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Tatyana Valeryevna Snezhina (real name - Pechenkina; May 14, 1972, Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR, USSR - August 21, 1995, 106th kilometer of the Barnaul-Novosibirsk highway, Russia) - poet, composer and singer.
She was born in Ukraine in the city of Voroshilovgrad (now Lugansk), in a military family. At the age of three months, with her parents, due to the nature of her father’s service, she went to live in Kamchatka. She studied at the music school and secondary school in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky No. 4 named after. L. N. Tolstoy. In 1982, she and her family moved to live in Moscow. She studied at school No. 874, was a social activist and a member of the school drama club. She entered the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute (MOGMI). Since 1992, due to her father’s business trip, she lived with her parents in Novosibirsk. She entered and studied at the Novosibirsk Medical Institute.
She began writing music and poetry during her school years. She drew and sang. The first success was informal - homemade “music albums” recorded at home were distributed among Moscow students, and then Novosibirsk students. The same fate awaited the poems and prose typed by the author. In 1994, T. Snezhina recorded phonograms of 22 original songs from her first album, “Remember with Me,” in the KiS-S studio in Moscow. In the same year, she made her debut at the Variety Theater in Moscow, and the first program about her work was broadcast on Radio Russia. In Novosibirsk he wins several song competitions in the city and region. It was difficult for Snezhina to come up with new songs; the work was carried out painstakingly and carefully. Some songs took 2-3 months to record. The work went on, and Tanya’s style changed a little, the studio’s approach to her work changed. As one of the arrangers later recalled: “We tried for too long to bring Tanya’s songs up to world standards and suddenly realized that this was impossible. What she writes does not need any serious processing, everything she writes should sound almost untouched because this is what we were waiting for, looking for and could not find for a long time. ". While looking for ways to release her solo album and record new songs in Novosibirsk, she met Sergei Bugaev, a former Komsomol worker who contributed greatly to the development of underground rock music in the 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the director of the Studio-8 youth association has been trying to promote “pop music with a human face,” which Tatyana Snezhina joined. In addition to the creative ones, close personal relationships were also established between the young people; in May 1995, Tatyana was proposed to marry her, and their wedding was supposed to take place in the fall.
In August 1995, Tatyana and Sergei were engaged, and their wedding was supposed to take place a month later. Snezhina’s album was recorded at Studio-8, the release of which was planned for the same fall. On August 18, 1995, a presentation of a new production project took place, at which Tatyana performed two of her own romances “My Star” and “If I Die Before Time” with a guitar [1].
If I die before my time, let the white swans carry me away, far, far, to an unknown land, high, high, into the bright sky...
On August 19, 1995, Bugaev borrowed a Nissan minibus from friends and went with his friends to the Altai Mountains to buy honey and sea buckthorn oil. He took Tatyana with him.
Two days later, on August 21, 1995, on the way back, at the 106th kilometer of the Cherepanovskaya highway Barnaul-Novosibirsk, a Nissan minibus collided with a MAZ truck. As a result of this traffic accident, all six passengers of the minibus died without regaining consciousness[2]: singer Tatyana Snezhina, director of the Pioneer MCC Sergei Bugaev, candidate of sciences Shamil Faizrakhmanov, director of the Mastervet pharmacy Igor Golovin, his wife, doctor Golovina Irina and their five-year-old son Vladik Golovin.
There are two main versions of the disaster. According to one of them, Nissan went to overtake and, due to the right-hand steering wheel, did not notice a truck rushing towards it (that day one of the punctured wheels was replaced with a spare wheel). According to another version, the MAZ itself suddenly braked sharply, and its trailer skidded into the oncoming lane (it had rained shortly before the accident).
During her life she wrote more than 200 songs. Thus, the most famous song performed by Alla Pugacheva “Call me with you” belongs to the pen of Tatyana, but Alla Borisovna sang this song after the tragic death of the poetess and performer in 1997[2]. This event served as the starting point for writing poems dedicated to Tatyana Snezhina [3] Since 1996, other pop stars begin to sing her songs: // I. Kobzon, K. Orbakaite, Lolita Milyavskaya, T. Ovsienko, M. Shufutinsky, Lada Dance, L. Leshchenko, N. Trubach, Alisa Mon, T. Bulanova, E. Kemerovsky, Asker Sedoy and others. Numerous musical compositions based on her music in the dance rhythms of house and hip-hop styles are popular. Her music is heard in films.
Despite the fact that Snezhina wrote more than 200 songs, her poetry, thanks to its internal melody, inspires many composers to write new songs based on the poems of this author (E. Kemerovo, N. Trubach, etc.). Currently, the repertoires of performers in Russia, Ukraine, and Japan include more than two dozen new songs based on Snezhina’s poems.
In 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2008, T. Snezhina posthumously became the laureate of the Song of the Year award. There is an award named after Tatyana Snezhina - “Silver Snowflake” for contribution to helping young talents. One of the first to receive this statuette was Alla Pugacheva.
In 2008, a literary prize was established in Ukraine by the Interregional Union of Writers of the Country named after. Tatiana Snezhina and the corresponding commemorative medal. Every year, the best songwriters are nominated for this award.
In Kazakhstan, the peak of the Dzhungar Alatau mountain range is named after Tatyana Snezhina. The peak was first conquered as a result of a targeted expedition by a group of young Russian climbers.
In 2006, at school No. 97 (formerly school No. 874) in Moscow, where Tatyana Snezhina studied from 1981-1989, the “Literary and Musical Museum in Memory of T. Snezhina” was opened by the teaching staff, on the basis of an official decision of the Moscow government. .
In Ukraine, in the city of Lugansk, in 2010, by decision of the authorities, a bronze monument to Tatyana Snezhina was erected in the city center. The author of the sculpture is E. Chumak. Ukraine. Lugansk.
In 2008, a large-scale regional television competition for young pop song performers “Ordynka” was established and held annually in Novosibirsk, dedicated to the memory of T. Snezhina and S. Bugaev. Contestants come from all over Russia and the competition is held in several stages, widely covered by the press and television. Traditionally, one of the stages of the festival is the performance of T. Snezhina’s songs.
In Novosibirsk in 2011, one of the new streets was named in honor of Tatyana Snezhina[4].
Since 2012, the Novosibirsk Cycling Club “Rider” has been holding an annual “Bike Ride in Memory of Tatyana Snezhina” along the route Novosibirsk - 116 km. Cherepanovskaya highway (place of death of the poetess).
Since 2012, the annual “International Festival of School Creativity in Memory of Tatyana Snezhina” has been held in Moscow on the date dedicated to the poetess’s birthday.
On May 14, 2013, in Novosibirsk, on Tatyana Snezhina Street, on the initiative of the author’s fans, by decision of the city authorities, a five-meter bronze stele dedicated to this poetess and composer was installed. The authors of the sculpture are the main artist of Novosibirsk Yuri Burika and Tomsk sculptor Anton Gnedykh. The stela in the form of a stylized sail-harp with the silhouette of a young poetess perpetuates not only the image of T. Snezhina herself, but also one of her famous works - in the foreground of the composition there is a bronze stave with the first notes of the song “Call me with you” [5] .
Biography of Tatyana Snezhina
When she was three years old, she loved to put on her mother’s makeup, put on her mother’s skirt and sing the song “Harlequin” by Alla Pugacheva for her parents and guests at home. Who would have thought then that a few decades later the prima donna herself would perform Snezhina’s songs . And certainly no one could have imagined that Tatiana would no longer be alive by that time.
The biography of Tatyana Snezhina is amazing and tragically short . Born into a military family, she wanted to connect her life with healing. But the craving for creativity often took over - the girl actively participated in amateur competitions, composed and recorded her own songs, which immediately became popular among her friends and classmates. In order to break into show business, she herself would hardly have had the confidence. But Snezhina’s talent could not go unnoticed. One day, a young girl was noticed by Sergei Bugaev , director of a youth studio. First, he persuaded her to cooperate with his association, and already in the process of work, a romantic relationship arose between the young people.
Creative heritage
Over her twenty-three years, Tatyana Snezhina managed to write more than 200 poems and songs. Some of them, after the death of the author, were sung by such popular artists as Joseph Kobzon, Alla Pugacheva, Lolita, Lada Dance, Kristina Orbakaite, Lev Leshchenko, Mikhail Shufutinsky, Tatyana Ovsienko, Evgeny Kemerovsky and others, but many remained unknown to the general public.
Tatyana Snezhina's compositions can now be heard in the form of film soundtracks. Her poetry inspires other poets to create new masterpieces. In the Russian and Ukrainian repertoires, you can find songs based on Snezhina’s poems. Her literary works are on a par with the most popular and best-selling poetry collections. Almost twenty years have passed since the death of the poetess, but her works still find their readers.
Accident: collapse of hopes
It seemed that Tatyana Snezhina was about to soon become incredibly famous - with her soulfulness and lyricism, she fit well into the modern musical world, although she stood out from it. Together with Bugaev, they worked on a new project, discussed a future wedding and honeymoon, and made grandiose plans . But three days after the presentation of Tatyana’s project, a terrible accident occurred in which both Snezhina herself and her future husband Sergei Bugaev died . Snezhina's funeral took place at the Zaeltsovskoye cemetery in Novosibirsk, but after some time her ashes were transferred to the Troekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow. In Novosibirsk, a marble cenotaph of Snezhina remained at the burial site.
It is incredibly sad that fame, fame and popular love came to the poetess, composer and singer after Snezhina’s death. First, her song “Call me with you” was performed by Alla Pugacheva . Soon, other pop musicians began performing Snezhina’s songs, from Joseph Kobzon to Kristina Orbakaite. Year after year, Snezhina was posthumously awarded the “Song of the Year” award , and an award was created in her name - “Silver Snowflake” , which today rewards people who have contributed to the development of young talents. In her hometown, a competition of young performers is held in memory of Snezhina and Bugaev , and one of the streets of Novosibirsk is even named in her honor - a monument to Snezhina .
Monument to Snezhina in Lugansk, where she was born
Biography, life story of Tatyana Valerievna Snezhina
Childhood and adolescence
Tatyana was born in Lugansk on May 14, 1972 in the family of Valery Pavlovich, senior lieutenant, and Tatyana Georgievna, technologist. Soon after Tanya was born, the whole family - parents, Tanya herself and her older brother Vadim - moved to Kamchatka.
Tatyana showed her creativity in early childhood. The girl learned to play the piano very early. She often organized home concerts for loved ones - she dressed up in beautiful dresses and performed popular songs. Later, Tanya began to delight family members with poems of her own composition.
In 1981, the Pechenkins moved to Moscow. There Tatyana graduated from high school. Having received a certificate, the girl became a student at the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. In her free time from lectures, seminars and cramming, Tanya continued to be creative - she wrote songs and performed them at student events.
In 1992, due to the specific nature of the work of the head of the family, the Pechenkins had to move again. This time Novosibirsk became their place of residence. Tatyana had to pick up her documents from the capital’s university and enter the Novosibirsk Medical Institute.
Career
At the end of 1993, Tatyana met the guys from the Moscow music studio “KiS-S”. In the same year, the talented poetess and singer begins work on her first album. The next year, Tatyana Snezhina (the girl chose this pseudonym for herself) performed on the stage of the Variety Theater with the composition “There Was a Time.” At the same time, the Radio Russia station broadcast a program about Snezhina and her activities. Gradually, Tatiana’s work schedule became busier - performances began, recording of ready-made songs for the debut album “Remember with Me”, and the creation of the next collection was planned. However, in 1995, when Tatyana came to Moscow to enjoy the finished album, it turned out that the quality of the recording was not up to professional level. Snezhina returned to Novosibirsk and began to look for a new studio that could correct the situation. This is how Sergei Bugaev, head of the M&L Art studio, appeared in Tatiana’s life.
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Personal life
In May 1995, Sergei Bugaev proposed marriage to Tatyana Snezhina. The artist agreed. On September 13, the lovers planned to get married.
Tragic death
On May 18, 1995, Tatyana, Sergei and four friends went by minibus to the Altai Mountains to buy sea buckthorn oil and honey. After a three-day rest, the same company went home. On the way on the Barnaul-Novosibirsk highway, the minibus collided with a truck. All passengers in the minibus died. Among them was one child (the son of friends Tatyana and Sergei).
Initially, Tatyana Snezhina’s body was buried at the Zaeltsovskoye cemetery in Novosibirsk, but a little later the singer’s remains found rest at the Troekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Posthumous recognition
Over the 23 years of her life, Tatyana Snezhina managed to write more than 200 songs. In 1997, 2 years after Tatyana’s death, the queen of the national stage performed the composition “Call me with you,” written by Snezhina. After this, Snezhina’s songs began to be performed,
One of the most talented singers, a wonderful composer and poet Tatyana Snezhina once wrote that she could not come to terms with the fact that people so necessary for Russia, such as Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Vysotsky, pass away so early. Apparently, her country also needed her too much.
Did the young girl, pouring out her soul, her thoughts and experiences onto paper, know that her work would live much longer than she did? That someday collections of her poems will lie on the same bookshelf with the works of her favorite poets - Akhmatova, Yesenin, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak - and take their rightful place among them? Most likely she didn't know. She was just creating. A photo of Tatyana Snezhina indicates that she was a simple open girl. How did she live, what did she strive for, what did she want from life? Read about what Tatyana Snezhina’s biography conceals in this article.
Life line
May 14, 1972 Date of birth of Tatyana Valerievna Snezhina (real name Pechenkina). 1981 Study at Moscow school No. 874 (now No. 97). 1989 Admission to the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. 1992 Moving to Novosibirsk, admission to the Novosibirsk Medical Institute. 1994 Snezhina recorded phonograms of her songs in the KiS-S studio in Moscow, won the television competition “About the War and About Me” in Novosibirsk. 1995 Meeting and engagement with Sergei Bugaev, victory in the Siberian festival “Student Spring - 95”. August 18, 1995 Presentation of a new production project. August 21, 1995 Date of death of Snezhina and Bugaev (death in an accident).
Biography
Birth, childhood, youth
Snezhina Tatyana Valerievna was born on May 14, 1972 in Lugansk in the family of serviceman Pechenkin Valery Pavlovich and Tatyana Georgievna. The family had an eldest son, Vadim. Soon after the birth of their daughter, her parents move from Ukraine to Kamchatka. In her autobiography she recalls:
Tatyana learned to play the piano early, organized home concerts with dressing up and performing songs from the repertoire of famous pop singers. At such impromptu “concerts” she began to recite her first poems. I am used to pouring out my impressions of life events on paper. Relatives recall that Tanya wrote drafts of poems on random scraps, napkins in cafes, and travel tickets, demonstrating an impressionable nature that sincerely responded to the world around her. In Kamchatka, Tatyana studied at a music school and secondary school No. 4 named after. L. N. Tolstoy. From one year on, the family lived in Moscow, and subsequently, from 1992, in Novosibirsk. But moving did not burden Tatyana; it was an opportunity to experience life.
Among the school poems of the young poetess you can find those dedicated to Alexander Pushkin, the Decembrists, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, and events in her personal life. Poetry contains motifs of death, adulthood, and inner wisdom: .
Even at school age, Tatyana decided to become a doctor. She enters the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. Here Tatyana continues to engage in creativity, she has the opportunity to show her songs not only in a close circle, but also in a large student audience. The students liked her performances, they tried to record them on cassettes, distributing the songs to a fairly wide circle of friends, their relatives and acquaintances. This gave her confidence in herself, and Tatyana decides to try her hand at show business, taking the pseudonym “Snezhina,” which was probably inspired by the snows of Kamchatka and Siberia. In 1991, Igor Talkov, whom Tatyana considered her idol, was killed:
Memorable places
1. Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov (formerly the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute), where Snezhina studied. 2. Novosibirsk State Medical University (formerly Novosibirsk Medical Institute), where Snezhina studied. 3. Literary and Musical Museum in memory of Tatyana Snezhina in the former school No. 874, where Snezhina studied. 4. Monument to Snezhina in Lugansk, where she was born. 5. Monument to Snezhina in Novosibirsk on the street named after her. 6. Memorial to Snezhina and Bugaev at the site of their death. 7. Zaeltsovskoe cemetery, where Snezhina was buried. 8. Troekurovskoe cemetery, where Snezhina was reburied.
Heritage. Memory[edit | edit code]
Snezhina wrote more than 200 songs, most of which she first performed herself. The song “Call me with you” performed by Alla Pugacheva was sung after Snezhina’s death in 1997[8]. This event served as the starting point for writing poems dedicated to Tatyana Snezhina[10]. Since 1996, other performers began singing her songs: Joseph Kobzon, Kristina Orbakaite, Lolita Milyavskaya, Tatyana Ovsienko, Mikhail Shufutinsky, Lada Dance, Lev Leshchenko, Nikolai Trubach, Alisa Mon, Tatyana Bulanova, Evgeny Kemerovsky, Asker Sedoy, etc. Numerous popular musical compositions based on her music. Her music is heard in films.
Snezhina’s poetry, due to its inner melody, inspires many composers to write new songs based on her poems (E. Kemerovo, N. Trubach, etc.) [11] In 1997, 1998, 1999, Tatyana Snezhina posthumously became the laureate of the “Song of the Year” award. In 1998, he was awarded the Ovation Prize for hit song of the year and composer of the year. There is an award named after Tatyana Snezhina - “Silver Snowflake” for contribution to helping young talents. One of the first this statuette was awarded to Alla Pugacheva.
In Altai, in 1998, the peak of the Dzungarian Alatau mountain range was named in honor of Tatyana Snezhina. The peak was first conquered as a result of a targeted expedition by a group of young Russian climbers inspired by Tatyana Snezhina. At the top there was a capsule with a portrait of Tanya Snezhina and a book of her poems “What is my life worth.”[12]
In 2006, at school No. 97 (formerly school No. 874) in Moscow, where Tatyana Snezhina studied from 1981 to 1989, the “Literary and Musical Museum in Memory of T. Snezhina” was opened by the teaching staff on the basis of an official decision of the Moscow government.[13 ]
In 2008, a literary prize was established in Ukraine by the Interregional Union of Writers of the Country named after. Tatiana Snezhina and the corresponding commemorative medal. Every year, the best songwriters are nominated for this award.[14]
In 2008, a large-scale regional television competition of young pop singers “Ordynka”, dedicated to the memory of T. Snezhina and S. Bugaev, was established and held annually in Novosibirsk.[15]
In the city of Lugansk in 2010, by decision of the authorities, a bronze monument to Tatyana Snezhina was erected in the city center. The author of the sculpture is Evgeny Chumak.[16]
Since 2012, on May days, the creative Soul Festival dedicated to her memory is held annually at the monument to Tatyana Snezhina.[17] They are attended by laureates of the Tatyana Snezhina Literary Prize, the Interregional Union of Writers, young poets and bards of Lugansk, vocal and dance groups of children's and youth creativity centers and city schools, the regional library named after. M. Gorky.[18]
In Novosibirsk in 2011, one of the new streets was named in honor of Tatyana Snezhina[19].
Since 2012, the Novosibirsk cycling club “Ryder” has been holding an annual “Bike Ride in Memory of Tatyana Snezhina” along the route Novosibirsk - 106 km of the Cherepanovskaya highway (the place of death of the poetess)[20].
Since 2012, the annual “International Festival of School Creativity in Memory of Tatyana Snezhina” has been held in Moscow on the date dedicated to the poetess’s birthday.[21]
On May 14, 2013, in Novosibirsk, on Tatyana Snezhina Street, on the initiative of Tatyana Snezhina’s fans and by decision of the city authorities, a five-meter bronze stele dedicated to Snezhina was installed. The authors of the sculpture are the main artist of Novosibirsk Yuri Burika and Tomsk sculptor Anton Gnedykh. The stela in the form of a stylized sail-harp with the silhouette of a young poetess perpetuates not only the image of Tatiana herself, but also one of her most famous works - in the foreground of the composition is a stave with the first notes of the song “Call me with you”[22].
In 2008, a project was launched for technical processing (modern arrangement and remastering) of archival recordings of Tatyana Snezhina’s original performance of her songs. In 2009, the first album of this project, “Beyond the Bluest Height,” was released, which included 13 songs, only one of which, “We are only guests in this life...”, was previously known by Alla Pugacheva. 6 albums of this project have already been published.[23].
Episodes of life
Shortly before their death, Snezhina and Bugaev presented their new project, which they had been working on for a long time. At the presentation, Snezhina performed her song, which contained the following words: “If I die ahead of time...” Unfortunately, the song turned out to be prophetic - three days later the singer and her fiancé died .
Alla Pugacheva recalled that a mystical story . The singer came to St. Petersburg to shoot a video for this song, the director of which knew nothing about the author or what the dead girl looked like. There was little time, and Pugacheva asked the director to film the main scenes without her. When she arrived at the studio and saw the footage, she was incredibly amazed: the actress who was chosen to play the role of the girl who dies in an accident according to the plot of the video was incredibly similar to Snezhina herself .
Stele in memory of Snezhina in Novosibirsk and Snezhina’s grave at Troekurovskoye cemetery
Talented girl
Since childhood, she showed interest in creativity, and in particular, poetry. At the age of three she appeared on an improvised stage in front of the only and most important spectator in her life - her mother.
The main “weapon” in winning the audience’s sympathy (and the audience grew from parents to guests at their home) was mother’s cosmetics and the endless charm of the girl Tanya. She was admired by everyone who heard the ringing voice with which such songs as “Harlequin”, “Dark Eyes” and many others were sung.
They adored the talented girl, listened to her voice with hope and spent evenings at the piano. But it was all someone else’s, but at night the child composed his own, secretly writing down lines in a notebook. And again, the first person to hear her daughter’s poem was her mother, who cried with joy for her daughter’s talent. Then Tatyana realized that the lines she wrote could play on the strings of other people’s souls. And I took up creativity seriously. By the age of twenty-three, Snezhina’s creative arsenal already included more than two hundred works! Unfortunately, at that time no one knew about the young poetess. And her name thundered throughout the country only after the tragedy that claimed her life. When Alla Pugacheva sang: “Call me with you...”
Tatyana Snezhina did not write poetry for the sake of fame or fees - she simply did what she loved and what brought her pleasure. Thanks to her creativity, Tatyana became a real star of the course - her cassettes with songs passed from hand to hand and were actively distributed. And thanks to word of mouth, Snezhina gained her first popularity.
Childhood, family
Tanya's biography began in Lugansk. The girl was born into the family of a military officer. The real name of the poetess Pechenkina. She was very young, and her parents had already transported her to the harsh climate of Kamchatka, because Tanya’s father’s service required this. Mom raised her girl herself.
She gave her a love for music from a very young age. Tatyana's musical biography began with her mother's first chords on the piano. From the age of four, the girl sang and danced selflessly. She composed poems and, without hesitation, recited them to her relatives.
Tanya went to 1st grade in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. My parents moved again, this time to Moscow. In her school biography there was everything, like many girls: lessons, public assignments, drama club. Having received a certificate, the girl decided to connect her fate with medicine. Since the family had to leave again, after some time, having started her studies in Moscow, the student submitted documents for transfer to the Institute of Medicine in Novosibirsk.
Childhood and youth
On May 14, 1972, in the city of Voroshilovgrad (now Lugansk) in the Ukrainian SSR, a daughter, Tatyana Valerievna Pechenkina (the singer’s real name), was born into a military family. This girl was destined to do a lot for her country, to say a lot. When she was only three months old, the family was forced to move to Kamchatka, where her father was transferred to serve.
The little daughter’s first music lessons were taught by her mother, playing the piano. Tatyana's talent first appeared when she was four years old - she performed in front of relatives with inimitable skill, sang, danced and already read poems of her own composition.
Tanya went to school in the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. In 1982, the parents changed their place of residence again, settled in Snezhina, attended school No. 874, participated in the social activities of the educational institution, and studied in the drama club.
After graduating from school, Tanya entered a medical college in Moscow, but in 1992 she had to move again, this time to Novosibirsk. Over time, she transferred to the Novosibirsk Medical Institute.
Music, songs
Tanya tried to record songs and poems at home and create albums from them herself. Everything that the girl composed was enthusiastically accepted by her classmates and classmates. Various music competitions were held in Novosibirsk, often a medical student became a participant.
Recordings of Tatyana's songs on cassette were seen and heard at the KiS-S recording studio. The studio helped the singer record 22 soundtracks for songs, the music and lyrics for which Tatyana herself came up with. Her first album was also released there. Simultaneously with the release of the collection, the young performer performed on the stage of the Variety Theater.
Radio Russia was the first to talk about the creativity of the young talented girl. At the very first step to her popularity, Tatyana came up with a stage name - Snezhina. The singer worked on the new album for a whole year, but she did not like the result that came out after the studio recording. She began to look for a new team to work on her compositions. The director of the youth studio, Sergei Bugaev, appeared on the singer’s path.
He immediately fell in love with Tatiana’s work, and a creative, fruitful union was created. It took several months for a song about the musician to be born. Her material was easy, it could not be modified in any way, so what the girl wrote was sincere. This stage can be considered the beginning of Tatyana’s stellar biography.
Success and fame did not turn the girl’s head; she began to take her vocals and recordings of her songs even more seriously. Tanya wrote everywhere and on everything, as if she knew that she needed to hurry, and there was still a lot to say. Sergei carefully studied all of the singer’s work and all of Tatyana’s homemade preparations. As an experienced professional recording maker, he realized that the material that fell into his hands was priceless. The plans were to create a magnetic album, clips and a laser disc.
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Birth, childhood, youth[edit | edit code]
She was born on May 14, 1972 in Voroshilovgrad in the family of senior lieutenant of the Soviet Army Valery Pavlovich Pechenkin and his wife, a technologist at a local plant, Tatyana Georgievna. By that time they already had an eldest son, Vadim. Soon after the birth of their daughter, the family moved to Kamchatka[3]. In her autobiography, Snezhina recalls:
I was born in Ukraine, and my first impressions of life were melodic Ukrainian tunes from the radio next to the crib and my mother’s lullaby. I was not even six months old when fate transferred me from a warm, fertile region to the harsh land of Kamchatka. The pristine beauty of Nature... Gray volcanoes, snow-capped hills, the majestic expanse of the ocean. And new childhood experiences: long winter evenings, howling snowstorms outside the window, the crackling of birch logs in the stove and mother’s tender hands giving birth to Chopin’s unforgettable melodies[4].
— Tatyana Snezhina
Tatyana learned to play the piano early, organized home concerts with dressing up and performing songs from the repertoire of famous pop singers. At such impromptu “concerts” she began to recite her first poems[4].
In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky she studied at the music school and secondary school No. 4 named after. A. M. Gorky. Since 1981, the family moved and lived in Moscow.[3].
Then school and a new move, this time to Moscow. And the first conscious shock in life was the loss of friends who remained thousands of insurmountable kilometers away, in that harsh and beautiful land. And instead of the joyfully mischievous children's stanzas about “worms and bugs,” sad and at the same time lyrical lines began to come into my head, along with nightly tears for my first love, “which is there, far away, in a distant and harsh land.”
— Tatyana Snezhina
Among school poems you can find ones dedicated to Alexander Pushkin, the Decembrists, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, and events in his personal life. Poetry contains motifs of love and death, and against the background of youthful romanticism, a philosophical understanding of life begins[3].
Even at school age I decided to become a doctor. She entered the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute, where she continued to engage in creativity, and she had the opportunity to sing her songs to a student audience. Students tried to record them on cassette tapes and distributed them among friends, their relatives and acquaintances.
...whether it was possible to talk about creativity even then, it’s not for me to judge, but I lived by it... Student evenings with friends at the club piano became frequent, one of them quietly recorded what I sang and played on a tape recorder, and the cassettes became disperse among acquaintances, friends, relatives. This was my first, and therefore most expensive, edition...[4]
— Tatyana Snezhina
In 1991, Igor Talkov, who was an idol for Snezhina, was killed:
And then HIS death. The death of a great Man and Poet - the death of Igor Talkov, and dreams, dreams about him. How much has not yet been written, how much has not been sung. Why do people so needed by Russia leave early - Pushkin, Lermontov, Vysotsky, Talkov?[4]
— Tatyana Snezhina
In 1992, due to her father’s business trip, she moved with her parents to Novosibirsk. She entered and studied at the Novosibirsk Medical Institute. Separation from Moscow, new friends and impressions give a new impetus to creativity. It acquires the already recognizable Snezhinsky style.[5]
Steps to success[edit | edit code]
At the end of 1993, Tatyana Snezhina accidentally[4] met the team of the Moscow music studio “KiS-S”. In December 1993, she began working with them on her first original music album. The first professionally recorded song was “Rose”. In April 1994, he made his debut at the Variety Theater with the song “There Was a Time.” Tatyana decided to try her hand at show business, taking the pseudonym “Snezhina.”[3] The first broadcast about her work was released on Radio Russia. While gaining stage experience, Snezhina sang at discos, clubs, and student music competitions. That year, 21 songs were recorded in the studio, which Snezhina combined into an album called “Remember with Me.” Most of these songs, including “Call Me with You,” were taken into their repertoire by Russian pop stars after her death. As Snezhina said then: “These are songs that came out of my dialogues with myself, with my soul, from my tears and my joys, from my life.”[4] Having not yet completed this album, Snezhina was already planning to record the next one.
Now I continue to work, combining this with the need to graduate from college. I hope to release my first album, despite the complexity of such a thing as show business. But the recording of the second one is already in the project. After all, over the years of creativity, I have accumulated about two hundred songs that are waiting for their listeners. And life goes on as usual, new impressions, new thoughts, new words that you need to hear and try to understand. And the main thing is to have a dream. Of course, you still have to work and work, learn a lot, overcome a lot, without this you cannot, but as long as you have a dream in your soul, a light in the distance and friends at your shoulder, you can walk through fire and not get burned, swim across the ocean and not drown[4].
— Tatyana Snezhina
But at the beginning of February 1995, on another visit to Moscow, the low quality of the final recordings was discovered. Returning to Novosibirsk, Snezhina began searching for a new creative team to finalize and release the album recorded in Moscow, and to work on a new album. Among other recipients, her audio material was received by music producer and head of the M&L Art studio Sergei Bugaev.[6]. In March 1995, he offered Snezhina cooperation, and a couple of months later the debut of the song “Musician” took place.
Snezhina studied at the institute, studied choreography, and took vocal lessons. In September it was planned to release a magnetic album, then a series of videos, and in 1996 - a CD release.
In May, Bugaev proposed marriage to Snezhina. In July she gave her consent. On August 15, 1995, their upcoming wedding on September 13 was announced[6].
Death[edit | edit code]
Snezhina’s album was recorded at Studio-8, the release of which was planned for the same fall. On August 18, 1995, a presentation of a new production project took place. Snezhina unexpectedly, instead of pop songs, performed two of her own romances with a guitar, “My Star” and “If I Die Before My Time”[7].
If I die before my time, Let the white swans carry me away, Far, far, to an unknown land, High, high, into the bright sky...
- Tatyana Snezhina
That same evening, Bugaev borrowed a Nissan minibus from friends, and he, Tatyana and his friends went to the Altai Mountains for honey and sea buckthorn oil.
Three days later, on August 21, on the way back, at the 106th kilometer of the Chuysky tract (Cherepanovsky district of the Novosibirsk region), the minibus collided with a MAZ truck. As a result of this traffic accident, all six passengers of the minibus died: Snezhina, director of the Pioneer MCC Sergei Bugaev, candidate of sciences Shamil Faizrakhmanov, director of the Mastervet pharmacy Igor Golovin, his wife Irina and their five-year-old son Vlad.
There are two main versions of the disaster. According to one of them, the Nissan driver went to overtake and, due to the right-hand steering wheel, did not notice the truck rushing towards him. According to another version, MAZ itself suddenly braked sharply, and its trailer skidded into the oncoming lane (it rained shortly before the disaster). [ source not specified 1229 days
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Monument at the Zaeltsovsky cemetery
Initially, Snezhina was buried in Novosibirsk at the Zaeltsovsky cemetery, but a little later the body was reburied at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow [9]. Only a monument remains at the Zaeltsovsky cemetery.
Personal life, death
The girl found in Sergei not only a good assistant, a wonderful producer, but also a loved one. The couple was supposed to get married. Complete mutual understanding and love arose between the young people.
The wedding day was set in September. In August, Snezhina and Bugaev showed everyone their joint project. The premiere of two songs took place. Unfortunately, one of them was called tragically: “If I die before my time.”
The future groom, bride and their friends gathered in a minibus for the mountains. Altai is famous for its sea buckthorn oil and honey. Their young people wanted to recruit before the wedding. After spending two days in the mountains, we went home. On the highway, a minibus collided with a MAZ. No one survived this terrible accident. Tatyana was buried in the Novosibirsk cemetery. Then they were reburied in Moscow.
Tatyana left many of her creative works as a legacy to her fans. In total, the poetess wrote more than two hundred songs and poems. The most popular pop singers sang songs left by Snezhina. Among them are Joseph Kobzon, Alla Pugacheva, Tatyana Ovsienko, Lev Leshchenko. Many compositions were never published. Snezhina's poems are collected in collections and become best-selling. They are on the same shelf with real classics of poetry.
It’s hard to believe that Tatyana has been dead for about twenty years, but her work still lives on. Her poems penetrate deeply into the soul of every sensitive person. Tatyana, unfortunately, was already posthumously awarded the “Songs of the Year” award. The award, which was once received by the diva of the Soviet and Russian stage Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, was consonant with the poetess’s pseudonym - “Silver Snowflake”.
Creative heritage
Over her twenty-three years, Tatyana Snezhina managed to write more than 200 poems and songs. Some of them, after the death of the author, were sung by such popular artists as Joseph Kobzon, Alla Pugacheva, Lolita, Nikolai Trubach, Lada Dance, Kristina Orbakaite, Lev Leshchenko, Mikhail Shufutinsky, Tatyana Ovsienko, Evgeny Kemerovo and others, but many remained unknown to the general public.
Tatyana Snezhina's compositions can now be heard in the form of film soundtracks. Her poetry inspires other poets to create new masterpieces. In the repertoires of Russian, Ukrainian, and Japanese performers you can find songs based on Snezhina’s poems. Her literary works are on a par with the most popular and best-selling poetry collections. Almost twenty years have passed since the death of the poetess, but her works still find their readers.
