Leonid Yarmolnik and Oksana Afanasyeva: a boring marriage that turned a womanizer into an exemplary family man

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

Leonid Yarmolnik and Oksana Afanasyeva have been together for 35 years. Two characters, two whole personalities, two leaders did not find each other at once. The meeting with Oksana turned Leonid from a fickle conqueror of women's hearts into an exemplary family man. She was the last love of the great Vladimir Vysotsky. Yarmolnik became her husband, friend, lover and father to their only daughter.

Oksana Afanasyeva: life before Leonid

She had a difficult childhood with this strong girl. She was only six years old when her mother died. Oksana very well remembers her childhood and the pain of the loss she experienced. The little girl stayed with her father, a rather popular writer at that time. Companies often gathered in the house, where alcohol flowed like a river. She studied at the most prestigious French school, and at home she saw her father drunk every day, who, when intoxicated, was often aggressive. And he was still trying to find the perfect stepmother for his daughter, not realizing that his early matured Oksana did not need any replacements for her beloved mother.

After school, the girl entered a textile institute, choosing for herself the profession of a costume designer. At some point, she made a radical decision to exchange an apartment with her father and start her independent adult life.

She often visited the theater, trying not to miss premieres. And one day in the administrator's theater on Taganka, fate brought her together with Vladimir Vysotsky. It is her, Oksana Afanasyeva, who will be called the last love of the great bard. For his sake, she will leave her fiance, and with Vysotsky she will live bright two years. The last two years of his life. Jn loved her, he idolized her and died when she was near. Then she was only 20 years old. And two years after his death, fate gave her a second chance to love and become loved.

Leonid Yarmolnik: life before Oksana

Leonid was born in the Primorsky Territory into a military family. He did not show much zeal for his studies, but he played the accordion masterly, graduated from a music school. In high school, he became interested in literature, and then theater. After school he entered the Shchukin school.

While working at the Taganka Theater, he began acting in films. The actor dreamed about cinema. But this world did not immediately accept him. In fact, Yarmolnik's debut took place only in 1974, in the film "Your Rights". He was remembered by the audience in the role of Theophilus in the film "That very Munchausen", and also in numerous humorous television programs. A little later, he will play many bright roles in films that will be loved by the audience.

In the theater, he had excellent work in a wonderful acting environment. During his lifetime, Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky gave him some of his roles.

Young Yarmolnik could reasonably be called a womanizer and heartthrob. The first love happened to him at the age of 15, however, the girl was older than him and was very condescending to the feelings of the young admirer. The actor's romance with Zoya Pylnova lasted seven whole years. Then there was the first official marriage with Elena Valk. He generally had many women. He seemed to be looking for his soul mate. And he found her in 1982.

Fateful meeting

They met at a party with mutual friends. Oksana was already in the company when Leonid Yarmolnik arrived with Alexander Abdulov. And Leonid almost immediately realized that he was missing. He immediately began to look after a charming girl with a sad look. He was joking, he was courtesy itself. After the party, he went to see her off. And a day later he lived with Oksana.

Leonid realized that he had finally met his ideal woman. And that he simply has no right to lose her. Many dissuaded him from a relationship with Oksana. But it was absolutely impossible to convince Yarmolnik. He loved and was loved. He had enough intelligence and tact not to ask Oksana about her past with Vladimir Vysotsky and, moreover, not to be jealous of him. In 1983, Oksana and Leonid had a daughter, Alexander.

A boring marriage

They both don't like to talk about love. They achieved the main thing in their family - harmony. The once loving Yarmolnik became an exemplary family man. He dearly loves his straightforward Ksenia. He always speaks of her with undisguised tenderness and respect. He also became a very caring father and a completely crazy grandfather for his grandson, little Petya.

Oksana herself admits that only such a person as Leonid Yarmolnik could become her husband. They do not take their lives out in public, preferring to solve all problems within the family. They had a period of long showdown when they were on the verge of divorce. Oksana even wanted to leave. But looking at the situation from the outside, I realized: she has no right to deprive her daughter of such a wonderful father. She has no right to ruin the happiness of her daughter Alexandra, who loves her dad immensely. Leonid also decided to moderate his emotionality in order to save his beloved wife and daughter. They had the strength to start life from scratch and never regretted it. Although once Oksana and Leonid still divorced, but only in order to solve the housing problem. But the second marriage in 1998 was then celebrated very widely.

In the Yarmolnik family, Oksana is undoubtedly the driving force and motor. But she has enough feminine wisdom to turn everything in such a way that Leonid considers her every idea to be his. In her own words, the highest female talent is to make a man feel absolutely free.

Perhaps they are happy because each has managed to preserve his own personality in marriage, without dissolving into a loved one. Each of them is busy with what they love. Leonid says that his wife understands his profession much better than he does what his wife does. Oksana, on the other hand, is a fairly well-known costume designer in the capital, a successful designer. She also owns her own studio, where she sews her own designer soft toys.

They never tried to prove who is more important in the family. They just go hand in hand together. When Oksana fell ill, her husband admitted that he would have endured his own pain more easily. It seems that this is true love.

Oksana and Leonid Yarmolnik discovered their own recipe for happiness. He was in the family Frunzik Mkrtchyan and Donary Pilosyan, but their happiness was overshadowed by family drama.