Sergei Nagovitsyn - biography

In Russia, performers of “thieves’ songs” pack stadiums. And although the heyday of this genre is already behind us, many chansonniers will be in demand for a long time. One of them is Sergei Nagovitsyn, who lived a short but such a rich life.

Sergey Borisovich Nagovitsyn - Russian songwriter, chansonnier, performer musical compositions « Broken fate", "The Lost Land", " White snow" Sergei was born on July 22, 1968 in the Perm region of Zakamsk in the family of workers of the S.M. Kirov plant, Boris Nikolaevich and Tatyana Aleksandrovna. In his free time from work, the boy’s father taught the children in the yard to play volleyball. At the age of retirement, my mother mastered the profession of a janitor.

Sergei Nagovitsin in childhood

Sergei's ancestors were Russians and Udmurts. The boy’s great-uncle Joseph Alekseevich Nagovitsyn served as People’s Commissar of Social Security of the RSFSR from 1926 to 1937.

Singer Sergei Nagovitsin

At school, Sergei did not attach importance to learning and therefore brought home only C grades. But in physical education classes, the boy was distinguished by endurance, strength and agility; from the first grades he began to attend sports sections of basketball, volleyball, football and boxing. While participating in team sports, Sergei showed good results in jumping. With a height of 174 cm, the young man easily threw the ball into the basketball hoop. At a city competition, Nagovitsyn’s class even received the championship title once. In high school, he received the title of Master of Masters in boxing.

What could an ordinary boy do in a working-class area of ​​Perm? It was in this city that his biography began. There wasn’t much choice: either the gateway or sports. Sergei chose the second and enrolled in the boxing section. Where he grew up, many problems could be solved with fists.

Nagovitsyn's childhood and youth

Thousands of teenagers, clumsily pressing the strings on the frets, learned the chords of popular songs. After all, a guy with a guitar is the soul of any company! Sergei was no exception. The older guys patted him on the shoulder and said that a guitar would help him rise in the army. He waved it off: “Guys, I went to college, so the army will wait.”

Sergei Nagovitsyn in his youth

Despite the shortcomings in his training, Sergei Nagovitsyn received a certificate with good grades, which allowed the young man to enter the Perm Medical Institute in the orthopedic department. Without studying for even a year, in 1986 the young man was drafted into the army and went to serve in the city of Batumi

After studying for a year in medical school, Nagovitsyn received a summons. It was a shame for him, a candidate for master of sports, to run away from the military commissar, so at the indicated time Sergei appeared at the military registration and enlistment office. He had the opportunity to serve in hot Batumi, when the flourishing capital of Adjara was a hot spot - sometimes he had to sleep in an embrace with a machine gun.

. In those years, Georgia was just going through a series of national conflicts, and Sergei gained the life experience of an adult in a short period of time. While in the army, Sergei thought about what to do next: music or sports. Having written a thick notebook of poetry, the young man burned it rashly, which he later regretted.

However, there was a place for rest. In his unit, Sergei ended up in the “Experiment” army group. They played what they liked. Letters from my beloved girl also helped to distract me from the difficult everyday life. Inna wrote how she loved him and how impatiently she was looking forward to his return. After the end of the service they got married.

Inna and Sergey

Music

Sergei Nagovitsyn became interested in music teenage years. The teenager’s favorite singers were Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Rosenbaum, Arkady Severny, Alexander Novikov and Viktor Tsoi. At school, Nagovitsyn picked up a guitar for the first time and learned several chord progressions. In the army, the soldier began to compose songs based on previously written poems. Sergei's first songs sounded like the work of Viktor Tsoi.

To provide for his family, Sergei got a job at Gorgaz in Perm. The work was boring and monotonous, but the soul asked for a holiday. Fortunately, a vocal and instrumental ensemble was organized at the enterprise, and Nagovitsyn became a member of it. They played mostly popular hits from Kino, Gorky Park, and Agatha Christie.

You had to live at that time to know how yesterday’s “basement” musicians became stars overnight. Then all that was needed was good songs that people would like. And then the folk “craftsmen” themselves distributed them on cassettes. Pop music and chanson were the most popular. The latter, however, people succinctly called “blatnyak”. “What if we combine disco rhythms with camp lyrics?” - Sergei thought somehow.

He had long written several songs that only his friends heard. A rollicking tune, hoarse vocals - just what you need! The song “A star fell from the sky with gold” immediately “went to the people.” Everyone thought that it was being performed by a new talent from the zone, but Nagovitsyn was never in prison.

Music, songs

Nagovitsyn discovered his gift as a poet and composer by chance. One evening he was returning home. In the gateway someone asked for a light. Word for word, a fight ensued. Sergei was hit on the back of the head - and it was as if the light had been turned off. I woke up in the hospital. At first I had a terrible headache, but then everything began to return to normal. Although no! Poems and notes now floated to the surface on their own, and all he had to do was write them down.

Sergei didn’t really choose a genre. Where he grew up, many listened to harsh songs about thieves, the zone, and the camps. And the time was like this: crime was gaining strength, so many people were drawn into its abyss... Nagovitsyn recorded his first album in 1991. The circulation is small, only 1000 copies. Sergei thought that the tapes would only be distributed to acquaintances and friends, and that no one would know about him further than the Urals. But he was heard in Moscow and in 1992 he was invited to the capital to sign a contract with the production company " Russian show" When creating the cover design, the singer also used the style of the Kino group.

Cover of Sergei Nagovitsyn’s album “Full Moon”

Moscow quickly disappointed Nagovitsyn. The morals that reigned in the capital's show business struck him unpleasantly: deception, divorce, scam. The times were turbulent, crime ruled the roost in all spheres of life. Speaking in restaurants to “authorities,” Nagovitsyn knew that they would not offend him, and therefore he broke the contract without fear. Although he had his listeners not only at thieves’ gatherings, but also in the working environment, in the village, in the army. Sergey returned to his native Perm and continued working at his usual pace. For two years Sergei worked on creating an individual performing style. The musician found the optimal combination of thieves' romance and dance rhythm. The special timbre of the singer’s voice played a big role in the sound of the songs.

The life of a chansonnier could not help but leave its mark on Sergei’s character. He began to drink often. He explained his “hobby” simply: “Here sits a good man. He's been in the camps for twenty years, invites me to a table, wants to have a drink. How can I refuse him? The worst thing is that Nagovitsyn is sober and Nagovitsyn is drunk - this is completely different people. Sergei was kind by nature, a modest person, but after drinking, he became excited and kept getting into stories. However, he was in no hurry to change his habits.

By the end of 1993, Sergei collected material for the second album “City Meetings”, which included the songs “Prankish Girl”, “Evening for the Stars”, “Fountains”, “Golden Days”. It took Sergei only 15 minutes to create the hit album of the same name, which became an all-Russian hit. The singer-songwriter recorded the disc on professional studio at the beginning of 1994.

In 1996, Nagovitsyn’s next disc, “Dori-Dori,” was released, the main hit of which was included in the rotation of the Radio Russian Chanson radio station. The all-Russian broadcast made the Perm singer popular throughout the country. New fans became interested in the artist’s work and biography. Nagovitsyn’s songs turned out to be close in spirit to people who had previously faced imprisonment. Many fans could not believe that Sergei never served time or was brought to trial. signs of fate of Sergei Nagovitsyn

On the wave of success, a year later the artist created his fourth collection, “Stage”. Sergei worked on music and lyrics, depending on inspiration, from a few minutes to several days. IN new album included the songs “Prokhor Mitrich”, “Zone”, “Will”, “Mother Told Me...”. In 1998, the chansonnier’s next album, “Sentence,” appeared with the hits “Grey,” “There, on the Christmas Trees...”, “Little One,” “Near the House,” “Walk, Brothers!”

In the singer’s latest collection, “Broken Fate,” released in 1999, the songs “Lost Land,” “Goodbye, Sidekick,” “White Snow,” and “Stolichnaya” became popular. The three final albums “Stage”, “Sentence” and “On a date”, which was renamed upon release into the disc “Broken Fate”, were conceived by Nagovitsyn as a trilogy dedicated to the difficult and contradictory fate of a prisoner.

During the artist's lifetime, only six solo discs were released. In addition to the author's collections, a large number of pirated cassettes were sold, which contained already known material. After the death of the chansonnier, relatives and friends in the early 2000s released three more albums with Sergei’s songs - “Free Wind”, “Dzin-dzara” and “Under the Guitar”.

Videos were created for the songs “Broken Fate”, “There are Pine Cones on the Christmas Trees”, “White Snow” in the 2000s. Nowadays you can find a lot of videos on the Internet solo concerts artist. Based on Sergei’s songs, the film “Broken Fate” was shot in 2009 by director Alexander Debaluk. In the crime drama, the main roles were played by Kirill Zakharov, Evgenia Zhukovich, Sergei Shirochin.

Personal life

Having entered medical school, in the very first month Sergei Nagovitsyn found himself harvesting potatoes. On the field, the young man met a student, Inna, who was studying on a parallel course. A romantic relationship between the young people began during fights between students and local village children. Sergei Nagovitsyn always found himself in the thick of things, and his future wife subsequently bandaged him.

Sergei Nagovitsyn with his wife

The friendship continued during Sergei's army service. The soldier constantly wrote letters to Inna, in which he shared creative successes and plans for the future. After demobilization, Nagovitsyn married Inna. At the end of June 1999, Sergei and Inna had a daughter, Evgenia. As a teenager, the girl became interested in music and playing the guitar. Zhenya also loves to draw; she chose tennis as a sport. After his death, Sergei’s wife began performing previously unreleased songs by the musician. Inna gives concerts and dreams of releasing a video in memory of her husband.

Widow of Sergei Nagovitsyn Inna

The first bell

The first “bell” rang in the mid-1990s. On New Year's Eve, Nagovitsyn was driving to a restaurant by car. Suddenly the headlights caught a car standing on the road. Sergei hit the brakes, but it was too late - his car crashed into the rear bumper of the Zhiguli. ..

A few minutes earlier, there was a collision between two cars. The drivers began to find out who was to blame. No traffic lights, no warning triangle - they just stood there, shouting accusations at each other. And then a new blow! Unfortunately, the car that Nagovitsyn pushed ran into its owner. It was not possible to save the man.

Sergey Nagovitsyn

The examination showed that at the time of the accident there was alcohol in Sergei’s blood. He was terribly worried about the fact that he had unwittingly taken a man’s life. Nagovitsyn paid for the funeral of the deceased, voluntarily paid compensation to his relatives, and then... went on a drinking binge. The moral burden turned out to be too heavy.

The judge took into account the fact that it was impossible to avoid the collision, as well as the voluntary admission of guilt and assistance to the victims, and acquitted Nagovitsyn.

The singer gradually came to his senses, almost stopped drinking and began to devote more time to Inna. They had been married for several years, but becoming parents did not work out. Finally, his wife stunned him with the news: “Soon there will be three of us!” In June 1999, the Nagovitsyns had a daughter, Zhenya.

Sergei Nagovitsyn with his daughter

With my daughter

Departure, cause of death

Everything seemed to be going well. But the chansonnier, as if anticipating something, began to often talk about death. “I won’t live to see the New Year, I’ll die, I’ll be a bird,” he once told his wife. - A dove will fly to you, don’t send it away, I came to you. I know that you and I will live for 10 years.” “And indeed, we didn’t have a month and 7 days until we turned 11,” sighs the widow. “A week before everything happened, he arrived at the cemetery, raised a glass of vodka and said: “I’ll come to you soon.” A year before Sergei’s death, he drew a monument to his wife on a piece of paper and the words he asked to write on it:

“If I go into the darkness when my hour has not struck, I will leave my song, without which I would not live.”

...On the night of December 21, 1999, after a concert in Kurgan, Sergei felt unwell. I left the restaurant for air and lost consciousness. The doctors who arrived could not help. According to one version, the cause of Nagovitsyn’s death was a heart attack, according to another - a cerebral hemorrhage. He was only 31 years old.

, Perm (Zakamsk), USSR - December 20, Kurgan) - Russian poet, author-performer of songs in the genre of Russian chanson and urban romance.

Biography

Sergei Nagovitsyn was born into a Russian-Udmurt family on July 22, 1968, in the Kirovsky district of Perm, part of which is called Zakamsky. He was a very mediocre student at school, but was seriously involved in sports and had the title of Master of Masters in boxing. After finishing school, Sergei entered the school, but was drafted into the army. According to his assignment, Sergei Nagovitsyn ended up in Batumi, in a “hot spot”. In his youth, Sergei was interested in the work of Viktor Tsoi. In addition, on the cover of the album “Broken Fate” Sergei is photographed in the “Tsoy” style.

After being transferred to the reserve, Sergei got a job at the Perm Gorgaz, where he began his creative career as part of an amateur rock band consisting of Gorgaz employees. In 1991, the first album “ Full moon».

Sergei Nagovitsyn was not in prison and was not prosecuted. However, in one of New Year's Eve became the culprit of the death of a person. An accident occurred on the road and the participants got out of their cars without displaying emergency signs and began to find out the causes of the accident. At that moment, Sergei Nagovitsyn was driving to meet them in his car. Not seeing an obstacle, he drove into one of the standing cars, which, in turn, moving by inertia, crushed to death the owner standing in front of it. After a medical examination, alcohol was found in Nagovitsyn’s blood, despite this, Sergei was acquitted in court and was not prosecuted. After the incident, Sergei Nagovitsyn was very worried and paid for the funeral dead person.

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Death

He talked a lot about death: “I won’t live to see the new year, I’ll die, I’ll be a bird. When a dove comes to you, don’t send it away, I came to you. I know that you and I will live for 10 years.” And indeed, a month and seven days were not enough for us to reach the age of 11. A week before everything happened, he arrived at the cemetery, raised a glass of vodka and said: “I’ll come to you soon.” Or let’s say he drew a monument on a piece of paper a year before everything happened and said: “Now, if I die, make me such a monument and write these words: If I go into the darkness when my hour has not struck, I will leave my song, without which I would not live» ... Inna Nagovitsina

Memory

At the site of Sergei Nagovitsyn’s death, near a roadside cafe located in a recreation area not far from the city, a monument was erected.

Creation

That's it, I'm tired, and my soul is yearning for heaven. The heart cries from the strained veins. Well, it’s time, all I can say is goodbye Earth, forgive me, I served you. Help me Lord! Help me get home, lift me into the clouds and take me away on your wings. Take away my pain, heal and give birth to me again. Help me Lord! Help, save and save. I didn’t get into the queue, even if I’m not worth it, I would have gotten up on my own, but my soul is heavy. God, take me quickly, I won’t hide it, but then I’ll get to the corner myself.

Sergey Nagovitsyn

Special music education Sergei Nagovitsyn did not.

After his death, the albums “Free Wind” (2003), “Dzin-dzara” (2004) and “Under the Guitar” (2006) were released, containing, among other things, previously unreleased compositions. Sergei himself conceived a trilogy of albums: “The Verdict”, “Stage”, “On a Date”. But the album “On a Date” was released as “Broken Fate.”

In addition to the mentioned discs, it was published large number official and pirated collections with different names, but they do not contain any new material.

According to Sergei Nagovitsyn, it took him from 15 minutes to several days to write songs. Most quickly he wrote songs that soon became hits, for example the song “ town meetings"(a golden star fell from the sky) was written by him in about 15 minutes.

Sergei has two completely different songs with the same name “Autumn”, which is why confusion often arises:

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“I remember,” Prince Andrei hastily answered, “I said that a fallen woman must be forgiven, but I did not say that I can forgive.” I can't.
“Is it possible to compare this?...” said Pierre. Prince Andrei interrupted him. He shouted sharply:
- Yes, asking for her hand again, being generous, and the like?... Yes, this is very noble, but I am not able to go sur les brisees de monsieur [follow in the footsteps of this gentleman]. “If you want to be my friend, don’t ever talk to me about this... about all this.” Well, goodbye. So you will convey...
Pierre left and went to the old prince and princess Marya.
The old man seemed more animated than usual. Princess Marya was the same as always, but because of her sympathy for her brother, Pierre saw in her joy that her brother’s wedding was upset. Looking at them, Pierre realized what contempt and malice they all had against the Rostovs, he realized that it was impossible in front of them to even mention the name of the one who could exchange Prince Andrei for anyone.
At dinner the conversation turned to war, the approach of which was already becoming obvious. Prince Andrei talked and argued incessantly, first with his father, then with Desalles, the Swiss teacher, and seemed more animated than usual, with the animation that moral reason Pierre knew so well.

That same evening, Pierre went to the Rostovs to fulfill his assignment. Natasha was in bed, the count was at the club, and Pierre, having handed over the letters to Sonya, went to Marya Dmitrievna, who was interested in finding out how Prince Andrei received the news. Ten minutes later Sonya entered Marya Dmitrievna’s room.
“Natasha definitely wants to see Count Pyotr Kirillovich,” she said.
- Well, how about taking him to her? “Your place is not tidy,” said Marya Dmitrievna.
“No, she got dressed and went into the living room,” said Sonya.
Marya Dmitrievna just shrugged.
- When the countess arrives, she completely tormented me. Just be careful, don’t tell her everything,” she turned to Pierre. “And I don’t have the heart to scold her, she’s so pathetic, so pathetic!”
Natasha, emaciated, with a pale and stern face (not at all ashamed as Pierre expected her to be) stood in the middle of the living room. When Pierre appeared at the door, she hurried, apparently undecided whether to approach him or wait for him.
Pierre hurriedly approached her. He thought that she would give him her hand, as always; but she, coming close to him, stopped, breathing heavily and lifelessly lowering her hands, in exactly the same position in which she went out into the middle of the hall to sing, but with a completely different expression.
“Pyotr Kirilych,” she began to speak quickly, “Prince Bolkonsky was your friend, he is your friend,” she corrected herself (it seemed to her that everything had just happened, and that now everything is different). - He told me then to contact you...
Pierre silently sniffled, looking at her. He still reproached her in his soul and tried to despise her; but now he felt so sorry for her that there was no room for reproach in his soul.
“He’s here now, tell him... so that he can just... forgive me.” “She stopped and began to breathe even more often, but did not cry.
“Yes... I’ll tell him,” Pierre said, but... – He didn’t know what to say.
Natasha was apparently frightened by the thought that might occur to Pierre.
“No, I know it’s over,” she said hastily. - No, this can never happen. I am tormented only by the evil that I did to him. Just tell him that I ask him to forgive, forgive, forgive me for everything...” She shook all over and sat down on a chair.
A never-before-experienced feeling of pity filled Pierre's soul.
“I’ll tell him, I’ll tell him again,” said Pierre; – but... I would like to know one thing...
“What do we know?” asked Natasha's gaze.
“I would like to know if you loved...” Pierre did not know what to call Anatole and blushed at the thought of him, “did you love this bad man?”
“Don’t call him bad,” said Natasha. “But I don’t know anything...” She started crying again.
And one more thing more feeling Pierre was overcome with pity, tenderness and love. He heard tears flowing under his glasses and hoped that they would not be noticed.
“Let’s say no more, my friend,” said Pierre.
His meek, gentle, sincere voice suddenly seemed so strange to Natasha.
- Let’s not talk, my friend, I’ll tell him everything; but I ask you one thing - consider me your friend, and if you need help, advice, you just need to pour out your soul to someone - not now, but when you feel clear in your soul - remember me. “He took and kissed her hand. “I’ll be happy if I’m able to...” Pierre became embarrassed.
– Don’t talk to me like that: I’m not worth it! – Natasha screamed and wanted to leave the room, but Pierre held her hand. He knew he needed to tell her something else. But when he said this, he was surprised at his own words.
“Stop it, stop it, your whole life is ahead of you,” he told her.
- For me? No! “Everything is lost for me,” she said with shame and self-humiliation.
- Is everything gone? - he repeated. - If I were not me, but the most beautiful, smartest and best man in the world, and if I were free, I would be on my knees right now asking for your hand and love.
For the first time after many days, Natasha cried with tears of gratitude and tenderness and, looking at Pierre, left the room.
Pierre, too, almost ran out into the hallway after her, holding back the tears of tenderness and happiness that were choking his throat, without getting into his sleeves, he put on his fur coat and sat down in the sleigh.
- Now where do you want to go? - asked the coachman.
"Where? Pierre asked himself. Where can you go now? Is it really to the club or guests? All people seemed so pitiful, so poor in comparison with the feeling of tenderness and love that he experienced; in comparison with the softened, grateful look with which she last time I looked at him out of tears.
“Home,” said Pierre, despite the ten degrees of frost, opening his bear coat on his wide, joyfully breathing chest.
It was frosty and clear. Above the dirty, dim streets, above the black roofs, there was a dark, starry sky. Pierre, just looking at the sky, did not feel the offensive baseness of everything earthly in comparison with the height at which his soul was located. Upon entering Arbat Square, a huge expanse of starry dark sky opened up to Pierre’s eyes. Almost in the middle of this sky above Prechistensky Boulevard, surrounded and sprinkled on all sides with stars, but differing from everyone else in its proximity to the earth, white light, and long, raised tail, stood a huge bright comet of 1812, the same comet that foreshadowed as they said, all sorts of horrors and the end of the world. But in Pierre this bright star with a long radiant tail did not arouse any terrible feeling. Opposite Pierre, joyfully, eyes wet with tears, looked at this bright star, which, as if, with inexpressible speed, flying immeasurable spaces along a parabolic line, suddenly, like an arrow pierced into the ground, stuck here in one place chosen by it, in the black sky, and stopped, energetically raising her tail up, glowing and playing with her white light between countless other twinkling stars. It seemed to Pierre that this star fully corresponded to what was in his soul, which had blossomed towards a new life, softened and encouraged.

From the end of 1811, increased armament and concentration of forces began Western Europe, and in 1812 these forces - millions of people (counting those who transported and fed the army) moved from West to East, to the borders of Russia, to which, in the same way, since 1811, Russian forces were drawn together. On June 12, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began, that is, something contrary to human reason and all human nature event. Millions of people committed each other, against each other, such countless atrocities, deceptions, betrayals, thefts, forgeries and issuance of false banknotes, robberies, arson and murders, which for centuries will not be collected by the chronicle of all the courts of the world and for which, during this period of time, people those who committed them did not look at them as crimes.
What caused this extraordinary event? What were the reasons for it? Historians say with naive confidence that the reasons for this event were the insult inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, non-compliance with the continental system, Napoleon's lust for power, Alexander's firmness, diplomatic mistakes, etc.
Consequently, it was only necessary for Metternich, Rumyantsev or Talleyrand, between the exit and the reception, to try hard and write a more skillful piece of paper, or for Napoleon to write to Alexander: Monsieur mon frere, je consens a rendre le duche au duc d "Oldenbourg, [My lord brother, I agree return the duchy to the Duke of Oldenburg.] - and there would be no war.
It is clear that this was how the matter seemed to contemporaries. It is clear that Napoleon thought that the cause of the war was the intrigues of England (as he said this on the island of St. Helena); It is clear that it seemed to the members of the English House that the cause of the war was Napoleon’s lust for power; that it seemed to the Prince of Oldenburg that the cause of the war was the violence committed against him; that it seemed to the merchants that the cause of the war was the continental system that was ruining Europe, that it seemed to the old soldiers and generals that main reason there was a need to use them in action; the legitimists of that time that it was necessary to restore les bons principes [good principles], and the diplomats of that time that everything happened because the alliance of Russia with Austria in 1809 was not skillfully hidden from Napoleon and that the memorandum was awkwardly written for No. 178. It is clear that these and a countless, infinite number of reasons, the number of which depends on the countless differences in points of view, seemed to contemporaries; but for us, our descendants, who contemplate the enormity of the event in its entirety and delve into its simple and terrible meaning, these reasons seem insufficient. It is incomprehensible to us that millions of Christian people killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was power-hungry, Alexander was firm, the politics of England was cunning and the Duke of Oldenburg was offended. It is impossible to understand what connection these circumstances have with the very fact of murder and violence; why, due to the fact that the duke was offended, thousands of people from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and were killed by them.
For us, descendants - not historians, not carried away by the process of research and therefore contemplating the event with unobscured common sense, its causes appear in innumerable quantities. The more we delve into the search for reasons, the more of them are revealed to us, and every single reason or a whole series reasons seem to us equally fair in themselves, and equally false in their insignificance in comparison with the enormity of the event, and equally false in their invalidity (without the participation of all other coinciding causes) to produce the event that took place. The same reason as Napoleon’s refusal to withdraw his troops beyond the Vistula and give back the Duchy of Oldenburg seems to us to be the desire or reluctance of the first French corporal to enter secondary service: for, if he did not want to go to service, and the other would not, and the third , and the thousandth corporal and soldier, there would have been so many fewer people in Napoleon’s army, and there could have been no war.
If Napoleon had not been offended by the demand to retreat beyond the Vistula and had not ordered the troops to advance, there would have been no war; but if all the sergeants had not wished to enter secondary service, there could not have been a war. There also could not have been a war if there had not been the intrigues of England, and there had not been the Prince of Oldenburg and the feeling of insult in Alexander, and there would have been no autocratic power in Russia, and there would have been no French Revolution and the subsequent dictatorship and empire, and all that what produced French revolution, and so on. Without one of these reasons nothing could happen. Therefore, all these reasons - billions of reasons - coincided in order to produce what was. And, therefore, nothing was the exclusive cause of the event, and the event had to happen only because it had to happen. Millions of people must have renounced their human feelings and your mind, go to the East from the West and kill your own kind, just as several centuries ago crowds of people went from East to West, killing their own kind.

Sergei Borisovich Nagovitsyn is known as Russian musician, performer and songwriter of such musical genres as Russian chanson and urban romance. The hits of his work were the songs “City Meetings”, “Broken Fate”, “Dori-Dori”, “Lost Land” and “Goodbye, Sidekick”.

Childhood and youth

Sergey was born on July 22, 1968 in the Kirovsky district of Perm, into a simple family with Russian-Udmurt roots. The depressing atmosphere of the industrial city presented its residents with Khrushchev's buildings, lack of entertainment for children, adults drinking and playing "cruel games", and periodic massacres of teenagers. The thieves' romance, cultivated by local customs, became for Sergei part of his integral childhood memories and a source of nostalgia.

However, the family in which Sergei Nagovitsyn was brought up was not distinguished by criminal inclinations, like himself. Mother Tatyana Aleksandrovna and father Boris Nikolaevich worked at the Perm plant named after S.M. Kirov. His father was also a volleyball coach and early introduced his son to the sport, who then became seriously interested in boxing and received the title of Master of Masters.

Sergei never performed well at school and was one of the C grade students. There were no problems only with physical education, he was easily given different types sports Despite his poor academic performance, the persistent Sergei managed to graduate from school with good grades in his certificate, which allowed him to successfully enter the Perm Medical Institute in the orthopedic department.

Having studied there less than a year, in 1986, Nagovitsyn received a summons to the army - he ended up serving in the “hot spot” of Georgia, in Batumi. During his service, Sergei became closely acquainted with the work of the leader of the rock group “Kino” Viktor Tsoi, which later became the impetus for him to begin his work.

Music career

Sergei Nagovitsyn began to get interested in music at school, but learned more complex chords while serving in the army: there he began composing music based on poems by various authors. After being transferred to the reserves, the aspiring musician went to work at Gorgaz in Perm.

Among his colleagues, he met like-minded people with whom he created a rock band. In addition to rock, the newly minted musicians performed thug folklore and Russian chanson, and in 1991 they released their first album entitled “Full Moon”. The motives of the first songs were somewhat reminiscent of the style of Viktor Tsoi.

In 1992, the young artist received a commercial offer to work in Moscow from the Russian Show company, after which he moved to the capital. But his collaboration with the Russian Show did not last long - just six months later, Sergei returned to Perm and continued to hone his skills in the field of chanson. His style began to take on a more individual sound, representing thug lyrics and urban romance combined with dance rhythms.

Sergey Nagovitsyn - “City Meetings”

In 1994, the artist’s second album, “City Meetings,” was released. The musician shared that it took him only 15 minutes to create the hit of the same name. The album “City Meetings” has become very popular among fans of the genre.

Sergei Nagovitsyn - “Goodbye, sidekick”

1996 was marked by the release of the album “Dori-Dori”, after which Nagovitsyn’s success was squared, and the broadcast of his songs on Radio Russian Chanson that followed the release of the record made the Perm singer famous throughout Russia.

Especially the work of the newly minted chanson star became close in spirit to people with a prison past. Fans had a hard time believing that the singer had never served time and had no criminal history.

In 1997, the musician’s next album, entitled “Stage,” was released, and about a year later, Nagovitsyn released the no less popular “Sentence.” In 1999, his last album, “Broken Fate,” was released.

Documentary film about Sergei Nagovitsyn

During his lifetime, Sergei Nagovitsyn released 6 solo albums, and after his death, close relatives in the early 2000s, in honor of his memory, released three more albums with his songs: “Free Wind” (2003), “Dzin-dzara” (2004), “Under the Guitar” (2006).

Personal life of Sergei Nagovitsyn

With my future wife Inna Nagovitsyn met at the institute, at the potato harvest, and romantic relationship they started after another fight between Sergei and the village boys: in the fight the young man was injured, and Inna helped him treat his wounds. This is how their relationship began.

The lovers communicated during his service in the army - the soldier constantly wrote romantic letters to the girl, where he also shared his creative successes in music and made plans for the future.

After demobilization, the young couple legalized their relationship, but the young couple did not have children for a long time. The Nagovitsyns had their beloved daughter in June 1999, just a few months before the singer’s death. The girl was named Evgenia. As a teenager, she, like her father, was interested in music and played the guitar.

Interview with Sergei Nagovitsyn

A few years before his death, Sergei became involved in an accident that resulted in the death of a person. On the way home, Sergei crashed into a stationary car that was involved in an earlier collision. After the tragedy, Sergei Nagovitsyn underwent an examination, and alcohol was found in his blood. However, the court found the singer not guilty - the cars were on the road without identification marks. Nagovitsyn was very worried about this situation and helped with the funeral for the family of the deceased, but he could not cope with the burden on his soul and started drinking.

Death of Sergei Nagovitsyn

At the end of 1999, the musician’s health deteriorated due to tobacco and alcohol abuse. Before his last tour, doctors advised Sergei to treat his health, but he did not listen and went to the promised performances.

Sergei Nagovitsyn is buried at the Zakamsky cemetery of his hometown. The grave is crowned by a modest monument: a dark granite slab with a photograph of the bard.

Author-performer in the genre of Russian chanson. He gained wide popularity in 1998, after the release of the album “The Verdict”. In total, Sergei has released five albums: “City Meetings”, “Dori-Dori”, “Stage”, “Sentence”, “Broken Fate”.

Sergei Nagovitsyn was born on July 22, 1968 in the city of Zakamsk, into a simple family. IN high school I studied mediocrely (C grades). Successfully studied in sports section, where he received a “candidate master of sports” in boxing. Sergei's childhood and youth took place in the working-class neighborhoods of Perm, consisting of "Khrushchev" buildings - not a joyful sight. The lack of any entertainment led as a consequence - among adults - drunkenness, among children - violent games. All of Perm was divided by teenagers into districts, between which bloody and sometimes deadly battles took place. The proximity of the “zones” also played an important role. Teenagers, and among them Sergei, learned to survive and gained life wisdom. He began playing guitar in 1985 under the influence of Alexander Rosenbaum.

After school, Sergei entered Perm Medical Institute, but didn't finish it. In 1986, Sergei Nagovitsyn was drafted into the army. By distribution he ends up in Batumi, where the situation was then close to war. Service in a hot spot left its mark and turned a simple Perm boy into a mature man with with a sober look for life. In the army, Sergei’s colleague taught him the first chords on the guitar. The first songs were written in the army, reminiscent of the songs of Viktor Tsoi. The similarity with Viktor Tsoi can be traced not only in the work of Sergei Nagovitsyn, but also in his fate (on the cover of the album “Broken Fate” Sergei is photographed in the “Tsoi” style and is very reminiscent of the “legendary Korean”).

Having been demobilized from the Armed Forces, Sergei Nagovitsyn gets a job at the Perm GorGaz. In the depths of this organization there was an amateur rock band, not shying away from thieves' folklore, which was destined to make the first arrangements of Sergei Nagovitsyn's songs (the album "Full Moon".

"Luna" played its role. In 1992, the Moscow production center "Russian Show" invited Nagovitsyn to sign a recording contract. Nagovitsyn signed, but did not move to Moscow.

However, the crazy capital life shocked the provincial aspiring chansonnier so much that six months later Sergei returned to hometown rest your soul.

After the capital I returned to Perm mature composer, who has tested the waters, is ready for creative quests, and not a novice chansonnier. The result of all this was the birth of the unique Nagovitsyn style - a fusion of urban romance, criminal lyrics and disco rhythm. And here, the peculiar timbre of Sergei Nagovitsyn’s voice came in handy: “cool,” but at the same time, soulful.

By 1993, the style had formed and by the beginning of 1994, 16 songs had already been written. Half of them were included in the first album "City Meetings", recorded in a professional studio. Then the album “Dori - Dori” was recorded from songs from 1995 - 1996, from which the musician’s all-Russian fame began. Then there were “Stage” in 1997, recorded in the production studio of radio “Europe Plus - Perm” and “Sentence” in 1998, recorded in the studio of the Perm group “Chocolate”.

Sergei Nagovitsyn named his favorite performers: Arkady Severny, Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Rosenbaum, Alexander Novikov.

Sergei Nagovitsyn was not in prison and was not prosecuted.

On the night of December 20-21, 1999, while heading on tour to Kurgan, Sergei Nagovitsyn died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage. On December 22, Sergei was buried in Perm.

The genre "Russian chanson" is rich in the names of talented authors and performers. Details of the lives of musicians have always been interesting to fans of their work. And this, most likely, is not simple philistine curiosity, but the desire of listeners to understand where the author got exactly this vision of life, whether the songs are a description of the personal path of the performer himself. His biography was also always interesting to listeners, since his songs left no one indifferent, excited them with their depth, and touched, as they say, to the quick.

The path to creativity

Sergei Nagovitsyn was born in Zakamsk (Perm region). This event

happened in 1968 on June 22 in ordinary family. At that time, no one could imagine what fate awaited this boy.

IN school years Sergei was not particularly diligent in his studies, but was a sporty young man and held the title of Master of Masters in boxing.

In 1985, fascinated by the work of Alexander Rosenbaum, he learned to play the guitar. At a certain age, almost all boys strive to master this musical instrument. Perhaps this influenced his future fate.

After studying at school, the young man became a student, but he went into the army to repay his debt to the Motherland. The service was not easy and even dangerous, as it took place in Batumi. During those turbulent years, this place was considered a “hot spot.”

Even then, song and guitar helped to survive the difficult years of service and separation from home.

The beginning of a creative journey

Today we can say with confidence that creative biography Sergei Nagovitsyn began after serving in the Armed Forces.

Having been demobilized, the guy returned to Perm and went to work at GorGaz. In this organization, amateur performances were well developed, one of the directions of which was a rock band. Sergei Nagovitsyn became its participant.

In addition to rock music, the repertoire of amateur performers included chanson and even criminal folklore. And in general, they were interested in the most different music. Sergei Nagovitsyn easily offered his own works to his friends. So, after the arrangement performed by the group, the first album called “Full Moon” appeared. By the way, fans of chanson liked it.

The appearance of this album was noticed by the producers of the Russian Show center in Moscow. In 1992, the musician was offered to sign a contract to record songs. While remaining in Perm, Sergei began collaborating with a recording center.

By this time, the unique Sergei Nagovitsyn began to take shape, where they combined different genres- urban romance, chanson, criminal lyrics, disco rhythms. The unique singer could not help but captivate the audience. This was the beginning creative path young star.

Working with professional musicians

The biography of Sergei Nagovitsyn is rich in bright events. One of them can be called the release of the album “City Meetings”. It was recorded in 1998 in a professional recording studio.

Sergei had been working towards the release of the album for several years. Many of the songs included in it were written long before this event. The popularity of his works was so high that it was simply impossible not to include them in the collection.

From that time on, only music became the main thing in life. Sergei Nagovitsyn is experiencing a high creative rise. This leads to another album that played a huge role in the singer's career. It's about about the collection of songs “Dori-Dori”. He created a real sensation among fans of his talent.

Some of the songs in the collection were noticed by the radio station "Radio Russian Chanson" in St. Petersburg, which led the performer to all-Russian fame. The singer's popularity peaked in 1998-1999.

Creative results

The fate of Sergei Nagovitsyn decreed that he did not have time to live a long life.

Despite this, the singer left behind a rich creative heritage. Several albums were released during Sergei’s lifetime - “Full Moon”, “City Meetings”, “Sentence”, “Dori-Dori”, “Stage”. “Broken Fate”, “With a Guitar”, “Dzin-Dzara”, “Free Wind” are collections published after the author’s death.

In addition to the songs included in these projects, there are those that have independent life. They are as popular today as they were 15 years ago. Many of the compositions have been acquired by other artists and are at the peak of popularity.

The songs of Sergei Nagovitsyn, performed by his wife Inna, found a warm response in the hearts of fans of Russian chanson and urban romance. The singer manages to put into them not only her soul, but also Sergei’s vision of the world around her. After all, they were connected to each other for years of happy life together and creativity.

Formation of a performer’s musical taste

The creative biography of Sergei Nagovitsyn turned out to be bright, unique, and rich. This largely depended on who the singer considered his teachers in music. Indisputable authorities for him were Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Novikov, Alexander Rosenbaum, Arkady Severny.

People often have questions about whether there were disagreements with the law and whether Sergei Nagovitsyn was in prison? The singer's biography gives a negative answer to these questions, although the direction of thieves' folklore can be traced in the musician's work. Perhaps this is due to the initial period of Sergei’s creativity, or perhaps there are some other reasons.

Human memory is alive

Sergei Nagovitsyn died, being in the prime of his creative powers at the age of 31

life. This happened unexpectedly on the night of December 21, 1999, when the singer was on tour in Kurgan. There is a monument erected at the roadside cafe where this sad event happened.

Fans slow down, knowing that Sergei Nagovitsyn died here. The biography, photo of the author and performer of Russian chanson give everyone the opportunity to remember a talented and simply wonderful person.

The singer-songwriter was buried in Perm, in the city where his creative life. Every year, Sergei’s friends and fans bring huge armfuls of fresh flowers. After all, this man left behind a rich legacy in the quality of his work. It is impossible to forget him!