Vitalina Viktorovna Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya. Born on December 8, 1978 in Kyiv. Former general manager Moscow drama theater under the leadership of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Ex-wife of actor Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.
Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya is the surname of her maternal great-grandmother.
Parents are engineers and worked in design institutes. Later, my father went into business.
WITH early years studied music. Graduated music school in piano class.
After graduating from school, she studied at the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P.I. Tchaikovsky. Laureate international competition in Paris.
From her youth, she said, she was in love with the actor.
As Vitalina said, she first saw him in a play in 1994, when the Mayakovsky Theater was touring in Kyiv. Dzhigarkhanyan played in two productions: “ The last victim" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." “Armen Borisovich made an indelible impression on me. I was about 16 years old, I was still in school. Then I tried to go to all the performances that Dzhigarkhanyan came to Kyiv with. Mostly these were enterprises. As a rule, Armen Borisovich always visited once a year in Ukraine,” she shared.
They met in 2000. Vitalina was 21 years old, she was just graduating from the National Academy of Music in Kyiv. They were brought together by a friend of Vitalina, who worked at the Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater as an administrator. Vitalina wrote a note to Dzhigarkhanyan, and her friend gave it to the actor. Dzhigarkhanyan called her back and offered to drive up to the theater.
It is not known whether Armen Dzhigarkhanyan had a hand in this, but since 2001, Vitalina ended up in Moscow, where she entered the Maimonides State Classical Academy.
By the way, soon after Vitalina, her parents moved closer to Moscow from Kyiv and settled in the near Moscow region.
It is known that in 2002, when the actor fell ill, his sister Marina Borisovna and Vitalina were next to him.
Next, Dzhigarkhanyan decided to bet musical performance and invited Vitalina to work in his theater - to learn songs with actors. And after some time, she already began to manage the musical part of the Moscow Theater under the direction of Dzhigarkhanyan.
Officially, Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya has been serving at the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater since 2008. She worked as the head of the musical department, and from June 18, 2015 - director of the Moscow Drama Theater under Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.
A number of actors who worked for a long time in the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater accused Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya of actually destroying the theater with her management methods, leaving a significant part of the artists surviving. For example, this was stated by someone who was kicked out of the theater after 14 years of work.
In October 2017, a scandal broke out. First, the actor left his wife with two friends in an unknown direction and stopped picking up the phone. “I haven’t seen him since then, but I spoke to him once. He said he would kill me. I don’t understand anything,” - .
Then she found her husband in one of the Moscow hospitals. However, the couple were never able to see each other. The police who helped pianist Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya find traces of her husband said that they could not do anything: “He just doesn’t want to see you.”
Then information appeared that .
The actor said: “The most difficult thing is that not very good processes happened in my life. I had a wife, like normal person. Then this woman turned out - either she doesn’t like me, or she doesn’t like her. I'm talking about Vitalina... Although nothing seemed to be in danger. Sad, sad. Vitalina, I have difficulty pronouncing her last name, brought me a lot of unfair pain. I'm always afraid when people close to me suddenly start coming close to me. Oh, I say, no: “Just a minute. Let me think for myself and make some decision.”... No, I’m not ready to forgive her. I'm saying this now. Even thinking, I confidently say no. I will speak in rude words. She behaved disgustingly. A thief, she is a thief, not a person... Yes, I’m talking about Vitalina.”
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan accused Vitalina Tsimbalyuk-Romanovskaya of theft. Live broadcast
According to Dzhigarkhanyan’s friend Arthur Soghomonyan, a few years ago Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya changed the theater’s charter documents in such a way that, according to the new charter, Armen Borisovich - artistic director, but all decisions are made by the CEO, that is, she.
According to Soghomonyan, Vitalina can even fire Armen Borisovich, but he cannot fire her. According to the artist’s friend, all of Dzhigarkhanyan’s accounts and apartments were also transferred by his wife Vitalina to herself.
After public accusations from Dzhigarkhanyan of theft. At the same time, her representative stated that she bought several apartments that Vitalina owns on her own, even before marriage, so after the divorce they will remain hers.
In January 2018, information appeared about - vice-president of the Academy of Russian Television, member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences EMMI (USA), vice-president of the Council of the Association of Communications Agencies of Russia (ACAR), president of the Transcontinental Media Company.
In the fall of 2018, Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya announced an affair with. Many considered this novel a PR stunt. But Vitalina and Prokhor themselves assured that everything was serious with them. “In general, we want children first, and only then a wedding. I believe that you won’t surprise anyone with a wedding now. Vitalina and I are happy, and we’ve been mentally ready for a long time to fulfill parental responsibilities,” Prokhor told reporters.
Vitalina was blackmailed for a long time by publishing intimate photographs. In the end, myself. “I spent quite a long time trying to persuade this blackmailer not to post pictures on the Internet. Each time it was very unpleasant. The pressure seriously intensified after I became a famous public person,” she explained.
In November 2018, a court in Moscow sentenced Armen Dzhigarkhanyan’s ex-wife Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya to 200 hours of correctional labor. In addition, Dzhigarkhanyan’s ex-wife must pay a fine of 200 thousand rubles.
The court found Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya guilty of installing hidden camera in the husband’s working theater office. Later, the recording from this camera was shown on the federal channel. Thus, the secret of Dzhigarkhanyan’s personal life was violated.
Love has no boundaries. Sometimes, even a huge age difference does not stop people from taking such a serious step as marriage. In society, such couples are often treated with condemnation. Most often this concerns public people whose lives are in plain sight. Their relationship becomes the subject of heated discussions, mistrust in sincere feelings. But it seems that the lovers themselves are not interested in outside opinions.
1. Ivan Krasko and Natalya Shevel
Age difference - 60 years
24-year-old Natalya Shevel met her future husband at the St. Petersburg Institute liberal arts education, where she was a student and her fiancé taught. But he turned out to be not a shy graduate student, but 84-year-old People's Artist of Russia Ivan Krasko! The age difference between the spouses has discouraged many, but the lovers themselves do not pay attention to the gossip and continue to assure gossipers that they are happy.
2.Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris
Age difference - 60 years
Five years ago, the 85-year-old Playboy founder announced his engagement to 25-year-old model Crystal Harris. The engagement lasted two years, during which the lovers even managed to quarrel and cancel the wedding, but later changed their minds and still went down the aisle.
3.Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya
Age difference - 45 years
About the affair of the 79-year-old actor with 34-year-old Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, musical director of the Moscow Drama Theater. Dzhigarkhanyan, has been known for a long time. Dzhigarkhanyan left his wife Tatyana Vlasova six years ago, but he decided to formalize the divorce only now, on the eve of his anniversary. The actor’s novel caused a lot of noise not only in the press, but also in his theater, where Dzhigarkhanyan was recently the director. After Armen Borisovich gave his position to Vitalina, many actors quit. However, the artist and his muse seem to care little about this. The lovers settled in an apartment near Moscow, where they enjoy each other's company.
4. Andrei Konchalovsky and Yulia Vysotskaya
Age difference - 36 years
For 17 years now, Andrei Konchalovsky has been happy with his fourth wife, actress and cook Yulia Vysotskaya, who is younger than the eldest son of her husband, director Yegor Konchalovsky.
5. Ronnie Wood and Sally Humphreys
Age difference - 31 years
In 2008, Ronnie Wood, guitarist The group Rolling Stones, broke up with his wife Joe after 23 years of marriage for Russian waitress Ekaterina Ivanova, but the relationship between the old rocker and the fickle Katya did not last long. Three years after his affair with Katya, Wood married for the third time. His new darling was 34-year-old Sally Humphreys, a theater producer.
6.Clint Eastwood and Christina Sandera
Age difference - 33 years
Immediately after his divorce from his wife Dina, who was 35 years younger than him, the actor and director found solace in hugs new girlfriend- and again much younger than himself. Now 85-year-old Eastwood lives with Christina Sandera, the administrator of the Mission Ranch hotel owned by the star.
7.Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn
Age difference - 35 years
Woody Allen lived in a civil marriage with actress Mia Farrow for 12 years. The couple had a common son, Ronan, and the couple also took two adopted children, Dylan and Moses. The reason for the breakup between Allen and Farrow was the director's affair... with adopted daughter actress Soon-Yi Previn, whom she previously adopted along with her ex-husband. At that time, the girl was 22 years old, and Allen was 57 years old. In 1997, Soon-Yi Previn and Woody Allen got married and also adopted two girls. By the way, Soon-Yi Previn admits that she never treated Woody Allen as a father, and all the talk about her being his daughter makes her laugh. Mia Farrow does not agree with her, who, after breaking up with Allen, accused him of molesting her daughter and forbade him to communicate with the rest of the children.
8. Al Pacino and Lucila Sola
Age difference - 39 years
In March of this year, confirmed bachelor Al Pacino surprised fans with the announcement that he was going to marry his Argentine girlfriend, actress Lucila Sola. Pacino has been dating her for about five years and notes that a wedding is possible - because the actor never says “never.”
9.Oleg Tabakov and Marina Zudina
Age difference - 30 years
Tabakov met his future wife in 1986, when the young GITIS graduate was accepted into the troupe of Oleg Tabakov’s theater studio (the actor was 51 years old). After ten years of romance, the teacher and student got married, and then became the parents of two children: Pavel, who also started acting career, and Maria, whom Zudina gave birth to at the age of 41.
10.Alexander Gradsky and Marina Kotashenko
Age difference - 32 years
The 65-year-old composer and 33-year-old actress have been together for 12 years, and last year the young wife gave birth to City son, named Alexander in honor of his father. True, the musician is in no hurry to marry his beauty.
11.Roberto Cavalli and Lina Nilsson
Age difference - 47 years
The young model Lina became a muse for the designer and the beginning of a second youth after his divorce from Eva Dühringer. He met the beautiful Cavalli when she was only 20 years old, and, despite the couturier’s age, young Lina lost her head over him.
12. Bari Alibasov and Victoria Maksimova
Age difference - 40 years
The producer met his sixth wife at work: 25-year-old Victoria was Alibasov’s assistant. Despite the fact that the legendary creator of the Na-Na group proposed live on NTV, the wedding was a secret.
13.Alexander Gordon and Nozanin Abdulvasieva
Age difference - 30 years
At the time of his acquaintance with 20-year-old VGIK student Nozanin Abdulvasieva, Gordon already had a reputation as a lover of young girls: the journalist had a divorce behind him from Nina Shchipilova, who was also 30 years younger than her husband, and from Katya Gordon, who younger than Alexander for 15 years. Nozanin became Gordon's fourth official wife and the mother of his third child.
Over his long, more than eighty-year life, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was married three times. All of his wives were different from one another, and the fate of each of them developed differently.
The artist's double tragedy
The first wife of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was the actress of the Yerevan Russian Theater. Stanislavsky, Alla Vannovskaya. Dzhigarkhonyan was also enrolled in the same theater. He was struck by the extraordinary beauty of the young woman, and Anna reciprocated his feelings.
The couple lived for six years, but they did not bring great joy Dzhigarkhanyan. Alla was explosive, hysterical and painfully jealous. They say that in a fit of jealousy she rushed into a fight.
In 1964, Alla Vannovskaya gave birth to a daughter, Elena. Childbirth complicated Alla’s already precarious health, and doctors diagnosed her with a mental illness - chorea(Dance of St. Vitus). Unable to bear it, Dzhigarkhonyan took his one-year-old daughter and filed for divorce.
They say that when Dzhigarkhanyan moved to Moscow, Alla Vannovskaya committed suicide. According to another version, she died in a psychiatric hospital.
Later, the artist’s mother helped raise Elena, and then, when he got back on his feet in Moscow, the actor took her in with him. Elena wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps, and rehearsed the play “Sunset” with her father. Shortly before the premiere, Elena was found asleep in a car with her boyfriend. What was it - an accident or a double suicide! This question remains unanswered.
It is only known that Elena had a relationship with a young man, and the famous dad was against his daughter’s choice. Only once in an interview did Dzhigarkhanyan say, “ It's my fault».
Marriage of forty years
Dzhigarkhanyan lived with his second wife Tatyana Vlasova for more than forty years. He met her at the same Yerevan Russian Theater, where she went to serve as head of the literary department. She stood on the porch of the theater, thin, in black stockings, and smoked a long cigarette with a cigarette holder. Seeing her, the actor realized that this was his woman.
She was married to the director of the theater in which Dzhigarkhanyan served. Tatyana gave birth to a son, Stepan, in marriage with her husband, but the couple no longer lived together. Nevertheless, Dzhigarkhanyan did not dare to court, he simply admired from afar. One day a girl complained that nothing made her happy. " There is a proven way - you need to fall in love", advised the artist. Tatyana told the actor some time later that she followed this advice. So she confessed her love for the artist.
The young couple signed in a hurry, without even having time to buy rings. The actor put his grandmother's wedding ring on the bride's finger.
Soon Lenkom actress Olga Yakovleva came to their theater. Impressed by working with Dzhigarkhanyan in the play “104 Pages about Love,” she invited Armen to move to Moscow. To play at Lenkom, with Efros himself - who could resist such an offer? Tatyana also had a desire to move to the capital.
Interesting notes:
They lived in a small room in the basement of the theater without amenities, but were so passionate about each other that they did not notice the difficulties.
Dzhigarkhanyan’s relationship with Tatyana’s son Stepan did not work out. They remained strangers. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, but did not work in his specialty. Dzhigarkhanyan did everything possible for his stepson- bought an apartment, set up his own theater, which he organized in 1996. Stepan also did not stay long at his stepfather’s theater; he was fired for gross violation of labor discipline.
And suddenly, in the nineties, the artist’s wife expressed a desire to move to the USA. By that time, Dzhigarkhanyan had received American citizenship. Dzhigarkhanyan himself did not want to move overseas. He stayed in Russia, where his work, language, his theater are.
For fifteen years the couple lived on opposite sides of the ocean, Dzhigarkhanyan spent only two months a year in America. He complained that Tatyana was not at all interested in his life, health, or affairs. He fully supported his wife, paying all his bills and needs. A void formed next to the artist himself, and, as you know, a holy place is never empty. A third woman appeared in his life.
I was just nearby
Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya was born in the late 70s in Kyiv, where she graduated from the Music Academy of Ukraine named after P. I. Tchaikovsky. In 2001, she moved to Moscow, where she continued her education at the Maimonides State Classical Academy.
The girl was a longtime fan of Armen Dzhigarkhonyan, back in her youth, in Kyiv, she attended a performance with his participation and received an autograph from the star’s hands. Since then, she dreamed of meeting the actor, looked for meetings, and looked for phone numbers.
She managed to meet her idol in person. They met sometimes and had lunch together. Vitalina was then teaching at the Jewish Academy, and Dzhigarkhanyan invited her to work in his theater. The woman first worked there as an accompanist, then headed the musical department.
In 2001, Dzhigarkhonyan suffered a mini-stroke, and a devoted fan was next to the actor's sister. Meanwhile, his legal wife lived quietly in the United States, and supposedly did not even know about his illness. According to one version, Armen himself did not tell her, because he forbade calling his wife from America, but always called himself. Vitalina supported the middle-aged man in every possible way and looked after him.
Photo by Armen Dzhigarkhonyan and Vitalina
There are very contradictory rumors about Vitalina, that with her arrival intrigues appeared in the theater, that she influences the distribution of roles and is guilty of the dismissal of a number of leading actors and other theater workers. Since 2015, the girl took the position of theater director, and she is also blamed for the departure of the previous director.
Dzhigarkhanyan divorced Tatyana Vlasova, and in 2016 married Vitalina. He cannot answer the direct question of why she hooked him. " If you know the answers to all the questions, then you are from KVN", he says.
In the fall of 2017, a scandal began around the marriage of Armen and Vitalina. The couple divorced, and their divorce proceedings and all its ensuing consequences were discussed in detail in episodes of Let Them Talk and Live. After the divorce, all of the actor’s real estate went to his ex-wife.
A video appeared on the Internet where Armen calls Vitalina “cheap” and swears at the girl, demanding to pour him more whiskey. On the show, Vitalina did not tell the reason for the scandal. ex-wife Dzhigarkhanyan said that she felt unnecessary in this relationship.
The episodes also discussed Vitalina’s possible pregnancy and her involvement in the embezzlement case at the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater. During all the proceedings, Olga Martynova supported Vitalina.
Love has no boundaries. Sometimes, even a huge age difference does not stop people from taking such a serious step as marriage. In society, such couples are often treated with condemnation. Most often this concerns public people whose lives are in plain sight. Their relationship becomes the subject of heated discussions, mistrust and sincere feelings. But it seems that the lovers themselves are not interested in outside opinions.
1. Ivan Krasko and Natalya Shevel
Age difference - 60 years
24-year-old Natalya Shevel met her future husband at the St. Petersburg Institute of Humanitarian Education, where she was a student and her fiancé taught. But he turned out to be not a shy graduate student, but 84-year-old People's Artist of Russia Ivan Krasko! The age difference between the spouses has discouraged many, but the lovers themselves do not pay attention to the gossip and continue to assure gossipers that they are happy.
2. Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris
Age difference - 60 years
Five years ago, the 85-year-old Playboy founder announced his engagement to 25-year-old model Crystal Harris. The engagement lasted two years, during which the lovers even managed to quarrel and cancel the wedding, but later changed their minds and still went down the aisle.
3. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya
Age difference - 45 years
About the affair of the 79-year-old actor with 34-year-old Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, musical director of the Moscow Drama Theater. Dzhigarkhanyan, has been known for a long time. Dzhigarkhanyan left his wife Tatyana Vlasova six years ago, but he decided to formalize the divorce only now, on the eve of his anniversary. The actor’s novel caused a lot of noise not only in the press, but also in his theater, where Dzhigarkhanyan was recently the director. After Armen Borisovich gave his position to Vitalina, many actors quit. However, the artist and his muse seem to care little about this. The lovers settled in an apartment near Moscow, where they enjoy each other's company.
4. Andrei Konchalovsky and Yulia Vysotskaya
Age difference - 36 years
For 17 years now, Andrei Konchalovsky has been happy with his fourth wife, actress and cook Yulia Vysotskaya, who is younger than the eldest son of her husband, director Yegor Konchalovsky.
5. Ronnie Wood and Sally Humphreys
Age difference - 31 years
In 2008, Ronnie Wood, guitarist for The Rolling Stones, split from his wife Jo after 23 years of marriage for Russian waitress Ekaterina Ivanova, but the relationship between the old rocker and the fickle Katya did not last long. Three years after his affair with Katya, Wood married for the third time. His new chosen one was 34-year-old Sally Humphreys, a theater producer.
6. Clint Eastwood and Christina Sandera
Age difference - 33 years
Immediately after his divorce from his wife Dina, who was 35 years younger than him, the actor and director found solace in the arms of a new girlfriend - and again much younger than himself. Now 85-year-old Eastwood lives with Christina Sandera, the administrator of the Mission Ranch hotel owned by the star.
7. Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn
Age difference - 35 years
Woody Allen lived in a civil marriage with actress Mia Farrow for 12 years. The couple had a common son, Ronan, and the couple also took two adopted children - Dylan and Moses. The reason for the breakup between Allen and Farrow was the director’s affair with the adopted daughter of actress Soon-Yi Previn, whom she had previously adopted along with her ex-husband. At that time, the girl was 22 years old, and Allen was 57 years old. In 1997, Soon-Yi Previn and Woody Allen got married and also adopted two girls. By the way, Soon-Yi Previn admits that she never treated Woody Allen as a father, and all the talk about her being his daughter makes her laugh. Mia Farrow does not agree with her, who, after breaking up with Allen, accused him of molesting her daughter and forbade him to communicate with the rest of the children.
8. Al Pacino and Lucila Sola
Age difference - 39 years
In March of this year, confirmed bachelor Al Pacino surprised fans with the announcement that he was going to marry his Argentine girlfriend, actress Lucila Sola. Pacino has been dating her for about five years and notes that a wedding is possible - because the actor never says “never.”
9. Oleg Tabakov and Marina Zudina
Age difference - 30 years
Tabakov met his future wife in 1986, when the young GITIS graduate was accepted into the troupe of Oleg Tabakov’s theater studio (the actor was 51 years old). After ten years of romance, the teacher and student got married, and then became the parents of two children: Pavel, who also began an acting career, and Maria, whom Zudina gave birth to at the age of 41.
10. Alexander Gradsky and Marina Kotashenko
Age difference - 32 years
The 65-year-old composer and 33-year-old actress have been together for 12 years, and last year the young wife gave birth to a son from Gradsky, named Alexander in honor of his father. True, the musician is in no hurry to marry his beauty.
11. Roberto Cavalli and Lina Nilsson
Age difference - 47 years
The young model Lina became a muse for the designer and the beginning of a second youth after his divorce from Eva Dühringer. He met the beautiful Cavalli when she was only 20 years old, and, despite the couturier’s age, young Lina lost her head over him.
12. Bari Alibasov and Victoria Maksimova
Age difference - 40 years
The producer met his sixth wife at work: 25-year-old Victoria was Alibasov’s assistant. Despite the fact that the legendary creator of the Na-Na group proposed live on NTV, the wedding was a secret.
13. Alexander Gordon and Nozanin Abdulvasieva
Age difference - 30 years
At the time of his acquaintance with 20-year-old VGIK student Nozanin Abdulvasieva, Gordon already had a reputation as a lover of young girls: the journalist had a divorce behind him from Nina Shchipilova, who was also 30 years younger than her husband, and from Katya Gordon, who was 15 years younger than Alexander . Nozanin became Gordon's fourth official wife and the mother of his third child.
We were the first to visit the actor’s home, where he moved in 10 days ago
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan no longer spends the night in the theater. Having lost his wife, real estate, and savings, he finally had a new apartment. The MK columnist was the first to cross the threshold of this house.
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan in new apartment with a journalist from MK.
Love and banknotes, or the vulgarity of life
Now he lives in Kuntsevo, in the same area where he recently happily lived with Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya. But even though he now has the darkest memories of his life associated with this place, he did not want to change the area.
A woman, probably forty-five years old, opens the door. Blonde, modest.
Come in, please.
Phil, look who came to us,” says Armen Borisovich, rising to meet me.
Phil is a kitten: big head, funny and affectionate, don’t look like he’s a Siamese. He is five months old, he is already grown up, but not yet an adult, so he is playful: he immediately jumps into my arms and gently scratches my soft paw with his ungrown claws. So I walk with the “child” in my arms into the living room.
The apartment is spacious, 150 meters, probably freshly renovated. Three rooms, an entrance hall with a wardrobe, a hall, many utility rooms... The living room is combined with a kitchen, and from it to the left and right there are corridors running through two rooms.
In the one with a lot of flowers in pots is the artist’s bedroom, in the other there lives a blonde - Lyudmila, a nurse who monitors his health: give pills on time, measure blood pressure, put sugar, if necessary, put on an IV. She’s cooking, she’s just set the table: tea, sandwiches. Phil immediately jumped onto the chair and licked his lips. Lyudmila says that he only recognizes Armen Borisovich.
He moved into this apartment about ten days ago, the furnishings were inherited from the previous owners: upholstered furniture in light leather (or maybe leatherette), a kitchen, a table, a bedroom - just a little, and the house, one feels, has not yet been lived in. Armen Borisovich himself now has a beard, like the writer Hemingway.
- And it suits you.
Is it true? And I wanted to shave it off. I won't if you like it.
Armen Borisovich, you confused everyone: at first it seemed like you settled not in Kuntsevo, but on Lomonosovsky Prospekt? Channel One was still showing, presenter Borisov came, and even the cat was already there.
I stayed for one day, couldn’t do it, then left. The apartment seemed good, but it was gloomy and uncomfortable. And then Arthur (Arthur Soghomonyan, friend of A.B. - M.R.) found this one, and somehow came to an agreement with the owner of that apartment.
- Freshly renovated, I see there is furniture. You like this one, okay?
Okay, but... I'm uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable inside (points to chest). Although I am eternally grateful to my friends who did not leave me and found this apartment, but... it’s uncomfortable for me. Because who is she? What came into my life - now I speak as I think - was an elementary thief. Just frankly, without embarrassment. There, in Ukraine, on the Maidan, they probably call it love. So you ask if I’m comfortable here. Of course, it’s convenient: it’s quiet, the park is close, but what next...
He understands everything that happened to him in these last three months of autumn 2017. All! He understands that he has become the hero of a tragedy called... there are many options here: “Love and banknotes”, “Grey hair in a beard - a devil in a rib”, but the truest one here is likely to be “Vulgarity of Life”. What is it? It’s not at all like “the love boat crashed into everyday life.” Vulgarity in hellish passion - for real estate, money, material things.
Yes, as a great artist, he is accustomed to comprehending the character and actions of his heroes, vividly embodying them on stage and screen in such a way that you will not forget. But now he can’t comprehend the horror of what happened to him personally. When, how and why did he, who lived to deep gray hairs, to the age of 82, and suddenly - broken trough. I remember him in the hospital on 11th Parkovaya, where in mid-October Armen Dzhigarkhanyan did not look like Armen Dzhigarkhanyan: not very coherent speech, a completely unsteady gait. I also thought: maybe this is the result of the drugs that his wife “fed” him hourly? Or maybe from shock? “An old fool,” he says to himself, trying to joke, but in his eyes, which are magnified by glasses, there is confusion and sadness, and maybe even melancholy. Hopeless.
(Long pause.)
Therefore, I will honestly tell you: in 1937 these people did what they did when they informed on you, they informed on me, then they sent me and you to prison. As Shakespeare says: “There is much passion in her. It just doesn’t make sense.” There is no point... I communicate with Phil - I feel good with him.
-Where did the cat come from?
Here he appeared. At first he lived in my theater, in my office, and then I took him here with me. The owner did not want to give it away, because although he is Siamese, he is terribly affectionate. And then her cat lambed again, brought four at once, and agreed to give this one to me. I don’t close the door because he comes at night and lies down - like that. (Points to his chest, closing his eyes.) I’m talking to him... If I weren’t 80 years old now...
Armen Borisovich, in front of everyone, did not hesitate to scold her: so-and-so, he did not hold back in his expressions
The country has been showing the exciting thriller “Jigarkhanyaniya” for almost three months. The country is participating enthusiastically and noisily. And this collective interest accurately conveys to us what is happening to people today, how they are going crazy, not from their own, but from other people’s lives.
The collective portrait of the nation is obtained without dignity and with bad upbringing. Some people feel sorry for the old artist, who is still “to blame for everything.” Another nervously counts his income (it’s necessary, how much did he earn?!). Well, still others condemn that he wants to leave the “poor girl” alone in need (“she best years gave it away").
I wonder if someone forced her to give them away? Someone raped: live with the old man, live, sleep with him, sit at the table? She did this consciously and voluntarily, using her young body and shy smile. And now the question is: does she have the worst ones left? On the contrary, millions were added to the beauty that blossomed according to age, no matter that they were strangers. It is known that millions, like diamonds, best friends girls. And now the whole country knows about her, an unknown girl from Kyiv. It doesn’t matter that the reputation has been “robbed from the old fool,” what matters is what they say.
When did this terrible story begin? On October 9, when Armen Borisovich discovered that his Russian passport was missing, he recalled latest scandal with his wife, and it clicked in his head: stole? Or when Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya discovered her husband was missing and wrote a statement to the police?
At the clinic where the artist has been observed for many years, the medical staff noticed, they told me that back in the summer, when the couple came to the hospital, Dzhigarkhanyan, in front of everyone, did not hesitate to scold her: so and so, he did not hold back in his expressions. Even then it was felt that their relationship was not what it was before.
Suspicious matches
Of course, this personal story with the most powerful resonance is now being sorted out by professionals, for whom reconciliation of documents, comparison of facts, dates, interviewing witnesses will restore the picture of the events of October in the lives of the now former spouses.
Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya now goes to the investigative committee and has a written undertaking not to leave Moscow. There are many oddities and coincidences: the date of the husband’s missing person report and the disappearance of his passport somehow suspiciously coincide. As with dates, one thing follows another - the day of marriage registration at the registry office and the debiting of money from the spouse’s account in one of the capital’s banks.
Arthur Soghomonyan, friend of the artist:
When I heard “Dzhigarkhanyan has disappeared,” I immediately called Vitalina: “What are you doing? How did you disappear? Do you know that Iroh has it?" (Hayrapet Oganesyan. - M.R.)
- And what about Vitalina?
She said that she was advised to say so. But she herself knew perfectly well where he was, with whom and why. He freaked out that she began to do as she wanted in the theater without him - she got involved in the creative work, played the premiere, but he did not give permission. He said: “My name is on the theater, not yours.”
Yes, this is perhaps Armen Dzhigarkhanyan’s biggest mistake: in addition to the power of attorney to dispose of all his movable and immovable property, he also gave the theater to Vitalina, making her the director. There is at least an explanation for such a step: Dzhigarkhanyan, as an artistic director, had so many problems with directors that he probably thought: well, this one is his own, she won’t deceive. But, as it turned out, not every Vitalina (even a certified one) can run a state, even a theatrical one.
A man loses his sense of control and danger when he meets a woman who pursues him
Are all marriages with a serious age difference doomed to a similar ending? No, of course, only one theater world can present skeptics with several bright pairs: Yuri Lyubimov - Katalina Lyubimova (30 years old), Oleg Tabakov - Marina Zudina (30), Vladimir Etush - Elena Etush (42). Powerful unions, creators and their muses. Old husbands and their young wives. I asked a specialist what an age-unequal marriage is.
Vladimir Fainzilberg, psychiatrist, associate professor of the department of psychotherapy at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis:
The acceptable age difference in marriages, which, in my opinion, is quite real, is up to 20–25 years. Anything more causes caution, a fairly well-founded suspicion: basically such a union Most often, mercantile interests lie. And those who enter into such a marriage themselves cannot explain why they do it if they are trying to hide some kind of mercantilism.
- Are the motives of women and men different?
The mechanisms that motivate women are most often clear: they look for a father in a man who can solve their problems, protect, provide, that is, when life problems solved on their own, just like in childhood. And men are driven by a feeling of interest in a young woman, which in a good way words should not fade with age. The level of testosterone, which determines attraction, must be high enough so that a man even at the age of 50+ has some kind of constant interest in opposite sex, at least formally, visually. And a man loses his sense of control and danger when he meets a woman who wants him as a lover, as a husband.
- So you don’t believe at all in the purity of feelings among young women who connect their lives with an older man?
I don't quite believe it because today, when average duration life has grown, a layer of men aged 60+, physically active and intellectually wealthy, has appeared. Most often, famous men with financial resources fall into this category. And yet, a woman who marries such a man must understand that the time will come when she will have to play the role of a nurse, nurse, and care for this frail old man. And there are few women who do this out of a feeling of love and sincere passion.
- In your practice, have you met many such women?
This is probably calculated in fractions of a percent. That is, per thousand people there may be one, or at most two percent. Marriages with a large age difference are extremely rare.
Can young wives be classified as those who quite cruelly and coldly use and even kill people much older than themselves? I'm talking about black realtors, young girls posing as social workers.
I understood your question. After destruction Soviet Union- I’m not a fan of him, but I understand that with him a certain unifying national idea, - over 20–30 years, people have appeared who were brought up in a different spirit, not the one in which we grew up. Today, the entire policy of society is aimed at enrichment, when wealth is at the forefront, when working is not prestigious and is not necessary. What feelings and emotions can we talk about when they kill not only strangers, but also their own, in order to get an apartment or an inheritance? Or they simply get rid of them so as not to have to look after them, etc. Indifference and the thirst for enrichment come to the fore. I see this in young doctors - their first question is: how can they make money? If earlier doctors treated, today they provide a service.
Video with panties is not for nothing
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, the people's favorite, faced with the vulgarity of life, did not imagine that he would still be faced with two realities in which he understood nothing and was not oriented. This is virtual reality social networks, which is like a dark forest for him.
And television, on which he, by the way, worked a lot and whose fame he increased. But now he works very diligently there ex-wife: She uses all the possibilities of social networks and TV. Oddly enough, the blonde turned out to be not a blonde: stuffing in the media and networks is done correctly - from detectives ( People's Artist The USSR disappeared, was found in a hospital, the criminal case filed against his ex-wife is classified) to the physiologically unpleasant (the People's Artist does not wash because he spends the night in the theater).
And the TV people simply announce a marathon and race to the finish line. They have completely lost their heads: they show home footage of the artist in shorts and drunk. My wife reported it (why she filmed it is also a question), but the TV people did not hesitate to expose the People’s Artist of the USSR to public disgrace. They didn’t even understand that they were ashamed not of him, who was drunk, but of them. Do they also live without dignity?
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, of course, is being tried, discussed, defended, just like in a friendly court from the times of the USSR, when there was no trace of TV. And his only fault is that, being a very adult and, in general, a lonely man (his wife has lived in the USA for many years), he innocently fell into the snare of a pretty blonde. Is he the first? Of course not - the People's Artist only joined the army of naive pensioners who succumbed to the call of male nature. He has a specific orientation, his behavior is quite logical, and according to this logic, the male’s brain turns off. This is a medical fact, proven by various kinds of young experimenters, where the purity of the result depends on the frequency of the experiment.
I fully admit that the young, smart (without irony) blonde Vitalina with funny curls could not stand living with an old man. “Well, I couldn’t,” as in that joke. And it can be understood: everything is different for them - biological cycles, rhythm, perception. Maybe she should also be protected from her husband’s age-related whims, his senile quirks and habits?.. Then the young lady should say honestly: you know, dear, I don’t have the strength to live with you, let me return to my mother, in Kyiv; but I’m your wife, and according to the law, let’s share everything. And the law will be on her side.
But for some reason the young lady does not want to share anything. The young lady takes all the money from the accounts of her now disgusted star husband. Moreover, she begins to make money from this situation. How? She knows perfectly well how much it costs to pass under the camera at Sheremetyevo airport, from which she flies in an unknown direction (to Tbilisi, Kyiv or Tel Aviv?), and the same camera meets her for money when the fugitive returns to the Mother See . Coming to the studio also costs something. And the video with the panties? This, as you understand, is not at all for nothing. So the capital increase began. That’s why I don’t want to defend her: she already has all her moves calculated.
I had a wife, now I don’t, and thank God
And here we are sitting with him in his new apartment, uninhabited for now. We drink tea and talk. But no matter what they talk about (about the theater, the latest premiere of “Krechinsky’s Wedding”), he always returns to his misfortune.
- But you yourself, excuse me, gave Vitalina all the powers.
Are you going to reproach me?! She was my woman, she was lying next to me, but I can’t check every minute to see if anything has disappeared. How then can you live if you don’t believe?
He gets excited, explodes, gets nervous, then walks away.
Honestly, for the first time I don’t know what to do. I don’t even feel sorry for the money - what is money? They left and came... But so shamelessly! Deception, betrayal! You say: you need money, I’ll get it... But not like that. (He is silent, staring into space.) I’ll straighten out, I’ll straighten out. I had a wife, but now I don’t, and thank God. My only desire, vile, nasty, is to punish her severely.
- Maybe it’s not necessary, Armen Borisovich?
Necessarily!!! She did everything without asking me. You're saying it wrong. There is a definition: crime and punishment. You know, many years ago in Yerevan, in our Armenian Church there was an accountant, he stole all the money. They caught him, went to the Catholicos, and said: “He must be tried.” - "No need. I told him: damn you." No, no, I don’t agree, in this particular case I will even ask that she be imprisoned. You should be afraid of her.
- I've never seen you like this before. You probably don’t even know yourself like that?
I didn’t know... Therefore, I cannot accept all these philosophical arguments about forgiveness. I won't calm down. Honestly, if it weren’t for my friends - Arthur, Iroh and my cat... They saved me.
But you don’t entertain the idea of sitting down at the table and trying to agree on the division of property? Maybe then all passions will subside?
They are sure that they will not give anything away and nothing will happen to them for it.
Is it possible to put out a fire peacefully? Have the parties made attempts at reconciliation?
Evgeny Parfenov, lawyer representing the interests of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan:
When it all started, around October 20, I wrote a letter to Vitalina - we know each other well, and suggested we meet to sort everything out. The letter remained unanswered. Then, in court, during the divorce, her representative Mazur sat down with me, I regarded this as a sign of reconciliation, but she only asked: where are we going to sign Armen Borisovich out of the apartment on Molodogvardeyskaya Street? And just a few days later on “ Live Malakhov said: “I asked not to discharge Armen Borisovich, since he has nowhere to live.” Judging by the way Vitalina and her entourage behave, they are sure that they will not give anything away, and nothing will happen to them for this.
- How so? I know that a criminal case has been opened, and, it seems, more than one.
Yes, a case was opened under Article 137 of the Criminal Code “Violation of privacy.” Vitalina has already been charged, and the circle of people involved in this case is currently being established.
- What punishment is provided under this article?
Article of minor gravity: from a fine to 2 years of imprisonment. If the investigation works competently and professionally, then the court may give a real sentence. Of course, we will insist that there be a real deadline. I hope for a verdict and a criminal record. Now I am doing everything so that another case is initiated - under Article 159 “Fraud”, and there is every reason for this, I hope the investigation will agree with us. It can be initiated on two counts related to the fraudulent acquisition of rights to real estate and breach of trust. And also by order without Dzhigarkhanyan’s consent in cash. Also, a case has been opened under Article 325 of theft of documents. And a statement on 306 was accepted - a deliberately false denunciation.
- What is this story with the classified case, which was announced by lawyer Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya?
I don't have such information. I think that there is not and cannot be any state secret here; we are talking about Article 161 - about non-disclosure of preliminary investigation data. A non-disclosure signature was taken from Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya while the investigation is ongoing, since she and her proxies go on television programs and tell everything right and left.
This is not just about Dzhigarkhanyan and Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, not just about a man and a woman who not only do not want to live together, but also cannot see each other. It's about simple things, which are now turned upside down: what is good and what is bad. Is it good when they take money from an old man? Or are they depriving him of a roof over his head? Shouldn't you help an old man cross the road? Even if this old man is known to the city, the country and the world? Do you have any doubts? If you don't know how to answer these questions, there's probably something wrong with you.