Cossack from the Northern village

Andrei Polyakov made a way from the beer king to the Cossack chieftain. Maxim Martemyanov talks about amazing turns in life and the views of the newly -minted patriot

The tall man left the porch of the high -rise with the sign “Voentorg” on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Black takes with a cockade, a neat gray beard, Khaki color overalls, a fair abdomen. A hunting knife, a holster with an “Wasp” trauma, a handbag for cartridges and a real Kuban Nagayka with a steel rod in a whip and a bullet in a bag at its end are hanging out on an army belt. The man in the uniform is the Cossack chieftain Andrei Polyakov. Recently, he often began to appear on TV screens with shocking initiatives, seriously competing in this matter with the deputy of the Legislative Assembly Milonov and the Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

- Andrey Viktorovich, will I go? - The mustachioed Cossack respectfully asks the chieftain.

- With God! - Poles answers and goes to his vehicle - the color of the dark emerald of the Nissan Navaro pickupu. Sasha - another middle -aged Cossack in jeans and with a black kubanka on his head - asks to give him to the supermarket, where he works as a guard. Polyakov agrees - to his car service, but a supermarket along the way. Sitting into the car, the chieftain slamms the door with the emblem of the city society of the Orthodox Union of the Cossacks of St. Petersburg “Irbis” headed by him.

“I am a patriot to Materam,” Polyakov himself characterizes himself, although clarifications seem to be not required Twist this quote

Perhaps you have already heard about Polyakov. In any case, he did a lot for this. Having not received land from the Leningrad Region to settle it with Cossack farmers, he threatened to release 200 thousand combat bees in the administration building. As well as goats and geese, threatening to inflict “pinching damage” to officials. He created an Orthodox Cossack taxi, offering the services of an equestrian escort and excursions on the armored personnel carriers. Perhaps you also heard about the first in Russia of the Junker Cossack School that the Poles organized. Or about the Orthodox hairdresser. About Cossack Ecedicia to the North Pole. About the Cossacks of Alaska, which Polyakov proposed to issue Russian passports, as was done in South Ossetia and Crimea. About the letter of Polyakov to the director of the TNT channel, in which he strongly advised to rename the show “Dom-2” into the highly moral program “Cossack Kuren”. You probably saw plots where the gloomy Poles wandered between Auchan’s shells in a company with the recently appointed “Irbis” Minister of Culture, Irbis, Stas Baretskiy, with Showmen. Showing the hatred of imported products, Baretsky torn his teeth to a bank of Tuborg beer, produced, by the way, in Russia. You, without a doubt, heard about the bust of President Putin in the image of the Roman emperor, who was solemnly discovered in May of this year on his farm. Or about the Cossack currency he created, on the banknotes of which he himself is depicted, Emperor Nicholas II and the same president.

On the farm, as Polyakov calls his site in SNT "Zvezda", he settled six years ago and breds goats, hens, geese and ducks. In addition to the house, chapel, baths and garage, there are two unfinished houses on the site, which Poles plans to turn into eco-hotels. Photo: Maxim Martemyanov

Ataman Polyakov today is one of the most popular Cossacks in the country. Despite the fact that until 2013 few people heard about him-as well as about the St. Petersburg Cossacks. Having caught a request from above on militarized patriotism, Poles rushed to the attack. “I am a patriot to Materam,” he says about himself, although clarifications seem to be not required. He is so patriot that on August 26 he put on Khaki's color jumpsuit with a “Novorossiya” patch on his shoulder and went to “Voentorg” so that under the sight of the camera of the Lifenews channel to buy a Russian flag with a size of 90 by 180 centimeters, which was about to give the singer Zemfira for his birthday. For what?

“So that he always has him at hand,” Polyakov says seriously. - And then in Georgia at the concert she had Ukrainian. And she seems to represent Russia. Disorder, brothers, disorder. " The young correspondent nods the operator with satisfaction: removed.

Polyakov pays for the "anti -gravel" in the car service. He is a view of the back - in search of non -stuffy catering with normal chairs. Photo: Maxim Martemyanov

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Cossack Sashka asks to stop the car near the supermarket. In parting, the chieftain says to his subordinate:

- With God!
- With God!
- Tenth, remember?
- I remember!
- And think in Serbia!

Sasha hastily closed the door, as if afraid of the continuation of the conversation. If with the tenth more or less it is clear - preparation for the procession in honor of the holiday of the transfer of the relics of Alexander Nevsky, then with Serbia it is slightly more complicated.

The Polyakov himself in the Donbass, however, was not. And most likely it will not go to Serbia. But will collect the Cossacks and send it by bus Twisting this quote by Serbia is a new initiative of Polyakov. In the best traditions of the Russian state, Ataman decided to help the fraternal Slavic people. This time, Serbs cannot cope with the flow of illegal migrants from the east. Although Polyakov has not yet contacted anyone in Serbia, he is sure that local Cossacks need help. And he is ready to provide her, stand up with a live chain on the southern borders of the country - there, "where the blacks climb."

“As the Serbs helped in the Crimea and the Donbass, so we must help them,” says Ataman.

The Polyakov himself in the Donbass, however, was not. And most likely it will not go to Serbia. But Cossacks will collect and send it by bus. Tomorrow, they will be lucky to receive a Schengen visa "for transit through Poland and what else?" And now the chieftain has more important things to do. He has been spinning for half an hour along the deserted outskirts of the avenues in search of the right car service.

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Ataman Polyakov was born in 1962, and spent his childhood in his native Yeisk. According to him, he began to work since the age of twelve - either in the field, then at the tinning factory, then in the port with a loader. I earned forty rubles a day, so "I went by taxi and left surrender." Closer to adulthood, he became the "first DJ of the Soviet Union and the main radio huligan of the country."

“I was very shy. Fucking is yes. And with the girls and in general - hesitated, ”says the Poles about his youth Twist this quote “In his hut he collected a radio station from old receivers and TVs. He called the radio "Listopad". By the way, I broadcast at the same frequencies at which the Orthodox “Radio Maria” is now. The power was colossal - on the street the bulbs shone on their own! -Pole recalls and for some reason his eyes begin to mow. -broadcast on the Krasnodar Territory, southeast of Ukraine, Voronezh, Volgograd regions. I knew the guys who went to foreign countries, and they copied the notes for their bottle - Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Abba. I go, it happened, in the city, the heat - from all shops, cars, cafes - my music. They not only did not cover me, but the police ordered the music themselves. Whoever ask in the south, they will remember the “leaf fall”. ”

Polyakov himself was engaged in music. In the center of Yeysk in the South restaurant, he played in the ensemble on the keyboards in the evenings. His hobby went so far that he was accepted into the All -Union ensemble "Blue Guitars".

“But I went through the audition, but I did not appear in the ensemble. I was very shy. Fucking is yes. And with the girls and in general - he was shy. "

Such was the youth of the future ataman. If, of course, to believe the chieftain, who also assures that he is the position of deputy chieftain of the Yeisk department of the Kuban Cossack army. True, the ataman of the Yeisk department Vasily Berezhnaya himself does not know about this. And the radio "Listopad" in his memory did not leave the print.

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Finally, the car service was found on the Avenue of the Unconquered. But before driving the car into boxing, Poles accepts the call. Having noticed the number, the chieftain immediately starts with a greeting:

- Alla? Yes, Alekseevich?
- Great! - The brisk, but still senile voice sounds in response.
- Yes, great.
- I want to congratulate you.
- With what?

- So you became famous, how.

“That I have been famous for a long time,” the Ataman answers with a laugh.

“So it's different,” said Alekseich. - Did you watch the "new"? You are there in the first place in the ranking of idiocy!
“Ahh, I see,” Polyakov is slightly gloomy. And in such a funny tone continues. - And then I am pleased that on the first.

The full name of the caller is Alexey Alekseevich Kapustin. He is also the chieftain - the register of Cossack Society "Baltic Line". Being a register of Cossack, Kapustin with his organization entered the public service in accordance with the Law "On the State Service of the Russian Cossacks". And this means that now they can be officially involved in the protection of public order, extinguishing fires and the fight against terrorism.

Ataman of the Baltic Line Society - Normal Cossack Alexei Alekseevich Kapustin. Photo: Maxim Martemyanov

Poles and Irbis are not in the register. Ataman assures that they do not want to accept him. Already, he says, for two years in the Ministry of Justice their documents lie without movement. Kapustin from a competing organization notes that the register will accept any Cossack organization capable of providing twenty living Cossacks. "Only he doesn’t get a dozen." Andrei Polyakov claims that his organization consists of eight hundred Cossacks, of which fifty are active. Considering that Stas Baretsky was excluded from the Cossacks for the defeat of the beer can, apparently forty -nine remained.
In general, of course, the chieftain believes, this is not comradely-to call the Cossack brother and laugh at him. They envy, apparently. Because they themselves do not make a damn thing, but he, Poles, is noticeable, he acts.

“Not to support it somehow,” the Ataman complains. - And they laugh. Over Milonov, they also laughed when he first introduced his law against the pederasts. It was funny to the deputies, you see. And I immediately realized that this is an Orthodox person, patriotically configured. I went to ZAS and handed him the order for merits to the Cossacks. ”

How many ataman Polyakov and deputy Vitaly Milonov communicate a lot?

Ataman Andrei Polyakov: Yes, I often call him, I consult. He writes to me by the Sesame.

Deputy Vitaliy Milonov: Oh, oh, oh, don't even ask about him! No, I don't communicate. Yes, he came with some person, handed some icon and left.

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From Yeysk, Andrei Polyakov went into the army. According to him, so he ended up in St. Petersburg - a city where his ancestors studied and served. According to the chieftain, his great -great -grandfather, the Kuban Cossack, served in his convoy of his imperial majesty. At the end of the urgent, Polyakov himself remained in the army until 1989, rose to the ensign of the commandant’s office and resigned to the new world, where he soon engaged in business.

Also, in his “farm” in May of this year, Polyakov set a bust to President Vladimir Putin. Ataman rejects the statements of ill -wishers that the bust of the president is cheap PR. “For me, Putin idol. He is a figure of a planetary scale, ”says Polyakov. According to media reports, for the manufacture of a sculptural image, Ataman has not yet paid with the sculptor. Photo: Maxim Martemyanov

For Polyakov, that time was stormy, but, according to him, not connected with crime. He began with beer trade. He concluded an agreement with the Baltika plant and became the first distributor of the plant’s products. The geography of his trade was even wider than the broadcasting range of the Listopad radio station. He traded both in Siberia and in the Far East.

“I was called the“ beer king, ”says Polyakov.

But, obviously, the trade did not always go well, therefore, it happened that Polyakov distilled domestic cars from the Caucasus to sell them on the car markets of St. Petersburg. Also, in his biography, he devotes a special place to organize tournaments in battles without rules, including those who did not leave a trace in the history of the championship between the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the city’s winter stadium.
The beer and tournament trade came to an end after the 1998 crisis. The regalia of the “beer king” of the Poles folded himself in the spring of next year. Just when Petersburg was visited by the rector of the Shaolin monastery Shi Yunsin. With whom, of course, Poles met personally.

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“A Cossack without a horse that is a soldier without a gun,” Polyakov jokes, leaving the gates of the car service. The "horse" is now equipped with an anti -gravel coating on the shelter. The sky over the unconquered Avenue frowns, and the Poles did not have lunch because of the air with the flag for Zemfira.

In the cafe "Kalimer" for Polyakov is stuffy, "however is not cheap" and do not accept cards. He continues to move - into the strip of the Avenue of Science. In the next eatery, it smells of “Doshirak” - the chieftain turns his nose. In another, instead of chairs, some stools are tall. Ataman is not allowed with weapons in the cafe-club “everything is good”.

“They let Smolny, but here ... strange,” he throws.

Pizzeria? But do they know how to cook pizza! And in the sport bar there simply is no kitchen. And stuffy. There is nothing to breathe. Finally, the option was found - a cafe with a veranda. Here, too, “however is not cheap”, but there is something to breathe. Ataman orders Tarhun and Khinkali. "It's like dumplings, only big, right?" - "Yes, like that." When Khinkali is brought, the ataman carefully eats them with a knife and a fork.

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Polyakov’s activity, obviously, does not please anyone but himself. Although in St. Petersburg, unlike the traditional places of residence of the Cossacks, everything is bad with the organization - for example, there is no army, that is, the supreme governing body - but still a certain structure exists. The Irbis Society is not included in this structure. Poles themselves and therefore even more annoyed by the "normal Cossacks", as they call themselves. It annoys in that it spoils the image of the Cossacks and in the means of a mass of information is represented as the almost supreme chieftain of St. Petersburg.

Among the “normal Cossacks” is the “Baltic line” of Ataman Kapustin and the St. Petersburg Separate Society “Cossack Guard”, where Yuri Bugaev is supersaculate. Bugaev, whom Polyakov calls a criminal, is really a criminal offense. There is also a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vitaly Martynenko. He is the chieftain of a separate North-West Cossack District. This organization created back in the 90s without an office and the Charter was supposed to be transformed into the army eventually. But this never happened. Petersburg was never Cossack land and decide who is now the main one here was not easy. As Yuri Bugaev from the “Cossacks of the Guardians” says: “We ourselves are confused and we can’t understand the nichrome”

The leader of the Irbis Society loves to strive at leisure. A scar flaunts on his nose. “Like any scar, this is a trace of past battles,” Polyakov assures. Photo: Maxim Martemyanov

In the end, the Polyakov decided to use the confusion by registering a separate North-Western Cossack District. This "normal Cossacks" could no longer endure. On October 26, 2014, they held the Council of Atamans, at which Polyakov’s activities were convicted. It was decided to conduct an audit. Five days later, the atamans reported on its results in Smolny at a meeting of the working group on Cossacks under the governor of the city.

According to them, everything is - the Cossack college received from Zhirinovsky two armored personnel carriers to protect the elections in the city, Cossack taxi, the clinic for the treatment of alcoholism and much more, - Polyakov inventions.

Yes, Zhirinovsky did not give Polyakov BTRA, but the chieftain assures that he still acquired one with his own money, and now he is on the repair. He asked the armored vehicles not for the elections and protection of the parks, as they wrote, but "so that our guys would not walk along the Donbass." He asked in Smolny and Zhirinovsky. Cossack taxi - it seems to exist. You can order an escort, but there is no regular breed, designed to “put an end to the impression of illegal bombing on the roads of St. Petersburg”. There is no Cossack Junker College in the form that the imagination draws him - with boys in uniform and with checkers scratching parquet.

“But what about the papers? Everything is! ”The Ataman assures.

But in fact, the Junkers College is expressed by express courses for the preparation of hairdressers, welders, monster and tractor drivers. For each specialty - 72 hours. It is education that is the main business of Polyakov, which he has been involved in the late 90s.

As for the clinic for the treatment of alcoholism and nicotine dependence, here the chieftain admits: there is no and there has never been any clinic. But there is a technique. For two hourly sessions and the amount of seven thousand rubles, Poles guarantees getting rid of addiction, and to choose from alcohol or tobacco. What is this technique?

“I will lay a person in the head, break all my mind there. Type of suggestion. But this is very unpleasant physiologically. How to climb into a cesspool. In general, I, ”says the Ataman mysteriously,“ after that meeting I can do a lot of things. ”

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Ataman told few about that meeting. Remembering the events of that night in the mid-90s, he lowers his voice.

“We drove-my son, still small, and the father, whom I picked up in Yeysk, is somewhere in the Tula, or, the province. Among other things, the Poles invented the methodology of getting rid of alcoholism: “I will lay a person in the head, I break the whole mind there. But it is unpleasant " Twisting this quote I drove the car from the Caucasus. Night, three o’clock in the morning, the road is unlit, forest. The track is empty. Here - Bach! - the wheel struck. I go out, take out a spare, a jack, back and forth. And I feel with my whole body, as if someone was looking at me from above. I raise my head ... a correct round shape, the size of a football field. I feel the light-light vibration of air has gone. Moves easily and naturally, like a flashlight ray. And there were only three of them. The first thought was: something with my head. Because it does not happen, because this cannot be. I called my father. Он вышел и тоже обомлел. Сын в панике. В общем, мы быстро закончили с колесом и поехали. Тарелки поехали за нами. Когда на дороге появлялась другая машина, они улетали. Мы ехали еще час и в итоге оказались в каком-то городе перед ДК. Сами не поняли, как там очутились. И я читал, что люди, которых похищают, часто потом не помнят, как они оказались в каком-то месте…»

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После той встречи были и другие странные события в жизни атамана. Была женщина, чьи черные глаза без белков двигались независимо друг от друга. Она предлагала обучить казаков Полякова неким методикам, не уточняя, каким именно. Был и отставной контрразведчик, намеревавшийся передать атаману секрет общения с умершими, что должно было развить его интеллект и физическую силу. От последнего предложения Поляков — по совету духовника — отказался. А женщина пропала сама.

Часовня Полякова. Вход внутрь пока закрыт для всех, кроме атамана, — не закончена отделка. Будет ли Андрей Викторович освящать храм или нет, он не уточняет. В епархии к строительству храма отношения не имеют. Фото: Максим Мартемьянов

Но сейчас у атамана другие заботы. 9–10 октября он намерен провести в питерском клубе Money Honey православный казачий музыкальный фестиваль. На него он, кстати, хочет позвать и Земфиру, потому что уверен — она тоже патриот, а с флагом у нее так случайно вышло. Не со зла же она в самом деле?

Пока атаман ищет поддержку в городских структурах, но не находит. Он звонит чиновникам и на их слова о том, что его активность находит только негативный отклик в обществе, жалуется:

«Ну так правильно! Мы ж не государственные мужи. Где-то путаемся. Где-то нам нужна подсказка.»

Пока только один звонок дал результат.

На следующий день после того, как его пикап обзавелся антигравийным покрытием на подкрылках, он выехал на нем со своего хутора — полгектара земли в пятнадцати километрах от города, где он живет со своей «женщиной» — и позвонил тому, кто должен его понять. Александру «Хирургу» Залдостанову, лидеру движения православных мотоциклистов «Ночные волки».

Александру идея фестиваля под названием «Мы научим вас родину любить» понравилась. Он обещал прислать людей.