Anastasia will remember that gloomy November day in 1997 for the rest of her life.
It became fatal for her, but for the Bryansk customs officers, on the contrary, “lucky.” During the inspection of passengers on the Kyiv-Moscow train at Suzemka station, 700 grams of heroin were found in a thermos belonging to a pretty middle-aged woman - an unprecedented catch here. The owner of the ill-fated thermos turned out to be a Ukrainian citizen with the very exotic surname Voronina-Francisco. Then this “catch” of Bryansk customs officers was included in all criminal reports, and then received a wide public response. The fact is that Anastasia Voronina-Francisco turned out to be the daughter of the famous Ukrainian actor Vyacheslav Voronin and Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina, who does not need a special introduction. The Russian man in the street, accustomed to public scandals, wondered what the famous mother would do to save her unlucky daughter. Lidia Nikolaevna did not utter a word, and Nastya, according to the court verdict, was sent to colony N5 of Vyshny Volochok for 3.5 years. Two years ago I visited her. Then she warmly remembered her father, her Angolan husband Nelson and her dark-skinned daughter Laura, with whom, after the end of her term, she was going to go to her husband’s homeland, where she had previously lived with him for several years, but because of the war she left the country she loved. She also complained about her health (see Trud-7, October 9, 1998). ...Recently I decided to inquire about Nastya, called the head of the “five” Galina Vladimirovna Ivanova, and she said that Voronina-Francisco had been released under an amnesty, and gave me her Kiev address. In a telephone conversation, Nastya, embarrassed, it seemed to me, stated that she was ready to give me an interview for 150 hryvnia. “You understand what my financial situation is...” At the appointed time, my Kiev correspondent Stanislav Prokopchuk and I were at the desired house on Zhukova Street. We were met by a respectable, stately man of about sixty with a Rottweiler on a leash. “You are journalists from Trud,” he said affirmatively, looking at the bouquet in my hands. “Nastya is waiting for you,” and introduced himself: I am her father, Vyacheslav Anatolyevich Voronin. ...For two years she has hardly changed in appearance. Maybe she’s lost a little weight and her hair color is different, but the resemblance to her mother is still striking. They decided to talk in the kitchen. - Tea coffee? - Nastya suggested and put a pack of cigarettes on the table. - You can smoke. - Thank you, I quit. - But I just can’t. My lungs are bad, but everything is tarry. We should get examined. “Didn’t they check you in the colony?” “I took many tests there, but after my release they didn’t give them to me. It’s not allowed... - Was your early release from prison unexpected for you? - Usually, according to my article, they sit from bell to bell. Therefore, I was sure that they would not let me go. So getting my freedom 10 months and 6 days early was an unexpected joy for me. - Nastya, I understand that it’s probably unpleasant for you to remember the time spent behind bars... - Let’s agree: you ask about anything, and I decide which question I can answer and which I can’t. - Fine. Can you tell us about your most negative impressions of life in the colony? - I'll try. Although, what does “the most negative” mean? I simply didn’t have any others. What I saw there, what I encountered, is difficult for those living in the wild to understand and imagine. The fifth colony contains mainly “multiple convictions,” that is, women with more than one conviction. Every prisoner there is on his own. It would seem that grief should unite people, evoke in them sympathy, compassion for the fate of their own kind. This is not in the zone. No one is interested in your problems. Formally, you are part of the squad, but essentially you are alone. In the colony, denunciation flourishes. Moreover, many do not need to be persuaded: they “knock” voluntarily and offer their services to the administration. For this they are rewarded with small handouts. I, being naive, believed that such “cooperation” should be secret, somehow veiled. I was taught from childhood: the first whip for an informer. The informers try to find a hidden meaning in every word and race to the authorities. But, apparently, he is also fed up with such activity from “well-wishers.” There were cases when the leaders of the colony at detachment meetings, without naming names, curbed informant activity... - How do you explain such a scale of denunciation in the women’s colony? - First of all, the desire to win over the authorities, to get some kind of bread or quiet position, the desire to get more comfortable in the zone. Often, prisoners who were nothing at large become foremen and brigadiers. “It seemed to me that people with authority among the convicted people were appointed to warm positions. “We agreed: I express purely personal opinions and observations.” So, in our colony, among the activists there were alcoholics and simply downtrodden, narrow-minded women. Most likely, in freedom they were constantly humiliated, but in the zone they find their “I” and take it out on those who cannot stand up for themselves in these conditions. It is especially hard for the weak and sick here. Such people, as a rule, do not meet production standards. This means that they have no right to buy more than 5 packs of cigarettes and 250 grams of tea per month from a kiosk. Those who refuse to work are sent to a punishment cell. If you continue to adhere to “denial”, that is, contradict your superiors, you will go to “re-education” in a PKT (cell-type room - V.L.) or to strict conditions of detention. The junior staff - controllers - are especially zealous in instilling discipline and implementing all kinds of rules. Sometimes, if something goes wrong, they can hit you with a rubber truncheon... But among the colony employees there are also decent, sensitive women. The head of our detachment was someone like that, God bless her... In general, I want to write a book about the order in the zone, and there I will tell you in detail about the life of prisoners. — They wrote you letters, sent you parcels, maybe someone came for a date? — Nobody came for the date. And I myself didn’t want to see anyone. I often thought about my daughter Laura and my father, but meeting them in the colony was an unbearable torment for both me and them... But letters and parcels came regularly after your publication about me in Trud. In prison, people become hard-hearted. But you can’t imagine how surprised I was, no, amazed when I received the first letters from my kindergarten teachers, from my classmates from Zherdevka (a village in the Tambov region, where Nastya lived with her paternal grandmother and studied in primary school. - V. L.), whom I had not seen for more than twenty years. They sent both parcels and money transfers. Low bow to you, my dears. I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life. Complete strangers also wrote. Thanks to everyone who supported me in trouble. It is a pity that the letters were not preserved. They cannot be taken into the wild, so I destroyed them. But I still have the addresses, and as soon as I recover from the zone, I will definitely write to everyone. — After your release, did you immediately go home to Kyiv? — On July 14, I was released, having received 199 rubles as settlement. I didn’t have enough for a ticket to Kyiv, and I went to St. Petersburg to see Olga (L. Fedoseeva’s daughter from V. Shukshin - V.L.), with whom we corresponded. I didn’t find her, I went to a friend with whom I was sitting in Vyshny Volochyok, and borrowed money from her. I was home on July 20th. I was in a hurry for Laura’s birthday (she turned 14 on July 25 - V.L.), but at that time she was vacationing in the Carpathians... She was returning home through Moscow. I admit, I was tempted to go see my mother. I didn’t know her phone number, but I had her address. At the last moment I got scared: suddenly the door wouldn’t open. Or will he meet me and say: you are soon 40 years old, good-for-nothing, what do you want from me? And I don’t know how to answer. I understand perfectly well that my mother gave up on me a long time ago. — How were you greeted at home? - Fine. Both my father and Laura understand how difficult it is for me now. Laura studies at boarding school N14, attended competitions in Artek, and became the champion of Ukraine in all-around among schoolchildren. We get along well. - How are you going to live further? — This question haunts me. I can’t sit on my father’s neck. He has his own family. I have to work, but I don’t know where to go. In the colony I sewed quilted jackets, but here I’ll probably have to earn my living by trading at the market. The stall seller is paid 10 hryvnia per day. A pittance, of course, but what to do? — Two years ago you said that after your release you would go to Angola with Laura. Are you hoping to find your husband Nelson there? “I would like to go there, but not to my husband.” Everything ended with him. I would like to return to Angola and join the Portuguese company where I once worked. - Sorry, Nastya, but it seems to me that you are disconnected from the realities of life. You’ve forgotten your language, there’s no money, no one is waiting for you there... - I’m afraid of being left without a job, but in Angola, I’m sure I’ll find one... Or maybe you’re right, I don’t know. But it’s scary to live without a prospect, so in moments of despair, obsessive thoughts and fantasies appear... I used to know foreign languages, I graduated from government courses. I wish I could update that knowledge... But this cannot be done for free. A vicious circle: no work - no money. — Could old friends and relatives help you? - I do not have something like this. As for the old connections that brought me to jail, I broke them decisively and irrevocably. There are no rich relatives either. Except for the mother. I have no complaints about her. Everything has passed and boiled over. But she has a growing granddaughter, and if my mother financially helps me raise Laura, I will be very grateful to her... While we were talking in the kitchen, Vyacheslav Anatolyevich went to pick up his granddaughter at the boarding school. Dark-skinned, slender Laura speaks Russian well, slightly embarrassed. Nobody hurts her at the boarding school. Moreover, she was elected "Miss School". I would go to Angola, but not for good. Dream? Become a champion at the next Olympics. Vyacheslav Voronin tries to keep himself in shape. And he succeeds, since he is invited to act in films. He currently plays the role of a deputy with ties to the mafia in the TV series Werewolf. “It’s impossible to live on a pension of 79 hryvnia,” says the artist. He fondly remembers his communication with Vasily Shukshin, with whom he studied at the institute. He hasn’t held a grudge against Lydia Nikolaevna for a long time. “If she rang the doorbell now,” says Voronin, “I would sincerely invite her: come in, you’re welcome. Without kisses, but we would meet and talk intelligently”... When saying goodbye, I wished Vyacheslav Anatolyevich health and new roles. Laura wants to study well and become an Olympic champion. And Anastasia - to be loved by her neighbors and to find herself in a new life.
Lidia Nikolaevna Fedoseeva-Shukshina, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, wife of a Soviet writer, director and actor, became famous for her roles in her husband’s film masterpieces “Stoves and Benches”, “Strange People” and “Kalina Krasnaya”. Actress mother.
Lydia was born in September 1938 in Leningrad. There is little information about the actress’s parents. What is known is that the family successfully survived the siege of Leningrad. After the war, Lydia went to school. The girl was lucky to study at the oldest school in the city, “Petrishule”. Even in elementary school, the girl felt an interest in acting. Lida attended the drama club at the Leningrad House of Cinema. It was here that Fedoseeva first appeared on stage, playing roles in children's plays.
Once, director Anatoly Granik stopped by one of the amateur productions. The director immediately noticed the talented girl and offered Lydia the role of a laboratory assistant in the film “Maxim Perepelitsa.” The young artist was lucky to play another cameo role in the film “Two Captains.” Despite the fact that Lida only starred in episodes, the actress got her first experience working in cinema and understood what she would like to become in the future.
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In 1957, Fedoseeva came to Moscow and entered VGIK. The girl found herself with wonderful mentors and... The country saw the result of the mentorship of the masters and the talent of the young actress after 2 years. The student starred in the wonderful film “Peers,” which was watched with pleasure by millions of Soviet viewers. The role of Tanya brought the St. Petersburg artist all-Union popularity. Although real glory was still on the way. The biography of the actress was completely changed by filming in one film.
While working on the set of the film “What is it like, the sea?”, Lydia met her future husband Vasily Shukshin. The subsequent marriage and creative collaboration turned out to be successful.
Together with her husband, Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina starred in the films “Stoves and Benches” and “Strange People.” Then there were “Dauria” and “Kalina Krasnaya”. In most of these films, Fedoseeva-Shukshina played simple village women, strong, but at the same time weak in a feminine way. The actress had a short stature (163 cm), the figure of a Russian woman and a light brown braid, so she transformed into her own heroines organically, without exaggeration. It is noteworthy that the images of peasant women were easy for the actress, who was born and raised in the city.
In 1974, after the sudden death of her husband, Lidia Nikolaevna took a double surname - Fedoseeva-Shukshina. The actress continued acting, but no other film brought Lidia Nikolaevna such fame as the hits “Stoves and Shops”, “Kalina Krasnaya” and “They Fought for the Motherland”.
Nevertheless, the artist’s collection (more than 100 roles in theater and cinema) includes wonderful films that are loved by millions of Soviet viewers. Fedoseeva-Shukshina brilliantly played Madame Gritsatsueva in the film adaptation of “12 Chairs.” Lydia’s roles in the films “We Sat on the Golden Porch”, “Vivat, Midshipmen!”, and “Our Sins” turned out to be bright and colorful.
Many generations of Soviet and Russian film fans still enjoy watching the film “Chauffeur for One Flight”, where Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina starred in the title role along with. Another film that became the discovery of the year was “,” where Fedoseeva-Shukshina, together with them, played a married couple, the parents of the main character Romka.
In 1984, the actress became People's Artist of the RSFSR. During her film career, the actress more than once reincarnated herself as ladies of high society (“Little Tragedies,” the series “St. Petersburg Mysteries”), empresses (“The Demidovs,” “Countess Sheremetev,” “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”), party workers (“It’s not a beautiful life to live ban”), as well as teachers (“Talisman”) and even the head of a kindergarten (“The Limit of Desires”).
Lidia Nikolaevna is able to convey the character of a petty bribe-taker from the district council (“Bribe. From the notebook of journalist V. Tsvetkov”) and a lonely divorced woman Grusha Veselova (“Call me into the bright distance”), a collective farmer (“From the life of vacationers”) and an eccentric circus cashier ( "Quarantine").
Since the mid-2000s, the actress began to rarely appear on screen, devoting time and energy to work in the foundation in memory of the legendary Vasily Shukshin, the leadership of which in recent years she handed over to her granddaughter Anna. In 2005, Lidia Nikolaevna was elected president of the film festival “Vivat, Cinema of Russia!” But social activities did not stop the actress from playing in major projects - the comedy melodrama “Marrying a Millionaire!” and the crime drama "Mother's Heart".
Her last work in cinema was the role of the actress in the melodrama “Martha’s Line”. The film was about the touching love story of teenager Yura, a resident who left the memory of his tender feelings for the girl Martha in the form of a text on the wall of his own apartment.
A letter with words of forgiveness was found by two contemporaries - mother Olga () and daughter Natasha (Olga Kraskovskaya), who decided to find that same Marta. Lidia Nikolaevna appeared in the film as one of the women named Martha, whom two detectives track down.
Personal life
Lydia Fedoseeva got married for the first time at an early age. The girl met her future husband at the institute. The romance with the Ukrainian artist Vyacheslav Voronin developed rapidly and quickly culminated in marriage. The artist’s first daughter, Anastasia, was born into the family.
It was a difficult period in the life of Lydia Nikolaevna. The actress was torn between Leningrad and Moscow. In one capital the girl studied and worked, in another the little daughter lived with her parents. Meanwhile, the husband worked in Kyiv. Distance and busyness destroyed this marriage.
The second time the actress married Vasily Shukshin. It was a love marriage that lasted until the death of the writer and director. The personal life of Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina was surprisingly happy during all 10 years together. In marriage with Shukshin, two children were born - daughters Maria Shukshina and. In memory of that happy period, many family photos remained in the artist’s personal archive. Both daughters followed in the footsteps of their parents, but then Olga left worldly life and devoted herself entirely to faith. Olga spent 15 years in a monastery, and later moved to the African continent, where she lives in a town on the Red Sea and regularly attends church.
The eldest daughter Anastasia married a foreigner, went to Angola and took the surname Voronin-Francisco. Nelson's husband Francisco served as the head of Angolan counterintelligence. After the death of her father Vyacheslav Voronin in 2020, Anastasia and her children moved to Kyiv.
After the death of Vasily Makarovich in 1974, Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina tried more than once to arrange her personal life. But marriages with Mikhail Agranovich and Marek Mezheevsky turned out to be short. For many years, the artist could not find a person who could take the empty place in a woman’s heart.
Fedoseeva-Shukshina has seven grandchildren. In 2014, granddaughter Anna, daughter of Maria Shukshina, gave birth to Lydia Nikolaevna’s great-grandson Vyacheslav. The actress does not communicate with her older daughters.
Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina now
Now Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina lives in Moscow. The actress rarely leaves the apartment; Lidia Nikolaevna moves with the help of a cane. The artist’s health condition worsened due to arrhythmia and diabetes. The situation surrounding the real estate dispute between mother and daughter Olga also affected her well-being. The conflict has been dragging on for years and both sides have not found the desired solution. The development of the situation was devoted to the program “We Talk and Show,” which was broadcast on the NTV channel at the beginning of 2020.
In November 2020, the actress became the heroine of the media's front pages. It turned out that Bari Alibasov and Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina. The wedding ceremony took place at the Kutuzovsky registry office on November 20.
Only the closest relatives and friends of the newlyweds were present at the wedding. It turned out that after numerous attempts to build their happiness separately, Alibasov and Fedoseeva-Shukshina became close again and decided to get married.
Filmography
- 1955 — “Maxim Perepelitsa”
- 1969 — “Strange People”
- 1972 — “Stoves and benches”
- 1973 — “Kalina Krasnaya”
- 1975 - “They fought for their homeland”
- 1976 — “12 chairs”
- 1980 - “You never dreamed of...”
- 1981 — “Chauffeur for one flight”
- 1983 - “Burn, Burn Clear...”
- 1986 — “On Main Street with an Orchestra”
- 1991 - “Vivat, midshipmen!”
- 1994 — “St. Petersburg secrets”
- 2002 - “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka”
- 2010 — “To Marry a Millionaire”
- 2014 — “Martha’s Line”
Children of Lidia Shukshina
, these are not only her two daughters from her marriage with Vasily Makarovich Shukshin, but also her daughter from the actress’s first marriage - with actor Vyacheslav Voronin, Anastasia. Anastasia's parents met on the set in Lvov. Vyacheslav had already graduated from VGIK by that time, and Lydia Nikolaevna was still studying acting. They got married after they found out they were going to have a child. The young family settled in Kyiv, but Lydia Nikolaevna was eager to go to Moscow to build a career and become a famous actress, like her fellow students at VGIK. However, Vyacheslav Voronin did not like his wife’s plans, however, she did it her way. This was the reason for the collapse of the actress’s first family.
In the photo - Lidiya Shukshina with her husband and children
Nastya was sent to Leningrad to live with her grandmother, Lidia Nikolaevna’s mother, and her father often visited her. During the filming of the film “What is it like, the sea?”, which took place in Sudak, Lydia Fedoseeva had a whirlwind romance with Vasily Shukshin, which put an end to her relationship with Voronin. Nastya stayed to live with her father, or rather, with his parents in Zherdevka, where he was from. Nastya then saw her mother, perhaps no more than twice, and, in general, according to her, she never learned what true motherly love is.
In the photo - Lydia Shukshina's eldest daughter Anastasia
When Anastasia grew up, she married the head of Angolan counterintelligence, Major General Nelson Francisco, and gave birth to a daughter, Laura. There was also a dark period in her biography, when Anastasia, convicted of drug trafficking, spent several years in prison.
In the photo - Maria Shukshina
Lydia Shukshina’s youngest children, daughters Maria and Olga, were born one year apart, after the actress became the wife of Vasily Shukshin. Despite the small age difference, the sisters were never particularly friendly, and when they grew up, their fates also turned out differently. At first Masha did not want to follow in the footsteps of her parents and entered Foreign Languages, and later she nevertheless became an actress and TV presenter.
In the photo - Olga Shukshina
Vyachaslav Voronin in the film “Wedding in Malinovka”
LIFE FOR TWO FAMILIES
Soon after the birth of her daughter, Victoria suffered a blow that she had not expected. Rumors have reached that Vasily is cheating on her! And indeed, while Vika was pregnant, Shukshin started an affair. On the set of the film “What is it like, the sea?” he met actress Lydia Fedoseeva and, as they say, disappeared. But he had no intention of leaving either of his two beloved women. And with this began his many years of tossing between Victoria Sofronova and Lydia Fedoseeva.
“It’s hard for me to understand how my mother tolerated this,” says Ekaterina. “Once, however, she kicked her father in anger, so much so that her skirt cracked along the entire seam. Do you think Shukshin left that evening? Mom was in front of him, bursting into tears, sewing up her favorite skirt!
Many years later, Victoria tried to explain to her now grown-up daughter why she tolerated Shukshin’s infidelities for several years.
“You understand, he never lied to me,” she said. “I didn’t tell the truth, but I didn’t lie even once.”
“Why are you so gullible? – Shukshin once asked his mother. “Didn’t anyone deceive you?” - “And to whom, Vasya?”
Then she heard this dialogue in “Kalina Krasny”...
So Vasily Makarovich lived with two families, until life itself put everything in its place: Victoria Sofronova, tired of waiting for him to make up his mind, married a prose writer, and Lydia Fedoseeva gave birth to daughters Olga and Masha.
Vasily Shukshin - life with a legend
The actress met Vasily Shukshin on the set of the film “What is it like, the sea?” It was then rumored about the artist that he abused alcohol. And in the first time of their life together, Vasily Makarovich could really afford drunken sprees. But after the birth of his daughters Olga and Maria, he completely stopped drinking alcohol. True, by that time his health was already seriously compromised. It was Shukshin who became for Lydia Nikolaevna the love of her life.
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Vasily Makarovich died of a myocardial infarction on the set of the film “They Fought for the Motherland.” The loss of her husband became a huge grief for Fedoseeva. She even thought about taking her own life. Until now, she remembers Shukshin with constant warmth and tenderness. To this day, Lidia Nikolaevna protects the creative heritage of the legendary director and writer, keeps his personal belongings and book manuscripts.
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The first wife of Vasily Shukshin met with a homewrecker
Maria Shumskaya and Lydia Chashchina // Photo: Program frame
Vasily Shukshin’s first wife, Maria Ivanovna Shumskaya, decided to have a frank interview in the studio of the “Let Them Talk” program. She said that she met the great writer at the age of 14. Six years later, the lovers got married, and then the man decided to go to Moscow. Maria Ivanovna admitted that she was afraid to move to the capital from her native village. She received letters in which Vasily Makarovich talked about how much he missed her.
After some time, Shumskaya found out that her husband had another woman. However, she did not move to Moscow to be close to her loved one, despite the fact that she was pregnant.
“There was no such thing as saying that he is my husband and going somewhere,” said Maria Ivanovna.
After a while, Maria Ivanovna had no relatives left, and her student Vladimir Kovalev took care of her. He said that his personal life was not working out, and therefore he began to look after the teacher. Now they have been living for six months in Shumskaya’s apartment with the man’s lover, who is also looking after the elderly woman.
Vladimir takes care of a lonely elderly woman // Photo: Program frame
Maria Ivanovna’s friend Galina Koroteeva came to the studio and said that Kovalev had never been her student. Vladimir did not hide: he has a power of attorney for her apartment - they came to this decision together.
Neighbors reported that they sold one of Shumakova’s apartments and the man bought a car. He also receives a pension for her. However, experts in the studio did not condemn Vladimir - after all, Maria Ivanovna is 87 years old, she has no children, and therefore she has no one to leave an inheritance to.
Another friend believes that the man raised his hand to her. “He beat her, she was covered in bruises,” said Maria Shaidorova.
Maria Ivanovna’s friends do not believe in Vladimir’s sincerity // Photo: Program frame
Lydia Chashchina also appeared in the studio of the “Let Them Talk” program. It was to this artist that he left his wife. Vasily Makarovich said that he was single. He deliberately lost his passport to get rid of the stamp on the document. However, the girl discovered letters from her wife.
“I found it, cried, sobbed, and he said: “It’s not good to read other people’s letters.” I was so imbued with her pain. And then I experienced it myself and will die with it. I can’t forgive Shukshin, I can’t. I was deceiving. He acted shamelessly,” said the artist.
Lydia Chashchina was shocked by the deception of her loved one // Photo: Program frame
Chashchina did not explain the reasons for the break in relations with Vasily Makarovich. “We broke up, I don’t want to tell the truth. The truth is always dirty and smelly,” said Lidia Alexandrovna.
Shumskaya told the film crew of “Let Them Talk” that she clearly remembers the day when she became the legal wife of Vasily Shukshin. She still doesn't understand how he could leave her. Until now, Maria Ivanovna considers herself the only legal wife.
“It’s still a shame, it’s still a shame,” said Maria Ivanovna.
Shukshina’s daughter Olga also came to the studio. She admitted that she had been looking for Shumskaya for a long time. The daughter of Vasily Makarovich said that she believes in the sincere and good intentions of Vladimir, who takes care of the elderly woman. Family drama of Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina: the struggle for an apartment and the daughter’s prison sentence
“God grant that we live to see such years, and no one knows who will remain with us,” Olga said.
Dmitry Borisov noted that Maria Ivanovna is a happy woman, because Vasily Makarovich’s daughter considers her a close person.
Vasily Makarovich’s daughter is glad that she found her dad’s first wife // Photo: Program frame
Mikhail Agranovich - it’s difficult to be the husband of Shukshin’s widow
The first year of widowhood was not easy for the actress. Nothing could console the sorrow that settled in her heart. Fedoseeva-Shukshina plunged into prayer and depression. She even almost went to a monastery, and only the thought of her little daughters stopped her from this step. The actress peered at each man, trying to find the features of Vasily Makarovich in them. And very soon she found a new chosen one. It was the famous cameraman Mikhail Agranovich.
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Life in this marriage was not easy for both spouses. Fedoseeva-Shukshina was accused of defaming the memory of a popularly beloved writer, artist and director. A year has barely passed since his death, and the widow has already hastened to arrange her personal life. Agranovich also received reproaches. Evil tongues claimed that he was trying to become famous and build his career on the name of the great Shukshin. The marriage of the actress and cameraman lasted nine years, and then the couple separated.
Marek Mierzejewski – the ardor of an artist
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Fedoseeva-Shukshina was invited to star in the Polish serial film “The Ballad of Januszka”. There the actress met the artist Marek Mierzejewski, who became her fourth official husband. He was 16 years younger than his chosen one, but the age difference did not become an obstacle to sincere feelings. “Marek moved to Moscow for me. He had golden hands and a kind heart. It’s a pity, I couldn’t find a job I liked here - I went back to Poland. And I decided not to get married again,” the actress later recalled.
Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina: “The main thing in a person is nature!”
Lidiya Nikolaevna is a colorful figure. She can play both a charismatic village woman and a majestic queen
She herself comes from Leningrad, she loves to come to St. Petersburg, where there is such a familiar smell of childhood. At home, she sacredly protects everything connected with the name of Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. She does not pretend to be a heroine, her naturalness, sincerity and kindness are captivating... She is a real Russian woman who will stop a galloping horse and cry quietly when no one is looking... She manages to help her daughters and grandchildren, and go to festivals, and act in films and play in plays... Her energy is overflowing.
— Lidia Nikolaevna, you have played in many films, the audience adore you. Do you have an unfulfilled dream?
“I’ve been raving about the circus since I was a cradle.” I dreamed of becoming a clown, or rather a clown. But no one will hire me to work at the circus anymore...
“Maybe it’s good that life decreed otherwise.” But the world of cinema received a bright star. When did cinema come into your life?
— I was 7 years old when I went to see the film “Heavenly Slug” with my father for the first time. Then I watched “First-Grader,” where Natasha Zashchipina played. Soon she began to study in the same class with me and was the object of my adoration. I was especially jealous of her patent leather shoes, which I even dreamed about at night. I asked dad to clean my shoes until they shined like Natasha’s. At home I was always pretending to be someone, twirling in front of the mirror. I was a fidget, the teachers considered me a hooligan...
— This quality, perhaps, remains in you and gives it a certain charm! You have always had many fans. What do you think is the secret of your charm?
- I don’t know, you need to ask the men. They often confessed their love to me, although I do nothing for it. Maybe it’s my sincerity, naturalness and openness that attracts me. The main thing in a person is his nature...
— When you studied at VGIK, Vasily Shukshin was the secretary of the Komsomol organization there. Is it true that he called you “on the carpet”?
- Yes. Tamara Semina starred in 1958 with Vasya in “Two Fedoras”. She said that her partner is studying with us in the directing department and wears breeches and a tunic. They told me how Shukshin spoke at meetings, and I disliked him. She was friends with another young man from his course - Andryusha Tarkovsky. He was such a good boy, in love with me.
— Nonna Mordyukova in her book “Don’t cry, Cossack girl!” she said that she starred with Vasily Makarovich in the same film and fell in love with him at first sight. I succumbed to his charm so much that I was afraid for myself. She was then the wife of Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Did you like this book?
“I read this amazing book with trepidation. I liked everything except one. She writes that Shukshin was ruined by vodka. And he didn’t drink for eight years before the children were born. He wrote a lot and made films. He had a family, and that kept him going.
— Lidia Nikolaevna, isn’t it easy to be the muse of a talented, extraordinary person who devotes himself to creativity?
— Shukshin had an explosive character. Ideology pressed, films were cut. He couldn’t shout or prove, he just moved his nodules and clenched his fists. And at home he could lose his temper. When we got married, he was 35 years old. I didn’t act for a long time, looked after the children, helped him...
— Many years later, Vasily Makarovich’s first wife, Maria Shumskaya, said that they were not even divorced. He just lost his passport. Surely she forgave him?
- Maria was the first beauty in the village, Vasya fell in love with her as a boy. The Shukshins were poor. When they got married, Vasya came to her “fist” house, lay down on the feather bed, fell through somewhere, was afraid to touch everything. When we were at the premiere of the film “Stoves and Benches,” he showed me Masha, but we didn’t communicate...
— Shukshin’s closest friend, Georgy Burkov, believed that Vasily Makarovich had a presentiment of his death. When they left for the filming of the film “They Fought for the Motherland,” he did not hide his tears: “I feel sorry for the daughters!” Did you have any premonition of trouble?
— No, I was so happy when I left for the first time for the festival in Bulgaria. Out of jealousy, he checked what was in the suitcase and asked what I would wear. I prepared outfits: beautiful dresses, sweaters, sundresses. They watched “Kalina Krasnaya” there, everyone was delighted. I was euphoric. You could say frivolous. It was easy and free for me. If Vasya were nearby, I would behave differently, he would restrain me with his presence. I was young, pretty, and loved to sing. I thought why everyone was saying goodbye to me so sadly. Everyone already knew that he had died, and I thought that they were just sorry to part with me.
- Shukshin left for another world, and you were still a young woman. Who helped you in life when you were left a widow with two daughters in your arms?
— A year later I married cameraman Mikhail Agranovich. They threw stones at me. A Russian man, the conscience of the people, died, and I married a young man, and a Jew at that. And they told Misha that he was a careerist and wanted to use Shukshin’s name. Then he had another family and a child was born. But we maintained good relations. I always tell my daughters: “Don’t spit in the well, you’ll need to drink the water!”
— Masha and Olya always remember with kind words how Mikhail raised them, devoted a lot of time... In Poland, you starred in the serial film “The Ballad of Januszka.” Did you meet the Polish artist during filming?
— Marek Nierzewiecki was the main artist on this painting. I worked hard in Poland for a year. Marek and I got married, and he moved to Moscow for my sake. But I couldn’t find a job I liked here. Helped me with the Shukshin Center. He is a Pole, proud. He was a figure in himself. He had explosions: “I am the driver! Me and the cook! He has golden hands, he helped around the house and at the dacha. But my husbands felt as if in Shukshin’s shadow, it was hard for them. Marek went back to Poland. And I decided not to get married again.
— What attracts you, first of all, to men?
— Perhaps, the fact that at the first meeting we are talking about Vasily Makarovich. When I met Bari Alibasov, he told me that he was from almost the same region as Vasya. He said: “I read Shukshin’s stories, and it seems to me that I would write like that, but I don’t know how...” The same thing happened to him, the same people surrounded him. He has the same difficult character. He asked me: “Don’t idealize me!” I used to see him on TV, and I didn’t like the way he looked or what he said. And then we became friends. I knew only one song by the group “Na-na” about some “Eskimo-Papuans”. When I met the “Nanais,” I learned that they were simply golden, amazing boys. I was interested in looking at them, listening to them, communicating with them. Bari is a role model for them in their love for their profession. After all, all these shows are very difficult to stage, Bari is very passionate about his work. We are still friends...
— Alibasov told how he was in awe of the great Russian actress, but she turned out to be funny and hooligan, like a 13-year-old girl. He seriously fell in love! And he always emphasizes that you are a real support for your daughters. Beautiful Maria is very similar to you. She worked as a translator, is now acting in films, and has become a TV star. Raises four children - Anya, Makara, Foku and Foma. And the younger Olga adopted her father’s talent - she studied at the Literary Institute. Lives away from the bustle, leads excursions in the monastery. She writes?
“She dropped out of the institute and said that they wouldn’t teach anything there.” She left with her son Vasya for the New Jerusalem Monastery. Vasya is a beautiful boy, eyes like olives! Olya writes, but doesn’t show it to anyone. She is religious, like me...
— Your daughter from your first marriage with Ukrainian actor Vyacheslav Voronin, Anastasia, is raising a daughter, Laura Francisco...
“I didn’t raise Laurinda, but I really want her and Nastya to be happy...
— Would you like a meeting of four sisters to take place: Nastya Voronina, Masha, Olya and Katya Shukshin (Vassily Makarovich’s daughter from Victoria Safronova)?
- It’s as God wills...
Interviewed by Lyudmila Nikolaeva
Bari Alibasov - wedding years later
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Fedoseeva-Shukshina met music producer back in 1995. At the Kinotavr festival their places were nearby, and they immediately became interested in each other. Their mutual affection lasted for many years. “My main misfortune is that no matter how much I love a woman, I lose interest in her after a few months. And I still have the warmest and most tender feelings for Lida,” admitted Bari Karimovich. They got married last year and seemed like a truly happy couple. When Alibasov was hospitalized with severe chemical poisoning, his wife did not leave his bedside. Until now, fans of the star couple are waiting with hope and faith for favorable news about the health of Bari Karimovich. I would like to believe that fate will give the actress and producer many more years of happy family life.
The large Shukshin family has recently been in the spotlight every now and then, and most often the reasons for this are sad.
Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina. Source: Globallookpress.com
On September 25, Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina turns 80 years old. Recently, the actress rarely communicates with the press, and one of the reasons for this is difficult family relationships. Why the movie star, who so often played the roles of mothers and happy women, did not have cloudless maternal happiness in life, the site finds out.
Four marriages of Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina
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The actress was married four times. Her first husband was actor Vyacheslav Voronin. They got married in 1959, when Lydia was studying at VGIK. We lived together for about five years. Then Lidia Nikolaevna called her first marriage a mistake. In 1964, the actress married a second time - to Vasily Shukshin, she idolized him and was ready to endure everything: his difficult character, his addiction to alcohol, his terrible jealousy, and even the fact that he could raise his hand. Lidia Nikolaevna repeated more than once that all the years of their marriage she was very happy. Her difficult happiness lasted only seven years.
Vasily Shukshin and Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina in the film “Kalina Krasnaya”. Source: Globallookpress.com
After Shukshin’s death, she even wanted to go to a monastery. But it all ended in an unexpected marriage for many with a young cameraman Mikhail Agranovich, whom the actress met on the set of the film Tryn-Trava. Fedoseeva-Shukshina lived with him for 10 years. But, as they assured, neither Agranovich, who loved his wife very much and tried with all his might to replace her for his father’s daughters, nor the fourth husband, the Polish artist Marek Mezheevsky, nor Bari Alibasov, with whom, as they assured, the movie star had a relationship that over time grew into friendship, they couldn’t make the actress happy.
Lidia Shukshina and Bari Alibasov at the Nika Awards, 2020. Photo: Boris Kudryavov/EG Archive
Shukshin's first wife - Maria Shumskaya
Shukshin’s first great love happened with fellow villager Maria Shumskaya. He lived in the village of Srostki, and Masha moved with her family from neighboring Berezovka. It was impossible not to fall in love with her - blue eyes, long light brown hair. The girl was very well-mannered and modest.
Maria Shumskaya and Vasily Shukshin
Mutual sympathy arose between them immediately, and then grew into true love. In 1946, Vasily left the village, but all this time they corresponded, Maria was waiting for him. This relationship lasted almost seven years; Shukshin returned home after the army in 1953.
The lovers got married in 1955, but right there near the registry office their first serious disagreement occurred.
Shukshin was getting ready to leave for Moscow, he was already a student at VGIK, and his young wife flatly refused to go with him to the capital, she was afraid of uncertainty. Masha decided to stay in the village with her parents and wait for her husband. They began to correspond again, but in 1957, in one of the letters, Vasily asked Maria for a divorce, saying that he had fallen in love with another woman.
Vasily Shukshin's wife - Maria Shumskaya
Shumskaya did not give consent to the divorce. To get rid of the stamp in his passport, Shukshin had only one option - to lose the document and get a new one. They saw each other one more time when Vasily came to his homeland in 1964. Maria graduated from a pedagogical institute and worked as a rural teacher. Shumskaya married twice more, but she had no children.
The eldest daughter Anastasia: childhood without a mother and a colony
Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina gave birth to her daughter Anastasia in her first marriage, in 1960. When Voronin was invited to work at the Kyiv film studio. Dovzhenko, Shukshina preferred Moscow to Kyiv, where there were much more prospects for her. As a result, the young family fell apart, and the daughter was sent to Leningrad to Voronin’s parents. The girl practically never saw her mother: she disappeared on film expeditions, and then Vasily Shukshin appeared in her life, to whom she devoted herself entirely. When Nastya was 9 years old, the court ordered her grandparents to give her to her mother, but the girl herself did not want to live with her parent. But not so long ago, Lidia Nikolaevna told her version: her ex-husband deceitfully took her daughter to the village, and then she sued for custody for several years, but since Voronov’s parents were quite influential people, she lost the courts.
I met Fedoseev-Shukshin’s daughter a few times. Anastasia also did not come to the wedding, citing the fact that she did not want to see her ex-husband. The fate of Anastasia Voronina-Francisco (her exotic double surname from her husband, an Angolan citizen who studied at the military academy in Kyiv) turned out to be difficult. She lived with her husband in Angola for several years, when the civil war began there, and together with her little daughter she returned to Kyiv.
Anastasia Voronina-Francisco. Still from the film “Olga Shukshina. If dad were alive..."
In the early 90s, a woman ended up in a colony; she was detained at the border for transporting drugs. There was no work, she borrowed money to start her business, but it failed. An acquaintance agreed to help out with money, but in return asked for a favor: to bring a parcel from Pakistan. According to her daughter Fedoseeva-Shukshina, she understood that something was fishy here, but she didn’t think that the “package” would contain drugs, she assumed that it was about some kind of smuggling of precious stones.
Three years later, Anastasia was released under an amnesty. According to her, while she was sitting, Lydia Nikolaevna did not send her a single letter. At the same time, according to a close friend of the actress, actor and TV presenter Stanislav Sadalsky, the star wrote many petitions for the parole of her unlucky daughter. After this crime story, the relationship between mother and daughter became even colder. And after Anastasia took part in one of the talk shows, talking about their family problems, the famous parent stopped communicating with her for a long time.
The serious illness of Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina stopped the struggle for an apartment
Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina // Photo: Sergey Ivanov/PhotoXPress.ru
The youngest daughter of Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Olga, fled from problems to Africa. Neighbors of the famous actress believe that her close people abandoned her due to disagreements over the apartment. Previously, Olga expressed a desire to sell her share, but the woman’s parent is categorically against discussing this issue.
The daughter of Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina fled from problems to Africa
As for the daughter of the People's Artist of the RSFSR from her first marriage, Anastasia Voronina-Francisco, she lives in Kyiv and does not even hope for reconciliation with her famous mother. The woman admitted to reporters that she learned about Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina’s illness and surgery from the media. The heirs of the star became guests of the NTV program “We Talk and Show.”
According to Anastasia Voronina-Francisco, she saw her mother only a few times and does not maintain a relationship with her.
“Honestly, I’m in too much pain because there’s too little time left. It's probably just me. I feel afraid that I may not be accepted. Say: “Why are you calling me now?” “In addition, I understand that the person is elderly, and my sudden call could have an impact on her, even cause a heart attack,” the woman shared.
Anastasia Voronina-Francisco // Photo: Shot from the “We Talk and Show” program
The woman frankly admitted that she could not understand the reasons for her disagreements with her mother. “We just don’t know each other at all. Sometimes it seems to me that she is offended by my dad, but I don’t understand what I have to do with it,” Anastasia said. In 2007, the father of the heir to the star, actor Vyacheslav Voronin, was diagnosed with intestinal cancer. He passed away in October 2020. The man died a month before his 80th birthday. Voronin's death was a big blow for his daughter.
Anastasia Voronina-Francisco also spoke out about the contradictions that arose between her mother and sister. The woman believes that her relatives will be able to agree on something. According to Anastasia, she doesn’t need anything from the famous actress. Voronina-Francisco lives in a spacious two-room apartment, which she inherited from her father.
Then Anastasia’s daughter Laura appeared in the studio. The girl is raising her son Martin and devotes all her free time to her family.
“I never wanted to move to Moscow. I feel comfortable living with my family. We do not have a close relationship with my grandmother and never have. There were only communication and meetings. It's not that I'm very interested in her life. During our last meeting, we had a conflict. I turned around and left with tears in my eyes. They offended me and my family... I’m closer to the grandmother who raised me,” Laura said.
Daughter and granddaughter of Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina // Photo: Shot from the “We Talk and Show” program
According to the girl’s mother, she was offended by Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina’s neighbor. An unfamiliar woman allowed herself to speak negatively about the star’s loved ones. However, Laura says that she is still ready to make contact with her grandmother.
After some time, the celebrity’s great-grandson, the charming Martin Voronin-Francisco, joined close people. The child is interested in boxing, which he demonstrated in the program’s studio. According to the boy, he watched films with Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina, but never met her. “Bah, I’d like to see you,” Martin said on the show.
The great-grandson of Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina never communicated with the actress personally // Photo: Shot from the “We Talk and Show” program
The program also showed a conversation between Olga Shukshina and her mother. The woman called the actress on the phone. The People's Artist of the RSFSR openly told her daughter that she was not feeling well. According to Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina, she was on the verge of death.
“I had two major surgeries. They didn't believe me that I was alive. I was in Berlin and that's where it all started. They didn’t let me go, they said: “We’ll operate here.” I said: “No, I’ll die at home, not here,” the star told her daughter on the phone.
In the finale of the TV show, Olga, Anastasia and Laura went to visit the famous actress. The artist’s youngest daughter left her apartment in tears. According to Olga, her mother is really very sick, old and can barely walk. The woman decided to declare a truce in the struggle for the apartment.
“I don’t know what will happen, but it’s inhumane to discuss it now. This is more than reconciliation,” Shukshina said.
However, Lydia Nikolaevna refused to see her eldest daughter Anastasia and granddaughter Laura. “I assumed it would be like this. Yes, it’s very offensive and sad,” Voronina-Francisco said.
Olga Shukshina calls her mother for the first time in a long time // Photo: Shot from the “We Talk and Show” program
Olga Shukshina after meeting with her mother // Photo: Shot from the “We Talk and Show” program
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