Vyacheslav Polunin and Elena Ushakova: Asisya's House, where happiness lives

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

When Asishai appeared on stage, the audience groaned with laughter. And then there was a ringing silence. Everyone understood that a touching story of a lonely man had just unfolded before his eyes. All the performances of the famous "Litsedei" were both funny and deeply philosophical. It seemed that the clown was playing himself, but in fact he had already met his Fuji, ready to share with him laughter and tears, victories and defeats.

Hand in hand

Thin and fragile Helen appeared in the theater when the Litsedei had already celebrated their tenth anniversary. She was immediately given the name Fuji for the external resemblance to the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun.

Vyacheslav Polunin was still married at that time, Galina worked with him. Over time, the marriage cracked, Vyacheslav's wife left the theater, and later divorced. Now Elena was next to the clown. She gradually turned from a simple clown into the main assistant and muse of the touching Asishai.

They worked so hard that they did not have enough time for official painting all the time. Then Vyacheslav and Elena made a radical decision: go to the registry office and persuade the employees to paint them within the time they received, without long expectations.

They came to the registry office with backpacks on their shoulders and went straight to the administrator. At first, the administrator decided: the couple were just joking. But a funny man with disheveled hair and a charming girl next to him were able to move her.

Vyacheslav and Elena were really very convincing, they simply had no choice. If they are not signed right now, they may simply no longer have time for all these bureaucratic ceremonies. As a result, the administrator surrendered, and Vyacheslav and Elena now had the official status of husband and wife.

True, they celebrated the wedding only 20 years later - only then they had time. During his tour in Hawaii, Vyacheslav gathered all the troupe members on the ocean shore and arranged a real wedding. The bride was in a white dress, and the groom was in his first suit in his life. The fun, as it should be, lasted until the morning.

A person cannot get tired when he is happy

He always lives according to his dream. At the same time, dreams change in every period of life. When he decided to build a house for his family, he associated with this concept a mill, a big top and a ship. He built a ship in Moscow, where their theater center is located, a big top in St. Petersburg where they have an apartment, and a mill in Paris, where a real laboratory of ideas is located.

In Paris, it turned out not just a house, but a place where everyone can be happy. All rooms of the Mill are themed. For example, the Nostalgia room is decorated with old photographs, and almost all items in it are decorated with real lace woven by Elena.

The toilet is a real travel room, there are maps and suitcases drawn on the walls, and arrows point to the places where the family has been. Upon entering the travel room, the guest is greeted by a real locomotive whistle.

There is a special magic room for granddaughter Mia, where there is a door for adults and a small door that can be locked with a tiny key - especially for the baby. In this room live toys brought by Vyacheslav Polunin from different cities and countries.

By inviting guests, the family includes them in the co-creation process. If a guest is accommodated in a thematic room, then he immediately becomes a character in this space. He is handed auxiliary props and an invitation to tea is awaited.

Only on the first evening in an amazing house, the guest simply rests, then joins in the shifts in the kitchen, on Thursdays he invites all household members to his place, accepting them in full accordance with the image of his character.

Even the dinners in this house are unusual, they are colorful. If today lunch is green, then all food should be exclusively green: from compote to main course. Or yellow the next day.

The laws of existence at the Mill are unshakable and created so that it is not boring to live and always create. According to the deep conviction of Vyacheslav Polunin, in the process of creativity a person becomes happy, but it is impossible to get tired of happiness.

The recipe for happiness

When the Polunin family is in different countries, they often have to wander from apartment to apartment. Not all neighbors are ready to put up with the eccentricities of this family. They can let airplanes out of the window all day, and then clean them together. As a teenager, the son could roller-skate on the roof, and Boris Grebenshchikov could sing songs until morning in their apartment. True, it happens that after the move, former neighbors call them and ask to return, because without them it is boring.

Even Polunin accepts people for work, focusing not only on their professional qualities, but also on whether he wants to hug this person.

Elena Ushakova fully supports all her husband's ideas, enthusiastically joins in their implementation. And he also makes sure that the husband does not lose his phones, cards, money.

They try to maintain a creative and childlike attitude to life in everything. And they are happy that they can live the way they want to.

One of the most touching and famous numbers of Vyacheslav Polunin -