Vysotsky's secret friend and Aramis's secret wife: Irina Purtova

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

For many years she preferred not to talk about her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky, her rapid marriage with Igor Starygin, her hobby for Alexander Fatyushin. Irina Purtova, a ballerina of the Igor Moiseyev ensemble, carefully kept her memories of dear people and did not even think to be offended when she was called the unknown wife of Aramis. For her, more important was the warmth left over from meetings with those who are now called the idols of the generation.

A girl from a good family

She was born into a military family and lived for several years in Potsdam, where her father served. Already at the age of three, little Irina importantly informed all her acquaintances that she would dance with Igor Moiseev. Then it seemed like childhood fantasies, but later they came true, and Irina was able to realize her dream.

She was seven years old when the family returned to Moscow. Mom often took little Ira to concerts of the Moiseev ensemble, which she loved very much. And gradually the girl literally fell ill with dancing. She first became a student of the school of Igor Moiseev, then she was enrolled in the trainee group, and then in the main composition of the ensemble.

All the girls from the ensemble were incredibly beautiful, they always had a lot of fans and a very strict discipline in the team, which was personally supervised by the leader. Moiseev's team was one of the few who were allowed to travel abroad in those years, so Igor Moiseev followed the reputation of the participants. However, people from law enforcement agencies also did not leave them with their attention, they carefully checked everyone who went on a foreign tour.

Irina knew many famous people thanks to her mother, who worked as the secretary of Irina Kokoreva, director of the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors. But the girl was only 20 years old when her mother died, and her father a few months later sent her daughter to Sochi, to the “Akter” sanatorium, where they used to be very often. It was there that the fateful meeting of Irina Purtova with Vladimir Vysotsky took place.

Romance-like friendship

Irina Purtova and Vladimir Vysotsky were introduced to each other by a mutual friend, the administrator of the Taganka Theater, Valery Yanklovich. Tatyana immediately felt that Vysotsky paid attention to her. There followed a trip on the ship "Georgia", an invitation to barbecue, a bouquet of flowers presented on the beach in the presence of many friends.

She desperately reminded Vladimir Vysotsky of Marina Vladi in his youth, perhaps that is why he began to look after Irina. He was 42 years old, she was a little over twenty-one. When they returned to Moscow, Vladimir Vysotsky continued to look after her with style: he took her away after rehearsals by car, gave flowers, read poetry on the phone at night, brought gifts from abroad, which, by the way, she almost always refused to take.

She was in love with him, but when asked whether she had an affair with Vladimir Vysotsky, she always answered negatively. And she was sure: if Volodya had not died so early, he would have surely married her off to one of his friends. With her, he was never dead drunk, on the contrary, Vysotsky was always in shape, had fun, joked, showed her attention.

On that night, July 25, 1981, he called her and asked her to come by all means in white. Then she decided that he was drunk, muttered something sleepily into the receiver and pulled the telephone cord from the socket. That night he was gone, and for a long time she reproached herself for refusing to come to her friend. After the death of Vysotsky, someone wrote an anonymous letter to her in the Central Committee of the CPSU, and for some time she became restricted to travel abroad. Even Igor Moiseev's surety did not save Irina Purtova. And six months after the departure of the famous bard, Igor Starygin appeared in the girl's life.

Aramis's wife

She was having dinner at a restaurant with a friend when none other than the nationwide performer of the role of Aramis tried to attract her attention. Despite the reluctance of Irina's companion to introduce her to the actor, it still had to be done: Igor Starygin just walked up, greeted as if nothing had happened and sat down at their table.

He began to court immediately, and after a few hours of acquaintance he made an offer to Irina. Of course, it looked like a joke, but the very next day the girl was convinced of the seriousness of his intentions. He incessantly called on the phone and was clearly determined to persistently seek the hand of the girl he liked.

Irina herself was then at a crossroads: a man who was sympathetic to her did not indulge her too much with his attention, and shortly before Starygin's next call, he quite abruptly interrupted the telephone conversation, citing busyness. Irina decided to marry the actor in spite of exactly the one who, as she then thought, simply neglected her.

She agreed to Igor Starygin, setting the only condition: painting within a week. The actor agreed and soon Irina Purtova became the wife of Aramis. Thanks to the connections of Irina's dad, they were painted very quickly, they played a rather modest wedding, in the bride's apartment. And she didn't even wear a wedding dress.

In fact, Igor Starygin and Irina Purtova lived together for only a few months. But the divorce was filed four years later. The actor was very similar to his on-screen character Aramis: just as gentle and vulnerable, very sensitive. For Irina, this was the first marriage, for Igor Vladimirovich - the third.

But the family, created in spite of someone, simply could not be strong. When the girl's ambitions were satisfied and she, meeting the very person for whose attention the whole story of marriage was being started, said: “I got married!”, She realized that her husband began to annoy her. Irina found a reason to quarrel with him and put him out the door.

But their friendship continued until the death of the actor. He invariably introduced her to his new ladies, and she could breathe a sigh of relief only when Igor Starygin married Ekaterina Tabashnikova. This girl became his reliable rear, even a guardian angel.

Real happiness

Later, on a tour in Leningrad, Irina Purtova met Alexander Fatyushin. For a while, they were even passionate about each other, the actor even called her in marriage and asked the priest to marry them. However, Irina was not going to get married, it seems that a hasty marriage with Igor Starygin was enough for her.

Irina Purtova met her second husband, opera and rock singer Mikhail Seryshev, very soon after her tour in Leningrad. She lived with him for 17 years and, in her own words, he was the only man she loved. Unfortunately, their marriage broke up, but Irina Purtova still loves the one who left her for another woman.

But Irina has long forgiven him and continues to communicate. Just a few months of marriage and a long friendship with Igor Starygin taught her not to part with people as enemies. Even if they hurt you.

His name is inextricably linked with the cinema, and the images he played are still close and understandable. The popularity of Igor Starygin was truly nationwide, and the attention of fans sometimes spoiled his life. It seems that he was given everything from birth: beauty, intelligence, talent. But all these components never made him completely happy. Women fought for his attention, and he never managed to keep the family with the one that always remained the main one in his life.