Mikhail Tanich's wife - Lydia Kozlova - biography, children, photos

Career

In her youth, Lydia Kozlova learned to play the guitar. The girl sang well and even wrote poetry . Lydia was talented and artistic, so she devoted all her free time to her favorite pastime.

In 1955, the young poetess wrote her first book, “Near the War.”

In 1956, secretly from her husband, Lydia Nikolaevna began to write compositions based on his poems.

In 1986, a significant event occurred in the life of Lydia Nikolaevna. The woman met the leader of the Lesopoval group . So Kozlova helped her husband write lyrics for the group.

Currently, the poetess is producing the Lesopoval group.

Career blossoming

Co-authorship with Ian Frenkel was the first of a series of successful collaborations by Tanich with other eminent and talented representatives of the creative intelligentsia: Vladimir Shainsky, Oscar Feltsman, Eduard Kolmanovsky, Nikita Bogoslovsky, Vadim Gamalia, Arkady Ostrovsky and others. Together with the composer Yuri Saulsky, Mikhail Isaevich wrote the cheerful and ri, which became not just a hit, but literally the calling card of the poet Tanich. Her influence on the popular culture of the USSR was so great that a black cat appeared in the videos “I’ll Buy You a House” by the group “Lesopoval” and “Knots” by Alena Apina. And Tanich’s song “Robot,” written together with composer Levon Merabov, became the radio debut of the then very young aspiring singer Alla Pugacheva . Subsequently, Alla Borisovna preferred other authors, which caused Mikhail Isaevich regret. He was convinced that he was capable of composing many great hits especially for the Prima Donna.

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich - People's Artist of the Russian Federation

In 1985, Mikhail Tanich rendered a huge service to the young Vladimir Kuzmin - he wrote a song with which he was able to debut at “Song of the Year”. At the same time, the poet began to collaborate with the most popular composers of those years - Raymond Pauls and David Tukhmanov. Especially for Alexander Barykin, together with Pauls, Tanich composed the song “Three Minutes”. Barykin was not imbued with this work and sang it dryly and without much emotion, and in the end he abandoned it altogether. Valery Leontiev took “Three Minutes” and made it his hit. Mikhail Isaevich also wrote for the then already eminent Edita Piekha , and for the gaining momentum Larisa Dolina . But the author especially liked Alena Apina: he really liked both her character and her manner of performance. He even called Apina “his singer.”

Mikhail Tanich (right) and Joseph Kobzon

Prophetic dream

In 1956, Lydia Kozlova lived in a rented apartment in Saratov. One day a girl performed a ritual that helped her see her future husband in a dream.

It turns out that Lydia saw in a dream a man similar to Mikhail Tanich . At the first meeting with the great poet, the girl told the man that she saw him in her dream. However, the skeptical Mikhail did not believe his future wife.

In the 80s, the couple remembered this mystical story. Tanich still did not believe in Lydia’s words, considering his wife’s words only fiction.

Interesting Facts

As a child, Mikhail Isaevich reacted sharply to defeats. For him, there was only one result in any endeavor - positive.
During the Great Patriotic War, the poet defended his Motherland in the Belarusian and Baltic directions. Having been seriously wounded, he barely survived. However, his fate could have been sealed back in 1944, when they were going to bury the fighter in a mass grave because they thought he was dead.
Tanich pulled out his second lucky ticket at a logging site - his involvement with the members of the brigade saved his life, since the prisoners who directly worked at the logging site died.
The sixteenth album "Lesopoval" was released after the death of the group's founder.

Mikhail Tanich, Lydia Kozlova, Anatoly Dneprov

Tanich wrote the words to the anthem of the CSKA football club (Moscow).
The composer sang in public only once, performing the composition “Men, Like Men” together with singer Alexander Dobronravov.
When his song “Textile Town” became popular, while buying a cake in one of the stalls, he heard the saleswoman humming a piece of music. Mikhail Tanich could not remain silent and said that he was the author of the text, to which the sales employee replied, “He didn’t come out!”
The love of football did not leave the poet until his death - he attended games of the national championship and often became the main subject of photographs.
At the end of March 2008, Tanich took the stage at the Chanson of the Year award, although he felt very bad at the time. The event took place just a week and a half before the creative figure was hospitalized.

Mikhail Tanich in the company of friends

Family and Children

In 1956, Lydia met her future husband, the famous poet Mikhail Tanich. The girl showed Mikhail her poems, which the man liked.

From that time on, a fruitful union arose between the two creative personalities, which grew into true love.

Lydia Kozlova and Mikhail Tanich legalized their relationship , but the poetess did not take her husband’s surname.

The couple lived in Saratov, then moved to Orekhovo-Zuevo . Here the couple had two daughters, Svetlana and Inga . The girls left their mother's surname because they wanted to independently achieve certain heights in life.

Orders and camps

Mikhail Tanich during military service. Photo: kiozk.ru

The future poet was called to the front in 1942. Tanich took part in battles on the Belorussian and Baltic fronts, was wounded several times, and received the Order of Glory III degree and the Order of the Red Star. “I can’t get away from the war anywhere,” Tanich admitted, “these three years then echoed and echoed in my poems.”

In 1945, Mikhail Tanich was demobilized and returned to Rostov-on-Don. He entered the Rostov Institute of Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Architecture, but was unable to graduate. In 1947, one of his friends reported to management that among his friends Tanich praised cars and the quality of roads in Germany. The document contained transcripts of other conversations between the poet and his friends: a discussion of the war and the life of the Germans. He was accused of counter-revolutionary activities and sentenced to six years in the camps. Tanich was exiled to the Urals, near Solikamsk.

“Prison, transfer, stages, Vologda convoy, camps. And in the camps I tried everything: felled timber, worked as a loader for two years on a northern supply chain? Was. Did you pull rails made of ice water under a hundred grams of alcohol? And how. I was suffering from hunger and furunculosis. Without knowing how to count accounts, he worked as an accountant. And then he accepted a bunch of keys covered in blood - they killed him with eighteen blows from the sharpening of the previous table. Enough courage! He spent some time cooking and became a technical supply forwarder - from the city of Solikamsk he transported everything that the taiga required: spare parts, building materials, fuel. It was memorable."
Mikhail Tanich "Ferris Wheel"

Mikhail Tanich left the camp after Stalin’s death—in 1953, his six-year sentence ended. The first few years after that he lived on Sakhalin, then in the city of Volzhsky near Saratov. Here Tanich first published his poems in a local newspaper. At this time, the poet shortened his real surname - Tanhilevich, and began to sign his works as Tanich. In Volzhskoye, Tanich met his future wife, Lydia Kozlova, who was 14 years younger than him, at a party. They lived together for more than fifty years. They had two daughters - Inga and Svetlana.

First gift

Lydia Kozlova and Mikhail Tanich lived modestly. The family had to save money as they raised two daughters. There was no money for luxurious gifts at that time.

In 1976, Lydia Nikolaevna received her first gift from her loving husband. Mikhail Isaevich gave Lydia a ring with diamonds. The woman was not used to luxury, so she did not accept the gift. Tanich was very offended by his wife.

Six months later, Lydia Kozlova put on the ring. Mikhail was glad that his wife began to wear jewelry. After Tanich's death, the poetess often recalls this story.

The childhood of Mikhail Tanich, the war years

Misha was born into a Jewish family in provincial Taganrog. His surname at birth is Tanhilevich. He began reading at the age of four, and soon wrote his first poems. The boy's biggest hobby was football.

He replaced everything for Mikhail. He got his first soccer ball, given by his father, at the age of five. Misha tried to draw, but realizing that he was not the first in this matter, he stopped doing it. But he always wrote poetry, realizing that he was great at it. Since childhood, Tanich only accepted victories and did not tolerate losses. When he was only fourteen years old, his father was shot and his mother was arrested. Misha moved to his maternal grandfather in Mariupol. He graduated from school in 1941, and in May 1943 (according to other sources, in July 1942) Mikhail was drafted by the Kirov district military registration and enlistment office of the Rostov region into the Red Army. Mikhail Tanich. Once again about love He fought on the Belarusian and Baltic fronts. In 1944, Tanich was seriously wounded and was near death. Considering the young man dead, he was almost buried in a mass grave.

Incredible success

Until 1976, there were no bright events in the life of Lydia Kozlova. She took care of the housework and raising children, but did not forget about her favorite work - she continued to be her husband’s co-author.

In 1979, the couple went to England. During a meeting with one lord, the poetess was surrounded by influential men. One lord liked the beautiful Lydia, but the woman did not attach any importance to this.

In 1981, the talented poetess wrote the song “The snow is spinning, flying, flying.” Lydia did not tell her husband about her creation, but showed the text to Sergei Berezin. The VIA “Plamya” team liked the song

This is how the poetess’s first hit was born - the song “Snowfall”.

The history of the song "Iceberg"

In 1983, a quarrel occurred between Kozlova and Tanich The couple reconciled, but family “drama” became the reason for the creation of the song “Iceberg”.

Family friend Igor Nikolaev wrote music based on Lydia Nikolaevna’s poems. The singer did not dare to show his work to Alla Pugacheva for a very long time.

One fine day, the Prima Donna heard a song that she really liked. However, there is an opinion that this song was performed for the first time by Olga Zarubina .

The second hit of the talented Lydia – the song “Iceberg” – was performed in the program “Song of the Year 1984”

The best poems and songs of Mikhail Tanich

After such successful work as a co-author, Tanich more than once worked together with other poets and composers, these are Nikita Bogoslovsky, Eduard Kolmanovsky, Oscar Feltsman and Vladimir Shainsky. The result of working with Yuri Saulsky was the appearance of the popularly beloved song “Black Cat”. For the beginner Alla Pugacheva, the poet wrote the song “Robot”, the music was written by Levon Merabov. Subsequently, the poet regretted that Alla Borisovna found other authors for herself. He believed that he could write many hits for her.

Such singers, who later became famous as Igor Nikolaev and Vladimir Kuzmin, collaborated with Tanich at the beginning of their creative career. The first hit “Iceberg” was written by Nikolaev to the poems of Mikhail Isaevich. Kuzmin performed at “Song of the Year” for the first time with a song that was also directly related to Tanich.

The ship was named in honor of Mikhail Tanich

The well-known song “Three Minutes”, performed by Valery Leontyev, was once written specifically for Alexander Barykin, but he did not want to perform it. The first video clip of Igor Sarukhanov was filmed for a song called “Guy with a Guitar”, its lyrics were written by Mikhail Isaevich. Many songs were written by the poet for Larisa Dolina, Edita Piekha and Alena Apina. Tanich especially liked working with Apina, he was impressed by her character, he called this singer “his own.”

Everlasting memory

In 2008, the idol of millions, Mikhail Isaevich Tanich, died from a serious illness. The poet's widow continued Mikhail's work and became the leader of the Lesopoval group . Now Lydia is preparing for the release of a new album based on her husband’s poetry.

Lidia Nikolaevna supported her daughter Svetlana , who took up the archive of her famous father. Mikhail Isaevich’s personal library contains hundreds of unpublished poems and songs.

Today Lydia Kozlova continues to write poetry. The poetess was accepted into the Russian Writers' Union.

Childhood and youth

Mikhail Isaevich Tanich (Tankhilevich) was born on September 15, 1923 in the city of Taganrog into a Jewish family. His father's name was Isaac Samoilovich Tanhilevich (1902-1938). His life path was very thorny: in his youth he managed to take part in the civil war on the side of the Red Army, and at the age of only nineteen years the young man was appointed deputy head of the Cheka in Mariupol. After receiving his education - having studied at the Petrograd Institute of Public Utilities - the talented young man becomes the head of the public utilities department in Taganrog. But the life of an energetic and promising man ended abruptly and tragically: he was accused of stealing socialist property on an especially large scale and, in accordance with the laws of that time, was shot according to the notorious “Stalinist lists.” Mom, Marina Panteleevna, also did not escape a sad fate - she was arrested. Thus, little Misha was left without both parents, and it was decided to send him to his maternal grandfather, Boris Traskunov, who lives in Rostov-on-Don.

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich in his youth

From early childhood, Misha was distinguished by his intelligence and good abilities. At the age of four he began to read independently. Very little time passed - and the boy wrote his first poems. But it was not rhyming that became his main passion, but football, which replaced literally everything for little Misha. Having received a soccer ball from his father at the age of five, the boy simply “fell ill” with this game. They tried to introduce Tankhilevich Jr. to drawing, but the first attempts did not end very successfully, and the matter was abandoned. Since childhood, Mikhail could not tolerate his failures and losses; he had to become the first everywhere and in everything. Therefore, drawing did not find a response in his soul, unlike writing poetry, which he always did excellently.

Tanich Mikhail Isaevich - poet and songwriter