After a lull, the leader of the Mumiy Troll group made people talk about themselves again. Ilya Lagutenko.

Known for his secrecy in everything related to his personal life, the 47-year-old rock musician released a video for the song “From a Clean Slate,” in which both of the musician’s daughters, 6-year-old, starred Valentina-Veronica(or just Vivi) and 4 year old Letitia.

Let us remind you that Ilya Lagutenko’s charming girls were born to his wife, a former gymnast and model. Anna Zhukova, whom he met ten years ago during a photo shoot for Sobaka.ru magazine

“When we met, we understood each other perfectly,” Ilya recalls his first meeting with his future wife. - It turns out that the magazine introduced me and Anna, although I still think that it was one of my worst photo shoots. We still joke about this in our family today. But thanks to that shoot, love happened at first sight - on both sides.”

And regarding his daughters, the 47-year-old musician, who already has an adult son from his first marriage, 26-year-old Igor Lagutenko, says: “This is more than joy. And most of all in my life I am glad that I was ready for their birth. I feel very good with my daughters, they are my salvation. There are so many terrible people, thoughts, things around, and with them it all disappears. My mother says that my daughters are my valerian.”

The uniqueness of the “From a Clean Slate” video lies not only in the fact that Ilya Lagutenko’s daughters, Valentina-Veronica and Letitia, appeared there for the first time, but also in the fact that the video was filmed on Cell phones a group of musician friends during a picnic on the Pacific coast.

For five years, Lagutenko organized the V-ROX festival in his native Vladivostok to stir up the local culture, which lives separately from the rest of Russia. Every year he brought hundreds of young musicians to the port city from all over the country and from its eastern neighbors: China, Korea, Singapore, Australia and Japan. He held educational lectures there, organized film screenings and discussions. It turned out to be an excellent international platform, where locals could listen to oriental music, and young musicians could get tickets to tour abroad. Entry to V-ROX was free. But this year everything broke down and the festival was cancelled. the site spoke with Lagutenko about why it is becoming increasingly difficult to hold international events in Russia, how much personal money he has invested in culture Far East and why the authorities would rather spend their budget on a mowing competition than on modern festivals.

"I'm always trying to run ahead of the locomotive"

At the beginning of April you canceled the V-ROX festival. They said this happened. What does this wording mean? Did the sanctions hit you like that?

The sanctions hit everyone, haven’t you noticed? For festival matters in particular. It turned out that a festival based on cultural exchange cannot exist in Vladivostok. The economy of such an event cannot be built on ticket sales - because people only give money for what they already know. If you say - a festival of new Far Eastern music - what is it? People don’t have the money to meet young, little-known artists. Moreover, our musicians do not ask for royalties; they usually only need to pay for a plane ticket and a hotel. The total amount turns out to be rather large, find out how much a ticket from Yekaterinburg to Vladivostok costs.

- About 30 thousand.

And only one way. People don't have money because the country's economy is not developing. There are no new productions, startups, ideas. It is necessary for someone in the government to think in different categories. Read the news, we have the main things now - a fortress, missiles, machine guns. We have a war here. Many people believe this and agree with it. It is believed that culture and music are not the most important thing now.

We solved the problem with financing over the course of five years. We found corporate sponsors, but this year I was told that there is no market capacity in the Far East. In Russian, this means that too few people live there to buy enough goods.

We wanted to reach an agreement with Aeroflot so that they would help the musicians get to Vladivostok. But it turned out that Aeroflot does not sponsor anyone at all, with the exception of isolated cases on the orders of the Kremlin. Their position: if we raise flight prices, people will still fly because they have nowhere to go. And I didn’t come up with this, Minister of Culture Medinsky told me this when I asked if Aeroflot could support us.
There were local patrons of the arts. The mayor of Vladivostok helped us for several years. But now he's in prison. He has been presented with a claim, the essence of which has a lot of questions from the public. But the fact remains that there are no patrons.

- You spent your money on the festival? How much did it take you in five years?

A lot of. So, one festival costs about 10 million. Ten multiplied by five. Someone else made something out of this... That's enough. Counting is scary. Companions of the Mumiy Troll group also contributed. They said this year, well, Ilya, as much as possible. We also have children and families.

- What is this money spent on?

Young musicians usually do not ask for royalties; they just need to pay for the plane and hotel. They don't need Hyatt accommodation, they live in hostels. These are prosaic and necessary expenses.

There are export offices in many countries. This is an institution that helps the state distribute its own modern culture abroad. The guys from Australia said that they agreed to perform in several cities in Russia, brought supporting documents to the export office, and the state paid them for all the logistics. And so they travel around a foreign country, play their music and talk about Australia.

- Are there no such organizations in Russia? Doesn't the state export its culture?

There is no such thing in Russia. There are government grants that you can’t reach. At the beginning of 2010, Medvedev signed an initiative to finance performance groups. We tried to get involved, contacted a local organization, but they said they didn’t know anything. The same Ministry of Culture circulates some money, but it does not reach the musicians.

There is an organization called Rush in Moscow. I am on the coordination council there. The guys work with European festivals and try to find funding for musicians in Moscow from big business and oligarchs. As far as I know, no one has donated a penny in three years.

When I conceived V-ROX, I thought that the festival would become a gateway for Russian artists to the east. It is imperative to be present in the Asia-Pacific region, because if anywhere the economy is growing at a rocket-like pace, sorry, bad comparison, at a high pace, then it is there. My personal problem is that I always try to run ahead of the locomotive, with the confidence that everyone should run like that. Probably no one needs this.

“Now we will suffer, but the next generation will have it easier”

In early summer, the Ural Music Night festival will be held in Yekaterinburg. This is a cool movement when the whole city turns into a platform for a variety of musicians from opera soloists to heavy metal musicians.

I know about your festival. He even offered to organize a landing of Ural music in Vladivostok. Technically, the Perm guys from the group “Mars Needs Lovers” have advanced the furthest. They were able to come to an agreement with Vyatsky Kvass. They promised that money, but at the last moment they still didn’t give it.

I didn't have time to ask a question. UMN won a one-time presidential grant this year; they should have enough money for this year. But what will happen next is unclear. Regional authorities They chose to support not a cool music festival, but a mower competition and a redhead festival for 300 people. Why is this happening, you talked to the Minister of Culture?

I don't know why this happens. I hope that those young people who now want to study, learn, surprise, will think differently in 15–20 years. Although I had exactly the same feeling 20 years ago. It seemed that everything was changing very quickly, that now we would suffer, but it would be easier for the next generation. And now they will do something truly right. But it turned out - no, everything returned to normal.

“There could have been more memorable songs”

Your new album is called . My first thought was that this was about the confrontation between Moscow and the Far East. What does the name mean?

No. This is just how our group consists. Four people from the east: me, a DJ, a drummer from Vladivostok, a guitarist from Magadan. And bass guitarist Pavel Vovk from St. Petersburg joined us. So it turned out to be east and northwest. With this lineup, we recorded songs from scratch without rehearsals or preparation.

-Who are you showing your middle finger to?

I adjusted my hat. The photographer did chick-chick-chick, like you are doing now, and then said, look how funny the photo is. We used it.

- Rolling Stone magazine included “Leak Away” in its list of songs that changed the world. How have you changed the world?

This is all your journalistic stuff, someone just blurted out that they changed the world. I don’t know whether this journalist works now or not, and whether this magazine is published. Even if it is published, it is unlikely that anyone will be as interested in it as they were 20 years ago. Well, maybe it changed the world a little for someone. I am very modest about all my conquests. I just write songs and perform them on stage. This scene is not united by Mumiy Troll's songs alone. There could have been more catchy and world-changing songs. Time will put everything in its place.

“Japanese music is as incomprehensible to world society as Russian music”

- How is it that you live in several countries at once?

I'm already tired of counting how many cities I live in. I still can’t settle in one place, I grab onto projects that take place in different cities. The Russian world revolves around Moscow, and you have to go there, no matter how much you want to avoid coming to the capital. In addition, I do not give up the idea of ​​making Vladivostok a cultural capital, although it has long been compared to the utopian idea of ​​Ostap Bender. I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles because it's the capital of the world music business. I spent a lot of time in Japan. There I endlessly learn how it is possible to build an amazing structure of creativity and music in one single country.

Despite all our differences, Russia has a lot in common with Japan. Their music is as incomprehensible to world society as Russian music. This is due to traditions and attitudes in the head. The same Russian rock - whatever rock it is, it is taken from Slavic songs. To understand music and love it, you need to have local information.

International experience, moving and touring have taught me a lot. I don’t have questions for many people. I no longer have questions for anyone.

-Did you understand everything?

I understood why people behave the way they do. You asked me why the mower festival. I'll tell you that the mower festival is also not bad. God willing, this will arouse people’s interest in oblique cutting. You can arrange a competition: a combine harvester against ten mowers. And it will be an exciting event. Like the eternal question: who wins, boxer or karateka? We will have our own question: a combine harvester or a Ural scythe cutter?

- From this I learned that MTV Russia opened with your song. Did you know about it then and understand how cool it was?

I knew. Then I knew the entire MTV team, and they told me that the first Russian-language song would be “Vladivostok 2000.” I said, “Thank you very much.” It was significant - we were in the first block with The Prodigy.

I didn’t even think about what it would be like to remember this 20 years later. To be honest, at that time we hardly had any long-term views of ourselves. There was a time of discoveries and a time of rapid achievements. The story with “Mumiy Troll” quickly accelerated. Although, to be honest, it’s not that fast. I composed “Mumiy Troll” at the age of 12, and when the group happened, I was 28. It seemed that it was meant to be, because I spent an incredible amount of effort on the path to success.

Musician, founder of the Mumiy Troll group, winner of the FUZZ and Golden Gramophone awards, producer, honorary citizen of the city of Vladivostok - Ilya Lagutenko was born in 1968 in Moscow, lived for a long time in Vladivostok (his mother’s hometown).

Since childhood, he studied music, sang in a choir and even founded his own group, but he had no intention of connecting his future with music. He graduated from the university with a degree in Regional Studies and served in the Pacific Fleet Air Force.

He founded the Mumiy Troll group back in 1983, but due to various circumstances he abandoned work on the project and resumed activities only in the early 90s.

Personal life

Was married twice. He married for the first time in 1987 to Elena Troinovskaya, sixteen years later life together the couple broke up. They have a joint son, Igor, born in 1988.

He married the model Anna Zhukova for the second time. In 2008, a daughter, Valentina-Veronica, was born, named after her mother-in-law, Valentina Vladimirovna. In 2010, the second girl, Letizia, was born.

House of Ilya Lagutenko

The musician spends a lot of time not only in Russia, but also abroad. He has real estate in Latvia and England, as well as in Moscow (on Ostozhenka) and in the Moscow region.

The singer's residence is located near the village of Knyazhye Lake along Novorizhskoe Highway and is a complex of 1000 square meters. meters. On the territory there are two three-level houses, a guest house and a bath complex with a swimming pool. The interior design was thought out by the musician himself with the help of a professional architect who had previously worked on the design of his apartment.

The place for construction was recommended by friends. Ilya managed to acquire the last plot. The land here was inexpensive and this village was almost entirely built up.

The houses are located so that residents can communicate and spend time together, but at the same time, if necessary, they can retire at any time. The buildings are connected by a concrete staircase with wooden trim. The general style is minimalism with laconic and clean lines.

The walls are painted with water-based paint in cool colors. The floor, in contrast to the walls, is made of wood in a warm chocolate color, which creates a feeling of comfort and homeliness.

On the ground floor, in one space there is a living room (with a working fireplace and steel chimney) and a kitchen with dining area. Minimalism in all its manifestations reigns here. There is a long table and intricate chairs in the middle of the room. An original lamp in the shape of a bridge hangs above the table; Anna brought it from Hamburg as a gift to her husband.

The frame of the house is made of brick and concrete slabs, as evidenced by the undecorated ceiling. It was decided to only highlight its texture with wooden beams in the style of the staircase.

Next to the stairs to the second floor hangs “African” - a wedding gift from South Africa. Ilya does not consider himself a collector; the main thing for him is that the paintings carry emotions and memories. Works by Wang Qing and Ying Ye-fu are juxtaposed here with family and memorable photographs, as well as drawings and sketches of Ilya Lagutenko’s father.

There are five bedrooms in total, the main one of which occupies the entire top floor. Ilya's bedroom is connected to the original bathroom and toilet. knot. The bathroom is located on a wooden podium. The bed has a similar design; it seems to float above the floor. The role of bedside tables and shelving is performed by recesses in the walls.

The entire ground floor is given over to a garage, a large dressing room and utility rooms.

The recording studio, equipped with the latest technology, is located in the basement and can easily be transformed into a 3D cinema.

In 2012, the multi-level mansion, designed in the 21st Century Modern style, was valued at $2.7 million.

Ilya was never completely tied to one place and in 2012 he decided to fulfill his dream and moved to live and work in Vladivostok. Here he has been actively working on the V-ROX festival for several years.

The musician plans to build an autonomously functioning eco-house, working exclusively on natural “technologies”. And, in his opinion, the city of his childhood is perfect for this.

Ilya Igorevich Lagutenko. Born on October 16, 1968 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian rock musician, leader of the Mumiy Troll group.

Father - Igor Vitalievich Lagutenko, architect.

Mother - Elena Borisovna Kibitkina, fashion designer.

Has a sister - Maria Kibitkina.

His paternal grandmother, Veronika Iosifovna Tur, taught at Moscow University. Grandfather - Vitaly Pavlovich Lagutenko - Belarusian by nationality, architect, Hero of Socialist Labor, author of the famous project of residential buildings of the K-7 series (also known as “Khrushchev buildings”).

Has Polish roots. His great-grandfather, a Polish nobleman, emigrated from Poland to Russia during the First World War, and twenty years later was shot by the Bolsheviks on charges of “Japanese-German-Polish espionage” in the seaside town of Artyom in 1937. In memory of his great-grandfather, Ilya keeps silver cufflinks. Maternal great-grandmother is also from Polish family, who moved from China to the Far East, after the war they lived in Magadan. His grandmother was born in Magadan, as was his mother.

Sister - Maria Kibitkina.

The boy was not yet a year old when his father tragically died during an unsuccessful operation to remove appendicitis. After the death of his father, he and his mother moved to her homeland - Vladivostok.

“Although I was born in Moscow, Vladivostok is the first thing I remember... My mother was a young and beautiful blonde student. And my father, Igor Vitalievich Lagutenko, was an architect. When he died, I was only six months old. After After his death, I was taken to Vladivostok, where our family lived at that time. And my grandmother put a lot of effort into ensuring that I developed correctly,” he recalled.

Studied at secondary school No. 9 with in-depth study Chinese language, demonstrated success. He sang in a children's choir, in which he toured extensively around the country.

As a child and youth, he was fond of rock, in particular, his favorite bands were Queen, Genesis and Pink Floyd.

Already during his school years, Ilya Lagutenko founded his first musical group, Bonnie Pi.

After school, he entered the Far Eastern State University, graduating from the Oriental Faculty with a degree in Regional Studies (Oriental and African Studies). He defended his thesis on the topic “Development of the border economy between Russia and China.”

In 1983 he organized a rock band "Moomin Troll", later renamed to "Mummy Troll".

Served in the ranks of the Red Banner Pacific Fleet.

Trained and worked in China and Great Britain as a translator and consultant commercial firms. Thus, from 1991 to 1996, Lagutenko was a commercial advisor in China and London.

The Mumiy Troll group resumed its activities in the late 1990s. On April 24, 1997, the album “Morskaya” was released. The album became one of the best-selling albums of 1997.

Songs such as “Leak Away”, “Girl”, “Vladivostok 2000” became hits.

Mumiy Troll - Vladivostok 2000

Building on their success, the Mumiy Troll group released the album “Caviar,” which was also well received by the public.

Ilya Lagutenko also re-recorded his early songs from the 1980s, releasing a disc called “Shamora” in 1998. This is how the hits “Alien Guest”, “Hello, Pops!”, “Do Me Exactly, Mom” and others appeared.

Many of the group's songs have been translated into English language and published in the USA in mini-album format.

Ilya Lagutenko also works in cinema - as a musician (The Book Thieves, Dunno and Barrabass) and as an actor (Night Watch).

Mumiy Troll - From a clean slate

In 2009, Ilya co-wrote the music for the track “Intentions” and, as a vocalist, took part in the recording of the second album of Automatons - an American electronic artist / sound producer of the Universal Music Group company, Svoy. The album was released in the United States and Japan, where it charted on the Billboard Top Independent Albums chart. In 2010, the album won several categories at the Independent Music Awards in the United States.

At the beginning of 2013, Ilya Lagutenko was awarded the Order of Merit for Vladivostok, first degree. Also in 2013, he founded a new international festival V-ROX (Rock of Vladivostok), designed to bring his native Vladivostok to a new international musical level.

Ilya Lagutenko’s special style of clothing has been noted more than once by the glossy magazines Glamor and GQ.

Mumiy Troll was the first in Russia to support the PSI organization to fight AIDS. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Batani Foundation.

Ilya Lagutenko is the representative of Russia in the International Tiger Coalition.

The musician also writes books. In particular, he published a trilogy for family reading, Tiger Stories. “I grew up in the Far East, and the tiger is our main totem animal. In Vladivostok there is Tigrovaya Street, and urban legends say that these animals sometimes walk along our streets. So all Primorye residents treat tigers with respect. The Mumiy Troll group “There is an album called “Amba,” which means “tiger” in the language of the Udege, one of the indigenous peoples of the Far East,” he explained his interest in tigers.

Height of Ilya Lagutenko: 168 centimeters.

Personal life Ilya Lagutenko:

First wife - Elena Troynovskaya(born May 5, 1963), ichthyologist by profession. Married from 1987 to 2003.

On May 17, 1988, the couple had a son, Igor Ilyich Lagutenko, rugby player, coach, music tour manager, and producer.

Second wife - Anna Zhukova(born 1979) gymnast and model. We got married in the winter of 2008.

The couple had two daughters: Valentina-Veronika Ilyinichna Lagutenko (born in October 2008), her family name is Vivi, and Letitia Ilyinichna Lagutenko (born in June 2010).

He lives in Los Angeles with his second wife and two daughters.

Filmography of Ilya Lagutenko:

2002 - Azazel - song performance
2004 - Night Watch - vampire Andrey
2004 - Book Thieves, musician, music
2004 - Dunno and Barrabass - music
2005 - Day Watch - music
2006 - Space flight - music
2006 - Signs of Love - music
2006 - Peter FM - music
2007 - Paragraph 78 - song performance
2008 - Radio Day - cameo
2008 - Kung Fu Panda - Russian voice acting, Master Monkey
2008 - More Ben - music
2008 - S.S.D. - cameo, music
2009 - Margosha - music
2009 - Love in big city- music
2009 - At the game - music
2010 - Diamond Arm 2 - cameo, music
2010 - Love in the Big City-2 - music
2013 - Ku! Kin-Dza-Dza - music

Dubbing by Ilya Lagutenko:

2016 - Moana - sea crab Tamatoa

Discography of Ilya Lagutenko:

1985 - New Moon April
1990 - Do Yu Yu
1997 - Marine
1997 - Caviar
1998 - Shamora
2000 - Exactly mercury aloe
2002 - Meamurs
2004 - Book Thieves
2005 - Merger and Acquisition
2007 - Amba
2008 - 8
2010 - Rare Earths
2012 - Vladivostok
2013 - SOS to the sailor
2015 - Pirated copies
2016 - Moana

Bibliography of Ilya Lagutenko:

2009 - “Book of Wanderings. My East"
2012 - “Vladivostok-3000. A film story about the Pacific Republic" (co-authored with V. Avchenko)
2012 - “Tiger Stories”

Ilya Igorevich Lagutenko is a rock musician, leader of the Mumiy Troll group. Everyone knows the songs of this musician; directors use his music in films and TV series.

Date of Birth: October 16, 1968
Place of Birth: Moscow, USSR
Zodiac sign: Scales

“I'm trying to stay who I am. I don't want to take someone else's place. To be in my world as I imagine it. And if my world is interesting to people of different generations (including 20-year-olds), then this is the greatest compliment to me as an author-performer.”

Biography of Ilya Lagutenko

The iconic building of Soviet life - a five-story building - was designed by Ilya Lagutenko’s paternal grandfather, architect Vitaly Pavlovich Lagutenko. And my father, Igor Vitalievich, was also an architect. But Ilya didn’t know his dad, because he passed away when Ilya was only six months old. Soon he was transported to Vladivostok, where the whole family of his mother, Elena Borisovna, a fashion designer, lived. He spent his childhood and youth in the city. The mother’s parents comprehensively developed the boy: thanks to his grandfather, he knew both English and physics well, and thanks to his grandmother, he developed musically.

In 1975, Ilya went to first grade at Chinese School No. 9, which could be reached on foot from home. He studied Chinese at school, and with his grandfather and a dictionary he translated the lyrics of Western songs caught on Japanese radio waves for American soldiers.

The musician served in the Pacific Fleet Air Force on Russky Island, and he considers his military service to be time well spent, because it taught him discipline and responsibility.

Ilya is an orientalist by training: he studied at the oriental faculty at the Far Eastern State University and graduated in 1992. In fact, he left the university as a translator, historian, economist, culturologist and regional historian of China.
He went on a student exchange to the city of Dalian in Liaoning province - once the Russian colony of Dalny. He sailed like a hare in the holds to Beijing and starred in various TV series.

Lagutenko's musical career

While still at school, Ilya created his own group, Bonnie Pi. And in 1983 - the rock group Mumiy Troll, which became a cult group (by the way, at first the group was called Mumi Troll).
The group very quickly gained popularity in the country. In the 1990s, its leader was called a test for generations: if you don’t understand his music, it means you’re morally outdated.

Then he jokingly called the genre in which his group played “rock-pop,” and dreamed that every tenth of the billion people in China would buy his disc: then he would no longer need to work.

Ilya Lagutenko's musical career included production experience. True, his wards had different fates: he promoted Zemfira’s very first disc, as well as the albums of the St. Petersburg group “Today at Night” and the group from Vladivostok “Misty Moan”. By the way, groups still exist, but only Zemfira managed to rise to the top of the musical Olympus. And Lagutenko does not consider himself a professional producer.

Ilya was invited to act in films several times. For example, director Leonid Rybakov invited him not only to write music for the melodrama “The Book Thieves”, but also to play himself. Lagutenko also played himself in the comedy “Radio Day” by Dmitry Dyachenko. But viewers probably remembered him as the colorful vampire Andrei in Timur Bekmambetov’s fantasy “Night Watch” (2004).

"Eurovision"

In 2001, the Mumiy Troll group participated in an international music competition and took 12th place. But this fact did not upset Ilya at all. The musicians had no illusions about victory, and they were quite pleased with their own performance.

A history textbook was published in the mid-2000s modern Russia for 9th grade. According to the author of the textbook, Professor A. A. Danilov, the Mumiy Troll group had a very strong influence on the consciousness of young people in the 90s of the 20th century.

Personal life

Ilya was married to his first wife Elena Troynovskaya for 16 years; they had a son, Igor, named after Ilya’s father.

The second wife, Anna Zhukova, was a model and gymnast. In this marriage two daughters were born - Valentina-Veronica and Letitia. The musician and his family mainly live in America, in Los Angeles.

Discography

1985 - “New Moon of April”
1990 - “Do Yu Yu”
1997 - “Marine”
1997 - “Caviar”
1998 - “Shamora” (parts 1 and 2)
2000 - “Exactly mercury aloe”
2002 - “Meamurs”
2004 - “Book Thieves”
2005 - “Mergers and Acquisitions”
2007 - “Amba”
2008 - "8"
2010 - “Rare Earths”
2012 - “Vladivostok”
2013 - “SOS to the sailor”
2015 - “Pirate copies”
2016 - “Malibu Alibi”
2018 - “EAST X NORTHWEST”