Moscow, 07.26.2021, 01:02:58, editorial office of FTimes.ru, author Zoya Zharkova.
Tatyana Ovsienko is one of the most popular artists who became famous in the late 80s and early 90s of the last century. She performed a large number of songs, each of which became popular. The singer devoted all her free time to her adopted son Igor and her husband.
Today the singer leads a secluded life, only occasionally communicating with fans. Currently, the performer does not appear on the stage very often.
What is known about Igor Dubovitsky
Tatyana Ovsienko became the first pop singer to take a child from an orphanage.
Taking an adopted child into your family is not easy. To do this, you first need to decide and understand for yourself whether you are ready for such a serious step, then collect a bunch of documents and it is not a fact that this child will be given to you. In addition, his biological parents may show up.
These difficulties did not stop Tatyana Ovsienko, and she decided to take the little boy who had sunk into her soul from the orphanage. The popular artist did not give birth to her children. Tatyana does not say why this did not happen.
In 1993, Tatyana Ovsienko married producer Vladimir Dubovitsky. Tatyana and Vladimir had known each other since their youth, but they began dating at a more mature age. At the time of marriage registration, Tatyana was 27 years old.
It is quite natural that Tatyana and Vladimir thought about a child. According to one version, Tatyana’s doctors diagnosed her with infertility; according to another, she wanted to build a career first. As the singer admits, she never thought about taking a child from an orphanage. One way or another, life decided everything for her...
In 1999 she came to the Penza orphanage. She brought gifts and invitation cards to her concert. Tatyana saw a boy whose sad eyes and touching appearance sank into her heart. She asked the management of the orphanage about this boy. It turned out that Igor is not yet 3 years old and has a congenital heart defect.
Money was needed for an operation in Moscow, since Penza did not have the necessary equipment. Without the operation, the boy would soon be dead.
Tatyana was touched by this story, and she paid for the child’s treatment. During rehabilitation, the singer took Igor to her dacha, and only then she could not part with him.
After Igorok recovered, the artist adopted him. Ovsienko confronted her husband with a fait accompli. They say that Ovsienko’s excessive independence led to the divorce. They separated in 2003 (the divorce was officially filed in 2007). Tatiana raised Igor alone.
Igor learned that he was adopted at the age of 16. His adoptive father told him about this. The news shocked the guy. Igor was very worried, his relationship with his mother became strained. According to Ovsienko, it was a difficult period. For some time, Igor moved away from her, became uncommunicative and withdrawn, but they got over it. Then mother and son had a heart-to-heart talk, and the relationship returned to its previous course.
The singer was always afraid that Igor’s biological mother would come and take him away. She admitted that at first she was afraid that the boy would be taken away from her, so she gave him the last name Dubovitsky.
“He made me happy. He made me understand what a mother is. He made me understand what childish tenderness is when the little one was sick,” the artist shared.
Tatyana did not hide the fact that she was worried about the heir when he had his first heart surgery. “Ten days later they gave it to me. They said: “That’s it, take it.” And I don’t think so: “Are you giving it to me specifically so that he can die?” I thought that they wouldn’t be discharged so quickly,” the singer recalled.
Biography of Tatyana Ovsienko
In 1966, in a small dorm room, the future star and Honored Artist of Russia Tatyana was born into the family of a laboratory assistant and a truck driver. Her last name was not known to anyone at that time, because the girl’s parents were far from the stage.
Tatyana's father was rarely at home, her mother was busy at work most of the time, so from the age of 4 the girl was sent to sports sections and clubs so that she would not be left at home alone. But Tanya didn’t mind - she liked skating, doing gymnastics, and singing in the “Solnyshko” ensemble. The girl was energetic and versatile.
When Tatyana graduated from school, she dreamed of breaking free and seeing the world. For this purpose, I entered the College of Hotel Management. Her goal was to get a job on a cruise ship and travel around the world. The singer’s career and life could have ended with the realization of this dream, because she was heading to the Admiral Nakhimov liner, the crash of which in 1986 killed 400 people.
But life turned out differently - the mother, as if anticipating trouble, categorically insisted that her daughter remain on land. Tatyana obeyed. How she saved her life. She got a job as an administrator at the famous Bratislava hotel, which became the starting point in her career.
The singer's explosive career
Her work brought her together with Natalya Vetlitskaya, who invited the girl to join the Mirage group as a costume designer. The work opened up the path to show business for Tanya. And she agreed to such a seemingly unpromising proposal for fame. She immediately quit and rushed to the capital for the Mirage group.
Then the soloists in the group were Vetlitskaya and Saltykova. Tatyana watched the soloists’ performances with admiration and dreamed of one day being in the place of one of them. The girl knew all the lyrics, and one day she was able to replace the sick soloist, because at that time they all sang to the soundtracks of Margarita Sukhankina.
Interesting! Soon Tanya remained the only vocalist of the group and became its face. And in 1990, the story with the phonogram became known to the general public and brought a lot of problems to the girl. She left Mirage and created a new group, Voyage, with the support of Viktor Chaika and her future husband, Vladimir Dubovitsky. With the new group, Tatyana performed a lot and sang in her own voice. The public accepted her favorably with this fact, and the singer’s career quickly took off.
Performances, tours, albums, awards - the singer found herself on the crest of fame. Many songs became super hits: “Music Connected Us” was heard in every home, at every disco. Then Larisa Rubalskaya, together with Chaika, created the song “Beautiful Girl” for her, with which Ovsienko traveled to many countries and cities, then new hits appeared: “Captain”, “Our Yard”, “Women’s Happiness”.
Tatyana actively appeared on television: performing with Dan McCafferty, participating in reality shows, filming - active artistic activity kept her at the crest of popularity for a long time. Her optimism and positive attitude captivated the public and attracted fans to her. The end of the 90s was marked by more super hits: “School Time” was replaced by “Ring”, for which Ovsienko received the “Golden Gramophone”.
For reference! After Tatyana left Mirage, the group went into oblivion for some time, and then was reborn with Sukhankina (the real voice of the group) and Gulkina. And in 2016, the author of the hits created her own band, with which she still performs to this day, performing all the hits of “Mirage”.
In the early 2000s, new songs appeared, a performance followed with Viktor Saltykov, and the artist gave many charity concerts. She always especially favored the military and disabled people, sang in hot spots, for which she received many awards.
The singer’s greatest hits that have captivated several generations of listeners:
- Beautiful girl - 1992;
- Captain - 1993;
- You have to fall in love - 1994;
- Beyond the Pink Sea - 1997;
- River of My Love - 2001;
- I won't say goodbye - 2004;
- Time: 2013.
Personal life: not everything is so smooth
As a singer of “Mirage,” Tatyana met the then-married Vladimir Dubovitsky, who took an active part in her career. Tender feelings arose between them, and when Vladimir became free, they got married.
Important! It would seem that everything is fine, husband, career, but Tatyana Ovsienko’s family suffered, they had no children. After 6 years, they adopted a boy, Igor, from an orphanage. But, after living another 12 years of marriage, in 2003 the family broke up - it turned out that Vladimir Dubovitsky betrayed his wife, he had a passion on the side, and she gave birth to a baby. Since then, Tatyana Ovsienko and her son Igor are the only two in the photo.
Tatyana left the stage for a while, but soon, like a phoenix, she rose from the ashes and resumed her activities. In 2008, a fateful meeting took place: Tanya was vacationing in Yalta, where she met her second husband, Alexander Merkulov. After spending a couple of evenings with him, the singer realized that she had completely fallen in love.
But here, too, pitfalls awaited the young woman. After 3 years of civil marriage, the husband was arrested on suspicion that he had launched an assassination attempt on a businessman. For another 3 years, Tanya visited lawyers and pre-trial detention centers, trying to save her husband from prison, believing in his innocence. And finally, he was released, the charges being dropped.
On a note! Tatyana is grateful to her group, which supported the artist during these difficult times, and did not turn away from her, like many friends.
How Igor Dubovitsky lives today
Tatyana Ovsienko was married to producer Vladimir Dubovitsky for 18 years. They even adopted a boy, Igor, but their union came to an end when the singer found out that her husband had fathered an illegitimate child. She did not make a scandal out of this, but simply divorced him.
Now Igor lives in America. He married a Brazilian. In 2015, his son Alexander was born. Tatyana Ovsienko became a grandmother. She often visits her adopted son and grandson.
The meeting between mother and son took place in the studio of the program “Hello, Andrey!” To talk with his mother, Igor Dubovitsky came from Miami, where he lives with his family.
Tatyana Ovsienko rarely gives interviews, but she could not refuse the presenter Andrei Malakhov. The singer became the heroine of the program “Hello, Andrey!” She talked about her long marriage with Vladimir Dubovitsky, how she dreamed of children and how she could not leave without help a little boy who needed heart surgery. Later she decided not to return him to the orphanage and adopted him.
Igor talked about how he learned that he was raised by stepparents. The young man assured that he still feels the singer’s love, and he loves her very much.
They haven't seen each other for two years. Igor has a wife and son Alexander. The boy is already about two years old. Ovsienko not only saw her grandson, but even became his godmother.
“The boy is half-Brazilian,” Andrei Malakhov announced to everyone. “Yes, our mother is Brazilian-Italian,” the singer noted. Rare photographs of Igor with his wife and heir were shown on air. The baby is growing dark-haired and strong. He loves to play, run and hide. Tatiana's grandson speaks English. The artist barely held back tears while watching videos with her grandson, whom she affectionately calls Alex.
Ovsienko’s mother Anna Markovna also came to the studio. She rarely gives interviews, but this time she showed the house in Kyiv where she lived and raised her children. The woman did not hide the fact that she saw her great-grandson only via video call, but she really wants to meet him in person, so she intends to go to the USA soon. After this, Igor noted that it would be easier for him to bring the baby to Russia.
The singer never regretted that 20 years ago she decided to take Igor from the orphanage.
Today Igor has an excellent relationship with his adoptive parents. The editors of the program managed to talk with the teachers of the orphanage where he ended up as a child. They remembered that Igor’s own mother lived without a husband and raised the child with her grandparents. “At some point, the grandmother insisted on sending the child to an orphanage. It was not the mother’s decision,” they assured. As it turned out, this woman still lives in Penza. Igor did not react to this...
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First marriage
Previously, Tatyana Ovsienko’s personal life remained behind a veil of secrecy.
Tatyana Ovsienko in her youth
The singer did not like to tell reporters how her family relationships developed. Only recently, in an interview, a woman admitted that the path to true female happiness for her was difficult and thorny.
Tatiana Ovsienko and Vladimir Dubovitsky
Young Tatyana met her first love in her hometown - Kyiv. She worked as an administrator at the hotel, and one day producer Vladimir Dubovitsky, who at that time was married to Irina Allegrova, checked into the hotel. The man suffered from allergies, which became severely aggravated against the background of chestnut blossoms. At night, Vladimir felt unwell and turned to the administrator for help. Tatyana helped the man, but there was no spark between them at the moment of their first acquaintance.
Ovsienko as part of the Mirage group
The next time Ovsienko met Dubovitsky, when she was already singing in the popular group “Mirage”. The producer noticed the vocalist at one of the performances and remembered that she once became his real savior.
Tatyana Ovsienko with her first husband
By that time, Vladimir was single and began to show signs of attention to Tatyana. A romance began between them, and soon Dubovitsky proposed his hand and heart to his chosen one. The producer also provided the singer with great assistance in developing her career.
Thanks to him, Ovsienko became a successful solo performer, her songs invariably took first place in the charts.
The producer and singer lived together for 18 years. In 2007, family life finally fell apart and they divorced. As it turned out, her husband had been cheating on Tatyana for a long time, which she knew very well. When a young mistress gave birth to Dubovitsky’s daughter, Ovsienko simply congratulated her husband on the new addition and filed for divorce.
Later, the singer admitted that she and Vladimir maintain friendly relations.
“For 18 years, together with Vova, we went through all the possible difficulties and joys that only happen between husband and wife. And then I told myself that this was the last marriage,” the performer shared.
After the divorce, the producer gave Ovsienko an expensive car. The personal life of the divorced singer remained hidden from the eyes of journalists and the public for some time. The woman stated that she was not ready for a new relationship, and the wedding had become a strict taboo for her.
Height, weight, age. How old is Tatyana Ovsienko
Tatyana Ovsienko, photos of her in her youth and now of whom fans eagerly gather, loves to ride horses. The singer is currently involved in parachuting. She already has about 15 jumps to her credit.
After the artist’s first appearance on the stage, she gained numerous fans who, even now, after many years, know everything about the artist, including her height, weight, and age. How old is Tatyana Ovsienko can be easily calculated if you know her date of birth.
The artist was born in 1966, so she recently turned 51 years old. The woman is not very tall. Her height is only about 160 cm. Tatyana Ovsienko now weighs about 50 kg.
The appearance of a son
The couple dreamed of a child. But Tatyana could not get pregnant. Finally, in 1999, the long-awaited son appeared in the family. A few months before this, Ovsienko was on tour in the city of Penza. During the performance, one of the spectators gave the singer a note asking her to help the baby’s home with fruit. After the concert, Tatyana and her colleagues bought several boxes of apples and went to the specified address.
There, in the baby’s house, Ovsienko saw Igor. A two-year-old boy looked at his algebra textbook with interest. The staff of the institution told the star that Igor was born with a heart defect and needs surgery. Tatyana paid for the baby’s treatment, and then adopted him. The adoptive parents considered themselves the happiest people on earth.
Igor's life
Immediately after the adoption, Ovsienko felt like the happiest mother in the world. She touchingly told reporters that Igor gave her real maternal happiness. She became a real mother for the boy.
Photo: ptoday
Igorek was very tiny when he came to his new family. Therefore, naturally, he had no idea that he might not be a relative.
The child grew up in love. Despite the divorce, Vladimir also maintained a relationship with his son. But information about the adoption was confidential only to the boy, but not to the press. From the beginning of the adoption, Tanya, of course, would like to hide this information from everyone. She was afraid that Igor’s official parents would come and take her away. But Ovsienko understood that she was a public person and it would still be impossible to hide this fact from journalists.
Photo: jauns
