Shnurov is a man with an extremely controversial reputation. Despite the fact that the man is a first-class musician, his antics often shock the public. Provocative songs and scandals have become an integral part of Sergei Shnurov’s career. Many are sure that this is just part of the stage image that allows them to stay at the top of the charts. But Shnurov’s ex-wives, whose number continues to grow, indicate the opposite.
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The leader of the Leningrad group has already been married four times. And the rock musician abandoned each of his wives on his own. The reason for the divorces was the infidelity of Sergei, who was unable to resist another charming beauty. But what happened to the fate of Shnurov’s ex-wives? Were they able to come to terms with the breakup and meet their new love?
First wife
The hero of our article today met his first wife, Maria Ismagilova, during his first year of study. At that time, Sergei was a student at the Religious and Philosophical University of St. Petersburg, which does not fit well with the current image of a rock musician. The young man fell in love with fellow student Maria almost immediately, after which a serious relationship began between the students. And already at the age of 20, Sergei proposed marriage to his beloved.
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Those around him believed that the decision was hasty. But Sergei was not going to listen to other people's advice. The young man drops out of school in his third year and turns to music. Shnurov already believed then that he could achieve success in such a difficult task. But money was needed now, since Maria was expecting her first child from Sergei. According to Shnurov, newborn Sima saved him from bad company. But the musician’s lifestyle was far from ideal. The new father was not shy about the noisy companies and endless drinking that accompanied his creative activity.
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In 1996, they divorced, after which Maria forbade Sergei to see his daughter Sima. Her heart did not thaw even after the resounding success of the Leningrad group, which occurred two years later.
Thanks to his new wife, Sergei Shnurov has changed amazingly
Just imagine: the leader of the Leningrad group and... Healthy lifestyle and glamour! It’s hard to imagine this brutal man in the role of a socialite, isn’t it? But wait, shouting that “The Cord is not the same anymore” is just a new stage in his life. After all, every person has the right to change, right? Moreover, when he falls under the influence of his new wife.
1. Love at first checkmate
A word from Shnur himself: “There is such a painting by Vrubel “The Swan Princess.” And as a child, I think I sometimes jerked off to her.” When a mutual friend introduced Sergei to a girl, he saw in her the same painting that he remembered more than any other work of art. “She came in, I was stunned. He asked: “Eh! What is your name?" She answered: “Matilda.” I said, “Holy shit.”
2. Different but similar
When Matilda arrived in St. Petersburg, she entered the Technological University to study biochemistry, and, as she herself said, she was fascinated by the genuine academic atmosphere of the university. Afterwards she opened her own ballet school and restaurant, forgetting biochemistry like a bad dream. Sergei at one time studied at the religious and philosophical institute, opened at the theological academy. Apparently, religious and philosophical teachings turned out to be as “interesting” for him as biochemistry is for a girl.
3. Dating is for wimps
After the second meeting, at the Leningrad concert, Shnurov asked Matilda: “Where do you live?” Let's go to your place. - For what? - she asked and received a clear answer: - Why? Fucking! After that, the girl stopped waiting for the candy-bouquet period from Cord.
4. When 13 is a lucky number
That's how many years their age difference is; both were born on the thirteenth. Voronezh applicant Lena went to conquer Moscow, but she managed to conquer the famous musician. As a result, she changed her name and moved with him to St. Petersburg.
5. With his new wife, Shnurov has settled down
Both take care of their health, eat properly and run in the morning! In photographs with Matilda, Shnur tags #sex on the street #bad people #One Satan #drinking together, But in fact, more and more often he sits with his wife in the evenings in front of the fireplace and eats broccoli with carrots.
6. The musician began to dress fashionably
The new wife, without excessive modesty, describes herself as “the most fashionable girl in St. Petersburg.” Matilda says that she is the only one in town who suits crazy designer clothes. She also influenced her husband - the appearance of the old rocker was replaced by stylish and unexpected outfits.
7. New muse
Shnur says that he comes up with a bunch of ideas for new songs by listening to his wife’s stories about her friends and women’s concerns.
8. Matilda claims that her husband is very knowledgeable, but strict.
Matilda says that she respects her husband for his knowledge and interests in a variety of areas: from art, philosophy to travel to distant countries. His wife says that Segrey is very well-read and educated, and his manners and way of expressing thoughts are determined by his character: “Shnurov is a man of fantastic erudition, and if someone is talking nonsense, he will react, and in a harsh manner. He’s not a snob, he’s not mean, he’s just strict.”
9. Shnurov does not drive, is indifferent to money and pours ketchup on everything
The “cons” that Matilda has to put up with (and she, as a restaurateur, has gourmet taste) is that Sergei mercilessly pours ketchup into absolutely any food. He had never had a driver's license before. Although Sergei doesn’t care about money, he sometimes likes to get lost in shopping: “This man buys everything he likes - even three pairs of identical shoes.”
10. Your own romance
Shnurov proposed marriage to Matilda while he was rummaging through the refrigerator. He only said: “Let’s get married.” “Of course, it’s time,” was all the girl answered. But the musician says: “Our whole life is pure romance. Let’s say I walk around the apartment naked. It’s practically life with a monkey - sometimes I make strange sounds, and not just with my mouth, so there’s a lot of romance, of course. Lots of wildlife, like Kipling.”
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Second wife
The musician met his second wife Svetlana Kostitsyna two years later. The girl took over as manager of the Leningrad group and became responsible for financial matters. Considering the insane growth of Shnurov’s popularity, such support came in handy more than ever.
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Soon after the marriage, Svetlana gave birth to a son, Sergei, who was given the unusual name Apollo. It seemed that this time Shnur had really met the love of his life, someone who could share his musical passions. But as his popularity grew, so did the number of young fans, whom Sergei was unable to resist. The rocker began to look more and more often at the girls around him, forgetting about his wife and son. And in 2002, the couple filed for divorce.
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Over the following years, Svetlana continued to collaborate with her ex-husband, and also allowed him to meet with her son, whom Shnur continued to provide financial support until he came of age.
All Shnurov's women: the leader of Leningrad is 43
One of the most eccentric rock musicians in Russia, Shnur, also known as the leader of the Leningrad group, Sergei Shnurov, celebrates his 43rd birthday on April 13. It seems that “Leningrad” has never been as popular as it is today, when the already rather disgusting “On the Louboutins” (the song “Exhibit”) is heard from every iron and glamorous smartphone. People had just fallen in love with the blond backing vocalist Alisa Vox, who replaced the fiery Yulia Kogan, when this singer fled from Shnur for a solo project. In general, women, as a rule, do not stay long in a musician’s life. However, as Shnurov himself admits, he cannot live without them.
“I can’t live without a woman. Without her, my meaning is lost. It’s as if I’m even becoming thinner without her. I am spread out with deeds and thoughts, and I murmur in a rather weak stream without enthusiasm. And with it, everything somehow takes shape, acquires clarity, one might even say, meaningfulness. Power. Direction. With whom? With her! For what? For her!” the musician lyrically admits.
ALISA VOX (BURMISTROVA)
Little is known about the life of stylish Alice Vox before Leningrad. She was born on June 30, 1987 in Leningrad, from the age of four she began studying choreography and vocals, studied for a year at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts (SPbGATI), then for several years at GITIS and the University of Culture and Arts in St. Petersburg. She made money as a host at weddings, corporate events and as a singer in clubs and restaurants. In 2012, she became a session vocalist of the Leningrad group and at the end of 2013 she joined the main lineup instead of Yulia Kogan. Before starting work with Shnur, Vox married photographer Dmitry Burmistrov (according to some reports, the couple separated in 2020). The most famous songs of “Leningrad” with vocals by Vox were “Exhibit”, “Bag” and “Prayer”.
This is how the singer explained her disappearance from the group:
Friends! I decided to leave the Leningrad group and am launching my solo project! I am very glad that I can share this new stage in my life with you all. Working with Sergei Shnurov gave me a huge experience of stage life, I am eternally grateful to him for the opportunity to develop and improve. I also thank all the musicians and people close to the group who have been there and supported me for the last 3.5 years. Wish me good luck on my new path, and we’ll hear from you again very soon!
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And here is what Shnurov himself wrote:
“I didn’t promise anything to anyone. At my own whim, I turn average singers into stars. I come up with an image, material, and promote it. I decide how to present them so that they will be loved. Well, not exactly theirs, an image, of course. Through the efforts of our team, we create a mythical heroine out of nothing. This is our job. And it is precisely because we do our job well that complaints and discontent arise. The audience loves the image we created and really doesn’t want the end. But it is inevitable. The Heroines of the myth, invented by me and created by the team, quite quickly and naively begin to believe in their Divine nature. But we don’t know how to deal with Goddesses. We’re burning pots here.”
“I can compare the situation in the Leningrad group with the situation in the Russian state. There is one person on whom everything depends. Everyone decided that Alisa Vox is the face of the Leningrad group, but this is absolutely not the case. The face, mind, honor, conscience, the brain of this group is only Sergei Shnurov,” music critic Artemy Troitsky commented on the news.
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YULIA KOGAN
Officially, the reason for Kogan’s departure from the group was maternity leave. However, Shnur later admitted that he did not like her behavior. The last straw was that Kogan went to Moscow to host a women's talk show on television. The leader of Leningrad decided that the vocalist had thereby destroyed the image of a mystery woman he had created. After leaving, Kogan attempted to resume cooperation, but Sergei refused.
Yulia Kogan is 35 years old. She is also a child of Leningrad - she graduated from St. Petersburg State Technical University. She currently has her own talk show and solo album, “Fire Woman,” which was released in 2020. The singer is married to photographer Anton Booth and gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth, in January 2013.
Why am I not a princess!
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FLORIDA CHANTURIA AND VASILISA STARSHOVA
These vocalists appeared in the Leningrad lineup quite recently. The fact that Alisa Vox left the band became known at a concert in Moscow on March 24, 2020, when the group took the stage without the blonde bombshell they loved. Her parts were performed by two singers not yet known to the general public - Florida Chanturia and Vasilisa Starshova. It is known that both girls have a singing education, and Vasilisa participated in the “New Wave” competition for several years. So far, the girls are far from star fever, but we’ll see what happens in two years...
Tomorrow I will be hanging out with my little ones in the resort of Cherepovets.
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OKSANA AKINSHINA
The number of vocalists who have ever performed with Leningrad is too large to keep a complete chronicle, so we will limit ourselves to the latest and brightest. And let's move on to the singer's marriages and high-profile novels. So far, Sergei Shnurov has tied himself with the knot of Hymen three times. His first wife was Maria Ismagilova, who gave birth to the musician’s daughter Seraphim. The second is Svetlana Kostinitsyna, the former director of the Pep-C group, with whom Shnurov had a son, Apollo. From 2010 to the present day, Shnur has been married to Elena (Matilda) Mozgova.
Perhaps the most scandalous was Shnurov’s relationship with actress Oksana Akinshina, who was only 15 years old at the start of their relationship, and he was 30. Now the actress is 28, she works in cinema and the modeling business. Akinshina’s acting debut was “Sisters” by Sergei Bodrov Jr., followed by “Lilya Forever”, “The Bourne Supremacy”, “Wolfhound of the Gray Dogs”, “Hipsters” - in general, a rather impressive list. The young artist met Sergei Shnurov on the set of the film “Game of Moths.”
It is known that, in addition to Shnurov, Akinshina met with Alexey Chadov and Alexey Vorobyov. The first time she married businessman Dmitry Litvinov, with whom she gave birth to a son, Philip. The second marriage, with film producer Archil Gelovani, continues to this day. The couple has a common son, Konstantin.
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ELENA (MATILDA) BRAIN
Shnur’s current wife came to the capital from a village near Voronezh, first tried to establish a life in Moscow, and then left for St. Petersburg. Through the efforts of her ex-boyfriend, the capital's photographer Dmitry Mikheev, many delicate details of Matilda's biography became available to the yellow press. In particular, newspapers claim that Mozgovaya knows some special techniques of seduction and love pleasures, and becoming Shnurov’s mistress was her long-standing dream. True, how true these stories are is a mystery. From 2010 to the present day, Shnur has been married to Mozgova, admits that his wife controls his correspondence on gadgets and has begun to “dress more stylishly.” From time to time, he dedicates poems to his beloved on Instagram and diligently promotes her recently opened restaurant in the Northern capital.
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Everything in this world is subtle and unsteady. Now it won't be any time soon. Your random smile is my reliable support. All the masters of the museums of Rome want to catch her in the canvases. She is like eternity, fleeting, like the thread of fate, unique.
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WISDOM FROM SERGEY SHNUROV
“There are only two types of men - goats and rams. The great female optimistic fantasy transforms goats into cats, and rams into bunnies. If a woman believes that her man is a cat, ninety-nine times out of a hundred she lives with a goat. Bunnies are misunderstood sheep. Due to the fact that most women do not care for the animals with which they live, drama and all sorts of conflicts occur. Goats and rams, who are given the diet and exercise of cats and bunnies, begin to ram and goat. By doing so, they simply reveal their true nature. And yet, goats can’t stand rams, and rams can’t stand goats, but this is more of a political aspect of our life.”
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Third wife
The third novel in the life of Sergei Shnurov turned out to be much more scandalous. The fact is that this time the man showed feelings towards tenth-grader Oksana Akinshinova. Despite the fact that by that time Oksana had already started an active acting career, she still lived with her parents and went to school.
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The acquaintance occurred during the filming of one of the projects in which Shnurov was a guest star. Despite the fact that the man arrived at the shooting in a not very sober state, the young girl immediately succumbed to Sergei’s charms. A whirlwind romance began between them, which the couple did not even try to hide from others. Their civil marriage lasted for three whole years, after which Shnurov ran away from his jealous companion to his next passion.
Fourth wife
His fourth chosen one was the ballerina Elena Mozgovaya, better known as Matilda. Few believed that she would be able to curb the famous womanizer. But Elena found an approach to Shnurov’s complex character, turning him into one of the most successful representatives of show business today. Shnur stopped getting drunk, radically changed his image, and also brought the creativity of the Leningrad group to an unprecedented level.
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The wedding took place in 2010, after which their busy personal life began, followed by millions of fans. However, in 2020, rumors about an impending divorce began to appear more and more often on the Internet. The reason for the separation of the star couple, as you might guess, lies in infidelity on the part of Matilda’s famous husband. Their breakup was a shock for all fans. And one can only guess with whom Sergei will have an affair this time.
Sergei Shnurov's wife shared the secret of a happy life together with a musician
Sergei Shnurov is a famous rock musician and film actor, who in 2010 linked his fate with the beautiful woman Elena Mozgova or, as she is called, Matilda.
The tomboyish boy and the exemplary excellent student girl have become the object of adoration of all their fans, what is special about this couple? We would like to tell you 10 interesting facts about Shnurov and his beloved wife:
Love at first sight
The couple were introduced by a mutual friend who flew to Moscow from the USA for just a few days. Matilda described this meeting as something magical and beautiful, saying that she fell in love at first sight. Sergei described this meeting in an interview with Elle magazine as follows: “She came in, I was stunned. He asked: “Eh! What is your name?" She replied: "Matilda." I said, "Holy shit."
Quit science for love
This meeting radically changed the lives of both, Matilda gave up her scientific work in a biochemical laboratory, and Shnur, who already had two marriages behind him, took his beloved to a church wedding for the first time. Today both are happy and have no regrets.
Not a single date
At one of Matilda’s interviews, she was asked which date with Sergei was the most romantic for her. As it turned out, the couple had practically no dates, their second meeting took place at a concert of the Leningrad group, and after that Shnurov approached her and asked: “Where do you live? Let's go to you." Matilda was a little taken aback by his determination and decided, for the sake of decency, to ask why. "What do you mean why? Fuck!” - Cord answered her. “After that, the topic of dating was closed forever. I no longer expected romantic dates from this man,” said Matilda.
Shnurov's view of their relationship
Sergei has his own view of their romantic relationship, as it seems to him: “Our whole life is pure romance. Let’s say I walk around the apartment naked. It’s practically life with a monkey - sometimes I make strange sounds, and not just with my mouth, so there’s a lot of romance, of course. There’s a lot of wildlife, like Kipling,” he told reporters.
In marriage, Shnur stopped being selfish
According to the singer himself, after his marriage to Matilda he changed, began to think more about other people and enjoys spending time not in taverns, but with his beloved family.
Matilda and Shnur bought themselves a luxurious apartment near the Fontanka, and in their free time they go on vacation to London and New York.
Matilda changed the style of Cord
Matilda has a very refined and refined taste, which, of course, affected her wife. You can notice that Sergey no longer appears in stretched sweatpants and T-shirts, but dresses in branded suits and stylish coats.
The musician's songs are inspired by his wife's stories about her friends.
Shnut calls his wife a muse and says that for him she is his connection with the female half of this world. The singer said that many of his songs originate in his wife’s stories about her friends or about women’s worries.
He is a strict and smart husband
In marriage, similarity of interests is very important, as Matilda believes. Their marriage is built precisely on this; together with Sergei, they often go to galleries and are interested in philosophy and theology. Matilda speaks of her husband as a thoughtful and well-read person: “Shnurov is a man of fantastic erudition, and if someone is talking nonsense, he will react, and in a harsh manner. He’s not a snob, he’s not evil, he’s just strict,” the girl said in an interview with Tatler.
Shnur eats everything with ketchup and is indifferent to money
His wife said that Sergei is very unpretentious in life, he is indifferent to money, and loves to cover all his food with ketchup. “This man buys everything he likes - even three pairs of identical shoes. Then, without looking, he takes something out of the closet, puts it on - and he is a style icon,” shared Matilda.
Love and mutual understanding surround Matilda and Shnurov, happiness to them and long love!
