Two husbands and one illusion of the famous gymnast Larisa Latynina

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

She still remains one of the most titled athletes in the world, although more than half a century has passed since her sports career. Larisa Latynina was a winner not only in sports, but also in life. She graduated from school with a gold medal, and the institute with honors. And in the family, she strove for the ideal, but she could only achieve it on the third attempt. She had to endure severe disappointment and learn to live anew after a heavy loss before Larisa Latynina became truly happy.

Married at the insistence of mom

Larisa Diriy met Ivan Latynin while studying at a girls' school in Kherson. Cadets from the nautical school were often invited to big school holidays, and high school girls often attended sailing evenings.

At that time, the future sailor began to look after the pretty gymnast. Larisa's mother really liked Ivan, she began to invite him to visit, fed him with pleasure and already saw her as her son-in-law. Larisa accepted courtship, but she did not experience any passionate feelings for the young man. She was passionate about sports, gave her all in training and was preparing to enter college.

Larisa became a student of the Kiev Polytechnic University, and her mother went from Kherson to Kiev after her daughter. When she realized that young people began to pay attention to her girl, and even escorted her to the hostel, Pelageya Anisimovna sounded the alarm and telegraphed Ivan, who was serving in Baku at that time, about the need to come.

He came to Kiev twice, and then Pelageya Anisimovna began to insist on the marriage of her daughter. Larisa could not resist her mother's wishes for a long time, and as a result, like an obedient daughter, she resigned herself and answered Ivan Latynin's proposal with consent.

However, in Larisa's life, apart from changing her surname, at first nothing changed: she still disappeared at the training camps and competitions, took sessions during the breaks, and later transferred from the Polytechnic Institute to the Physical Education Institute. The reason for the translation was her desire to be the first in everything that she could not achieve at the Polytechnic due to her frequent absence.

Soon, Ivan and Larisa Latynin had a daughter, Tatyana, and in the fifth month of pregnancy, the gymnast successfully performed at the World Championships, becoming the absolute champion.

The illusion of happiness

After the end of her sports career, Larisa Latynina began to visit home more often. And then it turned out that they were completely different people with Ivan Ilyich. Life in the family seemed gray and mundane, but then a man appeared on the path of the gymnast, who conquered her with his mind and ability to look after. However, next to Ivan Latynin there was already a girl who dreamed of living with him.

Larisa Semyonovna succumbed to his charm and soon went to her beloved. She never mentioned him in an interview and does not even want to remember the ten years of her life spent with him.

She simply erased from her memory the years that were filled for her with pain, resentment, betrayal and humiliation. And she was almost able to convince herself that these years in her life simply did not exist.

Larisa Latynina never speaks about the death of her son Sergei, which she had to endure. Quite a few years have passed since that time, but the gymnast prefers never to touch on this topic.

Only work saved her from severe depression in difficult times. By the time of parting with her common-law husband, she was just preparing the national gymnastics team for competitions and spent almost all the time with the athletes.

The champion had already completely put an end to her personal life, considering her destiny only to work and communicate with her daughter and grandchildren. Larisa Semyonovna had fans, of course. They invited her to the theater or to exhibitions, but she had no heartfelt affection for anyone.

Almost a holiday romance

Shortly before her 51st birthday, Larisa Latynina met the chief engineer of the Dynamo plant, Yuri Feldman, at the Voronovo rest house. It all started with an offer to play tennis, which Larisa Semyonovna accepted with pleasure, noting that she could not play, but would not give up the opportunity to learn.

Yuri Feldman began to teach Larisa Latynina to play. Later they began to go to the cinema, and then a fire broke out at the plant where Yuri worked, and he rushed to the enterprise, entrusting the care of Larisa to his friend, with whom he lived in the same room. A friend surrounded Larisa with attention and care, and Yuri, who returned late in the evening, was incredibly happy to see Larisa. And in a fit of feelings he took her hand and touched his lips to the place on the wrist where thin veins were visible. At that moment, Larisa Semyonovna suddenly realized: for this man she was ready to go into fire and water.

True, he was married, and the lovers met in secret for about three years. And then Yuri Izrailevich came to her with a small suitcase and simply said that he would not part with her now. He held a leading position, was a member of the party committee, and therefore the announcement of his divorce entailed a call to a party meeting, study and conversation. However, this did not shake him in his decision to marry Larisa Latynina.

More than 30 years have passed since then. Larisa Latynina and Yuri Feldman happily live together in their home in the Moscow region and lead a non-public lifestyle. The renowned gymnast met her true love at a mature age, but all the more anxiously protects her from any adversity.

The fate of Larisa Latynina, both in sports and in her personal life, has developed quite happily. But there were athletes among her colleagues who were much less fortunate. Their names were well known not only in the USSR, but also abroad, they were called legends of Soviet sports and the pride of the country, they showed brilliant results in competitions and brought home gold medals. And all of this was destroyed overnight. Each had their own reasons.