Parents of Sukhankina's children. The soloist of the Mirage group Margarita Sukhankina shared the secrets of raising adopted children. Sukhankina's professional musical career
The star of the Mirage team, Margarita Sukhankina, has long dreamed of becoming a mother, but in her youth she made many mistakes. When she realized that she could not give birth herself, she decided to take the kids from the orphanage. In 2012, three-year-old Lera and four-year-old Sergey became members of her family. Their real parents, Olga and Alexander, did not care for them: their mother suffered from alcoholism, and their father was convicted several times. Finding children cost the singer marriage: their union with Andrei Lityagin broke up.
As the editors of “Let them talk” managed to find out, after Lera and Sergey got to Sukhankina, they adopted another of their brothers. According to the singer, the third child was not given to her, besides, he had health problems. However, Olga had another boy - Cyril. In total, the woman gave birth to six children. Alcoholism undermined Olga's health, she died in the hospital from cirrhosis of the liver, and Alexander recently ended up in prison again.
Natalya Kuvykina, Kirill's grandmother, is now his guardian. They live in a small dorm room.
“The area is 24 square meters. In winter, I pay four and a half thousand rubles every month, and in summer - four thousand two hundred. My pension is eight and a half. While I am the guardian, everything is enough, ”the woman said.
// Photo: Frame from the program "Let them talk" on Channel One
Kuvykina once worked as a builder, therefore, as best she could, she improved the housing herself. Cyril loves his grandmother very much, and she tries to give the child everything in her power. Recently, the boy injured his leg and walks on crutches.
“He had a displaced hip joint, they had surgery, so he is on crutches. We live together. His dad is still there, but he has to get out on parole, ”said Cyril’s guardian.
// Photo: Frame from the program "Let them talk" on Channel One
The boy dreams of meeting his brother and sister. She and her grandmother collect photos and clippings from magazines depicting Lera and Sergey. Sukhankina did not remain indifferent to this story.
“My children live “in chocolate”, they have absolutely everything that children should have. I can publicly say that if you and Kirill need help, I am ready to assist you. I am very grateful to you that you “turned on your brains” and took the child,” said Margarita.
Cyril also came to meet the singer, but because of embarrassment and fear, he burst into tears. Sukhankina does not oppose the boy's communication with Leroy and Sergey. The star mother promised to support her children's brother.
“I have a brother and sister, but I have not seen them. I miss them. I am six years old, but I am sick and cannot go to kindergarten, ”Kirill admitted.
Last year, the soloist of the Mirage group Margarita Sukhankina adopted two children from Tyumen - 3-year-old Lera and 4-year-old Serezha. The singer saw the kids in the program “So far, everyone is at home”, where in a special section they talk about children who do not have mom and dad. And immediately decided to pick them up from the orphanage.
The singer completed all the documents, brought the guys home. On the second day they began to call her mother ... But ... a few months later, the biological parents of Lera and Serezha appeared on her horizon. Alexander and his 25-year-old wife Olga. They said that they really miss the kids, so the kids should live in the house of their mother and father.
Mirage soloist Margarita Sukhankina: "I adopted wonderful babies, and now they want to take them away from me!"
True, life is difficult for them (the biological father of the children was convicted five times and still cannot find a permanent job. - Ed.). Because of this, even the eldest son - disabled from birth - cannot be taken away from the orphanage. But unexpectedly surging parental feelings do not allow them to come to terms with the fact that Lera and Serezha live with a wealthy and famous mother ... Moreover, Olga at that time was expecting another child.
For the singer, this was a real shock: after all, children have long become family to her ...
I won't give my kids away to anyone! Lera and Seryozha lived in an orphanage for six months, no one visited them for six months. Their biological mother is deprived of parental rights. According to the documents, they didn’t have a dad at all: in the column “father” there is a dash. Sometimes Seryozha recalls his former life: “But when we lived with another mother, they didn’t feed us there ...” I asked him if he wanted to see that other mother. He replied no.
So how can I give them away? The kids are legally with me. Now they have warmth, comfort, maternal love.
Alexander and Olga first abandoned their daughter and son, abandoned them, and now they are shouting "help"! But children are not toys...
I don’t want to condemn anyone, but a man who, by the age of 30, already has five convictions, wants to take my daughter and son away from me! What can he give children? Or the mom with bottle problems? Fortunately, even Alexander's mother did not support the impulse of these unfortunate parents. We spoke with her, and she honestly admitted that she was glad that the children were in good hands.
I really enjoy being a mom. Finally, I understand for whom I open my eyes in the morning. I have a meaning to life. Fur coats, diamonds, resorts - I have already seen all this. You have no idea what I feel when I come home, and my children fly out of the house screaming towards me: “Hurrah! Mommy has arrived! Now I can call myself a really happy woman.
Recently it became known that the soloist of the Mirage group broke up with Andrey Lityagin. In a frank interview with the site portal, the singer spoke about the gap, as well as the difficulties in raising adopted children.
- Margarita, three years have passed since you had children. Tell us how they grow up, what talents do they show?
I think they have everything under control. I observe unique things: they sculpt, draw, write, read. Seryozha, of course, is in the forefront, since he is older, Lerochka tries to run after him, but she has a problem - she is left-handed. Her brain works in dual mode, she not only tries to write the other way, from right to left, but also to read. Therefore, it is a little more difficult for her to read.
- Do you play music with them?
Certainly! They play the piano. While there were autumn holidays, as they say, I trained them at home. I did not send the children to kindergarten, they study at a preparatory school. Classes are held there once a week and in seven days everything disappears from them. We often walk, so the wind blows everything out of our heads! (Laughs.) So at home we try to practice every day. Lera goes to dances and rhythmic gymnastics. She dances wonderfully and makes everyone dance at home. She has a beautiful plasticity of her hands, all movements are conscious, I am glad that we noticed this predisposition of her from childhood. Serezha practiced taekwondo for six months, but stopped. He has heart problems. In class, they ran a lot, and he began to choke. But we have replaced wrestling with an exercise bike, a treadmill, so we have enough sports.
“I feel my children very well, it’s not for nothing that I have been looking for them for so long,” the singer notes. On the children of Margarita Reima jackets
Photo: from the personal archive of M. Sukhankina
- Do you have any upbringing rules that you, for example, take from the experience of your parents, or does everything happen intuitively?
I have a lot of literature on this subject. Sometimes, when questions arise, I flip through books on child psychology. I used to do it more often, now I rely more and more on intuition. I feel my children very well, it’s not for nothing that I was looking for them for so long and literally felt from the TV screen that they were mine. A well-known story is that at first I wanted one child, but it turned out that there were two of them and they were inseparable. And now I'm so happy that I have a boy and a girl!
Photo: from the personal archive of the singer
- Which one of them is easier for you to find a common language with?
They are completely different, and approaches to them need different. For a long time I tried to raise them the same way, but it turned out that it would not work out that way. If the boy walks along a straight road, then the girl walks through the yards. (Smiles.) At first it was not easy for me with both, but now I have learned to understand them and put up with some things. From childhood, they were personalities with a certain core, because they had to go through a lot. That is why I ask the children to tell me everything so that there is no deception between us. I want to be them, first of all, a close friend with whom they can discuss all their problems. Slowly we are getting there. And as for the one with whom it is easier for me to find a common language ... Probably with Seryozha. He is closer to me, Lera is silent, sometimes cunning, does not tell something. But the further, the more she trusts me. In the orphanage they told me: “Keep in mind, Lera needs to be liked, she must trust you before she opens her soul.” The first year was a serious grinding, there were all sorts of situations, but the children realized that they can trust me, they realized that my home is their home. For a long time they said “at your house”, but today we went from the doctor and Lerochka says: “Mommy, it’s good that we will come home now, otherwise I’m so tired.” Children already understand that they are protected. For more than a year, they asked when we were leaving somewhere: “Mommy, will we return? You won’t leave us, won’t give us to anyone?”. And once I put them in front of me and said: “Remember, I will never give you to anyone for any sweets and jewelry. My greatest treasures are you."
Sometimes children who grew up in a star family do not know anything about their biological parents. However, real parents are those who raised, educated, gave love and tenderness.
Deciding to take a foster child is a difficult step even for an ordinary woman. What can we say about the artist, who has a schedule every day - tours, filming, concerts, recordings, and whose life is constantly under the gunpoint of the media.
However, there are many cases when representatives of show business become wonderful, truly native mothers for foster children. About them - in the material EG. EN.
Tatyana Ovsienko
famous singer Tatyana Ovsienko lived a busy life - performed with concerts throughout the country. One day, fate brought her to distant Perm, and there she was invited to a charity event at the Baby House. By that time, Tatyana already knew that she could not have her own children. That's what the doctors said.
All the kids in the Baby House had fun, ran, laughed at the holiday, and a little three-year-old boy was sitting on the sidelines alone. He alone did not participate in the fun. The singer asked the staff what happened to him. “Pathology of the heart,” answered the employee of the Orphanage with a sigh. It turned out that the boy's parents, having learned about the diseased heart, immediately after birth, abandoned him. And now, according to the forecasts of doctors, he has nothing left to live - a few months, and maybe even weeks ...
Tatyana could not accept this. She found a clinic where the baby with sad eyes had an operation. All the time while the child was recovering from a serious operation, the singer was with him, and then told her husband that she could no longer part with this boy, she wanted him to become her son. And since then Igor lived with his mother Tanya.
True, certain problems began in adolescence, and here Tatyana's ex-husband at that time provided great support - Vladimir Dubovitsky. He took the boy to America, where he lived then. Igor still lives in America, but often flies to his mother in Russia.
Ekaterina Gradova
The actress who played the radio operator Kat in the popular series "Seventeen Moments of Spring", raised a talented daughter - an actress Maria Mironova. But at 47 Ekaterina Gradova for the second time I had a chance to become a mother, only for a foster child.
Having once again visited an orphanage with a charitable purpose, Ekaterina could not pass by a two-year-old boy. She was very worried about how her husband would react to her desire to adopt a baby. However, her husband only supported her idea. Gradova's adopted son is the same age as her grandson.
Margarita Sukhankina
Singer Margarita Sukhankina, under the phonograms of which the soloists of the Mirage group once performed, she could not forgive herself that in her youth she refused the opportunity to give birth to a child, having had an abortion at the request of her husband. After that, she tried several times to endure and give birth, but then the doctors deprived her of her last hope, assuring that the singer was barren.
Sukhankina saw two orphans from the orphanage on TV. 4 year old Seryozha and 3 year old Lera immediately conquered the heart of the singer, and she went for her children to another city. So 48-year-old Margarita finally became a mother.
Only now she feels, according to her confession, fully accomplished and happy. Margarita does not consider herself a heroine - she simply does not understand how she could live without her children before.
Natalya Belokhvostikova
The actress Natalia Belokhvostikova and her director husband Vladimir Naumov already grown up her own adult beautiful daughter. And there were no thoughts about adoption, but then fate intervened. Belokhvostikova performed at a creative evening in an orphanage. A little boy unexpectedly approached her with an unusual request - to give him a cross.
Three year old Kirill touched the artist's heart. The very next day, 65-year-old Natalya Belokhvostikova and 80-year-old Vladimir Naumov came to this orphanage again, and soon took the baby home.
Many condemned the married couple - how, they decided to take on the responsibility of becoming parents at a very mature age! But the artist admits that she and her husband have never regretted their decision. Cyril saved them from loneliness.
Irina Alferova
Had a chance to become a foster mother and an actress Irina Alferova. In addition to his own daughter Xenia she raised two children of her third husband. When Irina's sister died, she took her nephew into her family Sasha. Of course it wasn't easy. But she always thought that it is even more difficult for children! They had to get used to life with a new mother, adapt, they had serious experiences.
Today, however, all worries are over. All the children of Irina Alferova are already adults, each of them is a successful person in her own way.
Margarita Sukhankina is a pop and opera singer with a unique crystal clear mezzo-soprano voice. Thanks to her innate talent and perseverance, she was able to achieve incredible heights, become famous and wealthy. Perhaps thousands or even millions of people envy her. But the singer's life seems like a fairy tale only from the TV screen. Now you will find out why.
Childhood
Margarita Sukhankina was born in 1964 in an average Soviet family, which was not very wealthy. Her parents were metropolitan engineers and, perhaps, Rita would have followed in their footsteps, but from an early age she showed simply incredible vocal abilities. Already at the age of 4, she became a young soloist at the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren on the Lenin Hills. A couple of years later, she began attending a music school, learning to play the piano.
At the age of 11, Rita became the soloist of the senior group in the children's choir of the All-Union Radio and Central Television, which at that time was led by Viktor Popov. From that moment on, Sukhankina's childhood ends. She regularly tours with the choir throughout the USSR, participates in television filming.
Youth
After school, Rita graduated with honors from a music and pedagogical school, but neither the first nor the second time she could enter the conservatory. Only three years later she was accepted into the Gnesins State Pedagogical Institute, where Sukhankina studied for a little over a year. She took the documents, as the teacher decided to retrain her to sing in a different manner: the teacher was sure that Rita should sing soprano, while she naturally had a mezzo-soprano.
A year later, her persistent character brings long-awaited results. Rita's talent was nevertheless considered by the commission, which accepted her to study at the conservatory. After receiving a diploma, Margarita becomes an opera singer, performing on the stage of the capital's Bolshoi Theater.
The beginning of a musical career
Margarita shone on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater for 10 years. All this time she has been actively interested in pop music and has been recording songs with her good friend producer Andrey Lityagin. Soon, the Mirage collective sang in her voice, most of the songs of which were performed by Sukhankina, and the rest by Natalya Gulkina. Despite the fact that the popular group earned simply astronomical money thanks to all-Union tours, Rita did not demand any fee for using her vocals. Pop song has become a real hobby for her.
Only when her hits began to sound from almost every radio in the country did Sukhankina get really scared. The opera singer turned to Lityagin with a request that no one would ever find out who really owns the voice recorded on the records of the Mirage group. She worried about her career and feared that she might be expelled from the conservatory. That is why the fans of the pop group for decades had no idea that Natalya Vetlitskaya, Irina Saltykova and Tatyana Ovsienko only opened their mouths to the soundtrack.
Out of the shadows
Sukhankina remained an anonymous performer until she left the Bolshoi Theatre. Only after that she was able to come out of the shadows and even record her solo Chuvash Album. It was at this time that Russian music lovers were “visited” by nostalgia for the hits of the 80s and 90s. Realizing that there is a great opportunity to catch up, Margarita teams up with Natalia Gulkina. The new team sang with all their favorite voices, and the fans finally saw the real face of Mirage.
The performers not only delighted their fans with old hits, but also recorded a joint album called “Just a Mirage”, which appeared on the shelves of music stores in 2005. And after only two years, the Mirage team was officially reanimated. Andrey Lityagin again became the leader of the group and did everything possible to restore his offspring to its former glory.
The beginning of a solo career
In 2009, the duo recorded another album, called "Thousand Stars", and some songs became real hits, with which Gulkina and Sukhankina went on tour. In 2010, the singers performed at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada. Three years later, the last album "Let me go" was recorded.
In 2016, Margarita began her solo musical career, performing songs by the Mirage group, for which she managed to obtain copyright.
Personal life
After graduating from the conservatory, Margarita went to take a master class in Germany, where she met her first husband, the famous Croatian businessman Antun Maruna. Their short, but rather bright romance ended in a wedding. Rita really fell in love with her chosen one, so she changed not only her name, but also her religious views, becoming a Catholic.
Young and happy spouses lived in two countries, often moving either to Germany or to Switzerland. But the ambitious Sukhankina was not satisfied with the role of a housewife. She dreamed of a stage, but her husband did not share her preferences and forbade her to do what she loved. Most likely, this was the reason for the divorce of the couple, who lived together for a little over two years.
After that, the singer got married three more times, but she could not find real family happiness. Her second husband was a composer, the third - a pianist-accompanist, and the fourth - a businessman.
"Love affair at work"
Since 2010, Sukhankina has been in a civil marriage with her old friend, producer Andrei Lityagin. The star couple decided to adopt children: they took the girl Lera and the boy Sergei from the orphanage. This serious and noble gesture provoked a real sensation in the media. The biological parents of the children decided to make an attempt to return them home and restore their parental rights, however, according to Sukhankina, this was all done solely for the sake of PR. The loud statements of the "parents" remained just words that were thrown into the wind in the "Let them talk" studio.
The music played for a while
It seemed that the adopted children only sealed the union of the star couple, but in reality it was not so. Scandals began to occur more and more often between Andrei and Margarita. Sukhankina did not like the attitude of the newly-made father. “He was not ready to give Lera and Serezha his love,” Margarita admits. After four years of living together, Sukhankina and Lityagin parted, but were able to maintain warm friendly relations. At the moment, they are connected only by work. Andrei continues to produce Margarita, doing everything possible to make her solo career as successful as the project called Mirage.
single mother
Margarita herself does not regret anything. She is absolutely sure that she made the right choice and devoted herself to raising children. Her old parents help her raise Lera and Sergey, with whom Sukhankina lives in her own country house in the Moscow region.
The star mother is constantly interested in the issues of raising children, and she also shares recommendations on her page on the social network. The singer also pleases her multimillion-dollar army of fans by posting photos on Instagram.
In addition to raising two adopted children, the singer is actively involved in the filming of popular television projects, for example, she was a jury member in the show "You're Super". She also pleased the fans by recording a couple of songs with the finalists of the TV show "I Believe".
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