Vetlitskaya and her daughter. Natalya Vetlitskaya - biography, photos, songs, personal life of the singer

The singer, who moved to live in Spain, cannot sell her house of 3,000 square meters in New Riga, which was left to her after a breakup by a famous oligarch, at its real price.

One of the brightest pop stars of the 90s, Natalya VETLITSKAYA, has not appeared on television for a long time, does not participate in social events and does not communicate with journalists. She reminds of her existence only with poisonous posts about show business and politics on LiveJournal and other social networks. We decided to find out where the favorite of many Russian men disappeared, and turned to those who worked and communicated with her.

- It was I who once opened Natasha Vetlitskaya to the general public,” the legendary producer did not fail to boast Andrey Razin. — We met her in the mid-80s on tour in Saratov. I was then the director of the Mirage group. And she performed with her husband Pavel Smeyan and danced at the same time Serezhi Minaeva. One day I was walking along a hotel corridor and saw a girl with a black eye fly out of Smeyan’s room, followed by a suitcase. Smeyan swore at the girl and locked himself in the room. She began hitting the door with her fists and calling him an “asshole” and other words. I calmed her down and asked: “What happened?” “I am Smeyan’s wife,” she explained. “He got jealous of Minaev, beat me up and threw me out.”

Since she was left on the street and had nowhere to go, I decided to take her into the Mirage group as a dresser. Soon, on tour in Almaty, I quarreled with the lead singers of the group Natasha Gulkina And Sveta Razina. They got me. They demanded higher wages - 50 instead of 25 rubles. Although they just opened their mouths to the “plywood” of Margarita Sukhankina. And I convinced the producers of Mirage Andrey Lityagin And Sasha Bukreeva kick them out and put in their place Vetlitskaya and the keyboard player’s wife Slava Hromadsky Tanya Ovsienko, who also worked as a costume designer for us. True, the author of the texts prevented this in every possible way Valera Sokolov, who was madly in love with Razina. But I still achieved my goal.
From the first day, when Vetlitskaya appeared with a black eye, I felt great potential in her. Compared to these collective farmers Gulkina and Razina, Natasha looked like Mount Elbrus with a height of 5.5 thousand meters next to the 100-meter Mount Podkumok. And how beautifully she danced! Better everyone in the group! It is not surprising that after “Mirage” she immediately became a star.
Unfortunately, her secret oligarch husbands, who gave her money for expensive videos and television broadcasts, actually drowned the artist in her. These owners were jealous of her at every post and did not let her go anywhere. They wanted her to stay at home. “Well, why don’t you tour? – I asked her once. “You are so popular.” “My husband doesn’t allow me,” she replied. Natasha has not crawled out of this quagmire to this day. She crossed out everything. Leads a closed lifestyle. As artistic director of the Olympic Committee and director of the International Olympic Festival, I tried several times to arrange her concerts. But it was no use.

Wedding night for four

— On the New Year 1989, I had the opportunity to be a witness at the wedding of Natasha Vetlitskaya and Zhenya Belousova, who started in my group “Integral,” another legendary producer reminisced Bari Alibasov. — The second witness was the Integral illuminator Andrey Popov. First, Zhenya and Natasha and I went to the registry office in one of the working-class districts of Moscow. We walked for a long time along the gray identical streets with identical Khrushchev-Brezhnev houses. Then they came to Natasha’s one-room apartment to celebrate the wedding. Apart from the Christmas tree that stood in the middle of the room, there was absolutely nothing in the apartment - no table, no chairs, no bed. I remember we drank champagne and vodka from a bottle and spent a very long time looking for something to lie down on. In the end, they laid some kind of rag on the floor and the four of us spent our wedding night on it. Popov and I’s presence did not hinder the newlyweds at all. Since there was practically no snack, after drinking they passed out and forgot about their marital duties.

And nine days later, the marriage of Zhenya and Natasha ended successfully. To be honest, I still don’t understand why he was imprisoned at all. Yes, they had a close relationship before that. At that time I still lived in Zelenograd. And the two of them came to see me in Zelenograd several times. They even stayed overnight. This mating season lasted for almost a whole year. But perhaps by the time they got married, everything had already boiled over.
In the early 90s, Natasha formed a very successful tandem with a businessman Pavel Vashchekin. With his help, she shot “Look into your eyes” and a couple of other interesting videos, becoming the founder of a certain style in music and video. No one had ever done anything like this before. It was very original, impressive and fresh. The image of a successful socialite she created was later adopted by Ksenia Sobchak and many other media personalities.
But I haven’t seen or heard from Natasha herself for many years. They say that she became a recluse and devoted herself either to charity or to some kind of spiritual quest. However, recently many of the artists who made a name for themselves in the 90s have not been seen or heard from. This is the problem of our show-mother!-business. Talented people are simply washed out to clear the way for someone else's new protégés.

Sperm donor

“We unexpectedly became friends with Natasha Vetlitskaya 13 years ago,” said the singer Tatyana Antsiferova. – She was brought to my house by the lead singer of the Kalinov Most group. Dima Revyakin. He said that Natasha is a longtime fan of mine and really wants to meet me. At that time she was living in a civil marriage with Suleiman Kerimov. But she never told me anything about him or about her other men. We talked mainly about musical topics. For example, I always really liked the singer Mine. I've been following her since the 60s. And Natasha, as it turned out, was also interested in her work. She even had Mina's notes that I didn't have. This immediately endeared her to me.

When Natasha broke up with Kerimov, I introduced her to Misha Topalov. He was then promoting the group “Smash”, asked me to do vocals with the guys and often came to see me. On one of his visits, Natasha happened to be my guest. They began a passionate relationship. They even talked about a quick wedding. But in the end, something didn’t work out.

The last time we saw Natasha was in 2009. Her daughter Ulyana was 5 years old at the time. The girl was very beautiful - fair-haired, blue-eyed. Both Topalov and Kerimov were attributed to her as fathers. From whom Natasha actually gave birth to her, I don’t know. Maybe she even used donor genetic material from a data bank. One of my students gave birth to a daughter this way. I went somewhere and chose. No one knows where dad is. Information from the data bank is not disclosed. Maybe Natasha did the same.
She now lives with her daughter in Spain. According to her, living abroad is calmer. From time to time I receive links from her on social networks - either to some photographs, or to excerpts from yoga, or to advice on how to “let go of the brain.” But I communicate with her extremely rarely. We somehow grew apart from each other. Despite the fact that my health does not allow me to perform, I still continue to make music. And Natasha lost all interest in her. Once, friends from Israel sent me their songs. I asked Natasha for advice on who to offer them to. “I cut ties with everyone in show business,” she replied. “I’m far away from all this now.” It was very strange for me to hear this. If music is your calling, it seems to me that you can’t just pick it up and throw it away. Maybe Natasha will also shudder and remind everyone of herself. Personally, I'm very sorry that she doesn't sing anymore. Our stage is full of musical “hillbillies” that I hate. And there are practically no such intelligent “urban” singers as Vetlitskaya.

Ofigela from Kerimov

“I think I’m one of the few who have recently communicated with Natasha Vetlitskaya,” suggested the famous composer and arranger, who asked that his name not be used in the newspaper. – She has always been a person of mood, and keep with her good Not everyone succeeded in relationships. Our acquaintance began back in the mid-90s. Natasha then broke up with Pasha Vashchekin and hung out with Vlad Stashevsky, with whom I collaborated. When Stashevsky recorded with Arkady Ukupnik at the studio at Olimpiysky, she constantly came and left with him. I often went to his apartment, where he lived with his mother. She brought him gifts. And then they suddenly quarreled to smithereens. They had a joint concert at the Harlekino club in the Cinema Center. And Vetlitskaya had a conflict either with the make-up artist or with the costume designer, who did something wrong.

And the producer of Stashevsky Yuri Aizenshpis had the temerity to interfere. Natasha freaked out and started yelling at him. It almost came to a fight. After that, she no longer communicated with either Aizenshpis or Stashevsky. Even her director got it from Vetlitskaya Andrey Chernikov, who had worked with her since the days when she lived with Dima Malikov. “Natasha sometimes beats me,” he complained to me. “When she’s in a bad mood, she’ll punch me in the face!”
Having met Suleiman Kerimov, Vetlitskaya did not hide her delight. “I was blown away by what kind of person this is! - she told me. “He doesn’t spare anything for me.” He gives me bags of money.” But the material benefits that fell on her also had a downside. Once Stashevsky mentioned in an interview that Vetlitskaya was his mistress. Kerimov became furious and began to attack Aizenshpis: “What kind of bullshit is this?!” You owe me 100 thousand dollars in compensation. If you don’t bring this money in two days, I’ll kill you.” Aizenshpis, who usually threatened to kill and bury everyone himself, was so scared that he went to the hospital with a heart attack. As Vetlitskaya said, Kerimov was not pleased with her director Andrei Chernikov. “Who is this bald fagot hanging around next to you? – he was indignant. - I hate fagots! Get him the hell away!”

Gradually, Natasha practically stopped communicating with her show business colleagues. She performed only on television filming and at expensive “reserves”, where she was paid 30-40 thousand euros. And then, according to Vetlitskaya, Kerimov tensed: “What the hell are concerts?! How much do you need? "Half a lemon" of dollars? Take it and don’t go anywhere!”
And four years ago Natasha and her daughter moved to Spain. Her house is located on the coast opposite the island of Ibiza. She said that she bought it at a big discount - almost half the price. It was just the height of the crisis then. Real estate prices collapsed. And she successfully took advantage of this situation.
During our last conversation on the phone, Natasha complained that she wanted to sell her house in New Riga, which Kerimov left her, but could not find a buyer. Her house is huge - 3000 square meters.

All stuffed with electronic stuffing. As they say now, “smart home”. You can, say, being in America, press a button, and the cameras will show who went where. A house like this costs a lot of money. Well, who will buy it? The price needs to be greatly reduced. However, Natasha is determined to get rid of Moscow real estate. “I’m not going to return to Moscow,” she said. “There’s not much to do here.” I'm already tired of show business. I don’t want to be like Alla Pugacheva or Sonya Rotaru. They are already old ladies. But they go on stage for the sake of money. Why do I need this? I have no problems with money. I just live for my own pleasure."

Mikhail Filimonov

yes, you guessed it, beautiful and daring

Natalia Vetlitskaya

just a nostalgia post

Father - Igor Arsenievich Vetlitsky (1935-2012), a famous Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist.

Mother - Evgenia Ivanovna Vetlitskaya, a music teacher, taught piano.

From the age of 10, Natalya was engaged in ballroom dancing. She also entered a music school to study piano, where her mother taught - she graduated in 1979.

For ten years, starting in 1977, she repeatedly took part in various ballroom competitions.

In 1981 she graduated from secondary school No. 856 in Moscow.

That same year, at the age of 17, she began working as a ballroom dancing teacher. At the same time, she studied vocals. They paid attention to her voice. Since 1985, she worked in the State Variety Orchestra of the RSFSR under the direction of the famous composer Maxim Dunaevsky. It is Natalya Vetlitskaya’s voice that sounds in the backing vocals for the famous song “Bad Weather” from the film musical “Mary Poppins, Goodbye!” - she performed the song together with her first husband Pavel Smeyan.

Later they recorded this song for central Soviet TV. A new duet appears on the Soviet pop stage - “Natalia and Pavel Smeyan”. Their performances are shown several times by Morning Mail. This was Natalia Vetlitskaya's first appearance on the screen.

In 1985, the disaster film “Unscheduled Train” was released, in which a song performed by Vetlitskaya was performed.

After leaving the orchestra under Dunaevsky, Natalya worked in various groups in different capacities.

At first, Vetlitskaya was a ballet dancer with Alla Pugacheva. Then she joined the then popular group “Rondo” as a choreographer, dancer and backing vocalist, recording four solo compositions as part of the group for the magnetic album “Rondo-86”, released in 1987.

For two years, starting in 1986, Vetlitskaya performed as a dancer and backing vocalist in the groups “Class” and “Idea Fix”.

In 1988 she became the lead singer of the Mirage group.

Andrei Razin, who worked at that time as an administrator of the Mirage group, assures that it was he who discovered Natalya Vetlitskaya to the general public.

He said: “We met her in the mid-80s on tour in Saratov. I was then the director of the Mirage group. And she performed with her husband Pavel Smeyan and at the same time danced with Seryozha Minaev. One day I walked along the hotel corridor and saw , as a girl with a black eye flew out of Smeyan’s room, followed by a suitcase. Smeyan swore at the girl and locked himself in the room. She began hitting the door with her fists and calling him an “asshole” and other words. I calmed her down and asked: “ What happened?" “I am Smeyan’s wife,” she explained. “He was jealous of Minaev, beat me and threw me out.”

Since she was left on the street and had nowhere to go, I decided to take her into the Mirage group as a dresser."

Later, when Razin quarreled with the group’s soloists Natalia Gulkina and Svetlana Razina (they allegedly demanded too high fees), he decided to try Natalia Vetlitskaya.

“And I convinced the producers of “Mirage” Andrei Lityagin and Sasha Bukreev to kick them out and put in their place Vetlitskaya and the wife of keyboard player Slava Gromadsky Tanya Ovsienko, who also worked as a costume designer for us. True, this was prevented in every possible way by the lyricist Valera Sokolov, who was madly in love to Razina. But I still achieved my goal. From the first day, when Vetlitskaya appeared with a black eye, I felt great potential in her. Compared to these collective farmers Gulkina and Razina, Natasha looked like Mount Elbrus with a height of 5.5 thousand meters next to 100 -the meter-high Podkumok mountain. And how beautifully she danced! Better than anyone in the group! It’s not surprising that after “Mirage” she immediately became a star,” said Andrei Razin.

Vetlitskaya and Presnyakov

He convinced her to start a solo career.

Vetlitskaya tried to record solo in the studio. In 1992, Fyodor Bondarchuk and Tigryan Keosayan shot a video clip for her song “Look into your eyes” - and this video forever changed domestic show business.

The soft blue dress in which Vetlitskaya appears in the video was given to her by Zhanna Aguzarova.

The clip created a complete sensation

well, and a little trash and frenzy

In 1998, her album “Think What You Want” was released, and in 1999, “Just Like That.” This was followed by a 5-year break and in 2004 Natalya Vetlitskaya presented an album called “My Beloved”.

this is such a funny album cover

In 2003, Maxim Papernik’s musical film “The Snow Queen” was released, where Natalya played the role of the Princess and sang the song “Lanterns” in a duet with Vadim Azarkh. In the same year, Vetlitskaya performed for the last time at the Song of the Year festival, performing the song “Flame of Passion.”

In 2004, she actually stopped working on stage, only occasionally appearing at corporate events.

Natalya Vetlitskaya also performed at some television competitions and festivals.

The public interpreted the disappearance of the star in 2004 in different ways: spiritual practices in India, which the singer was engaged in in recent years, there were rumors about unsuccessful plastic surgeries, about the influence of the sect into which she fell. But in fact, after the birth of her daughter Ulyana in 2004, Natalya Vetlitskaya simply decided to start a different life.

The singer decided to leave for Spain forever, and there, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, she settled in a two-story mansion. It is located in an elite area of ​​Denia. Natalya Vetlitskaya shuns her compatriots and therefore chose this city - the least number of Russians live in it (in comparison with other Spanish regions).

The singer rarely leaves her home - only to go shopping

Personal life of Natalia Vetlitskaya:

1. Pavel Smeyan

When Pavel met Natalya, he was already a famous musician: he was one of the founders of the group “Rock Studio”, participated in the legendary performances of “Lenkom” - “Til”, “The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta”, “Juno and Avos”, and performed songs for cult films of that time. Pavel fell madly in love with a beautiful and young dancer and proposed his hand and heart to her. Then Vetlitskaya was only 17 years old, and Smeyan was 24. He became more than a husband for her, she learned everything from him, consulted him and loved madly: Pavel was an indisputable authority for her in everything. It was Smeyan who advised her to take up music, inviting Natalya to sing along with him in the film “Mary Poppins, Goodbye!”

However, life with Smeyan soon became unbearable. He became a heavy drinker and often raised his hand to Vetlitskaya. In one of her interviews, Natalya told how she miraculously escaped from the hands of her angry husband: “This man repented of this a long time ago, and then asked for forgiveness. And he is still, in my opinion, paying for it with his life. He beat me, that was his nature - angry and cruel. And alcohol was also a factor. We broke up after he almost killed me once. Then I miraculously escaped and ran out of the apartment. She called the police – once again and for the last time. There was no excuse for him. I was a child, I was only 18 years old. Why could I be beaten half to death? But I forgave him and didn’t even put him in prison, although the police guaranteed him five years.”

2. Dmitry Malikov

After a difficult separation from her first husband, the beautiful Natalya did not remain alone for long. Singer Dmitry Malikov became her second high-profile romance. The young and talented singer was 18 when he fell madly in love with the long-legged 24-year-old blonde Vetlitskaya. As we saw above, it was Malikov who advised Natalya to start a solo career. After three years of marriage, Dmitry broke up with Vetlitskaya without quarrels or scandals. As Malikov explained, Vetlitskaya had an affair on the side during their civil marriage. For Dmitry this was a strong blow; for a long time he could not move away from the stormy relationship. The young singer even dedicated the song “Farewell, my blonde” to Vetlitskaya.

3. Evgeny Belousov

Belousov was the man who caused the separation of Malikov and Vetlitskaya. Natalya was already the lead singer of the super-popular group Mirage when she met Evgeniy at a social party at the Cosmos Hotel. Then they hugged each other all evening. Their high-profile romance lasted only three months. According to Natalya, she did not love Zhenya. But Belousov was so much in love with the fatal blonde that he forgot about his common-law wife Elena and their three-month-old child. One day he came to Lena and told her that he was marrying Vetlitskaya. Then his common-law wife called Natasha to wish him happiness, to which she said that Zhenya allegedly complained about a girl who wanted to marry him. That is why Natalya agreed to marry Evgeniy, so that the annoying girl would leave him behind.

Bari Alibasov, who was a witness at their wedding, later said: “To be honest, I still didn’t understand why he was imprisoned at all. Yes, before that they had a close relationship. At that time, I still lived in Zelenograd. And they several times "The two of them came to see me in Zelenograd. They even stayed overnight. This mating season lasted for them for almost a whole year. But, perhaps, by the time they got married, everything had already boiled over for them."

After the silent wedding, Belousov leaves for Saratov with Integral on tour. After returning, he finds a note on his desk: “Goodbye. Yours Natasha."

4. Pavel Vashchekin

Then she had a relationship with businessman Pavel Vashchekin, who invested a lot of money in the promotion of Natalya Vetlitskaya.

The couple hid their long-term love relationship very carefully.

As their mutual friend Roma Zhukov said, it was a very passionate romance, but it soon ended in a quarrel. Parting with Vashchekin led Vetlitskaya to creative stagnation. It took her a very long time to recover from this breakup, but still, she was able to free her heart from the shackles of love for Pavel.

5. Vlad Stashevsky

The young aspiring singer Stashevsky met Natalya back in 1993 and called her by her first and patronymic names. It was he who became a kind of consolation after breaking up with Vashchekin.

Vlad arrived at one of Vetlitskaya’s concerts with an armful of burgundy roses and, in front of everyone on stage, pointedly gave it to her. Their relationship lasted only a few months, and they parted peacefully. The 10-year age difference prevented Vlad from fully opening up. As he himself later said, he and Natalya had different worldviews and completely different views on life. Before leaving for the cruise, he informed Vetlitskaya about the breakup and left. Perhaps his departure made the breakup easier. However, Vetlitskaya, as always, did not worry for long and flew off to her next admirer

6. Suleiman Kerimov

Natalya was returned to her former active pop life by oligarch Suleiman Kerimov. The affair with the millionaire was one of the most sensational in Vetlitskaya’s life.

For the actress’s 38th birthday, Suleiman rented a 19th-century noble estate in the Moscow region. The entire Russian elite was invited to the celebration. And especially for Natalya, Kerimov invited the group “Modern Talking” and the Italian singer Toto Cutugno to perform. Thanks to Suleiman’s money and great connections, Natalia’s videos were constantly played on all radio stations and television channels. However, the fairy tale cannot last forever. This dizzying romance soon ended. As a farewell gift, the oligarch gave Natalya a plane and went to win the heart of ballerina Anastasia Volochkova.

7. Mikhail Topalov

Despite the fact that Natalya lost the ideal man for her, she did not grieve for a long time. The femme fatale remains strong even after serious blows from fate. She met an equally important person - Mikhail Topalov, who at that time produced the group "Smash" and was the father of its lead singer - Vlad Topalov.

During this affair, Natalya found herself pregnant. It’s no wonder that the child was attributed to Mikhail, but later it turned out that the singer seemed to have given birth to a daughter from a yoga trainer named Alexey. Ulyana was born on August 7, 2004.

Max Pokrovsky has nothing to do with it either, just a photo together

This situation became the reason for the separation of Mikhail and Natalia.

After the birth of her daughter, Natalya Vetlitskaya began performing much less frequently and releasing new songs. She stopped running from man to man and went to Europe to give her daughter a better life than hers.

Now Natalya Vetlitskaya is known for her critical attitude towards the Russian government and the current order in Russia.

The post very critically describes the organization of the concert in general and, in particular, the behavior of the artistic director of the Kremlin Palace Pyotr Shaboltai. The article also ironically describes Vladimir Putin’s awarding of singer Philip Kirkorov with the title “People’s Artist.”

The article caused a great resonance in the press and after some time was deleted from the singer’s blog. After urgent requests from fans, the singer returned the publication to her page on the social network Facebook.

Natalia Vetlitskaya's tale about a closed corporate event for government officials

According to the singer’s story, a certain high-ranking official called her and invited her to perform for free at a Very High Corporate Event for One Very Important Person. She heroically won the fees for her sound engineer and hairdresser, and she herself went to perform “for nothing.” However, the customer promised to reward the singer with a valuable gift, which turned out to be a pair of diamond earrings. Judging by Natalya’s remark about the “bitter cold,” it was winter at one of the deeply secret state facilities, like a summer cottage complex in some wilderness. In Vetlitskaya’s words, it was necessary to go “far away.” The artists were first transported to the place by a “secret train”, which stopped on a “secret platform without identification marks” and signs of life right in the middle of the thicket. Then the concert participants were taken by bus “along secret forest roads” to the base itself. “It was forbidden to walk through this secret base in the evening, although in the morning it was possible, but only along certain paths. For example, my hairdresser had to walk only along path number such and such, and God forbid not to turn anywhere, and from such and such until such and such a minute, because people with guns walk everywhere and can shoot at... if anything happens,” this is how Vetlitskaya describes this place. The venue where the concert was to take place was only a five-minute walk from the house where the artist was staying, but she was still taken there in a car that was “all covered in flashing lights, with a trunk filled to the brim with some unknown equipment.”

The room where she was taken had an area of ​​50 square meters, and everyone was herded there - singers, dancers, and other participants in the event.

Everyone was packed like sardines in a barrel, there was literally nowhere for an apple to fall, “the stuffiness was simply unbearable,” says Vetlitskaya: “The only place was found on one of the steps, measuring 30x30.” The unknown organizers warned that under no circumstances should you address the audience with welcoming speeches or say anything between songs. “Be silent. This is a protocol event. You will come out silently, sing and leave just as silently,” they personally told Natalya. As it turned out later, there were only six spectators - men in tails, two at a table, and “in the background loomed a small group of people dressed in ball gowns from Catherine’s times.” “Vascheeee. I almost forgot the lyrics out of disappointment; I have never met such a small audience,” the singer shares her impressions. After the performance, she hoped to return to the room, but everyone was told to remain in place until the end of the concert, when the “audience” finally went to dinner. As has already been said, everyone was prohibited from moving around the complex, so we had to wait at least two more hours for “freedom.” What happened next is best presented in an accurate account by Natalia herself. “The concert ended safely, I was almost in my coat, and suddenly the command was heard: “No one should change clothes and go backstage.”

It turned out that now the guests wanted to sing with the artists, but with which ones specifically they had not yet decided, as if decisions would come as the play progressed." The only one Vetlitskaya specifically names is the general director and artistic director of the State Kremlin Palace - according to her, he was the one in charge everything related to the concert.

We must assume that this is Petr Shaboltai, who has held this post since 2000. The singer speaks about him in the most unflattering terms. “There is no angrier, nastier, more misanthropic and boorish creature in Russian show business. Those modest turns of phrase, which I sometimes use only to add flavor, look, against the backdrop of the speech of this “monster,” simply like the most tender singing of birds. When I heard him talking with the artists, I had one single desire - to shoot him right on the spot,” she shares. According to her story, when “the guests wanted to sing with the artists,” Natalya turned to this person. “I approach the “monster” and naively say: “Well, most likely, I’m not needed, they’re unlikely to want to sing about eyes and cats, there are artists here with a more suitable, patriotic repertoire. Maybe I'll go?"

To which in response I receive an icy look and a stream of selective, crude abuse. What kind of bullshit is this, some old fucking cunt, slurping with his stinking senile mouth, spews all this diarrhea at me, for no reason at all, and like “thank you for not punching me in the face yet.” "?! Honestly, I've never met such a rare bastard before." This whole epic ended with a "buffet with guests" and dinner with them. "These six people enter the mansion in down jackets, over tailcoats, and in fur high boots. Distribution of incentive prizes begins. For actress O - a diamond necklace; artist D - mantel clock; artist N - wristwatch; to artist B - I don’t remember; artist M - guitar; artist L - a printed icon in an expensive frame."

“It should be noted that by that time artist L had already managed to relax fairly and was in a playful mood. Having received the icon as a gift and having drunk another glass, he turns to the main benefactor with a request to leave an AUTOGRAPH on his gift! Well, just think, well, an autograph, well, on icon, well, especially from the tsar himself, what’s wrong with that? Well, you understand what happened to everyone here, “crying” is an understatement,” says Natalya.

Then it was the turn of a certain “very great artist,” as Vetlitskaya calls him. A “large wooden varnished box” was prepared for him, inside which everyone expected to see nothing less than a “crown from the royal bins.” But to the disappointment of the audience and, most of all, the artist himself, it turned out to be just a travel set for playing cards.

But still, the main surprise awaited this “great artist” ahead. The man in the golden camisole of Catherine's times, who at the very beginning called Vetlitskaya with an invitation to participate in the concert, solemnly presented the artist with a certificate stating that he was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia.

“You should have seen our artist at that moment, an unforgettable spectacle. I was as happy as a child, by God. It turns out that a creatively fucked up person doesn’t need much to practically “shit himself with happiness”! I think that if he was presented with the coolest crown from the coolest bins, he would have been a billion times less happy with it than with this “filka letter.” A typical Russian paradox.” The singer ends her story with the following words: “Well, in general: no one was offended, the dinner was delicious, the jokes were funny, the king was just charm. Amen”...

In 2012, after the death of her father, nuclear physicist Igor Arsenyevich Vetlitsky (1935-2012), who worked for 54 years at ITEP, Natalya in her blog accused Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko and ITEP director Yuri Kozlov of persecuting her father, financial fraud and deliberate collapse of the nuclear industry.

In October 2015, in an article on the Echo of Russia website, she sharply criticized the spiritual, informational and political atmosphere in Russia.

In February 2016, she wrote on her Facebook page: “Watching the “cotton wool”, I noticed one common similarity - they are all, as if by choice, stupid and tongue-tied.” “Russia is a great country, it’s just that too little time has passed since all this communist history. I believe that we are developing at a rapid pace, and if our country does not suffer another misfortune in the form of the specter of communism, then Russia will become a very developed country in the foreseeable future,” - says Vetlitskaya.

This is all clear.

Well, if we return to music, what song did you like?

“Magadan” and “Words that you won’t say” to me

Pop Singer.

At the age of ten she began to practice ballroom dancing professionally, and then entered a music school where she studied piano, graduating in 1979 with a gold medal.

For ten years, starting in 1974, the future singer repeatedly took part in various ballroom competitions. At the age of 17, Natalya began running a ballroom dancing school on her own.
Her musical career began in 1983, when she participated as a backing vocalist in the recording of the song “Bad Weather” for the film “Mary Poppins, Goodbye!” (the main vocal part was performed by Vetlitskaya’s then-husband, the famous singer Pavel Smeyan).

After the film was released on television, the song became popular, and a new duet, “Natalia and Pavel Smeyan,” appeared on the Soviet pop stage. The duo's performances are shown several times by "Morning Mail" (except for "Bad Weather" Natalya and Pavel covered the famous hit of Al Bano and Romina Power "Ci sara").

In 1985, having previously worked for about a year in ballet with Alla Pugacheva, she joined the popular group “Rondo” as a choreographer, dancer and backing vocalist. Then, for two years, starting in 1986, she worked as a dancer and backing vocalist in two more well-known groups: “Class” and “Idea Fix”.

In 1988, she became the lead singer of the super popular group Mirage. Along with other Soviet pop stars, she takes part in the recording of the song “Closing the Circle,” which is shown on New Year’s television.

Since 1990, the singer began her solo career. Her very first video clip, “Look into your eyes,” creates a sensation. The press and television declare Natalia a new sex symbol. In the wake of her popularity, the singer releases two commercially successful albums, “Look into your eyes” and “Playboy.” Songs from these albums, occupying the top lines of various charts, consolidate the singer’s success.

In 1997, Vetlitskaya played one of the main roles - the insidious and seductive fox Alice - in the musical film "The Newest Adventures of Pinocchio."

In 1999, another album was released - “Just Like That”. Several tracks from this album took first place in the charts and charts throughout the year.

In 2003, Maxim Papernik’s musical film “The Snow Queen” was aired on New Year’s Eve, where Vetlitskaya played the role of the Princess and sang the song “Lanterns” in a duet with Vadim Azarkh.

During 2004-2008, Vetlitskaya released new videos for the songs “Bird” and “Everything is for a reason,” and also made numerous performances at various television competitions and festivals. These are duets with Sergei Mazaev with the song “Words that you won’t say”, with N. Tumshevits - “Look into my eyes”, with I. Kalnins - “Vernissage”, etc.

Natalya Vetlitskaya not only sings, but also writes music, composes poetry, and is engaged in painting and design. Since 1998, Natalya has been practicing Kriya Yoga (breathing exercises) and attending courses with her master Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in India.

In the early 90s of the last century, Natalya Vetlitskaya’s songs sounded from the windows of almost every apartment. Her concerts attracted a huge number of listeners who knew by heart the words to the compositions “Soul”, “Look into your eyes”, “But don’t tell me”.

Nowadays, only experienced music lovers remember it. Where did the famous blonde go after finishing her active concert career?

Natasha was born in Moscow into a family in which music was important. The girl’s mother professionally studied the technique of playing the piano, and although her father did not have musical inclinations (he worked in the field of nuclear physics), he loved music very much.

The parents did not object when their daughter expressed a desire to study at a music school. Despite the fact that Natasha could not sit in one place for a long time, she graduated from the piano class as an external student and with honors.

During her school years, the girl could not decide for a long time what to become: a singer, a ballerina or a doctor.

She danced quite well, and teachers at the ballet school gave Vetlitskaya large advances. Natalya immediately rejected medical school - sitting diligently in classes and poring over textbooks was beyond her patience.

I thought longer about my mother’s proposal to go to a music school and become a music teacher, but rejected this option. She continued to study ballet, and later became a teacher at a choreographic school. In addition to teaching children, she toured the country as part of the Recital ballet troupe.

Natalya Vetlitskaya entered the world of show business completely by accident. One day, a friend invited her to be a backing vocalist and dancer in the Rondo group. The future star danced quite well, but her vocal performance was far from ideal. Nevertheless, with the support of a friend, Vetlitskaya fit into the team.

One day the director of the Mirage group saw her performance. He liked Vetlitskaya so much that he invited her to replace Natalya Gulkina, who left the group, in the popular ensemble. The dancer and aspiring singer could not refuse such an offer.

His debut as a member of Mirage came in 1988, and the song “Music has connected us” made Vetlitskaya famous throughout the country. They began to recognize her, and fans started lining up to ask for her autograph. After a year of collaboration with the Mirage group, the singer decides to start a solo career.

Natalya Vetlitskaya was supported by producer Igor Matvienko and composer Andrey Zuev. With their help, the singer recorded the solo album “Look into Your Eyes,” which instantly brought the artist to the top of popularity. It was followed by two more solo discs.

The singer began to be called a “sex symbol” of domestic show business, her videos were included in rotation on all Russian channels, and concerts with Natalia’s participation attracted full halls and stadiums.

Vetlitskaya became one of the most recognizable stars of the early 90s. All fashionistas in the country tried to copy her concert outfits, and portraits of the singer adorned the walls of dorms and rooms. At some point, she surpassed Alla Pugacheva herself in popularity.

Changing her repertoire and adding new songs to old hits - “Eyes the Color of Whiskey”, “Playboy”, “Study Me”, “Flame of Passion”, the performer remained at the top of the musical Olympus until the middle of the first decade of the new century, and then her career began to decline .

Natalya Vetlitskaya had a difficult character and did not find mutual understanding with other artists, and not so long ago she admitted that the singer’s career brought her virtually no income and was unprofitable. Gradually, the artist began to go on tours less and less often and appear in group concerts. After 2005, she completely abandoned performing and recording new songs.

Natalya Vetlitskaya’s new hobby was blogging, on the pages of which she wrote a lot about charity and was not afraid to show her civic position on many pressing issues. Her publications attracted the public's attention with her ironic and satirical styles.

The personal life of Natalia Vetlitskaya could become the basis for a multi-part love melodrama. Journalists calculated that she officially married four times, and five more times she lived with her beloved men without a stamp in her passport.

The singer’s first chosen one was musician Pavel Smeyan. On his advice, she began a career as a singer, but then her husband became jealous of his wife’s creative success, began drinking alcohol and even raising his hand against his wife. Tired of sorting things out, Natalya filed for divorce.

Then Vetlitskaya lived for three years with, who became for her not only a common-law husband, but also the author of several popular compositions. The creative people parted quietly and without scandal. Malikov later admitted that the reason for the separation was Natalya’s regular infidelities.

After Malikov Vetlitskaya started an affair with a young performer Zhenya Belousov, dated him for three months and became his legal wife for nine days. When Belousov went on tour, Natalya began a new relationship.

She met with Pavel Vashchekin, a famous producer. Then the young singer Vlad Stashevsky was in her life for some time.

She was married to fashion model Kirill Kirin and yoga trainer Alexey, with whom she gave birth to her only daughter, Ulyana, in 2004. The tabloid media wrote about Natalya’s affair with oligarch Suleiman Kerimov and producer Mikhail Topalov.

Natalya Vetlitskaya does not like to comment on her personal life. Now she lives outside of Russia, mainly in Spain, where she has a small two-story house in the town of Denia, but the former singer can be found in India and Switzerland. She enjoys life and is happy that she is no longer bothered by crowds of fans.

TASS/Chumichev Alexander

There are always many men next to a beautiful woman. One of the brightest Russian stars of the 90s, Natalya Vetlitskaya, was no exception. She married some, simply lived with others, and cheated on others. The more radical seems the change that happened to the singer after forty: one man, one daughter and no social life.

One ballet on my mind

Her family always loved music: her mother played the piano, her father was fond of opera, and little Natasha graduated with honors from a music school as an external student. At the same time, she was engaged in ballroom dancing, and at first this hobby took precedence over music.

Vetlitskaya began teaching choreography at school and toured with a ballet group. As her first husband, Pavel Smeyan, put it, at the age of 17, “she had only ballet on her mind.”

...They met when a company of musicians, among whom was Pavel, gathered to visit one of them. A friend of Smeyan noticed a young girl with ice cream in her hand on the street and invited her to join.

“When the car started moving, it suddenly dawned on him that he was taking some underage girl home to his wife. How to be? It's inconvenient. “Listen,” he tells her, “decide for yourself whose girl you will be - Pashina or Yurina? Just not mine." No one pulled her tongue, she answered herself: “Pashina,” Smeyan recalled their acquaintance.

That evening he walked her home. Vetlitskaya’s parents were hostile to the relationship between their young, unspoiled girl and an adult musician. Even official marriage did not help: Natasha’s mother saw that something was not going well in the marriage, that her daughter was not happy.

It was true. A talented singer and composer, Pavel, however, began to abuse alcohol and could easily raise his hand against his wife. It is thanks to him that Vetlitskaya will think about a singer’s career - but she will do it without him.

The first marriage ended in divorce. She had many more novels ahead.

"Soul" as a gift

In the late 80s, Natalya Vetlitskaya worked as a backup dancer and backing vocals in the Rondo group. At one of the performances, the director of the Mirage ensemble noticed her: the spectacular blonde was ideally suited to replace Natalya Gulkina, who left the project.

The very first song Vetlitskaya recorded as part of Mirage, “Music Has Connected Us,” became a hit. They began to recognize her, take autographs - and Natalya took advantage of the moment. One year at Mirage was enough for her to start a solo career.

There were no problems with the material for the first album: at that moment Vetlitskaya was dating Dmitry Malikov, who not only sang, but also composed the music himself. He gave the song “Soul” to his beloved for her birthday.

At one point, Vetlitskaya became a celebrity, a sex symbol and an idol of young girls throughout the post-Soviet space. Her concerts were sold out, cassettes with the album “Look into your eyes” were sold out instantly, and the video for the song of the same name was shot by Fyodor Bondarchuk himself.

Only Dmitry Malikov was left out of this celebration of life. Vetlitskaya’s relationship with the author of her first hit lasted only about three years - and, as Dmitry says, it stopped due to the singer’s infidelities.

A short marriage and many admirers

Her marriage to singer Yevgeny Belousov regularly appears on lists of the shortest celebrity romances.

They dated for three months and got married on January 1st. And after 10 days they quarreled and went on tour. They didn’t delay the divorce either.

Among Natalia’s fans were Vlad Stashevsky, oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, and producer Mikhail Topalov. They gave her luxurious bouquets at concerts, threw unprecedented parties in her honor, but sooner or later they inevitably left her life.

Vetlitskaya entered into her third official marriage with Kirill Kirin, who worked as an administrator for Philip Kirkorov. He didn't last long either.

This marathon of men stopped in the early 2000s, when Natalya met an unknown yoga trainer Alexei and gave birth to his daughter Ulyana. She was 40 years old when she first became a mother.

Whether the birth of a child played a role, or Natalya simply became wiser, her career as a singer and gossip heroine ended almost immediately. Together with her family, Vetlitskaya moved to Spain, began to lead a closed lifestyle and calmly raise her daughter.

“Nothing can scare or surprise me anymore. At the same time, I have not forgotten how to admire and be surprised by life. I respect and love myself very much,” Natalya said in a recent interview.

She occasionally reminds herself of herself with posts on social networks and rare selfies (and even now, at 53, she looks great). But her music unexpectedly received a rebirth: in the new comedy “Myths” with Russian stars the song “Look into your eyes” is heard again, covered by Paulina Andreeva.