Igor Kostolevsky and Consuelo de Aviland: ardent love of the second half of life

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

Igor Kostolevsky, it seems, has always been treated kindly by fate and glory. From the very first film role in "The Star of Captivating Happiness" he became a real celebrity. He could not calmly leave the theater after the performance because of the fans. Why does he himself call himself a man of the second half of his life, and when has the time for happiness come for him?

He

He was born in a very prosperous family, grew up as a well-mannered, vulnerable, intelligent child. He was considered weak and was often beaten by his peers. In order to somehow resist their aggression, Igor Kostolevsky began to engage in boxing. After graduation, he worked at a research institute as a test taker, and later entered a civil engineering institute. But already in the third year he left the institute.

Sometimes you can find a version that the girl, whom Kostolevsky sympathized with then, played a role in this. She saw Yesenin's features in the young handsome man and said that with such an appearance, one must certainly be an artist. He applied to the Moscow Art Theater School, but did not enter. But he became a student of GITIS on the course of Andrei Goncharov.

After graduating from GITIS, he was admitted to the Mayakovsky Theater, which was directed by the same Andrei Goncharov. The main director of the theater did not really believe in the genius of the young actor, therefore he kept him on the sidelines. But in the life of Kostolevsky there was also a movie.

The role of the Decembrist Ivan Annenkov in the film "Star of Captivating Happiness" brought the actor unprecedented success. He really brilliantly played his Decembrist, having managed to make the image of the Decembrist alive, voluminous and reliable. True, in the theater he still got insignificant roles.

In 1981, he met his first wife, actress Elena Romanova, during the filming of the film "Vacation at Own Account". According to the plot, they played the bride and groom, and constantly quarreled. In life, at first, everything turned out much better: Igor was caring and attentive, Elena is in love and happy.

In 1983, a son, Alexei, was born in the family. And Elena had more and more reasons for dissatisfaction with her husband, and Igor more and more often felt infinitely lonely. Maybe two people simply could not become relatives?

From the outside it seemed that everything was fine in their life. In fact, everything was complicated, they quarreled more and more often. The love that once bound them melted before our eyes. Igor Kostolevsky began to drive in a car around Moscow at night, praying to God to send him the only one intended only for him.

She

Since childhood, she was passionate about dancing and dreamed of a career as a ballerina, tirelessly spending several hours a day at the barre. At the age of 12, she read the book "Fencing Teacher" by Alexandre Dumas and decided that she must certainly become the wife of the Decembrist.

A serious injury made Consuelo de Aviland forget about ballet, but she was not at all going to forget about the theater and chose the profession of an actress for herself. She was quite successful in the theater and in the cinema, but she did not find happiness in love.

Consuelo was popular with men, however, to all marriage proposals, she replied that she was waiting for her Decembrist. For many years she remained true to her childhood dream.

They

She opened the door of her dressing room in the theater, looked out into the corridor. And I saw Igor Kostolevsky. For some reason, when he looked at this woman, he immediately clearly realized: this is his woman. About which he told her already on the second date. Consuelo, true to herself, shook her head and uttered her trademark phrase about waiting for the Decembrist.

Kostolevsky thought that he had misheard, and she ardently and enthusiastically began to explain to him who the Decembrists were. He immediately said that he had already played the role of a Decembrist married to a French woman. It was destiny. As the real wife of the Decembrist, Consuelo converted to Orthodoxy, abandoning the Catholic faith, received a new name - Evdokia, and married her lover on February 23, 2001. Igor Matveyevich and all those close to her call her affectionately Dusya.

When faced with a choice: family or career, she chose family without a shadow of a doubt. She wanted to become a real Russian wife.

She was very afraid to fly after the miraculous landing of the plane, which almost crashed. She promised herself to travel by train from now on, but was surprised to learn that trains from Paris to Moscow do not run.

Consuelo de Aviland, with the support of the management of Russian Railways, achieved the restoration of the Moscow-Paris-Nice railway route. He considers this route to be his child and is extremely proud when he goes to Moscow from Paris on it.

Igor Kostolevsky believes that he is a man of the second half of his life, because it was from the second half that the countdown of his happiness began. He has a favorite profession and the only woman with whom he is happy. They both do not like to give interviews, diligently hiding their personal lives from prying eyes. But even a cursory glance at this couple is enough to understand: they are really happy. Their time of happiness came at the moment of their first meeting.

They value every moment together, and in separation they pray for a new meeting. The only thing they dream about is time. So that he was released for two as much as possible.

At the wedding, Consuelo de Aviland was very worried. She was consoled by saying that you just need to kiss while screaming "bitterly".