Alexander Balunovym Schigolevym
The group was founded in Leningrad in 1988 by Michael Gorshenevym classmates, Alexander and Alexander Balunovym Schigolevym entitled "Office." In 1990 Gorshenev met Andrei Knyazev at the Leningrad School restorers, and invited him to the group. But when I started the group developed a new concept and a fabulous texts, it became clear that you need a new name. There were options such as "slaughtered dandelion", "Apocalypse", but it was decided to stay at "The King and the Clown." All around saying that name – stupid. A Pot of Duke were confident, "You'll find out what" The King and the Clown "!" Knyazev was the main songwriter of "King and the Clown," begun to use their songs, folk tales and stories "horrors" by entering text in the images of fairy tale characters: the trolls, vampires, etc. Because of this code group in the beginning were very different from traditional social-protest themes text-punk groups. Since 1991, the band first started recording some songs on a semi-studio ("The Dead Woman," "Hunter," "The King and the Clown," "In the Valley of wetlands").
At the same time, the first broadcast on the radio program Anatoly Gunitskii. Of small circulation non-album, "Be at home, the traveler," was released on magnetic tape in a limited edition of 1994 and has long been considered a real rarity among fans. This version of the album license plate is not. The first group performed in public was held in 1992, the school beat Igor Golubev in the old rock club on Rubinstein, 13.