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Actress, singer and presenter Ilona Bronevitskaya was born on February 17, 1961 in St. Petersburg. Her family was creative: her mother - famous singer, and dad is a composer and conductor. It was her father who was the founder of the very popular Soviet period ensemble "Friendship". The daughter’s career was predetermined by fate, because the child of such talented parents was bound to continue the family business. The children of Ilona Bronevitskaya are also endowed with creative talents, but not all of them connected their lives with the stage.
Edita Stanislavovna Piekha and Alexander Bronevitsky worked a lot, so they could not pay due attention to raising their daughter. She saw her parents extremely rarely, because most of They spent time on tour. Ilona was raised primarily by her grandmother. The very same future star as a schoolgirl, she carefully hid the fact that she was the daughter of a popularly beloved singer. The girl wanted to be perceived as an independent person, and not as the daughter of a celebrity. She didn’t even let her mother go to the school graduation. It’s interesting, but even now Ilona still addresses his mother simply by her first name.
After receiving secondary education, Bronevitskaya became a student Leningrad Institute theater, music and cinematography. For her studies, she chose a pop specialization, but at the same time she also studied at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. After receiving her diploma, the girl worked at the Buff Theater, and after that she collaborated with her mother’s team. Solo career she decided to start doing it after a successful performance at the Yalta-88 competition. Things progressed very successfully, and the singer’s first album was soon released. But after some time, the public began to somewhat lose interest in her work.
Ilona tried herself no less successfully as a TV presenter. The program “Wider Circle,” which she hosted, was a huge success with viewers. The biography of Ilona Bronevitskaya is full of bright surprises and surprises. So, to everyone’s surprise, it was she who replaced the famous presenter Yuri Nikolaev in the program “Morning Mail”. More from student years the girl managed to try herself as a film actress and starred in several youth films of that time.
In the photo: Ilona Bronevitskaya with her son, husband and beloved dog
The personal life of Ilona Bronevitskaya was not immediately successful. The girl, like her mother, was officially married three times. Each of her husbands was somehow connected with music. The girl sought her first lover for a very long time, then she was still very young. The chosen one was the jazz musician Petras Gerulis. Only after getting married did Ilona realize that she had simply invented for herself the image of a man who actually did not exist. In this marriage, a son, Stanislav, was born. For some time the boy bore his father's last name, but then the grandmother insisted on changing the documents and giving the child her last name. Now it is difficult to find a person who has not heard about famous singer named Stas Piekha.
Ilona’s second husband directed the Buff Theater, where she worked for some time. Yuri Bystrov was a pianist and composer. The couple had a daughter, Erica. She turned out to be the only heir of the legendary Edita Piekha, who did not pursue a career on stage. The girl is engaged in architecture and interior design.
I met my third husband in the 90s. The man then worked as a keyboard player for Svetlana Lazareva. He immediately got along with Ilona’s children, which won the woman’s heart. Together they moved to live in Moscow. This marriage turned out to be the most durable; the couple still live happily. Fans often have disputes about how many children Ilona Bronevitskaya has. It must be said that the singer has two children from her first two marriages and two grandchildren (a grandson from her son and a granddaughter from her daughter).
In addition to her family, Ilona loves pets and often sponsors homeless shelters. At her house in different times lived a livery dog and a Vietnamese pig. Now Bronevitskaya is no longer so actively involved in her career, but still does not stop working. She manages to support the family hearth and help with raising her grandchildren. Husband Evgeniy Timoshenkov also loves children very much and tries not to less than spouse pay attention to them.
11258 ViewsIlona Alexandrovna Bronevitskaya. Born on February 17, 1961 in Leningrad. Russian pop singer, actress, television and radio presenter.
Ilona Aleksandrovna Bronevitskaya was born on February 17, 1961 in Leningrad into the family of the famous pop singer and the founder of the Druzhba ensemble, composer Alexander Bronevitsky.
Father - Alexander Alexandrovich Bronevitsky (1931-1988), Soviet composer, choral conductor, founder and director of the first vocal and instrumental ensemble “Friendship” in the USSR.
Her paternal roots are Belarusian. As Ilona said, all the Bronevitskys came from Slutsk, and " real name sounded like Boronevitsky." But then the second letter "O" dropped out of the surname and they became Bronevitsky.
The singer also invariably proudly emphasizes that her grandfathers fought, and all the men in her family were military officers.
Grew up in musical family. As she herself says, “our family is VIA “Singing Guitars.”
At the age of five, she experienced real delight from the singing of her uncle Yevgeny Bronevitsky, who “sang on Italian"Even then she wanted to sing herself.
At school, according to the artist, she was an exemplary pioneer; “my mother never led me through life by the hand,” she emphasizes.
Actually, as a child, Ilona was raised more by her grandmother (whom she called mom) Erika Karlovna, the mother of Alexander Bronevitsky, Ilona’s father. By nationality - half Latvian, half German. “When I was very little, I thought that my grandmother was my mother. By the way, I named my daughter after her,” said the artist.
And Edita Piekha herself admitted: “She took Ilonka under her wing - she was eight months old when I went on tour. Until the age of 15, my daughter lived with her grandmother, they became inseparable friends. The child was not deprived of anything.”
Ilona Bronevitskaya as a child with Edita Piekha
There were rumors that Edita Piekha treated her daughter very harshly. And, it should be noted, not without reason. Ilona said: “The whole country, at the instigation of journalists, was sure that my mother beat me half to death. Well, it happened, she beat me once. adolescence I brought my mother up, not without this. But I wasn’t very bad, I even studied well at school.”
For a long time, Ilona hid from her classmates that her mother was famous singer. She told everyone stories that she was a weaver or a cashier. She wanted to be judged as an individual on her own merits. “I understood that if they found out the truth, they would look at me like I was an exhibit. Therefore for a long time hid who my mother was and introduced herself an ordinary girl. I didn’t even allow her to come to the school graduation,” explained Ilona.
Her first appearance on stage took place during her mother’s concert: “She performed at some concert, I stood backstage and went crazy with her dress. Between songs, my mother ran behind the stage to drink water, I touched the hem of her outfit. Myself I didn’t notice how I went for beautiful dress. I woke up to a bright light on the stage."
In 1978-1982. studied in Leningradsky state institute theater, music and cinematography at the pop department of the drama faculty.
After graduating from college, she worked in the theater "Buff".
In 1986-1988 She sang in the group of her mother Edita Piekha.
In 1988, Bronevitskaya became a laureate of the All-Union Competition of Performers "Yalta-88", receiving third prize, after which she began her concert activities.
Ilona Bronevitskaya - Look into my eyes
In 1989 she gave her first solo concert in Irkutsk. She spoke about her first independent concert: “It was in Irkutsk, seven people were sitting in the hall”. Nevertheless, it worked as expected.
In 1995 she released her first solo album "Dancing for Breakfast".
Gained fame as the host of the program "Wider the circle".
She told about how she became a TV presenter: “It all started in the 90s, when I was invited to host a program on Leningrad TV related to old songs. In the interiors communal apartments I talked about the history of their creation, and at the end of the program I performed these songs. Once I was sent to Jurmala, to a festival, I had to interview Raymond Pauls. I was terribly worried, my hands were even shaking. Then, in booklets about Jurmala, I found a small photograph of me interviewing the maestro. For eighteen years I hosted “Wider Circle” with different partners, and this program made me truly popular.”
In 1995-1997 She also hosted the Morning Mail program.
Ilona Bronevitskaya in the program “Alone with Everyone”
"Fame is a huge distraction in life", she thinks. "Today I am a fairly successful and wealthy person. Sometimes it is difficult for people to understand that a person does not need so much. Excessive publicity bothers me terribly, and I really don’t want it. I love freedom. My mother cannot walk calmly down the street, But I can, and I’m very happy with it,” Bronevitskaya emphasizes.
And she also likes to say: "Everything wise lies on the surface".
Height of Ilona Bronevitskaya: 170 centimeters.
Personal life of Ilona Bronevitskaya:
She was married three times.
First husband is a Lithuanian jazz musician and theater director Petras Gerulis.
She met him while studying at the institute. In this marriage, on August 13, 1980, a son was born - now a famous singer.
By the way, Stas could have been called differently - his father, in whose family many men bore the name Napoleon, was determined to continue family tradition. However, Edita Piekha insisted that the boy be named after her father.
Ilona’s marriage to Petras broke up in 1981, when Stas was not yet a year old. Gerulis left Leningrad for his homeland, and contact with him was severed for a long time. Only many years later Stas Piekha met his father.
Ilona Bronevitskaya, Petras Gerulis and son Stas
At one time the press wrote that Ilona did not look after her son at all when he was little. “But this is not true. No one deprived me of motherhood or took away my child. He lived with me until he was 7 years old. My mother gave 70 concerts a month. Gypsy life was, whoever was successful in the family helped. The most important thing is that he grew up as a man, and I’m not ashamed of him,” says Bronevitskaya.
Until the age of seven, the boy bore the surname of his father Petras Gerulis, and then the famous grandmother, Edita Piekha, insisted on changing the surname.
Stas Piekha, Edita Piekha, Ilona Bronevitskaya
Ilona's second husband was Yuri Bystrov- musician, pianist, composer, worked as musical director of the Buff Theater.
Then came into her life Evgeny Timoshenkov, who became her third husband.
“These were the times of “Morning Mail”. I then hosted this program with Svetlana Lazareva. Zhenya worked for Sveta as a keyboard player, he then rented a room in a Moscow communal apartment. I moved from St. Petersburg to live with him. The first three years were difficult, I suffered, I I even had emigration stress - I lay on the couch for almost a month. After all, I left. great love, dropped everything, flew away with a handbag. As soon as we got our own home, I moved my children, Erica and Stas, from St. Petersburg. By the way, they immediately really liked Moscow - there was a solid party there. It was very important for me that Zhenya fell in love with my children, and they also love him,” said Bronevitskaya.
Discography of Ilona Bronevitskaya:
1995 - “Dancing for Breakfast”
1996 - “What do you want, clients?”
2005 - “Songs for Breakfast”
Filmography of Ilona Bronevitskaya:
1981 - “Our Calling” - Gerka Fradkina
1986 - “I am the leader of the outpost” - Gerka Fradkina
1989 - “Where-where-where?!..”