Among theater actresses of the 60-70s. Tatyana Lavrova has always stood out in particular. The personal life of this elegant beauty was sometimes more interesting to those around her than the artist’s grandiose professional successes. And not just like that, because this actress, who gained fame as a demanding brawler, was at different times courted by the most famous men of the USSR - poet Andrei Voznesensky, actor Oleg Dal and football player Vladimir Mikhailov. How could this fragile girl become a muse for so many different people and what was her fate after breaking up with them?
Childhood
Born in 1938, Tatyana Lavrova survived the Great Patriotic War at a very young age. During these years, she practically did not see her father, since he traveled with front-line film groups, and her mother had a lot of worries.
The year the war ended, the actress turned 7 years old, peace came to the country, her father returned home, and it seemed that life was beginning to get better. However, Tanya’s cozy children’s world collapsed when she turned 12 and her parents divorced. The girl remained to live with her mother, but they did not have a truly close relationship, since Galina Pyshkova got married and her stepfather appeared in the house.
Personal life of Sergei Lavrov
The main Russian diplomat of our time got married during his student years. His chosen one was Maria, a student of the philological department of the Pedagogical Institute, a quiet and docile girl who turned out to be the complete opposite of her sociable and assertive husband.
Sergey Lavrov and Maria Lavrova
In the future, she accompanied him to official receptions and receptions, showing patience and wisdom. Maria Alexandrovna worked in the library of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN, was the head of the “Women’s Club”, which helped the wives of diplomats adapt to a foreign country, in particular, introducing them to the intricacies of local etiquette.
In 1982, their only daughter, Ekaterina, was born into the Lavrov family in New York. She graduated from The Dwight School, a prestigious school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, then studied political science at Columbia University, and then received a master's degree in economics from a university in London. In London, she met her future husband, a Cambridge graduate, Alexander Vinokurov. They got married in 2008. The wedding celebration took place at the Reception House under the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
Sergei Lavrov with his wife and daughter
Ekaterina worked in the press service of a gas company, in the Moscow representative office of the London art gallery Haunch of Venison, headed the Russian branch of the British auction house Christie's, then opened her own business in the field of selling Smart art. Her husband became the owner of the investment company Marathon Group, co-owner and partner of a number of pharmaceutical companies, a chain of pharmacies and restaurants, as well as premium services IQ-Sports, the Section fitness club, etc. The couple gave Sergei Viktorovich a grandson in 2010 and in 2013 granddaughter. After Lavrov headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the state allocated him and his wife a service apartment in the Swedish dead end, in house No. 3. According to the income statement, in 2020 the minister earned 7.3 million rubles, and his wife earned 1.7 million rubles. She owns a Skoda Superb. He doesn’t have personal transport, but he owns an apartment in the center of Moscow with an area of 247 square meters. The spouses also jointly own a three-story mansion of 499 square meters with a plot of 28 acres in the elite cottage village of Landshaft near Moscow, the village of Zhukovka.
Ekaterina Lavrova and Alexander Vinokurov
In 2020, The Insider published an investigation in which it listed the real estate owned by the head of the Foreign Ministry. Its total cost was estimated at 600 million rubles. The diplomat became the owner until 2014, when the total income of the spouses was 4.5 million rubles. Consequently, it would take them more than 100 years to acquire this real estate. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a request from journalists that everything was in order with Sergei Viktorovich’s income declaration, and further investigation made no sense.
The minister is a lover of poetry, playing the guitar, and the author of the MGIMO anthem. His favorite sports are football and rafting. He is a fan of FC Spartak.
Rafting is one of the many hobbies of the Foreign Minister
Study at the Moscow Art Theater
While still a baby, Tatyana Lavrova dreamed of playing in the theater and acting in films. The actress did not betray her childhood dream and, as soon as she graduated from school, she applied to all universities in Moscow. The talented beauty was accepted into the Moscow Art Theater School, which was symbolic, because one of her ancestors, Savva Morozov, was one of the founders of this institution.
Having become a student, the girl had the opportunity to leave her mother and began to live either with friends or with her grandmother.
The group in which Lavrova happened to study was full of amazing artists. Among them are Alexander Lazarev, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Albert Filozov and Alla Pokrovskaya. Despite such a galaxy of talents surrounding her, Tatyana Lavrova was able to prove herself well. The actress, while still a fourth-year student, played Nina Zarechnaya in the Moscow Art Theater production of “The Seagull.” After such a successful debut, she became a real star in her studio school. Teachers and students never ceased praising her talent and prophesying a great future. And having received her diploma, the girl was immediately hired at the Moscow Art Theater.
Andrey Lavrov: biography
Andrey Lavrov - Russian theater and film actor, star of the detective television series "Trace"
, its plot branch “Gardener” and the action film “SOBR”.
Andrei Lavrov was born in Moscow in the family of the famous actress Lyudmila Solodenko. The actor’s maternal grandfather was Cuban, so Lyudmila gave Andrey his exotic Slavic-Latin American appearance.
Actor Andrey Lavrov
Since childhood, Lavrov showed talent in the field of academic vocals. Andrey graduated from music school, and then studied at the prestigious music school named after M. M. Ippolitov-Ivanov. The young man had a professional classical bass, but when Andrey was already in his third year of study, he tore his vocal cords. The career of an opera singer ended before it began.
Since Andrei’s dreams were connected exclusively with professional singing, he began to experience depression, from which his friends helped him get out of it. His comrades invited the young man to a youth theater studio, where Lavrov saw a different prospect of getting on stage. As a result, the talented guy becomes a student at GITIS and successfully graduates from the university.
Andrey Lavrov in the theater
But Andrei Lavrov does not forget about music. During his student years, Andrei sang in restaurants and in the church choir, and later became a soloist of the Moscow Cossack ensemble “Atamansky”, and then a vocalist of the capital’s group “Major Vikhr”. Andrei Lavrov was invited to Alexander Kalyagin at the Et Cetera theater, and worked at the Moscow Drama Theater "Benefit". After graduating from GITIS, the actor joined the troupe of the Moscow musical theater Helikon-Opera, but in this theater Andrei Lavrov already worked as a stage director - in his second specialty, which the actor received at the theater department.
Recently, Lavrov appeared on the stage of the unusual Theater of Doubles, where he successfully parodied various artists. Most successfully, according to the public, Andrei succeeds in the image of Mikhail Boyarsky.
On the stage of the Moscow Art Theater and Sovremennik
Once in such a famous theater, Tatyana Lavrova quickly became one of its leading actresses. The biography of the actress during this period is full of secrets. For example, it is not known why, after working there for only 2 years, she moved to Sovremennik, but after working there for 17 years, she just as unexpectedly returned to the Moscow Art Theater.
However, this will happen later, but initially, after her first role in the new theater in the production of “Two on a Swing” (Gitel Mosca), Tatyana Lavrova became a prima singer. Sovremennik allowed her to become famous throughout Moscow.
In addition to Giteli Mosca, the actress played 6 more heroines in different productions. Moreover, one of them was “The Seagull,” but this time Tatyana Evgenievna got the role of Polina Andreevna. She was also Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, Nastya in the play At the Lower Depths, Lavra in Echelon and many other heroines.
There are two theories why Tatyana Lavrova left Sovremennik at the peak of such a successful theatrical career. The actress told her friends that in 1978, after a tour in Germany, during which she participated in all the performances, she became completely hoarse. She returned to Moscow, but it turned out that in this state she simply could not perform the planned performances. Therefore, some of her performances were canceled, and in the rest she was replaced by understudies. While on sick leave, the actress was invited as a guest of honor to a German film festival. Tatyana Evgenievna agreed, because she was free during this period. However, the management of Sovremennik did not let her go, citing the fact that since the performances were canceled because of her, she would not go anywhere. In her hearts, Tatyana Lavrova wrote a letter of resignation and submitted it to the theater management.
The actress, having resigned, returned to the Moscow Art Theater. However, for many years she hoped that her close friend, and part-time director of Sovremennik, Galina Volchek, would call her back. But Galina Borisovna was very offended that Lavrova did not discuss her departure with her, and the two friends quarreled forever.
There were other versions of what happened. Thus, evil tongues claimed that the artistic director of the theater was going to “promote” the star actress, giving her signature roles to the young Marina Neelova.
Returning to her native theater, Lavrova faced great competition among leading actresses. Therefore, she was not offered particularly interesting roles. However, even those crumbs (compared to the past) that fell to her were performed with all passion by Tatyana Lavrova. The actress played Aglaya in The Silver Wedding, Lyuba in the Moscow Choir, Countess Isabella in The Venetian Antiquary and others. Even having lost her former fame over the years, Tatyana Evgenievna continued to be one of the best artists. She managed to incomprehensibly charm the audience with her masterful acting and force them to look at the world through the eyes of her heroines.
Tatyana Lavrova continued to be an actress of the Moscow Art Theater until her death and was for many an example of perseverance and dedication to her work.
The tempting world of cinema
The artist first appeared in films at the age of nine. She played the main character's classmate in the film Marite.
But her real film debut took place 12 years later in the film “The Song of Koltsov,” in which she played the poet’s lover, Varya Lebedeva. Although this heroine did not make her very famous, she showed many film directors how great Tatyana Lavrova looks on camera.
After a successful debut, films with her participation began to appear on screens several times a year.
The most famous among them was the film “Nine Days of One Year” (1961) about experimental physicists. The role of Lelya, with whom both main characters are in love, is considered the best among the actress’s film works. Tatyana Evgenievna herself said that after “Nine Days of One Year” it was difficult for her to find interesting film roles for herself, although there were a lot of offers. But they all seemed small against the background of Mikhail Romm’s film.
Among her favorite films, Tatyana Lavrova named the films “All the King’s Men” (Sadie Burke), “The Escape of Mr. McKinley” (Mrs. Perkins), “The Long Road to Myself” (Tanya), “The Diary of a Murderer” (Zinaida Gippius ) and “Kino about cinema” (for her role in it the actress received “Nika” and the prize of the Russian film festival “Constellation”).
Such a short list of favorite films is due to the fact that both in cinema, on stage, and in her personal life, the actress was very demanding both of herself and of others. In total, she starred in 40 films.
Personal life of the artist
Many relatives noted the similarity of some movie heroines with the actress herself. So, the spectacular, smart, well-groomed, but incredibly lonely namesake from the film “The Long Road to Myself” was very similar to her. Tatyana Lavrova, although men always liked her, and she herself fell in love several times, was never able to achieve happiness in her personal life. In every relationship, even her happiest, there was always a small but caustic fly in the ointment, because of which everything went to pieces.
The actress’s first common-law husband, Evgeniy Urbansky, whom she met while filming the film “Probationary Period,” left his wife and daughter for the sake of the beautiful Tanechka. The lovers did not have their own corner, and they practically lived out of suitcases, huddling among hostels and relatives. They never managed to formalize their relationship, although they had been together for more than one year.
But one day the actress found out that her lover had cheated on her with some random woman. Upset, she did not find the strength to understand and forgive and broke off relations with him. But after many years, I thought more than once that I had gotten carried away then.
Having parted with her beloved, Tatyana Lavrova tried to come to her senses for a long time. Meanwhile, her personal life did not stand still: fans bombarded her with offers, but the actress knew how to keep strangers at a distance. Despite her unhappy first love, fate gave her another chance in the person of the brilliant actor Oleg Dal.
For him, as for Tatyana, this was a second marriage. Despite their hot tempers, both of them were sincerely in love with each other, which many of their friends noted with surprise. However, this creative union was not destined to become lasting - six months after the wedding, the couple separated. Like many other events in the actress’s life, there are a variety of rumors about the reason for her breakup with Dahl. Lavrova herself often complained that her husband not only drinks a lot and ruins himself: she has to drink with him so that he gets a smaller dose of alcohol. No one can say how true these words are.
The third husband of the obstinate beauty was the successful Soviet football player Vladimir Mikhailov. It was he who became the father of the actress’s only son, named after his father Vladimir. The actress does not like to talk about why her relationship with her last husband went wrong.
While Tatyana Lavrova’s official and common-law husbands replaced each other, there were also relationships in her life that did not develop into marriage, but at the same time left behind an important mark. We are talking about an affair with the famous poet Andrei Voznesensky. At the time they met, Andrei Andreevich was already quite popular and... married.
The romance between him and Lavrova spun rapidly. The poet more than once promised the woman he loved to leave his wife, but he never did. Everyone knew about their secret relationship, but it was not customary to talk about it, so as not to harm the careers of both. Tatyana Lavrova waited for Voznesensky for 7 years, but, realizing that he could not leave his wife, she decided to break off this relationship.
After the death of Andrei Voznesensky, his wife Zoya claimed that only she was the true love of the great poet, and Lavrova and others like her were only temporary hobbies. It is difficult to say how true these words were. After all, it is known that Voznesensky dedicated beautiful poems to Lavrova, which became the anthem of many lovers: “You will wake me up at dawn...”. It is unlikely that anything other than a sincere, all-consuming feeling could have inspired such touching words.
Personal life
Andrei Lavrov does not like to talk too much about his own personal life. It is known that the actor used to have a wife, but now he is divorced. The actor has two children from his family relationships. But Andrei now answers journalists’ questions about romantic relationships directly and in monosyllables, without going into details: “I’m not married now.”
Lavrov believes that a male artist must be strong, which is why the actor goes in for sports at a serious level. As a teenager, Andrei received a junior rank in triathlon, and today he also has the title of candidate master of sports in powerlifting. The actor assures that strength training allows you to keep yourself in great shape and, in addition, helps you recover mentally after tiring filming.
In 2020, the actor lost a lot of weight, or rather dried out. The relief appeared especially clearly on the artist’s body. Andrei Lavrov captured his new look in a black and white photo shoot with a naked torso, frames from which the artist posted on the Internet.
The actor is also interested in creativity and even handicrafts. Andrey Lavrov creates products from leather and natural stones, mainly woven bracelets and “shamballa” bracelets. Lavrov sells his own products. The actor posts footage of new handmade creations on his Instagram account, where each new bracelet receives positive reviews.
The actor calls himself a consciously religious person, and by confession he considers himself Orthodox. In an interview, Andrei Lavrov urged fans to believe without fanaticism, not to forget about the principles of the chosen religion and not to go over their heads for the sake of being close to the icon.
The only son of the actress and relationship with him
Tatyana Lavrova’s son Vladimir (who later took his mother’s surname) is the only man in the actress’s life with whom she was able to get along. Left alone with him after the divorce, the artist gradually got him back on his feet, although she never knew how to save money and spent all her earnings on gifts for her son, mother or friends.
Volodya was married three times. He has two daughters - Zhenya and Aglaya. Unfortunately, the actress was not destined to see her youngest granddaughter, since she was born 5 years after the death of Tatyana Evgenievna.
It is worth canceling that several years before the actress’s death, there was an article in the press in which her son was accused of causing injuries to his mother, because of which she was hospitalized. In fact, the situation was somewhat different. During another attack of illness, the actress fell and hit herself hard. A bruise formed at the site of the impact. The ambulance doctors who took Lavrova to the hospital spoke disrespectfully about the actress, and Vladimir stood up for his mother. Because of the scandal, the doctors called the police and accused the guy of hooliganism, but later, having calmed down, they withdrew the statement.
Childhood and youth
Andrey was born in Moscow in December 1976. Father is a gynecologist, mother is actress Lyudmila Solodenko. The man’s exotic appearance was given to him by his Cuban grandfather, who met his Ukrainian grandmother in Odessa.
Lavrov graduated from music school, then the vocal department at the Ippolitov-Ivanov School. In his 3rd year, the owner of the classical bass tore his ligaments - his career threatened to end before it even began. And then friends invited the depressed guy to a theater studio, where he saw a different prospect of getting on stage. As a result, Andrei entered GITIS to study musical theater directing.
As a student, the actor sang in restaurants and in the church choir, and later became a soloist of the Moscow Cossack ensemble “Atamansky”, and then a vocalist of the group “Major Vikhr”. Lavrov was invited to Alexander Kalyagin at the Et Cetera theater and the Benefis drama theater. After graduating from university, he worked as a director at Helikon Opera.
Last years
Despite the crisis of the 90s, the actress, who always kept herself in excellent shape, continued to be in demand in films. However, in the last years of her life she was sick a lot.
After an unsuccessful fall in the theater, Lavrova had to undergo a complex operation, due to which she could no longer sit upright for a long time. She also developed cataracts, which made it difficult to read. Fortunately, timely surgical intervention helped her more or less restore her vision.
Despite the absurd character of the actress (who was capable of quarreling to smithereens with everyone, even those closest to her), until her last days she was surrounded by the attention and care of her friends and son.
In the theater, even when she stopped going on stage, they took care of her. In particular, Oleg Tabakov financially supported the aging Lavrova.
Another close person from the actor’s circle was Ekaterina Vasilyeva. It was she who helped Tatyana Evgenievna come to faith. By the way, Vasilyeva’s son, who became a priest, was also the actress’s confessor, and he later buried her.
Links
- [www.youtube.com/watch?v=O326sorJxkM Dean Reed, Tučný Michal a Co. — TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS] on YouTube.com
- [www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvFrSF24oFY Dean Reed, Michal Tučný a Co. - Good Hearted Woman] on YouTube.com
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Tatyana Lavrova: cause of death and location of the actress’s grave
As for the last days of the artist, due to prolonged bronchitis she ended up in one of the Moscow hospitals. Later, at Lavrova’s request, she was transferred to another one. Despite this, she grew weaker day by day, and the only thing she had enough strength for was reading and smoking. Doctors suspected that the actress had a serious cancer disease. However, she did not allow additional tests to be done.
Several days passed, and on the night of May 16, 2007, Tatyana Lavrova died. The cause of death was general exhaustion of the body after a long illness. The death of the actress plunged her son into a terrible depression, and her friend Yulia Petrova, with whom they had been close for many years, took care of the funeral and all the worries. It was she, together with Oleg Tabakov, who ensured that the actress was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery.
Interesting facts
- The real name of the actress is Andrikanis. However, upon entering the Moscow Art Theater School, she was warned that a Soviet artist must have an appropriate Russian surname. Tatyana Evgenievna Andrikanis received the pseudonym Lavrova by chance: she chose at random, pointing her finger at the list of surnames provided to her by her classmates.
- There were rumors that there was some kind of mystical connection between Lavrova and Dahl, even after the divorce. According to the actress’s relatives, a few days before Oleg’s death, she dreamed of him. Moreover, in the dream he had a beard, although the actor himself never wore one. Having learned about the death of her ex-husband, Lavrova went to his funeral and was surprised to find Dal’s beard. It turned out he was growing it for the role. After this, Tatyana Evgenievna firmly believed that the artist came to say goodbye to her in a dream.
- Another mystical incident is associated with Andrei Voznesensky.
Shortly before his death, the actress suddenly called him, although they had not communicated for a long time before that. Some believe that she foresaw the death of her former lover, whose muse she had been for many years.
In 2020, it will be 10 years since Tatyana Lavrova passed away. Her biography says that the beauty’s personal life was not so successful, but still she left a good memory of herself, and even today she is remembered with delight by her family, friends and fans.
Biography of Andrey Lavrov
The biography of Andrei Lavrov began in the family of the famous actress Lyudmila Solodenko. From childhood, he showed abilities in the field of academic vocals. Andrey completed his studies at a music school, and later went to study at the prestigious music school named after M. M. Ippolitov-Ivanov. The career of an opera singer ended before it even began - the artist tore his vocal cords during his third year of study.
The guy became depressed, but his friends came to his aid. They invited a friend to a youth theater studio, where Lavrov himself saw the prospect of getting on the big stage.
“To be honest, initially I didn’t even think about an acting career. But you know, maybe it's fate. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out for me with music, but I’m no longer upset about this. Theater and cinema appeared in my life thanks to friends who helped me get out of the depression that arose due to the end of my musical career,” Lavrov admits.
At the beginning of his cinematic career, Lavrov for a long time acted exclusively in minor roles, but in very well-known multi-part film and feature-length projects. Thus, in his creative biography such films as “Black Raven”, “Brothers in Different Ways”, “Pushkin: the Last Duel”, etc. appeared.
Real success came to Andrei Lavrov only in 2007, when the series “Trace” began to be shown on television screens. In parallel with this project, the following films appeared in the actor’s creative biography: “Margosha”, “One Day There Will Be Love” and “Manticore”.
Currently, Andrei Lavrov continues to develop his creative career. He agrees to literally all roles in order to maximize his abilities as an actor.
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