His grandson is suspected of killing the daughter of Yuri Levitan. Russian celebrities-widowers who raised children without mothers “Natalia was buried by her half-brother”

Raising a child alone is not an easy task. If everyone has long been accustomed to such a phenomenon as a single mother, then single fathers have always been rare. Widowers sought to remarry as soon as possible, and in divorce cases, the court, as a rule, sided with the woman. Men who, by the will of fate, found themselves with a child in their arms and raising him on their own deserve special respect and gratitude.

Alexander Kalyagin

Alexander Kalyagin with his daughter.

The actor's first wife, Tatyana Korunova, died of cancer when their daughter Xenia was not yet five years old. Alexander Kalyagin raised his daughter on his own for many years, brilliantly coping with the role of a single father. Ksanyulka, as he called his daughter, did not know the need for anything.

Alexander Kalyagin with his second wife Evgenia Glushenko, daughter and son.

Yuri Levitan

For main voice Soviet Union daughter became the main woman in life. The wife of the famous announcer Rais, having lived with him for 10 years, met another man and went to him. Yuri Levitan insisted that his daughter Natasha stay with him. The three of them lived: the announcer, his daughter Natasha and the mother of his ex-wife, who didted on her son-in-law.

Yuri Levitan with his daughter Natalya.

The man did not even think about the arrangement of his personal life. Natalia became his queen, beloved and spoiled. He loved her with that same blind love that sees no flaws. Unfortunately, after Levitan's departure from life, Natalya Yuryevna was killed in her own apartment. The killer was her own son Boris.

Mark Bernes


Mark Bernes with his daughter.

The first wife of the famous artist Paola Linetskaya passed away very early, unable to cope with cancer. Mark Bernes was left alone with his daughter Natasha, who by that time was not even three years old. Only when the daughter was already a schoolgirl, Mark Bernes seriously fell in love.

His second wife was Lily Bodrova, who replaced her mother Natasha. Mark Bernes in the future adopted Jean, the wife's son from his first marriage. Natalia now permanently resides in the United States.

Boris Khmelnitsky


Boris Khmelnitsky with little Dasha.

The actor was in love with Marianna Vertinskaya for many years, but their life together did not work out. After a short marriage, the actress left Khmelnitsky, leaving his daughter Dasha, who was only a few months old, in his care.


Boris Khmelnitsky with his daughter Daria.

He did not understand at all why everyone frightened him with difficulties and problems. He enjoyed his fatherhood, was a caring and fair parent. Before last day During the life of the actor, he maintained a touchingly warm relationship with his daughter. Daria became an actress and at the same time received the profession of a designer.

Pyotr Repnin

Pyotr Repnin with his daughter Olga.

The famous Mulya from The Foundling ended up with a baby in her arms when he was already 44 years old, and little Olenka was barely 4 months old. Last wife The actor died very early. And the daughter completely filled his life. However, he himself was also able to completely fill the life of his daughter.


Pyotr Repnin and Faina Ranevskaya, a frame from the film "Foundling".

He did not trust his baby to anyone, believing that women would only spoil her. Olga in the future drew attention: she speaks with a paternal intonation, perceives life like a dad. When Olga got married, he himself insisted that she live separately and arrange her personal life. He was an amazing father, but after his daughter's marriage, he did not live long.

Viktor Merezhko


Viktor Merezhko. On the right with his son, on the left with his wife and children.

The famous director was very happy in marriage with his Tamara, and when she died, he promised the children that they would not have a stepmother. He still keeps his word. Maria and Ivan are grateful to their father for the respect shown to their children's feelings and for the immense care and attention that their father surrounded them with after their mother left.

Yuri Moroz


Yuri Moroz with his wife and daughter.

The director's wife Marina Levtova tragically died when their daughter Dasha was 16 years old. Yuri Moroz had to face a double problem, when the pain of losing his mother is superimposed on the problems of the transition period in a teenager, and then the whole world seems just black. Yuri Moroz behaved very competently. He spent everything with his daughter free time, helped her and supported her in everything, trying to save the girl from depression. Not to part even in work time, the director began to shoot his daughter in his films. Now Daria is a professional actress, happily married, raising a daughter.

Konstantin Khabensky


Konstantin Khabensky with his son.

After Anastasia, the wife of Konstantin Khabensky, died of cancer, he was left alone with his son. But, of course, grandmothers came to his aid, trying to make life easier for both of them as much as possible.


Konstantin Khabensky with his son.

Despite the fact that Khabensky worked very hard, he managed to exert the right influence on Ivan. The actor did not spare the boy, but taught him to treat those who need help with understanding, involved his son in holding charity performances and concerts in favor of children with cancer.

Frunzik Mkrtchyan


Frunzik Mkrtchan with his son.

The actor remained a single father of two children with a living wife. Donara Pilosyan ended up in a psychiatric clinic, from which she never left until the end of her days. Frunzik Mkrtchyan's relationship with the children was difficult, but he tried his best to provide them decent life, at the same time paying for the stay in the hospital of his wife, and then the son of Vazgen. With her daughter Nune, too, special closeness did not work out.

Dmitry Shepelev


Dmitry Shepelev with his son.

The presenter was left with a two-year-old child in her arms after the death of his wife Zhanna Friske, who had been fighting cancer for several years. Despite all the difficulties, Dmitry is very responsible for the upbringing of Plato and does not allow anyone to interfere in his life with his son.

Leonid Armor


Armor's daughter with a portrait of her father.

The actor's daughter Valentina was not yet four years old when her mother, actress Valentina Blinova, died. Leonid Bronevoi tried to raise his daughter and provide for his family at the same time, although at first it was extremely difficult for him. When he could not find work in the theater, trying to find at least some source of income, he even played dominoes for money. He married for the second time after graduating from school and his daughter's admission to the institute.

We found out new details of the death of Yuri Levitan's daughter and found out who he is - a man who calls himself the great-grandson of the announcer.

Our editors received a letter from a reader with a request to check whether Artur Sudarikov is the real great-grandson of the announcer Yuri Levitan. Here is what Evgeny wrote to us: “I have information that Arthur Levitan is not really who he claims to be. All the information that he is a programming champion and a successful designer turned out to be untrue, he is not on the list of winners of any of the tournaments, the cups are fake and grammatical errors, and the portfolio on the website of the design studio is stolen. In addition, judging by the entries on one of the pages in in social networks perhaps he suffers from pathological mendacity."

Artur Sudarikov with announcer Igor Kirillov / Instagram Artur Sudarikov

Yuri Levitan in 1938 married a student of the Institute foreign languages Raisa. Two years later, their daughter Natalya was born. Yuri Borisovich, due to his constant employment, could not pay enough attention to his family. Raisa was jealous all the time: “You didn’t marry me, but on the radio.” After 11 years, their marriage broke up: the wife fled to the military, and Levitan stayed with her mother and daughter.

After the death of the officer, Raisa began to come to Yuri Borisovich, in her soul there was a glimmer of hope for family reunification. But the announcer did not let her on the threshold. Despite the fact that Yuri Borisovich was very popular with fans, he remained a bachelor until the end of his life. When asked about his personal life, he laughed it off: “A young wife is not needed, because she will marry me not out of love, but out of calculation. And old women don't turn me on."

The announcer's daughter Natalya grew up not quite healthy: she spoke a lot not in essence, then she forgot about what was said. She studied at the institute at the Faculty of Philology, science was not given to her, the authority of her father helped.

“Natasha was an inadequate and sick person,” recalls a friend of the voice Soviet history, journalist Yuri Belkin. - Her father very accurately and ironically called her “my fool”: capricious, absurd, stupid.

- Natashka did not work anywhere for a day. Her father helped her in everything. Levitan gave her 250 rubles a month, and at that time you could afford everything your heart desires with this money. - The announcer's neighbor Elena assured us that she knows such details personally from the lips of Natalya Levitan, with whom she had been friends for many years.

The first wife of Levitan Rais / Freeze frame of Channel One

Yuri Borisovich understood that after his death, Natalya should not be left alone due to an incurable illness, and he took care of her personal life in advance. He found a suitable chosen one, a young doctor Lev Sudarikov, who looked after his daughter. Soon their son Boris was born. He successfully studied at the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, but contacted a dysfunctional company that addicted him to drugs. He never graduated from the university, he was sent to repay his debt to his homeland.

- Natasha said that Borya met a nurse in the army, she already had a son. Who knows, maybe this child is Arthur, - Elena continues the story. - I don’t know for sure whether the marriage was officially registered. I think Borya specifically found a health worker for himself so that she could get him drugs containing drugs. I heard that then Borya went to a student of the commercial and industrial school Gayane, whom his mother could not stand. But how their relationship ended, I can’t say.

Artur Sudarikov's mother, Gayane Smirnova, alleges against all accusations:

- In 1983, Boris and I got married. Artur was born in a legal marriage and is the only great-grandson of Yuri Borisovich. Arthur has the surname Sudarikov in his passport, and for his work (he worked as a presenter on one of the information TV channels), he took the surname of his great-grandfather.

Artur Sudarikov is happy to talk about his relationship with the famous announcer:

- I work in the media and I understand that they are trying to attract attention in an impartial way. I have been fond of programming for a long time, even participated in competitions. Who does not want, let him not believe. I am honest with everyone. I declare that I am the official great-grandson of Yuri Borisovich Levitan. I don't remember my father well, because he left us when I was only three years old. I can’t say for sure that it was he who killed my grandmother. Perhaps there was a third person. I buried my dad alone, no one else needed him. I don’t need anything from this family, I’m just trying to defend my legal rights to what belongs to me.

Yuri Levitan with his grandson Boris / Freeze frame of Channel One

- The announcer has no relatives left. Natasha never said that Boris had a son, exclaims neighbor Elena.

- Levitan did not have any great-grandson! – outraged journalist Yuri Belkin. - Who needed this crazy Boris, especially to create a family? Arthur is an impostor who wants to promote himself at the expense of his name the greatest man. I have never met him and never will. It is clearly seen that he does not look like Yuri Borisovich: there are no pronounced Jewish traits. Most likely Arthur bastard. As far as I know, Boris did not have an official marriage. There may have been an accidental connection with oriental woman. But what kind of woman needs a sick person to create a family? Maybe this is not a child from Boris at all! I know that for some reason Natasha did not love the chosen one of her son and was against their relationship. How can one admire a great-grandson who, on the anniversary of the announcer, endlessly flashed in films about Levitan, and not under his real name?

Yuri Levitan died in 1983 from a heart attack at a rally in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk in the Belgorod region. He was buried in Moscow on Novodevichy cemetery. After the tragedy, relations between Natalia and Boris became even worse than they were. The mother could not stand the chosen one of her son. As a result, he broke up with the Caucasian beauty Gayane. After parting, I got hooked on the needle more than ever and never refused a glass of bitter. In general, the life of the grandson of the legendary announcer rapidly rolled down. The mother carefully concealed the addiction of the child and believed that she could do without the help of outsiders, in particular people in white coats. She did not like them since childhood.

“No matter how I go to the pharmacy, I always meet her there,” recalls Elena, a neighbor of the Levitan family. - Natasha herself tried to cure her son and brought him caffeine pills, which developed aggression in him. IN Lately Borya was not visible, and I asked Natasha why he did not go out into the street. She said that he works at home, what he did is a mystery to everyone. In April 1998, Boris had an attack of aggression, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

Mother of great-grandson Yuri Levitan / from a personal page in Vkontakte

On the night of February 4, 2006, the neighbors of Natalya and Boris Sudarikov heard the heart-rending cries of a woman in the apartment of a house in Vorotnikovsky Lane. Elena remembers this day in great detail:

- In the morning, a neighbor discovered strange spots on the ceiling and went to the Sudarikovs to sort it out, but no one opened the door. A police squad found Natalya's corpse near the door, apparently she wanted to run away; a hammer, kitchen utensils in a pool of blood - the head was smashed, the face was cut, and the remains of the brain flowed down the walls. I saw it with my own eyes. Boris sat in the kitchen in a bathrobe and drank tea. He could not really explain anything, only muttered that he wanted to wash his mother's soul with water. Maybe he did not want to kill her at all, but the disease overcame. As a result, Boris was found guilty of murder and sent for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric clinic. When Levitan's grandson was released from the hospital, he began to live in a dacha in the suburbs. They said that he never got rid of drug addiction ...

On February 5, 2013, Boris left the house and did not return. He was listed as missing. On April 19, 2013, his body was found in a park in the northwest of the capital.

Levitan's family neighbor Larisa assures that:

- Natasha always hid everything and never said that she had a grandson. By the way, Borya saw quite recently in the social security. It was in fairly good condition, well maintained. Probably got paid. I didn't hear about his death. Maybe he's alive and hiding somewhere.

Monument to Levitan at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow / Instagram

Our correspondent got through to the social security service, where they confirmed the information about the death of Boris Sudarikov in 2013.

The ill-fated three-room apartment in Vorotnikovsky Lane was empty for several years after the murder. Neighbors don't know who her new owners are. , as Gayane Smirnova assured us, is the great-grandson of the announcer Arthur Levitan. We decided to check who is currently living in the announcer's apartment. According to the mother of Levitan's great-grandson, square meters claims not only Artur, but also a distant relative Olga Alexandrovna Bartosh. The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow dismissed the claim of a relative on October 2, 2014, then she appealed it to the Moscow City Court, but she was also denied. Arthur's mother claims that legal debates are still going on between relatives.

I don't know who is the owner of this apartment. His representative came to us, ”a middle-aged woman who now rents the apartment of the famous announcer abruptly threw us. - Like the name Sudarikov. We are moving in soon. She recently found out that there was a murder in the apartment. If I had been informed earlier, I would not have settled here in my life.

- The apartment in Vorotnikovsky Lane has no rightful owner yet, - says Gayane Smirnova. - Artur is suing a distant relative who, during Borya's lifetime, somehow got the right to rent an apartment and still rents it out. But my son is the heir of the first stage and will defend the legal right.

Of course, much more remains a mystery. We will follow the continuation of this story.

Yudka Berkovich Levitan

September 19, 1914, Vladimir, Russian empire- August 4, 1983, Bessonovka village, Belgorod district, Belgorod region, RSFSR, USSR.

Announcer of the All-Union Radio, an announcer of the USSR State Radio and Television.
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (09/04/1959).
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1973).
People's Artist of the USSR (1980).

He read the most important official messages, became famous during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. In the work of Levitan, civic, journalistic and acting expressiveness organically combined.

Born into a Jewish family. His father Ber Levitan worked as a tailor in the artel, his mother Maria was a housewife. As a child, he was nicknamed "Pipe" - for his booming voice.
Yuri Levitan dreamed of becoming an artist. Known to hang posters everywhere and ask for autographs on every corner. I even tried to enroll in a film technical school, received a referral to Moscow, but relations with the cinema did not work out because of the rejected seventeen-year-old boy. So he would have returned to his native city of Vladimir, had he not caught the eye of an announcement about recruitment into a group of radio announcers.
The members of the commission, among whom was the famous Moscow Art Theater actor Vasily Kachalov, of course, could not help but be embarrassed and young age the applicant, and his provincial costume - sweatpants and a striped T-shirt, and a Vladimir coat. But everything was decided by the voice - clear, set, bewitching. It was not for nothing that in childhood the guys called Yuri Truba - his voice was heard for several houses, and often desperate mothers asked the boy to call their lost children.
So Yuri Levitan was enrolled in a group of trainees of the Radio Committee, to soon become the No. 1 announcer, whose popularity could well be compared with the glory of the main Soviet movie star Lyubov Orlova.
At first, Levitan was engaged in carrying various papers around the offices, preparing tea and sandwiches for his colleagues, and at night he intensively got rid of the Volodymyr dialect. Finally, Yuri was instructed to read an article from Pravda on the radio - this is how the texts of tomorrow's newspapers were transmitted to remote corners of the Soviet Union in the thirties: the announcer read the material almost in syllables, and the stenographers in the field wrote down and sent the articles to the printing house.
It must have happened that on that day, or rather, on the night when the trainee Levitan first got access to the microphone, Stalin was at the receiver. The leader traditionally worked at night, and the radio in his office was not turned off. Hearing Levitan, he immediately dialed the phone number of the then chairman of the Radio Committee of the USSR and said that the text of his report tomorrow at the XVII Party Congress opening in the morning should be read by an announcer who had just broadcast articles from Pravda ...

At 12 noon, a sealed package with Stalin's speech was brought to the studio. Bely, out of excitement, Levitan was taken to the studio, where he read the sacred text for five hours without making a single mistake. The next day, the nineteen-year-old youth became the chief announcer of the Soviet Union. Calling the official voice of the Kremlin a trumpet never crossed anyone's mind. Colleagues among themselves respectfully dubbed Levitan Yurbor - from the name and patronymic Yuri Borisovich.

Despite the unconditional recognition of colleagues and superiors, Levitan continued to seriously work on his diction. He asked one of the assistants to turn the text in front of him to the right, then to the left, or even completely stood on his hands and read what was written upside down.
In June 1941, it was Levitan who read the message about the beginning of the war and then for all four years informed the country about the situation on the fronts. Marshal Rokossovsky once said that Levitan's voice was equivalent to an entire division. And Hitler considered him enemy of the Reich No. 1. Commander-in-Chief Stalin was listed at number 2. 250 thousand marks were promised for Levitan's head, and a special SS group was preparing to be sent to Moscow to eliminate the announcer. In order to protect the main voice of the USSR, Levitan was given security guards, and false rumors about his appearance were spread around the city, fortunately few knew Yuri Borisovich's face. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1941.
Yuri Borisovich spoke about his popularity with his characteristic humor. “I once asked him: Yura, does your popularity bother you?” recalled the actor Boris Sichkin. “Very annoying,” Levitan replied. “You see, before, when no one knew me, I walked and spit right and left , and now, to spit, you have to look for an urn."

However, despite the popular adoration, Levitan's personal life did not work out. He married in 1938 to a beautiful student of the Institute of Foreign Languages. At the first meeting, he took her by the hand and said: I love you .... And after a pause, he continued: ... Peter's creation! and to the end he recited the introduction to Pushkin's Bronze Horseman.
The young people got married, their daughter Natasha was born. But after 11 years life together Levitan's wife, whom friends jokingly called Madame Prikaz, fell in love with another person. "Well, go away. Let's remain friends," Yuri Borisovich said. And until the end of days really supported with ex-wife and her second husband friendly relations. They even New Year met together. This is my cousin, - Levitan represented his ex-wife in companies.

Yuri Borisovich himself did not marry again and lived in an apartment on Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) with his daughter Natasha and mother-in-law Faina Lvovna. She adored her son-in-law, even the former, and tried her best to create comfort at home. When Levitan, who, according to his status, was entitled to all sorts of benefits, was offered a pass to the Kremlin dining room, Faina Lvovna dissuaded him from taking advantage of the seemingly flattering offer. And she herself cooked Levitan his favorite vinaigrette, which he could eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
As for his daughter Natalya Sudarikova, in February 2006, she was killed by her own son Boris in her Moscow apartment.

Since the seventies, almost never went live. The authorities believed that the population associated Levitan's voice with some extraordinary events. Like, do not read the announcer, who announced the beginning of the war or fireworks in honor of Victory Day, reports on the results of the harvest.

And Levitan, who was the first among the announcers to be awarded the title People's Artist USSR, began to voice newsreels, read voice-over texts for feature films, wrote down for the history Messages of the Information Bureau (during the war, no one, of course, recorded Levitan's speeches). And he also met with pleasure with veterans, for whom his voice was as sacred as the very memory of past battles.

In August 1983, Yuri Borisovich was invited to take part in the celebrations on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Orel and Belgorod. Before leaving, Levitan complained to friends about pain in his heart. But to all attempts to dissuade him from the trip, he invariably answered: "I cannot let people down. They are waiting for me."

That August turned out to be unusually hot - the thermometer went off scale over 40 degrees. On the field near Prokhorovka, where the famous Battle of Kursk took place during the Great Patriotic War, Yuri Borisovich became ill. The doctors of the village hospital, to which Levitan was taken, could no longer do anything ...

He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (plot 10).

prizes and awards

Order of the October Revolution (1974)
Order of the Badge of Honor (1964)
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1944)
Medal "For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Medal "For the Defense of Moscow"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war 1941-1945"
Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"
Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow"
Medal "Veteran of Labor"
Medal "50 years Armed Forces THE USSR"
Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

The crime was soon forgotten. How this terrible story ended, the magazine "Only Stars" managed to find out by finding the only great-grandson of the most famous announcer of the USSR.

Yuri Levitan never saw his great-grandson Arthur. He died seven years before the boy was born. The voice of the famous announcer, who read information bureau reports from the fronts on the radio, was known to all citizens of the Soviet Union. Once Levitan was invited to speak at a rally in honor of the anniversary of the Battle of Kursk. During the celebration, Yuri Borisovich had a heart attack. The doctors of the rural hospital in the Belgorod village of Bessonovka, where the rally was held, could not help him. He died. The announcer's heart had been bothering him for a long time. Many thought that he, a well-known person throughout the country, lives without knowing problems. IN material goods he really didn't need to. However, he had many reasons to be worried.

Shortly before the war, Levitan, as a valuable shot, was given a 30-meter room in a communal apartment not far from the Kremlin. Here he brought his young wife, the beautiful Raisa, a student of the Institute of Foreign Languages. From the fans she had no end. But he found a way to defeat the girl. Approaching her, he took her by the hand and said in his bewitching voice: “I love you ...” Then, after a meaningful pause, he continued: “... Peter's creation! I love your strict, slender look ... "

A better husband than him could not be found. And Yuri adored the born daughter Natashenka. But he could not spend much time with his family. For him now and then people came to military uniform and taken to the radio committee to read important government messages. Raisa, and he jokingly called her Madame Prikaz, often made scenes, getting annoyed because her husband was constantly at work. And after 11 years, she said that she had found a better life partner for herself - an officer of the military academy.

Yuri Borisovich stayed with his 10-year-old daughter and mother-in-law. Soon they moved into a three-room apartment in a new house in Vorotnikovsky Lane, built for generals and party workers. Yuri Borisovich's sister, Irina, helped raise her daughter. They tried to raise Natasha so that she would not feel the absence of her mother. But the girl, despite the care, grew up closed. Levitan often brought her to work with him. Colleagues of the announcer recalled that she gave the impression of a person with oddities: she tired everyone with endless stupid chatter, and immediately forgot what she had just said. Sometimes Levitan himself could not stand her company. Trying to smooth things over, he tried to turn everything into a joke. But sometimes, sighing, he called her in his hearts "my fool." And yet he was able to arrange it at Moscow State University, having agreed on admission to study with the rector. Natasha studied poorly. Her father had to beg for her diploma.

To everyone's surprise, Levitan supported a good relationship with Raisa and her new husband. He even invited them to celebrations, introducing his ex-wife as a cousin, and her husband as a relative. Remaining a bachelor, he did not become an ascetic. Many women dreamed of intimacy with him. But he decided once and for all not to marry again. He laughed it off: “I don’t need a young wife, because she will marry me not for love, but for convenience. And old women don't turn me on." the main woman his life was a daughter.

Natasha grew up a black-eyed beauty. Knowing nothing of the refusal, she led a bohemian lifestyle, revolving in higher circles. Rumors about her adventures reached her father. He was very worried, but he did not complain to anyone. Yuri Borisovich hoped that his daughter would change when he got married, and he himself found her suitable batch. He introduced Natasha to Lev Sudarikov, a quiet, modest guy, a doctor by profession. And he was very happy when they got married. Levitan was able to attach an unlucky daughter to a warm place to work. First - as an editor for foreign broadcasting, then at the radio station "Tourist", where she answered letters from readers. And in 1970, a grandson was born to Yuri Borisovich. Little Borya made his grandfather happy. Unlike Natalya, the boy studied well, then entered the Moscow State University at the Faculty of History, he was hired by a prestigious research institute. Levitan believed that he had improved the life of his relatives. With this thought, he died.

However, Natalya, having inherited the authoritarian nature of her mother, controlled her son in everything, tried to suppress and subdue him. Only her husband could reason with her. After his death, Natalia's relationship with her son deteriorated sharply. Boris married, falling in love with beautiful girl with the poetic name of Gayane. The Caucasian origin of the daughter-in-law and the fact that she studied at a trade school did not suit the arrogant lady. She told her son that his chosen one was not a match for him. And even the birth of a grandson did not soften her heart. She achieved her goal: divorced the young. Boris was very upset by the loss. Scandals began to occur more and more often in their house. And in April 1998, Boris had a seizure. The ambulance took him to a psychiatric clinic. Since then, having received a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, he hardly left the house.

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That terrible evening, the neighbors were awakened by a heart-rending scream in the Sudarikovs' apartment. And after a while, water with blood flowed from the ceiling. Frightened tenants dialed 02. A police squad found the corpse of 65-year-old Natalya in a bloody puddle in the apartment. Her head was crushed, her face was cut. A bloody hammer, knives and forks lay nearby. Brain clots dripped down the walls and furniture. 35-year-old Boris was sitting in the kitchen. He muttered something under his breath. The psychiatrists who arrived on call diagnosed that the man was in a delusional disorder, they barely managed to get him to explain why he needed to pour water on his mother's body. According to him, he washed her soul.

The grandson of the famous announcer became the main suspect in this terrible murder. However, after examining the scene, the investigation had questions.

Natalya inherited the most valuable documents of the Third Reich from her father. They were given to the announcer by the major who stormed the Reichstag. He also had other important papers - from the headquarters of the Supreme Commander. Levitan did not give them to the state archive, believing that the time had not yet come. Perhaps these pieces of history could damage someone's reputation or shed light on hitherto unknown circumstances. Natalia was going to write a book about her father. She told someone about secret papers.

After a terrible tragedy, Levitan's archive was sorted out by experts. They found that one of the folders was missing 15 sheets. Where they disappeared, who could seize them, remained a mystery. At the same time, another version of Natalya's death appeared: perhaps the killer was looking for these documents, torturing her before her death. And it is possible that it was not the son who killed at all.

Immediately after the tragedy, Boris was placed in the Gannushkin psychiatric clinic, then transferred to the Institute. Serbian for examination. Such criminals, if declared insane, are usually placed in the Yakovenko clinic near Moscow. It happens that after years after treatment they are free.

Boris Sudarikov was found guilty of murder. Maybe that's the way it is, but the investigators did not bother to explain the mysterious reasons for the missing part secret archive Levitan and work out another version. It's easier: to write off all the blame on a mentally ill person. By a court decision, he was sentenced to compulsory treatment.

The apartment where the horrific murder took place in 2006 has been empty for four years. But recently workers have begun to do repairs in it. Neighbors don't know who her new owners are. But it is believed that it was sold by relatives of the late daughter of Levitan. By law, the home of a mentally ill person remains his property for life. And if new tenants have appeared, this means that the owner, Boris Sudarikov, is most likely no longer alive. The apartment could be inherited by his closest relatives, and only one person could sell it - 19-year-old Artur Sudarikov, the great-grandson of the announcer.

Arthur knew from an early age that his grandfather was the very famous Levitan, whose voice was idolized by the whole country. Also in early childhood his mother told him about it. Arthur's parents divorced when he was very young. Therefore, the guy remembers his father vaguely. They stopped communicating since Boris's illness began to progress. Natalya Yurievna, disliking her daughter-in-law, did not want to recognize her grandson either.

Arthur was 15 years old when the tragedy happened. He was told the terrible news. He found the strength to come to the funeral of his grandmother, whom he hardly knew. This day was the worst in his life. He says about his father that he is a stranger to him.

Despite his young years, Arthur is extremely independent and active. After graduating from school, he founded his own graphic and industrial design studio. He is very similar to his grandfather, but he does not like to talk about this relationship. And even hides this fact from his friends. He refused to talk about this topic with me. It can be understood: scary story really better to erase from memory. But at the grave of Levitan, who was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery, the guy still comes and brings flowers. When we were escorted to last way his grandmother, someone said at the coffin: it’s good that Yuri Borisovich did not live to see this terrible day and did not find out that his beloved grandson brutally dealt with his daughter ... But the famous announcer could be proud of his great-grandson - Arthur Sudarikov.

To beautifully do not lie, do not tell stories ..
Yuri BELKIN, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia. 10.10.2014 07:06:12

Voltaire's dictum is well-known: If there were no God, then he should have been invented. It seems that some of the current, not very conscientious journalists have adopted this principle. You are convinced of this once again when reading Olga Ulyanova's article about the legendary radio announcer Yuri Levitan. An honest journalist will write the truth, only the truth. In a word, if there is no sensation, then it should be invented. This is exactly what Olga Ulyanova did. It is not enough to say that there are a large number of inaccuracies in the journalist’s article. Demyan Bedny and Ilya Ehrenburg lived in the same house. And Yuri Borisovich moved to a three-room apartment in Vorotnikovsky Lane not at all from a communal apartment, but from an apartment on Gorky Street. And only then he bought his last cooperative apartment in a house on Medvedev Street. , according to the journalist, the secrets of the Third Reich, this is generally bullshit. Here the journalist was clearly guided by the principle: Do not lie beautifully, do not tell stories ... For about thirty years I was in close, friendly, trusting relations with Yuri Borisovich Levitan, I know everything up to last photo, what was and what was not in the announcer's apartment, and therefore with full responsibility I can say: there have never been any rare, and even more so secret documents of historical value, in Levitan's apartment. Of course, his daughter Natasha did not have them and could not have them either. The journalist deliberately fools the readers, apparently in order to achieve a sharp sensation ... The journalist claims that Levitan's daughter allegedly was going to write a book about her father herself. Again, a lie. People who knew Natasha Levitan, on this statement of the journalist, could Not without reason, Yuri Borisovich often called his daughter my fool. And it was not at all an affectionate, condescending nickname. It was the holy truth. Natasha really was not just stupid and completely mediocre, but also, in my opinion, mentally inadequate. What book about her father could she write?! She never worked in her life. And not because she lived all her life first at the expense of her father, and then at the expense of her husband, but above all because she was never hired anywhere and nowhere: how can you hire a mentally deranged person?! Hence all the tragedies with her son Boris and with herself ... It is hardly possible to admire the great-grandson of Levitan, who, on the centennial anniversary of the birth of the announcer, endlessly flashed in the anniversary films about Levitan. And. flashed under the name Arthur Levitan. But what kind of Levitan is he? Levitan's daughter took the surname of her husband Sudarikov. Her son was also Sudarikov. caucasian origin Gayane. Apparently, the smart boy deliberately changed his surname for PR, in order to get through this life faster and more successfully with the help of the famous surname. He never saw the famous grandfather, because he was born many years after his death and today he can only talk about him from other people's words, having read in newspapers and magazines the memoirs of those who knew the legendary radio announcer firsthand ... Including from my many essays on the herald of the 20th century.
Yuri BELKIN, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, lifetime friend of Yu.B. Levitan. October 10, 2014

"Attention! Moscow is speaking! All the radio stations of the Soviet Union are working ..." These words for several generations are associated precisely with the voice of Levitan, who was called the "Voice of the Epoch" and "Voice of Victory." His strong and expressive voice not only announced victories - reports of defeats also took place, but other announcers announced them on the radio - however, only he announced victories to the country.

Yuri Levitan had a very strong voice since childhood, and often the parents of his friends asked him to shout to their offspring if they ran too far. He dreamed of becoming a famous artist, no less famous than Vasily Kachalov, and it was this dream that made the 17-year-old boy leave his hometown of Vladimir, where he was born on October 2 (September 19, old style), 1914, and go to Moscow to enter to film school. Alas, the selection committee was only amused by his "okay" Vladimir dialect, and Levitan was denied admission.

By a lucky chance, the young man came across an advertisement for the recruitment of announcers on the radio and he decided to try himself in this field. The commission that listened to the candidates included Levitan's idol, Moscow Art Theater actor Vasily Kachalov. It must be said that the members of the commission could not help but be embarrassed by the "okay" accent, but the bewitching

At first, it was not easy for the newcomer - during the day he delivered documents to different offices and prepared tea for his colleagues, and spent the nights at the exercises, getting rid of his Vladimir "okania". But everything changed on the night of January 26, 1934.

Chief announcer of the country

Late in the evening, Levitan was brought to read the text from the Pravda newspaper - the announcer wrote down the material, which was copied by the stenographers, and then transferred to the printing house. In this way, the texts of tomorrow's newspapers were transmitted to the most remote corners of the country.

That night the head Soviet state Joseph Stalin worked in his office. Turning on the radio, he heard the pleasant voice of an unknown announcer, who was reading an article from a newspaper without errors. The decision was made - the Secretary General picked up the phone and gave instructions that he

yesterday's report at the congress of the Bolshevik Party must certainly be read by the announcer, who at this moment is reading the editorial of Pravda.

The next evening was a turning point in Levitan's career - for four and a half hours he read Stalin's report without making a single mistake. Shortly thereafter, a call was received on the radio and from now on the voice of Yuri Levitan became the official voice of the Kremlin.

The leadership of the Radio Committee panicked: how can one entrust the reading of Comrade Stalin's reports to an intern who just recently brought his first broadcast to a scandal? On that day, Levitan was entrusted with reading the text, the beginning of which he wanted to make spectacular, as some announcers do, significantly saying into the microphone: "Everyone, everyone, everyone!" Following this impulse, Levitan began his broadcast like this: “Moscow is speaking! The radio station named after the Comintern is working! Everyone, everyone, everyone!

broadcast for housewives." Hearing this, everyone on the radio quit their job. The scandal was incredible.

Nevertheless, no one dared to tell Stalin that the 19-year-old announcer, whom he instructed to read his reports and messages, was just a trainee.

In 1938, friends introduced Yurbor (as they called him by the first syllables of his name and patronymic) to Raisa, a student of foreign languages. It was love at first sight, and a month later there was more than one family in the Soviet country. After some time, Yuri and Raisa had a daughter, who was named Natasha. But soon great happiness was replaced by great misfortune - Natasha was only one year old when the war began.

Voice of Victory

On Sunday morning, June 22, Levitan was urgently called to work by a phone call, without giving any reason. Arriving at the radio, the announcer could not help but pay attention to the disturbing

nye views of colleagues and widespread fuss. The telephone on the radio was torn - from different cities there were calls about planes over the city and bombings. Is it a war?!

Then a government message was received from the Kremlin, which on that day Yuri Borisovich read 9 times - every hour.

"This is Moscow speaking. Citizens and citizens of the Soviet Union! Today, at four o'clock in the morning, without any declaration of war, the German armed forces attacked the borders of the Soviet Union ..."

From now until the very end of the war, people will hear reports from Levitan, recognizing his voice from many others; this voice, always clear and even, inspired hope. “It seemed that he was reading and sweeping all enemy tanks out of his way, that there was some kind of glow, that the clouds were dispersing, that the sky was sunny,” recalls Levitan’s friend, All-Union Radio announcer Boris Lyashenko.

With the outbreak of war, Levitan

I had to leave the house, where his wife and daughter were waiting, and settle in the Moskva Hotel - there were too many front-line reports that required an emergency broadcast.

The voice of Moscow has become enemy number one for the Third Reich; a bounty of 250,000 marks was put on Levitan's head. Hitler ordered that the hated announcer be eliminated and for this purpose a special group was prepared, which they were going to throw in Moscow.

"The main voice of the country" received protection, and false rumors about his appearance began to spread in the city in order to confuse fascist informants - very few knew Yuri Levitan's face, and on May 9, 1945 this circumstance almost turned into a disaster.

“One thought, one dream did not leave us - when will we finally have a chance to read the order for a complete victory over Nazi Germany?” Yury Borisovich recalled. “And this dream

but it came true ... On May 9, 1945, I had the good fortune to read the act of unconditional surrender of Germany ... And in the evening, we were summoned to the Kremlin with the chairman of the Radio Committee, Alexei Aleksandrovich Puzin, and handed over the text of the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on Victory over Nazi Germany. It was supposed to be read in 35 minutes.

The radio studio from which such broadcasts were broadcast was located not far from the Kremlin, behind the GUM building. To get there, one had to cross Red Square. But before us is a sea of ​​people. With the help of the police and the soldiers they took five meters with a fight, and then nothing.

Comrades, - I shout, - let us through, we are on business!

And they answer us:

What's the deal?! Now on the radio Levitan will transmit the order for victory, there will be a salute. Stand like everyone else, listen and watch!

Wow advice ... But what to do? If we make our way further, we will get into such a dense environment that we will not get out.

And then it dawned on us: the Kremlin also has a radio station, you need to read from there! We run back, explain the situation to the commandant, and he gives the command to the guards not to stop the two people running along the Kremlin corridors. Here is the radio station. We tear off the wax seals from the package, reveal the text. The clock is 21 hours 55 minutes.

Moscow speaking! Nazi Germany crushed…"

During the four years of the war, Yuri Levitan read more than 120 emergency messages and more than two thousand front-line reports. He returned to them after the war, in the 50s - then military reports were recorded for the archives.

Forgotten by the country

Family life Levitana broke up after 11 years of marriage and he never married again - his wife Raisa left for another, leaving her daughter in care ex-spouse. Until the end of his days, Yuri Borisovich maintained good relations with his ex-wife - they even

the first year was celebrated together, and Levitan introduced Raisa to his friends as his cousin.

In the 70s, the country actually forgot Levitan's voice, he no longer went on the air. The management of the radio station believed that the people associated his voice with disturbing and solemn events. From now on, he had to voice newsreels and voice-over texts for feature films.

In August 1983, Yuri Borisovich accepted an invitation to come to the celebration on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Belgorod and Orel, but just before leaving, he complained to his friends about feeling unwell. They tried to dissuade him from the trip, but Levitan remained adamant, not wanting to let people down. On August 4, he became ill near Prokhorovka, on the battlefield of Kursk. He was taken to the nearest village hospital, but they couldn’t help him there - Levitan’s heart stopped forever