Childhood and the period of study I welcome guests and regular readers of the site website. So, Kirill Tolmatsky, better known as Decl, Le Truk, Giuseppe Zestko first saw the light on July 22, 1983. There are many versions of the story why Decl preferred the rap style, but the following assumption remains the most popular: in early years when the future performer, sent by his father to study in Switzerland, lived in the same room with the son of the African President of Zambia. It was then that he first heard unusual direction style in music, which won his heart and decided his future destiny.
Creation
The first steps of the future rapper were helped by his father, producer Alexander Tolmatsky. Kirill recorded his debut track "Friday", and after performing with him at the Adidas festival, his career began its meteoric rise.Decl - Friday (1999)
The rapper released his first album called "Who? You" in 2000, and in less than 6 months it became incredibly popular. Kirill, subsequently, received an award from "Record 2000" in the nomination "Debut of the Year". Then Adidas decided to sign a contract with Decl. The success of the young man became even greater after the release of the second album "Street Fighter", in which the performer opposed representatives youth subculture- skinheads.
Decl - Letter (2001)
In 2003, he took part in the fourth season of the reality show " Last Hero", which was broadcast on Channel One. Being at the height of his popularity, Cyril quarreled with his father, part-time producer, and left to build own career. In the 2004 album, the rapper presented a new stage name, Le Truk. The record was also very successful, but did not repeat the achievements of the previous ones. There were enough live instrumentals and female tunes on the release. Such compositions as "Let's drink", "Legalize" and "God exists" have found people's love.
Decl - Potabachim (2003)
After problems with the rights to the stage name Decl, the young man is renamed Decl. In 2008, the artist's 4th album "MosVegas 2012" was released. The record did not gain high fame due to the underground sound. Such performers as Dj Nik One, Knara, Gunmakaz, Oleg Gruz took part in the recording of the album.
Smokey Mo - Sweet Fog feat. Le Truk (2007)
The year 2010 is marked by the release of the collection "Here and Now", in which there are collaborations with such performers as D.Masta, Smokey Mo and others. At the same time, the hero of our biography becomes a frequent guest at various hip-hop events.
Kirill Tolmatsky a.k.a. Le Truk - Tired (2010)
In 2013 and 2014, he took part in re-recording the tracks and clips "Party" and "Letter" for the program "", adding a humorous component to them.
Detsl aka Le Truk - Letter (2014)
Since 2014, Tolmatsky has been releasing records from the Decillion trilogy: the first is called Dancehall Mania and is made in the reggae dancehall style; the second is the English-language hip-hop album "MXXXIII"; the third is a Russian-language album. The first two parts were released in 2014, and the final one ("Favela Funk") was recorded after a trip to Brazil and was released in 2016.
Detsl aka Le Truk - My own song (2015)
It should be noted the conflict between Decl and Basta, which arose in August 2016 for the reason that the festival performers under the auspices of Gazgolder could not finish their performances before the allotted time. As a result, Cyril on Twitter published a number of impartial statements about Basta, who did not remain silent and wrote: "Decl is a shaggy schmuck." The outcome of this was trial, where charges were brought against Vasily. The court ordered Vasily to pay Cyril 50,000 rubles in compensation for moral damages. But the conflict was not settled on this: the rappers continued, if possible, to troll each other with or without reason. In July 2018, the artist releases a record called "Acoustic". This is an album where all the old hits were collected and released in a new processing. Animal Jazz, The Last Tanks in Paris and DJ Worm were the ones who helped the artist give new life known to all compositions.
Detsl aka Le Truk - Favela Funk (2017)
Autumn 2018 (November) was marked by the presentation of the album, called "It doesn't matter who's at the helm". 11 audio tracks in which the rapper criticizes the modern approach to creating rap music and analyzes the past years. Due to the fact that the performer responsibly approached the recording of the tracks, at the end he received a worthy assessment of the work done.
Personal life
The rap artist was married to the Nizhny Novgorod model Yulia Kiseleva. The result of love was the son Anthony, who was born in June 2005.Death
On the night of February 3, 2019, after a performance in the Posh cafe in Izhevsk, Decl became ill in the dressing room. Ambulance, which was immediately called, only stated death from cardiac arrest. It is known that in 2007, in an interview with the same Izhevsk publication "Fanlife", Kirill told that he plans to fake his death when he turns 35 years old. The last entry on the rapper's Instagram was his personal drawing with the inscription "RIP GB", and in the caption an explanation: conspiracy theory collection (a collection of conspiracy theories).Preview: YouTube
: Social networks (Found on vk.com)
: First channel, still pictures
: youtube.com, freeze frames
: facebook.com/detslakaletruk
: instagram.com/juzeppejostko
Stills from music videos Decl, Le Truk on YouTube
Personal archive of Kirill Tolmatsky
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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 a large number 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 absolutely came out new album 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. The artist's new releases will be created in multiple 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 disk sampler will appear online on August 31 on the pages of Decl in in social networks. According to the artist, this is an album with a completely new sound - it was recorded on English language with melodic choruses and, unlike recent 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 reggae-dancehall genre, 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.
On June 22, 2016, the mini-album Favela Funk was released, inspired by Kirill Tolmatsky's visit to Brazil.
Personal life
Discography
| Solo albums | Year |
|---|---|
| Who? You | |
| Street Fighter (Street Fighter) | |
| Detsl aka Le Truk | |
| MosVegas 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) |
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 that Decl showed him to the world father – music producer Alexander Tolmatsky. 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 National economy, and then the Institute of 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 at married couple son Cyril was born.
According to his wife Irina, Alexander Yakovlevich Tolmatsky had 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. True reasons Alexander's getting there remained in the distant past, but one of the versions is considered to be the illegal use of branded patches 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, all the money from small business the Tolmatsky family was simply eating away. There was simply no money left to save anything.
But soon this difficult time ends. Alexander begins to legally earn serious money, move forward as a producer and win himself 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 was 14 years old, his father decides to give him as a gift Music clip with him in leading role. 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 professional activity. 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 for the father musical project. 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 reappear on big stage and millions will sing along to him, as before.
We also hope that someday the father and son will still be found again mutual language and restore the link between generations that is important for every person.
The rapper under the pseudonym Decl (real name Kirill Tolmatsky) was one of the most famous musicians in Russia in 2000-2002 The song "Party" sounded on the radio and in nightclubs, it seems, without stopping. The singer's first debut album sold out record circulation- more than 1 million copies.
Reasons for the decline in popularity
Cyril was born into a wealthy family. His father is a well-known producer Alexander Tolmatsky in the past.
Photo: Instagram @annatolmatskaya
It was he who actively "promoted" his son on the Russian stage, and achieved excellent results. Everyone was talking about the young rapper.
Decl at the beginning of his career
According to journalists, there was a conflict between them. The rapper himself said that he stopped working with his father due to the fact that they began to “poke a finger” at him.
After this confession young singer they began to humiliate me, calling me “daddy’s son”: “It was hard for me to hear that. Everywhere they giggled, whispered, looking at me. Somehow I could not stand it and broke the contract.
At the peak of popularity
The young musician began to work under the pseudonym Le Truk, then "came" Giuseppe Zestko. There was no success, and the rapper returned to the former stage name, adding at the end the Old Slavonic letter - Decl.
Tolmatsky released 5 studio albums, but only the first two were truly successful. Although he did not have the former glory, Cyril said that "he manages his own life." He was very happy about this: “I am responsible for my every word and action. There is no one behind me."
What did Decl do
The musician began to build his own career. He wrote and performed only what he wanted. Cyril preferred philosophical rap. The singer, together with foreign musicians, worked on several albums at once. One of them became multilingual, and contained melodies in English, Spanish, French and Japanese.
Cyril staged theatrical performances. Good feedback from critics received his work "Here and Now". Cyril read poetry and at the same time communicated with the audience. The performance was interesting.
Kirill's team
In recent years, the name of the rapper has been associated with a scandal. Cyril sued a colleague - a singer under the pseudonym Basta.
Decl and Basta: the conflict went to court
He wrote indecent remarks about Decl on his Facebook. There were many lawsuits and meetings, but, in the end, Basta was ordered to pay moral compensation.
Personal life
Kirill, along with his wife Yulia and son Tony, lived in a well-equipped apartment in Moscow. The family has two executive class cars. Cyril noted that they "do not chic", but there was enough money to live on. Periodically, he toured Russia and European countries.
Cyril with his wife and son
A few years ago, the singer signed a contract with a Western community of authors. Together with foreign musicians, Tolmatsky wrote tracks, they are sold on iTunes, Bandcamp.
The rapper's wife Julia is a model in the past. Now the girl works as a designer.
Yulia's wife: model and designer
Kirill Tolmatsky noted that he deliberately "went into the underground", he created rap that "removes aggression from people."
I remove aggression from people
“I want to write tracks, after listening to which people would take to the streets, but not to fight, but to dance. Music was created for this - to help clarify relationships through dance and song, without breaking the law.
What happened to Decl
On the night of February 3, 2019, Decl died. After a concert in Izhevsk, the musician's heart stopped. As the rapper's wife said on her Instagram: "God took his beloved ... Cyril died of cardiac arrest." official reason The death of the performer is not yet known, an investigation is underway. Fans and musicians mourn the sudden death of a singer and friend.
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 debut album Decl "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 Furthermore how Timokhin was stretched out, 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 face of the captain with a red nose and tightened belly 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. A slim body blond with clear blue eyes the soldier stepped out of 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, “everything must be regretted.” 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, right, 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 soldierly last words 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 screwed up 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 one, 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.
