Love twists and turns in the life of Leonid Utesov: Irrepressible fans, abandoned bride and late marriage

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

Famous actors and singers always become the object of adoration of the opposite sex. Everyone goes through this test differently. Someone rushes "all bad", someone, on the contrary, jealously remains faithful to the lawful spouse. In the life of Leonid Utesov there was everything - loyalty and infidelity, and his beloved wife, and crazy admirers, an abandoned bride, and even a late marriage at the end of his life.

Forgotten Bride

Lively and incredibly charming Ledya Weisbein, who very early changed this name to a more sonorous one and then became famous, enjoyed the attention of the female sex, starting from early youth. True, his first attempt to start a family, which he made at the age of 15, ended in failure. At this tender age, young Utesov was already traveling around the cities with a traveling circus. In Tulchin, he contracted pneumonia and stayed for treatment in a family of musicians. 17-year-old daughter Anya, leaving the guest, fell head over heels in love with him. Mother did not lose such a chance and invited Lehda to marry. They promised a rich dowry: 100 rubles, a cigarette case and a silver watch from my grandfather. I had to agree, but then, having borrowed a ruble seventy from the bride's parents, Utesov went to Odessa to settle all the matters before the wedding, but he never returned.

This story had an unexpected continuation. Many years later, Utyosov, an actor and singer already known throughout the country, drew attention to one singer in a cafe on Khreshchatyk. The beauty sang gypsy romances. Unable to resist, he invited her to his table and decided to treat her. The girl chose dishes from the menu for a long time and finally ordered some nonsense, only one ruble and seventy kopecks. When the supper was over, the "gypsy" got up from the table and said:

Favorite wife and fans

Leonid Utesov did not seek his fate for a long time, she herself found him in Aleksandrovsk. Having just got a job at the theater, the young artist met his colleague Lenochka Goldina. It was a meeting of a lifetime. Utesov wrote about this event many years later:

Just two days after they met, they decided to get married and began to live as a young family, but before the official ceremony, Utesov still had to run a lot. The fact is that Lenochka had lost documents, and the beginning artists simply did not have money. However, in 1914, they had to act urgently - Lena was expecting a child, and the whole family was sure that they had been married for a long time. Finally, Utesov managed to find a rabbi who agreed to marry them. Leaving the synagogue, the young husband said:.

Indeed, it happened so. We must pay tribute to Elena, she became a great wife for such a restless, albeit very loving spouse. Utesov adored both his wife and daughter, who was born as soon as the parents legalized their marriage. Everyone noted that he was an excellent family man. In the early years of a difficult nomadic acting life, sometimes he simply performed miracles in order to provide his girls with at least some semblance of life. But he always aroused love among fans. Sometimes very stormy. One girl even committed suicide when a rumor spread throughout the city that Utyosov had died. Another almost ruined the family, buying huge bouquets for her idol every day. If it were not for the mother, who turned to the artist with a request to influence her daughter, who was in love with madness, everything could have ended badly. Utesov, by the way, then reimbursed all losses.

Once he even left home for one of his passions. Polish beauty Kazimira Nevyarovskaya was able to win the heart of the famous artist. However, it didn't work out. Upon learning that it was very cold in the beauty's house, Elena sent her a firewood car with a note:. Learning about this, Ledechka returned home the same evening. Leonid Osipovich was happy to tell about many of these stories himself, about some, however, he was silent. For example, when asked if he had an affair with Maria Mironova, he usually joked:

Favorite fan and wife

When Leonid Utesov was 87 years old, he had a telephone conversation with an old friend from Odessa:

As a result, the very middle-aged singer nevertheless proposed to the woman with whom he had been madly in love for almost forty years! They met in 1943. Antonina Revels performed real miracles of resourcefulness to get a job in the famous orchestra. Utesov was then already under fifty, and the young 22-year-old dancer was able to tie him to her for a long time.

Surprisingly, this woman managed to find her niche next to the star singer so that, in principle, no one made scandals. Neither her husband, who was probably not capable of this, nor the daughter of Utesov Edita, who at that time traveled all over the country with her father and found a girlfriend and companion in Tonya, nor even her legal spouse, who, perhaps, was just tired. pay attention to such "little things". She, however, was still attentive and took care of her husband. So, having learned that in the dressing room of the Revels Utesov family they are constantly fed cutlets, I simply called the hotel: Antonina, by the way, immediately listened to the advice and changed the menu.

Whether this woman really wanted to get herself a "star" from the horizon of the Soviet stage, or she sincerely loved the elderly Utesov, but she was next to her idol for many decades. Supported, inspired, soothed and looked after. When, at the age of 65, Leonid Osipovich lost his faithful spouse and fell into a prolonged depression, it seemed that he no longer needed a young passion, but after a while she was able to return to his life. True, she had to wait for a marriage proposal for more than twenty years. He did it only after the death of his daughter. The wedding ceremony was held without pomp, at home - the registry office employees took into account the age of the groom. There were no guests. Their legal family life lasted only two months.

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