The other day, rapper Decl turned 31 years old. His appearance in the Russian music industry in the early 2000s launched a new stage in the development of the country's hip-hop culture.
Decl's star rose rapidly and went out just as quickly. Despite the fact that the artist is still releasing albums and touring, he can only dream of past success. We decided to remember what other stars lit up just as brightly, but did not burn for long and were remembered by the listeners only for a few hits.
Decl has become a real phenomenon in Russian rap music
Decl (Kirill Tolmatsky)
When Decl (as Cyril was nicknamed at school because of his short stature) was 12 years old, his parents sent him to study at one of the schools in Switzerland. There, the guy became interested in rap and hip-hop culture. After returning to Moscow, Tolmatsky began to write songs himself, began attending breakdancing classes and made himself fashionable then dreadlocks. The first performance of the artist took place at the Adidas StreetBall Challenge festival in Moscow. Decl was promoted by his father, producer Alexander Tolmatsky. In 2000, his first album “Who? you”, which included the hits “Tears”, “Party”, “My Blood, Blood”. The disc has sold over 1 million copies. For him, the rapper received the Record 2000 award in the Debut of the Year nomination.
The singer's popularity was such that Pepsi signed a long-term contract with the teenager. This large-scale advertising campaign with the participation of a Russian star was unprecedented for that time. Videos with Decl were broadcast literally in every advertising block, and posters with his image hung on almost every pole.
Such an abundance of advertising with the participation of the rapper had a negative impact on the image of a teenager. They began to say that Decl's popularity was the merit of his father's financial injections, and not the talent of the performer. Along with crowds of fans and many awards, Decl became the record holder for the number of negative reviews in the media.
The rapper's second album, "Street Fighter", became no less popular and collected many awards, but in 2002 the singer's popularity began to decline. After Alexander Tolmatsky left the family for Decl's ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old dancer Anna, the relationship between father and son went wrong. After a conflict with his father, Kirill changes his stage name to Le Truk and starts working on his own. Since then, the rapper has released three more albums, but they have not gained much popularity. A year ago, Tolmatsky shot a comic clip “Party 2013” for the “Evening Urgant” program, which amused Internet users a lot. Recently, the artist has been working on several albums at once, which will be recorded with musicians from different countries.
Kirill is married to a former Nizhny Novgorod model Yulia Kisileva, they have a 9-year-old son Anthony. Recently, Alexander Tolmatsky admitted that the eldest son still does not communicate with him and does not even know his 8-year-old brother Fedya and 5-year-old sister Anfisa - Alexander's children from his marriage to Anna. 
Kirill teaches his son Tony from an early age to hip-hop culture 
Now Decl, although he does not collect stadiums, but continues to actively give concerts
Group Demo
In the early 2000s, the songs of the Demo group were included in all charts
In 1999, producers Dmitry Postovalov and Vadim Polyakov announced a casting call for a new pop group. The place of the soloist was taken by a 17-year-old student from the village of Staraya Kupavna near Moscow, Sasha Zvereva, who at the casting struck the producers on the spot with her performance of the Choir of Girls from the opera Eugene Onegin. The new team also included dancers Maria Zheleznyak and Danila Polyakov. The first performance of the group took place on April 24, 1999 at the Happy Riseday holiday in the Moscow Palace of Youth. In the fall, the first Demo video for the song "Sun" was filmed. The composition and video for it were in heavy rotation of television and radio broadcasts for several months. By the way, Afisha magazine found that the track used the melody of the Rolling Stones song - Paint it Black. In the same year, the group released their first album, "The Sun", and six months later, Zheleznyak and Polyakov left the band. Their place was taken by dancers Anna Zaitseva and Pavel Penyaev. 
Sasha Zvereva still continues her solo career, but no hits are heard from her
For the next two years, the group actively gave concerts, recorded videos and performed. At this time, producer Dmitry Postovalov leaves Demo (he will return to the team in 2008). In December 2003, Sasha Zvereva gave birth to a daughter, Vasilisa. Despite the fact that the creative activity of the team did not stop, their popularity has noticeably decreased. The new album "Forbidden Songs" included completely different material than the previous discs. The texts of the compositions have become more serious and semantic, the music and arrangement have changed dramatically. This led to the fact that the tracks practically ceased to be rotated on radio stations under the pretext of "irrelevance". 
Sasha Zvereva with her daughter Vasilisa
In the spring of 2011, Vadim Polyakov and Sasha Zvereva officially announced the termination of their joint activities. Zvereva pursued a solo career, while Polyakov found a new soloist, Daria Pobedonostseva, and renamed the group Dasha & Demo. In the same year, Zvereva married DJ Dmitry Almazov, better known as DJ Bobina. However, two years later, the singer divorced, saying in her microblog that her husband left her: “5 minutes ago, my husband left me forever. Telling me and my children that it is uncomfortable for him to live and build his career next to other people's children and with a woman who wants to give birth to a common child and build a joint house, ”Sasha wrote. The singer has two children - 10-year-old Vasilisa and 6-year-old Makar.
Andrey Gubin
Andrey Gubin's star lit up in 1996
Before Andrey Gubin became popular, the singer released three non-professional albums. The discs were released in a limited edition of 200 copies and consisted of songs of a socio-political orientation. Andrey's finest hour came in 1994, when he took part in the Slavutich-94 song contest. There, Gubin met Leonid Agutin, with whose support he later, in 1996, released his first studio album, The Tramp Boy. 
Andrey Gubin and ex-soloists of the Brilliant group Yulia Kovalchuk and Irina Lukyanova
The disc sold over 500 thousand copies, and the song of the same name became a super hit. The album included the compositions “Liza, “Night”, “Give me the word”, “Winter, cold”, “I know, you know”, which also became hits and strengthened the position of the singer as the most popular and in demand in Russian show business . In early 1999, Gubin signed a contract with the Western record company Radisson and left for Canada. It was assumed that the artist would release an English-language album there, but things did not go well, and Andrei returned back. In 2002, the fourth album of the singer "Always with you" was released. After that, Gubin's career began to decline. 
Andrey was depressed for many years and did not study music
Since 2007, the artist began to produce the ex-soloist of the Strelka group Yulia Beretta, the Pay Attention team and singer Mike Mironenko. He was also the producer of Katya Gordon's morning radio show, but when the journalist closed the program, Andrey was left unemployed. Gubin fell into depression for a long time and began to abuse alcohol, nothing was heard about him for several years. In 2012, Andrey made an attempt to return to show business and recorded a song for Yulia Beretta "Taxi". 40-year-old Gubin is still not married, the artist has no children.
Linda
Linda was one of the most popular singers of the mid-90s
Linda's musical career began in 1993, when the aspiring singer performed at the Generation competition in Jurmala, where producer Yuri Aizenshpis noticed her. In the same year, she began working with composers Vitaly Okorokov and Vladimir Matetsky. The first video for the song "Playing with Fire" was shot by the artist at the time, the clip maker Fyodor Bondarchuk. He also introduced the singer to the musicians of the Convoy group and Max Fadeev. Then the artist stopped working with Aizenshpis and began working with a new producer. 
Now Linda gives only a few concerts a month.
Fadeev instilled in Linda a love for ethnic motifs, Eastern philosophy and Tibet. The singer was sponsored by her father, a major banker Lev Geiman (ex-owner of the bankrupt Lada Bank and Ipokombank. According to rumors, 10% of Ipokombank's shares belonged to Linda). In 1994, the artist recorded her first album, Songs of Tibetan Lamas, which sold 250,000 copies and received platinum status. Many musicians were involved in the recording of the disc. So, Olga Dzusova acted as a backing vocalist, and the then seven-year-old Yulia Savicheva participated in the recording of the song “Do it so”. 
The singer is working on a new album with her band Bloody Faeries
With the release of the album "Crow", the singer consolidated her success in Russian show business. The songs "North Wind", "Never", "Crow", "Marijuana", "I won't give you to anyone" became real super hits. The disc was recognized as one of the most commercially successful in the history of Russian pop music. The circulation of "The Crow" exceeded one and a half million copies. In 2010, Afisha magazine included it in the list of "The 50 Best Russian Albums of All Time. Choice of young musicians.
For two years, Linda toured all over the country, after which she released the album "Placenta", but the album did not reach the success of "Crows". In 1999, the singer ceased cooperation with Fadeev. According to rumors, Gaiman stopped sponsoring his daughter, and Maxim chose to curtail work with the artist. After that, Linda released several more albums, but she no longer achieved her former success.
In 2008, the last album of the singer "Scor-Peonies" was released. The disc was considered unsuccessful by critics, and Linda went on a long sabbatical. In 2012, the star resumed her musical activities and created a new band, Bloody Faeries. At the same time, the singer married the Greek musician and composer Stefanos Korkolis, with whom she has been working since 2006.
shura
Shura was one of the most outrageous singers of the late 90s
Shura (Alexander Medvedev) does not have a special musical education, he studied singing on his own and at the age of 13 he began to sing in one of the restaurants in his hometown of Novosibirsk. Having matured, the future artist graduated from design courses in Riga, and then left for Moscow. The first time he spent in the Russian capital, Medvedev worked part-time in clubs and casinos, speaking in the images of foreign pop stars. During one of these performances, he met fashion designer Alisher, who later created extravagant stage costumes for him. 
Shura's clips have always been original
In 1997, in collaboration with the composer and backing vocalist Pavel Yesenin, the singer released his first album called Shura, which included the hits Cold Moon, Summer Rains Noise, Don Don Don and others. Part of the artist's image was the absence of two front teeth and a slight lisp, as well as bright, provocative costumes. Show business ambiguously perceived the singer with extravagant appearance and outrageous manners.
Shura's popularity grew rapidly. He toured all over the country, was constantly surrounded by attention, but at the same time he began to have problems with drugs. As the singer admitted in his subsequent interviews, addiction was the result of loneliness. Arriving from a tour, the artist did not know what to do with himself - he had no friends, there was no other life than the one that flowed on stage. Several times the artist tried to lay hands on himself. Soon fate sent him another test: the doctors discovered that Shura had cancer. 
After the illness, the singer inserted his teeth, changed his image and took up a healthy lifestyle
Almost a million dollars went into long-term treatment and rehabilitation, but thanks to illness, the artist managed to overcome alcohol and drug addiction. In addition, cancer helped the singer to reconcile with his mother. For many years they did not communicate, but, having learned about her son's illness, the woman came to Moscow to help him during therapy.
In 2010, Shura returned to show business with a new video "Balloons", and then released the album "New Day". Shura does not hide his turbulent past and speaks openly about everything that he has experienced. Now the artist leads a healthy lifestyle, actively tours and is preparing a new album for release.
Group "Virus!"
In September 1999, the song “Don’t look for me” blew up the airwaves, performed by the young and still unknown group “Virus!”. The rhythmic composition quickly became a hit, and its performers became real stars. Group "Virus!" appeared a little earlier in Zelenograd and initially had a different name - "Watercolor", which was later replaced by "That's it!". The group included soloist Olga Kozina (Lucky), keyboardists Yuri Stupnik (DJ Doctor) and Andrey Gudas (Chip).
A fateful role in the lives of the guys was played by a mutual friend who handed over a cassette with the group's songs to Moscow producers Igor Seliverstov and Leonid Velichkovsky. After that, their cooperation with the team began. The group received a new name "Virus!" and recorded the first song "You do not look for me." So real glory came to ordinary guys from Zelenograd. 
Andrey Gudas (Chip), Olga Kozina (Lucky) and Yuri Stupnik (DJ Doctor)
Incendiary music and the ringing voice of Olga Kozina sounded from every tape recorder. People liked the group's creativity so much that not a single disco could do without dancing to the song "Well, where are the pens, well, where are your pens." The team was already known not only in Russia, but also in Germany, the USA, Canada and Israel. At this time, the musicians are recording several more well-known compositions, among them "Everything will pass", "I'll ask you", "Happiness", "Flight" and others. To increase profits, the producers decided to create a second line-up of "Virus!" - doubles who would perform and tour at the same time as the real participants. Doublers even managed to shoot a video. 
Olga Kozina
But the deception was still discovered. Then the producers combined the two teams into one "Virus!". So the group existed for some time, but the original performers did not like this decision, and they broke the contract with Seliverstov and Velichkovsky.
Further, Olga, Yuri and Andrei continued their careers with a new producer - Ivan Smirnov. With him, the group released four albums: "My Hero" (2005), Live Of The Best (2005), The Best Dj Remix (2009), "Flight to the Stars" (2009). However, the group's popularity gradually faded away, and their songs began to be considered an echo of the 90s. Nevertheless, the team did not break up and still has loyal fans.
Vlad Stashevsky
Singer Vlad Stashevsky was called the sex symbol of the 90s, his languid look and soulful love songs made fans sob all over the country. Stashevsky's road to fame began with an acquaintance in a Moscow nightclub with Yuri Aizenshpis, who saw a future star in a young talent. It was Yuri Aizenshpis who offered Stashevsky the stage image of a fatal man, a seducer with sadness in his eyes. 
The singer's first performance took place in 1994 at the Solar Adjara festival, and a year later his first album, Love Doesn't Live Here Anymore, was recorded. The song of the same name instantly became a hit, and Vlad himself became the most desirable man of that time. Stashevsky took first place at the White Nights festival in St. Petersburg, which helped him quickly become popular not only in Russia, but also abroad. 
Further, the singer's career went uphill with success. His second album, Don't Trust Me, Honey, was released in 1995 and became even more successful than the first. Over the next five years, the artist released five albums, many of which instantly became hits.
However, 1999 was a turning point for Stashevsky. His contract with Yuri Aizenshpis was coming to an end, and both parties did not intend to renew it. Vlad went on a solo voyage and released his sixth album "Labyrinths", which radically differed from the previous ones, primarily in its philosophical texts. Unfortunately, the singer's work was received with hostility, the fans needed the former Stashevsky - the conqueror of women's hearts, singing about unrequited love. His album was recognized as a failure, and since 2002 the artist no longer appeared on the air. Now Vlad Stashevsky is engaged in business and only occasionally gives concerts.
Nikita
Alexey Fokin (the real name of the singer Nikita) has been taking steps towards popularity since childhood. After graduating as an external student from a music school in the bayan class, at the age of 14 he became the soloist of the Song-show band. A year later, Alexei won the Morning Star competition among young performers in the Vyatka province, and at the age of 17 he came to Moscow to enter the Gnessin School. The decisive year for Alexei was 1999, when in St. Petersburg he met DJ Groove, little known at that time. Young artists begin to collaborate and record several songs. Soon Groove brings the result of their joint work to Moscow, to the judgment of influential professionals from the world of show business. 
Most of all, Alexei's songs impressed the famous producer Yuri Aizenshpis, who noted the unusual timbre of the singer's voice. Without thinking twice, he offered Fokin a contract and invited him to Moscow. After some time, the first album of the singer Nikita "Flew Forever" was recorded, which included the famous song of the same name, as well as other hits - "From the sky you came down to me" and "Once". These compositions not only fell in love with the audience, but were also awarded several awards. Nikita has gained real popularity. His outrageousness and frankness were amazing, forcing him to fall in love with the singer even more. The artist's second album - "In your love I will drown" - made a splash in the domestic show business. 
The infamous video for the song "Hotel" shocked the public with its overt sexuality and frankness. All Russian TV channels banned him from showing, but the fans still bought up all the tickets for Nikita's concerts, and the singer himself was awarded the Golden Gramophone award. In 2002, due to creative differences, the singer terminated the contract with Aizenshpis and left the stage for a while. During this time, Nikita thinks about life and his music for a long time and eventually comes to the conclusion that he has long outgrown everything that he did before. Spontaneously, the singer flies to Tibet, where he spends 6 months in the company of monks.
In 2004, Nikita returned to the stage with his third album, So Strange, and a year later he released another disc, Nikita: The Best, which included both past hits and new compositions. In subsequent years, the artist worked on the sixth album, often collaborating with European singers. Now Nikita does not stop being creative and plans to shoot a new video.
Strelki group
The Strelki group was created in the late 90s in the image and likeness of the famous Spice Girls. The new girl group seemed to be doomed to success. Following the seven bright participants of the "Shooter", the songs "Mommy", "You left me" and others were sung by the entire female population of the country. However, in addition to their hits, the team became famous for its excessive instability: the composition of the participants changed at such a speed that fans began to confuse them. 
There are many legends about how the team was created. According to rumors, the producers recruited the daughters of wealthy parents into the group. But there is another version, which says that a casting was arranged and seven out of four thousand girls were chosen: Yulia "Yu-Yu" Dolgasheva, Svetlana "Hera" Bobkina, Maria "Margo" Korneeva, Ekaterina "Radio Operator Kat" Kravtsova, Maria "Mouse" Solovyov, Anastasia "Stasya" Rodina and Leah Bykova. For a long time, the producers puzzled over the name of the team. Options such as "Snow White", "Alyonushki", "Nuns" and others were rejected, until the choreographer proposed a version of "Arrow", which was eventually approved. 
In 1998, the group released their first album, Arrows Go Forward, as well as a video for the song At the Party, which instantly became a hit. The composition brings popularity to the team, high chart ratings and the Golden Gramophone award. In the same year, the first member, Liya Bykova, left the group. In 1999, Strelki presented a video for the song "You left me."
The video plunges the public into shock and is banned from being shown on television due to drug propaganda, the presence of weapons in the frame and explicit scenes. Nevertheless, the ban only fueled interest in the team, and Strelka are basking in glory. The group has fans outside the country, the team often tours abroad. Then two more albums "All for ..." and "Thorns and Roses" are released. 
Julia Beretta
After a while, a continuous turnover begins in the team. The participants one by one left the group due to creative or material differences, someone wanted to start a solo career, and some left to give birth. Newcomers came to the group, but did not stay long, and the cycle of "Shooter" continued. For some time, this did not prevent the girls from still being at the top of the charts. However, when the composition of the Strelok changed completely several times, the group's popularity began to fade before our eyes. In 2012, the participants created a new team "STRELochKI", which, unfortunately, turned out to be a failure. 
Maria "Margo" Korneeva 
Svetlana "Hera" Bobkina
Kirill Alexandrovich Tolmatsky(born July 22, Moscow) - Russian rapper. Gained fame under a pseudonym Decl. Other aliases - Le Truk, Giuseppe Hard. Since 2008, on the covers of his albums, he has been stylized as "DeTsl".
Former member of the Bad B. Alliance rap association.
The debut album of the artist “Who? you "is one of the best-selling albums in Russia with a circulation of more than 1 million copies.
Biography
Decl's first performance took place at the Adidas StreetBall Challenge festival in Moscow. After that, the rapper's face was placed on the cover of the November issue of PTYUCH magazine; this was the beginning of a large number of articles on Decl.
2000 - Who? You
Debut album "Who? you", released in 2000, sold over a million copies (excluding pirated copies). For this album, Decl received the Record 2000 award in the Debut of the Year nomination. Clips for songs from the album (such as "Tears", "Party", "My Blood, Blood") were in hot rotation on radio and television for a long time. At this time, Decl becomes the face of Pepsi's long advertising campaign " Pepsi, pager, MTV".
2001 - Street Fighter
Decl's second album "Street Fighter" also became very successful; for it, he received several awards, including the Muz-TV, UNESCO (best cover of the year), "Stop hit" and "MTV Music Awards" (Russian viewers' choice) awards.
2004 - Detsl a.k.a. Le Truk
Two years later, the third completely new album was released under the laconic name "aka Le Truk", which marked the birth of the new Decl as an independent artist. Decl no longer collaborated with his former partners in studio work (in particular, Vlad Valov), and wrote all the texts himself. Among the composers of the album were A. Karpunin, MC Beat, DJ Shooroop, Dj Tonic, Max Homich, Dj 108th, Dj La. Decl himself also acted as a sound producer. The album contains many live instruments and female vocals (Karina Serbina, Knara). Songs such as "Let's drink", "Legalize" and "There is a God" became real hits. Video clips were shot for all three songs, two of which received heavy rotation on MTV. The animated video for the song "Legalize" was banned from television due to the song's controversial subject matter.
2008 - MosVegas
2014-2016 - Decillion
Decl is currently writing three albums at once, which will be released, presumably, during 2014-2016. New releases of the artist will be created in several languages, as the rapper works with musicians from different countries: Jamaicans, Americans, Japanese, French and Spaniards.
The first to be released is an album under the working title "DancehallMania" in the style of reggae dancehall (there is a track with the same name on the album "Here and Now"). The disc sampler will appear online on August 31 on Decl's pages on social networks. According to the artist, this is an album with a completely new sound - it is recorded in English with melodic choruses and, unlike the last works, is more danceable. Thomas DaVilli, soul4soul project, Medycin Man, Imal, X-Factor and other Jamaican and African artists took part in the creation of the disc.
The second to be released is a classic hip-hop album, which will include tracks with Decl's colleagues from America, Europe and Asia, where Kirill himself also plans to use English lyrics.
The third is a Russian-language album, on which El Toro and his brother Black Jacket, Johnny Johnson from the Animal Jazz group, and others help Kirill to work. Some tracks from the upcoming record are already in rotation on radio stations in New York and Jamaica. In addition, last year several tracks were recorded with the Spanish band Yall, and this year they are already being played in European clubs.
dancehallmania
In March 2014, the first album from the Decillion trilogy, DancehallMania, was released. The album was co-recorded with Jamaican musicians in the local Patois dialect. This album is the first serious international album in Russia, recorded in the genre of reggae-dancehall, which received recognition from local residents in Jamaica itself. The album featured such musicians as Medycin Man, Thomas Da'Ville, Soul4Soul, Imal, Jah Bari
MXXXIII
In September 2014, the second album of the Decillion trilogy, MXXXIII, was released. The album is a mixture of different genres: trap, dirty south, jazzy hip-hop, electro and R&B - the disc has absorbed the best traditions of the EDM and hip-hop genres. Colleagues from the USA and Japan took part in the album, the songs were recorded in English, Russian and Japanese. The presentation of the album took place in Spain, in Barcelona
2016 - Who? you (reissue)
Since the release of Decl's debut album “Who? You" 15 years have passed. Kirill decides to re-release the album and re-record all the songs with his current voice, as well as re-record all the music and make it better. This task faced the young composer and arranger Ivan Zasidkevich, it was he who recreated all the instrumentals for the album.
The release of the album is scheduled for autumn 2016, but the anniversary tour dedicated to the 15th anniversary of its release has already started.
Personal life
Discography
| Solo albums | Year |
|---|---|
| Who? You | |
| Street Fighter | |
| Detsl aka Le Truk | |
| Mos Vegas 2012 | |
| dancehall mania | |
| MXXXIII | |
| Favela Funk EP | 2016 |
| Compilations | Year |
| aka Le Truk The Best 18 | |
| Singles | Year |
| Party | |
| Tears | |
| My blood, my blood | |
| Letter (feat. Marusya) | |
| For you (feat. Knara) | |
| let's drink | |
| Being Free (feat. Lil' Kong & D. Masta) | |
| Give Me (feat. Noggano) | |
| Connection (feat. Yall) | |
| Fire (DJ Groove pop rmx) (RADIO) (feat. Da "Ville) | |
| Ocean of Delight (feat. Show"em Million & Kelpie) | |
| Make u sweat | |
| Wake!!! | |
| Play on Repeat (feat. Yall) | 2014 |
| 10:33 (feat. Al Bizzare) (Remix) | 2015 |
| CLOSET | 2015 |
| VKDSh (Official Remix) (feat. DEF, Nixx, Gourmet) | 2015 |
| Traffic jams, construction, dirt | 2015 |
Clips
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| Friday | 1999 |
| Hope for Tomorrow (Bad B. Alliance) | |
| 12 Evil Spectators (feat. Master Sheff) | |
| Party at Decl (feat. Marusya) | |
| Tears (feat. MED DOG) | |
| Who? You | |
| Blood my blood | |
| Letter (feat. Marusya) | |
| Sea (feat. Shmel) | |
| Street Dogs (feat. N'Pans) | |
| Street Fighter | |
| Spring of the 8th Day (feat. Green Grey) | |
| Night (feat. Karina Serbina) | |
| let's drink | |
| God exists (feat. Legalize) | |
| Dip It Low (feat. Christina Milian) | |
| Legalize | |
| Sweet Mist (feat. Smokey Mo) | |
| Shot (feat. Mezza Morta) | |
| Be Free (feat. Lil'Kong & D.Masta) | |
| dream realiser | |
| Party (NEW) | |
| MXXXIII | |
| my own song | 2015 |
| Traffic jams, construction, dirt | 2015 |
DVD releases
Filmography
Soundtrack
- 2003 - "72 meters" - Decl, Marusya feat Rinat S. - Letter
Awards
- Winner of the Golden Gargoyle Award in the Legend of the Year category.
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An excerpt characterizing Decl
It seemed that it was impossible to stretch more than Timokhin stretched, while the regimental commander reprimanded him. But at that moment the commander-in-chief addressed him, the captain drew himself up so that it seemed that if the commander-in-chief had looked at him for a little more time, the captain would not have been able to stand it; and therefore Kutuzov, apparently understanding his position and wishing, on the contrary, all the best for the captain, hastily turned away. A barely perceptible smile ran across Kutuzov's plump, wounded face.“Another Izmaylovsky comrade,” he said. "Brave officer!" Are you happy with it? Kutuzov asked the regimental commander.
And the regimental commander, as if reflected in a mirror, invisibly to himself, in the hussar officer, shuddered, went forward and answered:
“Very pleased, Your Excellency.
“We are all not without weaknesses,” said Kutuzov, smiling and moving away from him. “He had an attachment to Bacchus.
The regimental commander was afraid that he was not to blame for this, and did not answer. The officer at that moment noticed the captain's face with a red nose and a tucked up stomach, and mimicked his face and posture so similarly that Nesvitsky could not help laughing.
Kutuzov turned around. It was evident that the officer could control his face as he wanted: at the moment Kutuzov turned around, the officer managed to make a grimace, and after that take on the most serious, respectful and innocent expression.
The third company was the last, and Kutuzov thought, apparently remembering something. Prince Andrei stepped out of the retinue and quietly said in French:
- You ordered to be reminded of the demoted Dolokhov in this regiment.
- Where is Dolokhov? Kutuzov asked.
Dolokhov, already dressed in a soldier's gray overcoat, did not wait to be called. The slender figure of a blond soldier with clear blue eyes stepped out from the front. He approached the commander-in-chief and made a guard.
– Claim? - Frowning slightly, asked Kutuzov.
“This is Dolokhov,” said Prince Andrei.
– A! Kutuzov said. – I hope this lesson will correct you, serve well. The Emperor is merciful. And I won't forget you if you deserve it.
Clear blue eyes looked at the commander-in-chief as boldly as they did at the regimental commander, as if by their expression they were tearing away the veil of conventionality that separated the commander-in-chief so far from the soldier.
“I ask you one thing, Your Excellency,” he said in his resonant, firm, unhurried voice. “I ask you to give me a chance to make amends for my guilt and prove my devotion to the emperor and Russia.
Kutuzov turned away. The same smile of his eyes flashed across his face as at the time when he turned away from Captain Timokhin. He turned away and grimaced, as if he wanted to express by this that everything that Dolokhov told him, and everything that he could tell him, he had known for a long, long time that all this had already bored him and that all this was not at all what he needed. . He turned and walked towards the carriage.
The regiment sorted out in companies and headed for the assigned apartments not far from Braunau, where they hoped to put on shoes, dress and rest after difficult transitions.
- You do not pretend to me, Prokhor Ignatich? - said the regimental commander, circling the 3rd company moving towards the place and driving up to Captain Timokhin, who was walking in front of it. The face of the regimental commander, after a happily departed review, expressed irrepressible joy. - The royal service ... you can’t ... another time you’ll cut off at the front ... I’ll be the first to apologize, you know me ... Thank you very much! And he held out his hand to the commander.
“Excuse me, General, do I dare!” - the captain answered, turning red with his nose, smiling and revealing with a smile the lack of two front teeth, knocked out by a butt near Ishmael.
- Yes, tell Mr. Dolokhov that I will not forget him, so that he is calm. Yes, please tell me, I kept wanting to ask, what is he, how is he behaving? And everything...
“He is very serviceable in his service, Your Excellency ... but the carakhter ...” said Timokhin.
- And what, what is the character? asked the regimental commander.
“He finds, Your Excellency, for days,” said the captain, “he is smart, and learned, and kind. And that's a beast. In Poland, he killed a Jew, if you please know ...
- Well, yes, well, yes, - said the regimental commander, - you still have to feel sorry for the young man in misfortune. After all, great connections ... So you ...
“I’m listening, Your Excellency,” Timokhin said, with a smile making it feel that he understood the wishes of the boss.
- Yes Yes.
The regimental commander found Dolokhov in the ranks and reined in his horse.
“Before the first case, epaulettes,” he told him.
Dolokhov looked around, said nothing and did not change the expression of his mockingly smiling mouth.
“Well, that’s good,” continued the regimental commander. “People get a glass of vodka from me,” he added, so that the soldiers could hear. – Thank you all! God bless! - And he, having overtaken a company, drove up to another.
“Well, he really is a good man; You can serve with him,” Timokhin subaltern said to the officer walking beside him.
- One word, red! ... (the regimental commander was nicknamed the red king) - the subaltern officer said, laughing.
The happy mood of the authorities after the review passed to the soldiers. Rota was having fun. Soldiers' voices were talking from all sides.
- How did they say, Kutuzov crooked, about one eye?
- But no! Totally crooked.
- Not ... brother, more big-eyed than you. Boots and collars - looked around everything ...
- How does he, my brother, look at my feet ... well! Think…
- And the other is an Austrian, he was with him, as if smeared with chalk. Like flour, white. I'm tea, how they clean ammunition!
- What, Fedeshow! ... he said, perhaps, when the guards begin, did you stand closer? They said everything, Bunaparte himself is standing in Brunov.
- Bunaparte stands! you lie, fool! What does not know! Now the Prussian is in revolt. The Austrian, therefore, pacifies him. As soon as he reconciles, then war will open with Bounaparte. And then, he says, in Brunov, Bunaparte is standing! It's obvious that he's an idiot. You listen more.
“Look, damn tenants! The fifth company, look, is already turning into the village, they will cook porridge, and we will not reach the place yet.
- Give me a cracker, damn it.
“Did you give tobacco yesterday?” That's it, brother. Well, on, God is with you.
- If only they made a halt, otherwise you won’t eat another five miles of proprem.
- It was nice how the Germans gave us strollers. You go, know: it's important!
- And here, brother, the people went completely frantic. There everything seemed to be a Pole, everything was of the Russian crown; and now, brother, a solid German has gone.
- Songwriters ahead! - I heard the cry of the captain.
And twenty people ran out in front of the company from different ranks. The drummer sings turned around to face the songbooks, and, waving his hand, began a drawn-out soldier's song, beginning: "Isn't it dawn, the sun was breaking up ..." and ending with the words: "That, brothers, will be glory to us with Kamensky father ..." in Turkey and was now sung in Austria, only with the change that in place of "Kamensky father" the words were inserted: "Kutuzov's father."
Tearing off these last words like a soldier and waving his arms as if he were throwing something on the ground, the drummer, a dry and handsome soldier of about forty, sternly looked around at the songwriter soldiers and closed his eyes. Then, making sure that all eyes were fixed on him, he seemed to carefully lift with both hands some invisible, precious thing above his head, held it like that for several seconds, and suddenly threw it desperately:
Oh, you, my canopy, my canopy!
“Canopy my new…”, twenty voices picked up, and the spoonman, despite the heaviness of the ammunition, briskly jumped forward and walked backwards in front of the company, moving his shoulders and threatening someone with spoons. The soldiers, swinging their arms to the beat of the song, walked with a spacious step, involuntarily hitting the leg. Behind the company came the sounds of wheels, the crunch of springs and the clatter of horses.
Kutuzov with his retinue was returning to the city. The Commander-in-Chief signaled that the people should continue to walk freely, and pleasure was expressed on his face and on all the faces of his retinue at the sound of the song, at the sight of the dancing soldier and the merrily and briskly marching soldiers of the company. In the second row, from the right flank, from which the carriage overtook the companies, a blue-eyed soldier, Dolokhov, involuntarily caught the eye, who walked especially briskly and gracefully to the beat of the song and looked at the faces of the passers-by with such an expression as if he pitied everyone who did not go at this time with a company. A hussar cornet from Kutuzov's retinue, mimicking the regimental commander, lagged behind the carriage and drove up to Dolokhov.
The hussar cornet Zherkov at one time in St. Petersburg belonged to that violent society led by Dolokhov. Zherkov met Dolokhov abroad as a soldier, but did not consider it necessary to recognize him. Now, after Kutuzov's conversation with the demoted, he turned to him with the joy of an old friend:
- Dear friend, how are you? - he said at the sound of the song, equalizing the step of his horse with the step of the company.
- I am like? - answered Dolokhov coldly, - as you can see.
The lively song attached particular importance to the tone of cheeky gaiety with which Zherkov spoke, and the deliberate coldness of Dolokhov's answers.
- So, how do you get along with the authorities? Zherkov asked.
Nothing, good people. How did you get into the headquarters?
- Seconded, I'm on duty.
They were silent.
“I let the falcon out of my right sleeve,” said the song, involuntarily arousing a cheerful, cheerful feeling. Their conversation would probably have been different if they had not spoken at the sound of a song.
- What is true, the Austrians were beaten? Dolokhov asked.
“The devil knows, they say.
“I am glad,” Dolokhov answered briefly and clearly, as the song demanded.
- Well, come to us when in the evening, the pharaoh will pawn, - said Zherkov.
Or do you have a lot of money?
- Come.
- It is forbidden. He gave a vow. I don't drink or play until it's done.
Well, before the first thing...
- You'll see it there.
Again they were silent.
“Come in, if you need anything, everyone at headquarters will help…” said Zherkov.
Dolokhov chuckled.
“You better not worry. What I need, I won't ask, I'll take it myself.
"Yeah, well, I'm so...
- Well, so am I.
- Goodbye.
- Be healthy…
... and high and far,
On the home side...
Zherkov touched his horse with his spurs, which three times, getting excited, kicked, not knowing where to start, coped and galloped, overtaking the company and catching up with the carriage, also in time with the song.
Returning from the review, Kutuzov, accompanied by an Austrian general, went to his office and, calling the adjutant, ordered to give himself some papers relating to the condition of the incoming troops, and letters received from Archduke Ferdinand, who commanded the forward army. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky with the required papers entered the office of the commander in chief. In front of the plan laid out on the table sat Kutuzov and an Austrian member of the Hofkriegsrat.
Russian rap and hip-hop artist, musician Kirill Aleksandrovich Tolmatsky (Decl) was born on July 22, 1983 in Moscow. His father, Alexander Tolmatsky, is a Russian producer, founder of D&D Records, Mix Media, Mediastar.
Kirill received his education in Switzerland, and after returning to Moscow he continued his studies at the British International School.
His nickname "Decl" (translated from youth slang means "a little") Kirill Tolmatsky received a break dance school because of his small stature.
Decl's first performance took place at the Adidas StreetBall Challenge festival in 1999 in Moscow in front of an audience of thousands, where he performed the song "Friday", which brought him great success. After that, the face of the young rap artist got on the cover of the November issue of PTYUCH magazine, which was the beginning of a stream of a huge number of articles enlightening the singer.
Decl's debut album "Who? You", released in 2000, sold over a million copies. For this disc, Decl received the Record 2000 award in the Debut of the Year nomination. Clips for songs from this disc (such as "Tears", "Party", "My Blood, Blood") were in hot rotation on radio and television for a long time and occupied leading positions in all national charts.
Decl's second disc "Street Fighter" surpassed even the most daring forecasts of music critics in sales figures. For this album, the rapper received many prestigious awards, including the MUZ-TV music channel award, "Stopudov hit" and MTV Music Awards (Russian Viewers' Choice).
At the next stage of his career, Kirill Tolmatsky decided to start an independent activity, separating himself from his former partners, including the author of his compositions, Vlad Valov. He created his own album, which he called "aka Le Truck".
Decl's music was written by various composers, including Max Homick, Dj La, Dj Tinic and others. The hits from this album became very popular, clips were shot for all of them, which were broadcast on many television channels, including MTV. The most famous of the songs included in the third album of Kirill Tolmatsky were "There is a God", "Potabachim" and Legalize. The animation-style adaptation of the last of these hits was pulled from television due to ethical concerns.
Decl's fourth album, MosVegas 2012, was released in 2008. At first, the rapper wanted to take on a completely new pseudonym Le Truck, but the public knew him under the old pseudonym and did not want to get used to the new one. In this regard, the performer decided to return to his old creative pseudonym Decl, adding to it a solid sign in the form of the Old Slavonic letter "yat" (Decl).
The artist's fifth album was released in 2010 and was called "Here and Now".
Decl is currently writing three albums at once, which will be released, presumably, in 2013. The first reggae-dancehall album under the working title "DancehallMania" is being prepared for release. It is planned that the disc will have a new sound and will be recorded in English with melodic choruses and, unlike the latest works released by the artist, will be more danceable. Thomas DaVilli, projects soul4soul, Medycin Man, Imal, X-Factor and other Jamaican and African artists took part in the creation of the disc.
The second to be released is a classic hip-hop album, which includes tracks with Decl's colleagues from the USA, Europe and Asia, where Kirill himself also plans to use English lyrics.
The third in line is a Russian-language album, on which Kirill Tolmatsky is helped to work by El Toro and his brother Black Jacket, Johnny Johnson from Anymal Jazz and others.
In 2012, Decl won the Golden Gargoyle award, awarded by the Moscow 16 Tons Club, in the Legend of the Year category.
The quarrel between DeTsl, Kirill Tolmatsky, and his father has been going on for 13 years. The reason was that Alexander fell in love with a young dancer Anna and left the family. At the same time, business contacts between father and son also ceased. Tolmatsky, who successfully produced Oleg Gazmanov, Larisa Chernikova and the Combination group, also took up the promotion of his son, and in 2000 everyone learned about the 17-year-old rapper DeTsle. The tracks "Party", "Tears", "My Blood, Blood" occupied the top lines of the charts for several years. They listen to them even now, although later there were a dozen new ones. StarHit learned that over the years, the relationship between Alexander and Kirill Tolmatsky has only gotten worse.
Text: Daria Sachkova
Alexander, when was the last time you talked to Cyril?
Five years ago when my mother died. I called him: "Come, I will transfer my grandmother's apartment to you." He appeared. We completed the paperwork, after that he disappeared again. Even for the bag that I forgot in my car, I did not return. I had to return it through Irina, his mother. Then mutual acquaintances told me that the son sold the grandmother's apartment and spent the money. For what - I do not know, it's his own business. After that, we never saw each other or talked on the phone.
// Photo: ITAR-TASS / Interpress / Dmitry Sukhodolsky
Where does he live with his family - wife Yulia and 9-year-old son Anthony -?
In a three-room apartment that I once bought him, where else.
Maybe at least you manage to communicate with your grandson?
Unfortunately no. The only time I saw him was when he was very young. Cyril suddenly had problems with his wife, he came to my office with a child, Tony slept right on the table. Cyril asked for help, I helped. That's all. I have a photo of Cyril at home, the children (Alexander's second marriage is growing up 8-year-old Fedor and 5-year-old Anfisa. - Approx. "StarHit") know that this is their brother. But I can’t explain to them why we don’t communicate. Kirill saw Fedya once when he was just born, but Anfisa never. A few years ago I suggested: “Come, let the children be friends,” but he does not make contact. I'm not so worried today. 10 years trying to reconcile with him - how long can you?
But as? I no longer have his number. Yes, and he congratulated me on the holidays three times in my life. I often thought, why did it all work out with him? I only read about such problems of fathers and children in books. And now I understand: probably, Ira and I raised him incorrectly, were not strict enough. Maybe he should have been spanked... But it's a pity, a child after all! Well, I think that studying in Switzerland played a role: for two whole years in adolescence, from 13 to 15 years old, he was cut off from his parental home.
Or maybe your son will never forgive you happiness in your personal life?
Here everything was mixed up - both the burden of former glory, and the problems in his own family. And I would not forget about drugs: at the age of 17 he began to play with weed. Otherwise, why such nerves? He is already old enough to understand: in life it happens that men and women break up. Leaving for Anya, I did everything I could for my ex-wife and Kirill. I shared my property and money. But Ira, as far as I understand, is still offended by me. Perhaps our relationship with Cyril is her doing. Although during our infrequent meetings with her, she says, they say, you should make peace with your son ... Previously, I could find out news from my son's life in social networks. He himself added me to his friends list. And then he deleted it. It happened after the New Year: Anya and my children and I were vacationing in Thailand, I posted a few photos. Cyril wrote some rather nasty comments. I correctly asked not to speak in such a way about my family. And literally the next day he blocked me.
If Kirill were once again engaged in the "promotion" of Kirill, would it be possible to make him as popular again as in the early 2000s?
For sure. A couple of years ago, Cyril was not a very successful period. But the latest tracks I heard are very good. If they got into my hands, I would turn them into a worthy product and sell them profitably. Today I do not see characters that I would like to "promote". My main work is the Maradona nightclub and the Lilac family cafe in Sokolniki Park. I am the managing partner of both establishments. The club has existed for a long time, and Lilac opened in March. The idea belongs to me and Sasha Samedov, midfielder of Lokomotiv. It just so happened that most of my Anya's girlfriends are the wives of football players. All have large families, two or three children. At one fine moment, it turned out that the whole company had nowhere to gather to talk, spend interesting leisure time and eat delicious food. So Sasha and I decided to open our own restaurant. Lilac already has a cozy children's area, a room for mother and child, now we are building a second floor, where you can even sunbathe. We live outside the city, but my wife and children often go to our cafe.
In the early 2000s, the name Decl became practically a well-known Russian brand. This boy started the mass hip-hop movement in our country. The popular teenager quickly became an idol and the envy of millions of children. And without his famous track "Party at Decl's House" she could not do without a school disco.
But not everyone knows what Decl's own father, music producer Alexander Tolmatsky, showed to the world. It was he who felt great potential in his son, because of which he took a risk and invested a lot of money and effort in Cyril. Alexander did not fail. But what did both of them later cost this popularity?
About Decl's father
The biography of Alexander Tolmatsky is full of many conflicting facts. It is interesting, for example, that the future producer received two educations far from music. Alexander Yakovlevich Tolmatsky first graduated from the Moscow Institute of National Economy, and then the Institute of the Dairy and Meat Industry. But this did not prevent him from becoming the first successful DJ in Moscow, and then the producer of Oleg Gazmanov, the Combination and Vostok groups.
But, despite all the creative merits of Alexander, many remember him and know him exclusively as the person who discovered Decl to the world.
About the Decl family
At 23, Alexander Tolmatsky marries a girl, Irina. After a while, the couple had a son, Cyril.
According to his wife Irina, Alexander Yakovlevich Tolmatsky had a great talent in the field of tailoring. "He sewed like a god," said Irina. Therefore, initially he made jeans to order, on the funds from which he fed his family.
Actually, because of this, according to the story of his wife Irina, once he even ended up in prison. The true reasons for Alexander's getting there remained in the distant past, but one of the versions is considered to be the illegal use of branded stripes by a man.
The moment of arrest was hard for all family members. But it was especially difficult for Irina. While her husband was in prison, searches were carried out in their apartment, but nothing was found. After all, the Tolmatsky family simply ate up all the money from a small business. There was simply no money left to save anything.
But soon this difficult time ends. Alexander begins to legally earn serious money, advance as a producer and win a high rank in the field of Russian show business.
About the emerging love for turnips
When Cyril turned 12, his father decides to send him to study at a closed Swiss school. There the boy gets acquainted with rap. It was this time that marked the beginning of Kirill's first serious passion for hip-hop culture.
A year later, the future Decl returns home. Alexander Tolmatsky sees dreadlocks on his son's head, notices his interests revolving around turnips, and decides to try to make a star out of the child in this area. I must say that mother Irina was categorically against this.
About the appearance of Decl
When Cyril turned 14, his father decides to give him a music video starring him as a gift. This was the beginning of Decl's grandiose career and his appearance on stage. The clip blew up all the TV charts and took the top places in the charts. No one expected such success, even Alexander himself.
Cyril begins his successful career. He writes songs and tours all over the country with them. We can say for sure that Decl became a child symbolizing the era of the 90s. Everyone learned about him: from children to the elderly.
About the collapse of the Tolmatsky family
But it turned out that this is not forever. In the early 2000s, Alexander Tolmatsky, in one of the nightclubs, met the dancer Anna, the same age as Decl. At that time, both the son and the chosen one of the producer were 17 years old. The man falls in love and subsequently leaves the family for her.
Decl's mother Irina is having a hard time parting. But it was even more difficult for Cyril. Because of a huge resentment towards his father, the guy stops all relations with his father. Unfortunately, this affected not only their personal relationships, but also their professional activities. Decl leaves the stage and stops all concert activities.
About the new life of the Tolmatskys
In a marriage with Anna, Alexander Tolmatsky has two children: a boy, Fedor, and a girl, Anfisa. Children know about the existence of Cyril, his photograph even stands on the father's table, but nothing more. Cyril's resentment against Alexander turned out to be so strong that he refused to maintain any relationship with his brothers and sisters.
Cyril also married, in marriage he had a son. Alexander Tolmatsky saw his grandson only a few times.
Today's time
To this day, the relationship between father and son, unfortunately, has not been established. According to Alexander Tolmatsky, for 10 years he tried to start communicating with his son again. But now he has come to terms with this state of affairs.
The true reason for their quarrel has not yet been clarified. Each side has its own point of view. Alexander believes that Cyril cannot forgive him for leaving the family and understand that sometimes people just disperse.
Irina, Decl's mother, says that the son was only a musical project for his father. Alexander was often too demanding, rude and unfair to Cyril. And it is precisely because of this that relations between generations have not yet been restored.
Cyril, in most interviews, simply does not comment on this situation.
Now Cyril continues to write music, but his huge popularity has remained in the distant past. Perhaps someday Decl will again appear on the big stage and, as before, millions will sing along with him.
We also hope that someday the father and son will still find a common language again and restore the connection between generations that is important for every person.
