Vasily Shukshin Has Another Daughter

2023 Author: Vanessa Dutton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-07-31 01:19

Many people know that the famous Soviet actor and writer Vasily Shukshin have daughters Maria and Olga, but few people know that he also has an eldest daughter Catherine … For the first time, a woman gave an interview about her parents.

Ekaterina's mother was Victoria Sofronova, who worked in the criticism department of the Moscow newspaper. She met the artist while discussing one of the novels of a novice writer. The first meeting was hot, and this is not at all romantically. The discussion was heated and the writer and the critic broke the pots. Vasily was disappointed and offended, and then Victoria … felt sorry for Shukshin. She felt sorry for him, and he invited her to the premiere of the film "Such a guy lives."

The novel developed so rapidly that Victoria almost immediately became pregnant, and shortly before the birth of Catherine, her father met Lydia Fedoseeva and started an affair with her. According to the eldest daughter, his mother more than once spoke of him with admiration for the fact that he never lied to her.

"Even now I cannot understand how my mother endured these Shukshin's back and forth for a long time." - said Ekaterina. By the way, she gets along well with Olga, Lydia's daughter.

“We have excellent relations with Olga Vasilievna, she is a very pleasant, pure person. Despite the fact that we are already quite adults, she is very dear to me. I think Vasily Makarovich is happy looking at us - said Ekaterina.

When she turned seven, her mother married the writer Vyacheslav Marchenko, but she did not stop communicating with Shukshin. He often wrote to her, wrote to his eldest daughter. By the way, she went to school under the name of Shukshin, but in her family everyone had a different name.

“In my class of normal families it was easy to count, here is the intellectual Moscow for you. But so that in the same family, like me, my mother, my stepfather and my grandmother - all had different surnames, no one else had this. I was bursting with childish pride - said Ekaterina.

The day her father died, she remembers like yesterday.

“It was the second of October 1974. Such a beautiful day, just gorgeous, the sun, the crimson in the trees. I came home from school, and I see that my mother is at home, and at this time she is usually at work. Sits, lips pursed, and cries. Tears do not even drip, but run in streams.. At first I thought that they were upset because of me, but I was mistaken. Mom said in a low voice that dad was dead. I could not understand this. I couldn't understand how. I didn't understand what that meant at all - said Ekaterina. The doctors who performed the autopsy simply wondered why a 45-year-old man had the heart of a decrepit old man.

Now Ekaterina still lives in Moscow, she is married to a foreigner and works as a translator.