Nikolay Karachentsov and Elena Dmitrieva: "Winter Cherry" 23 years long

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Nikolai Karachentsov was talented, successful and famous, and he also had some incredible charm. On stage or in ordinary life, he was able to charm absolutely any person. Naturally, he had a lot of fans. He also lived for more than 40 years with Lyudmila Porgina, thanks to whom, in fact, he survived after that terrible accident in February 2005. But even at the peak of fame, the actor had an affair. Elena Dmitrieva, soloist of the Mariinsky Theater, loved Nikolai Karachentsov for 23 years.

Accidental acquaintance

She was born in August 1963, and two months after the baby was born, her father died in a car accident. Mom, who served as a cutter in an atelier on Nevsky Prospekt in Leningrad, was left alone with two children in her arms, two-month old Lenochka and her older brother. The girl grew up very actively and at the same time was so flexible that her mother sent her to rhythmic gymnastics, and then, on the advice of her sister, took her by the hand to the Vaganovo School.

After graduation, the girl was accepted into the troupe of the Kirov Theater, and six months later Nikolai Karachentsov appeared in her life. She and a colleague were visiting the chief choreographer of the theater Dmitry Bryantsev, when the famous actor came there. It is unlikely that the 18-year-old ballerina, leaving her phone number to Karachentsov, thought that this acquaintance would develop first into a happy one, and then into a painful lingering romance.

When Winter Cherry is released on the screens of the country, Elena Dmitrieva, watching the twists and turns of the main character's fate, will recognize herself in her. And weep, being unable to change anything.

Momentary happiness

He called her that night. Then Nikolai Karachentsov and Elena Dmitrieva wandered around sleepy Leningrad until morning, talking about everything in the world, trying to really get to know each other. And, of course, succumbing to the charm of the white night, they kissed on a bench in Mikhailovsky Park. At first, she did not seem to have any special feelings, rather, she was flattered by the attention of an adult, accomplished man. But each meeting, thanks to Nikolai Karachentsov, gave new impressions, emotions and feelings. Anyway, it was simply impossible not to love him.

Until the actor ended his tour, he and Elena met daily. Then he left for Moscow and the period of phone calls began. Elena was only 18 years old, she was incredibly happy. You can probably be so happy only in your youth, especially when you hear the words: "My dear, beautiful, beloved …"

Of course, least of all at that time she thought that her beloved was married, that he had a son growing up. He was almost 20 years older, wiser for a whole life, and therefore at first she did not think at all about the future, rather, she enjoyed the moment.

But she quickly got tired of the role of a secret lover, and Elena began to increasingly hint to her lover that she needed to make a decision. And Nikolai Karachentsov asked to wait a little while his son grows up. Then he promised: soon they will be together, he will talk to his wife and … But months passed, then years, and nothing changed in their relationship.

Leave, you can't stay

A few years later, Elena tried for the first time to leave Karachentsov. She wanted to have a normal family, go to concerts and the theater with her husband, have a baby and just be happy. When the actor called her again, she asked him to leave her alone. But after only a month, he called again. And she made an appointment and did not come to him. How then he was indignant: a popular favorite, an honored artist, spent a whole hour of time on a girl who never came.

Later, they quarreled more than once, but they certainly made peace. Until Elena, trying to escape her feelings, literally married the first person she met. True, immediately after the wedding, she went on tour for four months, and upon her return, she immediately announced to her husband that they were going to get divorced. And then there were again meetings and farewells with Karachentsov and a second marriage. This time, she approached the issue of starting a family more seriously and accepted a marriage proposal from the man with whom she was in love, and the young husband loved Elena.

Every time, as soon as the girl had another admirer, Karachentsov appeared and tried to prevent her from improving relations. But getting married a second time, she simply did not agree to the actor's persuasion and refused to meet with him. He nevertheless came to her during her pregnancy, admired her beauty for a long time and was sad.

Elena's husband understood everything, was desperately jealous of the actor, although she tried her best not to give a reason. I even went to Nikolai Karachentsov's dressing room with her husband. But this still did not save the marriage, and after the divorce, a relationship began again with the one she loved from the age of eighteen. He even knew Elena's daughter and managed to charm her.

Elena heard rumors about her lover's novels, but every time, trying to find out the truth from him, the ballerina heard assurances: she is the only one with him. Well, except for the wife, of course.

Flight to Paris

Yet she tried to escape her love once again. Almost to the ends of the world. Elena Dmitrieva accepted the offer of her longtime admirer, who by that time lived in Paris, and left with him to France. When Karachentsov called again, he was surprised to learn that his beloved no longer lives in St. Petersburg. At that moment she came to her hometown for a few days for things, and the actor's call found her just at home.

Since then, he has constantly materialized out of nowhere, as soon as she appears in Russia on a visit. Moreover, after only two years, her marriage broke up, and she remained in a foreign country with a little daughter in her arms. However, Elena did not give up, worked as a salesman in a store, and later began to give private ballet lessons.

But she never managed to build her personal life. She became akin to Karachentsov, she could not live without him, just as she could not be with him. They saw each other for the last time in St. Petersburg, and in the winter of 2005, a call rang in her Paris apartment: a friend reported an accident that Nikolai Petrovich got into. And now she could only pray and follow the medical reports on his state of health. Until the very last day of the life of a loved one.

The family life of Nikolai Karachentsov and Lyudmila Porgina was not cloudless. Rumors, parting, stormy reconciliation. But the real price of their love became clear at the moment when the actor stopped at the edge of life. Lyudmila Porgina did not give him up to death. She pulled him out and learned to love the new, unfamiliar, but so dear Nikolai.