Mikhail Krug is a Russian singer and musician recognized as the "king of chanson". His song "Vladimirsky Central", as well as other works with the so-called "prison romance" are loved and sung to this day. Unfortunately, in 2002, Mikhail became the victim of a planned murder.
Biography and personal life
Mikhail Krug (real name - Vorobyov) was born in 1962 in Tver and was brought up in a simple working-class family. Since childhood, the boy also dreamed of helping Soviet society and working as a driver. Mikhail was also fond of music from an early age and especially loved the work of Vladimir Vysotsky. The latter quickly became his idol, and the boy, imitating him, began to learn to play the guitar. During his school years, he performed both well-known songs and tried to compose his own. Additionally, Mikhail attended the accordion playing class and the choral singing section.
After graduating from school, Vorobev went to study to be a car mechanic, still cherishing the dream of getting a profession related to cars. He served in the army and then got a job as a carrier of dairy products and in 10 years rose well up the career ladder, having received a leadership position. Mikhail took his famous pseudonym in 1989. Before that, he had already won a standing ovation at various bard festivals, where he most often performed original songs on the theme of the war in Afghanistan that was relevant at that time.
It was at the end of the 1980s that Mikhail Krug's first album, Tverskiye Streets, was released. After that, he continued to release solo compositions, the recordings of which sold around the country like hotcakes. Soon the Circle met with musicians from the Tver DK "Metalist", and together they formed the group "Hitcher". In the future, it was the "metalworkers" who helped the chansonnier in recording his songs and holding concerts. In 1994, the official record of Mikhail Krug "Zhigan-Lemon" was recorded, and the audience fell in love with his exotic "thieves' romance". The most famous song of the musician "Vladimirsky Central" was released as part of the album "Madame", which was released in 1998.
In total, during his life, Mikhail Krug has released more than ten albums, the last of which, "Confession", was released after the death of the artist. In his work, his relatives actively supported him. In 1987, Krug first married a woman named Svetlana, and soon they had a son, Dmitry. And yet the couple divorced, and in 2000 the singer married the costume designer of his band Irina Glazko. They had a son, Alexander.
Death of Mikhail Krug
On July 1, 2002, masked men burst into the private house of Mikhail Krug and his family. They beat the musician's mother-in-law, and then fired several pistol shots at Mikhail himself. Fortunately, his wife and children were not injured in the attack. Mikhail found the strength to get to the next house and call an ambulance. He was taken to the hospital, where surgeons fought all night for the bard's life, but the injuries were too serious, and in the morning he died.
The death of their beloved artist shocked the inhabitants of Russia, who came in droves to the Tver Drama Theater, where the requiem was being held. People accompanied the funeral cortege to the very Dmitrovo-Cherkassky cemetery, where Mikhail Krug found his last refuge. At the same time, an investigation began on the criminal case initiated for the murder, which lasted more than ten years.
The criminals were identified in 2008: they were members of the Tver Wolves criminal group, Alexander Ageev and Dmitry Veselov, the last of whom was already dead by that time. Ageev was sentenced to life imprisonment on the basis of a set of previously committed crimes. Mikhail Krug became a victim of rackeriters, refusing to pay them a large part of his patronage fee. Today, fans of the chansonnier continue to remember and listen to him, and the loving widow Irina Krug performs bardic compositions in memory of her husband.
