Famous Soviet families in which domestic violence flourished

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

Domestic violence is a topic that, until recently, it was not customary to talk about openly. And even now, if this topic is discussed, they do it carefully. Moreover, even in families of celebrities, tragedies occur behind closed doors: happy couples smiling at the cameras turn into tormentors and victims at home. What can we say about the Soviet period, when "bringing up" wives with fists was considered almost the norm, and the phrase "beats means he loves" was considered the main justification for assault. And even in the families of celebrities, many successful and beautiful women have suffered humiliation and beatings for many years.

Vasily Shukshin and Lydia Chashina

Lydia Chashchina does not like to remember her first marriage, too hard memories remained about him. After all, it was with Shukshin that she first learned what vodka, cigarettes, abortion, humiliation and beatings are. Although the actress does not deny that her husband was a multifaceted personality, it was to her that he turned his face that you would not wish on the enemy.

Young people met, being students of VGIK. She is a modest and intelligent girl from Kiev, he is an aspiring director, womanizer and drinker. No one understood what Lydia found in him, but soon she became his wife.

For the first time, Shukshin slapped his wife in the face a few weeks after the wedding, when he saw that she was talking with a classmate in the corridor. And then beatings became common. The actor stopped raising his hand to his wife only after she hit him with a frying pan in response. In addition, Vasily began to accustom his young wife to her usual life with vodka, cigarettes and noisy companies.

Chashchina learned that she was pregnant after three years of marriage, when the relationship with her husband almost completely went wrong. There was nowhere to live, there was not enough money either. Shukshin suggested that his wife should go to his mother in Altai, and there, at least for the first time, raise a child. However, he did not dissuade Lydia from abortion.

The actress's patience ran out when she caught her husband with another mistress. It was then that she decided to leave, and did not regret her decision. And even now she speaks of her ex-husband exclusively as a cruel person. Subsequently, Chashchina was married twice more. And Shukshin spent his whole life with actress Lydia Fedoseeva.

Igor Zapashny and Olga Lapiado

1967 became a black page in the history of the Zapashny circus dynasty. The youngest of the famous brothers-trainers committed a crime, the cruelty of which surprised even seasoned investigators. And it all began beautifully. Igor - a modest and shy young man - fell in love with the acrobat Olga Lapiado, who was also a representative of another famous circus dynasty. The couple in love looked so harmoniously together that many envied her in an amicable way.

However, after the wedding, the idyll did not last long. Olga was a spectacular girl who was always surrounded by fans. And Igor was distinguished by pathological jealousy. Scandals in the family became more frequent after Lapiado played a cameo role in the film "Garnet Bracelet". Crowds of fans began to literally follow on the heels of her darling, and because of this at home, she was waiting for another quarrel, insults, assault by her husband and then promises that this would not happen again.

Olga tried more than once to leave her jealous husband, but each time she returned again. However, after another scandal, she decided that she had had enough. True, she did not have time to apply for divorce, since she went on tour to Saratov. And when she returned, Igor was waiting for her on the platform with a bouquet of flowers. However, the 22-year-old girl did not intend to put up and only agreed to go home in order to pick up her things.

When Olga did not come to spend the night at the circus hostel, no one worried. They thought that they had made up with her husband. They realized it only when she did not show up for work. Then they called Igor, but no one answered the phone. After that, the circus called the police, who, opening the door of Zapashny's apartment, saw a terrible find: in the hallway there were bags with dismembered body parts.

However, Igor did not have to look for a long time, he himself confessed. From his story, it became clear that he was trying to make peace with his wife, and she began to collect things. Word for word, and Olga blurted out that she had another. So it was in reality, or the girl said so that her husband left her behind, but he seemed to be wedged: he grabbed a knife and inflicted at least 20 blows. Then Zapashny dismembered the body and wanted to hide it. However, then, realizing what he had done, he ran to his brother Mstislav, who persuaded him to go to the police.

Igor was expected to be shot, but an influential relative used all his connections to replace the death penalty with a prison term. And he succeeded: Zapashny was given 15 years. It is interesting that even behind bars he managed to get married, and when he was released, he returned to St. Petersburg and tries to avoid publicity.

Edita Piekha and Alexander Bronevitsky

Thanks to Bronevitsky, Piekha became a star: it was he who saw the talent in the unknown soloist of the choir, who came from Poland. But it was the first spouse who brought a lot of suffering to the popular singer.

During his acquaintance, Alexander studied at the conservatory. He immediately liked the unusual girl, she also perceived him as the leader of the choir, nothing more. The guy made Edita a soloist of the Druzhba ensemble, and a year later offered to become his wife. Soon their daughter Ilona was born, and the singer's career took off.

However, family life was overshadowed by the fact that Bronevitsky was pathologically jealous. He suspected his wife of treason and could even beat him if it seemed to him that she was behaving frivolously. Once, Alexander even followed Piekha to the Cannes Film Festival, entered her hotel room through the window and demanded to say where Muslim Magomayev, who was also a member of the Soviet delegation, was hiding.

At the same time, the composer did not see anything terrible in the fact that he himself was unfaithful to his wife. And Edita knew about his many adventures, but was silent and endured. In the end, Piekha could not stand it and left her husband for KGB Colonel Gennady Shestakov. Bronevitsky married one more time to a singer much younger than himself, who cheated on him. Once during a tour, having closed her husband in the room, she went to a party. Alexander became ill - they found him dead with a telephone receiver in his hands.

Natalia Kustinskaya and Boris Egorov

Natalya Kustinskaya was considered one of the most beautiful women in the Soviet Union, fans did not give her a pass, filled up with gifts and flowers, and sought favor. But few people knew that the fatal blonde for almost 20 years suffered bullying and beatings from her husband Boris Yegorov and was afraid to admit it even to relatives. Although, perhaps, she was silent because at one time she herself took the man away from her friend.

Before meeting Kustinskaya, cosmonaut Boris Egorov was the husband of another Natalia, Fateeva. The girls played together in the comedy "Three plus two" and were even considered friends. But one husband for two forever ruined their relationship. The marriage with Yegorov was at first happy, and then scandals began that spilled over into assault. Boris beat his wife so hard that several times she even had to call an ambulance. However, in public, the couple continued to portray the ideal family.

Plus, the astronaut was cheating on his wife. Many did not understand how you can walk from Kustinskaya? However, she guessed everything, but endured. But once she could not forgive another betrayal, although Yegorov begged him not to leave him. The couple parted. After the divorce, Boris almost immediately got married again. And Kustinskaya managed to be married three more times. In the last years of her life, she spent in poverty and oblivion.