Cause of death of Tolkunova Valentina. “Tolkunova did not believe that her illness was incurable, therefore she did not prepare for death and did not write any will
According to the agency, the singer had cancer. Tolkunova was hospitalized after a concert in Belarusian Mogilev on February 16. Later she was transferred to the Botkin hospital.
Valentina Tolkunova was born on July 12, 1946 in Armavir. In 1966, she began singing jazz music in a big band led by Yuri Saulsky. Five years later, Tolkunova graduated from the Gnessin Musical College. The popularity of the singer came in 1972 after a performance in the Hall of Columns.
Since 1973, Tolkunova worked as a soloist of the Mosconcert. In 1989, on the basis of the Mosconcert, the Creative Association "ART" was created, with Tolkunova as its artistic director. In 1987 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Tolkunova worked with many Soviet songwriters - Eduard Kolmanovsky, Mikael Tariverdiev, Pavel Aedonitsky, Viktor Uspensky, Lyudmila Lyadova, Alexandra Pakhmutova.
People's love for the singer was brought by the songs "I'm standing at a half-station", "I can't do otherwise", "Snub noses", "In everything I want to get to the very essence", "I'm a village", "Talk to me, mom" and others.
People's Artist Valentina Tolkunova died at the Botkin hospital in Moscow after a long illness.
On the eve of the legend of the Soviet stage, one of the most beloved singers of the country, who so courageously hid the illness, was transferred to the intensive care unit.
On Saturday night, Valentina Vasilievna asked for a priest to be brought to her. Batiushka conducted the unction procedure right in the ward. Valentina Vasilievna was conscious for the last hours...
As it became known to Life News, today at 6 am Tolkunova fell into a coma, after which she was connected to a ventilator. The famous singer passed away around 8 o'clock in the morning.
Unfortunately, all the efforts of doctors were in vain.
The most charming, lyrical, beautiful, smart, professional, kind singer left, Vladimir Vinokur told Life News. - And our snub noses stopped breathing. This is a huge misfortune... Because many generations of people bowed and bow before her art. A terrible tragedy! Only 2 days ago I told about her that Valechka is cheerful, she will cope with all ailments. But, apparently, our desires do not always coincide with the capabilities of the human body. I mourn, I cry...
I am in a state of shock, this is a terrible loss, - says a close friend of Tolkunova Lev Leshchenko, - I need to recover, get together, no words ... It is very difficult to lose loved ones. Sadness and grief. She was really a great singer, a great citizen, a great patriot, an honest, decent, beautiful singer. I visited her three days ago. We talked for an hour and a half straight. I left her my book, where there is a whole chapter about her. Valentina said that she needed to do something, prepare performances. I advised her to speak into the recorder. We sat with her for a long time, and she was in good condition. And the day before yesterday, she suddenly became ill, and she was transferred to intensive care. I was told about this by third people and I did not believe it. It's a sad event, I don't want to talk about it...
Well, what can I say at such a moment, - Nelli Kobzon sighs. - Huge regret, frustration, bitterness! Young, beautiful, kind - she had no enemies. I worked a lot and with my husband, we were friends. Our children were born at the same time: my daughters and her Kolya. We've known each other for 40 years. For me it all happened all of a sudden. Of course, I knew that she was ill, but it seemed to me that the doctors with her diagnosis would take her longer. Alas...
Valentina Tolkunova's father worked in the railway system. In the year when Valya was born, he and his family were on a long business trip in Armavir. When little Valya was one year old, the family moved to Moscow. But, despite the fact that the Tolkunovs have no relatives in Armavir, the inhabitants of this city consider Valentina Tolkunova a countrywoman.
For the last three years, Valentina Vasilievna, together with her brother, has come to our concerts, - told Life News in the department of culture of Armavir. - Meeting with her has always been a great holiday for the townspeople.
In 2008, the city administration presented Valentina Vasilievna with a birth certificate, where it was written that Armavir was the birthplace of the great singer. The next concert of Valentina Tolkunova in Armavir was scheduled for September 2010.
We contacted Valentina Vasilievna's mother two weeks ago to clarify the exact date of arrival, - told Life News in the administration of Armavir. - But the elderly woman was heartbroken. Barely holding back tears, she said: “The concert will not take place. Valya is sick. Pray for her."
I saw Valechka for the last time at a concert dedicated to the day the Blockade was lifted. I spoke to her that day. I asked her how she felt, Valentina answered me that everything was in order with her - recalls Edita Piekha. There was no sign of illness. She was the kindest and strongest woman. The second Tolkunova will no longer exist. She and I were somewhere on the same wavelength, but she was Russian, and this is her advantage over me. She had her own large audience, her fans. She never complained about her health, she always looked sleek and well-groomed. I remember how her eyes shone during our last meeting ...
Shortly before the death of Valentina Tolkunova, hospitalized in the hospital. Botkin a month ago, refused chemotherapy. This was reported to Life News by the son of the famous artist last week. According to Nikolai Tolkunov, the doctors suggested that Valentina Vasilievna be transferred to another clinic and undergo chemotherapy, but the singer refused - she referred to the fact that she felt much better.
On March 8, we were with my mother, she did not respond to congratulations, she did not contact anyone, she was resting, Valentina Vasilievna's son Nikolai told Life News. - Doctors say that now everything is in order, she is getting better.
The improvement turned out to be temporary. The body of the 63-year-old singer could not cope with a serious illness.
In the last months before her death, Valentina Tolkunova rarely gave interviews. The singer did not like to talk about her struggle with a serious illness, which lasted for many years. Bedridden, even in this state she smiled and said: a miracle will definitely happen...
Everything is fine with me, ”Tolkunova told a Life News correspondent in the first days of hospitalization in Botkinskaya after a fatal tour in Belarus. - I think that the changeable weather became the reason for everything. Due to temperature fluctuations, many people suffer from high blood pressure. It's a completely natural story.
- How do you feel now?
I live and I am well. I am no longer in intensive care, but in a simple ward. It turned out that I had very high blood pressure. But the doctors gave me a pill, they gave me a dropper, and I got to my feet. Now I laugh and talk to you. Human love saves everyone. All thanks be to God, so rejoice and don't worry. The most important thing is that I have a great mood.
- When do you plan to return to Moscow?
I don’t know yet, my return to Moscow depends on how I feel. So I can go home anytime. They treat me well here. There are no questions about the service, everything is at the best level and with the highest friendliness. In general, Moscow is not far off. In Minsk, we postponed the concert, I come here every year. In Belarus they love me, keep and know my repertoire. I hope to come here again soon.
Press attache of the Bolshoi Theater Katerina Novikova told open sources of information that Valentina Levko died today. The cause of death of the famous opera singer, who performed a wide variety of parts from 1960 to 1982, was named a severe, prolonged illness. The family did not disclose the exact diagnosis of the 92-year-old artist, most likely age increased the poor health of the public's favorite.
Facts from the biography
The nee Surkova was born on August 13, 1923 in one of the capital's hospitals. From the age of 8, Valentina Nikolaevna was fond of music, successfully passed the qualifying exams for the music school at the conservatory in the violin class. From the age of 12, a talented girl began to simultaneously engage in professional vocals.
In the period from 1943 to 1949 she received a higher musical education at the Gnesins College and at the university of the same name, class of an orchestra artist and viola teacher. During her studies, she repeatedly worked as a guest violinist in the Theater of Miniatures and the Theater. Yarmolova.
Died Valentina Levko
Since 1963, she participated in all tours, thanks to the rapid receipt of a diploma as an opera performer at the Moscow Conservatory. Natural data and her own desire made the impossible - Valentina Nikolaevna graduated from the university as an external student, which no one had done before her.
Her contralto and mezzo-soprano are remembered by the most famous concert halls of the world:
- Carnegie Hall and Music Ferrine.
- Albert Hall and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
- Concert Hall named after P. I. Tchaikovsky and the Small Hall of the Philharmonic named after M. I. Glinka in St. Petersburg and others.
Opera singer dies at 92
Music critics at the beginning of the century became interested in the works of the opera diva of the last century. Thanks to this, the world saw 11 CDs with recordings of her parts. Soviet viewers of the older generation remember the actress's voice in films:
- “Wedding in Malinovka” is a song by the mother of the main character Sophia.
- "A simple story ..." - the song "To that highway, to the crossroads" and others.
Family and Children
The artist married in 1950 the best pilot of the 67th Guards Aviation Regiment Vladimir Levko. After the end of the service, the husband of the opera diva was a test pilot for many years. The pilot died in 1991, at the height of the default and the fall of the USSR.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed their condolences to the family and friends of the Soviet stage legend.
Valentina Tolkunova will be buried on Wednesday at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. This was announced by the director of the singer Alexei Tiroshvili. "It will be possible to say goodbye to her at the Variety Theatre," he added.
Tolkunova has been in the Botkin hospital since the end of February. On the night from Friday to Saturday, she was due to a sharp deterioration in her health. According to LifeNews.ru, after that the singer asked to bring a priest for unction. The rite was performed right in the hospital ward.
The artist is in the hospital. Initially, it was reported that she had high blood pressure, the cause of which was overwork. Tolkunova was sent to Moscow in an ambulance.
Then information appeared in the press that Belarusian doctors: breast cancer, which she has been fighting for years, has reached the liver and lungs. A malignant brain tumor was also found.
Curriculum vitae:
Valentina Tolkunova was born on July 12, 1946 in the city of Armavir, Krasnodar Territory. Her parents moved her to Moscow at the age of one year.
At school, she went through a competition in the ensemble of the Central House of Children of Railway Workers under the direction of Dunayevsky. She sang in the choir there for ten years, and in 1964 she entered the conductor-choir department at the Moscow State Institute of Culture. In 1971 she graduated from the Gnessin Musical College.
In 1966, Tolkunova joined a big band led by Yuri Saulsky, where for five years she was a soloist-vocalist and performed jazz instrumental compositions.
In 1971, in the television movie "Day after Day", the singer voiced the songs of the composer Ilya Kataev to the verses of Mikhail Ancharov. After that, she actively worked with many famous songwriters, including Eduard Kolmanovsky, Mikael Tariverdiev, Pavel Aedonitsky, Viktor Uspensky, Alexandra Pakhmutova.
In 1972, Lev Oshanin invited Tolkunova to perform at the anniversary concert in the Hall of Columns with Vladimir Shainsky's song "Ah, Natasha". After that, the singer began to appear frequently on radio and television.
The artist performed dozens of songs loved by the whole country: “I’m standing at a half-station”, “Silver weddings”, “Talk to me, mom”, “Snub noses”, “Where have you been before”, “Old words”, “My dear, if there would be no war", "Forty-five", "We rode in a boat" and many others. Twenty-three times Tolkunova became the winner of the television competition "Song of the Year".
In 1989, on the basis of the Mosconcert, where the singer has worked since 1973, the Creative Association "ART" was created - the Theater of Musical Drama and Song. Valentina Tolkunova became its artistic director.
People's and Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Honored Artist of Kalmykia was awarded the Orders of Honor, Friendship of Peoples, Lomonosov, St. Anna, St. Vladimir, Peter the Great, the FAPSI badge of honor, and the medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow." She is also a holder of the Order "Patrons of the Century", a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize and the Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, "Honorary Railway Worker of Russia", "Honored Power Engineer of Russia", "Honorary Artek", "Honorary BAM", "Honorary Border Guard and Academician of the Academy of Security Problems, Defense and law and order."
The Government of Ukraine presented her with the International Order of Honor and the Order of St. Nicholas. Metropolitan Vladimir of Kyiv awarded Tolkunov with the Order of St. Barbara. Also, the singer was awarded certificates of honor from the governments of Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, and Estonia.
Valentina Tolkunova was married twice. Her first husband was a composer, conductor of a vocal and instrumental orchestra Yuri Saulsky, and her second husband was an international journalist, author of the book "Hemingway in Cuba" Yuri Paporov. The singer's son, Nikolai, works as a lighting designer at the Moscow Theater of Musical Drama and Song.
Died Valentina Tolkunova - one of the brightest stars of the Soviet stage. Usually in such cases they recall the biography of a person, but the life path, with all the desire, cannot be called intricately woven or famously twisted. A kind of typical exemplary biography of the singer, no non-core institutions, no steep zigzags of fate - a children's choir, a music school and many, many years of work on the stage.
The singer was born on July 12, 1946 in the city of Armavir, in the Krasnodar Territory, but she always considered herself a Muscovite - soon after the birth of her daughter, her parents moved to the capital, and the girl grew up in Khovrino. She began to sing from childhood, she devoted almost ten years to the Moscow Children's Choir, where, according to her, she went through a real vocal school with music teacher Tatyana Nikolaevna Ovchinnikova. After school in 1964, Tolkunova entered the conductor and choral department of the Moscow State Institute of Culture.
It would seem - the road is knurled, but here strangeness begins.
It is no secret that the success of singers at all times is often inseparable from the efforts and capabilities of her husband, but with Tolkunova everything turned out exactly the opposite. In her early twenties, a promising student marries a famous composer. Tolkunova temporarily leaves her studies, goes to work in the VIO-66 big band, led by her husband, and sings jazz there for five years. Unfortunately, the marriage was short-lived and broke up five years later (the second - with journalist Yuri Paporov - became much more successful and lasted about thirty years).
And although the singer during this "jazz period" managed to finish her conducting education and, in addition, acquire a Gnesinka diploma, she had to start her singing career all over again. And the stage is a capricious lady under all regimes and at all times, and few people wait for the smiles of fate on this path.
Tolkunova was lucky - it was during this seemingly unfavorable period for her career that her take-off begins.
As is often the case, chance intervened. In 1971, the first ever television series, Day by Day, was filmed in the Soviet Union. Now few people remember this nightly story about the inhabitants of a Moscow communal apartment, filmed according to the script with the brilliant Gribov and the young, not yet fat Innocent. But in the fate of the singer, he became one of the most important events.
In this telenovela, the unknown Valentina Tolkunova sang several songs by Ilya Kataev to Ancharov's poems - “I was walking down the street at night”, “I am standing at a half-station”, etc.
The singer was noticed, and at the request of the poet Leo, he gives her his song “Ah, Natasha”, which has been on his desk for several years. After the singer's performance at Oshanin's anniversary evening, the venerable composer found Tolkunova during the intermission and honestly admitted that he had never imagined that such a brilliant song could be made from his material.
After that, there was a rumor in musical circles that the young singer could pull out any song, and Tolkunova began to give out one hit after another.
First, the composer Aedonitsky invited her to perform the song "Silver Weddings", which one eminent singer refused the day before, and Tolkun's performance on "Song-73" ended with a standing ovation. Then there were “Wooden Horses”, “Snub Noses”, and a year later, especially for Valentina Tolkunova, the young composer writes “Talk to Me, Mom”.
Tolkunova becomes one of the most famous singers in the country - it was impossible to resist this unique and once recognizable timbre and extremely sincere intonation.
Unfortunately, the period of resounding fame turned out to be short-lived - at the turn of the 70s and 80s, an event took place that knocked down the careers of many singers who worked at the junction of folk tradition and modern stage.
The country has changed a lot, new rhythms have supplanted the old ones, and against the backdrop of the growing strength of rock and disco, Tolkunov with her “colorful half-shawls” and “factory girls” began to seem like a terrible anachronism. Neither voice nor professionalism helped - no one is to blame, it's just that times have changed.
Few singers of our very conservative stage survived this blow - someone tried to radically change, but only a few succeeded. Tolkunova decided to remain herself. She recorded new songs - “I can’t do otherwise”, “My dear, if there were no war”, “Dialogue at the New Year tree”, worked for children - she sang in the cartoons “In the Port” and “Winter in Prostokvashino”. And still broke through to the viewer.
Valentina Vasilievna finally disappeared from television screens only in new times, when all of us, fascinated by new life and new opportunities, tabooed the past and got rid of it with some kind of frenzy.
Tolkunova survived these difficult times with respectable dignity. I didn’t fuss, I didn’t try to monetize my previous success, I didn’t try to crawl anywhere, somehow return what was gone. She honestly admitted in an interview: “I’m probably from another century, very out of date. I am the daughter of that era, and the time in which we live ... I am like a grain of sand in a whirlwind of the 21st century, but I do not want to be a grain of sand. She worked for her listener, traveled a lot around the country, not refusing the most modest offers:
“I try to travel with concerts to different parts of our vast Motherland in order to have time to give people my heart, my songs. I never refuse to perform for the disabled, veterans, children, youth.
If the organizers of such concerts do not have money, I perform for free, it does not matter to me.
I am reproached and even scolded for the fact that I agree to work for free, because now not a single even completely voiceless singer will lift a finger until he is paid. I am often asked: "How much are you worth?" I am constantly surprised by this phrase and I can’t, and I don’t want to get used to it. Therefore, I invariably answer: “I’m not standing at all.” Then people sometimes say irritably, “Okay. How much are your songs worth? Well, what kind of wildness? How can songs or myself be worth anything? It's priceless. Both I myself and my songs are given by God for people. Only my work has value.
I am pleased to realize that there, in the outback, I am needed. Arriving there, I do not feel cold, but I feel the warmth of hearts and caring soul. A soulful lyrical song is more needed there than in Moscow or St. Petersburg.
Do not judge and you will not be judged, and I cannot judge anyone, but it seems to me that today people prefer something that is shining, shimmering, shining, thundering, but not the inner essence, the hiddenness of the soul.
In general, dignity is perhaps the key word for remembering Valentina Vasilievna. Even when the reverse process began and the landslide fashion for Soviet retro began, she, unlike many of her colleagues, resisted and did not rush into the fussy pursuit of a second chance. She didn’t flash at any concerts like the “hodgepodge team”, we never saw her in television retro contests and other booths beloved by domestic culture. She lived the same as always. And at the same time - she never complained and did not regret anything:
“The song cannot be Russian or Soviet. There is no song tied to the ranks. A good song for everyone, and it cannot be called Russian or Soviet.
I didn't sing slogan songs. I have never served anyone. I sang human songs.
Remember, “Talk to me, mom”, “Snub noses”, “We rode in a boat”, “My dear, if there were no war.” These songs are for everyone, they are still needed, they are in demand. I can't say that I'm sitting without concerts. No, I'm not destitute, I'm a wealthy person. I've been driving for twenty-two years, now I drive a jeep, I have a nice apartment. I don't complain about anything, I don't have anything to complain about. I myself will get out in this life. I don’t sit idle, there is a lot of work.”
She has always lived by work. Even when she was diagnosed with a terrible diagnosis a few years ago, she still continued to perform. In mid-February, at a concert in Belarusian Mogilev, the singer became ill. After urgent hospitalization, it turned out that the disease had relapsed. For almost a month, doctors fought for the life of the singer, but the situation was too serious - fourth-degree cancer, tumors in the chest and brain with metastases to the liver and lungs.
This morning Valentina Tolkunova died at the Botkin hospital. Today, remembering how you never want to argue with one of her best songs of recent years - "Leaving, do not take anything from the past."
People's Artist of Russia Valentina Tolkunova will be buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow on Wednesday, it will be possible to say goodbye to her at the Variety Theater, the time of farewell is being specified.
Valentina Vasilievna Tolkunova. Born July 12, 1946 in Armavir - died March 22, 2010 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian singer. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1987).
Valentina Tolkunova was born on July 12, 1946 in the city of Armavir, Krasnodar Territory, in the family of Vasily Andreevich Tolkunov and Evgenia Nikolaevna Tolkunova.
Father, Vasily Andreevich, a native of the city of Rtishchevo, Saratov Region, was a regular military man.
Mother, Evgenia Nikolaevna (nee Smirnova), was born in the village of Tankhoi, Pribaikalsky district of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR, worked at the railway station.
Grandfather - Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov was repressed and spent 18 years in camps.
Grandmother - Anisya Nikanorovna Smirnova (Strizhak) from Tankhoy.
The younger brother - Sergei Tolkunov (born July 6, 1949), singer, Honored Artist of Russia, worked with his sister at concerts. Now he is the president of the Valentina Tolkunova Charitable Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art.
The Tolkunov family lived in the village of Belorechenskaya, where Vasily Andreevich was sent from Transbaikalia to restore the village.
In 1950 the family moved to Moscow. Music always sounded in the parents' house: records with songs performed by Lidia Ruslanova. Valentina learned all the songs from their albums.
In 1964 she entered the conductor and choral department of the Moscow State Institute of Culture. In 1966, Valentina Tolkunova entered the vocal and instrumental orchestra conducted by Yu.S. Saulsky (VIO-66), in which she was a soloist and performed songs to jazz music.
In 1971, the singer graduated from the Gnessin Music College and voiced the songs of the composer I.E. Kataev on the verses of Mikhail Ancharov in the TV movie "Day by Day".
In 1972, the poet Lev Oshanin invited Valentina Tolkunova to perform on the stage of the Hall of Columns at the anniversary concert with Vladimir Shainsky's song "Ah, Natasha". For this performance, the singer was given a dress embroidered with pearls. Tolkunova herself wove part of the pearls into her hair. Since then, it has become an integral part of her stage persona.
Since 1973, she worked in the association "Mosconcert".
A separate line in the singer's work is the song for the TV show "Good night, kids!" "Tired toys are sleeping".
Valentina Tolkunova - I can not do otherwise.
Since 1989, she has been the head of the theater of musical drama and song of the creative association "ART", in which a number of musical performances were staged.
In 2004, Valentina Tolkunova bought a small house near the Diveevsky Monastery. When I came to Diveevo, I went to the service, prayed, took communion. The singer also tried to do charity work. She contributed to the restoration of the cross at one of the churches of the Zadonsky Monastery in the Lipetsk Region, gave many charity concerts for large families, and also sent funds from commercial performances to large families.
"Speaking about the work of Valentina Tolkunova, they always emphasize the simplicity of her manner of performance, the absence of deliberate gestures, the search for her own path in art. Listening to Valentina Tolkunova, I think about her understanding, about the wisdom that comes through in every musical phrase of hers. Only this wisdom is special, feminine and patient, only this understanding is endowed with the foresight of a child, only the rhythm of her smooth movements is inspired by the soul of a friendly and benevolent woman, coloring our world with an even light of tenderness and constancy," Mikael Tariverdiev noted.
"I think that she is one of the greatest Russian, Russian singers, who, of course, did a lot for her Fatherland. And here is Valya, she was like that - she is a citizen, she was real. Here is a word that can define her life, her personality - she was real," Lev Leshchenko said about the singer.
Illness and death of Valentina Tolkunova
In 1992, the singer was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent surgery and underwent chemotherapy.
In 2006, a breast tumor was discovered.
In August 2009, a brain tumor was discovered.
After a concert in Mogilev on February 16, 2010, Valentina Tolkunova was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of a local hospital. After discharge, she was transferred to the Botkin hospital for examination.
On March 22, 2010, at 6 o'clock in the morning, Valentina Tolkunova fell into a coma and died two hours later. Before his death, right in the hospital ward, Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov performed unction.
The farewell ceremony for the People's Artist of the RSFSR was held at the Variety Theater. The funeral of the singer took place on the morning of March 24, 2010 in the Church of the Ascension on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in the center of Moscow, on the same day she was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.
The funeral of Valentina Tolkunova
On August 31, 2011, a monument was opened on the grave of Valentina Vasilievna at the Troekurovsky cemetery. The singer is buried opposite the cemetery chapel, next to her is buried her husband, Yuri Paporov, who only survived his wife for a little over a month.
On July 1, 2011, the grand opening of the memorial plaque to Valentina Tolkunova took place on the building of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts. The initiator of the installation was the rector of MGUKI Ramazan Abdulatipov, the sculptor - Grigory Pototsky.
On August 21, 2011, a monument to Valentina Vasilievna Tolkunova was unveiled in the city of Belorechensk, Krasnodar Territory. The bronze monument, 2 meters 85 cm high, was made at the expense of local entrepreneurs on the initiative of the head of the Belorechensky district, Ivan Imgrunt. The author of the monument is Moscow sculptor Irina Makarova.
In 2013, a feature series based on her biography “She could not help it” was released (Olga Fadeeva played the role of Alevtina Tolkacheva, and the songs in the film were performed by Yulia Mikhalchik) and the documentary film “I Will Always Love You”.
Growth of Valentina Tolkunova: 163 centimeters.
Personal life of Valentina Tolkunova:
Twice married twice.
The first husband was (1928-2003), composer, conductor of a vocal and instrumental orchestra (VIO-66), the marriage lasted 5 years. He left her for actress Valentina Aslanova.
In 1974, Tolkunova married Yuri Paporov (1923-2010), an international journalist, writer, and author of the book Hemingway in Cuba.
In this marriage, Nikolai Paporov was born (10/10/1977), who worked as a lighting designer at the Moscow Theater of Musical Drama and Song. In the early 80s, Yuri Paporov went to work in Mexico, Tolkunova did not go with him. He did not take part in the upbringing of his son, he did not send money. In the early 1990s he returned to Moscow. After a car accident, he began to lose his sight. Tolkunova took him to her apartment, looked after him. He died a month and a half after the death of his wife.
In 2000, the singer's son Nikolai was detained with heroin. Thanks to his mother's connections, he escaped punishment.
Filmography of Valentina Tolkunova:
1967 - Two hours early;
1971 - Summer of Private Dedova - host of the concert;
1971 - Day after day - performer ("Song of Russia");
1973 - It's stronger than me - Singer in a restaurant, uncredited (song "Such Old Words");
1973 - Naughty ditties;
1973 - Black Prince - Singer in a restaurant;
1973 - Experts conduct investigation. Escape - radio performer of a lyric song;
1974 - Romance of lovers - performer of the final song;
1974 - Affairs of the Heart - song performer;
1975 - Bride from the North - performer (song "White Fluff");
1976 - Mom - Swallow (voiceover);
1977 - Soldiers of Freedom;
1982 - Wormwood - bitter grass - song performer;
1986 - Film-concert "I believe in a rainbow";
1989 - Concert film "Premier of the Year"
Sounding of cartoons by Valentina Tolkunova:
1975 - In the port
1984 - Winter in Prostokvashino (song "If there was no winter")
1972 - Russian tunes (song "Oh, I got up early")
1974 - Song of the magic stone (song "What are miracles?", Uncredited)
1975 - Screen saver of the program "Good night, kids" (song "Tired toys are sleeping")
Discography of Valentina Tolkunova:
1972 - "I'm standing at the half-station"
1973 - “In everything I want to get to the very essence”
1974 - "White Fluff"
1974 - "All this was not with me"
1974 - "Year of Love"
1975 - "Dedicated to Komsomol"
1976 - “The hay hay showers have already rang out”
1977 - Snub Noses
1980 - "At the Christmas tree"
1985 - "If there was no war" (double album)
1986 - "Conversation with a Woman" (double album)
1991 - Seryozha
1992 - "Forty-five"
1995 - "I can't help it"
1997 - "I'm country"
1997 - "Sleep Grass"
2002 - "My invented man"
2011 - "How to be happy" (released after the death of the singer)
Songs of Valentina Tolkunova:
“And love is like a swan” (Music: Almaz Monasypov - Lyrics: Lira Abdullina);
“But I simply cannot do without the Volga” (E. Martynov - A. Dementiev);
“And I would now go along the district” (V. Popov - K. Filippova);
“Why did love leave” (Music: Larisa Andreeva - Lyrics: Larisa Andreeva);
“But you didn’t understand my love” (Music: A. Flyarkovsky - Lyrics: M. Tanich);
"Alyoshka without a father" (R. Mayorov - M. Ryabinin);
“Ah, my love, love” (Music: Amayak Moryan - Lyrics: Natalya Emelyanova);
“Ah, my love, loser” (P. Aedonitsky - F. Laube);
“Ah, lilac-lilac” (V. Popov - V. Popov, N. Popova);
"Grandma" (B. Terentiev - N. Dorizo);
"White Land" (P. Aedonitsky - Yu. Vizbor) with Eduard Khil;
"Birch Evening" (S. Tulikov - M. Plyatskovsky);
“In the city of Noyabrsk” (O. Feltsman - B. Dubrovin);
“In a single vase” (D. Ashkenazy - O. Fokina);
"In the Port" (M. Minkov - S. Kozlov) with Oleg Anofriev;
"Waltz for life" (E. Shchekalev - G. Georgiev);
"Waltz to Calvary" (O. Ivanov - K. Filippova);
"Waltz of Lovers" (L. Lyadova - P. Gradov) with Lev Leshchenko;
"Waltz of a Woman" (Music: Lyudmila Lyadova - Lyrics: Vladimir Lazarev);
"Waltz of the Bride" (R. Mayorov - S. Gershanova);
"Vanya" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov);
"Spring suffering" (E. Stikhin - G. Pozhenyan);
“Rowan branch” (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov);
"Willow Branch" (L. Osipova - V. Dagurov);
"Evening of school friends" (A. Morozov - M. Ryabinin);
“In everything I want to reach ...” (B. Vlasov - B. Pasternak) Album “All this was not with me”;
"Vocalise" (K. Molchanov) Album "All this was not with me";
"Vocalise" (P. Aedonitsky);
"Recollection" (V. Migul - L. Rubalskaya);
"Remembering the Past" (Music: V. Migul - Lyrics: Maxim Gettuev);
“It is always sad to watch” (V. Popov - Yu. Shchelokov, V. Popov);
“Everything will heal before the wedding” (S. Tulikov - M. Plyatskovsky);
“All this was not with me” (A. Morozov - M. Ryabinin);
"Second youth" (A. Morozov - M. Ryabinin);
“You will remember me” (E. Krylatov - E. Rostopchina);
“Do you remember” (V. Uspensky - L. Smolenskaya);
“Where did the trouble go” (O. Kvasha - E. Kuznetsov, L. Alekseev);
"Where were you before?" (E. S. Kolmanovsky - E. A. Dolmatovsky);
"Voice of childhood" (B. Rivchun - V. Gin);
"My city Alma-Ata";
"Bitter Honey" (V. Popov);
“Let's get together” (N. Ivanova - A. Velikorechina);
"Long" (B. Emelyanov - D. Kedrin);
"Girl and Rain" (E. Shchekalev - E. Naumova);
“Girl with a Boy” (Yu. Saulsky - B. Dubrovin);
"Dolphins" (M. Minkov - O. Anofriev);
"Village Street" (V. Orlovetsky - A. Romanov);
"Wooden horses" (M. Minkov - E. Shim);
“Childhood has gone into the distance” (A. Ostrovsky - L. Oshanin);
"Dialogue at the New Year tree" (E. Kolmanovsky - Y. Levitansky);
"Good omen" (M. Fradkin - E. Dolmatovsky) with Lev Leshchenko;
"Kindness" (V. Migulya - B. Dubrovin) with Vladimir Migulya;
"Good people" (N. Ivanova - R. Kazakova);
"Pre-war tango" (V. Levashov - V. Krutetsky);
"House in the village";
"House on the outskirts" (V. Migul - A. Cross);
"Home, Home" (O. Feltsman - B. Dubrovin) with Leonid Serebrennikov;
"Dear edition" (G. Dolotkazin - B. Larin);
"Daughters" (V. Pipekin - V. Lopushnoy);
"Friend" (O. Feltsman - R. Rozhdestvensky);
“If there was no war” (M. Minkov - I. Shaferan);
“If there is love in the world” (M. Magomayev - R. Rozhdestvensky) with Muslim Magomayev;
"Zhaleyka" (P. Aedonitsky - I. Romanovsky);
"Woman" (L. Lyadova - V. Lazarev);
"Yellow Rowan" (V. Gamaleya - M. Transverse);
“There is little light outside the window” (E. Kolmanovsky - K. Vanshenkin);
“Why is this happiness for me” (O. Feltsman - M. Tanich);
"Vicious circle" (V. Vysotsky);
"Belated Song" (I. Korolev - L. Kretov);
“Why did you call me” (A. Pakhmutova - L. Oshanin);
"Sound of steps" (I. Kataev - M. Ancharov);
“Hello, son” (O. Feltsman - M. Ryabinin);
"Green Grass" (V. Druzhinin - G. Georgiev);
"Winter Moscow" (R. Mayorov - L. Ivanova);
“And in jest and in earnest” (E. Shchekalev - V. Kostrov) with Leonid Serebrennikov;
Oriole (A. Mazhukov - O. Gadzhikasimov);
"Igoreshka-Igorek" (E. Grigoryants - A. Trilisov);
“From three roads” (N. Bogoslovsky - M. Tanich);
"July Thunderstorms" (L. Lyadova - T. Ponomareva);
“If there was no winter” (E. Krylatov - Yuri Entin);
“Like the blue sea” (folk);
"Cap-cap" (I. Kataev - M. Ancharov);
"A Drop of Happiness" (Yu. Chichkov - V. Karataev) with Leonid Serebrennikov;
"Swing" (S. Pozhlakov - G. Gorbovsky);
"Lullaby" (A. Gradsky - N. Konchalovskaya);
"Lullaby" (M. Kazhlaev - B. Dubrovin);
"Lullaby to the World" (I. Krutoy - K. Kuliev / N. Grebnev);
"Lullaby to the son" (L. Khmelnitskaya - R. Kazakova);
“The leaf is spinning” (N. Bogoslovsky - I. Shaferan);
"Who still believes in love" with Lev Leshchenko;
“Where the years run” (P. Aedonitsky - L. Zavalnyuk);
"Boat" (T. Khrennikov - M. Matusovsky);
“I love Russian birch” (V. Gazaryan - A. Prokofiev);
“Love is a ring” (Y. Frenkel - M. Tanich);
“I love it” (M. Kazhlaev - V. Portnov);
“Love has passed” (A. Mazhukov - A. Dementiev);
"Mother" (E. Rabkin - N. Palkin);
"Mathematician" (N. Bogoslovsky - M. Tanich);
"My City Gorky" (P. Aedonitsky - I. Shaferan) with Iosif Kobzon;
"My invented man (V. Popov);
"My Sochi" (V. Shepovalov - V. Gin);
"Sea Bride" (E. Zharkovsky - V. Lazarev);
"Seaman of the Black Sea Fleet";
“My friend is my Moscow” (V. Tolkunova - G. Georgiev);
"Music" (I. Krutoy - K. Kuliev / N. Grebnev);
“Music of the Past Years” (M. Minkov - Yu. Rybchinsky);
“We rode on a boat” (Russian folk song);
"On the Pier" (A. Mazhukov - V. Kuznetsov);
“Fog over the river” (Yu. Saulsky - L. Zavalnyuk);
“The hour of the night has come” (I. Brahms - G. Scherer and A. Mashistov);
“Don’t wake her up so early” (V. Lozovoy - A. Krongauz);
"Don't tell me about him" (A. Morozov - V. Gin);
“It didn’t happen” (A. Morozov-M. Ryabinin);
“It was not in vain that people told me” (S. Tulikov - M. Plyatskovsky);
“Do not judge me” (V. Uspensky - M. Ostashova);
"Silent Cinema" (N. Bogoslovsky - M. Plyatskovsky);
“There is no road to separation” (Y. Saulsky - G. Pozhenyan);
“Nothing ends” (A. Izotov - S. Gershanova) with Evgeny Kurbakov;
"Snub noses" (B. Emelyanov - A. Bulycheva);
"Night Call" (V. Gazaryan - G. Georgiev) with Lev Leshchenko;
"Ordinary person";
"Lonely Accordion" (B. Mokrousov - M. Isakovsky);
“Loneliness together” (V. Popov);
"Lake" (R. Pauls - L. Oshanin);
"Oh, the Kremlin!" (A. Ilyin - N. Ibragimov) - Anthem of Ryazan;
"Officer honor";
“Oh, you are unfaithful” (Y. Dubravin - V. Gin);
"Queue for happiness" (E. Ptichkin - M. Plyatskovsky);
"Spider Web" (L. Lyadova - M. Tanich);
“The mountain ash has overripe” (V. Orlovetsky - V. Dzyuba);
"Transfers" (S. Tomin - A. Klenov);
“A song without end” (E. Kolmanovsky - I. Shaferan);
"Song of Isidora" (N. Bogoslovsky - A. Bogoslovsky);
"Song of a Magical Country" (E. Adler - L. Dymova);
"Song of Women" (N. Ivanova - A. Krongauz);
"Song of the native land" (E. Krylatov - L. Derbenev);
"Song of Happiness" (V. Rubashevsky - V. Shlensky);
"Song of a lonely friend" (N. Bogoslovsky - N. Dorizo);
“Sadness is the light” (A. Malinin - L. Rubalskaya);
"Letter to myself" (E. Filippov - M. Ryabinin);
“Talk to me, mom” (V. Migulya - V. Gin);
“Understand me” (N. Bogoslovsky - I. Kokhanovsky);
"Glade of Light" (A. Stalmakov - V. Stepanov) with Evgeny Kurbakov;
“On the river Sudzha” (E. Zharkovsky - I. Selvinsky);
“Put me an old record” (V. Popov);
“I invite you” (S. Tulikov - M. Plyatskovsky);
"Recognition" (A. Kolts - A. Goltseva);
"Sorry, forest" (V. Vovchenko - G. Georgiev);
“I'm sorry that I was not around” (A. Moryan - L. Shchipakhina);
“Forgive me, Russia” (V. Vovchenko - G. Georgiev);
“Farewell, pigeons” (M. Fradkin - M. Matusovsky) with Oleg Ukhnalev;
"White Fluff" (A. Babadzhanyan - A. Voznesensky);
“Tell me, field” (V. Pikul - V. Kuznetsov);
“Misty River” (E. Hanok - A. Cross);
“I decided” (M. Mishunov - V. Sokolov);
"Our Parents" (O. Feltsman - Yu. Garin);
"Russia" (M. Bolotny - R. Kazakova);
"Daisies for lovers" (M. Chistov - L. Tatyanicheva);
“Russia is my Motherland” (V. Muradeli - V. Kharitonov);
"Russian Woman" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov);
“They cut down a tree” (V. Patrushev, O. Deunov - L. Ovsyannikova);
"Russian Village" (S. Kastorsky - E. Shantgay);
"Russian soul" (A. Kuznetsov);
"Airplanes and Nightingales" (A. Mazhukov - L. Oshanin);
Firefly (Georgian folk - A. Tsereteli / N. Grunin);
"Pipe and Horn" (Yu. Chichkov - P. Sinyavsky) with Leonid Serebrennikov;
"Silver Weddings" (music by Pavel Aedonitsky - art director Ekaterina Sheveleva);
"Seryozha" (L. Quint - Yu. Rybchinsky);
"The Gray-eyed King" (A. Vertinsky - A. Akhmatova);
"Sister" (M. Fradkin - I. Shaferan);
"Tales walk around the world" (E. Ptichkin - M. Plyatskovsky);
"The word "no"" (V. Popov - K. Filippova);
"Snowfall" (A.Ekimyan - A.Rustaikis);
“I hear my mother’s voice again” (Y. Frenkel - I. Shaferan);
"Solnechnogorsk" (V. Gazaryan - E. Buranova);
"Sleep-grass" (E. Ptichkin - T. Korshilova);
"Forty-five" (V. Dobrynin - M. Ryabinin);
"Save and save" (E. Krylatov - E. Yevtushenko);
“Sleep, my child, sleep” (A. Arensky - A. Maikov);
“Sleep, my joy, sleep” (W.A. Mozart - B. Flis - E. Sviridenko);
“Terminal station” (Yu. Saulsky - P. Leonidov);
“Moscow gives a start” (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov) with Lev Leshchenko;
"Old Wallpaper" (Yu. Nikolaenko);
"Old words" (O. Feltsman - R. Rozhdestvensky);
"Old Waltz" (S. Kaminsky);
“I would like to become a mountain ash” (N. Shestakova);
“I am standing at a half-station” (I. Kataev - M. Ancharov);
“Snow is melting” (E. Kolmanovsky - L. Derbenev);
"Taiga Waltz" (M. Slavin - P. Gradov);
"Tango in the disco" (O. Feltsman - B. Dubrovin) with Leonid Serebrennikov;
“I loved you” (A. Morozov - K. Ryzhov);
"Textile town" (Y. Frenkel - M. Tanich) with the ensemble "Weavers";
"Tick-tock" (Alexander Morozov - Victor Gin);
“Quiet courtyard, old house” (V. Popov);
“That day” (V. Vetrov - O. Fokina);
"You and I" (V. Basner - M. Matusovsky) with Leonid Serebrennikov;
“You whistle” (M. Kartinsky - R. Burns / S. Marshak);
“Forgive me, tree” (I. Kataev - M. Ancharov);
"Corner of Russia" (V. Shainsky - E. Sheveleva);
“The showers of haymaking have already rang out” (V. Khoroshchansky - A. Poperechny);
“The ship is leaving” (A. Izotov - M. Lisyansky) with Leonid Serebrennikov;
“When leaving, do not take anything from the past” (V. Popov - K. Filippova);
Fugue (I. Kataev);
“Alyoshka went with Natashka” (S. Tulikov - A. Gangov);
“I want to believe” (I. Yakushenko - I. Shaferan);
"Bird cherry" (V. Bibergan - D. Livshits);
"What should I say?" (V. Pipekin - K. Filippova);
"Alien lipstick trace" (V. Popov - K. Filippova);
"School friend" (V. Dmitriev - M. Ryabinin);
“It was I” (M. Tariverdiev - T. Korshilova);
“I am a village woman” (V. Temnov - P. Chernyaev);
“I was walking down the street at night” (I. Kataev - M. Ancharov);
"I'll wait for you" (A. Ostrovsky - L. Oshanin);
"Yablonka" (E. Gryaznova - M. Guskov);
"Fair" (A. Stalmakov - S. Gershanova);
“On a clear sunny day” (M. Mishunov - I. Morozov, L. Derbenev);
“I can’t do otherwise” (music by Alexandra Pakhmutova - art. Nikolai Dobronravov)
