In early August 2018, it became known that Petrosyan was divorced. In fact, this is not entirely true, he is just in the process of divorce, but the issue has been finally resolved. It's a matter of financial delays. The couple have been married for 32 years, shared one scene and are now getting a divorce. But, as you know, there is no smoke without fire, and the collapse of such a long-term relationship must have objective reasons. So why are Petrosyan and Elena Stepanenko getting divorced?
Evgeny Petrosyan
Yevgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan was born into an Armenian family on September 16, 1945, in the city of Baku, then still in the Azerbaijan SSR. His father worked as a simple teacher of mathematics, and his mother devoted herself to home and raising her son, despite her engineering education. From school he was fond of the stage and amateur performances, tried himself in dozens of genres. As a result, after graduating from school, he could not stand it and went to Moscow. There he entered and successfully graduated from VTMEI. After that, he performed on stage as a pop entertainer. And in 1985 he entered GITIS as a stage director.
Has the following ranks:
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
- People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Awarded the Order of Honor of the Russian Federation.
This name is familiar to anyone over the age of 20. Many consider his humor to be flat and unfunny, and on the Internet, "Petrosianism" is a synonym for unfunny humor. But he still has more fans than ill-wishers. Basically, these are people of the Soviet temper, Yevgeny Vaganovich's humor is close in spirit to them. Petrosyan gathers full concert halls, and his TV shows have always had excellent ratings.
Elena Stepanenko
Elena Grigorievna Stepanenko was born on April 8, 1953 in the Soviet city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in a family of ordinary workers. At school, she was actively fond of swimming, even became a master of sports. After graduating from school, she entered the Volgograd School of Arts. But a year later she left him and went to conquer Moscow. And she did it - she entered the prestigious GITIS at the faculty of acting in musical genres. After that, she began working at the Moscow Variety Theater as an actress and parodist. And in 1990 she made her debut as a film actress and played in seven films. She has the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and was awarded the Order of Friendship. But, undoubtedly, the lion's share of her fame was brought to her by her marriage to Yevgeny Petrosyan.
Dating story
Elena is Evgeny's fourth wife, and he is her second husband. But with Elena, Eugene lived the longest - 32 years, although he did not have joint children with her. They got married in 1985, but metback in 1979 on the stage of the Theater of Variety Miniatures.
Evgeny was the owner of the theater, and Elena came as a graduate of GITIS to audition. And so their romance spun, which grew into a marriage that lasted more than 30 years. For a long time they personified the opinion that it is possible to work and live together for many years without getting tired of each other. For fans of artists, the news that Petrosyan is divorcing Stepanenko's wife turned out to be like a bolt from the blue.
Fiction
All these years they seemed to everyone a strong and exemplary couple, it was hard to imagine them apart. But, according to Yevgeny's lawyer Sergey Zhorin, Petrosyan and Stepanenko have actually been divorced for each other for 15 years already. Exactly so much they do not live together as husband and wife. And all their appearances are a fiction, which was designed to give them the status of family people, covering them from an avalanche of gossip and speculation.
Elena was the first to file for divorce, turning to lawyer Elena Zabralova for help. Despite the fact that their marriage had not actually existed for 15 years, this turned out to be an unpleasant surprise for Eugene. Yes, they slowly discussed the details of the official divorce. But not at all on the conditions on which Stepanenko suddenly decided to get a divorce.
She appealed to the Khamovniki Court of Moscow, which the couple could no longer hide. The news spread quickly.
Division of property
Perhaps the main reason why Petrosyan and Stepanenko have not yet divorced is necessary and probably unpleasant for boththe division of property, which they amassed on serious 1.5 billion rubles. Yevgeny Petrosyan, according to his lawyer Sergei Zhorin, was ready to give her half of the jointly acquired property, despite the fact that he made most of it without her. But in her lawsuit, Elena demands nothing less than 80% of this property.
Petrosyan does not agree with this, and now the issue will be decided in court. Why she is not satisfied with the classic 50%, she comments vaguely: “It's an everyday thing, well, it happened. Everything will be judged.”
What needs to be shared?
Naturally, the comedians themselves did not consider it necessary to report to everyone what exactly they would share. But all this data is quite easy for journalists to find out, which they did. So, the press found out that during the marriage, the couple amassed the following real estate:
- apartment on First Zachatievsky Lane;
- apartment on Sechenovsky lane;
- apartment on Bolshoi Kondratievsky Lane;
- apartment on Plyushchikha;
- apartment on Smolenskaya;
- suburban area of 3 thousand square meters. m.;
- 380 sq. m.
Besides this, a few more cars, a collection of paintings, porcelain and valuable books. All this is estimated, according to various sources, in the amount of 1.0 to 1.5 billion rubles.
New relationship
But why is Petrosyan divorcing his wife right now, what prompted Elena to take this step? Many believe that this is the new darling of Eugene, who is more than two times younger than him. herturned out to be a rather simple girl from Tula, Tatyana Brukhunova. She is an art director by education, among classmates and colleagues she has always been considered a “gray mouse”, and many were surprised at what kind of star man she got. Today he holds the post of artistic director in his Theater of Variety Miniatures.
Evgeniy and Tatyana got to know each other the same way they had once with Elena. The girl came to the Theater of Variety Miniatures under his leadership as an intern. He drew attention to her and invited her to a permanent job, to which she agreed. Many note that the similarity is not only in the way they met, but also in the appearance of Elena and Tatiana. As a result, they had an affair, which at the time of the scandal due to the fact that Elena Stepanenko and Petrosyan divorced, was already more than one year old. Both the lawyer and Eugene himself do not consider this a betrayal and the reason that Elena filed for divorce. They explain this by the fact that everything was over between Elena and Eugene a long time ago. And the stamp in the passport was just a formality, and Elena could not help but understand that he, as a man, could well fall in love again in these 15 years.
An outside opinion about Tatyana and Evgeniy's romance
Their common colleague and friend Sergey Drobotenko shared with the press information that he had known for a long time that they were not together. He explained this by the fact that Elena is very jealous, and Eugene loves the attention of fans. He always had a lot of them, because in addition to being widely known, he is not deprived of masculine charm and a smile that disarms women. Not everyone is capable of enduring this, but for a jealousespecially this is a constant pain.
As reported by Tatyana and Evgeny's colleagues, she achieved it herself. She was constantly there, admired, and he melted away. When Elena noticed this and started a serious conversation with her husband, he did not make excuses, but simply made a scandal.
After starting a relationship with Evgeny, Tatyana has changed a lot. She changed her hair, began to wear expensive clothes and put on bright makeup. It was the love or money of Yevgeny Vaganovich that transformed her so, an interesting question. But he himself changed, began to look younger, and the spark of life lit up in his eyes. So do not immediately suspect the girl of commercialism. After all, a woman in such a man can be attracted not only by money, but also by life experience and wisdom. Not all girls prefer peers. And it is unlikely that their romance is the reason why Petrosyan and Stepanenko are getting divorced, rather, this is a consequence.
Let them talk
This high-profile trial was immediately brought to the public court. All media, and not only Russian ones, placed this news on the main pages. Everyone was interested in the question: “Well, why did Petrosyan get divorced at that age so suddenly?” The well-known program of the First Channel “Let them talk” did not deprive the attention of the news.
The comedians themselves did not come to the show and refused to comment on their personal affairs. It was done for them by their friends and relatives.
Yevgeny Vaganovich's lawyer Sergey Zhorin came to the program. He stated that the amount1.5 billion rubles is greatly overestimated, and gossip about Tatyana Brukhunova's pregnancy is exaggerated. He stated that he considers this a stuffing by Stepanenko in order to appear as an abandoned and unhappy woman than to win the sympathy of the court. Zhorin also drew attention to the fact that Elena herself lost weight and got prettier, which she connects with the appearance of a man in her life.
A friend of the family, Lada Bystritskaya, also came to the “Let them talk” studio, who said that Elena always took care of her husband and treated him with trepidation, and it’s not about money, but about women’s resentment. In fact, it was Petrosyan who divorced after so many years of taking care of him, exchanging Elena for a girl who was not even born when they got married.
Other Reasons for Divorce
After the wedding, Elena gained 30 kg and began to perform less frequently. She was attracted by life, caring for plants and creating a family hearth. But Eugene himself could not share her interests. His career went uphill, he took on more and more projects. More and more often he disappeared in the theater, more and more young fans revolved around him. The wife was jealous, made scandals.
Being the wife of a creative person of this magnitude is always flour. In all their joint tours along the sea coasts, they could never just go for a swim together as a couple. Petrosyan constantly wrote, this business absorbed him completely, and his wife was always only in second place. It is also wrong to blame him for this, he is a talented person who opened his own theater, TV show and created a lot of things, this requires colossalmoral and physical strength.
Fans of their work can only hope that while solving all financial issues, Evgeny and Elena will not stoop to pouring mud on each other and will not become enemies. But judging by how well they hid the discord in their family for 15 years, not taking dirty linen out of the hut, this should not happen.
