The twists and turns of fate Lyudmila Chursina: What she was happy about and what the actress regrets today

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

Lyudmila Chursina was called one of the brightest actresses of the Soviet Union, there were many rumors about her. And this beautiful woman with a royal bearing hid her complexes and a very vulnerable soul behind her own inaccessibility. It seemed that everything should turn out the way it was described in the novels: marriage is one and for life, common interests, joint creativity, conversations until dawn. However, fate prepared for her as many as three marriages and many unexpected turns.

Greatest nature

In one of her interviews, the actress admitted that this is what she would call a book about her first husband, director Vladimir Fetin. They met on the set of the film "The Don Tale". By the time they met, the director had already parted with his first wife, and in Lyudmila he saw a kindred spirit.

It was not love at first sight at all. Rather, it was mutual respect, fueled by teamwork, then sympathy that arose. He tenderly took care of her during the filming, gave her a lot of attention, had endless interesting conversations. Everything was as she once dreamed. The young actress fell in love with his mind, his education and his hands. They were extraordinarily beautiful, lively, and talkative.

After the end of filming, he left for Leningrad, and she went to Moscow, where she served at the Vakhtangov Theater. Vladimir and Lyudmila wrote letters to each other, as soon as there was a free day, the actress got on the train and rushed to Leningrad to be with her beloved at least half a day.

After that there was a modest marriage registration and her move to Leningrad to her beloved. Fetin filmed Chursina in his films, revealing more and more facets of her talent. And outside the set, he was completely helpless. I could not solve any everyday issues, I absolutely did not pay attention to the environment. During the downtime, he could not find a place for himself and more and more often applied to the bottle.

She took care not only of their family, but also diligently earned alimony for her husband's son from her first marriage. She returned from filming or touring and instead of the desired vacation, she began to bring her husband out of the binge, trying to return him to reality. She loved him too much and could not just pick up and leave.

Lyudmila Chursina persuaded her husband to stop drinking, admonished, even tried to share with him the craving for the green snake in order to scare Fetin. Nothing helped, and she lost heart. They became more and more distant from each other. When the moment of complete helplessness came, she tried to commit suicide. She was already standing over the Neva, about to throw herself down. Fortunately, she was noticed by a completely unfamiliar man, who sat the actress in the car. He just silently drove her home.

Chursina sober up a meeting with a disabled man. He had no legs, but his eyes burned with such a thirst for life that the actress inevitably felt ashamed of her problems. The only thing she understood was that she had to live and move on. But even after the divorce, a warm relationship remained between the spouses. She even felt when he left this world.

Ludicrous marriage

Her second husband, Vladimir Petrovsky, was an oceanologist. Lyudmila Chursina was struck in him not only by his incredible beauty, but, first of all, by his complete independence and complete lack of craving for alcohol.

However, they lived together for only two years. They turned out to be too different people, and there was no such emotional connection between them that she so needed.

Son of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee

With Igor Andropov, the actress met with mutual friends after her move to Moscow. The man impressed her with his modesty, ability to maintain a conversation on any topic and huge, almost encyclopedic knowledge. But she found out about his origin a little later. After marriage, at the insistence of her husband, she had to take a double surname. Now on the posters she was listed as Chursina-Andropova, of which her husband was very proud.

However, the third marriage did not bring her the expected happiness. Both of them could not or did not want to adapt to each other. And Igor, in addition to pathological jealousy, began to demonstrate an addiction to alcohol.

Lyudmila Chursina left him 13 times. And after the final parting, Igor more than once offered her to reunite. But by that time she had already realized that their marriage consisted of mutual claims and an endless struggle, which she was already tired of waging.

Happy and not lonely

Lyudmila Alekseevna, in her opinion, has already closed the topic of marriage for herself and only regrets that she did not have time to give birth to a child. The family of her sister became a native for the actress, she takes care of her nephew and his wife, about their two daughters.

Once she gave all her love and almost maternal care to her husbands, now - only to her family. She is still in demand in the profession and hopes that she will still have time to do a lot in this life.

For which she refused filming in Hollywood.