Exactly ten years ago, the country heard the melodic hit “School Romance” performed by Natalia STURM. Other popular songs, filming in TV series and tours around the country soon followed. But recently, almost nothing has been heard about the singer. And suddenly Natalya decided to remind herself - she is preparing a book of memories for printing. In it, Natasha will talk not only about her relationships with husbands, show business stars and composers, but also with Roman ABRAMOVICH himself! EG special correspondents met with the aspiring writer and learned many secrets.
“The book somehow came to me by itself,” Natalya began the conversation. — I studied at a literary school. The teachers said that there was talent. And life itself throws up topics. For example, the now famous actor Maxim Sukhanov studied in the same class with me. The girls ran after him in herds. I was in love with him too. Usually, when I entered school, Max was always standing at the mirror and combing his hair.
I laughed: “Well, where are you itching? You already have three hairs left!” He started going bald very early. But the most comical thing is that for all his enormous growth, he had a tiny one: a briefcase. Probably nothing could fit in it except a comb. Unfortunately, we did not succeed in continuing the novel.
— Roman Abramovich also studied at your school...
- Yes. In a parallel class. He was a very diligent and smart guy. Abramovich tried to court me, but he was so timid that it did not inspire me. Another thing is Slavka Nevinny, the son of the great actor Vyacheslav Nevinny! He even dedicated poems to me, I still remember them by heart. After school every day we went to his house on Gorky Street and spent hours together. While dad wasn't home. To be honest, I was afraid of Innocent Sr., and as soon as he appeared on the threshold, I immediately tried to sneak away.
All covered in chocolate
— Are you currently dating your first husband, actor Sergei Deev?
“I still have a good relationship with him. He calls, comes and visits his daughter. It’s with my common-law husband, singer Alexander Novikov, that I try not to intersect at all. When I hear his songs on the radio, I immediately switch the wave. I cut him out of my life forever. I am disgusted by Alexander’s manner of promoting himself through dirty scandals. The fact that he calls Pugacheva an old woman, criticizes homosexuals and blabbers about how he won me at cards is absolutely disgusting! Well, isn't it normal guy behaves like this?!
— With entrepreneur Igor Pavlov, your last husband, you also didn’t part very peacefully:
— It was a terrible story. The most offensive thing is that it all started like in a fairy tale. I couldn’t even believe that such unearthly love could exist! He showered me with amazing gifts. Wedding ring for ten thousand dollars, which he gave me for my wedding, I still wear it.
And then, when I gave birth to my son Arsyusha, a black cat ran between us. I decided to leave and told him about it. He immediately came home, took the child and said that until we were divorced and the baby was awarded to me, the son would live with him. I haven’t seen Arseny for almost six months! She walked around all black and lost a lot of weight. I prayed every day for everything to end soon. Then Katya Lel said to me: “If you forgive him, it will immediately become easier!” And Sasha Peskov even suggested going to church and lighting a candle for Igor’s health: I followed the advice of friends - I even accepted my ex-husband’s invitation to go and unwind in Los Angeles. To admire the canyons there, he even rented a helicopter. It was an amazing trip.
— Have you been lucky with men in life?
— Quite the opposite: I recently read about Evgeny Zharikov. His mistress gave a frank interview. To be honest, Zharikov pestered me too. Terrible womanizer! Yes, we women usually choose the wrong ones who are worthy of us. Maybe I should have married Roma Abramovich - now I would be covered in chocolate.
Novikov has always been distinguished by his straightforward disposition, opposing himself to the entire show business, distributing negative assessments to his colleagues right and left.
Usually the path of singing truth-tellers is as follows: a successful album, a bad album, show-offs and tongue-in-cheek, an unsuccessful album or one that is not allowed to reach the general public, then goodbye.
With Novikov, the situation is light. It’s difficult to knock him off, he’s too bright, a strong personality who doesn’t follow anyone. He writes poetry and music himself, invests his own money in promotion, and he has it.
In the mid-1990s, Novikov decided to start producing for himself.
Let’s talk about this experience, where success was coupled with disappointment.
We are talking about the singer Natalya Sturm, who is not forgotten, because she constantly reminds of herself with stories either about the affairs of ancient days, or about things not related to music.
Here we must admit that Natalya is truly gifted, but she could not break through to a wide audience for a long time. She studied vocals with Sotkilava, sang in the troupe of the Jewish Chamber Theater and tried to conquer the stage.
In 1991, Natasha got a chance and immediately disappeared. She won the “Show Queen” competition, which was organized by Joseph Kobzon. Subsequent events very well characterized the morals of that time.
Sturm said:
“I still have a tape where all the organizers - Messrs. Sukhorado, Maruchev, all Kobzon’s henchmen and himself - vying with each other to predict a stellar career and serious promotion for me. But then some kind of bed showdowns began: who to sleep with first and who to be with in general. I will not name specific names, because it is dangerous. They are very famous people, rich and, so to speak, orderly, that is, they have the image of decent people. What I always think about with laughter when I see their handsome faces on television.”
Grandmothers decided everything. Yes, a “catchy” repertoire was required, a “chip” presentation, but this could be adjusted if you came with a bag of money or gave up your body. Natalya likes to remember how many times they tried to get her into bed, promising broadcasts. She preferred to sell things.
Having bought a song from a famous composer, Sturm shot a video and uploaded it to television. To get such a toy I had to pawn it and almost lose my apartment.
At this difficult moment, Natasha met Novikov.
He recalled:
“We met Natasha by chance. At the Moscow Variety Theater. I looked there for a minute. For some business. ...
...Stayed for the concert. I listened to her speech. I really didn't like the songs. The lyrics are absolutely mediocre, even though they were written by famous songwriters. I said this directly: “Natasha, the sooner you throw these texts in the trash, the sooner you will become famous.” - “Where can I get other songs? You have to pay a lot. And I have big money No!" - “I’ll write to you.”
Novikov made his first producing mistake when he contrasted Natasha, a young girl with no established connections, with the entire stage.
The title of Sturm’s album “I’m not inflatable” seemed to hint that Natasha was a real singer and not a one-time singer. Meanwhile, this still had to be proven. Preferably with songs, and not producer statements like:
“There is a magnificent singer Natasha Sturm, she came to replace all this “Pugachevism”, a narrow circle of so-called stars - a near-hemline pack that revolves around Pugacheva’s hem. Alla made a huge contribution to art, but now she is funny. I feel sorry for her. She must give way to Natalya Sturm"
Kosterya show business Novikov simultaneously used PR methods to promote his ward, for which it is difficult to praise. So he came up with and told the journalists of “Speed-info” a cartoon that he won the singer and her contract at cards. Suddenly this story became inseparable from the image of Natasha. At first she was lenient about it.
“It was a joke. If Alexander had said that he met me at the Lenin Library, no one would have believed it. And the cards are a beautiful legend. They fall on the image of a tough guy who spent time in the camps.”
But years will pass, and when asked how her career would have developed without Novikov’s participation, Sturm will answer:
“...I think it's better. In terms of, let’s say, status, it’s much better. Because the producer’s job is to elevate his singer, right? And don’t spoil her reputation and don’t humiliate her with various inventions, like, “I won her at cards”... Remember this monstrous lie in “Speed Info”?
The height of shamelessness! But, by the way, I have a conservatory education... And he actually met me not just anywhere, but at the Variety Theater at my solo concert.”
So, what do we have with the songs? That is, for the sake of what everything was started?
In her first album, “I’m Not Inflatable,” Natasha sang the hit “School Romance,” by which she was remembered for the rest of her creative life.
The second album was called “School Romance” - and the main song in it was still the same.
THIS IS HOW THE ALBUM TITLE COMBINES WITH AUNT DESABILLIER? WHY DID SHE GET UNdressed?
Natalya became quite recognizable, but there was no second “School Romance” in her career.
In 1997, she decided to break up with Novikov and take care of herself. She said this about the reasons for the separation:
“Novikov likes to do everything himself. He is a very categorical person. I know that for any other singer it is a great happiness to get to such a producer. I'm just crazy to give it up. I don’t have to strain myself to do something myself. I come to his studio, sing a ready-made song that fits my image perfectly. With a ready-made arrangement and all musical parts. And this is where my participation in the creation of the album ends. Novikov is a great producer.
...Now I want to sing the way I want. And I feel ripe for this"
Third album " Street artist” again turned on “School Romance”. I don’t know how “Street Artist” sold, but after the third album, Natalya, who had seized control of freedom, sharply slowed down.
According to her, the fame went like this:
“In general, I decided to take a break for about a year. Moreover, there was a default in the country... But, apparently, I delayed this pause a little...
...Meanwhile, a huge number of all kinds of projects, new groups, singers, singers were born in Russia. And, in short, my production ingenuity was not enough to understand in which direction to move next.”
The fourth album failed. The fifth, although it was recorded, was not released at all. For some time, Natasha decided to retrain as a writer, having written five novels, but not receiving the expected “hype” she curtailed this activity.
Every year she spoke more and more harshly about Novikov, provoking a rebuke from the latter.
“Let what she says remain on her conscience. Why would I comment on fantasies when I know the truth? When we ended our collaboration, we agreed that we would not speak publicly about each other. I kept my word, she didn’t.”
What is left for us from this cooperation?
We know the matter, “School Romance”...
Natalya Sturm is a woman with her own destiny and her own special path in the world of show business. She is known to her fans as a bright, original singer. But what kind of person do her family and friends know?Separating real life and pop creativity, our today's heroine has always been able to be very, very different. That is why today we decided to lift the veil of secrecy a little and tell some interesting facts from the life of a famous pop singer.
Early years, childhood and family of Natalia Sturm
Natalya Yuryevna Sturm was born in Moscow on June 28, 1966. Her father left the family quite early, and therefore her mother and grandmother were involved in raising the girl. Despite the fact that the genealogy of our today’s heroine’s family goes back to the ancient noble family of the Staritskys, this had virtually no effect on her life. As a child, Natasha did not live well, because her grandmother’s pension and her mother’s editor’s salary were not always enough.That is why Natalya Sturm has tried to help her family since childhood. She was constantly busy with household chores, and therefore she had almost no time for rest and entertainment.
Thus, her only outlet in childhood was music. Natalya Sturm began studying music at the age of six. During this period, she began to attend classes at the Dunaevsky Music School, where, under the supervision of sensitive teachers, she learned to play the piano. In addition, the future celebrity was also involved in art in secondary school. The thing is that school No. 232, where Natasha studied, was distinguished by its literary and theatrical bias, and therefore special emphasis was placed on these subjects.
After receiving secondary education, Natalya Sturm decided to continue moving along her chosen path. At seventeen she signed up for preparatory courses Moscow State Conservatory, where she began to study the characteristics of operatic vocals under the supervision of the famous teacher Zurab Sotkilava. During this period, our today's heroine already decided for herself that she would one day become a famous singer. However, in those years she dreamed not of the pop stage, but of the opera stage.
Surprisingly, it was her musical mentors who decided to push Natalya Sturm towards pop music. Seeing the girl’s plasticity, as well as her striking external data, the conservatory teachers, one after another, advised the girl to think about pop art. In the end, Natasha did just that.
Natalya Sturm - School Romance
In 1985, our today’s heroine began studying at the pop department of the October Revolution Music School. In parallel with this, the young artist also began performing with the Jewish musical theater ensemble, and some time later she moved to another group - the State Folklore Ensemble of Vladimir Nazarov.
Star Trek singer Natalia Sturm
In 1991, in the city of Sochi, Natalya Sturm became the winner of the variety festival “Show-Queen-91”, which was held under the patronage of Joseph Kobzon. After this victory, the artist began to receive interesting offers of cooperation from various ensembles of the USSR one after another. As a result, our today’s heroine found herself part of another Jewish group, “Mitsva,” which became her main place of work for several years.Performing as part of this group, Natalya Sturm became quite famous in the area Soviet Union, and then - the CIS. Even without knowing the Hebrew language, the girl still managed to perform compositions in Hebrew and Yiddish with unusual brightness and inspiration. The audience and other musicians of the ensemble loved her. However, at one fine moment Natalya Sturm still decided to leave the pop and folk group.
Sturm_Street Artist.
In 1993, the singer began to work closely with composer Alexander Novikov, who soon wrote her first hits for the artist. A year later, Natalia Sturm’s first album, “I’m Not Inflatable,” appeared on the shelves of music stores, literally followed by another one, “School Romance.” The last of these records brought the girl particular success. Natalya Sturm began to often give concerts and also appear on radio and television.
Thus, the nineties became a golden time in the singer’s career. During this period, the artist often gave interviews, appeared in various programs and gave concerts in Russia and other CIS countries. Soon, Natalya Sturm also surprised all her fans with her candid photo shoot for Playboy magazine. A series of erotic photographs caused a great resonance, but in the end brought the singer only a new portion of popularity.
However, soon the creative union of the singer with composer and producer Novikov unexpectedly fell apart. Natalya Sturm is now forced to do the selection of musical material, as well as the production of her new album “Street Artist” herself.
Despite the fact that the album turned out to be quite successful, subsequently a series of failures awaited the Russian singer. Due to her long work in America, the artist’s popularity in her homeland began to slowly decline. As a result, Natalia Sturm’s next album was released only five years later and remained virtually unnoticed by the audience. Despite the fact that the singer's concerts still continued, the format of her performances became noticeably different.
Natalya Sturm currently
One of the main stars of the nineties was slowly dissolving into the past, and therefore at some point Natalya Sturm decided to retire.Currently, the artist performs quite rarely. However, his creative career did not stop there. Today, the once famous pop singer is writing books. Between 2006 and 2012, Natalya Sturm released five successful novels, thus opening up a new side of her talent.
Personal life of Natalia Sturm
Even in her youth, the artist married a man named Sergei Deev, who studied with her at a music school. Soon the lovers had a daughter, Lena. However, after four years, the marriage broke up due to insurmountable differences between the spouses.Subsequently, in 2003, Natalya Sturm married a certain businessman named Igor. The new husband turned out to be despotic and hot-tempered, and therefore scandals often began to occur in the family. Even the birth of their common son, Arseny, did not improve the situation. As a result, the couple divorced and began to live separately.
Natalya Sturm, who once sang about a school romance, made a difficult confession for herself.
It turns out that for many years now ex-husband constantly beats her. And she is unable to change the situation - the singer has to endure beatings in order to meet with her son Arseny, whose support the ex-husband took upon himself.
Natalya lived with businessman Igor Pavlov briefly and unhappily, but it was in this marriage that her son Arseny was born in 2004. About my difficult life and her husband, Sturm later wrote several books and gave a considerable number of interviews. But it turned out that even after the official divorce, she still had to meet with her ex-husband and endure constant beatings.
Why such sacrifices? It turns out that it is Igor who provides for the boy. Just for studying at the Lomonosov school, which is located on Nikolina Gora in the village of Uspenskoye, you have to shell out more than a million rubles. Natalya cannot bear such expenses, but she really wants to give her child a good education. So you have to endure...
“I WOULD BEAT SUCH MOMS SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT REPRODUCE”
Since the relationship between the former spouses is very strained, almost every meeting ends in a scandal, sometimes with assault. Therefore, Natalya, according to her, even began to carry a gas canister - just in case there was a firefighter.
As the singer said, Igor’s aggressiveness is most likely caused by his addiction to drinking. According to Natalya, he’s just drinking himself to death! However, the ex-husband also did not remain silent and gave his version of what was happening.
She loves only two things - money and herself. I have been raising my son for 13 years. She rarely sees him, disappears for four months - and he only feels better. Because I teach Arseny to love his Motherland, but she hates it. And anyway, what normal mother can calmly not see her son for four months?! I would take such mothers by the legs, spin them around and hit them against a concrete corner so that they would not reproduce...
Judging by these words, the relationship between the ex-spouses is really tense. However, Natalia is also to blame for this. After all, lately she has become too interested in her personal life. And wow, she’s so stormy!
GROOM 20 YEARS YOUNGER
Sturm’s first husband was actor Sergei Deev, whom she met within the walls of her alma mater, a music school. It was in this marriage that daughter Elena was born, who today has become her mother’s best friend.
Then Natalya had a high-profile affair with the bard Alexander Novikov, but the singer, who is usually quite frank with journalists, prefers not to comment on that relationship: they say, it was, but it’s gone, what can I say about it.
After a difficult divorce from Igor Pavlov, Natalya for a long time I didn’t start relationships - I generally tried to stay away from men. But you never know where and when love will overtake you. In the year of her half-century (!) anniversary, Sturm fell in love like a girl, and now sometimes she does romantic and even somewhat crazy things. 
Natalia's current boyfriend, a young man named Tigran, is almost 20 years younger than the singer. She met him absolutely by accident on the plane. Moreover, the guy did not even suspect that the fellow traveler, who managed to turn his head during a couple of hours of flight, was in fact a well-known person in Russia. The fact is that Tigran has been living in Amsterdam for 15 years and is simply not aware of Russian realities.
I came there to go to university. Yes, it remained that way,” Natalya proudly talks about her chosen one. - Now he has two higher education. Works in a bank, analyst. Knows Dutch, German, English, Armenian and Russian perfectly.
So now the lovers live in two countries, using every opportunity for another date. Let’s say Natalya can wake up in the morning, realize that she’s missed her, and fly to Amsterdam in the evening... 
DAUGHTER IS IN THE KNOW
The romance had already gone so far that Natalya introduced Tigran to her daughter Elena. And she immediately became friends with the boyfriend of her always young mother. As Lena says, the main thing for her is the happiness of her mother, whose eyes are now simply shining thanks to new love.
The age difference doesn't bother Sturm at all. She believes that the numbers in the passport are real life sometimes they have no relation at all. And the singer looks really beautiful. Thanks to good genetics, excellent plastic surgeons and persistent will. Because Natalya puts a lot of effort into staying in good shape.
I've been doing fitness for over 20 years. “I go to the gym twice a week,” says Sturm. - I don’t follow any diet. I taught myself not to like flour, sweets, not to eat fried foods, not to drink carbonated drinks, alcohol. And this has become so established in me that I don’t even have the desire to break the regime.
So the singer of the school romance is sure: the age difference in her relationship with Tigran is definitely not a hindrance!
Natalya Yuryevna Shturm. Born on June 28, 1966 in Moscow. Russian singer and writer.
Her parents separated when she was still young. Natalya was raised by her mother and grandmother.
According to the artist’s stories, she comes from an ancient noble family of princes Staritsky.
From the age of six she studied piano at the Dunaevsky Music School.
In 1982, she graduated from literary and theater school No. 232 and entered the preparatory department of the Moscow State Conservatory in vocal class with Zurab Sotkilava.
In 1984 she entered the music school named after October Revolution, which she graduated in 1989, teacher S.V. Kaitanjyan. Since 1987 - member of the troupe of the Jewish Chamber Musical Theater. At the same time, she played in the play “The Threepenny Opera” at the “Third Direction” theater-studio.
In 1989 she entered the State Folk Ensemble under the direction of V. Nazarov.
In 1990 she graduated from Moscow state institute culture - department of bibliographic studies of literature and art.
In 1991 at All-Russian competition“Show Queen” Natalya won first place and the audience award. This was her first solo performance. After that, for some time she was a soloist of the Jewish song ensemble “Mitzvah”.
In September 1993, as a result of their acquaintance, their creative collaboration began. They met by chance at the Moscow Variety Theater. Novikov created material for the singer’s two albums and acted as her producer.
There was a widespread legend, started by Novikov himself, that he allegedly won the singer at cards from certain mafia structures. However, this was a PR stunt to generate public interest. “It was a joke. If Alexander had said that he met me at the Lenin Library, no one would have believed it. And the cards are a beautiful legend. They fit the image of a tough guy who spent time in the camps,” Natalya Sturm later admitted.
The most famous songs are “Strange Meeting”, “Street Artist”, “The School Romance Is Finished”, “Komsomolsk-on-Amur”, “Your Airplane”.
Natalya Sturm - The school romance is over
Natalia Shturm - Street artist
“Happiness is when your songs are known and loved, when the audience is waiting for you, when after a concert they don’t tell you that you are beautiful and that you have a good figure, but they say that you have a very beautiful voice,” the singer said.
It caused great resonance in the mid-1990s candid photo shoot for Playboy magazine.
Natalia Sturm - Playboy
In May 1997, Natalya was invited to the television series “Golden Palace”, but the film was never released. At the same time, she herself is producing her new album “Street Artist”.
In 2002, he released his fourth album “Mirror of Love” and a video of the same name with the participation of. But the album was not successful, and the singer’s popularity began to gradually decline.
Natalya took up writing - she began writing detective stories and novels.
She practically does not make music, but sometimes performs in nightclubs, at corporate events and retro discos.
Natalia Sturm's height: 170 centimeters.
Personal life Natalia Sturm:
First husband - Sergei Deev. We met when we studied together at a music school. In 1989, she gave birth to his daughter Elena.
Daughter Elena was married to a Turkish citizen. She broke up with her ex-husband in 2014 with a scandal - they even got into a fight in the hotel.
Natalya was married to businessman Igor Pavlov. Their son Arseny was born in 2004. Soon after the boy was born, they divorced. The ex-husband accused the singer of stealing his property. At the same time, even after the divorce, her ex-husband repeatedly beat her.
Son Arseny lives with his millionaire father, he pays for the boy’s elite school. According to the agreement of the spouses, the child lives with his father for five days and spends the weekends with his mother. However, Igor said that Natalya could disappear for four months and not see her son. “She loves only two things - money and herself. I’ve been raising my son for 13 years, she rarely sees him, she disappears for four months, but it only makes him feel better,” said Igor Pavlov.
In 2017, Natalya announced that she was living in Spain with her new man, Tigran Harutyunyan. He is 17 years younger than the singer.
In June 2018, the singer became the heroine of a sex scandal because of her ex-partner. It was the singer’s intimate video that was made public.
Plastic surgeries of Natalia Sturm
Made a series plastic surgery at the Frau Klinik Clinic of Plastic Surgery and Cosmetology. Sergei Blokhin performed the operations on her. To eliminate age-related changes, she underwent a circular facelift and upper blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery). In addition, Sturm underwent a complex of cosmetic procedures: they eliminated wrinkles in the décolleté area using hyaluronic acid injections, and Botox injections helped get rid of wrinkles on the forehead and “crow’s feet” in the eye area.
Filmography of Natalia Sturm:
1983 - Tender Age
1997 - Golden Palace (not released)
2000 - Detectives
2008 - Law and Order
2008 - 220 volts of love
Discography of Natalia Sturm:
1994 - “I’m not inflatable”
1995 - “School Romance”
1997 - “Street Artist”
2002 - “Mirror of Love”
Bibliography of Natalia Sturm:
2006 - “Love is the color of blood” (novel)
2010 - “Die, creature, or Love the color of loneliness” (novel)
2011 - “Strict Security School, or Love in the Color of Youth” (novel)
2012 - “The Sun in Parentheses” (thriller)
2012 - “School strict regime, or Love in the Color of Youth"
2013 - “All shades of pain”
