Interview with Elizaveta Boyarskaya
- Born on December 20, 1985 in St. Petersburg into an acting family. Brother Sergei is an adviser to the governor.
- Graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts.
- Plays at the Theater of Europe and the Moscow Theater of Young Spectators. She starred in more than 40 films.
- Winner of the Crystal Turandot, Golden Soffit, Golden Woodpecker awards, MTV Russia film awards, received the Order of Honor in Moldova.
- Married to actor Maxim Matveev. In 2012, their son Andrei was born.
In an exclusive interview with Health, Liza Boyarskaya told what charitable projects her family is involved in, shared her views on childhood vaccinations and admitted why she dreamed of playing Baba Yaga.
Lisa, in the new film “Status: Single,” your heroine leaves her creative boyfriend for the sake of a dentist. Why?!
Because dentists dance the cha-cha-cha (laughs). For the sake of filming the film, I had to learn Latin American dance, because in the story, my heroine became close to the dentist thanks to her passion for dancing. And the profession of “dentist” also means stability and confidence in the future. These doctors are always in demand, even during a crisis. By the way, I was never afraid to have my teeth treated.
How often do you have to communicate with doctors in your life?
Mainly during charity events. In the future, I plan to open a hospital for children with cancer. These children need special care; it is very important that parents have the opportunity to live with them on the hospital premises. This closeness provides additional chances for recovery.
The characters in the film have relationship problems. In the West, when faced with difficulties, many go to a psychoanalyst. Have you ever had to resort to the services of such specialists?
My psychoanalysts are good books and smart films. Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Kuprin, Tsvetaeva, Wilde, Jack London - these are my psychotherapists. In classical works you can find answers to any questions. To deal with a psychological problem, you need to work more on your inner world. Perhaps a psychoanalyst can help someone with this, but other methods are closer to me.
Have you ever faced depression?
The very word “depression” sounds fatal, almost like a sentence. That is, there is nowhere to move further, and life loses its meaning. I try to avoid such words. If I'm in a bad mood, it means there is some reason for it, I try to correct it, improve my life. I’m starting to get creative, read a lot, communicate with Maxim, my son, my parents, watch good films... I’m learning to relate more simply to the reality around me. With a feeling of ease, you will understand that depression is a temporary condition, tomorrow the sun will appear.
You smoked as a student. How did you manage to get rid of a bad habit – was the process painful?
No. I believe that quitting smoking is easy if you really want to. I did it and I highly recommend everyone to do the same. When I smoked, I didn't think about my health and was still too young to feel the harmful effects of smoking. But I was worried about the aesthetic side - it’s unpleasant when hair and clothes stink of tobacco, especially on a woman. And I don’t even want to talk about the bad breath! That's why I decided to quit the bad habit.
Your father, Mikhail Boyarsky, is the leader of the movement for smokers’ rights. How do you feel about the law that prohibits smoking in public places?
I try not to talk about topics related to politics, I don’t understand it. Regarding dad... We probably have different points of view on something, but I respect dad, he is an authority for me in any case, so I don’t consider it necessary to argue with him and prove anything. Personally, I am against smoking, he also respects my point of view.
Your husband Maxim Matveev is one of the leaders of the Doctor Clown charitable foundation. Have you ever acted as a clown?
Yes, my husband is Doctor Clown. Maxim is the artistic director of this charitable foundation. Doctor clown is a person who comes to the hospital in a clown costume, communicates with children, gives them happiness and hope for the future. This is a very important type of charitable activity, for example, in Israel there is even such a profession approved at the state level, people receive money for their work.
Everything here happens on a voluntary basis, but Maxim is trying very hard to find funding and partners. We are also on the board of trustees of the Center for Healthy Youth. This is a rehabilitation center for drug addicts. There are amazing children there, kind and open. They are like butterfly children, with bare skin and heart. It is important for them that in our eyes they are not drug addicts who are treated with contempt.
I believe in these guys. When you see people who are struggling for life, you begin to appreciate your own more: after all, in general, we live calmly, even if there are some petty problems.
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Elizaveta Boyarskaya: “I have never had a love for luxury”
By the age of thirty, she has such a track record of serious work both in cinema and on stage that almost everyone in our country knows her, without appealing to her big name. Liza Boyarskaya has long proven her right to a place in the acting workshop. She is a fan of her work, a perfectionist to the core, but absolute service to her profession does not close off the rest of her life, in which family occupies the main place and there is still space for friends, travel, charity and self-development.
— Lisa, you’ve been saying for a long time that you live in two cities, but now you spend more and more time in Moscow, playing here on the stages of two theaters. Already consider Moscow home?
— When they asked me about a year and a half ago: “Where is your home, in St. Petersburg or Moscow?” - then I answered that both there and here, but now I can definitely say: in Moscow. And I’m even glad about that. For a long time I said: “I’ll go home,” and that meant - to St. Petersburg. But still, home should be where the husband and child are. And it became easier, calmer and much more natural for me. And I go to St. Petersburg to work or to visit my parents. I accepted Moscow completely, with all its charms and disadvantages. Our child goes to kindergarten here, and I can already drive the car myself. (Smiles.) I’ve been driving for twelve years, but in Moscow all the time I either asked my husband to drive me or used a taxi. And if earlier for me an invitation to the Moscow theater was an exception to the rule, now I would gladly take on something else interesting. But my heart lies safely in the Maly Drama Theater - I am so connected with it, with my master, with my colleagues, whom I adore, that the thought of suddenly leaving the theater does not occur to me at all. Living in two cities, Maxim and I saw each other less often, and now the three of us spend mornings and evenings quite often. I try to take Saturday and Sunday off from work, and if there is no filming, I focus solely on my family. We come up with entertainment depending on the time of year, and now there are so many opportunities for children that we ourselves are interested in a lot of things. We either saw, then climb somewhere, then we went to the circus, then to theaters or museums.
— Has Andrey already developed any interests?
“He really likes sawing.” Oddly enough, although perhaps this is natural at his age, he is not attracted to either the theater or the circus - he does not really like everything connected with the stage, he even despises it. (Laughs.) He says: “I don’t like theater, I don’t like loud music, I don’t like it when people talk loudly.” But sometimes he can be dragged to the cinema, and he is interested in interactive museums, where he can touch and study everything.
— Why did he have an aversion to the stage? He didn’t grow up behind the scenes, did he?
“It seems to me that he doesn’t like the theater because he is jealous of Maxim and me, we go there for a long time and return late.” Although now it already happens, I’m going on tour, and he asks: “Will you take me with you?” - and I say: “You don’t seem to like this, do you?” - and he answers: “Nothing, I’ll sit behind the scenes.” By the way, I, too, until I was ten years old, couldn’t stand the theater, then I started going there as a spectator, but I was still skeptical about the acting profession, but my genes still won.
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— And as a child, you didn’t have a feeling of pride because your parents were famous people?
- No, I was ashamed and terribly embarrassed that my parents were making faces on stage. I saw that in life they are normal people, they walk normally, talk normally, and then they go on stage and begin to portray something. I didn’t like it at all, although I loved the play “The Snow Queen”, where mom was Gerda, and even then I thought: “Why does mom play a girl, and this one plays a deer? What strange people - adults, but they behave like children.” And Andryusha also doesn’t like it when we show something, he immediately says: “No need, no need...” At the same time, I adored when a large company gathered at our house, these gatherings, many guests. Artists, directors, cameramen came, the smoke stood like a yoke. Very interesting conversations took place at these feasts. And although I didn’t understand much until I grew up, I incredibly liked the atmosphere of lightness, fun, joy and intellectual richness.
— What was the attitude of your classmates and teachers towards you, because this was a time of dad’s enormous popularity?
“When we all entered school at the age of six, they didn’t care that I was Boyarskaya, we grew up together, and I studied there for eleven years. Everyone knew me, they knew what I was like, and we were friends. Therefore, no one treated me in any special way. And the teachers too. When I entered the theater academy, I felt a certain attitude towards myself - no one even doubted that I was entering through connections. I was terribly offended and wanted to prove my own worth. They asked me the full program, but this still did not stop the applicants from being biased towards me. And a week after admission, we all became family and walked in the same team for five years.
— Were you confident in yourself as a girl, a girl?
“I went through a serious teenage complex, because none of the boys perceived me as a girl. They were friends with me, they turned to me for advice, they took me into company, they could have fun, laugh, but at the same time, even though I myself fell in love more than once, I did not have mutual love at school. Maybe because at that age I was an ugly duckling and wore braces. It seemed to me that I wasn’t worried about it, that it wasn’t painful, but nevertheless I was quite withdrawn. And my mother and I came to the decision that I need to go to modeling school. I was thirteen years old. There, although it was a fashion trend, they took everyone who paid, even if you weighed a hundred kilograms. And I must say, these classes liberated me and increased my self-confidence. Perhaps from that moment I began to think that I was interested in the stage, but before I could not even imagine this. From embarrassment. Although I always went to the theater with my mother, and I already liked everything, but it was these three months of training that really pushed me to take my first step on the stage.
- Now your parents are proud of you - you are a good and successful actress. Did your success matter to them at school?
“Dad didn’t care at all how I studied, but mom still tried to control me. She wanted some sense to come out of me. And dad believed that education doesn’t matter at all for a girl, the main thing is that she is kind, sweet and pretty.
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“And you support dad’s worldview that a woman should be friendly, easy-going and kind.” I always thought that you got it from your mother, but it turns out that not only...
- But dad, too, in my opinion, is a little disingenuous. Mom has these qualities, but she is very smart, and dad likes that. And I get into a stupor when talking to narrow-minded girls. They say that men are another planet, but for me they are superficial people for whom the main topic of conversation is what to wear, how much it costs and what cosmetic procedures are now in fashion. It is very difficult for me to carry on a conversation with such ladies, but I have nothing against them. Although men very often love cute, cozy, domestic “cats”.
- And smart men too?
- Yes, too. But for me as an actress, a huge component of life is conversations. Both in life and in work. I definitely need to discuss any new information, a movie I watched, a book I read with someone. And I really like that Maxim and I talk about everything. Although if a man needs to be silent, then he needs to be silent. When your husband comes home, you don’t need to dump everything on him or blow your mind, you need to do this, this and that. Of course, both must have some responsibilities, but nevertheless, a man, returning from work, has an absolute right to personal space. And the woman’s task is to give him the opportunity to relax.
— Are the topics of your conversations different here and on vacation?
— In practice, sooner or later, no matter what you talk about, be it a wonderful excursion or wonderful views, everything still turns to cinema and theater. Or, for example, Maxim and I were on our honeymoon, I was reading Bunin and he was reading some book, and we all the time vividly shared what we read, our thoughts, and they somehow brought us back to our profession. There is no escape from this, because this is one of the main components of our life. I ask Maxim for advice on how to play the scene, or he asks me, and we try to figure it out. We discuss new films, new faces, interesting partnerships. I shared with Maxim my incredible impressions of Zhenya Mironov, whom I first met while working on “Ivanov” at the Theater of Nations, told me what worked for me, what didn’t, and what an interesting scene we created.
- You say that there is no need to burden a man with problems. What if a woman came tired both emotionally and physically? She also wants affection, care, attention...
- If I come tired, then everyone sends me to rest, and after the night shift no one will force me to take the child to the kindergarten or prepare food. And since Maxim and I are again within the same profession, we know how tired you can be after a performance and what an easy shift is and a hard one. By the expression on my husband’s face when he comes in, I immediately understand what his mood is and, accordingly, whether the three of us can continue the evening by doing something interesting, or whether he needs to rest, and I myself will do something with the child. We feel each other very well.
Dress, Yanina couture; Color necklace and bracelet, Color Flower earrings, all – Mercury
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— I have heard many times from your colleagues that Maxim is a very kind person...
- This is true, and this is a very important quality for a man. I also have a good character (smiles), it’s very, very difficult to piss me off, but if you do it, it won’t seem too bad. I always dreamed of having a friendly, kind man next to me with a colossal sense of humor, which is exactly what Maxim is.
— Today I accidentally came across an interesting interview with your dad. He said that when he paid attention to Larisa Luppian, he thought that she was absolutely fragile, defenseless, vulnerable, without an inner core, and this touched him. Was Mom really like that or was he mistaken?
“Mom is really more fragile, more feminine, more tender than me, but at the same time she has a very serious inner core. And in her youth she was vulnerable, and reverent, and touching. That's why I played princesses and Gerda. To a certain extent, I also have these qualities, but I still have a more assertive character. In some ways, mom is obviously stronger than dad, more confident, and therefore she makes the necessary compromise easier. But when it came to the family, even Seryozha and I’s studies, she was always unyielding, uncompromising, and sometimes tough. At the same time, he worries about everything very much. And dad, although he is also an emotional person, is softer, more outgoing and less vulnerable in the grand scheme of things. And he shows his temperament only at home, with close people. I notice that I am very similar to both mom and dad. Feminine features - like my mother, not counting her excitement. And my softness and indecisiveness are like my dad, and it often backfired on me. Dad, strange as it may sound to many, is a very modest and shy person. One day, this was quite a long time ago, he was getting his hair cut at a hairdresser, and a girl trainee accidentally cut off a piece of his ear. And he didn’t say anything, didn’t even twitch, because he understood that the girl cutting his hair was taking the exam. I would do the same. But this is all: “How dare you! Give me the complaint book! Don't come near me! - never in my life, it’s not mine.
— You can say about mom and dad: they got together, water and stone, ice and fire... And about you and Maxim?
- The same thing, because, on the one hand, I am easy-going and conflict-free, and Maxim is temperamental and quick-tempered, but easy-going. On the other hand, I can reach the point of frenzy and go crazy about one thing or another, but Maxim is calmer in this regard. We all have very different qualities, and this is what we really wanted to achieve in Anna Karenina: so that there are no unambiguous characters, they say, he is good and she is bad. She is the victim, he is the executioner. Every day a person can change due to circumstances. Some tragedy can make a colossal impression on him, or, on the contrary, it can devastate him. At the same time, a little thing or nuance can blow your mind and ruin a relationship once and for all. Any person is overwhelmed by a variety of feelings: both noble and vile, both light and dark at different periods of time. For example, a child crying on an airplane usually evokes pity and tenderness in me, because I am a mother myself, but sometimes I really want him to be silent.
— Your mother said more than once: “I never argued with my husband, even if he was wrong.” Do you also follow this tactic with Maxim?
“I’m more like my dad in this, because I defend my point of view.” It’s just that when I understand that it’s not that important, I can give in. In my opinion (I’m speaking now from a height, albeit small, but still experience), everything needs to be spelled out. To silence your opinion, to consider it unimportant, means to betray yourself. But I try to do this without shouting and conflicts, although it is important for me to speak out. I can, in the end, even say in the end: “Okay, we’ll do it this way, but I don’t agree.”
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— It’s difficult to combine defending your opinion with a dislike of conflicts...
- I don’t like to be nervous at all. And I can’t stand it when people get nervous around me. Calm is very important for me in life, apparently, this is again sublimation, because I experience so many overwhelming emotions on stage and in films! If, for example, my son falls and breaks his knee, I try to react appropriately. What is the use of excitement and fuss? You just need to brainstorm and think about how to resolve the situation. Therefore, I am very comfortable with people who think and feel like me, and I hope that I give them that feeling of peace.
— You recently turned thirty years old. The number, on the one hand, is joyful and beautiful, but on the other hand, it already makes you think about something, analyze something...
“When I was approaching thirty, I was mentally trembling, it also seemed to me that this was some kind of milestone. But when it passed, nothing changed. Each person has his own inner age. I began to feel harmonious about myself at the age of twenty-eight, corresponding to real numbers. Even at sixteen I didn’t feel very young; I was never a frivolous girl. And now, when I have already developed my own worldview and mutual understanding with the profession and even have my own family with the microclimate we created, I don’t feel any anxiety about age. In a professional sense, there might have been some anxiety if I had accomplished little in the intervening time. But, pah-pah, a lot of things happened both in the theater and in the cinema. I hope this will continue to be the case.
— Lisa, you have a very busy life: you have played many roles, traveled to many countries, made many acquaintances. How to live in this cycle so that your impressions bring the same joy, the same surprise as before?
— In my opinion, it depends on the character, because there are people who come to new places and only sit in the hotel and lie on the beach. And for me, being surprised and learning something is daily food. I wake up and, for example, turn on some portal with lectures, even scientific ones. I come to a new place, or even to a place I’ve already been to - Paris, New York or Milan, and still find something to do. Although sometimes, when I go to some city for a short time on tour, due to physical fatigue I also spend time from the morning before the performance in the hotel.
— You always want to raise the professional bar and gain new knowledge and impressions, but, as you say, you have no special desire to improve your standard of living...
- Absolutely. In general, I have always been content with what I have. But I think it’s a sin for me to complain. Literally, I can hardly deny myself anything unless it is a very expensive item. But I just don’t like jewelry, fur coats, I absolutely don’t care what kind of car I drive. That is, I really never had a love for luxury. But if I want to buy an interesting designer item, I may spend a little more money than usual. In general, I have never chased brands and big designer names. I have a lot of very cool and cool things from Thai or Singaporean markets. And I will be equally happy in a luxury hotel on the lake in Switzerland, where I can enjoy the views of nature and so on, or on a hike, where we will sleep in tents, light a fire, bake potatoes and cook fish soup. What matters is company, people’s relationships, goodwill, enjoying the moment here and now. You can be happy in any circumstances. The main thing is to appreciate what happens to you.
— Is it important to you how you dress in everyday life?
- Basically, it doesn't matter to me. I wear black almost all the time from head to toe. I can get ready to put on a green blouse, and then I think: no, it’s still better to wear a black one (laughs), because it makes me feel more comfortable. In general, my closet could be reduced to a total minimum. When I want to impress, I grab my favorite classic black dress and throw on some heels. Although I have clothes from the “wow!” series. I’m going somewhere, I think: “I need to show off, I’ll wear this skirt and heels.” I get dressed, look at myself in the mirror and see that it’s not me. What is more important to me: to be natural or spectacular? In life I want to be myself.
— You once said that for you, love is, in a good sense, calmness next to your loved one, and not when your heart jumps out and your palms sweat.
- Yes, but you can talk about such love after a certain number of years lived together. For example, with Anna and Vronsky, they were interrupted at a period that was still too close to passion. In general, the most important thing in a relationship is respect and admiration for the person you love. For a man, the process of conquest is the most attractive. When Anna entered into a close relationship with Vronsky, she ceased to be as interesting to him as she was. As soon as the fortress fell, despite admiration and affection, the first drop of cooling had already spilled into this well. For a woman, everything is exactly the opposite - I gave you everything, now I belong to you. She trusts her life to this man. But whether a man needs this is a big question.
— Do you know how to maintain relationships so that there is both calm and a feeling that Maxim is conquering you anyway? Or again, for this you need to have female wisdom?
— After all, Maxim and I are two equal partners, we have the same weight category in love, relatively speaking. And there Anna is an element, and Vronsky could not control her, he did not even imagine that he would awaken a sleeping volcano. He was seriously in love, but the scale of their feelings was completely different. As a result, she tormented him with her love and burned everything around her.
- Tell me, are you not doing anything on purpose, are you not making Maxim jealous so that he still pursues you?
“We didn’t sacrifice anything in the name of love; on the contrary, as a result we got another creature.” And from this love only became richer. Anna made a colossal sacrifice to Vronsky, leaving her son, but he was not able to understand the scale of this sacrifice; it means nothing to him. I would never demand anything supernatural from Maxim and more than he gives me. This is quite enough for me. And from me too to him. We are both very busy people, so we don't have territory that we have to share.
— Do you have gifts in your family? If so, are they often surprises?
“This is not very much in the traditions of our family, both mine and my parents’. We don’t hold the word “surprise” in high esteem. (Smiles.) Even on birthdays we give each other what we order. Sometimes I buy something myself, and they give me money for it. And mom can say: “I bought myself a bag for my birthday. You will give it to me." (Smiles.) With Maxim, we don’t get to that extent, but I’m quite demanding and, I admit, I’ll be upset if I don’t get what I expected. Therefore, I’d better say in advance what I would like.
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— Your love for Andrey is also manifested in the desire to please him with gifts?
- This is a natural manifestation of love. I believe that if there is an opportunity, then why not show it in this way. It's another matter when parents simply pay off instead of love and attention. Then it spoils the child and does not contribute to strengthening human and family ties. In general, I am absolutely calm about buying my child what he wants. I was never denied anything as a child, and I can’t say that now I’m indifferent to things, I don’t appreciate gifts and attention. True, I’ve never had any special, out-of-the-ordinary requests. And Andrey doesn’t have them yet.
— Do you like “planned housekeeping” in all aspects? How scheduled are your household chores, meetings with friends, the gym, shopping, and are there any spontaneous deviations from your diary?
“I really hate letting people down.” I have this feeling developed to a painful degree. If, for example, I foolishly schedule a workout for myself at nine in the morning, then even if the weights hang on my eyelids, I will get up and go, because I will be uncomfortable in front of the trainer. And a friendly agreement to meet must be maintained. You can refuse a spontaneous proposal. But I will not torture myself in the name of mythical punctuality towards myself. If I decide to do some general cleaning in the kitchen early in the morning, but I wake up and realize that I have no strength, then I will continue to sleep, this is not even discussed.
- But in general, you are a neat person and a pedant?
- Yes, I like orderliness both in my head and at home. I can’t go to bed if I have dirty dishes lying around, no matter how tired I am. I do not like it. However, it would be impossible to completely independently maintain order and cleanliness in the house. They help Maxim and me, but we are very pedantic both in this and in packing for trips, making lists so that the necessary things do not stay at home and are not stuffed into a suitcase somehow. And we part with things easily. When we realize that we are overgrown with all kinds of rubbish, we give away the nice things and throw away the rest.
— Discipline is also order. In relation to the son, what is meant by this concept?
— Since he goes to kindergarten, it is necessary that he gets enough sleep and eats on time, so that it is not difficult for him to sleep with a full stomach. Of course, there may be rare deviations, but for his own benefit we try to follow the regime. And if you need, for example, to collect toys, then you need to understand whether you have the strength to stand your ground to the last. If the child is excited or excited about something and he does not want to do it, then it is easier to collect them yourself. Worse, if you say “collect,” he will begin to resist, and after five minutes you will give up: “Okay, let me do it.” And the word “no” should only be spoken to a child about fundamental and dangerous things. We are also not supporters of loading Andrey with everything in the world, from dancing to astronomy. Very little time is given for a carefree childhood, the first six to seven years, and it should be used only for the necessary training. And everything else, English, Chinese, all this will come later, if he wants to, he will learn it.
— And in your childhood, did your parents treat you and your brother in the same way?
- Yes. They very rarely said no. I don’t remember at all that my brother and I were prohibited from doing anything. Although... in my teens I had impulses to get tattoos, pierce my navel, and pierce my tongue. But my mother categorically said: “No. You’ll be offended by me now, but then you’ll thank me.” And she turned out to be right. Mom could scold us, but there was never any screaming at all, nor any spanking. And dad simply spoiled us, in a good way, and, despite his crazy busyness, gave us a lot of attention and time. Dad’s return from a tour or from filming was always a big event, he came happy, long-awaited, and even brought something. And we had no responsibilities: neither taking out the bucket, nor making the beds, nor washing the dishes after ourselves. Perhaps this is not very good, because then I had to catch up with everything in independent life, but it’s okay, everything happens naturally. I'm not talking about absurdity, but if a child at five years old cannot read, he will learn when he goes to school. And life will force you to eat not with your hands, but with a knife and fork. There is no need to strive for this to happen as quickly as possible. Let him explore life from many different angles.
Elizaveta Boyarskaya is forced to take her two-month-old son to work
Elizaveta Boyarskaya // Photo: Legion-media
Elizaveta Boyarskaya, who became a mother for the second time at the end of last year, is not going to stay at home. In January, she appeared on the stage of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, where she played the main role in the musical play “1926”. The actress made her long-time dream come true and appeared in the image of the great poetess Marina Tsvetaeva. For the sake of a responsible role, the heir to the star dynasty radically changed her image. She appeared in front of the audience with a bob and unevenly cut bangs.
The performance became a real highlight of the new theater season. Before each appearance on stage, Boyarskaya and her partner, actor Anatoly Bely, rehearse for a long time. And recently it turned out that two-month-old Grigory, who, like many acting children, is forced to go to work with his parents from early childhood, is waiting for his mother behind the scenes at this time. In the theater, the baby has already become everyone's favorite. Boyarskaya’s stage colleagues admit that they have already studied his feeding schedule and are trying to adjust their work so that they can take a break on time.
“Of course, we are now adapting to Grigory. He dictates when we take our lunch breaks. Lisa, of course, is great. She doesn't give herself any favors. “I see it,” Anatoly said in an interview with the “You Won’t Believe It!” program. “It’s obvious that she’s getting tired.” We rest, and then we go back to battle!”
Elizaveta Boyarskaya with her parents and brother Sergei // Photo: Instagram
Despite her busy schedule, Boyarskaya does not resort to the help of nannies and is sure that little Gregory will be better off next to his mother. “This is a childhood feature of acting children. They manage to grow at home, in the dressing room, behind the scenes, and on the set. I think it doesn't matter for children. The main thing is to be with your mother and parents. Then they will be happy and will not feel lonely,” says the actress.
Now the young mother is having a hard time. After all, she combines theater work with caring for two sons at once. After work, Elizaveta Boyarskaya hurries to pay attention to her six-year-old son Andrei, who attends educational clubs every day. The boy studies music, English, goes to chess, mental mathematics and goes to the swimming pool. The actress’s husband, Maxim Matveev, is not always at home, because he is constantly forced to travel to filming and rehearsals in Moscow, where he spends most of his time. Despite living in two cities and busy everyday life, harmony and mutual understanding reign in the star couple.
Actress's husband Maxim Matveev with his newborn son Grisha // Photo: Instagram
