Maria Golubkina: “I’ve been living in a madhouse for a long time!”
— Because the acting profession also implies a good memory. It is very important for us to constantly strain our brains; our professional success depends on it.
— And what is your method for strengthening memory? — The technique is very simple. The human brain is such a mysterious thing that it will forever remain a mystery. But you need to learn one rule: if you learn a lot of poems and different texts from childhood, then your memory will work flawlessly until old age.
I'll give you a good example. Bulgakov’s third wife, Elena Sergeevna Nyurenberg, wrote in her memoirs that Mikhail Afanasyevich spoke huge chunks of text to her every day and she, having remembered everything verbatim, in the evenings wrote it all down word for word, and this amazingly trained her memory. And thanks to her memory, we read the wonderful literary works of the great writer.
Since childhood, a good example for me were my parents, who knew a huge number of texts by heart, because this was required by the nature of their profession. And my father’s trained memory simply amazed me. I want to say that if you force your children to learn a lot of poetry from childhood, then later they will only thank you for their good memory. The human brain works in such a way that you need to constantly reread and revise something. We need to read poems more often that we once remembered but have begun to forget; we need to learn foreign languages. The more you activate different parts of your brain, the more likely you are to have a good memory.
— Some say that the human brain is a mystery that cannot be solved. Do you agree? — I agree that the human brain sometimes behaves mysteriously! There was such a person, he suffered from a severe form of cerebral palsy and did not see anything. One day his mother woke up to the sound of playing the piano. It was her son who reproduced the melody, having never studied music. This is what I’m saying - our brain is absolutely not connected with the rest of the body and produces such miracles that it is impossible to believe. Or I’ll give another example: a ten-year-old boy, while playing baseball, received a head injury, and he was tormented by headaches for a long time, and when they subsided, phenomenal abilities came to him. The boy remembered every day in great detail, starting from that match. I could tell which week the date of the year fell on. This case is remarkable in that it may serve as a clue to human genius beyond ordinary abilities.
— You are broadcasting on one radio station. Are you talking about this in this program? — We invite different people to our program and once invited an astronaut we know. And he also told us interesting things about the abilities of the human brain. It turns out that astronauts in space are selected for one case of general schizophrenia. And in order to identify it, there is a special pressure chamber in which a person is placed without light and without communication. For six days he is not allowed to eat or sleep. And after six days the person begins to go crazy. Then they take him out and begin to investigate what stage and form of schizophrenia he has. And then the crew is selected according to similar madness. The main thing here is to understand and find people who are similar in craziness and have a common interest. Because they don’t need to explain anything, they are themselves. It was a very funny episode of the program, after which I realized that we are all, by and large, crazy - in the good sense of the word. As for me, my dad and mom are actors, so I don’t need to tell you about the madhouse.
Maria Golubkina with her daughter.
Liliya Sharlovskaya
- It feels like the most pressing topics are raised in your programs. What else are you talking about? “We want our releases to somehow cheer people up, so we talk about everything under the sun.”
For example, we have a section “Marry a Foreigner”: together with Margarita Mitrofanova, we invite interesting people and discuss all the pros and cons of foreign marriages. How can you get along with an Egyptian or, for example, an Italian? — And the essence of the column “Marrying a Foreigner” comes down to the fact that marrying a foreigner is getting a lucky ticket? - No, I fundamentally disagree with this. Maybe it was in the eighties or early nineties, but now marriage to a foreigner cannot be called a “lucky ticket”. This is not the case now. Firstly, our girls always dream of marrying for love and we cannot argue with this, but with a foreigner the love that a girl is counting on cannot always happen. Secondly, we discuss in great detail what is positive about a foreign marriage, what is negative, what difficulties have to be overcome, how to get along - after all, different cultures, different upbringings. And it seems to me that our conversation is very useful for listeners.
— Is it intended mainly for a female audience? — The program is not intended for anyone, because, in addition to talking about foreign marriages, we tell what interests us, what fascinates us. We invite extraordinary people who are curious to us.
Recently, the famous writer Maria Arbatova came to the studio and shared her impressions of life. It was very educational and funny.
The famous parodist Vladimir Vinokur made our listeners laugh by telling an absolutely amazing story, similar to a joke. When his anniversary happened, Vladimir Putin himself congratulated him, and Vladimir Natanovich asked our president to call his mother and congratulate her on her son’s anniversary.
The President did just that. He was connected to the mother of the hero of the day, and he began to say some warm and touching words to her. The hero of the day’s mother listened, and then said: “Volodya, stop fooling around,” and hung up. This is the story Vinokur told us on air.
The good thing about presenting topics is that we meet the wittiest and most interesting people of our time and with great pleasure share these people with listeners. It turns out to be such an informative conversation between old friends.
— Maria, you are a very busy person: you host programs and act in films. Are you tired of so much work? - What can you do if this is the specificity of my acting profession - talking and communicating a lot. I host a radio show, act in films, participate in enterprises, so there is practically no time to rest.
By the way, I also can’t boast of having a healthy lifestyle, because due to my busy work schedule I sometimes have to eat anything, and then I have a small sin - I smoke. And sometimes I even like to drink a little beer. The only thing I can afford sometimes is to get a good night's sleep. Sometimes you wake up and think: “It would be nice to get some more sleep.” But for now we can only dream about this.
Maria Golubkina invented a wedding with an astronaut for the sake of PR
The sensational marriage of actress Maria Golubkina turned out to be a fiction. The loud statement of the 39-year-old actress that she allegedly married a pilot-cosmonaut from Star City is just a figment of the imagination of an artist who got too carried away with PR. Maria Golubkina herself admitted this in a conversation with reporters from one of the glossy magazines who were trying to get the first exclusive photographs of her husband.
During long persuasion, Golubkina confessed: there was no wedding. She came up with a beautiful story to tease journalists, or, more simply put, to promote herself. In a conversation with representatives of the publication, Maria said that “she just needed to make a spectacular appearance at the opening ceremony of the Moscow Film Festival.” But there was no husband and there is no one.
“I see that something is wrong, they don’t invite me to the movies...” the daughter of the legendary Soviet actor Andrei Mironov frankly explained the motives for her strange act. “I think: we need to do something!” And I realized that if you “get married” like this once a year, you can earn good money!
Probably, by “earnings” Golubkina meant the substantial money she had already received from one of the thick glossy magazines for a “frank” interview about her own marriage. Hoping for exclusivity, journalists tortured Maria in various ways, but apart from vague formulations that she could not “declassify” her husband’s name, they say, this could ruin his upcoming promotion, they did not achieve anything.
However, Golubkina is not averse to continuing to support the beautiful legend about her wedding with the astronaut.
- If you want, let's come up with something! - Maria warmly responded to the proposal from another glossy magazine and added with a laugh: “It’s somehow uninteresting to deceive journalists alone, so let’s deceive our Russians together, or something!”
While discussing the details and searching for male candidates for the upcoming “contractual” shooting - to film from afar from behind with her supposed husband - the actress continued to humor.
- Well, what kind of man, where can I get him? Mishka Efremov was already looking for me, calling Nikita Vysotsky, he wanted to find someone for me... We were already laughing here, we thought, maybe we can find someone in a spacesuit? I need to talk to my cosmonaut friends from Zvezdny. Although in fact they are all married there!
By the way, as Maria explained, her “wedding” would not have taken place if not for the help of her closest friends - actor Mikhail Efremov and radio host Rita Mitrofanova. It was they who were the first to support Maria’s legend and confirmed to journalists that Golubkina married the mysterious cosmonaut within the walls of the Gagarin registry office.
“Masha’s husband’s name is Andrey, she will never show him to anyone,” she “declassified” the details of Mitrofanov’s friend’s wedding in a conspiratorial tone. - They live separately - don’t be surprised! This is because he is in Star City all the time.
“There were about fifty people at the wedding,” Efremov lied after her with enthusiasm. - Who was? Well, pay attention, those who were not at the opening of the MIFF were there!
As it turned out later, on the day when Maria Andreevna allegedly got married, only three couples were married in the Gagarinsky registry office of the Leninsky district.
“We didn’t notice any of the famous people among these people,” the employees who were on duty that day within the walls of the wedding palace warmly assured Heat.ru.
The fact that no husbands are observed near the actress is also indicated by the latest photographs of the actress, taken over several days of close observation of her life. Maria usually moves around Moscow alone in her car, goes to meetings, sits in restaurants with fellow actors, invariably alone, and in the evenings goes to a country house in a guarded village near Moscow.
Let us remind you that on June 20, actress Maria Golubkina appeared at the opening ceremony of the Moscow Film Festival in a wedding dress, which caused incredible surprise among the public. As the 39-year-old actress later admitted, on that day she married a pilot named Andrei and decided to come to the ceremony straight from the registry office, because “I always dreamed about it.”
Previously, Maria was married to showman Nikolai Fomenko, with whom she gave birth to two children. The couple separated five years ago by mutual desire, while maintaining friendly relations.
