This publication is dedicated to the biography and personal life of Yevgeny Petrosyan - the famous TV presenter, writer-humorist, pop artist of Russia and the USSR. Recently, people have been showing childish curiosity about the personality of the comedian, and the whole reason is his divorce from the no less popular TV presenter Elena Stepanenko. It is believed that the separation of the spouses was due to the new love of Yevgeny Vaganovich, and this is only more intriguing. People have more and more questions. One of the main ones is how old is Evgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan, is it true that his new lover is almost three times younger than the artist? We will answer all these questions in this article, but let's start from the very beginning - from the childhood of a comedian.
Early years
Evgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan - real name Petrosyants, was born in Baku immediately after the end of the war - in 1945,16 of September. The boy's parents were atheists: his mother, Bella Grigoryevna, was a chemical engineer by education, a housewife, and his father, Vagan Mironovich (Mezhlumovich), was a teacher of mathematics. The parents hoped that the son would follow in the footsteps of one of them, but the stage always attracted the child, and she, in the end, became his life.
The nationality of Evgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan remains in question, because his mother is Jewish, and his father is Armenian. The boy first appeared on stage at the age of 12. From that time on, he became a permanent member and activist of the amateur circle, and not a single performance took place without his participation.
Immediately after school, Evgeny Vaganovich entered VTMEI, and one of his teachers was the great Rina Zelenaya!
Creative path
Already in 1962, the young artist entered the professional stage. Since 1964, he was lucky to be an entertainer under the direction of Leonid Utyosov in the state orchestra. Further, since 1969, there was the Mosconcert, and Petrosyan worked in it until 1989! And during this period, the artist was able to achieve a lot.
In 1985, Yevgeny Vaganovich graduated from GITIS, became an Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Six years later, Petrosyan is awarded another title - People's Artist.
The comedian became popular by the end of the 70s of the last century. Full houses gathered for his concerts. And he broadcast monologues from the stage, showed miniatures, performed with interludes and so on.
At the end of 1979, Petrosyan Evgeny Vaganovich, whose biography is devoted to the article,created the Petrosyan Variety Theater of Miniatures, or “TEMP” for short. Since the late 80s, the comedian's popularity has begun to gain momentum on television, where for the first time he began to appear with his numbers in Full House. Since 1994, Laughter Panorama has been launched, headed by Petrosyan. And this program remains popular for a long ten years. The show "Crooked Mirror" comes to replace, where Evgeny Vaganovich was the main artist.
People love the artist very much, but little was known about his personal life until recently, as he does not like to talk about his family. But still, we managed to scrape together some information, and to make from these crumbs a more or less clear picture of the artist's personal life. In total, the artist was married four times. And all the wives of Evgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan are extraordinary personalities.
Kinship with Krieger
The first wife appeared in the artist's life as quickly as his career went up. Arriving in Moscow from Baku, the guy tried to grab pieces of everything everywhere: skill, manners, skills, and so on. The young man was not taken to the Moscow Art Theater, referring to the fact that at that time he was already a ready-made artist, and it was impossible to sculpt anything from him. So, Petrosyanu ended up at VTMEI, where he began to amaze not only his fellow students, but also teachers with his talent. Everyone was surprised how accurately a young student could reproduce a long text, just reading it once! Training was given to Yevgeny Petrosyan easily, and it is not surprising that soon he was already moonlighting as an entertainer.
It was at one of the concerts where Evgeny Vaganovich was in the role of an entertainer, hisThey introduced a beautiful girl who was the sister of the famous ballerina Quiz Krieger at that time. The young lady was immediately captivated by the gallant, able to attract the attention of a young man. The sympathy turned out to be mutual, and soon the lovers got married.
The couple had a daughter - the first child of the artist. And it was decided to name the girl in honor of the famous aunt - Quiz. According to rumors, it was Petrosyan who wanted to give his daughter this name, because he loved his newly-made relatives very much and was proud of his relationship with them. The artist treated his child tenderly, but neither the baby nor those close to him could resist Yevgeny Vaganovich's feelings that flared up for another woman. So the first family broke up.
Anna Ivanovna Kozlovskaya
Anna Ivanovna was 7 years older than her chosen one, but this fact did not stop anyone. The daughter of the famous opera singer was a real beauty, and Yevgeny Vaganovich could not resist her. The future spouses met at work: Anna Ivanovna announced the numbers of the artists, and Petrosyan spoke with his monologues and jokes. But one cannot assume that a humorist is a clown! Evgeny Vaganovich is a very educated, gallant, intelligent person, and outside the stage he was able to win the favor of the beautiful Kozlovskaya.
Anna Ivanovna's father was not against his daughter's relationship with Petrosyan. The groom's family was intelligent, educated, Yevgeny Vaganovich himself beautifully looked after the bride, and her parents simply could not help but like it. Young people performed together, but their happiness was not destinedwas to last more than two years. The young wife became interested in prose, and was soon admitted to the Writers' Union. Then she met a handsome Greek writer Kostas Varnalis. The woman fell madly in love and decided to divorce. Nothing could prevent this: neither a suffering husband, nor an angry father (according to Kozlovsky, his daughter is obliged to devote her whole life to one man). She packed her things and fled with her beloved to his homeland.
Until the end of her days, Anna Ivanovna did not live with Kostas, at one fine moment she decided to return to her homeland, the reasons for this are not specified. But Kozlovskaya was not going to return her husband, and they never maintained a relationship again.
Anna Ivanovna, like the artist's first wife, is no longer alive. Yevgeny Vaganovich came to the funeral of his first wife, but no one saw him at the farewell to Kozlovskaya's last journey.
Evil tongues said that Petrosyan was able to achieve his success only thanks to the connections of his former father-in-law, Kozlovsky. Allegedly, their friendship lasted much longer than the marriage of Eugene and Anna. But Petrosyan's friends say (and Anna Kozlovskaya confirmed this in one of the interviews) that many were not even aware of the relationship between the singer and the humorist, and Evgeny Vaganovich achieved everything only with his talent.
Art critic Lyudmila
The third wife of the artist was a lovely girl named Lyudmila (this is what Petrosyan's friends say about her). She was an art critic whose manners could be envied by a born aristocrat! Sweet, kind, very beautiful, however, like the first two spouses of the artist.
At first, Lyudmila even accompanied her chosen one at concerts, they say, she even performed with him. But still, the woman could not get used to such a busy schedule of her husband, who spent more time in the theater than at home. Apparently, Lyudmila did not imagine family relations in this way, and at one point she decided to dissolve the marriage. Petrosyan Yevgeny Vaganovich divorced her calmly, the couple remained good friends, they did not make any claims against each other.
In 1979, as we wrote earlier, Petrosyan acquired his own theater of miniatures. At the audition for the selection of actors, he meets a sweet, talented GITIS graduate Elena Stepanenko.
Elena Stepanenko
The actress was born in 1953 in Stalingrad. Elena's mother worked as a hairdresser, while her father was a cook. Stepanenko has always been distinguished by her lively character, and from the school bench she was predicted to become an actress.
After school, the future star became a student of GITIS, and after graduating, she got to the Theater of Miniatures to Petrosyan. The girl was equally simple and successful in monologues, solo and musical numbers. Everyone today knows Stepanenko from "Kyshkin's House", "Crooked Mirror", "The Elena Stepanenko Show".
The legendary comedian family
At the time when Elena Grigoryevna arrived at the audition at the Theater of Miniatures, Evgeny Vaganovich was still married to Lyudmila. Yes, and Elena Stepanenko was married, and it was her husband, Alexander Vasiliev, who brought his wife to get a job with Petrosyan.
Onfor several years, Elena and Eugene were just colleagues. The artists arrived in Semipalatinsk for one of the performances. At that time, real nuclear tests were carried out at one of the test sites, and as Stepanenko later put it in an interview, she and Petrosyan also exploded with an internal love bomb. They were drawn to each other with such force that upon returning to Moscow, both were already ready to divorce and start a happy life together.
Children of Evgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan
The humorist's biography is rich and replete with high-profile novels and successes. But the artist is not so rich in one thing - he has only one child, despite four marriages behind his back.
Quiz is the artist's first and only child, a daughter born to the ballerina Krieger's sister. In the first years of her life, Quiz was very close to her father; Evgeny Vaganovich didted on the child. But his stormy romance with Kozlovskaya, leaving the family - all this began to undermine ties with the only, besides his parents, relative and close person. Soon, father and daughter stopped communicating altogether.
Quiz did not follow in the footsteps of her famous aunt, did not become an artist, a ballerina. The girl devoted herself to the study of history. There was no place for the young historian at home, and she went to live in the United States, having married an American. In the States, Victorina started her business by selling Russian souvenirs, and now she is making successful historical documentaries.
In the recent past, Evgeny Vaganovich again began to communicate with his only daughter, who already has twochildren. Evgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan does not have a soul in his grandchildren Andrei and Mark. Quiz and Elena Stepanenko talked, families often met at joint gatherings.
Loud divorce
2018 was the last in the family life of Petrosyan and Stepanenko. Many people still do not believe in the divorce of this pair of satirists, considering it a simple “duck” to attract attention. But the fact remains - the couple broke up.
What is the reason? Many are sure that the divorce was due to the new passion of Yevgeny Vaganovich, who today is no less than 73 years old. And according to reports, his sweetheart is only 30.
There are rumors that Elena Grigoryevna has been living separately for about 10 years, but only this year the couple decided to put an end to it.
What do ex-spouses share?
Over the long years of living together, the spouses have amassed unreal we alth - by our standards! So, they have six apartments in the center of Moscow, country houses. According to some reports, the total acquired property is estimated at several billion rubles.
Yevgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan's new wife
The artist's lover for several years (according to rumors) is Tatyana Brukhunova, a thirty-year-old native of Tula. Today she is Petrosyan's personal assistant and his closest person.
As Tatyana herself assures, she is really in love with Petrosyan, but Stepanenko publicly called Brukhunova a young careerist, who needs Yevgeny Vaganovich only for profit, glory. It was on this occasion that the last scandal between the star couple took place, which put an end to their family life.
Who is Tatyana?
Brukhunova got into the Petrosyan Theater 10 years ago, and two years ago she became its director. Acquaintances and friends of Evgeny Vaganovich and Elena Grigorievna are inclined to assert that Tatyana has come a long way in the struggle for the artist. She tries to look like a young Stepanenko, dresses like that, even puts her hair in the same way as in old photos of the comedian's ex-wife.
Be that as it may, Petrosyan is in love again, happy again. And what are the true feelings and impulses of young Tatyana - it is certainly not for the people to decide.
