После летнего отсутствия снова заскочил на Вашу страничку и рад убедиться, что она по-прежнему интенсивно пульсирует. Я в авусте со старыми друзьями одесситами был на Кавказе, лазили на Эльбрус во время конца света. Впрочем мы его так и не дождались. Погода была чудесная. После Кавказа неделю бултыхались в любимой Вами Затоке для закрепления горного загара. Завтра у нас в Шебекино проводится 3-й бардовский фестиваль "Нежегольская тропа". (Нежеголь - это местная речка). 
Подумалось, как бы Вы его украсили! Но, это видимо, из области несбыточных фантазий. Желаю всяческих успехов! Виктор Яковлев

Dmitri GOUSSEV (home) (mailto:dmitri_goussev@libertysurf.fr; 20.08.1999)

Dear Irina, 
Several days ago my friend has brought me your CD from Russia and shown me this site and since I've been feeling like someone which has found a diamond in a... (I would not write what I think about modern russian popular music but you know what I mean). I will not repeat what it was already said about your songs. I would just add that except superb "quality" I was absolutely astonished by mixture of life loving optimism and sincerity which two are seemed being not that compatible. Though after reading your autobiography I guess I have understood why... 
You reminded me Janna Aguzarova and Vera Matveeva at the same time which I always thought as being impossible to mix. 
Though English is not my native language but in a place where I live now (Paris, France) I do not have much choice for I can not use cyrillic keyboard. And surely you will understand english as you write songs in it. 
You were absolutely unexpected and unknown though quietly existing somewhere not far away from me: I spent my childhood riding in tramway N 39 from Pokrovka to Kirova metro station and remember very well the marble entourage of Lermotovkaja you mentioned somewhere. Moreover, I saw 'Sinije nochi CHK' back to 1989, I guess. And I am an Ivashenko&Vasiliev fan for quite a long time. So, it was a very pleasant surprise - not really a web site, but your songs first. Why I never knew about you before? But, better late than never. 
I think that you should have a real success here, in France, as they love a music which is not that far from yours. If you were able to solve all logistic problems why should not you sing in Paris? At least me and my friends will be really happy about that as well as many Russians living here. (Last time the theatre of Petr Fomenko was in Buff de Nord it was sold out without any advertising). 
Hope to see you one day at a concert. And continue what are doing but do not give us all of your optimism, keep something for yourself. 
Dima Goussev