Valery Makarov dreamed of becoming an actor since childhood. A living example of acting was before his eyes, because he was born in a creative family, his parents Arkady Vladimirovich and Vera Ivanovna Makarov worked as clowns. From childhood, their son himself composed and declared comic poems, and in his youth this fun grew into a serious hobby, and then into a profession.
Biography and creativity
The future poet and actor was born on June 9 in the postwar years - in 1947. A creative atmosphere reigned in the family. Parents who were professionally engaged in clowning directed the boy into that path of life in which they themselves were well oriented. However, after graduating from the Omsk school, the young Valera Makarov did not dare to enter the theater university and chose the history department of the Omsk Pedagogical Institute. But there he proved himself, actively participated in creative evenings and skits, was the soul of the company.
At his faculty, he met great love and his future wife - Love Polishchuk. She could not resist the spell of an impressive, charming, madly in love brunette with incredible charisma. Gifted, very in love with each other, young Soviet students all wanted to do together. So together they entered the All-Russian creative workshop of pop art, to which recruitment was conducted only in the capital, and together they moved to live and study in Moscow.
Biography Facts:
- Valery and Lyuba together participated in amateur performances.
- In a duet in Moscow, they worked in a team called "On the Omsk Stage".
- Then both went to service in the capital's Music Hall.
They performed in a popular colloquial genre, very beautifully sang to a guitar. They were loved by the public, they were direct, active, as if they did not play, but lived on stage. Sparkling and incredibly talented, Polishchuk and Makarov from the first minute conquered the viewer with an acting game.
In 1968, a stunning success awaited the creative family - they took to the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. We were very worried, rehearsed a lot, as a result, both brilliantly worked out the program and at one moment became famous.
Valery Arkadevich with his future wife returned to their native Omsk. In their city, they were already known as pop stars, spectators bought tickets to look only at this duet. Soon, Valery joined the army, where for two years he played in the ensemble of the Siberian Military District, he was sent on tour through military units of Siberia. Expecting a beloved from the army, Love got a job at the Omsk Philharmonic, participated in performances, went on tour and counted the days before the meeting. The young were married, and a couple was born a boy, called Alexei.
But something in life did not work out, and joint work and a common vocation did not strengthen the relationship of the spouses, and only six years after marriage, Lyubov Polishchuk demanded a divorce and after completing the divorce papers permanently moved with her son to Moscow. As she later told in an interview, the cause of the divorce was financial difficulties and frequent quarrels, misunderstandings. Love worked hard, became popular, she was invited as an actress to participate in theatrical productions and act in films. And Valery could not find himself in the Moscow whirlwind.
Later in the media, details of this scandalous divorce appeared, they wrote that a self-confident mother did not even allow her father to see her son. Lyubov Grigoryevna herself never tactfully talked about the reason for breaking up with Valery, she only casually mentioned how hard it was for her after marriage to pull her son Lesha and earn money, taking on any episodic roles. And only the mother of the actress, the mother-in-law of the actor, once pointed out Makarov's hopeless drunkenness.
Divorce seriously affected Valeria, still in love with Polishchuk. He was very worried, did not communicate with anyone, did not let anyone into his personal life, lived as a hermit alone. He was convinced that it was better to find no one in Lyubochka in the whole world. As Makarov’s only close friend, actor Sergei Denisenko, told Valera, until the last day, he had been grieving that life had separated him from his family - Lyuba and son Alyosha.
Second marriage
After a while, working in the Omsk Philharmonic, the man met a charming ballerina Tatyana, who drowned out the pain in his heart and accepted his proposal to marry.
The newlyweds had a daughter, Elena (who had lived all her life in Omsk and had not been acquainted with her older brother Alexei for more than 30 years), but this union was doomed to a sad ending. At 45, a tragedy occurred that put an end to Valery’s suffering.
