Most recently, the talented actress Lyudmila Gurchenko left our world. Unfortunately, the circumstances of her death have lifted the veil of secrecy over her personal life. The daughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko and the last husband of the great actress had difficulty dividing the inheritance they received. This did not hide from the eyes of journalists.
However, scandals and investigations revealed a lot about the fate of the daughter of the great actress. This is what we will talk about today in this article.
Is it hard to be the daughter of a celebrity?
Maria Borisovna Andronikashvili (married Queen) today is no longer a young woman who has experienced a lot of grief and misfortune in her life. She is the daughter of a talented actress, whom the whole country knew, but Maria Borisovna herself is a completely non-public person. She finds it difficult to give interviews and is often embarrassed to tell about her fate what is difficult to say. And journalists often mercilessly misinterpret her words.
It is difficult to be the daughter of a man who gained fame and millions of fans during his lifetime. Maria Borisovna Andronikashvili knows firsthand how difficult this burden is.
But let's start from the beginning...
Birth and divorce of parents
Little Masha was born back in 1959. At that time, the famous “Carnival Night” had already appeared on the screens of Soviet cinema, in which her beautiful mother shone in the title role.
The father of Lyudmila Gurchenko’s daughter was as young as the actress herself. They met at the university where Boris Andronikashvili studied in the screenwriting department.
A whirlwind romance ensued, which ended with the wedding and birth of Masha.
According to Maria herself, her mother dreamed not of a daughter, but of a son; she wanted to name him Mark in honor of her father. However, a girl was born.
Gurchenko’s relationship with the father of his child did not immediately work out. The point, rather, is the tough and uncompromising character of the actress herself. She was always a natural leader, and her husband could not accept the role of a supporting player.
By the way, Boris Andronikashvili was the son of the repressed writer Boris Pilnyak, and his mother came from a noble Georgian family. Even before his arrest by the NKVD, the mother managed to send her son to Georgia, where his last name was urgently changed, which would help the boy avoid troubles in the future due to the arrest of his parents.
Lyudmila Gurchenko, having learned about the birth of her grandson, cried: she did not want to be a grandmother
It seems that lawsuits over housing are the curse of the family of the famous Lyudmila Gurchenko. The star of “Carnival Night” once sued her only daughter Masha for an apartment. And after the death of the actress, her granddaughter Elena filed a lawsuit against her own father...
“There have been legal battles over the apartment for almost two years, many nasty TV shows have been made about it,” her father Alexander Korolev admits today. - This is a terrible ending: I lost my daughter...
The father of Gurchenko’s granddaughter told KP how the conflict ended and about his famous mother-in-law.
“She called me son with a grin.”
— Masha (Lyudmila Gurchenko’s daughter. — Ed.) and I studied together for three years in the same class at Moscow School No. 175. Of course, I knew that Masha was the daughter of an actress. “I took it calmly,” 61-year-old Alexander Korolev told KP. — After school, I studied to become a translator. Masha is a nurse.
— You had a wedding, as they wrote, in the capital’s National restaurant. Lyudmila Gurchenko walked at the wedding and seemed happy...
The artist did not have a good relationship with her son-in-law Alexander Korolev (in this old photo he is with his wife Masha). Photo: Social networks.
— Yes, for the first few years I had a good relationship with Lyudmila Markovna. Her mother, Masha’s grandmother, gave us her apartment, and she lived with Gurchenko. But until 1990, Masha and I periodically lived on Mira Avenue, in Lyudmila Markovna’s apartment.
She called me son with a grin. And I call her by her first name and patronymic name. Gurchenko did not approach the stove. Grandma cooked. Konstantin (Cooperweiss, Gurchenko’s then husband. - Ed.) went to the grocery store for groceries.
— Lyudmila Gurchenko came to meet her grandchildren, your children, from the maternity hospital?
- No. When Mark was born, on September 22, 1982, I was just in Lyudmila Markovna’s apartment. She heard the news and fell into hysterics before my eyes, sobbing so much! I was amazed. As far as I understand, she really didn’t want to become a grandmother.
- But she knew that her daughter was pregnant...
- I knew. But it so happened that the first time she managed to eliminate this matter (pregnancy - author). Well, now I couldn’t liquidate it.
— When the grandchildren appeared, did Gurchenko babysit them?
— There wasn’t much time. She named her grandson Mark (in honor of her father), and her granddaughter Lena (in honor of her mother). When the children grew a little older, she could play like with dolls. I painted my lips and dressed them up. And then she told her husband: “Kostya, take them back.” I brought them little things. But I usually didn’t guess the size...
Away from the madhouse
— Did Gurchenko help you with money?
— She gave me 15 rubles a month when I was studying at the institute. In my last year, I went to work at Intourist as a translator - and immediately stopped giving. She gave Masha some of her clothes and was worried that her daughter was gradually ceasing to fit into her things.
I personally never brought anything back from any trip. Since she completely forgot about my birthday. This offended me. I tried long before her birthday at Beryozka to buy her what she loved - scarce perfume, Gzhel for the collection... Relations with Lyudmila Markovna worsened when in 1985 I asked for help installing a home telephone. In response, she called me crap. I offended you terribly. True, after that I went to Eldar Ryazanov and asked him. She said that I was shy myself. Ryazanov went to the executive committee, and they gave us a telephone. But I remember this “shit” all my life. And there was no longer any desire to ask for help.
If you are ready to humiliate yourself, receive insults and break yourself, then you could turn to her. I tried not to do this. She kept herself in control with those on whom she depended. And she took it out on those who were weaker. Lyudmila Markovna once offered me her old car, a Zhiguli. But I already knew how it would be, so I ended up.
She often pointed this at me: “I achieved everything myself.” She kept repeating this all the time. And I was even proud that I was providing for my family myself, without any of its support.
Masha and I wanted to get out of this area where we have an apartment. Lyudmila Markovna promised to help with the move, but it didn’t work out. She asked me: “Do you think that I deceived you?” I said, "Yes." She said: "Fuck you..."
After these events, Maria and I separated. We didn’t live together for a year, and then I married her again, for the second time. Masha is a very good person.
Then Lyudmila Markovna tried to improve relations, but we tried to stay away from this madhouse.
For six years, grandmother Elena Aleksandrovna, Gurchenko’s mother, lived with us in an apartment with a tiny kitchen of 4 square meters. meters. Daughter Lena slept on the second floor of the bunk bed, and grandmother slept on the first floor. Lyudmila Markovna was not eager to take her mother back. Then I bought her a separate apartment on Presnya. But my grandmother already needed care - and we invited her to stay with us. And I put the accounting department of my cooperative in that purchased apartment. Lyudmila Markovna was hurt by this. After the death of her grandmother, Gurchenko sued her daughter for this apartment. Although Elena Alexandrovna bequeathed it to Masha.
We were awarded a third of my grandmother's apartment. But in the end, we returned it entirely to Lyudmila Markovna...
Death of a grandson
— Gurchenko said in an interview that she was offended: you did not inform her about the death of her grandson. They didn’t invite me to the funeral...
- As they say, “there are no others, but those are far away.”
— Did Gurchenko know that her grandson was addicted to drugs?
- I guessed. In general, there is a version that it was Lyudmila Markovna who gave him money for drugs. One day, money disappeared from our house. They hid from me that Mark was addicted to drugs... Everything happened quickly. After the money went missing, I sent him to London. Away from here, away from bad company. But it did not help. On December 12, Mark arrived from London. From the 13th to the 14th he died of an overdose. We didn't think it would work out like this. They didn’t call an ambulance for him a second time. And he died. At home, in my arms. He was 16 years old (sighs). I myself am probably to blame for a lot of things. He was not interested in his son enough, he worked a lot. But this, of course, is not an excuse.
Elena Alexandrovna, grandmother (Gurchenko’s mother), was simply killed by this grief. She loved Mark very much.
— When Gurchenko died, you didn’t go to the funeral...
“I didn’t have the courage.” Although, maybe we should have supported Masha, she was at the funeral.
— Did Maria leave something for herself in memory of her famous mother?
- Not much. Senin did not want to give anything away. Well, Lyudmila Markovna’s button accordion, Masha took her grandfather’s service. More fur coats. Now our daughter Lena kills these fur coats, wears them, and does not look after them.
Granddaughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko Elena Koroleva cannot peacefully share an apartment with her father. Photo: Channel One.
“I didn’t cheat on my wife”
- Do you have a new woman?
- Only after my wife Masha was buried. During my marriage, I didn’t do anything like that, no matter what my daughter said on television... Masha was an amazingly patient, kind person. She was worried that her relationship with her mother had not worked out, but she didn’t complain. And, perhaps, one of the reasons for her early death was that she kept a lot to herself.
I remember I was in pain all night the night before. They thought it was a cold. And this was the heart. I made an appointment for her to see a paid doctor. In the morning I went to work. They left the house with their daughter. She died in the yard: her heart stopped. She smoked an awful lot.
Litigation with daughter
— How did the lawsuits end with your daughter over the apartment?
- She achieved nothing. Our apartment (inherited from Maria Koroleva. - Ed.) is shared with our daughter Lena in shares. We signed all the documents on the division. I gave more than my fair share. But Elena suddenly took away the documents and quietly filed a lawsuit from me. The litigation lasted for a year and a half. In the end, the daughter lost.
— What is your relationship with your daughter now?
— If your child sued you, how would you treat him?! In general, everything is sad. Losing everyone except your granddaughter is hard. There are no relatives left.
- Maybe someone turned your daughter against you?
- This doesn’t make me feel any better. She signed the documents. She is 36 years old, not a child! And we still live in our apartment (on Vishnyakovsky Lane. - Ed.). I have my own room here. This apartment is on the first floor. There is also housing on the fourth floor - in the same entrance (the man’s new girlfriend lives there. - Author). I live there. I come here, I have all my things here. We don't spit in each other's soup. Sometimes I “steal” food from Lena (laughs). She takes something from me. Everything is decorous and noble.
— Are you and your granddaughter trying to go somewhere together?
- I'm trying. I bought tickets to the theater. But she said: don’t buy tickets anymore, grandfather. Mom is against...
The daughter of actress Maria Koroleva died at 58 from heart failure. Photo: Evgenia GUSEVA
View from the 6th floor
The soul of an actress - filming and darkness
Of course, this whole story doesn’t look very pretty. But you have to understand: actors and actresses are special people. When you are burning on stage, it is often very difficult for the audience to give warmth to your family. How many actresses have sacrificed their personal lives for the sake of their careers! How many great sons and daughters sigh over the plight of an unloved child!
Only a few succeed in combining the roles of a star and a good mother.
And we remember Lyudmila Gurchenko, of course, not as an unlucky parent and tyrant mother-in-law, but as a performer of the unforgettable “Five Minutes” in “Carnival”, a barmaid from “Station for Two” or a grief-stricken lover from the film “Love and Doves”.
She was truly great on camera.
Lyudmila Markovna was not the simplest person; it was not easy to get along with her. Photo: Igor Gnevashev.
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Lyudmila GURCHENKO was born on November 12, 1935 in Kharkov.
The actress's first husband was Vasily Ordynsky, a film director. The marriage with him lasted two years (from 1953 to 1955)
Second husband (1958 - 1960) - Boris Andronikashvili, screenwriter, son of writer Boris Pilnyak and cousin of Georgian directors Georgiy and Eldar Shengelaya. From this marriage, a daughter, Maria, was born in 1959. She was married to Alexander Korolev, a translator and entrepreneur, from the age of 18. On November 8, 2020, she died of heart failure.
Grandson Mark Korolev died at the age of 16 from a drug overdose.
Granddaughter Elena Koroleva was born on November 17, 1983. Now he works as an administrator on Channel One. Elena has a 12-year-old daughter, Taisiya.
Third husband (1962 - 1964) - Alexander Fadeev, actor.
Fourth husband (1967 - 1970) - Joseph Kobzon, singer.
Fifth husband (1973 - 1991) - Konstantin Kuperweis, pianist, accompanist. We were in an unregistered marriage for 18 years.
Sixth husband - Sergei Senin, film producer.
Gurchenko died in March 2011 from heart failure, she was 75 years old.
The most famous roles of Lyudmila Gurchenko
— “Carnival Night” — Lena Krylova (1956)
— “Straw Hat” — Clara Bocardon (1974)
— “Twenty days without war” — Nina Nikolaevna (1976)
— “Sky Swallows” — Corina (1976)
— “The beloved woman of mechanic Gavrilov” — Margarita Sergeevna Solovyova (1981)
— “Station for two” — Vera Nikolaevna Nefedova (1982)
— “Love and Doves” — Raisa Zakharovna (1984)
— “My Sailor” — Lyudmila Pashkova (1990)
- “Vivat, midshipmen!” — Johanna (1991)
— “Old Nags” — Elizabeth (2000)
Difficult childhood
From the age of 4 months, Masha lived with her grandparents in Kharkov (parents of L. M. Gurchenko). This is what the parents of the future star of the Soviet screen decided themselves, who dreamed that their daughter would make a decent career.
At three years old, Lyudmila Gurchenko’s daughter returned to her mother. However, her life was difficult. The actress herself admitted that she was no mother. She dreamed of the stage, of applause, of filming a movie, everything was subordinated to her work, so the girl lived on her own, often left alone because of her mother’s tours and filming. So Masha almost never had to experience maternal affection and love.
In addition, she happened to experience a series of endless novels by Gurchenko, some of which ended in marriage. In general, she had a positive attitude towards her stepfathers, and was even able to become strong friends with one of them. It was the common-law husband of the actress Konstantin Kuperweis.
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Leaving her star mother, Maria returns to her grandparents. Only there she feels at home. Their constant care and love brings joy to the girl much more than her mother’s popularity. She almost never thought about her father. Why think about the person who abandoned her.
Lyudmila Gurchenko with her daughter Maria
Independent life
However, not everything in Maria's life was so bad. The absent mother was replaced by a loving grandmother - the mother of Lyudmila Gurchenko. The girl did not study well, but, fearing her mother’s anger, she hid her negative grades from her.
The daughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko understood that her mother secretly hoped that she would repeat her stellar fate. But Masha herself did not dream of the stage. She could not become a musician, as Lyudmila Markovna wanted. On the contrary, Masha entered medical school and graduated with average results.
She deliberately dressed so as not to please her mother, who loved elegance and was charming until the last day of her life. Gurchenko Lyudmila Markovna dyed her hair in light shades, wore stunning dresses and high stilettos, and used cosmetics. And her daughter strove for simple clothes (trousers and sweaters), deliberately changed the color of her hair to eggplant-lilac, and did not want to resort to cosmetics.
Childhood of Maria Koroleva
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The biography of Lyudmila Gurchenko’s daughter, Maria Koroleva, was intense. Maria Koroleva (nee Andronikashvili) was born in 1959, in the capital of Russia. All her life she had to be in the shadow of her mother’s glory, bearing the title “daughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko.” Her father was also a creative person. Film scriptwriter Boris Andronikashvili was born into the family of the popular prose writer Boris Pilnyak. His cousins were famous directors - Georgiy and Eldar Shengelaya.
Childhood photo of Maria Koroleva with her mother
Maria's mother, a popular theater and film actress, needs no introduction. She was a favorite of the public, giving audiences roles in such famous films as:
- "Carnival Night";
- "Love and pigeons";
- "Mother";
- "Station for two";
- "Five Evenings";
- “The Secret of Her Youth”, etc.
Many people still like to watch these films, both in our country and abroad. Lyudmila Gurchenko's acting talent is undeniable.
PHOTO: Maria's mother. Actress Lyudmila Gurchenko
However, her talent for being a mother turned out to be much weaker.
Lyudmila met Boris at a theater university. A dizzying romance broke out between the young people. Lyudmila accepted Boris's marriage proposal. Despite her young age, this was Lyuda’s second marriage.
She married for the first time at the age of eighteen to director Vasily Ordynsky. The marriage lasted one year.
For the second time, Lyudmila decided to show an example of a wife and mother. She became pregnant and a year after the wedding gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Maria. However, it was not possible to become an ideal mother and wife. Since she had just graduated from university and was starting an acting career, Lyudmila gave her daughter to her grandmother. I visited her extremely rarely.
Childhood photo
Gurchenko had a flighty character. Therefore, my husband could not do without betrayal. Boris, as an Eastern man, was prone to hot temper and insane jealousy. Having learned that his young wife turned out to be unfaithful, he broke up with her, setting up a stormy scene of jealousy.
For Lyudmila it was a blow. She loved her husband very much. The couple separated when Masha was one year old.
When the girl was three years old, her grandmother returned her to her mother. But due to a lot of filming and rehearsals, Lyudmila had no time to take care of her daughter. Masha rarely saw her mother. In addition, as her daughter grew up, Lyudmila showed extreme hostility towards her for some unknown reason. She called her daughter a “Georgian cow,” hardly caressed her, and laughed at her in every possible way.
In response, Masha’s reciprocal rejection of her mother grew. She tried to be unlike Lyudmila Gurchenko in everything. While her mother took care of herself and constantly performed plastic surgery, Maria rejected any kind of cosmetics. The mother dyed her hair light, the daughter deliberately dyed it dark.
The daughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko died
In addition, the negative point was that Maria had to constantly endure her mother’s boyfriends and new stepfathers. Nobody asked the girl if she liked her new dad.
The first stepfather was Alexander Fadeev, the son of the writer Fadeev. Then he was replaced by the famous singer Joseph Kobzon. Masha was then seven years old. Three years later the marriage broke up.
Video of the program filmed a few weeks before the death of Lyudmila Gurchenko’s daughter, Maria:
https://youtu.be/tsP4lvriPag
Daughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko: personal life, marriage and children
Maria Borisovna got married early. Her chosen one was an ordinary person. The marriage produced two children - son Mark and daughter Elena. Children of the same age were named after the parents of L. M. Gurchenko.
After the birth of her son and daughter, Maria Borisovna left work forever, content with the modest role of a housewife.
The mother, on the one hand, was glad to have her grandchildren, but, on the other hand, it was in them that she wanted to see a continuation of herself and her own talents.
The relationship between Gurchenko and her son-in-law, who found it difficult to accept his star mother-in-law, also became difficult.
The daughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko testifies that because of the conflict between her mother and her husband, their family almost broke up. She and her husband officially divorced and got married some time later.
The tragic circumstances of the death of Mark Korolev
Another tragic event happened in the life of Maria Borisovna. In 1998, her eldest son Mark died of a drug overdose. The mother’s grief was great, it was aggravated by the fact that Maria Borisovna herself waged a long struggle with her son’s illness.
There is a legend that Gurchenko did not come to her grandson’s funeral. However, this is not true; the famous actress took his death seriously, as she pinned her hopes on Mark (named after her father). However, at the funeral the actress tried to be inconspicuous and not attract attention to herself.
The death of her son undermined the health of Maria Borisovna, who generally gave up on her appearance and the impression she made on people.
Worsening relations between mother and daughter
The aggravation of relations between mother and daughter occurred due to Gurchenko’s new and last marriage. In fact, this was already the sixth alliance that Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko concluded. The new husband was unable to settle down with his wife's relatives. Neither with my mother-in-law, nor with Gurchenko’s daughter Maria Borisovna.
The housing problem worsened the situation. The fact is that Lyudmila Markovna’s mother, Elena Alexandrovna, when dying, bequeathed her apartment not to her daughter, but to her granddaughter. But Lyudmila Markovna could not accept such a decision for her mother. A long and difficult trial began between Gurchenko and her daughter, which ended in the division of property.
After the death of Lyudmila Gurchenko
According to Maria Borisovna herself, she learned about her mother’s death from a media release. Journalists immediately became interested in her and did not allow her to properly say goodbye to her loved one. The process of dividing property with an unloved stepfather was difficult and painful. Today it is completed. However, there was no peace in the family.
Maria Borisovna is reluctant to give interviews, although she is still present at some public events in memory of the great actress Gurchenko. Some people, seeing her face, aged from life’s hardships, mentally wonder: how old is Lyudmila Gurchenko’s daughter? She is now 56 years old.
Lyudmila Markovna did not want to grow old, she was afraid of it and tried in every possible way to hide her wrinkles, her daughter is not afraid of her appearance, perhaps because she is not a great actress whose name is known to millions of fans.
The fate of Maria Borisovna Koroleva is not an easy one. But she doesn’t complain about her and in her rare interviews she tries not to blame her late mother for anything. After all, Gurchenko’s fate is the path of a great woman who dreamed not of a mother’s calling, but of the applause of fans. Gurchenko achieved her goal. Many people remember her, but only one woman on earth can call her “mother.”
Death
Maria Koroleva passed away on November 8, 2020. The 58-year-old daughter outlived her mother by 6 years. The woman's body was found in the entrance of the house an hour after her death. Before this, Maria Borisovna complained to her daughter Lena about a cold and fever.
Maria Koroleva died on November 8, 2020
Lyudmila Markovna’s daughter went to the clinic, but never arrived. The cause of death was heart failure. Maria Koroleva left two granddaughters, whom the famous great-grandmother never saw.
Gurchenko’s daughter died on the eve of the release of the program “Andrey Malakhov. Live" on the TV channel "Russia-1", the announcement of which with the latest interview with Koroleva has already been broadcast. On the program, Maria Koroleva was supposed to meet for the first time her half-brother Alexander, the son of Boris Andronikashvili.
