After watching Lena Katina's music video, her 8 year-old brother decided never to have sex.
We write about Tatu all the time, with details. But some of our readers complained that we only write about one Tatu girl, Julia Volkova. Indeed, we talked about her first sexual experience with her boyfriend Anton Hrulev ("EG" № 37, 2002.), we wrote about Julia's illness ("EG" №46, 2002.) and, discovered that Julia Volkova had an abortion ("EG" №7, 2003.).
There was not much known about another Tatu girl, Lena Katina. To correct that mistake, we decided to visit Lena’s hometown Dolgoprudnyi, and her grandmother – Asya Nikitichna Katina.
”To be honest, I don’t give interviews,” meat us Asya Nikitichna on her door step. “Journalists that are after sensation always involve my granddaughter.”
But, we told her that we are from “Express Gazeta”, and “famous” grandma let us in, made some drinks, and agreed to talk about her family.
Lena Katina’s Dad Was A Loser
”My husband took me to Dolgoprudnyi in 1959 from Bryansk. I finished institute of culture, worked as a corrector in Moscow’s publisher, and after having Serezha, went to work in City’s administration, they offered me a position of inspector of culture.”
Lena’s dad formed a group called “Dyuna” with Vitya Rubin.
”My son and Vitya Rubin went to the same school,” remembers Asya Nikitichna. “And in their teens, they boys became interested in music. Serezha did not have good marks at school, so I had to make sure that the boys did not run away from their classes to play on guitars. I really didn’t want my son to become a musician, and insisted him to join Balashehinskoe Army Architectural school. My husband is an architect. He worked in Mistore as the manager of works. My son entered the school, but he quit a year after, she failed the exams and went to serve the army.
”Serezha is very stubborn. He wanted to do music only. After the army, he worked in ensembles "Zdravstvyi pesnya!" (“Hello song!”) and "Arsenal" (No meaning – Kat). One time he came back from a concert, locked himself in his room, and wrote his first song "Russkyi narod" (“Russian people”). About the lost young people. It was then that he decided to create group “Dyuna”. And wrote a lot of famous songs: "Strana Limonia" (“Country Limonia”), “Privet s bol’shego boduna” ("Hello after being stoned").”
Married A French Model
”Later he entered a music college. There he met Inna. And fell in love. Soon Inna got pregnant with Lena, and we married them. I really loved my daughter-in-law Inna. But unfortunately, her relationship with Serezha was not a happy one. My son toured a lot. Was held up after concerts. Probably, Inna was not happy about that – she suspected that he was unfaithful to him. She once shred her troubles with me: she imagined that Serezha avoided being at home because they were not in love any more.
”In 1986 they came to me with the news: said that, they decided to live separately from each other. Serezha came to us from Moscow. And in 1990 in St. Petersburg’s festival "Shlyager-90" he met French model Natasha Kretova. She was 12 years younger then he. In 1992 they married. And my son moved to Paris. After two years they has a son, Vanya – very handsome boy. Real Frenchman. Lena really missed her dad.
Blue Lena
In 1996 came back to Russia alone, and explained to me, that he doesn’t feel right in Paris. His second wife and Vanya stayed in Paris. Vanya visited granddad and me during summer and winter holidays. Lena really loves her brother. One time Vanya confessed his feeling for her to me:
”Grandma, Lena is so beautiful. She is all in blue.”
Why “in blue” I didn’t know. One time, after watching Lena’s music video on TV, he did this… I was bathing him, and he was naked in the bath-tub, suddenly he said: "Grandma, please, no sex". I laughed.”
The Game Of Lesbian Love
”I am now writing a book about my son. In will contain his poems and photographs. I am not writing about Lena at the moment. But maybe I will someday.”
”Did Lena start to sing in Neposedi?”
”No, at first she practiced in child ensemble “Avenue”. The it was “Neposedi”, and the “Tatu”. Shapovalov warned us, relatives, that the group is going to be a scandalous one.”
”Are relatives paid for scandalous image?”
”No one gave us any money. We wouldn’t have taken it anyway.”
”Did you ever fight with Lena over her image?”
“How can you fight over that? It’s a role. She and Julia are acting it in a very believable way. Everyone just sees the negative sides of this lesbian project. But I can also see the positives. It’s not a secret, that there is such thing as gay love. Whether we want it or not. The girls are learning to accept it.”
”Aren’t you afraid that Lena might like to become a real lesbian?”
”I trust her. She is an independent person, she also learns psychology. She is a psychologist, and in life she is able to sort out her feelings.”
”Is Lena a conflictive person?”
”She terribly hates scandals, she likes to prevent them. That’s why in Tatu she has a more calm image then Julia. By the way, she still keeps in touch with her school friends, and likes to sort out their scandals.”
"Tatu" Will Last For Another Couple Of Years
”For how long is Lena planning to play a lesbian?”
”Despite big money, the lesbian image is fading away. And Tatu will fall apart. Another couple of years and that’s it. And the girls will start solo projects.”
”Does Lena have a boyfriend?”
”I have no right to discuss that. Lena does not fell in love easily, she is very choosy.”
”What happened to Lena’s mother Inna?”
”She re-married. They have a daughter, Katya, Lena’s sister. She is in 5th grade now. I treat her as my own grandchild. And if I am buying present, Katya receives one as well.”
”What do you do?”
”I and my husband are old. I started to do some art, because of boredom. My husband bought me colors and brushes, and I draw everything. I am not realistic, just drawing anything that comes into my mind. They even offered me to organize a exhibition here is Dolgoprudnoe.
Comments from a Specialist
Andrey Babin, manager of Moscow medico-psychological center.
”At 4 year of age, children start to realize their belonging to one sex or another. In girls it is called "complex of Electra". She determines her ideals. If everything in the family goes well, then the girl become similar to her mom, and has a happy family, and a husband as good and strong as her father. If the parents separate, father turns into a “bad” figure in the girls eyes, since he dumped her mother. He was weak and evil. In some cases, the child feels that it’s her fault that the father left. Men become negative objects. And the girls selects a new ideal - a girl. This idealization becomes lesbian love later on."
According to the Latest Rumors
* Julia’s boyfriend - Denis – used to work in strip-tease club “Cepplin”. But was forced to leave the job, since he gained weight.
* Lena Katina is bisexual. She has a boyfriend, and a girlfriend (not Julia Volkova), to which she makes love depending on her mood.
28 Feb 2003
Express Gazeta.
Translated by katbeidar
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