is clear that we grew up in a strong and friendly family, where everyone loved each other. Do you have a similar relationship with your children?

— I worked with them, of course, less than my parents did with me.

When Vanka was born, my life consisted of rehearsals, recordings and tours. But I don’t regret anything, I behaved in the only possible way. And I still live at a frantic pace, nothing has changed. Another thing is that I try to take my children with me when I go to interesting places. For example, six months ago Vanya, Anya and I went on a trip to Miami. Sat down

on a huge ship, one of the largest in the world, and went on a cruise around the islands - Jamaica, the Caribbean. They were incredibly curious about all this, and I was glad that they were together, because such meetings do not happen often.

I always believed that children have the right to their own opinion, I never imposed anything on them and tried not to put pressure on them with authority. My parents did the same. When, after studying at a music school for two and a half years, I, nine years old, told my parents: “That’s it, I won’t do it anymore, I can’t!”, They didn’t argue, they didn’t force me to go to the hated institution. Later I picked up a little of everything myself. And we didn’t force Vanya to study music either: if he doesn’t want to, please. And here is Anya music school After all, she graduated, she plays the piano very well. She likes to practice and play notes. She may not be able to improvise, but she plays the classics well. After graduating from school, he plans to enter medical school. She wants to be a doctor: apparently, after a generation, certain genes were passed on to her from my mother.

I think my relationship with my children is exactly the same as what my parents had with me and my younger sister Natasha. Life circumstances have just changed a little. My children grew up at a distance from me, and my parents and I lived in a communal apartment and were in front of each other all the time. Two small rooms, five people: mom and dad, my aunt Galya, my grandmother Manya and me. Before Natasha was born, we lived in the house where the collection of private collections of the Pushkin Museum is now located, in a semicircular outbuilding. The corner window on the first floor is our bedroom. The communal apartment was small, only four families lived in it.

I remember our yard, the boxes of ice cream that the ice cream men carried on a belt over their shoulders. Fruity, for seven kopecks - terrible disgusting! They also brought sparkling water, there were two tall glasses with syrups and an iron cylinder from which they pumped gas. I remember my school very well: it was not far, you had to walk through the Bolshoi A stone bridge, and from the second grade I went there alone, unaccompanied.

With daughters Anna and Dana and son Ivan. Photo: From the personal archive of Andrei Makarevich

— Do you think you caused your parents a lot of trouble?

- No, perhaps. I took up music so early that, to be honest, I didn’t care whether I was troublesome or not. Mother, of course, was very worried when the authorities began to oppress the children and me in the 1970s, but she was still always on our side. She, of course, was afraid that I would be kicked out of the institute, and I was kicked out anyway. I was a hippie. She said: “Graduate from college, and then do whatever you want.” But overall, both of them - mom and dad - were very supportive of me.

They helped me with money when I decided to buy a tiny cooperative apartment next door to my parents’. Mom, of course, kept an eye on where I went, who I was hanging out with, who came, and what kind of girls were sitting there and whether they would leave soon. My father asked for one thing: that I not irritate my mother. And from all his foreign business trips (once every two years, as an architect, he went to build a Soviet pavilion somewhere abroad) he brought what was necessary for our group. He spent all his measly daily allowance, every penny, on strings and instruments. Together with him, we sawed out my first guitar, without having the slightest idea of ​​how it should be done. I didn’t know, for example, that there was such a thing as scale, that is, the distance from the nut to the end of the fingerboard. And I thought it didn't matter. Subsequently it turned out that it is important: otherwise the guitar plays in arbitrary keys.

— There are so many different antiques in your house! Are those first guitars still there?

- What do you! Now there is a place to put it all. In general, it was cramped all my life. Moreover, in order to become the owner of the next guitar - best quality, you had to sell the one you have, add money and buy a new one. Nice tools- it is expensive. You can spend money on them endlessly.

- Accordingly, it was necessary to earn money. Alexander Kutikov recalled that he had to get a job as a laborer. During the day he carried out the plan at the factory, in the evenings he played at closed concerts of the Time Machine.

“He was sent to the factory under the threat of an article “For parasitism.” I, thank God, studied architecture, so they couldn’t bring me in under the article. And later I worked at the Giprotheatr Institute. We were already quite famous then. Everything we earned at concerts was put into a box and, when we needed new speakers or columns, we took out what we had accumulated.

— What were those underground concerts like?

- Small halls of cultural centers, hostels... We were invited, we brought equipment with us, turned everything on, played, then took it all apart ourselves, pulled it out on ourselves and drove it on some kind of rafika caught on the road to my home. Where else? There were no tickets as such; the organizers cut postcards into pieces and sold them.

Then we started rehearsing at the Energetik club. We changed many premises, until finally in 1979 we got to Rosconcert.

— When Vanka was born, my life consisted of rehearsals, recordings and tours. But I don’t regret anything, I behaved in the only possible way. Photo: Mikhail Korolev

— Rosconcert seriously made life easier for artists. And “Time Machine” became the first rock band to join this organization. How did you, disgraced musicians, manage to do this?

— First, we got a job at the touring Comedy Theater, which was located at Rosconcert. He was far from the best, to put it mildly. But still a theater, albeit a bad one. He toured a lot, people actively bought tickets for performances, because on the poster they wrote in large numbers: “Time Machine”, and in small words - “In the play “The Merry Wives of Windsor” by Shakespeare,” for example. We sat in the background, playing quietly and obnoxiously, so as not to drown out the tipsy actors. And then at Rosconcert, a commercial organization, they realized that the goose lays the golden eggs, they need to separate it from the theater. It was pre-Olympic time, the breeze of freedom blew. In general, we were hired. Now the police did not tie us up, but protected us, which was very important. We immediately received bids as artists and traveled to the cities and villages of our big country.

— Were the rates at Rosconcert decent? Was it enough to live on?

— There was a lot of money. We received double the rate for a concert at the Sports Palace, but played two concerts a day, completely sold out. This means that each person received 40 rubles a day. It was crazy money!

— That is, obviously more than they gave underground concerts?

- More than that, besides, underground concerts were irregular and always fraught with danger. OBKHSS came to our performances every now and then. These comrades were infuriated that they could not do anything with us. It was necessary to prove that we ourselves were selling tickets illegally, and we did not hold them in our hands. It’s also difficult to catch the organizers: they sold tickets only to their own people, and they sold them again to their own people. There were no strangers at the concerts at all, we practically knew everyone by sight - it was like a closed circle of acquaintances.

— You said that, having become artists of Rosconcert, you immediately moved to stadiums. These have already been solo concerts?

— At that time, no one had Solniks at all. We played the second part. Since other artists also had to be fed, at the first stage they did a large combined program: two comedians, a puppet dance, a trained bear, acrobats - everything as it should be. The dance ensemble “Souvenir” traveled with us for quite a long time, and as a result, the best part of it joined our team. In 1988, we staged the program “Rivers and Bridges” with choreography and ballet. It’s interesting to look, maybe the filming has been preserved somewhere on the Internet... Although the light was bad then, everything took place in a mystical twilight.

— Everything worked out fine, except that your team was prohibited from performing in Moscow...

— That’s right, we could play everywhere except the capital. Moreover, now an artist comes on tour for a day, but we went for a week, two. I won’t say that we were accommodated in some monstrous conditions - no, there were hotels that were normal for those times. Another thing is that after the concert we returned exactly at the moment when all the buffets were closing, and we wanted to eat. You could be evicted for cooking soup on a hot plate in your room.

- Soup, excuse me, what?

— Letter soup is dry soup in an envelope, chicken or beef. Everything was very fun, because we were young, doing what we loved, and the audience adored us. Once in St. Petersburg, after a concert, fans picked up a bus with us and carried us several meters in their arms. It was scary to sit inside.

- But what does this compare to summons to the State Security Committee! You were under the control of the KGB for many years...

— Since 1977, representatives of all internal secretion organs followed us and constantly called us for an interview.

— Directly to Lubyanka?

— No, mostly this happened in hotel rooms. Each hotel had rooms for so-called interviews.

- What were they talking about?

- About different things. For example, about the need to somehow decide. They told me something like this: “Our government has enemies - Sakharov, Galich. We respect them, but only as enemies. Therefore, Andrey, decide who you are. If there is an enemy, we will help you leave. If you are a friend, sing what is customary among us, and not what you compose.” I had to answer that, of course, I am not an enemy: explain to me what is so anti-Soviet in my texts, it doesn’t say “Down with Soviet power.”

- They could have said more harshly: they say, Andrey, don’t be a fool, you understand what we’re talking about...

— Apparently, among those people there were also those who sympathized with the Time Machine. One of them recently brought me to a concert a most interesting document from the times of Rosconcert - a “cart” from Krasnoyarsk from some idiot from the city party committee about our obscene appearance, shoulder-length hair, jeans and the outrageous words of the song “Blue Bird”. After such complaints, the leadership of Rosconcert gathered and placed us for educational purposes during the rehearsal period. We say: “Okay, let’s sit.” In a month they will all have nothing to eat. They ask: “Have you worked on the mistakes?” We answer: “Yes, of course.” And we play the same thing. The world has changed a lot since then.

“I don’t understand much in this world.” The longer I live, the less I understand something. But I try not to think about it. I know and can do a lot of things, I have something to do without being distracted by nonsense. Photo: Mikhail Korolev

— The country recognized your songs by the first chord, but no one saw the members of the group themselves for a long period. Why?

— The photograph was prohibited from being placed on posters. And at first we didn’t have any posters. I wanted to print beautiful ones, like the vocal and instrumental ensembles had at that time, but Rosconcert told me: “Why do you need posters? They’re already attacking you.”

In 1981, when we starred in Alexander Stefanovich’s film “Soul,” a boom began. It was impossible to walk two steps down the street. I had to cut my hair almost bald. It was funny with the film. Stefanovich is an extremely cunning person in terms of his ability to deceive his superiors; at that time he simply had no equal. I still consider it a great miracle that we were filmed at that time. We were incredibly popular - so Stefanovich bet on us. An absolutely commercial move. When those at the top realized it, it was already too late: the film was ready for release, the government money had been spent.

Everything changed after 1987: various music programs appeared, including MuzOboz. Before that, we were only allowed on television for the New Year - for example, to sing with “For those who are at sea.” I remember that we then went out in stupid tailcoats, which we picked up at the last moment. We came to film, as usual, in T-shirts and torn jeans. But the director saw it and said that it wouldn’t work like that, New Year's program after all. We were taken to a storage room, where there was just everything: costumes of musketeers, pirates - in general, complete nonsense. We no longer cared what to wear, because

it was clear: they would mainly film Rotaru, and not us. And so it happened. And with perestroika we were given the green light: we were allowed to go to Moscow and even abroad.

Not understanding what they were talking about, they sent me to the festival alternative music to Poland. Of course, they threw stumps at us there: we fell out of the format so much. And literally two weeks later we went to Japan to the Live Aid-2 festival, where James Brown, George Duke, Ronnie James Dio and many other super artists played. It was such a shock for us that my voice disappeared from excitement on the plane: I could neither sing nor speak. They treated him with Japanese pills and hot whiskey. He barely grunted something on stage.

We didn’t make much of a splash, but we were greeted kindly, we met great musicians, drank together, talked, gave them our records, and they gave us theirs. It was 1988, they were all terribly interested in seeing living people from behind the Iron Curtain. And then we went to America for a long time on a big tour. It was a crazy experience. If this had happened twenty years earlier, it’s hard for me to even imagine how different we would have been professionally.

— Your group is almost half a century old, and during this time you have never broken up, at least for a short time. Didn’t any of the participants have a period of hesitation and doubt?

— If someone went wild, like Petya Podgorodetsky, then he quickly left the team.

Once I was invited to Lenkom, but I didn’t go. Zakharov staged the plays “Til” and “Avtograd-XXI”, and a guitarist was needed for the musical group. But I somehow felt that in relation to “The Time Machine” this would not be very correct. If the whole group had been invited there, there would have been no doubts.

Sasha Kutikov left twice: first to the Tula Philharmonic, then to the Leap Summer group. But he returned.

We always understood each other and had the same attitude towards life and everything that happened. Of course, it is a great human happiness to meet people like those who play with me in “The Machine...” long years. We would argue when we were making a new song, or argue about how to play it, how to arrange it. Our disputes never got personal. They didn’t know, by the way, that the Beatles had exactly the same rule that we ourselves came to: as long as any member of the team says that he doesn’t like the song, the work is not finished. And since everyone has different tastes, everyone butted heads. Another unspoken rule: no wives or girls are allowed into our work. At all. Once, when we were very young, Kutikov brought beautiful girl to rehearsal, and we made fun of him terribly. The work we were doing seemed sacred to us. There weren’t enough girls to take around yet!

- My Vacation home small, but enough for me. The studio, which is located upstairs, has enough space for both painting and playing music. Photo: Mikhail Korolev

— The Beatles, as you know, wrote more than once in inappropriate conditions: for example, at the stove while fried eggs. Do you remember how the song “For those at sea” was written, without which friendly gatherings are still indispensable today?

— For me, the longevity of this song is a mystery. 1979 Tashkent. After two concerts, we had dinner and drinks, I sat by the open window, it was very hot, there were no air conditioners at that time. And he came up with the line: “I drink to the bottom for those who are at sea.” I realized that everything, the song was ready, all that was left was to come up with a verse. I called Kutikov. He came from the next room with a bottle of cognac, and by morning we wrote it. We sang twice through the open window and went to bed.

— Are hits often written sober or vice versa?

— Mostly sober, although I wrote “Three Windows” in a taxi on the way home, when I was already pretty. And he wrote it straight away. I always carry a notepad and pencil with me. And they also lie by the bed. Sometimes it happens that you wake up at night, two lines in your head, and you think: I’ll write it down in the morning. No, it’s useless, you won’t remember anything - you need to write it down right away. The songs decide when to appear.

— Your personal emotional condition influences creativity? Are more songs written when cats scratch your soul?

- There is no connection. Recently, “Machine...” and I recorded the album “You”. For seven or eight years we didn’t release anything at all, and suddenly new songs began to come into my head in the style of the old “Machine...”, which I really love. Before that, I studied jazz for several years, recorded a number of albums - both with Creole Tango and Yiddish Jazz, we

toured all over the world. “Machine...” existed in parallel, we gave concerts, but nothing new was written. There’s nothing wrong with that: it means a pause was needed. After all, we have about 500 songs!

— Andrey, how did it happen that you, a native Muscovite, chose to live outside the city?

— I moved out of town a long time ago; I bought my first house almost 30 years ago. It’s just that on Leninsky Prospekt, where I lived before, I had a crazy neighbor who saw in me class enemy and at any sound she immediately called the police. And even in the middle of the night I may need to check something on the instrument, or listen to something, or play what comes to mind. Outside the city I feel absolutely free.

— Is the size of the house important to you? And what absolutely must be in it?

— The house is small, but it’s enough for me. Firstly, you need a spacious workshop for painting. I remember my father, when we lived in a small apartment on Komsomolsky Prospekt, painted in the same room where I slept. It was an office, a bedroom, and his workshop. He laid four damp sheets on the floor, and had nowhere else to put them. It’s much easier for me: in the workshop, which is located upstairs, there is enough space for drawing, and for drums with amplifiers, and for playing with the guys.

Secondly, I love when guests come, so I need a big table. Here we are sitting behind him. Twelve people can fit here.

As you can see, I still have a garden, and it bears fruit beautifully - my ex-wife Natasha, she put a lot of effort and taste into it. Since then the garden has grown. When we moved here - about ten years ago - it was a fairly bare place. It turns out that trees grow faster than people.

“When we moved here ten years ago, it was a bare place. But now the garden bears fruit beautifully. It turns out that trees grow faster than people. In the background is part of the submarine's hull, one of the reminders of the hobby of scuba diving. Photo: Mikhail Korolev

- Some kind of paradise in your home!

“I’ve never been to heaven, but I feel good here.”

— Do you feel good outside the house too?

“I don’t understand much in this world, and the longer I live, the less I understand something.” But I try not to think about it. I know and can do a lot of things, I have something to do without being distracted by nonsense.

— Are you talking about the attacks that you have been subjected to all your life? Do you read what they write about you on the Internet?

- Life is so short. Why would I read something unpleasant and stupid? You never know what anyone says! The world is made up of huge amount Very different people. It is naive to hope that you will convince them or teach them something. God bless them all, let them live as they see fit, and I will live as I love.

— What do you do when you’re not on tour or writing a CD?

— I like to shoot fish and cook it, invite friends and have a party.

— Drink wine, listen to music...

- Certainly! Although no, without any music. Music is work. We can sometimes play the guitars or the piano and sing something from the old Soviet Union. On September 22 we are organizing a “Concert for Our Own” at the Gradsky Hall Theater. There are not many places there, so I think only our own people will come. In September also, almost everything is ready. 25-30 large boards carrying paintings, let's say. All my life I worked with paper, was engaged in graphics, and here for the first time I tried myself in a different capacity.

- Why suddenly?

- Don't know. I don't ask myself these questions. I can't stand self-analysis. It became interesting, that's all. I wrote everything in a year. The fact is that when I sit down to work, I sit down to work. You can’t come up and draw for half an hour. I need no one to bother me or call for a day or two.

A year ago, my eldest daughter Dana with her husband Chris and his three children, who consider Dana a mother. (The musician learned about Dana’s existence when the girl was already an adult; her mother is a fan of Makarevich. - Note “TN”). The children were in Russia for the first time, and for them it was a real adventure. Here I revealed myself as a Muscovite. He took them to the cultural park, to Arbat, and showed them all of old Moscow. They really liked it. And I enjoyed spending time with them.

And I’ll tell you something else: to this day, the sound of an electric guitar plugged into a Vox amplifier has a magical effect on me. The fur on my back stands on end. This is quite enough to understand whether this is what I have been doing all my life. The rest is talk.

Education: graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute

Family: daughter - Dana (43 years old), lawyer; son - Ivan (29 years old), actor; daughter - Anna (15 years old), schoolgirl

Career: since 1969 - leader of the Time Machine group. Since 2001 - leader of the Creole Tango Orchestra. Released 11 solo albums and 21 albums as part of the Time Machine. Author of about 500 songs. Author of 14 books. Since 1970 he has been engaged in graphics in mixed media. National artist RF

Singer, musician, poet, composer, artist.

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (11/30/1989).
People's Artist of the Russian Federation (11/22/1999).

Mother is a doctor of medical sciences, professor.
Graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute.

The name of Andrei Makarevich and the name of the group “Time Machine” are inextricably linked with the heyday of rock music in the Soviet Union in the 70s and 80s. If we talk about “Time Machine,” it arose in 1968-69, when its participants were still in school, but declared itself in 1974 at a competition of amateur groups. In March 1976, “Time Machine” performed at a festival in Tallinn and took first place, then there were triumphant tours in Leningrad and a few years later Makarevich’s songs became known throughout the country. In March 1980, with a slightly different composition and already in professional quality(shortly before this, “Time Machine” was included in the staff of Rosconcert) the group reached new heights - won the music festival in Tbilisi "Spring Rhythms-80". In the same year, the song “Turn” became an all-Union hit. The first half of the 80s was perhaps the brightest page in the work of “The Time Machine” and Makarevich himself; later group somewhat faded into the shadows, although she continued her concert activities - in 1986, two strong programs “Rivers and Bridges” and “In the Circle of Light” were prepared, and released new magnetic albums and records. If we talk about the contribution of Andrei Makarevich and “Time Machine” to cinema, it is worth noting that for the first time a song performed by them (“You or I”) was performed in G. Daneliya’s film “Afonya.” In 1982, the musicians played a rock band in Alexander Stefanovich's film "Soul", where Sofia Rotaru and Mikhail Boyarsky starred. In the same Stefanovich Andrei Makarevich performed main role rock musician Kolya Kovalev in the film "Start Over". In addition, Makarevich wrote music for more than a dozen films, including “Speed” and “Breakthrough” by Dmitry Svetozarov and “Schizophrenia” by Viktor Sergeev. IN last years Andrei Makarevich actively works on television - in 1993 he created the program “Smak” and became its host. He also participated in the creation of the programs “Oh, roads” and “Lampshade”.

Makarevich Andrey Vadimovich (b. 1953) – Russian singer, musician, composer and poet, bard, graphic artist, television presenter and producer, leader and only member of the musical group “Time Machine” who has not left the group since its founding. Since 1991 - Honored Artist of the RSFSR, since 1999 - People's Artist of the Russian Federation.

Birth and family

His father, Makarevich Vadim Grigorievich, was born in 1924. During the Great Patriotic War, he lost his leg in battles on the Karelian Front. After the war, he joined the Gorstroyproekt workshop as a senior architect. In 1956, he was invited to teach at the Department of Construction Physics at the Moscow Architectural Institute. He worked in this position until 1993, receiving the title of associate professor, then professor. He took part in the development of the “Victory Monument” in Tallinn, the Moscow monument to Karl Marx, and the pavilion for young naturalists at VDNKh. During the world exhibitions in Montreal and Brussels, as well as national exhibitions in Los Angeles, Genoa and Paris, he designed Soviet pavilions.

Mother, Nina Markovna Makarevich ( maiden name Shmuilovich) was born in 1926. As a child, she studied at a music school, was a phthisiatrician by profession, and worked at the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis. She defended her dissertation, had many scientific works, and among Soviet microbiologists she was one of the first to study non-tuberculous mycobacteria.

My paternal grandparents were teachers. Before moving to Moscow, my grandfather taught at rural school. My grandmother taught biology, after the war she headed the Young Naturalists station, had the title of Honored Teacher of the RSFSR and an award - the Order of Lenin.

My grandfather on my mother’s side was a shoemaker, my grandmother worked at the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR) as a pathologist and forensic expert.

In 1962, Andrey was born younger sister Natasha, like her father, she is an architect.

Childhood and school years

In Moscow, not far from the Museum fine arts named after Pushkin, on Volkhonka Street, was located two-storey house former princes Volkonskikh. After the war it was Communal apartment, this is where the future musician spent his childhood.

The boy grew up fully developed, read a lot, loved to watch his father draw, and sometimes helped him. He imagined his future in different ways: at some time he really wanted to become a diver and explore the depths of the sea, then he decided to devote himself to the science of herpetology, which studies amphibians and reptiles. Little Andryusha liked to collect butterflies.

Soon the family received a separate apartment on Komsomolsky Prospekt. In this area, Andrei began his studies at school No. 19, which was considered specialized, it studied in depth English language.

But most of all the boy was attracted to music. My father played the piano very well, and there were a lot of records in the house. Therefore, Andrey got used to the constant sound of music - both modern and classical. However, when he was sent to a music school for piano class, he studied for about three years and quit classes. By that time, he had already become acquainted with the work of Bulat Okudzhava and began to independently learn to play the guitar. Little by little, he began to compose poetry himself and play bard melodies.

In addition to music, the boy was also interested in sports; from the fourth grade he took scuba diving classes, and later he became interested in alpine skiing.

Meeting The Beatles

In 1966, an event occurred that changed Makarevich’s fate: he heard the music of the group “ The Beatles" Andrey, like many of his peers, became an avid Beatlemaniac. It seemed to the guy then that everything he had heard before was not music, and only now came the feeling as if cotton wool had been pulled out of his ears, for a long time preventing him from hearing beauty. Everything inside him moved and turned over irreversibly.

In the morning before school, he listened to “The Beatles”, coming home after class, he turned on the tunes of his favorite group again, and they sounded in the apartment until late at night. When the parents, exhausted by the Beatles, ran out of patience, they put their son and his tape recorder on the balcony. And he turned up the volume at full volume so that everyone around could also listen and enjoy.

In the eighth grade, Andrey organized at school Music band called “The Kids”, the guys played folk-rock, country, and also performed cover versions of English-language compositions.

In 1968, Andrei organized the “Time Machine” group, which included his classmates, Beatlemaniacs like him - Sasha Ivanov, Igor Mazaev, Pasha Rubin and Yura Borzov. Soon they were joined by a guy from a parallel school, Sergei Kawagoe. This group became the work of his whole life for Makarevich; for almost half a century he has been its permanent leader, the author of words and music, and the performer of many songs.

"Time Machine"

However, having received a certificate, at the insistence of parents, in order to have higher education and a decent profession, Andrey continued his studies at the Moscow Architectural Institute. Three years later he was expelled. The official version sounded like “untimely departure from the workplace at the vegetable base.” But unofficially this was a closed order of the party organization, which did not share Makarevich’s passion for rock music.

“Time Machine” still remained in first place for Andrey. Along the way, he began working at the Giprotheater (an organization that designed buildings for entertainment venues and theaters). He recovered at the institute, studied in the evening department, and in 1977 received a diploma in the specialty of “architect” and “graphic artist.”

And in 1979, “Time Machine” signed an official contract with the state concert and touring bureau “Soyuzconcert”, which gave it legal status. Finally, Andrei was able to leave the Giprotheater and be listed in work book performer and musician.

The group was gaining rapid popularity in the country, each of them new song became a classic of Soviet rock:

• "Circle clean water»;
• “There will be a day”;
• "From end to end";
• "Right";
• "Flag over the castle";
• "You or I";
• "Candle";
• "Puppets";
• “Oh, what a moon”;
• « Flying Dutchman»;
• "Three windows";
• « Black and white color»;
• "Turn";
• "Snow".

Recordings of “Time Machine” were distributed throughout the Soviet Union, the musicians became famous, and a great tour life. In 1987 they traveled outside the USSR, concerts were held in Poland, Mozambique, Japan, Spain, Bulgaria, and the USA.

The compositions of “Time Machines” were heard in popular films:

• "Afonya";
• "Speed";
• "Double overtaking";
• “The bartender from the Golden Anchor”;
• "Dogs";
• "Glass Labyrinth";
• "Moscow Holidays";
• "The Arithmetic of Murder";
• "Schizophrenia";
• "Crossroads".

In 1992, the book “Everything is very simple” was published, where Andrei Makarevich talks about the life of the group. The band celebrated its 25th anniversary with a grand performance on Red Square in 1993. In 1998, in honor of the group’s 30th anniversary, all members of the group were awarded Orders of Honor.

In 2002, Andrey organized the Creole Tango Orchestra, which included the best Russian jazz musicians. Since that time, he has been going on tour with two groups - “Time Machine” and “Creole Tango Orchestra”.

In 2003, in honor of the 50th anniversary, President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin signed a Decree awarding Makarevich the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.

Personal life

In the life of Andrei Makarevich there were three official marriages and several unregistered legally romantic relationships.

The first marriage was registered in 1976 with a student at the Institute of History and Archives, Lena Fesunenko. Her father was a famous political commentator. The parents gave the young couple a luxurious apartment, but their life together did not work out. The “Time Machine” team at that time did not see any brightness from touring, which did not contribute to the strengthening family relations. The couple lived together for three years.

Makarevich’s second chosen one was Alla Golubkina. They got married in 1986, a year later the couple had a boy, Ivan. This relationship, like the previous ones, lasted about three years. Andrei's son, Ivan Makarevich, - Russian musician and actor, graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School on a course with Konstantin Raikin, known for the films: “Shadowboxing”, “Shadowboxing. Revenge", "Ivan the Terrible", "House of the Sun", "Metro". Vanya maintains a close connection with his father.

In the early 90s, the musician had a close relationship with the radio host of the Europe-plus station Ksenia Strizh.

In 1998, Makarevich entered into a civil marriage with journalist Anna Rozhdestvenskaya, at that time she also worked as a press attaché in the Time Machine team. In 2000, the couple had a girl, Anya, but joint child didn’t save this relationship either. Soon after the birth of their daughter, Andrei and Anna separated.

The third time Makarevich officially married Natalya Golub in 2003. The woman was 15 years younger than her husband and worked as a make-up artist, photographer, and stylist. This marriage turned out to be longer than all previous ones; the couple lived together for about seven years. In 2010, Andrei and Natasha divorced.

Andrey has more illegitimate daughter Dana. She was born in 1975, and dad learned about her existence when the girl was already 19 years old. She permanently resides in the United States in the city of Philadelphia, works as a lawyer, and is married to a businessman. He maintains a relationship with his father, but rarely comes to Russia.

Since 2013, Andrey has been living in a civil marriage with Russian singer Maria Katz (stage name Judith). She was the first Russian performer, who represented her country at the international Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, performed the song “Eternal Wanderer” and took ninth place.

About all of yours former women Andrey speaks with respect. The reason for the separation was always the same: love has passed, and if there is no feeling, then why continue to live and torment each other, it is better to stop in time and remain good friends.

A television

On Russian television Andrei Makarevich is certainly associated with the culinary program “Smak”, which has been airing on Channel One for almost a quarter of a century. The first broadcast took place in November 1993. Every week on Saturday morning, stars of Russian show business, sports, politics, cinema and theater came to visit the musician to prepare their signature dish.

It was Andrey’s author’s program, even the name “Smak” stood for “With Makarevich” (or “Makarevich’s Advice”). His first guest was best friend, a wonderful actor Alexander Abdulov, who prepared pilaf.

In March 2005, the program was closed due to the fact that it had been on television for too long. Makarevich began to lead new show“Three Windows”, where famous guests came again, but they shared not only culinary secrets, but also their own creative achievements. Also in the program, Andrei showed many fragments of his travels around the world.

However, " Three windows“The rating turned out to be too low, the program was closed, and “Smak” was revived, but with a new host - showman Ivan Urgant. The first guest in the updated “Smak” program was its author and inspirer Andrei Makarevich.

In 1998-1999, Makarevich hosted another of his own programs, “Lampshade,” where he talked with the stars. His first guest was Alla Pugacheva.

In 2001-2002, Andrey was the presenter music program"Macarena".

From 2003 to 2006, he introduced viewers to the beauty of the underwater world in his next author’s program “Underwater World with Andrei Makarevich.”

Hobbies

Since 1970, the musician regularly organizes exhibitions of his graphic works, and they are held not only in Russia, but also abroad - in Italy, the USA, Latvia, and the UK.

His other hobbies include diving, underwater photography and videography, cooking, billiards, and archaeology. Just like in childhood, Andrei is interested in collecting, only now he collects not butterflies, but drums and stringed instruments.

Makarevich is a member of the board of trustees at Charitable Foundation animal protection "BIM". Together with the Russian singer Elena Kamburova, at the Moscow metro station “Mendeleevskaya” he unveiled a monument to a dog killed in the metro. He repeatedly gave charity concerts, the proceeds from which went to help homeless animals.

Natalia Golub now lives in Argentina with a hot Latino

Natalia Golub now lives in Argentina with a hot Latino

Residents of the dacha village of Pavlovo have been proud to be neighbors with the popular musician Andrei MAKAREVICH for four years now. “And there’s his house with a cow on the balcony,” they show. The cow isn't actually real - it's a sculpture. There are many legends about its origin. According to one version, this is a calf, symbolizing the proverb “where Makar did not drive calves.” According to another version, this is a “cash cow”, designed to bring wealth and prosperity to the house. But only Andrei Vadimovich himself told the truth.

“I once took part in a charity event where stars painted cows,” the lead singer of the “Time Machine” group told Express Newspaper. - So, the cow I painted left the auction at the highest price - 38,000 euros! And I liked it so much that I took out a plastic copy, painted it again... and put it on the balcony.

Goodbye, Podushkino!

House Andrey Makarevich very large and spacious, with a huge beautiful swimming pool, an artist’s workshop, a sauna and a barbecue on the veranda. The village of Pavlovo is considered one of the most prestigious cottage villages on Novorizhskoye Highway. The average cost of a house with an area of ​​800 m2 on a plot of 30 acres reaches $4-5 million. There is a cinema in the village, and the most expensive and prestigious school is nearby. The strictest security does not allow unauthorized vehicles and persons to enter. And, perhaps, its most pleasant component is a huge lake and a pedestrian area in the forest, where you can walk your dogs or stroll along shady alleys illuminated by ancient lanterns.

Free access to the forest was one of the decisive factors why the frontman of the group “Time Machine” settled in this particular village. Before that, he lived on Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway in Podushkino in a house purchased from Leonid Yarmolnik. The musician did not like the fact that near the village, on the edge of the forest, surrounded by one and a half century old oak trees, deforestation began for the construction of an elite village. In addition, in Podushkino, Andrei’s relationship with his neighbors did not work out, accusing the celebrity of almost all sins: he pollutes the local lake with his sewage, and the head of the village was bitten by a dog - in general, continuous quarrels and squabbles.

Room with a boa constrictor

Lenya and I were visiting Andrey in New Riga,” says the actor’s wife Oksana Yarmolnik. “But from the moment he got a boa constrictor, I didn’t go to visit him. In my opinion, there is even a separate room for the boa constrictor. Apparently, he became more interested in the boa constrictor than with his friends. But I understand him, because I also love snakes very much. Anyone who has touched them and is not afraid knows that they are very pleasant to the touch, especially if the snake is not poisonous and does not bite. Lenya also doesn’t go to Andrey often now, as he has lost interest in diving (they used to do this together) and has become interested in surfing. As an artist and designer myself, I can say that Andrey’s house is perfect, because he furnished it the way he wanted! This is a very individual home. If a person is bright and interesting, then his home is the same. There are a lot of interesting things there, he is a collector: he collects dolls, antique glassware, monastery bells, musical instruments, beads, keys...

And also, as everyone already knows, Andryusha is an excellent cook, and he has a well-equipped kitchen with all kinds of smokehouses and stoves - and he always feeds his guests exquisitely - his meat and fish turn out great. And in general, Andrey is a very hospitable host, the house is always full of friends, and the table is laden with all kinds of dishes.

“I was recently at Andrey’s, we were drinking vodka on the street,” he says Vladimir Sapunov, concert director of the Time Machine group. – Normal, good house V modern style, but not hi-tech. His lawn is mowed, there are Christmas trees, flowers - everything is very neat and beautiful!

Love and Dove

By the way, Makarevich left Podushkino while still a married man - his life partner at that time was a make-up artist Natalya Golub, who is 15 years younger than Andrei Vadimovich. Their love story is very romantic. They crossed paths at work, and Andrei invited interesting girl to parties, but Natalya refused, realizing that for him she would only be a girl to brighten up one evening. As Natalya herself said in an interview, the spark between the future spouses flashed at the concert of the Chaif ​​group. They, without saying a word to each other, simply hugged and began to meet every day. Six months later, Andrei invited Natalya to move in with him. Another six months later, a marriage proposal followed, and two weeks later, exactly on December 31, 2003, the lovers went to the registry office. Natalya shared all her husband’s hobbies: diving and alpine skiing. But after seven years of marriage, just two years after moving to Pavlovo, the couple for some reason separated.

- Oksana Pavlovna,- we asked the wife of Leonid Yarmolnik, - why did they break up? Maybe Natalya was jealous of Andrey’s boa constrictor?

I have no idea, you have to ask Andrey. How do people get divorced? Love has passed, I guess.

- Maybe Natalya found herself another man?

- Were they a happy couple?

But I don’t know... It seems to me that all couples are both happy and unhappy at the same time. But now they separated, which means they are better apart.

-Where does she work now?

In my opinion, she does not work, but travels around the world...

Gaucho and bachata

And Natasha Golub, after her divorce from the king of SMAK, found a second youth! A 44-year-old woman lost weight, became prettier... and left for Argentina, where she lives for her own pleasure: taking photographs, walking, rocking dance parties salsa and bachata, rides horses. And Natalya regularly posts on her personal Internet page intimate photos with a handsome Argentinean, calling him “my gaucho,” that is, “my cowboy,” explaining that her romantic hero- owner of a neighboring ranch. And he makes some rather piquant remarks (spelling and punctuation preserved): “One friend wrote to me that she got braces to lose weight... another American friend wrote to me that she was very happy that she took off her braces..!! I asked why..??? “I haven’t had a blow job for so long,” she said with an accent. So I don’t know whether to put on braces or not???!!!)))).”

It’s interesting that among Natalya’s friends social network there is also ex-girlfriend Andrei Makarevich - journalist Anna Rozhdestvenskaya. She lived with the musician for two years and in 2000 even gave birth to his daughter Anechka. And three years after the birth of his daughter, the musician already married Golub. Anna Rozhdestvenskaya regularly comments on Natasha’s blog, which makes one wonder: did the musician’s wives sing together because of slander against their ex? Andrei’s sister Natalya also regularly comments on Golub’s photographs. And only Andrei Makarevich proudly remains silent about his last seven-year marriage.

ANDREY MAKAREVICH – “MACHINIST” OF THE ROCK STEAM LOGO

Andrey Makarevich First of all, they are known as the founder of the legendary band, with which he went from the musical underground to the status of a master of Russian rock. But the famous musician is talented, as a true creator should be, in many ways. He writes poetry, music and paintings, and is also involved in producing, working on television and scuba diving. And this is not all in which personality is revealed. Andrey Vadimovich.

Things went wrong with the notes

He was born in 1953 in the family of a famous architect, professor at the Moscow Architectural Institute, author of several monuments. Andrei’s mother devoted her life to the study of tuberculosis, was a doctor of medical sciences. They often played music in the house. At least father music education I didn’t have one, but I played it perfectly on the piano different music from jazz to classical, which is why the boy spent his first musical experiments at the same keyboard. He tried to reproduce melodies by ear, and was especially inspired by the composition from the film “The Last Inch.” They even hired a private music teacher for the child, but somehow the relationship with the teacher did not work out. She strongly recommended that he learn notes, but they aroused persistent rejection in Andrei. Very quickly the teacher refused to work with such a ward and he was sent to a regular music school. Andrei stayed there for two whole years, but that was where the “romance with the music girl” ended.

Makarevich's first chords

He liked to play heavy melodies and rhythms that he heard on banned records brought by his dad from foreign business trips. Of course they were rockers. In middle school Andrey Makarevich a craving for poetry arose. He attended a prestigious school with an emphasis on learning English. Together with his classmates, he began to write parodies of Soviet ideology. The children wrote down these poems in special notebooks and passed them along the rows of desks for entertainment. One day during the holidays, one of his friends gave Andrey a guitar and showed him how to play the three simplest chords. The young man realized that with their help he could play songs by Yuri Vizbor. Then, during the holidays, he erased all his fingers in order to somehow learn to play.

Musicians of a special school

Real song creativity Andrey Makarevich started in 8th grade. And again, it could not have happened without the participation of my father, who at that time brought a record from another business trip. As an adult, the musician recalled that he then had the feeling that something began to change irreversibly after hearing the music, his ears were freed from cotton wool, and the era of the Beatles began. Makarevich listened to the Liverpool Four before and after school, all weekend long, which is why his parents kicked him out with a tape recorder to the balcony, where he turned up the volume at full power so that all passers-by could hear rock music.

Everyone I knew was influenced by the Beatles back then. Andrey Makarevich. Since the special school thoroughly studied English, none of the students had any problems with playing songs or even composing covers.

Inspired by the work of The Beatles, Makarevich created his first “four” called The Kids in 1968, which included two boys and two girls. A year later, the girls were asked to transfer to auditorium, and their place was taken by guys from a neighboring school. The Kids name became Time Machines. The guys took their team very seriously - they gathered for rehearsals every day and recorded a record that included 11 English-language songs. And 1969 was the year of birth of the first Soviet rock band.

Victim of “ideological cleansing”

As you know, rock music had an underground status in the Soviet Union; there was nothing to even dream of doing it professionally, so after school I went to the Moscow Architectural Institute to follow in my father’s footsteps. He drew wonderfully, he had excellent teachers at the institute, so Makarevich says that he is not a musician who draws, but an artist who makes music.

My studies were going well until rock music seriously interfered with the process. Time Machines did not stop their activities, regularly gathered at “apartment parties” and held underground concerts. This certainly did not look good on the Soviet Komsomol student. After another “ideological cleansing” at the architectural institute, Andrei Makarevich was expelled from the university in the company of other long-haired students.

The rock and roll lover had to look for work. I managed to get a job at a design institute that was developing cultural buildings. "Giprotheatr" team He was loyal to Makarevich’s hobby and did not physically overload him. Although in those years his group was deep underground, it was already famous in certain circles. The first illegal Time Machines records were widely distributed throughout Moscow and Leningrad (St. Petersburg), and Makarevich switched from English songs to Russian ones.

The progressive metropolitan audience was delighted with the light allegorism of Makarevich’s lyrics and gladly went to “apartment houses” and illegal concerts. Andrei had to spend more than one day in the bullpen in his younger years. The police came to the performances regularly and took us to the police station to find out the names of the session organizers and ticket distributors. Naturally, it was almost impossible to prove that tickets were purchased, so after a couple of days the young people were released.

Discoverers

Every year the popularity of the now “Time Machine” grew, he was restored to the evening department at the institute and continued to work at the “Giprotheater”. The group's semi-legal rocker existence turned out to be quite bearable, but in 1979 the band suffered another change of members, and Makarevich had to look for new musicians. The group emerged from the “darkness” a year later, when Rosconcert invited the team to officially get a job. The act on the part of the organization, I must say, was bold, but the profit from the concerts popular group was so high that even the lack of recognition of “The Time Machine” by the media did not prevent it.

In 1981, “machinists” appeared on the screens when Alexander Stefanovich’s musical film “Soul” was released. In it, the group's popular songs were performed. Immediately, the team was reproached for conformism, first for going to work at Rosconcert, then for taking part in mass cinema. Andrei Makarevich never reacted to such attacks, because soon all the Soviet rockers ended up in Rosconcert, and over time they even began to appear in films. Therefore, the “Time Machine” paved the way for itself and others.

Musician, cook, businessman...

After the breakup Soviet Union in life Andrey Makarevich a period of even more vigorous activity began. His group was unconditionally recognized as the leader of the rock movement, concerts sold out stadiums, albums were released abroad, and Andrei Vadimovich himself tried his hand at television. Channel One invited him to become the host of a program about cooking, he thought about the idea and suggested not just sharing with viewers their culinary experience, and invite famous artists to the kitchen studio. This also seemed not enough to Makarevich. Following the “Smak” program, a TV company of the same name appeared, which in the 1990s produced about 15 television projects.

At the same time, he became interested in business and became a restaurateur, co-owner of a dental clinic, and even the owner of a chain of stores specializing in scuba equipment. In addition, the musician made films about the underwater world, wrote books, published collections of poetry, organized his own art exhibitions, continued to tour, record new albums, produce, and participate in charity events.

And at the beginning of the new century he created the Creole Tango Orchestra, which experiments with American pop-jazz music of the 1950s. Andrei Vadimovich took a different look at the early work of the Time Machine group and, with the Orchestra, recorded the album “Old Machine” with songs in a jazz arrangement.

Loving rocker

Like many real rockers, he does not hide his love of love. He admits that during his life he has experienced many beautiful women, but I never met the only one. Andrei Vadimovich has an illegitimate daughter, Dana, who was born in 1975 and now lives in the USA. He married for the first time in 1976, Elena Fesunenko, daughter famous journalist. Unfortunately, despite the luxurious USSR for newlyweds living conditions, their marriage lasted only three years. For several years Makarevich enjoyed his bachelor life, until in 1986 he tied the knot with Alla Golubkina, who next year gave birth to his son Ivan (now a fairly successful actor). But this marriage did not survive the three-year mark. Then there were new ones romantic relationship with representatives of show business and the media. One of them, Anna Rozhdestvenskaya (press attache of his group), gave birth to a daughter, Anna, in 2000. Andrei Vadimovich lived with stylist Natalya Golub for another seven years. It seemed that the musician had found a quiet family haven, but in 2010 this union also fell apart. It was rumored that Natalya left her husband for her Latin American lover. Having healed his emotional wounds, Makarevich embarked on a new romantic voyage with singer Maria Katz, known for her participation in.

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As a child I was fascinated by butterflies and collected unique collection these insects. In addition, he dreamed of studying snakes and even kept several at home. In the 4th grade, the boy became interested in scuba diving, and later also alpine skiing.

In 1974, “Time Machine” was invited to film the comedy “Afonya”. Georgy Danelia wanted to show musicians who make a living from street concerts, and asked his assistants to find a modern popular band. Unfortunately, the censor did not allow this episode into the final version of the film; the group was shown only for a few seconds. But the film featured the song “Time Machines,” for which Andrey Makarevich paid a fee of 500 rubles. It was immediately spent on the purchase of a German Grundig tape recorder.

Because of his principled position regarding the events in Ukraine, he was persecuted in Russia. Some statesmen they even demanded that he be deprived of his previous awards and citizenship. Makarevich’s concerts were cancelled, and a whole information campaign was organized against him in the press. Many cultural figures spoke out in defense of the musician, and Alla Pugacheva addressed a letter to the head of state about this.

Updated: April 7, 2019 by: Elena