Mikhail Isaevich Tanich is a Soviet and Russian songwriter, artistic director of a musical group. Songs written to the verses of Tanich fell into the repertoire of pop singers, sounded in films.

Mikhail was born in September 1923 in Taganrog. Tanich is the creative pseudonym of the poet, and the real name is Tankhilevich. The Jews were the father and ancestors along this line.

At the age of 4, Mikhail Tanich learned to read. Rhyming began a little later. Like many guys, for Mikhail the biggest hobby was football. Dad gave the boy his first ball at the age of 5. Parents rejoiced at the giftedness of their son, who wrote poetry and was fond of drawing.

A happy childhood ended for Mikhail Tanich in an instant. When the young man turned 14, his father, the head of the communal services department of Taganrog, was arrested on charges of embezzlement of socialist property. Soon Isaak Tankhilevich was shot. They also took Mikhail's mother. The young man had to move to his grandfather, mother's father in Rostov-on-Don. Here in 1941, Misha received a school certificate.

A year later he went to war. It was necessary to liberate the motherland from the Nazis on the Belarusian and Baltic fronts. Mikhail was assigned to the anti-tank artillery troops. During his military service, Tanich was seriously wounded and shell-shocked and almost ended up in a common grave. After the hospital, he again went to the front, where he again almost died, falling under the winter ice of the Latvian lake. Tanich managed to meet the victory in Germany. Photos of Mikhail during the war period still occupy a place of honor in the family archive. Later, his colleague used the memories of the songwriter when creating the script for the military comedy Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha.

After the war, Tanich came to Rostov-on-Don, where he entered the engineering and construction university. But I didn't have time to finish my studies. On the denunciation of one of the students, Mikhail was arrested, accused of anti-Soviet agitation: in a student company, a young man mentioned that German radio technology was better than Soviet. This was enough to get 6 years of strict regime.

Mikhail Tanich was sent to serve his sentence at a logging site near Solikamsk. And here the young man, who barely survived the war, almost died again. He was saved only by the fact that the talented boy was taken to the brigade, where Mikhail was responsible for visual propaganda. Everyone who arrived in the same party with Tanich died in 6 years.

Mikhail Isaevich was able to return to freedom only after his death. But for three years, the former prisoner received a restriction of rights. His creative career began in the provinces. At first, Mikhail lived on Sakhalin. He worked part-time in a local newspaper, where his poems were published. Here, for the first time, the poet signed with the invented surname Tanich.

In 1956, the future songwriter was rehabilitated, but he did not immediately go to Moscow. First of all, Mikhail decided to send several poetic works to the editors of the Literaturnaya Gazeta and immediately received an approving response from Bulat Okudzhava. The bard advised the young man to move closer to the capital, which Mikhail Tanich did, settling in the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo for a long time.

Poetry

The creative biography of Mikhail Tanich developed successfully. Soon after meeting with the editors of the Literaturnaya Gazeta, the young man was already collaborating with might and main with various publications. A year after moving to the Moscow region, a debut collection of poems was released.

Once at the Moskovsky Komsomolets publishing house, Tanich met with. This acquaintance turned out to be fateful. The first fruit of joint creativity was the song "Textile Town". After the release, the hit was approved by the listeners. And she became the first performer herself.

Mikhail Tanich continued fruitful collaboration with Frenkel, and then found other poets and composers who were close in spirit. Nikita Bogoslovsky, Eduard Kolmanovsky and - these are the most famous of those with whom Tanich worked in tandem.

Tanich's first popularly favorite hit, written together with Shainsky, was the song "Black Cat". Then another followed, called "Robot", which she sang. The aspiring singer at that time was only 15 years old. Early hits are also written by Mikhail Isaevich.

Many pop stars were proud to collaborate with a famous songwriter. They sang songs based on Tanich's poems, and which the poet called "his". But the "favorite child" was the group "Lesopoval". Mikhail Tanich organized a musical group and subsequently wrote more than 300 songs for him, including “I’ll buy you a house” (“A white swan on the pond”), “Netochka Nezvanova”, “Don’t kill - didn’t kill”, “Three tattoos "," Stolypin's car. The songwriter worked with this group until his death. "Lesopoval" released 16 of his albums, the last of which was released after the death of the leader.

But it happened that the performers were skeptical about the apparent simplicity of Tanich's texts. So it was with the song “We choose, we are chosen”, which became the hallmark of the film “Big Change”, but initially caused doubts with the director of the film Alexei Korenev. The same thing happened with the hit “Save my broken heart”, which the singer reacted with distrust, as well as with the hit “Komarovo”, which made a star in one evening.

Unpleasant for Mikhail Tanich was the criticism of the hit "White Light". In an interview, the famous bard criticized the lines of the chorus, which was written by two songwriters - Igor Shaferan and Tanich. Later, Vysotsky repented of the vehemence of his own words.

Personal life

Tanich's first love was the German Elfrida Lahne. The couple met during the war years. But after the end of the Great Patriotic War, Lana remained to live in Germany. Already being a famous songwriter, Mikhail Tanich visited Germany, but managed to meet only with a relative of his first lover, whom he gave a CD with songs to his poems.

In Rostov-on-Don, the personal life of Mikhail Tanich took a new turn. The young man met a girl named Irina. But when the student was arrested and Mikhail left for logging, the young wife broke off relations with her husband.

Dreams of a happy family life came true in Saratov. Once at a party, Mikhail met a beautiful girl who sang soulfully. As it turned out, she sang his songs. This was a great occasion, first for acquaintance, and then for a long and happy married life. In this marriage, children appeared - daughters Svetlana and Inga. They gave their father wonderful grandchildren Leo and Benjamin.

Death

On April 17, 2008, Mikhail Tanich felt unwell. He had long suffered from a bunch of chronic diseases: four heart surgeries, kidney failure and terminal cancer. The poet was hospitalized on April 10th. Relatives hoped for a recovery. Tanich dreamed of having time to finish the last book of memoirs "Music was playing in the garden." In the hospital, Mikhail Isaevich, no longer able to write, dictated the text for several more days.

On April 17, Mikhail Isaevich's heart stopped due to complications. The poet was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery. Now a memorial bronze sculpture by Ernst Neizvestny is installed on the grave.

After the death of the poet, a commemorative concert “Do not forget” was released on Channel One, where musicians with whom the poet had worked closely for many years performed. The CSKA team, whose devoted fan was Mikhail Tanich, honored the songwriter with a minute of silence at the next match of the Russian Championship. "Zakolbasilo" dedicated a new song from his repertoire to the poet.

After 10 years, pop artists again honored the memory of Mikhail Tanich - on January 8, 2018, the TV Center channel aired the concert “All good things are not forgotten”, in which Igor Nikolaev, the Lesopoval group, and others participated.

Discography

"Balalaika"
"White light"
"In an abandoned tavern"
"Invented You"
"A soldier is walking through the city"
"Carousel"
Komarovo
"Horses in apples"
"I'll get off at the far station"
"Do not forget"
"Weather in the house"
"Provincial"
"Seeing Love"
"That's the Way It Happens"
"Knots"

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich (1923-2008) - Russian songwriter, wrote lyrics for many popular and beloved songs among the people: "Black Cat", "We choose, we are chosen", "How good it is to be a general", "A soldier is walking down the street ”, “Weather in the house”, “Komarovo”, “The knot will be tied”. Since 2003 People's Artist of Russia.

Family

Misha was born on September 15, 1923 in the city of Taganrog. His real name is Tankhilevich.

My paternal grandfather was a devout Orthodox Jew, he prayed constantly. The family told a legend that the grandfather was well acquainted with the Jewish playwright and writer Sholom Aleichem. When Sholom Aleichem left for permanent residence in America, he entrusted his grandfather to preserve his unique library. Grandfather then lived in Odessa, and during the pogroms of Jews, all the books burned down.

The second maternal grandfather, Boris Traskunov, lived in Mariupol and worked at a metallurgical plant as a chief accountant. When he quit his job, he moved to live in Rostov-on-Don.

Father, Tankhilevich Isaak Samoilovich, born in 1902, served in the Red Army during the Civil War. Then he came to Mariupol, where at the age of nineteen he took the post of deputy head of the Cheka. After working a little in this position, he was sent to Petrograd for training, graduated from the Institute of Public Utilities there. After studying, he was sent to Taganrog, where he was appointed to the position of head of the public utilities department.

Childhood

Isaak Samoilovich was very fond of sports, especially football. When his son was five years old, he gave him a leather soccer ball. At that time, it was a real treasure, a cherished dream came true for the child, because he, just like his father, could not imagine his life without football.

From morning to evening, the boy drove this ball around the Taganrog wastelands, the child did not need any fairy tales or sweets, he raved about football alone.

In addition to sports, Misha also tried other hobbies. By the age of four, he learned to read, and a little later he began to rhyme words and add up his first poems. He tried to draw, he liked it at first, but soon realized that he was not the first in this business, there were many artists, and he abandoned the album with paints. He had such a character that from childhood he wanted to be a winner in everything, he did not recognize losses.

Parents were very busy with their work, however, the child did not feel deprived of their attention and affection. He considered his childhood happy and bright. It was during these years that Misha received moral hardening from his mom and dad for the rest of his life.

Unfortunately, his serene childhood ended early. The terrible times of Stalinist repressions began. At night it was scary to go to bed, because the black funnels of the NKVD drove through the streets, and no one knew who they would come for that night. The Pope was accused of embezzling socialist property on an especially large scale, arrested and shot in the autumn of 1938.

Following her father, her mother was arrested, less than a year later she was released, but with limited rights and with a certificate stating that her husband was assigned ten years without the right to correspond.

War

After the arrest of his mother, Misha was taken to Mariupol by his grandfather.

Here the guy graduated from high school, and in June 1941 he received a certificate of secondary education. He had plans to go to college, but everything collapsed in an instant, as the war began. Misha even forgot about his favorite poems, which he continued to write periodically from childhood.

In 1942, Mikhail joined the Komsomol and was drafted into the Red Army. For training in 1943, he was sent first to the North Caucasus, then to Tbilisi. Here Mikhail entered the artillery school. He himself admitted later that at that moment he was more interested not in studies, but in the hot food that was supposed to be at the school.

Fighters were trained for the front for six months, but Mikhail was kept for a whole year, due to the fact that his father was an enemy of the people. This stigma also influenced the fact that at graduation he was a senior sergeant, and not a lieutenant, like the rest of the guys.

In the summer of 1944, Misha entered the active army. Fought on the 1st Belorussian and 1st Baltic fronts. He commanded a gun in an anti-tank artillery regiment. Several times he was wounded and shell-shocked. In December 1944, after being wounded and severely shell-shocked during a defensive battle at Priekul, he was almost buried alive in a mass grave.

In January 1945, in the battles for Klauspussen, despite heavy enemy artillery fire, a gun under the command of Sergeant Tankhilevich destroyed 2 German dugouts and 2 machine-gun points. During the battle, the platoon commander was killed, and Mikhail took command, having coped with the assigned tasks.

Misha met the victory in the homeland of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the German town of Zerbst. The Polish soldiers told them about the end of the war. There was silence, and there was no need to fight anymore, but it was absolutely unbelievable, just like the fact that they remained alive. At first, each new day without war, shooting and surrounding death seemed unreal.

Home, in Rostov, Mikhail returned in a train, which was more suitable for transporting livestock. There were no amenities, but around the walls were tied German trophies - bicycles and other junk. For military merits, Misha received awards - the Order of Glory III degree and the Order of the Red Star.

Arrest

Returning to his homeland, Mikhail looked around a bit and decided to enter the architectural faculty of the Rostov Civil Engineering Institute. He successfully passed the exams, was enrolled in the ranks of students, but he failed to graduate from an educational institution. A new wave of punitive scenario has begun, now against those who praised foreign countries, their way of life, roads, and technology. Such people were supposed to be taken into account, and even better, isolated from Soviet society.

Misha had the imprudence to blurt out somewhere that he really liked the German-made Telefunken radio and that it was better than our Soviet models. One of the students reported what he had heard, and Mikhail was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation. Then there was an investigation, during which they didn’t beat them hard, but they constantly didn’t let them sleep, so that the arrested were confused in their testimony. At trial, no evidence of his guilt was ever made public. The prosecutor asked for five years, but for some reason they were sentenced to six.

Then there was a stage to Solikamsk for shipment, where fate turned out to be favorable to Mikhail. He met the convict, the famous artist Konstantin Rotov, who before his arrest worked in the Krokodil magazine as the chief artist. Rotov was instructed to draw up visual agitation in the camp, and he took Misha into his brigade. So the future poet managed to avoid the felling, where all the prisoners who arrived with him in Solikamsk died.

Takhilevich was released just before Stalin's death. On the day of the funeral of the tyrant who ruined the life of a young guy, tears flowed from Michael's eyes. He considers this a paradox, but admits: “It’s just that we were all children of that time”.

Creation

After the release of Mikhail, a cousin was waiting in Moscow, but the former convict could not leave for the capital, since he was not rehabilitated. He stayed on Sakhalin, where he got a job at Stroymekhmontazh as a foreman. In the local newspaper he began to publish his poems under the pseudonym Tanich.

In 1956, he was rehabilitated and moved closer to the capital, first to the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo near Moscow, then moved to the Zheleznodorozhny district of Balashikha.

In 1959, the first collection of poetry by Mikhail Tanich was published. A well-known composer by that time, Yan Frenkel, after reading the collection, came to Mikhail with a proposal: he would write music for his poems “Textile Town”, and a song would turn out. They met in the corridor of the publishing house of the Soviet newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. Tanich then repeatedly admitted that he did not know how his fate would have developed if not for this meeting with Frenkel.

And then away we go. The song sounded on the air and immediately became popular without any promotion, it was sung by saleswomen in kiosks, taxi drivers in cars, students and pensioners. Cooperation with Frenkel continued and resulted in the songs “Someone loses, someone finds”, “Well, what can I say about Sakhalin”. Tanich began to work with other composers:

with Oscar Feltsman, the song “White light came together like a wedge” was written;
with Eduard Kolmanovsky "We choose, we are chosen";
with Vladimir Shainsky "In secret around the world", "A soldier is walking through the city."

The poet fruitfully collaborated with almost all famous Soviet composers: Nikita Bogoslovsky, Vadim Gamaly, Arkady Ostrovsky, Igor Nikolaev. With Yuri Saulsky, they wrote the hit "Black Cat", which became Tanich's hallmark. His songs were sung by the most eminent Soviet pop singers: Maya Kristalinskaya, Larisa Dolina, Alena Apina, Muslim Magomayev, Eduard Khil, Iosif Kobzon, Edita Piekha, Valery Leontiev. Young Alla Pugacheva made her debut on Soviet radio with the song "Robot", written by Mikhail Tanich and composer Levon Merabov.

At one time, Tanich defended the young Yuri Antonov in the Union of Composers. Together then they wrote two songs "Mirror" and "The Dream Comes True", with which Antonov completes any of his concerts.

In the mid-1980s, the poet collaborated with the then most popular composers Raimonds Pauls and David Tukhmanov.

In 1990, together with the composer Sergei Korzhukov, Tanich created the Lesopoval group, the group performed songs in the Russian chanson style. Their most famous musical compositions:

"I'll buy you a house";
"Steal, Russia!";
"Commandment";
"Koresh";
"Three tattoos";
"Bird Market";
"Stolypin's car".

In 1994, Sergei Korzhukov died tragically, fell from the balcony of a multi-storey building, and Lesopoval ceased to exist for some time. Then new musicians came to the team, and the group was reanimated. After the death of Mikhail Tanich, the artistic director of Lesopoval is his wife Lidia Kozlova.

Since 1968, Tanich was a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR, and is the author of many poetry collections.

Personal life

Tanich's first love happened immediately after the end of the war. In the German city of Bernburg, he and fellow soldiers went to a restaurant, where he met the niece of the owner of the establishment, Elfriede Lahne. They began to meet, but Misha did not marry her, although at that time the law was not yet in force, according to which marriages with foreign citizens were prohibited (it was adopted two years after the war).

In the early 1980s, Tanich was on tour in the GDR and wanted to meet Elfrida, but it turned out that she lives on the other side of the Berlin Wall (in Germany). But her aunt, the very owner of the restaurant, he found and gave her a record with songs based on poems by the poet Mikhail Tanich.

The first wife of the poet was a girl named Irina, whom he married before his arrest. Ira did not wait for him from prison, after the release of Mikhail a divorce was filed, and he left, taking his simple belongings: a pillow embroidered with a cross, a cupronickel teaspoon and a book of "12 chairs".

One day, Mikhail wandered into a hostel for young specialists on November 7th. They celebrated, a luxurious table was laid: several cans of marrow caviar and pickled beets, Odessa sausage and herring with onions. Nevertheless, the evening was intellectual: the youth read poetry and sang songs with a guitar.

At the table sat a girl, as thin as a reed, in a blue crepe de chine dress, almost metropolitan. Michael thought she was fifteen years old. She struck him with her green eyes and incredibly long eyelashes. And then she said: “Now I will sing you two songs of our poet Mikhail Tanich”, not suspecting, either in sleep or spirit, that this same poet wandered into their party and is sitting at the same table. The girl's name was Lydia Kozlova, she became for Mikhail the biggest reward in his life.

Tanich almost guessed, Lida was eighteen years old, he was thirty-three at that time. They got married and lived in a happy marriage for more than half a century. The couple have two daughters, Inga and Svetlana.

Until the end of his life, Mikhail retained his love for football, was a fierce fan. Another passion of his life was dogs.

The poet died on April 17, 2008 from chronic renal failure. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

When the war began, Mikhail Tanich was not yet 18 years old. But, after graduating from the artillery school, he immediately went to the front. For the courage shown in battles, Mikhail was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but the application was rejected: Tanich turned out to be the son of an enemy of the people. After the victory, the poet himself found himself in the dungeons of the NKVD for casually praising the German radio.

Son of an "enemy of the people"

In fact, the poet's surname is not Tanich at all, but Tankhilevich. Subsequently, the poet began to use the pseudonym that became known throughout the country precisely after serving a 6-year sentence. But first, about my father. Isaak Samoilovich served as the head of the public utilities of the city of Taganrog. In 1937 he was arrested, accused of embezzlement of socialist property. A few months later, Tankhilevich was shot.
Since the NKVD took away Misha's mother along with his father, the 14-year-old teenager went to his grandfather in Mariupol. At the beginning of the war, the family again had to move: this time to Tbilisi. It was there that Mikhail graduated from the artillery school. He was supposed to become a lieutenant, but received only the rank of senior sergeant. You can't do anything: "enemy of the people."

Good radio!

In military operations, Tanich showed courage, for which he was awarded the Order of Glory III degree and the Red Star. The command petitioned to award Mikhail Isaevich the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but was refused. As part of the Red Army, the poet walked from Belarus to Germany itself, where he heard the good news about the victory. While in the German city of Bernburg, Tanich accidentally met a certain Elfriede Lahne. A warm relationship developed between the young people. But the matter did not come to marriage.
Mikhail returned to his homeland and applied to the Civil Engineering Institute in Rostov. However, he did not have time to finish his studies. In 1947, Tanich was taken away by a black funnel. Someone from the student fraternity denounced him. Like, Tankhilevich praised abroad and said that it was better there than in the Union. But in fact, in a conversation with fellow students, Mikhail admired only the German Telefunken radio receiver. The investigator was not interested in such details, and the young man was accused of anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to 6 years.

Camp

Tanich was sent to a logging site near Solikamsk. In the harsh camp conditions, the convicts died one after another, without waiting for release. Mikhail Isaevich would certainly have shared their fate. His legs were already swollen, and his whole body was covered with boils. But the poet was lucky: he was transferred from the felling to the office.
Tankhilevich was released in 1953, when Stalin died. But this freedom was relative, as it was limited to the mark "loss of rights." Therefore, for some time Mikhail lived on Sakhalin. He wrote poems that were published in one of the local newspapers. It was then that the poet took the pseudonym Tanich.
In 1956, Tanich was rehabilitated, in connection with which he finally received the right to settle in the capital. Tankhilevich finally changed his real name to the one with which he signed his poems, and went to Moscow. There he soon became friends with the composer Jan Frenkel and became famous throughout the country.

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich
Born: September 15, 1923
Died: April 17, 2008 (aged 84)

Biography

Mikhail Isaevich Tanich is a Soviet and Russian songwriter. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2003).

Youth, war, repression

Born in Taganrog. “My paternal grandfather was a devout Orthodox Jew… He constantly prayed…”. There was a family legend that the grandfather knew Sholom Aleichem well and “as if it was he who, during the pogroms in Odessa, burned down the library of the writer who left for the States, entrusted for storage.” Mikhail studied at the Taganrog secondary school No. 10.

Mikhail Tanich's father - Isaac Samoylovich Tankhilevich (1902 - 1938) - was a Red Army soldier during the civil war, at nineteen he became deputy head of the Mariupol Cheka, then, after graduating from the Petrograd Institute of Public Utilities, - head of the public utilities department of Taganrog; shot according to the Stalinist lists with charges of embezzlement of socialist property on an especially large scale (October 6, 1938). The mother was also arrested, and fourteen-year-old Mikhail settled with another grandfather, her father, the former chief accountant of the Mariupol metallurgical plants, Boris Traskunov, who now lived in Rostov-on-Don. Tanich received a certificate of secondary education on June 22, 1941. Member of the Komsomol since 1942.

In May 1943 (according to other sources in July 1942), Mikhail was drafted by the Kirov district military registration and enlistment office of the Rostov region into the Red Army. He studied at the Tbilisi Artillery School. Since June 1944 in the army. Senior sergeant, from August 1944 - gun commander in the 168th anti-tank artillery regiment of the 33rd separate Cherkasy anti-tank artillery brigade on the 1st Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts. He traveled from Belarus to the Elbe. December 27, 1944 was wounded; according to Tanich himself, he was almost buried alive in a mass grave after a severe concussion. For military distinctions he was awarded the Order of the Red Star (order of the 92nd Rifle Corps of 01/29/1945 No. 06) and the Order of Glory III degree (order of the troops of the 51st Army of 05/19/1945 No. 129 / n).

The award sheet with the submission for the award of the Order of the Red Star dated January 18, 1945 stated: “In the battle for Klauspussen on January 12, 1945, Sergeant Tankhilevich’s gun under heavy artillery fire destroyed 2 machine-gun points and 2 dugouts. In the defensive battles at Priekul on December 27, 1944, when the entire crew of Tankhilevich was disabled by an enemy shell, the commander of the gun, Tankhilevich, despite being wounded and shell-shocked, did not leave the gun until all the victims were assisted, leaving the gun last ... "

In the award list with the presentation for awarding the Order of Glory of the III degree dated February 12, 1945, it was indicated: “... 01/26/45, supporting the infantry, the crew was in the assault group for breaking through the defense of the pr-ka, being in the combat formations of the infantry. The task was set for the calculation - to break the bunker, which hinders progress. Tool comrade. Tankhilevich was advanced 150 m from the bunker. The firing point was destroyed. During the battle he was killed by a platoon commander, comrade. Tankhilevich took command and completed the assigned task of the platoon.

In the city of Bernburg, shortly after the Victory, 21-year-old Mikhail met a young German Elfriede Lahne. He did not marry her, although a law prohibiting marriages with foreigners was passed only two years later. In the early 1980s, having arrived in the GDR, I wanted to meet Elfrida, but she lived in the FRG. Tanich met her aunt, the former owner of the restaurant where he met Elfrida; he gave his aunt a record with songs on his poems.

After the end of the war, he entered the Rostov Civil Engineering Institute, which he did not have time to finish, because in 1947 he was arrested under article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (anti-Soviet agitation). In a friendly company, he said that German radios and highways were better than Soviet ones; one of those who heard it denounced him. Tanich was "full of hopes and plans, just health, ahead - the whole life with its thousand options."

In prison, and then in a camp (near Solikamsk, at a logging site), Tanich spent the six years he received. Then he had 3 years of disqualification.

Many years later, he said in a television interview: “I spent 6 years in one of the most terrible Stalinist camps for some nonsense, for an anecdote, a word. At first I was angry, and then I realized: they put me in the right place. The state has the right and must protect itself.”

Creative activity

After his release, he lived on Sakhalin and worked as a foreman at Stroymekhmontazh. Without being rehabilitated, he could not settle in Moscow, although his cousin lived there. He published his poems in the local press under the name Tanich.

He quickly divorced his first wife, Irina, who, according to him, did not wait for him, like Penelope, while he was "winding his logging term." At thirty-three, he married eighteen-year-old Lydia Kozlova, whom he met at a party. She sang with the guitar, picking up suitable melodies, two songs based on his poems, calling her "our poet" and having no idea that the author was nearby.

Then, in 1956, Tanich was rehabilitated. The couple moved to Orekhovo-Zuevo, and after a while - to Zheleznodorozhny. The first collection of poems was published in 1959. In the early 1960s, his song, written in collaboration with composer Yan Frenkel, "Textile Town", performed by Raisa Nemenova, Maya Kristalinskaya, became very popular. Tanich met Frenkel in the corridor of Moskovsky Komsomolets. Tanich wrote that he did not know how his fate would have been without this meeting. Later he found other co-authors-composers, among whom were Nikita Bogoslovsky, Arkady Ostrovsky, Oscar Feltsman, Eduard Kolmanovsky, Vladimir Shainsky, Vadim Gamalia. Together with Yuri Saulsky, the poet wrote the hit "Black Cat", which became a kind of visiting card of Tanich (a black cat appears in the video clips "I'll buy you a house" by the group "Lesopoval" and "Knots" by Alena Apina). Together with Levon Merabov, Tanich wrote the song "Robot", with which the very young Alla Pugacheva debuted on the radio.

As the widow of the poet Lydia Kozlova recalls, when, after listening to Yuri Antonov in the Union of Composers, he was subjected to “powerful obstruction by the venerable composers of those years,” Tanich, who was present, could not stand it and said: “Why are you mocking a person? His songs are sung by the whole country, and you are trying to portray him as mediocre! Well, if you are so smart, sit down at the piano, show me how to compose! "After that," as Kozlova says, "Antonov was 'pecked', but less so." Together with Antonov, Tanich wrote only two songs, but he called “Mirror” one of his favorites, and his other common hit was “Don't forget” (“A dream comes true”) - Antonov likes to end his concerts.

One of his favorite songs, Tanich called the patriotic song "Declaration of Love" written jointly with Serafim Tulikov. He completely rejected the conjuncture and went to this serious topic for a long time.

A native of Sakhalin, Igor Nikolaev, having arrived in Moscow, often visited the house of Tanich and his wife Lidia Kozlova, on whose poems he wrote his first hit "Iceberg". He also collaborated with Tanich himself; the basis of the hit "Komarovo" was a poem from the collection presented by the poet.

In 1985, Tanich helped Vladimir Kuzmin, who, thanks to a song based on his poems, made his first appearance in the Song of the Year competition. In the mid-1980s, Tanich began to compose poetry for the then most popular composers, David Tukhmanov and Raimonds Pauls. He also wanted to help Alexander Barykin, who, with his group "Karnaval", was the first to record the joint song by Pauls and Tanich "Three Minutes". But the song, apparently, did not please Barykin; he sang it without any emotion. And the famous "Three Minutes" became performed by Valery Leontiev. Igor Sarukhanov shot his first video clip for his own song "Guy with a Guitar", the author of which was Tanich. In 1991, he wrote poetry for Alexander Malinin's song "New Star", which, along with all the stars, was performed by 6-year-old Vanya Popov.

Later, Tanich collaborated with Alena Apina, whom the poet considered "his singer", like Larisa Dolina, with the composer Ruslan Gorobets, Arkady Ukupnik, Vyacheslav Malezhik, continued his long-standing collaboration with Edita Piekha. He organized the Lesopoval group, whose leader was the composer and singer Sergei Korzhukov, who tragically died in 1994. The group received a rebirth a year later thanks to the new soloist Sergei Kuprik and composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist Alexander Fedorkov, although, according to some, it discredited Tanich.

The journalist Kapitolina Delovaya also called the song “Lesopoval” a blatnyak, who received “kicks and pokes” for this, as another journalist Sonya Sokolova wrote (composers also got it, Sokolova claims). "... and what is it, if not a thug? ..", Sokolova is surprised.

"Lesopoval" was the main project of Mikhail Tanich at the end of his life. The group released sixteen numbered albums (the last one after Tanich's death), the poet wrote more than 300 songs for them. After the death of Korzhukov, songs based on Tanich's poems were written by both famous composers and musicians of the group. "Lesopoval" began to move away from the so-called Russian chanson more often, Tanich and Fedorkov wrote the song "There was a kid ..." about a soldier who died in the Chechen war.

Lesopoval continues to perform and record even after the death of its producer (as Lidia Kozlova says, he was not a producer, but a father), despite the departure of Fedorkov and Kuprik. According to her, Tanich left many poems for songs.

In 2000, Mikhail Isaevich starred in a video for his song Pleasure Boat (music by Rustam Nevredinov) performed by Valery Syutkin. In 2005, Tanich appeared in the video of his offspring "Lesopoval" for the song "There were three of us friends."

In 2005, a joint duet song by Alexander Dobronravov with Mikhail Tanich "Men as men" was recorded (music by A. Dobronravov - art. M. Tanich). And in 2013, Alexander Dobronravov released the album "Territory of Love" to the verses of Mikhail Tanich.

Tanich has been a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR since 1968, the author of almost twenty collections. The final collection of poems "Life" was published in 1998, at the same time he released the first song collection "Weather in the House". In 2000, he published a book of memoirs "Music Played in the Garden" (Vagrius publishing house, series "My 20th century"). This book was written by Tanich (or, rather, dictated) in the hospital, when he was already seriously ill.

Mikhail Tanich died on April 17, 2008 in Moscow, the cause of death was chronic renal failure. He was buried on April 19, 2008 at section 25 (behind the columbarium) of the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow.

The hero of the song "Vityok", which was written to the verses of Mikhail Tanich by the composer and singer Igor Demarin, is the poet's closest childhood friend Viktor Agarsky.

Tanich from childhood until his death was very fond of football. In childhood, according to the poet: "For me, he was everything - both a mogul and a fairy tale by Arina Rodionovna."

Soon after his first hit “Textile Town” became popular, Tanich, while buying a cake, suddenly heard that the stall saleswoman was singing a song. He could not resist and said that this was his song. She did not believe and replied: “The muzzle did not come out!”

For the 220 rubles received for the year of performance on the air of Textile Town (already after the denomination of 1961), Tanich immediately bought a Czechoslovak bed and a polished bedside table in the Mebel store. All the money was spent, but Tanich believed that he had received the furniture for nothing.

“We fell in love and got married to your song “White light came together on you,” said the wife of the writer Vilya Lipatova to Tanich.

Vladimir Vysotsky, repeatedly expressing his negative attitude towards mass culture in general and pop songs in particular, often cited the song "White Light" as an example of a text that does not carry absolutely any semantic load, such poems for the sake of poetry: "... many pop songs, well it’s just…, there are some examples of such obscenity that you even wonder why it’s there… For example, I always cite as an example: “White light has converged on you, white light has converged on you, white light has converged on you ... And a sledge track flashed around the turn ... I could run around the turn ... "only, something doesn't work there. I don’t remember, age or something else ... And what is most surprising, there are two authors of the text, which means that one did not cope - they express very complex thoughts, which means there are two of them. They meant Mikhail Tanich and Igor Shaferan, who jointly wrote poetry. Tanich was indignant: “God forbid that I write such a popularly beloved song again! It was sung by a 170 millionth choir! Such songs are beyond the jurisdiction, but Vysotsky just laughed at us. In his book, Tanich spoke very well about Alexander Galich and Bulat Okudzhava, but Vysotsky only mentioned this about this, without writing anything about his attitude to his work. It is also mentioned in the book that almost fourteen years after the death of Vysotsky, at the wake for Shaferan, an unfamiliar couple approached Tanich. They, introducing themselves as friends of Vysotsky and his eldest son, said that shortly before his death, Vysotsky called his interview (meaning an interview with a Western journalist, in which Vysotsky also cited "White Light" as an example of mediocrity) a mistake, "asked to apologize for him before the authors”, he wanted to do it himself. However, the above quote is dated July 16, 1980, that is, a little over a week before the death of the poet. Judging by the sarcasm with which this was said, it is unlikely that Vysotsky somehow changed his mind. Moreover, neither any personal attacks on M. Tanich, nor any assessments of his work as a whole were made, it was only about one single song. Moreover, in 1998, the Lesopoval group took part in a combined concert dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Vysotsky at the Olimpiysky sports complex, and their performance was recognized as one of the best.

In Glavpur, Tanich was asked that at his creative evening in Hungary, in the group of our troops, the song “How good it is to be a general” should not be performed. The reason is that the generals don't like it. “But the colonels like it!” Tanich answered.

The poet Vladimir Tsybin (according to Tanich's definition - "not one of the worst in the long list of the Union of Writers") said in his presence: "Here we have lost another one." Tanich thought that someone had died, but it turned out: Anatoly Poperechny “left the song!”. Tanich ironically commented on this in his book: “... the family of poets lost their own, went to strangers, into a song - died for real poetry. And Tolya, by the way, has never been an outsider in the song, and he still does it well. Tsybin's - no, but Tolya's - yes!

The slightly prible song "Netochka Nezvanova" from the repertoire of "Lesopoval" may seem like a mockery of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, the author of the novel of the same name. But Dostoevsky did not finish his novel, because he was arrested and convicted on political charges (specifically, just for reading Belinsky's letter to Gogol in a circle of Petrashevists), he ended up in hard labor. There are many similarities in the fate of Tanich.

In the translation of Mikhail Tanich, the famous song of Revaz Lagidze "Tbilisi" (Tbiliso) sounds in Russian.

Famous children's songs on the verses of M. Tanich

“When my friends are with me” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Big Children's Choir of the All-Union Radio and Central Television, soloist Dima Golov
“In secret to the whole world” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Large Children's Choir, soloist Dima Viktorov
“Catch crocodiles” (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Igor Sklyar
"Adults and Children" (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Irina Muravyova
“What our world consists of” (music by B. Saveliev) - Spanish. Oleg Anofriev
"Song about dad" (music by V. Shainsky) - Spanish. Big Children's Choir of the All-Union Radio and Central Television, soloist Dima Golov
and etc.

Song filmography

1967 - The Mysterious Monk
1972 - Big change
1973 - Three bachelors lived
1973 - Incorrigible Liar
1976 - Secretly around the world
1977 - The magical voice of Gelsomino
1977 - For family reasons
1977 - Three funny shifts
1979 - Who will receive the prize
1979 - The Amazing Adventures of Denis Korablev
1981 - Waiting (TV)
1981 - Take care of women
1982 - 4:0 in favor of Tanechka
1983 - White dews
1984 - Jay Wedding
1985 - Dance floor
1996 - Old songs about the main thing-2

Family

Widow - songwriter Lidia Nikolaevna Kozlova (born 11/19/1937). Daughters - Svetlana Mikhailovna Kozlova and Inga Mikhailovna Kozlova. Grandchildren - Leo and Benjamin.

Memory

On April 20, 2008, the memory of a passionate fan of the CSKA football club, the author of the lines “The army must be the first, / The army cannot be the second”, was honored with a minute of silence before the match of the 6th round of the Russian Championship.

Since 2010, a river cruise ship has been named after Mikhail Tanich.

On May 9, 2012, at his solo concert in St. Petersburg, People's Artist of Russia Alexander Rosenbaum sang his new song "Zakolbasilo", which he dedicated to the memory of Mikhail Tanich.

On September 13, 2013 in Taganrog, on the site near the Youth Palace, a memorial sign was laid on the site of the future monument to the poet.

In the personal life and biography of the famous songwriter Mikhail Isaevich Tanich, the family has always played a major role. By virtue of his origin, the man has always been under the scrutiny of the Soviet special services, which intensively propagate anti-Semitic sentiments among the masses.

Mikhail Tanich: childhood and war

A talented writer was born in an ordinary Jewish family that lived on the outskirts of Taganrog. The boy began to read at the age of four, and from the age of five he fell in love with football. As the writer later recalled, his father gave him the first leather ball and since that time little Tankhilevich (the real name of the songwriter) has not parted with the game. So in the life of the future celebrity, 2 addictions appeared - poetry and sports.

Papa Mikhail served in the Soviet Army from the age of 19, after the end of the Civil War he graduated from the Institute of Public Utilities in St. Petersburg and returned to his hometown as the head of the relevant organizations. He did a lot for Taganrog - at the initiative of the young manager, lawns and flower beds were laid out, small carts with essential products drove through the streets, and copies of Greek sculptures appeared in the squares and parks.

Shortly before the arrest of Tankhilevich Sr., the Moscow Art Theater came to the city on tour in full force at the invitation of the same former Red Army commander.

And a few days after the famous performance of the Moscow troupe, the head of public utilities was arrested and shot. The mother of the future author of most Soviet hits was exiled to Siberia in 24 hours, the boy was barely managed to be sent to distant relatives in Mariupol.

By the beginning of the war, Mikhail Isaevich graduated from 10 classes and entered a military school in Tbilisi. The “son of the enemies of the people” studied for a year instead of the prescribed 6 months and was drafted into the army with the rank of senior sergeant - the unreliable offspring of relatives who died in exile could not be entrusted with the high rank of junior lieutenant.

Tankhilevich Mikhail Isaevich

Mikhail Isaevich had to serve throughout the war - starting a difficult journey in Belarus, Tankhilevich met Victory in Prussia, on the banks of the Elbe. At the same time, the poet himself considered himself a favorite of Fate - in 1944 he almost died and miraculously was not buried in a mass grave along with his colleagues. After being wounded, the young man spent more than 3 months in various hospitals, but the soldier did not succeed in finally returning his sight and hearing - the consequences of the shell shock tormented him until his death.

Link and love

In 19474, Tanich entered a Rostov university, hoping to become a civil engineer. However, everything was changed by an accidental statement among friends of the opinion that German radio engineering and roads abroad are an order of magnitude higher than Soviet ones. A day later, the young poet and 2 of his friends were arrested on charges of promoting a foreign way of life.

Exhausted by insomnia, young people signed everything that the ruthless investigators demanded of them, who did not allow students to sleep for more than 6 days. So Mikhail Isaevich got to the logging in the distant Solikamsk.

As the writer later said in an interview, he managed to survive in exile only because a familiar artist helped him, who begged a young talented prisoner from the camp authorities to work on propaganda posters and leaflets. Everyone who arrived at the place of serving their sentences with the poet died of starvation, disease and overwork in terrible frosts.

Tankhilevich met his second wife, Lydia Kozlova, in the village of Volzhskoye, at another Komsomol construction site. Since the poet was forbidden to live in 39 cities of the Soviet Union after his release, he continued to wander around in various places in search of a happier life. Moreover, the first wife, Irina, immediately after her arrest, asked the man for a divorce, fearing persecution.

A young girl conquered an already mature man by performing his poems to music of her own choice. And since then, young people have not parted. Even after moving to Moscow, when both had a few aluminum spoons and one pillow for everything, this amazing couple lived in love and harmony. It should be noted that the woman was also fond of writing, but she devoted her whole life to creating an aura of greatness for her beloved Mishenka.

Family and creativity

Loving spouses gave birth to two wonderful daughters - Inga and Svetlana, who, in turn, pleased their loved ones with their grandchildren - Benjamin and Leo. Not wanting to cause inconvenience to his close Jewish roots, the poet changed his surname and became Tanich.

Under this pseudonym, he collaborated for a long time with almost all performers of Soviet and Russian pop songs:

Alla Pugacheva.
Alexander Marshall.
Yuri Antonov.
and others.

It was thanks to the initiative of the former prisoner, who survived in the difficult conditions of the Solikamsk exile, that the legendary Lesopoval group was created.