And others.

Story

The founder and author of almost the entire repertoire of the group, guitarist, singer and violist Maxim Ivanov was born on April 5, 1974 in Kirov, into a theatrical family. After graduating music school, he enters the school in the viola class. At the turn of the 90s, Maxim discovers rock and roll, and later Celtic mythology and J. R. R. Tolkien's cult trilogy about Middle-earth. It was under the influence of Tolkien that Ivanov named his group "Sack-on-the-Kruche" (that was the name of the dwelling of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins). The poetic and at the same time authentic world of Tolkien's fantasy became the first source of inspiration for Maxim and was reflected in the images and plots of his early songs. Ivanov's first colleague in the future group is the guitarist Stanislav Svintsov.

The group begins its journey in the spring of 1991 . One of the first successes of "Torba" was the performance at the festival "Revival of the Motherland of Russian Romance" together with "Wine" and "Peter's Cross" in October 1991. The group at that time included Ivanov, Svintsov (bass), Nikolai Rublev (keyboards), Ilya Kuimov (violin) and Edgar Druganov (from the Infarct group, drums). On December 27-30 of the same 1991, "Torba" performed at the "Festival of the Independent Rock Press" of the Moscow magazine "Counterculture".

In the same period, Max Ivanov participates in the samizdat magazine "12.13" and collaborates with the groups "Petrov Cross", "Infarct" and "Vino". The latter, however, soon moved to St. Petersburg, where it turned into "Wine". Home-grown recordings of "Sacks" go around the city, but it never comes to full-fledged albums.
From March to September 1995 Ivanov served as a musician in the army. Then he rehearses for a year at home with various musicians, including guitarist Alexei Pyatkin, collaborates with the local Rock Laboratory (from which the Romislokus group later left), after which in 1996 he leaves for St. Petersburg, where he enters the Conservatory in the viola class. In the dormitory of the conservatory, Ivanov meets musicians, with whom he establishes a group. The name remained the same - "Sack-on-the-cooler". The first member of the new group was Maxim's roommate Grigory Maliev, who studied clarinet, and before that, in his native Novorossiysk, he played the bass guitar in the trio Experiment for Three. Flutist Artyom Bespalov from Saratov joins them). A year later, Oleg Pozhidayev entered the Conservatory from Krasnodar, where he managed to graduate School of Music and participated in a number of competitions and festivals. Rehearsals begin right in the hostel. Somehow, a decision is immediately made that the new group will be called "Bag-on-the-cooler", although the sound of this line-up is not much reminiscent of the Vyatka period.

By that time, Max had written about two hundred new songs. In the first year of its existence, "Torba" rehearses a lot and records a demo tape at the studio in the Palace of Culture named after. Ilyich at Electrosila, but her stage debut is postponed - Max is waiting for the arrival of Pyatkin, who is graduating from Kirov art school. In the summer of 1998, Alexei moved to St. Petersburg, entered the sculptor and, finally, reunited with the Bag. Thus, the first St. Petersburg composition of "Bag" is assembled.

1998 - debut concert

In October 1998, the debut public concert of "Sacks" took place on the stage of the St. Petersburg club "Moloko". Then the group is celebrated at the Pure Music Festival, held in the lecture hall of the Zoo. This event was notable for the fact that on the cassette collection of the festival “Live at the Zoo” the first song “Sacks on the steep” was released. There, at the festival, the group met their future sound engineer Sergey Grigoriev, thanks to whom in December 1998 the first studio album of three songs was recorded at the Calypso studio. Thanks to the meeting with the director Concert Hall"Zoo" by Vyacheslav Kovalev, the group "Torba-on-Krucha" actually becomes the club's house band. In the same place, the group finds its director, who becomes Maxim Kolodiy, who, in addition to directorial duties, shouldered the promotion of the group on the Internet.

In the autumn of 2000, Denis Repin, a sound engineering student from the University of Cinema and TV, who previously studied at the same Kirov School of Arts as the leader of the group, met the group. In the winter of 2001, Denis, together with his fellow student cameraman Ivan Kotelnikov, filmed the group's first video for the song "Winter", recorded in January of the same year at the Dobrolet studio by Andrey Alyakrinsky from the Tequilajazzz group (the second song, "Exception", recorded in this same session, included in FUZZbox No. 12, the app of the music magazine Fuzz). While studying the basics of studio musical sound engineering at the St. Petersburg Recording Studio, Denis Repin is simultaneously gaining experience in concert work, practicing at the Polygon club.

2001 - opening of the year

After the experience of club concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg ("Concert Hall Leningradsky Zoopark", "Milk", "Polygon", "Hollywood Nites", "Planet-Internet", "City Club", "Faculty", "Ten", "Klim Voroshilov ”, “Manhattan”, “Art-Spirit”, “Bunker”, “Tabula Rasa”, “Art-Garbage”, “Vermel”, “Dzen”, and others) the group begins to conquer the stadium venues. Torba-on-Krucha takes part in St. Petersburg rock festivals Breakthrough-01 and Open Windows! ", and then at the festival Invasion -2001 (in Ramenskoye near Moscow). After the festival “Windows open! »The Manchester Files label is interested in the work of the group, at the suggestion of which, from August to September, Bag-on-the-Keeper records eleven songs on Dobrolet that made it up debut album"Nonpsychic". The album was officially presented to the public on December 14 at the Tochka club, and in 2002 the songs from the album were included in a series music collections produced by Russian companies.

At the same time, Denis Repin is filming the second video (for the song "What is not clear"), the presentation of which took place in March 2002 on the MTV-Russia channel. In May, the group plays at the Nashi in the City open-air festival, in June at the second Okna, and in August it performs at the Invasion-2002 festival. On September 14, the group headed the Rise rock festival, which was held as part of the marathon "Kirov - the cultural capital of the Volga region-2002" in the Alexander Garden of Kirov and organized by the Maria FM radio station. (At this festival, Denis Repin acted as an ideological inspirer and co-organizer, who invited the already St. Petersburg "Bag-on-Krucha" to Kirov, after which Denis remains in Kirov and associates his activities with the Kirov group Quiet Jah)

Communication with the musicians of "Tequilajazzz" results in the recording of the joint song "Numbers": it is composed by Max Ivanov and sings a duet with the leader of "Tequilajazzz" Evgeny Fedorov. “Numbers” and two more new songs (“Nostalgie” and “Bullshit”), recorded in Moscow by Sergey Bolshakov and Sergey Navetny (at that time “Spleen”), are included in the maxi-single “Numbers”, released under the New 2003 edition 10 thousand as a free supplement to the New Musical Express magazine.

In early August, Oleg Pozhidaev leaves the group, as a result of which Yanis Semyonov, a member of the friendly Jet group, is hastily invited to the group. In the period from August 6 to September 7, 2003, Andrey Alyakrinsky recorded the second album "Torba": a total of fourteen songs are recorded (including the English-language "Black & Red", which is not included in the album, and remains in reserve). The presentation of the album, called "Hour of Time", takes place in October at the Cafemax club, and in December a contract for its publication is signed with the Moscow company FG Nikitin.

In just three years of active concert activity, the Torba-on-Krucha group takes part in more than 40 festivals, gives 243 concerts in 23 cities of Russia (Pskov, Yekaterinburg, Saratov, Kursk, Volgograd, Kazan, Yaroslavl, Izhevsk, Orenburg, Noyabrsk , Tyumen, Smolensk, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Kirov, and others).

2004 - concerts in Europe

In February 2004, the first performances of Torba in Europe took place: the group played two concerts in the Finnish cities of Turku and Helsinki, which laid a solid foundation for future tours. And already in the summer of the same year, having received a grant from the Council of Ministers of the Nordic countries, as a talented rock band, "Torba-na-kruche" performs in Stockholm (Sweden).

2005 - 56th parallel

At the end of April, for the second time, a performance was held on the O2TV channel as part of the “kvartirnik” project. In the summer of 2007 "Torba" for the fourth time (and the third year in a row) comes to Latvia, this time to the "Osvalds" festival. In the summer, Max Ivanov and Artyom Bespalov present an acoustic program and perform with it in Germany, Latvia, Estonia, and on July 22 in Moscow, at the Olimpiada 80 club.

2008 - It doesn't happen

In 2009, the song "The Fugitive" sounds in the credits for Pavel Sanaev's film "On the Game" (on October 24, the group, together with the film's actors, took part in the filming of the video of the same name). The group also released two more videos for compositions with "Unrealizable" - the videos for the songs "Star" and "In the Port" were shot by Denis Repin in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

2010 - present - Triptych and beyond

In 2010, Torba-on-Krucha launches the TriptyX project, on which the musicians began working almost immediately after the release of Unrealizable. Triptych, as you know, is a work of art, consisting of three parts (paintings), united by a common idea - and as part of the project, the group decided to release three releases, which would eventually make up one new album. Two seasons were taken as reference points - spring and autumn: in the spring of 2010 it was planned to release the first part, in the fall - the second, and in the spring of 2011 - the third, final, telling the whole story.

On April 10, 2010, the group presented the first single - "Three", on September 21, 2010 - the single "Petit", and the release of the final part of the project was postponed to autumn 2011 and took place on November 18. The presentation of "TriptyH" took place on November 23, 2011 in the Moscow club "16 tons" and in St. Petersburg "Cosmonaut".

As part of the tour on the occasion of the release of the third part of the project, the album "X", the material for the live DVD of Torby-on-Krucha was also filmed. Filming took place on December 10, 2011 in Kirov in the recreation center "Cosmos". The DVD was released on December 30, 2012, the video became available to the entire Internet community in the author's distributions on the rutracker.org torrent tracker.

For each of the three records of "TriptyKha" a video clip was also shot - the group's videography was replenished with clips for the compositions "Monologue", "Heart" and "You are silent for days". All videos were directed by Denis Repin.

In 2012, "Torba-na-Krucha" continues active concert activity - in the summer the group performs solo concerts and at the "Invasion" and "Neighboring World" festivals, the Lithuanian festival "Žagarės vyšnių festivalis", and before going on summer vacation announces the dates of its new tour, called "Vostok-1", on the occasion of the first performance of the group in Vladivostok, the easternmost city of our country. According to the musicians themselves, this is their longest tour in terms of time and number of cities to date.

In a recent interview about the tour, Max Ivanov: “We all come from childhood. Including our musicians. Therefore, the first manned flight into space - the flight of Yuri Gagarin on the ship of the same name - is for us the most important milestone in childhood experiences. And a reason to be proud of the country. Over the years, all this does not go anywhere, on the contrary, the heart shrinks even more from longing for the past impressions. That's why the 'space' theme is now vividly reflected in the themes of not only our songs, but also just in our thoughts."

The “result” of these autumn tours was also a new video of the band - for the song “Once More Night” from the album “X”, the third part of the TriptyX project. The author of the work was director Vladimir Saraev, who met the musicians during their visit to Novosibirsk. The premiere of the video clip took place on November 24, 2012 at a concert in the St. Petersburg club "Waiting Room", where Torba-on-Krucha celebrated its 14th anniversary, and for the general public, the work was published on the official channel of the group on the website on the first day of winter, December 1 .

At the very beginning of 2013, the group goes to Kazakhstan. On January 13, in Almaty at the Shymbulak ski resort, an open-air concert was held - at an altitude of 2500 m above sea level. During the performance, a video was also shot for the song "On the Bridge (Piles)", which was included in the album "It Doesn't Happen".

In the spring of 2013, as a continuation of the Vostok-1 tour, the group visited Ukraine for the first time with solo concerts. In April, concerts took place in Odessa, Kyiv, Kharkov, as well as several performances in Donetsk (as in in full force, and separately with an acoustic concert by Max Ivanov).

Group members

Current line-up

• Max Ivanov - vocals, guitar, viola
• Artyom Bespalov - keyboards, flutes, programming
• Alexey Pyatkin - guitar, bass guitar
• Maxim Malitsky - guitar
• Igor Belenko - drums

Musicians who participated in the group

• Grigory Maliev - bass guitar (1998-1999)
• Dmitry Andreev - bass guitar (winter 1999 - autumn 1999)
• Oleg Pozhidaev - drums (1998-2003)
• Sergey Grigoriev - bass guitar (1999-2007)
• Janis Semyonov - drums (2004-2012)

Discography

• - "From the Rain" (single, Manchester Files, division of Bomba-Piter inc., 2001)
• - "Non-Psycho" (album, Manchester Files, division of Bomba-Piter inc., December 2001)
• - "Numbers" (single, Manchester Files, November 2002)
• - "An hour of time" (album, FG "Nikitin", licensed by Bomba-Piter inc., April 2004)
• - "57°00"" (minion, April 2007)
• - "It doesn't happen like that" (album, 2+2=5, September 2008)
• - "Unrealizable" (album, Torba-on-Krucha, September 2009)
• - "Three" (single, the first part of the project "Triptych", April 2010)
• - Petit (single, second part of the Triptych project, September 2010)
• - "X" (album, the third part of the "Triptych" project, November 2011)
• - "Parts of the World" (album, Torba-on-Krucha, November 2014)

Videography

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Notes

1. Burlaka A . Bag-on-the-Krucha. - Rock Encyclopedia. Popular music in Leningrad-Petersburg. 1965-2005. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2007. - T. III. - S. 421-?. - 520 s. - 5000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-367-00361-1.
2. Kubyshkina T.(Russian). Sounds.Ru (December 15, 2001). Retrieved November 22, 2011. .
3. Borisova E.(Russian). Sounds.Ru (August 10, 2004). Retrieved May 6, 2011. .
4. Sheveleva A.(Russian). Sounds.Ru (September 9, 2002). Retrieved November 22, 2011. .
5. Metelkova Yu.(Russian). Sounds.Ru (November 8, 2002). Retrieved November 22, 2011. .
6. (Russian). Sounds.Ru (March 21, 2003). Retrieved November 22, 2011. .
7. (Russian). Sounds.Ru (April 16, 2003). Retrieved November 22, 2011. .
8. Gluck E.(Russian). Sounds.Ru (April 29, 2003). Retrieved November 22, 2011. .
9. (Russian) on the official website of "Torba-na-Krucha"
10. Ustyuzhanina P.(Russian). Sounds.Ru (June 8, 2004). Retrieved November 22, 2011. .
11. Lipatov A.(Russian). Sounds.Ru (September 19, 2006). Retrieved November 22, 2011. .
12. (Russian) site about the band's tribute to Nautilus Pompilius.
13. Korenkova A.(Russian). culture. Arguments and Facts Petersburg (September 28, 2009). Retrieved May 10, 2011. .
14. Lapina Yu.(Russian). (October 30, 2009). Retrieved May 10, 2011. .
15. Torba-on-Krucha: presentation of the long-awaited album "Unrealizable". www.dom43.ru/article_view?a_id=16052
16. (Russian). News. (November 3, 2009). Retrieved May 10, 2011. .
17. (Russian) on the official website of the film "On the Game".
18. Yushchenko E.(Russian). Ah, Art.... Echo of Moscow (February 4, 2011). Retrieved May 10, 2011. .
19. Roshina A.(Russian). (November 23, 2011). Retrieved December 27, 2011. .
20. Filmed on April 6, 2008 at the Orange club, Moe Kino studio, cameramen: Sabelfeld E., Demidov V., Grigoriev A.

Literature

• A. S. Alekseev. Who's Who in Russian Rock Music. - M. : AST: Astrel: Harvest, 2009. - S. 484. - ISBN 978-5-17-048654-0 (AST). - ISBN 978-5-271-24160-4 (Astrel). - ISBN 978-985-16-7343-4 (Harvest).

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- Vous savez, que je ne suis pas bonapartiste, mon prince. [You know, Prince, that I am not a Bonapartist.]
- “Dieu sait quand revendra” ... [God knows when he will return!] - the prince sang out of tune, laughed even more out of tune and left the table.
The little princess was silent during the whole argument and the rest of the dinner and looked in fright now at Princess Marya, then at her father-in-law. When they left the table, she took her sister-in-law by the hand and called her to another room.
- Comme c "est un homme d" esprit votre pere, she said, - c "est a cause de cela peut etre qu" il me fait peur. [Which clever man your father. Maybe that's why I'm afraid of him.]
- Oh, he's so kind! - said the princess.

Prince Andrei left the next day in the evening. The old prince, without deviating from his order, went to his room after dinner. The little princess was with her sister-in-law. Prince Andrei, dressed in a traveling frock coat without an epaulet, was packing with his valet in the chambers allotted to him. Having inspected the carriage and the packing of the suitcases himself, he ordered to lay it down. Only those things remained in the room that Prince Andrei always took with him: a casket, a large silver cellar, two Turkish pistols and a saber, a gift from his father, brought from near Ochakov. All these travel accessories were in great order with Prince Andrei: everything was new, clean, in cloth cases, carefully tied with ribbons.
In moments of departure and a change in life, people who are able to think about their actions usually find a serious mood of thoughts. In these moments, the past is usually verified and plans for the future are made. The face of Prince Andrei was very thoughtful and tender. With his hands folded back, he paced the room quickly from corner to corner, looking ahead of him, and shaking his head thoughtfully. Was he afraid to go to war, was he sad to leave his wife—perhaps both, but apparently not wanting to be seen in such a position, when he heard footsteps in the passage, he hurriedly freed his hands, stopped at the table, as if he was tying the cover of the box, and assumed his usual, calm and impenetrable expression. These were the heavy steps of Princess Marya.
“They told me that you ordered the mortgage,” she said, out of breath (she must have been running), “but I so wanted to talk to you alone again. God knows how long we'll be apart again. Are you angry that I came? You have changed a lot, Andryusha, - she added, as if in explanation of such a question.
She smiled, pronouncing the word "Andryusha". Apparently, it was strange for her to think that this strict, handsome man was the same Andryusha, a thin, playful boy, a childhood friend.
- Where is Lise? he asked, only answering her question with a smile.
She was so tired that she fell asleep on the couch in my room. Ah, Andre! Que! tresor de femme vous avez,” she said, sitting down on the sofa opposite her brother. - She is a perfect child, so cute, cheerful child. I loved her so much.
Prince Andrei was silent, but the princess noticed an ironic and contemptuous expression that appeared on his face.
– But one must be indulgent to small weaknesses; who does not have them, Andre! Don't forget that she was brought up and raised in the world. And then her situation is no longer rosy. It is necessary to enter into the position of everyone. Tout comprendre, c "est tout pardonner. [Whoever understands everything will forgive everything.] You think about it, poor thing, after the life to which she is accustomed, to part with her husband and remain alone in the village and in her position? This very hard.
Prince Andrei smiled, looking at his sister, as we smile, listening to people whom we think we can see through.
“You live in the countryside and don't find this life terrible,” he said.
- I'm different. What to say about me! I don't want another life, and I can't, because I don't know any other life. And you think, Andre, for a young and secular woman to be buried in best years life in the village, alone, because papa is always busy, and I ... you know me ... how poor I am in ressources, [interests.] for a woman accustomed to the best society. M lle Bourienne is one…
“I don’t like her very much, your Bourienne,” said Prince Andrei.
- Oh no! She is very sweet and kind, and most importantly, a pathetic girl. She has no one, no one. To tell the truth, I not only do not need it, but it is shy. I, you know, have always been a savage, and now even more so. I love being alone… Mon pere [Father] loves her very much. She and Mikhail Ivanovich are two persons to whom he is always affectionate and kind, because they are both favored by him; as Stern says, "We love people not so much for the good they have done us as for the good we have done them." Mon pere took her as an orphan sur le pave, [on the pavement,] and she is very kind. And mon pere loves her manner of reading. She reads aloud to him in the evenings. She reads great.
“Well, to be honest, Marie, I think it’s hard for you sometimes because of your father’s character?” Prince Andrew suddenly asked.
Princess Marya was at first surprised, then frightened by this question.
- ME?... Me?!... Is it hard for me?! - she said.
- He was always cool; but now it’s getting hard, I think, ”said Prince Andrei, apparently on purpose, in order to puzzle or test his sister, speaking so lightly about his father.
“You are good to everyone, Andre, but you have some kind of pride in thought,” said the princess, following her train of thought more than the course of conversation, “and this is a great sin. Is it possible to judge the father? Yes, if it were possible, what other feeling than veneration, [deep respect,] can arouse such a person as mon pere? And I'm so satisfied and happy with it. I only wish you all were as happy as I am.
The brother shook his head in disbelief.
- One thing that is hard for me - I'll tell you the truth, Andre - is my father's way of thinking in religious terms. I do not understand how a person with such a huge mind cannot see what is clear as day, and can be so deluded? This is one of my misfortunes. But even here, lately, I see a shadow of improvement. Lately his taunts are not so caustic, and there is one monk whom he received and spoke to him for a long time.
“Well, my friend, I’m afraid that you and the monk are wasting your gunpowder,” Prince Andrei said mockingly, but affectionately.
- Ah! mon ami. [BUT! My friend.] I just pray to God and hope that He hears me. Andre,” she said timidly after a moment of silence, “I have a big request for you.
- What, my friend?
No, promise me you won't refuse. It will not cost you any work, and there will be nothing unworthy of you in it. Only you can comfort me. Promise, Andryusha, - she said, putting her hand into the purse and holding something in it, but not yet showing, as if what she was holding was the subject of the request and as if before receiving the promise in fulfillment of the request she could not remove it from the purse It is something.
She looked timidly, imploringly at her brother.
“If it would cost me a lot of work ...” Prince Andrei answered, as if guessing what was the matter.
- Whatever you want, think! I know you are the same as mon pere. Think whatever you want, but do it for me. Do it please! My father's father, our grandfather, wore it in all wars ... - She still did not get what she was holding from her purse. "So you promise me?"
"Of course, what's the matter?"
- Andre, I will bless you with the image, and you promise me that you will never take it off. Promise?
“If he doesn’t drag his neck down to two pounds ... To please you ...” said Prince Andrei, but at the same second, noticing the distressed expression that his sister’s face assumed at this joke, he repented. “Very glad, really very glad, my friend,” he added.
“Against your will, He will save and have mercy on you and turn you to Himself, because in Him alone is truth and peace,” she said in a voice trembling with excitement, with a solemn gesture holding in both hands in front of her brother an oval ancient icon of the Savior with a black face in silver chasuble on a silver chain of fine workmanship.
She crossed herself, kissed the icon and handed it to Andrey.
– Please, Andre, for me…
From big eyes beams of kind and timid light shone from her. These eyes illuminated the whole sickly, thin face and made it beautiful. The brother wanted to take the scapular, but she stopped him. Andrei understood, crossed himself and kissed the icon. His face was at the same time gentle (he was touched) and mocking.
- Merci, mon ami. [Thank you my friend.]
She kissed him on the forehead and sat back down on the sofa. They were silent.
- So I told you, Andre, be kind and generous, as you have always been. Don't judge Lise harshly, she began. - She is so sweet, so kind, and her position is very difficult now.
- It seems that I didn’t tell you anything, Masha, so that I reproach my wife for anything or be dissatisfied with her. Why are you telling me all this?
Princess Mary blushed in spots and became silent, as if she felt guilty.
“I didn’t say anything to you, but you were already told. And it makes me sad.
Red spots appeared even more strongly on the forehead, neck and cheeks of Princess Marya. She wanted to say something and could not utter it. The brother guessed right: the little princess cried after dinner, said that she foresaw an unfortunate birth, was afraid of them, and complained about her fate, her father-in-law and her husband. After crying, she fell asleep. Prince Andrei felt sorry for his sister.
- Know one thing, Masha, I cannot reproach, have not reproached and will never reproach my wife, and I myself cannot reproach myself with anything in relation to her; and it will always be so, in whatever circumstances I may be. But if you want to know the truth... you want to know if I'm happy? No. Is she happy? No. Why is this? Don't know…
Saying this, he stood up, went over to his sister, and, bending down, kissed her on the forehead. His beautiful eyes shone with an intelligent and kind, unaccustomed brilliance, but he looked not at his sister, but into the darkness of the open door, through her head.
- Let's go to her, we must say goodbye. Or go alone, wake her up, and I'll come right now. Parsley! he shouted to the valet, “come here, clean it up.” It's in the seat, it's on the right side.
Princess Marya got up and went to the door. She stopped.
Andre, si vous avez. la foi, vous vous seriez adresse a Dieu, pour qu "il vous donne l" amour, que vous ne sentez pas et votre priere aurait ete exaucee. [If you had faith, you would turn to God with a prayer, so that He would give you love that you do not feel, and your prayer would be heard.]
- Yes, is it! - said Prince Andrew. - Go, Masha, I'll come right away.
On the way to his sister's room, in the gallery that connected one house with another, Prince Andrei met a sweetly smiling m lle Bourienne, who for the third time that day came across him with an enthusiastic and naive smile in solitary passages.
- Ah! je vous croyais chez vous, [Ah, I thought you were in your room,] she said, blushing for some reason and lowering her eyes.
Prince Andrei looked sternly at her. Anger suddenly appeared on the face of Prince Andrei. He said nothing to her, but looked at her forehead and hair, without looking into her eyes, so contemptuously that the Frenchwoman blushed and left without saying anything.
When he approached his sister's room, the princess was already awake, and her cheerful voice, hurrying one word after another, was heard from the open door. She spoke as if, after a long period of abstinence, she wanted to make up for lost time.
- Non, mais figurez vous, la vieille comtesse Zouboff avec de fausses boucles et la bouche pleine de fausses dents, comme si elle voulait defier les annees ... [No, imagine, old Countess Zubova, with fake curls, with fake teeth, like as if mocking the years…] Xa, xa, xa, Marieie!
Exactly the same phrase about Countess Zubova and the same laugh had already been heard five times in front of strangers by Prince Andrei from his wife.
He quietly entered the room. The princess, plump, ruddy, with work in her hands, sat on an armchair and talked incessantly, sorting through Petersburg memories and even phrases. Prince Andrei came up, stroked her head and asked if she had rested from the journey. She answered and continued the same conversation.
The stroller stood in six at the entrance. It was a dark autumn night outside. The coachman did not see the drawbar of the carriage. People with lanterns bustled about on the porch. The huge house burned with lights through its large windows. In the hall crowded the courtyards, who wanted to say goodbye to the young prince; all the household were standing in the hall: Mikhail Ivanovich, m lle Bourienne, Princess Mary and the princess.
Prince Andrei was called to his father's office, who wanted to say goodbye to him face to face. Everyone was waiting for them to come out.
When Prince Andrei entered the office, the old prince, wearing old man's glasses and in his white coat, in which he received no one except his son, was sitting at the table and writing. He looked back.
– Are you going? And he began to write again.
- I came to say goodbye.
- Kiss here, - he showed his cheek, - thank you, thank you!
- What do you thank me for?
- Because you don’t overstay, you don’t hold on to a woman’s skirt. Service first. Thank you, thank you! And he continued to write, so that the spray flew from the crackling pen. - If you need to say something, say it. These two things I can do together,” he added.
“About my wife… I’m so ashamed that I’m leaving her in your arms…”
- What are you lying? Say what you need.
- When your wife has time to give birth, send to Moscow for an obstetrician ... So that he is here.
The old prince stopped and, as if not understanding, stared with stern eyes at his son.
“I know that no one can help if nature does not help,” said Prince Andrei, apparently embarrassed. “I agree that out of a million cases, one is unfortunate, but this is her fantasy and mine. They told her, she saw it in a dream, and she is afraid.
“Hm ... hm ...” the old prince said to himself, continuing to finish writing. - I will.
He crossed out the signature, suddenly turned quickly to his son and laughed.
- It's bad, isn't it?
- What's wrong, father?
- Wife! said the old prince shortly and significantly.
“I don’t understand,” said Prince Andrei.
“Yes, there’s nothing to do, my friend,” the prince said, “they are all like that, you won’t get married.” Do not be afraid; I won't tell anyone; and you yourself know.
He grabbed his hand with his bony little hand, shook it, looked straight into his son's face with his quick eyes, which seemed to see right through the man, and again laughed his cold laugh.
The son sighed, confessing with this sigh that his father understood him. The old man, continuing to fold and print letters, with his usual speed, grabbed and threw sealing wax, seal and paper.
- What to do? Beautiful! I'll do everything. You be calm,” he said curtly while typing.
Andrey was silent: it was both pleasant and unpleasant for him that his father understood him. The old man got up and handed the letter to his son.
“Listen,” he said, “do not worry about your wife: what can be done will be done.” Now listen: give the letter to Mikhail Ilarionovich. I am writing to get you good places I used it and did not hold it for a long time as an adjutant: a bad position! Tell him that I remember him and love him. Yes, write how he will accept you. If it's good, serve. Nikolai Andreich Bolkonsky's son, out of mercy, will not serve anyone. Well, now come here.
He spoke in such a rapid way that he did not finish half of the words, but the son was used to understanding him. He led his son to the bureau, threw back the lid, pulled out a drawer, and took out a notebook covered in his large, long, concise handwriting.
“I must die before you.” Know that here are my notes, to transfer them to the sovereign after my death. Now here - here is a pawn ticket and a letter: this is a prize to the one who writes the history of the Suvorov wars. Submit to the academy. Here are my remarks, after me read for yourself, you will find something useful.
Andrei did not tell his father that he would probably live for a long time. He knew he didn't need to say that.
“I will do everything, father,” he said.
- Well, now goodbye! He let his son kiss his hand and hugged him. “Remember one thing, Prince Andrei: if they kill you, it will hurt the old man ...” He suddenly fell silent and suddenly continued in a loud voice: “and if I find out that you did not behave like the son of Nikolai Bolkonsky, I will be ... ashamed! he screeched.
“You could not tell me that, father,” said the son, smiling.
The old man was silent.
“I also wanted to ask you,” continued Prince Andrei, “if they kill me and if I have a son, do not let him go away from you, as I told you yesterday, so that he grows up with you ... please.
- Don't give it to your wife? the old man said and laughed.
They stood silently facing each other. The old man's quick eyes were fixed directly on his son's eyes. Something quivered in the lower part of the old prince's face.
- Goodbye ... go! he suddenly said. - Get up! he shouted in an angry and loud voice, opening the office door.
– What is, what? - asked the princess and princess, seeing Prince Andrei and for a moment the figure of an old man in a white coat, without a wig and in old man's glasses, leaning out screaming in an angry voice.
Prince Andrei sighed and did not answer.
“Well,” he said, turning to his wife.
And this “well” sounded like a cold mockery, as if he was saying: “now you do your tricks.”
Andre, deja! [Andrey, already!] - said the little princess, turning pale and looking at her husband with fear.
He hugged her. She screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder.
He gently drew back the shoulder on which she was lying, looked into her face, and carefully seated her in a chair.
- Adieu, Marieie, [Farewell, Masha,] - he said quietly to his sister, kissed her hand in hand and quickly left the room.
The princess was lying in an armchair, m lle Bourienne was rubbing her temples. Princess Mary, supporting her daughter-in-law, with tearful beautiful eyes, was still looking at the door through which Prince Andrei went out, and baptized him. From the study were heard, like shots, the often repeated angry sounds of the old man blowing his nose. As soon as Prince Andrei left, the door of the office quickly opened and a stern figure of an old man in a white coat looked out.
- Left? Well, good! he said, looking angrily at the insensible little princess, shook his head reproachfully and slammed the door.

In October 1805, Russian troops occupied the villages and cities of the Archduchy of Austria, and more new regiments came from Russia and, weighing down the inhabitants with billeting, were located near the Braunau fortress. In Braunau was the main apartment of the commander-in-chief Kutuzov.
On October 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just arrived at Braunau, waiting for the review of the commander-in-chief, stood half a mile from the city. Despite the non-Russian terrain and situation (orchards, stone fences, tiled roofs, mountains visible in the distance), the non-Russian people, who looked at the soldiers with curiosity, the regiment had exactly the same appearance as any Russian regiment preparing for a show somewhere in the middle of Russia.
In the evening, on the last march, an order was received that the commander-in-chief would watch the regiment on the march. Although the words of the order seemed unclear to the regimental commander, and the question arose of how to understand the words of the order: in marching uniform or not? in the council of battalion commanders, it was decided to present the regiment in full dress on the grounds that it is always better to exchange bows than not to bow. And the soldiers, after a thirty-verst march, did not close their eyes, they repaired and cleaned themselves all night; adjutants and company officers counted, expelled; and by morning the regiment, instead of the sprawling disorderly crowd that it had been the day before on the last march, represented a slender mass of 2,000 people, each of whom knew his place, his business, and of whom each button and strap was in its place and shone with cleanliness. . Not only the outside was in good order, but if the commander-in-chief had been pleased to look under the uniforms, then on each he would have seen an equally clean shirt and in each knapsack he would have found a legal number of things, “an awl and a soap,” as the soldiers say. There was only one circumstance about which no one could be calm. It was shoes. More than half of the people had their boots broken. But this shortcoming did not come from the fault of the regimental commander, since, despite repeated demands, the goods from the Austrian department were not released to him, and the regiment traveled a thousand miles.
The regimental commander was an elderly, sanguine general with graying eyebrows and sideburns, thick and broad more from chest to back than from one shoulder to the other. He was wearing a new, brand-new, creased uniform and thick golden epaulettes, which seemed to raise his stout shoulders rather than downwards. The regimental commander looked like a man happily doing one of the most solemn deeds of life. He paced in front of the front and, as he walked, trembled at every step, slightly arching his back. It was evident that the regimental commander was admiring his regiment, happy with them, that all his mental strength was occupied only by the regiment; but, in spite of this, his trembling gait seemed to say that, in addition to military interests, the interests of social life and the female gender also occupy a considerable place in his soul.
“Well, father Mikhailo Mitrich,” he turned to one battalion commander (the battalion commander leaned forward smiling; it was clear that they were happy), “I got nuts this night. However, it seems, nothing, the regiment is not bad ... Eh?
The battalion commander understood the humorous irony and laughed.
- And in the Tsaritsyn Meadow they would not have driven out of the field.
- What? the commander said.
At this time, on the road from the city, along which the machinations were placed, two horsemen appeared. They were the adjutant and a Cossack riding behind.
The adjutant was sent from the main headquarters to confirm to the regimental commander what was not clear in yesterday's order, namely, that the commander-in-chief wanted to see the regiment in exactly the position in which he walked - in overcoats, in covers and without any preparations.
A member of the Hofkriegsrat from Vienna arrived at Kutuzov the day before, with proposals and demands to join the army of Archduke Ferdinand and Mack as soon as possible, and Kutuzov, not considering this connection advantageous, among other evidence in favor of his opinion, intended to show the Austrian general that sad situation in which troops came from Russia. For this purpose, he wanted to go out to meet the regiment, so that the worse the position of the regiment, the more pleasant it would be for the commander in chief. Although the adjutant did not know these details, however, he conveyed to the regimental commander the indispensable demand of the commander-in-chief that people be in overcoats and covers, and that otherwise the commander-in-chief would be dissatisfied. After hearing these words, the regimental commander lowered his head, silently shrugged his shoulders and spread his arms with a sanguine gesture.
- Done business! he said. - So I told you, Mikhailo Mitrich, that on a campaign, so in overcoats, - he turned with a reproach to the battalion commander. – Oh, my God! he added, and stepped forward resolutely. - Gentlemen, company commanders! he called out in a voice familiar to command. - Feldwebels! ... Will they come soon? he turned to the visiting adjutant with an expression of respectful courtesy, apparently referring to the person he was talking about.
- In an hour, I think.
- Shall we change clothes?
"I don't know, General...
The regimental commander himself went up to the ranks and ordered them to change into their greatcoats again. The company commanders fled to their companies, the sergeants began to fuss (the overcoats were not entirely in order) and at the same instant swayed, stretched out and the previously regular, silent quadrangles hummed with a voice. Soldiers ran and ran up from all sides, tossed them back with their shoulders, dragged knapsacks over their heads, took off their overcoats and, raising their hands high, pulled them into their sleeves.
Half an hour later everything returned to its former order, only the quadrangles turned gray from black. The regimental commander, again with a trembling gait, stepped forward of the regiment and looked at it from afar.
- What else is that? What's this! he shouted, stopping. - Commander of the 3rd company! ..
- Commander of the 3rd company to the general! the commander to the general, the 3rd company to the commander! ... - voices were heard from the ranks, and the adjutant ran to look for the hesitant officer.
When the sounds of zealous voices, distorting, shouting already “the general in the 3rd company”, reached their destination, the required officer appeared from behind the company and, although the man was already elderly and not in the habit of running, awkwardly clinging to his socks, trotted towards the general. The captain's face expressed the anxiety of a schoolboy who is told to say a lesson he has not learned. There were spots on the red (obviously from intemperance) nose, and the mouth did not find position. The regimental commander examined the captain from head to toe as he approached breathlessly, holding his step as he approached.
- You will soon dress people in sundresses! What's this? - shouted the regimental commander, pushing his lower jaw and pointing in the ranks of the 3rd company at a soldier in an overcoat of the color of factory cloth, which differed from other overcoats. - Where were you yourself? The commander-in-chief is expected, and you move away from your place? Eh?... I’ll teach you how to dress people in Cossacks for a review!... Eh?...
The company commander, without taking his eyes off his commander, pressed his two fingers more and more to his visor, as if in this pressing alone he now saw his salvation.
- Well, why are you silent? Who do you have there in the Hungarian dressed up? - strictly joked the regimental commander.
- Your Excellency…
- Well, "your excellency"? Your Excellency! Your Excellency! And what your Excellency - no one knows.
- Your Excellency, this is Dolokhov, demoted ... - the captain said quietly.
- That he was a field marshal, or something, demoted or a soldier? And a soldier should be dressed like everyone else, in uniform.
“Your Excellency, you yourself allowed him to march.
- Allowed? Allowed? That's how you always are, young people,” said the regimental commander, cooling down somewhat. - Allowed? You say something, and you and ... - The regimental commander paused. - You say something, and you and ... - What? he said, getting irritated again. - Please dress people decently ...
And the regimental commander, looking back at the adjutant, with his shuddering gait, went to the regiment. It was evident that he himself liked his irritation, and that, having walked up and down the regiment, he wanted to find another pretext for his anger. Having cut off one officer for an uncleaned badge, another for an irregular row, he approached the 3rd company.
- How are you standing? Where is the leg? Where is the leg? - shouted the regimental commander with an expression of suffering in his voice, another five people did not reach Dolokhov, dressed in a bluish overcoat.
Dolokhov slowly straightened his bent leg and straight, with his bright and insolent look, looked into the general's face.
Why the blue overcoat? Down with… Feldwebel! Change his clothes ... rubbish ... - He did not have time to finish.

The history of the group begins in 1998 in St. Petersburg, where by that time the leader of the group, vocalist Max Ivanov, Artem Bespalov (flute, keys) studied at the Conservatory. Common interests led the young people to the fact that already in the autumn of the same year the debut on the St. Petersburg stage of the TORBA-on-KRUCHE group, which included professional musicians, took place. The first concert of TORBA was held in the club "Moloko" very successfully, after which an active concert activity and the first positive reviews in the press followed.

In the summer of 2001, TORBA-on-KRUCHE signed a contract with the Bomba-Piter company (Manchester Files publishing house) and recorded the debut album Nepsikh, the sound engineer and sound producer of which was Andrey Alyakrinsky (TEQUILAJAZZZ), known for working with such popular bands, as CHAIF, MARKSHEIDER KUNST, LENINGRAD and others. The song "From the Rain" immediately entrenched in the "Chart Dozen" on "OUR Radio". After that, another song from the same album "INTERNET" also got into the rotation of many radio stations in the country. A clip was filmed for it by Moscow director Kirill Kuzin, who rotates on the MTV-Russia channel. The respected music portal "Nepopsa" calls the group "Torba-on-Krucha" the discovery of 2001.

The natural melodic gift and stage charm of the leader of the group Max Ivanov are strongly supported by the high professional level of the other members of TORBA-on-KRUCHE.

By its 5th anniversary (2003), "Torba-on-Krucha" came up with a lot of luggage. Over the past three years of active concert activity, "Torba" gave 243 concerts in 23 cities of Russia, among which, in addition to Moscow and St. , Tyumen, Smolensk, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi and the hometown of vocalist Max Ivanov Kirov. At all these concerts, Max Ivanov broke 120 sets of strings for acoustic guitar, and the drummer broke 70 pairs of drumsticks. Over the years, the group has published 29 songs (much more were recorded), of which there are two duets (with Evgeny Fedorov the song "Numbers" and with the ex-producer of "Tatu" Lena Kiper "Draw"). The group also participated in two tributes - to the groups "Civil Defense" (song "Bullet-Fool") and "Picnic" (song "Hieroglyph"). There are three video clips in rotation on the channels ("Internet", "Winter", "What is not clear"). "Torba" took part in more than 40 festivals. There are 5 officially registered fan clubs all over the country: "Nepsych", "Exception", "Exception to the Rules", "Ukrainian Fan Club" and "Eternal Children".

In February 2004, the first performances of the group in Europe took place. These were two concerts in the major Finnish cities of Turku and Helsinki, which laid a solid foundation for future tours. And already in the summer of the same year, having received the grant of the Council of Ministers of the Nordic Countries, as a talented rock band, Torba-na-Krucha played a concert in Stockholm (Sweden). Today, Torba has already planned trips to Iceland and Norway.

On April 5, 2004, the company "Nikitin Records" released the second album of the group "Hour of Time". The new disc "Bag-on-Krucha" includes both old songs ("Flashlight", "Winter", "Talk To Me", "Hello, come in"), and completely new ones ("Cannibalist", "I Love, Goodbye ", "Whose is He").

In August of this year, the new composition "Sacks-on-the-Krucha" PERSONAL LIFE immediately hit the hit parade of Our radio "Chart's Dozen". It is this song that the group plans to include in the re-release of their second disc this autumn. In parallel with this, the Kompozitor Publishing House released sheet music for 11 songs of the Torba-on-Krucha group in the series "The Best of Russian Rock".

Russian musical group, exists since 1998.

The phenomenon in our music is unique. According to music critics, the main highlight of the group is the unique, strong, surprisingly high vocals of the group leader and the general musical style chosen by "Bag". The songs of the group are distinguished by a special guitar melody, sincerity, nerve, and their music unites people. different ages and worldview. Over the 10 years of its biography, the group has gone a glorious path of conquering metropolitan clubs, radio stations and rock festivals in Russia and abroad.

The history of the group, two members of which come from Vyatka, begins in 1998 in the city of St. Petersburg, where in the fall, on the stage of the Moloko club, the debut concert of the Torba-on-Krucha group took place, which included five professional musicians. The first performance turned out to be very successful, after which an active concert activity followed, and the first positive reviews in the press and from music critics were not long in coming.

Having gone through the harsh school of club concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, "Torba-on-Krucha" begins to conquer stadium venues. From the St. Petersburg rock festivals "Breakthrough-01" and "Windows Open!" to "Invasion-2001, 2002, 2004" and many others.

In the summer of 2001, Torba-on-Krucha signed a contract with the Bomba-Piter company (Manchester Files publishing house) and recorded their debut album, Not Psycho, whose sound engineer and sound producer was Andrey Alyakrinsky (), known for working with such popular groups such as "Chayf", "Leningrad" and others. The song "From the Rain" immediately gained a foothold in the "Chart Dozen" on "OUR Radio". After that, the song "Internet" from the same album gets into the rotation of many radio stations in the country.

In the same year, "Torba-on-Krucha" begins touring the cities of Russia, and the media call the group "Discovery of 2001".

In the fall of 2002, the group released the single "Numbers", which was released in 10,000 copies as a free supplement to the NME magazine.

In February 2004, the first performances of the group in Europe took place. These were two concerts in the major Finnish cities of Turku and Helsinki, which laid a solid foundation for future tours. And already in the summer of the same year, having received a grant from the Council of Ministers of the Nordic Countries, "Torba-on-Kruce" played a concert in Stockholm (Sweden).

In August 2004, the new composition "Torby-on-Krucha" "Personal Life" immediately hit the charts of "OUR Radio" "Chart's Dozen". This song was included in the re-release of their second album. At the same time, the publishing house "" published Notes of 11 songs of the group in the series "The Best of Russian Rock".

In March 2005, the group had a big concert tour "56th Parallel of the Earth", and, of course, without changing traditions, this summer "Torba" was noted for its performances at music festivals in Russia and Europe, including Megahouse-2005, Wings, RADIO-1 (Latvia), Rock Festival (Finland) and others.

In November 2005, keyboardist and flutist Artem Bespalov left the group, but returned to the group again in June 2006.

In 2006, the group continues to record their third album in a Moscow studio, and leader Max Ivanov gives solo concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, performs on television and at the NME-party-2006.

In April 2007, a minion was presented with new songs called "57th Parallel". After changing the plans, the songs for the third album were postponed, and on September 19, 2008, an album with "spring" songs "It Doesn't Happen" was released and presented at a concert in Moscow.

"Torba-on-Krucha" also takes part in duets and musical experiments. So three duets were recorded: with Evgeny Fedorov, the song "Numbers"; with ex-producer "" Elena Kiper, "Draw"; with Mikhail Boyarsky, the song "Island of Childhood" (for the New Year's broadcast of the program "First Night with O. Menshikov on NTV") and cover versions for three tributes: to the groups "Civil Defense" (song "Philosophical song about the bullet"), "Picnic "(song "Hieroglyph"), "" (songs "Just to be", "Golden Spot").

In 2009, the song "Fugitive (Gamers`mix)" sounds in the credits for the film "On the Game".
The clips of the group can be seen in the rotation of the A-one TV channel, cooperation with radio stations continues, including Mayak, Nashe Radio, Maximum and their regional branches.
In 2010, Torba-on-Krucha launches the TriptyX project, on which the musicians began working almost immediately after the release of Unrealizable. A triptych, as you know, is a work of art, consisting of three parts (pictures), united by a common idea - and within the framework of the project, the group decided to release three releases, which would eventually form one new album. Two seasons were taken as reference points - spring and autumn: in the spring of 2010 it was planned to release the first part, in the fall - the second, and in the spring of 2011 - the third, final, telling the whole story.
On April 10, 2010, the group presented the first single - "Three", on September 21, 2010 - the single "Petit", and the release of the final part of the project was postponed to autumn 2011 and took place on November 18. The presentation of "TriptyH" took place on November 23, 2011 in the Moscow club "16 tons" and on November 20 in the St. Petersburg "Cosmonaut".
As part of the tour on the occasion of the release of the third part of the project, the album "X", the material for the concert DVD of Torby-on-Krucha was also filmed, the release of which was planned in the near future - the shooting took place on December 10, 2011 in Kirov in the recreation center "Cosmos".
For each of the three records of "TriptyKha" a video clip was also shot - the group's videography was replenished with clips for the compositions "Monologue", "Heart" and "You are silent for days". All videos were directed by Denis Repin.
In 2012, "Torba-na-Kruce" continues active concert activity - in the summer the group performs solo concerts and at the "Invasion" and "Neighboring World" festivals, the Lithuanian festival "Žagarės vyšnių festivalis", and before going on summer vacation announces the dates of its autumn tour, called "Vostok-1", on the occasion of the first performance of the group in Vladivostok, the easternmost city of our country. According to the musicians themselves, this is the longest tour in terms of time and number of cities to date.

"Sack-on-the-Krucha"- Russian rock band, exists since 1998. The permanent leader is Max Ivanov. The group has repeatedly taken part in the festivals Open Windows!, Invasion, Neighboring World, Wings and others.

Story

The founder and author of almost the entire repertoire of the group, guitarist, singer and violist Maxim Ivanov was born on April 5, 1974 in Kirov, in a theatrical family. After graduating from music school, he enters the school in the viola class. At the turn of the 90s, Maxim discovers rock and roll, and later Celtic mythology and J. R. R. Tolkien's cult trilogy about Middle-earth. It was under the influence of Tolkien that Ivanov named his group "Bag-on-the-Kruche" (that was the name of the dwelling of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins). The poetic and at the same time authentic world of Tolkien's fantasy became the first source of inspiration for Maxim and was reflected in the images and plots of his early songs. Ivanov's first colleague in the future group is the guitarist Stanislav Svintsov.

The group begins its journey in the spring of 1991. One of the first successes of "Torba" was the performance at the festival "Revival of the Motherland of Russian Romance" together with "Wine" and "Peter's Cross" in October 1991. The group at that time included Ivanov, Svintsov (bass), Nikolai Rublev (keyboards), Ilya Kuimov (violin) and Edgar Druganov (from the Infarct group, drums). On December 27-30 of the same 1991, "Torba" performed at the "Festival of the Independent Rock Press" of the Moscow magazine "Counterculture".

In the same period, Max Ivanov participates in the samizdat magazine "12.13" and collaborates with the groups "Petrov Cross", "Infarct" and "Vino". The latter, however, soon moved to St. Petersburg, where it turned into "Wine". Home-grown recordings of "Sacks" go around the city, but it never comes to full-fledged albums.

From March 1994 to September 1995 Ivanov served as a musician in the army. Then he rehearses for a year at home with various musicians, including guitarist Alexei Pyatkin, collaborates with the local Rock Laboratory (from which the Romislokus group later left), after which in 1996 he leaves for St. Petersburg, where he enters the Conservatory in the viola class. In the dormitory of the conservatory, Ivanov meets musicians, with whom he establishes a group. The name remained the same - "Sack-on-the-cooler". The first member of the new group was Maxim's roommate Grigory Maliev, who studied clarinet, and before that, in his native Novorossiysk, he played the bass guitar in the trio Experiment for Three. Flutist Artyom Bespalov from Saratov joins them). A year later, Oleg Pozhidaev from Krasnodar entered the Conservatory, where he managed to graduate from a music school and participated in a number of competitions and festivals. Rehearsals begin right in the hostel. Somehow, a decision is immediately made that the new group will be called "Bag-on-the-cooler", although the sound of this line-up is not much reminiscent of the Vyatka period.

"Sack-on-Krucha" appeared in Vyatka (Kirov). As a matter of fact, this was the name of Bilbo Baggins' dwelling in Tolkien's book, more precisely, in the translation that fell into the hands of the future leader of the future group with this name. And, as the name suggests, Magic world Tolkien was reflected in the style of his early songs.

After graduating from a music school and serving in the army, Max resumed his project, and there, in Vyatka, he met guitarist Alexei Pyatkin.

In 1996, having entered the conservatory in the viola class, Max moved to St. Petersburg. And now, within the walls of this strict and academic educational institution fate brought together like-minded people who, together with Max, formed a new group, but with the same name. To be more precise, they all met not in the conservatory itself, but in the hostel of the conservatory.

The first was Grigory Maliev, Max's roommate. He entered the conservatory in the clarinet class, but even in his native Novorossiysk he played the bass guitar in his team.

Then Artyom Bespalov appeared in the hostel - a flute player who came from Saratov, who, due to his youth, had not yet had time to participate in any rock and roll projects, but quickly got into the idea, and joined the company simply and harmoniously.

The drummer was missing. But fate took care of that too: in 1997, Oleg Pozhidaev entered the conservatory - a magnificent musician, laureate of various and all-Russian competitions, handsome man and nobleman in the 58th generation. A native of Nalchik, he came to St. Petersburg from Krasnodar, where he also graduated from a music school.

So, on the seven winds, "beyond the geography" - the hostel stands on the very shore of the Gulf of Finland, in the far South-West of the city - the first rehearsals began. To begin with, the concept was discussed: a lot of wine was bought and songs were chosen - at that time Max had already "chiseled" more than two hundred of them.

We also tried to play at rehearsal venues, even recorded the first "demo" in the recreation center of Ilyich, which is at the Elektrosila metro station, but all this was not quite right yet. Max understood that he had to wait. He was waiting for guitarist Lyoshka from Vyatka, who was quietly finishing his KCU (Kirov Art School).

And so summer 1998 Pyatkin brilliantly passes the entrance exams and enters the Institute. Repin to study as a sculptor. And, of course, he immediately joins the group, prudently bringing his old Ruston from home.

The first St. Petersburg staff of "Torba-on-Krucha", assembled literally from the cities and villages of our vast, was ready for work. And already in October 1998, the group played their first concert at the "Moloko" club, and soon after that - at the Zoo.

It must be said that this performance at the Concert Hall of the Leningrad Zoo began new stage in the history of the group. The sound engineer of that concert was Sergey Grigoriev, himself an excellent musician, guitarist and arranger. He liked the young team that sounded unusual and unlike the others, and "Torba-on-Krucha" liked the work of Sergei Grigoriev. Although, of course, "Torba" found its "own" sound much later.

A good attitude - frankly, love - of all the staff and, especially, the director of the concert hall, Vyacheslav Kovalev, made "Torba-on-Krucha" actually the house band of the Zoo. By the way,
Max- on the viola
Topic- flute
and Oleg- on percussion, they participated more than once in concerts of modern author's songs by V. Kovalev and S. Grigoriev,
where Kovalev is a songwriter
a Grigoriev- their arranger.

"Torba" got accustomed to the Zoo so much that it found there not only a favorite concert venue but also its director. The web-master of the Concert Hall of the Zoo Maxim Kolodiy became the winner. In addition to his directorial duties, he took on his shoulders the promotion of the group on the Internet.

Meanwhile in November 1998 under the sensitive sound engineering of Sergey Grigoriev, the guys record a demo "Live at the Zoo", and in early December of the 98th, the same Grigoriev brings the musicians to the Calypso studio, where his old friend Alexei Ageev then worked as a sound engineer. It was there that the first studio pancake, as it should be, was baked by the "Torba-on-Krucha" group. Far from everything in that record turned out as we would like, but with this baggage (3 songs on "Calypso" and 5 or 6 - in the Zoo), the band lived right up to 2000, not being able to update the demo material, much less more to start serious studio work on the album. And only in April of this year, three new songs were recorded in the "live" mode in the Zoo, which has already become completely native, and several more are being prepared for recording.

But winter 1999 Grisha Maliev, bassist of "Torba-on-Krucha" resumed his still Novorossiysk project "Experiment for Three", and gradually moved away from the team. For half a year, Dmitry Andreev took his place, who at that time also worked at the Zoo, and also as a sound engineer.

BUT autumn 1999 again there was a change in the composition, which struck all the people close to the team with its unexpectedness and, at the same time, regularity. The bass player finally became the same Sergey Grigoriev, who for a year of joint work finally became related to the group.

Another significant infusion into the team was the appearance of Olga Urvantseva - a photographer for Fuzz magazine, an "athlete, a Komsomol member" and in general good man, who did a lot for the group in terms of promoting the creativity of the guys in the musical society of St. Petersburg. To date, Olga has over forty (!!!) filmed films from the band's concerts.

But the replenishment in the ranks of like-minded people did not end there. In the autumn of 2000, Denis Repin, a sound engineering student from the University of Cinema and TV, met the group. Ironically, he had previously studied at the same Kirov School of Arts side by side with the leader of the "Bag", but at that time did not yet know Max personally. Winter 2001 Denis, together with his fellow student cameraman Ivan Kotelnikov, are filming the group's first video for a composition recorded in January 2001 at the St. Petersburg studio "Dobrolet" by Andrey Alyakrinsky (). The second song, recorded in the same session, is included in Fuzzbox #12 (the CD supplement of the music magazine "Fuzz"). While studying the basics of studio musical sound engineering at the St. Petersburg Recording Studio, Denis Repin simultaneously gains experience in concert work, practicing at the Polygon club and at the group's concerts with Timur Galbatsev, the group's sound engineer, who worked with "Torba" dozens of concerts.

The group's music often sounds on the waves of St. Petersburg radio stations. The guys took part in TV programs more than once (live "Live Sound" of the NBN (St. Petersburg) channel, in the "Garkundel" program with (
Performances of the last 2 years:

Petersburg clubs:"Concert Hall Leningradsky Zoopark", "Milk", "Polygon", "Hollywood Nites", "Planet-Internet", "City Club", "Faculty", "Ten", "Klim Voroshilov", "Manhattan", "Art -Spirit";

Moscow clubs:"Bunker", "Tabula Rasa", "Art-Garbage", "Vermel", "Dzen";

Festivals: "United Russia"(in the program - "Chayf", "Spleen", etc.),
festival in Vyborg,
festival "Nord Session" (Karelia),
festival "Breakthrough" (DS "Jubilee", with the participation of gr.),
St. Petersburg Rock Festival "Windows Open" (Stadium named after Kirov),
Rock festival "INVASION" (Moscow, Ramenskoye).

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