"Sudden death and alcohol." What happened to the fate of Mikhail Gorbachev’s only daughter (5 photos)

Irina Gorbacheva and her husband

Grigory Kalinin, a film and theater actor, liked Irina even before they met personally for his role as Zavadsky in the film “Fog”. Since 2011, after meeting on the set, common interests brought the young people closer together. The passion for photography and video editing was a natural element for everyone, and for Gregory it was also a second profession.

Gregory and Irina

The couple spent 4 years in a civil marriage, and in March 2020 they decided to legalize their relationship. The non-standard wedding was in keeping with the spirit of the newlyweds themselves. Instead of the traditional white dress, Irina appeared in a stylish black outfit. Then this did not overshadow the events in any way; everyone was happy.

Life together began to be filled with problems due to her husband’s addiction to alcohol, double life, and infidelity.

Irina’s attempts to improve relationships were similar to self-deception: her mind dictated understanding and forgiveness, but her mental pain did not subside. The conflict was strengthened by Gregory’s position, in which he did not feel guilty. An official divorce followed in 2018. There were no children in the marriage.

Wedding photo. Grigory Kalinin and Irina Gorbacheva

Film career

Irina made her film debut in 2008, starring in two episodic roles: in the TV series “Law and Order: Criminal Intent 3” and the film “Indigo”. In 2010, the film “Compensation” was released, starring Gosha Kutsenko and Lyubov Tolkalina.

Still from the film “Compensation” Gorbacheva got a supporting role in this project – the girl Lena, who, together with her sister Kristina (Polina Kutsenko), after the death of her mother, learns that their long-lost father has become a successful businessman. For this role, the girl received the “Best Actress” award at the First Transbaikal Film Festival.

“Compensation”: Irina Gorbacheva and Polina Kutsenko Two years later, the actress played her main role in the military science-fiction mini-series “Fog-2”. The film did not receive such high ratings from critics and viewers, but Irina’s performance was appreciated.

“Fog-2”, filming All subsequent roles were radically different from each other: the fighting wife of an officer in the series “Shores of My Dreams”, Komsomol activist Nastya in the series “Two Winters and Three Summers”, prostitute-drug addict Angela in the series “A Matter of Honor” etc.

A still from the series “Two Winters and Three Summers” In 2020, the actress was offered the role of Ulyana Gromova in the series “Young Guard”, where, in addition to the actress, Katerina Shpitsa, Yuri Chursin, Yuri Borisov were involved. Many critics liked the embodiment of the image of a member of the headquarters of an underground anti-fascist organization, but there were also many who found Irina’s acting style provocative and completely unsuitable for this role.

“Young Guard”: Irina Gorbacheva in the role of Ulyana Gromova The next year brought Gorbacheva two main roles at once - in the drama “I Can Knit” and “Transfiguration”, which in June were presented at Kinotavr and the Moscow International Film Festival, respectively. In the same year, Irina took part in the dubbing of the French film “Love Out of Size,” voicing Coralie, the heroine of actress Stephanie Papanian.

Ex-husband - Grigory Kalinin

After his divorce from Irina Gorbacheva, the actor had to resort to the help of specialists to get rid of alcohol addiction and make plans for the future. The problem has now been resolved. Interest in photography, video editing, and creating trailers led Grigory to the camera department.

Grigory Kalinin with Anna Lavrentieva

Participation in television projects (the films “Trigger”, “Call”, “Mylodrama”) continues to prove the actor’s demand. Recently, Grigory Kalinin began to appear with a companion. A long-standing acquaintance with the young actress Anna Lavrentieva grew into a romance. Grigory admitted that he dreams of a child in a new relationship.

Gorbachev's granddaughters were deprived of their father

Mikhail Sergeevich’s anti-alcohol decree was inspired by his daughter

Mikhail GORBACHEV's son-in-law has not yet given an interview. From the official biographies of the former President of the USSR, all that is known is that the husband of his daughter Irina, Anatoly VIRGANSKY, is a doctor by profession and lives in Moscow.

From Irina’s own interview after the divorce, we can conclude that she was very unlucky with her husband. So much so that Mikhail Sergeevich himself had to walk his eldest granddaughter Ksenia down the aisle instead of his own father. Anatoly Virgansky was not even invited to this wedding. And a few years earlier, a rumor spread throughout Moscow that Gorbachev’s son-in-law was drinking and was kept at work, allegedly only because of his famous relative. Express Gazeta managed to talk with Anatoly. The famous surgeon turned out to be a very nice person.

Olga ULYANOVA

Having ambushed Anatoly Virgansky near his office in the First City Hospital, where he works as a surgeon, I immediately went on the offensive. And she began to “whip” Irina’s ex-husband with statements hurled by Gorbachev’s daughter at her ex-husband in her interview.

“When you grow up in a relationship of love, friendship and trust, it seems like this is the norm. And then you get married, and for love, and everything turns out differently...” And it’s all about you,” I blurted out in Anatoly’s face. — Listen again: “I am absolutely independent and self-sufficient... Only a rare person can tolerate such a woman next to her. I have never met a man with such courage..."

A tired man looked at me with wide open blue eyes. He just came out of the operating room. I told him unpleasant things, but for some reason he didn’t get angry, but just spread his hands in bewilderment, and his fingers were white with disinfectant solutions. He apologized - he was in a hurry to get to the airport for the arrival of fellow doctors from Stavropol to return the endoscope repaired at their request in Moscow. He made an appointment for me the next day, got into his Rover and sped off. As agreed, I came, and he was called in for surgery. The same thing happened on the second and fifth days. I persistently came to the hospital and called on the phone. And every time he saved someone again. I realized how difficult it must be for a wife to live with such a husband. And then he finally found time for an interview - early Sunday morning.

Mother-in-law was unhappy

“So, Irina is independent and self-sufficient,” Anatoly smiles. - This is a myth and another pipe dream of Irina Mikhailovna.

- Examples, please.

- To do this, you will have to grind her bones.
We will not. But it’s simply wrong to adjust our relationships to parental ones. Everyone has their own life. Irina is focused entirely on her family. She doesn't know what it's like to work in surgery. I couldn't sit next to her on a leash. Both at night and during the day I go to the first call from colleagues to their patients. There is no other way: today my colleagues need me, tomorrow my wards will need their emergency help. — Knowledgeable people said that your mother-in-law tried to re-educate you. — Raisa Maksimovna and I had swings in our relationship: from the warmest to complete rejection. Remember the terrible time when everyone was given cards. And she reproached me: you have all your work and work, but what if you, like others, had to stand in lines to feed your family? Indeed, probably many people envied me then, especially when Mikhail Sergeevich was elected general secretary. Like, he married successfully. But this is a mistaken opinion. For me, being the son-in-law of the head of state is a great responsibility. I was afraid to set him up and tried to work so that no one could say to me that I was kept here only because I was married to Gorbachev’s daughter. But my wife and mother-in-law did not always put up with my official zeal. Hence the clashes. At first they were small, and then an abyss formed. - But Mikhail Sergeevich also worked a lot. And Raisa Maksimovna treated this with understanding. - No need for comparisons... I kept wondering where he got his strength from. — Irina or did you initiate the divorce? “I thought for a long time that I had to survive, endure.
Besides, I didn’t want to create unnecessary problems for my father-in-law. I thought our divorce would play into the hands of his ill-wishers. Now I don’t regret that everything turned out the way it did. Although, of course, I was not absolutely right about everything. The surgeon worked hard at a car service station

Virgansky has been working at the First City Hospital for almost 27 years. Ever since the Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev was transferred to Moscow in 1978. A year before moving to the capital, Irina and Anatoly, while studying in their 4th year at medical school, got married.

- Why Irina and not another girl?

— We met after entrance exams at agricultural work: we were harvesting grapes near Budennovsk.
Then we ended up in the same group. We prepared for classes together and relaxed. And somehow they grew together imperceptibly and fell in love with each other. My parents are simple people - my mother is a neuropathologist, my father is a geophysicist who explored oil fields. But the Gorbachevs also turned out to be ordinary - down to earth, without pretensions. They accepted me into the family well. The wedding took place in a restaurant. We were accommodated separately in a renovated house. But after moving to Moscow, I had to live with my parents at the dacha for a long time. We separated when our eldest daughter entered 1st grade. At first I drove her to school and home. - For what? You probably had a car from a state garage and a driver. “We were, but we didn’t trust the children to anyone.” — For several years in a row you drove a Zhiguli the color of wet asphalt. It was rumored that, in fact, every year they bought you new identical cars at the expense of the state treasury. — The first Zhiguli was given to me by my father-in-law and mother-in-law. And they registered it in the name of Raisa Maksimovna. And then I myself, having accumulated the mileage, sold the old one and bought a new car. Yes, the same color - I liked it. When Irina learned to drive a car, I bought her a Mitsubishi jeep. That car had already served its purpose, but she also bought a new one of the same brand. I tried to do everything myself. Like everyone else, I did not receive a salary for six months, working as a teacher at a university and as a doctor in a hospital. It also happened like this: after being on duty on Saturday, I went with a friend to work hard at a car service station. In two days off I earned four and sometimes five monthly salaries! - Did you really not have enough money? The Gorbachevs hardly ate at a separate table. - Yes, I’m a man, and I have two children! I had to bring money into the house and I did! - Has high kinship really never helped you in your life? - Of course it helped. Having moved to Moscow, my wife and I transferred to the last year of medical school. Thanks to my relationship with the General Secretary, I was familiar with Yevgeny Ivanovich Chazov. It was he who advised me to go to work at First Gradskaya. If I hadn’t ended up in this hospital then, I’m sure I wouldn’t have become a strong professional. “I know from reliable sources: during the divorce, Irina told her friends that you owe a lot to her parents and you defended your Ph.D. dissertation not without their help.” “I’ve been divorced for ten years now.” But hey, it’s not lost. He defended his doctoral dissertation and became a professor. - Where do you think the rumors came from that you are an alcoholic? - I can only guess.
Perhaps they said this to explain our separation from Irina. My wife and mother-in-law had two main complaints about me: I spend days at work and spend too much time and attention on my friends. But Irina has no friends. The Gorbachevs didn’t have them either: when Mikhail Sergeevich began to have difficult times, the “friends” seemed to evaporate! Saved the property of Gorbi

— After his imprisonment in Foros and his resignation, Mikhail Sergeevich, as you know, had a difficult relationship with Yeltsin and his entourage.
He was very worried about his archive,” recalls Virgansky. “I was often reproached by my friends, but it was my fellow doctors who saved Gorbachev’s valuable documents. In the fall of 1991, in small batches, I delivered archival folders to the apartments of my friends. And in the summer he transported bales of papers to dachas. No one from Mikhail Sergeevich’s close circle dared to provide their apartment for shelter. Now these documents form the basis of the archive of the Gorbachev Foundation. After Gorbachev returned from Foros, the Vzglyad program showed his address, filmed on the night of August 20, when the GKAC members informed the people that the president could not govern the country for health reasons. It turns out that this appeal was filmed by Virgansky. “Shortly before going on vacation, I gave my movie camera to a friend,” says Anatoly. “If my pedantic friend hadn’t set the date and time, I wouldn’t have thought of doing it myself.” And then no one could prove that the appeal was filmed precisely on Foros, during the days of the putsch, and not after. We filmed four takes. The film from a large VHS cassette was cut. We wrapped the scattered pieces around eyebrow and lip pencils from Irina’s cosmetic set—there were no other thin sticks on hand—and distributed them to different people. I hid one of the takes in my underwear. Now I understand how naive this is. It's good that everything worked out. A couple of years ago, Virgansky, as always, was asked to consult a patient. Ironically, the patient turned out to be the old GEC member Vladimir Kryuchkov. He had trouble understanding what was happening around him and did not recognize Gorbachev’s son-in-law. Anatoly did not remind me of anything. “I am still offended that Mikhail Sergeevich ended his political career so ingloriously.” I saw how he worked. Power for him was not an end in itself, but a tool to change life for the better, of course, as he imagined it. There was definitely no self-interest in his affairs! — Do you visit Gorbachev? — On birthdays, dates in memory of Raisa Maksimovna. Congratulated Mikhail Sergeevich on his 70th birthday. Gave him a good watch. — Before, when you lived together, how did you, son-in-law and father-in-law, spend time in an all-male company? “Every evening, in any weather, even if Mikhail Sergeevich came home very late, we walked several kilometers.

-Has it ever happened that we sat together over a glass?

- For the holidays - of course!
Everything is like people. — Did you raise a toast to the implementation of the anti-alcohol decree? — Nobody knows this, but the anti-alcohol campaign began with Irina’s suggestion.
She wrote a dissertation on the causes of mortality among men of working age in Moscow. The study was conducted for internal use only. Ira studied the reports of the conclusions in the forensic medical examination bureau. And I found out that if, after drinking, a person died of a heart attack, then statistics classified such a case as cardiovascular disease. And death from injuries while intoxicated was classified as an accident. That is, mortality from alcoholism was underestimated several times. Ira told her father about this at dinner. The actual numbers amazed him. This is how the anti-alcohol decree appeared. But, as is usual in our country, officials brought it to the point of absurdity. Mikhail Sergeevich himself, of course, did not order the vineyards to be cut down. Malt benefited

- Why didn’t you come to your own daughter’s wedding?

- I was going to.
I learned about the place and time of registration from friends. I even had a tough talk with Irina about my appearance at the wedding. But, as luck would have it, the day before I had surgery on my face. I couldn't show up to a wedding with a band-aid on my forehead. If only the secular chroniclers would practice their causticism! “Irina knew that the candidate for her new husband would also be at the celebration. Is that why she opposed your appearance at your daughter’s wedding? Anatoly remained silent in response. — Did Irina marry her friend, an English businessman? “I only know that I was going to... And the fact that I didn’t get to Ksenia’s wedding, I think, is even good.”

- I don't understand.

— I did not approve of Ksenia’s choice.
Although Kirill was better than the previous groom. — The same diplomat whom Ksenia almost married before Kirill? — That guy from Abkhazia is a friend of the son of my good friends. But he is not a diplomat, he simply got a job at the World Health Organization. Seeing him for the first time, I immediately realized: he is not at all the person she needs. I immediately called Irina. So she attacked me, saying how you can judge a person right off the bat. Alas, Irina, withdrawn from her family, does not know life well and lives in illusions. It’s good that Ksyusha came to her senses then. And I was not delighted with Kirill. We met him long before the wedding. I heard how he suggested to his daughter that he sell at auction the car that Gorbachev received as a gift from Helmut Kohl. This phrase said a lot to me. But I’m incredibly sorry for Ksenia. She didn't deserve any of this. — Are you aware of her affair with producer Viktor Drobysh? - No. But I believe that everything will work out for her. She's a good person. — Do you often see and talk with your daughters? “Unfortunately, we rarely meet and talk – only when we end up in the same company.” I would like to see them more often. But not everything depends on me. - Are you married? - No.