How feminist Maria Arbatova conquered the Bengali prince: the secret of family happiness of an unusual star couple

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

In the late 1970s. she was known as the owner of the Salon Masha s Arbat, where Soviet hippies gathered, in the second half of the 1990s. - as the main feminist of the post-Soviet space and the most shocking expert from the TV show “I Myself”, and nowadays she is presented primarily as a writer and screenwriter. Maria Arbatova often became a guest of various talk shows and television programs, where she talked more than once about "every successive marriage." She was married three times, but her current family union turned out to be the most harmonious and strong. How the first feminist writer in our country conquered the Bengali prince - further in the review.

Maria Gavrilina was born in Murom and raised in Moscow. Her father was a philosophy teacher, journalist, deputy editor-in-chief of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, and her mother received a degree in microbiology. When she was 11 years old, her father passed away, and she had a difficult relationship with her mother. Maria always rebelled against her tyranny and overprotection, and at the age of 15 she set off on an independent voyage. Mother registered her in two rooms on the Arbat, once acquired by her great-grandfather, and there Maria organized the "Salon Masha s Arbat", where Soviet hippies and creative youth gathered. Then the pseudonym of Arbatov appeared, which later replaced her real surname - at the end of 1999. she changed it in her passport.

After school, Maria entered the philosophy faculty of Moscow State University, but soon became disillusioned with her chosen specialty due to strong ideological pressure and took the documents to the Literary Institute. In parallel, she studied psychoanalysis with Boris Kravtsov. In her student years, Maria got married for the first time. At that time, her chosen one, Alexander Miroshnik, was a student at the Musical College. Gnesins, and later became an opera singer. At the age of 20, Maria became the mother of two twin sons.

This marriage lasted 17 years. Arbatova called him Italian or artistic - their relationship was passionate and emotional, there were violent quarrels, and scenes of jealousy, and parting, and reconciliation. Once the spouse climbed onto the balcony on the third floor with a bouquet in his teeth. But Alexander disappeared on tour for six months, and at this time each of the spouses had their own personal life, which they did not hide from each other. However, something else destroyed their union. "", - said Maria Arbatova. According to her, at some point, her husband suddenly turned into a third son for her, and she did not want to raise him.

In the second half of the 1990s. the name of Maria Arbatova was recognized by the whole country - then she became a co-host in the TV program "I Myself", and for 5 years she appeared on screens in this capacity. She was called one of the most extravagant and shocking people on television and the main feminist of the post-Soviet space. Arbatova's statements at that time seemed too bold and sharp. She surprised someone, admired someone, and annoyed someone, but did not leave anyone indifferent.

At that time, Maria Arbatova was married for the second time. Political expert Oleg Vite became her chosen one. She then became interested in politics herself, but common interests later became the cause of disagreements in the family. The couple divorced … because of the elections! In the late 1990s. Arbatova ran for the State Duma of the Russian Federation, albeit unsuccessfully. She and her husband disagreed in political views and could not distinguish between their social activities and family life. After 7 years of marriage, they divorced, but at the same time they maintained very good friendships.

In addition to her writing and political activities, Maria Arbatova hosted a human rights program on the radio. Once on a program about Indian democracy, her guest was a Bengali prince, a representative of a noble family, the nephew of the leader of the Communist Party of India, financial analyst Shumit Datta Gupta, whose grandfather had the title of "paradise bahadur", which means "great king." After the transfer, he asked her out on a date. Almost at first glance, Maria realized that he would become her third husband. According to her, this was also the case in previous marriages - intuition unmistakably told her which of the men could become her companion, so the relationship developed very rapidly, without a “candy-bouquet period”.

Shumit was 10 years younger than her, but in their communication this was not a barrier - according to Maria, she was struck by his integrity, intelligence, wisdom and, at the same time, children's perception of reality. And Shumit said that Maria is very similar to his aunt, the national heroine of India, Kalpana Dutta. Since his youth, he lived in Moscow, where he graduated from the Physics Department of the Peoples' Friendship University. Patrice Lumumba, and then stayed to work in Russia. He already had a marriage with a Russian woman behind him, and the problem of the difference in mentality for Maria and Shumit no longer existed. He says about himself that he was “translated into Russian” a long time ago.

They have been together for almost 15 years, and this marriage is not like the previous ones. Although Maria Arbatova has repeatedly said that all her marriages were successful and happy, it was only with her third husband that she found the long-awaited peace and complete harmony. Italian passions do not rage in their family - Maria has long grown out of this age, and Shumit values her family so much that she does not risk endangering her because of scandals and battles for "her territory."

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