Childhood and youth
Renata Muratovna Litvinova was born on January 12, 1967 in Moscow into a family of doctors. The family of the star according to his father Murat Aminovich Vergazov comes from the princely Tatars. Mother Alisa Mikhailovna Vershazova worked as a surgeon all her life. The parents divorced shortly after the girl was born.
Renata Litvinova with her mother. Photo: biografii.net
The future artist was fond of creativity since childhood - Renata danced folk dances, participated in athletics and loved to read fiction. In high school, Litvinova graduated from music school at the Moscow Conservatory.
Growing up as a celebrity was difficult - the girl had a large number of complexes. Renata was embarrassed by her tall stature, modest clothes and the absence of her father in the family. The star did not like her name - her father named her Renata in honor of his brother.
In 1984, the talented girl graduated from high school and entered the famous VGIK. At that time, Litvinova was writing essays and dreaming of directing. My classmates in the screenwriting and film studies department were preferably men. The beauty, who already had a sharp mind in her youth, attracted guys at the institute.
Renata Litvinova in her youth. Photo: biografii.net
True, the aspiring director had problems with his studies. The teachers criticized Renata’s graduation script and sent her to finish her work. Despite this, a film was made based on Litvinova’s first screenplay. It was the drama “Loveless,” which was later called the first film in the history of free Russian cinema. For this work, the star received a huge number of awards.
Possible truth about Dobrovsky’s activities
As it later became clear, Leonid Dobrovsky is a businessman. He attributes to himself the ownership of such enterprises as Mostotrest LLC, Montazhtransstroy-MTK LLC. The companies' activities are diverse and include wholesale and retail sales of various products (from gypsum to stone and metal), building materials. Companies are also engaged in providing various services, from advertising stands and finishing works, to the development of huge quarries and the construction of roads, railways, and airplane runways.
Creative path
Renata Litvinova’s first work as an actress was her role in Kira Muratova’s film “Hobbies.” Later, the director featured the artist in her film album “Three Stories.” It is from this film that viewers are familiar with the now catchphrase “I would give this world a zero.”
Renata Litvinova in the film “Three Stories”. Photo: vokrug.tv
Inspired by Litvinova’s story “Own and Belong,” Valery Todorovsky filmed “The Country of the Deaf.” But the actress gained widespread fame after her role in Alexander Mitta’s novel “Border. Taiga novel."
Further, the star’s filmography was replenished with directorial works. Renata Litvinova directed the documentary “No Death for Me” and the film “Sky. Airplane. Girl”, “The Tuner” in tandem with Kira Muratova and the feature film “Goddess: How I Fell in Love”.
In 2004, the actress starred in the film “The Suitcases of Tulse Luper: A Moab Story” by British director Peter Greenaway. Filming Litvinova’s film was not easy. She had to go topless. Renata was embarrassed about her body, because at that time not even a year had passed since the birth. Greenway was able to convince the woman that her figure was perfect for the character.
The collaboration between Renata Litvinova and the famous director Alexei Balabanov was fruitful. The master cast the actress in the comedy “Blind Man’s Bluff,” and later in the film “It Doesn’t Hurt Me.” For the sake of the role, the film star had to shave her eyebrows.
Renata Litvinova in the film “It Doesn’t Hurt Me.” Photo: online.zakon.kz
Since 2021, Renata Litvinova began collaborating with theaters. So, she became the director of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater play “The North Wind”. The star regularly goes on tour with the theater throughout Russia.
Renata Litvinova is also known for her activities on television. The actress hosted the evening shows “Night Muses”, “Night Session with Renata Litvinova”, the fashion program “Style from ... Renata Litvinova”, the program “The Beauty of the Hidden. The story of the underdress with Renata Litvinova" and "Beauty Pedestal. The History of Shoes with Renata Litvinova”, created specifically for the TV channel “Culture”. An unusual manner of speaking often becomes the object of parodies and jokes.
In modern show business, Renata Litvinova continues to remain a mysterious and extraordinary figure. The star still appears at social events, participates in television programs and gives interviews.
Who is Leonid Dobrovsky
When the couple began to appear together at social events, many became interested in Leonid’s personality. Since he had not been seen at such events before, reporters had many questions for Renata about his identity. Leonid Dobrovsky, Litvinova’s husband, never communicated with journalists himself, and asked his wife not to talk about his activities. The wife obediently avoided any questions about her current husband and his work, saying that he was an ordinary engineer. Only the reporters did not believe her, because many knew that the engineer could not earn money for a luxurious mansion located in the prestigious village of Rublyovka, next door to Putin himself.
Personal life
The personal life of Renata Litvinova is always under the close supervision of fans and the press. The star herself often gives journalists a reason for various rumors and gossip.
There are two known official marriages of the actress. Litvinova's first husband was producer Alexander Antipov. True, the marriage did not last long - a year after the wedding, the couple divorced.
Renata Litvinova and Leonid Dobrovsky. Photo: zen.yandex.ru
The second husband of the shocking film star was businessman Leonid Dobrovsky. In this marriage, the star had a daughter, Ulyana. However, five years after the birth of the heiress, the lovers’ relationship came to naught. Renata herself filed for divorce; the divorce process was actively discussed in the press.
Renata Litvinova with her daughter Ulyana. Photo: dni.ru
Since 2006, rumors about the star’s homosexuality have not subsided. The press writes about Litvinova’s affair with musician and rock singer Zemfira Ramazanova. It was even rumored that the artists had a secret wedding in Sweden, where same-sex marriage is allowed. Renata herself calls Zemfira a close friend and ally, nothing more. However, in an interview with TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, released in March 2021, Renata Litvinova was in the “editing” apartment that she shares with Zemfira.
Renata Litvinova and Zemfira. Photo: hellomagazine.com
During the interview, Ksenia Sobchak admitted that the friendship between Litvinova and Zemfira had always been a “mystery” for her. In response, Renata Muratovna explained her attitude towards the singer in one phrase.
“I believe that Zemfira is such a gift. “I treat her as a gift,” the star emphasized.
First love
Since childhood, Renata has been different from her peers and friends. At the university, the girl did not change her tradition. My classmates thought she was strange and a little arrogant. In the group, Litvinova received the nickname “geisha” because of her appearance. The girl whitened her face very much and wore false eyelashes, but this was just a mask behind which a vulnerable soul was hiding. Despite such oddities, Renata had many fans among the guys.
Classmates were surprised when they learned that Renata was having an affair with a guy from the group, Alexander Antipov . It is unknown why the simple guy impressed the mysterious girl, but Litvinova fell madly in love with him. After just a few months of relationship, the young people got married, but despite the great love, the marriage did not last long.
Literally a few months after the wedding, Renata learned about an affair on the side of her husband. Renata Litvinova’s husband cheated, and she was broken and destroyed by this news. The girl could not live with the man who betrayed her. Divorce became a difficult test for Litvinova.
She even planned to borrow money from her friends to buy a gun and shoot Alexander, but she came to her senses in time and signed all the divorce papers. There were no children in the marriage, which lasted one year.
Terrible accident
On her last birthday, the artist was hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing. According to Litvinova, she went for a morning jog, after which she headed to the beauty salon. While crossing Tverskoy Boulevard, she was hit by a car. The star was hit by a 28-year-old girl, who later stated that the actress was drunk. Renata herself denied this information.
As a result of the accident, the actress had many injuries: bruised shoulder, hip, cut chin, crushed soft tissues. The plastic surgeon who operated on Litvinova, Teymur Kuliev, stated that after the accident there was “no living space on her.” Fortunately, the star quickly received medical assistance and began to recover.
Having achieved reciprocity
Leonid Dobrovsky is not one of those who give up, and therefore the first refusal of the offer to have dinner together did not bother him. The man began to achieve mutual sympathy from the lady he liked through active courtship. Strangely enough, it didn’t take him much time to do this; somehow the icy beauty’s heart thawed, and she saw a real man behind the unprepossessing appearance of her admirer.
Soon the couple began to be noticed at various events, but they did not attribute a future to her. Reporters were embarrassed by the fact that Renata did not particularly want to talk about the man accompanying her, so they began to believe that the romance was fleeting, and soon everyone would again forget about the actress’s next admirer.
Female friendship
The breakup of a once happy married couple is associated with the far from female friendship of Renata and singer Zemfira. They say that the women’s relationship went far beyond friendship, and soon these rumors reached Leonid. The man initially did not pay attention to the affair attributed to his wife, because he understood that in show business they constantly force something on someone, including same-sex relationships, which in fact do not exist.
Zemfira was a frequent guest at the Dubrovsky-Litvinova house, and did not seem a threat to family relationships. Some time later, a report appeared in the press that Litvinova had moved from her wealthy husband to the singer, taking her daughter with her. Fans of Renata's talent were shocked, and journalists attacked the actress with questions.
The woman still denied a close relationship with Zemfira, calling her her best friend. She spoke about her move like this: her husband became inadequate, constantly found fault with Renata, yelled at her for any reason. After getting drunk, he could cause chaos at home and hit his wife. And recently he even almost strangled her, fortunately the servant pulled him away from the victim in time. According to Litvinova, only the husband is to blame for their discord, and Dobrovsky did not comment on the future divorce.
Legal nuances that no one paid attention to
For the first time, media friends “married” their friends in 2009 - then Renata and Zemfira visited Sweden together, from where they returned with identical rings. It would be too boring to assume that this was an ordinary tourist trip - celebrities were immediately suspected of having same-sex marriage, since in Sweden they are, unfortunately, allowed.
This time, like many years ago, a joint trip does not mean absolutely anything - in order to enter into such a marriage in this country, at least one of the partners must have its citizenship or at least EU citizenship. As is known, neither Zemfira nor Litvinova have such an advantage.
Meet Renata
As we wrote earlier, Leonid Dobrovsky is not a secular person at all. He was not interested in the world of cinema and its off-screen life, and knew Litvinova only from her roles in films.
In real life, Leonid met Renata only in the late nineties. At that time he was about 25 years old, but he was already a wealthy man who owned several large enterprises. The man was simply captivated by the beauty of his new acquaintance, which could not be said about her. Renata Litvinova was not at all interested in Leonid Dobrovsky, and she could be understood. The luxurious woman had many influential and attractive admirers, and Leonid, although he had a considerable fortune, his appearance did not resemble those men who were in the taste of the actress.
After divorce
For a long time, the former spouses did not communicate in any way, publicly showing hostility towards each other. Leonid Dobrovsky was completely drowned in work and often communicated with his daughter. Two years after the divorce, Renata and Dobrovsky began to be often spotted together. They were asked about the possibility of family reunification, but they replied that they simply began to communicate for the sake of their daughter’s happiness. Renata said that she sees no barriers to co-parenting, walking together in the park or attending events. Leonid completely agreed with her.
The former spouses were able to improve their relationship after the separation, remaining, although not friends, but not enemies either. They deserve praise and would be great examples for many divorcing couples.
