The cruel romance of Larisa Guzeeva: 7 men and a long road to happiness as an actress and TV presenter

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

Her name thundered all over the country immediately after the release of Eldar Ryazanov's "Cruel Romance" on the screen. But in life, Larisa Guzeeva was the complete opposite of her heroine: stubborn, decisive, daring. She smoked, dyed brightly, could swear obscenely and rebuff anyone who tried to offend her. In her life there were many men who were ready to do anything for the sake of a beautiful actress, but not everyone managed to leave a mark on her soul and heart.

Rejected feelings

For the first time, the future actress knew the bitterness of rejected feelings back in her school years. Yura's classmate, whom she sympathized with, was not in love with Larisa at all. But the girl wrote him notes with declarations of love and wrote down in her diary in great detail who and how he looked, how he passed by, not paying any attention to her. She did not take her eyes off this incredible handsome man with blue eyes. Until a classmate, completely angry at her importunity, told her directly: he loves another.

Many years will pass, she will become a famous actress and will meet that same classmate in her hometown. And he will forever remember with what eyes he looked at her then, how he regretted the day when he rejected her feelings. She saw his haggard face from the obvious abuse of alcohol, glazed trousers, jacket sleeves stretched out on the elbows and did not understand how she could once love him.

And he said: “What a fool I was! Then I would marry you and live in St. Petersburg now! It was then that Larisa Guzeeva made the decision never to waste her energy on breaking into a closed door again.

Sergey Kurekhin

After leaving school, Larisa Guzeeva entered LGITMiK, attracting the attention of the admissions committee in a very non-standard way: she simply cut her hair very short. Naturally, she passed the entrance exams quite successfully, and by her act she wanted to be remembered, to show her own originality. And soon the beautiful provincial already saw her last name among the students of the coveted theater institute.

In her student years, Larisa Guzeeva often visited the St. Petersburg cafe "Saigon", where representatives of bohemians gathered. It was there that one could meet and hear Boris Grebenshchikov, Viktor Tsoi, and other talented performers. In that environment, education and erudition were in vogue, it was a shame not to know literature or not to understand music. And Larisa, a girl from the provinces, eagerly reached out for those people with whom fate brought her. She realized how illiterate she was, and began to read literally drunkenly.

In her life, then there was already Sergei Kuryokhin, an avant-garde musician, composer, actor and screenwriter. He had a huge impact on the actress, but at some point he went too far and imagined himself Pygmalion, creating his own Galatea. He began to emphasize the provinciality of his girlfriend in every possible way, tried to ridicule her lack of education, and suppressed emotionally.

But Larisa had a truly iron character. When she realized that Sergei was actually trying to break her, she decided to part with him. She was vulnerable and sensitive, and therefore could well do something to herself, succumbing to emotions.

Sergey Shakurov

Later in the life of the actress, Sergei Shakurov appeared, who was the complete opposite of Kuryokhin. He was 17 years older than Larisa and wiser for a lifetime. He gave her something that Guzeeva did not have in her relationship with Kuryokhin: a sense of stability and security. It was thanks to Shakurov that the actress got the role of Larisa Ogudalova in "Cruel Romance".

At one time, Sergei Shakurov, who was supposed to play Sergei Paratov in the same film, offered Eldar Ryazanov Larisa Guzeev, a student of LGITMiK, as the leading role. As a result, Shakurov himself preferred movie roles to the long-awaited role in the theater, and his place in the film was then taken by Nikita Mikhalkov. During the filming, the actress even fell in love with her colleague and confessed: it was simply impossible not to succumb to his charm. True, the actress's crush passed very quickly.

First husband

Real feelings came to Larisa Guzeeva a little later, when, while working on the film "Rivals", she met Ilya Drevnov. He was a camera assistant and came across as a strong, confident man. The charismatic handsome man soon completely captured the heart of the actress and she, completely happy, responded with consent to his marriage proposal. After the wedding, it became clear: her adored Ilya uses drugs.

Larisa Guzeeva tried completely different methods: she scandalized, rescued, threw away "this abomination", took to the doctors. Even when it seemed that she was running out of strength, she honestly tried to pull her beloved out of the abyss. But everything turned out to be in vain. Time after time she returned home and saw this glazed look.

It got to the point that she herself began to abuse alcohol and almost drank herself. But Larisa Guzeeva is not in vain called today the iron lady: she was able to pull herself together and quit with an addiction. And with his attempts to save a man who did not want to be saved at all. As a result, she divorced Ilya, and later he died of a drug overdose.

Stormy romance

But even before she decided to leave her husband, she had a stormy romance with Dmitry Nagiyev in her life. At that time he studied at the theater, and Larisa Guzeeva starred a lot and was a real star. When the actress came to her native institute to show LGITMiK to one of the foreign guests, she drew attention to a pleasant young man. After that, they met by chance on the street, went to sit in a cafe and an informal relationship began between them.

The passionate romance ended as quickly as it began, but in the memory of both actors there was a pleasant memory of a reckless youth.

Second marriage

Kakha Tolordava in Mikhail Kalatozishvili's film "The Chosen One" played the role of a priest, and Larisa Guzeeva herself played the role of a commissar. The Georgian actor won Guzeeva's heart with his respectful, even reverent attitude. He was delicate, looked after beautifully, cared touchingly, protected from all problems and was able to win the heart of the actress.

She realized that it was from such a man that it was worth giving birth to children, which she frankly confessed to her lover. The actors signed modestly, they did not arrange any celebrations on this occasion. However, they were not at all up to the festivities: there were only a few days left before the birth of their son George.

Unfortunately, this marriage did not last long, the difference in cultures and upbringing affected. But Kakha Tolordava always took part in raising his son, and Larisa Guzeeva never interfered with George's communication with dad.

Later happiness

Igor Bukharov, it seems, all these years, when Larisa Guzeeva stubbornly searched for herself and her place in life, was invisibly present next to her. He fell in love with this cocky, confident girl while she was still a student. She was a year older and did not even pay attention to the modest young man in the company of mutual acquaintances.

After life, more than once brought and bred young people, but Larisa Guzeeva, busy building a career and arranging her financial well-being, did not consider Igor Bukharov as a promising party. Feelings came to her many years later, when Igor was next to him in a very difficult period of her life.

Larisa Guzeeva flew to Israel with her son when the boy was accidentally doused with boiling water. The actress did not know what to do in such a situation. She called Igor, who took care of her and her son: he organized their return flight, met them in Moscow, escorted them to the hospital and was always there. I found the right words, calmed me down, looked for medicines.

Then Larisa understood: for Igor Bukharov, she will really be like a stone wall. She looked at him in a completely different way and suddenly realized that she was in love. She was already 40 years old when she agreed to marry a man who has loved her all his life. Later, a daughter, Olga, was born in the family.

Today Larisa Guzeeva admits: only Igor can tolerate her difficult character, her eccentricity and bitchiness. Despite everything, they have been together for many years and the actress seems to have found her true happiness.

The image she created on the screen makes many viewers see in her only a self-confident, strong, ironic and even cynical woman who does not go into her pocket for a word. This image has developed largely thanks to the program "Let's Get Married!", Which has been hosted by Guzeeva for many years.