Seryozha Lazarev

You are Dima Bilan||21 years old. Sergey Lazarev||28 years old.

2002. Dima Bilan. New name, famous producer, posters... Always smiling, artistic, charismatic, handsome, attractive guy with a special energy that can be felt a mile away and draws people to him. But is it really that simple? ||Predator undercover or Prey protected by a predator?||

Dima Bilan, Aizenshpis's new project, is in his second year on stage and already has Song of the Year. Charismatic, artistic, but he can't even lip-sync yet. Always smiling, glowing, radiant. A naive, sensitive, and vulnerable boy who hasn't yet experienced the horrors of show business. It's rare to meet someone like him. Well, one evening, early 2003, April. Some private party, and Bilan and Aizenshpis are there. Dima, as usual: smile, charisma, artistry, a hint of barely perceptible insolence. Perfect for some perverted abuser, 18 years his senior. Aizenshpis sees this and understands where this will lead if Dima isn't stopped. He roughly pulls him aside, says something aggressive, and raises his hand, but then simply gives Dima a hard slap on the back of the head. Dima curls up in a corner, covering his face, and Aizenshpis throws something caustic at him and leaves, and Dima quickly runs to the restroom, where he sits on the windowsill and quietly cries, covering his face with his hands and thinking that he did something wrong - he was simply scared.

Sergei watched this the whole time. He watched Dima leave and paused, then looked at Aizenshpis, who calmly continued the conversation and felt a slight sense of disgust toward Aizenshpis and sympathy for Dima.

Sergey had a difficult childhood, which led him to use substances from the age of 14, but at 17 this addiction somehow went away on its own and he immersed himself in music. He knows what show business is, especially when you're young and easy to manipulate and use: dirt, bed-shaming, cruelty (not just from people), gossip, and, in general, a game of survival. Dima's producer is Yuri Shmilyevich Aizenshpis (51 years old). Aizenshpis served two prison terms, totaling 18 years. He was released and hired Bilan as his producer. Sergey's producer is Yana Aleksandrovna Rudkovskaya (35 years old). Yana and Yuri were friends, Yana is pleasant and sweet, but sometimes too strict, but understanding.