Today, November 8, 2021, Lyudmila Gurchenko’s daughter, Maria Koroleva, died - the cause of death was sudden cardiac arrest at the entrance of her house. We will describe your biography, personal life, relationship with your mother below. Maria died at the age of 58, a little short of her mother’s birthday. Lyudmila Markovna would have turned 82 this year. Having lived a difficult life, unlike her star mother, devoid of glory, worship, triumph, Maria left suddenly, suddenly.
Photo: Maria Koroleva - daughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko
Childhood and family
Maria Borisovna Andronikashvili was born in June 1959 in the capital. It’s already been 4 years since “Carnival Night” died down, which turned my mother, Lyudmila Gurchenko, into a star of Soviet cinema. The father, a handsome man and an intellectual, the son of the writer Boris Pilnyak, who was caught in the meat grinder of repression, also appeared on the screen and took his first steps in literature.
A creative family of talented people, bright and famous, could become an environment in which a movie star, singer or playwright would grow up. She could have, but she didn't. The parents lived together for 2 years and separated a year after the birth of their daughter. Lyudmila Markovna, whose film career was developing rapidly, sent the one-year-old girl to Kharkov, to her mother.
Gurchenko soon married the adopted son of the writer Alexander Fadeev, and Andronikashvili began a relationship with Nonna Mordyukova. Masha turned out to be superfluous in the lives of her closest people. Later, when Maria was 3 years old, Lyudmila Gurchenko tried to pay attention to her daughter, but filming and touring took up all her time, and Masha again and again went to her grandmother Lela, Elena Alexandrovna.
Before Maria had time to get used to Fadeev, he was replaced by a new “father” - Joseph Kobzon. Then musician Konstantin Kuperweis appeared, who stayed in the actress’s life for 18 years. It was him who Maria the Queen called dad. Delicate and kind, he managed to find a path to the girl’s heart and gradually established a relationship with her.
Maria Koroleva - daughter.
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Maria Koroleva in her youth
Later, Maria Koroleva, revealing the pages of her biography to journalists, frankly admitted that she hated show business and conversations about it, she was not interested in the life of an acting bohemia, cinema was not attractive, the stage was not alluring.
Mom wanted to see a continuation of herself in her daughter, but Masha, in her words, went into “conscious indifference.” She didn’t use makeup, didn’t like bright and fashionable clothes, dyed her hair an “eggplant” color and blended in with the crowd. On top of everything else, the girl had a congenital defect that made it difficult to feel confident.
Maria Koroleva saw her own father in fits and starts; he had no influence on her daughter. Relations with her mother were marred by quarrels and scandals - Lyudmila Markovna tried in vain to “remake” her daughter, and she did everything in defiance. Gurchenko became irritated and moved away from Masha.
Maria Koroleva’s admission to medical school was also a protest: it’s not that the profession attracted the girl so much - she did it in spite of her star mother, who was planning Masha’s admission to a theater university. Maria Koroleva graduated from college without much success; she did not want to continue her studies at a medical institute and got a job at a children's oncology clinic.
Mary's youth from her biography
Official sources: The cause of death of Lyudmila Gurchenko’s daughter, Maria Koroleva, was heart problems.
When Masha turned fourteen, her mother married her accompanist Konstantin Kuperweis for the fifth time. The actress lived with him for eighteen years.
Maria grew up as a pretty girl, slender and shy. When she became an adult, her mother’s hostility towards her was expressed in the fact that she became jealous of her husband for Masha. Lyudmila was afraid that her daughter would fight off her husband. The fact is that Konstantin was fifteen years younger than his wife. Then she began to have plastic surgery almost every year and preen herself even more.
But her stepfather treated Masha exclusively like a father. Masha felt a kind attitude and began to call him “dad.” She didn't call any of her stepfathers that.
Lyudmila hoped that her daughter would follow in her footsteps and continue the acting dynasty. But Masha entered medical school. school. She was always a mediocre student. After graduating from college, Maria began working as a nurse in an oncology center.
Personal life
At the age of 18, the daughter of the prima donna of Soviet cinema married a man of the same age named Alexander Korolev. The wedding took place in the best restaurant in the capital, “National”, inviting eminent guests. Mom gave her daughter a diamond ring, which became a family heirloom.
After her marriage, Maria Koroleva’s relationship with her mother did not happen; the family met at the same table on major holidays. Lyudmila Markovna did not like her son-in-law; she considered the life of her daughter, who did not want to see prospects, to be a mistake.
In September 1982, Maria Koroleva gave birth to a son, Mark, naming him in honor of his great-grandfather. A year later, daughter Elena appeared, inheriting her great-grandmother’s name.
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Maria Koroleva and her children
Lyudmila Markovna reached out to her grandchildren, trying, if not her daughter, to make them continue the profession. But Gurchenko saw an “obstacle” on the way to her goal in the form of her son-in-law. After a loud scandal, Maria Koroleva separated from her husband, but the family was soon reunited. After all the family troubles, Lyudmila Markovna’s relationship with her daughter’s family completely went wrong. Communication with Masha and the children was reduced to a minimum.
Mark Korolev, having become a teenager, found himself in dubious company. An addiction to drugs appeared in his life: it started with weed and ended with heroin injections. To snatch the child from the clutches of death, Maria Koroleva and her husband raised money and sent their son to study abroad. A year and a half later, Mark arrived from England for the New Year holidays and went to celebrate the girl’s birthday in a cafe. I bought some drugs along the way. The injection turned out to be fatal - the 17-year-old boy died in the hospital.
The famous grandmother was informed about the death of her beloved grandson by Maria Borisovna’s neighbor. Gurchenko did not forgive her daughter for not telling her personally about the tragedy.
Daughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko: personal life, marriage and children
Maria Borisovna got married early. Her chosen one was an ordinary person. The marriage produced two children - son Mark and daughter Elena. Children of the same age were named after the parents of L. M. Gurchenko. After the birth of her son and daughter, Maria Borisovna left work forever, content with the modest role of a housewife. The mother, on the one hand, was glad to have her grandchildren, but, on the other hand, it was in them that she wanted to see a continuation of herself and her own talents. The relationship between Gurchenko and her son-in-law, who found it difficult to accept his star mother-in-law, also became difficult. The daughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko testifies that because of the conflict between her mother and her husband, their family almost broke up. She and her husband officially divorced and got married some time later.
Another tragic event happened in the life of Maria Borisovna. In 1998, her eldest son Mark died of a drug overdose. The mother’s grief was great, it was aggravated by the fact that Maria Borisovna herself waged a long struggle with her son’s illness.
There is a legend that Gurchenko did not come to her grandson’s funeral. However, this is not true; the famous actress took his death seriously, as she pinned her hopes on Mark (named after her father). However, at the funeral the actress tried to be inconspicuous and not attract attention to herself. The death of her son undermined the health of Maria Borisovna, who generally gave up on her appearance and the impression she made on people.
Scandals
Grandmother Maria Koroleva, dying, bequeathed the apartment to her granddaughter Lena. Lyudmila Gurchenko did not like this mother’s decision: the actress entered into a scandalous lawsuit with her daughter. The trials were accompanied by newspaper publications and hype; more than once Gurchenko’s relationship with his daughter was dissected “bone by bone” on a TV show, dividing the public into two camps. It seemed that scandals had entered the life of the star and her daughter forever.
A bundle of old grievances grew and became an insurmountable obstacle for Maria Koroleva in communicating with her mother. The already meager communication ceased completely. Maria Borisovna focused on the family, daughter Elena, granddaughter Taisiya, who appeared in 2008.
Journalists did not stop, lying in wait for Maria Koroleva near the house. Her photos without makeup and in simple clothes regularly appeared on the pages of the yellow tabloids, exciting the public with the striking difference in the appearance of mother and daughter.
The most heartwarming shots are taken in the kitchen.
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Maria Koroleva and her mother Lyudmila Gurchenko
According to the woman, constant scandals turned her life into hell. Journalists tried to extract information from her about her relationship with her mother, twisted what was said, conveying to Lyudmila Markovna information distorted, like a broken phone. The hot-tempered Gurchenko reacted violently to her daughter’s “words” - and a new scandal was born.
At the end of March 2011, having learned about the death of the film star, a crowd of onlookers and journalists gathered near Maria Koroleva’s house, wanting to get another sensation. To escape from the “raid,” the Queen called the police three times. Correspondents and onlookers were banging on the door of the apartment, the phone was red with calls and questions about whether the daughter would go to the cemetery to say goodbye to her mother.
The scandals in the star family did not stop even after the actress’s funeral. The family of Maria Koroleva and Lyudmila Markovna’s sixth husband, Sergei Senin, divided Gurchenko’s property. In 2013, the Queen and Senin made peace, leaving their differences in the past.
Independent life
However, not everything in Maria's life was so bad. The absent mother was replaced by a loving grandmother - the mother of Lyudmila Gurchenko. The girl did not study well, but, fearing her mother’s anger, she hid her negative grades from her. The daughter of Lyudmila Gurchenko understood that her mother secretly hoped that she would repeat her stellar fate. But Masha herself did not dream of the stage. She could not become a musician, as Lyudmila Markovna wanted. On the contrary, Masha entered medical school and graduated with average results. She deliberately dressed so as not to please her mother, who loved elegance and was charming until the last day of her life. Gurchenko Lyudmila Markovna dyed her hair in light shades, wore stunning dresses and high stilettos, and used cosmetics. And her daughter strove for simple clothes (trousers and sweaters), deliberately changed the color of her hair to eggplant-lilac, and did not want to resort to cosmetics.
Death
Maria Koroleva passed away on November 8, 2021. The 58-year-old daughter outlived her mother by 6 years. The woman's body was found in the entrance of the house an hour after her death. Before this, Maria Borisovna complained to her daughter Lena about a cold and fever.
Lyudmila Markovna’s daughter went to the clinic, but never arrived. The cause of death was heart failure. Maria Koroleva left two granddaughters, whom the famous great-grandmother never saw.
Gurchenko’s daughter died on the eve of the release of the program “Andrey Malakhov. Live" on the TV channel "Russia-1", the announcement of which with the latest interview with Koroleva has already been broadcast. On the program, Maria Koroleva was supposed to meet for the first time her half-brother Alexander, the son of Boris Andronikashvili.
Worsening relations between mother and daughter
The aggravation of relations between mother and daughter occurred due to Gurchenko’s new and last marriage. In fact, this was already the sixth alliance that Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko concluded. The new husband was unable to settle down with his wife's relatives. Neither with my mother-in-law, nor with Gurchenko’s daughter Maria Borisovna. The housing problem worsened the situation. The fact is that Lyudmila Markovna’s mother, Elena Alexandrovna, when dying, bequeathed her apartment not to her daughter, but to her granddaughter. But Lyudmila Markovna could not accept such a decision for her mother. A long and difficult trial began between Gurchenko and her daughter, which ended in the division of property.
