"A happy life is over": Bolotova told about the husbands Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

- Lida and I were friends during the Vasi period, says Zhanna Andreevna. When Shukshin Lida was one, and after the death of Vasi became another.

- What's the other way it was expressed?

- I did not run from the dinner table to the stove and back, it was different with other husbands. At least when I saw it. With Vasya, she always played in his ideal - a homely, devoted wife. He was a stern husband, she was a domestic, obedient wife. For a month Vasya gave his wife 700 rubles for food and household needs. At the same time, Vasenka was a trembling son, constantly helping his mother, his sister gave him a three-room apartment. My husband Kolenka and I (director Nikolai Gubenko – approx. Avt) loved Vasya, together with them celebrated the last year for him 1974.

- Who was next to Lidia Nikolaevna when her husband died?

- Lida was in Bulgaria that autumn with a delegation of filmmakers. Her daughters were watched by her mother Zinaida Fedorovna. “That Lida is sitting in Bulgaria,” Vasya said, “Masha started going to school.” On the second of October, Skobtseva called me: “Vasya died,” Ira said. I couldn't believe it. “Ira, maybe this is not true, because recently the rumor passed that Tikhonov died, but Slava is alive,” I said. "No, Jeanne, that's true, unfortunately," Ira confirmed. I rushed to their apartment in Bochkova to protect the peace of Zinaida Fedorovna, who could call and tell about the tragedy in the family. Until ten in the evening I was with the girls and Lida’s mother, and in the morning I went to meet her at the airport. I did not come there alone, Ira Skobtseva and Tolya Zabolotsky were with me. “Why are you meeting me,” Lida wondered when she saw us. Tolya came closer to Lida: "Vasya died," Zabolotsky said. I was ready to kill Tolya on the spot, it was impossible to immediately stun her. It was a terrible picture when before our eyes a young flowering woman disappeared in one minute. Lida approached the front desk, wrapped her arms around her and began to slowly descend to the floor. We barely made her feel... That was the end of Lida’s happy life, in my opinion. Then she had three marriages: with the cameraman Mikhail Agranovich, the Polish artist Marek Mezheevsky and producer Bari Alibasov. But in all these marriages, Lida was not a wife, she remained Shukshin's widow.