Alexey Barats personal life. Sad ending: stars who divorced after many years of marriage

In Kiev, the Quartet I theater performance “Conversations of Middle-Aged Men” was once again a great success, after which we met with the leading artist of the comic troupe and talked about life, work, love and homeland.

Leonid and Anna have been together for a year and a half. In December, Anna Moiseeva will represent Ukraine in China at the Mrs. competition. Globe, which will take place on Hainan Island.

- Leonid, is your legendary performance updated with modern, relevant fragments?

Yes, new topics are emerging: age, technological progress, children. My character says: “I realized that I was getting old when I began to be offended by the phrase “Old man, you look great!”... And recently I accidentally overheard my girlfriend and her friend in a conversation: “Are you going alone today or with your elderly man? » Life throws up stories...

Thanks to the play, what do middle-aged men talk about, and what are middle-aged men afraid of?

I am afraid for my loved ones and family. I'm afraid of losing friends. I'm afraid of not doing something important. I'm afraid that my talent will disappear, my ability to write will disappear. And I, finding myself with a blank slate, will not be able to clearly state anything. And I'm also afraid of the cold and meeting New Year among strangers.

LIGHTNESS, COME BACK!

- Do you have hobbies besides the theater?

Slava and I ( Vyacheslav Khait is a colleague and friend, author and actor of the Quartet I theater. - Approx. ed.) playing football. I am extremely passionate about communicating with friends. A little less, but I also like to read books, watch movies, go to theaters.

I strongly recommend “My Lieutenant” by Daniil Granin. I enjoyed reading Maugham's biography. It’s also very pleasant to spend time reading the books of Georgy Danelia: “The Toasted Man Drinks to the Bottom,” “Stowaway,” “The Cat Gone, But the Smile Remains.”

- Would you like to involve any of the Ukrainian artists in your performances?

Once upon a time we gave a play “Letters and Songs...” in Kyiv, and Oleg Skripka with the group “VV” replaced the group “Accident” on stage. Then we applied this practice in other cities - we integrated different groups into our performance.

- How can you describe yourself, say, in a few sentences?

I a common person. More details? Many people consider comedians to be boring people. In my case this is not the case. Although for the last 5-6 years of my life I was significantly damaged, and it was difficult for both relatives and friends with me. It was hard for me myself. But mostly I am cheerful and easy-going. I hope it’s all over now and my confidence will finally return.

OUR PEOPLE

- Do you personally divide humor into certain types?

Funny and not funny. There is also humor about promotion and demotion. On the rise is when the author treats his character with love, even if he is negative. Remember Dovlatov or Zhvanetsky - they love the people they write about. Well, downward humor is an attempt to humiliate a person with a joke.

- Do you often come to Odessa?

In the summer I definitely spend a month and a half in my hometown. In addition to my parents, my girlfriend lives here, and at the first opportunity I go to them.

- You live in Moscow. What do you miss being away from home?

Long walks around the city, small streets, warmth, sea, sun, their people... There has always been a cult of food in Odessa, simple lung communication.

LIFE IN TWO COUNTRIES

- What kind of mistakes did you make in your previous marriage with actress Anna Kasatkina?

Let me make a reservation: in my case, it was not just the marriage that broke up, but the family. How can we avoid this? I don’t know... Pay more attention to each other, respect, listen, talk, be interested, share the hobbies of your other half and be in the same trench in any situation. It’s a good idea to approach everything with humor, because it smooths out rough edges.

You and your girlfriend, model Anna Moiseeva, have a noticeable age difference. You, satirist, how do you look at this?

- “Old goat” and “devil in the rib” - now it’s easy to put such cliches on me, I’m sure. My job is to continue to live, love my children, respect those who were once with me, and be happy with Anna.

You and Anna have been together for over a year now, why don’t you live together? After all, it must be terribly inconvenient for you to be torn between two countries...

Anna has a son studying in Odessa, so first of all we take into account the interests of the child. Among other things, she and I both got burned in past relationships and are now blowing cold water. We’re not in a hurry, we’re taking a closer look, maybe we don’t dare because of some fears... But who said that we definitely have to live together? It happens that in such relationships - at a distance, people are very happy.

Of course, these arguments of mine may look like excuses, but we certainly need to do something. And I’m sure Anya and I will definitely make the right decision.

Life is broader than morality, and love does not depend on formal status. Leonid Barats tells for the first time how he survived a divorce and introduces him to his girlfriend Anna Moiseeva.

Two years ago, he divorced actress Anna Kasatkina, whose marriage lasted 22 years. Today Leonid, who prefers to be called not as indicated in the documents, but as his parents and friends used to call him - Alexei, is building a relationship with another Anna - Moiseeva. Throughout this time, the actor was in no hurry to make statements about changes in his personal life and comment on his status.

When asked what prompted him to give this interview right now, Alexey answers like this:

With the premiere (recently released premiere performance Quartet And "...There is something missing in Borenka" in the Palace of Culture named after. Zueva - Ed.) my decision to indicate changes in my personal life is connected very indirectly. Rather, this is due to the fact that Anya will take part in the Mrs. competition in December. Globe is in China and it is important for it to have some publications. And it seemed right to me to do it now.

I generally try not to talk about my personal life. And what happened is completely impossible to translate into words. It's not that there aren't enough words. To understand, you need to experience it. Although it’s better not to worry about this. There were so many people involved in the latest events, and everyone has still not cooled down. I agreed to the interview partly because it would be a big step towards certainty. It’s easier to live with certainty, it seems to me.

Alexey, Anya is a psychologist, not an actress, how did you meet her?

She is from Odessa, I am from Odessa, we met in Odessa, in general company. I wouldn’t say that the feelings were mutual right away. There was a long platonic telephone romance because we lived in different cities. Then she began to “turn to face me.” And then there were so many events and emotions. A real "Russian-Ukrainian rollercoaster." There was love and love. Anya is the woman who gave me such a range of feelings! There were a lot of happy things, and I would gladly throw away some of the colors from this palette. What I learned from our relationship is that the opposite of love is not hate. And indifference. Hatred is in this case the same love, only with a minus sign.

You said “Russian-Ukrainian rollercoaster”. What are the reasons for such differences?

With circumstances. We met when she was married and I was married. Anya had an easier situation: she simply thought that everything had to end there. True, the process of her divorce itself was very difficult. But the decision to divorce was easier for her: it was overdue. And for me... My 20 years of living in a family, they were happy. But even before I met Anya, something happened and my ex-wife and I tried to save our relationship, but at some point it became clear to me that this was simply impossible to do. A lot has been said about this in the films “What Men Talk About,” “What Else Men Talk About.” When writing our stories, we always rely on personal experience. These pictures contain a lot of events and phrases related to my situation. In general, we tried to revive our relationship for a year. All sorts of attempts were made. But it became clear that even children would have a hard time living when we are in such a relationship. However, if you had 20 years happy life, it’s hard not to miss this time. This probably does not fit into moral standards, but these are my feelings. I love my children very much, we are very close. As soon as something began to happen, the children had the first acute reaction. They were scared that I wouldn’t be in their lives, and I made a lot of efforts to prove that I would always be there.

Did they make it clear that divorce would not change anything?

It will change, it cannot help but change. Circumstances change - and, of course, the children are in pain... I think that for the rest of my life, the feeling of guilt for this story, for this turn of their fate will be with me... He made it clear that a divorce would not change my attitude towards them.

Yours eldest daughter, Elizabeth, is she already quite an adult?

Yes, she is married, studying in London at the acting department. But I miss her and hope that after training she will return here. The youngest, Eva, is 13 years old. She is very talented good girl. And if you ask me when I feel calm and good, then I will answer that I feel good when I walk with her in the park.

Are you and Anya brought together by the fact that you are both from Odessa?

Yes, probably people from Odessa, from the south are warmer, softer. I found these qualities and support in her.

Understanding?

I would say that the key word here is still “warmth”. Because you can live without understanding, but with warmth. You can understand with warmth, or you can not understand, but with warmth. It is important. And she is both beautiful and smart.

After the story that happened to you, how do you feel about marriage? Don't you think that modern world Is this an outdated form of relationship?

No I do not think so. I would say this: I don’t see myself outside the family. Now my formula for happiness looks like this: to be the right topics people who need me. This applies to friendship, work, and family, of course.

Doesn’t it bother you that you fit into a common pattern: in our country it is customary that men, upon reaching their 40th birthday, change their woman?

Although the mechanisms that led to such an ending were completely different for me, I fit the template. In our country, opinion makers, that is, people who create templates, are the women on the benches. If a couple breaks up, it is the man who abandoned the woman, not otherwise. But I know that this is not so. And God be with them, with templates and aunts. Life is still broader than templates, and even than morality.

Yours ex-wife continues to work with you, she is still a member of the “Quartet I” team and is busy with your new performance. Has the painful period of the relationship already passed?

You know, it turned out that when you break up with the person you lived with long years, you don’t even suspect how many threads connect you with him. How many roots have you grown into each other? And how difficult it is to extract these roots. And, probably, there is no need to cut them all down. We remained close people. My ex-wife is very decent and fair woman. But it so happened that at some point we came to the point of no return. Our common life remains in the past, we must admit it and move on. We are in good business and human relations. In fact, five years have passed since we broke up, but for me this interview is a rather sensitive step. And for her it will be, I think, painful.

Will the development of her personal life be sensitive to you? Or do you want with all your might for her to succeed?

Of course, I wish with all my might... But how it will actually be, what I will feel, how I will react - I don’t know.

Work very much depends on the status in which a person is. Some people work better when they are alone and “suffering”; others cannot work when their personal lives are not going well. How are you feeling now?

It’s easier for me when I’m courageous and light. Reflection and dark thoughts are always with me, they won’t go anywhere, you don’t have to worry, but along with good mood it gives the right tone. Therefore, it is easier when there is lightness behind the office doors. Although I can work in different states. Slava Khait and Seryozha Petreikov, my co-authors, and I come to the office every day and write. Or we are engaged in some organizational and creative activities.

As Tchaikovsky said, the muse must be trained. More precisely, “inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit the lazy.”

Yes, Tchaikovsky said... And Chekhov believed that you need to force yourself to sit down at the table. So we sit down and write. Even when you're really sick. Such moments have happened to each of us, but work still gets us through. We have unique opportunity sublimate all our experiences and frustrations, melt them into the dialogues of the heroes. Everyone is going through a midlife crisis, and we also make money from it. In this sense I absolutely happy man because we almost always do what we want.

Scene from the play "...There's something missing in Borenka"

Your new performance“...there’s something missing in Borenka” what?

Our viewers, it seems to me, are divided into two categories: people who want a continuation of the old one - “Radio Day” or “Men Talk”, and those who say: “Well, that’s enough, let’s do something new.” So for the latter, we probably did the right performance. The play is about us today. We wrote the play for four years and it was quite difficult for us to stage it. New artists are participating, and the performance is more dramatic than previous ones. We played at the end of October, and now we will give three or four performances every month. IN leading role— Maxim Vitorgan. His hero is trying to change his life, because he doesn’t like everything: what he does, who he lives with, who he’s friends with. And in the end it reveals a rather scary thing for creative person: understands that he is... average. He admits his weakness - and this makes him strong. We usually admit only those weaknesses that make us beautiful - “I’m a workaholic” or “I’m trouble-free.” And admitting that you don’t know something, don’t know how, or can’t is difficult. Understanding yourself is the most difficult thing. But when this happens, certainty sets in. And then life becomes easier.

Yes! In May-June we are going to shoot the third part of the film “What Men Talk About.” But unlike the play, this story will be simply light, cheerful and funny. We invest our money, and the box office is important to us. The theater hall seats 500 people, we play eight performances a month. And the film audience is much wider, so you need to understand that such experiments as, for example, “Faster than Rabbits” can be done on the screen only if you have extra money. We can’t afford this, because we don’t have this money - neither some guy nor the state gives us money.

You have been researching the issue of midlife crisis for a long time. Has your audience changed or is it roughly the same audience?

Our audience is our pride. Smart, interesting, he is the best thing we have. He's probably going through the same stages as us. And about the crisis, I understood a simple thing. Each of us has been imbued with some principles, moral criteria, and understanding of life since childhood. And the world seems like this to you. And then he turns out to be different, and it's a painful discovery. To overcome the crisis, you need to love this new world.

Alexey, how does Anya feel about your work, how passionate is she about what you do, what do you love?

What I do is very important to Anya, she is a good viewer, listener, she laughs in the right places, and what is important, sincerely and quietly. She reacts accurately, this is important to me. Do you understand what's going on? Previously, everyone lived in the same cultural space: we, our parents, grandparents... We watched the same films, read the same books, and then a breakdown occurred. And people were divided: there are those who can talk to each other with quotes from films and books, understanding each other perfectly, and there are others, only ten years younger, but with them a completely different conversation, or rather, no conversation. I'm not saying that everything new is worse - maybe even better. But the new generation finds it difficult to find old films and old books, or just books, but I find it difficult to find new ones. I board the plane and turn on the music that my assistant uploaded at my request. And so I make my way through one song, through the second, then turn on Pink Floyd, drink a glass of cognac and finally enjoy it. I am still magnetically drawn to what is understandable and beloved. I can appreciate something new. But it’s already difficult for me to love this new thing.

You need to force yourself.

Yes, you'll force it. This is love. Love is like laughter. Laughter is the most objective manifestation of emotions. Laughter cannot be faked. Despite the age difference, Anya understands what I'm joking about.

How do you generally see your future together?

The hackneyed phrase “God disposes” is certainly true. And, as it turned out, nothing is impossible. When you think: “Well, no, this can’t happen to me,” that’s exactly what happens, right now. So we don’t predict the future, but I hope that everyone involved in this story has a good future, because there is a lot of love in this story. And since absolutely all participants are good and decent people, I hope that we will move as a united front towards a bright general and private future.

Lesha is smart, erudite, handsome. I am very proud of what he does, and I always enjoy reading sketches of his future performances. What attracted me to him? Firstly, he was very persistent, and secondly, I have never been so interested in anyone. We could just sit and talk until the morning, listen to songs, watch movies. He contains the totality of all the qualities that I imagined in an ideal man. This is completely “my” person. We often react the same way. Some gestures, words... He starts a sentence - I finish. I “grew up” a lot next to him, not only in the sense of education, but also morally. Became a different person. It seems to me much better.

In December I will represent Ukraine at the Mrs. competition. Globe in China, on Hainan Island. I plan to go alone, the support group will help me via Skype. It's very rich and interesting program: 12 days, 70 participants. I recently received a degree in psychology, and main reason, why I agreed to participate in the competition is that the event is closely related to the W.I.N. Women's Fund. Foundation. This fund helps victims not only of physical violence, but also of moral and psychological violence. And I, as a novice psychologist, am very interested in learning from experience. I feel the potential in myself, the strength to help women going through difficult times, engage social problems. I have something to say. It is difficult to imagine a woman who does not have negative experiences. We don't realize our femininity and make mistakes that we could have avoided. I had a very difficult experience in my first marriage, and the consequences of divorce still haunt me. It took me a long time to come to an understanding of how to cope with negative experiences. I want women to understand that it is possible to ask for help. And don’t be left alone with difficult problems.

I haven’t yet decided what my work will ultimately look like - will it be private practice or maybe work at a foundation. I intuitively feel my way.

Style: Roman Travin. Makeup: Svetlana Grebenkova. Hairstyle: Arkady Bulgatov

Alexandra Demidov was abandoned by her mother at the age of seven, and Kamil Larin made a living by selling juice and cognac

Alexandra Demidov was abandoned by her mother at the age of seven, and Kamil Larin made a living by selling juice and cognac

22 years ago, GITIS graduates - Leonid BARATS, Rostislav KHAIT, Kamil LARIN, Alexander DEMIDOV and Sergei PETREYKOV - created the Quartet I theater. For the first three or four years they subsisted on the money that Petreikov took from foreigners for renting his apartment. Soon their performances began to generate income.

However, along with success, almost each of the guys had problems in their personal lives. Some managed to cope with the crisis, while others started new families. And now the Quartet is in complete chocolate. The path to phenomenal success was thorny. The main milestones in the lives of fashionable artists are in our improvised alphabet.

"Agatha Christie"

Members of Quartet I appeared in the videos of this group more than once. For example, in "Sailor" Baratz And Khait played orderlies carrying a stretcher with the corpse of a sailor, and in “The Merry World” they played rioters in straitjackets.

Baratz

It is generally accepted that this surname is derived from a Hebrew abbreviation, translated meaning “son of a righteous rabbi.” Leonid's father, by the way, is a journalist. And Lenya himself is not gay at all, as some thought after “Election Day,” but quite the opposite.

Great

“Thanks to” this means of transportation, a ninth-grader Sasha Demidov lost my first love. I became close with Lenochka summer holidays. The girl, like him, came to the village to stay with relatives. He had his first kiss with this girl. Under the cover of darkness, the couple climbed into the barn, leaving their bicycles at the entrance. At first, Sasha and Lena looked at each other for a long time, then they touched their little fingers, then they hugged, and only at dawn Sasha tasted her lips. There was nothing left to get to the main thing, but milkmaids passed by the barn and, seeing the bikes, realized: the teenagers were causing debauchery inside. The powerful aunts almost broke down the door - the frightened Sanya held the defense as best he could and did not allow strangers to enter the barn. After this, Lenochka’s parents immediately took her home. They never saw each other again.

"Demidov BAND"

This is the name of Alexander’s musical project, created by him in 2011. The artist has been passionate about music for more than 20 years. The style in which he works is characterized as bard rock. Performs together with the group "Beavers".

Zhvanetsky

Thanks to Michal Mikhalych, Slava Khait entered GITIS. The guy was poorly prepared, it was clear that he was flying over. Then father - Valery Khait, captain of the famous Odessa KVN team of 1967 - 1970, asked an old acquaintance to put in a good word with the selection committee. And everything came together right away, of course.

Ginger tincture

In September, the freshmen were taken to the collective farm to harvest potatoes. There, childhood friends Khait and Barats found two new friends - Demidov and Larina. What brought them together was ginger bitters for 3.50, which the guys bought in the evenings in the nearest village. Sasha then got drunk for the first time. Sitting on the hand of the stone Lenin, he got drunk, fell on the asphalt, broke his face, and the next morning he began to tell everyone, pointing to bruises and scratches, that it was Barats and Khait who beat him. In retaliation, the next night, the boys took Sanya, who was sound asleep (after again ginger), straight from the bed to the women's toilet.

Red socks

Barats pulled them on when he was entrusted with leading the school prom. The boy thought he looked very cool in them. And Leonid borrowed the suit from his aunt’s husband. His friends still remember those stupid socks.

Bulb

She saved schoolboy Barats from long lessons in music school. Before the lesson, Lenya ate the whole head and, entering the teacher’s office, began to diligently breathe on it unpleasant smell. The teacher’s patience lasted only 15 minutes.

Typos

At the beginning of their theater business, the guys were constantly haunted by funny typos in newspapers and posters. For example, instead of the play “These are just cliches,” “Only pants” was indicated, “the comic theater “Quartet I” was called “commercial,” and the surname “Hait” was written with an “th.”

Shameful embarrassment

Thanks to this incident, Rostislav Khait became friends with Leonid Barats forever. This happened in second grade. “Sorry, I screwed myself,” Slava admitted in an interview, “and asked Lesha not to tell anyone about it, but to quickly call my mother so that she would come and pick me up. After which he ran to class and told all the kids about my embarrassment. Each one came in turn to look at me. This is how we got it Dovlatov said about his wife: “This is not love, but fate!”

Raikhelgauz

Joseph Leonidovich, artistic director of the Moscow School of Modern Play theater, is a relative of Leonid Barats. Raikhelgauz also from Odessa..

Sabelka

The only props that were available in the household of the newly created “Quartet I”. The artists performed the number “Butterfly and Grasshopper”. When the spider threw a web on the butterfly, Khait, a grasshopper with a saber, jumped out. “Nothing special, but for some reason people laughed,” notes Rostislav.

Ballroom pianist

He was played by Leonid Barats in the 90s in the video of the group “Combination” for the song “Accountant”. Also, by the way, Lesha (that’s what Barats’ friends call him for some reason) appeared in the video “Ladoshki” in those years. Svetlana Roerich, where the young man flashed in the background Maxim Averin. And Kamil Larin “shone” about that time in the video “The boy wants to go to Tambov” Murat Nasyrova.

Black tuxedo for $500

At the beginning of his career, the artists chipped in and bought it (it was a lot of money back then) for Kamil, so that he could hold the wedding of some huckster there and at least earn something for the team. This was Larin’s first experience as an entertainer. Since then, the guys decided: we divide the money equally, even if we earn it separately. By the way, Kamil at one time also earned money by reselling juice and cognac to stalls - a friend from Armenia supplied him with cheap drinks.

Scars on the wrists

They stayed with Demidov and Barats in memory of the unsuccessful group suicide that Sasha and Lenya started to prove to their classmate friends - Sveta Pesotskaya And Anya Kasatkina how strong their feelings are. Fortunately, they didn’t get to the veins, but my hands were badly scratched and I had to walk around in bandages for several days.

"I forgive you!"

Demidov said these words four years ago to his own mother, who abandoned him at the age of seven. Sasha's parents separated shortly after his birth. The boy lived with his mother, grandmother and grandfather in Shadrinsk (200 km from Sverdlovsk). The old men drank heavily, and the boy was left to his own devices. After having breakfast with free whites and cocoa, which the grandmother sold, Sashka hung out on the street until late at night.

One day, a thin and dirty boy was accidentally met by another grandmother - on his father's side. She took Sasha to her father, who at that time worked as a policeman in Ryazan. dear mother Demidov somehow crossed paths briefly when he was already 12, then after a long break - in the mid-90s, having already become an artist. In those years, Alexander had many problems on the personal front, things began to happen nervous breakdowns, after which he fell into depression for a long time. He saved himself with alcohol. In one of these difficult moments, he met with his mother and said: “I forgive you! And I don’t hold any grudges.” Then for the first time in many years he called her mom.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

* The oldest of the “quartets” - Camille Larin. He is almost four years older than the others. And all due to the fact that before entering GITIS, he studied at the Volgograd Energy College.* For everyone, except Haita, two children each: Baratsa- daughters Lisa and Eva, Larin has sons Yan and Daniyar, Demidova- daughter Sofia and son Ignat. Even the director Petreykov in four marriages he had two daughters.* Leni Barats’ mother, Zoya Isaevna, who worked as a methodologist in a kindergarten for many years, taught Ksenia Sobchak make delicious cheesecakes, which she now treats her husband to Maxim Vitorgan for breakfast.* The most an exemplary family man- Leonid Barats. With my wife Anna Kasatkina, who in the early years was also an actress of the Quartet I theater, met during the entrance exams at GITIS. “Seeing her in a gray tight-fitting short dress, I realized that we couldn’t be just friends,” recalls Baratz. Their marriage is 23 years old.

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The divorce of Quartet I star Leonid Barats and his wife Anna Kasatkina came as a real surprise to the artist’s fans. The couple lived together for more than 20 years, but still decided to separate. Meanwhile, Leonid Barats did not remain lonely for long. Less than a year after the divorce, the actor was able to find new love.

Leonid Barats and his new wife: the life of an actor with his ex-wife

Barats received the name Leonid in honor of his great-grandfather, but initially his parents wanted to name him Alexey. And he still can’t come to terms with his real name. While still studying at GITIS, Alexey met his future wife, then aspiring actress Anna Kasatkina (she later starred in three of her husband’s films). In 1991, Alexey and Anna registered their relationship. They lived together for more than 20 years, but in 2015 it became known that their family had broken up.

However ex-spouses were able to maintain friendly relations, because they are connected not only by years life together, but also children: 21-year-old Elizaveta and 12-year-old Eva. The girls, like their parents, are passionate about the acting profession. But what will come of this, Alexey is not yet ready to judge.

The eldest daughter Lisa studied for 2 years at GITIS. And now she has entered the acting department in London (Elizabeth lives in England with her husband Ben). She's a beautiful, charming girl, but I mean... acting It’s difficult to say whether she will be able to do this. And if we talk about the youngest, she is still only 12 years old. Eva is good. She sings beautifully and plays the piano. Like any girl who grew up in acting family, she has very little chance of going in any other direction, Wordyou reports. After the divorce from Anna, many of Alexei’s fans perked up - eligible bachelor. But in vain the actor’s heart is already occupied.

Leonid Barats and his new wife: meeting Anna

Actor, member of Quartet I Leonid Barats is dating Odessa resident Anna Moiseeva. The couple tried not to advertise their relationship for a long time, so journalists wondered whether the actor had found a new soul mate after his divorce from his wife Anna Kasatkina a year ago.

Anna was born and raised in Odessa. Anna also has behind her failed marriage with an Odessa businessman. A psychologist by training. The girl is raising her son Oleg.

According to Barats, he has maintained relations with Moiseeva for more than two years.

“We met Anna a long time ago, in a common company, it seems about ten years ago. Later we just started communicating, often talking on the phone. So a platonic telephone romance gradually began. Anna is very good, smart, beautiful, feminine. We maintain relations in two cities, I am in Moscow, she is in Odessa. But it’s even easier this way, because at a distance we miss each other with pleasure,” said the actor.

“I didn’t immediately pay attention to Leonid,” Anna shared. “And later I discovered how smart, interesting, and sincere he really is.” He spoke so directly and honestly about himself that at first I didn’t understand – was he joking or was it all true? I didn’t even immediately realize that he was courting me. True, it took me a while to realize all my emotions. And I am grateful to Leonid for his patience, wisdom and decency.” According to Anna, it is these traits that lead her and Leonid through life. “Well, and my long legs, of course. Although he claims that I still have a lot good qualities", Anna jokes.

On this moment Leonid and Anna have not yet gotten married.

“I often seem to myself to be an insignificant little person who has achieved nothing and lives for no reason.”

These words were spoken in an interview with Leonid Barats. The actor is still not sure what he is better at - cinema or theater. The first one is more difficult, because you have to listen to the directors, and everyone has their own view of what is happening. AND New film- this is a new experience. In the theater he seems to understand and can do more. But such recurring doubts for Baratz are the reason to move forward and upward, “toward self-confidence.”

Childhood and youth

Leonid Barats is a resident of Odessa, Jewish by nationality. He was born in July 1971 in the family of journalist Grigory Barats and a teacher kindergarten Zoe Baratz. At first they wanted to name the boy Alexey, but then his parents changed their minds and named him in honor of his great-grandfather - Leonid. Probably, the first name was more suitable for the future artist, because his friends and relatives still call him Alexey.