Frunzik Mkrtchyan and Donara Pilosyan: moments of happiness as long as love

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

Looking at the photos of successful and famous people, one gets the opinion that all the sorrows and hardships bypass them. But actually it is not. Tragedies also happen in "star" families. But fans do not always know about this. After all, on the screens, your favorite actors are still joking sparklingly. All this fully applies to the family of Frunzik Mkrtchyan, for whom fate has prepared difficult trials.

Frunzik Mkrtchyan

This actor did not need a presentation, everyone knew him in the USSR. And in his native Armenia, he is still a national hero, his portraits can be seen on the streets of Yerevan. The full name of the actor is Frunze Mushegovich Mkrtchyan. But in his homeland he was often called Mher, which means "light".

The official name of Frunze was given in honor of the famous Soviet commander during the civil war, Mikhail Frunze. Mher-Frunze was born in the city of Leninakan of the Armenian SSR on July 4, 1930. Now it is the city of Gyumri. Frunze's parents are refugees from the Armenian genocide in Turkey. They, lonely five-year-old children, were found on the road and sent to one orphanage.

According to his brother's recollections, Frunzik really was a very kind and bright person from childhood. He was also thin, with a big nose, awkward, and everyone laughed at him. But it soon became clear that nature gave this big-nosed boy with sad eyes a huge talent. He showed acting skills from childhood. From the age of 10, the boy organized amateur performances for local children.

Very early Frunzik left school and tried many professions. But he never forgot about the profession of an actor. First, he played in a theater group at a textile mill, then went to study at a studio at the Leninakan Drama Theater. And in 1947 he was enrolled there in the troupe.

Frunzik first became famous in his native Armenia, acting in films and playing in the theater. And then, after the release of the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus", his glory turned into all-Union. Mkrtchyan was adored not only by the audience, but also by colleagues, which happens infrequently. His mother, on the other hand, loved him more than the rest of the children, to which they sometimes even took offense. But in his personal life, the actor was not lucky. The first time he married a classmate Knara. But the marriage did not last long and fell apart after about a year.

Donara Pilosyan

For the second time, Frunzik married a young actress Donara Pilosyan. When they met, Frunzik was already about 30, she was only 18. The young beauty was captivated by the charm of the famous actor. First, the Mkrtchyans had a daughter, Nune, then a son, Vazgen

If you ask today's movie fans who Donara Pilosyan is, hardly anyone other than a native of Armenia will answer this question. And yet everyone has seen and knows her! After all, she played the role of the wife of comrade Dzhabrailov, personal driver of comrade Saakhov, in Gaidai's cult comedy "Prisoner of the Caucasus". And in 1977, together with her husband, she starred in the comedy "Baghdasar is getting divorced from his wife." …

Donara was a famous Armenian theater actress. She rarely acted in films and was little known outside of Armenia.

Frunzik's film roles brought immense popularity. He and his wife moved to Yerevan, bought a car. First, the Mkrtchyans had a daughter, Nune, then a son, Vazgen. Frunzik adored his children, loved to give them toys, and he himself played with these toys. Most of all, however, he loved to take them apart to find out how they work. After that, not only the actor himself, but also no master could already fix these toys.

Family drama

It would seem that everything in the family is going well. But Donara's character began to deteriorate inexplicably. She did not want to give up acting and stay at home with the child. At first, Frunzik believed that she was jealous of his acting success and hoped that after the birth of her second child, everything would work out. But over time, the situation only worsened.

They say that friends from the very beginning discouraged Frunzik from getting married, arguing that Donara has a hot-tempered and unpredictable character. Perhaps this was already noticeable from his youth. Now the wife arranged terrible scandals and tantrums for her husband, was jealous of all women for no reason. The life of an actor has turned to hell.

On the advice of friends, Frunzik took his wife to specialists. The conclusion was disappointing: this is not a cost of character, but a serious mental illness. Moreover, it is incurable. Due to problems in the family, Frunzik abandoned many wonderful roles in the early 70s and began to abuse alcohol.

It got to the point that because of his drunkenness, the shooting was practically disrupted. The children were also not all right. After marriage, Nune's daughter moved with her husband to Argentina. She left for good. It was rumored that she died in a car accident, and this added bitterness to the already difficult life of Frunzik Mkrtchyan.

This is not entirely true, Nune did not die, she outlived her father by 5 years. The reason for the rumors was his remark that his daughter was gone. Everyone decided that she was dead, but did not question her. Probably Frunzik meant that his daughter practically did not communicate with him.

The actor tried with all his might to treat his beloved wife, first in Armenia, then placed in a psychiatric clinic in France. But it was all useless. Donara last appeared on stage in 1982. Then she was permanently locked in the clinic.

Last years

Frunzik's son Vazgen showed symptoms of the same disease as his mother. He was also repeatedly placed in the clinic, they tried to treat him. And also without much success.

Frunzik Mkrtchyan married for the third time, but the marriage did not last long, and he separated from his third wife. By the end of his life, he was completely alone, despite the crowd of fans.

At that time, Frunzik practically did not act in films, he said that at his age it was already useless. Basically, he was engaged in his own theater and did not take care of his health at all. On December 29, 1993, Frunzik Mkrtchyan died in his sleep from a heart attack. The beloved actor was buried on December 31 in Yerevan. Relatives believe that he could not survive the grief that the terrible illness of his wife and son brought him.

Donara Mkrtchyan never left the hospital. In moments of enlightenment, she wondered why she was locked in a strange room and not allowed to go home to her children and husband. Sometimes she recited excerpts from her roles to patients and even organized a drama club for patients in the clinic. Donara Nikolaevna died in 2011 in Sevan, Armenia.

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