Lev Leshchenko, whose biography will be briefly described in this article, did not even imagine that he would once be awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia. He simply always did his job, gladly took on any proposals - he sang, played on the stage of the theater, conducted concerts, read poetry. Biography Leshchenko has many difficult periods. Few people know what the artist had to go through on the road to fame.
Biography of Leschenko Lev Valeryanovich: childhood
The father of the future artist was a career officer - Leshchenko Valerian Andreevich. Mom died when Leva was not even one year old. Therefore, raising the boy was engaged in everything from grandparents to the whole regiment. At the age of four, the child found out what military service was — he spent all day with his father at work: dined in the soldiers’ canteen, watched the soldiers at the shooting range during the day, and watched a movie with them in the evening. And, as it should be for all military men, he even wore a uniform, although it was three times larger.
When Leva was six years old, the second wife of Valeryan Andreevich appeared in their house. Now the boy had whom to call mom. She was a kind, sincere woman, but since she was raising two nephews, and soon gave birth to her own daughter, she practically did not have time for Levushka.
Biography L. Leshchenko: education and choice of profession
Often the boy was taken to his grandfather Andrei. He was a great connoisseur of music and taught Levushka to sing, and he accompanied him on an old violin, after the magical sounds of which the boy was in his thoughts in a different world than what he saw in the military barracks. Then Leo decided that he would be an artist. The father, who dreamed that his son would become a real officer, reacted extremely negatively to his decision. His hobbies (the boy often sang on the school stage), he never took seriously.
Biography Leshchenko L.V. : on the way to a childhood dream
The future artist began working immediately after school. First a worker in a theater, then a locksmith in a factory. During this time, he tried several times to enter the theater, but there was no hurry to accept the guy as a student. Upon reaching the draft age, Lev Valeryanovich went to serve in the army. And even there, he took steps towards his childhood dream. The command, learning about the vocal and acting abilities of Private Leshchenko, identified him as a soloist in the song and dance ensemble. After the service, Leo again goes to GITIS. This time, the professors, who already remembered the stubborn guy well, took pity on him and accepted them into the ranks of students. Already in his second year, no one doubted that Leshchenko was a born artist.
Biography of Leschenko Lev Valeryanovich: recognition
Real fame came to the artist in 1972, when he won the competition for young performers in the city of Sopot. A sincere smile, an open face and an honest look of a charming young man in a white suit with a bow tie left no one indifferent. He was loved by the whole country. Since then began the life that Lev Valerianovich dreamed of with the sounds of his grandfather's violin.
Lev Leshchenko: biography. A family
The artist was married twice. The first wife of Leo, Alla Abdalova, was also an artist, but she did not share her husband's family values , she never found time to take care of the house. Lev Valerianovich was disappointed in his wife, and they broke up. In 1978, he married Irina Bagudina, with whom they live happily today. The artist’s only dream, which was not destined to come true, is children, none of Leshchenko’s wives gave him descendants.