What was Lyubov Polishchuk sick with?
In 2006, the actress was diagnosed with a serious cancer disease with a very unfavorable prognosis for cure - spinal sarcoma. Neither long-term treatment nor surgery to remove the affected part of the spine helped Polishchuk overcome the disease.
Despite the efforts made by doctors, Lyubov Grigorievna’s condition rapidly deteriorated. Overcoming the pain, this strong woman still came to the set of her latest project and played in such a way that tears came to her colleagues and directors’ eyes - out of respect, admiration and sympathy. To work out her last day of filming, Polishchuk even asked the doctors from the hospital to take time off. This was at the end of March 2006.
Unfortunately, everything ended sadly. Realizing that she was unable to overcome the disease, Lyubov Polishchuk refused treatment in the hospital and asked to go home to her husband, son and daughter. The actress spent the last months of her life on strong painkillers, and on November 25, 2006, she was unable to wake up on her own. The emergency doctors who arrived on call came to the conclusion that Polishchuk had fallen into a coma.
She was again taken to the hospital and even discharged home, but all efforts were in vain. On November 28, 2006, the heart of the actress beloved by millions stopped forever. Lyubov Grigorievna died in her sleep at the age of 58.
Difficult childhood
Alexey Makarov was born in Omsk in the family of actress Lyubov Polishchuk and pop artist Valery Makarov. But this marriage did not last long (from 1967 to 1976). When Alexey was 4 years old, his parents divorced. The reason for this was Makarov’s drunkenness. From then on, the boy never saw his father again.
After the divorce, Lyubov Polishchuk left Omsk for Moscow, where she had already worked with her ex-husband at the Moscow Music Hall. Here the young artist had to huddle with her son in rented corners, and soon sent him to a boarding school. It is for this that Alexey Makarov holds a grudge against his mother. At a time when parents kissed and idolized other children, his dad and mom had a showdown, and then divorced altogether. Before school, Polishchuk picked up her son from the boarding school.
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This was an incredible transformation of the star into the mother of the “beautiful nanny” Lyuba Prutkovskaya. Many years have passed since then, but TV viewers still remember the heroine Polishchuk with her fiery character and irrepressible energy.
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Today, May 21, this wonderful woman and talented actress could celebrate her 71st birthday. Let's remember Lyubov Polishchuk on this day and pray for the free flight of her soul!
When in 2006 the news of a serious illness shocked the entire crew of the sitcom “My Fair Nanny,” no one could have imagined that many years later the main character of the project, actress Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, would fight for her life.
According to rumors, the woman is suffering from a severe form of brain cancer, although her family does not comment on this matter. Daughter Zavorotnyuk simply asks fans to pray for the health of her mother and thanks all caring people for their help.
Sergei Tsigal with his daughter Masha and the hero of the program Sergei Krylov
Artist Sergei Tsigal began hosting his second culinary program on the Domashny channel. This threatens him with weight loss
Yulia LARINA
About the cook, we probably need to give fried facts, but what are they? Sergei Tsigal is an artist whose works are, for example, in the Darwin Museum and the Museum. Pushkin. Tsigal is a culinary connoisseur who recently began hosting his second program about food on the Domashny channel, “The World at Your Plate.” He hosted another program, “Recipe Hunters,” on Channel One with his wife Lyubov Polishchuk, and now he hosts it on Domashny with his daughter Marietta. The name Marietta is not accidental: Tsigal is the grandson of the famous writer Marietta Shaginyan, whose 120th birthday was celebrated in early April. In addition, Tsigal is one of the authors of the monument to a stray dog at the Mendeleevskaya metro station, where the dog was killed.
Ogonyok spoke with a man of art, including culinary, Sergei Tsigal
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SNACK
When I came to see you, I thought it would be nice if the host of culinary programs at home had chips and hot dogs on his table...
I don't eat hot dogs and chips. What I'm willing to eat all the time is sushi.
Yes, you probably eat up while filming programs...
We film several programs a day. I try, I take bites: here I intercepted something, there I caught a vegetable with a fork. When I come home in the evening, I no longer eat anything. And as a result, on such a day I lose weight.
It's funny: the host of a culinary program loses weight on the day of filming. But there is a more surprising fact about you. It’s actually for the Guinness Book of Records: when the host of a culinary program goes on a hunger strike.
My friends, sculptors, recently went hungry because the Sculptor's House was taken away from them. They called me. I say: “I can’t fast on Saturday, I have a recording of four cooking programs. And I’ll come on Sunday.” And we came with the artist Andrei Bilzho and the poet Orlusha and supported the guys. I honestly haven’t eaten for a day.
FIRST
How did you end up being a culinary specialist?
I got into cooking by accident. Several years ago, journalist friends told me: if you like to cook, if you like to chat at the table (another word was used), write a column with Lu, we will also pay for it. That's how it started. And now I’ve become insolent—I’m already writing for a variety of publications, including Tennis Weekend.
What can you write about cooking in a tennis magazine?
I drew a parallel between the success of Russian tennis players and the appearance on our shelves of a wide variety of pasta, since the main food of tennis players is pasta (it contains a lot of carbohydrates). When slanted, chopped, finger-thick pasta lay on the shelves, we didn’t play at the world level. Now we have round, flat pasta, spaghetti in bulk, and tennis players are in the world's top ten.
On television, you first appeared on Channel One as a culinary presenter...
Yes, and then they filmed 16 programs, but only seven came out. And now, with Lyuba gone, we are doing this program with Masha. Masha, in memory of her mother, took her second surname, Lyubina, she is now Tsigal-Polishchuk. Masha is learning to cook, she likes the process. We have two dishes in the program: main and salad. She comes up with the salad herself. And last time I came up with everything. I practiced at home, and then during the show I prepared gazpacho soup, but not the classic one with ice, but hot.
In the new program “The World on Your Plate,” it seems that the only one of our culinary programs is where doctors comment on the prepared dishes...
Yes, three doctors: a nutritionist, a gastroenterologist and an allergist. Then the table is set, we sit down with these three doctors and try it out. In one of the programs, doctors tried the dishes and noticed critically: there is a lot of fat, there is cream, it is very filling and cannot be called a dietary dish, there is something else harmful here. We filmed, the program ends, the cameras turn off, and suddenly the voice of the doctors: “Can we finish this?”
When you look at how people buy dubious semi-finished products, frozen dumplings, the question arises: for whom are so many programs published and so many cookbooks published?
There has always been a part of the population that took care of themselves, and a part that did not. I also asked myself: who watches these programs during the day, housewives? And recently, in one of the programs, I baked a cottage cheese casserole with candied fruits, zest and orange juice. A few days later, we were sitting in a restaurant with Denis Evstigneev, Galina Borisovna Volchek came up and said: “I didn’t have time to write down the recipe for your casserole.” And then I felt catharsis. Here's who's watching the program: Galina Borisovna Volchek! Happiness! Denis said: “Now give mom a normal recipe, not the one you told everyone on TV.” I say: “There’s a normal recipe on TV.” This was my sister's recipe. Lenka is a wonderful cook. And I have already used all her recipes, which she carefully writes down in a notebook. She curses me: there is not a single secret left.
SECOND
Is anyone in your family a good cook?
Both mother and grandmother. Mom told me that my grandmother invited guests for caviar - she made eggplant caviar. For herself, my grandmother usually prepared such a dinner: she fried those thick, oblique pasta in a large piece of butter. With tomato, if available. I cracked a few eggs in there and fried it all well. I ate it straight from the frying pan. A jar of sprats and a large Gzhel cup of strongly brewed coffee were placed nearby. She sat down in the kitchen, took Agatha Christie in the original in her left hand, read and ate. And she ate it at night. And she explained this: when a person eats enough at night, all the blood flows to the stomach to digest the food, and the head rests, and the person falls asleep. This theory is no worse than any other. Moreover, my grandmother confirmed it with her life, having lived for 94 years.
It seems that there is not a single book by Marietta Shaginyan in bookstores. Aren't you offended that most of her life was spent on the Soviet regime, on Lenin?
Not everything is as it seems. My grandmother has a study about the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček, there is the first Soviet detective story “Mess-Mend”, there is “Man and Time”. And by the way, when my grandmother was dying, she had two books under her pillow: “The State and the Revolution” and the Gospel. So grandma was not entirely simple. She lived a long life, read the psalms of David at Blok’s tomb and cut off his hair. She was friends with Rachmaninov, Bely, Shostakovich, Zoshchenko - you can’t list them all... By the way, she owns a phrase that only the younger generation can boast of today: “I lived until I was 30 and had never heard of who the Bolsheviks were.” Unfortunately, I cannot pronounce such a phrase.
DESSERT
Your grandmother was a writer, your parents were famous artists. How did you end up at the Faculty of Geography, the Institute of Marine and Fisheries and the Institute of Helminthology?
I grew up in Koktebel, spent the whole summer by the sea, caught fish and decided that this would be interesting for me to do. As a schoolboy I went on an ichthyological expedition from Moscow University... Surprisingly, I still remember something: to determine the sex of a helminth, you first need to stain it in carmine, then pass it through a battery of alcohols, gradually increasing the degree to 100 (this is alcohol with copper sulfate), then the internal organs remain stained, and the entire body of the parasite becomes lightened...
After this it is difficult to talk about food. What are you doing now as an artist?
My main occupation is etching. In addition, I cut it out of paper, then roll it with paint, print it on an etching press and make some kind of blank, and then I work on the entire sheet by hand. This is a unique technique. I have now taken the exhibition to Khanty-Mansiysk. Otherwise, everything: cook, cook... I’m still an artist. The Museum of Nature and Man in Khanty-Mansiysk became interested in my works. Library named after Lenina has now taken 17 works for purchase—they have a graphics office.
You have a book coming out soon in which you tell different stories related to cooking. Do you illustrate it yourself?
No. I'm an animal artist.
So what? You can draw a chicken or a pig... An animal artist cannot design a vegetarian book. By the way, you are also known as an animal defender. Does love for animals push you towards vegetarianism?
No. I am against the killing of animals and cruelty to them, but I will not refuse a good piece of meat. And I won’t wear leatherette shoes—I’ll be 60 years old soon! I don't see any contradiction here. The brain suffers from the lack of meat and our stomach is not like that of a cow. And vegetarians sometimes go to the point of absurdity - they put their own dog on vegetarian food.
Do you cook any delicious culinary dishes for your cats and dogs?
I feed them dry food. And you don’t need to cook—if you turn away for a minute, they will fit into the pan on their own.
Photo: TV CHANNEL “HOME”; FROM THE PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF SERGEY TsIGAL
