The artist was strict with her only heiress.
Lyudmila Gurchenko is considered one of the main beauties of Soviet cinema. The fragile actress with a wasp waist charmed men with her mere appearance in the movies.
Imagine the artist’s disappointment when her daughter was born. Maria Koroleva, according to the celebrity, did not inherit her features. All her life Gurchenko was shy about girls. According to the star’s daughter, she felt that her mother did not really love her. It was not just that the actress did not like Maria in appearance. For the artist, her career came first, so most often she had no time for being an heiress.
The queen was raised by her grandmother. She tried very hard to please her loved ones in everything: she studied well, was not capricious, and never begged for expensive gifts. Her behavior was always exemplary, but this was not enough to gain her mother’s love.
At some point, Gurchenko decided to make the girl an actress. But then the obedient Maria said a clear “no.” She dreamed of studying to be a doctor. Fame and public life did not seem like the ultimate dream for her.
Because of this and other misunderstandings, conflicts regularly occurred between two close people. But, despite everything, they continued to communicate. Only six years passed after Gurchenko’s death, when her daughter died. She died of heart failure.
