10 shortest marriages of Soviet stars: Gurchenko-Kobzon, Samoilova-Lanovoy, etc

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

In the age of the Internet, we never cease to be amazed at how quickly modern media people get married and get divorced just as quickly. But if you think that everything was different in Soviet times, then you will be wrong. After all, creative people are enthusiastic natures, and short marriages among celebrities in the era of the USSR were far from uncommon. People met, fell in love, got married and, unfortunately, sometimes quickly dispersed. It seems that the stars themselves remember little about these unexpected and fleeting marriages, and some fans do not know at all.

1. Lyudmila Gurchenko and Joseph Kobzon

Like millions of Soviet men, the then beginning singer Iosif Kobzon fell in love with Lyudmila Gurchenko when he saw her in Carnival Night, but for a long time he did not dare to approach her. And then he plucked up courage and invited the girl to a restaurant. But the actress did not think so quickly to accept the courtship of a fan, and he, having set himself the goal of certainly achieving the location of the chosen one, began to shower her with gifts and flowers. In the end, Gurchenko gave up. In 1967, the lovers got married and began to live together: the actress's daughter Masha was growing up from a previous marriage. But the life together of two celebrities was difficult to call ideal: it was difficult for two strong characters to coexist.

Yes, and the spouses spent little time with each other: either Kobzon left for several months on tour, then Gurchenko had constant performances. The situation was aggravated by jealousy on both sides. The point of no return came after three years of marriage. Lyudmila once again left for the shooting, and at this time Joseph spent the night with his wife's best friend. Gurchenko told her husband about the divorce by phone. And in the future, the ex-spouses did not communicate for the rest of their lives and tried not to intersect at all.

2. Nina Doroshina and Oleg Dal

For many years Nina Doroshina was unrequitedly in love with Oleg Efremov. And the master himself was in no hurry to call the actress as his wife, but he did not let go of himself either. This went on for a long time, until the artist found out that the director had decided to marry Alla Pokrovskaya, who was pregnant with him.

It was then that Doroshina drew attention to a young admirer of Oleg Dal, who had just come to Sovremennik. He was in love with Nina and for a long time tried in vain to draw her attention to himself. It was then that the actress, in revenge on Efremov, decided to accept Dahl's offer.

But the scandal broke out at the wedding. In the midst of the celebration, Efremov appeared, put Doroshina on his lap and said that all the same, she only loved him. Dahl could not stand this and left, slamming the door. He was gone for several days, and two weeks later the actor left his new wife. True, then the former spouses managed to establish communication, and until the end of Dal's life they were considered friends.

3. Anastasia Vertinskaya and Nikita Mikhalkov

Anastasia Vertinskaya and Nikita Mikhalkov were educated together at the Shchukin School. But despite the fact that both were still students, they were already considered stars: she starred with the roles of Assol and Ophelia, he was the star of the film "I walk around Moscow."

Young people got married in 1966, when their son Stepan was already six months old. However, after the wedding, it turned out that the newly-made spouses had too different ideas about family life. Vertinskaya dreamed of a dizzying acting career, while Mikhalkov believed that his wife should stay at home, cook borscht and raise children. Without reaching a compromise, the couple decided to leave. The celebrity marriage lasted a little over four years.

4. Anastasia Vertinskaya and Alexander Gradsky

Vertinskaya still regrets her next marriage. Alexander Gradsky, who by that time had become famous after performing the hit "How Young We Were", fell in love with Anastasia. She, in order to distract from the problems and the previous unsuccessful marriage, reciprocated. In 1976, the stars decided to get married, but soon realized that they had made a mistake.

The actress said that she and her husband were from different worlds, and living together only intensified the contradictions. Moreover, Vertinskaya has repeatedly admitted that the union in Gradsky does not consider marriage at all. The artists parted two years later, although the official divorce was filed a couple of years later.

5. Natalia Fateeva and Vladimir Basov

Natalya Fateeva and Vladimir Basov met on the set of the film "The Case at Mine Eight". The actress fell in love with a man almost immediately and admitted that she considered him an idol. The artist, too, could not resist the charms of the young beauty, who was 12 years younger than him, and, having arrived in Moscow, told his wife Rosa Makagonova that he had decided to divorce.

Fateeva and Basov got married, soon their son Vladimir was born. But family life did not work out: the actor and director was very jealous of his wife. And she, although she adored her husband, could not come to terms with the endless scandals and drunkenness of the man. Three years later, the actress filed for divorce.

But even after that, Vladimir did not calm down. As Natalya assured, the ex-husband walked through all the film studios with a request not to shoot her.

6. Tatiana Doronina and Oleg Basilashvili

Tatyana Doronina, while studying at the Moscow Art Theater School, was considered the first beauty. But she gave her heart to a modest fellow student Oleg Basilashvili. As students, the young people got married. After graduation, the first big test awaited them: according to the distribution, Tatyana was supposed to stay in Moscow, and Vladimir was sent to Volgograd. However, the wife followed her man. In the future, she was again offered to return to the capital, but she made a choice in favor of the family.

But soon everything was resolved: the couple first played in Lenkom, then moved to the Moscow BDT. For Doronina, things immediately went uphill, and, as Basilashvili argued, she did not pass the test of fame. Scandals became a frequent occurrence in the family of actors, and 8 years after the wedding, they decided to break up, although they claimed that they still love each other.

7. Valentina Malyavina and Alexander Zbruev

Zbruev always enjoyed great success with the opposite sex, but he chose the young Malyavina, who lived next door. Young people decided to go to the registry office when the girl was still in school. Then she was already pregnant, and they were forced to paint. But the parents of the newlyweds, deciding that it was too early for them to have children, tricked Valentina into getting rid of the child in the seventh month of pregnancy.

After this incident, the relationship between the spouses worsened. Alexander did not believe that his wife had an involuntary abortion, and she soon became interested in director Pavel Arsenov. The actors' hasty marriage lasted only four years.

8. Tatiana Okunevskaya and Archil Gomiashvili

Before the beauty of Tatiana Okunevskaya, at one time, not only “mere mortals” could not resist, but also the mighty of this world. She was courted by the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, an employee of his embassy Vlado Popovich, the almighty People's Commissar Lavrenty Beria and the Minister of State Security Viktor Abakumov. According to the widespread version, it was precisely because of the unwillingness to have a relationship with the latter that the beauty paid and ended up in the camps.

Despite the hardships of prison life, Tatiana did not lose her attractiveness and continued to enjoy success with men. Archil Gomiashvili, who was 12 years younger than her, became one of the fans of the actress. He made sure that Okunevskaya not only married him, but also underwent a wedding ceremony. However, the couple soon realized that they had rushed to get married and parted, but were able to maintain friendly relations.

9. Natalya Varley and Nikolay Burlyaev

After the "Caucasian Captive" Natalya Varley woke up famous, and it is not surprising that she had many fans, among whom was Leonid Filatov. But the beauty did not give anyone hope, since at that time she was already going to marry Nikolai Burlyaev.

However, as it turned out, the young people had too different outlooks on life: the husband loved noisy companies where wine flowed like a river, the wife, on the contrary, preferred a quiet family life and was insanely jealous of the chosen one. Therefore, the union of the two actors lasted only a year.

10. Tatiana Samoilova and Vasily Lanovoy

Samoilova and Lanovoy met at the Shchukin School. They signed without unnecessary pathos, and then began to live with Tatyana's parents. The family was sorely lacking money, and then the girl was offered to play the main role in the film "The Cranes Are Flying". But there was one catch: the actress's pregnancy.

Samoilova had to make a difficult choice, and she decided to have an abortion, preferring a career. Lanovoy categorically disagreed with this, because he believed that his wife should spend time at home, raising children. After that, the relationship between the spouses worsened, and the fame that covered both of them tested their love for strength.

Tatiana and Vasily parted after six years of marriage, but then fate brought them together again on the set of Anna Karenina: Samoilova played the main role, Lanovoy played Vronsky. Both convincingly fit into the images of their characters, but, alas, there was no way to return the past.