Tanich Mikhail Isaevich (real name- Tankhilevich; September 15, 1923, Taganrog - April 17, 2008, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian songwriter.
Born on September 15, 1923 in the city of Taganrog.
Wife - Kozlova Lidia Nikolaevna.
Daughters - Svetlana Mikhailovna Kozlova and Inga Mikhailovna Kozlova.
Grandchildren - Leo and Benjamin.
Mikhail Isaevich's father was a responsible worker in Taganrog (he was shot in 1938).
Mikhail Isaevich received his matriculation certificate on the day the Great Patriotic War began - June 22, 1941.
In 1942 he was drafted into the ranks of the army. He fought until 1945 on the 1st Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts. As part of the 33rd anti-tank brigade, he went from Belarus to the Elbe, as a commander of an anti-tank gun. The last 11 months directly participated in the battles.
Awarded with Orders of Glory III degree, Red Star, Patriotic War I degree, 15 medals.
After the end of the war, he lived in Rostov-on-Don, where he entered the Civil Engineering Institute at the Faculty of Architecture, but did not manage to finish it.
In 1947, he ended up in the same prison as his father under article 58, point 10. Then - 6 years of transfers, camps, logging.
In 1953, after the death of Stalin, he was released from prison.
Started publishing in the 1950s. Member of the Writers' Union since 1968.
M. Tanich worked with almost all famous Soviet composers and leading artists of pop, theater and cinema. Composers-co-authors - J. Frenkel, V. Shainsky, A. Ostrovsky, O. Feltsman, Yu. Saulsky, V. Solovyov-Sedoy, N. Bogoslovsky, I. Nikolaev, R. Gorobets. Soloists - K. Shulzhenko, A. Pugacheva, I. Kobzon, M. Magomaev, E. Piekha, E. Khil, V. Leontiev, L. Dolina, A. Apina and others.
In total, Mikhail Tanich became the author of 15 books, including songs. The latter are dated 1998: "Life" (poems) and "Weather in the House" (songs), published for the poet's anniversary.
M.I. Tanich is the favorite author of well-known and popular songs among the people, laureate of the Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (1997), laureate of the Jubilee contest "Song of the Year", dedicated to the 25th anniversary of this program, of almost all festivals "Song of the Year", laureate of the National Music Prize "Ovation" (1997). Awarded the Order of Honor (1998). In March 2001 he was awarded the title of "Honored Art Worker of Russia".
The main project of Mikhail Tanich in recent years is the Lesopoval group (he wrote more than 100 songs for this ensemble).

None of the members of the musical group was in prison, any stories that are sung by "Lesopoval" were written directly by Mikhail Tanich. Sergey Korzhukov was the first soloist and composer of the group. He wrote music for more than 60 of the group's songs.

In 2008, the main ideologist of the team, Mikhail Tanich, died. The squad has been updated again. Tanich's wife became the artistic director - Lidia Nikolaevna Kozlova.

During the existence of the group, at least 21 albums were released, including two after the death of Mikhail Tanich.

Mikhail Isaevich Tanich died on the night of Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 03.10 (Moscow time) at the age of 85 in the intensive care unit of the Moscow Botkin Hospital.
On April 19, after a memorial service at the Actor's House, he was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

Song filmography of M. Tanich:

1972 - "Big Break" - director Alexei Korenev;
1973 - “Three Bachelors Lived” - director Mikhail Grigoriev;
1976 - "Secret to the whole world" - director Igor Dobrolyubov;
1977 - "The Magical Voice of Gelsomino" - directed by Tamara Lisitsian;
1981 - "Waiting" (television) - director Radomir Vasilevsky;
1982 - "4:0 in favor of Tanechka" - director Radomir Vasilevsky;
1983 - "White Dew" - director Igor Dobrolyubov
1984 - "The Wedding of the Jays" - directed by Evgeny Ginzburg
1985 - "Dance Floor" - directed by Samson Samsonov

Awards and achievements:

Order of Honor (September 15, 1998) - for services in the field of culture
Order of the Red Star
Order of Glory III degree
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Honored Art Worker of Russia (November 18, 2000) - for his great contribution to the development of national culture and art
People's Artist of Russia (September 15, 2003) - for great services in the field of art
Laureate of the Anniversary Competition "Song of the Year" (1996)
Laureate of the Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (1997)
Laureate of the National Music Award "Ovation" (1997)
Honorable Sir the city of Taganrog
Honorary Professor of the Rostov State University of Civil Engineering

Former members of the Lesopoval group:

Mikhail Tanich † - author of poetry, artistic director (1990-2008);
Sergey Korzhukov † - vocals, composer (1990-1994);
Sergey Dikiy - vocals (1994-1996);
Leonid Margolin - button accordion, keyboards, guitar (1995-1998);
Ruslan Kazantsev - vocals, choreography (1994-2000);
Sergey Kuprik - vocals, guitar (1994-2008);
Alexander Fedorkov - composer, arranger, keyboards, trumpet (until 2006).

The current composition of the Lesopoval group:

Volkov Stanislav Vladimirovich - vocals, guitar;
Velichkovsky Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich - vocals, bass guitar
Solovyov Vladimir Alimovich - choreography, accordion;
Smirnov Veniamin Ignatievich - choreography, percussion;
Loshakov Alexander Fedorovich - drums;
Rodionov Konstantin Alexandrovich - keyboards, vocals;
Alipov Vladimir Nikolaevich - guitar, vocals;
Gontar Oleg Vladimirovich - keys, vocals;
Blinnikov Vladimir Nikolaevich - sound
Kolenikin Anatoly Yurievich - director of the group
Lidia Nikolaevna Kozlova-Tanich - artistic director of the group "Lesopoval"

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Mikhail Isaevich Tanich is a Soviet and Russian songwriter, artistic director of a musical group. Songs written to the verses of Tanich fell into the repertoire of pop singers, sounded in films.

Mikhail was born in September 1923 in Taganrog. Tanich is the creative pseudonym of the poet, and the real name is Tankhilevich. The Jews were the father and ancestors along this line.

At the age of 4, Mikhail Tanich learned to read. Rhyming began a little later. Like many guys, for Mikhail the biggest hobby was football. Dad gave the boy his first ball at the age of 5. Parents rejoiced at the giftedness of their son, who wrote poetry and was fond of drawing.

A happy childhood ended for Mikhail Tanich in an instant. When the young man turned 14, his father, the head of the communal services department of Taganrog, was arrested on charges of embezzlement of socialist property. Soon Isaak Tankhilevich was shot. They also took Mikhail's mother. The young man had to move to his grandfather, mother's father in Rostov-on-Don. Here in 1941, Misha received a school certificate.

A year later he went to war. It was necessary to liberate the motherland from the Nazis on the Belarusian and Baltic fronts. Mikhail was assigned to the anti-tank artillery troops. During military service Tanich received severe wound and a shell shock and almost ended up in a common grave. After the hospital, he again went to the front, where he again almost died, falling under the winter ice of the Latvian lake. Tanich managed to meet the victory in Germany. Photos of Mikhail during the war period still occupy a place of honor in the family archive. Later, his colleague used the memories of the songwriter when creating the script for the military comedy Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha.

After the war, Tanich came to Rostov-on-Don, where he entered the engineering and construction university. But I didn't have time to finish my studies. On the denunciation of one of the students, Mikhail was arrested, accused of anti-Soviet agitation: in a student company, a young man mentioned that German radio technology was better than Soviet. This was enough to get 6 years of strict regime.

Mikhail Tanich was sent to serve his sentence at a logging site near Solikamsk. And here the young man, who barely survived the war, almost died again. He was saved only by the fact that the talented boy was taken to the brigade, where Mikhail was responsible for visual propaganda. Everyone who arrived in the same party with Tanich died in 6 years.

Mikhail Isaevich was able to return to freedom only after his death. But for three years, the former prisoner received a restriction of rights. His creative career began in the provinces. At first, Mikhail lived on Sakhalin. He worked part-time in a local newspaper, where his poems were published. Here, for the first time, the poet signed with the invented surname Tanich.

In 1956, the future songwriter was rehabilitated, but he did not immediately go to Moscow. First of all, Mikhail decided to send several poetic works to the editors of the Literaturnaya Gazeta and immediately received an approving response from Bulat Okudzhava. bard advised young man move closer to the capital, which Mikhail Tanich did, settling in the city of Orekhovo-Zuyevo for a long time.

Poetry

The creative biography of Mikhail Tanich developed successfully. Soon after meeting with the editors of the Literaturnaya Gazeta, the young man was already collaborating with might and main with various publications. A year after moving to the Moscow region, a debut collection of poems was released.

Once at the Moskovsky Komsomolets publishing house, Tanich met with. This acquaintance turned out to be fateful. The first fruit of joint creativity was the song "Textile Town". After the release, the hit was approved by the listeners. And she became the first performer herself.

Mikhail Tanich continued fruitful collaboration with Frenkel, and then found other poets and composers who were close in spirit. Nikita Bogoslovsky, Eduard Kolmanovsky and - these are the most famous of those with whom Tanich worked in tandem.

Tanich's first popularly favorite hit, written together with Shainsky, was the song "Black Cat". Then another followed, called "Robot", which she sang. The aspiring singer at that time was only 15 years old. Early hits are also written by Mikhail Isaevich.

Many pop stars were proud to collaborate with a famous songwriter. They sang songs based on Tanich's poems, and which the poet called "his". But the "favorite child" was the group "Lesopoval". Mikhail Tanich organized a musical group and subsequently wrote more than 300 songs for him, including “I’ll buy you a house” (“A white swan on the pond”), “Netochka Nezvanova”, “Don’t kill - didn’t kill”, “Three tattoos "," Stolypin's car. The songwriter worked with this group until his death. "Lesopoval" released 16 of his albums, the last of which was released after the death of the leader.

But it happened that the performers were skeptical about the apparent simplicity of Tanich's texts. So it was with the song “We choose, we are chosen”, which became the hallmark of the film “Big Change”, but initially raised doubts with the director of the film, Alexei Korenev. The same thing happened with the hit “Save my broken heart”, which the singer reacted with distrust, as well as with the hit “Komarovo”, which made a star in one evening.

Unpleasant for Mikhail Tanich was the criticism of the hit "White Light". In an interview, the famous bard criticized the lines of the chorus, which was written by two songwriters - Igor Shaferan and Tanich. Later, Vysotsky repented of the vehemence of his own words.

Personal life

Tanich's first love was the German Elfrida Lahne. The couple met during the war years. But after the end of the Great Patriotic War, Lana remained to live in Germany. Already being a famous songwriter, Mikhail Tanich visited Germany, but managed to meet only with a relative of his first lover, whom he presented with a CD with songs for his poems.

In Rostov-on-Don, the personal life of Mikhail Tanich took a new turn. The young man met a girl named Irina. But when the student was arrested and Mikhail left for logging, the young wife broke off relations with her husband.

Dreams of a happy family life came true in Saratov. Once at a party, Mikhail met a beautiful girl who sang soulfully. As it turned out, she sang his songs. This was a great occasion, first for acquaintance, and then for a long and happy married life. In this marriage, children appeared - daughters Svetlana and Inga. They gave their father wonderful grandchildren Leo and Benjamin.

Death

On April 17, 2008, Mikhail Tanich felt unwell. He had long suffered from a bunch of chronic diseases: four heart surgeries, kidney failure and terminal cancer. The poet was hospitalized on April 10th. Relatives hoped for a recovery. Tanich dreamed of having time to finish the last book of memoirs "Music was playing in the garden." In the hospital, Mikhail Isaevich, no longer able to write, dictated the text for several more days.

On April 17, Mikhail Isaevich's heart stopped due to complications. The poet was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery. Now a commemorative bronze sculpture of the work is installed on the grave.

After the death of the poet, a commemorative concert “Do not forget” was released on Channel One, where musicians with whom the poet had worked closely for many years performed. The CSKA team, whose devoted fan was Mikhail Tanich, honored the songwriter with a minute of silence at the next match of the Russian Championship. "Zakolbasilo" dedicated a new song from his repertoire to the poet.

After 10 years, pop artists again honored the memory of Mikhail Tanich - on January 8, 2018, the TV Center channel aired the concert “All good things are not forgotten”, in which Igor Nikolaev, the Lesopoval group, and others participated.

Discography

• "Balalaika"
• "White light"
• "In an abandoned tavern"
• "Invented You"
• "A soldier is walking through the city"
• "Carousel"
• Komarovo
• "Horses in apples"
• "I'll get off at the far station"
• "Do not forget"
• "Weather in the house"
• "Provincial"
• "Seeing Love"
• "That's the Way It Happens"
• "Knots"

Biography, life story of Tanich Mikhail

Childhood

Born on September 15, 1923 in Taganrog. When by the age of ten Mikhail was faced with the question: "who to be", in football and Chekhov's Taganrog, the answer could be only two - a football player or a writer. Despite two large metallurgical plants, few people dreamed of being a steelmaker. And the future poet wrote his first opus. It was something like a play in verse about Pavlik Morozov, which, of course, denounced the kulaks. Perhaps, ashamed of this position of his, Tanich devoted himself to the soccer ball for a long time and selflessly. In the future, I always tried to be not "for", but "against" anything.

War

In 1942, Mikhail was drafted into the active army. Fought on the 1st Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts. As part of the 33rd anti-tank brigade, he traveled from Belarus to the Elbe. In December 1944, according to Tanich himself, he was almost buried alive in a mass grave after being seriously wounded.

In the city of Bernburg, shortly after the Victory, 21-year-old Mikhail met a young German Elfriede Lahne. He did not marry her, although a law prohibiting marriages with foreigners was passed only two years later. In the early 1980s, having arrived in the GDR, I wanted to meet Elfrida, but she lived in the FRG. Tanich met with her aunt, the former owner of the restaurant, where he met Elfrida, presented a record with songs to his poems.

Camp

After the end of the war, he entered the Rostov Civil Engineering Institute, which he did not have time to finish, because in 1947 he was arrested under article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (anti-Soviet agitation). In a friendly company, he said that German cars are better than ours; one of those who heard this denounced him. Tanich was “full of hopes and plans, just health, ahead is the whole life with its thousand options”(Mikhail Tanich, “Music was playing in the garden”).

In prison, and then in a camp (near Solikamsk, at a logging site), Tanich spent the six years he received.

Many years later, he unexpectedly said in a television interview: “At first I was angry, and then I realized: they put me in the right place. The state has the right and must protect itself”.

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After the success of the first song, the author of "Textile Town", as they say, rolled. Just a few names: "Love-ring", "What can I say about SakhalinN", "Black cat", "Mirror", "How good it is to be a general", "A soldier is walking through the city", "Black and white", "Take me take with you", "Don't forget", "I'll get off at a distant station", "Seeing off love", "Bird market", "Komarovo", "Knots", "Weather in the house", song cycles appeared: "Songs of Anka the machine-gunner" , "Limita", "Lesopoval" (M. Tanich works with this group to this day).

Joint creativity

M. Tanich worked with almost all famous Soviet composers and leading artists of variety, theater and cinema. Composers-co-authors - J.Frenkel, A.Ostrovsky, O.Feltsman, Yu.Saulsky, V.Soloviev-Sedoy, N.Bogoslovsky, I.Nikolaev, R.Gorobets. Soloists - E. Khil, and others.

Interesting Facts

The hero of the song "Vityok", which was written to the verses of Mikhail Tanich by the composer and singer Igor Demarin, is the poet's closest childhood friend Viktor Agarsky.

Tanich from childhood until his death was very fond of football. In childhood, according to the poet: For me, he was everything - both a mogul and a fairy tale by Arina Rodionovna.

Shortly after his first hit “Textile Town” became popular, Tanich, while buying a cake, suddenly heard that the stall saleswoman was singing a song. He could not resist and said that this was his song. She did not believe and replied: "Muzzle did not come out!"

For the 220 rubles received for the year of performance on the air of Textile Town (already after the denomination of 1961), Tanich immediately bought a Czechoslovak bed and a polished bedside table in the Mebel store. All the money was spent, but Tanich believed that he had received the furniture for free.

“We fell in love and got married to your song “White light came down on you like a wedge””, the wife of the writer Vilya Lipatova told Tanich.

Giving an interview to a Western journalist and answering a question "How do you feel about the Soviet mass song?", answered: “I don't understand her. Now they have a popular song “A white light has converged on you, a white light has converged on you, a white light has converged on you ...”. And as many as three authors! .. ". They meant composer Oscar Feltsman, who jointly wrote poetry Mikhail Tanich and Igor Shaferan. Tanich was indignant: “God grant me to write once again such a popularly beloved song! It was sung by a 170 millionth choir! Such songs are beyond the jurisdiction, but only laughed at us ".

In his book, Tanich spoke very well about and, however, he only mentioned it on this occasion, without writing anything about his attitude to his work. Almost fourteen years after his death, at the funeral for Shaferan, a married couple unfamiliar to him approached Tanich. They introduced themselves as friends of Vysotsky and his eldest son, they said that shortly before his death, Vysotsky called his interview a mistake, “asked to apologize for him to the authors” wanted to do it myself.

In Glavpur, Tanich was asked that at his creative evening in Hungary, in the group of our troops, the song “How good it is to be a general” should not be performed. The reason is that the generals don't like it. "And the colonels like it!" Tanich answered.

Poet Vladimir Tsybin, by Tanich's definition "not one of the worst in the long list of the Writers' Union" said in his presence: "We've lost another one". Tanich thought that someone had died, but it turned out: Anatoly Poperechny “left the song!”. Tanich commented ironically on this in his book: “... a family of poets lost their own, went to strangers, into a song - died for real poetry. And Tolya, by the way, has never been an outsider in the song, and he still does it well. Tsybin's - no, but Tolya's - yes!.

The slightly priffered song "Netochka Nezvanova" from the repertoire of "Lesopoval" may seem like a mockery of the author of the novel of the same name. But he didn’t finish his novel, because he was arrested and convicted on political charges (specifically, just for reading Belinsky’s letter to Gogol in a circle of Petrashevists), he ended up in hard labor. There are many similarities in the fate of Tanich.

Poets death

At the age of 85, the heart of the beloved author of popular songs among the people, the founder of the Lesopoval group, Mikhail Tanich, stopped. Mikhail Isaevich felt unwell on Tuesday, and the ambulance immediately took the poet to the intensive care unit of the Botkin hospital. Next to him all these hours was his dearly beloved wife Lydia Kozlova, who for almost half a century remained his only muse.

Memory

On April 20, 2008, the memory of a passionate fan of the CSKA football club, the author of the lines “The army must be the first, / The army cannot be the second”, was honored with a minute of silence before the match of the 6th round of the Russian Championship.

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich (1923-2008) - Russian songwriter, wrote lyrics for many popular and beloved songs among the people: "Black Cat", "We choose, we are chosen", "How good it is to be a general", "A soldier is walking down the street ”, “Weather in the house”, “Komarovo”, “The knot will be tied”. Since 2003 People's Artist of Russia.

A family

Misha was born on September 15, 1923 in the city of Taganrog. His real name is Tankhilevich.

My paternal grandfather was a devout Orthodox Jew, he prayed constantly. The family told a legend that the grandfather was well acquainted with the Jewish playwright and writer Sholom Aleichem. When Sholom Aleichem left for permanent residence in America, he entrusted his grandfather to preserve his unique library. Grandfather then lived in Odessa, and during the pogroms of Jews, all the books burned down.

The second maternal grandfather, Boris Traskunov, lived in Mariupol and worked at a metallurgical plant as a chief accountant. When he quit his job, he moved to live in Rostov-on-Don.

Father, Tankhilevich Isaak Samoilovich, born in 1902, served in the Red Army during the Civil War. Then he came to Mariupol, where at the age of nineteen he took the post of deputy head of the Cheka. After working a little in this position, he was sent to Petrograd for training, graduated from the Institute of Public Utilities there. After studying, he was sent to Taganrog, where he was appointed to the position of head of the public utilities department.

Childhood

Isaak Samoilovich was very fond of sports, especially football. When his son was five years old, he gave him a leather soccer ball. At that time, it was a real treasure, a cherished dream came true for the child, because he, just like his father, could not imagine his life without football.

From morning to evening, the boy drove this ball around the Taganrog wastelands, the child did not need any fairy tales or sweets, he raved about football alone.

In addition to sports, Misha also tried other hobbies. By the age of four, he learned to read, and a little later he began to rhyme words and add up his first poems. He tried to draw, he liked it at first, but soon realized that he was not the first in this business, there were many artists, and he abandoned the album with paints. He had such a character that from childhood he wanted to be a winner in everything, he did not recognize losses.

Parents were very busy with their work, however, the child did not feel deprived of their attention and affection. He considered his childhood happy and bright. It was during these years that Misha received moral hardening from his mom and dad for the rest of his life.

Unfortunately, his serene childhood ended early. Terrible times have begun Stalinist repressions. At night it was scary to go to bed, because the black funnels of the NKVD drove through the streets, and no one knew who they would come for that night. The Pope was accused of embezzling socialist property on an especially large scale, arrested and shot in the autumn of 1938.

Following her father, her mother was arrested, less than a year later she was released, but with limited rights and with a certificate stating that her husband was assigned ten years without the right to correspond.

War

After the arrest of his mother, Misha was taken to Mariupol by his grandfather.

Here the guy graduated from high school, and in June 1941 he received a certificate of secondary education. He had plans to go to college, but everything collapsed in an instant, as the war began. Misha even forgot about his favorite poems, which he continued to write periodically from childhood.

In 1942, Mikhail joined the Komsomol and was drafted into the Red Army. For training in 1943, he was first sent to North Caucasus, then in Tbilisi. Here Mikhail entered the artillery school. He himself admitted later that at that moment he was more interested not in studies, but in the hot food that was supposed to be at the school.

Fighters were trained for the front for six months, but Mikhail was kept for a whole year, due to the fact that his father was an enemy of the people. This stigma also influenced the fact that at graduation he was a senior sergeant, and not a lieutenant, like the rest of the guys.

In the summer of 1944, Misha entered the active army. Fought on the 1st Belorussian and 1st Baltic fronts. He commanded a gun in an anti-tank artillery regiment. Several times he was wounded and shell-shocked. In December 1944, after being wounded and severely shell-shocked during a defensive battle at Priekul, he was almost buried alive in a mass grave.

In January 1945, in the battles for Klauspussen, despite heavy enemy artillery fire, a gun under the command of Sergeant Tankhilevich destroyed 2 German dugouts and 2 machine-gun points. During the battle, the platoon commander was killed, and Mikhail took command, having coped with the assigned tasks.

Misha met the victory in the homeland of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the German town of Zerbst. The Polish soldiers told them about the end of the war. There was silence, and there was no need to fight anymore, but it was absolutely unbelievable, just like the fact that they remained alive. At first, each new day without war, shooting and surrounding death seemed unreal.

Home, in Rostov, Mikhail returned in a train, which was more suitable for transporting livestock. There were no amenities, but around the walls were tied German trophies - bicycles and other junk. For military merits, Misha received awards - the Order of Glory III degree and the Order of the Red Star.

Arrest

Returning to his homeland, Mikhail looked around a bit and decided to enter the architectural faculty of the Rostov Civil Engineering Institute. Passed the exams successfully, was enrolled in the ranks of students, but to finish educational institution he failed. A new wave of punitive scenario has begun, now against those who praised foreign countries, their way of life, roads, and technology. Such people were supposed to be taken into account, and even better, isolated from Soviet society.

Misha had the imprudence to blurt out somewhere that he really liked the German-made Telefunken radio and that it was better than our Soviet models. One of the students reported what he had heard, and Mikhail was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation. Then there was an investigation, during which they didn’t beat them hard, but they constantly didn’t let them sleep, so that the arrested were confused in their testimony. At trial, no evidence of his guilt was ever made public. The prosecutor asked for five years, but for some reason they were sentenced to six.

Then there was a stage to Solikamsk for shipment, where fate turned out to be favorable to Mikhail. He met a prisoner famous artist Konstantin Rotov, who before his arrest worked in the magazine "Crocodile" as the chief artist. Rotov was instructed to draw up visual agitation in the camp, and he took Misha into his brigade. So the future poet managed to avoid the felling, where all the prisoners who arrived with him in Solikamsk died.

Takhilevich was released just before Stalin's death. On the day of the funeral of the tyrant who ruined the life of a young guy, tears flowed from Michael's eyes. He considers this a paradox, but admits: “It’s just that we were all children of that time”.

Creation

After the release of Mikhail, a cousin was waiting in Moscow, but the former convict could not leave for the capital, since he was not rehabilitated. He stayed on Sakhalin, where he got a job at Stroymekhmontazh as a foreman. In the local newspaper he began to publish his poems under the pseudonym Tanich.

In 1956, he was rehabilitated and moved closer to the capital, first to the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo near Moscow, then moved to the Zheleznodorozhny district of Balashikha.

In 1959, the first collection of poetry by Mikhail Tanich was published. A well-known composer by that time, Yan Frenkel, after reading the collection, came to Mikhail with a proposal: he would write music for his poems “Textile Town”, and a song would turn out. They met in the corridor of the publishing house Soviet newspaper"Moscow's comsomolets". Tanich then repeatedly admitted that he did not know how his fate would have developed if not for this meeting with Frenkel.

And then away we go. The song sounded on the air and immediately became popular without any promotion, it was sung by saleswomen in kiosks, taxi drivers in cars, students and pensioners. Cooperation with Frenkel continued and resulted in the songs “Someone loses, someone finds”, “Well, what can I say about Sakhalin”. Tanich began to work with other composers:

• with Oscar Feltsman, the song “White light came together like a wedge” was written;
• with Eduard Kolmanovsky "We choose, we are chosen";
• with Vladimir Shainsky "In secret around the world", "A soldier is walking through the city."

The poet fruitfully collaborated with almost all famous Soviet composers: Nikita Bogoslovsky, Vadim Gamaly, Arkady Ostrovsky, Igor Nikolaev. With Yuri Saulsky, they wrote the hit "Black Cat", which became Tanich's hallmark. His songs were sung by the most eminent Soviet pop singers: Maya Kristalinskaya, Larisa Dolina, Alena Apina, Muslim Magomayev, Eduard Khil, Iosif Kobzon, Edita Piekha, Valery Leontiev. Young Alla Pugacheva made her debut on Soviet radio with the song "Robot", written by Mikhail Tanich and composer Levon Merabov.

At one time, Tanich defended the young Yuri Antonov in the Union of Composers. Together then they wrote two songs "Mirror" and "The Dream Comes True", with which Antonov completes any of his concerts.

In the mid-1980s, the poet collaborated with the then most popular composers Raimonds Pauls and David Tukhmanov.

In 1990, together with the composer Sergei Korzhukov, Tanich created the Lesopoval group, the group performed songs in the Russian chanson style. The most famous of them musical compositions:

• "I'll buy you a house";
• "Steal, Russia!";
• "Commandment";
• "Koresh";
• "Three tattoos";
• "Bird Market";
• "Stolypin's car".

In 1994, Sergei Korzhukov died tragically, fell from the balcony of a multi-storey building, and Lesopoval ceased to exist for some time. Then new musicians came to the team, and the group was reanimated. After the death of Mikhail Tanich, the artistic director of Lesopoval is his wife Lidia Kozlova.

Since 1968, Tanich was a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR, and is the author of many poetry collections.

Personal life

Tanich's first love happened immediately after the end of the war. AT German city In Bernburg, he and his fellow soldiers went to a restaurant, where he met the niece of the owner of the establishment, Elfriede Lahne. They began to meet, but Misha did not marry her, although at that time the law was not yet in force, according to which marriages with foreign citizens were prohibited (it was adopted two years after the war).

In the early 1980s, Tanich was on tour in the GDR and wanted to meet Elfrida, but it turned out that she lives on the other side Berlin Wall(in Germany). But her aunt, the very owner of the restaurant, he found and gave her a record with songs based on poems by the poet Mikhail Tanich.

The first wife of the poet was a girl named Irina, whom he married before his arrest. Ira did not wait for him from prison, after the release of Mikhail a divorce was filed, and he left, taking his simple belongings: a pillow embroidered with a cross, a cupronickel teaspoon and a book of "12 chairs".

One day, Mikhail wandered into a hostel for young specialists on November 7th. They celebrated, a luxurious table was laid: several cans of marrow caviar and pickled beets, Odessa sausage and herring with onions. Nevertheless, the evening was intellectual: the youth read poetry and sang songs with a guitar.

At the table sat a girl, as thin as a reed, in a blue crepe de chine dress, almost metropolitan. Michael thought she was fifteen years old. She struck him with her green eyes and incredibly long eyelashes. And then she said: “Now I will sing you two songs of our poet Mikhail Tanich”, not suspecting, either in sleep or spirit, that this same poet wandered into their party and is sitting at the same table. The girl's name was Lydia Kozlova, she became the most great reward in his life.

Tanich almost guessed, Lida was eighteen years old, he was thirty-three at that time. They got married and lived in a happy marriage for more than half a century. The couple have two daughters, Inga and Svetlana.

Until the end of his life, Mikhail retained his love for football, was a fierce fan. Another passion of his life was dogs.

The poet died on April 17, 2008 from chronic renal failure. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery.