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Video: Ekaterina Gradova: Why the actress blames herself for the death of Andrei Mironov, and in what she found her consolation
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
After the release of "Seventeen Moments of Spring", Ekaterina Gradova, who played the radio operator Kat, was known to the whole country. Fans were waiting for her at the theater and kept watch outside the house. Men sent flowers and offered a hand and a heart. But Ekaterina Gradova at that time was happily married to Andrei Mironov, not yet realizing that their family would break up in 5 years. True, fate will give her another chance to become happy.
Lost love
He burst into her life with a fresh spring wind and really whirled in a whirlpool of impressions and feelings. Valentin Pluchek, chief director of the Theater of Satire, invited a talented girl to the troupe. In the foyer of the theater, she met Andrei Mironov, who enthusiastically spoke about her performance in the production of Talents and Admirers at the Mayakovsky Theater, where Katya Gradova, a fourth-year student of the Moscow Art Theater School, performed the role of Negina.
During the first meeting, Valentin Pluchek said that the girl should stay away from theatrical ladies' men: Shirvindt, Derzhavin and Mironov.
And two days later, he already rushed to her on the set, where he was working on the painting "Seventeen Moments of Spring." He appeared on the threshold of the restroom, radiant, perfumed, with a huge armful of lilacs and a jar of sugar-coated strawberries. Since then, lilacs have been Ekaterina Gradova's favorite flowers.
It wasn't long after they met, when Andrei asked to wear her festive dress. And he drove straight to the registry office. When Catherine asked if he wanted to ask her consent to the marriage, Mironov answered shortly: “No, I don’t want to!” However, by this time Katya was already in love with him and was happy. Then there was an acquaintance with the mother of the actor, the majestic Maria Mironova, who adopted the chosen one of her son. She only noticed that he had already found Katya, it remained to find Masha. It turns out that at the age of 14, Andrei saw his wife Katya in a dream, but they also had a daughter, Masha.
He prepared a special surprise for Catherine's mother. When Raisa Ivanovna Gradova, an actress of the Gogol Theater, was on tour, they stopped at Katya's house. He drew up the curtains and attached his huge portrait to the window, captioning it: "This is now the only light in your window." Mom, of course, was shocked at the sight of this composition, at that time she did not even know about the imminent wedding of her daughter.
June 29, 1971 Andrei Mironov and Ekaterina Gradova became husband and wife. Two years later, on May 28, 1973, they had a daughter, Maria, a child of their great love. In their marriage there was a lot of tenderness, care for each other, warmth and mutual respect.
And two years later they broke up. Catherine found out about her husband's betrayal and could not and did not want to forgive him. The actress still blames herself for her own shortsightedness and pride. Andrei Mironov took steps towards reconciliation several times, but she was categorical. The last time he made a last attempt to get his wife back, Katya again turned her back on him. Then Andrei put a sign in front of her with the inscription "Please do not take up space" and said that while he was alive, there would be no place for anyone. And so it happened. Until the end of the actor's days, they maintained a warm relationship.
Today, the actress regrets her unwillingness to forgive and keep the family, but time cannot be turned back. Ekaterina Gradova blames herself for their divorce. Even Andrei's mother, Maria Vladimirovna, said to Ekaterina: "If you hadn't separated, he would not have died!"
The actress and her daughter Maria were at the play "Crazy Day or the Marriage of Figaro" in Riga, when he felt bad on stage. For three days she and her daughter took turns praying for him. When Catherine woke up after a brief oblivion on August 16, 1987 at six o'clock in the morning, he was gone.
Mature happiness
She came to God when her daughter was still little and during the illness of the little girl, the doctors did not give her any guarantees. She sobbed under the windows of the hospital and called for help. Later, she and Masha were baptized, Catherine began to attend church.
And then she herself became seriously ill, and the doctors did not give her any guarantees. Then a deep faith in God came to her. After her recovery, the actress left her work in the theater, especially since her daughter had just had a son, Andryusha.
Ekaterina Georgievna from that moment devoted herself to serving God and people. She graduated from the theological institute, taught the basics of morality at the gymnasium.
And during a pilgrimage trip to Optina, she met her second husband, physicist Igor Timofeev. In 1991, they officially registered their marriage and got married. He was able to conquer her not with beautiful words, but with his amazing purity and loyalty.
Together with her daughter and husband, Ekaterina Georgievna helped one of the orphanages in Moscow. And there they found their Alyosha, a boy who became the adopted son of Ekaterina Gradova and Igor Timofeev. Her life has completely changed, but she is no less happy.
Today Ekaterina Gradova is helping children’s homes and infant homes, helping to open churches there, telling children about the Orthodox faith and the love of God.
In the life of Ekaterina Gradova's first husband, there were three main women, each of whom he loved.
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