Olga Kabo about Nikolai Karachentsov: “When we worked together in films, Petrovich constantly sang”

Met his first and only wife at the theater

Nikolai Karachentsov got married at the age of 31 - once and for all. He met actress Lyudmila Porgina at the Lenkom Theater in 1973. He had been part of the troupe for six years already, and they were just about to introduce it to the first performance.

“I always remember with pleasure how I met my wife, Lyudmila Porgina. We were offered to play together in one play,” Karachentsov recalled. “Then she said that when something shaggy and toothy burst onto the stage, she thought: “If he becomes my husband, my life is lost!” Who would have thought that everything would turn out to be just the opposite!

At that time, Porgina was married for the second time to stuntman Viktor Korzun. But she divorced in order to be with Karachentsov. The actor did not propose to his beloved for a long time, while she wanted certainty. Porgina called Karachentsov and said that there were two young men who asked her to marry: “If you have proposals for me, I’m listening.” Karachentsov did not hesitate for a long time and called Lyudmila down the aisle. They got married in 1975, and three years later their only son, Andrei, was born.

After that terrible accident in 2005, the couple began a new life, which took place in hospitals and rehabilitation centers.

“Kolya still considers himself my protector,” Porgina said 9 years after the accident. - And I ask him for advice, as I always asked. He understands everything perfectly and evaluates everything very accurately. Colin's appearance, paresis of the facial muscles, and slurred speech do not correspond to his intellectual and emotional state.

Nikolai Petrovich affectionately called his wife a girl, even after 43 years of marriage.

As soon as Karachentsov recovered a little from the accident, Porgina began taking him to theater premieres and various social events. The actor's friends did not like this very much. But Karachentsov himself said that he needed it to feel alive.

Karachentsov and Cabo Roman

The main roles in the film were played by Olga Kabo and Nikolai Karachentsov.

Kabo fit into the role instantly, because Maria - pure, gentle, slightly ironic and beautiful - Olya had nothing to play. This role fit perfectly on her high clear forehead, velvet eyes that filled half of her face... And although I looked at other actresses, it was more likely just a character test, and not a search for a performer.

But somehow it didn’t work out for me with the role of cornet Rodik Kiryukhin. We were looking for an actor no older than thirty. And they didn’t find it.

Oleg Menshikov, as always, “eluded the embrace,” and it was dangerous to bet on him.

Another candidate confused me by asking how much he would get before reading the script. Maybe it was his joke, but my sense of humor failed me at that moment.

Nikolai Petrovich Karachentsov came out of an old friendship just to help conduct tests, to play along with Ole Kabo. But he “played along” so well that I felt sad. When film work turns into friendship, it's worth a lot and doesn't happen often. Tell me who your friend is and I'll tell you what's on your screen.

However, we continued to try other young actors. In the end, I realized that it was better to promote the cornet to the rank of lieutenant.

But Karachentsov had already left with the theater on tour to St. Petersburg. I felt anxious in my soul: what if another director takes over and we won’t be able to work together?

I rushed to St. Petersburg.

The train was approaching Leningrad, and Nikolai Petrovich’s voice suddenly sounded over the carriage radio, which is used to wake up passengers in the morning. He sang: “But life is always right in everything, and it has its own words.” He answered my searches and torments. So don’t believe in omens after this!

I found Nikolai Petrovich at the Oktyabrskaya Hotel and asked from the doorway:

- If I give you the rank of lieutenant, will you be working with me?

- It would be better if the field marshal immediately! But if you don’t have any suitable epaulettes... I agree for now with the lieutenant.

During filming, it became clear that we were looking and waiting for him, this lieutenant. He combined mischief and a harsh military background, irony and pressure, adventurism and reckless faith in a just cause. No one else had this cool mix-up - they were young... The mysterious Russian soul lived truly and freely in the lieutenant.

Mysterious Russian soul,

This is interesting: What is saffiano leather?

Today you have song tenderness,

And tomorrow is reckless rebellion.

So whether you are good or not...

Yuri Entin and Gennady Gladkov wrote a song about the mysterious Russian soul, already hearing Petrovich’s voice, already imagining the prowess of his hero.

...Someone may be surprised that I persistently call Karachentsov Nikolai Petrovich. This is not a friendly joke at all. We really communicate exclusively by name and patronymic. And although we have been friends for many years, we have never become friends. Sometimes, at a moment of special creative unity, I can call him “Petrovich” - but it’s still up to you.

We also talked with Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov.

And, for example, Lenya Yarmolnik and I have been on friendly terms for a long time. True, sometimes, when the situation turns somewhere not for the better, we switch to you in order to put up the necessary barrier:

- To the barrier, Leonid Isaakovich!

- If you please, Alla Ilyinichna...

In addition to “The Man from Capuchin Boulevard,” “Two Arrows” and “The Nuts,” Petrovich and I also have a small video “Lady Hamilton.” It is like “light breathing”, like an interjection, like a dream of the past (words by Yuri Rybchinsky, music by Vladimir Bystryakov). One frame from this clip is especially dear to me. There, the officer, played by Karachentsov, leaves with the lady (Oleya Kabo), over whom he had just fought, walking away from the camera. But what a back! With shoulders raised from a sense of self-esteem and arms thrust out triumphantly: well, did you get it?! It's not calculated. It's lived...

When we occasionally manage to get together all together, then “before the first one” we definitely watch our video. And then after the first...

At the premiere of “The Crazy Ones” at the House of Cinema, one of Nikolai Petrovich’s theater colleagues came up to me with congratulations, and then finally bit me:

- But why Karachentsov? Are there really no other artists?! “At the same time, he had an absolutely obscene expression on his face. Apparently, our film touched where it hurts. I felt sorry for him.

“Nothing,” I answered. - Don't worry so much. Everything will work out for you.

...We were filming a scene of declaration of love between Rodik and Maria. On this day Olya had a temperature of thirty-nine. I should have canceled the shoot, but Olga said:

“I understand that of all the temperatures, cinema is the most important for us.” Let's shoot...

She played with inspiration and feeling. Perhaps even more heartfelt than was envisaged in the script. It seemed to me that Olya at that moment was thinking about her unrealistic love and the beautiful large tears rolling from her eyes were not the tears of a film actress, but her own, real ones.

Karachentsov, seeing them, immediately reacted and acted out: he ran his hand over Olya’s face and said: “Salty... Real, then?” This was also not in the script.

Olya is generally a selfless person. Risky. And she wants to do everything herself. In the film “Crusaders,” she was riding a motorcycle with Sasha Inshakov in a short sundress, barely holding on to Sasha’s courageous shoulder with one hand. The motorcycle fell on spilled oil (some Annushka tried), and the actress was simply left without skin on her arm and leg. The wounds took a long time to heal, painfully. But Olga did not stop filming.

Suddenly he calls me from Turkey:

“Tomorrow I’ll jump from the window of the fourth floor of the hotel.” This is the final frame of the picture.

- Do you want it to be the final one in your life? - I almost screamed. - Do you have three spines? At least get married first so you have something to throw yourself out of the window for! I do not allow! Let the stunt double jump.

— Don’t worry: we are jumping together with Sasha Inshakov. Everything will be fine!

This time it really worked out. But I still think that she shouldn’t have jumped. I saw the film. The jump was not filmed in the best way and was not worth the risk.

Just as desperately, she jumped into her marriage. And just as selflessly she jumped out, leaving behind her daughter Tanya.

Romance with Olga Kabo

Karachentsov and Kabo starred together in the films “Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective (1989) and Crazy (1991). In the film community they said that the actors had a passionate affair, despite the 23-year age difference.

- Everyone has their own weaknesses. Someone reaches for a drink, and Kolya walked to the left. Yes, Karachentsov loved girls. It seemed like they had something with Olga Kabo, but the romance did not last long, they parted peacefully,” said the actor’s friend, stuntman Sergei Mikulsky.

The actor’s wife knew about these rumors, but took them calmly. Moreover, Porgina never confirmed the fact of betrayal on the part of Karachentsov.

“They starred in three films together and played on stage. I admit that Olya was really infatuated with my husband. And what woman could resist him? Singer, dancer, joker, gallant knight! It was impossible not to love Kolya,” said the actor’s wife. — Once, on her birthday, Kabo invited Kolya to visit, alone, without me. He said where he was going. Having wished Kolyasik a pleasant evening, I went with my friends to a restaurant. Less than a couple of hours later, the “unfaithful husband” started calling me on the phone and calling me home. He couldn't live without his girlfriend.

Kabo herself admitted that thanks to Karachentsov, she also began to sing. When they worked together in films, the actor constantly hummed something, and this inspired Olga. In a duet they recorded the songs “Random Street”, “Screenwriter” and “Other Words”.

Karachentsov's wife Lyudmila Porgina: I even jokingly told Kolya - I’m letting you go, go to your mistress

Recently, an interview with former Mariinsky ballerina Elena Dmitrieva appeared in one of the magazines. The dancer, who now lives either in St. Petersburg or in Paris, assures: for 23 years she secretly met in her native Leningrad with People's Artist Nikolai Karachentsov.

According to Dmitrieva, she met the actor in a common company when Elena was 18 years old. Fell in love at first sight. Karachentsov, when he was in Leningrad, came to Elena every time. The ballerina said that they “loved to walk along the streets of St. Petersburg, they could talk on a bench for four hours about everything in the world.” Dmitrieva knew that he was married and had a child, but then she didn’t attach any importance to it. Only later did I begin to think that it would be good for them to be together. However, according to her, Karachentsov answered evasively: he has a small child, he should not get a divorce now. They continued to meet in secret.

“He even offered to get married to me, but I said, first we need to get a divorce, and only then...” the ballerina recalled.

From bed to lover

There were, according to the dancer, even situations when Elena was in bed with some man in love with her, but Karachentsov called, and she rushed to him, leaving her beau. “I couldn’t help it and I couldn’t forget him,” she says. Elena expected the artist to tell his wife about everything and come to her, but Karachentsov never took the risk. As a result, out of despair, Dmitrieva left for Paris and married her childhood friend. She gave birth to a daughter.

Later she divorced. Arriving in St. Petersburg, I came to meet Karachentsov at the Astoria Hotel. “We need to talk,” he often said to her, and they were his last words in their common life. There was a terrible accident that put an end to their communication. They never met again. Dmitrieva assures that she did not find a replacement for Karachentsov and loved him all her life.

There are many questions about this story. Why did she tell about her novel now, when Karachentsov is so seriously ill? Unclear. Dmitrieva mentioned that the meeting with the actor took place in the apartment of Dmitry Bryantsev, a choreographer. We decided to find out if Bryantsev remembers about this acquaintance. But it turned out that he died. The dancer did not name any other witnesses to her affair.

“I don’t know why Elena told about Karachentsov, this is her personal business,” Olga Levshina, the director of the school in Paris, where she teaches Dmitriev’s choreography, told KP. - Lena doesn’t want to talk about it anymore, she asked her not to bother her about this issue.

Elena presents this photo with the actor as proof of their love. Photo: facebook.com

“We laughed out loud”

The other day, the ballerina appeared on a TV show on one of the channels - she told her story and presented evidence: she turned on a recording of Karachentsov’s voice, allegedly from her answering machine: “Hello, I’m still here. In St. Petersburg today." And she even showed “the sheet that she never parted with, which she laid on Kolya.”

Komsomolskaya Pravda called Karachentsov’s wife Lyudmila Porgina to find out what reaction Elena’s revelations caused in their family?

— We are now in Israel, receiving treatment. Kolya has stage four cancer, we are fighting for his life,” Lyudmila Porgina tells KP. - Yes, we heard about the ballerina’s revelations. About this, Kolya and I laughed out loud. Imagine, he doesn’t even know her. She doesn't even remember who she is! The ballerina included his words on her answering machine as proof of their alleged connection. You know, Kolya always said a lot of things to our answering machine. You could call us at home and hear his voice. He could say to the answering machine: “It’s me, I’ve arrived.” And greetings and jokes. She could have just recorded it all from our phone. And the fact that she showed the sheet, supposedly Colin’s favorite, is completely beyond the bounds. Cheap, disgusting! She gives out wishful thinking. Shows photographs of him hugging Karachentsov - and how many such photographs with different fans!

— After her statements, what is the climate in the family?

- Everything is still the same for us. This ballerina can’t do anything to us. Kolya said: “I don’t know her, Luda!” I also joked: if anything happens, I’ll let you go, go to your mistress. He responded: “Are you crazy?!”

Karachentsov’s wife Lyudmila Porgina assures that the dancer’s revelations made their married couple laugh and did not quarrel. Photo: Evgenia GUSEVA

“I definitely would have noticed something.”

“The dancer says that they met secretly for 23 years,” continues Porgina. - This is a huge piece of our life. Wouldn’t I really have noticed that he had someone on his side? Yes, it would have been written all over his face! No matter how you hide it, your wife feels everything. Kolya was and is a wonderful person and husband, noble and honest.

Everything that girl says is a lie. Moreover, in fact, the story of Kolya and I’s love story is told - how we met on the streets of Leningrad... I mentioned in the interview how Kolya and I walked around Leningrad, kissed on the tram. And how Kolya gave money to the conductor and said that we would ride in a circle. And we continued kissing almost on the running board. All this was placed in the history of the ballerina, attributed to her.

It was Kolya and I who began our affair on tour in Leningrad. I was still married then. And at first he and I hid, hid our feelings...

By the way, she says in an interview that Karachentsov came in and said: “The artist has arrived.” And this was Sasha Abdulov’s favorite expression. She confused something.

I have a lot of friends in Leningrad. If Kolya had taken a mistress there, it would have been a mistake, because everyone knew each other, they would have reported on it.

I wonder if she loved Kolya as much as she claims, why did she never make herself known during his illness when we needed help so much?

And then, even if we assume that he fell in love with someone, he would have left. Kolya is a strong person. It is he who creates happiness in the family, not me. I’m just a support, a stick for support... When we return from Israel, we’re ready to come to the TV show with Kolya - let the ballerina look us in the eyes.

“He grew up in a boarding school and values ​​family”

- Karachentsov had many fans in his youth...

- Well, of course. This always accompanies the acting profession. But Kolya is a deeply decent person. He grew up in a boarding school; as a child, he didn’t have a mom or dad (his parents divorced, and when the boy was 7 years old, his mother, a choreographer, sent him to a boarding school under the Ministry of Foreign Trade. The woman was constantly traveling, and it was a necessary measure. - Ed.). For him, his family is the most precious thing in life.

My mother, who passed away the day Kolya had an accident, said: “The best person in life is your Kolya. I don’t know anyone else like him.”

— One of Karachentsov’s acquaintances expressed the idea: actors burn out on stage, and they need to recharge with light affairs, novels, some kind of attention, emotions.

- Intrigues are not about him at all. This all corrupts the soul, scatters it. It was like this: Kolya took off his clothes, came home, undressed, sat tired, in his shorts and said: “Lord, what happiness, I’m home. You are with me and I am next to you”... Now in the TV ratings are the illegitimate daughter of Muslim Magomayev, the illegitimate daughters of Alexander Serov. We are used to deception all around us.

Elena Dmitrieva danced at the Mariinsky Theater. Now she is 53 years old, she works as a choreographer. Photo: facebook.com

"Every minute was planned"

- But you admit that, let’s say, there was no intimate relationship, but he could meet this ballerina and communicate.

- Yes, he had no time! He had every minute planned out. If he walked, he would not have time to do anything at all. He sometimes slept for three or four hours. I went to bed at four, got up at eight, had a cold shower, massage and went ahead with a song - to work. And then “talk on a bench for four hours.”

- But there was such a case in your life when you, taking your son Andryusha, left Karachentsov for your mother. And they did not return to their husband for three months. You punished him for something, right?

- What for three months! For 10 days. He went to Romania to film. His mother said that I didn’t take good care of her and my son. At this moment, my son began to develop pancreatitis. And I had rehearsals for plays in the theater, I was torn. And Kolya, upon returning, told me: “I thought that you were my true friend, but you betrayed me.” I got up and left. He then asked for my forgiveness. It was the only time in my life when we quarreled and I left. My son, born from Kolya, is wonderful, my daughter-in-law is wonderful. And three grandchildren. As for mistresses - well, let the townsfolk discuss it.

"A fan committed suicide"

— You were once informed that one dancer, Marina Shirshikova, could be Karachentsov’s mistress.

— He raised Marina Shirshikova from the age of ten. She is from Karachentsov's art school "Chic". There were many girls and boys there, his pupils. Kolya treats them like children. Marisha Shirshikova adores Kolya as a master. She once told me: “The administrator who takes Nikolai Petrovich on tour is deceiving him. Can I be its director? I said, “Of course.” And since then she has accompanied him. Marisha is the most honest person. She came to our house when Kolya came out of his coma. I studied with him. And she also called us now and said that she was ready to come on the program in Kolya’s defense.

— We talked about an affair with actress Olga Kabo...

- Stop it. You see, people cannot help but attribute novels and affairs to artists. Of course, Kolya had many fans, and crazy ones too. One even jumped out of the window because of him. A student of Andreeva-Voznesenskaya... And before that she painted our entire entrance with declarations of love to Kolya. Threatened: if you don’t be mine, I’ll throw myself out. And she did it. Then they came to us from the housing office, saying, pay, this is your fan, she ruined the walls here. We have paid…

Okay, I need to cook Kolya’s dinner. He just went out for a walk. Thanks to those who support us.

OPINION

Actress Victoria LAZIC:

Just PR

“Nikolai Karachentsov has oncology, and at this moment telling the leafy story of some long-term romance is at least tactless,” former actress and family friend Victoria Lazich expressed her opinion. — This lady is promoting herself. If she really loved Kolya, she would be silent about her fornication.

Lyudmila is a smart woman and did not take all this to heart. I admit that Kolya could have some hobbies. He himself said that he could recharge himself with the attention of girls. But at the same time, he always called his wife Luda his Conchita.

DIRECT SPEECH

The ballerina's ex-husband: Lena did not do it out of great intelligence

Komsomolskaya Pravda called Elena Dmitrieva’s ex-husband, dancer Andrei Yakovlev.

— Andrey, have you heard the story about your ex-wife and Karachentsov?

- Yes, I heard.

The ballerina's ex-husband Andrei Yakovlev. Photo: facebook.com

— It’s probably unpleasant for you to realize that you were not the only one in Dmitrieva’s life?

“She says she married me for love.” She gave birth to a child in love and harmony.

— Did you study together with Elena Dmitrieva?

— She is 6 years older than me. We graduated from the same Vaganova Ballet Academy.

— In her interview it is mentioned that you once told her that Karachentsov was calling. It turns out that you knew about her relationship with the artist?

- No, I didn’t know anything. Lena didn't tell me anything. I learned about everything from her interview. And it’s somehow not interesting to me. Lena and I lived for five years. I married her when I was 19. We have a daughter. I am now 47 years old, you are talking about a relationship that is long gone. We do not talk.

— What does your daughter think about this revelation from her mother?

— My daughter and I talk about other topics. But she is aware of this situation.

- Is this news to her?

— This is news for all of us, to be honest.

— Some doubted the story: the plot was too similar to the film “Winter Cherry.”

— The artist has been sick for 12 years, he has a wife who takes care of him. I don't understand why Lena did this. Not from a great mind.

- Maybe they just knew each other, nothing more?

- How do I know? Answering machine recording, the sheet was shown. What else do you need? (Laughs.)

—Have you noticed that she is, let’s say, weird?

-Are you looking for a reasonable explanation? I didn't notice that she was a fan. After Lena, I was married to the daughter of Georgy Aleksandrovich Yartsev, who headed the Russian national football team. And we have a child together. I had a lot of interesting things in my life, besides Lena and Karachentsov.

— Did you break up with Elena because you found someone else?

- No, we separated because it was a marriage due to youth. And I don’t think that Karachentsov was the reason for the breakup.

Movies and music

The actor first appeared on screen in the late 1960s. But the truly cinematic biography of Nikolai Karachentsov began after the triumph of the production “Til,” which turned the artist into a star. In 1975, Vitaly Melnikov’s psychological drama “The Eldest Son” was released, in which the main characters were played by Evgeny Leonov, Mikhail Boyarsky, Svetlana Kryuchkova and Natalya Egorova. The role of the eldest son went to Karachentsov. The film is still enjoyed and watched by millions of viewers around the world today. And then he simply “fell in love” with the audience and brought incredible fame to the main cast.

In the film "Eldest Son"

Since the second half of the 1970s, Nikolai Karachentsov has been one of the most sought-after actors in Soviet cinema. He has successfully acted in a variety of genres and roles. Viewers are crazy about his every appearance on the screen. But the films “Dog in the Manger”, “Pious Martha”, “The Adventures of Electronics”, “The Trust That Broke”, “White Dews”, “The Man from the Boulevard des Capuchins”, “Bright Personality” and “Deja Vu” turned out to be especially popular.

Of the actor's latest works on screen, notable are the series “St. Petersburg Mysteries”, “Queen Margot”, “The Files of Detective Dubrovsky” and “Secrets of Palace Coups”, which have become fashionable.

The filmography of Nikolai Karachentsov includes more than 100 films.

As Urry

Nikolai Petrovich’s lifelong passion was singing, which the actor practiced despite his busy schedule. At Andrei Mironov's acting song festival, Karachentsov was always on the judging panel, while he himself performed many songs for a wide audience.

He repeatedly voiced the roles of Jean-Paul Belmondo in foreign films. And in domestic cinema, Karachentsov’s songs became a kind of calling card of artistic films. The singer’s hits include the songs “Maple Leaf”, “Lady Hamilton”, “I Dreamed a Dream”, “Archangel Michael”, “Patriarch’s Ponds”. The song “What to give you,” performed by Karachentsov and Irina Uvarova, won millions of hearts. But the “golden” hit for many years was the song “I will never forget you” performed by Nikolai Karachentsov and Anna Bolshova.

Olga Kabo played the role of “Lady Hamilton” in the video for the song of the same name by Nikolai Karachentsov. And later she recorded two songs with him - “Random Street” and “Screenwriter”.

In 2014, Nikolai Karachentsov’s anniversary evening was held in Lenkom, in which many of his stage colleagues took part. In the same year, a creative evening of the artist was held at the Moscow House of Books, dedicated to the release of a double CD entitled “The Best and Unreleased.”

Creativity[ | ]

Filmography[ | ]

Theater roles[ | ]

Modern Opera Theater under the direction of A. Rybnikov

• 1992 - “Liturgy of the Catechumens” - Mary

Metropolitan Opera (Seoul)

• 1994 - “Juno” and “Avos” (A. Rybnikov and A. Voznesensky) - Conchita

Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army

• 1993 - “Masquerade” (M. Yu. Lermontov) - Nina
• 1996 - “Much Ado About Nothing” (W. Shakespeare) - Beatrice
• 1997 - “Heart is not a stone” - Vera Filippovna
• 2001 - “The Stingy” - Eliza
• 2002 - "Othello" - Desdemona

Theater named after Mossovet

• 2002 - “Cyrano de Bergerac” (E. Rostand) - Roxanne
• 2003 - “Silver Age” - Kira Augustovna
• 2004 - “The Dance Teacher” (Lope de Vega) xx@@@ Felisyana
• 2011 - “The Morals of Mrs. Dulskaya” - Yuliasevich
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• 2011 — “Casting/Casting” — Evelina Polskikh
• 2013 — “Dangerous Liaisons” — Marquise de Merteuil
• 2013 - “Dial M for Murder” - Margo Wendice
• 2015 - “Sea Voyage 1933” - Mary
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Moscow independent theater

• 2003 — “The Master and Margarita” — Margarita

State Film Actor Theater

• 2012 - “The Servant of Two Masters” (C. Goldoni) - Beatrice
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Songs[ | ]

Olga Kabo, 2010
On May 27, 2007, Olga Kabo made her debut on stage as a singer with the song “I won’t lie!” by composer and poetess Elena Surzhikova [18][19][27][28]. Currently [ when?

] the actress is preparing to release a solo album, which she recorded over the past few years[29]. The album includes songs by such composers as Maxim Dunaevsky, Alexey Rybnikov, Elena Surzhikova[30], as well as Olga’s duets with Nikolai Karachentsov[31] and Dmitry Kharatyan[29] from films and performances.

• "I won't lie!" (music and lyrics by Elena Surzhikova)
• “Chestnuts on Fire” (music and lyrics by Elena Surzhikova)[32]
• “Random Street” (music by Dmitry Danin, lyrics by Alexey Lysenko) duet with Nikolai Karachentsov[10]
• “Screenwriter” (music by Vyacheslav Gorsky, lyrics by Sergei Krylov) duet with Nikolai Karachentsov[10]
• “Other words” (music by Vladimir Bystryakov, lyrics by Igor Lazarevsky) duet with Nikolai Karachentsov
• “Maple Leaf” (music by Maxim Dunaevsky, lyrics by Leonid Derbenev)[31][33]
• “On a White Night”, from the rock opera “Liturgy of the Catechumens” (music by Alexey Rybnikov, lyrics by Anna Akhmatova)
• Duet from the play “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Leslie Brikkas, Russian translation by Yaroslav Kesler) duet with Dmitry Kharatyan
• “Life” (music and lyrics by Konstantin Gubin)

Discography[ | ]

• 2008 - “I won’t lie! Nikolay Karachentsov presents songs by Elena Surzhikova" (CD)[34][35]
• 2014 - Nikolay Karachentsov “The Best and Unreleased” (CD)[36][37]
• 2015 - “Let's just be silent. Chanson Museum. 11 years with friends" (songs in mp3 format)[38]
• 2016 - Elena Surzhikova “Songs ordered by the soul...” (2 CD)[39]