Coping with a loss: 10 Russian celebrities who lost their children

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

Unfortunately, fame and success are not a defense against loss and tragedy. Celebrities suffer from losses no less than mere mortals, especially if it is associated with the loss of a child. Stars are used to hiding their pain by going out in public again and again with a smile on their face. And only the closest people know how many tears inconsolable parents shed when no one sees them.

Dmitry Pevtsov

The son of Dmitry Pevtsov Daniel was born in the actual marriage of the actor to Larisa Blazhko. Student love quickly ended, the young people broke up, Dmitry Pevtsov chose not to communicate with his son, believing that he was not his child. However, Dmitry's wife, actress Olga Drozdova, insisted on restoring her husband's relationship with his son. Over time, Dmitry and Daniel developed a very warm relationship, and when Olga gave birth to Elisha, the actor's eldest son quickly managed to win over his brother.

The tragedy happened in the fall of 2012, at the alumni meeting. Daniel fell from the fourth floor balcony. According to the actor, no one is to blame for the death of his son, it so happened that the young man, pulling himself up on the railing, did not keep his balance and fell down. The pain of the loss was simply unbearable, but visiting a church, reading Orthodox books and a wife who helped in everything helped to cope with it.

Elena Zakharova

The actress lost her baby at the age of eight months. Anna Maria died of an acute viral infection. They parted with her husband Sergei Mamontov. Elena Zakharova mourned her daughter for several years. Work and temple attendance helped numb the pain. Only in church did the actress feel happy. All this time, she did not stop working, taking the stage just 10 days after the loss of the child. In 2017, the actress became a mother again, Elena had a daughter.

Alexander Domogarov

Dmitry Domogarov, 23, was standing on the sidewalk with his friends when a passing foreign car skidded and drove right into the crowd of pedestrians. At the moment of the collision, the young man was thrown, and when he fell, he hit his head. A few hours later, Dmitry died in the hospital.

Alexander did not communicate with his son for a long time, after parting with his mother and his first wife, but this made the pain of loss even stronger, because the actor realized how much he could give Dmitry, but did not have time. Even Domogarov said goodbye to his firstborn in secret, so as not to attract the attention of journalists.

Nonna Mordyukova and Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Parents blamed themselves for the death of an adult son. They broke up when Vladimir was only 13 years old and both were more passionate about work than raising a child. As a result, during his student years, he became addicted to alcohol, and then to drugs.

Vladimir Tikhonov died in 1990 from acute heart failure. Nonna Mordyukova admitted that the pain of loss did not diminish over the years, it just became a little easier to breathe. Vyacheslav Tikhonov was laconic before, and after the death of his son he reduced his communication with strangers to a minimum.

Irina Kupchenko and Vasily Lanovoy

The youngest son of Irina Kupchenko and Vasily Lanovoy died at the age of 37 from acute heart failure. The couple experienced the loss very hard, but they were greatly helped by communication with Anna, the illegitimate daughter of their son, who constantly visited her grandfather and grandmother in the capital, flying to them from Arkhangelsk.

Vasily Lanovoy entered the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater on the day of Sergei's funeral, October 15, 2013. Irina was also supposed to play in the play "The Pier" with her husband, but the all-consuming pain did not allow her to do this.

Valentin Gaft

Olga Eliseeva, the actor's 29-year-old daughter from her first marriage, voluntarily took her own life by hanging herself in the apartment where she lived with her mother. At one time, Valentin Gaft could not stand the despotic nature of his wife and left her. And after the death of his daughter, he blamed himself: he did not take, could not change anything in the life of the dear person himself. Olga was a kind and gentle girl, she danced in the Kremlin ballet.

The father maintained a relationship with the girl, but only at the level that allowed him under no circumstances to meet with her mother. And mom made her daughter's life completely unbearable. Olga had to act only as her mother ordered, to meet only with people she liked. The girl could not stand the total control.

Irina Bezrukova

Sergei, the son of Irina Bezrukova from his first marriage with Igor Livanov, died on March 14, 2015 as a result of an unsuccessful fall in the bathroom. The young man slipped and hit his head. Death was instant. Irina and Sergey Bezrukov at that time were on tour in Irkutsk, and got worried when they could not contact their son for 24 hours. They decided to open the apartment in the presence of Irina's close friend and the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the police.

According to the actress, the pain of loss is now constantly with her, over the past three years she has not dulled or diminished, just Irina learned to hide it.

Vladimir Kuzmin

The famous singer had to bury his children twice. At the end of 2002, his 24-year-old daughter Elizaveta, who was born in her first marriage to Tatyana Artemyeva, was killed. Elizabeth's lover stabbed a girl to death during a quarrel. Seven years after the tragedy, Elizabeth's brother Stepan died tragically. He tried to escape during a fire that broke out in his apartment on the 18th floor, but fell from the eaves down.

The singer blames himself for not giving the children enough time. When they needed him most, he built his career.

Losing a child is very scary, but it is equally difficult for children to cope with the loss of their parents at an early age. from Japan took charge of caring for two brothers after the children were left orphans.