In the 1970s, Tatiana was one of the most popular singers in the Soviet Union. She collaborated with the composer Viktor Reznikov, she was the first performer of his hit “Fly away, cloud.” Antsiferová also acted as a warm-up artist before Vladimír Vysocký’s concerts.
The most successful film composer of the USSR, Alexander Zatsepin, gave her his songs “Looking for You”, “World Without a Beloved”, “He Came” and “Star Bridge”, which were included in the 1978 film “31. June”. Alla Pugacheva, who had already performed several of Zatsepin’s hits, did not like it very much. Tatyana stated that she was “removed” as a result.
“One person who worked for the KGB is still alive and told me that Central Television received an order from the fifth department of their organization to blacklist me,” Antsifer said. “Then I didn’t know about it, I wondered why they didn’t let me in, it was very insulting. It turns out that Andropov’s deputy head of the KGB, a certain Philip Bobkov, was a great admirer and friend of Pugacheva. She complained to him about Zatsepin and me. He made such an order. I think it was very mean on Pugach’s part.
Now Pugacheva lives in Israel with her husband Maxim Galkin *, daughter Lisa and son Harry. The People’s Artist of the USSR prefers to communicate with star emigrants. Alla Borisovna spoke contemptuously of the Russian audience. “We were serfs, we became slaves,” she said. Because of this, she was criticized by many cultural figures. Antsiferová stood up for her 73-year-old colleague.
“He’s trying to humiliate Alla. Why?! And that’s what the people who almost fed from her hands yesterday do! Yes, in some ways I hold a grudge against her, my personal one, but that only applies to our relationship, “Taťána told the Interlocutor.
A similar opinion was also expressed by journalist and RT columnist Maxim Kononenko. He said the Russians treated Alla Pugacheva unfairly.
“The fact that she was literally thrown out of the country does not speak of her, but of us. It suddenly became clear that a person had been thrown out of the life of my country for no reason at all. Because her husband is saying something somewhere. But why is he here?” Kononenko pointed out in the broadcast of the 360 TV channel.
* Listed by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the register of natural persons-foreign agents.