Rotaru, Bodrov and other widows who are faithful to their deceased husbands

“In general, I sometimes have this crazy feeling that you and I are two different characters of one person. We are like two twin brothers who were separated in the hospital and reunited after many years. Something is hard, but the blood is original. You are my absolute destiny. And I really believe you. Trust me too. <...> Still, love is more important. Regardless of whether life itself is more important than death. Why? For one thing, it’s the only thing that can compete with it in terms of finality. If a person was to die, then the one who loved him will not stop loving. It is clear. Second, it clearly cannot be the other way around. I don’t know how love ends. If love ends, it is clearly not her, “Sergey Bodrov wrote such romantic letters to his beloved wife Svetlana.

The actor did not like to talk about his personal life, but in an interview he mentioned that he knew from childhood what his wife would look like. They were not together for so long: they met in 1997, a year later they had a daughter, Olga, and in 2002, a son, Alexander. The youngest was not even a month old when his dad disappeared on the set of “The Messenger” …

Almost 20 years have passed since then: over the years, Svetlana gave an interview only once. In it, she confirmed that she remains faithful to her late husband. “In my life, Seryozha is the last man who was, and no one else appeared in my life in any way, either mentally or physically,” admitted Bodrová.

The year 2002 was also fateful for Sofia Rotara: her husband, with whom she had lived in perfect harmony for 35 years, died suddenly. Anatoly Evdokimenko suffered from oncology, suffered three strokes, the last of which was fatal.

Sophie was extremely upset by her husband’s death. The artist did not even think about another wedding. “Her heart is occupied by her husband, even though he has died. Forever, believe me, “confirmed the singer’s son Ruslan Evdokimenko. And indeed: years pass, but Sofia Mikhailovna is faithful to the only man in her life.

It was love at first sight. Irina and Vladimir met on the basis of their love of sports and fell in love immediately. So much so that Irina called her boyfriend and directly said that everything was over between them because she “met true love”.

They got married just as quickly, in 1999 they became the parents of a daughter, Xenia. 12 years of absolute happiness was interrupted in an instant. On December 16, 2009, Vladimir felt a sharp pain in his chest, after which his heart stopped forever. An ambulance arrived at the scene and pronounced the death due to a heart attack. “I felt the deepest hopelessness. I stopped being interested in life. The sun shines, but it does not please. And not only the sun – even your own child. Life became flat, like a decoration, “Turchinskaya frankly admitted in an interview.

It took years and the help of specialists before Irina recovered. However, after the death of her husband, Turchinskaya was not going to arrange her personal life and will not do it. “He will remain my only beloved husband,” she emphasizes.

The popular Soviet actor Andrei Mironov was never deprived of female attention, while he himself was crazy about the artist Larisa Golubkina. 11 years of long courtship, four attempts at a marriage proposal and finally the beloved “yes”. In 1977, Mironov and Golubkina signed in one of the registry offices in Moscow.

They lived in perfect harmony for 10 years. It is not known how much the couple would still be happy if a terrible tragedy did not happen: right during the play “Crazy Day or the Marriage of Figaro”, Andrei lost consciousness without completing the last scene. The artist did not come to his senses: the doctors diagnosed a brain hemorrhage.

By the way, there was no doubt that the 46-year-old widow would not stay alone for long, because Golubkina had a lot of boyfriends. Oh, how wrong they all were! Larisa has been faithful to her late husband for over 30 years!

Valya Goryacheva – a modest brown-eyed girl with scattered freckles on her face – and an unknown cadet of the Orenburg aviation school Yura Gagarin met at a dance. The girl immediately won the heart of the guy, he accompanied her home and arranged a meeting. However, they communicated as friends for the next two years, until Yuri confessed his feelings to Valentina. Two years later, in 1957, the lovers finally got married. In 1959, their eldest daughter Elena was born, in 1961, a month before the flight of the first man into space, the youngest Galina.

Valentina went through fire, water and copper pipes with Yuri: she patiently waited from training and flights, she condescended to her husband’s fame, she herself did not suffer from star sickness, she took care of the house and children almost alone. Nevertheless, it was a happy marriage, full of joyful and bright moments.

Everything changed in 1968: Yuri Gagarin crashed during a training flight. The cosmonaut, as if foreseeing death, left a letter to his beloved wife: “If something happens, I ask you, and especially you, Valyusha, not to be sad. After all, life is life and no one guaranteed him that he wouldn’t be crushed by a car tomorrow. Please take care of our girls, love them like I do. Let them grow up, please, not white hands, not mommy’s daughters, but real people who would not be afraid of life’s inequalities. Well, arrange your personal life as your conscience tells you, as you see fit. I do not impose any obligations on you, nor do I have the right to do so.

And Valentina arranged her personal life exactly as she saw fit: she remained faithful to her late husband until his death. The couple was only together for 9 years and for the next 52 years she kept the memory of the happiest time of her life. Valentina Ivanovna died in 2020.