The rescue circle did not save Igor Talkov ...

Poets in Russia always went under some unfortunate star. They had both fatal numbers, and no less fateful age - 37 years (Pushkin, Mayakovsky). It's strange that Igor Talkov, who left at the age of 35, did not live up to this trait. Even at this time, the poet did not save the lifebuoy to which he so appealed: "You hold me, do not let me drown" ... The sad statistics are that the back side of talent and glory is death.

Igor is a warlike name

Nothing accidental happens. The name Igor goes back to the Old Norse "Ingvar", which means "militant, truthful". Maybe the name affected the future poet and singer so much that he searched for the truth all his short life and fought for it? But on an absurd chance on that fateful day on October 6, 1991 in the Petersburg Concert Hall "Jubilee" Igor Talkov was not killed in the heat of the struggle for his noble goals, but because of the banal re-engagement of someone's personal interests. And the spectators who came to the concert, perhaps for his sake alone, did not hear their favorite songs: "Russia", "The Life Ring" and others.

Where are you hurrying?

So his friends asked him more than once, seeing that he lives and creates at the limit of human possibilities. And he always answered that he was afraid not to be in time. What is this - an accident? Hardly. They say that a person foresees the future with his sixth sense, and the poet is even more so. But in that paradox of poetry, that every creator - whether he lived 27 years, like Lermontov, or 83 years, as Goethe - does exactly as much as he was released. And no one ever knows if anything more talented would have come out from under this pen than it was already created. Igor Talkov was almost the first to tell the truth. Yes, his "explosive" song "Russia" was sounded in 1989, when the perestroika time was already in full swing, but the "dashing 90s" - the time of subversive of all false (and not only) truths had not yet begun. And then on the "Song of the Year" the words "How could you give yourself to be torn to vandals" sounded like a shot. And then there were other similar "shots": "The former landing," "I'll be back," "Lifebuoy." Talkov found a way to the hearts of millions, he voiced aloud what others had just thought about.

It's hard to be a visionary

And it's hard to please everyone. Yes, he did not set himself such a goal. Moreover, he did not set goals to even change anything, he understood that he would not have time. And it is beyond the power of one or even many. That is why he sang about the fact that he would certainly return, "even after a hundred centuries, the country is not fools, but geniuses" ... And while he was counting only on his "lifebuoy" - on his conscience and high purpose. And he hurried, hurried, wrote many poems, wrote new songs, toured the whole country, collecting huge halls, filmed a movie ("Tsar Ivan the Terrible", "Behind the Last Line"). In the action film "Hunt for a pimp", Talcov's songs were heard: "Summer Rain", "Life Circle". The chords hardly started to sound and captured the viewer until the plot of the action was forgotten.

"Lifebuoy" did not save

October 6, 1991 during a concert behind the scenes in Igor Talkova shot. Who shot, there is still no answer. The case is in the archive. Accused of murder by imprudence Talkova administrator Valery Shlyafman is still hiding in Israel. But Igor Talkov - Igor Igorevich lives in the world. Very similar to his father's appearance, also a musician and a singer. But whether he will continue as someone who promised to return, time will tell.