Table of contents:
- Rimma Markova and Jose Gonzalez Maria Antonio
- Galina Loginova and Bogi Jovovich
- Lyudmila Maksakova and Peter Andreas Igenbergs
- Natalia Andreichenko and Maximilian Schell
- Angelina Vovk and Jindrich Getz
- Elena Safonova and Samuel Labarthe
- Margarita Terekhova and Savva Khashimov
- Love Polekhina and Mario Ribero
Video: "Life overseas is not bad?": 8 Soviet celebrities who married foreigners
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In Soviet times, any relationship with citizens of other states was very limited. And it was very difficult to marry a foreigner. However, there were women in the USSR who were ready to overcome any obstacles for the sake of their feelings. Until the last day, Rimma Markova's passport contained a stamp on the registration of marriage with a Spaniard, Margarita Terekhova was at one time the wife of a Bulgarian, and Lyudmila Maksakova lived with her German husband for over 40 years.
Rimma Markova and Jose Gonzalez Maria Antonio
Jose Gonzalez saw Rimma Markova at the San Sebastian Film Festival and fell in love with her at first sight. Rimma Vasilievna avoided any contact with him, but the Spaniard went for a trick: trying to charm the Russian actress, he began with her leadership. He treated the entire Soviet delegation, and at the same time tried to present the actress herself with jewelry, fur coats, flowers.
But the morally stable Rimma Markova sent all the gifts back, although they kept repeating that she was missing her chance. The party escorts themselves pushed the actress into the arms of the generous Spanish baron.
Rimma Vasilievna did marry him. But the burning handsome man turned out to be very jealous. Because of his jealousy, the marriage actually fell apart, but the divorce was not formalized. The actress until the end of her days was the official wife, and then the widow of Jose Gonzalez Maria Antonio. As Rimma Markova herself said, she had two marriages at the behest of the heart and one on the instructions of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
Galina Loginova and Bogi Jovovich
Galina Loginova made her debut in the film "Shadows disappear at noon", where she played 25-year-old Olga Voronova, and thanks to the role of Beatrice in the film "Much Ado About Nothing" the young actress became famous. A brilliant future awaited her, if not for the fateful meeting with the Serb doctor Bogi Jovovich in a Kiev restaurant.
Real feelings arose between the young people, which both did not want to give up, even under threats from the security forces. Galya married the Gods and gave birth to a daughter, Milla, in 1975. Jovovich soon had to leave the country. When her daughter fell ill with meningitis, Galina asked to allow her husband to enter the USSR. But the answer was an icy silence.
Bogi Jovovich saw his daughter only at the age of seven, when his wife was able to come to him in London. Later, the family moved to Los Angeles, and Galina, unable to achieve heights in cinema, decided that her daughter simply had to become a star. Galina broke up with her husband, but she was able to raise a world celebrity from her daughter. The story of how Soviet actress, raised a Hollywood star worthy of being a novel.
Lyudmila Maksakova and Peter Andreas Igenbergs
They met in 1971, on the day she learned about her being awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. By this time, the actress was already at the peak of her popularity, having played many roles in theater and cinema. A Siemens representative, a scientist and businessman courted her friend, but was captivated by the beauty of his new acquaintance so much that he proposed to her on the evening of the first meeting.
In 1974, they got married and they stopped inviting the actress to the cinema, and they tried not to give roles in the theater either. However, over time, all problems were successfully resolved and Lyudmila Maksakova lived with her husband for over 40 years. Peter Andreas Igenbergs passed away in January 2018.
Natalia Andreichenko and Maximilian Schell
They saw each other on the set of the series "Peter the Great", where Maximilian played Peter, and Natalia played Evdokia Lopukhina, his first wife. He did not understand a word in Russian, she did not speak English, and on the first date he tried to express his feelings by drawing hearts on napkins.
For the sake of her new love, the actress filed for a divorce from Maxim Dunaevsky. She refused to respond to the orders of the KGB officers to break off relations with the foreigner. In 1985 she married Maximilian, in 1991 she went to her husband in America. In 2005, the marriage broke up, Shell met and fell in love with another woman. READ MORE …
Angelina Vovk and Jindrich Getz
Angelina Vovk and the chief artist of the Barrandov studio, Indrich Getz, met during the TV presenter's business trip to Czechoslovakia in 1982. For his sake, she left her first husband, became the wife of Indřich, but refused to emigrate. He had been waiting for her to move to Prague for 13 long years. Without waiting, he married another in 1995.
Elena Safonova and Samuel Labarthe
The main performer of the role in the series "Winter Cherry" married the French actor Samuel Labarthe in 1992, after finishing work on the film "Accompanist", where they starred together. She moved to Paris to her husband, in 1993 gave birth to a son, and already in 1997 their marriage broke up, the boy stayed with his dad, the actress returned to Russia.
Margarita Terekhova and Savva Khashimov
She met the popular Bulgarian actor in 1966 in Bulgaria on the set of the film Runner on the Waves. Feelings swirled them literally from the first minute. For her sake, he divorced his first wife, the couple had a daughter, Anna. But the marriage lasted only a year and a half. Savva did not want to live in Moscow, and she categorically refused to go to him in Bulgaria.
Love Polekhina and Mario Ribero
She starred in the films "Mothers and Daughters", "And it's all about him" and in more than 20 films. Lyubov Polekhina married her classmate at VGIK, Colombian Mario Ribero, after receiving her diploma in 1976. They lived in two countries for a long time, after the actress moved to her husband in Colombia. A son and a daughter were born in the family, but the spouses could not keep the marriage.
The marriage is still shrouded in secrets: no one knows whether it was a love marriage or a specially designed KGB operation.
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