5 children from different women and almost 30 years of marriage with the main love: King of satire Mikhail Zhvanetsky

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

Long ago as quotes Mikhail Zhvanetsky from sparkling miniatures about the relationship between men and women turned into quoted aphorisms. However, the satirist writer always preferred to remain silent about his own love affairs. And, as you know, you can't hide an awl in a sack … And for several decades the public has been discussing not only the creative, but also the personal life of the comedian: the beloved and illegitimate children left by him, health problems and scandals with colleagues. What he really is, multifaceted and loving Mikhail Zhvanetsky.

This is already 50 years ago, Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky is respectfully called a satirist and performer of his own literary works, screenwriter, TV presenter, actor. And there was a time when he had to start his career as an ordinary mechanic of the Odessa port. The ways of the Lord are truly inscrutable …

Turning the pages of a biography

The satirist was born in 1934 in Odessa in the family of doctors Mane Moiseevich and Raisa Yakovlevna Zhvanetsky. He grew up in Tomashpol, Vinnytsia region, where his father worked as a surgeon and head physician of a district hospital, and his mother was a dentist. When Mikhail was 7 years old, the war began, and he and his mother went to Tashkent. In those years, residents were massively evacuated there from the territories occupied by the Germans. - recalled the satirist years later.

After the liberation of Odessa in 1944, Misha and his mother returned from evacuation, and in 1945 Mane Moiseevich returned from the front, drafted into the army as a military doctor and served in the sanitary battalion of the rifle division, then as a surgeon at the front hospital. The boy's post-war childhood passed in a purely Jewish courtyard, which was inimitable in its traditions and national color.

However, that yard, Odessa has always been famous for its unintentional humor. The locals could make anyone laugh with their colorful speech. What is the mystery of this phenomenon, you ask? Odessa specific dialect arose on the basis of an incorrect speech, where Russian, Ukrainian and Hebrew were mixed … This whole "cocktail" was absorbed by Misha Zhvanetsky from a young age, so that later he could give out his inimitable monologues.

After graduating from high school, Mikhail entered the Institute of Marine Engineers, and having received a diploma in 1956, he went to work in the port of Odessa, where he was hired as a young specialist for the position of a crane mechanic. The future satirist-writer worked for almost eight years in the port, and then a little more as an engineer for lifting and transport mechanisms at the Prodmash plant.

Although, while still a student, Mikhail actively participated in the institute's amateur performances and was much less interested in studying the equipment of ports than in composing humorous miniatures and monologues. Nevertheless, work in the port and at the factory became a good school of life for the future satirist. - says Zhvanetsky.

A life-changing twist

Perhaps our hero would have had to work for a long time as an engineer at Odessa enterprises, if not for the tour of the Leningrad Theater of Miniatures in 1963, the leading actor and artistic director of which was Arkady Raikin. It was then that young Zhvanetsky met Arkady Isaakovich, who took his works into the repertoire, and a year later even invited him to his theater to be the head of the literary department.

Together with Zhvanetsky, Raikin staged the Traffic Light program in 1969, in which the young author's miniatures were performed for the first time by Arkady Isaakovich himself. The humorous monologues "Avas", "Scarcity", "The Age of Technology" were literally dismantled into quotes, although many viewers believed that the authorship belonged to the master of Russian satire himself.

Kartsev and Ilchenko read the same monologues … But then Zhvanetsky began to notice: something was not right. When he heard his joke on the street, such as “There are no complaints about buttons,” he wanted to recognize the author! And he began to read his monologues on his own. First, he appeared on the stage of the Odessa Philharmonic, then at the Moscow Hermitage Theater, where he immediately gained great popularity. In his works, the young author was not afraid to raise acute social issues, which, of course, appealed to the audience, and they considered him their own on the board. Over time, Zhvanetsky was lovingly called “the duty officer in the country”. He really saw through his fellow citizens, deeply understood and joked about their problems, and so that it was not offensive.

All-Union glory and people's love

At the beginning of the 70s, the entire Soviet Union already knew and adored Zhvanetsky, and the artist was literally overwhelmed with offers to give concerts in a particular city. A little more time passed and the satirist was promoted to production director at Rosconcert, then got a job at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, and a few years later, in 1988, he created and headed the Moscow Theater of Miniatures as artistic director.

And now, the satirist writer has practically stopped public speaking due to age and illness. Health, every now and then surrenders on the sly., - said, completing his concert activity, Mikhail Zhvanetsky.

Loving humorist satirist

But about the personal life of Mikhail Mikhailovich, you can write a big novel with an incredibly confusing plot. And since the comedian never advertised his personal life, everything that is known about her was collected from rumors and eyewitness accounts. The only thing that Zhvanetsky could not hide from his fans is that he is the father of five children, and from different darlings.

From a young age, Misha Zhvanetsky, who possessed incredible charisma and magnetism, was not deprived of the attention of the opposite sex, and he successfully used it. In his student years, the humorist had fleeting novels every now and then. However, shortly before graduation, he himself truly fell in love with a girl named Larisa, whom he married for the first time. The couple lived together for about ten years. They lived poorly, besides, the wife and her mother, and even in the same room. …

Zhvanetsky loved his first wife so much that he indulged her in everything: he did not even go to rehearsals when she forbade him. And when Mikhail began to receive some royalties for his work, the woman unexpectedly filed for divorce, she inherited a gallery in Paris from a relative, and after the divorce she emigrated abroad. And after the collapse of his family, suffering Mikhail left Odessa for Leningrad.

So, having burned himself for the first time, Zhvanetsky was no longer in a hurry to tie the knot, although the famous Odessa love of life and southern temperament attracted many different women to him, and sometimes several at once. Once, while touring Siberia, Zhvanetsky had an affair with one of his loyal fans, and as a result, she gave birth to a daughter from a satirist. Acquaintances of the artist noted that on this the ladies' man preferred to end the fleeting romance. But the mother of their common daughter forced the satirist to pay alimony, and years later, the negligent father unexpectedly showed a sincere interest in the heiress and invited her to Moscow several times.

As a result of a long relationship between the artist and costume designer Nadezhda Gaiduk, daughter Lisa was born. True, at first the beautiful blonde was unapproachable and Zhvanetsky had to woo her for a long time. Nadya was so witty that, as colleagues of the satirist recall, he followed the girl on her heels and wrote down her jokes, courting her along the way. But a year later, the girl left for Moscow. Their friendship continued by correspondence. Serious relations with all the consequences began when Zhvanetsky returned to Leningrad again. Before the birth of their daughter, the lovers lived for a long time in two cities and wandered to each other between Moscow and Leningrad. They were not going to get married - they were quite satisfied with the guest marriage. And when the daughter was born, the writer and the artist broke up altogether. Nadezhda learned that Zhvanetsky has a mistress.

Colleagues called the next novel of the satirist "the union of convenience." At the beginning of his career, the humorist-satirist was not particularly favored on television, but everything changed as soon as he moved in with the head of the "Around Laughter" program, a certain Tatiana. And it had to happen that at this time the mother of Mikhail Mikhailovich unexpectedly fell seriously ill. She had to hire a nurse, with whom our hero immediately began another short affair. A fleeting relationship with Regina Ryvkina had serious consequences: the woman became pregnant and gave birth in 1983 to her son Andrei, whom Zhvanetsky first saw as an 11-year-old teenager in America, where the satirist came on tour years later.

- Andrey Ryvkin somehow opened up when he became a journalist.

Of course, after the scandalous betrayal of Zhvanetsky, Tatyana broke off all relations with him. But our hero did not despair, having found a new common-law wife, in the person of some pretty Tatar Venus. For ten years of marriage, the woman gave birth to the comedian's son Maxim and had a good chance of a legal marriage. However, the wife turned out to be too jealous: she perceived every fan of Mikhail Mikhailovich as a disaster. In addition, she was strongly attracted by the idea of moving to America, for which the satirist writer was absolutely not ready.

30 years together

By the age of 60, our hero has finally settled down and has been living with his wife Natalya for almost three decades, who is 32 years younger than him. In 1995, their son Dmitry was born. When the boy grew up and began to ask why his parents were not married, they went and signed. This event took place in 2010, but the newlyweds did not arrange any celebration on this occasion.

They met in Odessa at the opening of the Club of Odessa citizens in the early 90s. The beautiful tall brunette Natalya Suvorova was only 24 years old, and the satirist - 56. - Natalya later confessed. After graduating from the institute, she worked for some time as a hydrologist, and with the beginning of perestroika she got a job as a costume designer at the Odessa Pantomime Theater, from which the once popular "Masks Show" came out. Natalia went on tour, helped the artists, then met Zhvanetsky. After several dates, they decided to live together.

And now, despite the skepticism of friends who are accustomed to the antics of the loving Zhvanetsky, their union is really almost 30 years old. Over the years, it was the wife who was next to the comedian in the most difficult moments of life, looked after and took care of when he was sick. But in recent years, health has often let down the writer. It was rumored that he had prostate cancer. And the fans were seriously scared for the health of the idol.

Unlike Zhvanetsky, Arkady Raikin devoted his whole life to the only one who was with him in sorrow and in joy: "Happiness is when you are near!"