1. The real name of Andrei Razin is Vadim Krivorotov. Born on September 15, 1963 in the Stavropol Territory. A year later, his parents died in a car accident. But this is the official version of Razin himself. In the Stavropol Territory, they say that Vadim was born in a corrective labor camp, and there his mother abandoned him.
Andrei (in the center in a plaid coat) with his comrades. Svetlogradsky orphanage.
2. Andryusha Razin earned his first money in agriculture at the age of 12, when he organized a mobile grape picking team from classmates from orphanages. At the age of 13, he went to a resort with the money he earned.
3. From 1978 to 1979 he studied at the Stavropol GPTU No. 24, after graduating from college he received the profession of a bricklayer and, in the direction of the Komsomol, worked in the regions of the Far North - he built the Urengoy - Pomary - Uzhgorod pipeline. He graduated from the cultural enlightenment school. After demobilization from the army, he worked as deputy director of the Ryazan Regional Philharmonic.
4. In 1986, Razin became the deputy chairman of the collective farm for supply. Here the young adventurer caught his lucky break. His adoptive grandmother at one time helped the mother of Mikhail Gorbachev, who at that time was the main person in the Stavropol Territory, with the housework. Having seized the moment, Razin took a picture with the family of Mikhail Sergeyevich, and later showed this photo, introducing himself as the nephew of "himself".
A photograph from the archive of Andrei Razin - the whole story of his dizzying career began with it. Approximately 1975, Stavropol. Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev with his wife Raisa, daughter and "nephew" Andrei.
5. Having received money to buy a "especially valuable threshing machine" for the collective farm, he left for Moscow and did not return back. In the capital, he met the composer Yuri Chernavsky. He complained that he was tired of living in a communal apartment. Using his mythical relationship with the General Secretary, Razin solved the problem with a couple of calls.
With a friend in Moscow
6. At first, the main project of Andrei Razin was the Mirage group. Our hero worked as a group administrator, and sometimes acted as an opening singer. Then he took up the "cloning" of this team. His "Mirages" traveled all over the USSR and sang with the voices of Gulkina and Sukhankina. The real "Mirage" really interfered with Razin with constant showdowns and his whole existence. However, the prioritization was soon changed by a disc with recordings of the Laskovy May group that accidentally fell into his hands.
With Yura Shatunov, 1989
7. Unlike other Soviet artists, who gave the lion's share of the proceeds from performances to the State Concert, Razin, using the self-supporting system, took all the profits from the Tender May concerts for himself. By the age of 26 he became a millionaire. He kept the money in bags in a rented apartment.
With his first wife Natalia, 1989
8. Andrey Danilko lived in the entrance of Andrey Razin for a month. He was a big fan of "Tender May" and dreamed that Razin would notice him and take him into the group. “I once had a childhood dream, not only to participate in the concert of Yurik Shatunov, but to sign his photo,” Danilko confesses. - Of course, their arrangements are already somewhere in the past, but still "May" is an era, a legend. This is the first real show business."
Andrey Danilko visiting Andrey Razin's grandmother in the village of Privolnoye, 2007
9. Razin maintained friendly relations with thief in law Otari Kvantrishvili, who provided “Tender May” with a “roof”. According to Razin, the group paid him 20% of their income.
10. In 1989, Andrei's son-in-law Ruslan introduced him to his colleague, then still very young, who had just come from the army, Rashid Dairabaev. Rashid worked for Razin as an administrator and director of the Laskovy May Studio for Gifted Children. A few years later, Rashid Dairabaev became the producer of Nikolai Baskov.
Andrey Razin and Rashid Dairabaev, 1989
11. In the film "Tender May" the role of Andrei Razin was brought to life by actor Vyacheslav Manucharov. Vyacheslav believes that this role is a real success in his career. Not every artist gets the opportunity to play such a colorful character. He believes that Razin is the Great Combinator of our days and a rather unique personality. "Why Razin? This is a big dramatic role, one of my first big roles, - says Vyacheslav. I was attracted not so much by Razin's personality as by history as such. He is Ostap Bender of our days. This is actually a Cinderella story, and people are usually attracted to such stories. And I just got sick of this time, when I found out about him everything that is not in the frame.
Images from the film "Tender May"
12. After the collapse of Tender May, Razin actively pursued a political career. He was elected three times to the State Duma of the Stavropol Territory, was deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Industry, Construction, Energy, Housing and Communal Services, rector of the Institute of Culture and chairman of the farmers' union of southern Russia.
Photo by Robert Netelev /TASS Newsreel/
August 4, 1990, Luzhniki. The 60,000-strong crowd roars, demanding that their idols take the stage. From the posters, the main legends of that time are looking at the audience: the groups “Kino” and “Tender May” - it is difficult to imagine performers more opposite in style.
But the fact remains: that evening, most people came to the stadium to hear the legendary "White Roses" performed by Yura Shatunov.
“I understood that there were more of our fans, and before the concert I went out to the public to ask the public to accept Vitya well. The concert was just great, ”Andrei Razin, the producer of Tender May, recalled in an interview many years later.
A man without whom the country would never have plunged into mass insanity for vociferous orphanage children.
For myself
He had no one to rely on from the very beginning - he grew up without parents. According to Razin himself, they died in a car accident, according to other rumors, the mother simply left her son in an orphanage.
After graduating, the young man receives the profession of a bricklayer at a technical school, but is not going to work in his specialty: where have you seen successful masons? And Andrei wanted a beautiful, successful life.
For some time, he was seriously fascinated by work along the lines of the Komsomol. Arriving in the 1970s at a collective farm in the Stavropol Territory, Razin laid the foundation for a legend that he still remembers to this day - about his relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev.
The first president of the USSR, like Razin, was from Stavropol. Mikhail Sergeevich's mother lived on that collective farm, and he sometimes came to visit. Razin rented a corner from a local resident, Valentina Mikhailovna Gostinaya (she is still called "Razin's grandmother").
The gostina helped the Gorbachevs with the household chores - so Andrey got into their house. On one of Mikhail Sergeyevich's visits, a young guy asked to be photographed with him: intuition, nothing else. He will carefully keep this picture for many years, and then show it to the "right" people, saying that he is Gorbachev's nephew.
The same cassette
Until the mid-80s, fate did not particularly smile at Andrei Razin. He works on laying a gas pipeline in the north, then returns to Stavropol, enters a cultural and educational school, but then drops out and joins the army.
In 1985, he first appeared on television as a singer - on the program "Morning Mail". “Warmer, warmer,” fate seems to whisper to him.
And a year later, Razin decides on the first serious adventure: being deputy chairman for supply on the collective farm. Sverdlov, he receives money for a new tractor and leaves for Moscow.
The collective farm did not wait for the tractor. But Razin is taken to work at the All-Union Creative Studio of the Ministry of Culture for gifted orphans. Here he falls into the hands of a cassette with recordings of the group "Tender May".
The children from the orphanage, without musical education, hearing and voice, sang uncomplicated songs. Andrei intuitively felt that this is what the people need now.
“The whole country was then in the same state of mind. Anxiety, crossroads, no one had anything. Everything is consistently bad. And now Pugacheva and Rotaru appeared on the stage in sparkles, pretending that everything was fine. The people did not believe in it, they needed a group that would warm the soul, ”Razin recalled in a 2008 interview.
"Tender May"
He understood that such music would not be played on Union television. And he decided to go the other way: having recorded the first album on cassettes with the guys, Razin went to storm the Moscow railway stations.
He told the conductors of long-distance trains the same story: “My girlfriend is leaving in your car, and these are her favorite songs. Put on the cassette, please! And if anyone else likes it, here are a few more copies.”
Simple words and melodies spread along the railways of a vast country. 13-year-old Yura Shatunov became a star of the allied scale, "Tender May" for schoolgirls was like the Beatles for their parents, and Andrei Razin became one of the first Soviet millionaires.
Already in the 2000s, on the eve of the release of the film "Tender May", the producer will apologize to Shatunov on the air of "Echo of Moscow":
“I want to tell you that I really am guilty before Yura, very guilty, because Yura, apart from the dressing rooms, the apartment, the guards and the stage, did not see anything. He got $10 million for it at 18. ... Not immediately, because the money was issued to the guardian, and we sued for a long time so that the guardian would not get it, but Yura directly got it.
Success accompanied the group for 5 years. "Tender May" traveled around with concerts with several compositions at once - for photo and video filming, the audience was immediately kicked out of the hall. Thousands of girls sang along with "White Roses" and "Pink Evening", confessed their love to Shatunov, Razin and musicians.
Then conflicts began to arise between the members of the group, new hits did not come out, and at the end of 1991 Shatunov left the country. "Tender May" broke up, and a new chapter began in the life of its producer.
Politician, banker, father
Since 1991, Andrei Razin went into politics: he established the International Association of Orphans and Boarding Schools "Happy Day" under the Government of the Russian Federation, was a confidant of Gennady Zyuganov in the presidential elections in 1996, and then he was elected to the State Duma of the Stavropol Territory.
In 2014, he tried himself as a banker: he became president of Doninvest Bank, and then resigned 8 days before the license was revoked. The same scenario happened with the United National Bank.
In March 2017, Andrei Razin experienced a real tragedy: his 16-year-old son Alexander died of cardiac arrest.
“My pain of loss is unbearable. I express my gratitude to all my relatives for their condolences and support, ”the producer wrote on his Instagram then.
He did not forget about “Tender May”: the group still exists, but already in a different line-up, without Yura Shatunov, and instead of stadiums, it gathers fans at nostalgic corporate parties.
Ex-head of the Tender May group, politician.
Born September 15, 1963. Parents died in a car accident. He was brought up in an orphanage.
From 1978 to 1979 he studied at the Stavropol GPTU No. 24. After graduating from college, he received the profession of a bricklayer.
From 1979 to 1982 he worked in the direction of the Komsomol in the regions of the Far North in the cities of Nizhnevartovsk, Novy Urengoy, Nadym. Participated in the laying of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline.
In 1982 he returned to the city of Stavropol and entered the Stavropol cultural and educational school.
From 1983 to 1985 he served in the Soviet Army. After demobilization, from 1985 to 1986, he worked as deputy director of the Ryazan Regional Philharmonic.
From 1986 to 1988, he worked as deputy chairman for the supply of the Sverdlov collective farm in the village of Privolnoye, Krasnogvardeisky district, Stavropol Territory.
The beginning of a musical career
In 1988, having received money to buy a tractor, he went to Moscow, where he got a job at the Record recording studio. There, his duties included looking for new talents, as well as communicating with suppliers of film, equipment, etc. He collaborated with the Mirage group. According to his own statement, he created it (although the official website of the group claims that this is not so).
"Tender May"
In June 1988, the album of the group "Tender May" recorded in the city of Orenburg fell into the hands of Razin. On July 4 of the same year, succumbing to the persuasion of Razin, who introduced himself as an employee of the Ministry of Culture, the poet and composer, the creator of the Laskovy May group, Sergey Borisovich Kuznetsov, arrived in Moscow.
On September 9, 1988, the soloist of the group Yura Shatunov turns up in the capital. This is followed by work in the studio and countless tours of the team, headed by Andrei Alexandrovich. Soon Razin convinces Kuznetsov to record a solo album for him, which is subsequently served under the guise of "Tender May".
On February 3, 1989, the Vzglyad program announced the opening of a criminal case against A. Razin by the prosecutor's office of the Dzerzhinsky district of Moscow under Article 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. On April 29 of the same year, Andrei Alexandrovich Razin marries Natalya Evgenievna Lebedeva.
In January 1990, the criminal case against A. Razin was terminated, due to the lack of corpus delicti.
In the summer of 1990, Razin's first book "Winter in the Land of Tender May" was published. On August 1 of the same year, the first issue of the Laskovy May newspaper was published.
In early 1992, Razin announced the breakup of the Tender May group.
Leaving for politics
In 1993 Andrei Razin became the rector of the Stavropol Institute of Contemporary Arts at the Stavropol University. In the presidential elections in the Russian Federation in 1996, he was a confidant of Gennady Zyuganov. On April 2 of the same year, together with Yuri Shatunov, they participated in a concert at the Taganka Theater.
In 1996 he headed the Stavropol Cultural Fund. In the autumn of this year, he led the campaign to elect Alexander Chernogorov as the head of the administration of the Staropol Territory.
In May 1997, he was elected chairman of the board of the Stavropol branch of the Cultural Fund. Later, on December 14, he was elected to the Stavropol Regional Duma of the second convocation. Also in December, he ran for the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation in the Stavropol single-mandate constituency No. 55 as an independent deputy. In the elections, he took 2nd place out of 16 (14.38% of the vote), losing to Vasily Iver (18.08%).
In February 2000, according to media reports, he was appointed adviser to the President of Karachay-Cherkessia Vladimir Semyonov and the plenipotentiary representative of Karachay-Cherkessia in Belarus. In October 2000, he registered as a candidate for the post of governor of the Stavropol Territory. In the elections on December 3, he took 6th place out of 13, receiving 3.78% of the vote.
In February 2001, he announced that the chairman of the government of the Chechen Republic, Stanislav Ilyasov, offered him a seat in the republican government as minister of culture. On December 16 of the same year, he was again elected to the State Duma of the Stavropol Territory in the Oktyabrsky district of Stavropol N17. He was Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Stavropol Territory for industry, energy, construction and housing and communal services. He was elected chairman of the Stavropol Cultural Fund.
Only after the death of his son did it become known about the secret wife of the creator of "Tender May"
Andrey RAZIN was orphaned for the second time in his life - he lost his beloved son Sasha. The teenager felt unwell while walking with a girl. Alexander's companion immediately called an ambulance, but, Unfortunately,the doctors were powerless, and the 16-year-old boy died.The cause of death was a heart defect. The disease was asymptomatic and no one knew about it.
Sasha's mother is called the second wife of the musician Faina. In fact, she was the third wife of Razin - a beautiful girl with a beautiful name Maritana. Before the tragedy almost no one knew about its existence.
It is not surprising to get confused in the wives of Andrei Razin. Apart from civil marriages, his first official wife was Natalia Lebedeva, and second - Faina Razina, which is mistakenly called Sasha's mother. Misunderstanding arose due to the fact that Alexander's real mother is Razin's third wife, Maritana, who gave birth from the producer when he was still married to Faina. The fact is that all the weddings and divorces of Razin took place in strict confidence. Andrei Alexandrovich first secretly divorced Faina, and then secretly married Maritana. After living with Maritana for a couple of years, he divorced her and again secretly married Faina. Thus Faina became his fourth wife. Although everyone considers her the second, since no one knew about the intermediate third marriage of Razin with Maritana.
Love at first sight
They met Maritana in 2000. Seeing her walking along the Sochi embankment, Razin could not muster the courage to speak, and did not think of anything better than to send his guard after her. He later told his friends that for the first time in his life he felt timid. He was fascinated not so much by the appearance of the girl as by the wave of some unearthly charm emanating from her.
During the first month of dating, he lost 12 kilograms from love. This won the young heart of the beauty. Returning to his former physical form, Andrei took her to Miami for a honeymoon, and then Sasha was born.
Crazy with happiness, Razin tossed between unexpected fatherhood and the active construction of a political career. Deputation, participation in the elections of the governor of the Stavropol Territory - all this did not fit in with his desire to go on stage and scream into the microphone about his new love. The son and additional wife had to be hidden from everyone.
He decided on a divorce from Faina and a secret wedding with Maritana only after being elected for the next deputy term. Sasha was already six years old.
The wedding ceremony in Moscow was attended only by the closest people, mainly from Maritana's side. Many of them then saw Sasha for the first time - a cheerful blond boy, an exact copy of Andrei, in whom he doted.
At some point, Razin was so carried away by raising his son that he missed his wife. Divorce, like the wedding, took place in complete secrecy. Since then, Sasha lived with each of his parents in turn. He considered himself very lucky, because both mom and dad tried to love him for two.
My pain of loss is unbearable,” Andrey Alexandrovich wrote on his page on the social network when he learned about the death of his son.
Genuine Documents
In the hospital when examining things in a purse Razin Jr. found a driver's license with his photo, but the owner was recorded as Alexander Andreevich Razin, born in 1996. The second document turned out to be a social card of a Muscovite in the name of Alexander Andreevich Razin, born in 2001, which corresponded to the real age of the young man.
There is no mystery here. Sasha's certificate was real, and the years that gave the teenager the right to drive a car were thrown at him by traffic police officers interested in raising their standard of living.
By the way
Andrei Razin has a 32-year-old son, Ilya, from a fleeting connection with a fan, the existence of which the producer found out only in 2003.
One of the most talented producers and managers of the 90s Andrey Razin does not require a special introduction. Even if the audience suddenly forgot this name, then it is worth putting it together with the name “Tender May” and the memory will immediately helpfully tell you who it is about.
Andrei Alexandrovich Razin was born in September 1963 in Stavropol. Father Alexander Vatslavovich came to the city from the Belarusian Grodno. The young man met his future wife Valentina Ivanovna Krivorotova within the walls of a local university. The romance that broke out soon culminated in marriage, which resulted in the birth of Andrei's son. The young family did not have time to enjoy the happiness of living together: the couple died in a car accident that happened in 1964. The one-year-old son was left an orphan and ended up in the Svetlogradsky orphanage.
Razin's childhood and youth passed here, in Svetlograd, Stavropol Territory. Andrei graduated from the local school and received the specialty of a bricklayer.
Soon the Komsomol sent the young man to the Far North. Andrei returned to Stavropol in 1982 and immediately entered the local cultural and educational school, where he studied for a year. In 1983, Andrei received a summons to the army, where he served 2 years in a tank unit. I returned to Stavropol for a short time. Razin again called the road. This time in Ryazan. There, for the first time, an innate talent for entrepreneurship manifested itself, and Andrei Razin's brilliant creative biography began.
Show Business
In Ryazan, an enterprising young man got a job at the regional philharmonic society without any problems, where he took the place of deputy director. Andrei managed to demonstrate the ability to find the right connections, negotiate with the right officials and instantly generate creative ideas. Soon the opportunity presented itself to step onto a new career step: Andrei Razin went to Siberia, where a place was found in the Chita Committee of Television and Radio. In the absence of a specialized education, Razin managed to become the first assistant director.
The cultural life of Siberia was rich. Soviet pop stars often came to Chita on tour, with one of which - - the young man was immediately able to find a common language. When the tour of the popular singer ended, Razin left Chita with the singer, having received the post of administrator. In this capacity, the young man traveled to dozens of large cities of the Soviet Union, acquired useful connections and experience necessary in show business.
Why Razin left the singer - there is no reliable information. But for a short time the young man returned to his native Stavropol, where he got a job as a deputy chairman of a collective farm in the famous village of Privolnoye. This place is known for the fact that the former Secretary General of the Soviet Union at that time was born here. Rumor has it that the choice of Andrei Razin was not accidental.
Once the deputy chairman of the collective farm, having taken money to buy a tractor, left for Moscow. More in the collective farm did not see him or the money. As it turned out, the money for the new tractor was invested in Razin's future career. Andrey found a place in the record company "Record", where he began to search for young talents. To those around him, Andrei Alexandrovich presented himself as the nephew of the Secretary General. Razin's first successful project was the Mirage group, with which Andrei tried his hand as an opening singer.
Tender May
The acquired experience of working with a musical group and the position they took turned out to be handy. Once, a disc with songs from the little-known group "Tender May" fell into the hands of Andrei Razin. The soloist was a guy whose fate turned out to be similar to the fate of Razin himself. And he immediately got excited about the idea to apply his strength and skills to promote the project.
Rumor has it that the young "combinator", posing as an employee of the Ministry of Culture, persuaded the creator of "Tender May" to transport the group to Moscow. When this happened, Andrey Razin showed truly miracles of advertising art. Having recorded a million cassettes with the group's songs, the producer found a way to "promote" an unknown group to the stars of the Soviet stage.
The cassettes were distributed by conductors of trains that ran to all parts of the USSR. For a fee, the songs performed were heard on the same trains along the route. In addition to producing, Andrey Razin also performed as a soloist with the songs "Old Forest", "Kaleidoscope", "On the White Blanket of January", for which clips were created.
Soon there was not a single "corner" in the country where "Tender May" was not listened to. The group becomes a cult in the 90s. Stadiums gathered for concerts. And, no less interesting, "Tender May" miraculously could simultaneously perform in Nadym and Stavropol. The brilliant producer first invented and tested the "cloning" of the team. Rumor has it, there were at least two dozen "clones". The sound was provided by "plywood". The record of commercial success of "Tender May" seems not to have been beaten today.
Politics
But no matter how successful a project is, it tends to fade away. After the "Tender May" disappeared, a new period began in the biography of Andrei Razin. The showman entered politics. In 1993, the producer became the rector of the Institute of Arts at the University of Stavropol. In 1996, Razin worked as a confidant in the presidential elections.
Andrey Razin also headed the Stavropol Cultural Fund. In December 1997, he participated in the elections of the Stavropol Regional Duma and tried to get into the State Duma of the Russian Federation as an independent deputy.
In July 2008, Razin was appointed General Director of the Sochi-2014 International Olympic Festival.
Personal life
The first marriage of Andrei Razin was a civil one, which happened in the 80s, in which the son Ilya was born. It so happened that the father found out about the existence of the boy in 2003. Ilya was educated as a stylist and opened his own studio in St. Petersburg and then in Sochi.
The personal life of Andrei Razin changed in April 1988. The artist married Natalya Lebedeva. The marriage lasted a year. The couple divorced, not having time to create a full-fledged union and give birth to children. Later, Natalia left for Hungary.
The third wife of Razin was the girl Faina, whom the producer met in 1984, but formalized the relationship only after a divorce from Natalya. In the late 90s, Andrei met the beautiful Maritana at the Sochi resort, who in 2001 gave birth to Andrei's son Alexander. The young people managed to formalize their relationship only in 2007. The union of Andrei and Maritana did not last long: the artist returned to Faina again. Son Sasha lived alternately with his father, then with his mother.
The fact that the personal life of Andrei Razin went on a new round became known in 2013. The 50-year-old producer and politician announced the news of the impending marriage on the Live program. Razin's wife was the former soloist of the group "Tender May" Natalya Grozovskaya, with whom Andrei had long maintained close relations. Natalia showed the ring to those present and said that the wedding would be luxurious.
Andrey Razin now
2017 brought Andrei Razin a bereavement. March 10 from a heart attack caused by a complication after SARS,. The tragedy occurred during a walk of a teenager in the company of a classmate. The girl called an ambulance. While they were waiting for the car, the doctor Aleksey Koshcheev, who accidentally passed by, tried to resuscitate the young man.
Twice Alexander's heart started up, but the body could not cope with the crisis. Later, the young man was diagnosed with a heart defect that had not been diagnosed earlier and was asymptomatic. The death of his beloved son was a blow to Andrei Razin, the artist painfully experienced the event. The last joint photo with his son appeared on the singer's personal account in " Instagram ».
Impressed by what happened, Andrei's friends, who had a son in the summer, named the child Alexander and invited Razin. Andrei was touched by the act of his relatives.
In August, a joyful event awaited Razin - the wedding of the eldest son Ilya to the girl Elizabeth, with whom the young man has a long relationship. The wife of the producer, Natalya Grozovskaya, told reporters that Andrei Razin hopes for the appearance of grandchildren who will bring former joy to life.
Now Andrei Razin continues to participate in concert activities, going on tour around the country and neighboring countries. In November, the producer became a member of the program "Live", dedicated to the topic of rape.
Discography
- 1990 - Island for Two
- 1996 - "Eldorado"
- 2000 - "You are alone in the whole Earth"
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