The right to happiness of Vladimir Etush: After 80, life is just beginning again

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

A whole era in theater and cinema is associated with his name. The roles played by Vladimir Etush were remembered for their brilliance and talented play, and the whole country knows Comrade Saakhov from the "Caucasian Captive". An official who tried to win the heart of a Komsomol member, an athlete and just a beauty became a kind of visiting card of Vladimir Abramovich. The actor admits that he cannot imagine his existence without a woman and at the same time he never made pretentious marriage proposals to his wives. Having experienced a bereavement, he managed to get back on his feet and prove his right to personal happiness.

Amorous romantic

Even today, at the age of 95, he remembers all the women with whom he fell in love, starting from the age of five. The first love of the future star was the charming Tamarochka, with whom they attended a group for studying the German language. And then they walked around the yard, touchingly holding hands. They were not embarrassed by the mocking glances of their peers, and after they were teased by the bride and groom, his Tamarochka only raised her nose higher.

At the end of the war, when Vladimir Etush returned from the front after being wounded and was reinstated in the fourth year of the Shchukin school, he met Ninel Myshkova, who became the actor's second love. She was a first-year student and at the time of meeting she introduced herself as Eve. The real name of his chosen one, Vladimir Etush, found out already in the registry office. As it turned out, the beauty did not like her name and she simply did not mention it, preferring to be called Eve.

The girl fell in love with a tall handsome man without looking back and took the initiative in the relationship herself. Vladimir Etush, however, did not particularly resist and eventually fell in love with his own wife. But the appearance of feelings in him coincided with the cooling of his wife towards him. Upon learning of Ninel's hobby for the composer Antonio Spadavecchia, Vladimir Etush immediately filed for divorce.

The actor does not hide the fact that throughout his life on his way there were women who were in love with him, but he often had feelings. For several years, his common-law wife was Elena Izmailova, with whom they lived together for 5 years. True, they did not dare to legalize their relationship. Vladimir Etush also had an affair with the recognized beauty of Soviet cinema, Lyudmila Chursina, at the time when she was still a student, and he was a teacher.

Home woman

Vladimir Abramov calls Nina Krainova the main woman of his life. He met her during a vacation in Sochi. But the student's vacation from Baku ended earlier, and she went home. Etush, who was in love, did not hesitate long and soon left after her.

They lived together for 48 years, in this marriage the only daughter of the actor Raisa was born. He loved his daughter immensely, but for some reason he was always embarrassed to walk with a stroller. The daughter followed in her father's footsteps, becoming an actress, served in the Theater of Satire. In 1994, she left the profession, marrying an American and moving in with her husband. In America, her son James-Vladimir was born.

The actor himself admits that the marriage with Nina, in his view, was irrevocable. He could not be influenced by any external circumstances. However, in 2000, a terrible disease took the life of the beloved woman of Vladimir Etush, she died of cancer.

last love

Vladimir Abramovich was extremely worried about the loss of his wife, but he could not physically be alone. By the time of his wife's death, he was already 78 years old. And soon the actor met his last love, Elena.

She was a faithful admirer of Etush and attended all the performances with his participation in the Vakhtangov Theater, where he served from the moment he graduated from the Shchukin School. She invariably went up on stage every evening to present flowers to her beloved actor, but she did not dare to speak to him.

Once he held her hand in his hands a little more than he should have and felt that fate again gave him a chance to be happy. And he took the young woman off the stage. They did not hide their relationship, but they did not try to flaunt it. We just lived together, enjoying communication and a quiet family life. Then they submitted an application to the registry office and signed, having celebrated the wedding at the restaurant with the symbolic name "Prisoner of the Caucasus".

The marriage of the father shortly after the death of his wife met with a categorical misunderstanding and rejection from his daughter. The young woman did not want to understand: it is difficult for Vladimir Etush to live alone. However, Raisa's reconciliation with her father nevertheless happened when the grandson wished to meet his grandfather in Russia.

He repeatedly said that in everyday life he is extremely unsuitable, he needs attention and care. And loneliness affects him negatively. An actor certainly needs a loved one next to him, with whom he can talk, hold his hand, or even just be silent next to him.

That was what Elena became for him. When friends and colleagues told Etush that a young woman (the age difference of the spouses is 42 years old) decided to arrange a comfortable existence for herself, he laughs and replies: he and Elena were much more fortunate than she was with him. It was on her shoulders that she took care of his health and his life. It is she who leads all the affairs of her husband, takes care of the cleanliness and comfort in their house.

They have been together for almost 18 years and the fact that Vladimir Etush lives a full life at his 95 years old, he sees the merit of his wife. Therefore, he tirelessly speaks not only of his love for his wife, but also of his immense gratitude for the warmth, care and the opportunity to love and be loved for him.

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