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Even before the start of World War II, Mikhail Zharov became one of the most famous and sought-after actors in the Soviet Union. He played in the theater, acted in films even during the war years, and for a long time was in search of his true happiness. He broke the heart of his first wife, could not live with the second, the third betrayed him, and only the fourth was able to warm her with her warmth. But on the way to happiness, Mikhail Zharov had to prove that he was worthy of the love of a young beauty.
The first love
For the first time, Mikhail Zharov got married quite early. During the Civil War, he toured extensively with the Bolshevik traveling theater on the eastern front. Somewhere there he first met Nadezhda Guzovskaya, Dina, as everyone called her.
The actor's mother tried to dissuade her son from this marriage. After all, at that time he was barely 19 years old, and what kind of family could there be at that age? Moreover, the chosen one was two years older than Mikhail, and at that time it was considered a misalliance. But the ardent and hot Zharov was able to insist on his own. He brought Dina to the parental home, and soon a son, Eugene, was born.
Mikhail lived with Dina for eight happy years, then fell in love again. When he decided to file for divorce, his mother gave him an ultimatum: Dina is like a daughter to her, so she and her son will stay with them. And she forbade Mikhail to bring a new darling into the house. True, she herself agreed to come to meet her son's second wife.
Has severed the grief
The actor understood that he was not doing the right thing, but he simply could not resist his own feelings. He fell madly in love with actress Lyusya Polyanskaya and intended to live a long and happy life with her. However, the lovers were divided by grief.
The couple passionately dreamed of children, and soon their first son was born. When the baby died in infancy, Mikhail Zharov and his wife were able to survive this misfortune together. But then, at an equally early age, the second son died, and his wife began to move away from the actor. Mikhail Zharov never told anyone about what happened to his sons, but he suffered greatly from the coldness of his wife. However, they soon divorced and finally broke off relations, especially since a new love appeared in the life of the actor.
Ardent passion
The actor met Lyudmila Tselikovskaya during the filming of the film "Air Carrier". And very soon the joint work grew into a passionate romance. Zharov was twenty years older, but he did not see a problem at all, especially since Tselikovskaya, it seems, fell in love with him with no less passion. And she even decided to divorce her second husband, writer Boris Voytekhov.
Mikhail Zharov was ready to throw the whole world at the feet of his beloved and did everything to make her feel happy next to him. But Tselikovskaya dreamed of children, and the desired pregnancy still did not come. Despite the care and attention from her husband, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya five years later fell in love with the architect Karo Alabyan and went to him. However, she later said more than once that of all her men, it was Zharov who loved her the most. For her, Karo Halabyan has always remained the main love.
True happiness
A divorce from Lyudmila Tselikovskaya Mikhail Zharov was very upset. Against the background of severe stress, the actor even began to have heart problems, and the theater gave him a ticket to a sanatorium near Moscow. There he walked along the paths and painfully tried to understand what he did wrong, why his wife, whom he loved so much, betrayed him. However, more than once or twice he recalled his first wife, Dina, with whom he did the same.
And one day he was walking along the alley and saw a girl right in front of him. Her huge gray eyes hit the actor in the heart. It was Maya, the daughter of the famous doctors Ginda and Eliazar Gelstein. She was 30 years younger than Mikhail Zharov, but what did age matter when, just a few days after meeting, she wrote in her diary that she felt in love with an old and ugly, but sweet and wonderful actor.
In the fall of 1949, Mikhail Zharov came to the house of his beloved, asked to take him to Eliazar Gelstein and, kneeling down, asked him for Maya's hand, assuring that they loved each other. The stunned father did not even find what to answer to such a daring statement.
Later, Ginda and Eliazar decided to talk to their daughter, who assured her parents: she really loves Zharov and cannot imagine her life without him. Naturally, the father and mother tried to dissuade their daughter from marriage, but she was adamant. All they had to do was either agree to this marriage, or come to terms with the fact that sooner or later Maya would still go to Zharov. The wedding was modest, and later Maya's parents were convinced of the decency of their son-in-law. The first rapprochement took place when their eldest granddaughter Anna was born, and grandparents didted in the baby.
But very little time passed, and Ginda and Eliazar Gelstein were arrested in the case of doctors. Zharov not only did not disown them at a party meeting, which was what everyone expected of him, but began to actively plead for his relatives. Anna, the actor's daughter, said that her father even got Stalin's reception, but did not find understanding, but after this meeting he started having problems in the theater. Fortunately, after Stalin's death, Maya's parents were released. Maya and Mikhail Zharovs had their youngest daughter Elizabeth at about the same time.
Maya and Mikhail Zharovs have lived together for over 30 years. The wife knew how to calm the actor, who had a hot-tempered and restless character, cared for him touchingly, never gave a reason to doubt her love, was his muse and guardian angel.
When Mikhail Zharov died in 1981, she was very upset by his departure, her legs even refused. She outlived her husband by 16 years and there was not a day that she did not remember the man whom she loved all her life.
Mikhail Zharov got used to his roles so convincingly that in real life he was mistaken for one of his thieves, billiard players, policemen, and even … drunkards. Although in fact Zharov was far from the screen images he created. and was very burdened by his popularity, because of which he often got into unpleasant situations …
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