Why Sergei Penkin never found happiness in his personal life: 2 marriages, unrequited love and a telephone romance

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

He appeared on the same stage with Viktor Tsoi, performed with the shocking Boy George, traveled abroad with a variety show in the restaurant of the Moscow hotel "Cosmos" and worked as a janitor in Moscow. In life, Sergei Penkin achieved everything on his own and can be proud of his successes today. Despite the huge number of fans, many novels and two official marriages, he was never able to find a real family. What prevents Sergey Penkin from building his personal happiness?

The first love

For the first time, Sergei Penkin fell in love in childhood, but the girl who settled in the next doorway of the house where six-year-old Sergei lived did not even know about his feelings. He decided to confess his love to her only when it was already impossible to change anything. Olga Balakina, who grew up next to him, was already married and managed to become a mother.

Sergey's confession puzzled her a lot, but did not in any way affect the long-term friendship of the singer and his first love. Olga was married twice, but even being a free woman, she never saw her childhood friend as a possible life partner. However, Sergei Penkin has long come to terms with this state of affairs, and his first love grew into deep respect and a desire to preserve the friendship that is so rare today between a man and a woman.

Stranger from Foggy Albion

For a long time it was believed that Sergei Penkin was officially married only once, but in one of his interviews the singer admitted: he was married twice. The performer prefers not to disclose the name of his first darling. It is only known that she is a real Englishwoman.

Sergei Penkin prefers not to voice the details of his love for an English stranger, nor does he talk about what caused his separation from his first wife. It is only clear that she was able to leave a serious mark on the soul of the performer.

Friendship made love

Back in the distant 1980s, when Sergei Penkin was just beginning his career, fate brought him together with the English journalist of Russian origin Elena Protsenko. At first, they became good comrades, but after many years they suddenly realized that they had far from only friendly feelings for each other. A passionate romance broke out, which led, as a result, lovers to the doors of the registry office.

True, even after marriage, Sergei Penkin was in no hurry to move to Great Britain, although his wife more than once started talking about living together in London. Elena Protsenko is tired of being the wife of a man who is never around. He understood: having moved to England, he would be left out of the ebullient creative life to which he was so accustomed. The performer, on the next move proposal, tried to explain to his wife that he would not build a career in a foreign country, and he was not interested in staying at home or pounding the doorsteps of numerous agencies. This was the end of the musician's family life.

Phone romance

With Vladlena Ponomarenko, a forty-year-old TV presenter from Odessa, Sergei Penkin met at one of the corporate events where he spoke. The spectacular blonde was attractive to the performer, and therefore, after his return to Moscow, he began to regularly call his new acquaintance. It was a kind of telephone romance, when every conversation "for five minutes" turned into a long conversation all night long.

Sergei Penkin could no longer do without these phone calls, they could talk to Vladlena about everything in the world and at the same time not bother each other. Then the performer thought that he had met a real soul mate, a little more and he would be able to find such a long-awaited family happiness. Moreover, Vladlena had two daughters, for whom he hoped to become, if not a father, then at least a good friend.

Unfortunately, the lovers did not see each other as often as they would like, but Vladlena flew on a date with Sergei at the first opportunity, adjusting her weekend to the singer's concert schedule. Sergei Mikhailovich was determined to end his loneliness and even began to prepare his country house for the arrival of his beloved woman and her children.

But at some point, everything collapsed. The performer does not admit what was the reason for his separation from Vladlena. Only once did he mention that he "burned himself a few years ago and was very disappointed."

Loneliness is the constant companion of talent

Today Sergei Penkin still lives alone and treats his unsettled personal life with philosophical calm. He cites as an example many brilliant artists who have never been able to find family happiness. According to him, in his life, work is too big and always takes the first place, and women, even the most patient and understanding ones, rarely agree to secondary roles.

The singer has always dreamed of a woman who could love him as a person, and not as an artist and famous performer. He has no other requirements for a life partner - only unconditional love. And since he has not yet had a chance to meet the girl of his dreams, he will still devote all his time to creativity. And also - to his students, of whom he has a lot.

Sergei Penkin has become one of the few who can boast, in addition to external eccentricity, a magnificent strong voice. Thereby his name is entered in the Guinness Book of Records, deservedly so, of course. And the enviable persistence with which he stormed the examination committee of the musical alma mater is admirable even among the most inveterate skeptics and ill-wishers.