Vysotsky's beloved. Life after Vysotsky: what happened to the poet’s beloved women
80 years ago, Vladimir Vysotsky, poet, actor and musician, was born. Almost all women were crazy about the artist Soviet Union, but he dedicated his poems only to them - the five main women in his life.
Isolda Vysotskaya
Vysotsky’s classmate Isolda Meshkova (by her first husband, Zhukova) is the artist’s first wife. They started dating when Isolde had not yet filed for divorce, and got married only after 4 years of relationship - in April 1960. At the same time, Vysotsky graduated from the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School. Iza was older than husband for the course.![](https://i1.wp.com/image1.thematicnews.com/uploads/images/45/16/82/92018/01/27/1f88e14ba1.jpg)
“Vysotsky turned 19 at that time, I was 20, my feelings were youthfully hot,” the actress recalls in her book “Short Happiness for Life.” - He called me Izuley, and I called him Wolf... Life with Volodya was easy, sunny, despite the fact that we lived unsettled, “behind a screen,” without money. We often quarreled: it’s so delightful to say a bunch of words, say everything and even more than “everything,” run out of the house and get into a taxi: “You’re welcome!” And at the same time know that Volodya is already driving into a taxi next.”
The marriage produced a son, Gleb Vysotsky. However, the father of the child was another man. After the wedding, Isolde was invited to play at the Rostov Theater, and Vladimir Vysotsky went to see his wife. Isolde invited her husband to stay and work with her, but Vysotsky began serving at the Taganka Theater and acting in films. On the set of the film “713 Requests Landing,” he began an affair with actress Lyudmila Abramova. She became pregnant from Vysotsky.
When it became clear to both spouses that their guest marriage had fallen apart, a divorce was filed.
Now Isolda Vysotskaya lives in Nizhny Tagil and serves in the local theater.
Lyudmila Abramova
Actress Lyudmila Abramova was married to Vysotsky from 1965 to 1970 and gave birth to two sons from the artist - Arkady and Nikita.![](https://i1.wp.com/image3.thematicnews.com/uploads/images/45/16/82/92018/01/27/92db57d573.jpg)
Both were born before their parents' wedding. The couple separated before the official divorce - in 1968. Then Vysotsky already had feelings for Marina Vladi, and Abramova knew it.
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55-year-old Arkady Vysotsky is an actor and screenwriter, father of five children. 53-year-old Nikita Vysotsky, like his father, graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and played in the theater, founded Charitable Foundation Vladimir Vysotsky, and also wrote the script for the film “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive".
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Arkady Vysotsky
Now Nikita Vysotsky teaches at the department of directing and acting Moscow state institute culture.
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Nikita Vysotsky
Now Lyudmila Abramova is 78 years old. After her divorce from Vysotsky, she remarried and gave birth to a daughter, but always felt a connection with the artist. Abramova took part in the creation of the Vysotsky Museum.
Tatiana Ivanenko
In 1972, Vysotsky had a daughter, Anastasia. Vysotsky had a long-standing relationship with the girl’s mother, Taganka theater actress Tatyana Ivanenko, but he was in no hurry to marry his mistress. Feelings for the spectacular foreigner Marina Vladi were stronger than the old affection for her colleague.![](https://i2.wp.com/image1.thematicnews.com/uploads/images/45/16/82/92018/01/27/b7b27c6bf3.jpg)
Vysotsky refused to acknowledge his daughter publicly, especially since she was born when he was already married to Vladi. Tatyana gave the child her last name, raised her daughter on her own and did not give a single interview. She once sued Express Newspaper, which published a false interview, and won the case.
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Anastasia Ivanenko
Vysotsky’s daughter Anastasia Ivanenko graduated from the journalism department of Moscow State University, worked on the “Culture” channel, and is raising her daughter Arina.
Marina Vladi
Both Marina and Vladimir were interested in each other even before they met. He saw the 17-year-old actress in the 1956 film “The Witch” and lost his head, but she heard about the charismatic Russian and one day - in 1967 - came to see the praised artist at the Taganka Theater. At the banquet after the play “Pugachev,” Vladi and Vysotsky finally met - and fell in love.![](https://i0.wp.com/image1.thematicnews.com/uploads/images/45/16/82/92018/01/27/5faae53a50.jpg)
Vysotsky was a famous seducer, but it was difficult not to get carried away by Marina. The daughter of Russian emigrants, Vladi was that fatal beauty who drove men crazy. The French actress of Russian origin was not at all in the “Soviet” format: she followed fashion, brought clothes from Paris, did not worry about public opinion and starred in explicit scenes in films.
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Before Vysotsky, the actress was married twice; her sons Igor, Pierre and Vladimir grew up in France. She could not leave her children and lived in two countries. At this time, Vysotsky fought for the right to travel abroad - and for his own life.
Vladi was married to Vysotsky from 1970 to 1980 - until the artist’s death from acute heart failure. According to the widow, it was not Vysotsky who was killed alcohol addiction, but drugs that doctors unintentionally “addicted” him to. Doctors used morphine and amphetamines to “pump out” Vysotsky after binges. Since 1977, Vysotsky himself systematically administered injections. Withdrawal symptoms began, and in 1979 Vysotsky experienced clinical death.
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Vladi witnessed Vysotsky’s severe attack at the very beginning of their relationship. In 1969, a vessel in his throat burst, bleeding began - doctors fought for the artist’s life for about a day.
“I beg you to call an ambulance, your pulse has almost disappeared, I’m panicking,” the actress recalled in her book “Vladimir, or Interrupted Flight.” - The reaction of the arriving doctors and nurses is simple and cruel: it’s too late, there’s too much risk, you’re not transportable. They don't want to have a dead person in the car, it's bad for the plan. Then I block the exit, shouting that if they don’t take you to the hospital right away, I will start an international scandal... They finally understand that the dying man is Vysotsky, and the disheveled and screaming woman is a French actress. After a short consultation, cursing, they carry you away on a blanket..."
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Over the 12 years of their relationship, Marina tried more than once to save Vysotsky from drugs and alcohol, but the artist was burdened by her concern, and later - strict control. In conversations with a psychoanalyst, Vysotsky called his wife a “black cloud” hanging over him. The couple's relationship has been tense for the past two years. The couple moved away from each other, and 40-year-old Vladimir Vysotsky became interested in 18-year-old student Oksana Afanasyeva.
Oksana Afanasyeva
Afanasyeva became the prototype of the heroine Oksana Akinshina in the drama “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive". She idolized Vysotsky, and he, according to rumors, even dreamed of getting married, but Marina Vladi stopped talk of divorce.![](https://i1.wp.com/image1.thematicnews.com/uploads/images/45/16/82/92018/01/27/198a006a0d.jpg)
Oksana grew up in a bohemian family. Her grandfathers are the impresario Chaliapin and the director of the Isadora Duncan studio school, her father is the actor and writer Pavel Afanasyev-Sevastyanov, her aunt is a dentist at the clinic of the Ministry of Health. The girl herself dreamed of becoming an artist and studied at the Moscow Textile Institute.
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Young Afanasyeva was a theatergoer and met Vladimir Vysotsky after another performance at the Taganka Theater. The actor approached the beauty near the ticket office.
Like Vladi, Afanasyeva struggled with Vysotsky’s binges and dreamed of saving her beloved, but we know the outcome. Oksana was next to Vysotsky the night he passed away.
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After Vysotsky’s death in July 1980, Oksana Afanasyeva was expelled from the institute. Her attempt to leave the country was also unsuccessful. But two years later Oksana met new love- and this time everything worked out happily and forever.
In 1983, Oksana Afanasyeva married young actor Leonid Yarmolnik. In the same year, a daughter, Alexandra, was born into the family. In 2014, the couple became grandparents.
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Now Oksana Yarmolnik is 57 years old, she works as a costume designer for theater and cinema, and is involved in charity work.
Today the outstanding artist Vladimir Vysotsky would have turned 81 years old. His exorbitant talent captivated millions of people, his soul-touching songs made Vysotsky the idol of an entire generation. Of course, the musician enjoyed resounding success with women, and he reciprocated. On Vladimir Semenovich’s birthday, we decided to talk about the girls who deprived the bard of “peace, rest and sleep.”
Isolda Zhukova, first wife
Isa, fragile, short girl, studied, like Vysotsky, at the Moscow Art Theater School, but two years older. They first noticed each other at an evening with classmate Iza. After some time they began to live together, and soon they decided to formalize the relationship. But we decided to do without magnificent wedding.
On the eve of registration, Vysotsky went to a bachelor party at the Artistic cafe. He was gone for a long time, and the bride went to help out her future husband. As soon as she entered, Vladimir was taken aback:
Izul, I invited everyone!
- Whom all? - Iza was surprised.
- I don’t remember. Everyone who is here!
Iza was, perhaps, the only one of all Vladimir Semenovich’s women for whom he was not the same Vysotsky. At that time he had not yet been favored by poetic and acting fame, all-Union fame and people's love. The husband’s music even irritated the girl: “His songs were torment for me. Wherever we went, songs began. People heard them for the first time, but I heard them for the 101st time. Sometimes she even rebelled and got angry: you can’t just do songs. In those years it seemed so to me.”
Lyudmila Abramova, second wife
Vysotsky met actress Lyudmila Abramova on the set of the film “The 713th Requests Landing,” and a few years later they got married. About them married life little is known. Both of their sons - Arkady (he became a screenwriter) and Nikita (a famous actor and director of the Vladimir Vysotsky Center-Museum) - were born before their marriage.
The marriage was short-lived; the spouses were not happy with many things about each other. The artist’s mother, Nina Maksimovna, recalled that she was very worried about her grandchildren, but her son reassured her: “Don’t worry, it will be better for both her and me. And I will never leave my children.” Indeed, until the end of his days, despite his emergency work, Vysotsky took care of his sons.
Tatiana Ivanenko
Of all love stories Vladimir Semenovich's connection with Ivanenko was the most confusing. Vysotsky’s relationship with the actress of the Taganka Theater began long before Marina Vladi appeared in his life and continued with her. Director Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich said: “Volodya suffered, realizing that he was torturing Tanya, but was unable to leave her. And she also suffered a lot. As soon as Marina left somewhere, Volodya met with Tanya.”
One day both women found themselves in the same company, and Ivanenko told Vladi: “He’s still mine! He will come to me tomorrow!” Marina just smiled indulgently. Ivanenko often called the artist at night and cried into the phone, which made his mother terribly angry. In 1972, Tatyana gave birth to Vysotsky’s daughter, Anastasia. They say she is very similar to her father.
Marina Vladi, third wife
Vladi Vysotsky saw the French actress Marina in the film “The Witch” and decided that one day he would marry her. For several years he waited for the meeting, and when it finally happened, he began whirlwind romance. The bard dedicated it to Marina most his love lyrics. Separating even for short term, they could not do without telephone conversations. Vysotsky called Paris so often that he knew all the telephone operators in absentia. The couple (they got married in 1970) flew to each other with the same frequency with which many travel by tram.
It often happened that Vysotsky woke up Marina in the middle of the night to sing a song he had just written. She nursed him after another accident, with her bare hands she removed blood clots from the sink that her husband vomited during attacks, and forgave him for numerous affairs. The actress brought absolutely everything from Paris - from jeans to furniture and household appliances for a country house.
In memory of her lover, Marina keeps the first book of his poems “Nerve”, a photograph and, of course, songs. She found and rewrote everything that Vysotsky ever sang in the theater, cinema, television and concerts. But the woman cannot listen to these recordings. “So many years have passed,” she says, “but I cannot calmly talk about Volodya, calmly look at his photographs... and I cannot hear his voice when he is no longer alive. This is unbearable for me."
Oksana Afanasyeva
Vysotsky called Oksana his last love, and this is worth a lot. When they met, she was 18, he was 40. He saw her near the administration office of the Taganka Theater. Beautiful and extraordinary stylish girl in a miniskirt. Famous artist asked for a phone number and invited me on a date. Oksana was contemplating whether to go or not, until her friend shamed her: “What are you talking about?! All the women of the Union simply dream of being in your place!” This convinced her. They met, and the next day Afanasyeva broke up with her fiancé.
Vysotsky fell in love with Oksana so much that he intended to divorce Marina Vladi. As soon as they met, they communicated as if they had known each other all their lives. “I love you,” was the first thing Vladimir Semenovich said to the young girl when he came to his senses after his first clinical death. They were going to get married. We found the priest, bought rings, but didn’t have time.
- Iza Konstantinovna Vysotskaya (Meshkova, from Zhukov’s first marriage).
- Lyudmila Vladimirovna Abramova. From this marriage there are two children: Arkady and Nikita.
- Marina Vladi.
Usually all people remember the last wife of Vladimir Vysotsky, her full name is Marina Vladimirovna Polyakova, but she is better known by her stage name Marina Vladi. She is from a family of Russian emigrants who left for France. Marina for a long time struggled with bad habits Vysotsky, saved him from death several times, but he did not want to give up alcohol and drugs, and Vladi’s possibilities were also not unlimited. They had no children together.
Lyudmila Abramova was married to Vysotsky and gave birth to two sons.
Isolda Zhukova did not remain his first wife for long.
From Tatyana Ivanenko, Vysotsky had an illegitimate daughter.
I found information on the Internet that Vysotsky had 3 wives:
- Iza Konstantinovna Zhukova was married to her from 1960 to 1962,
- Lyudmila Abramova - marriage from 1965 to 1970,
- Marina Vladi - marriage from 1969 to 1980.
I only know about Marina Vladi. I have never been interested in his work and do not consider him a super poet.
The only poem I like from him: If a friend suddenly turns out to be neither a friend nor an enemy, but so..., well, and songs 2 Morning exercises and Dialogue at the TV
The most famous and beloved wife of Vladimir Vysotsky is Marina Vladi. He dedicated poems and songs to her. Before her there was Iza Konstantinovna Zhukova, with whom he lived for two years, and Lyudmila Abramova. Their marriage lasted five years.
What was the name of Vladimir Vysotsky's wife? Vysotsky had three wives. In his first marriage he had no children, and it did not last long; his wife’s name was Isolda Konstantinovna Pavlova. The second marriage was with Lyudmila Vladimirovna Abramova, who subsequently bore him 2 sons, but the marriage also did not last long. And the third wife was Marina Vladi - famous actress and beloved woman.
Not a wife, but wives - there were 3 of them
First wife - Izya Zhukova
The second wife's name was Lyudmila Abramova
Well, the third wife - Marina Vladi
Vysotsky loved everyone in his own way. Every woman was a mystery to him
According to rumors, Vladimir loved Marina most of all
The first wife of Vladimir Vysotsky was Isolda Zhukova. They met at an evening with Izina’s classmate. They lived together for seven years, and were married for two years.
The second was Lyudmila Abramova. They met on the set of the film 713 asks to land. From this marriage, Vysotsky had two sons. We lived together for 7 years, married for 5.
The third wife was Marina Vladi. It was to her that he dedicated most of his lyrics. They were married from 1970 to 1980.
Isolda Pavlova, Abramova and Marina Vladivost official wives Vladimir Vysotsky, but besides them there were a lot of novels, they say that Tatyana Ivanenko selflessly loved him most of all, and he did the same to her - he asked to have an abortion, but she refused.
Which of them, there were three of them. The first is Isolda Konstantinovna Pavlova, their marriage did not last long and they did not have children together, although her son bears Vysotsky’s surname, the second Lyudmila Vladimirovna Abramova gave birth to two sons for him, but this did not affect the strength and duration of the marriage, but the third and last was famous actress in the film The Witch Marina Vladi
Vladimir Vysotsky had more than one wife.
Even before Marina, Vladi had an affair with Taganka Theater actress Tatyana Ivanenko, illegitimate daughter Anastasia Ivanenko.
Everybody knows last wife Vladimir Vysotsky. Her name is Marina Vladi.
Before her famous actor and the singer had two wives.
His first wife was Iza Konstantinovna Zhukova. The marriage lasted only two years.
The second wife was Lyudmila Abramova. The marriage lasted five years.
The Soviet poet Vladimir Semnovich Vysotsky had not one wife, but three:
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Isolda Zhukova
Iza Zhukova was the first wife of Vladimir Semenovich. They studied together at the Moscow Art Theater School. For the first time, the young people paid attention to each other at an evening with Izina’s classmate Greta Romadina. After some time they began to live together. And when they decided to formalize the relationship, they decided to do without a noisy and lavish wedding: why, if they had already been husband and wife for so long?
Iza was, perhaps, the only one of all Vladimir Semenovich’s women for whom he was not yet the Vysotsky that he became for everyone, including us, later - he did not yet have a trail of poetic and acting fame, all-Union fame and national love. She perceived him without the aura of a future celebrity; she could only guess how talented he was.
As for his songs, sometimes they simply... irritated her: “Not only did I not attach any importance to these songs, they were some kind of torment for me. Wherever we went, songs began. Moreover, people heard them for the first time, and I heard them for the 101st time. Sometimes she even rebelled. Volodya had already started filming, we often had to separate... And I was angry: you can’t do any songs! You only need to deal with your wife! In those years it seemed to me so...”
Many years later, Iza Vysotskaya wrote the book “Short Happiness for Life,” where she talks about life together with Vysotsky. Cheerful friendly companies, student love, tours, constant breakups and - happy short meetings. Hectic life led to divorce. Vladimir Vysotsky dedicated the following lines to her:
What can I say about our meeting -
I waited for her, as they wait for natural disasters!
But you and I immediately began to live,
Without fear of harmful consequences.
It only remains to add that Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky lived with Isolde (she still bears his last name) for seven years.
Larisa Luzhina
Larisa Luzhina was able to resist Vysotsky's charms. But it was to her that he dedicated the song “She Was in Paris.” They met on the set of Stanislav Govorukhin’s film “Vertical” in 1966. In the film, Luzhina preferred someone else to him, and in life too. And in Vysotsky’s fate she remained perhaps the only woman who did not respond to his love. He retreated and wrote bitterly: “Whoever was with her before and whoever will be after her, let them try, I’d rather wait it out.”
Lyudmila Abramova
At the end of 1961 - on the set of the film “The 713th Requests Landing” - Vladimir met the future mother of his sons, Lyudmila Vladimirovna Abramova, with whom he officially married in 1965.
Nina Maksimovna Vysotskaya said: “Volodya met Lyusya in Leningrad. She was studying at VGIK then, and “713th asks to board” became her diploma work. “Mommy, meet me, this is Lyusya Abramova, and look how beautiful she is...” This is how Volodya introduced Lyusya. She lived with her parents, grandfather and grandmother, all of them were Muscovites. And when a boy was born in 1962, my first grandson Arkady, we were all happy. Volodya and I changed our apartment - we moved from Pervaya Meshchanskaya to Cheryomushki. In 1964, the second grandson, Nikita, was born. We lived together in Cheryomushki for six years. We lived together. There were no quarrels between Volodya and Lyusya, the boys grew up and were a joy, they were charming. At this time, Volodya was already working hard and seriously on songs, and his popularity was growing. At night I heard the sounds of a guitar and the muffled voice of my son, he composed his songs, and if he needed a listener, he woke up Lyudmila... I don’t know what happened between them, but in 1968 they broke up.”
Lyudmila Abramova: I thought I would die when I realized that I had to leave, when I found out that he loved another woman - Marina Vladi... But now I understand that I should have left earlier, I should have freed Volodya earlier.
Tatiana Ivanenko
Tatyana Ivanenko is an actress of the Taganka Theater. Her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky began long before Marina Vladi appeared in his life and continued with her. Somehow both women found themselves in the same company, and Ivanenko told Vladi: “He’s mine anyway! He will come to me tomorrow!” Marina only smiled condescendingly, and Tatyana called Vysotsky at night and cried into the phone, which terribly angered his mother Nina Maksimovna.
Tatyana Ivanenko gave birth to a daughter, Nastya, from Vysotsky, whom he helped a lot during her life. All his friends knew about the existence of the girl, but when Vladimir Semenovich died, they preferred to forget about her. Tatyana is almost the only one who did not speculate on his name.
Marina Vladi
As if repeating the fate of the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, Vysotsky married a foreign celebrity of Russian origin Marina Vladi, who a few years earlier shocked the world with her role in the film “The Witch”. It seems that absolutely everything is known about their relationship. And nothing is known. What we know is beautiful fairy tale, no more. He really fell in love with her after seeing her in a movie, and then waited for several years to meet her. Then they had a completely crazy romance, after which they got married. It was to her that Vysotsky dedicated most of his love lyrics.
“There’s no one around, no matter how hard you breathe.
Let's go with you
Let's organize a meeting!
Marina, you are a letter
write to me -
I'll answer you on the phone.
I haven't seen any other hand
Who would caress me so much, -
This is what the sailors yearn for -
Now my soul is sad.”
Marina Vladi: “So many years have passed,” she says, “but I cannot calmly talk about Volodya, calmly look at his photographs... and I cannot hear his voice when he is no longer alive. This is unbearable for me."
Oksana Afanasyeva
When they met, she was 18, he was 40. He saw her near the administration office of the Taganka Theater. A beautiful and, as they would say now, incredibly stylish girl in a miniskirt. He asked for a phone number and invited me on a date. And she... was pondering whether to go or not, until her friend shamed her: “What are you talking about?!” All the women of the Soviet Union simply dream of being in your place!” This convinced her. They met, and the next day Oksana broke up with her fiancé, deciding that one day with a man like Vysotsky was better than her whole life with gray mediocrity. Instead of one day, fate gave them almost two years.
She still admires him, considering him “an absolutely, completely, one hundred percent brilliant man.” Oksana saw him working on poetry. He often could not sleep and told her: “I close my eyes and see a white sheet of paper. And words, words, like a ticker tape.”
Oksana frankly recalls: “The first binge... I was so worried... It felt like the veins were being pulled out of me!.. And I really wanted to help him! After all, at such moments no one needed Volodya. I had to live in two houses... Yes, friends came, but they came to check in and... left, but I stayed..." Vysotsky wanted to get married to her: they naively believed that in a state where the church was separated from the state, they would be married without a stamp in passport. But it turned out that it is not so simple. After long search Vysotsky nevertheless found a priest who agreed to such, in general, an illegal act. Vladimir Semenovich bought rings, but they did not have time to get married. And after Vysotsky’s death, the rings disappeared from his apartment - they were in the bedroom - on the nightstand, in a glass...
The year of his death was the most terrible in the life of Oksana Afanasyeva: she went on academic leave, wanted to leave the country, the KGB even tried to recruit her - and when it didn’t work out, she was simply kicked out of the institute. There was a time when Oksana didn’t sleep at all for several days, Vladimir was ill... And his last days remembered her as horrible dream. He held his girlfriend's hand tightly the whole time. When Vysotsky died, she had a black bruise on her arm for several days - the imprint of his palm...
Today Oksana is a theater artist. Two years after Vysotsky’s death, she met Leonid Yarmolnik and some time later married him. But Oksana still remembers Vysotsky with love and tenderness, believing that he, like a good angel, largely determined her future life.
Text: Sascha Gluwein
For my own, alas, short life the talented bard and actor suddenly fell “into the beat of the same uneven breathing” more than once - mostly of divine beauties. And he didn’t know from books that love requires “separation and distance.” On the birthday of Vladimir Vysotsky, we remember those who deprived him of “peace, rest and sleep.”
First wife - Isolda Zhukova
Vysotsky’s parents wanted their son to “become a simple Soviet engineer,” but Vladimir, who felt “completely unbearable,” left MISS and entered the Moscow Art Theater School. Thus began a completely different life former student Mechanical Faculty of MISS. It was at the Studio School, at the rehearsal of the play “Hotel Astoria,” that Vladimir, who was entrusted with the wordless role of a soldier with a gun, met Isolda Zhukova.
An interesting third-year student with ballet posture (Iza had previously studied at a choreographic school) took a liking to Volodya. They say that once at a party that lasted until the night, when one of the teachers began to persistently invite Iza and her friend to visit his aunt, Vysotsky took the girl by the finger and... took her away. Although the girl was not delighted with his initiative, she allowed herself to be escorted to the hostel.
In the fall of 1957, Iza moved to Volodya with one suitcase, and they got married the following spring, after Zhukova divorced her first husband and received her diploma. At the marriage registration, the bride wore an outfit unimaginable for that time - a pink and white dress with a frame. The guests gathered at Bolshoy Karetny (Vysotsky’s parents insisted that the celebration take place there), and classmates of the bride and groom walked at the wedding. Volodya sang and shouted that he had lost his freedom, that Iza had seduced him...
Despite the fact that the age difference between Vysotsky and Zhukova was only one year, it was clear that the eldest, adult in this couple was Iza. Judge for yourself: when the lovers came to the registry office and the employee began to tell her exactly how to fill out the forms, Volodya didn’t even listen to her, saying: “You’re telling her that!” I don’t understand anything about this...”
After the wedding, he didn’t even think about changing his habits - what kind of man is capable of settling down at the age of twenty? He still preferred to spend time in noisy, cheerful companies rather than sit at home. “Iza often found it difficult with him at that time,” one of Vysotsky’s classmates later admitted.
By the way, the only woman Iza was jealous of Vladimir was... Faina Ranevskaya. It was she who stood up for Vysotsky, who once again wanted to be kicked out of the theater. But, as time has shown, Iza should not have feared great actress...
During filming in Leningrad in 1961, Vladimir will meet someone else and instantly forget that he is not free. He was in no hurry to tell his first wife that he was going to marry another - “the very beautiful actress Soviet Union" (although he even sent a telegram to his friend Anatoly Utetsky, so that he would urgently come in connection with his upcoming marriage): Iza, who was then living in Kyiv, learned about her husband’s betrayal from friends. She immediately called Vysotsky. After last conversation, which was very difficult for the girl, the actress disappeared from life for three years ex-husband, he didn’t even have her coordinates. Was the poet worried because of the lack of this information? Not a fact, because fate brought him together - like bridges in Leningrad in the morning - with a woman who would bear him two children.
Second wife - Lyudmila Abramova
Lyudmila Abramova was invited to Leningrad, “almost without trying to enter the film “The 713th asks to land,” she managed to spend the last one before her future salary. So at the time of the meeting with Vladimir, Lyudmila was “literally without a single penny.”
“I didn’t know him at all by sight, I didn’t know that he was an actor.<...>I saw a drunk man in front of me. And while I was thinking about how to get around him, he asked me for money,” she recalled (site note: Vladimir, who starred in the same film, also really did not recognize, or, rather, pretended that he did not recognize, the performer main role).
Let's face it, Vysotsky, who had just broken dishes in a restaurant in an unbuttoned shirt with torn buttons and an abrasion on his head, did not look at all eligible bachelor. Nevertheless, Abramova, according to her in my own words, “somehow I immediately realized that this person needed to be helped,” since none of her friends wanted to give her a loan, “Miss VGIK” took off the family ring from her hand - gold, with an amethyst, which she inherited from her grandmother. Later, Vysotsky will buy back the jewelry he left as collateral and invite the beautiful savior to marry him. Then he will fight again, standing up for his honor beautiful lady... Lyudmila will give Vladimir sons (Arkady will be born in November 1962, Nikita will be born in August 1964), but this will not help Vysotsky to stop and stop drinking.
“He disappeared... Sometimes for two days, sometimes for three... I somehow internally felt his rhythm of life... I even felt when he began his return journey. It happened that I went to open the door when he was just starting to climb the stairs.<...>And when Volodya disappeared, the first thing I was always afraid of was getting hit by a car, running into someone’s knife in a drunken fight...”, recalled Lyusya.
However, it is not alcohol that will separate Lyusya and Volodya, but the appearance of another woman. No, after all, not Marina Vladi, as one might think, but Tatyana Ivanenko. Lyudmila will reproach herself for not leaving immediately as soon as she realized that her husband loved someone else, but had been preparing to leave for six long months because she was afraid of going crazy or committing suicide:
“I cut myself off - from Volodya’s songs, films, performances - I didn’t even watch his Hamlet. All this could push me into madness at any moment... Well, maybe even lead me into some great sin,” she admits.
Then Lyusya behaved as women who have been seriously hurt often behave. According to Vysotsky, she blackmailed him with her children, did everything so that they would meet less with their grandfather (“It’s a pity for dad - he loves his grandchildren madly!” the poet would later say), turned the boys against their father (the eldest son Arkady believed his mother, and youngest son Vladimir met Nikita secretly). But don’t rush to blame Lyudmila alone: Vysotsky’s own train of thought was not very beautiful. This is what he will write to his friend Zolotukhin: “She says that I ruined her life... Well, with what, Valera? She wanted children herself!” - and will begin to reproach the ex for everyday problems and inability to spend money.
Tatiana Ivanenko
Actress of the Taganka Theater, beauty Tatyana Ivanenko fought for her happiness in her personal life as best she could. She called at night, sighed into the phone - which caused natural irritation on the part of Vysotsky’s mother, Nina Maksimovna, with whom Volodya and Lyusya were then living. Nina Maksimovna once in her hearts called Tanya a blackmailer and threatened to deal with her herself in such a way that it would not seem too bad. And director Yungvald-Khilkevich, on the contrary, once said in an interview with KP that he considered Tanya main woman in the life of Vysotsky.
The affair with Tatyana began at a time when Volodya’s wife was still Lyudmila, and he didn’t even think about ending when he started dating Marina Vladi!
Ivanenko gave birth to a girl from Vysotsky, but this child was also Vladimir, whose affair with French actress became known to everyone, but he didn’t really want to and was in no hurry to admit it. Tatyana, according to Yungvald-Khilkevich, was “pathologically devoted.” Volodya drank, Tanya “looked after him, cleaned him up, brought him into a human state” and all this “without a single swear word.”
The actress “only Volodya lived. The only thing she didn't do was give up their child. For her, it was the same as killing Volodya. Then she simply disappeared from the lives of all his friends, and it became impossible to reach her by phone. He didn’t want anyone to know about this child, and she disappeared with him,” says the director in the same interview with KP.
At one time there were even rumors that Vysotsky was going to divorce Vladi and marry Ivanenko, but this never happened...
Third (and last) wife – Marina Vladi
At the first meeting, Vysotsky assured Vladi that he had “a family and children, work and fame, but all this will not prevent her from becoming his wife.” Marina (by the way, her first husband was Robert Hossein, who played Geoffrey in Angelique), “stunned by such impudence,” agreed to see him tomorrow... Despite the enormous personal experience(six marriages, five children between them - a vigilant registry office employee in December 1970 almost upset the marriage of Vysotsky and Vladi, arranging a real interrogation whether they were sure of their feelings), and the two stars were “fascinated by each other, like children learning for the first time Love". If it was not easy for Iza with Volodya, then it was hellishly difficult for Marina. Their love was able to overcome the Soviet bureaucracy, life in two countries, the difference in mentalities (although Marina considers herself Russian, she still grew up in France), but could not cope with the dependence of the great bard and actor.
“I lock myself at home with you to take you away from the bottle. Two days of screaming, moaning, begging, threatening, two days of marking time, losing balance, jumping, falling, spasms, vomiting, crazy headaches. I've poured out all the booze, but if, unfortunately, there's a little bit of liquor left on the bottom somewhere in the house, I'll race you to pour that too before you have a chance to take a sip. Gradually you calm down, you sleep fitfully, I watch over you and wake you up when you have nightmares,” Marina will later recall in her book “Vladimir, or Interrupted Flight.”
What will hinder him in this is not his feelings for Oksana Afanasyeva, but his own death...
Oksana Afanasyeva
“Yes, I buried him in my heart six months ago!” – Vladi will say something after Vysotsky’s death. Who would have believed that the luxurious Frenchwoman had a real, very serious competitor? Having a close (!), constant (!) girlfriend dealt an almost fatal blow to Marina’s self-esteem. “I was half-dead with jealousy,” admits Vladi. This girl was future wife Leonid Yarmolnik Oksana Afanasyeva.
"IN Lately Volodya did not hide our relationship, he even advertised it. Volodya told me: “Well, if you want, I’ll divorce Marina... Do you want, I’ll call her now and tell her that we’re getting a divorce...”. I begged him not to do this... I was terribly worried and understood that Marina, despite all the difficulties in their relationship, was a close and necessary person for him. And under no circumstances should their relationship be broken. And what would he achieve with a divorce? – Victor Bakin, author of the book “Vysotsky without myths and legends,” quotes Oksana’s reasoning.
It seemed that Vysotsky himself did not understand how it would be better, he could not make a choice and tried to persuade Oksana not to be jealous, thinking that there was enough room in his heart for both women. Afanasyeva will be next to him for two and a half years. This is what she did to him in July 1979, in Bukhara. artificial respiration when Vladimir had it clinical death. On July 25, 1980, Vysotsky died, Oksana was next to him.