Flywheel "justice" against the great football player

“The girl later denied the accusations in writing, but it was too late”




Details of the accusations of the forward "Torpedo" Eduard Streltsov in attacking a girl especially for the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info are told by a well-known journalist, author of books about football Alexei Matveev

It so happened that on the day Rai was born, our mother was admitted to the hospital with oncology, - says Nadezhda Mikhailovna. - We, the sisters, and Edik were literally torn between preparing for the reception of the baby and caring for mother. Raya gave birth to a son, named Igor. I will never forget my mother's parting words: "He came to replace me." Apparently, she felt her close departure.

Very fast paced events. In September 1963 Raya and Edik got married. In February 1964, my son was born, and in March of the same year my mother passed away. Joy and sorrow went side by side.

Naturally, Edik did not stay away from the common trouble. He took an active part in organizing the funeral. Then all our relatives met him. My relatives admired the sincerity of a football player.

Once a school friend called with a company to the country. Relax, unwind, communicate, including with young men. Overnight. I come home, from the threshold I announce: they say, I’m going to the Moscow region with friends. We'll sleep there. May Day holidays, great weather, a group of friends. Parents are not with us. One grandmother at that time, sisters, that's all.



Edik resolutely, categorically said, as if he had cut him off: "You will not go to any dacha." Apparently, the very fact of a possible trip caused in him a sharp rejection, rejection. It is clear why. He sincerely worried about me. God forbid what happens. Apparently, dark memories haunted him. Without the guardianship of the elders, there could be no question of a voyage near Moscow.

I tried to convince Edik, sisters: they say, six girls are with me, the guys will come only the next morning. No danger. First of all, Streltsov showed firmness. No, that's it. Not offended.

It is clear that the relatives wanted to protect the young lady from possible unwanted contacts. Three sisters, after the death of their parents, remained, in fact, defenseless. If not for Edik... A real man, he took the burden of care upon himself. There was no family home. Companies of girlfriends and friends gathered in our Moscow apartment. A native nest where congenial people flocked to.

During the quarrels, Raya came to us, shared her sore points. Could cry. Then she came back, of course. Family responsibilities, little son. I'm not sure exactly why the fights happened. Probably ordinary life moments. Edik has a lot of fans, they just overpowered him. There are even more fans of football talent.

Raya did not have a solid family experience, life experience. Apparently, the sister had a strong feeling that her husband did not belong to her as much as to the crowd. Thus, to the fans, enthusiastic girls. Hence the misunderstanding and disagreement. Both are young, passions were in full swing. There is nothing to be surprised. Over time, a lot has faded.

Raya and Edik complemented each other. The sister is more emotional. Very open by nature, all feelings - outward. Edik against her background is not that "a man in himself", but more restrained, of course. A man, in a word.

Streltsov studied hard enough, diligently studied. At VTU. I helped him learn English, this subject was not very good. His middle sister Galya studied mathematics with him, she still teaches at Moscow University.

I often heard disparaging remarks about athletes, football players, including. Say, primitive guys, except how to kick the ball, do not know how. The underlying reason is clear: there were no other interests in life, and no. What to take from them, the brains are beaten off with a ball, and so on.

As a rule, this is said by people who are narrow-minded in mind. Those who do not know the world of sports, its heroes. Never interacted with them. The same Edik did not just read, he devoured books. I preferred historical literature. It was interesting to talk with him, to argue.

Edik, what to hide, was acutely worried about the end of his football career in his beloved Torpedo. For such a famous master, a kind of tragedy. Streltsov was not going to leave big football, circumstances forced him. And the fact that he began to work with children, in my opinion, is very good. He endeared himself to the kids, they were drawn to him.



SPECULANTS OF THE BLACK

I will try to assess the situation with the "rape" as if from the outside, impartially. Although it is unlikely to succeed, Streltsov is still a person close to us.

He is certainly a handsome man. The initiative at that very dacha came, after all, from the female sex. After all, no one forced the girls who made up the company of men to get into a car and go to the Moscow region. Everything happened voluntarily.

And no one pushed anyone into the room by force. I judge by reliable sources, and not by rumors, speculation, which cannot be counted. And then the indistinct explanations of the person supposedly “offended, offended” by Edik were intended exclusively for her mom and dad.

That, they say, violent acts took place. In my opinion, a clumsy excuse for a long absence from home. The girl did not tell her parents about the trip to the country. Already at home, she told fables in order to hush up the guilt before relatives. Unconvincing, gross.

She must have expected to go back. The languid evening, however, dragged on. I had to stay. Later, when meeting with parents, she carried baby talk. I was just afraid of the anger of the elders. Edik much later reported in letters to his mother, Sofya Frolovna, that he had not raped anyone. But the girl pointed to Streltsov ...

I don't know all the details. I'm definitely not judging. Who and what room went into, with whom and where he talked, is unprovable. This is if pragmatically, calmly argue. Moreover, more than sixty years have passed since then. I, too, have lived a great life, I understand different nuances.

To act like a Soviet court, to cut off fate at the beginning of the path ... Demonstrative reprisal, nothing more. In my opinion, a detailed, honest, impartial trial does not come close.

I can’t watch films on a topic “given” by someone. Every year it becomes unbearably more disgusting. If Edik were alive, he would certainly have suffered because of frank stupidity, vulgarity.

The impression is that Streltsov has a solid black streak in his damned life. No love, no relatives, no football, nothing. Abuse, shamelessly speculate "dirty". May be enough?! It would be nice if the "niello" corresponded at least a little to reality. Generally far from reality!



VICTIMS OF DECEPTION

Still, I am for a different perception of Eduard Streltsov by people. First of all, this is a great footballer who was loved and honored by the whole country. He loves and honors so far, in my opinion. In any case, that part of her that is passionate about a wonderful game. Such enduring things are more important, cleaner than any dirt that sometimes pours from television screens, from the pages of printed publications. However, dirt will not stick to our Edik anyway.

Whoever, no matter how much they want, the image of Streltsov, especially for the people closest to him, does not at all fit with the creature of the rapist. Again, I don’t know how for anyone, for me, the truism. He simply could not live with "it", exist.

Edik treated us with such tenderness, love, care... I don't believe in the rape invented by one of the enemies. I remember my youth. In the Soviet period, young people, I am no exception, sometimes blindly believed those around them, say, older people. In most cases, normal, decent citizens took care of us. We relied on their honesty and integrity. And, as a rule, they lived up to expectations.

Apparently, Edik is also one of the gullible. Then very young, 19 years old. Moreover, how not to believe people who represented serious state institutions - the investigating authorities, the prosecutor's office, the court, finally. Young Streltsov, one might say, "bought" the empty promises of a dishonest, dishonest investigator. They say, confess what you have done, and let him go free. By all lies they pressed on the unsettled psyche of the young man. In general, they have achieved their goal.

The unfortunate investigator was probably in a hurry to "investigate" the case, in fact, without having hard evidence. I resorted to the so-called professional trick that I mentioned. That's all. The result of the deeds is known: Edik was convicted.

Most likely for nothing. Apparently, only for the fact that on that day he was at the ill-fated dacha. It was necessary to “hang up” an accusation on someone, to cast a “shadow”. Thus, to defame.

A little later, the girl backed down, in writing she refused the accusations against Streltsov. But the flywheel of "justice" was already mercilessly grinding the fate of a brilliant football player. He was sent to prison. On it, if we use football terminology, it was corny "recouped" by order of high-ranking representatives of the Soviet authorities.

Unlike journalists and other public, I have been talking with Edik and his family for more than a quarter of a century. Like no one else, I know the details of his personal life, Streltsov's relationship with our relatives. Not by hearsay, but in reality. Therefore, I have the moral right to judge and draw conclusions. Edika knew her social circle well, she felt the inner world of a person close to us.

I mean that you need to publish truthful things if you undertake to cover a topic, for example, personal life. Don't invent nonsense...

Alexey Matveev

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“Edik was simply put in jail”

How the main football star was imprisoned



Details of the prison epic of the Torpedo striker Eduard Streltsov were provided specially for the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info by a well-known journalist, author of books about football Alexei Matveev



SPARTAC CONSPIRACY



- He came to visit Anatolyich, and more than once, - shares the former striker of the Torpedo team Alexander LENEV. - Igor, his son, was small. We talked in an apartment near the Kurskaya metro station. The table is set, the bubble is standing. Onions, tomatoes, potatoes, herring - everything, as it should be in the best houses. We drank, ate, very well, sat sincerely.

He did not “start up” during the matches. From something or someone. Just played football. Amazing, amazing. I don't think there were any enemies. Envious people? It could very well be. Which of the normal people do not have them. But they didn't show themselves clearly. On the sly, probably, they "hissed", like snakes under the deck. And what would they do to Anatolyich? He is unattainable for them football pinnacle. Nobody openly dared to oppose him.

Sometimes Dynamo player Igor Chislenko kept us company. Anatolyich was friends with him. Both great strikers, people admired their game. Celebrities called me with them. The three of us went to restaurants, or just walked around Moscow in their free time from training and matches. They didn’t get into scandalous situations because they were drunk, they kept themselves in hand. Coming home to "scrap" is not in our traditions, foundations. They didn't use drugs. Sorry, we are not Mamaev and Kokorin.

In my opinion, Edik was simply put in jail. In order not to interfere with opponents, he annoyed me too much with the game, with goals scored. He started his career very quickly. We decided to "slow down" a little, sending them to "places not so remote." In my opinion, no one was going to think about the essence of what happened at the damned dacha, let alone figure it out. What for? There is an order from Khrushchev - to judge, to imprison. All. Then it was not discussed at all. Almost like in a war. Try not to follow the order of the commander - execution, or, at best, a guardhouse, in a simple way, "lip".



Even the Spartacists, the TsESkovtsy were sleeping and dreaming of getting rid of the Sagittarius as soon as possible. I say I got them. They certainly didn't plan to eliminate him physically. But they really wanted to “hide” away from Torpedo, his fans. We achieved our goal for a while.

No need to pedal only on the machinations of Khrushchev. Version, I confess, is not the strongest, obvious. Anatolyich was set up, I have no doubt about that. Like who? The son and father of the Karakhanovs, the owners of the ill-fated dacha, Edik went to visit them. I didn’t ask Streltsov for details - he didn’t dare. And questions about this topic were unpleasant to him. Why stir up the old, relive again, tear your heart with not the best, to put it mildly, memories.

It was, in my opinion, a conspiracy of the Spartacists and the army, their common company. I'm leaning towards this version. For the sake of the "high" goal - to remove Streltsov from football - sworn enemies joined forces. I have already spoken in order to isolate a brilliant, unlike any other player from the football community.



FOOTBALL DISSIDENT



“After all, it is not uncommon in the Union when it was precisely outstanding people in various fields of activity who seemed to be imprisoned out of the blue,” says Alexander Lenev. - Geniuses did not fit into the generally accepted framework of understanding, they always interfered with someone. The public was disturbed. Tried to innovate. Often, with hostility, attempts were made.

Streltsov, by his mere presence on the field, brought confusion into the ranks of his rivals. Sin, according to opponents. Among them were influential people. Including the leadership of the country.

According to my information, Edik was literally dragged to him by Spartak. Almost on the heels of the player went, persuaded, promised earthly blessings. Streltsov rejected the promises. Remained true to Torpedo.

CSKA in the race for our player also did not stand aside. They dreamed of calling Edik for military service. At that time, there was a vicious practice: they called, - everything, their player. It was not necessary to prepare your own, home-grown masters.

They took ready-made masters under the pretext of an army draft. Anatolyich categorically refused to "get under the gun." A dubious prospect - to play in CSKA - he was very sick of it. He himself told me about this.



That's revenge. For the manifestation of obstinacy, obvious disobedience to the established order. A kind of dissident in football. Atu him! For the sake of objectivity, Edik partly “played along” with his ill-wishers by going to the mentioned dacha. The slightest reason for isolation was required. He was found.

It is also extremely strange that on the fateful day my partner ended up in the company of the Spartacists, Tatushin and Ogonkov. Although he was never friends with them. Yes, everything went wrong...



No need to guess why and why Streltsov spoke brightly after leaving prison. The answer is on the surface: a great desire to play inspired football exploits. And he originally possessed God's gift.

On the field, he was probably the opposite of himself in everyday life. The game is a passionate, skillful, indomitable fighter. Behind the edge - a weak, even weak-willed type. This contrast surprised, delighted, somewhat disappointed. In life, one However, a person does not consist of only positive qualities.

In the team of veterans I had a chance to play with him. People in different cities and towns of the vast Union stood in line to touch the living legend of national football. We all kind of got along with him. They were not offended, they gave their due. Admired...

AS LIKE A FEVER HAS ATTACKED ...



“Of course, it was interesting then where and how our sister, Raya, met Edik,” says Nadezhda Mikhailovna, the youngest of the FATEEV sisters. - Raechka is a lively, strong nature at that time.

We just lived in an area where, basically, torpedo fans were found. They knew each other, the youth communicated. The area is a factory.

Rai has the wives of Torpedo players as friends. Lenya Ostrovsky, his wife, Rita, the Brednev couple, famous football players from the car factory, were friends with our sister. In this sports party, Paradise met Edik Streltsov.

The company met not so much in cafes and restaurants as at home. So it was accepted. Cozier, more comfortable, perhaps. Many Torpedo players just lived in a house opposite the Velozavodsky market, next to the Avtozavodskaya metro station. In my opinion, at a party, in the apartment of the Brednevs, my sister met Edik.

But, they met, of course, after Streltsov's imprisonment. The events "before prison" around the player were just gaining momentum at that time. A drama was played out, allegedly with rape.

Even people who are far from football actively discussed the topic. I also tried, as much as possible, to delve into what is happening. As if a fever struck the citizens. They vied with each other about the tragedy with the Torpedo footballer.

Our family was far from football and sports in general. At least for that period of time. But we, in our narrow circle, also “wound up”, the story did not leave anyone indifferent.

At the dawn of his career, a handsome, young guy, according to experts, an excellent player, fell into a human catastrophe. Prison "shone". After a while, he was there. Of course, the very fact of many excited. It went far beyond just football. The fate of a young man was collapsing, his career was going downhill.

Part of the sports girl in the family was Raya. She participated in athletics, ran skiing, and was engaged in sports shooting. Well done. Temperamental, moderately fighting, responsible.

Rai's relationship with Edik developed rapidly. In February of the 63rd, he was released, and in September of the same year they got married. It never occurred to us to warn her against contacts with a former prisoner, as is commonly believed. They were just a bit confused. Paradise, Edik, marriage ...

We did not fear for the future of a person close to us. It just all happened very quickly. Neither mother nor grandmother told Raya: they say, be afraid of him, stay away. Apparently, at first the very fact of meeting Streltsov shocked them somewhat.

He came to our house when he looked after Raya. What can I say, handsome man! To be honest, we really liked it. Fears for the future of Rai instantly vanished. Sometimes he saw off his sister, talked on the site between the fifth and sixth floors. There were invariably loving couples. The tradition, by the way, has survived to this day.

The first time Edik visited us was with his Torpedo partner Sergeev. Later, Shustikov and Voronin came. We saw - good, sincere, intelligent guys. With an irresistible sense of humor.

From the moment we met, there was never a conversation about the events that preceded the conclusion. They didn't talk about Edik's life in prison either. We did not raise the topic, he, in turn, did not share. As if behind the scenes they agreed not to return to the past, not to stir up the old. It felt like he had said goodbye to the past once and for all. Perhaps he told the guys from the team something, but not to us.

Raechka fell in love, that's all. Recklessly. Just like Edik himself. A powerful, deep feeling completely captured both of them. And it never let go, until the end of days. There was no wedding as such. We signed at the registry office, arrived at our apartment. Mom set the table.

modestly noted. Witnesses, Rai's friend with her husband. A narrow circle of the closest people.

Alexey Matveev

To be continued

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"Khrushchev frosts"

How the Central Committee of the Party imprisoned the great Streltsov




The history of the imprisonment of the famous Torpedo player and the USSR national team still haunts football fans. Where is the truth and where is the lie? Details specially for the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info were prepared by the famous sports journalist, author of books about football Alexei Matveev



REVENGE FURTSEVA



“Edik was a normal Soviet person, like many of us,” says Eduard Streltsov’s long-term partner, Torpedo defender of the 60s Grigory YANETS. - One difference - a great football player. The best in the country of the Soviets, twice in a row recognized as the strongest at the end of the season. And this is after getting out of jail.

It is unlikely that his human qualities worsened upon his return “from there”. People are bad, gloomy good deeds on the football field and in life do not. Can't progress, improve something. Edik showed and proved his worth with his game. By the way, Anatol'ich never had a reputation for being gloomy, as someone believes. We, partners in Torpedo, know and remember its characteristic features.

I didn't ask him directly about life in prison. I didn't need to know. Much has already been said and published. There is little truth in the publications, mostly negative through. Regarding Streltsov, his family.

Here, an obvious connection with the then Minister of Culture can be traced. Eduard Anatolyevich himself told the details, I did not call for frankness. We talked on the topic, a rare case. Usually Streltsov restrained himself, remained silent.

Furtseva's daughter, apparently, fell in love with Edik, who did not reciprocate. Well, he did not like her, according to Edik himself. You can’t love by force ... Apparently, the wounded pride of Furtseva Sr. played an important role in the story with subsequent imprisonment. Well, her daughter was basically rejected. The incident at the dacha with "rape" arrived in time. Like an unexpected gift of fate. Revenge. Atu Streltsov!

Comrade Furtseva came to Comrade Khrushchev and made an angry speech. Like, what does a footballer allow himself to do?! Girls are raped. It is necessary to arrange a show trial over the "scoundrel" so that others would be disrespectful. Arranged. Planted.

I know that the allegedly raped girl refused to claim against Edik. What are his questions? There seemed to be none. An no. The process is exemplary. Demonstration of the stupidity of that power.

- Basically, Streltsov kept silent in the locker room during his football career, - Grigory Yanets continued the story. - Both before and after matches. It was impossible to understand what kind of feelings he was overwhelmed with. Then the course for rejuvenation of the composition was taken. In 1968, five young people made their debut at Torpedo, including me. The backbone remained, from Streltsov, Brednev, Shustikov, Kavazashvili, Mikhailov, and others.

Streltsov always supported the youth, helped with advice, encouraged when needed. The youth turned out to be talented, no one needed to be urged on. The coach sorted out the mistakes after the game.

Such a generation of players in Torpedo picked up that none of us abused alcohol. They were almost ascetics, in all seriousness I say. Football, and only football. “And the girls? And the girls later, ”- if you recall the words of a famous song. We almost literally followed the principles.

For ten years he played with Streltsov for the team of USSR veterans. We played five matches in a row a week, the schedule was tough, one might say, merciless. In terms of health. No whining was heard from anyone. endured. We enjoyed communicating with local football fans, the local masters. Central Asia, the Far East, many regions traveled with football "concerts". Met wonderful people.

Streltsov is not only a national football hero, but also a master of the game adored by ordinary people. There is a colossal difference in the perception of Edik by the fans and us, mere mortals, who were the company of a genius.



SEPARATED UNLIKELY



They played as veterans in Kazakhstan. There, Edik's arrival was awaited with particular impatience. We met enthusiastically. At the end of the match with the local team, Streltsov was invited to talk - personally. Local rich uncles gave him a luxurious gold watch. Not all of us received such chic presents.

Ten years of difference between me and Anatolyich. I didn’t go home to Edik, we didn’t sit at the same table, we didn’t make friends with families. Communists brought up in the spirit of respect for elders. Still, they kept their distance, they did not become familiar. Only in rare cases did people come closer, communicate beyond the edge of the field.

Actually, such communication was quite enough, for example, during a career, when Streltsov and I played in Torpedo. For example, at the base in Myachikovo, near Moscow, they gathered. In the breaks between training sessions and matches, a group of players watched their favorite Soviet films. Often, Eduard Anatolyevich himself invited to these viewings, was the initiator.

Staying in jail? It means that it did not affect, in any case, too obviously on the abilities of a person. There is a definition - a nugget. Edik is the clearest example.

Played very brightly after returning. I can not explain the nature of the phenomenon. There are no answers to all questions. Maybe trite, but a unique football player. Such people are born, apparently, once a century. And you don't have to compare him to anyone. Apparently he was born a football player...

None of the Torpedo players clashed with Edik. Here, the leaders of the club, I believe, parted ways with the outstanding master in a not human way. He could still play, bring tangible benefits. Even after the injury received during the double match with Dynamo. Streltsov was restored by our doctors.

Probably, the torpedo bosses looked at the passport. Bah, yes Edik is 33! It's time for them to retire. common practice at the time. Even the great Streltsov fell under the "skating rink".

I think the team's coaches, not least, played a negative role. Young specialists came to the post, who had recently played for Torpedo. Apparently, they did not want to have such a colorful, respected, beloved by the fans, football player nearby.

They were considered a competitor, a threat to their imaginary authority. In general, "technically" was removed from the team. Approximately also got rid of Valery Ivanovich Voronin. Which does not honor the then torpedo managers.

Then Streltsov was looking for work after a hasty departure from the team of masters. I repeat, not by choice. The boys from the youth sports school "Torpedo" coached. Traveled across the Union with a team of veterans.

But the great player was not looking for such a share for himself. Still, he saw himself in big football. Maybe in an administrative position, or as one of the mentors of his native club. Alas, no luck.

By the way, strong guys came out from under the tutelage of Streltsov, who later played at the base of Torpedo. Sergei Shustikov, for example, are his peers. At that time they became champions of the Union among youths. The same Igor Chugainov studied with Edik. Streltsov was in charge of cutting football talents for a year. Then they organized the so-called special school, capable young men of Anatolyich moved there.

Alexey Matveev

To be continued

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Prison and will of Yuri Sevidov

How the famous player was turned into a criminal



The fate of the popular Spartak forward is akin to the fate of the amazing Eduard Streltsov from Torpedo. He was also sent to prison on trumped-up charges. Where to live, to put it mildly, not comfortable. But not by dungeons alone ...

Details for the telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info were reported by sports journalist and writer Alexei Matveev. He, in turn, was told about the life of his father by the eldest son of Sevidov Sr., Alexander.



A BUCK ON THE HEAD



- Dad passed away on my birthday, February 11, - ALEXANDER recalls with bitterness. - I was sitting in the company of friends, of course, they congratulated me. Father then flew on a business trip from the newspaper "Soviet Sport" to Spain. The footballers of the capital Lokomotiv held a pre-season training camp there. Yuri Alexandrovich reported the details to the newspaper.

My father lived in the house of his old friend, Vladimir Beniashvili. So he announced the shocking news: "Sasha, dad is no more ...". Life immediately split into “before and after”. The grief seemed all the more enormous that at that moment dad was not sick, he felt well. And suddenly... He was forced to install a stimulator in order to maintain the work of the heart in the optimal mode.



So many athletes, including famous ones. At first they are intensively trained, prepared for tests, given crazy loads. Then they throw it away like useless, waste trash. And the athlete's heart begins to grow decrepit. That is why people often die prematurely. Unfortunately, our beloved dad also fell into this category.

Before the tragedy, Yuri Alexandrovich joked a lot, was known as a merry fellow. He was kind and sociable. I wouldn't call it soft. He acted as he saw fit, regardless of the opinions of others, including those closest to him. I will say this: he was not a conflict person in communication.

If he saw that the situation was getting out of control, the plan was not being implemented, he tried to explain, to agree. I tried to avoid direct conflicts, confrontations with someone. This is his signature lifestyle - at work, at home, in his personal life.

By nature, dad is not a gloomy person. Always ready to laugh it off, turn the brewing conflict into a joke. And laugh at yourself for some reason. Such traits are inherent in smart, ironic people.

Parents rarely quarreled. Mom devoted her whole life to dad. Her life is, first of all, - dad. She made him feel as comfortable as possible. So that our head of the family has a reliable rear. Tellingly, it was not a burden for my mother, something of a burden. Father, a man of fine spiritual organization, saw and felt this perfectly. Just like we, the children of the Sevidovs.

Yes, dad is more emotional, "explosive", or something. And my mother easily, almost playfully smoothed out the corners. Well, the perfect couple. She even liked to agree with her father. Apparently, she knew that he would not advise badly.

Parents are by nature outgoing. Long disagreements did not happen, and could not be a priori. “Pouting” for days, even more so for weeks, is impossible to imagine. Still, they loved each other, they carried the feeling through their whole lives. They did not want to waste time on insults.

His relationship with his father was exceptionally trusting. I felt, understood, dad lived in my interests, and my younger sister, Elena, too. I was worried about the slightest nuances, some failures, failures. Rejoiced at our success.

In terms of choosing a life partner, probably by analogy with my father, I was also lucky. I knew the girl, who later became my wife, from school. We lived in the same yard, she is a couple of years younger.

In terms of marriage, parents did not have to consult. They knew my companion for a long time and well. In general, they were kind to her, my choice was approved immediately and unconditionally. Dad then said: “There are a lot of girls around. And you want to live in love and gradually grow old with only one person. And finding such a person is the most important thing.”

My grandfather, the famous football coach San Sanych Sevidov, lived with my grandmother, Lidia Dmitrievna, all the time until she died. After her death, he quickly left, he was so shocked by the loss of his beloved woman. Grandparents were buried at the Domodedovo cemetery.



FAVORITE PLACE - "RAZGULYAY"



My father is a very sociable person. But I would not say that our house was bursting with guests. Yuri Alexandrovich preferred to spend his free time from football activities in a narrow family circle. Here is how it was explained.

At the end of his active playing career, dad coached mostly non-Moscow clubs. Ryazan "Spartak", for example, Vologda and Makhachkala "Dynamo". Upon returning to the capital, of course, he wanted to be with the children and his mother, he simply missed his native people.

We talked sincerely with dad: jokes, laughter, practical jokes. My father was happy to take me to the rides during such periods when I was little. Even in the days of the player, dad became close friends with partners who became his close friends. Valery Reingold, Gennady Logofet.



The company was supported by businessman Vladimir Beniashvili. The four of us liked to sit in the popular Razgulay restaurant on Spartakovskaya street, next to Elokhovskaya church. A beautiful place, I must say.

I regularly went to Sokolniki to play football with people who have become, in fact, family to me. There I met the son of the famous goalkeeper Vladimir Maslachenko, he also played ball with us.

Again, my father is a very domestic person. Therefore, probably, he almost did not maintain relations with people from different fields of activity. With the same film and theater actors, for example. Although many Spartacists from the time of the pope and later were friends, it's no secret, with representatives of the artistic environment.

Of course, my father did not sit at home without getting out. I met with friends, mainly from the world of football. His native habitat. I talked, as a rule, during the matches of the veterans, as I have already told. Then, yes, we went to restaurants, almost a mandatory program. Sometimes, however, they did without it, they immediately started home with dad after the next game in Sokolniki.

My father and grandfather, San Sanych, preferred to listen to jazz, - the son of Yuri Sevidov, Alexander, continues his story. – And not so much classical jazz as specific. Not individual performance, but different groups. In general, as a child, I didn’t even hear our music, so it happened. Although my peers enjoyed the songs of the same Rosenbaum. Frankly, I learned about such artists, their work much later.

I would come home after school and plunge into the world of Western music. Dad, comfortably seated on the sofa, constantly listened to her. American, English. Again, I'm not ashamed to say that Yuri Alexandrovich told me about Michael Jackson. Although it would seem that it should be the other way around.



“I COULD NOT PLAY A FOOL IN SPARTAK”



I loved fiction, I just read avidly. My father, I will tell you, seriously hurt his back at the end of his career as a football player. One of the reasons, perhaps the main ones, why he rarely got out somewhere. I was forced to lie down, which is also why I found the opportunity to literally “swallow” my favorite things.

After a while, together with his dad, my grandfather, San Sanych Sevidov, he went to Baku to train the local Neftchi. He helped San Sanych prepare local football players for matches.

They found a healer there who cured my father's back in just a matter of moments. After that, the pain never made itself felt until the death of the pope. And before that, he just suffered, suffered. It turns out that the back hurt for decades, until they found a miracle doctor.

Father did not consider himself, in fact, a Soviet person. In his way of thinking, rather, he was an anti-Soviet, well, quite a moderate one. I did not perceive the Soviet system internally.

He read Bunin, but Dostoevsky seemed to us a little heavy for perception. I remember discussing literary moments with him, some novelties that appeared at that time. My father knew a lot of things from different spheres of life, because he “shoveled” a lot of literature, and not only fiction.

Yes, the majority of Spartacists are developed people, I would say, intellectuals. After all, the game itself, to which they devoted the best years of their lives, is subtle, smart. Especially, I think, during the time of my father and his wonderful partners in the club. Dad sometimes said, characterizing teammates, their actions on the field: “Sasha, a fool could not play with us. If a person is limited, it is immediately obvious, conspicuous. It opened in the wrong place, gave the ball away in the wrong way, ”and the like.



"DO YOU REMEMBER ME?!"



- My mother is the daughter of a diplomat, her father worked in the Foreign Ministry. Their family lived in a rather privileged area, on Leninsky Prospekt, - Alexander Sevidov continues the story. - In the so-called red foreign houses. It is clear that at that time they did not buy apartments, they were received from departments and organizations. Mom said that at their houses, in fact, Moscow was ending at that time. Further - the fields of rye stretched. By the way, one of the neighbors was the famous actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov.

Mother is a person who is very far from sports, football. In any case, at the time of meeting with the pope. And when my future parents were introduced, my mother had no idea that in front of her was a famous player. The rising "star" of Soviet football. Yes, a very well-groomed young man. In a fashionable tie, a shirt that was just as modern at that time.

Galina Mikhailovna in the period in question, just Galya, only graduated from the tenth grade of the school. Dad is four years older. Already shone with a game on the football fields as part of Spartak.

According to the mother herself, dad seemed to her very mature, and such a dandy. She never thought that they would have anything in common. Yuri seemed to her a celestial, a man from another planet.

Here is a young, 16-year-old girl coming out of the school building. Here he stands, it turned out, waiting for her. “Galya, do you remember me? We met three days ago." The girl seemed to be deafened by thunder. It all happened so unexpectedly. Communication continued, young people began to meet.

Mom was not even eighteen at that time. Later they began to live together. "Spartak" allocated a brand new apartment to his forward, who showed great promise. The young couple had no problems with housing.

In 1962, dad, as part of Spartak, won the gold medals of the country's champions. P fame, money, people's love, recognition came. It seemed to live and rejoice... At the end of the championship season, my father became the top scorer along with the wonderful striker of Neftchi Baku Eduard Markarov. Both have sixteen goals scored.

A very strange, truly fatal and very tragic date is February 11th. In my opinion, at least. On the same day, with a difference of ten years, amazing people died - Valery Leonidovich Reingold and our dad. My birthday is also the eleventh, painted in gloomy tones.

... Mom never reproached her beloved for the lack of money in the family. However, these periods were short-lived. Dad did not lie on the couch waiting for "manna from heaven." He always did something so that the family, at least, did not live in poverty.

He tried to invest in business, to do business. I even flew to China, I remember, then nothing happened. Still, he is not a businessman, in his spirit. But, I repeat, I did not sit idly by, constantly on the move, did not lose optimism. Sometimes the money invested in the "promotion" of the idea went nowhere. No one is immune from mistakes, including our dad. Do not scold the same for this last words. The man tried.

My father started something new anyway. I did not shy away from the simplest, at first glance, work. He drove people home in his car, as they say, “bombed”. Not only worked as a taxi driver. I made business contacts with some of my clients on a commercial basis.

Mom also did not shun work. At one time, she served as a housekeeper for a very famous person from media structures. Our family has known him for a long time. And he somehow suggested to his mother: “Galya, let me give you money, give it back later. I'm embarrassed that you have to work." He spoke out of the best of intentions, not trying to humiliate.

Mom calmly replied in the spirit that "for us this is unacceptable." And she continued to sit with the producer's children, looked after them. Watched the house, maintained order in it. This went on for several years in a row, my mother even flew with him and the children abroad. By the way, the children became very attached to our mother, she became, in fact, a nanny for them.

Later, when dad developed relationships with representatives of the media, the family lived on his income. Mom, of course, left the producer's family, leaving her job as a nanny. Returned home.

In a word, they overcame the difficulties that arose. It has never been a problem for parents to work, including for my mother. They willingly took up this or that business in order to feed the children. From the outside, I, in a good way, was surprised at my mother's patience, her desire to overcome everything and everything. How, however, dad was lucky with such a wife! However, my mother received complete reciprocity from her beloved husband.

Now many ladies have completely different attitudes in life. At the heart of which is often one commercialism. Our parents could not have this a priori. People of a different warehouse, with high spirituality, subtle perception, smart, loving. They evoked sincere admiration from my sister and me.



"DROP ME, GALIA!"



How I admired the wonderful trinity Logofet - Reingold - Sevidov. Their relationship is perhaps the standard of friendship, devotion to her. In my opinion, Yuri Alexandrovich was a kind of leader of the beautiful trio of famous Spartacists. Perhaps one of the Spartak veterans will not agree with me. But I did not mean to offend anyone, I apologize in advance if anything.



Papa loved to tease and tease his long-term friends, Logofet and Reinhold. And absolutely harmless. I speak confidently, because I myself witnessed verbal escapades, absolutely cool.

They took me to such gatherings when Spartak veterans played. After the match we went to cafes and restaurants. I repeat, no one was offended by dad's jokes. By that time, my father had long mastered the art of communicating with different people.

Dad is a multifaceted person, he did not focus on one football, his problems. In the late 80s, early 90s, he organized his own cooperative with the characteristic name "Forward". They made sports banners. Actually, the period when many of us had a hard time, life was not easy. I had to survive.

Rental was in use - silk screen printing. Father himself got up to the machine, rolled brand new pennants. Nice things came out. We have a few more football players who have completed performances in big-time sports. So dad gave them work. Yuri Aleksandrovich concluded agreements with organizations on the sale of our products. Very real things that we did with our own hands.

He could say: guys, I'm one of the co-founders of the cooperative, I'll go prepare the papers. You are working here without me. No, he got up to the machine. Showed how and what to do.

Amazingly, in any area that he touched, he wanted to achieve the maximum. Know literally anything and everything. Feel with your own hands, mind, show skill. Realize what you have planned. According to the horoscope, dad is “Horse”. People of this sign themselves reach everything, they will carry, and do, as they say, with a personal hump. Just a good guy.

The father, in his words, escaped the most terrible situations. in prison. Possible physical abuse, beatings, for example. Perhaps God ordered not to touch him. Although, of course, anything could happen in prison. The environment is harsh, some broke.

Dad was in prison near Vorkuta, the climate, of course, is the same. Young mother and father are married at the time of imprisonment. A young, fragile girl regularly visited her beloved in the zone.

She carried six bags. Three in her hands, she pushed one, returned after the other two, and continued on her way. He lay through the dense, almost impenetrable taiga. Sometimes I thought that the living would not return, I was exhausted. Everything looked so bleak.

“Who are you going to?” - the colorful-looking citizens at the wheel of an old truck turned. "To Sevidov". Compassionate drivers undertook to give young Galya a lift. Apparently, the father was respected, sympathized with him. Probably, he knew how to put himself among the prisoners, communicated with them on an equal footing.

Later, my father was transferred from the strict regime zone to a settlement in the Belarusian town of Grodno. There were some indulgences, however, he was obliged to report to the prison authorities. It was forbidden to leave the city limits. Those are the rules.

Papa was initially “shone” for ten (!) Years of imprisonment. Even before the verdict was passed, the father told his young wife during the process: “Galya, leave me. Ten years is an abyss between us. Years - "down the drain." Think about yourself and your life, about happiness with another person. Not a pose, not a paternal drawing. He really represented the situation. “You can say whatever you want,” Mom answered. “I won’t leave you anywhere.” Such is the sublime, in the best sense, love that these amazing, amazing people carried through their whole lives.

I was born in 1968. Mom gave birth in Moscow, of course. And dad - that's a serious risk! - incognito, illegally arrived in the capital. To meet my mother at the gates of the maternity hospital, to hold her little son in her arms. Thank God it worked out. Father's absence from the settlement in Grodno was not noticed, not recorded. Otherwise, they returned him to the colony, it is still unknown how everything turned out.



Alexey Matveev

To be continued

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