Mitya Vinogradov is the son of Valentina Leontieva. Valentina Leontyeva's sister Lyudmila Mikhailovna: Valechka's only son never once visited his mother's grave. Voiced by Valentina Leontieva

People's Artist USSR Valentina Leontieva received many awards and regalia throughout her life. But the highest recognition for the TV presenter was that tens of millions Soviet people, even having matured, continued to call her "Aunt Valya". During the broadcasts of the programs “Visiting a Fairy Tale” and “ Goodnight, kids "all the children" stuck "to the TV screens.

Valentina Mikhailovna loved her young admirers very much, but the main spectator was waiting for her at home. The only son TV presenter Dmitry Vinogradov as a child, he habitually waited for his mother from Ostankino.

Leontieva spent the last three years of her life away from her son - with relatives in Ulyanovsk region. The TV presenter broke her femoral neck, relatives began to look for a nurse. The artist's sister Lyudmila and her daughter Galina offered to take her to their place. Many journalists in those years accused Dmitry of forgetting about his own mother. When, after the death of Leontyeva in May 2007, Vinogradov did not go to her funeral, the public finally established an opinion about the heartless son of a TV star.

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In response to all the accusations, Dmitry was silent, refusing to comment on the situation. Recently, the son of Valentina Leontyeva became a guest of Dmitry Borisov's program "Let them talk" and frankly spoke about his relationship with his mother. Dmitry admitted that he sincerely loved Valentina Mikhailovna all the years, despite rumors about their conflicts: “I lived with my mother until the age of 45. For many, this seems strange, but it is true.

We had a good relationship I also got on well with my dad. Mom was very soft, always spoiled me, and dad, on the contrary, was strict.

Dmitry is convinced that negative rumors were spread about him and his mother on purpose: “All these nasty things about us on the Web were simply beneficial to someone. They wanted to tarnish her image, erase from people's memory that her mother was a great announcer, so that the story of a bad son and an alcoholic husband would be in the spotlight. Vinogradov stressed that he never blamed his mother for his constant absence from home: “Dmitry stressed that he never felt left out. “She spent enough time with me. Of course, I was often busy, but I understood that.

Dmitry Vinogradov with his son Valentin. Shot from the program "Let them talk"

The TV presenter's son explained why he rarely saw his mother in the last years of her life and refused to go to the funeral. According to him, this bad relationship with relatives with whom Leontieva lived for three years before her death: “After she died, they drove KAMAZ to the house to take out all my mother’s things. They took literally everything. Moreover, my mother wanted to be cremated and buried in Moscow, but they insisted on a ceremony in the Ulyanovsk region.

I didn't come to the funeral because I wasn't sure I could control myself. I was afraid that I would kill one of these scoundrels, and then we would talk about a criminal case. But justice still triumphed: I wished them death, and they died. We can say that I cursed them, ”summed up Vinogradov.

The guests of the studio were amazed by the strength of Dmitry's emotions, who, 11 years after the death of his mother, could not forget the circumstances of those days. Colleagues and friends of Leontyeva tried to support her son, saying that she loved him very much and always remembered him at work. Now Dmitry Vinogradov is raising his only son, Valentin, whose father he became at the age of 45. The boy got his name in honor of the famous grandmother and enjoys listening to stories about her life.

This article tells the story of yet another abandoned child. The lives of great people, actors and TV stars very often do not know mercy. Neither to himself nor to others, including the closest and closest people. The key is the audience...

Thorsons

Biography of Dmitry Vinogradov, son of Valentina Leontieva, legendary TV presenter Soviet Union, originates in the northern lands of the homeland of the ancient Vikings - the Scandinavian Kingdom of Sweden.

Enterprising representatives of the glorious Thorsons family once paved their own way from the Varangians to the Greeks and settled in northern capital Russia - the city of Petrograd.

Dmitry's grandfather, Mikhail Grigorievich Torsons, was twenty years older than his wife Ekaterina Mikhailovna. Both of them were accountants. Grandfather - the chief accountant of the October railway, and my grandmother - one of the city's hospitals. This family has always had money. Instilling European manners in his two daughters, Alevtina and Lyudmila, everyone in the house spoke exclusively in French and very often arranged home musical masquerade evenings, at which Mikhail Grigorievich played the violin, and all three of his young ladies - his wife and two daughters, along with guests danced to his accompaniment.

In the thirties, at the initiative of his grandfather Dmitry Vinogradov, who feared Stalinist repressions due to the situation on the border with Finland, the whole family changed their surname. Thus the Thorsons became the Leontiefs. And their youngest daughter Alevtina, whom the boys teased with drying oil at school, became Valentina.

Leontief

Mikhail Grigoryevich did not survive the blockade of Leningrad and died of starvation, giving the last crumbs to his relatives. After his death, Ekaterina Mikhailovna, together with her daughters, managed to evacuate to the Ulyanovsk region, where her youngest daughter Valentina, the future favorite of all the children of the Soviet Union without exception, graduated from the school of the village of Novoselki, in which their family now settled.

Dmitry Vinogradov, the son of Valentina Leontyeva, said that my mother often recalled that time and that distant village, to which she would be destined to return many years later to die. After the end of the Great Patriotic War The Leontievs remained in Novoselki - grandmother Ekaterina Mikhailovna took up the accounting of the village cooperative, and her eldest daughter got married and had a child. Valentina went to conquer the capital.

Mother

Valentina Leontieva became a TV presenter and the idol of millions of children in a vast country. For her little admirers, she was just Aunt Valya, the kindest aunt in the world. On the programs “Good night, kids!”, “Visiting a fairy tale” and “Alarm clock”, hosted by Valentina Mikhailovna, several generations have grown up.

And her program "From the bottom of my heart", helping people who are lost or separated by the will of fate to find each other again, has riveted the attention of an adult audience for fifteen years. At the same time, "With all my heart" also became the pioneer of the talk show genre on domestic television.

Valentina Leontyeva, whose son Dmitry Vinogradov is the subject of this article, was born on August 1, 1923.

The titles and awards of this legendary TV presenter speak for themselves - Honored and People's Artist of the RSFSR, as well as People's Artist of the USSR, for her program "With all my heart" she was awarded the USSR State Prize and the TEFI Prize "For personal contribution to the development of domestic television."

Father

Dmitry Vinogradov's dad was the second husband of Valentina Leontyeva, diplomat and personal translator of Nikita Khrushchev - Yuri Vinogradov, representative of the USSR diplomatic mission in New York.

Yuri was cheerful, educated and smart person. He lived to the fullest, as if drawing life with large spoons. Vinogradov did not divide the people around him into friends and foes - for him everyone was his own, and he rejoiced at each of them. Therefore, in his environment one could equally meet both a boxer and an academician.

Dmitry Vinogradov, the son of Valentina Leontyeva, recalled his mother's stories about how she met his father. Yuri Vinogradov met Leontieva in a restaurant on a bet with his friend. The essence of the dispute was that Yuri would pretend to be a foreigner so skillfully that the girl would not suspect anything. The friend had to play the role of an interpreter.

They importantly approached young Valentina and started a conversation. Yuri won the argument, and at the same time won the girl's heart, and he fell in love himself.

A family

Soon Leontieva and Vinogradov got married. Valentina, who by that time had already had several unsuccessful attempts to get a job in one of the theaters in Moscow, once accidentally saw a newspaper advertisement about an ongoing competition for the vacant position of a TV presenter. In those distant times, television was just beginning to develop, and the girl had little idea what it really was, but she was unemployed and decided to participate as a temporary option until something really worthwhile came up to her.

We all know that there is nothing more permanent than temporary. And that attempt by young Valentina grew into almost half a century of work on television. From now on, the blue screen has become the main goal and meaning of Leontieva's life.

Husband Yuri at first favorably treated the rapidly starting development of his wife's career, considering it, rather, her pampering. He himself earned very well, they had no problems with money, and he did not like the fact that Valentina began to devote herself so deeply to her work. Moreover, soon their family was waiting for replenishment.

Mitya

The date of birth of Dmitry Vinogradov, the son of Valentina Leontyeva, was January 26, 1962. The TV presenter was taken by ambulance to the hospital straight from work.

After the birth, Mitya actually became a grandmother's son. Ekaterina Mikhailovna Leontieva took care of him.

Leontieva rarely appeared at home, disappearing at work from morning to night.

Nevertheless, little Mitya saw his mother much more often than she saw him - looking at her on the TV screen, as if through a window. Here she is, mother - very close. And you will not touch and you will not be warmed by the warmth of her hands.

Valentina usually saw her son sleeping. She went to work - Mitenka was still sleeping. She returned at night - Mitya was already asleep. And between morning and night - television. One continuous television ... On which Leontieva at that time was the host of several programs at once - "Alarm Clock", "Good Night, Kids", "Skillful Hands", "Visiting a Fairy Tale", "With all my heart" and "Blue light."

Mom put millions of other people's children to bed every evening, and her dear Mitya at that time was sitting at home with her grandmother and father, deliberately not watching her mother's program "Good night, kids", because she was not his own mother there, but a common one. Since then, he began to hate television.

And when Valentina Leontyeva once brought home children's drawings that were sent to her from all over the country to the program "Visiting a Fairy Tale" to show them to her son, Mitya had her first tantrum. Bursting with tears, he tore up all the drawings and ran away.

By that time, her marriage to Yuri Vinogradov was already coming to its logical conclusion. She literally lived on television. He is on business trips. The husband began to drink a lot and started an affair on the side. Valentine herself was not sinless.

In 1977 they divorced.

Youth

Dmitry Vinogradov, the son of Valentina Leontyeva, whose year of birth was 1962, was already fifteen years old at the time of the divorce of his parents. And he grew up as a difficult teenager. His whole life has been a challenge to the stereotype that he should live up to his mother. And he wanted to correspond only to himself. And the more the teachers pressed him for his bad behavior, the worse he behaved, becoming the only one at school who was not accepted into the Komsomol.

After school, Dmitry worked for some time as an illuminator at the television center, where Leontieva attached him. Then he entered the camera department of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov, which he then left in his third year. Toiled without permanent job and unsuccessfully tried to go into business.

The growth of Dmitry Vinogradov, the son of Valentina Leontyeva, was almost two meters. Oblique fathom in the shoulders and Scandinavian breed.

Mom tried to get him a job at the Vyacheslav Zaitsev modeling agency, but Dmitry very soon left from there, because everyone around him treated him like the son of a famous TV presenter.

He closed himself in his world, as he closed himself from his mother in the room and in real life, not sharing any of his secrets with Leontieva and hiding from everyone, even from his girlfriend, that he is her son.

Mitya grew up as an ambiguous young man, very offended by his mother, and indeed by everyone during his childhood. He never even went to the grave of his grandmother, Ekaterina Mikhailovna, who raised him, never forgiving her for once reading his diaries.

Conflict with mother

life path Dmitry Vinogradov, the son of Valentina Leontyeva, is the story of a lonely man whose heart was not filled with filial love and care. Of the two parents, Dmitry preferred his father, whom he loved very much. When his father died, he went to his funeral. But mom is not. And this served as an additional irritant for him.

Consciously or not, he repaid his mother with the same coin, leaving her alone at the end of her life.

However, the son of Valentina Leontyeva, Dmitry Vinogradov, connects this not with his attitude towards his mother, but with a long-standing dislike for her relatives, who, as he believed, enjoyed his mother's fame, connections and money.

One way or another, her older sister Lyudmila took care of Valentina Leontyeva, taking her to distant Novoselovka, where they had once escaped from the war.

Her only son did not attend the funeral. As he later explained, because of his mother's relatives.

I didn't come to the funeral because I wasn't sure I could control myself. I was afraid that I would kill one of these scoundrels, and then we would talk about a criminal case. But justice still triumphed: I wished them death, and they died. You could say I cursed them...

Personal life

Dmitry Vinogradov, the son of Valentina Leontyeva, whose age today is fifty-six, lived only eleven of them on his own. He married when he was forty-five, and before that he lived with his mother and completely at her expense.

His chosen one was a Frenchwoman. She is a professional makeup artist. At first he lived with her in Paris. There they also had a son, whom Dmitry named after his mother - Valentine.

Now Dmitry has moved to Russia, to one of the old Russian cities. He has his big house in the forest where he lives alone, reading books, boxing, cycling and walking with his son when he comes to visit him for the holidays. Then Valentine flies back to his mother in Paris.

In the house of the son of Valentina Leontyeva, Dmitry Vinogradov, there are no photographs of his parents. They are in his thoughts and heart, and he does not need posturing. He was offered big money many times for in-depth interviews about his mother and father, but he turned them all down.

In 2011, Dmitry returned to his passion for his youth - he began to draw again. Now his paintings are bought for a lot of money. He is really very talented, this Viking-like, huge, strong and bearded man.

In the photo - Vinogradov's painting "A Miner's Hallucination".

To date, Dmitry Vinogradov, the son of Valentina Leontieva, is one of prominent representatives Russian avant-garde, or rather, Suprematism, who managed to catch the pace modern life without losing your own philosophy. His paintings have their own strong energy. They either like it or cause a sharp rejection. However, Dmitry Vinogradov himself is of little concern.

After some time, when the hype around the death of Valentina Leontyeva subsided and the journalists calmed down, he, ex-boy Mitya, he came to his mother's grave...

The host of “Good night kids” and “Visiting a fairy tale” is called the most popular and at the same time the most unfortunate Soviet TV presenter. The story of her difficult relationship with her son Dmitry a few years ago bypassed the entire press.

For the sake of working on television, she was ready for a lot. They said that years later, Valentina Leontyeva bitterly regretted that she had not given her son maternal love ..

Queen Ostankino

She hosted the famous "Blue Lights", commented on the solemn broadcasts from Red Square and various official events, was the host of the program "With all my heart", the famous "Visiting a fairy tale" and "Good night, kids." Television was everything for Valentina Leontyeva, and few people knew that at birth, “Aunt Valya” was called completely differently - Alevtina, and her last name was different - Thorsons.

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She searched for herself for a long time - at the age of 20 she entered the Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology, but did not study, she worked in a clinic for some time. Then she graduated from the opera and drama studio, worked at the Tambov Drama Theater. However, the theater did not become her vocation. Soon she, along with her first husband, director Yuri Richard, returned to Moscow. After some time, they divorced, they said that Leontieva filed for divorce after her husband's betrayal.

She came to television when she was a little over thirty, passed a tough casting. Valentina Leontyeva did not immediately become a star - at first she worked as an assistant director, then, finally, she became an announcer of Central Television. When she was already closer to forty, she married a second time - to diplomat Yuri Vinogradov, and soon their son Dima was born. For a long time, Valentina Mikhailovna was not going to leave the decree, she did not plan to become a housewife either - her colleagues said that a few days after the birth of the child, she appeared at work.

In the late 60s, the TV presenter disappeared from the screen for some time - she left with her diplomat husband and young son for New York, where her husband worked. This time turned out to be almost hard labor for her, a reference: as Valentina Leontieva will later recall, she “died without television”

Mother and son

When she returned, she reappeared on the screen. But personal life cracked. Perhaps the husband began to get bored that he practically did not see his wife, then, after their divorce, there were rumors that the decision to divorce had matured for a long time - but he was afraid that this would ruin his career. They said that because of family problems Vinogradov at one time became addicted to drinking, began to look for attention on the side. When Leontyeva was already over 50, she found out that her husband had an affair on the side, with a nurse from the sanatorium where he was improving his health, she was expecting a baby. They divorced, soon Yuri married again, his daughter was born.

“Aunt Valya,” as the small viewers called Leontief, was adored by all preschoolers and primary school students. Every evening they saw her on the screen, each time the TV presenter with a kind motherly smile told and “showed” them a bedtime story. But native son Valentina Leontyeva Dima heard few fairy tales from her, his mother spent too much time at work and was much busier than the mothers of his classmates.

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One of the close friends of the TV presenter said that somehow Mitya (that was the name of the boy in childhood) hysterically tore the children's drawings that Leontieva brought from work to show him. She also recalled that one day the baby, seeing how much attention other children paid to her, offendedly reproached her: "You are the mother of all."

It was said that the grown-up Dima (after the divorce of his parents he stayed with his mother) began to hide that he was the son of “that same aunt Valya”, even changed school if classmates found out about it. And absolutely incredible story, they say, filling out a questionnaire at the military registration and enlistment office, Vinogradov Jr. put a dash in the column “mother”, indicating only his father. Whether it was actually - today it is difficult to say.

lone star

In 1989, 66-year-old Valentina Mikhailovna became a consultant speaker. And in the 90s, with the advent of a new leadership, she was out of work: she was removed from all programs. In the early 80s, the TV presenter was already removed from the air - the joke of comedians, as if Leontiev was an English spy, was taken seriously by the leadership, a check began. Fortunately, then "Aunt Valya" was quickly returned to the screens.

Dmitry Vinogradov in his youth. Archive EG

One of my colleagues said that in 1997, when it was planned to revive the program “From the bottom of my heart”, the TV presenter, who was already over 70, dreaming of being on the screen again, was told: “If you want to be on the screen, do the operation.” And Leontieva did, at the risk of getting a lot of complications, she decided on a deep chemical peel. Then she really looked younger before her eyes - though they changed their minds about launching the program. Valentina Leontyeva had to leave television - first on the radio, and then altogether, to retire.

Dmitry Vinogradov lived with his mother until he was more than 40 years old - until he got married. They said that the relationship between them was very difficult. Journalists, referring to colleagues of the TV presenter, wrote that Dmitry was often rude to his mother on the phone, demanded money, Leontieva often looked upset and cried after talking with him. The TV presenter's friend suggested that by his behavior the adult son "vented" his childhood grievances.

Different truth

Valentina Leontieva in the last years of her life. Shot from the program "Live"

In 2004, Valentina Mikhailovna was hospitalized with a concussion and a fracture of the femoral neck. Rumors immediately arose that the son had injured the TV presenter. Vinogradov himself did not comment. Then, already 10 years after the death of his mother, the man broke his many years of silence, saying in one of the TV shows that Valentina Leontieva simply "fell at home." The man suggested that relatives began to spread rumors about assault on his part after they failed to get half of Leontieva's apartment. He also explained why the last years of her life the star of Soviet television did not live in Moscow, where she had an apartment, but with her sister in a small village in the Ulyanovsk region.

According to Dmitry Vinogradov, after Valentina Mikhailovna was discharged from the hospital, she needed serious care - and her relatives suggested that she move in with them. He agreed with this proposal, deciding that she would be better off with loved ones than with a nurse. True, the son of Leontieva noted, it later turned out that the relatives did not behave quite honestly.

So Dmitry Vinogradov looks today. YouTube frame

Friends of the TV presenter said that at the end of her life, Valentina Leontyeva most of all dreamed that her son would visit her. And he just called. She died on May 20, 2007, at the age of 83, without waiting for this meeting. Dmitry Vinogradov was also not at the funeral. According to him, that's how things happened.

Not so long ago, the son of Valentina Leontyeva said: talk that he grew up as an unhappy, offended child deprived of maternal love is “complete nonsense.” This confession of his contradicts much of what is written about the famous TV presenter and her relationship with her son, including based on the memoirs of Leontyeva's acquaintances. Vinogradov in recent years lives with his family in the suburbs, paints pictures, leads a rather secluded life. He named his son Valentine.

Grandson of Valentina Leontyeva Valentin Vinogradov. Shot from the program "Live"

Taught by heart, were not her relatives. But she gave them her time and mental strength neglecting her husband and son. For them, she lacked spiritual warmth ...

We met Valentina Mikhailovna in 1991. Times were tough and tough. Many people didn't get along well at work. On television, cuts were made that also affected the announcer's department. Leontieva was not in demand. It was rumored that she threatened with black humor: “If they fire me, I’ll hang myself on trolleybus wires in front of Ostankino!” Joking aside, life without a job really didn't make sense to her. The leadership of television, out of respect for merit, left Valentina Mikhailovna as a consultant. The car was still following her. In fact, Leontieva was no longer needed on the channel, but she appeared every morning in her office. Just not to sit at home alone with my own son ...

Young people on television respected her, but did not like her. Valentina Mikhailovna was not silent, if she noticed shortcomings in the work, she spoke about mistakes in person. If you hit her on the tongue - you won’t get into your pocket for a word.

A case brought us together with the famous TV presenter. Almost all my life I have been involved in the organization of concert activities. Carried folk idols at enterprises, factories - wherever they were loved and expected. Collective farm-anniversary "Niva", the one that delivered Muscovites to the table fresh vegetables, asked to arrange a holiday in the format of the program "With all my heart."

The younger generation calls Leontieva “Aunt Valya” and remembers her from the programs “Visiting a fairy tale” and “Good night, kids!”. And older people know that main program her life was "From the bottom of my heart", which told about human destinies. Meetings of friends and relatives, who were scattered by life, gathered millions of viewers in front of the screen. At that time, the program had long been closed, but the audience with experience remembered it. Here the collective farmers from the "Niva" asked their chairman: "And invite the presenter Valentina Leontieva!"

The owner is a bar. I found a phone and called.

Valentina Mikhailovna, people want to see you!

Leontieva answered reluctantly:

Did you write the script?

Wrote! But you can make adjustments.

She begged for a long time until she heard a careless voice in the receiver:

Okay, come to me at Bolshaya Gruzinskaya, bring the script.

Valentina Mikhailovna, dressed in a dressing gown, opened the door, led her into the kitchen, offered coffee and a sandwich. Cheese sandwiches and pasta, I later found out, were her favorite foods.

What is your name?

Lyudmila.

So, you will be Lucy, like my sister.

My heart felt warm from these words: that’s what my mother called me, who died when I was fourteen years old. After an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Shchukin school, I returned home to Tambov. And the next year she went to Moscow state institute culture at the theater department. My Sasha was born in the capital. I raised my son alone. We lived with him in an eight-meter room.

Once, while collecting two-year-old Sasha in the kindergarten, she put a hot kettle on the floor: he pulled handles everywhere, I thought, God forbid, he would knock over boiling water from the table. But it only got worse. He sat on a chair and twirled to the point that he fell right on the kettle. I took off his shirt along with the skin. Saved my face raw eggs. Beat on the edge of the table and poured on the skin. My sister once did this with her legs burned with boiling oil. Doctors said: the boy is not a tenant. He prayed for him godmother, my girlfriend. And God helped - Sasha got better.

I started organizing concerts, such work allowed me to spend a lot of time at home with my son, helping him with his lessons. And soon she married the writer Valery Aushev. We have been together for thirty-three years.

It turned out that for Valentina Mikhailovna Tambov is not just a point on the map. Leontieva arrived there after graduating from the opera and drama studio at the Moscow Art Theater. Mentor Vasily Osipovich Toporkov advised the graduate: “If you want to go on a big voyage, start from the provinces.”

Valya went to the actors' exchange, where she was noticed by the chief director of the Tambov Drama Theater Vladimir Galitsky. For two years - from 1948 to 1949 - Valya served with him, played Nina Zarechnaya in "The Seagull" ... In the theater, she met her future husband, director Yuri Richard, who took Valentina back to Moscow and arranged for television as a director.

Perhaps due to the common Tambov past, Valentina Mikhailovna and I talked warmly, which did not prevent her from criticizing the script written by my husband to the nines. “This is a fish, that is, a sketch,” I tried to explain. “You can say whatever you want from the stage.” Then I did not yet know what the secret of Valentina Leontieva was ...

My husband is a unique person, at one time he led the regional youth newspaper Severny Komsomolets in Arkhangelsk, wrote books for children, scripts, studied the life and work of Lomonosov for forty years, was friends with Nikolai Rubtsov. In a word, he is a professional and knew his worth. Therefore, when she returned his work, all scribbled by Leontief's hand, it turned out to be easy to predict the reaction. But the storm died down, and I said: "Redo." And he took up his pencil again.

Valera rewrote his first script for Leontyeva three times. She accepted the last option. We rented the concert hall of the Youth Palace for the whole day. The transmission went on for six hours. And all this time, Valentina Mikhailovna, at her sixty-nine years old, stood on the stage in high heels. Subsequently, we worked together many times. Leontieva loved to show who was the boss in the house, she could disagree for a long time with what Valera suggested, but then she repeated his text word for word.

We soon realized that she needed a script in which the lines were spelled out to the comma. So she got used to working with her mother, who helped Valya prepare for the broadcasts. With Ekaterina Mikhailovna, they memorized texts by heart, memorized them. It seemed to the audience that Leontieva was having a sincere conversation with them, communicating freely, and she reproduced what she had written from memory. She was told in advance in which row, in which place the person to whom she should address was sitting. It seemed that Leontieva knew the characters of the program by sight, and she saw them for the first time in her life, but she remembered all the names and biographies. Of course, there were overlaps. Valentina Mikhailovna, amazing clever woman and a talented actress, knew how to get out, not without reason she studied at the theater.

I remember once she ran to me backstage scared. It turned out that the heroine, a veteran of war and labor, the story of which the evening began, said that she would appear on stage only in felt boots. Please provide!

What to do?! Leontieva exclaimed in a panic. - She breaks the whole script!

Here I propose:

Start the evening with the second hero, and for now I will send for felt boots.

She calmed down, did as I advised, and everything went like clockwork.

We traveled with the program "With all my heart" through cities and villages. Valentina Mikhailovna did not always have the strength to lead these meetings from beginning to end. Sometimes I took the stage as a host. She watched me closely from behind the scenes, but never commented, praised, pointed out mistakes, or prompted me. Sometimes it seemed that Leontieva was jealous, afraid that I would perform well.

In a concert dedicated to the anniversary of the withdrawal Soviet troops from Afghanistan, many stars participated. I read from the stage my husband's poem "Afghan alarm" about the boys who died in the war. There was a storm of applause, and then mothers who had lost their sons jumped up and rushed backstage to thank me and take my autographs. Leontieva, who followed the stage, saw the empty front rows. When I ran into Valentina Mikhailovna later, she had the face of an offended child.

Why did they start taking autographs from you?!

I had to make excuses:

I'm not to blame! It's all about the poems that Aushev wrote.

She was born in Leningrad, survived the blockade. Since then, by the way, I have not eaten any vegetables or fruits. Valentina Mikhailovna believed that these were the consequences of the experienced hunger and ... amazing chance. Her father, Mikhail Grigorievich, clearly possessed psychic abilities. Once, during the blockade, he seemed to materialize an apple. “My sister and I ate it, feeling the taste and aroma,” Leontieva recalled.

It must have been hypnosis. One way or another, since then, Valya has not taken fruit in her mouth. Dad fell ill and died of starvation psychosis. The body was taken on a sled to the trench where all the dead were buried. But while the father was still in his right mind, he did everything in his power to help the family. Weak, barely able to stand, donated blood, for which they promised to pay him with food. But the parcel of breadcrumbs, chocolate, biscuits and hard-boiled eggs arrived when he was already dead. For Ekaterina Mikhailovna and the girls, this was a real salvation. For several days they ate "jelly" from boiled leather belts. Mom taught the girls to smoke so that they would be less hungry, sent them to the Neva for water when she saw that they could freeze in a hungry stupor. “We met people on the street, and it became easier,” said Valentina Mikhailovna.

At three o'clock in the morning Valya got up and went to stand in line for bread. Once I found bread cards on the street for the whole family. The one who lost them doomed his loved ones to death. Valya went up to the queue and called the last name - they were indicated on cardboard rectangles. The woman called back. Valya handed her the cards, and she suddenly began to whip the girl in the face. "What are you doing?! She saved your life!" people shouted. But in a frenzy she did not understand what she was doing. Apparently, she missed that there were no cards, and stood dumbfounded, realizing the terrible consequences. And she poured out all her despair on Valya.

A neighbor brought a child to the Leontievs.

Let him sit, she begged.

Why are you bringing him to us? - asked Ekaterina Mikhailovna.

I'm afraid my husband will eat it...

In early 1943, the family was evacuated. The Leontievs got to Moscow and bought tickets, which at that time were the only ones left at the railway ticket office, to Ulyanovsk. They didn't have any family there. A kind-hearted fellow traveler suggested: "Let's go to Novoselki, you won't die of hunger at the state farm."

In Novoselki, Valya graduated from high school and worked in the fields in the summer. Elder sister Lucy got a job as an accountant. An unusually bright, talented and strong-willed girl was Lyudmila Leontyeva. What is worth one fact - she herself took birth in the middle of the field! Until the age of ninety, she retained a bright head and literate speech. She would have moved to Moscow with her sister, Lucy would not have been lost in the capital. But she remained in Novoselki with her husband and children. Only when Ekaterina Mikhailovna was dying did her sister come to Moscow to say goodbye. And she also buried her mother. Valentina Mikhailovna could not attend, flew away to shoot ...

And like a boomerang of fate, Valentina Mikhailovna's own son also did not come to his mother's funeral. Difficult relationship they have formed. Mitya was raised by his grandmother Ekaterina Mikhailovna. The boy's father was Yuri Vinogradov. Leontief lived with Richard for three years. Only a few pictures remained in memory - he was fond of erotic photography, Valya sometimes posed for him.

With another Yuri - Vinogradov - Valya met in a restaurant. Two young men approached her. One introduced himself as an Englishman, an employee of the British Embassy. Leontieva liked him, but he was a foreigner! Such acquaintances were not welcomed in the USSR. Luckily the guy was joking. He really was a diplomat, but ours, Soviet. So an acquaintance began, which grew into a romance, and then into long marriage. Soon after the birth of Mitya Vinogradov was sent on a diplomatic mission to America. For Leontyeva, a year and a half, forced to spend overseas, seemed like hard labor.

“I was dying without television,” she said. From the impossibility of changing anything, she picked up the phone and said into the void: “How I hate you all!”

Perhaps parting with her homeland was difficult for her because of a stormy romance with cosmonaut Boris Yegorov. How beautifully he looked after her! One day they were driving each in their own car and at the same time holding hands. Boris saw off Valya, who was flying to her husband. They touchingly and tenderly said goodbye at the airport ...

After a while, Vale called in New York Yuri Senkevich: “While you are sitting in America, Fateeva took your cosmonaut away!”

Then she rushed home, but it was too late. To acquaintances, Leontieva explained her return to Moscow to one: “I can’t live without television.” The blue screen reciprocated her, providing popular love. Once, when she was visiting me, I suggested: “Stop taking a taxi, let's go for a ride on the subway.”

Subway passengers rushed to their favorite TV presenter, we did not know where to run. “How can I ride the subway after that?!” Leontieva sighed.

Men fell in love with her - both old and young. I know that in student years looked after Valya Bulat Okudzhava, and then life divorced young people. Valya went to Tambov, Bulat went to Leningrad. Forty years later, the editor asked Leontiev: “We want to invite Bulat Shalvovich to the program, help, Valentina Mikhailovna! You used to know each other."

She called. Okudzhava was not in the most friendly mood.

Forgive me ... Bulat, - began Valentina Mikhailovna, - I don’t know how I can address you now - for you, for you ...

Who am I talking to? he asked irritably.

Just don't hang up the phone, listen...

And she read him a poem that he once dedicated to her.

Valyushka, dear! You?! How to find you?

I come to your house every day!

They saw each other a few days later at a concert hosted by Valentina Mikhailovna. Bulat and his wife were sitting in the front row. She ran to him from the stage. They looked at each other, barely holding back tears. And two months after this meeting, Bulat Shalvovich died. “Who knows,” said Valentina Mikhailovna, “if we had not lost sight of each other, maybe everything would have turned out differently?”

In "Ostankino" she showed signs of attention Nikolai Drozdov. She also liked Yuri Gagarin. Once Leontieva led the New Year's "Blue Light", which was attended by Yuri Alekseevich.

Valentina, let's drink champagne with you! suggested Gagarin.

I do not drink.

You are sick?

I never drink at all. The body does not accept alcohol.

No, you don't want to drink with me... Precisely with me! - he was offended.

Yuri Alekseevich did not believe it, but it was the pure truth: Valya could not drink a single gram, she immediately felt sick.

“Everyone liked me,” Valentina Mikhailovna often said, “but no one loved me. Gerard Philip at the festival in Paris, he did not take his eyes off. So what? She flew to Moscow, and remember your name.

Yes. The men were near the sea. Valentina Mikhailovna was friends with Urbansky. There was a case, he borrowed money from her. She forgot to think about it, suddenly Eugene calls at twelve at night:

Valyushka, come out - I'll repay the debt.

I have already gone to bed.

But Urbansky insisted:

Come out while I have money.

Leontieva put on a dressing gown over her nightgown and ran out to him. Eugene gave the money, hugged Valya and kissed him in a friendly way. At that moment, as in a bad joke, a husband who returned from a business trip appeared. And at home on the table, to complete the picture, he saw two glasses - Tanya Sudets came to Valya in the evening. “Oh, and it was difficult for me to wash off! - recalled Valentina Mikhailovna. “I convinced myself of my innocence as best I could, but I doubt that Vinogradov believed.”

Meet, this is my Lucy, - Leontieva told him.

Very nice, - he answered, playing with his eyes, famous actor and held out a business card. - I have a house in Starokonyushenny, be sure to come.

And I came. So, with the light hand of Valentina Mikhailovna, this wonderful acquaintance began. Alexander Porokhovshchikov and his mother, whom she met thanks to Leontieva, were an example of a completely different relationship between mother and son.

Galina Alexandrovna - an extraordinary, witty, fiery woman - had a huge influence on Alexander Shalvovich. He was without a doubt sissy, idolized Galina Alexandrovna and took care of her. She repulsed all the girls who, in her opinion, were unworthy of Shura. One loss Shalvovich, perhaps, could not forgive his mother, but he never showed it - he himself chose the path of unquestioning submission. That girl was from a poor family, she wore torn tights, which did not prevent Shura from falling in love without a memory and making plans for family life. Galina Alexandrovna said her firm no, and the young people parted. And that girl then married a prince from some African country and became a rich woman.

“Lyudka, let's go smoke,” Galina Aleksandrovna told me. “Shurka will insert a piston if he finds out, but we won’t tell him.”

She treasured the memory of her father very much - brilliant designer who made tanks. I remember once the drawings flew off the table, and Galina Aleksandrovna exclaimed: “Don’t drop my dad’s brain!”

Grandfather Porokhovshchikov was repressed. Shalvovich told me the following story: “Once an unknown person called Galina Alexandrovna:

I shot your father. All his life his eyes are in front of me. They are following me. I want to repent before you. I was forced to do it, it was my job. May I meet you?

I am an elderly, sick person, maybe my son will want to talk to you.

I refused, - said Shalvovich. “I would have killed him.”

Galina Alexandrovna somehow went to the hairdresser in high heels, fell and broke her femoral neck. After this injury, she never recovered and died soon after. The son's grief was immeasurable. When on the fortieth day after the death of Galina Alexandrovna we gathered at the wake, Shura showed the envelope:

This is my mom's hair. I'm going to clone her.

What are you - a believer - saying?!

I have already met the Koreans who will do this.

He missed his mother, she appeared to him. For example, Shalvovich watered the flowers in her room and felt how she touched her shoulder: “Do not overwater!”

Irochka, whom Porohovshchikov eventually married, was not fully accepted by her mother. And under one roof they began to live only after her death. Someone, perhaps, will say that Galina Alexandrovna ruined her son's life, did not allow her to marry the woman she loved, and yet she could give him the children he so dreamed of. But unlike Mitya, the son of Valentina Mikhailovna Leontyeva, Shura did not become embittered at his mother, he continued to honor her as before.

They say that Porokhovshchikov was madly in love with Irochka. It seemed to him that she looked like Galina Alexandrovna: “After her mother’s death, Irochka put on her sheepskin coat and began to look like her mother like two drops of water.”

But it seems to me that the whole point is precisely in the sheepskin coat ... If Shalvovich came to visit us, he never took his wife with him. So I never saw her. It seems to me that Ira embarrassed him. I remember his wife called him on his mobile, and he picked up and turned off the phone.

I can't, he says, no more.

It's impossible, Shalvovich, you're always alone everywhere. Maybe it's better to get divorced? Find yourself a normal woman, have children.

I invited Ira to leave. And she answered: "I will lay hands on myself, and you will be guilty of my death." Yes, I'm used to it. She is like a daughter to me...

This girl, twenty-three years old younger than husband, would fulfill the threat - she loved him madly, to the point of self-denial. But at the same time, she did not particularly care about him, did not know how to cook and did not seek to learn. Shalvovich himself was in charge of the kitchen. Most of all he loved pickles and Krakow sausage. He did not follow a diet, despite diabetes mellitus. He has a trophic ulcer. A terrible sight - he showed me. I prepared a pumpkin infusion, advised to drink. “Don’t help me, Lyuda, it’s nothing, the sugar is going through the roof,” he said, sighing.

Nevertheless, he hit me, his eye burned, but I always answered him:

Shalvovich, you're not my type. I like Georgy Taratorkin .

I also have great respect for your husband,” he added.

Yes it's true. Respected, friendly, supportive. I remember one significant case. I asked Porokhovshchikov to come to the presentation of my husband's book "Ugresh Dmitry Donskoy." And on the eve of Alexander Shalvovich, it happens, the iron roof from the shell garage fell. There was no fracture, but the bruise was very serious.

I can’t, probably, - he doubted, - I feel very bad. The pain is hellish.

Please, I insisted, try it. Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova Here agreed, will drive up.

And what do you think? He arrived in this terrible state, spoke while sitting on a chair, but he spoke perfectly, the audience was delighted. I am still ashamed when I remember this - why did you ask? You can’t understand everything in time, evaluate ...

I took Porokhovshchikov's film "I do not allow censorship to memory" to France, to the city of Honfleur, to the Festival Russian cinema, talked about him, about his grandfather and, at the request of the organizers, read Yesenin's poems. When I finished my speech, enthusiastic French people ran up to me. I thought they were impressed by poetry, but it turned out to be something else. "You were very sexy!" - the translator broadcasted their reviews to me. “Rejoice, this is the best compliment for the French,” commented Vladimir Menshov .

There was some idiotic gossip on the Internet that famous actor and the director is my son's father. It was launched by Leontieva. Once I was dancing with Menshov, and Valentina Mikhailovna said to him: “Dance, dance, but your son is growing up, you don’t remember from drinking. And Lucy's granddaughter is a copy of you.

She knew that Menshov came to Tambov when I was twenty years old, and for the role of Aliman in the play based on the novel by Chingiz Aitmatov "Mother's Field" he handed me a diploma of the first degree. Leontyeva joked, the journalists picked it up and still haunt us.

Volodya, I'll sue them, - unable to stand it, she said to Menshov.

Even more hype will begin, it is better to remain silent.

And I did not get involved ... But I will return to the story about Alexander Shalvovich.

If you think about it, the unenviable fate went to Porokhovshchikov at the end of his life. At first he looked after his mother, who never recovered from the injury. Then the stepfather fell ill. When he was gone, Porokhovshchikov took care of Irochkin's mother, a bedridden patient. He changed the linen for her. And there was no one to take care of him.

Shalvovich, - I asked, - did you have women when you traveled abroad?

Have children?

Maybe somewhere there is.

If there were, they would have swooped down like a crow after his death to divide the inheritance. Although Porohovshchikov did not leave bank accounts. He dreamed of opening a gas station with his friend Givi. He joked: “Lyuda, we will go to the film festival in Paris and buy you so many hats!”

But will such a thing work out in our capital ... Everything remains a project. Shura hoped to restore the mansion in Starokonyushenny Lane, despite the fact that this house was dysfunctional. Irochka said: “He will destroy us!” I was afraid to stay overnight alone. Shalvovich said that he saw ghosts there - ladies in crinolines, men in tailcoats. They approached him, who was sleeping on the couch, and said: "This is our descendant."

Porokhovshchikov was friends with Svyatoslav Fedorov. There is a branch of his clinic in Tambov, where he flew by helicopter and crashed on the way back. He called Shura with him, and he was offered good money for a performance in Volgograd, and he refused. And before, he often flew with Fedorov. “I almost put it in my pants once! - said Porokhovshchikov. - Svyatoslav threw the helm and left in a dive, shouting: "Let's fly over my grave ?!"

Fedorov died with a man whom he called with him when he found out that Shura would not fly. Porokhovshchikov's speech was cancelled.

I am free! - he called Svyatoslav.

I can’t refuse a man anymore,” he replied.

So fate averted death from Alexander Porokhovshchikov. But only for a while... I pray for him. He sometimes dreams of me, smiling. So everything is fine with him.

Shalvovich, when I was supposed to have a meeting with young people who planned to revive the program “From the bottom of my heart”, volunteered to go with me. “I don't like these guys,” he said, and he was right. They were terrible people. They did not show up for the meeting, allegedly they had an accident. I think they didn’t meet on purpose, I was an extra link in the project. And soon found a way to get rid of me. I handed over the cassette with the introductory music of the program "With all my heart" for the creative evening of Valentina Mikhailovna in Kursk. And they changed the cassette. It sounded like some conversations in French. “Everything is clear with you, Lucy! You're all going to Paris! How did you let me down! - Leontieva was very annoyed.

I called the people who were passing the cassette. After all, it was their fault that it turned out that Leontieva did not have the right material. “The old woman is completely crazy! they told me. She makes everything up. I sobbed from the impossibility of proving my innocence.

A little time passed, and Leontieva refused to participate in the program. At the eighth ten, she could not remember the text.

Do not worry, we will launch a running line, - the authors of the project said.

No, I refuse. I won't be Leontiev if I start reading.

Valentina Mikhailovna said that, enraged by the refusal, these people broke into her Ostankino office, shouting terrible things in Leontyeva's face. They called names, threatened: we spent, such and such, a lot of money, made you plastic surgery, fed and watered you, and you! They literally crushed her workplace: they threw papers on the floor, smashed memorable gifts. I do not know how she survived this horror!

We reconciled at a difficult moment when Valentina Mikhailovna broke her femoral neck. Yevgeny Kochergin rushed to Leontyeva, was afraid that, not even an hour, she would die of hunger with such a son. Mitya didn't let him in. “Lyudka, you must go! Zhenya said. He will let you in. You are the only person close to her!”

And I went. Of course, we reconciled, wept and forgave each other for all insults. I began to carry food, most of all Leontieva loved the jelly-“trembling” that Valera prepared.

The operation after a hip fracture was done free of charge and successfully. But Valentina Mikhailovna lost her temper, she could hardly walk. Recent years ten she was constantly pursued by serious injuries. First she broke her arm. I'm here to help fix my eyelashes. “Lucy, will you cook soup for me?” asked Valentina Mikhailovna. She taught me to dip an unpeeled onion into the broth, which made the soup an unusually beautiful golden color.

Having fallen on the stairs in Ostankino, Valentina Mikhailovna injured her back. The hump began to grow. Valentin Dikul adjusted the vertebrae and warned: "Do not allow drafts." And she went to the loggia to hang clothes, while the second balcony was open. She was blown away, Leontieva fell ill again. "He yelled at me!" Valentina Mikhailovna complained about Dikul.

Valentin Ivanovich can be understood: he put in so much work to put her on her feet. And in that situation, he said that he could not do anything else. Valentina Mikhailovna was treated in the Kremlin hospital, so she managed to fall there and get a concussion. I witnessed how Mitya rushed in and gave a dressing down to the doctors: “Why didn’t mom have a nurse ?!” Doctors justified themselves: nurses were not supposed to be sick. It would seem that the son was worried about his mother, he asked the doctors, but he was in no hurry to ask himself. At home, Valentina Mikhailovna found herself without any care and supervision. Perhaps it was the attitude of her son during this difficult period for her that made Valentina Mikhailovna decide to exchange the apartment.

Mitya got housing in the center. And Valentina Mikhailovna - at the "Water Stadium". But she never spent a day in that apartment. From Bolshaya Gruzinskaya she moved to her sister in Novoselki. I remember that for some reason it was impossible to take furniture out of Moscow without special permission. A good friend of Leontyeva, the announcer Alla Danko, helped and organized everything. Valentina Mikhailovna walked along the platform herself, said goodbye warmly: “Lyusenka, you come!”

I visited Valentina Mikhailovna in Novoselki, where everything was like in her Moscow room - a sofa, brown curtains. Valentina Mikhailovna lived on the first floor of the house, and her sister Lyudmila lived on the fourth. Lucy ran endlessly to visit her, to feed her. TV Valentina Mikhailovna practically did not turn on: “I can’t see what my television has turned into! Everything is useless!” When I brought congratulatory telegrams for her birthday, I began to say at all: “I hate television!”

She had a rethinking of her life. She constantly remembered Mitya, waiting for him to call. Then, in her conversations, for the first time, doubts sounded: maybe it was not worth becoming a “mother of all”, sacrificing a family for the sake of work?

I remember that a huge bag of letters from the audience was brought to her from Ostankino. They took it apart with Leontyeva and laughed until they dropped: “Dear Valentina Mikhailovna, we love you so much! We know it's not easy for you right now. I am disabled, my husband is lame left leg. How can I help you?" And laughter and sin.

Before her death, Leontieva constantly talked about Mita: “I want to see him. I want to hear his voice."

She had another birthday, we dialed Mitin's number. He congratulated his mother. But he didn't call himself... And he didn't come to the funeral.

I think that in some ways Mitya can be understood. Throughout his life, the son carried this pain, a complex feeling of love-hate for his mother. Mitya was bribed by TV channels, he was promised a lot of money, tens of thousands of dollars, for revelations about her, but he avoids any publicity and refused. And take mama in last way that's why he didn't come.

Going to Novoselki, I called him:

Let's go together, Mitya.

I'm not going to attend the show they put on out of my mother's funeral!

He came to her later, when the hype ended, the journalists left. Perhaps Mitya was afraid of condemnation and general anger for not treating his own person in the best way.

He hated publicity, and she, in fact, lived for the sake of going on the air. The people whose biographies Leontieva learned by heart were not close to her. But she gave them her time and spiritual strength, neglecting her husband and son. For them, she lacked spiritual warmth ...

For a long time I tried to have a sign “Valentina Mikhailovna Leontieva worked here” in the Tambov Drama Theater. Recently, a friend called and said that not only the sign appeared, but also created a corner of Valentina Mikhailovna with photographs from the performances.

I live with a dream to shoot a multi-part feature film about Leontief. They filmed about Gurchenko, Zykina. Why not about Leontieva? I even have an actress in mind, very similar to Valentina Mikhailovna - Valya Popova from the Tambov Drama Theater, where Leontieva once worked. I want to tell you how smart, beautiful and a great worker she was. Is it not enough to love and respect your mother? And let Mitka look...

After the death of the famous TV presenter Valentina Leontyeva, her son, the famous artist Dmitry Vinogradov, was in the center of attention of journalists. For a long time the man refrained from communicating with correspondents, trying not to share the details of his personal life with the public. However, recently Vinogradov broke the silence and frankly spoke about the relationship with the famous parent, and also answered the questions that her fans had accumulated. An interview with Dmitry was shown on Tuesday, May 16, in the program "Live".

The host of the program, Boris Korchevnikov, went to the man's house. During a conversation with a journalist, Dmitry clarified the speculation that he was allegedly indirectly involved in the death of a parent. Vinogradov made it clear that they were not true.

“When Aunt Nyusya breaks her femoral neck, nobody cares. But if British Queen broke, then this is another matter ... This is a classic injury of an elderly woman, not a man - due to the location of the pelvis, excretion of calcium ... Well, she fell. At home, ”said the son of the TV presenter.

On the air of the TV show, Vinogradov explained how it happened that his famous mother died in the wilderness - in the village of Novoselki, Ulyanovsk Region. According to the man, he made this decision, guided by the interests loved one. “When mother fell and broke her femoral neck, we got her a job at the Kremlevka. When she came out, she needed some care. Relatives from Ulyanovsk suggested that her rehabilitation period take place there. I thought that it would be better for her to go to sister than to some kind of nurse, ”Dmitry said.

According to Vinogradov, he constantly sent money to relatives. And once a man allocated an impressive amount of 15 thousand dollars for an apartment that she was looked after in the Ulyanovsk region. Vinogradov claims that in fact that side was not entirely honest with him and misled him. The artist believes that close mothers envied her - this was the main reason for disagreement in their family. Discussing the current situation, some program experts said that everyone in this story has their own truth.

In the 90s, they began to discuss the disappearance of Valentina Leontyeva. The presenter's son said that he deliberately tried to protect his mother from rogues who tried to take advantage of her fame and position. At that time, the presenter was out of work and contacted suspicious, according to Dmitry, people. “In our house, unique things happened - some kind of healers, numerous children from orphanages. We still lacked a Bulgarian with a bear ... Naturally, after I cut off the oxygen and did not give them the opportunity to earn money, they hated me, ”Vinogradov shared.

In addition, Dmitry Vinogradov explained why he did not attend the funeral of a loved one. According to the man, this is how things happened. The artist believes that the presenter should rest where she wanted - on Vagankovsky cemetery next to mother. Therefore, he thinks about how to rebury the remains of the parent.

“I assumed that she would still come. I talked to her on the phone, I understood that my mother was old. Of course, she missed me, I missed her. During the year she spent there, I did not manage to visit her due to a number of circumstances. Of course, I regret it... Five years ago I went there for one day. Was near the grave no more than 15 minutes. Didn't visit relatives. Wretched place, wretched monument, mother doesn't deserve it. I do not exclude the possibility that I will exhume the body and transport it to where she wanted, ”said the presenter’s son.

A friend of Dmitry Vinogradov, Alexander Kudryashov, noted that the artist gives the impression of a person who sincerely loves his parent. A friend of the heir to the presenter denied information about the tense relationship that, according to some reports, reigned between him and Valentina Leontyeva. “When it came to his mom, it seemed to me that they were very great friends. He treated her with great respect. I knew who his mother was, but we never raised this issue, ”said Kudryashov.

During a conversation with the host of the program, the artist also denied the information that she allegedly deprived him of her attention. “Many people say that I didn’t get something from my mother, that she was a busy woman ... God forbid. I got so much from both mom and dad. Talking about the fact that my mother was at work all the time is complete nonsense. Mom found time for me, we talked with her, did homework, ”said Vinogradov.

Vinogradov considers the birth of his son to be his main achievement. The grandson of Valentina Leontyeva is now 10 years old, he was named after the famous presenter. The boy appeared in the studio of the program. “Dad said that my grandmother was good, everything was always fine with them ... I saw her on TV, the singer sang for her. It seemed to me that she was beautiful, young and smart,” said Valentin.