Education
She graduated from the Department of Law Faculty of Rostov State University in 1984 as a lawyer and criminologist.
She graduated from the Department of Law Faculty of Rostov State University in 1984 as a lawyer and criminologist.
Lyubov Zakharchenko started writing poetry and songs in 1975, when she was 14. After graduation she worked as an investigator and an assistant prosecutor in the prosecutor"s office, and taught state law in the University. Bulat Okudzhava called her a "discovery that are so rare".
Foreign several years, she was an organizer of song festival "Rostov Metro" in her home town of Rostov-on-Don.
The festivals were visited by Elena Kamburova, Zinoviy Gerdt, Viktor Shenderovich and other well known artists. She also appeared in many television and radio broadcasts.
In 2008 she died from a heart condition. Lyubov Zakharchenko created more than a hundred songs on her own poetry, some of which were published in her six music albums and several albums created in collaboration with others
According to her, she was an extravert who constantly needed other people around to produce her "dolls" Her second husband was a theater producer who created several short plays where she performed as a singer and actress, together with several other actors from Moscow Taganka Theater.
She worked with enormous dedication during last years of her life, sleeping only a few hours a day, which possibly contributed to her death. According to reviewers, she lived by the song she wrote about herself:.
Her work was mostly intimate lyrics, frequently related to Russian history, conscience and politics, such as her popular songs "Black currant" and "They all hindered us.." about controversial Russian soul and "There is a war, but this is not an event" about Chechen War. While writing her poetry, she had an idea that every person can be viewed as a "Russian doll" that consists of many nested dolls or personalities coming from other people around or from books and ideas by other people.
According to reviewers, that is why she wrote so many songs "on behalf" (from a point of view) of other people she metropolitan
In 1990s she was a member of juries at festivals of art song in Kiev and Saint St. Petersburg.