Valery Mulyavin son. From all-Union glory to oblivion: why the star of “Walking in Torment” disappeared from the screens

Svetlana Penkina is a popular Soviet actress who gained fame after her role in the film “Walking Through Torment.”

A star is born

The future actress was born on June 6, 1951 in the capital of the Belarusian SSR. Father - A. P. Penkin (colonel) and mother - V. E. Penkin (teacher) had nothing to do with the world of art.

However, this did not prevent them from developing in their children a craving for cinema and theater.

First height

WITH early years, who has the extraordinary appearance of Sveta, cherishes dreams of a big stage. Moreover, the big-eyed girl turned out to have natural acting talent.

The parents did not interfere with the happiness of their temperamental child and immediately after graduating from school, Svetlana went to study at the Academy of Arts located in her hometown.

The gifted girl ended up in the group of the former head of the university, Alexander Butakov.

Debut

In 1971, he made his creative debut in the biography of Svetlana Penkina. She played a role in S. Tretyakov’s film “The Day of My Sons”, while being a student at a theater university. And almost immediately, the young actress starred in the film “The Lion’s Grave.” And after that, for four years Svetlana did not act in films.

Back in action

After a long break, the actress throws herself into work and amazes directors with her ability to work.

In 1975, Svetlana starred in the film by Kh. Kakabaev “The Color of Gold” (Zoya).

And almost immediately the actress got a role in the short film by V. Stankevich “At the Blue Bay”.

The role that brought fame

When Svetlana turned 26 years old, V. Ordynsky invited her to his thirteen-episode project “Walking Through Torment.” The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by A. Tolstoy. (this was her diploma work).

The girl brilliantly played the role of Katya Bulavina and, as they say, woke up famous. Fragile, sophisticated and incredibly graceful, Svetlana transformed into her heroine and immediately won the love of the Soviet audience.

The series has gained great popularity, largely thanks to the wonderful cast: , A. Lazarev and many others. etc.

After the film was released, Svetlana became a very popular actress. The most famous directors offered her roles in their films, but the newly minted star very often refused.

After “Walking Through Torment,” Penkina starred in the films “Dust in the Sun” and “Order Number One.”

New Heights

The musical comedy film “Take Care of Women” immediately appealed to Soviet audiences and became a box office hit. The actress played one of the main roles (Olga) and the ranks of her fans swelled. It would not be superfluous to add that this film is still popular.

In 1982, the famous actress starred in the film “Solar Wind,” which tells about the girl scientist Lydia. After the release of the film, Svetlana goes on maternity leave to raise her little son. For three years, the actress did not star in a single film.

When Svetlana was 34 years old, she played in the television series “For the Coming Century” (Vika).

The actress never starred in another film. However, the actress could be seen in news clips or documentary projects.

Personal life

Svetlana did not make her personal life public, being in an active search. The thing is that the actress dreamed of a reliable husband and children, and her numerous fans were not suitable for starting a family.

She was very beautiful girl, but remained free until she was 30 years old.

When the re-voicing of the lines in the film “Walking Through Torment” took place, S. Penkina met the male group “Pesnyary”. The guys were recording a new hit in a nearby recording studio and accidentally ran into a charming actress.

It was then that fate brought Sveta together with her future husband, the leader of Pesnyary, musician Vladimir Mulyavin.

Svetlana was 10 years younger than the twice-divorced Mulyavin, but this did not bother her at all. When the film “Take Care of the Women” (1981) was released, the man proposed to his chosen one. Svetlana agreed and soon the young people were legally married.

Already during the wedding, the girl did not want to change her last name. But in order not to offend her beloved, Svetlana took a double surname (Penkina-Mulyavin).

As eyewitnesses say, when meeting Svetlana, she always introduced herself as Svetlana, the wife of Vladimir Mulyavin.

In 1982, the couple had a son, Valery. For his sake, Svetlana left cinema for three years and selflessly changed diapers and cooked porridge.

Family life brought the spouses a lot of joy, because their marriage was built on mutual love. Svetlana practically did not quarrel with her husband and even in the most controversial situations was ready to seek compromises.

Working together on projects brought us together, and vacation trips, performances and raising our son brought incomparable joy.

In 1987, Vladimir and Svetlana worked on the play “At the Top of Your Voice,” which was staged based on the works of.

In the spring of 2002, Svetlana’s beloved husband was in a terrible car accident. For seven months, doctors fought for the man’s life.

After Vladimir's death, the Pesnyary ensemble museum was founded.

Cause of death

Svetlana Penkina-Mulavina lived interesting life and died at the age of 65, having outlived her husband by fourteen years.

For several days the woman did not call her son or answer his calls. In the end, a worried Valery arrived at his mother’s apartment and found her lifeless body.

After the autopsy, the cause of death became known - cardiac arrest. However, for some reason a criminal case was opened.

The official date of death of the actress is October 20, 2016. Svetlana Penkina was buried in the capital of Belarus, at the Eastern Cemetery.

Her photograph was placed on the stand of the best graduates of the Belarusian State Academy of Art.

Selected filmography

• 1971 - The Lion's Grave
• 1974 - Walking through torment
• 1977 - And we had silence...
• 1981 - Take care of women
• 1982 - Solar Wind
• 1985 - For the coming century

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Vladimir Mulyavin was born on January 12, 1941 in Sverdlovsk. His ancestors were quite wealthy Siberian merchants, they owned their own shops and received a good education, but with the advent of Soviet power they were dispossessed. Vladimir Mulyavin's father, Georgy Mulyavin, was a simple worker at the Uralmash plant, played the guitar well, had musical talent, but left the family early for another woman, and Vladimir's mother, Akulina Sergeevna, had to raise three children alone - the eldest Valery, Vladimir and Natasha. Subsequently, Vladimir Mulyavin recalled that he hardly saw his mother, since she had to work a lot. Her salary as a seamstress was very small; in order to provide for her family, Akulina Sergeevna had to work hard and therefore the children grew up independent. Later, Vladimir Mulyavin said: “Mom said: “Why are you strumming all the time? When will you get busy? Work?" One day a friend came to me and said: “You should work in an orchestra, you will earn twice as much as a turner at a factory.” So I started working in an orchestra, and I was sixteen years old.”

Vladimir became addicted to music early on; even as a child, he had the opportunity to visit a theater showing of the opera La Traviata, and his family later recalled that little Volodya was literally shocked by the delightful theatrical performance he saw. He kept asking: “Where is such a country? Where do people like this live? At the age of 12, Mulyavin independently mastered the balalaika, then learned to play the guitar, and began to earn money by playing on trains, passages and on the streets. By the age of 14, he played well not only the guitar and balalaika, but also other stringed instruments.

Mulyavin later said that he was very lucky and met a real teacher. He became a graduate of the Kharkov Institute of Culture and former political prisoner Alexander Ivanovich Navrotsky. He was an extraordinarily talented musician-teacher and was the first to discern in Mulyavin not only a real original talent, but also an amazing ability to work. Navrotsky studied with his pupil six to seven hours a day, and the result of such hard work was Mulyavin’s admission to the Sverdlovsk Music School in 1956. There he studied guitar, mastered other instruments on his own, and even played the piano perfectly. There he created his own group that played jazz, and was soon expelled from the school for “worshipping Western music.” Together with him, nine more people were expelled from the school - all members of that group. But the teachers understood that Vladimir Mulyavin was an amazingly talented student, and soon he was able to return to school again.

In 1965, Vladimir Mulyavin was drafted into the army, served near Minsk, but even in the army Mulyavin did not give up his music studies, created a vocal quartet and took part in organizing the ensemble of the Belarusian Military District. It was there, in the army, that the first composition of the future group “Pesnyary” gathered - Leonid Tyshko, Vladislav Misevich, Valery Yashkin and Alexander Demeshko. Vladislav Misevich recalled: “We served in different companies, but we all had a common place for rehearsals - the Officers’ House. They danced there, played different music... secretly eavesdropped on the Voice of America and jazz compositions. Even then Volodya was an amazing arranger!”

His passion for jazz remained Mulyavin's passion throughout his life. Despite the strict prohibitions of the time and the management’s dissatisfaction with the “passion for Western music,” Vladimir admired the talent of Joe Cocker and other foreign jazz musicians. Already in adulthood, he managed to attend a Cocker concert in Dortmund. Mu-lyavin has long been impressed by how the crowd of twenty thousand was a single whole, and how the musician “held” the audience with his talent. However, Mulyavin himself fully possessed this gift. National artist of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Tikhanovich spoke about Mulyavin: “For the rest of his life, he retained some kind of childish perception of the world, some kind of naivety, gullibility, openness to the world... This light in his eyes, this openness of his soul...”

In 1968, fellow musicians created the VIA “Lyavony”, but the management of the Philharmonic did not really like this name. Lyavon was a comedic character in Belarusian folklore. This was the name of the Belarusians, by analogy with the crests-Khokhlovs and Russian-Ivans. The musicians themselves didn’t really like the name either. Then Leonid Tyshko and Vladislav Misevich went to the library and found the word “pesnyar” in the poems of the national poet of Belarus Yanka Kupala. Moreover, the works of this Belarusian classic were extremely interesting to Mulyavin himself; a volume of his poems was always at hand for the musician.

According to Mulyavin himself, as soon as they became “Pesnyars”, a lot changed a lot in their lives, especially the trips to the outback, where Belarusian folklore was preserved in its original true form, gave the group a lot. It was Mulyavin with “Pesnyary” who aroused the whole country’s interest in Belarusian folk songs, which at that time were almost forgotten. He was always keenly interested folk culture. Vladimir did not consider it a stranger to himself, and studied the Belarusian language specifically in order to better understand the folk tunes of Belarus. Vladimir Mulyavin said: “We had to go our own way. I was not satisfied with the stage in the form in which it was then. This was not our path. We took folk songs. I listened to them a lot, absorbed all the best. We succeeded because we were not like anyone else. Officially, we became the first group with which the VIA genre began.”

For the first time, VIA "Pesnyary" loudly declared themselves in 1970 at the fourth All-Union Competition of Variety Artists in Moscow. The leadership of the Minsk Philharmonic did not really want to let the group go to Moscow; the bet was made on Mulyavin’s wife, Lydia Karmalskaya. At that time, there were strict rules for pop artists: they were not supposed to have long hair, mustaches or beards, and they were supposed to perform in formal clothes. Belarusian musicians did not meet these standards at all; their “patty” heads, famous Mulyavin mustaches and colorful suits could not please the capital’s leadership. But Mulyavin managed to convince the entire leadership that appearance collective is part of the image and part of the Belarusian folk costume.

At the festival "Pesnyary" created a real sensation with their performance of the Belarusian folk song“I dreamed about you in the spring.” The audience was amazed by the sound of a forgotten, and to many completely unknown, Belarusian folk song. Delightful vocals and impeccable musical arrangement made “Pesnyary” famous in a few minutes.

Over the entire existence of the ensemble, more than fifty musicians have changed in it. The main condition they had to meet was talent. Without bright, unconditional and strong talent, it was impossible to get into the group. Mulyavin demanded 100% dedication from his talented musicians. Leonid Bortkevich recalled: “We were like soldiers - to the right, to the left, look here, stand there... Sometimes I hit such high notes - it seems much better! And he is unhappy, bad! And in the end it turned out that he was right. He was a teacher, a real one, from God.” But this did not stop Bortkevich from leaving his teacher in 1980 and leaving for America with his wife, gymnast Olga Korbut. But life abroad did not work out for him, and he returned to his homeland at the beginning of the new millennium, at the end of “Pesnyary”, and did not even expect that Mulyavin would again invite him to sing the song “ Birch juice" The audience greeted the “prodigal son” with a standing ovation.

In the 1970s, “Pesnyary” was at the height of its fame, they were adored, invited to all cities of the Soviet Union, and the country’s leadership was concerned about such a high popularity of the ensemble. Of the two ways - to strangle the group or tame - the second was chosen. The party elite began to use Pesnyary for their own purposes. But Mulyavin himself used politicians. With their help, he resolved everyday and other problems of the ensemble, obtained rare and expensive instruments, and achieved good conditions at concerts. The musician did not fight the authorities, but he did not compromise in his work. He sang patriotic songs without falsehood or pathos, sincerely and, as always, with talent. Bari Alibasov said: “I never liked all these patriotic songs written “to special order”, it was all too insincere and pretentious... But I did not feel any rejection while listening to Mulyavin. Even knowing that both “Birch Sap” and “My Youth - Belarus” were written by order “from above,” these songs were pleasant to listen to.”

Mulyavin not only had the talent of an arranger, not only played all kinds of instruments, he had a unique, clear and high tenor. Having received the minimum musical education Having practically never studied vocals, he subtly felt and heard music. Mulyavin could force his musicians to repeat the same note many times, achieving the perfect sound. Sometimes it looked as if he was nagging, demanding the impossible, but in fact he could not stand falsehood, did not tolerate a single wrong note. For Mulyavin, music was something more than just a combination of chords - he was one with it, merging with the songs. He found talented performers for “Pesnyary” everywhere - in other groups, restaurants, sometimes it was enough for him to accidentally hear a person in order to then invite him to the group. Moreover, he didn’t just invite people to join the group - he confronted them with the fact that the musician had to come to the rehearsal. This is how Leonid Bortkevich and Anatoly Kasheparov got into the ensemble. Pesnyary were already so popular in the mid-1970s that getting into the group was considered incredible luck. But Mulyavin made the greatest demands on himself; the rest of the group automatically caught up to his level. Vladimir could not afford a careless attitude towards the audience, he did not allow himself to underwork, he fulfilled the people's love one hundred percent. But national and even worldwide fame could not make Mulyavin suffer from “star fever”; he was still modest, cheerful and a simple person. Mulya - his colleagues, family and friends called him.

Ten years after the unexpected rise of Pesnyary, those with whom Mulyavin began working began to leave the team one after another. First, Bortkevich left the team, followed by Anatoly Kasheparov, whose exams at GITIS coincided with the ensemble's performances, and he chose the graduation performance. Soon after Bortkevich, he left the country and went to America. There Kasheparov opened a pizzeria and went into business. In 1999, in Florida, he met Mulyavin, and they talked together about new projects. But these plans were not destined to come true. In 1981, Leonid Tyshko left the ensemble, and in 1988, joker and buffoon Alexander Demeshko left the ensemble. The collapse of the team occurred gradually; Mulyavin tried for several years to save his beloved “brainchild,” but in vain. People who idolized their leader, shared his glory, could not support him during a difficult period, and could not stay with him. Later, the musicians accused Mulyavin of stopping the group, and it had few concerts. But in the 1990s there were few concerts for everyone. Mulyavin, crushed by the burden of the departure of loved ones and problems in the group, retreated more and more into himself. During the entire existence of “Pesnyary” - more than thirty years - Mulyavin wrote more than ten inimitable, unique and talented music programs. But in last years existence of the group, they no longer performed new songs; they traveled with the old, familiar and beloved repertoire of the people.

Since 1985, Mulyavin has written many songs, several rock operas and musical programs, but they have not been heard either in Belarus or in Russia. His last disc with new songs was recorded in 1994 in Holland. Meanwhile, in their native Minsk, the musicians lived in squalid conditions, rehearsing in two rooms of a boarding school for deaf-mute children, with old instruments. In 1997, when the only studio tape recorder broke down, Mulyavin wrote a harsh note to the ministry. The response was an order to remove Mulyavin from the post of director of the ensemble. Mulyavin remained in the position of artistic director, and the position of director was taken by former group member Vladislav Misevich. Mulyavin said that he was very tired and did not want to live, and the pop artists signed a request to President Lukashenko to sort out the situation. Mulyavin was reinstated, but the rest of the musicians left after Misevich. Mulyavin was left alone and recruited the band again, after which the group’s thirtieth anniversary was celebrated with a concert at the Olimpiysky and the laying of Mulyavin’s star on the Walk of Fame. In 2001, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko presented Mulyavin with the highest Belarusian award - the Order of Francis Skorina. But, despite his fame and many fans, Vladimir Mulyavin was a very lonely person all his life; he himself said that outside of creativity he was a boring, self-absorbed person. Perhaps the only truly close person was Mulyavin’s brother Valery, who died so early.

On May 14, 2002, Vladimir Mulyavin was in a car accident, as a result of which he received severe injuries. Doctors diagnosed him with “tetraparesis, spinal cord damage with dysfunction of the pelvic organs, closed fracture-dislocation of the sixth vertebra, bruised wound in the occipital region.” Mulyavin ended up in intensive care, and soon from Minsk Mulyavin was transferred to Moscow to the Burdenko Hospital, where he underwent a rehabilitation course, tried to eat himself, moved his arms, and tried to get up. Mulyavin dreamed of returning to the team, journalists even visited him and interviewed him. Leonid Bortkevich said: “Mulya was pathologically modest. It was precisely because of this modesty that in recent years “Pesnyary” sounded very little and did not shine anywhere. After all, what more modest person, the less he talks about himself, the less he promotes himself. Mulyavin was generally a genius, but he himself did not understand this, did not know this, did not guess about it. He felt like a very ordinary person. Figuratively speaking, a genius dresses in simple clothes. And further. Genius sows goodness everywhere. He did everything for the people. But so that people don’t notice it. And he didn’t need titles. But this is where the artist begins. Mulyavin is Vysotsky in his genre. He worked his ass off, he always worked. On tour, everyone goes to the beach, and he sits aside, takes a paper and writes, writes, writes... He had little rest. Therefore, he was in poor health. Twice he suffered clinical death, but the doctors brought him back...”

Despite the efforts of doctors, Vladimir Mulyavin passed away on January 26, 2003 at the age of 62. Farewell to him took place in Moscow, and at the request of many people - in Minsk.

Vladimir Mulyavin was buried in Minsk at the Eastern Cemetery.

Lack of commas, shortage of periods, uneven handwriting on a lined piece of paper. Frugal facts from the life of a man whose popularity in the Soviet Union in the next few decades would be enchanting: “I, Vladimir Georgievich Mulyavin, was born on January 12, 1941 in Sverdlovsk into a family of workers. Since 1945, he was raised without a father. In 1946 he came to Magnitogorsk to visit his uncle. Here I graduated from 9th grade. I started studying music in 1950, studying guitar with a private teacher. In 1955 he came to Sverdlovsk and entered the music school, where he studied for 2 years. Started working in 1957...” Date - October 9, 1958. Signed - V. Mulya...

The autobiography of 17-year-old Volodya Mulyavin, the future creator of the legendary “Pesnyary”, has been kept in the archives of the Tomsk Philharmonic for many years. Along with orders for hiring and dismissal. No one would probably have remembered that such documents exist if not for the Minsk journalist Olga Brilon, who, in preparation for the 75th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Mulyavin, established that he worked in Tomsk in the late 50s.

From the order: “Enroll comrade. Vladimir Georgievich Mulyavin joined the pop sector as a guitarist from October 1, 1958 under the terms of an employment agreement. Director of the Tomsk Regional Philharmonic Society - V. Tseitlin.”

Viktor Tseitlin, who headed the Tomsk Regional Philharmonic from 1948 to 1964, experienced an acute need for personnel. Under him, three orchestras played at the Philharmonic - a symphony, brass and pop, a gypsy ensemble and several pop brigades performed, solo vocalists sang, attractions, a music hall, and circus programs entertained people. Moreover, the programs were updated weekly. The newspaper “Red Banner” recalls: “The musicians went to Tomsk willingly, knowing that there would be interesting and lucrative (!) work here... Viktor Solomonovich had an unmistakable instinct for all kinds of hack work, knew how to notice talent in a young performer, support him, give him a start to the future..."

In February 1959, a new entry appeared in the book of orders for the Tomsk Philharmonic: “Enroll Lidiya Alekseevna Karmalskaya into the stage as an artist of the original genre from February 20 on the basis of an employment agreement.” Here begins the first chapter of a love affair between two incredibly talented people. This fact remained unknown for a long time not only to all biographers of Vladimir Mulyavin, but also to his daughter from his marriage to Lydia Karmalskaya, Marina. This is what she told the magazine “Other Shores” in 2011 about her father’s childhood and youth:

“His parents divorced early. The family had three children: father, brother Valery, sister Natasha. It was hard for my mother, my grandmother, to raise them. She worked as a seamstress, the salary was small. Dad was interested in music since childhood. His teacher in music school was a former political prisoner. He saw talent in dad. I studied with him every day for 5-7 hours. Then dad studied guitar at the Sverdlovsk Music College. At the age of 15 he created an ensemble. All nine of its participants were expelled from the school for their passion for Western music. The ensemble began to tour independently throughout the Sverdlovsk region.

At the age of 18, my dad met my mom at one of the concerts. My mother Lydia Karmalskaya was a bright beauty. She performed on stage and was a master of artistic whistling. For some time she worked with Kobzon. Then she performed as an entertainer with “Pesnyary”. Dad fell passionately in love with her. Mom was three years older than him.”

The fact that Lydia Karmalskaya was a beauty, a master of artistic whistling and older than Vladimir Mulyavin - pure truth. Only, it turns out, they met not at one of the concerts, but at the Tomsk Philharmonic. The office romance developed rapidly. It took six months for the couple to understand that their relationship was serious and long-lasting. Together with the pop ensemble, they visited the Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen regions, went on tour to the cities of the Tomsk region, where they tested the strength of their feelings. In the same year, 1959, the marriage was registered.

In the photo: Vladimir Mulyavin and Lydia Karmalskaya are on the far right

Viktor Tseitlin signed the order to dismiss the couple in August 1959: “To release pop artists from work at the Philharmonic from August 1, 1959: V. Mulyavin, L. Karmalskaya, according to the submitted application.”

From that moment on, the paths of the future “pesnyar” and Tomsk diverged. For 15 years. Other young performers took the place of the talented guitarist and his wife at the Tomsk Philharmonic. And the couple, having lived for some time in the Urals, moved to Belarus.

“After getting married, she and her mother went on tour to Minsk,” recalls Marina Mulyavina in the magazine “Other Shores”. - We came to the stores, and the shelves there were full. Pyotr Mironovich Masherov then did a lot for his republic. Mom was surprised: “Probably a commission came to this store.” We went to another one - it was the same there. On the third... Mom said: “Volodya, we will only live here.”

And Vladimir Mulyavin stayed. Fell in love with Belarusian nature, Belarusian folklore, created a group and wrote songs that people have loved and sung for half a century. And Vladimir Mulyavin returned to Tomsk in 1974 - at the peak of the popularity of “Pesnyary”. The tour then went on sold out for a whole week at the Sports Palace.

We are standing on the porch of Pesnirov's studio. The musicians, Volodin's former colleagues, smoke and talk out loud. Last year in September, Mulyavin Jr. resigned from the ensemble after working for a year and three months. Even then there was talk: they say, the musician is great, but there are problems. They remembered that Volodya had already completed his sentence at the end of the 90s: he was given a year and seven months for exceeding self-defense. Mulyavin Jr. himself said that he defended the girl. Ironically, in prison he met... his father's colleagues. “Pesnyary” performed at a correctional institution with a patron concert, and Valery Daineko recognized Mulyavin in the crowd of prisoners. Volodya was very similar to his father.

But, despite his imprisonment, Volodya, according to people who knew him, remained a good guy. Therefore, the current sentence under Article 328 of the Criminal Code for drugs, and even more so the death in the prison hospital, came as a shock to everyone. But not a complete surprise...

“We accidentally found out that Volodya died,” the guys admit. - Mutual friends called. But he hasn't been buried yet. We went to Moscow cemetery, there is no grave yet. They say the body was cremated and will be released for burial later. He should be buried in his mother's grave. This is in the same cemetery where Mulyavin is, only to the side...

He was a musician from God, he played great!

A year ago, the girl left Volodya. It seems like even going to some church... I couldn’t stand it all either.

We talked to him constantly, each bringing his own arguments. It wasn’t like they were pressing, they were just talking... After all, everyone is an adult.

They didn’t take us to doctors. The agreement was this: if you want, work...

Yes, everything was fine, we went to the gym together and did fitness. Volodya even recovered. The girls started paying attention to him...

Vyacheslav SHARAPOV, supervisor state ensemble"Pesnyary":

Before Pesnyary, Volodya worked as a plasterer

The first time I saw Volodya was at my father’s funeral in 2003. And I felt sorry for him: thin, in bad clothes... It was clear that his life was not sweet. A good guy goes missing.

Where did he work then?

In some construction companies... Plastered. Meanwhile, Volodya was a good musician. That's why I invited him to the ensemble. And also out of respect for the memory of my father. For two months we couldn’t get enough of him. He changed, even outwardly it was clear that everything was getting better for the person... I’m not a doctor, not a narcologist, but then I began to notice strange behavior.

They say that from the first day of work you had his resignation letter lying around, and the agreement was this: will you sign the application as soon as there is a reason?

This statement was not written immediately, but 8 months later. In the summer of 2005 in Ushachi the situation became unconcealed, Volodya could no longer control his condition... And then, at my request, he actually wrote a statement with an open date. It lasted 4 months. And when we went to filming in Moscow to record Mikhail Shvydkov’s program “Life is Beautiful,” and Volodya, right during the recording, left the studio in a normal state and returned with a changed face, I realized that this couldn’t continue like this... No, he behaved absolutely adequately, did not allow himself any absurdities. On the train on the way back he started having some hallucinations... We didn’t advertise anything. But musicians from other groups have already begun to notice strange changes suddenly happening to Volodya...

Although at concerts the audience received him wonderfully. As soon as it was announced: “Vladimir Mulyavin, son of the legendary musician,” the hall exploded with applause. True, Volodya did not sing, he did not have the same gift as his father... This made him experience psychological discomfort. After all, everyone expected this from him: now he will come out and betray him. Although he sang very beautifully and clearly in a low voice. I'm sure I would have burst into song.

Did Mulyavin himself have any idea of ​​inviting his son to work?

We once discussed it, but, in my opinion, Volodya was serving his sentence at the time. Vladimir Georgievich, of course, felt guilty for not giving something to his children. Now the youngest son Valera received his love and care. I often saw them together, they practically never parted with their father, Mulyavin doted on this guy... But the eldest...

Besides his sister Marina, did Volodya have any relatives?

No. Mother died in 1999. And communication with half-brothers and sisters was not close. Marina is much older than Volodya, and she was like a mother to him...

When you invited Volodya to the ensemble, were you not aware of problems with drugs?

Rumors reached me, but Volodya and I talked frankly, and he assured me: no, no, everything has long been forgotten.

HOW IT WAS

After the birth of his son Volodya, Mulyavin left the family

Volodya is Mulyavin’s second child, born in marriage to his first wife Lydia Karmalskaya. Karmalskaya was older than Mulyavin; together with her, an unknown musician came to Minsk and was able to get a job at the Belarusian Philharmonic.

Lydia worked in a genre of artistic whistling that was rare even at that time. At first, her career was even more successful, and she helped her husband in many ways. Mulyavin and Karmalskaya's daughter Marina was already growing up, "Pesnyary" was thundering throughout the Union, and here's the news - a new addition is expected in the family. Mulyavin really wanted a son. But, oddly enough, his birth was accompanied by rather tragic circumstances. Volodya was born on June 22.

This is how daughter Marina recalled the events of those days in an interview with a Russian newspaper

“If you give birth to a son, I don’t know what kind of happiness it will be.” And my mother became pregnant, despite the doctors’ ban. They told their father: “If your wife gives birth, she will not survive.” The mother decided to keep the child. She was not allowed to give birth herself; they planned to have a caesarean section. But labor began earlier. Mom was taken by ambulance to a regular hospital. Fortunately, she survived... And when the day of discharge arrived, all the doctors, a smart mother, a midwife with a newborn in her arms were waiting for dad, but he didn’t come... He was two hours late...” When the offended mother asked why... “I thought you were really going to die,” the father replied. After that, my mother filed for divorce.”

Volodya grew up practically without a father. Mulyavin immediately had new family. In his second marriage, a daughter, Olga, was born. In addition, in the mid-70s, “Pesnyary” traveled all over the Union, giving 2-3 concerts a day. And sometimes - even eight! With such a concert schedule, there is no time to raise children. And in 1980, Mulyavin married Svetlana Penkina, and in this marriage a son, Valera, was born. He is 24 today.