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Svetlana Surganova is a musician, singer and poet. From 1993 to 2002 she was the lead singer of the Night Snipers group. Today he is the leader of the group “Surganova and the Orchestra”. Born in 1968 in the city of Leningrad. She never saw her biological parents; she was adopted at the age of three by Liya Surganova.

Graduated from music school, violin department. Then she entered and graduated from medical college and pedagogical academy.

From the age of fourteen I became interested in poetry, and a couple of years later, while still at school, I created my first group. During my medical studies, a second team was formed. The next group was “Something Else,” but after meeting Arbenina in 1993, they created “Night Snipers,” with which she worked until 2002.

A year after leaving, he created his own group, “Surganova and the Orchestra,” with which he actively performs and records albums to this day.

Personal life

From the age of twenty-seven she struggled with cancer. She underwent several operations and clinical death.

House of Svetlana Surganova near St. Petersburg

The singer lived for many years with her mother and grandmother in a communal apartment on Kavalergardskaya Street; Anna Akhmatova lived in this house in the 50s. Subsequently, she rented apartments in different places, but in 2012 she acquired her own on Bukharestskaya Street.

A few years ago, she built her own mansion 25 km from St. Petersburg in Vsevolozhsk. The “box” itself is not expensive, made from domestic timber, but it was necessary to spend money on technical equipment; in total it took about 14 million rubles.

House with an area of ​​270 sq. meters is located on a triangular plot, next to there is a beautiful lake. The only negative is the nearby military training ground, which the owner did not know about when purchasing and from which deafening explosions are periodically heard.

According to the plan, it was a two-story cottage, but after construction began, it became clear that two floors would not be enough and it was necessary to add a third and build a separate log house for my mother. Now it has everything you need for a comfortable life: a bedroom, a kitchen and a bathroom.

In the main building on the ground floor there is a kitchen-dining room, a living room with a fireplace, a gym and a sauna with a bathroom. knot.

The living room has an original glass fireplace, next to which it is pleasant to relax on cold evenings, and next to it there is an original shaped massage chair.

There is also a modern Japanese acoustic piano here, which the poetess dreamed of since childhood. It resembles the old piano she learned to play on, but its sound and quality are many times superior to many other instruments.

The entire design here is made in beige and black tones, and only the kitchen is distinguished by its bright orange coloring. According to the owner's idea, this was done so that even on a cloudy day it would be bright and joyful.

On the second floor there are two guest rooms, a library, a studio, a dressing room and technical rooms.

The singer paid special attention to the library, as in recent years she has become interested in reading. In this bright and spacious room, one of the walls is fully equipped with closed shelving, which is filled with a variety of books. Nearby there is a round table made of dark wood and a sofa, where you can comfortably sit with a book in your hands.

The dressing room is no less important. Svetlana doesn’t have a lot of clothes, but she has plenty of shoes. She calls herself a “shoe freak.” The collection mainly consists of low-heeled shoes and sneakers, but sometimes performances require a pair of stilettos.

The poetess has been interested in sports since childhood, so she wanted to make a gym in the attic, but during construction she changed her mind and moved it to the second floor.

The attic is now occupied by a bedroom and a jacuzzi. In order to admire the stars before going to bed, a small window was cut into the roof, which is located directly above the owner’s bed.

According to CIAN, similar real estate in Vsevolozhsk can be purchased from 10 to 40 million rubles.

Svetlana Surganova's house in the Moscow region

Several years ago, even before construction near St. Petersburg, Surganova acquired housing in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow. Her friends left this two-story mansion when they went to live abroad. She lives there to this day, coming to the capital on tour.

There is a large living room, a kitchen-dining room, an office, a sauna with a swimming pool and a spacious veranda. The interior is dominated by light and lilac colors.

She also abandoned the pool, since in her house near Moscow it caused unpleasant odors and mold, which led to cracking of the walls and coverings.

On the ground floor of the mansion there is a kitchen-dining room, a living room, a bathroom and an office. The floor on the first floor is made of hand-painted oak boards, and the walls are covered with wallpaper in a lilac color. The fireplace is made of cast marble in gray tones.

On the second floor there is a bedroom with an adjoining dressing room and a bathroom. There are also several guests here.

According to CIAN, similar real estate in Krasnogorsk can be purchased from 10 to 80 million rubles.

The singer showed off her new home and revealed the main thing in life

About five years ago, while giving an interview, she inadvertently told me: “Someday I will build my own house and then I will invite you to visit first!” She said it and, of course, forgot. But not me. Therefore, it literally fell on Svetlana Surganova’s head - she simply appeared on the threshold of her new abode. So she said: “I want to see the house, and talk, of course. Is it okay that I’m on “you”?!”

"My home is my castle". Svetlana was “greedy” and built three floors.

The forest that surrounded the garden partnership in a dense wall in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, where the rock singer, poetess, idol and simply wonderful woman, the leader of the rock group “Surganova and the Orchestra”, finally built, was gilded with the last colors of autumn. It was quiet and cool. And we settled down in her kitchen-living room - a cat sleeping sweetly on the next chair, a resin-smelling armful of firewood by the fireplace, softly descending like toy airplanes onto the badminton court behind the glass doors leading to the garden, colorful leaves... We settled down to warm up with coffee and exchange words.

“We are seven miles from the sixties and all through forest”

— Sveta, the situation is conducive, so let’s start with poetry. Yesterday you read poetry to St. Petersburg people, the hall was sold out. The public has awakened a truly enviable love for poetry, don’t you think?

— It seems to me that poetry is in trend today, and in different ways. And rap, and battles, and Vera Polozkova. Now many talented poets have appeared. Kira Levina and I are already reading the third program. The first took place five years ago on the small stage of the Lensovet Theater. There was a hall with 99 seats... A very behind-the-scenes, sweet poetic phenomenon. Then, two years later, the big stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater, there was already an expanded program with excellent examples of classical and modern music, with a shadow theater. Kira Levin read some of her poems behind the scenes from the box in foreign languages: French, Spanish, English. All this was accompanied by absolutely bewitching plastic sketches by Elena Rusina, with whom we collaborated in the play “Swimming” based on Baudelaire’s poems. The current installation was initiated by Boris Barinov, an excellent St. Petersburg musician, with whom we collaborated in the “Game of Hopscotches” program.

- Why didn’t you read your poems? I think this is what the public was waiting for.

— I now have other tasks, to broadcast the greats... Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, Anna Akhmatova. And our talented contemporaries. Kira discovered for me the poetry of Mikhail Shchukin, Aglaya Solovyova, Maria Makhova. In my opinion, it turned out well; we managed to create an elegant, correct, light and at the same time very deep atmosphere. Many people who left the hall then had a desire to go sit in a cafe, in a kindergarten and read poetry to each other. What could be better? After all, people were not too lazy to go to poetry readings on Saturday evening, and not to a disco or a bar. They preferred to work with their souls. Perceiving poetry is, of course, quite serious spiritual work.

“Don’t you think that, in particular, this is your “I didn’t make up my mind!” kills interest in modern poetry, but just recently Voznesensky and Rozhdestvensky were gathered in stadiums for poetry readings!

“Of course, we are seven miles from the sixties and all in forest, and we won’t be able to get such a phenomenon.” But still, over the past 10-15 years, there has been a tendency to increase interest in poetry. Yes, these are not stadiums, but they are still clubs. With wide coverage on the Internet.

— What do you think about poetry battles? You don’t want to organize one, otherwise everyone is just men.

“I treat them with great reverence and respect. I’ve never participated myself and I don’t dare, probably, after all, this is a separate art. There are, of course, their own techniques, their own techniques, which the participants simply master perfectly. An amazing vocabulary, quick selection of words, mastery of the technique of finding rhymes, resourcefulness, and imagery - this is what you need to do. In addition, there is a reflection of the “noble”, the street, and all this is a little politicized, tailored to acute social themes. And deep philosophical poetry requires more self-immersion, loneliness, these are just different genres. Due to my character and temperament, I am not very suitable for this, but I am interested.

Siamese cat Mishka comes with special “meows” in the morning.

“If it was hard, I probably would have died already”

— This summer the team recorded an “EP” with the title “By the Word of Life.” It included six new products; the author of many musical and arrangement ideas was the musician and bass guitarist of the Orchestra Denis Susin. And also new arrangements appeared for songs that are still relevant to me. Yes, you can scold me: “It would be better if I wrote something new, instead of delving into my old ones!”, but I won’t write if I don’t have a soul, just because I need to write. No matter what happens, I will not artificially stay in trend. If a miraculous creative conception has occurred, then there will be a song, but if not, we’ll wait. I treat the birth of a song as a miracle.

And if we talk about programs, every year we bring a new one. I pay close attention to how the entire program sounds, where it begins, how it develops in its dramaturgy and in its emotional intensity and decline. It's like a living organism, like a song performance. And now we are preparing a program that will be colored with various video sketches, this, of course, will cheer us all up.

— Sometimes at your concerts it occurs to me that the audience loves not so much your work, but you yourself.

“I think that’s the only way you can love me.” I am a mystery to myself creatively. But songs are part of my personality. I can never call myself a professional; my creativity is still something a little different. And I myself am different. My mother sometimes says to me: “You are my alien.”

—Are fans following you? Letters of free content, forced meetings?

“We have a very sensitive audience.” Surely someone has a desire to communicate on an informal level, and, of course, a lot of letters come with a call to get to know each other. But this is not the case in a way that can be used to harass or harass. Somewhere deep in their souls they understand that this is futile.

— Do you personalize fans or perceive them as some kind of energy mass?

— I’ll just personalize it, of course. Each character is a personality. The masses are in war or in statistics, everything else is very personal.

— It’s energetically difficult: there are many admirers, but are you alone?

- I didn’t think about it. That is, if it had been hard, I probably would have already died from it. And if it’s compatible with life, then it’s not difficult.

— Do you have any energy practices to recover? Doesn’t matter what: from sports to prayers?

- Thoughts. Your energy depends on how you think, what books you read, what music you listen to. There are different simulators for the brain, many practices with which you can restore yourself.

I remember my first solo concerts, when the group just began to exist as “Surganova and the Orchestra”. Then after the concert I was lying down, I always had terrible jitters before the concert, almost to the point of fainting. The great thing is practice. And, of course, working on mistakes. The ability to come to an agreement with yourself. Now going on stage is not some kind of stress, but a celebration. There are many professions where people work every other day, but for us it’s the opposite - we work three days and one day off, and I cope with these loads.

“Solfeggio for me is Chinese literacy”

— Don’t you ever miss your medical education?

“It’s next to me every day, I’m the doctor of one patient, there she goes with me, my mom.” I am a professional gerontologist, she does not allow me to forget any of my professional skills. And even pharmacology.

— Is your mother the closest person to you?

— Mom is the most important person for whom I am responsible now. A few years ago we switched roles, before she was for me, now I am for her. I try to support her on all levels: physical, material, emotional, everyday. Of course, she is already elderly and weak, but she still has demands from time to time: “I want to live alone! Take me to Kavalergardskaya (a street in St. Petersburg, in the Smolny district. - Author's note). After all, I lived there for more than 70 years!” This is by far the biggest and only problem that gives me difficulty and results in many hours of conversations. I try my best to convince her that she doesn’t need to live there alone. I tell her that it was she who encouraged me to build a house so that we could live together in it.

“And he’s probably still raising you.” What do you get scolded for most often?

- She scolds me for hiding cigarettes from her.

- That is, not because you smoke, but because she doesn’t smoke much?

- Yes, she is naughty to me in this sense. Everything would be fine, but she forgets that she has already smoked and can tar one after another. And therefore the process has to be regulated so that it does not exceed half a pack per day. And if you don’t keep track, she can plant a whole bunch, or more, and this is completely wrong for her 82 years old. I am inspired here by the example of Alisa Brunovna Freundlich, who, as you know, is also a big admirer of cigarettes, and God bless her. In general, have you noticed that this generation - the military and pre-war ones, born in the years 30-35 - is endowed with absolutely fantastic energy and fervor? Maybe the blockade and overload with colossal stress really took their toll. And it, this generation, is leaving. I realize this with great sadness, and I am grateful for every day I live with my mother. I thank her for the fact that she also smokes.

“You yourself have experienced a lot: oncology, a serious operation, then a repeat operation, now you don’t even want to remember all the horrors you experienced.

“This is all such nonsense compared to what befell them.” Little things like that. Here's a war, surviving a blockade - yes! Everything else seems like nonsense compared to this.

— Last time we did an interview, you told me your biography in detail, and, in fact, everyone knows that you are an adopted child. Is your own strength natural or is it nurture?

- I think that these forces are interconnected: both this and that - everything matters. And nature gave me this colossal example of my wonderful survivors of the siege - Zoya Mikhailovna Surganova, and Liya Davidovna Surganova.

- You know, you are very similar to them, despite everything...

(I say this, but I think to myself: “Damn! The truth is similar! He’s hugging his mother, snuggling, it’s the same face!”)

— People who have lived together for many years under the same roof are always similar, in this case there is an emanation, that is, a flow. What can we say about family relationships, when there is a wonderful joke, I really like it: “A person who has played the violin for more than 25 years is automatically equated with Jews!”

- So, you are already more than a Jew! Did you find the instrument easy?

— I really loved and love the violin. Solfeggio was hard for me; for me it’s just some kind of Chinese literacy. A very difficult subject.

-Can you write down the melody with notes now?

No, I never knew how to do this, they could never teach me this. I can read some simple musical text, decipher it, and it will cost me some effort. But it didn’t work out with musical notation. Not because some of the teachers were wrong, but it was simply not given. It has its own mathematics, and I was completely below average in mathematics at school, and since mathematics and solfeggio are close, I was not given the second...

On this somewhat deeply dramatic note (however, its tragedy remained unconscious) our conversation is interrupted. Sveta’s mother Liya Davidovna, having walked in the yard, joins our conversation with words addressed to Sveta: “You’re still busy! And I miss you!” Sveta begins to fuss around her mother, and she teases her with great inner irony and love: “Sveta! Are your coat tails of different lengths, or what? No, actually I like the way you dress! You can perform like that!”

Surganova, from the excess of surging feelings, throws up her hands and raises her signature brush of hair. And he tells me confidentially: “What a burden it is sometimes to fuss with your hair. Then lay it down, then comb it, then lie down!” “And let me make it longer,” I suggest in the same familiar manner, “did you have long hair?” - "Yes they were! — Sveta recalls, “and shoulder-length, and pigtails...” “Mommy! - turning to Leah Davidovna, - do you remember what pigtails I had?

Mom looks at Sveta with the same contemplative irony. “I remember how you shaved your head! - she says with an absolutely fantastic sarcastic intonation, “who were you with then?” - “Yes, with Dinka Arbenina!” — Sveta obediently responds and brings me up to date: “Dinka and I shaved our heads, put on our hats and went to congratulate Liya Davidovna on the New Year! We entered and took off our hats at the same time: “Hello!” Poor mommy!”

“Then I almost got sick of it,” Surganova’s mother admits with calm dignity. “But Sveta promised not to do that again!” And so far he’s keeping his promise!” “It does, it does,” Sveta mutters under her breath, “how good it is when you’re naked!” How convenient it is in winter! I just don’t understand why a bald head in a hat is so warm!” - “Yes, because the fur immediately adheres to the head! — Liya Davidovna answers the rhetorical question, “What is there not to understand?”

For some time we drink tea like the most decent girls in the world.

“Oatmeal porridge with water and bread have always been there”

“Listen,” I remember, “here on TV, covering the next festival, they called you Arbenina, and Diana - Surganova.” How did you feel about this?

- Yes it was! - Sveta laughs. — An amazing story, of course. How many years... how many of them have fallen into this abyss... This speaks of the inertia of human consciousness or what first impressions are, how strong they are, that later, no matter what happens, everything is not so bright. But purely texturally, of course, we are very similar. Not particularly tall, as a rule, both have short hair. If they were visually confused, this is understandable, especially if the people were elderly. When we were still on tour together, we once rode in the upper bunks of either a reserved seat or a compartment, and one elderly woman sitting below asked quite sincerely: “Are you girls twins?!” Well, about the sisters, no one ever asked, they didn’t even ask. But I try to look at people through their eyes, so that everything is clear and explainable.

- Listen, I understand everything: you ran away, well, it happens... Why did Arbenina’s brand remain? It would have been more honest for both of them to refuse him.

- Oh, and I’m very grateful and grateful to Dinka for this. It seemed to me that the fact that she preserved our brainchild and its name was just some kind of curtsy in a good way in my direction. She left me with memories of the time we spent together. This honestly pleases me, and I secretly thank her for this all the time. For many years she has been independently positioning herself as Diana Arbenina and the group “Night Snipers,” but the fact that the brand we once created is alive, it purely humanly warms my soul.

- Today there is no return to the past?

— Now it’s completely obvious that in terms of the musical component these are completely two different stories; Dianka works more in traditional Russian rock, in its classical sense. I’m interested in trying myself in different genres: trip-hop, classics, romance, and punk rock don’t bother me. I feel organic in all the listed and unlisted styles. Dinka has a more precise path, she feels comfortable in this. And we are a little different.

- Do you miss the time you spent together?

“It was a good time, it was crazy, it’s amazing how we survived at all.”

-You mean physically?

- Yes, in physical and national terms.

“They worked, as I understand it, for food.” Was this even enough?

- That's not what we're talking about. Somehow we lived: oatmeal porridge with water and bread were always available. And, most importantly, there was beer! At that time, the collection points for glass containers worked very well, we handed over empty bottles: and with three handed in, we were lucky enough to get a whole bottle of beer, and life went on. Students!....

- Tell me, was it easier to write then? Must the poet be hungry?

- Well, in general, you work better on an empty stomach, that’s for sure. Food, especially its excess, does not give, but takes away strength, and you need to treat food wisely. You need to know yourself and understand how much food you need and what kind. Many of us sin with excess, but this is also a sin.

"Gluttony makes you sick"

— Do you measure your life against the concepts of sin? Are you a believer?

— I cannot say that I am a believer. But in faith and in these commandments, humanity is told the laws of living on this earth, the laws of life. It tells you what to do to make your life harmonious.

“Don’t covet someone else’s wife,” “don’t be sad.” “do not gluttony” - these rules, they are beautiful and not expressed by stupid people or a person, or a phenomenon called God, Jesus Christ, it doesn’t matter. It's just pure knowledge, pure energy. Of course, it’s your business whether you listen to it or not, whether you follow it or not. I don’t see any contradictions in these rules, they really help me, I don’t know what to call myself after this: a believer or an unbeliever.

-What is your mortal sin? I probably have gluttony.

- Yes, gluttony - it makes you a sick person. And more despondency. Dejection is a sin, it means that you haven’t done enough work somewhere, and you have developed some kind of laziness. The soul must work, and this is actually blissful, grateful work, a wonderful investment that will feed you for many years and take you to a different level of development.

-What do you dream about in your sleep?

- Nothing. I rarely dream, and thank God, it means my brain is resting or I wake up in the wrong phase of sleep.

— What did you dream about as a child?

— The same dream was repeated: a sandy slope, and I was rolling down it head over heels. Or also golden sand, the kind of road that is sometimes shown in American films: long, dusty, going somewhere into the hills. Only mine is not dusty, but made of fine golden sand. And to the right and left there is a bright lime-colored field and in front of me there is some towering hill, and I am rushing along this road at breakneck speed in a red convertible! This is such a dream...

- Are you dreaming now? It was a cool dream!

- Yes, now I’m failing, that’s all. Of course it's cool! Almost a feeling of flight, speed. I don't have time to take off today. Morpheus catches up early!

—Are you apolitical?

“I don’t understand a damn thing about politics.” This is extremely difficult, I don’t have the information and can only reflect and make some of my emotional statements that are very superficial. Where is this truth? Everyone is simply pursuing their own interests.

— But do any political views influence your geography of tours?

— We go to people who have a response to our creativity. And the political situation has nothing to do with it. It’s another matter if our stay somewhere is unsafe, primarily for my musicians, we have to make a choice: to go or not to go.

“A woman’s erogenous zone is the brain”

“I understand that this is probably a painful question for you, but still: don’t you think about the child?” There are a lot of technologies today, could you try it?

If it were my path, I probably would have done it. But I think so as a self-consolation. Mom, I now have a small child, and if I have someone else for whom I will shake and feel responsible, like a mother, I can become very narrow on this, become isolated, and some part of humanity, perhaps, from this will lose. And if the Lord God didn’t give it or I didn’t take it myself, then that’s how it should be, apparently, I did it for some other purpose.

For some reason, there is a stereotype that every female on this earth must give birth. But this is not entirely correct, because there are beautiful female bodies that are created for motherhood, who have beautiful and desirable children. But there are people created for some other tasks, and there is no dissonance in this. Again, we (representatives of the human race) are overdoing it with the issue of childbirth as with food. This process must take place more consciously and be controlled at the level of the human population, so that in the end it does not turn out like in one of Bernard Weber’s novels. Maybe then there would be no problems, geopolitical wars, synthetic products, very severe depression, when people suffer due to enormous competition among themselves and they lack areas of activity and “extra” people. Don't get me wrong, the only thing I stand for is that children should be born wanted and live in families where they are loved. They must be nurtured by maternal and paternal love; everything else breeds moral monsters. I may be speaking cruelly, but it seems to me that it is not without meaning.

- Not cruel. Come on, will you show me the house?

We examine the area in front of the house, Sveta tests the strength of the court surface, playing with a volleyball, then we go up to the third floor, where the singer has an office combined with a studio. The wide balcony, which encircles the entire perimeter of the building, has - the dream of cats and female poets - access to the roof.

“All this was built in a year and a half,” says Sveta, “there are few such super-fast examples to build two houses (the second guest house), develop the site, and establish all communications. To organize all this, you need to have management talent.

— Did you build it yourself?

“There was tremendous organizational and financial support from my loved one. That is why the house has been desired for a long time, I dreamed about it for many years, but I had neither the financial prerequisites nor any other opportunities. And when they appeared, everything came together so quickly! It was an easy construction, amazingly nice people, starting with the architect Varvara Klimova and ending with various workers. I am very organic with the house, and it’s also a good trainer. I was greedy, we built three floors, and now, whether you like it or not, you run from the first to the third in one day! So now I'm in great shape.

“Mom is the most important person for whom I am responsible now.”

— Do you have a personal relationship with the person who helped you organizationally and financially?

- Yes, personal relationships, this is a close person to whom I am very indebted and who helped me a lot at one time. And I understand that this is the person to whom I have been going for a very long time, and the current period of my life happened naturally.

- Is this your soul mate, family?

— Can we say that you are happy in your personal life?

- There is something to work on. Personal life is always a very delicate instrument that needs to be tuned every day, we need to hear each other well, it’s such a school...

— What do you need to be an ideal soul mate?

“I would like to be more attentive, wiser and tolerant.”

-Are you more loving or more loved?

— It’s hard to say, probably so-so.

— A happy family life, as a rule, harms creativity, because you need an outburst of emotions, no?

- You can argue, but you can confirm it. As for me, I have already entered that phase of my development when nothing will affect me: there is a personal life, there is no personal life, everything is in you. A woman's erogenous zone is the brain, so everything is in your thoughts, in your head, not in your body. The main thing is that they are not destroyed, not unceremoniously invaded and leave you personal space. Every person must leave personal space, not invade it and be very delicate. And I also learn this every day. Study, study and study, as the great Lenin bequeathed. (Laughs.)

- I'm already jealous of your soul mate! - I laugh too.

“Don’t be jealous: I’m a tyrant and a despot,” Sveta shakes her head.

— Tyrants and despots, as a rule, are interesting personalities.

- Yes. Arkady Raikin, for example. According to the recollections of his relatives, he was a rather stern person in his personal life, taciturn and a little reserved. But it is very important in an alliance with a person - no matter: announced, not announced - to be on the same wavelength and try to look through his eyes. Always make jumps from your bell tower to another, and if you master this technique, then there will be fewer conflicts, understatements, and some stupid insults. I jump too.

I can imagine, for example, such a situation only five years later or, let’s say, as if I were from another planet, from Jupiter. When it is possible to create detachment, the situation, which just now caused deep annoyance, becomes visible from a different angle, and I begin to smile and think: “What nonsense!” I try to keep only good things in life. No offense! Only gratitude! Like Brodsky: “... but until my mouth is filled with clay, only gratitude will come out of it.”

- Do you think other people with whom you were in close relationships can now confirm your words?

- I don’t know, you have to ask them. The past me and the present one are not that two big differences, but still, the me of today, I hope, is a more improved version of myself yesterday. I probably really caused trouble or some unpleasant emotions. Sorry, my loves, sorry!

We add boiling water to the cooled tea. We cuddle Mishka, a Scottish Fold straight, a handsome cat who, as Sveta says, comes to her every morning and wishes her good morning with drawn-out meows. And now she accepts our caresses with lazy, self-sufficient carelessness.

“Listen,” I say, “I like it so much with you: your house, smelling of wood, with a narrow spiral staircase and a wide balcony that smoothly turns into the roof, and your cat, and food, and tea, and you yourself - I, perhaps , I'll stay with you.

“Stay,” Sveta immediately agrees, as if not at all surprised by my proposal, “there are many rooms in the house!”

“Like, in fact, the nooks and crannies to your soul...” I nod thoughtfully. And she smiles with her bright signature smile.

From the age of three, Svetlana was raised by her adoptive mother Liya Davydovna, a candidate of biological sciences and grandmother Zoya Mikhailovna. The girl's biological parents abandoned her almost immediately after her birth. Surganova spent the first years of her life in an orphanage.

The first damn thing is lumpy

At the time of adoption, Svetlana was severely retarded in development, both physical and mental. Thanks to the perseverance and strength of her loved ones, the girl found a full-fledged family and life. Liya Davydovna, who loved the poetry of Russian authors, instilled in her daughter a love of literature. At school age, Surganova began attending music school - violin and vocal class.

The new hobby captivated the vulnerable Svetlana so much that instead of a teddy bear, she put her favorite instrument under her pillow. At the same time, the girl began to write lyrical lyrics and thought about a career as a singer.

The first creations were: “22 Hours of Separation”, “Time”, “Rain”, “Music”. But after graduating from school, Surganova entered the Pediatric Academy. Having received her diploma, the creative person realized that she had made the wrong choice.

Implementation of plans

While still at school, Svetlana created the “Tuning Fork” group, which lasted for several months. Having updated the composition of the participants, Surganova changed the name of the team to “League”. With this group, the future singer participated in many music festivals and competitions, but she was not able to achieve much success.

A new stage in Svetlana’s creative career began after meeting the musician and teacher Pyotr Malakhovsky. The girl makes an unexpected decision to disband the “League” band and immediately recruits new musicians for the “Something Else” project. The group's repertoire included both original songs and covers of foreign hits.

Real popularity fell upon Svetlana after meeting the talented singer Diana Arbenina. Strong vocalists decided to join forces and created the group “Night Snipers”. At first, the girls performed in the acoustic duet format. The team later expanded into an electric rock project.

During the time spent as a member of the Night Snipers group, Svetlana participated in the recording of the following albums: “The Diamond Briton”, “A Drop of Tar in a Barrel of Honey”, “Baby Talk”, “Alive”, “Frontier”, “Tsunami”. Until 1996, Surganova managed to perform with the group “Something Else”. But in 2008, the team broke up due to Malakhovsky’s constant quarrels with other group members.

Also in 1996, Svetlana, together with Arbenina, released several collections of poems: “Fleabag” and “Target”, written in a self-publishing format.

Surganova managed to collaborate with the Murmansk group “Kuzya BAND”, and also recorded the soundtrack for the popular Russian TV series "". On December 17, 2002, Svetlana officially left the Night Snipers project at the request of Diana Arbenina.

New project, new goals

After leaving the popular rock band, Svetlana performed for several months in a duet with guitarist Valery Thay at acoustic concerts, attracting large audiences. In December 2002, Surganova received an invitation from the leader of the Splin group to take part in the recording of the new album “New People”. The artist agreed, playing the violin part in songs such as “Blockade” and “Valdai”.

In support of the album, the team went on a tour, which began on September 30, 2004 and ended at the end of December 2005.

During this time the group “Surganova and the Orchestra” gave fifty concerts throughout Russia. In 2005, Svetlana invited the aspiring rock band ExNN from Transnistria to play several joint concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The idea turned out to be successful, the audience warmly accepted the unknown team.

In the spring of 2009, Surganova presented the original concert film “Time Tested. Part I: Perpetual Motion”, dedicated to the release of the fourth album of the same name. The premiere of Svetlana’s debut film took place on March 9 at the Rodina cinema, and on June 1 at the capital’s Khudozhestvenny cinema center. To date, the Surganova and Orchestra group has recorded nine studio albums:

• "Chopin's Beloved";
• “Isn’t it really me”;
• "Salt";
• “Time-tested. Part I: Perpetual motion";
• “Strangers as if they were our own”;
• "I'll see you soon";
• "Game of Hopscotch";
• "#WorldPeace";
• "Songs of the War Years".

Also in the creative collection of the group there are three concert records: “Live”, “Around the World”, “Parisian Acoustics”. In 2018, the Surganova and Orchestra team celebrated its 15th anniversary. In the fall, Svetlana’s team went on a tour to Canada and the USA, where an army of fans awaits them.

Personal life

Svetlana is an open person with her own life principles. The artist has never hidden her sexual orientation. She has a positive attitude towards same-sex marriage. In 2014, news portals were full of headlines about Surganova’s new lover. They became the 20-year-younger musician Nikita Mezhevich, whom the singer affectionately called Apollo.

In 2015, it became known that Nikita married another girl. Svetlana took this news with her head held high. Moreover, the artist maintained a warm relationship with her ex-boyfriend. Surganova spends her free time with her mother, for whom she built a luxurious mansion near St. Petersburg.

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« Fear came later »

– Svetlana, when and how did you find out about the terrible diagnosis?

– It was 1997. I, a pediatrician by training, myself felt that some kind of catastrophe was brewing in my body. All the sensations are as in the medical textbook, in the section “The beginning of the development of cancer in the intestines”: anemia, weakness, terrible pain after eating. I started making enemas from celandine diluted with water. Maybe this will help me in the future. But I didn’t go to the doctors: I honestly admit, I was afraid. You know, I understood that I would undergo such an unpleasant procedure as sigmoidoscopy. This is both physically and mentally unpleasant. So I was afraid.

Now I understand and I want to tell everyone that you need to check your body, despite the unpleasant procedures. Get examined at least once a year, overcome your fear or laziness! The sooner your tumor is detected, the greater the hope for recovery. I was lucky that I was diagnosed at the second stage. But I didn’t go to the doctors of my own free will...

One day, while visiting, for some reason I lifted a 16-kilogram weight. It tore and the intestines ruptured inside. I was taken to the emergency hospital on Fontanka. I remember then I waited for a long time in the emergency department, no one suspected what I had there: they thought it was a young girl, something about gynecology. And then, to my happiness, they finally sent me to the proctology center. And then the diagnosis was made: oncology. They cut out half of the intestine and brought out the stoma.

– How did you undergo the operation?

“I didn’t feel any fear then.” After the operation I am in intensive care, I have just regained consciousness. The doctor comes in. He announces to me: “You have had a Hartmann operation.” And I argued with him: “The correct emphasis is Hartmann.” I think the doctor expected a different reaction from the patient - hysteria, tears, but here I am teaching him...

Fear came to me later - twelve days later, when a second operation was needed. My body weakened, I quickly lost weight to 43 kilograms. Apparently, they didn’t wash it well, and it started to fester inside. And now the second resuscitation was more difficult. The pain was so bad that my back was wet with sweat. I lay there and, in order to distract myself with something, I simply counted: one, two, three, and so on. After 15 minutes, when there was no longer any strength to endure, the compassionate nurse injected painkillers.

After some time, the pain comes again - and everything starts all over again. The doctors did not give any guarantees; they told my friends: “We are doing everything we can. If she has enough strength, she will pull through.”

– Did you have any thoughts about death then?

– No, I was thinking about how to endure these trials with dignity. She asked God: “Give me strength. But if you have to leave, then let it be beautiful. So that there are no hysterics, so that I don’t become a burden to my family and friends.” I remember making different promises then. I thought: everything will pass and I’ll stop swearing, for example. I promised that I would read more, be collected, and study languages. Not all promises have been fulfilled yet...

While still in the hospital, I recalled from my childhood the stories of my grandmother Zoya Mikhailovna about the Leningrad blockade. And these memories strengthened me. I thought: “If people have experienced this, then I need to hold on and never give up!” And before my eyes, a comic picture I saw came to life, in which a stork swallows a frog and the caption: there are at least two ways out of every situation. So I know for sure: you should never despair.

« There was no money to go abroad »

– Were there any offers to undergo treatment abroad then?

“At that time, few people knew about it. And there was no such money. During treatment, I was a patient in the department of ostomy patients at the St. Petersburg Oncology Center. And you know, they helped me a lot there with everything. Of course, I understand that in some ways our medicine is not yet perfect. I remember, for example, dressings. They glued the bandage on me with cleol - this is a liquid medical glue. And the gauze was firmly embedded in your skin; you had to remove it with an alcohol-containing solution. And there are abrasions and wounds. The feeling is very scary...

I think a patient’s choice of where to be treated - here or abroad - depends on many factors. Financial capabilities, medical indicators, advice from doctors. Everything is individual here. I had no time and nothing to choose from. All five abdominal surgeries were performed in Russia.

– Is it true that during one of them you experienced clinical death?

– I wouldn’t call it that. Yes, doctors define the state under anesthesia as temporary care. But still this is different. The anesthesia was severe, several hours. And then I saw some light point that blurred - and my silhouette appeared against the background of this light. It's like I'm walking towards the light. But this is a change in consciousness due to drugs.

– I know that you appeared on stage three months after the second operation. How did this happen?

- And just like that! You stick a bag in which you go to the toilet, and you go on tour. At first I didn’t even have the physical strength to hold a violin. You play for five minutes and you’re already tired. And then I had to go and earn money. Of course, I was in constant stress: no matter what fell off, no matter what happened, no matter what happened on stage. While on tour it is difficult to adhere to a strict diet, but it was mandatory. Our trains were a test for me. Often it was not possible to do basic water procedures.

I was encouraged by the example of the beautiful Leningrad actress Glikeria Bogdanova-Chesnokova. She had a similar disease. And then there were no such devices. She wrapped herself in some kind of sheets, bandages and played on stage, danced, and acted in films. Marvelous!

“I survived thanks to my friends”

– When did you realize that you had won?

– A few months after the last reconstructive operation in 2005, I was able, like all normal people, to go to the toilet. Sorry for the details. But then I realized that a new life had begun, as if I had been born again. Life washed over me!

– It happens that not all relatives and friends can bear the illness of a loved one. Some people don't want to see someone else get sick. Have you ever had this happen?

- No, there were no such people. Actually, thanks to my family, friends, and my partner in “Night Snipers” Diana Arbenina, I survived. Everyone supported me. When blood was needed, and I had a rare group, donors were found through friends. Friends obtained rare medical supplies. And everyone supported me morally, and this is very important.

During illness, you cannot withdraw into yourself, as if into the shadows, you need to communicate more. I know that many, upon learning of their diagnosis, become isolated and try to survive the tragedy alone. This is not an option!

Since childhood, I often had the same dream. I’m on a hill, there’s some beautiful, pleasant place around: sun, pine trees, sandy shore, river. Suddenly I'm rolling head over heels down the slope. And I wake up at the moment when I should roll into the water. Surprisingly, after my illness I no longer have this dream.

That is why this story about the life and work of Svetlana Surganova seems especially relevant. Today this original performer is at the pinnacle of success, and therefore the presented biographical article will certainly be of interest to many.

Early years, childhood and family of Svetlana Surganova

Since childhood, our today's heroine has been interested in music and developed her innate talent. At an early age, she began attending music school, where she learned to play the violin. And very soon she began to write her first compositions. It is quite remarkable that many of these songs were subsequently released on the singer's studio albums. These include the songs “22 Hours of Separation”, “Time”, “Music” and some others.

Back in the ninth grade, Svetlana Surganova created her first group, called “Tuning Fork”. This group existed for several months, and then quietly disappeared from the musical map of Russia. After graduating from school, the young singer entered medical school No. 1, where she subsequently formed a new musical group. The creative path of the “League” team was somewhat longer. With this ensemble, Svetlana Surganova participated in many competitions and festivals, where she repeatedly won prizes.

However, a truly significant stage in the young singer’s work began after she met Pyotr Malakhovsky, an aspiring musician who taught at medical school No. 1. Together they formed the group “Something Else”, which became very famous in St. Petersburg. This group performed mainly songs of their own composition (including compositions by Surganova herself), but often took texts from classical poets as a basis. With a similar repertoire, the group appeared at numerous national concerts, and also took an active part in the life of the informal culture of the northern capital of Russia.

The group did not record any official studio records, but in memory of its existence, it left several concert recordings, which were subsequently combined into collections and released by Surganova’s fans as a separate edition.

"Night Snipers" VS "Surganova and the Orchestra"

As part of this group, Svetlana performed as a vocalist and violinist, taking part in the recording of all the early albums of the “sniper” group. Thus, Surganova’s voice can be heard on such records as “Baby Talk”, “A Drop of Tar in a Barrel of Honey”, “Canary”, “Diamond Briton”, “Frontier”, “Alive”. In addition, as a violinist, the girl also worked on recording the album “Tsunami”, which was recorded later than the others.

Surganova and the Orchestra. White song. Clip

The band's songs were widely played on Russian and Ukrainian radio stations, and the geography of their tour performances included all more or less large cities of the CIS. Thus, already in the mid-nineties, Svetlana Surganova became a popular and famous singer. She was applauded by the stadiums, however, despite this, in 2002, our today’s heroine left the Night Snipers group. Subsequently, the press and the Internet put forward a variety of assumptions regarding the reasons for the separation of Diana Arbenina and Surganova. Someone said that because of their leadership qualities, the two girls simply could not get along in the same team. However, the most popular version has become that the creative collapse of the team was preceded by the collapse of the love relationship between the two participants.

One way or another, in 2002, Svetlana left the “sniper” team and began performing separately from her former stage partners. For some time she appeared exclusively at acoustic concerts, performing with guitarist Valery Thay. However, a few months later, a new group appeared on the pop map of Russia - “Surganova and the Orchestra”, the leader of which was our today’s heroine.

Surganova and the Orchestra. Invasion 2013.

From that moment on, a new stage began in the life of the famous performer. She often gave concerts and also worked fruitfully in the studio. To date, this group has already recorded nine official albums, as well as many informal recordings, many of which were recorded together with young representatives of the rock scene.

Svetlana Surganova now

In addition, the professional singer also often compiles and publishes books with her poetic works.

Personal life of Svetlana Surganova

Some changes in the singer’s personal life have occurred only in recent years. There were reports in the press that the girl was dating a certain young man named Nikita. The singer herself admitted that she has been dreaming of a child for a long time.