The king of the Russian chanson - this is what his fans called this talented musician. Even a very interesting and fascinating film was created about Mikhail Krug, which lifts a certain curtain over his life. And once I didn’t want to believe that the author and performer of such famous songs as “Vladimir Central”, “Madame”, “Golden Domes” was shot dead in his own mansion. Versions of the murder were considered very different. To deal with this issue, we will plunge a little into the biography of the master.
Chanson. Michael Krug
His real name is Vorobyov. He was born in 1962, on April 7, in Tver. His father was an engineer, and his mother was an accountant. There was an older sister Olga. Michael studied at school number 39 with reluctance, often escaped from school. At one time I went to a music school and learned to play the button accordion, but then I abandoned this lesson. He loved to play hockey, was a goalkeeper in his team.
His idol was Vladimir Vysotsky, so from the age of 11 he had been playing the guitar. Mikhail began to write his first poems at the age of 14 and dedicated them to his classmate. In his work, he did everything he could to imitate Vysotsky; on this occasion, a scandal broke out at school.
Then Misha joined the army; upon his return from it, he worked as a driver and transported dairy products around the city for 10 years. Then in 1987 he was promoted to head of a convoy and sent to study at the institute. But he did not want to sit in the office, he also abandoned the institute and again went to work as a driver.
Personal life
His first wife was Svetlana, she was a solo guitarist in the instrumental ensemble of the Institute of Light Industry. It was she who became his first producer. She was looking for him all sorts of music competitions, where he could show his musical talent. She recorded the songs of Mikhail Krug on audio cassettes. In 1988, they played a wedding, and after a while the son Dmitry was born. However, after a year the couple broke up due to constant husband cheating.
In 2000, Mikhail married a second time to a girl from Chelyabinsk, Irina, whom everyone now knows as the popular chansonetka Irina Krug. She already had a daughter from her first marriage, and soon she gave birth to the Circle son of Alexander.
Views and beliefs
Mikhail was to some extent a conservative in his views and beliefs. He loathed feminism. And, most interestingly, he was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and assistant to its offensive leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In his interviews, the Circle openly emphasized its anti-communist orientation.
Mikhail Krug: albums, creativity
The Tverskaya Streets album was the first. He recorded it in 1989, followed by the album "Katya" and then the third without a title. Officially, these albums never came out, but were stolen and distributed illegally.
But Mikhail Krug did not stop there, he continued to create his albums further. The turning point in his career was the new collection of songs "Zhigan-Lemon." The songs were mainly “near-criminal” themes, but also lyrical and ironic compositions slipped. It was with them that Mikhail Krug came to the Russian chanson.
His popularity grew at an extraordinary pace; in 1995, the picture “Bard Mikhail Krug” was shot about him. A year later, his video debut for the song “It was yesterday” took place. Since 1997, he began performing abroad in Germany, America and Israel. And he did not forget to give charity concerts in prisons and colonies if he knew what “gratitude” awaited him from those about whom he had sung so sincerely.
The most famous songs of Mikhail Krug are “Kolshchik”, “Golden Domes”, “Vladimir Central”, “Madame”, “I went through Siberia”, “The process is over”, “Sparks in the fireplace”, “Student”, “Hello, mother "," To you, my last love, "etc.
Awards and Achievements
In 1998, the singer received the Ovation Award in the Russian Chanson nomination. In 1999, he took part and won the “Musical ring”, where Sergey Trofimov became his opponent. In 1999, he took second place in Russian Chanson.
In 2000, he starred in the feature film "April", where he played a crime boss.
About this outstanding personality, the series “The Legend of Michael the Circle” was even filmed, where very interesting facts from his life were used.
Investigation. Kill version
The famous bard was shot dead on the night of June 30 to July 1, 2002 in his mansion in the village of Mamulino (Tver district). Forty days after the Circle’s funeral in Tver, a grand concert of his memory was held at the Khimik stadium. The stands were packed with spectators, many famous and popular artists performed on stage. Many were then convinced that the musician was an accidental victim of a banal robbery, if we say “by concepts”, a gop-stop. It was believed that the bandits who got into the house were not going to kill him, in one minute everything went wrong according to the thieves' scenario.
On the question of who killed Mikhail Krug, some considered it to be contract murder and that his business rivals were the killers, others that vodka mafiosi did it. And when literally two months after this tragedy they shot him from an automatic machine of Tver authority named Arkash (Ibragim Azizov), it was immediately rumored that it was revenge, since it was his gang who was engaged in the robbery of wealthy mansions.
How it was
The question of who killed the Circle of Michael, was asked and the strongest psychics. According to their visions and according to eyewitnesses, a clear picture of the moment of the crime was created. The indications, although in some cases, vary, but in general the situation has become clearer.
So, at the time of the murder there were five people in the house: mother-in-law Zoya Petrovna, three children (from the first marriage of the Circle, son Dima, Marina - the daughter of Irina, and their joint month and a half son Sasha), Mikhail and his wife Irina. Towards midnight, the master went into the bedroom, and his wife laid the children down. The mother-in-law was sitting on the sofa of the third floor and was watching TV, when suddenly two masked men attacked her. They hit her in the head with a gun and tried to strangle her.
Irina ran out to the noise, one of the criminals suddenly found himself without a mask, she saw his face, and he chased after her. Mikhail, hearing his wife’s cry, ran out of the bedroom and met face-to-face with the criminal who shot him twice, and he fell. The ambulance refused to go without police; time was wasted. Neighbor Vadim Rusakov drove him to Tver City Hospital No. 6, and by morning Krug had died from blood loss.
The children were not injured, as the two younger ones were sleeping, and the elder Dima was sitting in the headphones, playing on the computer and did not hear anything.
10 years have passed since the death of Mikhail Krug, and this is what his friends in the criminal world managed to find out. Thief in law Alexander Sever (to whom the lines from the song “Vladimir Central” are dedicated) claims that they conducted their investigation, and it turned out that the singer’s death was not custom-made, it just happened. The North hinted that the third person was the gunner at the rich cottage, and that all those involved in the murder were found, punished and are “in their place”.
Wolves
Regarding the topic “Who killed the Circle of Michael”, it should be noted that in 2008 the police arrested the gang group “Tver Wolves”, which could be involved in this tragedy, especially since the wife of Krug Irina identified one criminal - Alexander Ageev, who attacked them. However, his involvement in this case could not be proved. But he received a life sentence for other crimes.
In the summer of 2012, information appeared in print that the remains of the murdered Circle were found in Tver, they were indicated by a person serving a life sentence. At the end of spring 2013, the widow Irina also identified this murder performer, Dmitry Veselov, from photographs, which was confirmed by the killer of the Volkov gang, Alexander Osipov, who was sentenced to capital punishment. In the article “Komsomolskaya Pravda” dated March 7, 2014, the details of the murder of a famous musician were first published. Now the case is closed, and to the question of who killed the Circle of Michael, comprehensive answers are given.
Conclusion
On the morning of July 3, after the funeral in the church, Mikhail Krug was buried at the local Dmitrov-Cherkassky cemetery. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Katya Ogonek, Vika Tsyganova, Efrem Amiramov, the Pearl brothers and many other celebrities came to say goodbye to him.