Lyudmila Gurchenko - biography, information, personal life. Gurchenko's husband shared intimate details about life with the actress. Who was Gurchenko married to?

The viewer is often interested not only in the creative, but also in the personal life of their favorite actors. Fans of Lyudmila Markovna know that she put a stamp in her passport more than once (it is better to keep silent about unofficial connections). Who were Gurchenko's legal husbands?

The famous temptress walked down the aisle 5 times. So, about all marriage partners in order.

Vasily Ordynsky

Young Lyudmila met the young film director in her second year at VGIK. Looking ahead, it must be said that all of Gurchenko’s husbands were associated with the stage. With Vasily, they studied in the same workshop, with the same teachers, but with a difference of 4 years: Lyudmila went to college straight from school, and Ordynsky had a front behind him. She was only 18 and her boyfriend was 30 when they got married in 1953.

It would seem a wonderful tandem: a promising actress and a talented director, but neither a creative nor a life union came of it. Their marriage lasted only about a year. Lyudmila Markovna did not particularly like to remember this relationship. They say she couldn’t forgive her husband for cheating. Although this page in the biography benefited Gurchenko’s career takeoff. In 1956, she made her debut in the film “The Road of Truth”, and then the famous “Carnival Night”, after which Lyudmila woke up as a star of Soviet cinema.

Boris Andronikashvili

An impressive young screenwriter from the same VGIK immediately made young Lucy’s heart beat faster. She herself spoke about her tendency to fall in love at every turn. And in Boris she met not only a handsome man, but also talented person. By the way, he was from the famous film dynasty of Shengelaya (directors Eldar and Georgiy were his cousins). His Georgian appearance was more than charming. Subtle irony, an intellectual mindset, musicality - her new chosen one possessed these and other qualities.

Lyudmila was at the peak of her popularity. But family life for some reason it didn't work out. It’s no secret: some of Gurchenko’s husbands recall that she still had the same character. They also had some professional differences: Andronikashvili did not take her role as a comedian seriously. The marriage of Boris and Lyudmila lasted only 4 years, from 1958 to 1960. Even the birth of their daughter Maria could not keep these two talented people together.

Alexander Fadeev

It existed for only two years - from 1962 to 1964. new union actresses. Her husband this time was Foster-son writer He was also an actor, but not one that showed much promise. Here the family did not work out because of the husband’s constant spree. The fourth attempt to start a family was also unsuccessful.

Joseph Kobzon

Yes, it was he who lived with everyone’s favorite actress for 3 years. Both consider this marriage a huge mistake and behave this way towards each other as if they were complete strangers. Most likely, two passionate and extraordinary natures could not get along under one roof. Be that as it may, they official union existed from 1967 to 1970. Gurchenko was so shocked by this experience of family life that for several years she decided to abstract herself from any relationships and did not let anyone near her, which was very unusual for her.

Konstantin Kuperweis

Some of Gurchenko's husbands were younger than her. But a significant one (14 years) did not prevent him and Konstantin from living together from 1973 to 1991. This is a record for the notorious heartbreaker. But they did not officially register their relationship. Konstantin was a pianist, but he pushed his career into the background, which he later regretted. He lived these years in the shadow of her fame, but then ambition took over, and Cooperweis left.

He was born in Odessa in 1961. He graduated from the Institute of Civil Engineering and got a job as a laboratory assistant within the walls of his alma mater. But unexpectedly for everyone, he changed his occupation and went to work at the Odessa film studio.

Lyudmila Markovna met him in 1993 during the filming of a film, where last husband Gurchenko was the producer. She was 58, he was 32. Of course, the ruler of men’s hearts always kept her mark and at this age did not lose her charm and charm at all. The entire film crew watched how rapidly their relationship developed. There was a scandal: Sergei Senin, Gurchenko’s husband, was married at that time and had a daughter. His wife, having learned about the betrayal, immediately filed for divorce. There were no legal obstacles, and the lovers were married in the same 1993. They lived together for 18 years, until the actress’s death.

Senin himself (Gurchenko’s husband), whose biography is not replete with bright creative events, devoted himself entirely to Lyudmila Markovna and did not regret it at all. For example, he did for her creatively what others could not - he gave her participation in a musical film. This genre was Gurchenko’s dream, which came true only in 1993. The short film was called "Love". It consisted of monologues and songs. Also, Sergei Senin, Gurchenko’s husband, was the producer of the projects “Motley Twilight” and “Reboot”, where Lyudmila Markovna played herself.

It seems that it was the last marriage that brought Lyudmila Markovna what she had been looking for all her life in relationships with men: love, care, respect and understanding.

Both parents of the future star worked at the Kharkov Philharmonic. The girl was brought up in a creative environment and began singing early. When my father, regardless of his age and disability, went to war as a volunteer, Lyusya was left in occupied Kharkov alone with her mother. In order to somehow get food, the girl began to sing in the market. Most of the money and food could be gained from the invaders, so little Lucy learned German operettas and partly the repertoire of Marika Rökk.

After release hometown, Lucy will go to high school, as well as in music. At the end of them, she will have no doubt: she needs to go to theater school.

A wedding shrouded in darkness

Gurchenko will enter VGIK on the first try. Two years before graduation, he will begin acting in films. But she will put her first fishing rod into the profession even earlier - at the age of 18. It was then that the young beauty sharp features and the already famous director will notice the wasp waist Vasily Ordynsky.

At first glance, Ordynsky lost his boyish head over Lucy. And she realized: he could become her personal director, and after a short friendship she agreed to marry him. Surprisingly, no one from her or his entourage knew about this marriage.

Ordynsky tried to justify the hopes of the young actress and invited her to audition for his new film, but the commission killed the beauty, and her husband could not resist. Then Lyudmila was severely disappointed and decisively filed for divorce, having lived with the director for a little while. more than a year. They say that he let her go with clenched teeth, loved her all his life and silently patronized her acting career.

To fall in love with a handsome man

Disappointed in marriage for the sake of a career, proud Lucy put an end to such a relationship and let her heart go free. There he was pierced by Cupid's arrow. Once in the dining room, the future star met with a student of the screenwriting department Borey Andronikashvili. A stately, black-haired young man gave her such a look that the girl’s tray fell out of her hands.

Gurchenko fell into this novel like into an abyss. New relationships new wedding, the envy of all the girls in the course: I bewitched such a handsome man! Everything was great in the family: a beautiful couple appeared together everywhere. Gurchenko idolized a wonderful man and thanked God for the fact that fate brought her together. High love culminated in the birth of a daughter, Mashenka. And this was... Lyudmila Markovna’s first disappointment. She adored her dad all her life and was waiting for a boy to name him Mark.

Busy with a child Lucy did not immediately notice that her husband constantly disappeared not at all from classes or work. He loves parties, drinking and friends too much. And “real friends” began to inform the young mother that her husband was also having endless affairs on the side.

She did not stoop to scenes of jealousy and showdowns. She rejected this narcissist as another disappointment, put an end to sacrificial love and promised herself: no more children.

A dash in life

Two years after the divorce, in the bohemian restaurant WTO, Lyudmila meets a charming young gentleman Sasha Fadeev Jr., adopted son famous writer. Their acquaintance was short, but the beautiful courtship of the new man and Lyusin’s fatigue from loneliness shortened the young couple’s path to the registry office. They signed as soon as they met.

This marriage did not last long. The VTO restaurant, where Fadeev spent more time than with his family, became an abyss between the lovers. The movie star herself considered this marriage a blip in her romantic biography, claiming that it was her mistake, and she and Sasha did not give anything to each other.

Two stars

They were brought into an equal marriage of established celebrities by a common corridor in which they did not meet at all: what was there to get acquainted with, and so the whole Union knew both Gurchenko and Kobzon. He paid attention to her earlier, but she, taught by past marriages, resisted. This only provoked the handsome and handsome star. For several months, Kobzon courted beautifully, looking for the key to Lyudmila Markovna’s heart. Found.

Of course, the couple was told happy family, they suit each other so well. Only a few understand how difficult it is for two deep personalities, two real talents, to get along under one roof. There are constant strife and conflicts over professional activity, quarrelsomeness in everyday life, disagreements... In his latest book “Lucy, stop!” Gurchenko will write that Kobzon needed directors of his appearance, style and repertoire, but nothing can replace real taste. She was the one who filed for divorce. He didn't mind.

Papa Kostya

Lyudmila Markovna met this man by chance, and their acquaintance was short. But it was he who helped the woman, who had almost given up on love and family values, to believe in happiness again.

She was already approaching forty, her daughter was 14, when a flame of love, lit by a young pianist, began to flutter in the heart of the talented actress. Konstantin Kuperweis. Mashenka will call him dad (even though he was only 10 years older!)

For almost twenty years, this man was sensitive to all the moods of his star wife, knew his habits, and indulged his weaknesses. For almost twenty years she adored him, relied on him, understood that he was in her complete power. The blow from the news became all the more devastating: Kostya has someone else.

Gurchenko will note in his book: what a subtle artist Cooperweiss is! How he played - she didn’t even turn an ear, she had no idea that he could change, love another woman.

Daughter

At almost 60 years old, Lyudmila no longer thought about looking for a spouse. I only remembered my father as the main and beloved man of my whole life. And in the early 90s, on the set of “Sex Tale” I met Sergei Senin- a producer who was 25 years younger than her. Despite this, it was he who was more like anyone else than Mark Gavrilovich Gurchenko - both in appearance and in character traits. It was he who saw in his wife a perky little girl, and called her “daughter.”

Lyudmila Markovna, towards the end of her life, found what she was looking for - a real happy love. She left in an instant, being at home with her beloved husband. He will later tell you that Lucy only managed to scream and fell dead. The ambulance that was called had no choice but to declare death.

k.f. Mechanic Gavrilov's beloved woman

Lyudmila Gurchenko - famous Soviet and Russian actress and singer. Films with Gurchenko’s participation are known to millions and are firmly included in the lists of Soviet classics, and the actress herself has become a symbol of an entire era in Russian cinema.

Gurchenko Lyudmila Markovna was born on November 12, 1935 in Kharkov. Before the war, Lyudmila Gurchenko’s parents, father Mark Gavrilovich Gurchenko ( real name- Gurchenkov) and mother - Elena Aleksandrovna Simonova, worked at the Kharkov Philharmonic. My father was a professional musician, he played the button accordion, and my mother sang. Parents often took their daughter with them to concerts, so Lyudmila had a behind-the-scenes childhood, she saw the stage from early years.

From the day of birth until the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Lyudmila lived with her parents in Kharkov, in a one-room semi-basement apartment on Mordvinovsky Lane. Happy childhood Lyudmila Gurchenko's life was interrupted by the war. Father Mark Gavrilovich, whom the actress dearly loved and revered all her life, went to war. He was not of military age and also had a disability, but he decided to fight. The girl was left in occupied Kharkov alone with her mother.

On September 1, 1943, after the liberation of Kharkov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, with some delay, went to school, which was located in the courtyard of her house. And in the fall of 1944, she entered the Beethoven music school - her parents decided to develop the child’s considerable musical abilities.

The metropolitan page of the biography of Lyudmila Gurchenko began in 1953. It was this year that the girl went to Moscow and immediately entered VGIK, in the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova. She was the brightest and most versatile in her class, she danced, sang and acted equally well. In her senior year, the actress played Keto in the operetta “Keto and Kote” and Imogen in the stage composition “The Trap” based on Theodore Dreiser. In these two roles, Gurchenko sang, danced, and played the piano.

She graduated from VGIK in 1958. After graduating from university, she first played in the Film Actor’s Studio Theater, and since 1964, Gurchenko worked for two seasons at Sovremennik, playing in the director’s productions “Without a Cross”, “ Elder sister", "Cyrano de Bergerac", " Naked King" and "Forever Alive". Then Lyudmila Gurchenko spent several years working in the theater and the Moscow Theater of Satire.

Movies

Lyudmila Gurchenko made her film debut back in student years. Her first film was the film “The Road of Truth” by Jan Fried, released in 1956. “I didn’t come here to be silent!” - this was the actress’s first phrase in the movie. The film was noticed, as was the aspiring actress, whose rise to fame began with her first film.

Gurchenko became deafeningly popular after the release of the New Year’s comedy “Carnival Night.” Lyudmila Gurchenko instantly became a popular favorite and idol. The film broke all box office records and sold almost 50 million tickets. And the song “Five Minutes” performed main character Lenochka Krylova became the anthem of the New Year, and until now the whole country on this holiday is discussing with Lenochka whether this is a lot, 5 minutes, or not enough.

Lyudmila Gurchenko in the film "Girl with a Guitar"

“Carnival Night” was followed by the film “Girl with a Guitar,” which was written specifically for Gurchenko and in which the artist again received the main role, very similar to the previous one: also in a light dance genre. This film was less successful, although by inertia it filled the country's cinema halls. But the success of these two films also had the other side of the coin: Gurchenko acquired the role of some lightness and carelessness.

Oblivion

The following events became a dark streak in the film acting biography of Lyudmila Gurchenko. Due to the difficult financial situation, Gurchenko was forced to work part-time in parallel with filming, give concerts at factories and organize creative evenings with the audience. These acting "hacks" caused censure in the press. Officially, this is what caused problems in his career. But there is a version that the artist’s refusals to take on new roles were directed “from above.”

In 1957, during the filming of “Girl with a Guitar,” the actress was called by the USSR Minister of Culture Nikolai Mikhailov and, according to rumors, offered to cooperate with the KGB during the VI International Festival of Youth and Students. Gurchenko refused. They say this is what caused the persecution and some oblivion. For 10 long years the actress was not cast in leading roles. However, the actress starred in at least one, and sometimes in three films per year. Lyudmila even played several main characters, but in passable films that did not have much success with audiences.

During this period, Lyudmila Markovna tried her hand at dramatic roles. In the film “Baltic Sky” Lyudmila Markovna demonstrated that she can play deep, tragic heroines who experience strong feelings. In the same role, Gurchenko played in the films “Workers’ Village” and “Old Walls”.

Return

The dark streak in Gurchenko’s career is over. She again became one of the most sought-after actresses in the country and got the opportunity to act, receiving bright roles in films. These were the musical films “Sky Swallows”, “Straw Hat”, “Tobacco Captain” and “Mother”.

Lyudmila Gurchenko in the fairy tale "Mama"

During the filming of the film “Mama,” Gurchenko severely injured her leg. She was at risk of disability: closed fracture with displacement, 19 fragments. Dance and walk again high heels Lyudmila Markovna was able to do it only after many years of training.

Lyudmila Gurchenko wanted to play dramatic roles in strong films. Such paintings in the actress’s work included “Twenty Days Without War,” “Siberiada” and “Five Evenings.”

Lyudmila Gurchenko in the film "Five Evenings"

In total, the great actress has 96 film roles. The most unforgettable and striking are “The Beloved Woman of Mechanic Gavrilov”, “Vacation at Your Own Expense”, “Flights in Dreams and in Reality”, “Station for Two”, “Recipe for Her Youth” and, of course, the legendary comedy “Love and Doves” .

This timeless film was released in 1984. The painting “Love and Doves” very subtly and realistically showed a fairly common love triangle: the struggle between wife and mistress for her husband's attention. Main character paintings by Vasily Kuzyakin, whom he played, lives with his wife and three children. His wife's performance is ordinary soviet woman, tired of children and everyday life. That is why the spectacular and exalted beauty, played by Gurchenko, who meets the man at the resort, takes Vasily away from the family. Vasily understands that a holiday romance and family life with new lover- these are different things. The Kuzyakin family is reunited.

Filming of the film "Love and Doves"

The film would not become a legend if it was only about one couple. “Love and Doves” shows the life of an entire social layer: here is the drink-loving Uncle Mitya, played by , and his wife, who is always looking for her husband, and the Kuzyakins’ daughter, who separated from her husband, and their young children.

Music

The creative biography of Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko is not only the biography of a theater and film actress. This woman was extremely versatile in her talents. Gurchenko recorded 17 music albums, published three autobiographical books and tirelessly performed in duets with various performers, including others.

Lyudmila Markovna starred in 16 video clips for her songs, including the compositions “I Hate” and “Petersburg-Leningrad” performed in a duet with Boris Moiseev. The video for one of Gurchenko’s iconic songs called “Prayer” was directed by Gurchenko, known for his work in big cinema.

Last job Lyudmila became a video where the actress sang the song “Do you want?”, which she performed in the original. Lyudmila Markovna brought even greater popularity to this song and, according to her, received pleasure from touching real talent.

Personal life

The actress's life was full not only bright roles, but also whirlwind romances. There were six husbands in Lyudmila Markovna's life. Five official marriages and one civil one. All Gurchenko men were bright and famous. But every time something prevented them from staying together with such an extraordinary and strong woman.

Lyudmila Gurchenko's first husband was film director Vasily Ordynsky. This marriage took place when Lyudmila was only 18 years old. The couple lived together for only a year. The artist also did not live long with her second husband Boris Andronikashvili, a screenwriter and historian, the son of the writer Boris Pilnyak, but this marriage gave her a daughter, Maria.

The artist’s third husband was actor Alexander Fadeev, adopted son famous writer, and the fourth is a singer. Gurchenko broke up with him three years later. Two stars of this magnitude could not get along for long.

Soon after their separation, rumors appeared in the press about Gurchenko's affair with. Lyudmila herself admired the musician, but more as an outside observer than as a woman in love. Gurchenko did not comment on rumors about this relationship. But together with musician and accompanist Konstantin Kuperveys in civil marriage Lyudmila Markovna lived 18 years.

Relationship with daughter

The actress was doing well difficult relationship with daughter, . Until the age of three, the child was raised by his grandparents, thereby allowing Gurchenko to continue acting career. The girl took the reunion with her mother hard and even tried to run away back to her grandmother. Despite a series of stepfathers, real family things didn’t work out between mother and daughter - Lyudmila Markovna was, first of all, an actress, Gurchenko spent a lot of time on set, and could go on tour for a long time. As a result, in childhood, Maria was quite often left to her own devices.

The actress herself, her entourage and fans hoped that Maria would eventually follow in the footsteps of her star mother, but even in her youth, Masha showed that she and Lyudmila were very different. The girl showed no inclination towards music or the stage, graduated from medical school, and, unlike her mother, who became an example of style and elegance, wore comfortable clothes and almost did not use cosmetics. Maria married ordinary person and gave birth to two children of the same age. Lyudmila Gurchenko had a strong conflict with her son-in-law, because of which Maria first even divorced her husband, but then got back together.

Grandchildren named after her own parents, the actress loved very much, but even they could not finally reconcile her with her daughter and her husband. The artist had high hopes for her grandson and granddaughter, seeing them as continuers of her acting endeavors.

In 1998, a tragedy occurred. Mark, the actress’s grandson, died suddenly. The young man died from a drug overdose. Maria knew about her son’s illness and fought his illness for a long time and unsuccessfully. According to rumors, Lyudmila Gurchenko did not come to the funeral, but in fact the actress was at the farewell and was very mournful, she just tried not to draw too much attention to her person.

Soon there was a deterioration in the relationship between mother and daughter. Lyudmila Markovna in Once again got married. The sixth and last husband of the actress until her death was producer Sergei Senin. New husband Gurchenko could not get along with either his stepdaughter or his mother-in-law. As a result, it happened protracted conflict, which was aggravated by the division of the property of Lyudmila Gurchenko’s mother. The grandmother bequeathed her apartment to Maria, bypassing her star daughter. The actress did not accept this, and the matter went to court.

In the last years of the actress’s life, a rumor appeared in the press about Gurchenko’s affair with a photographer. Lyudmila really said that she was in love with Aslan, but, most likely, she meant strong friendly feelings and admiration for his work. Akhmadov emphasizes that love relationship there was no relationship between him and the actress. Lyudmila Markovna met a young man at a fashion show, Akhmadov offered her a thematic photo shoot dedicated to the myth of Oedipus, and later became her personal make-up artist.

Death

2011 was a fatal year for the actress. In February, Gurchenko slipped near her house and broke her hip. The next day she had surgery. In early March, he was discharged, and things were getting better. But on March 30, the actress’s condition worsened. Lyudmila Gurchenko died at home, the cause of death was pulmonary embolism.

On April 2, a public farewell to everyone’s favorite actress took place at the Central House of Writers. Gurchenko was wearing a dress that she herself had recently sewn. Numerous fans came to say goodbye to Lyudmila Gurchenko. The capital itself said goodbye to the artist: in the Moscow metro that day, Gurchenko’s famous song “Our Youth Team” sounded every half hour.

Not only thousands of fans came to say goodbye to the actress, but also family friends, colleagues and relatives. Throughout the entire event, Lyudmila’s husband Sergei Senin was nearby. But, as journalists noted, many of the artist’s closest people were not among the mass of people saying goodbye. The actress’s daughter arrived only at 11 am with a huge bouquet of chrysanthemums - Maria did not take part in organizing the ceremony, but learned about her mother’s death from the newspapers. The daughter of Lyudmila Markovna did not join the VIP guests; she stood in the general queue, laid flowers at the coffin and left, without commenting on her action to the journalists who recognized her. The press did not see Gurchenko’s granddaughter and great-granddaughters at the ceremony.

The funeral took place on the same day. The legendary Lyudmila Markovna was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. Despite the fact that it was a gesture of respect and recognition, the choice of cemetery violated the last will of the actress herself. Lyudmila Gurchenko wanted her grave to be on Vagankovskoe cemetery, next to her parents and with her only grandchild.

Six months later, in September, newspapers obtained permission from the artist’s relatives and published series of materials about Gurchenko’s last days, which included suicide notes from the artist’s personal diary.

In 2015, the biographical series “Lyudmila Gurchenko” was released, in which she decided to play the Russian cinema star. The director of the film, Sergei Aldonin, said that he simply fulfilled a promise that he accidentally made to Lyudmila Markovna. IN Last year of her life, he admitted to the actress that he would like to make a series about her, and Gurchenko approved this idea and practically blessed the director.

In addition, more than two dozen films were made about the famous actress. documentaries, and many stars remember her Russian show business dedicated their own songs and performances of famous compositions that Gurchenko herself sang during her lifetime.

November 8, 2017, only daughter Lyudmila Markovna. The woman had been complaining of malaise and high fever in recent days. On the way to the hospital, Maria became ill. The cause of death was heart failure.

Filmography

• "Carnival Night"
• "Girl with a Guitar"
• "Old Walls"
• "Straw Hat"
• "Twenty days without war"
• "Siberiada"
• "Heavenly Swallows"
• “The beloved woman of mechanic Gavrilov”
• "Station for two"
• "Love and pigeons"
• "My sailor"
• "Old Nags"

Chapter 16. Boris Andronikashvili: exquisite appearance with a set of extraordinary qualities

Immediately after breaking up with Ordynsky, Gurchenko began an affair with a 22-year-old student at the VGIK screenwriting department, Boris Andronikashvili. They got married, a year later their daughter Maria was born, and about a year later they divorced.

Lyusya came across Boris Andronikashvili by chance, at the self-service counter in the VGIK canteen. Seeing a textured, hot brunette in front of her, the girl dropped the tray. Here he is - the Englishman Laurence Olivier reincarnated as a student - the man of her dreams, who played Hamlet and Henry V, who shone in the films Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Lady Hamilton...

Boris Andronikashvili born on October 28, 1934 in Moscow in the family of the famous writer Boris Pilnyak (pseudonym of Boris Andreevich Vogau) and actress Kira Georgievna Andronikashvili from the Georgian princely family of Andronikashvili. In 1937, his father was arrested on charges of state crimes. Subsequently, after many years, literary critics would define Pilnyak as “the head of an entire school or direction in Soviet literature”, which will be called “ornamental prose”. The mother, fearing for the fate of her son, sent him to Tbilisi to his grandmother, who adopted her grandson and gave him her last name - Andronikashvili. In his youth he went to Batumi, where he entered the Batumi Naval School. But then he decided to change his profession and already in the early 1950s he left for Moscow, where he entered the screenwriting and film studies department of VGIK, which he graduated in 1959.

During his student years, almost half of the students dreamed of a handsome man with Georgian roots. And he fell in love with a girl two years older than him. Lucy did not hide her close relationship with Andronikashvili; on the contrary, she lived as if for show. It is not surprising that there were many envious people who wanted to ruin the relationship between this couple.

And soon the young people became parents, in 1959 they had small miracle- daughter Masha. Alas, the happiness did not last long; as the smart guys say: Only good things pass quickly...

And soon it became clear to Lyudmila Markovna herself that her career was more important to her than diapers.

– An actress cannot be a mother. Everything needs to be given either to the profession or to the children. Personally, I chose the first path. Although this may be very cruel,” the actress once admitted bitterly.

But the fact of the birth itself, which took place not in Moscow, where her young husband lived, but in Kharkov, with her parents, probably left a negative imprint on her. In addition, she dreamed of giving birth to a boy, whom she was going to name Mark in honor of her beloved daddy. So one can even imagine the actress’s deep disappointment when, on June 5, 1959, she was notified that a girl was born. And the situation in the maternity hospital, as biographers write, was not conducive to calm and true joyful anticipation - the women in labor in the ward recognized their popular countrywoman and were immediately divided into those who like her and her work, and those who simply hate her for the very fact of her existence . Lucy had to move to another ward. And little Mark will indeed appear in the life of Lyudmila Gurchenko one day, but it will be her grown daughter who will give birth to him.

In the book “Applause,” Lyudmila Markovna will write this, briefly and strangely: “In 1959, Masha was born to me. And my mother came to visit me in Moscow on her vacation. Since then, she spent all her holidays with us. She always arrived with full baskets. “Bring everything to the children. To my daughter and my little grandson. They are our joy. There is no one greater in us than anyone in the world, Lyalyusha."

Alas, marriage star couple fell apart. Lyusya Gurchenko went forward along the road of creativity, hitting more and more new milestones, gaining more and more sophisticated experience in everyday affairs. And the “dark eagle” Boris Andronikashvili - screenwriter, historian, son of a writer and actress, cousin Georgian directors Georgiy and Eldar Shengelaya - also did not remain without his favorite work. But their child ended up deprived of the care and affection of the closest people... Her fate and relationship with her parents are so absurd, strange and even tragic that this woman, whose existence long years dont know general public, we will devote a separate chapter.

Lyudmila Markovna later spoke about her husband, paying tribute to his inner talents:

– Despite his refined appearance, from which you don’t expect anything deep, it was Difficult person with a set of extraordinary qualities - large and small.

Boris Andronikashvili and Lyudmila Gurchenko.

Perhaps it was precisely this complexity of character, education and intelligence that became the reason that pushed Lucy away from her chosen one. He was indeed well-bred, brilliantly educated, had a sense of humor, was well-read and musical, charming and talented. And she, hoping to find the ideal man in Boris, in the end wanted to live not with a sort of Georgian Laurence Olivier, but with a simple shirt guy, like two peas in a pod like her ideal man– Mark Gurchenko, a village illiterate self-taught accordion player. But it was rumored that Boris was not a righteous man either, and more than once caused pain to his young wife with his infidelities.

E. Mishanenkova, in her book about the great actress, describes this difficult period of her life, which brought her first experience true love and real motherhood.

“But this time everything was much more serious - not a fleeting love, but a strong ardent feeling. And her chosen one, screenwriter Boris Andronikashvili, was an extraordinary man - the son of the famous writer Boris Pilnyak, who was executed in 1938, and his beautiful wife, actress Kira Andronikashvili, who came from a princely Georgian family. And of course, he was “tall and dark-haired”!

And at first it seemed that this was happiness. Love, marriage, child. My career was collapsing, but is that really the main thing? But there is a person nearby who is smarter than her, stronger, who supports and understands. And his mother is so extraordinary - Lyudmila Gurchenko was quietly delighted with Kira Andronikashvili, but even after many years she remembered her as a woman of “beauty, intelligence, talent and unsurpassed femininity.” Who knows, if Kira Georgievna had not died a year after the birth of her granddaughter, perhaps the marriage of Lyudmila Gurchenko and Boris Andronikashvili would not have ended so quickly and so sadly.

The first bells began to appear quite quickly, but Lyudmila Gurchenko did not notice them at first.”

“Maria was born in Kharkov. Weak, painful, and even with a congenital defect. The girl was immediately handed over to Lyusya’s parents. And the young mother herself returned to Moscow. Here began the tests of the harsh prose of life. Three to four concerts a day, in different ends Moscow. Factory, plant, trade union committee, police. After the performance, go home by metro. There were no new film roles. The family needed money. And what about Boris Andronikashvili, her husband? Helped and supported Hard time? Unfortunately no. She learned about her husband’s infidelities from her friends. Gurchenko did not humiliate herself to questions and clarifications. She immediately filed for divorce.

Only those close to her knew about Lucy’s personal drama. In public, she always kept her face up. It was part of the profession. She crossed out Boris Andronikashvili not only from her life, but also from Masha’s life. The topic of the grief-stricken father and his relatives was closed forever. Gurchenko remembered her daughter’s Georgian roots only in moments of irritation. Having been burned once, Gurchenko decided: sacrificial love was not for her. No more faith in men. And most importantly - no children."

In one of the interviews great actress admitted:

“I had to give up a lot.” When Masha was just born, she had to bandage her breasts with a towel so that the milk would burn. Because I had to work hard, because my husband turned out to be a scoundrel...

It is perhaps worth saying a few more words about how Andronikashvili’s fate turned out after his divorce from Lyusya.

After breaking up with Gurchenko, Boris dated Nonna Mordyukova for five years and even wanted to marry her, but things never came to a wedding. Boris Andronikashvili's second wife was the artist Rusudan Khantadze, with whom he lived until the end of his days in 1996. In their marriage they had a daughter and a son.

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