Smoktunovsky called the beekeeper a genius, and Vysotsky dedicated his songs to him. Smoktunovsky called the beekeeper a genius, and Vysotsky dedicated his songs to him. Leva’s emails to his ex-wife
At the beginning of July another trial to collect alimony, which the vocalist of the group “Bi-2” Igor BORTNIK (Leva’s real name) must pay for his eight-year-old son Fedor to his ex-wife Irina MAKEEVA. They divorced in 2007. Later it turned out that Leva did not fully comply with the court decision to pay alimony and owed almost three million rubles! Fans of “Bi-2” were shocked: is their idol really sparing money on his own son?
At a recent get-together, we asked lawyer Igor Dzherapov to comment on the situation:
By decision of the magistrate of the Dolgoprudnensky district, Leva was assigned alimony obligations in the amount of 50 thousand rubles, which he pays monthly. Look, here I have all the payments from 2007. After the court decision, Leva believed that all the i’s had been dotted. But Leva is a creative person and does not fully follow the changes taking place in the legislation. After indexation, which took place three times over the past three years, the amount of alimony increased: it was 50 thousand to 200 thousand. Hence, there is a debt of three million rubles, since Leva paid alimony in the amount of the old amount.
- How much does a musician earn now?
Leva’s income is 100 thousand rubles per month. Judge for yourself, where can he pay 200 thousand?! He has a second child, Aviv, with his current beloved woman, Asya Melnikova. The boy is not even three years old. And in August another child will be born. It’s just that Leva’s ex-wife Irina Makeeva believes that he has fabulous fees that he is hiding. She also believes that he should pay for the child’s education in a specialized school in Italy!
- Does Leva see her son? Surely the boy is very worried about what is happening.
Leva repeatedly turned to his ex-wife to take the child to the cinema or to the sports ground. But Mrs. Makeeva believes that he is not worthy of communicating with her son. Leva loves Fedor, but he also loves Aviva and the unborn child. He is for parental love to be distributed equally among children.
“Leva still loves me”
The money we demand goes exclusively to the child,” explains Makeeva’s lawyer Philip Shishov. - As soon as the conversation turned to alimony, Leva immediately began to hide what he earned. We have a document according to which in 2006 he donated all his copyrights to his group partner, Shura. There are millions there, and now another person is receiving them. And Leva says that he has nothing to pay him with.
- Leva’s lawyer says that he doesn’t have expensive real estate, cool cars...
But what does he himself say in an interview that he bought an apartment for half a million dollars? He drives an expensive car. But who he registered all this for is another question. As I understand it, he registered the apartment in the name of his current companion, Asya Melnikova.
Let’s count his income,” suggested Irina Makeeva. - How much does he get for a concert? 16 thousand euros! This figure is stated on all sites. Leva gives 6-7 concerts a month. Total 112 thousand euros. I agree to one sixth, even one tenth of this amount.
- Why do you want your child to study in Italy?
I'm getting married in Italy and moving there. I will work at the school where my child will study. Training costs 600 euros monthly. Is it really that much?! Here is Leva’s friend Melnikova, who pays a monthly loan of three thousand dollars for an apartment without working!
- Igor Dzherapov mentioned that you are preventing Lyova from communicating with her son.
Yes, I offered him 15 times! We were in the Himalayas for a month. We just arrived. I suggested: “Leva, meet him, give him binoculars, he asks.” Not a sound, not a breath.
- How does Fedya himself react to this situation?
Well, how will the child react when dad behaves like this? Dad doesn’t even have photographs of the child, because his beloved woman did something to them.
Irina showed us personal correspondence with ex-husband. In almost every letter, Leva confesses her love to Irina. At the same time, he lives with another woman and will soon become the father of their second joint child! It looks like the famous musician is very confused.
- Irina, it turns out that Lyova still loves you?
This is the only reason we have problems. He, you see, doesn’t like the fact that I won’t be around in Moscow.
Leva's emails to her ex-wife
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:48:49 +0300 letter from Arie< [email protected] >: Ira, I beg you, forgive me! Just forgive me. I'm an asshole. I am reaping the seed of my carelessness. I'm crippled by the memories of you. I am obsessed with you forever... In these contradictions, I both hate you and love you. Leva.
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:20:34 +0300 letter from Arie< [email protected] >: Hello! I propose to increase the alimony to two thousand euros. I don't have money for an apartment. At least for now. If I become rich, I will buy it without hesitation. Or I'll take it on credit. And in general, my financial capabilities are greatly exaggerated by the media and your lawyer. A red bathtub costs the same as a regular one. In short, I agree to help whenever possible. If you stop me from making money, then I won’t be able to help you in this case. I make money from concerts. There are no other options. Leva.
Traditionally, in the Tver region, in the village of Bolshoye Zavidovo, the Nashestvie 2019 festival takes place. Masters of rock music come to the famous site, among which, of course, was the lead singer of the group “Bi-2” - ..
Male company Bortnikov
Yegor published a rather interesting photograph in which all three of his sons appeared and he himself was at the head of the frame. It should be noted that Bortnik Sr. extremely rarely posts photographs of a family nature. The artist’s Instagram is mainly dedicated to creative activities. Thus, the fans were able to look at the guys who, naturally, have already grown up quite well.
From left to right: Aviv, David, Leva, Fedor
It is noteworthy that the eldest son Fedor was born in Leva’s first marriage from Irina Makeeva. Now the boy is 17 years old. In 2009, Yegor Bortnik married former tour manager of the Mumiy Troll group Asya Streicher, but a year before that she gave birth to her future husband’s son, who was given an unusual name - Aviv. Now he is 11 years old.
And a year after the marriage, that is, in 2010, Asya gave her husband another son - David, who will turn 9 years old in August 2019.
Egor Bortnik with his wife
Consequently, Yegor Bortnik is raising three sons, which cannot but please him. There is always support and a reliable shoulder in the future.
When asked by one of the subscribers whether the boys were friends with each other, Leva answered succinctly: “Yes.”
For reference
The Invasion festival was first organized exactly 20 years ago and is dedicated to rock music. All the best of the beloved genre come here. In 2019, the festival takes place from July 19 to 21.
Moreover, this year the organizers staged another “Ultra” stage. On the first day the group “Leningrad” and Gleb Samoilov performed, and Leva Bi-2 got the second day of the Invasion along with the Night Snipers led by Diana Arbenina. Mumiy Troll, Luna and The Hatters also appeared on stage.
The brilliant actor Ivan Bortnik was “sewn up” from alcoholism together with Vladimir Vysotsky
Oh, Vanya, Vanya Bortnik - a quiet gentleman, how proud I am that I am on a first-name basis with you,” Vysotsky dedicated these lines to the actor Ivan Bortnik.
He is known to viewers primarily for his film roles as Vovchik from “Rodney” and Blotter from “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed.” Although in life he bears little resemblance to his heroes: a native Muscovite from a family of intellectuals, an extremely erudite person. His colleagues immediately warned me that interviewing Bortnik was not realistic. Like, he will fool his head, and then refuse...=
And indeed, when everything had already been agreed upon, the actor suddenly declared: “I have no courage.” But my persistence paid off. We met at the metro, just like in the movie “Meeting Place...”. I had the Express Newspaper in my hands. I was identified by it.
Fight with Inna Gulaya
Ivan Sergeevich, where are you from?
He was born in the capital, but spent until the sixth grade with his grandmother in Kratovo, near Moscow. My maternal grandfather is a full Knight of St. George, and my grandmother was completely illiterate - from the city of Sapozhok, Ryazan region. Father, born in 1895 (saw the Tsar!), studied at the famous Technological Institute in St. Petersburg, then graduated from the Bryusov Institute in Moscow, was deputy. editor-in-chief of Goslitizdat. And mom is a doctor philological sciences. It was a complete surprise for them when I entered the Shchukin School. Looking at me, Inka Gulaya became an artist, although at first she wanted to enter a foreign university: she and I studied at the same school. We had a first love that was completely crazy. We were friends with Sasha Zbruev and Valya Malyavina. Valya was only 16 years old; he and Sasha were not married. She wrote in her book “Hear Me, Pure in Heart”: “Sasha and I got married, but Vanya and Inna did not.”
- Why?- If this had happened, there would have been daily fighting. She and I have very similar personalities: both nervous. They fought constantly. I was monstrously jealous of her: she was charming. - Does your wife Tatyana have a different character?- Normal. She is a decent woman, not an actress. From the nobles. She graduated from the Institute of Communications and now teaches at a theater college. This is my first and only wife, with whom we lived for 35 years. We have a son, Fedor, and a grandson, Alyosha. He is 12 years old. - Have you been seriously involved in raising your son?- Makarenko is made of me like a bullet made of shit. I had no time to educate, 30 performances a month, and rehearsals in the morning.
The text was invented by the Weiners
- Ivan Sergeevich, whether you like it or not, many people remember you for your role as the drunkard Vovchik from “Rodney”...
Nikita Mikhalkov tried several people for this role, including Oleg Borisov. But he stopped at me. Moreover, Nonna Mordyukova was on my side. We have already played husband and wife in the same film by Andrei Smirnov. I came up with all the text for my character myself. Merezhko, the author of the script, was terribly indignant. I couldn’t find Vovchik’s character until I remembered one heavily drinking man who said: “I look at the rr-r-r-fish in the aquarium - and I cry!” That’s where it came from: “Mar-r-Rus, I’ll take the medicine right now...” - Why didn’t you act with Mikhalkov anymore?- He was asked this question, he answered: “Well, there are no roles for Ivan yet.” We recently met at the premiere of Antikiller at Pushkinsky, where I starred with his nephew Yegor Konchalovsky in the role of a thieve nicknamed Bedbug. I saw Nikita come in in a white suit with his daughter Nadya, he saw me and started shouting: “Do you know who this is? This is a great Russian artist!” By the way, after looking at the picture, Nikita said to Yegor: “Why the f... did you film that?!”
Your other “calling card” is the Blotter in the “Meeting Place...”. After all, Vysotsky recommended you to Govorukhin?
In fact, Vovka wanted me to play Sharapov. And we filmed in Ukraine, in Odessa. Konkin just played Pavka Korchagin at the Dovzhenko studio and received the Lenin Komsomol Prize. Govorukhin was told: “You will film Konkin. Say thank you that Vysotsky was approved.” Govorukhin says to me: “Vanya, maybe you can play Blotter? True, there is no text there...” In general, here too I came up with all the text myself. - What did the Weiners say?- Nothing. But the text I came up with was not even inserted into the book, which was reprinted several times.
Sew it into a... spiral!
Is it true that you like to drink?
Every Russian person loves to drink. “Fear the artist who doesn’t drink,” said the great actor Alexei Denisovich Dikiy. Unfortunately, as a Russian person, I don’t know the limits. Well, you drink for three days... And then what’s it like to get out of this abomination?! And that’s why I don’t drink for a long time, just like now.
- I guess you often drank with Vysotsky?
Just rarely with him, more and more they “tied up” as a couple. I didn’t drink for two and a half years. Marina Vladi brought us both the medicine “Esperal” from Paris. And Yuri Lyubimov thought that it looked like a spiral from an electric stove. That’s what he told us: “If you don’t sew a spiral up your ass, you’ll be fired!” On a postcard from Spain Volodka wrote to me: - I miss you, Vanya, I’m surrounded by Spain, They drink bitters, sip gin, Without understanding or fear, They, Vanya, are all without SPRINGS.
Resuscitators committed suicide
When was the last time you saw Vladimir Semenovich?
In the evening, two days before his death, the doorbell rang. He came in wearing a smart corduroy suit with the keys to a Mercedes. He saw a bottle of St. John's wort vodka and immediately: “Come on, pour it!” I quietly say to my wife Tanya: “Hide the car key.” They drank, he became prettier: “Let’s go,” he says, “to continue with me!” Let’s take some alcohol from Nisanov (the photographer). Then he realized: “Where are the car keys?” I say: “They hid it, we’d better take a taxi.” We went to see his girlfriend Oksana on Gruzinskaya (she later became Yarmolnik’s wife)… By the way, not everyone loved her. I heard: he and Oksana almost got engaged. This is not true! Before his death, he wrote the last lines to his wife Marina: “I am alive, I will keep you and the Lord for 12 years!”
- So, you have arrived at Gruzinskaya...- He took out alcohol, drank, and talked until late. In the morning he wakes me up: “Vanyatka, I need a hangover.” I ran to the store and brought two bottles of Stolichnaya for 0.75 each. Oksana caused a scandal and broke one in the kitchen sink. But we still got a hangover from the remaining bottle. I said goodbye to Volodya, took a taxi, went home, turned off the phone and went to bed, because the next day I had an important performance - “Ten Days That Shook the World.” As Tanya later said, in the evening Volodya came completely sober, took the car keys from her and left. He didn't wake me up. - How did you find out about Vysotsky’s death?- On the day of the play “Ten Days...” my Tanya came home and said, “Volodya has died!” Everything went dark before my eyes. When I saw a portrait in a mourning frame at the theater, I became hysterical. Somehow we performed the performance... Lyubimov and I went to Volodya’s apartment, there were already a lot of people there. Volodya was lying in the bedroom dressed all in black... I started sobbing. His mother, Nina Maksimovna, came up behind him: “Cry, Vanechka, cry...” I spent three nights in Volodya’s apartment.
- Is it true that Vysotsky was tied up before his death?
They say that they tied him up - as if they didn’t want him to drink a lot. On that last night, there were two resuscitators in the apartment on Gruzinskaya - Candidate of Sciences Tolya Fedotov and Igor Goryaev from Sklif. They are no longer alive - both committed suicide. Mysticism…
- Did you like Marina Vladi?
I liked it. Volodya loved her very much. He even had a “personal” telephone operator on the international line; Lyusya kept connecting him to Paris to talk to Marina. In 1977, our first trip to Paris took place on tour. He lived with Marina, and I lived in a hotel. Marina packed food for me there. We led a nocturnal lifestyle, went to the Rasputin restaurant. Once, after the play “Mother,” I was waiting for Marina on the street, and suddenly I heard someone meowing behind me: “Mom, mom.” I looked back: a very beautiful mulatto girl was looking at me with enthusiastic eyes. She saw the performance and tried to show me her admiration. It turned out that this girl named Fouzia was from the Moroccan royal family and studied in Russia. She followed me to Lyon, Marseille... She persuaded me: “Let’s go to Morocco, there you will be a capitalist!” Vovka grabbed his head: “What are you doing?!” An affair with a foreigner is the worst crime for a Soviet person! It would be better if you drank vodka every day.” In Marseille we parted ways. They both cried. They became very attached to each other.
- Is it true that Vysotsky has an illegitimate daughter from your theater actress Tatyana Ivanenko?
Is it true. One day at half past three in the morning, a drunken Volodka came to me with an open bottle of whiskey in his hand and said: “Let’s go to Tanka, I want to see my daughter.” We arrived, we rang the doorbell - no one was there. We decided that Tatyana was with her mother and went there. And next to the police station - that’s when the cops grabbed us: “Oh-oh-oh! - they say, “Zheglov, Blotter!” And to the department. And Volodka goes to the bench and goes straight to sleep. But in the end we were released. After his death, Tatyana admitted to me that she was at home then and did not open it. “What a fool!” - I told her. After all, Vysotsky never had such an impulse again. And this happened six months before his death. - Ivan Sergeevich, what have you been rehearsing at the theater lately?
The role of Nerzhin from the dramatization of Solzhenitsyn’s novel “In the First Circle.” Each rehearsal for three months began with a scandal. Lyubimov shouted to me: “You are an evil boy!” And I understand that I basically have nothing to play with... At some point, it suddenly broke through me: I was sitting in my underpants on a bunk and loudly speaking into space: “And everything went to the f... mother!” Lyubimov did not communicate with me for a month. Now, thank God, everything is fine.
By the way
Vysotsky’s famous poem, which later became a song: “But in general, Vanya, you and I are needed in Paris like pliers in a Russian bathhouse,” is dedicated specifically to Bortnik.
Reference
* Starred in the films “Confession”, “The Day Ahead”, “Relatives”, “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed”, “Mirror for the Hero”, “Other People’s Letters”, “Antikiller”, “Declaration of Love”, “Death in the Movies” , Mom, don’t worry”, “Ivan and Marya”, “Starshina”, “Muslim”, etc.
Father - Bortnik Sergei Vasilievich (1895–1979), deputy editor-in-chief of Goslitizdat (now the publishing house " Fiction"). Mother - Maria Sergeevna Goryachkina (1912–1987), Doctor of Philology, senior researcher at the Gorky Institute of World Literature. Wife – Borzykh Tatyana Nikolaevna (born 1947), head of the department, teacher of sound engineering at the Theater and Art College. Son - Bortnik Fedor Ivanovich (born 1969), lighting artist, senior engineer of the Binar company.
Ivan Bortnik was born in the area of three train stations, on Krasnoselskaya Street. He grew up very shy, and this quality, amazing for the profession of an actor, has remained in him to this day. Ivan’s mother, Maria Sergeevna, studied the 19th century, wrote about the populists, about the work of N.S. Leskova, M.E. Shchedrin. Ivan was very proud that his father, Sergei Vasilyevich, studied at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology, then graduated from the famous Bryusov Institute in Moscow, and saw the Tsar.
The first time Ivan Bortnik performed in front of an audience was at the age of 6 – at the New Year’s party in Goslitizdat, where his father worked. The boy was placed on a chair, and in the presence of K.I. himself. Chukovsky, he read his poem entitled “Song of the Sailor,” to which Korney Ivanovich jokingly remarked: “Song of the sailor Ivan Bortnik,” putting the emphasis in his last name on the last syllable.
Until the 5th grade, Ivan studied in the village of Kratovo near Moscow, and then moved to Moscow and graduated in 1957 high school No. 317. Parents worked a lot, and Vanya was often left to his own devices. In the Moscow city House of Pioneers in Stopani Lane, he studied in a theater studio and visited a film studio in the Central Park of Culture and Leisure. His parents wanted their son to study music and sent him to cello class. There was a huge library at home - Ivan started reading early, fell in love with books, wrote poems, imitating A. Blok and S. Yesenin.
But Bortnik did not turn out to be a musician or writer. He chose the acting profession and immediately after graduating from school he entered the acting department of the Shchukin School, which came as a complete surprise to his parents. Ivan Bortnik ended up in V.A.’s workshop. Etusha.
Yu.P. Lyubimov staged an excerpt from A.N.’s play during the course. Ostrovsky's "Guilty Without Guilt", in which Ivan played the role of Neznamov. Working with Lyubimov became an unexpected discovery for Bortnik. In the graduation performance “Warm Heart” directed by V.A. Etush I. Bortnik played Khlynov. Took part in excerpts on A.P. Chekhov, K.A. Trenev, A.M. Gorky.
In 1961, after graduating from the Shchukin School, the talented actor was invited to many theaters. But Ivan, on the advice of A.G. Koonen chose the N.V. Gogol Theater, where he began working with the excellent director P.P. Vasiliev and talented actors - V.I. Khokhryakov, A.S. Krasnopolsky, A.N. Tolbuzin, P.V. Krylov, I.A. Smyslovsky, E.P. Kalinina. Ivan Bortnik played leading roles in the plays “Pass a Smile”, “Date at the Bird Cherry Tree”, “The Robber Sisters”, “Taras Bulba”, “Little Red Devils” and others and over time became the leading artist of the theater. Unfortunately, P.P. Vasiliev left after some time, and, as often happens, directors in the theater began to change frequently.
Having worked at the Theater named after N.V. Gogol for six years, in 1967 Ivan Bortnik came to Yu.P. Lyubimov to the legendary Taganka Drama and Comedy Theater and became one of its luminaries. Everyone wanted to go to the Taganka Theater; there was a special atmosphere in which the creative life of the actors took place, performances were staged, each of which became an event. Art critics have been writing dissertations about the productions of the Taganka Theater for many years. I. Bortnik found himself in the theater at the peak of its rise and played many brilliant roles in Lyubimov’s productions. Yu.P. Lyubimov says: “The gift of an improviser is a happy and rare gift. Bortnik fantasizes uncontrollably.”
Ivan began with the main role of Pavel Vlasov in the sensational play “Mother” based on the play by M. Gorky. In “Pugachev” he played two roles – Shigaev and Chumakov. Participated in the plays: “What to do?”, “Ten Days that Shook the World”, “Fallen and Living”, “Three Sisters” (Salty), “Revision Tale” (Akakiy Akakievich Bashmachkin and Korobochka), “Feast in the Time of Plague” "(Mozart), "Alive", "Hamlet" (Laertes), "Wooden Horses" (Paul), "Boris Godunov" (Pimen), "Vladimir Vysotsky".
In 1977, the Taganka Theater went on tour to France. At the opening of the tour in Paris, the audience gave a standing ovation - the ovation lasted for half an hour. Ivan Bortnik was involved in the performances “Mother”, “Hamlet”, “Listen!”, which were successfully received in Paris, Lyon and Marseille and performed 65 performances in 45 days. The actor visited Paris ten years later - in 1987, when the Taganka Theater's play "At the Lower Depths", staged by A.V. Efros, was brought to France, where Bortnik brilliantly played Satin. Vladimir Vysotsky once said about Ivan Bortnik: “He can work endlessly, and this is also a happy gift - to be in a creative state all the time.”
In Lyubimov’s play “A Feast in the Time of Plague,” based on “Little Tragedies” by A.S. Pushkin, I. Bortnik played the role of Mozart superbly. Their duet with Leonid Filatov became truly unique - the actors seemed to be charged by each other and left an indelible impression on the audience. Ivan Bortnik’s magnificent performance in this production was noted by all the capital’s newspapers, and the actor was always appreciated by critics.
In the cinema I.S. Bortnik began acting in 1962, playing the main role of the seminarian artist Vasily in the film “Confession”. He played his next film role after a long break. In 1970, Pavel Lyubimov’s drama “The Day Ahead” was released, and in 1974 the actor played the main role in the fairy tale film “Ivan and Marya”. From that time on, directors increasingly began to invite Bortnik to the movies. He played in Ilya Averbakh’s films “Other People’s Letters” (1975) and “Declaration of Love” (1977), Nikolai Koshelev’s film story “Starshina” (1979) and others.
Ivan Sergeevich often comes up with texts for his characters, and this is a special talent, because you need to have the gift of feeling the character and write in the style of the character played by the actor. Bortnik took part in working on the text of the play “Alive” based on B. Mozhaev’s work “From the Life of Fyodor Kuzkin”. When the author republished the book, he included text invented by the actor.
In the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” (1979), his Blotter was listed simply as “a silent guy in a six-blade,” but during the filming, the actor created a bright character out of almost nothing, came up with all the words himself and made the role incredibly authentic. Ivan Sergeevich came up with the scene where the bandits come out of the basement to surrender while he was changing clothes - he wrapped a scarf, put on a cap and boots. His appearance with the song “And on the black bench, on the dock...” came as a complete surprise to everyone. The spectators who gathered behind the fence of the set gave the actor a real standing ovation.
When Ivan Bortnik starts playing, he forgets about everything. The wonderful actor Viktor Pavlov, who played the role of Levchenko in the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed,” once said: “...I think that the most striking role in the film was played by Ivan Bortnik.” Govorukhin unquestioningly trusted Bortnik, never rehearsed with him - he simply narrated the scene, described the proposed situation, and the actor himself decided what he would do next. Ivan Sergeevich generally has a rare gift of surprising his colleagues. Stanislav Govorukhin said after filming: “Ivan Bortnik always amazes, he is a phenomenal actor with untapped potential.”
After the release of the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed,” Ivan Bortnik began receiving letters. One of the spectators, who worked in court, wrote: “When I saw you in the film, I was amazed. Many wonderful actors played in the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed,” but it was clear that they were playing well, excellently... But you didn’t play. I have worked in court for many years, and have seen many criminals... Where did you find this gait? How to dress?.. I understand that artists worked on the picture with you, but all this had to be seen and done... You were not an actor, you were a real criminal... There was something flawed, dead-end, hopeless about you.”
In 1980, Nikita Mikhalkov approved I. Bortnik for the role of Vovchik in the film “Relatives”. Ivan Sergeevich considers this role one of his best works. In 1987, Vladimir Khotinenko invited I.S. Bortnik for one of the main roles in the film “Mirror for the Hero”, and the film again revealed the talented actor to the audience.
Ivan Sergeevich prefers to work with directors whom he knows and loves. He always improvises, freely manages the text and his actions. With particular warmth, the actor remembers working with N. Mikhalkov, G. Poloka, V. Khotinenko. For him, acting is not a profession, but a way of life. Ivan Bortnik, who has played roles in films, many of which are not the main ones, takes a place next to the brightest screen masters. He has a rare property - to merge with his characters so organically that the audience is sure: Blotter from the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” (1979), Vovchik from “Rodney” (1981) and his other characters are real “twin brothers” "favorite actor. While filming the film “Death in Cinema” (1990), Bortnik wrote the texts for his role every night, and in the morning he checked what he had written with the film’s director K.P. Khudyakov, who almost always approved his version.
But in bed they made peace - Irina considered him her best lover
46 years ago Egor Bortnik was born in Minsk. Soon my dad, a radio physicist, was sent to the Congo, where he went with his family. The guy’s further life turned out to be again connected with his native Belarus, which Yegor changed to Israel, and then to Australia. In 1999, he settled in Moscow, where he finally became Left Bi-2.
Musician and colleague Shura (Alexander UMAN) say that their ascent to the musical Olympus was calm and confident: “ We are not Agatha Christie» the period of the 90s with their continuous frenzy and hell" However, Lyova’s ex-wife has a different opinion: "Six years of our life together the husband was in a drunken stupor. Marriage with such a person is hell!
September 24, 1999
Irka, why are you snotty - let's go to Gorbushka! Today your favorite “Aquarium” is performing. By the way, two kents appeared in the party. We arrived from Australia three days ago. They play strange music, but they hope to conquer the capital with it. Do you want me to introduce you? They're funny, he advertised Vasya Shugaley, producer of “Zhukov”, little-known musicians from “Bi-2”.
The young woman was then experiencing a breakup with the father of her little son - Sergei fell in love with someone else.
She went to the Aquarium concert. In the hall I happened to be sitting next to Leva. When the concert ended, Ira saw her ex in the foyer, hugging a sexy long-haired girl in too-tight jeans.
Make it like we're a couple. Just quickly! - Ira nervously commanded her new acquaintance.
Leva hugged the stranger, giving her a possessive kiss on the top of her head. After which they, holding hands, defiantly marched past Sergei towards the exit. After 10 minutes at the taxi stop, they both understood without words that the evening should not end so quickly...
In the morning, throwing off the blanket, naked Leva, squinting like a kitten from the bright sun, asked:
Do you have coffee? Will you do it?
Makeev will hear this question with different intonations for the next five years.
Irina Makeeva now lives in Thailand. Photo: Facebook.com
December 31, 1999
Damn, where are you? We have been dancing near your entrance for an hour in the cold. In 40 minutes New Year! Have you decided to hang out together? - indignant friends shout into the phone.
And Ira and Lyova are pushing her father’s old “kopeck” along Komsomolsky Prospekt. On which we went to the other end of Moscow to the only hypermarket at that time where you could buy normal food.
With the first chime of the chimes, a noisy group bursts into the apartment. Someone on the go opens champagne, which splashes into the first container that comes to hand. As a snack, a wheel of cheese and unwashed apples float around.
I catch Leva’s gaze on me. And I understand: this is not just the craziest sex in my life, but also a person who will not pass by without leaving a trace,” Irina recalls.
May 19, 2000
In the morning, Leva’s cell phone was heating up with calls with offers and delight. And the reason for this is yesterday’s premiere of the film “Brother-2”, where three “Bi-2” songs were performed at once, and “Nobody Writes to the Colonel” instantly became a number one hit.
And a new life began.
We bounced around on tours, filming, and concerts. I followed Leva everywhere. At that time, she was for him, as he himself said, both his best friend, and his main adviser, and “the most beloved in the world.” And also a secretary, manicurist-pedicurist, dresser, maid, cook and driver,” Makeeva said in an interview with Caravan. “These hundred hypostases didn’t bother me at all; something else worried me.” Personalities began to gather around Leva, from whom there was an odor of evil and vice. Guys with shifty or glazed eyes, passing each other bags of who knows what. Girls who, as soon as I turned my back, were ready to get into the rising rock star's pants. We came to the museum and, without seeing anything, found ourselves in the nearest restaurant, where Leva was having conversations with friends about who bought what, where he went on vacation, in which pub he last got drunk. Even when I got pregnant, nothing changed. I wanted to have an abortion, but Leva was categorical. And I cried for half of my pregnancy. Leva went about his business, forgetting about me.
It used to be that he came with friends and girls to their shared apartment. And I don’t care that there’s a pregnant woman sleeping in the next room who doesn’t feel well.
The eldest son of the musician Fedya. Photo: Instagram.com
March 26, 2002
Labor began prematurely. Surprisingly, at that moment Leva was nearby, took Ira to the maternity hospital and immediately rushed off to shoot the video “My Rock and Roll”.
At this moment strange things began. It was as if an evil spirit was hovering over us,” Makeeva reflects. - That day on the set, something was constantly shaking, the equipment malfunctioned, and as a result, Ingeborgu Dapkunaite A huge plasterboard wall collapsed. The actress lost consciousness, an ambulance was called, but Inga refused hospitalization, although she was diagnosed with a concussion. She didn't want to let the guys down. Responsible, obliging person. Not like my Leva. For him, tours and concerts have always been more important than my son and me. My ex, Seryozha, took me and Fedya from the maternity hospital. He bought a stroller, diapers, nappies. Leva went on tour. On the way to the airport I stopped by Sergei and handed over five hundred dollars.
July 27, 2003
Train Moscow - Riga. In the Bi-2 dining car they celebrate the end of the tour with the guys from the Mumiy Troll group. Leva meets their tour manager. Cheerful, at ease, slender and sociable in every sense. The last name of 26-year-old Asya remains a mystery. Either Miller, or Tereshchenko, or Streicher.
And marry me! - the rocker suggested slurring his tongue, fastening his fly and lighting a cigarette in the vestibule after they crawled out of his compartment, squinting at the light.
“I’ll think about your tempting offer,” Asya flirts, beaming with rosy cheeks.
What to think...
Well... You, Yegor Mikhailovich, have such a reputation...
Hic-what?
A desperate womanizer.
Before him, Lyova’s second wife had close contact with Ilya Lagutenko (on the right). Photo: Facebook.com
August 2, 2003
Ira and Leva enter the wedding hall to the song “Goodbye, may love, goodbye.”
“Not a very suitable composition for an establishment where hearts unite,” Irina says thoughtfully.
The rocker shrugged his shoulders with a smile.
After the registry office, the newlyweds and about three dozen friends go to an abandoned pioneer camp, the territory of which was bought by one of the guests for a cottage community. There, rushing to save a drunken friend drowning in a pond, Leva drowned his wedding ring.
Fuck it - we’ll buy a new one! Now we have tons of money! - the drunken musician laughed loudly.
Leaving their little son with Irina’s parents, the newlyweds left for Prague. But the trip did not turn out to be romantic.
If at night Lyova was all ardor, then the first thing I heard in the morning was a sharp command, like a dog barking: “Coffee!” Then we argued. For half a day Lyova walked past me as if he were walking past furniture. It thawed only in the evening, when we went to bed,” Makeeva shared.
And Leva wrote in LiveJournal: “You would know how good Irishka and I had in Prague!”
At the beginning of the novel, Lyova and Asya traveled a lot. Shura often accompanied them. Photo: bdva.ru December 29, 2003
Moscow. Club "16 tons". Team rock concert. Among the participants are “Bi-2” and “Mumiy Troll”. Half-naked girls dance between band performances. The musicians lick their lips, stare at them and touch them backstage. Almost everything. Only Leva is sitting in the corner at a table with two middle-aged, unglamorous-looking ladies. The one in the pink angora and baggy brown pants (as it turned out later, it was Asya) took him somewhere. For about 20 minutes. They kissed goodbye.
You're still great! All the men were hanging around the “variety shows”, and you were with simple women. Do they work at the club? Would you like an autograph? - Irina asks her husband on the way home.
The answer is silence. His face was filled with lead, his hands tightly clung to the steering wheel.
“I said something wrong again,” Ira says almost in a whisper and turns to the window. In his reflection, she sees how Leva’s nodules move under the skin of her cheeks.
And then gifts appeared in their house. Supposedly from fans. A squeaky rubber heart and a flask with the inscription KittyCat.
August 2004
We're going to the Dominican Republic to raise our daughter! - returning from another tour, the rocker suddenly told his wife.
However, “Honeymoon 2” didn’t work out either. Ira recalls:
Leva started drinking on the plane and two days later he fell into a rage: he threw things around, wanted to walk naked around the hotel... I will never forget the tiles in the bathroom, the salty taste in my mouth and my own face, which I did not recognize in the mirror - it turned into a bloody mess, one big bruise...
When we returned and dad saw this horror, he clenched his fists and hoarsely squeezed out:
Daughter, what's wrong with you?
Uncle Sasha, everything is fine. “We just had a big fight,” Lyova absurdly justified himself.
Dad said that he did not intend to leave his grandson in this hell, and he went home with him. Then I found out that my father, having laid Fedya in the back seat, sat in the car next to our house all night, listening to every sound, and was ready to run out to help every second.
Asya and her sons Aviv and David mainly live in Spain. The boys go to school there. Photo: Instagram.com
November 13, 2004
Irina and Leva are lying in bed. Makeeva already knows that her husband has Asya. Loving and submissive. Leva lives in two houses. Moreover, while spending the night with his legal wife, at peak moments he whispers in her ear:
You are my only one! I love only you!
That day, after another fabulous sex, the couple started talking about Asya. Word after word, and now the sheet flies to the floor along with Ira... Again in the face, again everything is covered in blood.
Ira locks herself in the kitchen and calls her friends:
Help! He will definitely kill me today!
The guys arrive a few minutes before the police. Leva is taken to the department, Ira is taken to the hospital.
December 30, 2005
Asya buried her mother. I sat at her bedside in Riga for three months. Finally he returns to Moscow,” Leva gave his wife after two bottles of whiskey, having stood in front of her all year in the pose of “I’m guilty, I’m sorry, this won’t happen again, let’s start with a clean slate.”
The couple celebrated the New Year separately.
Misfortunes rained down on Irina: a bag with documents was stolen from her car, she lost her wallet with a large amount of money, several accidents.
I went to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and ordered magpie. It didn't help.
Mom burned down in a fire. Something happened to the wiring in their apartment at night. She managed to push her grandchildren onto the balcony, and she herself suffocated in the smoke. Fedya stopped talking after that. Doctors restored his speech for several months.
A month after my mother’s funeral, my father died of a heart attack. Leva filed for divorce. When Ira was offered a long business trip to India, she said “yes” without a moment’s hesitation.
November 5, 2009
Ashdod, Israel. Leva and Shura from Bi-2 played a beautiful wedding for four. Aviv, the son of Asya and Leva, who will turn two years old in two months, was also present at the celebration.
March 4, 2010
Makeeva received an email from Leva:
“Ira, I beg you, forgive me! Just forgive me. I'm an asshole. I am reaping the seed of my carelessness. I'm crippled by the memories of you. I'm obsessed with you forever..."
Irina went to Thailand. He lives with his sons in Chonburi.
Three names
The nickname Lev stuck to Yegor back in school. He received it because of a lion's fang, which his father gave and hung around his neck as a talisman. By the way, according to his passport, the musician is actually Igor. This is how they wrote it down in Israel without understanding the name Yegor.
Bi is not at all what you thought :)
Leva and Shura met in Minsk in 1985 at a children's theater studio. In 1988 they created music group"Brothers in Arms." After the first success (they won the Minsk music competition), they decided to change the name and became the “Coast of Truth”. And in 1991, Shura left for Israel, and the team broke up. But the guys couldn’t live without each other for long. Having resumed musical activity, they called themselves “Coast of Truth-2”, and then shortened it to “Bi-2”.
Friends, their friendship is 34 years old! A-ball-child! Photo: bdva.ru By the way
- Leva and Shura’s motto in life: “He who doesn’t work is dead.” Therefore, at a time of obscurity, they did not shy away from any kind of income: Leva was both a painter and a loader, and Shura was a waiter.