Tsoi Robert Maksimovich: biography, photos and interesting facts

Soon it will be 27 years since we have no talented singer and musician, songwriter and artist, the legendary Victor Tsoi, but he is still among us. Young people and the older generation know and love his songs, his name is called the streets. And how has Tsoy Robert Maksimovich, the father of Viktor Tsoi, been living all these years? In this article we offer you interesting facts about him, which, perhaps, will open unknown pages from the life of his talented son.

Korean roots

Robert Maksimovich Tsoy is Korean by nationality. In this country people refer to the family name almost like a shrine. Her no one and under no circumstances changes, even women, marrying. Each surname has booms, which all members of the family are very proud of. They mean both the kind and the place from whence it began to exist. The name Choi has 23 bons. It belongs to one of the five ancient dynasties that lived in the village of Wonju. From Korean, "tsoi" is translated as "height". And if you write it with a hieroglyph, it will mean a noble and highborn person.

Grandfather and grandmother

Despite such secular and promising value of the name, Tsoi Robert Maksimovich was never a rich man. His grandfather Choi Yong Nam lived in the fishing village of Songjin, located on the coast of the Sea of Japan. He was born in 1893. Times were troubled. Japan's war with China began first, followed by the second. Now Japan has been at war with Russia. Koreans, especially those who lived on the seacoast, where Japanese troops were stationed, experienced incredible difficulties, plus the young Yong Nam joined the ranks of fighters against Lee Son of Man, then dictator. Circumstances developed in such a way that he had to leave his native land and move to Vladivostok. There he met his future wife Anna Yugai, where he produced a son and daughter. Tsoy Yong Nam worked as a laborer. It is for sure not known whether he took part in revolutionary actions, but he died in 1917, leaving his wife with small children in his arms. At that time he was only 24 years old. Anna Yugai survived her husband for 68 years.

Parents

Tsoi Robert Maksimovich can be proud not only of his talented son, but also of his war father. His name is Korean Son of Dune, and in Russian Maxim Petrovich. He was born in 1914 in Vladivostok, there he graduated from high school, college and went to work as a teacher. In 1937 Stalin's repressions began, which also affected the Koreans. All of them were deported from Vladivostok to Kazakhstan. Young Maxim Tsoi came to Kzyl-Orda. There he entered the service in the NKVD, in counterintelligence. His wife was a sweet girl Kim Hye Den, in Russian - Nadia. She was a very musical person, she sang well and even toured with chorus in many regions of the country. Before the deportation, Nadezhda Kim and her team came to Moscow to record performances for records.

Maxim Petrovich Tsoi served in counterintelligence for 15 years, mainly engaged in captive Japanese. Later, he began to work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, from where he retired in the rank of major. Maxim Petrovich died in 1985. His old mother could not stand the loss of her 71-year-old son, refused to eat, and died quietly after three weeks.

Tsoi Robert Maksimovich, biography

Father Tsoi's father was born in Kzyl-Orda, in 1938, on May 5. He had three brothers - Leo, Leonid, Yuri - and one sister, Alla. Maxim Petrovich Choi, being a military man, kept the children in strictness, he did not admit liberties and slovenliness, that's why they all took place as personalities. Robert graduated from high school, but went to Leningrad to study, where he entered the department of launchers in Voenmekh. Work after graduation, he had to Baikonur or one of dozens of secret organizations, called mailboxes. The military department at that institute was naval, so Robert Tsoi was going to send him to the fleet. The order for some reason was canceled, and he was sent to the Shipyard as an assistant to the master in the shop, which makes submarines.

He did not work there for long. Soon he resigned and went to Vorkuta to earn money for an apartment. In the north, Robert Maksimovich worked for 11 months as an engineer in a design institute. Returning to Leningrad, I settled down in the design office of the Electrosila plant, then moved to Soyuztransmashproekt. There he worked already before retirement.

First marriage

In his youth was an impressive man Tsoi Robert Maksimovich. His personal life turned out bright and saturated with love reunions. With his first wife Valya Guseva he met at the celebration of the New, 1961. The charming blonde worked as a physical education teacher in a small village of Kirillovskoye, Leningrad region. A friend invited her to meet the New Year together. In the company was Robert, a tall, charming student of Voenmash. In three days he made a proposal to the girl. Valya did not take him seriously, yet the acquaintance with the groom was very short, but decided to try it. Within a year the couple was born an heir. According to Valentina Tsoy's memoirs, she wanted to name her son Dmitry, but her husband insisted on Victor. He liked that this name means "winner." About his wife Robert Maksimovich did not inform his father for a long time, he was afraid that he would not approve of his daughter-in-law. But the smiling kind Valentine liked to Maxim Petrovich.

The first years of family life

Tsoi Robert Maksimovich in his family immediately established the Korean canons. He was the only head, his wife was assigned the role of keeper of the family hearth. When the guests gathered-her husband's friends-she had to set the table and retire to the female half.

In the companionship of life Robert chose a simple girl from the people. Valentina Tsoy (before Gusev's marriage) was born in Leningrad in the severe 1937-m. Repression of her family is also not over. Grandfather Valentina, Filimon Gusev served in the royal army as a sub-lieutenant, even personally from the hands of the king received the St. George Cross. Here for the zealous service on the side of the enemies of the revolution, he was also put in prison, although in the Soviet country he worked as a foreman on the collective farm. Valentina's parents came to Leningrad on a limit and always lived very modestly. Young family Tsoev also did not shikalo. They then three together with a small son huddled in a communal apartment. So, in order to buy an apartment, Robert Maksimovich went to work in Vorkuta. Valentina Vasilyevna 30 years worked as a teacher of physical education, although she graduated from the biophak at the Institute. Herzen. She died in 2009 from a heart attack. Two days later she had to operate, but did not have time.

Cases of the heart

With his first wife, Choi Robert Maksimovich, the father of the beloved singer Victor Tsoi, lived for 13 years. It so happened that from his work together with other employees were sent to the collective farm "for potatoes." There he met a new love named Luba, which he honestly admitted to Valentine. Their son Vitya was still small. In order not to injure his psyche, the divorce was settled peacefully. The new wife gave birth to Robert Maksimovich the second heir, Leonid, but relations in the family did not work out. A year later he returned to his Valentine, and again they, for the joy of his son, played a wedding. Another 17 years have passed. Over the years, there were joys in the family, and a great grief was the death of Victor. Being in psychological depression, her husband Tsoi Robert Maksimovich again left Valentina. The facts from the life of this man are such that he again met a new passion, now in the person of a former classmate. This time the divorce was long and scandalous, because Valentina did not want to lose her husband and lost her husband, but he managed to achieve his own, and also exchanged their two-room apartment, given to Valentina by her parents. She herself had to move to Pushkino, a modest "odnushku." But six years have passed, and her unfaithful husband again appeared with a guilty conscience. Long did not want to put up with Robert Valentine, even went to church to remove hatred from his soul, but again she forgave. After that, they officially married for the third time and no longer parted, while Valentina did not die.

Robert Maksimovich lived one for about a year. Now he is married to Marina Khan, also a former teacher.

A son

Tsoi Robert Maksimovich speaks sadly and warmly of his son Victor. He educated him without special severity, relations in the family were built only on trust. Victor had a talent for drawing early, so he was sent to an art school. Robert Maksimovich recalls how his son invited them and his wife to an exhibition of paintings, where his work took second place and even was placed in the Ethnographic Museum. He also remembers how he taught Victor to play the guitar, then bought him a simple instrument for 100 rubles. Now this very first guitar Victor Tsoi want to buy for a lot of money, but Robert Maksimovich does not give up, because it is valuable to him as a memory. He himself was fond of not only music, but also cars. It was his passion. It's a great pity for Robert Tsoi that he did not teach good driving and son. He always thinks that if he insisted on his own, Victor would not have crashed into that fateful August. Earlier, son's songs Robert Maksimovich did not take seriously, did not even understand them, and now he considers them to be created for the people.

Relatives

Tsoi Robert Maksimovich has a fairly large family. Interesting facts about the life of this man are connected mainly with his wife Valentina and her son Victor. Both of them are no longer around. Our daughter-in-law Marianne and the parents of Robert Maksimovich left our world. In Moscow his elder brother Yuri lives. He worked on a secret military enterprise. Brother Leonid lives in Podolsk. He is just like Robert, an engineer. And Sister Alla and Brother Leo remained in Kzyl-Orda. All relatives have children, but Aunt Raya, Maxim's sister, was childless. When Robert was 19 years old, she adopted a two-year-old girl Tanya, who now also bears the name of Choi. Life she did not ask. In her old age she was left homeless, and at the same time she raised a seventeen-year-old grandson. Tatyana Tsoi had to turn to television for help, but the respected Robert Maksimovich, having caused amazement at the studio, did not want to recognize her as a relative, because she did not have to be his blood niece. However, at the end of the program he agreed to deal with this case.

Another relative of Robert Maksimovich is his grandson Alexander, with whom he has not spoken for a long time. Journalists Alexander in his life does not allow, we only know that he married, takes a great interest in tattoos and computers, lives on the money received for using the legacy of Viktor Tsoi. The amount is 50% and, according to Robert Maksimovich, exceeds 200,000 rubles a month.

Scary disease

Now Tsoy Robert Maksimovich looks vigorous and healthy. The photo shows an intelligent gray-haired man, still full of energy. But two years ago he had cancer of the maxillofacial area. To consult with specialists, he went to Israel, where he was given an urgent operation. Although he receives 25% of the total amount for using his son's songs, this money was not enough for treatment. Therefore, Marina Khan, his current wife, sold her apartment, by the way, not to anyone, but to the son of Robert Maksimovich, Leonid. The operation was successfully carried out, everything ended well, but a year later it was necessary to fly back to Israel for rehabilitation, which was even more expensive than treatment. To collect the necessary funds helped fans of Viktor Tsoi. Now Robert Maksimovich Choi feels well, lives with his wife Marina in a one-room apartment, engaged in fishing, which he loves since childhood, gives interviews, and sometimes, closing in the kitchen, he listens to his son's songs and cries.