Characters
- Formerly
, a completely decrepit old man, almost without any movement, in high ranks. He is carried on a chair. - Prezhneva, Sofya Ivanovna
, his wife, 45 years old. - Paul
, a young man, her son. - Ustinya Filimonovna Pereshivkina
, an elderly woman, formerly Paul’s nanny, is now like a hanger-on or housekeeper in various familiar houses. - Karp Karpovich Tolstogorazdov
, merchant, gray-haired, short, fat. - Ulita Nikitishna
, his wife, an elderly woman, without any special features. - Serafima Karpovna
, daughter of Tolstogorazdov, widow, tall, thin, of extraordinary beauty. The gait and movements of a schoolgirl. - Matryona
, maid, distant relative of the Tolstogorazdovs. A young girl, plump, marble-white body, rosy cheeks, black eyes and eyebrows. - 1st coachman
, Tolstogorazdova. - 2nd coachman
, Seraphim Karpovna. - Unknown
, Paul's friend, is a middle-aged man with a Greek profile and a gloomy expression on his face. - Housemaid
. - Lackey
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"Did not get along. Three times": Klimova spoke about the reasons for divorce from her husbands
Ekaterina Klimova is a successful actress. She also has a spectacular appearance, so it is not surprising that the girl has never been deprived of the attention of men. True, she is unlucky in her personal life. Her first marriage to Ilya Khoroshilov ended in divorce. Even the appearance of Maria's daughter did not save the situation. Then she had an affair with Igor Petrenko. Their marriage turned out to be strong, but unreliable. After 10 years, the girl broke up with him. In 2020, she got married to Gela Meskhi. They seemed like an ideal couple, but last year this union broke up.
more on the topic Winter vacation: Klimova relaxes at sea with her 4-year-old daughter from Meskhi. The actress from the historical telenovela “Poor Nastya” also took her older heirs on the trip.
It is noteworthy that Klimova remained on friendly terms with her husbands. She is seen with them from time to time. However, Meskhi missed the New Year celebrations this time, and also did not attend the birthday party of their four-year-old daughter Isabella. In a new interview, the actress spoke about her personal life. The girl admitted that she did not plan to become a mother of many children and spoke about raising heirs.
According to Ekaterina, she doesn’t have enough time for everything, but she hasn’t forgotten how to flirt. “Besides, the profession keeps you on your toes. You should have seen how I wash my lace underwear, stockings, and corset in secret from the children after the play “The Master and Margarita”! If they catch me doing this, they will think that I have a turbulent personal life. Flirting changes over the years,” the girl explained.
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She noted that now in her wardrobe there are more sophisticated things, and not flashy looks with miniskirts. In her opinion, a woman’s body looks even more attractive in a long dress. Previously, Klimova spoke only in passing about the reasons for divorces from their husbands. She explained that she is sometimes offended by reading ridiculous rumors on this topic in the press, but she does not want to blurt out anything out of emotion, since then her children might see the article.
“Therefore, I categorically do not say anything bad about their fathers. In my case, with each specific man, we simply could not live together and each chose his own path,” explained the actress.
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She decided to get off with a cliche phrase when talking about the reasons for the divorce: “We didn’t get along in character. Three times". By the way, Klimova made it clear that she is not going to get married for the fourth time. “I hope you won’t see any more tabloid headlines with the news: “Ekaterina Klimova is once again marrying an actor.” This will be funny even to me,” she suddenly said. At the same time, the actress does not rule out the possibility of becoming a mother again. She explained that later she might take the child from the orphanage, writes the Caravan of Stories publication.
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The Prezhnev family is bogged down in debt and sees a way out in the young spendthrift Paul marrying money. Paul’s mother is sure that his young wife “will love her so much, she will love her so much that she will put herself and... her entire fortune at your complete disposal” (card. 3, appearance 4). She herself serves as an example of how to squander a huge fortune.
Meanwhile, the rich young merchant Seraphima makes it clear to Paul that she is in love with him and hopes for marriage. However, Seraphima was brought up with completely different rules than her future husband would like: “Perhaps he won’t like the fact that I’m prudent, so how could I do otherwise? […] Why then will I be without capital, I will mean nothing” (card. 2, appearance 4). Seraphima's father directly warns her that her future husband may swindle money out of her.
A month after the wedding, the denouement comes: Paul is found by Unknown, one of his creditors, who threatens him with a debt hole if he does not receive his debt. Paul, who had previously complained to his mother about his wife’s stinginess, is still trying to lure five thousand out of her. Seraphima immediately breaks up with him and returns to her parents' house without paying a penny.
Did not get along….
“We didn’t get along in character” - I always thought how one could say such a thing after living in marriage for many years... Where did your eyes look before?
And then I woke up with the thought that my husband and I are generally different people... We have different views on life, on family and the future. We have been married for 2 years, and together for 10 years! And now we have a son..... and what to do?
At first everything was ok. He worked a good job. I drove a good car. We broke up many times, but he always sought me out, did beautiful things, we relaxed, had fun, spent money, loved each other...
He made a very nice offer. The happiest days have begun. Wedding preparations. But before the wedding, he had an accident, and then left his job. We took a dog - a Staffa. They were planning to move into his apartment, which his mother was renting out, in order to pay off the debts for the wedding. I was working. He took care of the house and nursed a dog who loved to play mischief. Months passed. To the objections: “Go look for a job,” he said: “Who will I leave the dog with? Do you want him to chew through everything here?” Five months after the wedding, I found out that B. We continued to live with my mother in room 11 m. All my B did not give him the idea that he needed to work and provide for his family. And I had a threat; it was hard to walk after 5 months. And he slept until three. He walked the dog once a day, and he often pushed it on me. At night he disappeared somewhere with friends in billiards. I worked until the end. Because I understood the amount of expenses with the birth of a child and wanted to get maternity leave from work. I bought the stroller, crib and everything else. I kept thinking that he would come to his senses when his son was born, I would sit at home and there would be no place to get money from. Gave birth. The husband was in seventh heaven. He said I’ll look for work, we’ll move, we’ll live separately…. In September 24, Nikita will be one year old. My husband is also unemployed. Well, I started working part-time at a construction site, but this happens very rarely. His apartment is rented out, he takes the money for himself, but it goes to pay off debts, part of it to buy food for home. They got into debt and loans. They started arguing a lot. He became cruel and vindictive. Rough conversation is present even when we are not swearing and everything is ok, well, it’s like a joke on his part, but I’m not pleased. Conversations with him lead nowhere. He says that I will go to work for 2000 UAH? What's the point of this money?
So he’s not looking for something decent for himself. Can send resume once every two weeks. I was already looking for a job for him. She wrote out the numbers, but he reluctantly called them too. There were a million reasons why he didn’t want to go work there. The car there is not the same (he is looking for a job as a driver), it’s hard there, it’s far away... and so on. Kicked me out. He creates such a scandal and becomes aggressive. Threatens to take the child.
Doesn't make peace with my family. My sister does everything wrong and my mother is bad, and my apartment is homeless and my relatives are all rednecks. Yes... everything is not without sin. I always told him: “Be better than others and look at yourself first!”
And it’s like there’s a veil before my eyes all this time... I love you... I believe that someday it will be better... Two months ago there was a quarrel, before the divorce... I came to suck up.... reconciled... Even then I began to really think about divorce, but my son, I feel sorry for him, he wants both mom and dad. He is not to blame for anything. She also reconciled because of debts. I can't handle it on my own. He paid off a lot of things; there were still loans that were issued to me.
And now everything infuriates and depresses me. This is not the life I wanted for myself and my child.
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"We didn't get along..."
My brother came to our cousin's wedding with his girlfriend. Until that moment, none of us had seen her: Dima had not introduced his chosen one to either me or his parents. What can I say - we didn’t know that someone had appeared at Dimka’s house. And then there’s this unexpected thing.
Mom decided to get to know the girl invited to our table better. But Olga, this is how Dima introduced his companion, turned out to be a very silent lady. She answered a couple of questions in monosyllables, and then buried herself in her smartphone, ceasing to pay attention to what was happening.
“Okay,” my mother whispered to me. - Well, let her be unsociable. But she's pretty. And the hair is so gorgeous. What a beautiful couple! - Mom even wiped away a tear - she was so emotional, happy for Dima.
I mentally checked the box: no longer come to my brother’s house without calling. What if I interfere?
The brother was singing like a nightingale, talking about how lucky he was with Olya: she cooks deliciously, and is modest, and beautiful, and the very best, and in general - everything is serious with them, they will soon move in together, and the day is not far off when they will get married.
Mom nodded enthusiastically in response, occasionally turning to me in a whisper: well, if everything is as Dima says, then everything is fine. And the fact that Olya doesn’t want to communicate is not a problem, the main thing is that she and Dima feel good.
Olya refused to participate in competitions, still stuck on her phone. Once she kept Dima company in the dance and that was it. She didn't even eat anything, although the table was impressive in its variety. She didn’t touch the glass of wine either.
About an hour after the start of the banquet, when the bride and groom were cutting the cake in solemn silence, Olya asked Dima to look at her. They joked for a couple of minutes, after which Olya pushed back her chair with a creak, stood up and left. I actually left the wedding. Dima rushed after her, and also disappeared.
Mom was worried:
- What if I said something wrong? Or did you do something? Olya didn’t like it, so she left? How can you look Dimka in the eye?
It was in vain that my mother considered herself to blame; it turned out that she had nothing to do with it. And Dima broke up with Olga on the same day.
I didn’t feel shy and, as soon as it became known about the separation, I directly asked my brother:
- What's happened? Why did Olya jump out from the table as if scalded? Is this why you broke up?
And Olya’s brain Instagram happened:
She, scrolling through the feed on her smartphone, came across a certain post with a picture published by a friend. And she immediately decided to make sure of the veracity of what was written, asking Dima to look at her. She was not satisfied with the result, she was indignant:
- Your pupils have not enlarged! And when looking at a loved one, the pupil should increase by forty-five percent! You do not love me! - Olga concluded, jumped up and ran from the wedding.
“I followed her to calm her down,” Dima continued his story about the events that remained behind the scenes for us. - I apologized, just in case. And she stuck the phone screen with this picture under my nose and said: “Let’s go to the jewelry store, buy me an engagement ring, then I’ll believe that you love me!” I went crazy: that is, my word is not enough for her? In short, I refused. She's in tears because I don't love her. I asked: is it hard to believe in love without gold? We had a fight, she called me a cheapskate, slapped me in the face and left. I went to see a friend and didn’t come back for the wedding. In the morning she called me and asked again if we were going for the ring. You know, she asked so brazenly, assertively. It even seemed to me that I was talking to a collector. I refused again. Olya said that we were breaking up and that she deserved better. I wished her good luck in her search. But from the outside you can’t say that you’ve gotten involved with a mercantile hysterical woman.
Dima is twenty-eight years old. He was not married, and, apparently, marriage is not expected in the foreseeable future. This brother was lucky: he and Olya didn’t even start living together when she showed her true colors.
They decided not to tell their mother about Olya. Well, about her demand to buy a ring as proof of love. Our mother is like that, she would definitely be upset. Therefore, Dima told her briefly:
— Olya and I didn’t get along in character.
Really. Try and get along with someone like that.
Transcribed from the words of Christina P.
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