Seven famous musicians killed by firearms. Igor Talkov: Truth and lies a quarter of a century later Bodyguard of singer Aziza Igor Malakhov

At 62 it's time to take stock. So many years would have turned this year for the singer, composer and rock musician Igor Talkov. In a mansion in the deep forests of the Moscow region, the main person involved in the case (now deceased) Igor Malakhov was hiding for more than 20 years - the fatal bullet was fired from the revolver of the bodyguard of the singer Aziza. Perhaps a coincidence, but immediately after it was announced, all of Malakhov's close relatives disappeared from the mansion.

Irina Krasilnikova, a close friend of the family of Igor Talkov: "According to the materials of the criminal case, Malakhov could not have inflicted a fatal wound on Talkov, as evidenced by the totality of the following data: the nature of Malakhov's movement at the scene, the position of Malakhov's hand with a weapon."

These materials of the criminal case have never made it to the press. A close friend of the Talkov family has been conducting her own investigation all this time. And here it is worth paying attention to several things. First, the murder weapon was never found. Many conclusions were drawn on the basis of ballistic and situational expertise. Secondly, the investigation never questioned key witnesses.

So what was it? Accidental kill in a brawl, or was the brawl a carefully planned prologue to murder?

It happened on the day of the concert with the participation of the brightest stars of that time. The headliner, as they would say now, is the performer of the hit "Russia" Igor Talkov. But shortly before going on stage, the representative of Aziza Malakhov demands from the director of the idol of the 80s Valery Shlyafman to give up a place to the lady, that is, to act as an opening act for her. In a few minutes the singer will be killed. Valery Shlyafman is the same person who did not give in to Malakhov then and who is now considered the main suspect in the murder. Now, under the name Vysotsky, he works as a simple manager at a Tel Aviv travel agency.

Malakhov bursts into Talkov's dressing room and in a raised voice demands that the singer give up his turn to Aziza. But when the security escorted Aziza's guardian away, Shlyafman already behaves strangely: having caught up with Malakhov, he begins to provoke him. Malakhov pulls out a revolver, Shlyamfan again flies into the dressing room shouting "Igor, he has a gun!" To which Talkov, with the words "We have our own for his gun," pulls out a barrel and also runs out into the corridor. Talkov opens fire first, but he has a gas pistol - a popular at the time, but a rather harmless means of self-defense. But the enemy has already been neutralized - he was tied up by Talkov's bodyguards. Had the singer returned to the dressing room, everything would have ended differently. But Talkov begins to beat Malakhov - and then two shots sound. At that moment, not one of them became fatal. The mise-en-scene at the time of the third fatal shot looks like this: Talkov is kneeling on the left, Shlyafman is half-sitting on the right at a distance of elongated, between them is a crowd of guards and Malakhov, who is lying on the floor. According to the case file, the revolver was in the hands of Shlyafman at that moment. But that's not all. After being wounded in the chest, Talkov was still alive for some time, and two people in white coats rush to his aid, posing as students of a medical university. And either out of ignorance, or by some secret intent, they give him a heart massage, which makes the bullet go deeper. They say that if they had waited for the ambulance to arrive, the artist could have been saved. It turns out that Talkov had at least three chances to stay alive that day.

I am writing these lines on the eve of a tragic anniversary in the history of Russian show business. Language does not dare to call this date a jubilee, but the fact remains: October 6 marks exactly 25 years from the day when the Poet and Citizen (with a capital letter) Igor Vladimirovich Talkov “left” as a mysterious messenger. He left before reaching his 35th birthday. He died like a soldier at a combat post, having received a bullet in the heart from those whom he never tired of denouncing in his song repertoire ...

Who was Igor Talkov for me? The idol of my youth? No, most likely, an older brother - a person who, without hesitation, will offer you a friendly shoulder in a difficult life situation! And when I, tired of the everyday hustle and bustle, put on a disc with the recordings of my favorite singer and listen to his quiet hoarse voice, now mercilessly scourging the vices of our society, now sounding tender and lyrical, then I feel how the strength and desire to live and fight gradually return to me. more ... Yes, fans of Vladimir Vysotsky will forgive me, but I think that the work of the famous "rebel from Taganka" is nevertheless closer to those whose youth fell on the years of Khrushchev's "thaw" and Brezhnev's "stagnation", but Igor Talkov's songs are already the property of the youth of perestroika and post-perestroika Russia, to which I just have the most direct relation! By the way, on the day of Talkov's funeral, one of the journalists called him in his obituary "Mozart of the Russian stage", meaning the striking coincidence of the dates of birth and death of Igor and Wolfgang Amadeus (exactly 200 years difference). But this representative of the "second oldest profession" did not even suspect how accurate his analogy is! Just as at one time they did not want to recognize the talent of the great son of the Austrian people and in every possible way hounded in words until they actually poisoned (according to the popular legend as presented by A.S. Pushkin), they did not give life to the outstanding representative of the Russian people, sending in the end to him a hired killer.

But who did kill Igor Talkov, who played the role of Salieri in the life of our Russian Mozart? By posing the question in this way, we run the risk of provoking the wrath of his many enemies (alas, there were always too many of them). And at the same time they will refer to the results of the official investigation of the crime committed on October 6, 1991 behind the scenes of the Yubileiny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg, according to which Igor's death was due to an ordinary accident. Indeed, in the period from January 29 to April 7, 1992, the prosecutor's office of the city on the Neva conducted a comprehensive examination of the events of that tragic day, which established that Igor Talkov died as a result of a blind bullet wound in the chest, which followed from the careless handling of weapons by his concert director Valery Shlyafman. It was this version that was voiced to journalists by the prosecutor's office investigator Valery Zubarev. He also announced the initiation of a criminal case against Shlyafman under Article 106 of the RSFSR Criminal Code "Negligence Murder", which, however, was suspended on June 6, 1992 in connection with the departure of the suspect back in February for permanent residence in Israel ... But such a turn of events is by no means suited Igor's family and friends, especially his widow Tatyana! With the help of her friends, she conducted her own investigation into the circumstances of her husband's death and described in detail the last hours and even minutes of his life in the brochure Chronicle of a Tragic Day, published in 2002. Here are some typical quotes from this edition, accompanied by our comments.

Tatyana Talkova (hereinafter - TT): “My husband and I had a very trusting relationship, but, not wanting to worry me, of course, he did not talk about those conflict situations that sometimes arose on tour and became more frequent with the appearance in June 91, the new director of the team Valery Shlyafman ... Conflicts flared up every now and then, Shlyafman provoked the guys, and Igor unwittingly found himself involved in resolving such situations ... Shlyafman's cockiness was somewhat alarming: either because of his character, or because of the desire to show his significance , to arouse the respect of the guys, he used to provoke everyone and, like a pug, hide behind the owner's back. Or maybe it was not a matter of character; perhaps, and this is most likely, he was specially introduced to the team for this purpose ... "

The fact that Valery Shlyafman is a provocateur specially introduced into the “Lifebuoy” group was also written by Igor's elder brother Vladimir in the book “And you will bloom ... Great Russia!”, Published by him in co-authorship with his mother Olga Yulievna in 2001. Then, in June 1991, an extremely tense situation developed in the Talkov collective due to the ongoing renewal of the troupe of musicians. As a result, Vladimir, the acting administrator, had to leave his post and leave for a while to the FRG to visit his mother's relatives, and Shlyafman, who had come from nowhere, was taken in his place. Why Igor did this, one can only guess, but, most likely, he simply had no other choice. The fact is that not long before that he spoke at the presentation of the newspaper Pamyat, published by the odious nationalist organization of the same name, and there photojournalists filmed him hugging the leader of Pamyat Dmitry Vasilyev, who was "famous" for his public anti-Semitic statements. As a result, information went to the press that Igor Talkov himself is an ardent anti-Semite. Of course, this was a blatant lie, since musicians of various nationalities, including Jews (for example, Gennady Berkov), performed in the Lifebuoy group, but how could it be refuted? Only by accepting the most responsible position in the collective of the Jew Shlyafman!

However, we will continue to cite T.T. and go directly to the description of the events with the participation of Igor Talkov that took place on October 6, 1991 in St. Petersburg in connection with the opening of the local branch of the company of Sergey Lisovsky "LIS'S": "By the beginning of the daytime concert Igor was already at the site of the Yubileiny Sports Palace ... He returned by 4 o'clock. It was planned to leave at about 4:20 pm ... And there, even in his absence, a conflict began to emerge. The concert has already begun, someone was performing. Malakhov at the beginning of the concert went up to the presenter and said that there would be a rearrangement, Talkova and Aziza must be swapped, since she supposedly does not have time to prepare for the release ... The host began to explain to Malakhov that this is a whole process and only the concert organizers have the right to resolve such issues ... nevertheless, under the pressure of Malakhov, the presenter conveyed his demand to the administrator and asked to find out if there was an agreement with Talkov so that there would be no confusion. The girl-administrator entered Igor's dressing room, in which there were already several people from the team, and said to the costume designer Masha Berkova: "Hurry up, they change your places there, you have to leave earlier." Soon Igor himself came from television ... Masha hurried him, explaining the situation. He took it quite calmly. I began to dress quickly ... "

So, Igor Malakhov, the bodyguard and part-time lover of Aziza, who also participated in that concert, unexpectedly demanded to rearrange the numbers with the participation of his protégé and Igor Talkov. It is not known how justified these requirements were, but no one dared to argue with the national kickboxing champion. As a result, Talkov was simply presented with the fact of the replacement that had taken place, to which he initially did not mind and even began to prepare to go on stage ... But then, like a devil from a snuffbox, Shlyafman appeared, and the conflict that had died out flared up with new strength!

TT: “Shlyafman, meanwhile, is returning to the dressing room, where Igor was almost ready to go on stage.
- There, some Malakhov changes you places.
That is, the very presentation of information was calculated on the appropriate reaction of Igor:
- Yes, why is that? Go find out.
Shlyafman goes to negotiate with Malakhov. Returning a few minutes later (after all, everything happened very quickly), he says that Malakhov called him “Vaska”, threatened him, posing as “a businessman of the shadow economy,” and even Talkov himself also “put him down,” and so on.
- Well then, go and tell me that either I will perform with my number, or I will not come out at all.
Thus, the conflict began to acquire a frankly principled character, and all the talk that Talkov allegedly did not want to give up his close to the final and, therefore, according to the unwritten laws of show business, a more "prestigious" place in the concert - all this absurd ... For Igor it did not matter when to perform - at the beginning or at the end of the concert. He came out with such a program, which at once concentrated the attention of the audience on him ... Shlyafman's actions were of such a provocative nature that it is very difficult to believe in their unintentionality ... Finally Igor said: "Call this 'businessman' here, we'll talk." In essence, Talkov was challenged - arrogant, impudent, boorish, outrageous. As a man of honor, with a heightened sense of his own dignity, he simply could not help but accept it. "

It was for this "heightened self-esteem" of Igor that Shlyafman's frankly provocative behavior was calculated! He perfectly understood that such reckless acts only compromises the reputation of his own team and, first of all, Talkov himself, however, he continued to further inflame the conflict that had arisen.

T.T .: “16.15. Malakhov, accompanied by Shlyafman, enters the dressing room, begins a conversation in offensive tones, and behaves defiantly. Igor, naturally, could not remain cool in such a situation, he began, as they say, to “get turned on”. And this was expressed in the fact that he began to speak more quietly ... The guys knew this and, trying to "extinguish" the situation, began to take Malakhov out of the dressing room. And in the corridor a few moments later the conflict was practically settled. But then Shlyafman appears again and tosses Malakhov: "Well, you fucked up to fight ?!" Stop! It turns out that he brought the irritated, flushed Malakhov to Talkov's dressing room, knowing in advance that there the conflict could take extreme forms, namely, a fight could occur (and this is, at least, a compromise of Talkov)? It is he, the administrator, who, on duty, was obliged to settle all such issues at his own level and in no case bring their solution to the level of “showdowns” with the artist, and even a few minutes before going on stage. "

Well, as they say, the Moor has done his job, the Moor can leave! Subsequent events took on an irreversible character with the inevitable involvement of Igor Talkov in the conflict that had escalated to the limit, which, it seems, was what the brawler Shlyafman was counting on.

T.T .: “16.17. So, the fatal phrase has been pronounced. Malakhov takes out a pistol. As if expecting this very moment, Shlyafman runs into the dressing room: "Igor, give me something, he took out a" gun "(a revolver of the" revolver "system, loaded, as it turned out later, with three live cartridges - Ed.)", - knowing full well that this time Igor took with him (for the first time!) his gas pistol ... It is impossible to imagine that Igor would give Shlyafman a pistol, and he himself would sit in the dressing room when his guys are in danger. “We'll find our own for his 'gun',” says Igor and calmly, not abruptly, takes the bag, pulls out a pistol from there, twists the bolt, opens the door and immediately shoots two or three times ... Malakhov by that time had already begun to put away his revolver , but then he grabbed it again. Bodyguard Sanya Barkovsky leaned on him from behind; two more guys keep up, trying to snatch the pistol, twisting his arms. In order to somehow "neutralize" Malakhov, Igor runs up close and tries to hit him on the head with the handle of a gas pistol. Shots are heard already from military weapons (later bullets were removed: one from the box from under the equipment, the other went into the floor). It is significant that at that moment no one from the police guard of the Palace of Sports was near ... Another, the last - third shot is heard. Malakhov's pistol was knocked out. Igor, dropping his own, backs away, clasping his hands to his chest, says: "How painful!" - walks in a state of shock several steps along the podium towards the stage and falls on his back in front of a large mirror ... "

Everything, finita la comedy! You can lower the curtain and extinguish the candles ... True, first you must quickly destroy all the evidence from the crime scene. And it turns out that here, too, "Moor" Shlyafman played an important role!

TT: “The weapon ends up with Shlyafman, who hides it in a cistern in the toilet room. Further along the chain: Elya Kasimati (Aziza's assistant), Aziza and ... the revolver returns to its owner. Malakhov, unnoticed, passes through the auditorium, Through the rows, finding himself on the street, gets into the car and drives away. Then, in his words, he disassembles the revolver and throws it in parts into the waters of the Fontanka and Moika. [According to the story of costume designer Maria Berkova, who refers to the testimony of bodyguards, the climax episode looked like this. A pistol is knocked out of Malakhov, which Shlyafman immediately picks up. Stepping back, he shouts: "Everyone stand," and then shoots Igor. Then, as you know, he hides the pistol in (or on) the toilet tank. - Approx. ed.] "

In general, our shot has ripened everywhere! However, let's not rush to conclusions yet and look at the denouement of this bloody drama.

T.T .: “16.37. The first call to an ambulance was recorded. The program director sends the host to stop the concert. He, in a broken voice, reports what happened and asks to go backstage to the doctors, if there are any in the hall ...
16.39. Two vehicles drove to the scene: "assault" (resuscitation-surgical) and the second (with an intensive care team) ...
16.53. Igor is carried into the car. In the history of the disease at this moment it is written: “Heartbeat, breathing, pulse are absent. The pupils are maximally dilated. "...
17.00. In the ambulance hospital No. 10, the doctors raised the deceased to intensive care ... Igor had a bullet, blind, penetrating wound of the chest with damage to the heart, lung, mediastinal organs, massive, transcendent, acute blood loss. "They don't live with such a wound, a few steps and that's it ..." - said the doctors. "

But this is already interesting! Judging by the nature of Igor Talkov's injury, the results of the official investigation into the accident of the incident immediately raise great doubts. And further these doubts only intensify.

T.T. cites a passage confirming her words from A. Kalashnikov's publication "The Secret of Talkov's Death" ("The X-Files of the 20th Century", No. 10, August 1999), from which it follows that Igor Talkov was clearly shot by a professional who managed to kill the coronary vessels feeding the heart and cause extensive internal bleeding: “So, the singer's supposedly“ accidental ”shot struck and destroyed exactly that part of the heart, which practically cannot be restored on a living organism. Talkov's death came immediately, but the volunteer "assistants" who rose from the hall to cries for help, managed to push Talkov's chest, squeezing all the blood out of the heart, after which they disappeared into the crowd without a trace ... "

In other words, two unknown "doctors", in full accordance with the "good old" tradition of killers, fired a kind of "control shot" at the already dead Igor Talkov! But what could all this mean? Let's see what conclusions the author of the brochure in question draws.

TT: “I anguishly want to know who really was behind all that happened ... The fact that Aziza was a figurehead does not raise any doubts. As for Malakhov and Shlyafman, it seems that they have simply already rehearsed this situation. Sometimes one hears that contract killings, behind which the special services stand, have a different "handwriting" ... But here, most likely, the task was not only to "remove" an unwanted person, but also to publicly discredit him ... The more time passes, the more I am I don’t believe in chance: no one was hurt, but Igor was killed on the spot ... Malakhov told Masha Berkova at the trial: “If you only knew what scum this Shlyafman is!” Why on earth if he didn't know him at all? Why did Shlyafman give the pistol, the most important piece of evidence on which a ballistic examination could be made? .. Why was Malakhov immediately released, believing in his innocence; why was Shlyafman simply pushed to leave for Israel in order to bring the case to such a dead end? .. I do not believe the autopsy results, I don’t understand why, with a blind wound in the chest, there was so much blood under Igor, from the back. I do not exclude the fact that the shot was fired by someone else, that the wound was of a different nature, from a farther distance ... Shlyafman, at the moment when everyone called the ambulance, dialed a number and said two words: "Talkov killed. " Whom did he call, to whom did he report on the work done? .. I admit that I should not have been allowed into the morgue before the autopsy, but I’m not even allowed to get acquainted with the case ... Apparently, some very high spheres are interested in this ... The only hope is for an independent journalistic investigation. "

Well, let's try to conduct such an investigation! Rather, we will put forward our version of the murder of Igor Talkov, based on the facts and assumptions given above. Naturally, there can be no question of any specific persons, with the exception of the same Malakhov and Shlyafman. The most you can count on is trying to answer the traditional question "Quiprodest?" ("Who benefits?"). And the point is not at all in the prescription of this "crime without punishment". It's just that all the "high-profile" murders in our country, as a rule, remain unsolved. Suffice it to recall how the investigation into the circumstances of the death of Viktor Tsoi, Vlad Listyev or Mikhail Krug was conducted ...
So, what do we have "in the bottom line" after reading Tatiana Talkova's brochure? It immediately becomes obvious that the murder case of her husband is "sewn with white thread"! In any case, at least 5 questions arise for the investigation team, which issued a conclusion about the accidental nature of Igor Talkov's death.

1. As mentioned above, against Valery Shlyafman, the main suspect in the death of Igor Talkov, in April 1992, charges were brought under Article 106 of the RSFSR Criminal Code "Murder by negligence" (currently - Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Causing death by negligence "), Which provides for the maximum punishment of imprisonment for up to 3 years. However, he did not have to serve even this purely symbolic term, since 2 months before that he had managed to obtain Israeli citizenship. In September 1992, the head of the investigative department of the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office, Oleg Blinov, arrived on the territory of the Promised Land, whose task was to interrogate Shlyafman, who was hiding from the investigation. However, the Israeli Ministry of Justice "gave him a turn from the gate", explaining that any investigative actions against the citizens of their country by law enforcement officers of other countries are prohibited by law. Blinov later spoke about this in the television show "Independent Investigation" aired on NTV on July 9, 2000. Subsequent attempts by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation to extradite Valery Shlyafman to Russian justice were also unsuccessful ... Only in November 2012, the Russian media managed to get an interview with Shlyafman, who by that time had changed his name and became Vysotsky, about events more than 20 years ago. In this interview, he repeatedly emphasized his innocence in the murder of Igor Talkov, and called Aziza Malakhov's bodyguard guilty, who generally got off with a suspended sentence for acquiring and storing firearms. And when asked by journalists to come to Russia and give an official testimony to the investigating authorities, he categorically refused. And this despite the fact that, according to Russian laws, the limitation period even for especially grave crimes does not exceed 15 years (Article 78 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)! QUESTION: WHAT IS SHLYAFMAN-VYSOTSKY AFRAID TO THE TIME IF NOW HE WILL NOT BE CRIMINAL FOR THE KILLING OF IGOR TALKOV?

2. It is known that on the last tour Igor Talkov was accompanied by 3 bodyguards - Alexander Barkovsky, Arkady Bondarenko and Sergey Ignatenko, and the first two directly participated in the fight with Igor Malakhov, trying to disarm him. However, for some reason none of them noticed who fired the third shot from the revolver of Aziza's bodyguard, which turned out to be fatal for Igor Talkov. In any case, this is exactly what all three of them stated during interrogation by the investigator ... But how is this even possible? After all, Valery Shlyafman, the alleged killer, was at that moment next to them! And really none of the three bodyguards could control the actions of their concert director? Or maybe, on the contrary, they saw something about which they preferred to remain silent until the grave? By the way, about the "grave board" is by no means a simple metaphor, since the fate of three former Talkov's guards turned out to be no less tragic and mysterious. As evidenced by one of the issues of the newspaper "Gordon Boulevard" for 1996, Alexander Barkovsky was killed in a drunken brawl in a restaurant, Arkady Bondarenko committed suicide by jumping from the third floor of his apartment (before that for some reason he cut off his index finger on his right hand ), and Sergei Ignatenko, who survived several assassination attempts, is forced to hide under a false name. QUESTION: WHO AND WHY TASKED ON SO CRUEL DISTRIBUTION AGAINST IGOR TALKOV'S FORMER BODYGUARDS?

3. According to the conclusion of the pathologists, Igor Talkov's death occurred as a result of a blind bullet wound to the chest, which caused fatal damage to the coronary vessels of the heart and extensive internal bleeding. In other words, the shot was fired with professional accuracy, but the investigation team in Talkov's case stubbornly adheres to the version that the incident was accidental! Well, let's say that Valery Shlyafman really managed to somehow hit the chest of a man who always called him his friend in some way. How then should Igor Talkov die? He would have walked several steps in his death throes, pressing his hand to his heart and bending lower and lower to the ground until he fell face down ... But what really happened? Igor for some reason fell on his back, and a large pool of blood spread under him! Where could it come from from the back, if the bullet, as follows from the autopsy, hit Talkov's chest and stuck right in the heart? QUESTION: IS IT POSSIBLE TO TRUST THE RESULTS OF PATHOLOGOANATOMICAL STUDY OF IGOR TALKOV'S BODY?

4. When you read Tatyana Talkova's brochure, you are first struck by the amazing coordination of the actions of all secret and explicit participants in the crime committed a quarter of a century ago. Indeed, first, someone, having sowed confusion among the musicians of the Lifebuoy group, forced the calm and reasonable older brother Igor Vladimir to leave the post of the collective administrator and go to relatives in Germany, and then successfully imposed a bully and brawler on everyone as a new director Valery Shlyafman, who clearly suffered from a Napoleon complex because of his small stature ... And how well Shlyafman and Malakhov worked together on that fateful day for Igor Talkov! We can say that everyone played out like clockwork: they started a public scandal because of a trifling reason, they dragged Talkov's bodyguards into it first, and then Igor himself, after which they jointly shot cartridges from Malakhov's revolver. And when the irreparable happened, our "sweet couple" without any problems destroyed this weapon - the main evidence from the crime scene. QUESTION: HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE ABOVE FACTS WHICH DO NOT EXPRESSLY FIT INTO THE VERSION ABOUT THE RANDOM CHARACTER OF THE KILLING OF IGOR TALKOV?

5. When familiarizing with the course of the investigation into the murder of Igor Talkov, one involuntarily begins to outrage some strange helplessness of our law enforcement agencies. To begin with, Malakhov, one of the accomplices in the crime, managed not only to take possession of his revolver again, but also to carry it through the dense chain of the police cordon around the Yubileiny Sports Palace, in order to disassemble it and drown it in the river. Naturally, after that, Aziza's bodyguard could calmly surrender to the hands of justice and pretend to be an innocent victim during interrogations (initially it was he who was suspected of killing Talkov, and Shlyafman was involved in the case as a witness) ... In short, the investigators fought Malakhov for a long time, trying to persuade him to confess, and in the meantime, the future main suspect, Valery Shlyafman, was successfully obtaining Israeli citizenship, preparing to leave the country forever. As a result, when, after a lengthy comprehensive examination of the events of October 6, 1991, the investigation concluded that the former concert director Talkov was guilty, he had already been living in his historical homeland for 2 months. And all the many years of attempts to extradite Shlyafman were unsuccessful ... In general, the official investigation into the circumstances of Talkov's death came to a complete dead end: the only person found guilty of Igor's murder turned out to be unavailable to our investigators, and they did not even consider other candidates! QUESTION: WHY FROM THE BEGINNING THE INVESTIGATION IN THE CASE OF THE KILLING OF IGOR TALKOV WAS FOLLOWED THE WRONG WAY?

If we try to honestly and impartially answer the questions that have arisen, we will inevitably come to an unambiguous conclusion: ON OCTOBER 6, 1991, BEHIND THE STAGE OF THE JUBILEE SPORT PALACE, A CAREFULLY ORDERED AND BRILLIANT ORGANIZED ORGANIZED MURDERING HAPPENED! But who, then, invisible and formidable, stood behind the backs of Shlyafman and Malakhov, masterly controlling their actions then? Let's consider the main versions of those events 25 years ago.

The first version, "concert": IGOR TALKOV FALLED A VICTIM OF A HOUSEHOLD CONFLICT BETWEEN SHOW BUSINESS STARS WHO DIDN'T SHARE THE ORDER OF PERFORMANCE ON THE STAGE. This version was actively put forward by many media outlets in the fall of 1991, accusing the singer Aziza of organizing a scuffle that led to the death of Talkov ... The absurdity and ridiculousness of such statements is so obvious that it does not even require any refutation! The most that could have happened in the course of such a conflict was an ordinary scuffle, but not fatal shooting from military weapons ...

The second version, "cinematic": IGOR TALKOV WAS KILLED OVER THE CONFLICT WITH THE PRODUCER OF THE FILM "IVAN THE GROZNY" ISMAIL TAGI-ZADE. The version belongs to the pen of film critic Mark Rudinstein. Indeed, in 1990, Talkov starred in the above film, playing the role of Prince Serebryany, but he was initially not satisfied with the director's concept of the image imposed on him. Therefore, in the end, Igor, in his characteristic decisive manner, refused to bring the matter to the end, and another actor had to voice his role on the screen. Naturally, the hot-tempered and domineering producer of the film did not like Igor Talkov's adherence to principles, and they had a big fight ... But does this mean that it was Ismail Tagi-Zade who organized the murder of the recalcitrant artist? Hardly, even considering all the money and connections of this influential filmmaker! Why would he have to wait a whole year to commit reprisals against Talkov, if he could do it immediately? Moreover, it is very quiet and without the involvement of strangers ...

The third version, "anti-Semitic": IGOR TALKOV KILLED, TRYING TO DISSOLVE FROM THE NATIONALISTS AND ANTI-SEMITS OF THE PAMYAT SOCIETY. This version is supported directly or indirectly by a number of journalists. Its meaning lies in the fact that Talkov worked closely with the leader of "Memory" Dmitry Vasiliev for some time, since he was impressed by the slogans put forward by this society about the revival of the Russian national spirit and traditions. However, later it turned out that Vasilyeva gave off Russophile rhetoric with a strong anti-Semitic smell, which seriously damaged Igor's career in show business: because of his connection with Pamyat, he was boycotted by all electronic and print media. And when Talkov was forced to announce his break with the nationalists and anti-Semites of the Pamyat society, they decided to take revenge on him ... The idea is certainly interesting, but doubtful, since the organization headed by Vasilyev never enjoyed popularity either among the common people or among our ruling elite country. Accordingly, this odious organization was not able to organize such a large-scale conspiracy with the aim of eliminating the "Memory" of Igor Talkov, which had become objectionable ...

The fourth version, "Jewish-Masonic": IGOR TALKOV BECAME "THE LAMB OF THE INVOCATION" FOR THE ORTHODOX JEWS, CHOOSING HIM FOR THE NEXT RITUAL MURDER. Another popular journalistic version, the reason for which, undoubtedly, was the nationality of Valery Shlyafman. By the way, he loved to emphasize this fact in every possible way and even wore the six-pointed Star of David on a chain, which, however, did not prevent him from demonstrating in public his friendship with the “Russian Orthodox Christian” Talkov (as Igor himself called himself). Of course, this assumption may seem too fantastic, but it has its own rational grain. There was always a lot of mysticism in the life of Igor Talkov. To begin with, in 1983, during a flight on another tour, he absolutely accurately predicted the circumstances of his death: “I will never die in a plane crash. They will kill me a little later, with a large crowd of people, and the murderer will not be found. " And exactly one year before his murder, on October 6, 1990, Talkov, who starred in the film "Beyond the Last Line" as the leader of a gang of racketeers, was also shot in the chest according to the script. You can also remember how on August 26, 1991, immediately after a concert at the White House, a man approached Igor and said that he saw a "death mask" on his face. Finally, on October 5, 1991, the day before his death, Talkov performed with a concert in Gzhel, and his guitar string broke. And it happened around 16-00, i.e. approximately at the time of Igor's murder the next day. So the ritual murder of Igor Talkov, the faithful son of the Fatherland and the ardent patriot of Russia, by the "Jewish-Masons", could well have taken place! Moreover, the international Zionist organizations have always had a great influence in our country, especially after the October coup of 1917 ... However, upon closer examination, this version should still be recognized as untenable, since no conditions for ritual sacrifice have been met at all, like this, for example , was the case with the execution of the Royal Family. It takes a long time to explain what is at stake (all the details are described, for example, in the work of Viktor Korn "By order of secret forces"), so doubters will just have to take their word for it. In the meantime, we will confine ourselves to the statement that the "handwriting" of the perpetrators of the murder of Igor Talkov strikingly resembles the style of work of our domestic special services. Therefore, let's move on to the fifth, final, version ...

The fifth version, "political": IGOR TALKOV HAS BEEN LIQUIDIZED AS A RESULT OF A COMPLEX AND MULTIFUNCTIONAL OPERATION OF THE EMPLOYEES OF THE SPECIAL SERVICES, BECAUSE THE RULING CIRCUITS OF THE COUNTRY HIS CREATIVITY BECAME NOT INTERESTING AND EVEN MORE. This version has many supporters, but the argumentation of such specialists as criminologist Dmitry Shestakov and former KGB officer Mikhail Kryzhanovsky seems to be the most thoughtful (publication in the newspaper Gordon's Boulevard in 2010). It is their reasoning that will form the basis of our hypothesis about how this "crime without punishment" was committed! But first, a few words about the aforementioned notorious "handwriting" of the special services. Its peculiarity is that actions carried out by agents of the KGB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and now the FSB are always prepared for a long time and carefully, thought over to the smallest detail, but in the end they look as if everything that happened was pure coincidence. The murder of Talkov is no exception here. Indeed, at first the musicians of the Lifebuoy group "suddenly" rebelled, forcing their elder brother Igor Vladimir to leave the post of the band administrator, and then Shlyafman took the "unexpected" vacancy. And then everything went as if on a knurled track: Malakhov "for some reason" decided to change the performances of Aziza and Talkov in places, and Shlyafman "out of nowhere" began to aggravate the conflict that had arisen to the limit, involving an increasing number of participants in it. And in the end, again, "accidentally" pressed the trigger of the revolver, having made a fatal shot ... Direct miracles, aren't they? But that's not all! In some "incomprehensible" way, Malakhov managed to get rid of his revolver and, as a result, got off with a slight fright. And the investigation into the murder of Talkov "could not" bring official charges against Shlyafman for six months, allowing him to leave the country without any problems ... However, is it time to stop being surprised at all these man-made "miracles" and finally give a clear explanation of the events associated with the tragic death of Igor Talkov?

So, according to Dmitry Shestakov, in this case we are dealing with a landmark political assassination organized by supranational political and economic structures and carried out with the use of law enforcement agencies and the media. On the other hand, the scientist calls this crime a latent murder, designed to influence Talkov's colleagues in the pop workshop in order to force them to abandon the social orientation of their repertoire. And Mikhail Kryzhanovsky, concretizing these words, adds that the fate of Igor Talkov was already a foregone conclusion after such hits as "KPSS-SS" and "Mr. President" "resolve a question". The systematic preparation of the operation to eliminate Igor Talkov began, in which it was decided to involve Valery Shlyafman, Igor Malakhov and another unknown professional sniper for the decisive shot. And the actions of this trio were supposed to be covered by several groups of intelligence agents, who were required to control the actions of Shlyafman and Malakhov, help them escape from justice and in every possible way confuse and slow down the investigation into the murder of Talkov.

So, then, what's the matter: THERE WAS ANOTHER FOURTH SHOT (FROM A SNIPER RIFLE IN THE BACK), WHICH BECAME FATAL FOR IGOR TALKOV! Well, then it is understandable why he received such damage allegedly from the "accidental" triggering of Malakhov's revolver and where the pool of blood came from under him ... Now let's try to bring together all the facts. Let's start with the fact that every contract murder has its own customers, organizers and performers. Let's try to run along this deadly "chain".

1. THE CUSTOMER. Mikhail Kryzhanovsky believes that if not his namesake Gorbachev himself, then at least someone from his entourage was him. But this is unlikely, since after the failure of the GKChP coup in August 1991 and the removal from power of the CPSU, whose general secretary was the president of the USSR, the former “partocrats” were no longer in the mood for revenge. Feeling that the earth was already burning under their feet, they hastily transferred their untold riches abroad, preparing for a comfortable existence far from their Motherland ... persons) from the retinue of the gaining strength of the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin! These newly minted Russian nouveau riches, who smelled easy money, could easily destroy anyone who tried to stop them from stuffing their pockets with American dollars. Megapopular Talkov, who gathered full stadiums of enthusiastic fans for his concerts, just became such a “persona non grata” for the post-Soviet “masters of life” because of his song repertoire.

2. ORGANIZER. It does not matter what kind of special service began to weave the thread of the conspiracy against Igor Talkov. It could be the KGB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, some other structure (or all of them together), but in any case they coped with their task brilliantly, presenting the case as if an accidental murder had occurred, and the culprit is so certain and unknown! We can only guess what kind of work was carried out. Probably, the following directions were involved: training of direct executors of the "act of retaliation" (in the person of Shlyafman and Malakhov, known to us, and an unknown sniper group); development of a "scenario" of the murder and control over the course of its execution (the very two "doctors" who did "heart massage" to the already dead Igor); ensuring the unhindered escape of suspects from the crime scene and destruction of evidence (including not only Malakhov's revolver, but also bullets from Talkov's body); direction of the investigation in the case of a murder along the wrong path (in particular, tossing Shlyafman's shirt with traces of gunpowder into the laundry basket of his mistress, when the main suspect himself had already successfully emigrated to Israel).

3. CONTRACTORS. We cannot say anything about the sniper (it is possible that he has been dead for a long time), so let's go straight to the two remaining “killers”. Valery Shlyafman must have been recruited by the special services long ago and introduced into Igor Talkov's team with a predetermined goal. In other words, he was fully devoted to the details of the upcoming operation and therefore played the main role in a duet with Malakhov ... But Igor Malakhov was clearly used "half-dark", that is, he was only partially "revealed"! Most likely, initially the intelligence agents intended to make do with one born brawler, Shlyafman, who knew how to create conflicts out of the blue, but then decided to make it easier for him by choosing a suitable assistant. And Malakhov, Aziza's bodyguard, a professional kickboxer, and even a member of the Solntsevskaya organized criminal group, who trained in a gym next door to officers of the 9th KGB Directorate, turned out to be just an ideal figure in this regard! He could “unobtrusively” be offered to participate in the public discrediting of the “presumptuous” Igor Talkov at one of the upcoming concerts (of course, there was no question of any murder), and he was forced to agree, fearing prosecution for his criminal connections.

It remains only to reconstruct the picture of the direct commission of the murder. VENUE - behind the scenes of the Yubileiny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg. TIME OF ACTION - October 6, 1991 ... By the way, a few words about the place and time of the operation to eliminate Igor Talkov. Earlier it was mentioned that there were many mystical coincidences in Igor's life, but it seems that some of them were simply specially arranged by intelligence agents to better conceal their actions. Talkov said in 1983 that he would be killed in front of a large crowd of people? So he must die while performing in a crowded concert hall! Was Talkov's character shot on the set of the movie on October 6, 1990? This means that the same death should really overtake him in exactly one year!

However, let us return to the place and time indicated above and continue our reconstruction of events. We will not consider how the conflict between Malakhov and Igor Talkov developed, since all this is described in detail in the above brochure of Igor's widow (there is simply no reason not to trust her), but we will immediately proceed to the ensuing shootout ... As it was established during the interrogation of Aziza's bodyguard, in his revolver there were three live cartridges, two of which were shot by the owner himself. At the same time, Malakhov was shooting completely non-aimed, so the FIRST SHOT was made by him in the box from under the equipment, and the SECOND SHOT fell generally on the floor. However, more from the "shooter", twisted by Talkov's bodyguards, was not required: he completely played his role, dragging into the shootout the one who was supposed to die soon according to the plan of the intelligence agents. Moreover, Shlyafman was actively involved in the operation. He snatched the revolver from Malakhov's hands and fired a THIRD SHOT, aiming at Igor Talkov's chest.

Igor at this time was on his knees, helping his bodyguards to pacify the raging "businessman of the shadow economy." Noticing the barrel directed at him, he involuntarily threw his left hand forward, trying to hide from the shooter, but it was too late! A bullet from a revolver pierced through the exposed palm and tangentially entered Talkov's chest, causing him a serious, but not yet fatal wound. In any case, Igor still had enough strength to get up from his knees and take a few steps towards the stage ... And here the question involuntarily arises: was Shlyafman required at all to make an accurate shot? Of course not! After all, he was not a professional shooter, and then he simply could not find his bearings in the ensuing scuffle. Therefore, the task of the concert director Igor Talkov was more modest: just to wound Igor, causing everyone involuntary confusion, during which a real sniper, hiding somewhere deep in the backstage, should be triggered. And to the greatest misfortune, this is exactly what happened: there was a fatal FOURTH SHOT from a sniper rifle with a silencer (that's why no one heard this shot), which cut short the life of the idol of millions of Russians at the peak of his career !!!

And then everything happened again as Tatyana Talkova describes: pseudo-doctors, allegedly performing a "heart massage", are convinced of Igor's death, Malakhov leaves the Sports Palace along the corridor created for him and gets rid of the revolver, Shlyafman reports "where to go" about the successful the operation is completed, and Talkov's body is already taken to the hospital by the real doctors of the ambulance ... And then a new twist of the plot arises, since another intelligence agent comes into play, introduced into the team of pathologists. At the autopsy, he must find a bullet from a sniper rifle and destroy it, as well as traces of its penetration into the body of Igor Talkov. Of course, this "noble" mission also passed without a hitch, the result of which was the act of Igor's death from a blind bullet wound to the chest brought against the investigation! This conclusion could be refuted by Talkov's bodyguards, who clearly managed to notice that there was another shooter, but they preferred to remain silent about this and claim during the investigation that they had not seen anything, fearing for their lives. However, as mentioned above, this did not save them after 5 years from brutal reprisals ...

Let's briefly summarize our sad story. The murder of Igor Talkov, in addition to its direct purpose, had to solve another problem: to intimidate our popular performers, forcing them to remove a social orientation from their song repertoire. Did the organizers of the "crime without punishment" succeed in this? Undoubtedly! How else to explain the current dominance on the stage and television screens of the cute and sugary "pop", languidly and passionately broadcasting to us under "veneer" about "musi-pusi" and "jage-jag"?

Nothing good can be said about the fate of the three people directly involved in this tragedy 25 years ago. The career of AZIZA, a rising star of Russian show business, has rapidly declined, since millions of Igor Talkov's fans could not forgive her even indirect participation in the murder of her idol ... And against this background, Talkov Jr.'s position somehow looks strange. Of course, Christian forgiveness is a great force, but you can't humiliate yourself to such an extent as to sing a duet with the one who, albeit unwittingly, played such a fatal role in your father's life!

The life of IGOR MALAKHOV generally went downhill. After his suspended sentence for the illegal acquisition and possession of firearms, he broke off all relations with Aziza and his former entourage, left Moscow and settled in a remote village. Leading a reclusive lifestyle, even officially changing his last name to Rus, Malakhov nevertheless married actress Ksenia Kuznetsova and had two children ... However, the past, apparently, did not give him rest! The former kickboxer and bodyguard first fell into religion, and then began to drink deeply, as a result of which he developed diabetes and cirrhosis of the liver. In serious condition, he was hospitalized in 2013 in one of the capital's hospitals, where he died without regaining consciousness, in intensive care.

The fate of VALERY SHLYAFMAN has already been written in sufficient detail here. It can only be added that even after successful emigration to the Promised Land, he continued to fear for his life: he took the name of his new Israeli wife, changed his city of residence several times, avoided contacts with journalists in every possible way ... Only in 2012 did Shlyafman-Vysotsky for the first time gave an interview to Russian correspondents, but categorically refused their offer to return to Russia, although he was no longer threatened with prosecution. Apparently, the fear of the secret services who once recruited him there forever remained in the soul of the former concert director!

And what about Igor Talkov himself? What is his posthumous fate? Unfortunately, there is little consolation here either! The case of Talkov's murder has been suspended for an indefinite period (in other words, it has reached a complete dead end), Igor's discs and books are almost never published, he is practically not remembered on television (even on the days of his birth and death). But on the vast expanses of the Internet, vile libels are constantly being laid out about the life and work of a person who gave his life a quarter of a century ago in the struggle for a happy future of the country! But the ancients used to say: “Demortuisautbene, autnihil (About the dead, or good, or nothing)” ... However, Igor Talkov outwitted his enemies here too, having been born on November 4, 1956, i.e. on the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, and more recently - also on the Day of National Unity! And it turns out that thanks to such a wonderful coincidence (one more of many others), every year on this day we involuntarily pay tribute to him.

However, true admirers of Igor Talkov always find the opportunity to visit his museum in Zamoskvorechye or the grave at the Vagankovskoye cemetery. And communicating with each other on the forums, they exchange photos, songs and poems of their idol. And here is one of his poems, with which he preceded the performance of the song "Russia", we would like to complete:

"Someday when evil gets tired
To rape you, barely alive
And on your withered brow
The Lord will drop a rain tear,
You will straighten your broken camp
As before, you will feel like the messiah
And bloom to the envy of all enemies
Unhappy Great Russia! "

EH, IGOR, IGOR! HOW WE DO NOT ENOUGH YOU IN OUR "BESTALKOVA" LIFE "!!

P.S. This year marks not only the 25th anniversary of the death, but also the 60th anniversary of the birth of Igor Talkov. Interestingly, our "democratic" media will cover at least one of these events? !!

Talk about who killed the musician Igor Talkov in October 1991 still continues. Recently, several programs have appeared on television at once, and articles about Talkov have appeared in newspapers. Almost everything is a lie, and there is irrefutable evidence of that.

In the hands of our journalists were unique documents - the results of numerous examinations, interrogations of participants in those tragic events. And the conclusions of the most authoritative experts: only the director of the artist Valery Shlyafman could shoot! And no one else.

It would seem that there is nothing to talk about. Shlyafman's surname as the main person involved was mentioned more than once. However, more than 20 years later, representatives of the former director, who immediately after Talkov's funeral fled to Israel, suddenly showed up on the central channels.

They want to whitewash the runaway director

Shlyafman is not guilty, and in general he is a very good person! - Director Mikhail Gladkov, who lives in the USA, but recently has suddenly become frequent in the Russian open spaces, announced recently on the air of the program "Respublika's Property" on Channel One.

He was objected from the audience: will the "innocent" hide for many years in his historical homeland? But Gladkov pretended not to hear.

And I have nothing to do with it! - the singer Aziza hastened to disown herself.

Her bodyguard and, concurrently, lover Igor Malakhov was suspected of murder then, in the 91st. But the investigation proved that he was innocent. An important point: the investigation was conducted by an investigator for especially important cases of the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office, a first-class lawyer with vast experience. The experts are the leading specialists of the Military Medical Academy: professors, doctors of sciences, whose experience in the profession is at least 30 years. Professionals who cannot be wrong.

According to the official version, Talkov and Aziza had a falling out over a place in the concert. Representatives of the artists went to negotiations, and soon a fight broke out near the dressing rooms. From Aziza was Malakhov. Hefty bull, USSR kickboxing champion. From the "talkovs": Shlyafman, three personal bodyguards, and - Igor himself, who was dragged into a fight by his own director. This is what witnesses have shown. Although directors usually strive at all costs to protect the ward from everything that does not concern creativity.

Subsequently, Talkov's guards, who participated in the fight, will die in the prime of life. Someone fell out of the window, someone crashed in a car ... The question of who removed unnecessary witnesses hung in the air.

The investigation proved that Malakhov pulled out a pistol and managed to release two bullets. To scare away Talkov's guards who twisted him. His hand was pressed to his body, so he could only shoot at the floor. The guards knocked the pistol out of his hands, knocked the athlete to the floor. And then the third fatal shot rang out.

From the case materials:

“... the right hand of I.V. Malakhov. with the revolver was firmly held by A.M. Barkovsky, and was all the time directed down to the floor ... The barrel of the revolver Malakhov I.V. on Talkova I.The. did not direct ... Shlyafman snatched the pistol from Malakhov's hands ... While beating Malakhov, who was lying on the floor, a third shot rang out ...

The shot was fired at close range. Talkov managed to put his left hand forward, closing his heart. The bullet pierced the arm, and then the aorta - the main heart muscle. A close shot immediately cuts off the version of the sniper from the audience - this version is still adhered to by the singer's brother Vladimir.

And only one bullet was removed from the body.

“... Under the circumstances set forth in the materials of the criminal case, Malakhov AND.The. could not inflict a mortal wound on Talkov I.The. ... Shlyafman V.M. is the only person who inflicted a fatal wound on I.V. Talkov. "

The murder investigation lasted two months. Only in mid-December was it possible to obtain the results of all examinations. Until that day, according to the existing rules, no one could be arrested. But by that time Shlyafman was already far away - he left for Israel. Talkov's fans picketed the Israeli embassy, ​​demanding not to issue a visa. But nothing was achieved.

It is known that upon arriving in the promised land, Shlyafman opened a grocery store.

Who is the section of the dead artist?

But maybe Shlyafman accidentally fired? Wanted to hit Malakhov and missed?

We don't think so! - Talkov's fans Irina Krasilnikova, Natalya Khlobystova and Igor Sheshunov told us with indignation. - Why did the "stray bullet" hit right in the heart? Not in the arm, in the leg or in the stomach? And on the spot, leaving no chance? In general, only specially trained people shoot so accurately. In addition, the case file says: Igor put his left hand forward, instinctively trying to close. So, he saw that the muzzle was directed at him. In addition, Shlyafman was not interrogated as a suspect in the murder, but only as a witness. When the investigator of our prosecutor's office came to Israel for this, Shlyafman did not appear for questioning, and the Israeli authorities completely forbade questioning their citizen. Therefore, the question of an accidental shot remains a very big question. The motives that made a man pull the trigger are known only to him. That is why it is necessary to bring the case to court.

Director of the concert hall "Jubilee" Olga…. , also does not believe in randomness. She is one of the witnesses of the tragedy, moreover, Talkov died literally in her arms.

There was a usual festive concert, - Olga Yuryevna recalls that day, - Suddenly a call on the internal phone, they shouted into the receiver: there was shooting behind the scenes! The first thing I saw, rushing backstage, was Igor's back. A mirror hung behind him. Igor took a step and began to slowly slide down the mirror. There was no one around like a vacuum. Usually, if there is a noise, the artists run out to watch. And then everyone seemed to be hiding in the dressing rooms. I grabbed Igor by the arm.

It seemed to me that he made a movement forward, as if trying to get up. But no, his hand grew colder, his face

became pale and then some kind of greenish. Fog, shock. I shout: help! And no one around ...

- Can you remember how the director Igor behaved before the concert? I asked.

He was very ... fidgeting, running. He was wearing a bright shirt with palm trees, very juicy colors - it is impossible not to notice. Dressed up as if for a holiday.

An ambulance arrived only 30 minutes after the tragedy. The singer was carried out on a stretcher. To Olga Yurievna's surprise, Talkov for some reason was in his underpants. Who undressed him, already dead, is still a mystery.

Murder could have been ritual

There is an opinion that Talkov was removed by the Freemasons. A world organization that intends to put its people "at the helm" in Russia. Talkov was an intelligent and very educated person, and he guessed this plan. It's obviously worth listening to his latest songs.

Whether Shlyafman was a member of this organization is a question that we, too, now can hardly answer. But it is reliably known that he appeared in the artist's team after a major scandal. Talkov was photographed with the leader of the Pamyat society, a pronounced anti-Semitic organization. Few people knew that the leader's mother was Jewish, and he himself acted as a provocateur. There is good reason to believe that he worked for one of the foreign intelligence services.

Those photos also became a provocation. The newspapers were full of notes: Talkov became an anti-Semite! The artist began to persecute. In response, the confused Igor took Shlyafman into the group. The latter regularly - as people from Talkov's inner circle say - tried to drag the artist into a fight.

The murder could also be ritualistic. In the special literature there are rules for conducting ritual murders, very reminiscent of the murder of Talkov. And also - the Royal family, Sergei Yesenin, monks from Optina Pustyn during Easter. The "ritual" question was seriously investigated in due time by the scientist Vladimir Ivanovich Dal.

Too many "matches"

The ambulance car, into which the artist's body was placed, stood near the service entrance for about half an hour. Olga Yurievna, unable to bear it, looked into the car and asked hopefully: are there any chances? To which the doctors answered irritably: yes, he died, it is clear from the very beginning, and do not interfere at all. What kind of body manipulations they performed remains a mystery.
In general, there is a lot of mystical and inexplicable in this story.

A year and a half before the murder of Talkov, strange posters began to appear: the musicians of the Lifebuoy group, smiling, are holding a mirror. And in the mirror, in profile, Igor is captured - a greenish death color. And on the sleeve he has a triangle with the point down and numbers. The sign of the triangle with the point downward, according to Masonic symbolism, means "the end of life."

There was another poster that appeared around the same time: a black silhouette of Talkov falling from the sky against a blood-red background. And the heart is pierced with a black star - like a bullet, a shot in the heart.

But that's not all! Exactly one year before the death of the artist, director Nikolay Istanbul shoots the film "Beyond the Last Line", where the then-living musician starred in the title role. Talkov's opponent in the film - a boxer with a criminal past, played by Yevgeny Sidikhin - is surprisingly similar to Malakhov. And the beloved woman, according to the film, is an oriental beauty. True, in the picture the heroine was a prostitute, but that does not change matters. But most importantly: the famous scene of the shooting of Talkov's hero at close range was filmed on October 6, 1990. Exactly one year before the real murder on October 6, 1991!

Employees of secret missions - about this, and Dahl wrote - love to "beautifully furnish" their deeds: mysticism, symbolism, "amazing coincidences" ...

We cannot say anything. But, for example, the director Gladkov recommended Shlyafman to Igor. The one who now, as best he can, defends the fugitive director.

Two months before the death of the artist and Gladkov shot a strange film: "Dreams of Igor Talkov." According to the plot, the musician has already died and speaks from heaven.

I didn’t know that the picture could become prophetic, it happens sometimes ... - the director was surprised on the set of “The Property of the Republic”. But his eyes remained cold and impassive.

What role did Aziza play in this story?

Its director in those tragic days was a woman - Ellie Kasimati. And if the singer had sent her, and not the armed athlete, to negotiations with Shlyafman, the tragedy might not have happened.

But it's not only that. Aziza hid the pistol - the main murder weapon - which Shlyafman gave her. If these people are ever brought to trial, the question will arise: Is this a conspiracy?

From the case materials:

“Testimony of witness Mukhamedova AA ... I heard 3 clicks. I saw a hand with a pistol and other hands twisting it, but it was impossible to understand who was holding the pistol. After shouting: "gas, gas", I felt pain in my eyes and ran into the dressing room №107. There, an unknown man said that he had to hide the pistol ... ”. Which she did.

According to the administrators of Yubileiny, on that fateful day behind the scenes, Aziza was calm and even dispassionate.

Now the singer is indiscriminate with Igor's son, Talkov Jr. She became friends, taking advantage of the special state of health of the young man and his lack of money.

Igor Jr innocently told in one of the TV programs: - I sometimes call Aziza: “Give me a thousand!”. And she gives.
Thanks to this friendship, the singer got the opportunity to shout even louder: I am not to blame for the murder, so Igor's son understands this!

But it would be nice for the younger Talkov to find out such a moment. That on the way from St. Petersburg to Moscow to continue the investigation in the fall of 1991, Aziza (we were told about this by the St. Petersburg investigators, who were traveling with her in the same car) ... sang all the way. Talkov's body has just been buried, and the woman in whose eyes the murder took place is singing! And now the singer goes on TV programs, smearing her tears, grieving: what poet was killed!

A very strange thing began to happen to the mirror, near which Igor fell, - Olga Yuryevna, the administrator of Yubileiny, said at last, - The next day the mirror turned yellow. The administrators scolded the cleaning ladies that they could not wash the yellowness in any way. On the 9th day after Igor left, the mirror cracked - like nylon pantyhose with arrows. By the 40th day, very deep cracks appeared, and after the 40th day the mirror ... no, it did not break, it crumbled into dust ...

I would very much like to hope that this material will attract the attention of the competent authorities. And all the guilty will finally be punished.

Igor Vladimirovich Talkov- Soviet rock musician, singer, songwriter, poet, bard, film actor. Zodiac sign - Scorpio.

Igor Talkov was born November 4, 1956 in a poor family, in the village of Gretsovka (Shchyokinsky district, Tula region), 7 kilometers from Yasnaya Polyana. His parents were repressed during the reign of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, so Igor all his life was in opposition to communist rule.

The Talkov family belonged to the nobility, Igor's paternal grandfather Maxim Maksimovich Talkov was a hereditary Cossack and military engineer, his uncles were officers of the tsarist army. Igor's parents (father - Vladimir Maksimovich Talkov (1907-1978), mother - Olga Yuryevna Talkova (village Shvagerus - a native of the Stavropol province, daughter of an ethnic German and a local Cossack woman) were repressed and met in places of detention (Orlovo-Rozovo settlement, Chebulinsky district, Kemerovo region), where on April 14, 1953 they were born son Vladimir Talkov, Igor's older brother. After rehabilitation, my father was not provided with housing in Moscow and he went to the city of Shchekino for further residence. According to another version, he had no right to live in a hundred-kilometer zone, from cities of union significance.

In 1975, after I. Talkov's public anti-Brezhnev speech on the square in Tula, the KGB persecuted him, but the case was hushed up.

Igor Vladimirovich early began to compose songs of an acute social nature and, as a result, practically could not perform with his program. For some time he worked in the groups "April", "Kaleidoscope", "Eternal Movement", "Electroclub" (under the direction of David Fedorovich Tukhmanov), with the popular singer Lyudmila Petrovna Senchina. It was she who in 1985 gave Talkov a "start in life", presenting him as her arranger. Since that time, the singer began performing solo programs of a socio-political orientation.

Such songs as "Chistye Prudy", "", "Gentlemen Democrats", "My Motherland", "I Will Return" and others brought fame to the author. The actor also starred in the films: "Prince Silver" (directed by G. Vasiliev, 1993) and "Beyond the Last Line" (directed by N. Istanbul, 1991).

On August 22, 1991, during the days of the August putsch, Igor Vladimirovich performed with his group "Lifebuoy" on Palace Square in St. Petersburg. The songs "War", "I'll be back", "KPSS", "Gentlemen of the Democrats", "Stop!" I think to myself! ”,“ Globus ”,“ Russia ”.

Igor Vladimirovich Talkov was killed October 6, 1991 a pistol shot during a gala concert backstage at the Yubileiny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg during a combined concert. This tragic event was previously predicted by Pavel Globa. He was buried on October 9, 1991 in Moscow, at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

Events developed as follows.

Many popular performers performed at the concert, including the young star Aziza Mukhamedova. According to the version, which the press especially readily adhered to in those days, it was she who became the unwitting instigator of the conflict, which led to the tragedy. According to this version, it turned out that the singer's friend, 29-year-old Igor Malakhov, wanted Aziza to take the stage after Talkov. And according to the unspoken rule prevailing in show business, the degree of the artist's significance is assessed by this criterion: whoever performs later is the "cooler" one. At the beginning of the fifth evening, when Malakhov and Aziza were sitting in the artistic bar of the Sports Palace before their performance, they started talking about who and at what time would be performing today.

Soon it became known to Talkov himself. He summoned Malakhov to his dressing room, where the first act of this drama began. The two men quarreled and a fight ensued between them. They rushed out into the corridor. A gas pistol appeared in Talkov's hands. At this time, there were six young people from the singer's entourage in the corridor. They all rushed at Malakhov. Feeling that he could not cope with them alone, Malakhov pulled out a revolver and, for an ostracism, shot it a couple of times into the floor. After that, two more live cartridges remained in the revolver. But Malakhov was no longer allowed to shoot, they began to twist his arms, beat him on the head. Covering his head, Malakhov released the revolver from his hands. A few more seconds passed, and the revolver "spoke" again: one of the fighters pulled the trigger, and a bullet pierced the chest ... of Igor Talkov. At this time, Malakhov escaped from the hands of the people who were beating him and started to run.

The bleeding singer was carried into the dressing room. They called an ambulance. The revolver, from which they shot at the singer, ended up first in the toilet cistern, and then Aziza pulled it out of there. She handed it over to her administrator, Ele Kasimati, who ran out into the street with him and gave it to the owner, Malakhov, who was catching a taxi near Yubileiny. Catching a car , Malakhov left the scene together with the instrument of the crime. Moreover, on the way, he disassembled it and threw it into different places in the waters of the Moika and Fontanka.

Igor Talkov's injury was fatal, and no forces could save the singer. Chief physician A. Ushakov of the city station "Ambulance" said: “With such a diagnosis - a bullet penetrating wound of the chest with damage to the heart and lung, with transcendental blood loss - do not live. "

On the fact of this murder, the city prosecutor's office opened a criminal case No. 381959. On October 10, Malakhov, who was hiding from justice, was put on the all-Union wanted list. However, as soon as this message was made public, Malakhov voluntarily appeared in the prosecutor's office with a confession and - practically the only one of all the participants in the event - began to testify.

“At the end of December 1991, the charge of premeditated murder was dropped from Malakhov, but murder by negligence was still not ruled out. He was charged with illegal possession and carrying of weapons. And only in April 1992, the Russian prosecutor's office admitted that the real killer had been identified and that this was by no means Igor Malakhov. The investigation came to this conclusion after carrying out medical, ballistic and situational examinations. The direction of the wound channel in the body of the deceased was determined, and a comprehensive analysis of the testimony of witnesses made it possible to place the participants in the fight in their places at the time of the shot. It seemed that the administrator of Talkov Valery Shlyafman was shooting from the Malakhov "revolver".

However, by the time the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg on May 6, 1992 issued a decision to bring Shlyafman as a defendant under Article 186 of the Criminal Code of Russia (careless murder), he was no longer in Russia. In February, he left for Israel, and he did it not through the Moscow or St. Petersburg OVIR, but through Zhitomir. Razzakov F.I. ... Behind the scenes of show business. - M .: ZAO Publishing house EKSMO-Press, 1999, p. 557.

The murder has not yet been solved.

In 2001, an album in memory of Talkov, "I'll Be Back", was released, composed of the author's songs recorded by famous performers of the Russian stage (Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev, Alexey Glyzin, Nikolai Trubach, Joseph Davydovich Kobzon, Larisa Aleksandrovna Dolina, Alexander Nikolaevich Buinov, Alexander Marshal and others).

Discography of Igor Talkov

• 1982 - When the city falls asleep;
• 1983 - Let's Worship Kindness;
• 1984 - Love and Parting - Lyudmila Senchina and Igor Talkov's group;
• 1985 - Everything has its time;
• 1986 - Magnetic Album;
• 1986 - Igor Talkov;
• 1987 - Clean Ponds;
• 1989 - Chistye Prudy (minion);
• 1991 - Russia;
• 1992 - My love ...;
• 1992 - Nostalgia;
• 1993 - Concert on February 23, 1991 at Luzhniki;
• 1993 - My love;
• 1993 - This world;
• 1993 - I'll be back;
• 1995 - Vocation;
• 1996 - The last concert of the Court - May 25, 1991;
• 1996 - My Motherland;
• 1996 - Lifebuoy;
• 1996 - Memory.

Filmography

Year - Title - Role:

• 1990 - The Hunt for a Pimp - composer, author of poetry, vocals;
• 1991 - Beyond the last line - Garik (leader of the gang), vocals, lyrics;
• 1991 - Tsar Ivan the Terrible - Prince Nikita Romanovich Silver (main role);
• 1993 - Operation Lucifer - composer;
• 1995 - Lunar [mountains] dogs - a composer;
• 2007 - Reporters - composer.

Songs performed by Igor Talkov

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