Elena Obraztsova and Algis Zhyuraitis: 17 years of sacrificial love and passion for the best Carmen of the 20th century

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

When she went on the stage of the theater, the audience got up. Her voice, endowed with incredible strength and beauty, made people cry and laugh, empathizing with her heroines. One could get lost in the glory of Elena Obraztsova. But next to her was no less talented person than herself - her husband Algis Zhyuraitis. She made a serious sacrifice to her feelings. And I knew for sure that it was not in vain.

Electric discharge

Elena Obraztsova had a good family. Her husband, Vyacheslav Makarov, was a scientist, theoretical physicist. At the time when Elena Vasilievna toured all over the world, he raised his daughter and was engaged in the household. Algis Zyuraitis often visited their house. The spouses tried to support him after the divorce, prepared special vegetarian dishes for him, because he did not eat meat, was known as an ascetic and was fond of yoga.

Neither Elena Vasilievna, nor Algis Martselovich showed any feelings towards each other, except for friendly ones. And they could not even imagine that they would someday become husband and wife.

It all happened in an instant. Elena Vasilievna's husband was sent to potatoes, and he asked Algis to meet his wife on tour. He entered the compartment with a huge bouquet, kissed her on duty. And both were struck, as if by an electrical discharge. From that moment on, their whole life changed dramatically. Further existence without each other seemed simply unthinkable.

It was painful. Elena Vasilievna was torn between two feelings: love for her family, which she had to destroy, and love for Algis. When she asked her husband to do something, to help her cope, he just threw up his hands. How can you resist love?

When she once again returned from the tour, her husband and daughter were no longer in the apartment, they moved to the dacha. Everyone experienced it. A daughter who was going through an age in which the world is only black or white, without halftones, for a long time could not forgive her mother. She refused to communicate with her, and on the phone she addressed only by her first name and patronymic.

But Elena Vasilievna could not afford to lose her only child. She constantly called, gave gifts, helped financially. But Lena-little was able to understand her mother, only she herself had gone through several divorces. They nevertheless became friends, Elena Obraztsova and her daughter, who also chose the profession of an opera singer.

Love through music and music through the prism of love

She was called Elena the Beautiful and the best Carmen of the 20th century, and she most of all loved the role of Martha from Mussorgsky's opera Khovanshchina in the Russian repertoire, and Santuzza from Rural Honor in the foreign repertoire. Both parties reflected the inner world of the actress herself, integrity, strength and depth of her nature, the ability of great love and passion.

Algis Martselovich could have gotten lost in the rays of her glory if he himself had not been fully endowed with talent. He conducted brightly and selflessly, with just his fingers. She stood on the stage in the spotlight, and he led her through the music.

It was interesting for them to be together, because they lived as one whole. At the same time, they were so different that it was not clear to an outsider how they lived together. Elena Vasilievna was open, sociable, sociable. She loved good jokes and long, cozy conversations together.

Algis Martselovich was very closed and silent. Sometimes it seemed that he was living with some inescapable wound in his heart. Sometimes she managed to get her husband to talk, then his inner world was revealed to her. He said little to her about love, but he bought a convertible to roll her through the surrounding meadows: she was very fond of the scent of wildflowers.

They lived their love, enjoying every moment. Their feelings found their expression in amazing music. Both life and happiness seemed eternal.

Algis Martselovich, who had been sympathizing with Buddhist ideology all his life, in his declining years suddenly converted to Christianity and was baptized in Orthodoxy, receiving the name Alexander.

For strong, like death, love …

In 1997, he was diagnosed with oncology, and a year later, on October 25, 1998, he was gone. Elena Vasilievna grieved for two years. Music helped her survive the loss. The music that reflected her feelings so vividly.

She continued to love him after he left. When she was diagnosed with a terrible diagnosis, Elena Vasilievna did not give up. She went on stage while she was strong. And then she left for another world with the hope that God would give her more to sing there.

In memory of this couple, there are recordings with amazing music, set off by the magnificent voice of Elena the Beautiful.

Elena Obraztsova and Algis Zhyuraitis at the time of the first meeting could not imagine that they would ever be together. Relationship history is proof of the existence of love at first sight.