Unexpected admirer
Vasily Pronin’s film “Cossacks” was filmed in Grozny, where Zinaida Kiriyenko was cast in the title role. At the same time, Arkady Raikin was on tour in Grozny, whose performance was simply impossible to miss. Zinaida went in the evening to meet a wonderful person, not yet knowing that she would meet the most important person in her life along the way.
Valery Tarasevsky was also involved in the filming of the film as an extra, where young athletic boys were recruited. They met on the way to Raikin’s concert, exchanged a few phrases, and after the performance they calmly went their separate ways.
The young man was handsome and serious, but Zinaida soon forgot to think about him. But he could no longer forget about her. He began to simply appear in her field of vision. Either she will drop by the hotel to exchange a few words, then she will appear on the banks of the Terek, where she is resting between filming, or she will hand over some twigs that everyone forgot about during preparation. And the actress got used to him being around all the time. They began to walk together in the evenings, talking about everything in the world.
Zinaida had no idea that her new friend was only 17 years old, he was so serious and wise in his thoughts about life and the future.
Zinaida Kiriyenko now
In recent years, Zinaida Georgievna has not acted in feature films. But the woman is often invited to talk shows and documentaries, she participates in film festivals (she served as vice president at Golden Knight 2016) and meetings with audiences. In 2020, the film “Secrets of Cinema” was released, in which, together with other actors, she remembered how “Quiet Don” was created. In 2020, Zinaida Kiriyenko celebrates her 85th birthday.
On April 12, the actress was received in the studio of the program “The Fate of a Man” by Boris Korchevnikov. In a conversation with the Rossiya-1 TV channel, Zinaida Georgievna shared with the audience stories from her difficult but interesting life.
Two weddings
The longer the actress talked with Valery, the more attracted she was to this young man. With his touching caring attitude, his restraint in expressing feelings. The only thing that bothered her was the big age difference. But then her mother came to her aid. When her daughter told her about her doubts, the wise mother only asked if she loved him. Mom, who had not known any special joy in love, sincerely wished her daughter simple female happiness.
Ida, as the actress was called at home, made a fateful decision for herself: to be happy, not paying attention to the opinions of others. And she never regretted her choice.
During filming, the actress went to Moscow for several days, and upon her return she was placed in another hotel room. Old, uncomfortable, without renovation. Valery, seeing the squalor in which his beloved was forced to live, decisively took her from the hotel and brought her to his aunt. The young man's relatives treated her very cordially.
The first wedding took place in Valery’s grandmother’s house. A year later, when Valery turns 18, they will have another, now official, wedding. Soon their first son, Timur, will be born, and the young husband will go into the army, giving his military duty to the Motherland.
Childhood and youth
Valery Kuras is in the spotlight every day, but at the same time he is laconic and does not like publicity: he gives the minimum necessary information about himself.
On the official website, pages on Instagram and Facebook, Valery Demizovich repeats biographical facts that are known to his fans. Journalists rarely manage to get an interview from a star, so they ask what Kuras was previously silent about. For example, about nationality. The surname Kuras is not Russian. And the middle name Demizovich is confusing.
Valery Kuras
The chansonnier revealed some of the secrets to journalist Tatyana Feoktistova, who asked if there were any Ukrainians, Jews or gypsies in the Kurasov family. The chanson performer was born in Moscow in the spring of 1958. The first to hear the voice of the future star were the obstetricians of the capital's maternity hospital No. 6.
Valery was brought up in a friendly, intelligent family, where his father, a geologist by profession, headed a design bureau at the Ministry of Geology, and his mother made a living by translating from German and English.
Valery Kuras remembers his youth
The parents' busy lives did not allow them to control their son's every step, so the boy was looked after and raised by his grandparents, as well as the yard and school. Everything was like most children of that time.
When asked by a journalist about the origin of the surname, Valery Demizovich answered evasively, without shedding any light on the roots. He said that his father was from Ukraine. As for the amazing name of the pope, which became the patronymic of the chansonnier, the secret lies in the beliefs of the communist grandfather. It was his idea to encrypt in his son’s name the first of the decrees of Soviet power - about peace and land.
Valery Kuras in the recording studio
Valery Kuras, already in childhood, showed versatile talents and the ability to achieve success in everything he did. While attending classes in the ship modeling section at the school for young technicians, I learned how to design ship models. So much so that at the first ship modeling exhibition in the Soviet Union, the nuclear-powered ship, to which a Muscovite gave the name of the leader of the proletariat, received first place.
In middle school, the guy was fascinated by wood inlay, and soon he gave his mother pieces of kitchen furniture that remained his pride for decades.
Valery Kuras with a guitar
To please his mother, who loved music and singing, her son learned to play the piano and joined the choir. When he grew up and matured, he gave up choral singing, which, in Valery’s opinion, did not correspond to the image of “real guys.” But the guy considered the guitar a “male” instrument, so he completed a course in classical string guitar and delighted the children with the performance of Beatles hits at the school disco.
Having received a diploma from the capital's special school, where students studied English in depth, Valery Kuras went to enroll in a medical university. The first attempt was a failure, but the guy did not give up and became a student at a medical school. After graduating with honors, he entered the capital's Medical Institute. N. Pirogova. Valery managed to study and work part-time at night in an ambulance.
Valery Kuras in a medical gown
After graduating from medical school and residency, in the mid-1980s, the young ophthalmologist ended up at the Svyatoslav Fedorov Institute of Eye Microsurgery, famous throughout the country. After 5 years, Kuras became a leading surgeon. According to Valery Kuras, he performed 1,700 operations a year. And when he reached the “ceiling” in his profession, he switched to the pharmaceutical business and left the institute.
In the difficult 1990s, Valery Kuras managed to achieve success in entrepreneurship: he headed a foreign representative office in Moscow. But when Kuras reached the “ceiling” in this field, his soul asked for something new.
Woman's happiness
Zinaida was happy. Despite the fact that she had to work hard, taking on all the responsibilities for financial support for the family, she never complained. After difficult filming, a loving husband was waiting for her at home, tenderly caring for his wife. After the army, he completed his studies at the Faculty of Economics and was constantly busy with his son while his star wife was busy with work.
Of course, it was not without difficulties. Many people liked the beautiful Zinaida. However, she considered it unacceptable for herself, being married, to respond to the advances of fans. Another refusal of the actress to pay attention to a respectable official who liked her led to her being blacklisted as actresses. They stopped offering her leading roles and did not invite her to serious projects.
But no one ever heard her complaints. She did what she considered the only possible thing: she protected herself and her feelings from vulgarity and dirt. Zinaida Kiriyenko loved and respected her husband, not considering it possible even in her thoughts to deceive his trust and stain her feelings with betrayal. And at the same time, she never named the person who tried to ruin her career. She believed that only God could judge him.
Quiet house
Interrupting with minor roles, Zinaida Kiriyenko made money with concerts. No bureaucratic instructions could take away the people's love from her, and she invariably drew full halls wherever she performed.
And at home the same quiet happiness awaited her. In 1968, the couple had a second son, Maxim. Valery Tarasevsky turned out to be a wonderful father. He worked with children tirelessly, treated all their childhood illnesses, cooked them porridge, taught them to be men.
Perhaps Zinaida Kiriyenko’s husband did not reach special heights. But he managed to make his beloved woman happy, built a house, and raised wonderful sons. Zinaida Kiriyenko's colleagues and friends treated him with great respect. And Rimma Markova, who lived next door, even jokingly reproached him that she could not wait for him to leave for her, Rimma. Zinaida just smiled, listening to her friend’s complaints. She knew for sure: Valera was destined for her by fate, and you can’t escape fate.
Valery Kuras: biography
Beloved by thousands of music lovers in the post-Soviet space, Russian chansonnier Valery Kuras, who gave the world the hit “Droplets,” could have chosen a different path and not gone on stage.
Singer Valery Kuras
A successful ophthalmologist helped patients look at the world with wide open eyes, and in his free time he collected rare cars and went diving. He took place in a business that brought stable profits.
However, history does not tolerate the subjunctive mood: today Kuras has a huge army of admirers thanks to his vocal talent and soulful songs.
Loneliness
They always felt good together, in their quiet, cozy home. There was amazing harmony in their relationship. There was no need to argue, prove, convince, because they understood each other perfectly. Zinaida Kiriyenko feels even more acutely the painful loneliness after the death of her husband. The children have grown up, they have their own families, not only grandchildren are growing up, but also great-grandchildren.
But still she desperately lacks the support, love and care of her husband, whose heart stopped beating too early. She sought solace in her work, but when she went on stage to read poetry, the actress could barely hold back her tears. Her wound has not yet healed. Probably because it was true love, without which it is almost impossible to live.
Zinaida Kiriyenko is a strong woman, she was able to come to terms with her pain and continue to live. For the sake of children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. But she will never be able to forget her only love, her happiness - Valery Tarasevsky.
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Personal life of Valery Borovinskikh and his first wife
At the institute, he met his future wife, Anna Terekhova, daughter of the famous Milady. The actor is sure that he had no chance of not falling victim to Anna’s charms. The graceful beauty captivated with her ability to hold herself both on stage and in the garden beds, where students were taken in the fall.
Alas, the student marriage did not last even three years. Anna began a relationship with actor Nikolai Dobrynin, and Valery began an affair with a famous fashion model, whose name he did not disclose. The couple parted amicably, but Borovinsky to this day regrets that he agreed not to see his son Mikhail. Allowed him to grow up under someone else's name.
Anna Terekhova with her husband Nikolai Dobrynin and son Misha
Anya simply suggested that it would be better for the child, because in any family there should be both a father and a mother. At that time, Nikolai Dobrynin became Misha’s father, and Borovinskikh silently stepped aside. Later, attempts to get closer to his son were never successful. Neither expensive gifts, nor joint trips, nor attempts to interest the child led to anything.
And now Borovinskikh knows practically nothing about his son, the guy simply does not get in touch with him.
