The actress told how she herself was engaged in the construction of suburban housing after breaking up with her husband.
October 23 2016
– Sometimes I sit on the porch, look around and think: “How did I manage to do all this? I couldn’t repeat such a feat a second time. ” It all started corny. At the beginning of the XNUMXs, a friend of Masha Ilyina, an actress of our Theater of Satire, said that the territory adjacent to her site was for sale and advised me to buy it. When I arrived in a village just five kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road, and on the site I saw a huge field of daffodils, I realized: this is my place. I love daffodils! They say they were left from the mistress who lived here before the revolution. Then, during the construction of the house, the sprouts of giant bulbs stubbornly made their way through the foundation!
And so my husband Kirill Mozgalevsky (director, producer. – Note of “Antenna”) began construction, laid the foundation for a 500-meter house. There were many ideas, even an observatory on the third floor. But at some point it became clear that all these were illusions, the husband would not be engaged in construction. At this time we parted. Cyril is a wonderful man, he did not drink, did not smoke, did not walk. But he is not a family man. Lone wolf. He did not like everyday life, family obligations, he never planned anything and did as he wanted at the moment. Such a man, it seems to me, should live alone, and just date women. Now Kirill and I are friends, but then immediately after parting it was hard.
I was left alone. The salary in the theater is 5 thousand rubles. She almost did not act in films, in those crisis years he was not there. Friends began to persuade the site to sell. But suddenly something clicked in my head, and I said to myself: “No, I will build a house and I will live here!”
I believe that if you strongly want something, it will come true. Suddenly my life changed dramatically. My friend Natasha, with whom our children went to kindergarten, began to help me with construction. Another friend, actress and producer Tanya Yakovenko borrowed a large sum. Finally, another friend and my director, Masha Prokonicheva, tuned me in to make money, said: “We need to film.” And then everything started spinning. Years of continuous filming began. In 2006, I starred in 12 projects. Then I was told that this is an actor’s record. The fatigue was incredible. When another project was proposed, I doubted, hesitated, but, as a rule, agreed. I love to work, and besides, it made it possible to continue construction. As a result, in 16 years I have accumulated more than 100 paintings.
In those years, the series were filmed mainly in Kiev, I had to leave my teenage daughter Masha (from the first husband of actor Kirill Kozakov – note of “Antenna”) and my mother in Moscow, who was often ill. But I earned and paid off the debt. And then, at the age of 17, Masha began acting in the TV series “Carmelita”. All her earnings went, excuse me, to plumbing. So the house is our joint women’s victory. He was worth the sacrifices. Masha and I loved him very much and spend a lot of time here.
Mom, despite the fact that she is an avid urbanist, also comes here. Dad (People’s Artist Yuri Yakovlev. – Approx. “Antenna”), unfortunately, did not have time to look at our works. But in recent years, he adored living in his dacha, joking that it was time to move closer to the land. I replied that his children had already begun to move to a suburban dormitory.
Guests are very fond of gathering in our house. With companies of twenty people we celebrate the New Year, celebrate Easter, the opening and closing of the barbecue season. My dad brothers also came: the younger Anton from the third wife Irina Leonidovna Sergeeva, the elder Alexey from Ekaterina Arkadyevna Raikina. Lesha with his wife and daughter loves to rest with us, says that he sleeps well here.
There were also my ex-husbands. Kirill Mozgalevsky even took part – he presented Christmas trees. We are all on good terms and parted without pretensions to each other. Each of the two husbands played an important role in my life. Thanks to Kozakov, there is a beloved daughter, Masha, and thanks to Mozgalevsky, I realized that I was strong enough and I could do everything myself. The main thing is to really want it.
In general, I believe that mysticism and coincidences are present in the life of an actor. For me, for example, it happens: what I play in the theater happens in my life. Or vice versa, situations from life are suddenly transferred to the stage. Now I am rehearsing such a piece. After 30 years of marriage, my heroine’s husband leaves for a young woman. She starts an affair with a 28-year-old boy, and then the stunned husband tries to get her back. I have a similar story in my life. I have a young man who is younger than me. It happened so. I have never hidden my age, in June I celebrated my 55th anniversary. It seems to me that age depends on the inner mood. Old age comes when you don’t want anything. And I want to work, and have fun, and rest. Fortunately, I have a lot of energy. I have already fulfilled my main life obligations: I raised a beautiful, talented daughter, built a house, planted not one tree, but dozens. And now I don’t think about what will happen next, but I enjoy every day I have lived, and I feel happy.
Veronica Barabash (“Antenna-Telesem”)