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The last time I saw Alexander Semenov almost a year ago-in September 2016. He came to the concert to the restless Yekaterinburg rock hero Vladimir Burdin to the China Town club and brought the countryman an acoustic guitar, with whom he performed at the “Rabfaka” concerts, since the Urals Burdina once again came into a non-working state. No sober musician, once seeing Vladimir Burdin or his performance, during which he cuts his fingers on the string in the blood, would not give his instrument in his sparkling hands. But Alexander Semenov, despite the long years spent in the Russian show business, was an indifferent person and, apparently, simply very kind.

His own project “Rabfak”, in which he sang, wrote and produced music, many suspected of calculating attempts to saddle and monetize the protest wave that arose in Moscow in the winter of 2011, but he arose from the sincere movement of the soul. In 2009, the poet Alexander Elin, who once composed the texts for Aria and the Master, and producer Alexander Semenov, once former the director of Nastya Poleva and Utah, decided that in the Youtube era you could not be young and beautiful to become famous, but we must make memorable clips. Their resonance recipe-caustic satire on painful themes and trash rollers, cut from documentary videos on YouTube -worked. The first songs-about police officers as a new privileged class and about the request of a part of society to return the cult of Stalin-excited the Internet audience, and the anti-agaget written in the December elections to the State Duma “Our madhouse votes for Putin”, was appreciated by Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny and Grigory Yavlinsky, led to “Rabfak” to concerts to the concerts of The opposition rallies and to the fact that Alexander Semenov was dismissed from the company - the ELLO video aggregator with the formulation "For idiotic political views." Now this song, which can acquire new relevance in connection with the upcoming presidential elections, lives an interesting independent life - the YouTube moderators have repeatedly blocked it on the Rabfaka channel on the basis that it offends the feelings of some citizens (patients of the madhouse?), But Alexander Semenov flooded it again, and in addition, it exists in several folk versions - with a homemade A video.

"Rabfak" - "Our madhouse votes for Putin"

Judging by the then interview, the creators of the “Rabfaka” did not fully understand their political views, as, indeed, most protesters who came to Bolotnaya Square. They were driven by a sense of negligence for what was happening in the country and disagreement with the official course, but they were not ready to express support to any of the speeches of public figures from the coordination council of the opposition. “By 100%, I do not share the views of a single policy in the country. Rather, we can talk about my civic position, which, of course, leads to Bolotnaya - Sakharov - Yakimanka, ” Alexander Semenov said about this .

Unable to unite in political force, the participants in the protest movement gradually lost their fuse. The Million Marsh, which took place on May 6, 2012 on Bolotnaya Square as a protest against the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, was brutally depressed by the police and became the breakdown point of the Moscow Front. Disappointed by the futility of what was happening, people returned from the squares and streets and again closed in their private life. The most powerful and evil songs of the “Rabfaka” from the second album “Away, Democracy!” (2014) appeared as a reaction to the defeat of the protest movement. They burn a sense of disappointment and powerlessness, which replaced the irony and satire. “We do not need freedom for x **, but we need the 37th,” Alexander Semenov bites bitterly in the song “Yo ** shame”. But soon the country almost in a single impulse is in a standing ovation regarding the accession of Crimea, and the unlawful political package of the “Rabfaka” will not be needed as a genre.

Feeling the indifference of the audience to previously disturbed plots, Alexander Semenov will switch to eternal topics - he will write down covers on BG and ironize about the attitude to Muslims and Jews. The last number at the collection "Rabfaka", including all the songs released by the project from 2009 to 2015, is "on x **!" - The desperate anthem of nihilism and self -destruction, borrowed from Yegor Letov .

The indifference of others strangles not only protest movements and musical projects. It could cause the death of Alexander Semenov. On August 20, Alexander Elin scored the alarm on Facebook - his partner in the “Rabfak” stopped responding to calls and messages in the messenger. Suspecting that he had lost consciousness of the house, in a rented apartment, Elin on the same day turned to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Meshchansky district for help, but he was refused the opening of the doors, since there were no legal reasons, answering with cynicism that "we must wait until it smells." The collective mind of friends and acquaintances on Facebook could not find a way out of the situation. Having received an occasion for hacking on August 22, the police entered the apartment and found the body of Alexander Semenov there.

He was 60 years old. He was going to add a solo project and the new album "Rabfaka".