“Get your things. Goodbye, Leva, “said singer and actress Alla Abdalova in 1976. She herself packed her unfaithful husband’s things on the stairwell. Allah has never remarried. Leo has been married for more than 40 years to a girl. house owner, Irina Bagudina, but the singer never became a father.
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Leshchenko’s childhood was not serenely happy. Leva was born in the army in 1942 in Moscow. My father was an NKVD officer. Less than two years later, the mother of the future pop star died of a serious illness. The woman has developed tuberculosis or throat cancer.
The father remarried. Leo is very lucky with his stepmother. She fell in love with the boy and was very attached to him. Given the nature of his father’s business, Leshchenko was surrounded by a peculiar environment. At the age of four he already wore a military uniform, learned to march and went to dinner at the soldiers’ mess.
At the same time, Leo loved to listen to the songs performed by Leonid Utesov, he himself sang in the choir and studied in an acting club. After graduating from school, he began storming theatrical universities. This just appreciated Leshchenko not immediately. I had to work temporarily as a theater worker at the Bolshoi Theater, and then as an editor in a measuring instrument factory.
“Let me warm up”
A few years later, Leo was still enrolled in GITIS. In addition, in the second year he was hired as an intern at the Moscow Operetta Theater. Leshchenko played her first role in the comedy “Orpheus in Hell”. A sinner who said only two words: “Let me warm”.
Later, in the operetta, Lev sang all the main parts. And in the early 1970s, he became a solo singer of the USSR state television and radio company. Leshchenko’s name boomed across the country after winning the Sopot International Festival with the song “For that guy”. After the performance of “Victory Day” in 1975, the popularity of the singer went completely crazy.
“It expressed the time of the Komsomol construction projects, the emotional surge of youth. It is not as easy as it seems to fill a rather dry text or a musical texture similar to a march with a lively human emotion, “says art critic, former Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Mikhail Shvydkoy of Leshchenko.
“Do you love me? If so, then I’ll give birth”
Leo got married for the first time at the age of 24. His wife was a colleague Alla Abdalova. He also studied at GITIS. Leo and Alla have long talked about “you”. A tall slender blonde with big gray eyes hit Leshchenko on the spot.
After formalizing their relationship, they have been together for ten years. They performed as a family tandem, which the audience met with a bang. But the children of the family did not appear.
Abdalova does not hide the fact that pregnancies occurred, but she was not sure if her husband really wanted a child. “I asked him:” Do you love me? If yes, then I’ll give birth. “He didn’t answer me. So I went to the midwife. Another time, she flew back in, once again I ask him what to do. And Leva is not up to it: she is from Japan, she has impressions. She muttered something along the lines of “do as you please.” Then she already went to have an abortion without consulting, “Alla Alexandrovna told reporters.
As a result, another appeared in the life of Lev Valerianovich. Before this happened, the couple began to quarrel too often, even lived apart for some time. “Alla worked in the Utyosov orchestra, she was the first of her, but she wanted to develop further. Also, my successes to her seemed much higher and she, if she didn’t upset her, she definitely depressed her, “she believes the singer.
“I don’t regret anything”
Irina entered the life of Leo, who is 12 years younger than him. She asked herself for a divorce. Her ex-husband has nobly left her an apartment and a car. “Despite everything, I still love Leva and wish him only happiness,” says Abdalova.
Irina could not give heirs to the star of the Soviet and Russian stage due to health problems that arose in her youth.
“I’ve always had some kind of hope. Years, probably 10-12 dedicated to this. This sadness is profound, “admits Leshchenko’s second wife, with whom she has been with him for 44 years.
The couple decided not to adopt the child. They have begun to provide support to orphanages where children with special needs are raised.
Lev Leshchenko turned 80 this year: “I do not regret anything, especially because my wife and I live in harmony”, he stressed on the television program “The fate of a man”.
Photo source: Alexander Konkov / ITAR-TASS, still from the movie, youtube screenshot, Legion-media
