The last love of Mikhail Evdokimov got married and gave birth to a son
On December 6, the famous humorist and former governor of the Altai Territory Mikhail Evdokimov would have turned 60 years old. After his tragic death on August 7, 2005, it turned out that there were three beloved women in his life.
Firstly, the legal wife Galina Evdokimova; in this marriage a daughter, Anna, was born. In addition, the comedian had an affair with Nadezhda Zharkova, who gave him another daughter, Anastasia, in 1998. And former model Inna Belova gave birth to a son, Daniil, from the comedian in 2004.
Two years ago, Komsomolskaya Pravda talked with the comedian’s favorite women. All three said that after the death of Mikhail Sergeevich they never found new family happiness. And now it turns out that dramatic changes have occurred in the personal lives of two of them.
Inna Belova: I’m sitting with a baby
Two years ago, Inna Belova complained that everyone had forgotten her and her son Daniil, including Evdokimov’s relatives and friends. “Nobody needs illegitimate children,” Belova said sadly then. And now Inna’s voice on the phone sounded cheerful.
— Inna, will you go to anniversary events in Evdokimov’s homeland, Altai?
- No. Now I am restricted from traveling abroad, on maternity leave! A year ago I got married and gave birth to a baby. My son turned one month old and was named Makar. I sit with my baby and don’t go anywhere. So everything turned out well in my life.
Recently, Inna Belova, the mother of Mikhail Evdokimov’s illegitimate son, had another boy, Makar. Photo: From the “EG” archive
- Congratulations! Are you officially married?
- Yes. My new husband is not connected with creativity or the stage. He is a businessman. I still live in Zelenograd with my husband and now two sons.
— That is, the dream that did not come true with Evdokimov, to get married and have a full-fledged family, came true with another man?
— Before meeting Misha, I was married. And after the divorce, I had no goal of being someone else’s wife again. I just wanted a son from my loved one. Daniel, the long-awaited child, was born. And now he has a brother.
— Daniil, son of Mikhail Evdokimov, how does he feel about the new pope?
- He doesn’t have a new dad! Daniel accepted my husband as a senior advisor and friend. Listens to him. They are friends. And he has only one dad - Mikhail Evdokimov. The father should always be alone, in my opinion. We don't forget Misha.
— Do you communicate with Evdokimov’s relatives?
- Sometimes.
— Does your son Daniel help with the baby?
- He’s trying. But I don’t have time - I’m busy. He is 13 years old and studies in a cadet class. They have drill training and disassemble their weapons. He's there until the evening. He studies well and loves mathematics. Previously, he wanted to be a military man, but now they decided that he would not go to military school. The boy's desires are constantly changing. He either wanted to become a dentist or a pilot. I think he still has time to make up his mind.
Nadezhda Zharkova: I have a man
As it became known after Evdokimov’s death, he had a second family on his side - with Nadezhda Zharkova, his fellow countrywoman. They had a daughter, Anastasia. “KP” called Nadezhda.
- I have a husband now. Daughter Nastya is studying to be a journalist. I work in Moscow, engaged in public affairs. The son from his first marriage lives separately, with his own family. And the three of us live - me, my daughter, my husband.
— Two years ago you didn’t have a husband yet...
- Time is running. Nothing without a man.
Nadezhda Zharkova also found new love and lives in a civil marriage. Photo: Mikhail FROLOV
— Does the new chosen one look like Evdokimov?
- No, a completely different person. Both externally and internally. He attracted me with his decency and responsibility. And he is a very homely person. With age comes an understanding: you want your husband to be at home.
— Does the new spouse have children?
- Eat. Already adults, independent. It was fate that my husband and I met. He is a creative person. In his youth he sang and was a musician; now he is retired and is engaged in creative work for himself. We live in a country house, which I inherited from Misha (Nadezhda sued this house from Evdokimov’s widow. - Ed.).
— Have you registered your marriage?
“We’re getting ready, but there’s no time.” The house takes a lot of time to arrange. First fix one thing, then another.
— Is there anything left in the country house in memory of Mikhail Evdokimov?
— Yes, they specifically preserved his office. By order of Misha, it was decorated with wood - ornaments, bas-reliefs. Everything was left in memory of him. Misha loved wood and sometimes sawed something out himself. I got the house empty, it has been undergoing renovation for six years.
“My legal wife didn’t know anything about me for a long time”
— Does your daughter Nastya remind you of Evdokimov?
- Certainly. I wanted to study to become an actress, but it didn’t work out, I decided to become a journalist, now in my fourth year.
— Do they know at the institute that your daughter is Evdokimova?
- The teachers know. She has the ability to express thoughts and experiences. You could say like my dad.
— Evdokimov had more humorous stories, didn’t he?
“And they were just about life, he didn’t have time to finish everything.” When Misha and I met, I was married, my son was three years old. My husband loved me, but I probably didn’t. At that time, all girls under 22 had to urgently get married. Well, I jumped out. My first husband and I turned out to be completely different people. It became boring with him. When I saw Evdokimov, I realized what an interesting person he is! We started dating. The son accelerated events. At home he posted: “Uncle Misha gave me some candy!” That's how my husband found out.
- They say he was very jealous - he began to follow you, threatened to kill you?
- It was so. I tried with all my might to hold on. But I made a decision and left.
— When you divorced your husband, did you start living together with Evdokimov?
- No. He had a wife. Came, left. If he were single, that would be a different matter. I treated this with understanding.
—Have you come to terms with the fact that Evdokimov only comes sometimes?
- When there is love, then happiness is simply to see your loved one. Of course, there were different moments. But it’s better to have it this way than not have it at all.
— Did his wife know about you?
“Apparently, I didn’t know for a long time.” It was then that “well-wishers” were found and began to tell her, already at the end of Misha’s life. But not to get divorced was his principle, his duty to his family.
— Was Evdokimov happy about the birth of your common daughter?
- Yes. Loved my daughter. Whenever there was time, he came and babysat. Well, of course, she grew up for 10 years with his participation! This was also the essence of family. We had a family anyway! Let's not see each other every day. He didn’t visit his wife every day either. All the time touring, traveling...
“Galina devoted herself to her daughter and grandson”
I call Evdokimov’s widow, Galina Nikolaevna, on her mobile phone. A woman answers the phone and introduces herself as her friend.
— Galina Nikolaevna is currently undergoing a medical examination, here in Altai. For now, I answer calls instead of her. She was also injured in the accident in which Evdokimov died. The trauma still affects her to this day.
Galina Nikolaevna married Evdokimov in her youth and has been faithful to him all her life. She doesn’t have another man - she can’t replace him with anyone. She devoted herself to her grandson and daughter. They remain in Moscow for now - their grandson is studying. By the way, he is his grandfather’s namesake and his copy.
The actor's widow Galina Evdokimova (right), her daughter Anna and grandson Mikhail Sergeevich Evdokimov, namesake of his famous grandfather. Photo: facebook.com
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Mikhail EVDOKIMOV was born on December 6, 1957 in Stalinsk (now Novokuznetsk), Kemerovo region. He had six brothers and sisters. In 1958, the family moved to the village of Verkh-Obskoye, Altai Territory.
He graduated from the balalaika department of the Barnaul cultural and educational school. I changed several jobs - as a grinder at the Altai Motor Plant, as an administrator in a canteen. After the army, he worked as the artistic director of the House of Culture in the village of Ust-Katun, Altai Territory. In 1979 he entered the Novosibirsk Institute of Trade and was captain of the KVN team.
Fame came to him in 1984 after participating in the “Around Laughter” program. After that, he began to often appear in programs with parodies of stars and author’s monologues, the most popular of which is “After the Bath.” Quotes from this monologue have gone viral: “I’m coming, my face is red,” “oh, I don’t know what to tell you”...
He organized concert programs, released song CDs, and voiced cartoon characters. Honored Artist of Russia (1994).
In 2004, he became the fourth governor of the Altai Territory.
On August 7, 2005, he died in an accident along with the driver and security guard.
Man of dreams
Perhaps this is how many women of the late 20th and early 21st centuries perceived Mikhail. On stage and in life, he radiated so much emotion that the ladies could not pass by.
However, Evdokimov concluded the only official marriage with Galina. It was she who gave birth to his daughter Anna in 1982 and was a reliable support for as long as he needed it. In fact, their marriage never broke up. The wife accepted the loving artist’s polygamy and each time looked forward to his arrival in Altai.
Death
On August 7, 2005, Mikhail Evdokimov’s car crashed in an accident on the Biysk-Barnaul highway, which subsequently caused the artist’s death. The official cause of the tragedy was that the driver lost control and the Mercedes flew into a ditch. The driver, the security guard and Evdokimov himself died on the spot. His wife Galina survived, having received multiple injuries.
Location of the accident
The funeral of the 48-year-old artist and politician took place in Mikhail Evdokimov’s native village of Verkh-Obskoye.
A criminal case was opened into the accident. Law enforcement officers and observers had suspicions about the accident, although officials in the first days after the accident completely denied any possibility that the tragedy was deliberately staged.
This theory has a number of indirect evidence. Firstly, shortly before the accident, Mikhail Evdokimov, after a conflict with the regional internal affairs bodies, lost his escort vehicles. Secondly, the governor himself, shortly before his death, told his relatives: he knows that he will soon be killed. The wife and children of Mikhail Evdokimov also spoke in favor of this theory.
Funeral of Mikhail Evdokimov
However, the investigation did not consider the version of a staged accident, much less look for the motives for such an action. Although journalists and a number of politicians expressed the idea that Mikhail Evdokimov had fundamentally crossed the path of one of his colleagues with his fight against corruption and drug trafficking from neighboring Kazakhstan.
In memory of this tragedy, the film crew of the detective series "Citizen Chief" in the third season showed a plot clearly based on this accident, albeit with a note that all coincidences are random. In the series, the characters investigate the death of a governor with the similar surname Akimov in an accident.
Mikhail Evdokimov's grave
Concerts are also regularly held in memory of the artist. In December 2017, a concert was held in the Sibir concert hall in Barnaul in honor of the 60th anniversary of Mikhail Evdokimov.
Meeting Inna Belova
Such a situation would not have been possible without active touring with the humorous program “Full House”. On tour, away from my wife, there are too many temptations. Plus, the notorious midlife crisis crept up on the artist. The impressive Evdokimov made a favorable impression on women. An accomplished artist with a name, good-looking, he knows how to joke.
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In 2003, in one of the restaurants, Mikhail Evdokimov noticed a spectacular mulatto woman and disappeared. Without thinking twice, the artist approached the girl. Neither his own marital status nor the age difference stopped him - Inna is 22 years younger.
A whirlwind romance began between the lovers. To spend more time with Belova, the artist came up with a brilliant move. Evdokimov enlisted his new passion as a costume designer on the program staff. So Inna received the legal opportunity to travel with Evdokimov around cities and villages. Nobody suspected anything.
Unexpected turn
It is worth noting that after the death of Mikhail Sergeevich, Inna Belova behaved like a respectable woman. Despite the facts that emerged about the artist’s double life, the model did not gather reporters around her and did not share “fried” facts. In addition, Inna did not lay claim to Evdokimov’s inheritance, which earned her the respect of her legal wife.
Surprisingly, the former rivals even managed to become friends. They still communicate and do not hold any grudges against each other.
Policy
Mikhail Sergeevich Evdokimov first thought about a career as a politician in the mid-1990s. During these years, he ran for the State Duma from Barnaul. But he managed to get to the political Olympus only in 2005. The artist became the head of the administration of the Altai Territory. As experts noted, Evdokimov in his election program used the familiar image of an “honest man”, proclaiming the phrase “Jokes aside!” as his slogan.
His main rival, the current governor of the Altai Territory, Alexander Surikov, lost to Evdokimov in the second round, dubbing the artist’s victory “Schwarzenegger syndrome.”
Mikhail Evdokimov
The reign of Mikhail Evdokimov is assessed differently. Some experts argue that his approach to many of the problems that had accumulated in the region was unprofessional, which is why a power crisis emerged in Altai a few years later. In the spring of 2011, the regional council passed a vote of no confidence in Mikhail Evdokimov and his administration. The proposed resignation had to be approved by the head of state.
There is another point of view. Evdokimov allegedly “stepped on” the established business interests of many representatives of big business in Altai, including destroying drug trafficking, from which many representatives of the old government “fed”.
The protracted conflict was resolved by the unexpected death of the governor.
