On August 18, Guitans by Leontenko, widow by Soviet People's Artist Alexei Batalov, marked 90 years. News.ru speakHow the circus is famous after the death of a spouse and the secret of their 55 -year marriage.
Circus dynasty
Gitana Arkadyevna Leontenko was born in a Gypsy circus family. Her mother was a dancer and a horse riding, and her father was an air gymnast. Leontenko continued the reign: for the first time she entered the circus arena at the age of four, and at the age of five, she registered into a circus group.
Batalov, just before he died, said that he first met his future wife in 1953, in the circus Leningrad. He went there with the idea between filming and was fascinated by a bold girl, standing on horseback, performing the most dangerous circus tricks without insurance.
Batalov himself later married the daughter of artist Konstantin Rotov Irina – he was a friend with her from an early age. The couple has a daughter Nadezhda. The actor admitted that he would not leave his family, but the wife himself left him, loved others. After the divorce, Batalov found the circus and started taking care of her.
Some of the artists' relatives condemned him for a choice and even asked his family's girlfriend, poet Anna Akhmatov, for Batalov – they didn't like he was meeting a Gypsy from the circus. However, the writer refused to put pressure on the actor, saying that she also liked Guitan.
Family life
After a modest wedding, the newlyweds settled in a rental room in a common apartment in the center of Moscow. Leontenko helped her husband to work – when in 1966, Batalov filmed a fairy tale of three fat men, she took on the role of consulting in the circus. She taught her husband along the extended wire between houses: This is necessary for the role of the Tibula covenant, played by Batalov.
Gitana Arkadyevna left her career because of her daughter, born in 1968, was paralyzed for children. Batalov Vinyl in the disease of the doctors and admitted that he was considering healing, but this did not happen.
For many years, we hope for a miracle. And Masha did not lose her heart, she believed that she could walk by herself. Even now, every day before exhaustion is walking on the treadmill.
Maria Batalova was able to graduate from the Faculty of VGIK and release some books. According to her script, the picture “The house on the English embankment” was filmed.
Batalov said that the secret of their marriage, Leontenko, was never suitable for jealous scenes. Even if she was informed that the artist was said to have two twins besides marriage, she only thanked the good people of Muslims. The family friend Vladimir Ivanov noted that Gitana Arkadyevna completely dedicated to the family. He characterized her as a calm and reasonable woman, as well as an excellent lover.
How Leongenko and her daughter are currently living
The widow and daughter of the People's Artist continue to live in a family apartment in the center of Moscow near the Lenin subway station – in the “house on the embankment”. According to Gitana Arkadyevna, they often celebrate a birthday with a large group of relatives and friends in the writers' homes, but this is still throughout Batalov's life. Every year, there are fewer relatives.
One of our close friends is Volodya and Ivetta Zeldina. In one of our last meetings, Ivetta came to a wand, we were not young … so I almost became a recluse, Leontenko said.
The artist noted that he recently felt bad – “like a boiling, such a situation, his head was reeling.” She will celebrate her anniversary at home, with her daughter Masha.
Gitana Arkadyevna considered herself a happy person, because in her life there were battles. She noted that in their apartments, everything is still as for him, and the woman herself feels the invisible presence of her husband, from which she is good.
Who is Leongenko with?
After Batalov's death in 2017, his widow and daughter began to sponsor lawyer Mikhail Tsin and actress Natalia Drozhzhina. They signed an agreement on Kim's life, on the workshop and two family apartments, and Tsin received a lawyer to handle cash vehicles.
Gitana Arkadyevna believed that she was deceived by sliding the paper into the signature. Through the courts, she sought to return her property, but Leontenko herself was worried not because of the proceedings, but because of the betrayal of close people.
I have been working from five years old, like all circus children. I did nothing in a bad life. But through the courts I had to take money and property stolen from us. Do not bring those who told us.
Recalling that Tsivina and Drozhzhin were convicted of fraud on a particularly major scale. The lawyer was appointed for 5 years in a common colony, and the actress – 4 years of conditional. Dmitry Bubla – for supporting the implementation of illegal actions and official abuse of power, was also given to the prison.
