Personal life of the wife of Sergei Bodrov Jr. Faithful wife of Sergei Bodrov Jr. “I think all the time about how we will live ...”
Since tragic death 15 years have passed for Sergei Bodrov: in 2002, he, along with the film crew of his film The Messenger, died as a result of the collapse of the Kolka glacier in the Karmadon Gorge. All this time, Sergei's widow - a well-known television director, in particular, the program "Wait for me" Svetlana Bodrova - refused interviews and participation in programs dedicated to her husband. Nevertheless, an exception was made - Svetlana gave great interview site Colta.ru, in which she told about the acquaintance, family life with Sergei Bodrov and much more.
Svetlana started from the moment Sergei Bodrov got into the Vzglyad program. Sergey Kushnerev invited him to this program, at that time she Chief Editor. First, he watched the "Prisoner of the Caucasus", then invited Sergei Bodrov Sr. and his son to the program as guests, and after that he invited Bodrov Jr. to become the host.
He somehow felt that Bodrov would become a sip fresh air that he is from a new generation, he is the hero of this generation: this is what Kushnerev saw in him. Sergei did not immediately decide. Well, somehow, he said, not ready. But Kushnerev, on the other hand, knows how to turn on his ideas, he is terribly enthusiastic! In general, persuaded. And Bodrov himself caught fire.
It is 15 years since the beloved actor and director disappeared in the Karmadon Gorge together with the film crew.
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In 2002, Sergei Bodrov Jr. filmed the film The Messenger. On September 20, a film group, more than a hundred people, was in the mountains of North Ossetia. Suddenly, the Kolka glacier began to descend. There was nowhere to run: the ice stream was moving at a speed of 150 kilometers an hour. In seconds, people were covered with a 300-meter layer of ice and stones ...
The actor and director is remembered and loved by his fans. "Komsomolskaya Pravda" found out how the wife and son of Sergei Bodrov live today.
brother of the people
Brother - such a popular nickname Sergei Bodrov received after leading role in the film of the same name by Alexei Balabanov. In life, Bodrov was complete opposite his uncouth movie hero Danila Bagrov. An intellectual, graduated with honors from the history department of Moscow State University, spoke several languages fluently. foreign languages. There was no aggression in him at all, everyone called him a human soul. Unlike his character in real life he did not know how to shoot and did not serve in the army.
Sergei himself said that he was not an artist. Bodrov defended his thesis in history and could have become a scientist. But the directors paid attention to his textured appearance. “Cinema itself found it - you can’t run away from fate,” film critics will later say. The crazy success of the film "Brother" and "Brother-2" drew a line: Sergei Bodrov is an accomplished nugget artist.
Everything went well in his personal life. Sergei fell in love with Svetlana, the director of the Vzglyad program, from the first meeting. He said that he imagined what his wife would look like, and, having met Svetlana, he realized that this was her. A year after the wedding, in 1998, daughter Olya appeared. Four months before the avalanche, the second child was born - son Sasha. Bodrov kissed the children and left for North Ossetia shoot the film "Connected". Officially, Sergei did not die - he is still listed as missing. He was only 30 years old.
Wife raised children alone
Sergei Bodrov Sr. (a director with his second wife has been living and working in America for a long time) renounced his inheritance in favor of his daughter-in-law. He only said that he wanted to see his grandchildren more often - that's all he had left of only son. After the tragedy, Svetlana never married again. One raised two children.
Today the Bodrov family lives in a four-room apartment in Moscow, they have a cottage outside the city. Olya is an excellent student, graduated high school with a gold medal. Son Alexander is 15 years old, he is still in school. Svetlana Bodrova does not go out, does not participate in public events and carefully protects her personal space. For many years, the woman worked in the well-known program "Wait for me", in recent years she has been an employee of the VID television company. There are rumors in television circles that, although Svetlana is not married, she is not alone - she has a close friend who has become a support for her.
Sergei's daughter Olga last year entered GITIS, the acting department in the workshop of director Leonid Kheifets. By the way, Sergei Bodrov himself was going to VGIK after school, but his parents were categorically against it. The girl does not use a star surname and once again tries not to say what family she is from.
The competition in the country's most prestigious cinema university was huge - 1,000 people per seat. But Olya managed to charm the examination committee.
Only at the end of the exams did one of the teachers directly ask: “Are you Bodrov’s daughter?” She was embarrassed and said, "Yes." But this did not affect the decision to accept her to the university in my workshop, - says her teacher, director Leonid Kheifets.
The transforming word "prostitute"
On admission was unusual story, - Olga's classmate Valentin Sadiki told Komsomolskaya Pravda. - We then did not know whose daughter Olya was. And so she came to the exam, so all correct, angel, she began to read something evenly. And suddenly Leonid Efimovich Kheyfets said one word to her: a prostitute! And then ... Olya immediately changed from the inside, showed her temperament. At first glance, one might think that Olya has a role lyrical heroine, but Leonid Efimovich instantly unsettled her with a biting remark and revealed her potential data.
Now I can’t talk about Olya, singling her out, - for me, all students are equal, ”Kheifets said in a conversation with KP. - That's when she finishes her studies, I'll tell you what kind of actress she is. Olga never talks about her father. And I don't ask her about it.
Olya has an inner strength that is very felt, - classmate Ekaterina Pilat told KP. - She is a very active person, she burns with both her profession and life. Olya's mother and her brother came to her university for exams and shows.
- Does she have a lover on the course?
Not on the course. And everyone has feelings. But ask Olya about it.
commemorative coin
As family friends say, Olya often watches films with her father.
My friend works at GITIS and says that Olya is trying very hard - she would like her father to be proud of her, - says former director Dzhigurdy Antonina Savrasov. By the way, she still had gifts from her father. When Sergei studied at the Faculty of History, he went to excavations. From there he brought old coins, artifacts - all this is stored in the house. One coin of the father even became Olga's amulet. Protects her and her family from misfortune. This is a gold coin of the Crimean Khanate, around the 15th century. Sergei found her at the excavations in Kerch.
Olya said that she remembers her father, although she was four years old when he disappeared. There are memories of how he took her in his arms, fed her with berries, let her bubble. Olya grew up as a reasonable, thoughtful person. She can be called a worthy successor to the famous family name. Bodrov's son Sasha is fond of history and is thinking of entering the history department of Moscow State University like his father.
BY THE WAY
Sweater Danila Bagrov bought in second-hand
Director Balabanov's wife Nadezhda Vasilyeva, an artist, recalled that it was she who found a large-knit sweater for the performer of the role of Danila Bagrov in the film "Brother". Nadezhda bought it in a second-hand store for 35 rubles. After filming, she kept the sweater. When the tragedy happened in the Karmadon Gorge, Vasilyeva packed the sweater and gave it to Svetlana Bodrova with the words: “Leave it for your son.” This movie sweater is kept as a family heirloom.
AND AT THIS TIME
He was more proud of his dissertation on history than his roles
I'm calling home phone mother of the deceased actor, the uncle of Sergei Bodrov picks up the phone.
Sergey's mother and I will fly to Karmadon on September 20, mourning events will be held there, - Mikhail Nikolaevich told KP. - Sergei's father was recently there. Whether he will fly now, I don’t know - he is in America.
- Sergey's mother was very worried about grief. How is she now?
Time does not heal. In memory of her son, she published a book by Sergei - the dissertation "Architecture in the Venetian Renaissance painting." It is his treatise. (A recognition of the artist was made on the title of the book: “I am more proud of the fact that I wrote a dissertation than any of my roles ...”. - Ed.)
MYSTIC
The model of the head of the actor was immured in the wall
No one could have imagined that Bodrov's expedition to the Karmadon Gorge could end in tragedy. But today, researchers of the actor's life find various mystical signs that supposedly predicted trouble.
Nine months before that tragic day, when the Kolka glacier came down from the mountains, Sergei gave his friend a rubber dummy of his own head for his birthday (it was a necessary prop for the future film), - says writer Alexei Kazakov, author of the book "The roles that brought misfortune to its creators. - At the same time, the eyes on the face-mask were closed. Cheerful friends performed a comic ritual: they walled up a model of "Bodrov's head" into the wall in the basement of one of the old buildings in the center of Moscow with a note: "For posterity with greetings from the current generation." Apparently, it was a comic parody of Soviet traditions, when messages were laid everywhere for posterity. However, some of the relatives did not appreciate such humor and saw it as an unkind sign.
DAUGHTER CALL
Olga BODROVA:
I'm not going to change my last name.
Olga Bodrova does not like to talk to reporters about her star father. As well as about yourself. Nevertheless, we called the artist's daughter to congratulate her on her first film try - she recently starred in a short film by her fellow student Valentin Sadiki.
- Olga, you played your first role in your life. Congratulations!
Not with anything yet. The film hasn't been released yet. All in all, it's just a short film. If you collect material about my dad, that's one thing. And there is nothing to write about me yet - I am a second-year student. When I become an actress - then another conversation. Now I don't deserve that kind of attention.
But you didn't change your last name. They will always say about you that you are the daughter of that same Sergei Bodrov - you can’t get away from this ...
I'm not going to leave. And I'm not going to change my name.
This fall, 15 years have passed since Sergei Bodrov went missing. This is the first ever interview of his widow, television director Svetlana Bodrova. She told Katerina Gordeeva about her husband, her work and her best friend, television producer Sergei Kushnerev, who died at the beginning of this year, with whom she had been doing the unique Wait for Me program for many years. We have become accustomed to treat today's television with disgust. But this is a story about a completely different television.
- At the 30th anniversary of the TV company VID (celebrated in early October. - Ed.) you were not. Why?
I was invited, but I refused to come. I do not consider it possible for myself after everything that happened.
- Is it about the program "Wait for me"?
Including.
You worked in the program for fourteen years and left it together with the creator of "Wait for me", its editor-in-chief and the editor-in-chief of the TV company VI D Sergei Kushnerev. Most of the team left with you. Is it possible to say that from now on “Wait for me” is already a different program?
Don't know. At least, this program has nothing to do with me anymore.
- Have you seen the first broadcast of "Wait for me" on NTV?
Yes. But I would not like to comment. Very painful. Remember, when Vlad Listyev was killed, all the projects he created began with the caption "Vlad Listyev's Project." So, “Wait for me” must begin with the fact that this is the “Project of Sergey Kushnerev”. It's honest, it's right, it's a tribute to the man, thanks to countless ideas, talent and sleepless nights of which these people are now working: they pronounce the words he invented, use the search system that he has been creating for years. All this - I mean the huge project "Wait for me" - Kushnerev did not give of his own free will: his offspring was taken away from him. And now they are trying to convince everyone that some kind of continuity has been preserved, that everything is in order. No. It's not okay. And there is no one from our old team in the new "Wait for me", including the hosts. But in the database that remains, there are two million letters of those who are looking for each other. These people are not to blame for anything. Therefore, of course, I looked: it is important for me to know what is happening and will happen with the program in which I have worked for 14 years.
- A in VIDhow long did you work?
Since 1991. It so happened that I graduated from the Moscow Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Aerial Photography, and the country was in complete disarray, it was not at all clear where to go. In the depths of my soul, I always dreamed of making a movie, but, probably, I would not even dare to say it out loud then. I rushed around Moscow in search of work: some Soviet-American enterprises, cooperatives, something else. And then a friend calls and says: “An administrator is needed for the Vzglyad program. Don't you want to go?" I'm speechless. Because then I, of course, like the whole country, was a fan of television. This is first. Secondly, I had a girlfriend Natasha Bodrova - that's what fate is, right? - her mother, aunt Tanya Bodrova, still works on Channel One, and then she worked on the youth channel of the Yunost radio station. And Natasha and I ran to her in Ostankino. And it was another Magic world: Ostankino corridors, coffee in a buffet in faceted glasses, almond round cakes and small cakes with mushrooms. It was all mesmerizing. Sometimes, frozen in one of these Ostankino corridors, I thought: “What if I also work here?”
In general, when my friend called, I was dumbfounded: to work in the "Vzglyad"? Yes, this is a dream! Speech after all about the same"Look", for which the whole country froze on Fridays at the TV. And I ran as fast as I could. Then all this was still the youth edition of the USSR State Radio and Television, I still have a certificate with a gilded inscription! And Friday was given to the programs of the TV company VID - "Muzoboz", "Vzglyad", "Field of Miracles" and others. VIDa already had many programs then. It was accepted that the head of each program was attached to the administrative staff that worked with him. We came at the same time as Roma Butovsky (now - main director Channel One, director of the programs "Times", "Let them talk", etc., parades on Red Square and "Direct Lines" with the president. - Ed.). When they began to register us in the state, it was already necessary to decide which program you were in, and Roma said: “I want to join Vzglyad.” And with me it seemed like it was clear to everyone: I went to Muzoboz. It was my element. I worked in this program from the fourth issue to the very last one.
- Television of the 90s is not at all like the current one?
Oh no, they are completely different things. That television is just love for me. There has never been such an atmosphere and freedom as then. And there has never been such an opportunity. Imagine: we had the opportunity to create a new television with our own hands, because the old one fell apart before our very eyes.
Careers - from administrators to correspondents and directors, or from editors to presenters - this is also about television in the 90s. It seems that then anyone from the street could come to the television center and get a chance.
Certainly! In addition, we were lucky: my teacher Ivan Demidov (one of the founders of the TV company VID, in the early 90s - the program manager of the TV company on TV-6. - Ed.) sent Roma and me to study. Then on Shabolovka there was an Institute for Advanced Studies of Television Workers. And we learned both editing, and how the director's console works, and the profession itself.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
- You still did "Sharks of the Pen", right?
Certainly. Sometimes I even think with horror that I myself, with my own hands, raised this yellow press in our country. But it was like this: at the end of November, Ivan [Demidov] came: “Here, Svet, we need to make such a program so that journalists sit in the studio, questions, hero ...” Everything is somehow neither shaky nor roll, nothing concrete . I say: "Well, I'll think about it." And he, already leaving the control room, says: “Light, I forgot to tell you. We go on the air on the second of January.
- Are you out?
They left, of course. The first hero was Valery Leontiev. And everything worked out! Then it could not be otherwise. It was some kind of happy mixture of impossible fanaticism and love for the profession: no personal life, everyone lives with toothbrushes at work, work is their home for everyone, and there seems to be no world outside the television center. We're not exactly on fire at work. We just lived it and were happy. Although they swore, and quarreled, and died from lack of sleep. Sometimes I can’t even believe that I saw such television almost 27 years ago with my own eyes, that all this happened to me. Imagine, from 1991 to 2014 I had only one entry in work book: TV company VID.
- And how did you come to the program "Wait for me"? How and by whom was it invented?
For me, it all started with a call from Kushnerev: “Sveta, don’t you want to do a wonderful program “Wait for me” with me?” And I say: "I want." “Then come right now. We're getting ready to shoot." Filming was scheduled for two days later. This program at the very beginning was called "Looking for you." It was invented by Andrey Razbash (producer, TV presenter, one of the co-founders of the TV company VID. - Ed.) and journalist Oksana Naychuk. Several releases in live aired on RTR. Kushnerev was invited to the program by Razbash. But something did not work out on RTR. Naichuk retained the name "I'm looking for you." And Kushnerev began to come up with a program. That is, in fact, he began to create a system that did not exist anywhere else in the world to search for people, which would later become the basis of the program. In 1999, "Wait for me" in the form in which you already know it, was released on Channel One.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
- And how did Kushnerev get into VID?
He came to VID from Komsomolskaya Pravda in 1992 or 1993. At the same time, VID was based not in Ostankino, but on Lukyanov Street. There were montages in which both "Vzglyad" and "Muzoboz" were edited in shifts. I, in fact, mounted my "Muzoboz". And the Vzglyozovskys infuriated me terribly: they edited at night and constantly delayed the control room. The alignment was as follows: we are show business, tough guys, and these are journalists with all their politics and the truth of life, well, them! And we kept tugging at each other in that queue for editing. I remember, after they took Seryozha Bodrov, I stood over them when they were editing, and I said: “Who did you take in general? He somehow says that you can’t mount it, so you sit for so long. They say to me: "This is an artist."
- Before you met Bodrov, didn’t you see him on the screen?
No. And a few weeks before we met, in one simple video store on Prospekt Mira, the guys who somehow rolled up all the latest news and who always had everything, suddenly said: “Look,“ Brother ”was released, our film is very good. I say: "I don't watch our films." Well, don't look - and don't look, okay.
- And you didn’t watch the Prisoner of the Caucasus?
No. But the “Prisoner of the Caucasus” was watched by Seryozha Kushnerev. He was then the editor-in-chief of Vzglyad. And he called Bodrov. First on the air, and then in the frame.
After they took Seryozha Bodrov, I stood over them when they were editing, and I said: “Who did you take in general? He somehow says that you can’t mount it, so you sit for so long. They say to me: "This is an artist."
- That is, to put Bodrov in the frame, to make the leader - was it Kushnerev's decision?
Well, of course, yes. First, Sergei Vladimirovich was invited to Vzglyad (director Sergei Bodrov Sr. - Ed.) and Seryozha as guests. Right during the broadcast, Kushnerev's eyes lit up, and he decided to call Seryozha as the host. He somehow felt that Bodrov would become a breath of fresh air, that he was from a new generation, he was a hero of this generation: this is what Kushnerev saw in him. He had this amazing talent - to immediately see a person. In general, they started talking immediately after the broadcast, went somewhere to a bar, they talked for a very long time. Then they called up and met. Seryoga [Bodrov] did not immediately decide. Well, somehow, he said, not ready. But Kushnerev, on the other hand, knows how to turn on his ideas, he is terribly enthusiastic! In general, persuaded. And Bodrov himself caught fire. And they already both grappled and did not disengage - at work, after work, they always came up with something, discussed: “Come on like this, but let’s do this?” They were instantly on the same wavelength.
You know me kind people, of course, they sent a film by Yuri Dudya, in which Alexander Mikhailovich Lyubimov told how he noticed this young artist ( documentary film about Sergei Bodrov, released in September. - Ed.). I saw the movie and heard it all with my own ears. And it angered me. And mother Serezhina was also outraged. Man on blue eye says: "I noticed him, I saw him, I invited him." Not! Lyubimov has nothing to do with Bodrov's invitation to Vzglyad. They were never friends, they never had a warm relationship. I will say more: when a tragedy happened in our house, in our family, Sasha Lyubimov did not call me or Serezina's mother. He did not offer help and did not ask: “Sveta, how are you?” Although he readily participates in all films about Seryozha, presenting himself as a great friend.
Friends - they are generally very few. When all and sundry about my Seryozha make films on different channels, I am always amazed at the number of people who are generally unfamiliar to me, who pretend to be friends of the Serezhins. Maybe they used to be? I don't know. But while we lived with Serezha, only four people regularly appeared in our house: Sergei Anatolyevich Kushnerev, Sergei Mikhailovich Selyanov, Alexei Balabanov, and Volodya Kartashov, the artist who died with Serezha. Everything. Now only Selyanov remains, with whom, unfortunately, we meet very rarely. And Balabanov is no more. And Serezha Kushnerev is also missing.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
- How did you meet?
In fact, we met both Kushnerev and Bodrov at the same time in 1997. As one of the best employees of the VID television company, I was promised a vacation anywhere in the world where I wanted. I chose Nice. And then they squeezed Nice and said: "Look" is going to Cuba, they will work, and you will rest. In general, getting on the plane, I hated "Vzglyad" and all these people with whom I would have to spend my vacation for some reason. Well, they didn't like me either. Kushnerev later recalled: "Fifa is some kind of glasses all of herself." But suddenly, somehow, on the plane, Kushnerev and I got into a conversation. Of course, about television. Of course, I'm talking about my Sharks of the Pen, that I want to change the format, add something. He listened more and more. Then he told me that he thought: well, yes, he seems to be not a fool, you can talk. BUT best friend Kushnereva - Bodrov, they have a common "Look", sleepless nights, which they spent in disputes and conversations at Kushnerev's dacha in Valentinovka. And they sat side by side on the plane. But, unfortunately, during the flight, the pilots were informed that Kushnerev's father, a very famous Moscow neurosurgeon, had died in Moscow. And Seryozha [Kushnerev] was forced to fly back to Moscow on the very first flight. But Bodrov remained.
And there, in Cuba, we suddenly started talking to him ... For some reason, I remember this moment very well: we caught each other in Hemingway's house. And then they talked and talked without ceasing: about themselves, about me, about him. He then wrote to me in one letter: “You and I are like two twin brothers who were separated thirty years ago.” We, you know, were like some kind of sticky from each other, can you say so? They spoke to each other as if they had been silent all their lives before.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
- what it is the same love, you both understood at once and at the same time?
You know, I tried to build some walls, of course. I was used to living alone, I was an adult - 30 years old, it seemed to me that I would never get married and I would never have children; I was sure: in my life there is and will be only one thing - work. And somehow I defended myself. But Sergei did not let go. After Cuba, we practically did not part with him.
Although not: immediately upon returning from Havana, my Seryozha had to go fishing with Seryozha Kushnerev on the Don. They agreed a long time ago. For two whole weeks. Where they were going, there was no connection. And suddenly a message comes to my pager from Bodrov. Very warm, personal, gentle. And I think: « Well, why? Well, if there is a connection, why can’t he call me? Then it turned out that Petya Tolstoy was there with them on a fishing trip, but returned earlier. And Seryoga gave him such an assignment. But I didn't know! I missed you, of course: they just kind of met - and parted for some reason. And it was then that I went to my video store on Prospekt Mira, saying: “Well, let me already have this “Brother” that you were talking about.” Them: "You didn't want to watch." “Well, I didn’t want to, now I want to.” I took the cassette and, while he was gone, looked at it probably a hundred and fifty-five times. Then he arrives. And we are no longer separated, always and everywhere together. One evening I told him: “Oh, I have such cool guys here in one video store. Let's go pick something and see." We go with him. The guys jaw drops, and they are silent on all questions. "Is there anything to see?" - "There is nothing". - “Well, what about something new, interesting?” - "There is nothing at all." And Serega says: “It’s really good, you have a video salon, a rich choice.” And as soon as he came out, they told me: “Why did you bring him here at all? We're going to be imprisoned now!" Already on the street, Seryoga and I realized what a wild picture they had in their heads: at first I refuse to watch “our” movie, then I demand “Brother”, and then I come to them with the main character. Those were the times when they recorded all this clandestinely. They were just scared. God, how we laughed with Bodrov then.
- And Kushnerev? Did he become your friend or did he remain Serezhin?
At that very first moment, of course, there was only Bodrov in my life. He filled with himself, in general, my whole life. But we, of course, talked with Serezha [Kushnerev]. I have already managed to visit his Valentinovka, where he and Seryoga [Bodrov] loved so much all evening, discussing and inventing something all night long.
Somehow, my Seryoga and I in Valentinovka near Kushnerev had a strong quarrel. It was the very beginning: he is not easy with his character, my character is also not the most accommodating. I slammed the door, jumped into the car - I'm cool: show business, car, mobile phone. And I from them - vzhuh! - tired. Serezha later told me how Kushnerev sits and says: “Seryozha, would you like to marry Sveta?” And Bodrov replies: “I would like to very much. She does not want". And our whole already serious romance, in fact, developed in Valentinovka. Because every day after filming, after some business, we came there. Seryozha generally had his own room in this house. And we always sat up for a long time, discussed new projects, came up with something. We were all young, with burning eyes, of the same blood type.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
But Kushnerev, when we just got married, was a little old-fashioned for Seryoga. We didn't work together then. And they have all the projects, all the dreams - everything. And, it turns out, because of me, they had less time for their nightly gatherings in Valentinovka. But they still snatched their time. I remember that on the night of the famous 1998 hurricane, I stayed with my mother in the country, and Bodrov and Kushnerev stayed in Valentinovka. And when all these trees flew, such horror seized me! I was pregnant with our eldest daughter Olya and I think: “Lord, Serezha is probably worried about me there!” And mobile phones were not caught everywhere then. I could hardly wait for the morning to get to the nearest point where there was a connection. I called Kushnerev: “Serge, tell Bodrov not to worry, everything is fine with us.” He says, "What happened?" I just. Did you have a hurricane? - "Hurricane? What hurricane? Well, our lights went out for a while. We just sat at the computer, came up with something there. And we also think: why the hell did they turn off the light! Well, the candle was lit. As soon as he put down the phone, he goes out onto the porch - and he has a century-old Christmas tree there. Fell ten centimeters from the house! And they sat there in their ideas and did not notice anything!
In general, the two of them and the three of us sat in Valentinovka with Kushnerev and talked endlessly about projects, plans - about everything! And our romance with Sergei [Bodrov] is inseparable from these conversations. It was against this background and precisely at the suggestion of Kushnerev that Seryozha and I decided that we would tie our lives for a long time. And with Kushnerev from these very days we were friends. Probably the closest friends. Until the very last day of his life - February 27, 2017.
- And then they worked together in "Wait for me" - and together they left there.
Yes. And I want to say that we would never have left Wait for me. We would do this program to the last opportunity. We loved her. It was more than just a program. Especially for Seryozha [Kushnerev]. I don’t know what to compare with, the comparison with a child is kind of stupid ... It was his life. He came up with an amazing people search system, an algorithm in which two people looking for each other would be in these two million letters in two minutes. Can you imagine? And when now I hear that Alexander Mikhailovich Lyubimov says in the frame: “We”, “We were thinking how to search”, I don’t understand at all: who are these “we”? I have a feeling that all these 14 years I have probably been somewhere on the Moon or on Mars. And somehow I missed some participation of Alexander Mikhailovich in this story. But no, I was sitting in Ostankino, in the control room, next to the person who created all this before my eyes and who had nothing more important and significant in his life than “Wait for me”. I saw how Kushnerev came up with this, I saw the results of his sleepless nights, the implementation of his ideas, which he may not even have talked about, but “Wait for me” was his dream come true, which lived and developed.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
- In the press release of the new "Wait for me", which is now airing on NTV, there was no Kushnerev's name.
Lyubimov said it in the frame, on the air. The names of Kushnerev and Bodrov, who actually had nothing to do with Wait for Me. But for some reason, he needs to hide behind the names of Seryozha Kushnerev and Seryozha Bodrov. For some reason, it is necessary to impersonate a friend of Bodrov. Although, I repeat, they were not friends. You know, after some events, I think it would be insulting for Bodrov if Lyubimov were called his friend.
- About what in question?
I will tell only one episode. Balabanov began filming "Brother-2". They were supposed to shoot in 1998, but they did not find the money. I remember how we met - me, Selyanov and Serezha - with Lyubimov and Larisa Sinelshchikova (media manager, ex-president of the VID television company, ex-wife CEO Channel One Konstantin Ernst. - Ed.), who was already working in VID at that time, and asked them to help with money. Selyanov, I remember, pounded on the table: “This will be a folk movie!” But there was no money for filming. Selyanov found them only in 1999. In the same year, even before the filming of Brother-2, Seryozha Bodrov decided to leave Vzglyad.
- Why?
Serezha is a very freedom-loving person. And TV is full of commitments. Sometimes there is no development, it seems to you that you are marking time in one place and nothing happens next. At some point, he got tired of everything, and he decided to leave. Kushnerev was very deeply worried about his departure. But somehow they decided it among themselves. My position was: “Seryozha, whatever you do, I will support you in everything.” Seryoga [Kushnerev], of course, persuaded him, there were some arguments, it was their male conversation, I don’t know what, I won’t say. At some point, Kushnerev understood and accepted everything. But in the leadership of VID, of course, they were dissatisfied with the departure of Bodrov. Even I got a call from the TV company.
Not! Lyubimov has nothing to do with Bodrov's invitation to Vzglyad. They were never friends, they never had a warm relationship. I will say more: when a tragedy happened in our house, in our family, Sasha Lyubimov did not call me or Serezina's mother. He did not offer help and did not ask: “Sveta, how are you?”
- Who called?
I remember that Larisa Sinelshchikova called: "Persuade him." I say: “This is not even discussed. What arrangements can be made? An adult who makes his own decisions.
Lyubimov was also dissatisfied. He probably understood that Vzglyad at that moment was mostly watched because of Bodrov. It hurt him a lot, I think. This was evident at some moments when he was in a hurry to say the phrase “Everything is just beginning” faster than Serezha, although Kushnerev wrote it specifically for Bodrov, it was Serezha’s phrase.
I think that Lyubimov treated Seryozha with some envy also because he understood that their time (of that “Vzglyad” of 1987) had passed. The generation grew up, and Bodrov became a symbol of the new generation, a young hero: the “Prisoner of the Caucasus” came out, the “Brother” came out.
And then just shooting "Brother-2". According to the scenario of Lesha Balabanov, the brothers come to Ostankino at the very beginning of the picture. Balabanov came up with the idea that they should come to the Vzglyad program. Logically. They wanted to remove Lyubimov as the host. He agreed. He promised to help with the organization of the shooting, and to give the Vzglyad studio. By this time, the “Moscow” period of the film was almost completed. The scene in "Vzglyad" is almost the last, then they had to go to America. And then, the day before filming from Vzglyad, they call Balabanov and say: “You know, everything is cancelled. You won’t have the Vzglyad studio, Lyubimov refuses to act in film. It was revenge. Small, ugly, which hurt Lesha [Balabanov] the most.
Everything happened in front of my eyes. Balabanov, when he came to Moscow, always stayed with us. We lived in Ramenki: a small apartment, in the kitchen instead of a table there was a TV box, the dishes were washed in the bathroom. And I remember poor Lesha completely crushed, as he walks around the kitchen around this box. He didn't even scream. He was just crushed. He could not understand: how, how can one betray like that, how can one cancel everything at the last moment, why do agreements mean nothing? It was the human attitude that offended him. The studio didn't burn down, nothing happened. They just refused.
At some point, Balabanov suddenly, in all seriousness, looking into Bodrov's eyes, said: "I will not make a movie." I began to call the director of the picture to buy return tickets to St. Petersburg. By the way, this scene always stands before my eyes when Alexander Mikhailovich [Lubimov] speaks publicly about his friends Balabanov and Bodrov.
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- But there is a scene in Ostankino in Brother-2. Although there is no Lyubimov in it.
When Balabanov was about to leave, I literally grabbed him by the sleeve: “Lesh, for God's sake, please, I beg you. Well, he is not the only one working on television. Now we'll figure something out quickly." He: "No, that's all." Bodrov and I are sitting near this box in a complete stupor and do not understand what to do. But then they remembered that, fortunately, there is Vanya Demidov in the world. He, in my opinion, called Selyanov. Vanya, without question, agreed to film himself and give a studio. And all the people who were supposed to be on the site, according to the script, are those with whom I worked in the Kanon program on the same TV-6, such was a talk show about religious issues. I remember how I called all my “combat” comrades, and no one refused, no one asked for money: “Light, what do you need?” - "I need you to star in a good movie." - "Okay, let's go."
She pulled out her sound engineer, administrator, assistants, all the operators, Sashka Zhukovsky the great. Lyosha was so happy, his eyes widened. In general, that's how I and all of us got into the film "Brother-2". Not as they said later that Bodrov's wife was filmed in the cinema. And because of the fact that this situation happened. And everyone came and starred at Balabanov's. Lesha was very touched. Suddenly, already on the site, he says: “Who do you usually shout at everyone here?” Demidov laughed: "Well, guess." Balabanov: “Light, can you yell at them now when they enter?” - "Easily!" They command: "Motor!" Bodrov and Pirogov fly into the studio, and I scream: “There's a live broadcast here! What are you! How long do you have to wait? Serega stops, says: “Light, why are you shouting?” I say: "I'm an artist!" In general, the first double was spoiled. Removed from the second take, although the first was more natural.
Lesha, of course, came up with all this mise-en-scene on the go, this was not in the script. He filmed us all in gratitude for the fact that we helped him out. And he even gave me the words: I sit at the console and say my usual commands. He really liked the phrase: "Sash, don't cut his head." He then left it in the montage. And in the credits we were listed as "people who played themselves." Then I still had the surname Mikhailova.
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- Did you like the movie?
I have always liked everything that my Serezha does. You see, of course, we were on the same wavelength, I supported him in all this. And always and in everything was proud of him. I remember when he was defending his dissertation, I went out and told him: “I am proud of you, like my homeland, Seryoga!” And they tell him there in the commission: “The wife looked at you like that! Incredible...” And I just realized every second how lucky I was: what an incredibly deep and talented person is next to me.
You know, now I understand - we could give so much to our children together. I'm the only one who can't do it. This is very hard for me. It’s hard that I don’t have these daily hours in the kitchen with him, when we could talk, talk, talk until the morning. They could just as well be silent. Ride in the car and be silent. Or stay at home and be silent. Sometimes I see how people do not know how to be silent with each other, but we could. We didn’t talk - but that didn’t mean that we didn’t want to talk, we are still together, we have an internal dialogue with each other. And our son Sasha - he is the same, very similar in character to Seryozha. Highly. Even in movements sometimes: when he starts to grimace or dance, he pierces me with a direct current, because I see Seryozha. Somehow, at the gene level, everything was transmitted, right down to the character. And I understand that if he and Serezha were together now, they would feel and understand each other so subtly.
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- Bodrov after "Brother-2" began to shoot himself because he no longer wanted to act?
At the beginning there was a script "Morphine". He thought about what script to write, and I advised him "Morphine", because Bulgakov is my favorite writer, and "Morphine" is such a multi-level work: a love story, a story of a fall, and this leitmotif of constant running when he runs from the hospital, from himself, and there is already a revolution in all Ivanovo. I say "try it". He got carried away and wrote a very good script. But “Morphine” was not ready to shoot at that moment, he said that it should be a global picture. As a result, Lesha [Balabanov] withdrew. But this is not the film that was conceived, although Serezha's surname is in the credits, but it was already when he was gone. After "Morphine" came the "Sisters". Together in St. Petersburg, we chose locations for them, nature, I helped him. He brought the material, we watched it together, I even gave some advice.
And then there was "Connected". At the level of an idea. It started when Seryoga was filming with Varnier in "East - West" (Regis Varnier's 1999 film. - Ed.). There, on the set, he met two such semi-bandits, guys from Dagestan, as far as I remember. They were hiding abroad. When he called me from there, he told me how interesting it was for him to listen to them. Serega generally liked to listen to people, he adored stories from someone's life. He always begged Nina Ivanovna, my mother, to tell me something about post-war years, my grandmother, when she was still alive, asked about life, loved to listen to old women. So, in Bulgaria, where they filmed "East - West", these semi-bandits told him how they ran away, how they hid, about some real-life sorceress who they met. And Seryoga wrote everything down for them. This is how the idea of the painting “The Messenger” was born. There, even the heroes are called Armen and Ilyas - that was the real name of those guys. He wrote for a very long time, tormenting this "Connected". He was dear to him.
I remember how he gave it to me to read for the first time. And I had such a feeling, you know, I thought to myself: “How can this boy, in general, fit so many things in his head at once? How talented he is! What happiness has fallen to me. Because, you see, it seems that we are close, some kind of everyday life surrounds, but at the same time, I had in my hands a work that characterizes it in a completely different way, with complex structures and a deep understanding of many things, life, people's characters, it's all intertwined. And I read and understand that I am in contact with a man of incredible talent and intelligence. And he lives next to me! It's hard to explain properly, but when you go usual life, even permeated with relationships, love, filled with children, you still can’t always fully appreciate the happiness that fate has given you: to be close to such a person. And I’m also proud that he always told me: “If it weren’t for you, I might not have filmed, I wouldn’t have written.” Yes, of course, I encouraged him to do his own thing. And, having finished writing the script for The Messenger, he said: “I will shoot it in such a way that I will not be ashamed in front of you.”
There was also such a character in the script - the Afghan Lekha. Bodrov could not choose an actor for this character. I didn't want to take off. But when I read the script, I say: “This role is yours, yours!” And I persuaded him to act there all the same. And he began to persuade me to go to him for this picture as a second director. Then heavy artillery, Selyanov, joined these persuasions. He understood that everything is like in “Wait for me”, where I feel without words what Kushnerev wants. On Svyaznoy, I will be able to understand Seryoga [Bodrov] from a half-gaze. On the site in such a complex picture, it is terribly important when there are people nearby who do not need to explain anything for a long time, who can do everything that you have planned without further ado. In general, Bodrov and Selyanov persuaded me.
And I quit Wait for Me. Seryoga was in shock, Kushnerev. I quit, several episodes came out without me, and then the program went on repeat, because Kushnerev could not accept the idea that “Wait for me” would do without me. Well, then he somehow slowly got used to it. And in August, our son Sasha was born with Bodrov. I remember well how we are driving in a car from the hospital and Kushnerev calls: “Congratulations, Svetka!” And then he says to Seryoga: “Well, when will we meet?” Bodrov replies: “Listen, I am now leaving for shooting in North Ossetia. As soon as I return from Vladikavkaz, we will meet.” This was their last conversation. After the birth of Sasha, we stayed at home for two weeks. Then Serega took us to the dacha and left for these shootings. I can see it right now: he gets into his beloved Land Rover Defender » huge and says: "I'm from the airport right to you." This is his last sentence. And I accompany him. You know, as he flew into my life, like a bird, he flew away.
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Who was there when it all happened?
Seryozhka Kushnerev arrived. He came and said: “Light, please come back to “Wait for me””. And on September 20, everything happened, and on November 5, I already went to the shooting.
"Otherwise you wouldn't have survived?"
In every sense, she would not have survived. We still had nothing to live on. Before leaving, Seregin bought an apartment. There were bare walls. Two children. You have to feed them somehow, you have to earn money, you have to live. But I don't remember those months at all. I don't think I thought at all. I didn’t even realize that all I was left with was nothing, that it was all over.
Even Kostya Ernst came. He hugged me like that and said: “Well, what? Your men left you." I say yes. I don't have anyone left now." He said, "I won't quit."
- Kushnerev flew to Ossetia?
No. I flew every weekend. And, you know, when in various films and programs Ossetians say that no one helped them at the government level, this is not true. There, when the situation arose that they were already going to disperse everyone, there was no equipment, there was no support and the phone was silent - this is also very scary, when the phone was silent, everything was already there, no one believed, no one said anything ... In general, silence. You know, somehow everything was on the edge. And Seryozhka Kushnerev says to me: “You should probably call Ernst. Only he can have a way out.” At the level of the presidents of the republics, who could give the command to continue searching - who of us could go? Seryozhka got me a phone, and I called Kostya Ernst. I called in oblivion for some, in despair, not at all understanding what day of the week, what time. I told him, sobbing, into the phone: “I ask you as a woman, as a wife, as a mother. I'm begging you, help!" And Kostya, we must give him his due, says: “Sveta, I will help. Now the holidays, they will end, and I will do everything in my power. Then it turned out that I called him on the evening of December 31st. But I didn't really understand it then.
Did Ernst help?
Yes. He called me back and said: "January 6 there will be equipment." And the equipment arrived: excavators, tractors, something that was required. Nobody usually talks about it. And he doesn't speak. But it was. I then called him a lot, sometimes directly from the mountain, from there, from Ossetia. And he contacted Shoigu, with other ministers. And they helped, allocated, sent. Divers, speleologists. For some reason he never talks about it. And I've never given an interview before, so no one knows.
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- Did you meet him at that time?
He called me immediately when everything happened. I was shocked by what my salary was, influenced it to be raised at least a little so that I could survive. Until the very last day of the search operation, he was in touch, called, asked, helped. Until the very end, it seems, he did not want to believe that this was the end.
It was impossible to believe it. Very painful. You know, when we brought his personal belongings back then from Ossetia, I sorted them out. And in the bag was a completely shabby note, which I wrote to him back in St. Petersburg, when he was filming "Sisters". We didn’t have Sasha yet, there was only Olechka. There, at the end, it was written: “Remember that two people on this Earth truly love you: me and Olechka.” And I found this note in his bag, it was impossible to bear.
- Did you often write to each other?
Yes. We talked on the phone every day, and always wrote, all the time: a note in the kitchen, some kind of short letter. Or long, if apart. When he left, let's say, for "East-West", I wrote letters to him every day and he wrote letters to me every day. And we changed when he came. It's impossible to read now. At first, even getting out of the boxes was impossible. And I still can't read.
I still remember how our computer genius Lesha Bartosh flew to the shooting of "The Last Hero" to take cassettes. Upon learning of this, I immediately dashed off a huge letter to Bodrov. And Lesha flew. He flies back to Moscow and says from the doorway: “Listen, Bodrovs, you are crazy, you can’t do that!” Me: “Lyosha, what happened?” And he: “I came to the“ Last Hero ”, everything is fine, we are sitting, chatting with Bodrov and Kushnerev. And then I remember: “Oh, Seryoga, Sveta gave you a letter.” - “Yes, why are you silent, where is it? Give it back! Couldn't tell before? He grabbed the letter and rode off with it. And now he won't talk to me." I say: “So, Lech, you have been talking to me for a long time. Did Seryoga give me a letter?” - "Yes". - “So come on, why are you standing, come on, are you a fool or something, Lech?” And he spread his hands: “You Bodrovs are like crazy. Take your letter, leave me alone."
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How did the idea for The Last Hero come about? This is the first such large-scale reality show on Russian television.
The Last Hero had a rating of 50. It seems that this record has not yet been broken. The "last hero" in the form in which he conquered the country was also born in Valentinovka near Kushnerev. I have a picture before my eyes right now: our daughter Olya is quite small, she runs around us in felt boots. And we with two Earrings rested on the screen, we look « Survivor» , which went on the air two years before our "Last Hero", Kushnerev dug up a cassette somewhere on English language: one series, another. Olya is tired of running in these felt boots, the Kushnerev dog, Funtik, is also tired, they are sitting somewhere at our feet, but we can’t take our eyes off. And here, of course, the thought stuck between them and Bodrov: we must do this. Then there was another great idea "The Game of Life", it did not materialize. Although I sorted through the Serezhkin archive, reviewed the cards, I found a directly painted program. There was also the Big Dream project, which was absolutely wonderful; also did not come true.
Kushnerev - probably the first and last Russian producer, who retained the belief that television, touching a person, touching his soul and living with him, is the national idea.
Oh sure. And there is. No wonder one journalist once wrote about “Wait for me”: the nation unites on Mondays - this program had such popularity and such social significance. It's all together: love for people, hard work, sleepless nights and dedication. Who will believe if I say that Kushnerev personally answered the letters that came to "Wait for me"? Sometimes it even pissed me off. Well, imagine, he says to me: “Svetka, there a woman wrote it alone, she asks what kind of music you put on such and such an air. Can you write a name for it, or even better send a track? I say: “Sereg, what are you, stunned, or what? Am I going to shovel all the broadcasts now and send music to everyone who wants to? I’m editing, I have a job.” He raised his head like that, looked at me and said: “Light, this must be done.” He answered letters and complaints. This is since the time of "Vzglyad" they had such an idea with Bodrov. That's respect for the audience! It was Kushnerev who came up with this idea when Vzglyad helped lost people meet in GUM near the fountain.
And Kushnerev Bodrov inspired the same. She and Seryoga came up with an answer to a letter from a boy alone, about an older brother who dreams of playing the trumpet - Bodrov came to him under the windows with a brass band, and he gave a pipe. Then a project began with Santa Claus from Vzglyad, to whom one could write and who could fulfill a wish, come and give gifts - this Santa Claus was Bodrov. I also remember one story when Seryoga [Bodrov] received a letter from a woman in Vzglyad: “You are the idol of my sons. It so happened that a motorcycle was stolen from the younger one, and the older one was in the army. And the younger one walks around, threatening with his fists: “I’ll tell my brother, he will come and kill everyone for this motorcycle.” The woman writes: “What should I do? That's wrong." Well, Serega read - and read. And Kushnerev says: "We must answer." And Seryozha personally answered this woman, wrote to her, her son.
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Probably no one will believe it, but, being the editor-in-chief of Wait for Me, Kushnerev himself edited the releases of the program for all the countries where it was released. I always edited our main, Moscow, release on Channel One, and Serega sat in the neighboring control room and edited for Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Moldova ... He is the editor-in-chief, he could, as is usually the case on television, sit in his office outside the door, they would come in with a knock, and he would run through the layout with his eyes. But Kushnerev was sitting in the editing room and in the control room along with everyone else. And we always ran to each other, discussed something, cursed, yelled at each other.
- Did you quarrel?
Yes. Sometimes they didn't even talk. Then they wrote letters to each other. But he could easily call at three in the morning and start as if after a comma: “Sveta, you know, this is the moment that we doubted, it seems to me that this is how to do it.” And he spoke so calmly, as if he was sure that at that moment I was sitting in front of the telephone receiver and waiting for his call. It has always been that way, all these fourteen years. He left "Wait for me" only once: when "The Last Hero" was being launched.
I remember that time well: 2001. Seryoga [Bodrov] and I have nowhere to live, because we sold our old apartment in Ramenki and went to live in Kudrino, where I got land from my grandparents and I put up a house there, more like a summer one. But there is nothing to do, we moved there together with little Olya, Serezha and Nina Ivanovna, my mother. And then this adventure of theirs, "The Last Hero", is launched. No one understands how it will all end, there is no money, the project is huge. And Kushnerev and I actually sculpt “Wait for me” every week. And then he says: “Svetka, you know, I’m going to the“ Last Hero ”, well, for a couple of weeks, for the launch.” And the fact that Bodrov will lead The Last Hero was not even discussed. It's like it was decided from the very beginning. The two of us came up with an image for him: we ran around buying shirts, figured out how to tie them. We were sick of this idea, as everyone lived in a fever. And in the end we got together in the evening, and Kushnerev told me that he was going to shoot. “But, Svetka, “Wait for me” should come out like clockwork,” she says. “Don’t worry, it’s ten days, a maximum of two weeks, and I’ll be back.” At first, I really didn’t worry: we had filmed material, I’m editing, the program goes on the air. He's gone for a week, ten days. I call: "Are you coming?" - "Yes, yes, yes, I'm literally going." He's gone for two weeks, three. The program comes out, I edit, we go on the air. Again he writes: “Will I stay a little longer?” - "Yes, of course, stay." As a result, he stayed, of course, for the entire term, he could not quit. And “Wait for me” was on me completely, for which he was terribly grateful.
They returned a month and a half later, and Kushnerev again went to the editing of "The Last Hero". And we hardly saw him. Only once he suddenly came (his Valentinovka not far from our Kudrin) from the installation - not to himself, but to us. When I saw him, I said: “Lord! How are you still alive? My mother immediately began to feed him: cabbage soup, cutlets with buckwheat porridge. And he was so tired that he could not even speak, he only repeated: “Oh, how good, how good. Only I have to edit tomorrow at six in the morning, I won’t sleep. ” But somehow we got him down. Morning comes. I get up early. Look - sleep. Then Seryoga [Bodrov] got up, the time was noon. I say: “Go see what's going on with Kushnerev. Sleeping? Don't wake him up. And turn off all the phones, let the person sleep, it’s impossible like that. ” I figured that they still have time before the broadcast, this montage will not go anywhere. In general, he slept for a long time. Out in felt boots on the porch: “Svetka! What is this, really? Bodrov told me - it's already two in the afternoon! I told him: “True. Take it easy. You can do everything." And he suddenly became so pleased that he slept well, that he was with us. We even went somewhere else with Seryoga and Olechka. And then he rushed off to work again. Moreover, they were silent to the last and did not even tell me who won in this “Last Hero”.
- At the same time, the whole country was sure that it was happening live.
Yes. This is also Kushnerev's unique talent - to make the viewer believe. Just imagine: we are going to the village with Serezha on our huge Land Rover Defender. All traffic police officers along the way already know that this is our car. Kushnerev was always laughing at us: “Why do you need a school bus?” Well, Seryozha liked this military vehicle, wildly cold and uncomfortable. Later, three years after everything that had happened, I rode it, I could not decide to sell it. But then no one knew what would happen. 2001, we are driving, they see us, they slow down Seryoga: “Yeah, Bodrov, so you're not there now? When are you flying back?" He: "I'm not leaving." - “You don’t fly away, then. Then tell me who won? He: “I can’t say, guys, really.” - "We will take away the rights!" - “Well, I can’t, I gave my word.” The next day, everyone is already laughing: “We’ll take away the rights, speak.” Every day they stopped, but Seryoga did not say. He generally had a funny relationship with traffic police officers. Somehow Serega violated something, he is stopped. And the depeesnik says: “Serge, red light - stop, green light - go.” This is a phrase from "Brother-2".
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- And let go?
Let go. People somehow treated our programs with tenderness. Kushnerev in "Wait for me" had established contacts with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, doctors, police, patrols, anyone. Everyone has always been there for us. It was worth saying “Wait for me”, and some kind of magic happened. Everyone helped. Always. Always walked forward. It was in the truest sense of the word people's television. And people felt it and reciprocated. I'm even ashamed to say, Sashka Zhukovsky, the operator, learned a little. He was stopped by traffic police all the time, he even complained: “I’m going to shoot, they slow me down, and it starts.” And I told him: “Zhukovsky, you say that you are going to shoot “Wait for me”. And he comes after the first post and says: “Listen, it works. Released immediately. I would never have believed it."
- And why did you and Kushnerev leave the program in the fall of 2014?
Because the program has already been taken away from us by this moment.
- How?
There was what I call a raider takeover. The editor-in-chief of the program Yulia Budinaite, whom Kushnerev brought from Komsomolskaya Pravda, and Alexander Lyubimov (after working at the VGTRK and RBC TV in 2014, he returned to VID and took over as president of the company. - Ed.) behind Kushnerev's back, they decided that they would be able to continue the program without him.
- So how? How did it happen?
I have no answer. I can’t say that for Budinaite, just as for me, as for Serezha, “Wait for me” was a matter of a lifetime. She was the editor-in-chief who handed out assignments to reporters but never showed up on set. Why and why she suddenly needed to lead “Wait for me”, why Lyubimov needed it, I don’t know. But it was a conspiracy that Kushnerev knew nothing about until the last moment. They wanted to remove Sergei Anatolyevich from the post of editor-in-chief of the television company, to select the program. This was not easy to do, because Kushnerev had a 25% stake in VID.
- And who had the other 75%?
I don't know the full schedule. But the main stake was owned by Alexander Mikhailovich Lyubimov. And he wanted to become the full owner of the company. He did not mean the presence of Sergei Anatolyevich Kushnerev in the company, because he understood that he was a person with character, a very honest person. And Lyubimov decided to get rid of Kushnerev. And Julia Budinaite, apparently, decided that she would make “Wait for me” without the help of Kushnerev. And he will do even better than him.
How technically did it all happen?
I was driving to work when Kushnerev called me: "Sveta, I'm quitting, I have to leave." - "In terms of?" - “I found out that behind my back Sasha Lyubimov wants to put in place the editor-in-chief and head of “Wait for me” Yulia Budinaite. As you understand, I do not consider it possible to remain either in the program or in the television company if such things happen.
Can you imagine, he found out about it in one second, almost by accident. No one talked to him, no one discussed anything. Of course, you may not like something, there may be complaints about the program and the manager. But, perhaps, such issues can be resolved at a meeting?
- Did Lyubimov and Kushnerev meet?
No. No one met Serezha. His dismissal was accepted. And the issue with the shares was resolved literally before my eyes. We stood with Kushnerev after one of the last shootings in the smoking room. Lyubimov's assistant approached Serezha, handed him a package of documents with the words: "Sign." I wouldn't tell if it didn't happen right in front of me. I ask: "What is it?" Kushnerev: "I don't know." We left the television center, went to the Ostankino pond, opened the package. These were documents for signing on the refusal of 25 percent of the shares of VID, which belonged to Kushnerev.
- On what basis?
There was no reason, it was a voluntary refusal. Our commercial director and I began to persuade Kushnerev not to do this. I asked: “Can you not do this? Can you not give back?" - "Light, I will not get involved in this." Kushnerev was not a business man, he did not need money. He didn't make television for money. He loved his job, wanted to do it, develop this program, launch new ones, teach at the university, teach young journalists, he liked it. He did not want to fight with Lyubimov.
- Were you fired too?
No, I didn't give them that opportunity. I wrote a letter of resignation immediately after this conversation with Kushnerev, as soon as I got to work. I'll tell you honestly: I didn't even leave because of Seryozha. We are all adults, and when you have two children to feed, you won’t particularly go to the barricade with the flag, right? I applied for my resignation because I knew that I would never work with these people. Because these are mediocre people who, by and large, do not need this program. They will not put their soul or heart into it, mess with it as much as we did. Well, just imagine that after each shooting we were going - Igor Kvasha, Masha Shukshina (hosts of "Wait for me." - Ed.), I and Kushnerev, sat, discussed these stories, worried, cursed, invented something. We lived it. We loved it. We, imagine, are terribly proud of our work. The fact that we can help people find each other. Especially in our country, so plowed up by war, repressions, camps.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
Did you feel addicted or burned out? For fourteen years on the air?
What do you! We remembered every story, endlessly discussed it all, experienced it. They were always interested in how everything went on there, called, kept in touch. This is not some cold modern approach to television, let's say, technocratic. We lived it. And we thought it would continue. Maybe somehow differently, better, cooler. We wanted to change some format solutions, we were moving. We wanted to try to devote more time to the search process itself, to show the viewer how we are looking, where, we thought to do it in the detective genre. There were a bunch of ideas. But we still did "Wait for me" with our hearts. And, it was the case, they roared in the control room.
Can you remember when this happened in last time?
Yes. It was December 2013. Our grandparents came to visit us. Very old, but very good looking and very similar: brother and sister. When they arrived, I was basically reading the script. But the script is one thing, and then suddenly grandpa starts telling: "I was born in 1916." And everyone in the control room: “Lord, this is space! Under Nicholas II! In general, he is 96 years old, granny, his sister - 94. And they came to look for their sister which was lost in 1925. It so happened that in the famine years their father died. Father's sister, aunt, offered her help - to take away for a while the most younger girl. And my mother agreed: hunger. And suddenly the family of this aunt disappears together with the baby. They never saw their sister again. And after so many years they come to us. And the search began, led by Kushnerev, who developed this topic.
- Did you find it?
Yes, Katya, we found it.
- Incredible. Where?
It was found in Iran. At the time of filming, she was 90 years old. It so happened that the family of the aunt, in which she fell, had no children of her own. And they took this girl away, posing as their daughter, somewhere in Central Asia from there to Turkey. There she married a diplomat and ended up in Iran. And now, you know, I have a picture in front of my eyes, how they approached each other, all very similar, the same height. Embraced. And pressed their heads together, all three of them. The studio is up. Kushnerev and I froze in the control room. I need to switch the buttons on the remote control, and tears drip. They take out a photograph of their only one, where they are all three together. And they say, "Thank you!" And then suddenly such pride, right to the point of trembling, creeps through you for what you do, what you do. And you can feel the scale of the country. And some kind of great happiness, for everyone. I remember I turned to Kushnerev and said: “Serge, thank you very much, this is incredible.” He created an incredible project, of course, an incredible story.
- How did he live without this job?
I don't know how to tell you about it. How did he live? He could hardly talk to anyone about what had happened. In no case did he want to tell his classmates, university friends and just friends outside of television, of whom he had a lot, about these experiences. Because you can't explain much. And it is, of course, very difficult for people who do not boil in this to explain what is lost, without which it is impossible to live. Seryozha was deeply worried and scared. When we met, we all the time slipped into the discussion “Wait for me”, because this is part of our life, most of our life. I once told him: “Tell me honestly, Seryoga, did you see at least one issue after we left?” He says: “No, Sveta, no. Generally". And I say, "I don't look either."
Well, it hurt. And all the talk about it is painful. And then this stroke serious condition. He did not want to be seen like that, did not want to believe that he was a sick person. Therefore, only I, the children, with whom he was infinitely happy, and Leshka Bartosh could come to the hospital. And for some reason I remembered how on the ninth day in intensive care he was finally able to talk. And when for the first time he called me in such a weak voice: “Sveta!” - Oh, I have tears hail. And I say: “Well, at least you don’t leave me. I'm begging you, please!" He, you understand, was the only one who connected me with my Seryozhka. We always talked a lot about Seryozha with him.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
And he really, not in words, understood that I absolutely live it, that in my life Seryozha is last man who was, and no one else in my life appeared either mentally or physically, in any way. No matter what they write about me in the newspapers, no matter how much they want to get some news. This cannot be understood by someone who did not know what it was like when there was such a man in your life. This is happiness, which, I think, many women do not live in the whole life that I have lived in this short period. And if you had such a thing, then you will carry it through your whole life, you will keep it.
I probably could only talk about this with Kushnerev. And then I asked him not to leave me. And he answered: “I won’t quit, Svetka.” When he recovered, we, I remember, came to his dacha - me, Lesha Bartosh, Chulpan Khamatova, all with children, it was such a good day and evening, we laughed a lot, walked.
Rehabilitation Serezhin somehow passed quickly enough. Then he got hooked on the idea of a book (the idea of the book series “My Twentieth Century. Characters"- in combination of large and "small", personal, history; Kushnerev managed to write and released in 2016-2017 the first two volumes: "1900" and his memoirs. - Ed.) and began to write it. He gave the first copy to us with the children, there is a lot about Seryozha Bodrov. This book is fantastic work. A huge amount of materials, such subtle things, such poignant stories that only Kushnerev could pull out. And I asked him to just start writing the script documentary film. He says: “I even came up with some things that you can do. You will understand me now." We even discussed the details already. Did not have time.
- And what did you do after leaving Wait for Me?
Wherever I wandered. She even worked on the television channel of the Federation Council, then on NTV, in many places. Now on Channel One. But in this sense, it was even somehow easier for me: I was just stupidly looking for a job, because I have children, I can’t think for a long time or be in creative search. I need to earn money to feed them. With 10,000 survivors' pensions and a family relying solely on your salary, you don't have to choose a particular job.
- You were not offered to go to the new "Wait for me" on NTV?
No. It's impossible. I know, Masha (Maria Shukshina, hosted "Wait for me" from 2000 to 2014. - Ed.) called, offering to go now to NTV in “Wait for me”. She said that she would only work with the old cast. Now, after all, there are completely new people in the program: excellent editors and correspondents left with us, and the presenters also left. You see, “Wait for me”, created by Kushnerev, is not only a program or there was a team of like-minded people, it was a family. He had such an ability to unite amazing people around him. So I met Galina Borisovna Volchek, so Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha entered my life, with whom we were friends until his last breath, Masha Shukshina, Misha Efremov, Chulpan Khamatova, who also became a member of this family, a close person about whom you know that You can call at any time and you will be supported.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
- And how did Chulpan appear in "Wait for me"?
It began with the fact that she led “Another Life” (a broadcast by the VID television company, aired on Channel One. - Ed.), into which Seryoga [Bodrov] dragged her. So they all became friends. And when the question arose that Masha Shukshina should go to maternity leave give birth to twins, Kushnerev said: "Only Chulpan." We were very afraid that she would not agree. But how could she not give consent to Sergei Anatolyevich and me? She agreed. And, you know, sitting in the control room, I peeped some absolutely fantastic moments that happened to her in the studio, she amazed me every time: someone left her handbag from the guests, she runs through all the stands, jumps over the steps: "Handbag! Forgot your bag! Come back." Better than her, no one spoke to the children in the program. I don’t know how she did it, but it’s, of course, from the heart. And she - it was visible, it was felt - experienced with her heart all the stories that she had to tell. Sometimes it was hard for her to do so. You won't play it! And so she found words, of course, past the script, sat down with someone, stroked her knee, hugged, sometimes cried. And the man clung to her, as if he was under some kind of protection. Sergei and I adored her.
It's a pity for these times. Pity the deeds of a lifetime. Because the people who have come now - they did not create anything with their own hands, they work on the basis of what was created by Sergei Anatolyevich. And they are not going to develop anything, to move anywhere.
And this means that his dream will not be realized - to make worldwide network people search. He had almost connected the ends with the ends, there remained only to be finalized. He had absolute statistics on how many people are lost all over the world, he had an idea how to look for them. He was sick of this idea. We were going to expand the geography of "Wait for me". The Baltic countries agreed to work with us, we made teleconferences from Riga, London and China with the company CCTV. And, imagine, during this teleconference with China, they were looking for the relatives of Grigory Kuleshenko, our pilot, who during the Sino-Japanese war accomplished a feat defending the borders of China, and they consider national hero: a monument was erected to him, at which he is accepted as a pioneer. And it turned out that this is Kushnerev's grandfather. And he never told me. Outside of work, he was a very shy and gentle person.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
When Sergei Kushnerev died, I thought that the last romantic of our television, who thought about the viewer and loved him, had passed away. And he loved his job not because it was power or money: the man simply loved television.
There are probably no more people who are so “sick” with television. We are some kind of mastodons. We lived it. Bodrov could not watch some of our things, of course, sometimes tears welled up, but he was interested in all the stories. And he took one story about a nurse who was looking for through "Wait for me." I wanted to make the next film after The Messenger: there a nurse hid our wounded in the basement of a village captured by the Germans. She said that when they had not seen the sun for several weeks, she let them out into the yard on the sly. And as soon as they left, the German came. Came for the goose. And he sees - in the yard there are four bandaged wounded of our soldiers.
- And what is he?
Silently he took the goose, put 10 marks on the table and left. This story terribly hooked my Earring. This nurse came to us in "Wait for me" to look for at least one of these wounded soldiers. After some time (they understood that the German would be silent for the time being), she slowly led them all into the forest.
Did you find any of them?
Kushnerev was engaged in this, they found one, already old. Serega [Bodrov] then asked Kushnerev for some details from this already elderly woman find out for the movie, the details.
From the personal archive of Svetlana Bodrova
I remember well that in Kushnerev's office, the main place was a photograph of your children, Olya and Sasha. He always talked about them with enthusiasm.
The children loved him very much. He was the godfather of Olya and Sasha. And he loved them very much. He always came to birthdays, always congratulated, he adored children, of course. AT Last year Olya became very close to Seryozha. She told him that she was going to enter the theater institute. And he was very supportive of her in this decision, which no one else knew about: neither my mother, nor Serezha's father, nor Serezha's mother. None! For everyone there was a journalism faculty of Moscow State University. And Seryoga and Olya played around in theaters! He took her to rehearsals, introduced her to the artists. She really liked talking to him, they had a lot in common, and she took his departure from life very hard, very hard.
When it became clear that Olya was going to the theater, she first entered training courses at the Moscow Art Theater, and then, in the spring, when I was finishing the 11th grade, I entered all theatrical universities, even went to Yaroslavl. Passed the competition at the Moscow Art Theater, Sliver and GITIS. But I chose GITIS. I was scared, of course! She even kept her diary, could not wait until it was all over. I was sitting here alone in the kitchen: Sasha was kayaking in the camp, Olya was taking exams, a competition. I remember she calls at eleven o’clock in the evening: “Mom, I entered!” And how I sob. And she began to inform everyone: her mother, Serezina, Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov. He answered: “How is it in GITIS?” I say: "That's how I decided." Oh, how happy Kushnerev was! And after admission, they continued their trips to the theaters. He introduced her to everyone. This was already a new generation of Sovremennik, headed by Shamil Khamatov, Chulpan's brother. And they were already gathering at Seryoga's dacha in Valentinovka. He adored the young, he enjoyed this fellowship. He himself gave a lot, and they loved him very much, guys. It was so easy for him with them, so much fun, they were so interesting to him, and he was the center of attraction for them. I just asked him all the time: “Kushnerev, how do you have enough health?” He squinted so in response: "Enough." And he was always in touch. There was always enough for everyone. Always answered messages.
Actually, I realized that something was wrong when I wrote him a message: “We need to gossip.” And suddenly he didn't answer. I began to call: one day, the second. I immediately felt that something had happened: Seryozha did not get in touch. In January 2017, he suffered a second stroke. It so happened that I was the first of all of us, of all our friends, to find out about this, then every day I called his sister Nastya, found out how he was feeling, and after talking with her I informed everyone along the chain about his condition, the guys from the theater, from our "Wait for me" team. Everyone was very worried about him. We hoped until the very end...
You know, Katya, I was struck by how many people, how many Seryoga's friends came to say goodbye to him. How did he know how to be friends, to maintain relationships. Amazing! Very young artists came, students - and elderly grandmothers from Komsomolskaya Pravda. Those whose life somehow intersected with him loved him very much. Evening of memory was in Sovremennik. The young actors dedicated a performance to him that they played that day. Everyone was there who loved Seryozha. At some point, I got up and said: “Let's not cry anymore, Seryozha was a very cheerful person, and his tears were very upsetting. Let it be a real, full of life theatrical evening, as he loved. And they sang, there were many poems and songs. And Galina Borisovna [Volchek] was there, stayed up almost until morning, and Chulpashechka, that's all. Even Kostya Ernst came. He hugged me like that and said: “Well, what? Your men left you." I say yes. I don't have anyone left now." He said, "I won't quit." Now, with Olya and my mother, we often go to Seryoga Kushnerev at the cemetery. Sometimes I go alone when it becomes unbearable and I want to talk. I’m going, I think, how I would like to consult with him, complain that something is not important with work now, this, this. I go up to his grave and as if I can directly hear his voice: "Hi, Svetka."
The scandalous radio host recaptured her from the crime boss Misha
The scandalous radio host recaptured her from the crime boss Misha
This year, Sergei BODROV would have turned 40 years old. Eight years ago, he went missing during a glacier meltdown in the Karmadon Gorge. His widow, Svetlana BODROV, has two children and is still unmarried. All attempts to find a new life partner ended in disappointment. Short novels only convinced her that it was easier to be alone. Svetlana even refused her old love, which usually does not rust, - showman Otar KUSHANASHVILI.
Shortly before death Sergei Bodrov built a family nest in a village near Moscow. In the very place where his beloved comes from. But he did not manage to live in a stylish, at that time prestigious house. Now Sveta comes here with her children - 8-year-old Sasha, 12-year-old Olya and her mother Nina.
We have known light since childhood, - the neighbors say. - She is for us. Sitina. It is her maiden name. Her personal life did not work out. In her youth, she jumped out to marry a policeman Mikhailova and took his last name. We don't know where this guy went, but Svetlana went to Moscow. She got a job on television. She was interesting in her youth, so sweet and remained ...
In the capital, Svetlana quickly forgot her policeman and soon got along with a handsome crime boss. It was he who arranged her career on television.
- Sveta Mikhailova was dazzling, - the showman recalls that time Otar Kushanashvili. - I fell in love with her immediately. But there was one problem. I met Sveta on the set of the Sharks of the Pen program, she was the director of this program, and I was a participant. Others might think that if I get along with the director, then I'm making a career. But when I saw Sveta, I did not know that it was this girl who was filming the program. Until a certain moment, I heard only her voice. That she is the director, he told me Ivan Demidov and asked not to be rude to her.
First kiss forcibly
I really wanted to kiss her, I didn't think about the rest, - Otar sighs. - Having plucked up courage, I invited her to the Soho restaurant, which I opened Anton Tabakov. “Of all the journalists that Demidov recruited for the new project, the most disgusting is you, Otar. If you want to confess your sympathy to me, then you have no chance, ”Sveta told me. I was hurt. They sent me! Then I made a radical decision - to dissolve my hands and forcefully kiss her. Went for broke. She resisted. Soon I was told that Demidov was looking for me. Ilya Legostaev, who was at that time the host of the Sharks of the Pen program, probably told him that I had a carnal interest in the director. "Are you sick? Demidov told me. - I gave birth to you, I will kill you if you offend Sveta. This is the most impregnable beauty on TV.
There has always been an attitude of supreme reverence towards her on television. To understand this, you need to know how the Muzoboz program, hosted by the current politician Ivan Demidov, went on tour. Planes, shipping cruises - all this was on the money of outright bandits! Sveta lived with one of them, crime boss Misha. At the moment when I invited her on a date, she tried to break up with him, because Sveta Mikhailova cannot live with a criminal person, she can live with a crazy or very talented person, like Bodrov. Blessed memory to him. I played the part of the madman. She broke with authority, and we immediately gathered in secret from everyone. This bandit knocked on the door several times, threatened. In shorts, I went out to the door to answer this guy. At the same time, I was terribly afraid and thought how not to switch to falsetto!There were no hints for those present on the program that we were having an affair. Mikhailova did everything so that no one would know about us. Sveta is not one of those who talks about privacy She finds it unacceptable to talk about it. And no one knew about us until a journalist rang at her door Cap Business, she also participated in the Sharks of the Pen. I opened the door of Sveta Mikhailova's apartment. At the next shoot, everyone knew about us.
Vacation without intimacy and lyrics
Once Sveta asked me about our future, and I was not ready to answer. To distract the girl, I bought trips to Turkey. When she arrived there, she did not forget her question. It was fair of her. She is still a lady. The girl understood that a trip to Turkey was a maneuver, I took her there as a distraction. I tried to drive her in noisy places so that the sounds of music interfere with conversations about important things. We had the hardest conversation in the hotel room on the third day. The remaining days passed without lyrics, without intimacy ... When we went back, I already knew that this was a divorce. I felt incredibly embarrassed. All our photographs were destroyed by Sveta. It was her right.
Soon she went with the VID television company on a cruise on a ship. It was a corporate outing for employees. On this trip, she met Sergei Bodrov. From there she came back completely different. With pain in my heart and a tribute to justice, it must be said that when she got along with Bodrov, her eyes began to shine.
Bodrov made an appointment for me in a cafe on Novoslobodskaya street. I can’t explain now how he got up, how he greeted me. But they don't do that bad guys. I did not know about his age and thought that he was 40 years younger than me! Now, when I watched his directorial debut - the film "Sisters", the pictures in which he starred, I understand that only a person with character could do such work. But then he seemed to me somehow defenseless. He had a baby face. At the same time, I realized that in front of me a person is a priori reliable. Not like me. This gave me great respect for him. He said that he loves Sveta and wants to find out if there will be any problems on my part. He probably thought that there would be some tense conversation. But I replied, they say, I believe that he will make her happy. Our meeting lasted ten minutes. I was the first to leave the cafe. I was told that I cried in the car, but I don't remember that anymore. It was the final farewell to that era. Only later, after the death of Sergei, I saw her in Ostankino. We nodded to each other. That's all...
Man for health
Svetlana herself does not talk about herself and her late husband. The personal life of a widow, even among inner circle- a secret behind seven seals. Her colleagues from television are perplexed why such an interesting woman is still alone, and meets with men exclusively "for health."
Sveta has more than enough suitors here, - her colleagues shared from the program “Wait for me”, where she works as a director. - Immediately after the death of Bodrov, many people rolled up to her, successful and bright, but she rejected everyone. Then she seems to have agreed with one businessman. We went to Europe a couple of times for the weekend, but it didn’t go any further.
It's hard to come to terms with loss loved one. They say that a widow in the early years is a walking wound that does not heal. Does time heal, and how can one live on after the death of a beloved husband? Someone no longer thinks about life next to another man, like Bodrov's widow, and someone marries a billionaire, like Jacqueline Kennedy. What is right and what is wrong is not for us to judge. Let's just find out how the life of the widows of famous people turned out.
Svetlana Bodrova, widow of actor Sergei Bodrov Jr.
Actor and director Sergei Bodrov Jr. went missing in the fall of 2002 in the mountains of Vladikavkaz during the filming of the film The Messenger. He was 30 years old.
The wife of Sergei Bodrov is a director and journalist Svetlana. The couple met in 1997 in Cuba at the festival of youth and students. The wedding has already been played on next year. The couple always tried to keep their personal lives away from prying eyes.
During the marriage, Sergei and Svetlana had two children: son Sasha and daughter Olga. In 2014, Olya graduated from high school, and after that she entered the budget department of VGIK with a degree in Artist drama theater and cinema."
Svetlana Bodrova is still working by profession - a director on Channel One. After the death of her husband, she continues to live alone.
“In my life, Seryozha is the last man who was, and no one else has appeared in my life either mentally or physically, in any way,” she admitted in an interview with KP.
Alexandra Kutsevol, widow of Oleg Yakovlev, Ivanushki International.
Alexandra is a journalist. Part-time Sasha was the director and producer of Oleg, helped organize concerts and interviews.
They met in St. Petersburg during an interview. And later they met again in Moscow on the set of a musical program. Subsequently, it was Alexandra who recommended Oleg to do solo career. In the registry office, the couple did not formalize the relationship. Sasha and Oleg lived in a civil marriage.
In the future, the girl plans to release a book about her husband and a disc of solo songs by Oleg Yakovlev.
Natalya Rogozhkina, widow of actor Andrei Panin.
Andrei Panin died in March 2013. As the media wrote then, the 50-year-old actor passed away when mysterious circumstances: was found in his own apartment in a pool of blood. Panin's wife Natalya Rogozhkina is his colleague, also an actress.
In marriage, Andrei and Natalia had two children.
After Panin's death, rumors spread that Natalya had found herself new love represented by director Andrey. However, the actor's father denied the speculation.
“At one time we thought that Natasha Gena Rusin was courting - Andrey's former director. He is a good person - he always helped her in everything, so we didn’t mind if they got together. Then it turned out that Natasha and Gena are just friends, besides, he has a wife, ”said the actor’s father.
However, although Andrei's parents advocated a new marriage for their daughter-in-law, Natalya still prefers to be alone. The parents of Andrei Panin refused the inheritance of their son in favor of Natalya, saying that their pension was “quite enough”.
“The only thing I really would like is to see my grandchildren more often. This is all we have left of our son,” they said.
Irina Turchinsky, widow of actor and bodybuilder Vladimir Turchinsky.
Vladimir Turchinsky died in 2009. The 46-year-old actor died early in the morning from a heart attack. He lived with his wife Irina for 12 years.
The couple met at the gym in training. As Irina once recalled, Vladimir, by his own admission, was struck by her figure.
“He came up to meet, we talked a little. And soon I went to America for two months - I learned the language, ”says the woman.
But Irina refused to move abroad - all for the sake of her lover. Shortly after the wedding, the couple had a daughter, Ksenia.
Today, Irina continues to work as a fitness instructor, while simultaneously taking part in television projects. A woman, by her own admission, is not going to marry.
“I myself asked myself the question:“ Ir, why aren’t you getting married? ”I gave myself different answers, came up with reasons. The main thing is that I still remember Volodya too well. But I also remember my first love - but this does not prevent me from moving forward. In general, I realized that I had already realized my dream of marriage - with Volodya - and I just don’t want to get married anymore, ”says Irina.
Yulia Abdulov, widow of actor Alexander Abdulov.
Alexander Abdulov died after a long illness in 2008. The 54-year-old actor had a fourth degree lung cancer. The second and last wife of Alexander Abdulov is Julia, a lawyer by education.
In 2007, a year before the tragic event, Yulia gave birth to a daughter, Zhenya, from Abdulov. In March, the girl turned 10 years old.
After the death of her husband, Julia decided to devote herself completely to her daughter; the woman is not yet thinking about a new marriage.
“I didn’t take a vow of celibacy. It's just that now my whole life is subordinated to Zhenya, to her interests. Plus, I have a very high bar. In my life I have met few real - absolute, one hundred percent - men. Sasha was like that - absolutely reliable, who can solve everything, ”shared Yulia Abdulova in an interview.
Daria Mikhailova, widow of actor Vladislav Galkin.
Vladislav Galkin died at the age of 38 from heart failure on February 25, 2010, shortly before official break with his second wife, actress Daria Mikhailova. The couple's divorce was scheduled for March 10. Galkin and Mikhailova had no children.
At the time of the tragic event, the couple had not lived together for about a year. There is a version that this happened due to the actor's alcoholism. Since the couple did not have time to divorce, Daria became Galkin's heiress and subsequently sold a five-room apartment in the center of Moscow, allegedly not even sharing the proceeds with relatives, as Galkin's friends claimed.
After the death of her husband, Daria, according to the observations of family friends, changed a lot: she quit the Shchukin school, where she taught acting, began to rarely appear in public, and generally began to lead a more closed life, which continues to this day.
Olga Gorsheneva, widow of rock musician Mikhail Gorshenev.
The leader of the King and the Jester died in July 2013 from heart failure.
The 39-year-old musician is survived by his daughter Sasha and wife Olga.
After the tragedy, Olga, in order to somehow move away from what happened, completely gave herself to the child. Now Alexandra is already taking her first steps in the musical field.
Mom Olga fully supports the girl's passion for punk rock and never tires of repeating that Sasha is a copy of her famous father.
Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US President John F. Kennedy.
The murder on November 22, 1963 came as a shock to the whole of America. And Jacqueline in a bloody pink Chanel suit has become a symbol of America's grief.
Robert Kennedy, the younger brother of the late John, helped the widow of the president to get out of a severe depression. Despite the fact that Robert and his wife Ethel already had 11 children, rumors about secret romance with Jacqueline did not disappear anywhere.
Five years after the death of her husband, Jacqueline met businessman and billionaire Aristotle Onassis. The couple was brought together by Jacqueline's sister, Lee. Aristotle was not only fabulously rich, he was passionate, sexy and charming.
On October 10, the shipping tycoon proposed to the former First Lady of the United States with a huge ruby and diamond ring worth $1.2 million. Jackie was 39 years old, Aristotle - 62 years old, when they were legally married on October 20, 1968 on his own Greek island of Scorpios.
But the tragedy is not over. The only son of Aristotle Onassis, Alexander, died in a plane crash in January 1973. Onassis began to fail quickly, and on March 15, 1975, he died in Paris. The headlines “Jacqueline is a widow again!” immediately popped up in the press.
According to the laws of Greece, Jacqueline could not inherit the entire fortune of Onassis, since she is not Greek. After two years of legal battle, she eventually accepted a $26 million release from Christina Onassis, Onassis's daughter and sole heir.
After all the events, Jacqueline returned to the United States and tried to find a job. For some time she was an editor, then she was engaged in charity work. And in January 1994, Jacqueline was diagnosed with lymphoma - they say she smoked a lot. Four months later, in May, Kennedy-Onassis died at the age of 64.
Albina Nazimova, widow of TV presenter Vladislav Listyev.
Vladislav Listyev is the second husband of Albina. She was married for the first time while still a student.
O family relationships Albina and Vlad have always been full of legends and gossip. They said that Listyev always had a lot of mistresses, and his wife knew about it. They also said that popularity came to Vlad precisely because of Albina, who forbade him to drink.
After the death of her second husband, Nazimova could not leave for a long time, but her colleague Vlad Listyev and, at the same time, Andrei Razbash, also a talented TV figure, pulled her out of depression. They merried.
The couple divorced shortly after the birth of their son Ivan. Razbash himself died of a heart attack on the night of July 23, 2006 in Moscow.
AT this moment Albina Nazimova is married to businessman Alexander Rusin. The couple bought a house in Spain about a year ago, which famous woman considers the place where she found true peace.
Natalya Boyko, widow of musician Murat Nasyrov.
The singer committed suicide in 2007. He had known his wife Natalya since his student days. In 1996, the couple had a daughter, four years later a son, while they never officially registered the marriage.
After some time, when Nasyrov began to move up the career ladder, gaining more and more popularity, he began to have health problems - insomnia, unreasonable anxiety. The doctors said it was because of the busy schedule and prescribed antidepressants.
And after some time, they found in the brain a certain formation that appeared when he was attacked by bandits on tour. But doctors assured that it could not be the cause of mental disorders.
The relatives were shocked by the death of Murat and did not believe in the voluntary death of the artist. Natalia long time could not accept the thought that her husband was no more, and still has not found a man who could compare with him.
After Nasyrov's death, his wife began teaching vocal lessons, working with backing vocalists of the A'Studio group and other artists. Daughter Leah is also engaged in music, and Akim entered the Gnessin School and plays the saxophone.
Elena Belousova, widow of singer Zhenya Belousov.
Model Elena Savina was the common-law wife of singer Zhenya Belousov. She lived with him for 3.5 years until his death from a stroke.
Even during the relationship, they had a real drama. When the young people already had a child, Belousov had an affair with keyboardist Oksana Shindlovskaya, who became pregnant from him and gave birth to a son, Roman. Then Savina, after some time, decided to part with the artist.
After the death of the 32-year-old musician, Lena took his last name and tried to build a career as a singer, performing the songs of her late husband. For the composition "Evening-Evening", the girl shot a frank underground clip. But Lena did not work out with music.
Larisa Golubkina, widow of actor Andrei Mironov.
The actress became the second wife of the artist. He died in August 1987 due to a cerebral hemorrhage. legendary actor felt bad right during the performance - he played in the comedy "Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro" on tour in Riga. With Golubkina they lived together for 10 years.
It was rumored that Mironov was cheating on his wife. The women with whom the actor allegedly had affairs suspected that Golubkina knew about this, but wisely kept silent.
After the death of the actor, Larisa never married again. She devoted herself to cinema and theater, as well as raising her daughter Maria Golubkina from a past relationship, whom Mironov raised as her own.
Maria Mironova, own daughter actor, named her only son after his grandfather. Andrei Udalov has been serving at the Vakhtangov Theater since 2015 and has already starred in six films.