Igor Petrenko does not like to advertise his personal life, however, media representatives managed to find out about two joyful events that happened in the actor's life at once: firstly, Petrenko and Kristina Brodskaya officially legalized their relationship, and secondly, the couple is expecting a second common child.

Painting in the registry office and a wedding in the church

According to the Russian press, upon learning of the upcoming replenishment, Igor Petrenko hastened to take Christina Brodskaya as a legal spouse - the marriage registration of the actors took place in one of the Kaliningrad registry offices, where only relatives and closest friends of the couple were invited.

A day later, Petrenko and Brodskaya got married. The sacrament was attended by about 40 guests, for whom a banquet was organized after the ceremony in the church.


Second common child

Currently, 39-year-old Igor Petrenko and 25-year-old Christina Brodskaya (in December, the St. Petersburg actress will turn 26) are raising their daughter Sophia-Carolina, who was born in December 2014.

Petrenko also has two sons - 10-year-old Matvey and 8-year-old Korney, born in a marriage with Ekaterina Klimova. According to media reports, the boys attended their father's wedding.


Recall that for the sake of Petrenko, Brodskaya broke up with her then boyfriend, actor Artem Krylov, a few years ago. Igor and Christina hid their relationship for two years, living in a civil marriage.

Firstly, the boy was born in the German city of Postdam and had every chance to live there all his life. But fate decreed otherwise. When Igor was three years old, his family moved to Moscow, where he lives to this day.

The boy grew up as an ordinary child, since his family was far from the art world, it did not bode well that in the future he would become an actor. Moreover, at the age of 15, Igor almost went to jail for a crime.

The fact is that he witnessed how his friend shot a man. And it happened when friends decided to return the money debt from that person. There was a trial, and it was decided to let Igor go home and give him 8 years probation. This was the second gift of fate.

Igor decided that when he graduated from school, he would become a military man. But the boy had a grandmother who did her best to instill in him a sense of beauty. She regularly took him to theater performances and to premieres in cinemas. After leaving school, the guy changed his mind and decided to enter the Shchukin Theater School.

While still a student, Igor began to participate in theatrical performances, but after graduating from drama school, he devoted all his time to cinema. I must say that here he achieved great success and gained popularity among the audience. But besides the audience, girls fell in love with the charming young man, and with some of them he even tried to build family relationships.

Irina Leonova

Igor Petrenko also met Irina during his studies. Relations between young people developed very rapidly and after a while they decided to formalize their relationship. They were so in love with each other that they believed that they would be together all their lives.

But they lived together for only 4 years. After that, disagreements began in the family and it was decided to divorce so as not to torment each other.

Familiar couples said that the reason for the disagreement was the lack of common children. Igor and Irina lived together for 4 years, but the girl was never able to get pregnant. They said that Petrenko had many novels on the side, and Irina could no longer tolerate his infidelity.

After parting with Igor, Irina remarried. This time an actor became her husband. She met him on the set of the series, and soon the couple began to live together. During their family life, they had seven children. But this marriage was unsuccessful. Being pregnant with her seventh child, Irina found out that her husband was dating a young actress.

After this news, the actress immediately filed for divorce and broke up with Yevgeny Tsyganov. Now Irina lives on her own and brings up seven children. Despite the difficulties and problems with work, the woman does not lose her optimism and believes in the best.

Ekaterina Klimova

The actress has always been popular with men. She began her first adult relationship at the age of 15. Then she began to meet with Ilya Khoroshilov. As soon as the farewell school waltz sounded, the young people decided to start a family. They got married, and soon their daughter Lisa was born.

Despite the birth of a child, Catherine was not going to become a housewife. She graduated from the Shchukin School and made her film debut quite successfully.

The popularity of the actress grew every year. Along with this, the number of quarrels in the family grew. But the girl did not even have a thought to divorce, pick up the child and leave wherever they looked.

Everything changed after filming in the series "Moscow Windows", where they played together with Igor Petrenko. The girl was familiar with him since studying at the theater university, but during the filming, the young people became very close. Sympathy arose between them and they began to meet in secret.

But Catherine at one point decided to end the relationship. The reason for this was that she and Igor were not free. Their next meeting took place a year later. Igor was already divorced, and Catherine's marriage was on the brink. They phoned, met and never parted.

Interesting notes:

Young people began to live together, although Catherine was still married to Ilya Khoroshilov. The husband tried in every way to preserve the marriage. He tried to persuade Catherine to stay. When this did not help, he began to threaten Igor Petrenko with reprisals. But this did not work on the lovers. They decided to be together.

The wedding Ekaterina and Igor played on the eve of the new 2006. As such, there was no wedding. The couple simply signed with the registry office and went to celebrate the holiday. In marriage, they had two children - the boys Matvey and Korney.

Igor and Ekaterina were considered an exemplary couple. Together they were able to survive a lot, even Catherine's passion for a young singer. But still, in 2014, information appeared that the spouses filed for divorce.

Christina Brodskaya

The next wife of Igor Petrenko was the young actress Christina Brodskaya. The girl is 13 years younger than the actor, but this did not stop them from falling in love with each other.

Rumor has it that the romance of the two actors began when Petrenko was married... And Christina was in a relationship with Artem Krylov.

In 2013, information appeared among the actors that the girl was expecting a baby. After the birth of the child, it became known that Igor Petrenko became his father.

The actor had a long-awaited daughter, who was named Sofia-Carolina. The birth of a child made the partners decide with whom to be next.

They chose the option to be together and broke up with their previous relationship. In 2016, the couple formalized their relationship. The celebration took place in Kaliningrad. Igor and Christina decided to sign modestly without attracting the attention of journalists. The wedding was attended only by close friends and sons of Petrenko.

What awaits this couple in the future is anyone's guess. But perhaps for Igor the third attempt to find happiness will be the last.

Being a famous and sought-after actor, Igor Petrenko rarely gives interviews and is extremely reluctant to talk about his personal life. Despite this, he regularly becomes a hero of secular chronicles and journalistic investigations. Such a keen interest in his person is another proof of the actor's popularity.

Student love

With his first wife, an actress Irina Leonova, Petrenko met at the entrance exams at the theater school. Shchepkina. According to Petrenko himself, it was love at first sight. The ensuing student romance continued throughout all four years of study. Only on the eve of the release, the couple decided to register their relationship officially. Despite the fact that the relationship has already passed the test of time, the family life of Petrenko and Leonova did not work out. Igor started filming a lot. There was often not enough time for family. After unsuccessful attempts to save the marriage, the couple decided to divorce. At the time of the breakup, Igor Petrenko already had a relationship with another actress: Ekaterina Klimova.

Love affair at work

Petrenko met Klimova in 2001 on the set of the Moscow Windows series. Igor and Ekaterina played a married couple. Sympathy between the young actors arose immediately, but the relationship did not start immediately, but only two years later, on the set of the continuation of the series, which was called "The Best City on Earth." It was becoming more and more difficult to hide the official romance that had begun.

Considering that both Klimova and Petrenko were not free at that moment, their relationship, feelings turned out to be painful for both. Igor was the first to decide on the divorce. Catherine did not dare to divorce for a long time, not wanting to leave her daughter Liza without a father. But in the end, according to Klimova, the double life exhausted the actress, and she broke up with the father of her daughter, although her relatives tried to dissuade her in every possible way. December 31, 2004 Igor and Ekaterina got married. Petrenko became the second father for daughter Klimova from her first marriage and a father for two joint sons: Matvey and Korney. For almost ten years, Igor and Ekaterina were perceived as an exemplary couple with many children. Therefore, many simply did not believe in rumors that Petrenko's second marriage had cracked. They wrote that the reason for the quarrel was the compromising photographs of Klimova from the filming in America, which got on the Internet. The actress herself assures that she and Petrenko became strangers long before this scandal.

Ekaterina Klimova and Igor Petrenko with their son. 2010 year. Photo: RIA Novosti / Ekaterina Chesnokova

Igor in one of his interviews also made it clear that it was not this story that destroyed their marriage. The crisis in the relationship began a long time ago. The actor admitted that on this basis he even began to abuse alcohol, disrupted filming and fell into depression. On July 10, 2014, the star couple divorced. A new period began in the lives of both actors.

New love

Petrenko was not a bachelor for long. In December 2014, the actor got married for the third time. The St. Petersburg actress and model became Igor's new darling Christina Brodskaya, who at that time was 24 years old. The wedding, and then the wedding, took place in a narrow circle of friends and relatives. Almost nothing is known about when and where the couple met. The only thing that could not be hidden from the views of colleagues and fans is Christina's pregnancy. On December 24 of the same 2014, Petrenko's new beloved gave him his first daughter. And in January last year - the second. Recently, Christina and Igor appeared in front of journalists in the company of the actor's two sons and the eldest daughter.

At the entrance exams to the Schepkinskoye School, Igor Petrenko met his future wife, Irina Leonova. Since that day, they practically did not part, and in 2000, immediately after graduation, they got married. To earn money for their honeymoon, young people even got a job as waiters. However, family happiness did not last long, and soon Irina began to hear rumors about Igor's novels on the side.

Irina Leonova. Photo: maly.ru

In 2001, on the set of the Moscow Windows series, the actor met Ekaterina Klimova, but at that time they both were able to cope with the surging feeling and return each to his family. What did not happen when fate brought them together for the second time - in the painting "The Best City on Earth". About how they tried to save their families, Igor later frankly admitted in an interview: “I realized that this was serious. But there was still a sense of responsibility to the family. Besides, I understood that Katya was not free. We can say that it was 12 months of internal struggle. Then I still could not stand it and called. " As a result, in early 2004, Petrenko and Leonova divorced. Soon after that, Irina became the wife of actor Yevgeny Tsyganov, in marriage with whom she gave birth to seven children.

Ten years of love and jealousy

Ekaterina Klimova also left her husband, the influential businessman Ilya Khoroshilov, the father of her eldest daughter Liza (born in 2002). Igor and Ekaterina were officially married on December 31, 2004. For almost ten years they were considered the most beautiful couple in Russian cinema, they were regularly compared with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The couple starred in films together, raised three children - daughter Elizaveta (from Klimova's first marriage) and two common sons - Matvey and Korney (the boys were born in 2006 and 2008). But at the beginning of 2013, there were rumors that the couple was on the verge of divorce due to betrayal and Igor's serious problems with alcohol. In March of this year, Petrenko's friend, actor Andrei Panin, died. Igor was very upset about the death of a friend and fell into depression. And soon Catherine was credited with a fleeting romance with a graduate of the "Star Factory" and the lead singer of the Chelsea group Roman Arkhipov. In America, the paparazzi filmed a couple kissing during the filming of Catherine in the film "Love in the City 3".

But then, unexpectedly, Petrenko took all the blame for the situation on himself. Here's what he said then: “I was preparing for Katya's arrival from Las Vegas, I put our apartment in order, bought new furniture. And then by chance I saw this video on the Internet. Honestly, I wanted to destroy everything around. What I actually did ... I myself am to blame for what happened. Completely. Believe me, she is a holy woman. There is probably no better mother or wife in this world ”.


Igor Petrenkowith Ekaterina Klimova (2014year). Photo:East News

The couple took a break and went to different houses, Catherine and her children went out of town, and Igor stayed in a Moscow apartment. For almost a year they denied information about their separation, but they could not save the family. The actor was very upset by the breakup and even transferred this dramatic story to the screen. As a director, he shot the video "Broken Flowers" for the "Tokyo" group, where the most beautiful couple of Russian cinema starred together for the last time. Here is how Petrenko explained it: “I myself came up with the script, I shot it myself and played it myself. And Katya also starred. Who else should I film? Besides the fact that Katya is my wife, she is also a wonderful actress. I really wanted to make this video with her. Coincidentally, this story is about us too ... A song about love not incipient, but about long-term relationships, ups and downs, some problems that a couple experiences, having lived together for a certain number of years. When everyday life begins to dull the euphoria of the beginning of love, the bottom of any ship is covered with shells that must be periodically cleaned off, one must fight for love and throw wood into the fire of love if it dies out. It is very important not to lose at least some spark and reignite the flame from it. Sometimes it happens that letting go is also a struggle. Because sometimes fighting and keeping close is just drinking each other's blood. It happens that people love, but they understand that they have to let go. "

In the summer of 2014, Petrenko and Klimova officially divorced. Catherine did not remain alone for long, on June 5, 2015, she officially married the actor Gelu Meskhi, with whom she had already lived in a civil marriage for some time. And on October 2, 2015, their common daughter was born, who was named Bella.

Happiness loves silence

But Petrenko was ahead of his ex-wife, his daughter, Sofia-Carolina, was born on December 24, 2014. The actor's father with many children was made by a young St. Petersburg actress Kristina Brodskaya, who is 13 years younger than him. “There were two options, from which it was impossible to choose. I wanted to call Carolina, and Igor - Sophia. As a result, we found a compromise, ”- this is how the young mother explained the choice of an unusual name for the baby.


Christina Brodskaya andIgor Petrenko. Photo:East News

The actor met the young beauty back in 2012 in St. Petersburg during the filming of the Sherlock Holmes series, but he only announced the seriousness of his relationship at the beginning of 2014. At that time, Brodskaya was the bride of actor Artyom Krylov, they planned to get married in the very near future. But in the end, the guy was dismissed, and Christina very soon gave Petrenko an heiress. Together with the baby, she accompanied her beloved everywhere, the family spent the summer of 2015 in Crimea, where Igor starred in the film "Viking".

Petrenko and Brodskaya signed and got married in Kaliningrad on September 19, 2016. The secret wedding was attended only by the parents and closest friends of the newlyweds, as well as the sons of Petrenko. And already on January 30, 2017, the actor became a father four times - his wife gave him another daughter. The news of the addition to the family was first reported by Christina's father, actor David Brodsky. He wrote on his page on the social network that at the age of 45 he became a grandfather for the second time. Later, he published a photograph in which both girls are captured sleeping in his arms. The parents still keep the name of their youngest daughter a secret.

Now Igor Petrenko is trying not to talk about his family, but simply to enjoy quiet happiness and love. He admits that this was very lacking in the past marriage, when their entire personal life with Klimova took place in front of the media. And here is how Brodskaya explains their closeness: “You have no idea how much I want to shout to the whole world about how happy I am! But Igor and I are of the opinion that true happiness loves silence. Therefore, while we share it only with each other, forgive me. "

“Family life is work. First, a chance is given, and then everything depends only on you. Love is a constant "building", you need to keep putting firewood into this furnace, "sums up Petrenko.


Igor Petrenko andChristina Brodskaya with children(2017). Photo:East News