Maxim Averin and Anna Yakunina: An abnormal relationship lasting 25 years

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

In the life of each of them there were many trials, unexpected turns, meetings and partings. The only thing that remained unchanged was that they were always with each other. Maksim Averin and Anna Yakunina, even in the popular TV series Sklifosovsky, do not seem to play at all, but live their own lives and their own destiny. Once they played on the stage of the same theater, now they have many joint projects, but in life … What connects these two seemingly completely different people?

Crossroads of Fate

Once a schoolboy Maxim Averin studied in a theater studio at the House of Cinema. In the same studio there was a teacher Olga Velikanova, mother of Anna Yakunina. Maxim could have already met Nyura at that time, as he calls his colleague. Perhaps then it was too early for them to get to know each other, they were not yet able to assess what chance fate gave them.

Years passed, he graduated from the Shchukin School and was accepted into the troupe of the Satyricon Theater under the direction of Konstantin Raikin. Anna Yakunina has served in the same theater for seven years. They really met during a trip to Yekaterinburg.

No one was even going to sleep on the train: the actors laughed to the point of exhaustion, telling stories, and in the center of all this fun was Maxim Averin. It seems that it was then that he and Anna Yakunina noticed each other.

No, it wasn't love. It was much brighter, stronger and more meaningful for both of them: two kindred spirits met. They laughed at the same jokes, they could immediately continue the phrase said to others, it was comfortable for them to be silent together or talk about everything in the world.

Soul kinship

They are friends seriously, truly, refuting all stereotypes about the impossibility of the existence of friendship between a man and a woman. Maxim Averin is ready to fly to Anna from anywhere in the world if she suddenly needs help. And in fact, he will arrive, save, insure.

So it was when it was planned to celebrate the anniversary of the actress and it was necessary to tie together her performance "Woman's Monologue". Maxim, despite his busyness, promised to put everything together in a single canvas, but he desperately did not have enough time for rehearsals. The only run-through took place four hours before the performance. When the sound engineer could not find the soundtrack in time, Maxim himself went on stage and confidently went to the actress, hugged her tightly and began to read poems by Robert Rozhdestvensky.

It was like a director's move, but in fact, the audience saw the purest improvisation, which arose from the desire to calm down, save the situation, put their hands up so that Anna would not fall from excitement there, on the stage. When Yakunina was asked to repeat the solo performance, she firmly decided not to pull Averin, she was convinced that she would cope with the situation herself. Moreover, for the first time in a long time he escaped to rest in Sochi.

When Maxim found out that the performance would take place tomorrow, he only asked how she was going to work it herself and why she agreed to this adventure at all. And an hour later, he was already taking a plane ticket to Moscow, knowing for sure: you cannot leave a friend without support.

It seemed that when Yakunina left the "Satyricon", her friendship with Averin should have gradually ceased to exist. Different troupes, different schedules, each with its own life, after all. But soul mates could not be separated. On the debut performance of Anna in "Lenkom", where the actress moved, Maxim did not get, was busy in "Satyricon". But he managed to rush to the finale, break through the army of theatrical law enforcement officers and give his girlfriend a gorgeous bouquet.

They look like twins, although Anna was born only seven years earlier than Maxim. They just can't explain their incredible family connection in another way. They literally feel each other. When Maxim gets tired and loses his footing, the actress rushes to his aid. Consoles, soothes, cares and brews tea for him. The actor always behaves like a man towards her: protects, protects, lends his shoulder.

Anna Yakunina's husband, Alexei, was never jealous of Anna for Maxim, although sometimes he joked: Averin spends much more time with Nyura in bed than his own husband. Actors really often have to play lovers on stage and even kiss, but this has nothing to do with either their friendship or personal life.

Not to lose

They both value and cherish their friendship. And they quarreled only once in a quarter century of coexistence in one living space. They both refuse to talk about the essence of the conflict, but both admit: after ten days of silence, they realized how difficult it is to lose. It turned out that they absolutely cannot live without each other. When Anna, disregarding all the conventions, called Maxim and said how bad she was without him, he could have said the same phrase in exactly the same words.

Since then, the actors have become even more careful about their relationships. For Yakunina, Averin is much more than a friend, he is a native person, a member of her family. For Averin, the actress is also more than just a friend. She is just a part of his life.

For Maxim Averin and Anna Yakunina, love is a kinship of souls. And everything, of course, is in their friendship it also began with love, real, strong, indestructible, what happens only between really relatives and close-minded people.