School Biography Alla

I am the director of this school, my name is Rita Petrovna. Is it really so?

I'm going there to see if the building has been preserved. Among the two-three-story buildings in old Moscow lanes I find the typical structure of the school of the middle of the x. The building is freshly painted white, around a high fence, on the doors the sign "Children's Center for Technical Creativity". In the corridors are empty, on the walls there are not portraits of Alla Borisovna or her husband Philip, but all kinds of machines, posters for modeling aircraft and schedule of children's circles.

And if so ... here is a school named after Sergey Yesenin here. Well, so we can also be named after Pugacheva. And it was this year that the first grader Alla came here. There is no one school now, class magazines have long been put into waste paper, but the education museum stores all the final sheets of the school for - year - the academic year, when Pugacheva graduated from 8 classes.

I leaf through dusty pages and find among 38 students 8 “B” class a familiar name written by a teacher’s hand - Alla Pugacheva. So we read. According to estimates, the best singer was best succeeded in singing who would doubt, literature, labor and drawing, which is also not surprising - Alla Borisovna paints perfectly. In these subjects in the final statements, she stands “fives”.

Little Alla behaved well at school - she was also “excellent” by behavior. Although, as Supersmith Alla Vladimir Stern told the superstar, she still had problems with behavior at school. Alla could easily put the buttons on the teacher’s chair, throw chalk into the water or the board with wax. When the Caribbean crisis erupted, Pugacheva gathered a classmate company to go to Cuba to help poor Cubans.

They sat down without tickets for the train to Leningrad, from where for some reason they decided to sail on the ship, but the young defenders of the Cubans were removed from the train in a boob and returned to their parents. Other classmates of the future primadonna recall the hooligan character of young Pugacheva. But more on that later. We leaf through the magazine further.

Russian language: in the first quarter - “5”, in the second, third, fourth and for the exam - “4”, the final, respectively, is also “4”. Another “fours” in the graduation of the eighth grade Alla received according to algebra, geometry, history, physics and biology. But drawing, geography, chemistry and a foreign language were not very well given Pugacheva - in these subjects in her certificate “Troika”.

But, as archival documents testify, the soul and body of the young schoolgirl Alla were most of all to run for long and short distances, jumping through the goat, crawling along the rope, push -ups and other physical exertion. Physical education: in the first quarter there is “3”, in the second - “2”, in the third - “3”, in the fourth again - “2” ... As a result, for the year, the physical education department barely pulled the graduate “three”.

In September, Alla Pugacheva took first place from the end among classmates in length jumping, jumping 2 meters 18 cm. The grenade of Alla was Mitnil at 18 meters - also not the best result. In the line “Run” and “Height jumps”, 37 students of the 8th “B” class have some data, but opposite the name Pugacheva-dashes. Couldn't? They almost burned the braid - she was most likely for absenteeism in physical education, ”recalls the classmate of Alla Pugacheva Boris Hura, who is now engaged in carpentry and has a small private business.

In winter, we skied, and for this we had to go to Izmailovsky Park. And so twice a week to plow five kilometers there. Why is this necessary? At this time, I played hockey in the yard, and Alla probably was engaged in music. In general, she studied well, but with three. It was felt that she did not really need these school classes. By the way, in our “B” class, Alla studied only from the fifth - she passed from “A” because we taught English, and there is German.

She did not want to deal with the last. Of course, we did not guess who she would become in the future. But Alla always stood out. Appearance, actions. Like all other girls, she did not paint then, but she had a long red braid, which, of course, could not help but pull. For a while I was sitting right behind Alla, and my neighbor in the desk of Vovka Burov once struck a match and set fire to her braid.

The hair flashed right there, but they managed to quickly put out. We all went in school uniforms, but still differed from each other in social level. Near the school stood an orphanage, and several orphanages studied with us. Alla’s father seems to have worked as the director of the shoe factory, so she dressed well compared to the others. Not all girls then had nylon stockings, but she had.

Oh, listen, I was completely a child, I was not interested in girls, but I remembered stockings. Wow! Until the eighth grade, no one went in pairs at all, the girls danced with the girls on the dancing, and the boys only looked at them. Later, two pairs formed and got married. Alla was friends with Ninka Belova.The girls once said that once they decided to portray a couple-Alla was dressed up by a guy, took Ninka's arm, and so they went for a walk along the street.

Pugacheva was always a little hooligan, and not some kind of “nerd”, although she was the chairman of the squad council. By the way, one day she reproached me so much in the wall newspaper that I was offended by her for a long time. I don’t remember for what reason, but I remember that I attached my photograph, which my friend Sasha Vadyukhin then tore off.

Did she sing at school? On the changes, when everyone else and I also fooled around. And we also staged the performance “Damn Mill”, she played there a princess and also sang. I did not spend the night at home. After school, we went for a walk at VDNH, and there was such a rule - kvass usually cost three kopecks, and if you buy a ticket for ten kopecks, you can drink how much it will fit.

And what do you think? Alka managed to squeeze out without a ticket and pour into herself an immense amount of kvass. No one noticed this then. But there was a lot of noise when she did not come home in the 8th grade. They searched for her all night. And then they arranged a Komsomol meeting, but I was not a Komsomol member, so I was not present there and I don’t know what they talked about.

All sorts of rumors went ... Even the names of the guys from high school, her colleagues in school of amateur performances were called. I don't know what was really there. I only remember that after this incident she came so satisfied and joyful - I wanted to prove to everyone that everything was fine, nothing happened. But to dress her parents became much easier and more modest.

By the way, her mother very often came to school. She did not work, so she talked a lot with teachers, she met Alla at the school. Alla is very similar to her mother - she was the same complexion and also red -haired. I stayed at school, and Alla, after the 8th grade, went to the music school. I remember when I was in the army, I saw it on TV and I did not like it - she did not sing very well then.

And then I liked her songs. After her victory at the Golden Orpheus festival with “Harlequino”, she came to the flying of our release. We sat at school, talked with teachers and company a ten man went home to Nina Belova and Volodka Timofeev, they got married. Alla sang something to us, but a little. Since then, that is, from the year, I have not seen her. And our class was never going to.

And it would be nice to meet, chat ... You tell her about it. Maybe we are organized?