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Alena is 18 years old, she lives in the city of Tosno near St. Petersburg. Her initial attitude towards the project cannot be called positive. “Then I tried to resist. I thought it was a waste of time and nerve cells - because the outcome was known in advance, and the five vacant “star places” had long been bought. But dad insisted, and I signed up for the first stage.”

At the first stage, when she had the opportunity to choose compositions on her own, Alena performed Dunaevsky’s lullaby from the film “Circus” in a jazz arrangement. Alena has many good memories associated with this song, since it was with her that the girl won more than one competition.

Alena set the goal of becoming a singer or, at least, a dancer as a child. In Grozny, where the Seleznev family lived before the outbreak of hostilities in 1993, Alena studied ballroom dancing. At the age of 10, having already moved to northern capital, she enrolled in the nursery music studio with a very symbolic name "Little Stars". Over the next seven years, Alena was the soloist of “Zvezdochki” - she performed with them at the main venues in St. Petersburg and toured throughout Russia and Europe. During this time, she managed to win victories in international and all-Russian vocal competitions, including " Morning Star". In addition to studying in the studio, together with two friends, Alena organized an independent group Music Style.

Alena finished working with “Little Stars” in April, shortly before the start of the “Become a Star” competition. And, without thinking twice, I entered the first year of the Pushkin University at the Faculty of State Municipal Administration. According to Alena, it is possible to combine a group and study, and activities that are so different in essence and nature, such as management and stage work, only add variety to life and do not allow you to die of boredom. Alena loves Bulgakov, Pushkin and Lermontov, clinically does not “digest” Dostoevsky and modern prose, is fond of modern dancing, is familiar with the basics of acting, listens to and performs pop, jazz and blues. She can list her favorite artists endlessly, but warns that “there are no idols - there are performers who simply like.” Assessing the vocal abilities of modern performers, Alena singles out Christina Aguilera for her “most powerful voice,” as well as Whitney Houston, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Janet and Michael Jackson, and Irina Ponarovskaya. Among the bands she likes is Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Aerosmith, Corn, “Spleen”, “Bi-2”, “Dancing Minus”, “Vopli Vidoplyasova”, “Dynamite” and “Prime Minister”.

"Being a star for me means working. Working on yourself, on your voice, on your dance. Record good songs, give brilliant live concerts and give love to people!"

Roman is 19 years old. At school they might well have teased him as “German” if they had known that he was born in Dresden. However, the notorious German stiffness did not have time to penetrate the boy’s consciousness - a year after his birth, the Beresnev family left for Russia. Now in the “quintet of winners” Roman is considered the most cheerful and carefree person. He came to the “Become a Star” qualifying rounds, held in Novosibirsk, from Kemerovo, where at that very time his fellow students at the Academy of Culture and Art were taking an exam. Having made it to the second round, Roma realized that the variety directing department would not see him soon.

The first serious one creative competition The novel passed at the age of 9, when he decided to join the troupe children's theater. Then he dreamed of dancing, but he was accepted into the vocal department. From that moment on, Roman’s singing career went from strength to strength. Together with the group he traveled a lot Russian cities, became a laureate and diploma winner of the “Golden Cockerel”, “At Cinderella’s Ball”, “Spring Drops”, “Rainbow” competitions. He has many friends in the clubs of his native Kemerovo, and at home some teddy bear or White Bim peeks out from every corner - gifts from fans.

At the age of 13, Roma’s team moved to a higher, “adult” level. professional level. But three years later Roman decided to take up solo career. At that time, he only worked at a minus level. "Since childhood, I was taught that normal professional person should work "minus". In Kemerovo it is almost impossible to do otherwise. The situation when the vocal microphone cannot be adjusted is considered normal. If I had the opportunity to go on stage with a bass guitar, I could do it. I still music school finished."

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Roman is confident that pop music is a normal and worthy style. It’s just that in our country today no one works in this style at the proper level. So the sacramental phrase " Led Zeppelin“This is also popular music.” In his words, it doesn’t seem absurd at all. Roman listens to sunny music that gives a positive charge. “Almost all the performers who are at the peak of popularity today have compositions that I like. But this is not enough yet. It is important how the artist works. By working on stage you can pull out the most primitive song. I really like the way Britney Spears presents herself. Even if she’s a three-time American pop idol and the dream of dropout teenagers, she works great!” According to Roman, worthy representatives of the Russian pop scene today, in addition to Alla Pugacheva, are two groups - “Dynamite” and “Prime Minister”.

Roma quickly decided on his position in the group: “For all of us now, the most important thing is to simultaneously and “in step” climb the ladder held by the producer. In fact, there is no more serious project in Russia that would affect the sphere of show business and it wasn’t. I constantly feel a colossal responsibility on myself, because I understand: I am still far from being an ideal artist. But I need not only to be in excellent musical and physical fitness, but also to retain energetic warmth in oneself - in order to convey it to the viewer."

Jeannette is 22 years old. She is a Muscovite. She combines oriental expression and European prudence - which undoubtedly won the jury over. Jeannette is mulatto, but she did not consider exotic appearance as one of her possible trump cards. I found out about the competition in May while lying on the couch in front of the TV at night. I decided to run to the audition right away. But I found out that the first competition was being held in Yekaterinburg, and patiently waited until August, when the Moscow stage of selection began. At the competition she performed songs that corresponded to her inner temperament - “Guitar” by Irina Ponarovskaya, “Beautiful Country” by Zhanna Aguzarova and “Without You” by Mariah Carey.

Jeannette has been familiar with competitions, concerts and performances since she was five years old. However, Jeannette had never practiced professional vocals - and therefore, having consistently won each stage of the competition, she was surprised to watch how people with much better singing skills dropped out of the game. Before entering music school, Jeannette learned to play the piano on a painted keyboard: there was no real instrument at home. But this did not prevent her from successfully graduating from the State Academic School at the Moscow Conservatory in 1999. Tchaikovsky. She was prevented from turning into a new Rachmaninov and continuing her studies at the Gnessin Academy by an “overplayed hand.” “This is when you play a transcendental etude by Liszt, and there is an incredibly transcendental passage - solid thirty-second notes with triplets. And your hand goes numb...”

Jeannette decided not to spend a year restoring equipment, but started foreign language- completed English courses at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Unfortunately, a further attempt to enter the Institute of Friendship of Peoples ended unsuccessfully - and, in order not to lose the skills and acquired knowledge, Jeannette entered one of the paid Moscow universities for a year. All this time she did not stop playing music: she was a soloist in a jazz band, with which she traveled all over the Moscow region, sang in an a cappella ensemble and was invited as a soloist to Alexander Schweller’s funk group. He does not lose hope of enrolling in the pop vocal department at Gnesinka.

Jeannette loves classical music, jazz, funk, pop, trance, as well as strong and original vocals found in Whitney Houston and Madonna. For some time she experienced a strong grunge period, but got tired of the depressiveness of Nirvana and switched to drum-n-bass and new wave dance music.

Since the announcement of the results of the competition, he has been in permanent euphoria, but tirelessly reminds his teammates of the need attentive attitude to each other. The main point in the group’s work is the establishment of correct contact between the performer and the audience. “An artist must definitely receive an energy return from the audience.”

Alexey is 25 years old - he is the oldest member of the group and a family man. Alexey’s son recently turned one year old. However, neither age nor family are serious obstacles for him, because life on stage has long become the only possible form of existence for Alexey. He was brought to a preview screening in Moscow in May by a former classmate. For listening, Alexey chose songs not from the modern pop mainstream, but from the classical repertoire Soviet stage- “Closing the Circle” by Chris Kelmi and “Don’t Need It in Vain” by Alla Pugacheva, which surprised and at the same time attracted the attention of the judges.

Alexey has been involved in music and dancing professionally - and for so long that his inclusion in the quintet of winners seems to be a natural result of the addition of all his many years of creative efforts. Suffice it to say that in music club He started going to school when he was three years old, and to dance classes when he was six! His stage career began with the famous school-studio of Igor Moiseev. Before graduating, he was already working as an artist in the State Academic Ensemble folk dance- and traveled with him to many countries. Naturally, the tour instilled in him a passion for travel.

However, in parallel with dancing and balalaika classes, Alexey tried to develop his own project. Having met young people of similar musical tastes, he became the lead singer of the group “People in Different Things”. It was then that he first had to face the sad realities of domestic show business. The group played “Russian glam rock” and periodically appeared on the stages of the “R-Club” and “U-Tu”, traditional for beginning Moscow musicians. The rehearsal and concert frenzy continued for about a year, but the group sorely lacked competent management, and performances in low-budget clubs, of course, did not bring in any money.

Alexey’s musical preferences were formed according to the principle “every performer has at least one worthy thing.” That's why he listens to the most different music. Among his “favorites” are Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Uriah Heep, Queen, U2, Jamiroquai, Lenny Kravitz, from Russian groups - "Auktsion", "Resurrection", "Aria", "Master".

Participation in “Become a Star” required a certain sacrifice from Alexey: he had to radically change his hairstyle. “In the episodes where the audience saw me, I had practically no hairstyle. I simply grew my hair. However, already at the first stages in Moscow, they approached me with the question of whether I was ready for the fact that they could completely change me. A little later I got ready consultation, at which it was decided that I needed to be changed radically. So I sat down under the typewriter. And I liked this alternative to my previous image."

Alexey evaluates reaching the “star final” as a continuation of the movement towards his own creative self-determination. He is confident that the new group should be unlike any existing pop project.

18-year-old Karina heard about the competition while not in her native Ufa, but in Karelian Petrozavodsk. The circumstances were such that she could easily not have become a participant, much less a winner, of “Become a Star”: the date of the qualifying round was set a day before the arrival date of the Petrozavodsk-Ufa train. However, Karina managed to change her ticket at the last moment and literally jumped on the bandwagon of flying fate.

Karina moved to Ufa from Petrozavodsk, where she graduated from a music school in piano. Karina's parents are professional musicians. Dad is a conductor, mother is an opera singer, Honored Artist of Russia. It is not surprising that Karina learned classical music and the style of classical singing in early childhood. From the age of three she already knew all her mother’s arias by heart.

In 2001, at the “Spring Chord” competition, Karina received an award for best vocal, after which she entered the music school in Petrozavodsk. But soon her parents were invited to work in Ufa, and Karina, accustomed to endless travel, transferred to the Ufa School of Arts in the classical vocal department. The fact that none of the “classics” except herself was present at the qualifying rounds did not bother Karina at all. For the jury, she prepared two songs from her favorite group “Kvartal”, but sang only “Island of White Birds”.

Despite the fact that Karina listens to the music of the most different styles, the classics still remain in the first place of her personal hit parade: the romantic Beethoven, the jazz classics represented by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and many others. Karina does not feel any warm feelings towards rollicking pop music like the Dynamite group. But he listens to Whitney Houston, Russian rock, Valeria, electronic music and rock operas.

The academic school taught Karina to see herself from the outside. “Maybe I evaluate myself too harshly, but I almost never liked myself in this competition. I didn’t like my performance in dance competitions at all. Already while performing a number, I always immediately noticed what I did well and what I didn’t do well.” no. In general, my getting into the top five seems strange to me: I was surrounded by a wild number of people who were familiar with the stage almost from the cradle, earning their bread and jam with this - and they all flew out..."

, "TV Channel Russia"

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Before the start of the project, three months of auditions were held over two days, during which the jury reviewed several thousand applicants in the cities of Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Moscow. Even older people came to the casting. In total, 8,000 people took part in the project.

On the first day, 2 songs were listened to without musical accompaniment. Those who were accepted to Day 2 had to prepare several of the 10 proposed songs and demonstrate their ability to dance.

The selection was made by three judges:

• DJ of the BBC Russian Service Seva Novgorodtsev
• producer Alexey Makarevich
• famous journalist, director and TV presenter Fyokla Tolstaya

100 people were invited to the 2nd round in Moscow. All qualifying rounds were filmed and shown on the Rossiya channel.

Participants

• "Other rules":
  • Roman Beresnev
  • Alena Selezneva
  • Alexey Ignatov (December 3 - April 7)
  • Karina Akhmetzaripova
  • Jeannette Kawesa
• Maxim Sharafutdinov (Kazan). Finalist (now the famous presenter of “News” on Channel One).
• Alexander Panayotov. I was among the top ten finalists for the project. Subsequently, he participated in the “People’s Artist” project of the Rossiya channel, where he took second place.
• Kirill Sharafutdinov (Kazan). Brother of Maxim Sharafutdinov, who went through several stages of casting, but was eliminated before reaching the top fifty. One of the founder and artistic directors popular band Jukebox Trio.
• Katya Ryabina (Moscow). Finalist. At the very end, the judges did not choose her from the top five, considering her an artist created exclusively for a solo career.
• Kamilla Tutaeva (Kazan). A very unusual participant with a distinctive appearance. During the project I tried to stay with the “Kazan crowd”. She was among the lucky ones invited to Moscow, where she went through several stages of the competition in a country hotel and reached fifty. Left the project along with another bright participant from Kazan by Kirill Sharafutdinov.
• Ksenia Bykova (Rostov). One of the brightest and scandalous participants project. Reached the top thirty. I remember her open negative statements regarding other contestants. She sang in the same group with another participant and semi-finalist of the project, Elmira Gubaidulina.
• Igor Shiyanov (Stavropol). Reached the semi-finals, but did not make it to the top ten finalists.
• Rezeda Marselevna Akhmedova (Kazan). A girl with a “flowery” name, as one of the judges called her. Reseda successfully passed the casting in Kazan and already at the preliminary stages of the competition she sang not in a duet, but in a quartet. She was invited to a country hotel along with hundreds of lucky people from all over the country, but after the first test (performing the hit “Paint Fair” in the top five), she got lost in the crowd and was expelled.
• Agnia Pasechnik (Kazan). Subsequently she worked as a VJ on the Muz-TV channel. I reached twenty in the project.
• Pynina Dina ( Nizhny Novgorod). The “biggest” participant in the project. After successfully passing the casting in her city, she was invited to the next stage of the project in Moscow with the condition that she would try to lose as much weight as possible. However, the jury considered that not only did she not lose weight, but on the contrary, she gained more weight and after the next dance stage of the competition, she left the project.
• Sokolov Oleg (Moscow). Reached the top fifty. Received the nickname “Yampolsky’s shadow” from the film crew of the project, as he always followed the “shadow” of another prominent participant in the project, Anton Yampolsky.
• Platonova Zhanna (Moscow). She successfully passed the Moscow casting and was among hundreds of lucky people from all over the country who got to the next stage of casting at a country hotel. However, then her nerves began to fail her and after the next stage Zhanna fell ill in her room and was almost taken away by an ambulance, but Zhanna still decided to continue the fight. She made it to thirty and was expelled after an interview test, where she answered a journalist’s question that giving up smoking was a heroic feat for her.
• Anastasia Donets (Rostov region, Novopoltavsky village). Despite the fact that Anastasia did not even make it to the top twenty semi-finalists, she was certainly remembered by all viewers of the project without exception, and at the final gala concert she received a trip to Paris as the audience choice prize.
• Andrey Lysyakov (Kazan). I got into the project on my second try. Having not passed the casting in his city, he followed the film crew further. As a result, the jury members recognized him and allowed him into the competition. Andrey was one of the hundred participants invited to Moscow. He constantly communicated and stayed with the so-called “Kazan crowd” of the project (the Sharafutdinov brothers, Kamilla Tutaeva, Elmira Gubaidulina, Ksenia Bykova). The author of the words of a kind of anthem for the project, created in collaboration with Kirill Sharafutdinov, which the participants performed at the final stage of the competition, when twenty applicants remained for a place in the group. He was invited to Moscow, where, like the band members, he signed a contract with a record company as the author of the song “Sing like the last time.”
• Robert Pertaya (St. Petersburg). Made it to the top thirty. He stood out from all the other participants with his small stature and fatness, but despite this he moved well and stayed in the project longer than all the overweight people.
• Elmira Gubaidulina (Rostov)
• Dmitry Deryabin (Moscow). He received the nickname “bright red Dmitry.” Just like another participant in the project, Roman Beresnev (who eventually ended up in the group), Dmitry has bright red hair. He successfully passed the selection in Moscow and was invited to the next stage of the show in a country hotel. Having successfully completed several stages already there, Dmitry found himself in the top five together with Roman during one of the competition tasks, where the comparison turned out to be not in Deryabin’s favor and as a result he had to leave the project. Made it to the top thirty.
• Sergey Obosyan (Moscow). On the project he received the nickname “the eternally dissatisfied Sergei.” He actively commented on all the shortcomings of the project organization and the inconveniences of being in isolation. He was one of the lucky hundred invited to the next stage of selection at a hotel near Moscow, but dropped out after dance competition. After the project, he continued to actively conquer domestic show business. Was involved in organizing concerts for a long time collaborated with Laima Vaikule as a backing vocalist in her show.
• Vladislav Oganov (Moscow). In the project I made it into the top 100, but then was eliminated in the first selection. Just like Panayotov and Chernyshova on next year I went to conquer the “People’s Artist” project, but there I could only get into the top thirty.
• Anton Yampolsky (later participated in the fourth season of the TV project “Star Factory”). I was among the top ten finalists for the project.
• Olga Makovetskaya. Subsequently became famous singer With solo program. She was among the top ten finalists for the project.
• Pavel Isaev. The only participant who managed to outwit all the organizers of the project without exception and get into the hundred finalists while being seventeen years old. Pavel in three different on the forms indicated a date of birth different from the passport. Despite this, he was one of the hundred lucky ones invited to Moscow and managed to “survive” several stages already there. However, then the deception was revealed and Pavel left the competition right during rehearsals.
• Irina Chernyshova (St. Petersburg). She was nicknamed “the always crying Irina.” I got into the top twenty on the project and reached the semi-finals. She reacted extremely emotionally to everything, including her departure from the project. Subsequently she participated in the first season of the project “ National artist” channel “Russia”, where she also did not take prizes.
• Valentin Knyazev. Now a member of the popular pop group “According to Freud”.

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Notes

1. . Academy of Russian Television (December 1, 2008).
2. . InterMedia (August 27, 2002).
3. . Yuga.ru (April 24, 2003).
4. . Komsomolskaya Pravda (January 12, 2005).
5. . Pravda.ru (March 12, 2003).
6. . Expert (November 11, 2002).
7. . Arguments and facts (January 29, 2003).
8. . Kommersant -Vlast (December 23, 2002).
9. . MK Boulevard (December 23, 2002).
10. . Sostav.ru (November 4, 2002).
11. . KM.ru (July 4, 2002).
12. . Komsomolskaya Pravda (December 5, 2002).
13. . Komsomolskaya Pravda (December 26, 2002).
14. . First channel .

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When Boris and Anna Pavlovna returned to the general circle, Prince Ippolit took over the conversation.
He moved forward in his chair and said: Le Roi de Prusse! [The Prussian king!] and having said this, he laughed. Everyone turned to him: Le Roi de Prusse? - asked Ippolit, laughed again and again calmly and seriously sat down in the depths of his chair. Anna Pavlovna waited for him a little, but since Hippolyte decidedly did not seem to want to talk anymore, she began a speech about how the godless Bonaparte stole the sword of Frederick the Great in Potsdam.
“C"est l"epee de Frederic le Grand, que je... [This is the sword of Frederick the Great, which I...] - she began, but Hippolytus interrupted her with the words:
“Le Roi de Prusse...” and again, as soon as he was addressed, he apologized and fell silent. Anna Pavlovna winced. MorteMariet, a friend of Hippolyte, turned decisively to him:
– Voyons a qui en avez vous avec votre Roi de Prusse? [So what about the Prussian king?]
Hippolytus laughed, as if he was ashamed of his laughter.
- Non, ce n "est rien, je voulais dire seulement... [No, nothing, I just wanted to say...] (He intended to repeat the joke that he heard in Vienna, and which he had been planning to put all evening.) Je voulais dire seulement, que nous avons tort de faire la guerre pour le roi de Prusse. [I just wanted to say that we are fighting in vain pour le roi de Prusse. (Untranslatable play on words meaning: “over trifles.”)]
Boris smiled cautiously, so that his smile could be classified as mockery or approval of the joke, depending on how it was received. Everyone laughed.
“Il est tres mauvais, votre jeu de mot, tres spirituel, mais injuste,” said Anna Pavlovna, shaking her wrinkled finger. – Nous ne faisons pas la guerre pour le Roi de Prusse, mais pour les bons principes. Ah, le mechant, ce prince Hippolytel [Your play on words is not good, very clever, but unfair; we are not fighting pour le roi de Prusse (i.e. over trifles), but for good beginnings. Oh, how evil he is, this Prince Hippolyte!],” she said.
The conversation continued throughout the evening, focusing mainly on political news. At the end of the evening, he became especially animated when it came to the awards bestowed by the sovereign.
“After all, last year NN received a snuff box with a portrait,” said l “homme a l” esprit profond, [a man of deep intelligence,] “why can’t SS receive the same award?”
“Je vous demande pardon, une tabatiere avec le portrait de l"Empereur est une recompense, mais point une distinction,” said the diplomat, un cadeau plutot. [Sorry, a snuff box with a portrait of the Emperor is a reward, not a distinction; rather a gift.]
– Il y eu plutot des antecedents, je vous citerai Schwarzenberg. [There were examples - Schwarzenberg.]
“C"est impossible, [This is impossible," the other objected.
- Pari. Le grand cordon, c"est different... [The tape is a different matter...]
When everyone got up to leave, Helen, who had said very little all evening, again turned to Boris with a request and a gentle, significant order that he should be with her on Tuesday.
“I really need this,” she said with a smile, looking back at Anna Pavlovna, and Anna Pavlovna, with the sad smile that accompanied her words when speaking about her high patroness, confirmed Helen’s desire. It seemed that that evening, from some words spoken by Boris about the Prussian army, Helen suddenly discovered the need to see him. She seemed to promise him that when he arrived on Tuesday, she would explain this need to him.
Arriving on Tuesday evening at Helen's magnificent salon, Boris did not receive a clear explanation of why he needed to come. There were other guests, the countess spoke little to him, and only saying goodbye, when he kissed her hand, she, with a strange lack of a smile, unexpectedly, in a whisper, said to him: Venez demain diner... le soir. Il faut que vous veniez… Venez. [Come for dinner tomorrow... in the evening. I need you to come... Come.]
On this visit to St. Petersburg, Boris became a close person in the house of Countess Bezukhova.

The war was flaring up, and its theater was approaching the Russian borders. Curses against the enemy of the human race, Bonaparte, were heard everywhere; Warriors and recruits gathered in the villages, and contradictory news came from the theater of war, false as always and therefore interpreted differently.
The life of old Prince Bolkonsky, Prince Andrei and Princess Marya has changed in many ways since 1805.
In 1806 old prince was determined to be one of the eight militia commanders-in-chief then appointed throughout Russia. The old prince, despite his senile weakness, which became especially noticeable during the period of time when he considered his son killed, did not consider himself entitled to refuse the position to which he had been appointed by the sovereign himself, and this newly discovered activity excited and strengthened him. He was constantly traveling around the three provinces entrusted to him; He was pedantic in his duties, strict to the point of cruelty with his subordinates, and he himself went down to the smallest details of the matter. Princess Marya had already stopped taking mathematical lessons from her father, and only in the mornings, accompanied by her nurse, with little Prince Nikolai (as his grandfather called him), entered her father’s study when he was at home. Baby Prince Nikolai lived with his wet nurse and nanny Savishna in the half of the late princess, and Princess Marya spent most of the day in the nursery, replacing, as best she could, a mother to her little nephew. M lle Bourienne, too, seemed to be passionately in love with the boy, and Princess Marya, often depriving herself, yielded to her friend the pleasure of nursing the little angel (as she called her nephew) and playing with him.
At the altar of the Lysogorsk church there was a chapel over the grave of the little princess, and in the chapel a marble monument brought from Italy was erected, depicting an angel spreading his wings and preparing to ascend to heaven. The angel's upper lip was slightly raised, as if he was about to smile, and one day Prince Andrei and Princess Marya, leaving the chapel, admitted to each other that it was strange, the face of this angel reminded them of the face of a deceased woman. But what was even stranger, and what Prince Andrei did not tell his sister, was that in the expression that the artist accidentally gave to the face of the angel, Prince Andrei read the same words of meek reproach that he then read on the face of his dead wife: “Oh, why did you do this to me?..."
Soon after the return of Prince Andrei, the old prince separated his son and gave him Bogucharovo, a large estate located 40 miles from Bald Mountains. Partly because of the difficult memories associated with Bald Mountains, partly because Prince Andrei did not always feel able to bear his father’s character, and partly because he needed solitude, Prince Andrei took advantage of Bogucharov, built there and spent most of his time there. time.
Prince Andrei, after the Austerlitz campaign, firmly decided never to serve again in military service; and when the war began, and everyone had to serve, he, in order to get rid of active service, accepted a position under his father in collecting the militia. The old prince and his son seemed to change roles after the 1805 campaign. The old prince, excited by the activity, expected all the best from the real campaign; Prince Andrey, on the contrary, not participating in the war and secretly regretting it in his soul, saw only one bad thing.
On February 26, 1807, the old prince left for the district. Prince Andrei, as for the most part during his father’s absences, remained in Bald Mountains. Little Nikolushka had been unwell for the 4th day. The coachmen who drove the old prince returned from the city and brought papers and letters to Prince Andrei.
The valet with letters, not finding the young prince in his office, went to Princess Marya’s half; but he wasn’t there either. The valet was told that the prince had gone to the nursery.
“Please, your Excellency, Petrusha has come with the papers,” said one of the nanny’s girls, turning to Prince Andrei, who was sitting on a small children’s chair and with trembling hands, frowning, dripping medicine from a glass into a glass half filled with water.
- What's happened? - he said angrily, and carelessly shaking his hand, he poured an extra amount of drops from the glass into the glass. He threw the medicine out of the glass onto the floor and asked for water again. The girl handed it to him.
In the room there was a crib, two chests, two armchairs, a table and a children's table and chair, the one on which Prince Andrei was sitting. The windows were curtained, and one candle was burning on the table, covered with a bound book of music, so that the light would not fall on the crib.
“My friend,” Princess Marya said, turning to her brother from the crib where she stood, “it’s better to wait... after...
“Oh, do me a favor, you keep talking nonsense, you’ve been waiting for everything - so you’ve waited,” said Prince Andrei in an embittered whisper, apparently wanting to prick his sister.
“My friend, it’s better not to wake him up, he fell asleep,” the princess said in a pleading voice.
Prince Andrei stood up and, on tiptoe, approached the crib with a glass.
– Or definitely not to wake you up? – he said hesitantly.
“As you wish, right... I think... as you wish,” said Princess Marya, apparently timid and ashamed that her opinion had triumphed. She pointed out to her brother the girl who was calling him in a whisper.
It was the second night that they both did not sleep, caring for the boy who was burning in the heat. All these days, not trusting their home doctor and waiting for the one for whom they had been sent to the city, they took this or that remedy. Exhausted by insomnia and anxious, they dumped their grief on each other, reproached each other and quarreled.
“Petrusha with papers from daddy,” the girl whispered. - Prince Andrei came out.
- Well, what is there! - he said angrily, and after listening to verbal orders from his father and taking the envelopes and his father’s letter, he returned to the nursery.

Youssou N'Dour became one of the most successful singers on the African continent, whose fame came after writing and performing the song “7 Seconds” in 1994. Now young man all just great. In 2012, he ran for the presidency of Senegal, but lost the election. On this moment is the Minister of Culture.

Nene Cherry stepdaughter jazz trumpeter Dona Cherry and sister of singer Titijo, born and raised in Sweden, became popular in 1994, although she had been performing on stage for 5 years before that. After success, she released 6 more albums, which flew around the world, but were relatively successful in Sweden ( best result: 22nd place). Performs mainly in groups

From his first marriage he has a daughter, Naima, and from his second, daughters Tyson and Maybelle.

Has a 12-year-old grandson, Flynn.

Her stepson is a former soloist Mattafix Marlon Roudette

Nadya (43), peak of popularity 2004-2005

Nadia is a typical Frenchwoman - a purebred Algerian, she released her first album in 2001. She didn’t find much popularity, but she didn’t give up and three years later she released her next album, which took first place in the French charts. In 2006, the third album was released, which sold no less than the previous one. In total, Nadya has 5 albums and about 1,500,000 net sales. Currently working on his sixth album

There is a 13 year old son named Janis

Kosheen, peak of popularity 2001

Kosheen is a British active band, which has 5 albums to its credit, the last 3 were released quite recently and were not successful. The first album came out in 2001 and blew up the charts. The next one, although it did not have any special hits, was afloat of experienced interest and climbed to 7th place in the British playlist. Further decline

Soloist Shan Evans(45) grew up in a wealthy family, her grandfather was a composer, her mother a singer. Now take out your handkerchiefs, the story is about to begin in the best spirit celebrities. At 16, Shan runs away from home to find himself and his path. He begs from friends and works several jobs at the same time. In 1991 she gives birth to a son, continues to work, and at night, when her son sleeps, writes songs. In 1998 he formed the group Kosheen, see the continuation above

As a solo artist, Shan has not released any albums, but she has several singles to her credit, one of which hit the British charts in 2011, becoming #1

Shivaree, peak of popularity 1998

American group Shivaree formed in 1997, and in 1998 they bombed with their single Goodnight Moon, which allowed their first album to sell 500,000 copies. Despite the success of the record, the guys decided to limit themselves to one video (for example, on debut album Britney, released at the same time, 6 videos were shot). My business card the guys decided not to lose it - there are 8 video clips for 6 albums. Post 1998 group special success did not exist, and ceased to exist in 2007

Ambrosia Parsley (or Ambrosia Parsley, whichever you prefer), soloist. In 2004, on one radio she launched the project “Ambrosia Sings the News,” where she sang US news to the tune. The project was popular

Going to release in 2010 solo album, but it doesn’t work. Married, has a 3-year-old son

Billy Crawford peak of popularity 2001

Billy Crawford born in the Philippines, soon immigrated to the states. He began acting in films at the age of 3, and in 1998 he released his first album. This is what he looked like

The guy worked on his mistakes, cut his braids and released the Trackin video, which made him a star in France with sales of 750,000. Two years later, Bill's third album was released, then a world tour, and then a limited edition DVD. Where? In France

In 2007, the reality series “Billy Crawford. The Time Has Come” was released in the Philippines, where Billy recruits the 6 best dancers for his backup dancers

Then it comes out new album, then again, then again. In France, Billy is losing his fame, but is relatively successful at home in the Philippines. Therefore, the performer packs his bags and moves to his homeland, where he becomes the host of the local Voice.

In 2014, Crawford is able alcohol intoxication went into the police station and started a fight with a policeman, which is why the latter was injured

About personal things. In 2016, he became engaged to a famous TV presenter in the Philippines.

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Revolvers, peak of popularity 1999

The group formed in 1999 and blew up the charts with their first single, “You Are the Only One for Me.” By the way, the group was put together by Sergei Zhukov. He generally has an eye for talent - the Factor 2 group also appeared thanks to Zhukov.

So that you understand the level - in 1999 the group received a Gramophone, and in 2000 Pugacheva herself invited her to her “Christmas meetings”

In the first incomplete 4 years of work, the guys released as many as 5 albums, and they would not have stopped there if they had not appeared in 2003 new soloist. The personnel changes were not to their liking, and the team, consisting of lead singer Lesha Elistratov and guitarist Dim Belonosov, created their own group - now they were not “Revolvers”, but “Revolvers”. Their first and only album was released in 2006.

Alexey Elistratov (40) earns as much as he can - he voices cartoons, acts in films, and performs. Either at weddings or at school concerts.

hairpins, peak of popularity 2004

Alla Lyubimova, Varvara, Natasha Galla and Katya Seppe

I didn’t find anything about Katya Seppe

Alla Lyubimova, native Muscovite, professional choreographer. Now married, three children.

Natasha Galla moved to New York for permanent residence, performs in the "5Stars Cabaret Show". Last year she gave birth to her first child, son Leo. Have a boyfriend

The group was formed in 2004 and actively delighted us with its creativity until 2013. Then the group was disbanded and another team was recruited, which included Lukeria Ilyashenko. I already wrote about this, but how not to repeat such news?

The old cast, entirely graduates of choreographic classes, despite the repertoire, looked more or less sane. Doesn't save Lukeria ballet school, she and her other members look cheap and vulgar.

They even perform to old plywood recorded by the previous band

Other rules peak of popularity 2002

Zhannette Kavesa, Alena Selezneva, Alexey Ignatov, Karina Akhmetzaripova and Roman Beresnev

The group was formed in 2002 and united the finalists of the “Become a Star” project. In the same year, the guys released their first album and three video clips, which were popular. The producer squeezed money out of the project and abandoned it. The guys went on tour for a while, and then went their separate ways.

Jeannette Kawesa

Born in Moscow, now lives in Los Angeles. Married with daughter Lexa, five years old

Selezneva Alena

Itit and best friend Keti Topuria. Married, has a son

Roman Beresnev

The guy was born in Dresden (Germany). A few months later his family returned to Russia. Now lives in Moscow, member of the Spotlight band. He is married, his wife Tanya is a singer. Have no children

Akhmetzaripova Karina

Now Trofimova Karina. Currently the current vocalist of the rock band The Jelow. In 2016 she gave birth to her second child

Alexey Ignatov(41)

Born in Moscow, studied at State University of Medicine. Professional choreographer, musician. Worked as an artist of the State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble of Igor Moiseev, was a vocalist in many projects

Died in 2016 due to cardiac arrest