Gil wife knew of his beloved Paris

Eduard Khil, is conquering the world with his playful song with a cheerful "Trololo" an exemplary family man. Journalists have failed to find any incriminating facts about the personal life of a musician. Positive singer simply loads the energy, and it is hard to imagine that he once experienced a love tragedy. In the 90s, while in Paris, the artist lived with former Russian ballerina Larissa Seregina. Edward Gil does not like to talk about his life in Paris. There were difficult years of perestroika, when collapsed "Lenkontserte" and many artists left without means of subsistence. Singer went to France, he said, to make money. He talks about the chicken wings - foods that could afford only in this beautiful city. On the one hand, Gil has success when they came to the cabaret Mireille asked to perform favorite Russian songs. On the other - says about nostalgia, longing for the beloved wife Zoya Alexandrovna and son. But as I said, our colleagues, all three, Edward lived in Paris with another woman. Eduard Khil - We knew Gil in Leningrad - the emigrant Alexey Ershov. - In Paris, where he moved in the 80s, I worked in a cabaret of "Rasputin". In the early 90's came up to me and had the girl Larissa Seregina. She lived here brother Vladimir, once married to a Frenchwoman. I said that appear in a hurry, should there on the scene in a different place, and asked for a call back. Larissa was thrilled, and I realized that they needed to talk. In the locker room I noticed was Edik. He waved at me. A few days Larissa agreed Ershov the meeting and told the sad story of their plight. - A trembling voice she said: "I've Eduard Khil in Paris, but the day before yesterday in the cabaret was not accepted I am in Moscow for two half-starved child I was told that if you are of the impact on the owner.. "Rasputin" have - Madame Martini "- says Ershov. - Larissa asked me to persuade Madame Gil listen a second time. They literally begged: "Our goal is to make money, to save my children." Larissa said she was married, divorced, Gil brought his own money - tchotchke sold. And what if they are not getting a job, then they have nothing to return to Russia. Ershov sorry for the woman, and he came to help. It was not easy. - Edward actively disliked Madame Martini had to persuade them - says Alex. - We were not friends Gil and Larissa of course knew. Since the term with which it was addressed to me: "Alex, I know your relationship with Edward, but I ask you to help me because of my children," By the way, it did not take cabaret Kobzon Rosenbaum. That's because no one knew how should the way to sing it, to Paris. Martini allowed them to sing, said thank you, was a bottle of champagne. I must say that leaving the loser to have "normal" stayed here. Eduard Khil Ershov unpopular for the reasons. - It's kind of funny, but when Gil went to the first overseas tour with the band, not even sent by KGB agents. He is so masterfully written reports: who and where to go, that the employee was no need for special services. In "Lenkontserte" went the rumors. His wife Zoe helped her husband to move in every way up the career ladder. Therefore, he had few friends. Reputation among artists was rather negative. If Pyekha all loved, then Gil - No. He has a height of 20 rubles to the exit was when we - 8 rubles per concert. The owner of the cabaret "Rasputin" in the 90s was one of the richest women in Europe. Today Martini 87 years old and lives in a castle outside Paris. - The father of Madame - French, mother - Belarus. Your name at birth Elena Afanasevna. Martin's life is legendary. When the Second World War, she went to a camp for displaced persons. She sat down with us, when the Soviet Union joins the Ukraine and Belarus, and then the Germans. From the words of Gil was Army General Chernyakhovsky in love with Elena Afanasyevna and wanted to do martial woman. Found after his escape from him Elena in Paris, where he worked as a dancer in a cabaret "Folies Bergere". - Said it girl dancers that this place belongs to her - said Eduard Khil. - No one believed. But after ten years, she was married in a position to its owner Theatre Martini - ranging from Arab countries. Besides the money, he had 11 children. Said Helen was the Iron Lady, and then a rich widow, her husband was killed, and his head was in a box under the cake was planted in her car. Despite her husband's children, Elena was able to help a good lawyer at all to preserve the heritage. Madame had some cabaret, among them the "Rasputin". And they called it in honor of Grisha ill after cancer. A doctor treated her with poison, increasing the dose, and furnishings. As I said, it was in love with director Yuri Lyubimov and made her an offer. But she did not marry out. His children, she never got. Who cares about Madame dancer "Rasputin" Sonya. Nobody else does not want to see. - Madame Martini had strange habits - says Alexey Ershov. - The fact that nobody was allowed to let others do it. For example, Natalya Medvedeva (ex-wife of Eduard Limonov -. NM) Came with all the scandals and struggles. But with the men from the cabaret she rarely spoke. Ershov yet persuaded Martini arrange re-audition: - to pacify them, as he could. Based on the fact that Gil - a very famous man in Russia. Madame snapped, "Well, yes, he sings, but there's nothing to see!" Then I remembered that Larissa mentioned in conversation with me, they say, is a dancer who knows how to play the spoons, and that she brought with her Russian costume. Directly through improvisation and said that Edward was very pretty blonde and they prepared a nice room. It worked. Madame drew: "Well, let him come back tomorrow." Immediately declared Larissa, how to dress, and that to do during the singing dancers Gil with spoons. The orchestra was a French, which requires clear guidance. He recognizes that, to output a success, it is necessary to go on stage with the guys and all the rest in the orchestra. - I did it, took his guitar and went. The front of the room and asked: "Larissa, past madam, that they have seen you," - smiling Ershov. - Martini liked her as a woman. Larissa because if canvases disappeared Kustodiev. Gil, as I recall, sang Russian folk song "Peddlers", "Oh, my plump full box ..." After the speech, Martini signed with Gil and Larissa year contract. - With Larissa he was in Paris - said Yershov. - Then, in the early 90s there was an attempt to get a lot of visiting Russian artists. All are somehow rely on me. Kicking up a Russian restaurant, return with nothing, after Russia. But while giving interviews and brehali in every respect their "capture of Paris." Some of this nonsense even make something karerku. It is now, after a stunning rise of the prices for the concerts Gil rose to $ 25,000. In cabaret Madame Gil offered a pittance. - Make sure it is not enough for them: for two, because he is 280 francs. In today's terms - 38 euros. With this money, living in Paris could not be ... For the first time with Larissa Gil lived very modestly, her brother Vladimir gave them free room in their apartment. Gil was able to find a common language with the woman, but she loved Larissa. - To help them, I started to take them on their performance, as we call them here in the evening. Larissa was in his spare time at flea markets where you can buy clothes. Sometimes she asked me to help with the machine, the things in the summer to Moscow, where he was taking a terrible lack of all, to sell and to buy. Helped as he could, gave things - the car was then loaded jam. Understood the situation, I saw her background gentleman. About Women in Russia Eduard Ershov not say all the attention to Larissa. - Gil never spoke of his wife in Moscow. Our colleague at the cabaret told me that one day it came to his wife and son. I came into the dressing room to talk then. I think she knew of Larissa, but turned a blind eye. Sometimes we drank and talked about Gil relationship with Larissa. "Everything is in order, you see, Larissa is happy." When people sleep in the same bed, it is clear that they do not read Pushkin's fairy tales. Once, when Gil with Larissa came to me at lunch, she confessed to my wife, in love with Edik. Madame ... Martini left a couple for a second season. As Gil said she did not come to Russia, fearing arrest, but helped by influential friends with the visa. To do this, Gil has two foreign passports: while one was with him, inserted in the second visa. A few years Larissa the car "Lada" bought, and it seemed that life returned to normal. But tragedy. - He said to her, "Larissa, riding, learning to ride well!" What was difficult. A few years later her brother Volodya came to my talk with bad news: Larissa in Moscow killed in a car accident. Vladimir years left Paris. I've heard that he became a priest: this is in a small chapel in the suburbs. And Edward Gil returned to Russia with his wife and son. He never talked about Larissa and when you consider the photo taken in a New Year's Eve in Paris, of which 90. The names of all but the woman for whom he got to France, and who loved him - This is Sonia, it is Vadik Geyh Alex Ershov, this blue poles, trying to take care of me, was it a gipsy Zina and her husband - and only managed to say Mr. Trololo. - Who is this woman, that next to you? - It's just podtantsovschitsa. What an interesting photo. - You do not know what was their fate? - No Alexey Ershov's not surprising that Edward Gil Larissa recalled. - He lied about Paris. Traded ugly to me. He gave an interview in which he said, strange things I die of nostalgia, is ready to return to Russia. Sorry that Eddie does not have the courage to remember Larisa and all those who helped him find Paris. "EC"