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Biography, life story of the Zaitsev Sisters
The Zaitsev sisters are a Russian female musical duet.
Childhood and youth
Elena and Tatyana Zaitsev are twins, exact copies of each other. The girls were born in Voronezh on December 16, 1953. Their father Nikolai Prokofievich was a military doctor and officer in the Soviet army. Mother Claudia Ivanovna took care of the housework and raising her daughters; she was a pianist and opera singer by training.
Lena and Tanya started singing as children. At the age of three, the sisters managed to sing in two voices. Due to the nature of their father’s work, who served in the Western Group of Forces, the girls spent their childhood years in the German Democratic Republic. As teenagers, the twins ended up in Kaluga, where they graduated from secondary school. Having received their certificates, the girls, who were drawn to songwriting, entered the All-Russian Creative Workshop of Pop Art in Moscow.
Career
In the 1970s, fate scattered Elena and Tatyana to different places. Due to family circumstances, Elena ended up in Germany, Tatyana remained in the USSR. Tanya sang in the capital's restaurants and dreamed of one day being reunited with her sister. And so it happened. In the 1980s, the Zaitsevs began to conduct joint concert activities. They started with competitions and festivals, where they declared themselves as professional singers, and over time they became sought-after artists. In 1994, on the stage of the State Central Concert Hall "Russia" Elena and Tatyana performed the song "Sister", which tells about the experiences of loved ones who find themselves far from each other.
In 1996, the duo released their debut album “Sister”. The following year, the sisters became laureates of the Ovation Award for the video clip for the song “Crazy Snow.”
The second collection of singers was released in 2004. Its title is “A Chance Meeting.” In the 2010s, Elena and Tatyana Zaitsev began touring various Las Vegas casinos, and a little later became quite famous singers in America.
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Elena's personal life
At the age of 16, Elena met a German named Rolf, an employee of the Lufthans airline. Rolf was much older than Lena, and he was also married. However, this did not stop Zaitseva from falling passionately in love with a handsome foreign man, marrying him two years later and leaving for his homeland. The first year of Elena and Rolf's life together was full of love and tenderness, but over time the family boat began to crack. Rolf began to visit his children from his first marriage more and more often, and Elena, who was still just a child herself, was terribly jealous of her husband for his past life. Tired of playing the role of a housewife, Elena left. The girl had to learn to live again. In Germany, she graduated from a school of designers and stylists.
Very soon, Otto, an international airline pilot from Holland, appeared in Elena’s life. Like Lena’s first husband, Otto was married at the time he met her. At first, Lena and Otto communicated as friends, but then a terrible tragedy occurred in the pilot’s life - his wife, a flight attendant, died in a plane crash. Elena lent her shoulder to Otto and gave him every support. Very soon they got married and settled in Holland.
It is noteworthy that Elena and Otto met in Moscow. Lena sometimes flew there to see her sister and attend her performances. After the wedding, Elena began to visit Moscow more and more often, in the end she moved there permanently, and the relationship with Otto somehow faded away on its own.
Tatyana's personal life
In the early 1980s, Tatyana Zaitseva became the wife of the director and founder of the first variety theater in Moscow, Yuri Cherenkov. In 1983, the couple had a son, Alexey. Alas, very soon the relationship between husband and wife deteriorated. The ex-lovers broke up. In 2011, Yuri passed away. And four years later, their son Alexey died tragically (the young man was doing parkour in the metro).
Tatiana's second husband was Nick Vissokovsky, a Russian-American businessman. Nick became the producer of the Zaitsev Sisters project and helped the singers get promoted.
Other activities
Elena Zaitseva served for some time on the board of directors of the Beverly Hills casino. One day, an unpleasant thing happened to this company. Due to the redistribution of property it was closed. The end of the casino's activities was accompanied by an attempt on Elena's life and the initiation of a criminal case against her. Subsequently, the charges against Zaitseva were dropped. After this incident, Elena went to live in the USA for some time.
Protection of homeless animals
In 2010, the Zaitsev sisters accused the military of the closed garrison in Nikolo-Uryupino (the singers’ cottage is located not far from this place) of shooting dogs. Elena and Tatyana regularly fed stray animals that lived on the territory of the garrison. One day, not 18 dogs came out to them, but only one. The Zaitsevs immediately decided to deal with the flayers. They came into conflict with one of the soldiers and beat him, according to the military. According to the sisters, several soldiers surrounded them and began to beat them, and they, two defenseless women, had to flee.
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"The Zaitsev Sisters" are a Russian female vocal duo of twins who became famous in the 1990s with their chanson-style song "Sister". They first appeared on the big stage at the instigation of Philip Kirkorov in 1991 (State Central Concert Hall “Russia”). Elena and Tatyana Zaitsev are laureates of the 1997 Ovation Prize for the video clip “Crazy Snow”. In 2010, after a series of publications and television programs, they became known as defenders of stray dogs.
Biography
Born on December 16, 1953 in Voronezh, Tatyana was born 15 minutes earlier. The sisters' father, Nikolai Prokofievich, was a military doctor, and their mother, Klavdia Ivanovna, was an opera singer and pianist by training.
Education - graduated from the All-Russian Creative Workshop of Pop Art.
The Zaitsev sisters have absolutely the same appearance. They spent their childhood in the GDR - their father served in the Western Group of Forces as an officer in the Soviet army, and the girls graduated from secondary school in Kaluga. At the age of 18, Elena Zaitseva married a German man named Rolf and went to live in Wiesbaden. After the divorce she returned to Moscow.
At this time Tatyana was also in the USSR and Russia, where she sang in Moscow restaurants. The song “Sister,” the lyrics of which tell about the experiences of two sisters, one of whom lives in Moscow and the other in Amsterdam, became the duo’s most famous song; the Zaitsevs first performed it at a concert at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall in Moscow in 1994.
Tatyana Zaitseva's first husband was Yuri Cherenkov, director, creator of the first variety theater in Moscow. Tatyana and Yuri lived for several years and separated. In this union, the couple had a son, Alexey (07/26/1983 - 11/15/2015). In 2011, Yuri passed away. Tatyana's current husband is a US citizen, Russian by birth, entrepreneur Nick Vissokovsky. He is also the producer of the creative duo. Thanks to his support, the Zaitsevs performed in Las Vegas at the Mirage, Venice and Flamingo casinos.
Elena was a member of the board of directors of the Beverly Hills casino. After a conflict related to the redistribution of property, an assassination attempt and the initiation of a criminal case against her (which was later closed), she left for the United States.
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Activities to protect stray animals
On November 24, 2010, the Zaitsev sisters became the main characters of the television program “Let Them Talk” by Andrei Malakhov. It was about the activities of the artists to save 18 stray dogs that lived in the territory of a closed military garrison next to their cottage in Nikolo-Uryupino, 10 km west of Moscow. The sisters accused the military of shooting the animals. As it turned out, the sisters made their way onto the territory of military unit No. 58142, where, in their opinion, the animals were shot and, having entered into a conflict with a soldier, beat him.
The sisters themselves told the radio channel Vesti.fm that on that day they entered the protected territory of the military unit and brought food for the flock, which they regularly fed, but instead of 18 dogs, only one came out to them. After an attempt to find out the fate of the animals, a conflict occurred that turned into assault. According to the sisters:
Discography
- Sister (1996)
- Chance Encounters (2004)
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An excerpt characterizing the Zaitsev Sisters
– Mais vous me meprisez, vous si pure, vous ne comprendrez jamais cet egarement de la passion. Ah, ce n "est que ma pauvre mere... [But you are so pure, you despise me; you will never understand this passion of passion. Ah, my poor mother...]“Je comprends tout, [I understand everything,”] answered Princess Marya, smiling sadly. - Calm down, my friend. “I’ll go to my father,” she said and left.
Prince Vasily, bending his leg high, with a snuffbox in his hands and as if extremely emotional, as if he himself was regretting and laughing at his sensitivity, sat with a smile of tenderness on his face when Princess Marya entered. He hurriedly brought a pinch of tobacco to his nose.
“Ah, ma bonne, ma bonne, [Ah, darling, darling.],” he said, standing up and taking her by both hands. He sighed and added: “Le sort de mon fils est en vos mains.” Decidez, ma bonne, ma chere, ma douee Marieie qui j"ai toujours aimee, comme ma fille. [The fate of my son is in your hands. Decide, my dear, my dear, my meek Marie, whom I have always loved like a daughter. ]
He went out. A real tear appeared in his eyes.
“Fr... fr...” Prince Nikolai Andreich snorted.
- The prince, on behalf of his pupil... son, makes a proposition to you. Do you want or not to be the wife of Prince Anatoly Kuragin? You say yes or no! - he shouted, - and then I reserve the right to say my opinion. Yes, my opinion and only my opinion,” added Prince Nikolai Andreich, turning to Prince Vasily and responding to his pleading expression. - Yes or no?
– My desire, mon pere, is never to leave you, never to separate my life from yours. “I don’t want to get married,” she said decisively, looking with her beautiful eyes at Prince Vasily and her father.
- Nonsense, nonsense! Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense! - Prince Nikolai Andreich shouted, frowning, took his daughter by the hand, bent her to him and did not kiss her, but only bending his forehead to her forehead, he touched her and squeezed the hand he was holding so much that she winced and screamed.
Prince Vasily stood up.
– Ma chere, je vous dirai, que c"est un moment que je n"oublrai jamais, jamais; mais, ma bonne, est ce que vous ne nous donnerez pas un peu d"esperance de toucher ce coeur si bon, si genereux. Dites, que peut etre... L"avenir est si grand. Dites: peut etre. [My dear, I will tell you that I will never forget this moment, but, my dearest, give us at least a small hope of being able to touch this heart, so kind and generous. Say: maybe... The future is so great. Say: maybe.]
- Prince, what I said is everything that is in my heart. I thank you for the honor, but I will never be your son's wife.
- Well, it’s over, my dear. Very glad to see you, very glad to see you. Come to yourself, princess, come,” said the old prince. “I’m very, very glad to see you,” he repeated, hugging Prince Vasily.
“My calling is different,” Princess Marya thought to herself, my calling is to be happy with another happiness, the happiness of love and self-sacrifice. And no matter what it costs me, I will make poor Ame happy. She loves him so passionately. She repents so passionately. I will do everything to arrange her marriage with him. If he is not rich, I will give her money, I will ask my father, I will ask Andrey. I will be so happy when she becomes his wife. She is so unhappy, a stranger, lonely, without help! And my God, how passionately she loves, if she could forget herself like that. Maybe I would have done the same!...” thought Princess Marya.
For a long time the Rostovs had no news of Nikolushka; Only in the middle of winter was a letter given to the count, at the address of which he recognized his son’s hand. Having received the letter, the count, frightened and hasty, trying not to be noticed, ran on tiptoe into his office, locked himself and began to read. Anna Mikhailovna, having learned (as she knew everything that was happening in the house) about the receipt of the letter, quietly walked into the count’s room and found him with the letter in his hands, sobbing and laughing together. Anna Mikhailovna, despite the improvement in her affairs, continued to live with the Rostovs.
- Mon bon ami? – Anna Mikhailovna said inquiringly, sadly and with a readiness for any kind of participation.
The Count began to cry even more. “Nikolushka... letter... wounded... would... be... ma сhere... wounded... my darling... countess... promoted to officer... thank God... How to tell the countess?...”
Anna Mikhailovna sat down next to him, wiped away the tears from his eyes, from the letter they had dripped, and her own tears with her handkerchief, read the letter, reassured the count and decided that before lunch and tea she would prepare the countess, and after tea she would announce everything, if God will help her.
Throughout dinner, Anna Mikhailovna talked about rumors of war, about Nikolushka; I asked twice when the last letter from him was received, although I knew this before, and noticed that it would be very easy, perhaps, to receive a letter today. Every time at these hints the countess began to worry and look anxiously, first at the count, then at Anna Mikhailovna, Anna Mikhailovna most imperceptibly reduced the conversation to insignificant subjects. Natasha, of the whole family, most gifted with the ability to sense shades of intonation, glances and facial expressions, from the beginning of dinner her ears pricked up and knew that there was something between her father and Anna Mikhailovna and something concerning her brother, and that Anna Mikhailovna was preparing. Despite all her courage (Natasha knew how sensitive her mother was to everything related to the news about Nikolushka), she did not dare to ask questions at dinner and, out of anxiety, ate nothing at dinner and spun around in her chair, not listening to her governess’s comments. After lunch, she rushed headlong to catch up with Anna Mikhailovna and in the sofa room, with a running start, threw herself on her neck.
Zaitseva Tatyana is a beautiful and talented woman with a difficult fate. Are you interested in the biography of the singer? Do you want to know the cause of death of her only son? We are ready to talk about this in detail and frankly.
Childhood and family
Our heroine was born in 1953 (December 16) in Voronezh. Exactly 15 minutes later, her twin sister Lena was born. In what family were future pop stars raised? Their mother, Klavdia Ivanovna, was a professional pianist and opera singer. She raised her children in strictness and obedience.
And his father, Nikolai Prokofievich, came from a family of Don Cossacks. He worked as a military doctor for many years. The family was friendly. Tatiana and Elena's parents are no longer alive. They were both killed by cancer.
The Zaitsevs lived in the GDR for several years. My father was sent to this country for work. But he could not part with his wife and children for a long time, so he took them with him.
When the twins turned 7 years old, they and their parents returned to Russia. Tanya and Lena attended a comprehensive school located in Kaluga. The girls were involved in music and sports.
Creative activity
After school, the Zaitsev sisters went to Moscow. Charming and talented girls were accepted into the All-Russian Pop Art Workshop named after. L. Maslyukova. They were diligent and responsible students.
The sisters' first performance on the big stage took place in the early 1980s. Lena and Tanya took part in a music competition held in Sochi. They were awarded the Ovation Award.
At the age of 18, Elena married a German and left for Germany. Our heroine remained in the USSR. She performed at local restaurants. At first, Tanya performed the song “Sister” solo. Many of you know her. The song tells the story of two sisters living in different cities. Tatyana passed all the words through her soul.
In 1994, at a concert at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall, the Zaitsevs performed this composition as a duet for the first time. Over the course of their entire career, they released two studio discs.
In the early 2000s, Tatyana Zaitseva moved to the USA to join her husband. Her son remained in Russia. Later, Elena arrived in Los Angeles. There was a place for her in the spacious house of Tanya and Neil. The twins performed in local casinos and clubs - where Russian-speaking rich people gathered.
Over time, they became bored with life in the “golden cage.” Zaitseva Tatyana announced to her husband her desire to return to Russia. He supported the decision of his beloved wife. In a short time, Neil completed the necessary documents and purchased a luxurious mansion in the Moscow region.
In 2010, the Zaitsev sisters reappeared on the Russian stage. Since then, they have often been invited to take part in concerts and filming of various television shows.
Tatyana Zaitseva: biography, personal life
Twin sisters have always been in demand among members of the opposite sex. There is nothing surprising. After all, they are bright, feminine, with a chiseled figure and a dazzling smile.
Zaitseva Tatyana twice formalized relationships with men. Her first husband was director Yuri Cherenkov. They were connected not only by great mutual love, but also by work. They created a wonderful tandem. Tanya performed songs, and her husband worked as an entertainer. Cherenkov negotiated concerts and dealt with all financial issues. Our heroine trusted him completely.
In July 1983, Yuri and Tatyana had a tiny son. The boy was named Alexey. Unfortunately, the happy family life was short-lived. A common child could not save the marriage from collapse. The couple realized that they had become strangers to each other. They parted quietly and peacefully. In 2011, Yuri passed away. Son Alexei had a hard time with his father's death.
New love
In 1997, the Zaitsev sisters performed at the Beverly Hills casino club in Moscow. One afternoon Tanya and Lena decided to go for a drive in their recently purchased car. As a result, the beauties became the culprits of the accident: they rammed 5 cars. They had to pay 3.5 thousand dollars. The Zaitsevs did not have that kind of money.
One of the friends advised the sisters to seek help from the casino owner, who should fly to Moscow. It turned out to be an American businessman of Russian origin, Neil Visokovsky.
This man not only solved all the problems of the Zaitsevs, but also began to care for Tatyana. Romantic dates, yacht trips, luxurious bouquets of flowers and expensive gifts awaited her. Soon the couple formalized their relationship.
Misfortune
On November 15, 2015, Russian media reported that Tatyana Zaitseva’s son had tragically died. What happened to 32-year-old Alexei Cherenkov? The young man paid for his passion for parkour and grappling. Our heroine didn't even know about it.
Lesha's lifeless body was found in the Moscow metro. Investigators managed to find out that Cherenkov jumped onto the train, which suddenly began to move. The guy hit his head hard on the metal ceiling. Death came instantly. This terrible news immediately began to become overgrown with rumors. Some people called what happened a terrible accident, while others were sure that the young man had committed suicide.
Farewell to Alexei took place in the Church of the Archangel Michael. After the funeral ceremony, the coffin with the body of the deceased was taken to the Khovanskoye cemetery. His friends, neighbors and relatives came to say goodbye to Lesha.
Grief united the Zaitsev sisters. After all, they had one son between them. But even now they have someone to live for. Alexey is survived by his wife Aisylu Chekhova and his little son Maxim, who was six months old at the time of his father’s death.
Finally
We talked about where Tatyana Zaitseva (singer) was born and how she built her personal life and career. Fate sent her many difficult tests, which our heroine passed with dignity.
The twins from Voronezh, who conquered the scene in the early 90s, are extraordinary in everything. These are the stars of the Zaitsev sisters, whose biography is as amazing as their unexpected success. Always young and typical blondes can create a stir around themselves without even trying. Maybe it was this, and naturally, the talent of beautiful pop stars, that allowed them to gather a large army of fans.
The Zaitsev sisters: biography, year of birth
The story of two girls from a military family began in 1953. That year, on December 16, twins Tanya and Elena Zaitsev were born with an interval of fifteen minutes. Naturally, no one thought then that the fair-haired sisters were future famous singers. But artistry and charisma were evident in them from early youth. To this day they have retained their joyful character and smiling faces, leaving fans to wonder if their biography and year of birth were fictitious?
Otherwise, why do ladies who have long surpassed the “50” mark still attract admiring glances in their direction. The father of the Zaitsev sisters is a career officer, he served in the GDR, where the girls spent their childhood. While they were training, a huge number of garrisons and cities had to be changed. Ultimately, they received their matriculation certificate in Kaluga. Tatyana and Lena received their professional education in the Russian Union, at the Variety Art Workshop. Singing abilities and musicality, apparently, were passed on from their mother, since already in the early 80s they won the Sochi music competition. They were later awarded an Ovation. This was the first steps to the glory of these lovely women.
Career
The Zaitsevs became truly famous in 1994 after performing the song “Sister” in a duet. This composition attracted many listeners. The Zaitsev sisters, whose biography turned out to be very eventful, decided not to try their luck in solo performances and began to sing together. They always got along well, had a similar worldview to everyone else, and they also had no disagreements in their creativity. Any of them at the time when their tour as a duet began, managed to be married, tried themselves in a variety show. Lena even worked as a hairdresser after she divorced her first husband.
How did the singers, the Zaitsev sisters (whose biography is almost identical in all respects), manage to maintain warm, friendly affairs throughout their lives? Apparently, their genetic relationship had an effect, because love and friendship between twins is a very common occurrence. It is clear that they subtly sense each other’s mood.
Personal life. Tatiana
Tatyana, the eldest of the sisters, always saw her future in pop music. She sang in restaurants, in casinos, and could not imagine herself off stage. Her first husband was Yuri Cherenkov, director, entertainer and professional businessman. Together they made a wonderful tandem, where she sings and he directs. True, the alliance of two brightest creative personalities did not last long, but in this marriage the only and beloved son, Alexey, was born.
Divorce from her husband, a small child in her arms, the prohibitions and restrictions that Tatyana fell under because of the marriage of her younger sister Elena, made life very difficult. Like all twins, the Zaitsev sisters, whose biography interests many, found themselves in different towns and really wanted to reunite. It was impossible to do this. But after the collapse of the Union, when, in the end, Lena returned to the country at the request of her older sister, their reunion became enchanting. That's when their brilliant career as a duo began. Much later, Tatyana nevertheless married a second time to a Yankee with Russian roots, and now she lives in two countries alternately.
Personal life. Lena
Elena's first marriage took place when she was 18 years old, her husband was a German named Rolf. Due to the girl’s youth or her unpreparedness for home life, the marriage quickly fell apart. After which she was obliged to take courses as hairdressers and stylists and go to work in her specialty in order to earn a living. After some time, she returned to Moscow again and met there her second husband, also a foreigner, named Otto. They moved to live in Holland, but Elena’s zeal for Russia and her constant trips there destroyed the home, and the marriage broke up. Lena was always drawn to her homeland, to Tatiana, because the Zaitsev sisters are singers and close people, they could not part forever.
Appearance and style
The duo does not employ stylists, makeup artists or hairdressers. That's what the singers say. Lena is her own stylist and hairdresser, and Tatyana’s innate sense of harmony complements her skill. No one outside will ever be able to find out how old the Zaitsev sisters, singers and successful businesswomen are. They unanimously say that until now they have not performed a single operation or a single injection for artificial rejuvenation. Such luxurious forms, according to the sisters, are just heredity. They always use expensive foreign cosmetics and carefully look after their appearance. But the Zaitsevs do not exclude the possibility of plastic surgery when age takes its toll.
Sisters in everyday life
Now the Zaitsev sisters, whose biography was very eventful with various events, are busy with creativity and arrangement of their beloved homes. They are true ladies, friendly housewives and people worthy of attention. Luxurious blondes love to host their many friends, surprising them with the elegance of the furnishings in their own homes. 
It is also clear their tender attitude towards pets, which, according to the sisters, resurrect everything around and make us humane. It’s amazing that for so many years they have managed not only to remain pretty and young ladies, but also to increase the army of their own admirers.
Elena Nikolaevna and Tatyana Nikolaevna Zaitsev. Born on December 16, 1953 in Voronezh. Russian pop singers. Members of the duet "The Zaitsev Sisters". Social activists.
Elena and Tatyana Zaitsev were born on December 16, 1953 in Voronezh with a difference of 15 minutes. The eldest is Tatyana.
Father - Nikolai Prokofievich Zaitsev, a military doctor, from the Don Cossacks.
Mother - Claudia Ivanovna, opera singer and pianist, was born in Chernivtsi in Ukraine, from the princely family of the Lykovs.
The father was 20 years older than the mother. As the sisters said, their parents had a wonderful family. They remembered their father as the kindest man. The mother was strict in the family towards her daughters. The father and mother of the Zaitsev sisters died of cancer.
Soon after the birth of my sisters, my father was sent to serve in the GDR, in the Western Group of Forces. Therefore, Elena and Tatyana spent their childhood in Germany.
Later the family lived in Kaluga, where they graduated from high school.
Tatyana and Elena are identical twins; their similarity has always been striking, which is why girls from an early age were often confused by those around them. They themselves sometimes used this. For example, at school - since Elena studied better, she sometimes went to the blackboard instead of Tatyana.
The sisters said about themselves that they are a single whole, “we feel each other even at a distance.”
From an early age they loved to sing and dreamed of becoming artists.
An ear for music and vocal abilities were passed on to the sisters from their mother, an opera singer and pianist by training. It was she who immediately drew attention to her daughters’ thin fingers and decided that the girls would follow in her footsteps. Already in the mid-1960s, Tanya and Lena became winners of the Sochi Music Festival.
At the age of 16, secretly from their parents, they went to Moscow and entered the All-Russian Creative Workshop of Pop Art. Tatyana also graduated from the directing department of the Moscow Institute of Culture.
Elena married a German pilot in 1971 and left for the GDR. But before that, the sisters managed to record several songs together - they first gained fame thanks to the song “And we’re going to the cinema,” which was released on an album in the Krugozor magazine in 1972.
Tatyana tried to get a job as a singer in one of the hotels in Moscow. In the end, I came to the screening at the Soyuz Hotel at the River Station, where an ensemble from Kharkov performed. And she was accepted. She began singing in the first variety show that appeared in Moscow (now it is the Moscow Variety Theater by Yuri Cherenkov). Gradually, people began to go to Tatyana Zaitseva. In their team, which was led by her then husband Yuri Cherenkov, the then little-known ones performed.
After the collapse of the USSR, Tatyana invited Elena to create a vocal duet - the American twin singers Rose sisters were taken as a model.
In the early 1990s, a duet appeared "The Zaitsev Sisters". The song “Sister,” the lyrics of which tell about the experiences of two sisters, one of whom lives in Moscow and the other in Amsterdam, became the duo’s most famous song; the Zaitsevs first performed it at a concert at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall in Moscow in 1994.
In 1996, the sisters released their first album, and in 1998 they became laureates of the Ovation Award for the video clip “Crazy Snow”. The song “Random Meetings” also became a hit.
Zaitsev sisters - Random Encounters
At the peak of their fame, the Zaitsev sisters left for the USA. There were reasons for this: Tatiana’s husband Nick Vissokovsky, who owned a casino chain, began to be threatened by competitors. In addition, the sisters were offered a five-year contract to perform in America. Vissokovsky was a friend and business partner. Together with Nick, Chuck became the producer of the Zaitsevs, organizing a grand show for them in Las Vegas, which was an incredible success. The sisters performed their songs in English, accompanied by a ballet of sixty people.
In the 2000s, they actively toured with concerts in the USA, Japan and the UAE.
In 2010 they returned to Russia after the end of a long-term contract in the USA. Returning to Russia, the sisters returned to the domestic stage, but the former success was no longer there - other artists took their place, and the expression “stars of the nineties” stuck to the sisters.
Tatyana helps her husband run his business.
The sisters are also involved in social activities - protecting stray dogs. A mini-nursery was built on the territory of their house.
At the same time, the Zaitsev sisters did not give up music - they occasionally perform private concerts.
The height of the Zaitsev sisters: 170 centimeters.
Personal life of the Zaitsev sisters:
Elena Zaitseva was married twice.
Her first husband is German pilot Rolf Neumann. She married him at the age of 18. She went to join her husband in the GDR, but family life did not work out. She said: “The relationship with Rolf changed very quickly. And he himself changed - no attention to me, no care, no gifts, no romance. And the only thing I do is homework. Melancholy. But the most terrible memory from that marriage is abortion. Because my husband categorically did not want a child. So much so that he simply kicked me out of the house."
Second husband - Otto Lauinger, a Dutch pilot. We met when Elena worked in a variety show. Otto noticed the beautiful singer and went up to meet her. A relationship began between them, then the couple got married and Elena went to join her husband in Holland, to his house in Amsterdam, and quickly learned Dutch.
Tatiana Zaitseva was married twice.
Her first husband is Yuri Cherenkov, a musician and leader of the ensemble in which she sang. Tatyana herself admitted that she didn’t like Yuri at all. However, she became his wife. She recalled: “He was an incredibly strict man, I was afraid of him. Even in bed I called him only by his first name and patronymic. I got married rather because I felt incredibly lonely... Cherenkov and I turned out to be polar opposites; everything about him was alien to me, "Even jokes made me break. And his love was expressed in the fact that he shouted at me nonstop and said all sorts of nasty things, which made my hands go numb. Obviously, he was jealous."
The couple had a son, Alexey.
They broke up with Cherenkov when their son was less than a year old.
Tatyana Zaitseva and son Alexey
The second husband is Nick Vissokovsky, an American with Russian roots (his mother is Austrian, and his father is a Russian emigrant; his grandparents left for America during the revolution). Nick worked for many years in the US Special Forces, in the department for combating drugs and organized crime. During the operation he was wounded, his leg was almost amputated, he was barely saved, and he has been limping ever since. Then he went into business, primarily developing a casino network. First opened in Las Vegas, in the late 1980s - in Moscow ("Beverly Hills", where Nick owned 99% of the shares, and 1% - his friend, Chuck Norris). He also created a chain of spas in the Seychelles and opened a bank in Switzerland.
We met in 1997, when the singers got into an accident (Elena accidentally pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake and damaged five cars at once). The artists found themselves in a terrible situation: they had no money to pay compensation for damage to car owners. The Zaitsevs had no choice but to ask for an advance from the owner of the Beverly Hills casino, Nick Vissokovsky. It soon became clear that Nick was not indifferent to Tatiana.
Tatyana Zaitseva and second husband Nick Vissokovsky
But in November 2015, Alexey died tragically in Moscow. He was driving a car and did not notice that repair work was being carried out on the road.
The Zaitsev sisters live in several countries: Nick and Tatyana have two mansions in the USA, Elena has a house in Holland. But most often they are in Moscow, where they all meet together.
Discography of the Zaitsev sisters:
1996 - Sister
2004 - Chance Encounters
