In 1999 in an interview to a social-patriotic weekly Zavtra edited by Alexander Prokhanov Sergey Kalugin confessed to supporting the GKChP during the conservative 1991 August Putsch, claiming that he was the only one not afraid of coming out and walking around the Red Square (while hundreds of thousands of people were protesting against the GKChP).
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Due to this fact and good promotion (Kalugin and his songs from the Nigredo were featured on the Russian mainstream Radio of Russia, with its millions of listeners at the time) he became known among both Russian rock and bard audience.
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A year later he released his first successful album Nigredo featuring flamboyant complex lyrics and music, the latter unusual for both Russian bard and acoustic rock as it had been before.
Oleg Kalugin | Sergey Brin | Sergey Kuryokhin | Sergey Mikhalkov | Sergey Kirov | Sergey Ivanov | Sergey Chigrakov | Sergey Lazarev | Sergey Kalchugin | Sergey Shoygu | Sergey Pugachyov | Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky | Sergey M. Bezrukov | Sergey Letov | Sergey Kara-Murza | Sergey Gerasimov | Sergey Uvarov | Sergey Ulegin | Sergey Tchepikov | Sergey Spigelglas | Sergey Solovyov | Sergey Sheyko | Sergey Shavlo | Sergey Ryazansky | Sergey Platonov | Sergey Nikitin (musician) | Sergey Nikitin | Sergey Mitrokhin | Sergey Milnichenko | Sergey Mikhaylovich Ignatyev |