Son of Valentina Leontyeva Dmitry Vinovovo age. What breaks the fate of the children of national idols. Valentina Leontyeva in the film "Behind the Department Store Window"
Of all the achievements and awards, Valentina Leontyeva considered the title “Aunt Valya” to be the most important - this is how millions of young TV viewers in the Soviet Union addressed the woman. Several generations grew up watching children's programs hosted by Valentina Mikhailovna. Soviet citizens. The kids wrote letters to Aunt Valya and asked her not to go on vacation, which she did. In the future, adults will also join the army of little fans - the audience watched the program “With all my heart” with a breath, rejoiced and cried along with its heroes.
Childhood and youth
The real name and surname of the TV presenter is Alevtina Thorson. The girl was born into a family of native St. Petersburg residents. The parents had the same profession - they served as accountants: the father, a Swede by nationality, worked as the chief accountant at Oktyabrskaya railway, and the mother managed the financial affairs of the hospital. The couple was separated by a 20-year age difference.
Alevtina and her sister Lyudmila were very attached to dad. Therefore, even after getting married, they did not change their last name. My father played the violin masterfully and often organized merry musical festivals and masquerades at home. That's when the girl's love for acting and the theater. Since childhood, Valya went to a theater club organized at the Youth Theater.
The future TV presenter was almost 18 years old when the Germans attacked the country with war. During the blockade, the whole family remained in Leningrad, Valya joined the ranks of the sanitary squad, helping the dying and wounded to survive.
The girl suffered her first terrible loss - the blockade took the life of her beloved father. A little later, he and his mother and sister managed to evacuate.
In 1944 she entered the capital's Institute of Chemical Technology, but never began her studies. She worked part-time at a clinic, thinking about connecting her life with art. As a result, she entered and graduated from the opera and drama studio at the Moscow Art Theater.
Career
The newly minted actress ended up in Tambov, where she played in the local theater for two years. And in 1954, the biography of a young woman was illuminated by television. Valentina withstood a tough competition for the position of assistant director. Soon she was already known in every corner Soviet Union as a charming announcer on Central Television.
Valentina Mikhailovna could not do without such bright programs as “Blue Light”, in a duet with the host of the program “From the Theater Box”, her voice was heard from holiday broadcasts. But in the late 60s she left the country with her diplomat husband. However, she did not stay long in America, where her husband was sent. Two years later she returned to her homeland, where a new, even more grandiose turn in her career began.
Valentina Mikhailovna turned into Aunt Valya, the favorite of Soviet children. The woman was the host of the popular TV shows “Skillful Hands”, “Alarm Clock”, “Visiting a Fairy Tale” and, of course, “ Good night, kids." Young spectators flooded Leontyev with letters. The envelopes usually had a short message - “TV. Tete Valya,” but the messages certainly reached the addressee.
The kids wrote about how their day went, drew colorful pictures, and asked to send greetings to Fil, Stepashka and Khryusha. The television animals were also sent “tigrams”, which Aunt Valya certainly “handed over” personally.
When asked by journalists how to explain universal childish love, Valentina Leontyeva admitted: sometimes she herself began to believe that funny little animals were quite alive. She even came up with a birthday for each doll. Until the end of her life, she was sensitive to the letters sent, which were carefully stored in numerous boxes. From time to time Valentina Mikhailovna re-read the correspondence.
Leontyeva can be seen in some films, where she appears on television as an announcer. And the woman gave the voice to Baby’s mother in the first cartoon about (1968).
In the summer of 1972, the program “With all my heart” was broadcast, which was expected to become incredibly popular. The program became the peak of Valentina Leontyeva’s creativity; the woman devoted 15 years of her life to it. “With all my heart” was conceived in the genre of artistic journalism, a documentary performance, the heroes of which were people with unique, complex destinies.
Valentina Mikhailovna was visited by miners and factory workers, rural workers and war veterans, teachers and doctors. The plot was built around the motive of separation: the characters lost each other many years ago, and finally met on air.
For her work in this program, the TV presenter received the USSR State Prize. In Leontyeva’s collection of awards, there was a place for another unusual title - she is the only female announcer who became the People’s Artist of the USSR.
She shared this title with Igor Kirillov. The next award came to Valentina Mikhailovna only in 2000: she was awarded “TEFI” in the nomination “For personal contribution to the development of domestic television.”
In the late 80s, Leontyeva advised television announcers, and during the years of perestroika she faced a shortage of work. I made an attempt to resume the program “With all my heart,” but the efforts were in vain. But the woman was a welcome guest on celebrity programs. In 1993 about creative path and personal life, Valentina Mikhailovna spoke in the episode of the program “Love Story”.
Personal life
The TV presenter noted in an interview:
“Unfortunately, there weren’t many fairy tales in my life. Such happy moments were associated only with television viewers.”
Valentina Leontyeva was married twice. I first went to the registry office when I served at the Tambov Theater. The chosen one was radio director Yuri Richard, who later moved his wife to the capital.
The couple shared a home for four years, and then the family broke up. The husband wanted to see his wife as the mistress of the house, but Valentina Mikhailovna worked seven days a week, explaining:
“How could I do otherwise? There were few of us announcers.”
The second husband, diplomat Yuri Vinogradov, was an employee of the diplomatic mission of the Soviet Union in America. The love story began in a Moscow restaurant, where the couple met. In this marriage, a son, Dmitry, was born.
In the late 60s, the family moved to New York. This move became the reason for the appearance of newspaper gossip that allegedly Leontyeva was a CIA agent. Returning from America, Valentina went back to work, although financial situation allowed her to lead the life of a housewife. But the woman could not give up her favorite television. As a result, the husband left, finding another woman.
Valentina Mikhailovna smoked all her life, and smoked a lot - a couple of packs of Marlboros a day. However, her voice remained the same, ringing and young. And the television announcer was an excellent car driver, even driving south on her own.
The tragedy of the last years of her life is that the favorite of Soviet children was not spoiled with attention by her grown-up son, Dmitry Vinogradov. The man, who became an artist, allegedly beat his mother, did not allow her to go out, and then forced her to change housing in the center of the capital and settled her in a village near Ulyanovsk. The press noted that the heir does not communicate with his mother and did not attend her funeral.
“Let Them Talk” program about Valentina LeontyevaOn August 1, 2018, Dmitry Vinogradov came on the air of the “Let Them Talk” program to tell the details of his relationship with his star mother. The man explained that Valentina Mikhailovna ended up in the Ulyanovsk village of Novoselki after hospitalization. Three years before her death, the woman broke her hip and was treated at the Kremlevka. Then the sister of the TV presenter, who lives in this village, promised proper care. The son really rarely saw his mother due to strained relations with relatives.
Death
At the end of her life, Valentina Leontyeva almost lost her sight, she could not watch TV even with glasses, she tried to read with a magnifying glass. The television legend died at the end of May 2007. The cause of death, according to some media reports, was complications from pneumonia.
The funeral was held modestly, without any fuss. Leontyeva’s former administrator Andrei Udalov and two of her students came from Moscow to say goodbye to the announcer. At the request of Valentina Mikhailovna, the body was not transported to Moscow; the grave is located in the village cemetery in the village of Novoselki.
Transfers
- "Blue Light"
- "From the Theater Box"
- "GOOG night kids"
- "Alarm"
- "Visiting a fairy tale"
- "Skillful hands"
- "Heartily"
- "Telescope"
Valentina Mikhailovna Leontyeva (nee Alevtina Thorsons). Born on August 1, 1923 in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) - died on May 20, 2007 in the village of Novoselki Ulyanovsk region. Soviet and Russian TV presenter. Announcer of the Central Television of the USSR State Television and Radio in 1954-1989. People's Artist of the USSR (1982).
Alevtina Thorsons, who became widely known as Valentina Leontyeva, was born on August 1, 1923 in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) into a family of native St. Petersburgers.
Father - Mikhail Thorsons.
Sister - Lyudmila.
Uncle - architect Vladimir Shchuko.
"Dad was older than mom for 20 years, I loved him madly. Years later, both my sister and I, when we got married, kept in memory of him maiden name. I remember wonderful musical evenings with competitions, balls and masquerades in our house, when dad played the violin,” she said.
WITH early years I studied in a theater group at the Youth Theater.
The Leontyev family survived the Leningrad blockade. At the age of 18, Valentina signed up to become a sanitary worker to help the wounded and sick in the besieged city. Her father died during the siege. In 1942, my mother and two sisters left Leningrad for evacuation to the village of Novoselki, Melekessky district, Ulyanovsk region.
After the war, she studied at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology and worked in a clinic.
Then she graduated from the Stanislavsky Opera and Drama Studio at the Moscow Art Theater, course of V. O. Toporkov.
After graduating from the studio in 1948, she served at the Tambov Drama Theater for several seasons.
In 1954, after passing a competitive selection, Valentina Mikhailovna came to work on television. At first she was an assistant director, then she became an announcer.
Sometimes she acted in films in small roles - as a TV presenter.
Valentina Leontyeva in the film "Behind the Department Store Window"
Valentina Leontyeva in the film "Northern Rhapsody"
She regularly appeared in the Blue Light programs.
Over the years of her long-term work on television, Valentina Mikhailovna hosted both “Blue Lights” and many holiday broadcasts, the program “From the Theater Box” (together with Igor Kirillov), as well as many other favorite and popular television programs at that time.
Valentina Leontyeva - Blue Light 1962
From 1965 to 1967 she lived in New York with her diplomat husband and son. Upon arrival from the USA, he returns to television.
More than one generation of Russians grew up on Valentina Leontyeva’s children’s programs, such as “Visiting a Fairy Tale,” “Good Night, Kids,” “Alarm Clock,” and “Skillful Hands.” Millions of children were waiting for these programs.
Valentina Mikhailovna earned the honorary title - Aunt Valya.
Valentina Leontyeva - Visiting a fairy tale
The peak of her creativity was the program “With all my heart,” which was awarded the State Prize. The TV show first aired on July 13, 1972. The transfer lasted 15 years. In 1975, she was awarded the USSR State Prize for these programs. The last 52nd graduation took place in July 1987 (from Orenburg). Valentina Mikhailovna remembered her heroes until the end of her life.
Valentina Leontyeva was the first announcer and the only female announcer of the USSR Central Television to be awarded the title People's Artist THE USSR. Throughout history, two announcers became People's Artists of the USSR - she and Igor Kirillov.
During work, funny things happened more than once. For example, during the broadcast of one of the “Ogonyok” shows, the heel of Leontyeva’s shoes became firmly stuck on the floor during a live broadcast, putting Leontyeva in a very difficult position. During one of the programs about animals, Leontyev was bitten by a bear cub. But she didn’t even show it and brought the program to the end - she understood that in live The entire Soviet Union was looking at her, and when the program ended, they had to call an ambulance - she was very ill.
Since 1989 - television announcer and consultant.
In the 1990s, a difficult period began in the life of Valentina Leontyeva. All of her programs were closed, and no new offers were received. She tried to independently revive the “With All My Heart” program, but all her efforts did not produce results.
In 1996, together with I. Kirillov, she participated in the “Telescope” program.
In 2000, the TV presenter was awarded the TEFI Prize in the category “For personal contribution to the development of domestic television.”
Since 2004, she lived in the village of Novoselki, Melekessky district, Ulyanovsk region, with her relatives (she moved to her my own sister Lyudmila), who took care of her.
She was buried, according to her will, in the same place, in the village cemetery.
In July 2007, the Ulyanovsk Regional Puppet Theater was named after People's Artist of the USSR Valentina Mikhailovna Leontyeva.
Valentina Leontyeva: fairy tale and reality
Personal life of Valentina Leontyeva:
She was married twice.
The first husband is director Yuri Richard. She met at the Tambov theater, who also transported Leontyeva to Moscow. We lived together for 3 years.
Second husband - Yuri Vinogradov, diplomat, employee of the USSR diplomatic mission in New York. We met in one of the Moscow restaurants. The couple had a son, Dmitry Vinogradov. The marriage broke up in the mid-1970s.
Dmitry Vinogradov - son of Valentina Leontyeva
August 1, 2018, where he told the details of his relationship with his mother, and also talked about his relatives, because of whom he missed his parent’s funeral.
“I lived with my mother until I was 45 years old. For many this seems strange, but it is true. We had a good relationship, I also communicated well with my dad. Mom was very gentle, she always spoiled me, but dad, on the contrary, was strict,” he said.
In the last years of Leontyeva’s life, Vinogradov rarely visited his mother. But this was not connected with their conflict, but with Dmitry’s long-standing enmity with his relatives. After a spinal injury that Valentina Mikhailovna received due to negligence at Ostankino, her relatives living in the Ulyanovsk region took care of her. The son is sure that the true goal of the relatives was the money and valuables of the legendary announcer.
“After she died, they drove a KAMAZ to the house to take out all my mother’s things. They literally took everything away. Moreover, my mother wanted her to be cremated and her ashes 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 it would be a criminal matter. But justice still prevailed: I wished them death, and they died. You can say that I cursed them,” said Dmitry.
Dmitry is raising a son, whose name is Valentin - almost like the legendary grandmother.
I was in love with Valentina Leontyeva. He courted her very persistently, but never achieved reciprocal feelings; both had families. This went on for 10 years. She said: “He was just not my person! It was interesting to communicate with Arkasha, but as a man I don’t like him!”
Filmography of Valentina Leontyeva:
1955 - Behind a department store window - television announcer (uncredited)
1962 - Blue Light-1962 (film-play) - presenter of "Blue Light"
1962 - Without fear and reproach - television announcer (uncredited)
1964 - Blue Light. 25 years of Soviet television (film-play) - presenter
1965 - In the first hour - guest of "Blue Light"
1967 - Kremlin Courier (film-play) - episode (uncredited)
1974 - Northern Rhapsody - TV presenter
1993 - Just... Aunt Valya (documentary)
Voiced by Valentina Leontyeva:
1968 - Baby and Carlson (animated) - Baby’s mother
1970 - Sweet Tale (animated) - television announcer (uncredited)
1970 - Tymancha’s friend - reads Russian text
USSR television rarely spoiled its viewers entertainment programs, especially for children. “Alarm clock”, “Visiting a fairy tale”, “Good night, kids” - this is the whole short list of programs that the children looked forward to every week. Therefore, all the children of the Soviet Union knew the host of these television programs - Valentina Leontyeva, whose biography is closely connected with Soviet television. They knew and loved.
Scorched by war
The date of birth of Valentina Leontyeva, or Alevtina Mikhailovna Thorsons (this is her real name and surname), is August 1, 1923. My father had Swedish roots, so, fearing reprisals, he changed his last name to Leontyev. The Leontyev family was friendly and intelligent. Father and mother worked as accountants at Petrograd enterprises, and in addition were creative people. They loved their girls - the eldest Lyusya and the youngest Alya - and introduced them to art.
Dad was 20 years older than mom, I loved him madly. Years later, both my sister and I, when we got married, kept our maiden name in memory of him. I remember wonderful musical evenings with competitions, balls and masquerades in our house, when dad played the violin.
When the war came in 1941, Alevtina was 18 years old. IN besieged Leningrad everyone who could provided all possible assistance in the defense of the city. So the Leontyev sisters served in the air defense detachment. My father regularly donated blood to feed his family. And he divided the meager rations so that his wife and children got more. I ate practically nothing myself. One day, while they were collecting firewood, he injured himself. Blood poisoning began, plus physical exhaustion - all this led to death.
The women were left alone. In order for the girls to survive, their mother forced them to study physical activity, so as not to freeze, she shook them when in the cold they just wanted to lie down, fall asleep and never wake up. She also taught them to smoke to relieve hunger. Already in adult life two packs of cigarettes a day will be the norm for Valentina Leontyeva.
Thanks for my son
In 1942, Alya and her family were evacuated to mainland along the Road of Life. Until the end of the war they will live in the village of Novoselki, Ulyanovsk region. In 1945, Leontyeva and her mother moved to Moscow, and her sister would remain in the village, because she had her own family, and she was a sought-after specialist.
There was an incident in the biography of Valentina Leontyeva that well demonstrates her character. One day Alevtina was walking along the street where German prisoners of war were digging trenches. Literally from underground a hand reached out to her: “Bread! Of bread!" The young girl was amazed by her fingers: they were thin and long, like a pianist’s. Leontyeva begged permission from the guards to feed him lunch.
They brought him to our house, I poured him some soup. At first he ate very slowly, he didn’t even look up at me - he was afraid. Then he became a little bolder and asked where my parents were. I told him that my father died during the Leningrad blockade from hunger psychosis, and my mother was left with us alone (she saved us by forcing us to smoke so that we would feel less hungry). The German had tears in his eyes, he didn’t finish his lunch, got up and left.
Imagine Ali’s surprise when two years later the same guy stood with his mother on the threshold of her house. He came to propose marriage to Leontyeva. But she refused, citing the fact that she could not throw in her lot with the enemy.
Then his mother began to cry and said to me goodbye: “Baby, you don’t even know what you mean to me. You saved my son from starvation. I will thank you all my life.”
Life goes on
Alevtina wanted to become an artist since childhood, but she got into acting school only the second time, after studying a little at the Institute of Chemical Technology. She simultaneously studied at the Shchepkinsky Theater School and at the opera and drama studio at the Moscow Art Theater. After completing her studies, she is sent to the Tambov Regional Theater, where she plays roles in the role of the heroine. And here she meets her first love.
Young director Yuri Richard came to the theater for an internship. He staged his graduation performance. The young people fell in love and soon got married. Upon completion of his work in Tambov, Yuri leaves for Moscow with his newly-made wife. This was in 1954. Their marriage did not last long - only three years - and broke up due to banal betrayal. As in a bad joke: one day early from a business trip he returns... no, not a husband, but a wife, and finds her beloved sleeping peacefully in an embrace with another woman. Valentina didn’t even make a fuss because she was tired, she took the cot and went to the kitchen to sleep. And in the morning I packed my things and left. Forever.
I bet she won't guess
In the biography of Valentina Leontyeva you can find a funny moment: the day she met her second husband. This happened in a restaurant. The attractive Valentina was approached by two young men who introduced themselves as an Englishman and his translator. The Englishman charmed the young girl all evening, and the next morning he called her and apologized in pure Russian for yesterday’s prank. The “Englishman” turned out to be diplomat, Nikita Khrushchev’s personal translator Yuri Vinogradov. It turns out that he bet with his friend that he could portray a foreigner in such a way that, for example, that pretty girl wouldn’t guess.
That evening, Yuri Vinogradov not only won the argument, but also won the beauty’s heart. Soon Yuri and Valentina got married and had a son, Dmitry. Along with establishing her personal life, Valentina Leontyeva’s career as a TV presenter was emerging and strengthening. Leontyeva could not get a job in the capital's theaters and therefore was in search of work. Having seen an advertisement in the newspaper about a competition for a position as a television presenter, Valentina decided to try until something worthwhile came along.
The main love of my life
Working on television, which was seen as a means of temporary income, will become main love Valentina Mikhailovna. In the life of a woman who begins career growth, she faces a choice: family or work. Because either one or the other will suffer. Rarely does anyone manage to combine these two poles. At first, Leontyeva had the same tossing. She finally confirmed her choice when she and her husband left for New York for two years. There she missed work and suffered from idleness. Therefore, when I returned to Moscow, I greedily plunged into work. Valentina made her choice.
She disappeared from work all day long. Son Mitya saw his mother only on TV. As the presenter herself admitted, she only saw Mitenka sleeping: she went to work, he was still sleeping, she came home from work, he was already asleep. And at work life was in full swing. Valentina Leontyeva was in great demand. She simultaneously hosted several programs: “Alarm Clock”, “Good Night, Kids”, “Skillful Hands”, “Visiting a Fairy Tale”, “With All My Heart”, “Blue Light”.
Dark side of the Moon
Despite the apparent prosperity, Leontyeva’s marriage was bursting at the seams. Due to constant separations - she spends days and nights on TV, he goes on business trips abroad - the relationship became formal. Leontyeva did not hide the fact that she had affairs on the side.
And so the logical conclusion was divorce in 1970. Soon, Valentina Leontyeva’s husband married the nurse who looked after him when he was in the hospital. This was the end of family life; the famous TV presenter was then 54 years old.
Punch in the gut
For 35 years, Valentina Leontyeva, or, as all the children of the Union affectionately called her, Aunt Valya, worked on central television. She had honorary titles: “Honored Artist of the RSFSR”, “People’s Artist of the RSFSR”, “People’s Artist of the USSR”. She was awarded a state prize for the TV show “With All My Heart,” the Order of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Friendship and the medal “For Valiant Labor.” But the time has come, and, as follows from the biography of Valentina Leontyeva, a sharp turn took place in her life: the fairy-tale world in which Aunt Valya was a good sorceress collapsed overnight.
New times came, new people came, and television changed its format. Therefore in 1989 new director in one day he closed all Leontyeva’s television programs, and tried to see off the 65-year-old broadcast star for a well-deserved rest. But Valentina Mikhailovna simply did not want to give up and threatened to commit suicide in front of Muscovites. They left her, but took her, as they say, “outside the frame.” She was a consultant speaker in the sign language interpretation department. After this, Leontyeva could not come to her senses for a long time: the meaning of life, or even life itself, had been taken away from her.
Time to pay the bills
All subsequent years will be years of bitterness and retribution for mistakes. The biography of Valentina Leontyeva's son is the story of an abandoned boy who, when he grew up, repaid his mother in the same coin. For her son's childhood years of loneliness, Leontyeva paid for years of loneliness in old age. Just as no one needed Dmitry while he was growing up, so no one needed Valentina Mikhailovna in her old age and illness. Shortly before her death, she began to suffer from senile insanity.
She took care of Valentina elder sister. She moved Valya to her village, where “Aunt Valya” died in 2007 at the age of 83. Take her to last way many people came: fans, colleagues, fellow villagers, relatives, the only one missing was my son. He was never able to forgive his mother.
In her last photo, Valentina Leontyeva covers her face with her hands. She didn't want to be seen as old and sick. She remains in the memory of millions of TV viewers fairy-tale sorceress with kind eyes.
Life is often cruel to children famous parents, as if fate is taking revenge on the latter for something - or punishing for old mistakes
Maria Queen, only daughter Lyudmila Gurchenko, who died at the age of 58 in the courtyard of her own house, did not communicate with her mother for almost two decades. Their relationship was strained even before the breakup, and Maria was raised not by her famous mother, but by her grandparents. As the Queen once said in her hearts, she will never forgive Gurchenko for exchanging her family for “antics and jumping.” Similar tragedies of mothers or fathers and their children unfolded in many star families.
Vladimir Tikhonov, son of Nonna Mordyukova and Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Nonna Mordyukova in the film “Station for Two”
Son of famous Soviet actors Nonna Mordyukova And Vyacheslav Tikhonov From an early age I knew what it was like to grow up as a child of national idols, and what it was like when parents were at work all the time - for days, or even weeks. He experienced his parents’ divorce much harder than “non-public” children.
They said that Vladimir wanted to become a lawyer, but in order not to upset his mother, he became an actor. However, after a bright start (Tikhonov Jr. successfully acted in films, worked at the Soviet Army Theater, the Film Actor Studio Theater, and went on creative evenings), his career slowed down. Moreover, the older he got, the more he realized that viewers would inevitably compare him to his famous father. But a star film – such as “Seventeen Moments of Spring” became for Vyacheslav Tikhonov – never happened in his creative life.
Vladimir increasingly relieved stress with alcohol, then drugs were added to alcohol, and his health quickly deteriorated. Family life also cracked. Last years During his life, Vladimir Tikhonov lived with his mother - and their relationship was very complex. He died in 1990, at the age of 40, from a heart attack (presumably, it could have been caused by alcohol and drugs). Nonna Mordyukova blamed herself for the death of her son until the last day of her life - and bequeathed to bury herself next to him.
Dmitry Egorov, son of Natalia Kustinskaya
Son of the “Soviet Brigitte Bardot”, star of the films “Three Plus Two” and “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession” Natalia Kustinskaya and diplomat Oleg Volkov, subsequently adopted by the actress's third husband, an astronaut Boris Egorov, I myself understood early what fame was.
He played his only, but stellar role as a schoolboy - as a handsome boy Dimka Somova from "Scarecrow", although he was, in general, a negative character, many girls fell in love after the film was released. However, Dmitry Egorov did not connect his life with cinema, and his mother did not want it. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, got married, but his happy family life was short-lived. Dmitry Egorov’s son died before he even lived a year, and his wife started drinking.
The second blow – a year after the baby’s death – was the death of Boris Egorov. Dmitry began to drown out his grief with alcohol and then drugs. New darling(by that time he had divorced his wife) also, according to stories, turned out to be a drug addict. Kustinskaya's son died in 2002 at the age of 32 at strange circumstances. A few hours before his death, Dmitry quarreled with his mother and left home with his girlfriend to visit someone. Official version his death was due to acute heart failure, but he also had a wound on his temple. It later turned out that he was regularly beaten by his partner.
Boris Livanov, son of Vasily Livanov
The eldest son of the famous "Sherlock Holmes" Vasily Livanov and his wife Elena, a famous cartoonist, Boris, in his youth served big hopes. He drew talentedly, studied at Pike and GITIS, many were sure that, like his father, he would become a brilliant actor. But fate decreed otherwise. In 2009 Boris Livanov arrested on suspicion of murder based on alcohol intoxication, and was later sentenced to nine years in prison.
Soon after this story became known, other details surfaced - as it turned out, the man had been drinking for a long time. His parents tried to reason with him, forgave him all his antics - and tried to hide him from others family problems. However, a few months before the tragedy, Vasily Livanov admitted in an interview that Boris behaved aggressively more than once, literally throwing himself at his father and then at his mother, more than once. Those surrounded by the family said that the Livanovs’ problems with their son began a long time ago - for some reason he was angry with his parents, believed that he could achieve more in this life, and blamed his mother and father for his troubles.
In 2014, Boris Livanov was released early. Not long ago it became known that he had made peace with his family and, as they say, had “given up” with alcohol.
Photo: Boris Livanov's Facebook page
Philip Smoktunovsky, son of Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Philip Smoktunovsky, like him famous father, dreamed of becoming an actor. He graduated from drama school, began acting in films, and seemed to be quite successful - but alcohol and drugs, which, according to those around him, he got involved with, destroyed his career and broke him. family life. They said that his addictions took over when Philip realized that he actor career It's not going well enough.
Philip Smoktunovsky with his father. 1969 Archive "Express Newspapers"
According to friends, because of his unlucky son, Innokenty Mikhailovich one of the heart attacks occurred. He tried to treat Philip, placed him in various clinics - but this did not bring success. After the death of his father, Smoktunovsky Jr., together with his sister Maria, who never married, lived with his mother and did not work anywhere. After mother's death Sulamith Mikhailovna in 2016, nothing is known about Smoknutovsky Jr.
Anatoly Serov, son of Valentina Serova
Valentina Serova. Wikimedia Star Soviet cinema Valentina Serova suffered for many years due to difficult relationships with her son Anatoly, whom she named in honor of her husband, the legendary pilot Anatoly Serov– he died before the birth of the child. When the widowed Serova married Konstantin Simonov, The poet's relationship with his stepson did not work out. As a result, Tolya was sent to a boarding school. Then his life went downhill - and after a while the actress’s life went downhill.
Alcohol has become common problem both for Serova, who lost her family and turned into a forgotten star of a bygone era, and for her son. He got involved with bad company, appeared at home, and more than once raised his hand against his mother. Once Valentina called the actress Rimma Markova and asked to save her - her son went berserk and was cutting down the doors in the apartment with an ax.
Valentina Serova survived her son by only a year - he died in June 1975, at 35 years old. The actress did not attend his funeral. They said that shortly before his death, Anatoly tried to improve relations, came to his mother with a bouquet of flowers - but Valentina Serova’s drinking buddy threw him out.
Dmitry Vinogradov, son of Valentina Leontyeva
What a tragic fate. Such a bright woman, the most beloved TV presenter, Aunt Valya for children - they loved her very much...
Valentina Mikhailovna Leontyeva is a Soviet and Russian TV presenter. Announcer of the Central Television of the USSR State Television and Radio (1954-1989). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1975). People's Artist of the USSR (1982). Valentina Mikhailovna Leontyeva was born on August 1, 1923 in Petrograd, now St. Petersburg. Parents are native St. Petersburg residents, uncle is architect Vladimir Shchuko. Their house is still intact on the corner of Bolshoy Prospekt and Zverinskaya Street. We lived on the sixth floor, next door to Nikolai Tikhonov.
Valentina Leontyeva had to survive the siege of Leningrad; at the age of 18, she became a sanitary worker in order to help the wounded and sick in the besieged city. Mom taught Valya to smoke to suppress her hunger. She could not get rid of this habit all her life. When food ran out, the 60-year-old father became a donor to get extra rations to save his daughters from starvation. Once, while dismantling furniture for firewood, Mikhail Leontyev injured his hand and began to develop blood poisoning. He died a few days later. Valya, his mother and sister were taken along the “Road of Life”. Subsequently, Valentina recalled how little son sister died on the road, and she couldn’t even bury him properly: the child’s body had to be buried in a roadside snowdrift. After the war, Valentina studied at the Institute of Chemical Technology and worked in a clinic. Then she graduated from the Stanislavsky Opera and Drama Studio at the Moscow Art Theater (V. O. Toporkov Studio), (now the Moscow Drama Theater named after K. S. Stanislavsky), worked at the Tambov Drama Theater, then came to television, where she began working as an assistant director.
In 1954, she passed a competitive selection for television, becoming an announcer. However, her debut on air was unsuccessful: the young announcer was entrusted with reading a message on the New Year tree in the Central House Soviet army. Valentina was so worried that she began to stutter while reading, her face turned red. All-Union Radio announcer Olga Vysotskaya stood up for her young colleague, and Leontyeva was left on television.
She lived with her mother in a communal apartment for a very long time. A house was built opposite the television center on Shabolovka, and many television workers were given rooms in it. And when foreign journalists arrived in 1962, an incident arose. They wanted to film at her home to show what kind of housewife she is. But Valentina Mikhailovna could not receive them in the communal apartment! What to do? She was rescued by a friend who offered to “rent” her newly renovated one-room apartment. The shooting took place. True, before leaving, the journalists asked: “Valentina Mikhailovna, where do you sleep?” It was incomprehensible to them how such a famous TV presenter could live without a bedroom. By the way, a separate apartment was allocated only ten years after this tragicomic story...
Over the years of her long-term work on television, Valentina Mikhailovna hosted children’s programs “Visiting a Fairy Tale”, “Good Night, Kids!”, “Alarm Clock”, “From the Theater Box” (together with Igor Kirillov), holiday “Blue Lights”, search engine the program “With all my heart,” as well as many other favorite and popular television programs at that time.
More than one generation of Russians has grown up on its children's programs. Millions of children were waiting for the programs “Visiting a Fairy Tale” and “Good Night, Kids!” And Valentina Mikhailovna herself earned the honorary title - Aunt Valya of the Soviet Union.
The peak of her creativity was the program “With all my heart,” which was awarded the State Prize. The television program aired on July 13, 1972. The management did not like the first presenter, and from the second episode the already popular Valentina Leontyeva began hosting the program. The program “With All My Heart,” which told about people’s destinies, was no less exciting than the most interesting movie. Meetings of people after many years of separation, relatives and friends unexpectedly appearing in front of a television camera, whom life had scattered, gathered millions of viewers in front of the screen. With this program, Valentina Mikhailovna traveled to 54 cities and to the very last days I remembered all the characters in the programs. When one day Valentina Mikhailovna was riding in a taxi to Shabolovka and took out money to pay, the driver turned around and said: “I don’t take money from my own. When it’s my birthday, you are my guest, when I’m sick, you visit me. My children want to listen to a fairy tale, and you come again..."
Valentina Mikhailovna Leontyeva was the first and only female announcer of the USSR Central Television, awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. Throughout history People's Artists The USSR became two announcers - she and Igor Kirillov.
One day, Valentina Leontyeva’s older sister Lyudmila, who worked as the chief economist at the state farm, conveyed to Valentina the request of the director of the state farm, which now seems more than strange to us, to somehow assist in obtaining the seeders that had just appeared and were distributed strictly according to the funds. And Valentina Mikhailovna went to... the minister Agriculture THE USSR! The minister received her immediately: “Valentina Mikhailovna, dear, how can I finish this flashlight? My brats looked at something and now they don’t give me peace,” the official asked the host of the “Skillful Hands” program. Leontyeva explained. As a result, the minister and the TV presenter separated, very pleased with each other. The minister learned how to teach his grandchildren to make lanterns, and 20 scarce seeders were sent to the state farm.
The people loved her, but her personal life did not work out. In the mid-1950s, Bulat Okudzhava courted Valentina Leontyeva. He dedicated a very touching poem to her. And she considered the small, shy boy only a friend and nothing more.
Your heart,
like a window in an abandoned house,
Locked it tightly
no longer close...
And I followed you
because I'm destined
I'm destined for the world
to look for you.
The years go by
the years still pass by,
I believe:
if not this evening,
A thousand years will pass -
I'll find it anyway
Somewhere, on some
I'll meet you on the street...
Valentina Mikhailovna's first husband was radio director Yuri Richard. However, the marriage lasted only three years. The second husband, Yuri Vinogradov, is a diplomat, former ambassador USSR in India and an employee of the USSR diplomatic mission in New York (the marriage broke up in the early 1970s). They had a son, Dmitry Vinogradov.
Kaleria Kislova said: “Her husband was a diplomat, worked as Khrushchev’s personal translator, then he was sent on some kind of diplomatic mission to New York, it seems to the UN. And then there was a law (however, it seems that it still exists) that you had to go with your wife. Valya delayed as long as she could. And then she was forced to leave. I remember how she came to our editorial office to say goodbye. “I don’t know how I’ll live there,” she said with tears in her eyes, “without work, without television!” However, she did not live overseas for very long: Khrushchev was removed, and soon Valya’s husband was recalled. One day I come to work and she’s sitting. Our room was large, and everyone gathered for her “lecture on America” - authors, editors, directors. According to her, everything seemed alien there. She was especially impressed by the mothers walking in the park with their children. “I was amazed,” she said, “that a child can fall, hit himself, cry, and the mother won’t even raise an eyebrow: “Nothing, he’ll get up on his own!” This is their education system. And since I kept rushing towards Mitya, they looked at me, to put it mildly, with surprise.” And she never spoke English - unlike her son, who very quickly found mutual language with American
children." The relationship with her son was Valentina Mikhailovna’s greatest pain. In short: I spoiled her as much as I could, placed her in different universities, fed and watered her all her life. And then the son began to raise his hand against her. He did not come to his mother's funeral.
Dmitry Vinogradov.
In the 1990s, a difficult period began in the life of Valentina Leontyeva. All of her programs were closed, and no new offers were received. She tried to independently revive the program “With all my heart,” but all her efforts did not produce results. In 1992, the director of the program “Through the Looking Glass” Pyotr Sosedov and the editor of the film program studio Inna Smirnova decided to return the old name and invite V. M. Leontyeva to the role of presenter. Valentina Mikhailovna found a sponsor willing to pay the full cost of production of the program. Two TV shows even went on air with the old title “Visiting a Fairy Tale,” but studio management Vladimir Shmakov and Maria Starostina forbade the use of “Aunt Valya” as a presenter and the program began airing again under the name “Through the Looking Glass.” She went on air under this name until the liquidation of the Ostankino TV channel in 1995. At first she was offered to retire, then they “had mercy” and transferred “behind the scenes” to the position of assistant director. And later he was appointed as a consultant in the sign language translation department. “Vladimir Pozner saved me from humiliating poverty,” Valentina Mikhailovna later said. - He procured for me general director ORT Konstantin Ernst lifetime salary.”
Since 2004, she lived in the village of Novoselki, Melekessky district, Ulyanovsk region. According to rumors, son Dmitry severely beat his mother, after which she was taken to the hospital, where Leontyev was barely saved by doctors. Relatives took care of her. A month before her death, Leontyeva gave Ulyanovsky local history museum her things - photographs, letters, an evening dress in which she received the TEFI television award on her 75th birthday. Her son Dmitry never came to see her. Valentina Mikhailovna Leontyeva died on May 20, 2007. She was buried, according to the will, in the village of Novoselki.
The president Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin expressed his condolences to the family and friends of Valentina Mikhailovna:
“The bright one has passed away and creative person— Valentina Mikhailovna Leontyeva, whose kindness long years as if it was radiating from the TV screens to us, the viewers. Valentina Leontyeva stood at the origins of Russian television, laid down its traditions and was its soul. She went from assistant director to announcer and TV presenter. She devoted 50 years of her life to television. During this time, several generations grew up watching programs made by her or with her participation. Such as the many memorable “Blue Light”, “Alarm Clock”, “Visiting a Fairy Tale”, “With All My Heart”. The peak of Valentina Leontyeva’s fame came in the 1960-1970s, when she became the face of the Central Television of the Soviet Union. During this time, she toured many Russian cities with the program “With all my heart,” which was awaited by millions of television viewers.
Valentina Leontyeva was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. She really was just the people. She entered every house as if she were one of her own, the children called her “Aunt Valya,” the adults called her Valya or Valechka. Her high skill was appreciated by professionals: in 2000 she became a TEFI laureate. With her departure, we lost a significant part of our television history.
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In the Ulyanovsk region it is held annually International festival cinema and television programs for family viewing named after Valentina Leontyeva “With all my heart.” In 2007, the Ulyanovsk Regional Puppet Theater was named after the People's Artist of the USSR Valentina Mikhailovna Leontyeva.
