Gymnast Svetlana Khorkina - biography, sporting achievements, photographs. Svetlana Khorkina: personal life
30 June 2010, 14:45Olympic champion, world famous gymnast - Svetlana Khorkina. She was born in Belgorod on January 19, 1979 in a family of ordinary workers, her father was a simple worker, and her mother was a nurse. 
There are two children in the family, Svetlana’s closest friend can be considered her mother, they share everything with each other and even the most intimate secrets. Beauty, charm, artistry, everything comes from the mother, but perseverance and hard work from the father. 
As a child, Svetlana was crazy, running around with the boys through the streets from morning to night, since her parents were at work all the time. But as they say, every evil without a good, Svetlana fell ill, and then the doctors advised her to take up sports, so little Sveta began doing gymnastics. 
Svetlana’s success was immediately noticed and her coach, to whom she is very grateful, B. Pilkin, began training the little girl to become an Olympic champion. 
At youth competitions, Sveta had no equal, but that was not the limit. She felt truly grown up when they made her an offer that she couldn’t refuse to join the national team Soviet Union, and she was only 12 years old. A new stage in Sveta’s life has begun. The worries began, even more responsibility appeared before her parents, coach, city, country, then she realized that she no longer belonged to herself. 
But in those years, Sveta did not forget about herself, she calmly communicated with friends, met young people, and generally behaved like an ordinary girl. Svetlana is not often at home with her parents, but she is always so worried about her family and friends, despite the fact that Sveta is a very strong and purposeful person, she is still a beautiful and interesting woman. 
When you look at this fragile girl, you won’t even think that she has a whole era behind her. artistic gymnastics. Three-time absolute world champion and multiple Olympic champion, Vice-President of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation Svetlana Khorkina blew up the sports world with another victory. Victory in your personal life. She became a mother. According to the gymnast, the happiness of this victory is more valuable to her than all previously won ones. She is called a clone of Uma Thurman, capable of attacking anyone who encroaches on the assessment and analysis of her performance. And in response she just smiles sweetly and says: “I became a mother, and this is above all awards.” After the birth of the child, Svetlana truly became calmer and more reasonable, she felt like a mother. 
Sveta gave birth to a child in one of the clinics in Los Angeles. Khorkina's son will be a US citizen. According to American laws, any child born in this country becomes one. However, upon reaching adulthood, the young man will be able to choose Russian citizenship. - Sveta, today is sport only sport or politics too? How do athletes’ successes depend on the situation in world politics? - It's all together. If we take artistic gymnastics, we must admit that we are always judged, forced out, and not given freedom in terms of refereeing. Although the strength and victories are obvious. The last Olympics confirmed this once again. - Were you sued? - Yes, in all-around. The all-around competition is 4 events, where the number of points is summed up and the winner is revealed. After the first round, they didn’t give me a score for about 15 minutes. At least they would have been embarrassed to judge me right away. The fraud was obvious. There was practically no difference between how I and the American Carly Patterson performed. But I’m from Russia, and she’s from the USA, that’s the whole answer. - The American press accused you of slandering judges. Say, you accused them of stupidity, bias and bribery? “I’m not the only one who blamed them for this.” - It's a shame, perhaps? Or were you ready for such a turn? 
- It’s no longer offensive, I’m used to this kind of attitude towards our athletes. Victories were always given to me with blood, I literally snatched them out. - You are among the ten most attractive gymnasts in the world, according to one American magazine. - I read that I became fifth on the list of winners beautiful legs among gymnasts. But this is not a sporting achievement. Yes to me by and large, it doesn’t matter whose legs are there. It would be better if Americans looked more closely at professional quality athletes. 
- What should you have? potential candidate to gymnasts? - There must be an appropriate body structure, a twinkle in the eyes. - Did you also have the listed qualities? - No. I was the complete opposite of all these requirements. But I had a great coach. I was tall, and my height was suitable for rhythmic gymnastics, but not for sports. They told me that I would break down and not be able to withstand the stress. 
They say I’m tall and fragile, I have little strength. To be honest, I really had little strength. My mother sent me to gymnastics because I was an active, nimble, playful girl, but I often suffered from acute respiratory infections. 
- Tell me, can you “make” a champion out of any child? - We need to give everyone a chance to practice and try. - Sveta, since you gave birth, has your lifestyle and daily routine changed? - Yes, I stopped working (laughs). I have worked all my life and I don’t understand how you can live without working. But now my child compensates for all this. - What is your boy's name? - Svyatoslav. Although initially there were three variants of the name - Svyatoslav, Vyacheslav and Stanislav. I believe that whatever you name your child, that’s how he will go through life. They named me Svetlana because I was born fair. Thank God, my present is bright, I hope my future will be like that too. - You are so small and fragile, and the child was born, let’s say, not small. - I'm up to last day swam in the pool, walked. I ate everything healthy. I'm not a vegetarian. Ate cottage cheese and dairy products 
, fish, added vitamins to food. - Who helps you? - All by myself, but my mother comes for the weekend. - Are you coping? 
- Certainly! You know, it's such a thrill to tinker with a child. When you bathe him, change his diapers, feed him, when you see him every second. He is completely different all the time. I'm just blown away by the very thought that I'm a mother. - What are you dreaming about? - You won't believe it. I dream that I am training in the gym. My friends tell me that I am subconsciously preparing myself to return to sports. But I do not want! - Categorically? - Categorically. Now I will live only for the child and myself. - And when he grows up, will you return to sports? - No, I’m giving birth to a second one. And so on until the passion for gymnastics finally fades away (laughs). I always told myself that if I didn’t give birth to a child, I would never leave the sport. After all, before the birth of a child, sport was the only meaning of life for me. But I gave birth, and therefore goodbye, all the apparatus and the Olympics. I have been in professional sports 
This is great happiness! You know, before the baby was born, I was in Karelia on business, and there they showed me a tree with an ear cut out of it. So, I had to whisper my wish into this ear, and, as the locals assured me, it would certainly come true. Naturally, I wished that someday I would become a mother. The ear heard me and conveyed my desire to heaven! - Sveta, who is the father of the child? - Naturally, in the process of conceiving a child, the presence of a man is necessary. My child has a father, but I don’t want to make his name public. - The press attributed paternity to the husband of Vera Glagoleva and actor Levani Uchanishvili... - So what, two at once (laughs)? You know, the yellow press sometimes writes things that make you wonder. The case with paternity is from the same category. Levani and I are great friends, he is a very good person. - What surname will your son have? - Khorkin. - What about your middle name? - I'll tell you about this later. - Tell me, are you married? - Of course not. - Are you going? - You know, man proposes, but God disposes. I am a believer and I will say this: everything is God’s will. - Sveta, was there some event that preceded the desire to have a child? - I understood that I was already getting old. I read various literature where it was written that it is advisable for a woman to give birth to children before the age of 30. And since I want more children, I need to do it before I turn 30. 
- Will you give birth to a second child from the same man as the first? - First you need to conceive a child (laughs). Don't know. Maybe from the same thing, or maybe from another. - Sveta, who are your parents? - Father Vasily Vasilyevich is a calibration operator at the enterprise. Mom Lyubov Alekseevna is a nurse of the first category, works in a kindergarten. She treats children's eyesight preschool age. My sister is finishing her fifth year at the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports at Belgorod University. She holds the title of Master of Sports in gymnastics. 
- Will you initiate your son into professional sports? - Probably not. Perhaps for general development. Like all women, Sveta loves to dress well and look fashionable at social events, so when she often travels around the world, she tries to buy branded clothes. - I love unique things that immediately attract attention social events, says Sveta. After all, I am a young, beautiful, unmarried woman, so I should always look great. I was recently in Italy and decided to go shopping, but I couldn’t find anything interesting. Everything looked somehow expressionless on me. And I returned to Moscow with just one skinny suitcase. True, the beauty of Italian landscapes in contrast to shops fashionable clothes I was impressed and reconciled with Italian reality. 
I was also shown from a distance the villa of Andrei Shevchenko, whom we, however, are not yet familiar with. However, I think we will still meet sooner or later at some sporting event. Svetlana has many favorite branded clothes, for example: DSquared2, D&G, GF Ferre, Chanel. Now Svetlana is actively engaged in her book, she is writing an autobiography and her mother helps her a lot with this. This is a book about big sport, how it breaks people, how it can be unfair and how the system fails. In 2004, Svetlana Khorkina applied for the position of president of the Artistic Gymnastics Federation, but did not get literally 6 votes, and Yuri Titov became president, in turn, he invited her to become vice president. 
The great gymnast Svetlana Khorkina fell off the uneven bars, thereby losing the 13th gold medal, no matter how annoying it may sound, but it happened like that, she fell, got up and left the program without waiting for her grades. Khorkina left big sport, leaving the podium of the queen of artistic gymnastics empty. She left without saying a word, without shedding a single tear. 
Now the main thing for Sveta is life after big sport. Ordinary human life beautiful woman, who dreams of a husband, a home and raising a son. She opened her own gymnastics school to teach athletes to combine technique and artistry, which, no matter how hard they tried, the Americans never achieved. The school is already functioning, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin even came there for a visit, he was taken around the entire sports complex, he even talked with the young Olympians.
2008 Svetlana Khorkina -
famous Russian gymnast, born on January 19, 1979 in Belgorod. Many people call the woman the “queen of the parallel bars.” Svetlana, thanks to her willpower and desire, was able to win a large number of awards and titles.
The girl's future fate was influenced by her roommate. She recommended that the parents take the girl to the gymnastics section, to which the parents agreed. So little Khorkina began attending classes several times a week.
It is interesting that Svetlana was not suitable for this sport due to her physical qualities. But her coach Boris Pilkin took the girl. He fell in love with her because the young athlete achieved her goal with her perseverance and hard work.
For some time they did not want to take Svetlana Khorkina into the USSR youth team, but she proved to everyone that she is a very talented athlete. In 1992, the girl joined the Russian artistic gymnastics team.
Gymnastics
Svetlana had both victories and defeats. The gymnast herself believes that they were necessary to gain invaluable experience, and also build character.
In 1995, 14 days before a very important performance at the World Championships in Sabae (Japan), Svetlana unsuccessfully jumped off the uneven bars and injured her back. At the hospital, the gymnast was given a painkiller injection and told that she would have serious treatment. Doctors advised Khorkina to forget about the championship, but the athlete did not give up.
So the Russian beauty was able to concentrate on winning and won severe pain. She won the World Championships and brought home several medals.
At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the gymnast took gold in the uneven bars exercise and second place in the team competition. After that, she was called the “queen of the uneven bars.”
In 2000, Svetlana Khorkina attended the Olympics in Sydney. Then she turned 21 years old. At this moment she becomes the absolute champion at the World Cup.
In 2003, the Russian gymnast was able to win the World Championships in Anaheim.
In 2004, Svetalana performed at the Olympics in Athens, and then announced that she was ending her sports career.
Personal life
In 2005, Svetlana Khorkina gave birth to a son, Svyatoslav, in Los Angeles. From the autobiographical book of the athlete, “Somersaults in Heels,” it became known that her husband’s name is Kirill.
Svetlana Khorkina and Svyatoslav
In 2011, the personal life of the Russian athlete changed. Many media outlets claimed that Oleg Kochnov, a general, became the husband of Svetlana Khorkina Federal service security.
Svetlana Khorkina and Oleg Kochnov
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Svetlana Vasilievna Khorkina(born January 19, 1979, Belgorod, USSR) - Russian gymnast, two-time Olympic champion in parallel bars (,), 9-time world champion, including three times in the absolute championship and five times in parallel bars, and 13 - multiple European champion (three times in the absolute championship). Honored Master of Sports of Russia ().
First Deputy Head of CSKA (FAI RF CSKA) since February 5, 2016. Lieutenant Colonel of the Reserve Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Career
Khorkina began playing sports in 1983. She trained under the guidance of Boris Pilkin. Since 1992, Khorkina has been a member of the Russian national artistic gymnastics team.
1994-1995
Khorkina won her first senior international medal in 1994 at the World Championships in Brisbane: a silver medal on vault and another silver on uneven bars. She performed even more successfully at the European Championships that same year. Here she won silver in the all-around behind teammate Dina Kochetkova and gold on the uneven bars. Khorkina also competed in the Goodwill Games and the World Team Championships this year. Her first all-around victory came in 1995 at the European Cup, where she also won medals in the vault, uneven bars and floor exercise. She was the top contender for all-around gold at the World Championships that year. She does a double twist on the floor exercise instead of a triple. This resulted in a low program score, but flawless executions on beam and vault and a stellar performance on uneven bars helped her take second place behind Ukrainian Liliya Podkopaeva. In the uneven bars final, Khorkina won the gold medal with an incredible score of 9.90, ahead of Mo Huilan of China.
1996
2001-2003
Khorkina decided to compete at the next Olympics. At the 2001 World Championships, she won the title of overall champion, as well as gold in the vault and uneven bars. With 5 world champion titles and 2 Olympic champion titles, Khorkina becomes the most titled gymnast on one apparatus. From 1995 to 2001, she won every World Championship and Olympic uneven bars title. In 2002, Khorkina won the all-around at the European Championships; it is believed that she won only due to the judges' favor. In 2003, Svetlana admitted that gymnastics had taken a toll on her body and that she began to “feel her age,” but she promised to compete at the Olympics. At the World Championships in Anaheim, she became the absolute champion for the third time, which no woman had ever achieved before.
2004
Khorkina was again the favorite of the Games; this was her last Olympics. She reached the finals only in the all-around and uneven bars. In the team competition, her strong performances helped Russia win bronze, which was judged favorably, in stark contrast to the reaction to silver in 2000 (the team was significantly weaker in 2004).
Finally wins a medal in the all-around Olympic Games, but only silver. At a press conference after the performance, Khorkina stated that the victory was given to the American even before the start of the competition, essentially accusing the judges of bias.
| Main competitions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cup of Russia | Russian championship | Europe championship | World Championship | Olympic Games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Many | Beam. | Br. | Etc. | Whoa. | Many | Beam. | Br | Etc. | Whoa. | Many | Beam. | Br | Etc. | In. | Com. | Many | Beam. | Br | Etc. | Whoa. | Com. | Many | Beam. | Br | Etc. | Whoa. | Com. |
| 1993 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1994 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 2 | - | 2 | 8 | 3 | - | ||||||||
| 1995 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 5 | - | 4 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1996 | - | 2 | - | 6 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | |||||||
| 1997 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | - | ||||||||||||||
| 1998 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | ||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 12 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 2001 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | |||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 5 | 1 | - | 7 | 4 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | ||||||||||
| 2004 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | - | 7 | 3 | - | 2 | 8 | - | - | - | 3 | ||||||||
Gymnastic elements of Khorkina
- Rondat on the bridge - a float with a 360 turn on the horse - a bent back somersault (vault).
- Rondat to the bridge - flap with a 180 turn on the horse - a forward somersault in a tuck with a 540 turn (vault).
- From a handstand on the lower pole, turn back without touching with a stall flight and turn 180 while hanging onto the upper pole (uneven bars).
- An analogue of Markelov's flight with his legs apart on the men's crossbar (uneven bars).
- Stalder legs apart with a rotation of 540 in a mixed grip (parallel bars). Besides her, only American athlete Emmy Chow managed to repeat this element.
- From a standing transverse position, a one-leg float with a 360 turn to a standing position (beam).
- Dismount: one backflip with a 900 turn (beam).
After leaving the sport
For performing the most difficult combinations on the uneven bars, she was awarded the unofficial title “Queen of the Uneven Bars.”
She completed her sports career in the fall of 2004. She gave birth to her son Svyatoslav on July 21, 2005 in Los Angeles, thus giving him US citizenship.
On October 6, 2012, she was appointed assistant to the Presidential Control Directorate Russian Federation.
In September 2016, she became a confidant of the United Russia party in the elections to the State Duma of the 7th convocation.
Awards
To the cinema
She became one of the central characters in the film “Champions: Faster, Higher, Stronger,” which was based on real events.
Mentioned in the series "Gymnasts" ( Make It Or Break It, Episode 4 of Season III) as a gymnast who achieved great success with the wrong height for the uneven bars.
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Notes
Links
- Izvestia:
- - Olympic statistics on the website Sports-Reference.com(English)
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An excerpt characterizing Khorkin, Svetlana Vasilievna
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“Don’t talk to me... I beg you,” Pierre whispered hoarsely.
- Why shouldn’t I tell you! “I can speak and will boldly say that it is a rare wife who, with a husband like you, would not take lovers (des amants), but I did not,” she said. Pierre wanted to say something, looked at her with strange eyes, the expression of which she did not understand, and lay down again. He was physically suffering at that moment: his chest was tight, and he could not breathe. He knew that he needed to do something to stop this suffering, but what he wanted to do was too scary.
“It’s better for us to part,” he said falteringly.
“Part up, if you please, only if you give me a fortune,” said Helen... Separate, that’s what scared me!
Pierre jumped up from the sofa and staggered towards her.
- I'll kill you! - he shouted, and grabbing a marble board from the table, with a force still unknown to him, he took a step towards it and swung at it.
Helen's face became scary: she squealed and jumped away from him. His father's breed affected him. Pierre felt the fascination and charm of rage. He threw the board, broke it and, with with open hands approaching Helen, he shouted: “Get out!!” in such a terrible voice that the whole house heard this scream with horror. God knows what Pierre would have done at that moment if
Helen did not run out of the room.
A week later, Pierre gave his wife power of attorney to manage all the Great Russian estates, which amounted to more than half of his fortune, and alone he left for St. Petersburg.
Two months have passed since news was received in Bald Mountains about Battle of Austerlitz and about the death of Prince Andrei, and despite all the letters through the embassy and all the searches, his body was not found, and he was not among the prisoners. The worst thing for his relatives was that there was still hope that he had been raised by the inhabitants on the battlefield, and perhaps was lying recovering or dying somewhere alone, among strangers, and unable to give news of himself. In the newspapers, from which the old prince first learned about the defeat of Austerlitz, it was written, as always, very briefly and vaguely, that the Russians, after brilliant battles, had to retreat and carried out the retreat in perfect order. The old prince understood from this official news that ours were defeated. A week after the newspaper brought news of the Battle of Austerlitz, a letter arrived from Kutuzov, who informed the prince of the fate that befell his son.
“Your son, in my eyes,” wrote Kutuzov, with a banner in his hands, in front of the regiment, fell as a hero worthy of his father and his fatherland. To my general regret and that of the entire army, it is still unknown whether he is alive or not. I flatter myself and you with hope that your son is alive, for otherwise he would have been named among the officers found on the battlefield, about whom the list was given to me through the envoys.”
Having received this news late in the evening, when he was alone. in his office, the old prince, as usual, went for his morning walk the next day; but he was silent with the clerk, the gardener and the architect, and, although he looked angry, he did not say anything to anyone.
When, at ordinary times, Princess Marya came to him, he stood at the machine and sharpened, but, as usual, did not look back at her.
- A! Princess Marya! - he suddenly said unnaturally and threw the chisel. (The wheel was still spinning from its swing. Princess Marya long remembered this fading creaking of the wheel, which for her merged with what followed.)
Princess Marya moved towards him, saw his face, and something suddenly sank within her. Her eyes stopped seeing clearly. She saw from her father’s face, not sad, not murdered, but angry and unnaturally working on himself, that a terrible misfortune hung over her and would crush her, the worst in her life, a misfortune she had not yet experienced, an irreparable, incomprehensible misfortune. , the death of someone you love.
- Mon pere! Andre? [Father! Andrei?] - Said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such an inexpressible charm of sadness and self-forgetfulness that her father could not stand her gaze and turned away, sobbing.
- Got the news. None among the prisoners, none among the killed. Kutuzov writes,” he shouted shrilly, as if wanting to drive the princess away with this cry, “he has been killed!”
The princess did not fall, she did not feel faint. She was already pale, but when she heard these words, her face changed, and something shone in her radiant, beautiful eyes. It was as if joy, the highest joy, independent of the sorrows and joys of this world, spread beyond the intense sadness that was in her. She forgot all her fear of her father, walked up to him, took his hand, pulled him towards her and hugged his dry, sinewy neck.
“Mon pere,” she said. “Don’t turn away from me, we’ll cry together.”
- Scoundrels, scoundrels! – the old man shouted, moving his face away from her. - Destroy the army, destroy the people! For what? Go, go, tell Lisa. “The princess sank helplessly into a chair next to her father and began to cry. She now saw her brother at that moment as he said goodbye to her and Lisa, with his gentle and at the same time arrogant look. She saw him at that moment, how he tenderly and mockingly put the icon on himself. “Did he believe? Did he repent of his unbelief? Is he there now? Is it there, in the abode of eternal peace and bliss?” she thought.
- Mon pere, [Father,] tell me how it was? – she asked through tears.
- Go, go, killed in the battle in which they were ordered to kill the Russians the best people and Russian glory. Go, Princess Marya. Go and tell Lisa. I will come.
When Princess Marya returned from her father, the little princess was sitting at work, and with that special expression of an inner and happily calm look, characteristic only of pregnant women, she looked at Princess Marya. It was clear that her eyes did not see Princess Marya, but looked deep into herself - into something happy and mysterious happening within her.
“Marie,” she said, moving away from the hoop and waddling back, “give me your hand here.” “She took the princess’s hand and placed it on her stomach.
Her eyes smiled expectantly, her sponge with mustache rose, and childishly happily remained raised.
Princess Marya knelt in front of her and hid her face in the folds of her daughter-in-law's dress.
- Here, here - do you hear? It's so strange to me. And you know, Marie, I will love him very much,” said Lisa, looking at her sister-in-law with sparkling, happy eyes. Princess Marya could not raise her head: she was crying.
- What's wrong with you, Masha?
“Nothing... I felt so sad... sad about Andrei,” she said, wiping her tears on her daughter-in-law’s knees. Several times throughout the morning, Princess Marya began to prepare her daughter-in-law, and each time she began to cry. These tears, the reason for which the little princess did not understand, alarmed her, no matter how little observant she was. She didn’t say anything, but looked around restlessly, looking for something. Before dinner, the old prince, whom she had always been afraid of, entered her room, now with a particularly restless, angry face, and without saying a word, he left. She looked at Princess Marya, then thought with that expression in her eyes of attention directed inward that pregnant women have, and suddenly began to cry.
– Did you receive anything from Andrey? - she said.
- No, you know that the news could not come yet, but mon pere is worried, and I’m scared.
- Oh nothing?
“Nothing,” said Princess Marya, looking firmly at her daughter-in-law with radiant eyes. She decided not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the receipt of terrible news from her daughter-in-law until her permission, which was supposed to be the other day. Princess Marya and the old prince, each in their own way, wore and hid their grief. The old prince did not want to hope: he decided that Prince Andrei had been killed, and despite the fact that he sent an official to Austria to look for his son’s trace, he ordered a monument to him in Moscow, which he intended to erect in his garden, and told everyone that his son was killed. He tried to lead his previous lifestyle without changing, but his strength failed him: he walked less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. Princess Marya hoped. She prayed for her brother as if he were alive and waited every minute for news of his return.
“Ma bonne amie, [My good friend,”] said the little princess on the morning of March 19th after breakfast, and her sponge with mustache rose according to an old habit; but just as in all not only smiles, but the sounds of speeches, even the gaits in this house since the day the terrible news was received, there was sadness, so now the smile of the little princess, who succumbed to the general mood, although she did not know its reason, was such that she reminded me even more of general sadness.
- Ma bonne amie, je crains que le fruschtique (comme dit Foka - the cook) de ce matin ne m "aie pas fait du mal. [My friend, I'm afraid that the current frishtik (as the cook Foka calls it) will make me feel bad. ]
– What’s wrong with you, my soul? You're pale. “Oh, you are very pale,” said Princess Marya in fear, running up to her daughter-in-law with her heavy, soft steps.
- Your Excellency, should I send for Marya Bogdanovna? - said one of the maids who was here. (Marya Bogdanovna was a midwife from a district town who had been living in Bald Mountains for another week.)
“And indeed,” Princess Marya picked up, “perhaps for sure.” I will go. Courage, mon ange! [Don't be afraid, my angel.] She kissed Lisa and wanted to leave the room.
- Oh, no, no! - And besides the pallor, the little princess’s face expressed children's fear inevitable physical suffering.
- Non, c"est l"estomac... dites que c"est l"estomac, dites, Marie, dites..., [No, this is the stomach... tell me, Masha, that this is the stomach...] - and the princess began to cry childishly, painfully, capriciously and even somewhat feignedly, wringing his little hands. The princess ran out of the room after Marya Bogdanovna.
- Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! [My God! Oh my God!] Oh! – she heard behind her.
Rubbing her plump, small, white hands, the midwife was already walking towards her, with a significantly calm face.
- Marya Bogdanovna! It seems it has begun,” said Princess Marya, looking at her grandmother with frightened, open eyes.
“Well, thank God, princess,” said Marya Bogdanovna without increasing her pace. “You girls shouldn’t know about this.”
- But how come the doctor hasn’t arrived from Moscow yet? - said the princess. (At the request of Lisa and Prince Andrey, an obstetrician was sent to Moscow on time, and he was expected every minute.)
“It’s okay, princess, don’t worry,” said Marya Bogdanovna, “and without the doctor everything will be fine.”
Five minutes later, the princess heard from her room that they were carrying something heavy. She looked out - the waiters were carrying something to the bedroom leather sofa, standing in Prince Andrei's office. There was something solemn and quiet on the faces of the people carrying them.
Princess Marya sat alone in her room, listening to the sounds of the house, occasionally opening the door when they passed by, and looking closely at what was happening in the corridor. Several women walked in and out with quiet steps, looked at the princess and turned away from her. She did not dare to ask, she closed the door, returned to her room, and then sat down in her chair, then took up her prayer book, then knelt down in front of the icon case. Unfortunately and to her surprise, she felt that prayer did not calm her anxiety. Suddenly the door of her room quietly opened and her old nanny Praskovya Savishna, tied with a scarf, appeared on the threshold; almost never, due to the prince’s prohibition, did not enter her room.
“I came to sit with you, Mashenka,” said the nanny, “but I brought the prince’s wedding candles to light in front of the saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh.
- Oh, I'm so glad, nanny.
- God is merciful, my dear. - The nanny lit candles entwined with gold in front of the icon case and sat down with the stocking by the door. Princess Marya took the book and began to read. Only when steps or voices were heard, the princess looked at each other in fear, questioningly, and the nanny. In all parts of the house the same feeling that Princess Marya experienced while sitting in her room was poured out and possessed everyone. I believe that what less people knows about the suffering of the mother in labor, the less she suffers, everyone tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke about this, but in all the people, in addition to the usual sedateness and respect for good manners that reigned in the prince’s house, one could see one common concern, a softness of heart and an awareness of something great, incomprehensible, taking place at that moment.
No laughter could be heard in the big maid's room. In the waitress all the people sat and were silent, ready to do something. The servants burned torches and candles and did not sleep. The old prince, stepping on his heel, walked around the office and sent Tikhon to Marya Bogdanovna to ask: what? - Just tell me: the prince ordered me to ask what? and come tell me what she says.
“Report to the prince that labor has begun,” said Marya Bogdanovna, looking significantly at the messenger. Tikhon went and reported to the prince.
“Okay,” said the prince, closing the door behind him, and Tikhon no longer heard the slightest sound in the office. A little later, Tikhon entered the office, as if to adjust the candles. Seeing that the prince was lying on the sofa, Tikhon looked at the prince, at his upset face, shook his head, silently approached him and, kissing him on the shoulder, left without adjusting the candles or saying why he had come. The most solemn sacrament in the world continued to be performed. Evening passed, night came. And the feeling of expectation and softening of the heart in the face of the incomprehensible did not fall, but rose. Nobody was sleeping.
It was one of those March nights when winter seems to want to take its toll and pours out its last snows and storms with desperate anger. To meet the German doctor from Moscow, who was expected every minute and for whom a support was sent to the main road, to the turn to the country road, horsemen with lanterns were sent to guide him through the potholes and jams.
Princess Marya had left the book long ago: she sat silently, fixing her radiant eyes on the wrinkled, familiar to the smallest detail, face of the nanny: on a lock gray hair, escaped from under the scarf, onto the hanging bag of skin under the chin.
Nanny Savishna, with a stocking in her hands, in a quiet voice told, without hearing or understanding her own words, what had been told hundreds of times about how the late princess in Chisinau gave birth to Princess Marya, with a Moldavian peasant woman instead of her grandmother.
“God have mercy, you never need a doctor,” she said. Suddenly a gust of wind hit one of the exposed frames of the room (by the will of the prince, one frame was always displayed with larks in each room) and, knocking off the poorly closed bolt, fluttered the damask curtain, and, smelling cold and snow, blew out the candle. Princess Marya shuddered; The nanny, having put down the stocking, went to the window and leaned out and began to catch the folded frame. The cold wind ruffled the ends of her scarf and the gray, stray strands of hair.
- Princess, mother, someone is driving along the road ahead! - she said, holding the frame and not closing it. - With lanterns, it should be, doctor...
- Oh my god! God bless! - said Princess Marya, - we must go meet him: he doesn’t know Russian.
Princess Marya threw on her shawl and ran towards those traveling. When she passed the front hall, she saw through the window that some kind of carriage and lanterns were standing at the entrance. She went out onto the stairs. There was a tallow candle on the railing post and it was flowing from the wind. The waiter Philip, with a frightened face and another candle in his hand, stood below, on the first landing of the stairs. Even lower, around the bend, along the stairs, moving footsteps in warm boots could be heard. And some familiar voice, as it seemed to Princess Marya, said something.
- God bless! - said the voice. - And father?
“They’ve gone to bed,” answered the voice of the butler Demyan, who was already downstairs.
Then the voice said something else, Demyan answered something, and footsteps in warm boots began to approach faster along the invisible bend of the stairs. "This is Andrey! - thought Princess Marya. No, this cannot be, it would be too unusual,” she thought, and at the same moment as she was thinking this, on the platform on which the waiter stood with a candle, the face and figure of Prince Andrei appeared in a fur coat with a collar sprinkled with snow. Yes, it was him, but pale and thin, and with a changed, strangely softened, but alarming expression on his face. He walked onto the stairs and hugged his sister.
-You didn’t receive my letter? - he asked, and without waiting for an answer, which he would not have received, because the princess could not speak, he returned, and with the obstetrician, who entered after him (he met with him at the last station), with quick steps he again entered the the stairs and hugged his sister again. - What fate! - he said, “Dear Masha,” and, throwing off his fur coat and boots, he went to the princess’s quarters.
The little princess was lying on pillows, wearing a white cap. (Suffering had just released her.) Black hair curled in strands around her sore, sweaty cheeks; her rosy, lovely mouth with a sponge covered with black hairs was open, and she smiled joyfully. Prince Andrei entered the room and stopped in front of her, at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. Brilliant eyes, looking childish, scared and excited, stopped at him without changing expression. “I love you all, I haven’t done harm to anyone, why am I suffering? help me,” her expression said. She saw her husband, but did not understand the significance of his appearance now before her. Prince Andrei walked around the sofa and kissed her on the forehead.
“My darling,” he said: a word he had never spoken to her. - God is merciful. “She looked at him questioningly, childishly and reproachfully.
“I expected help from you, and nothing, nothing, and you too!” - said her eyes. She wasn't surprised that he came; she did not understand that he had arrived. His arrival had nothing to do with her suffering and its relief. The torment began again, and Marya Bogdanovna advised Prince Andrei to leave the room.
The obstetrician entered the room. Prince Andrei went out and, meeting Princess Marya, again approached her. They started talking in a whisper, but every minute the conversation fell silent. They waited and listened.
“Allez, mon ami, [Go, my friend,” said Princess Marya. Prince Andrey again went to his wife and sat down in the next room, waiting. Some woman came out of her room with a frightened face and was embarrassed when she saw Prince Andrei. He covered his face with his hands and sat there for several minutes. Pathetic, helpless animal groans were heard from behind the door. Prince Andrei stood up, went to the door and wanted to open it. Someone was holding the door.
- You can’t, you can’t! – a frightened voice said from there. “He began to walk around the room. The screams stopped and a few seconds passed. Suddenly a terrible scream - not her scream, she could not scream like that - was heard in the next room. Prince Andrei ran to the door; the scream stopped, and the cry of a child was heard.
“Why did they bring the child there? thought Prince Andrei at the first second. Child? Which one?... Why is there a child there? Or was it a baby born? When he suddenly realized all the joyful meaning of this cry, tears choked him, and he, leaning with both hands on the windowsill, sobbed, began to cry, as children cry. The door opened. The doctor, with his shirt sleeves rolled up, without a frock coat, pale and with a shaking jaw, left the room. Prince Andrey turned to him, but the doctor looked at him in confusion and, without saying a word, walked past. The woman ran out and, seeing Prince Andrei, hesitated on the threshold. He entered his wife's room. She lay dead in the same position in which he had seen her five minutes ago, and the same expression, despite the fixed eyes and the paleness of her cheeks, was on that charming, childish face with a sponge covered with black hairs.
“I love you all and have never done anything bad to anyone, so what have you done to me?” her lovely, pitiful, dead face spoke. In the corner of the room, something small and red grunted and squeaked in Marya Bogdanovna’s white, shaking hands.
Two hours after this, Prince Andrei entered his father’s office with quiet steps. The old man already knew everything. He stood right at the door, and as soon as it opened, the old man silently, with his senile, hard hands, like a vice, grabbed his son’s neck and sobbed like a child.
Three days later the funeral service was held for the little princess, and, bidding farewell to her, Prince Andrei ascended the steps of the coffin. And in the coffin was the same face, although with closed eyes. “Oh, what have you done to me?” it said everything, and Prince Andrei felt that something was torn away in his soul, that he was guilty of a guilt that he could not correct or forget. He couldn't cry. The old man also entered and kissed her wax hand, which lay calmly and high on the other, and her face said to him: “Oh, what and why did you do this to me?” And the old man turned away angrily when he saw this face.
Five days later, the young Prince Nikolai Andreich was baptized. The mother held the diapers with her chin while the priest smeared the boy’s wrinkled red palms and steps with a goose feather.
The godfather grandfather, afraid to drop him, shuddering, carried the baby around the dented tin font and handed him over to his godmother, Princess Marya. Prince Andrei, frozen with fear that the child would not be drowned, sat in another room, waiting for the end of the sacrament. He looked joyfully at the child when the nanny carried him out to him, and nodded his head approvingly when the nanny told him that a piece of wax with hairs thrown into the font did not sink, but floated along the font.
Rostov's participation in Dolokhov's duel with Bezukhov was hushed up through the efforts of the old count, and Rostov, instead of being demoted, as he expected, was appointed adjutant to the Moscow governor general. As a result, he could not go to the village with his entire family, but remained in his new position all summer in Moscow. Dolokhov recovered, and Rostov became especially friendly with him during this time of his recovery. Dolokhov lay sick with his mother, who loved him passionately and tenderly. The old woman Marya Ivanovna, who fell in love with Rostov for his friendship with Fedya, often told him about her son.
“Yes, Count, he is too noble and pure of soul,” she used to say, “for our current, corrupted world.” Nobody likes virtue, it hurts everyone's eyes. Well, tell me, Count, is this fair, is this fair on Bezukhov’s part? And Fedya, in his nobility, loved him, and now he never says anything bad about him. In St. Petersburg, they joked about these pranks with the quarterly, because they did it together? Well, Bezukhov had nothing, but Fedya bore everything on his shoulders! After all, what did he endure! Suppose they returned it, but how could they not return it? I think there weren’t many brave men and sons of the fatherland like him there. Well now - this duel! Do these people have a sense of honor? Knowing that he is the only son, challenge him to a duel and shoot so straight! It's good that God had mercy on us. And for what? Well, who doesn’t have intrigue these days? Well, if he is so jealous? I understand, because he could have made me feel it before, otherwise it went on for a year. And so, he challenged him to a duel, believing that Fedya would not fight because he owed him. What baseness! That's disgusting! I know you understood Fedya, my dear count, that’s why I love you with my soul, believe me. Few people understand him. This is such a high, heavenly soul!
Biography
Svetlana Vasilievna Khorkina is a Russian gymnast, two-time Olympic champion in parallel bars (1996, 2000), 9-time world champion, including three times in the absolute championship and five times in parallel bars, and 13-time European champion (three times in absolute championship). Honored Master of Sports of Russia (1995). Mordovian by nationality.
First Deputy Head of CSKA (FAI RF CSKA) since February 5, 2016. Reserve Lieutenant Colonel.
Career
Khorkina began playing sports in 1983. She trained under the guidance of Boris Pilkin. Since 1992, Khorkina has been a member of the Russian national artistic gymnastics team.
1994-1995
Khorkina won her first senior international medal in 1994 at the World Championships in Brisbane: a silver medal on vault and another silver on uneven bars. She performed even more successfully at the European Championships that same year. Here she won silver in the all-around behind teammate Dina Kochetkova and gold on the uneven bars. Khorkina also competed in the Goodwill Games and the World Team Championships this year. Her first all-around victory came in 1995 at the European Cup, where she also won medals in the vault, uneven bars and floor exercise. She was the top contender for all-around gold at the World Championships that year. She does a double twist on the floor exercise instead of a triple. This led to a low score for the program, but flawless executions on beam and vault and a stellar performance on uneven bars helped her take second place behind Ukraine's Liliya Podkopaeva. In the uneven bars final, Khorkina won the gold medal with an incredible score of 9.90, ahead of Mo Huilan of China.
1996
Prior to the Olympics, Svetlana retained her European and world titles on uneven bars, helped the Russian team win silver at the European Championships, and also took bronze on vault. A fall from the balance beam in the all-around prevented her from competing for a medal; she only took sixth place, but this was no longer a surprise. Thanks to her recent successes, Svetlana was considered a favorite at the Atlanta Games. And the Russian team looked much stronger than at the 1992 Games after the collapse of the USSR. However, the Olympic Games were a disappointment for both Svetlana and the Russian team.
Svetlana and the more experienced team members, Rozalia Galieva and Dina Kochetkova, performed their routine well, but the younger athletes made a number of mistakes and seemed unnerved by the crowd noise and Team USA's strong performance. The all-around was no consolation either - having perfectly performed the floor exercises, beam exercises and vault, Svetlana could not cope with her nerves and fell from her favorite apparatus - the uneven bars, finishing the exercises only in 15th place. However, Khorkina sweetened the pill for herself with gold in the individual uneven bars competition.
1997-2000
Khorkina's performances over the next 4 years were unstable, as were the performances of her compatriot Alexei Nemov. Svetlana can perform excellent exercises or succumb to anxiety. Grades were a sore subject. At the 1997 World Championships in Lausanne, changes to the scoring system were expected to negatively impact Svetlana, but she won her first overall world title after a stellar performance on the uneven bars, receiving the highest score. She pushed Olympic champion Simone Amanar into second place, repeating the scenario of the 1998 European Championships. Over the next two years after winning the World Championships, Svetlana's skills became almost perfect, with rare exceptions. She introduced new complex elements on all apparatus, especially on uneven bars and beam. Khorkina continued to dominate on the uneven bars and soon earned the nickname "Queen of the Uneven Bars."
Khorkina won the all-around at the 1998 European Championships, but failed at the Goodwill Games. She started the 1999 World Championships as the favorite in the all-around, but after a disastrous performance on the balance beam, she was left without a medal. However, she continued her winning streak on uneven bars, winning her fourth consecutive world title.
2000
She started the Olympic Games in Sydney again as a favorite in the all-around. In the team championship, Khorkina performed a very difficult jump, which no one had seen before; it was later named Khorkina II. Also showed good results on floor exercise and uneven bars, qualifying for the finals. Her score on the balance beam also allowed her to reach the final, but Russia had stronger gymnasts on the balance beam - Lobaznyuk and Produnova, and according to the rules, only two athletes from one country can be in the final. The rest of the team was successful in the preliminary competition, easily defeating the Romanian team and it looked like this would be the Olympics for Russian gymnasts.
However, the ending was a nightmare. Khorkina fell from her favorite uneven bars, Produnova sat on the floor exercise, and Lobaznyuk and Zamolodchikova fell from the balance beam. The first three mistakes were not catastrophic, since according to those rules, lower scores on the apparatus were discarded, so the falls did not ruin the team's chances. Less famous gymnasts performed more confidently, but this still did not allow them to win the gold medal. The Russians finished in second place - behind the Romanian national team. With an error-free performance, Russia would have won the first gold in artistic gymnastics. They blamed Khorkina - if she had carried out her program flawlessly, the team would not have lost the gold. Having descended from the platform, Khorkina took off her silver medal. For the second Olympics in a row, her team won only silver.
When the all-around competition began, it turned out that the jumping horse was set 5 centimeters lower than necessary. A number of gymnasts made uncharacteristic mistakes in their jumps because of this. Khorkina complained to the judges about this, but her words were ignored, but Svetlana was told that the mistake had been corrected. Leading after the first jump, she falls on the second due to the incorrect height of the horse. Devastated and upset after this incident, Khorkina for the first time in for a long time disrupts performances on the uneven bars. Finally discovering their mistake, the judges allow the victims to repeat their jumps, but the scores on other apparatus cannot be corrected, and Khorkina refuses to repeat the jump, after which she takes 10th place, leaving the platform in tears. She showed excellent results on the mat and beam, and if not for the vault, she would have easily won gold in the all-around. In several interviews after the Olympics, Khorkina called this incident “ black spot in my soul". In a tense struggle, Svetlana manages to retain the title of Olympic champion on uneven bars. Once again she defeats the Chinese woman, this time Ling Ji. She also won a silver medal, losing to her compatriot Elena Zamolodchikova. Khorkina also had the right to participate in the vault final, but gave it to Elena Zamolodchikova.
2001-2003
Khorkina decided to compete at the next Olympics. At the 2001 World Championships, she won the title of overall champion, as well as gold in the vault and uneven bars. With 5 world champion titles and 2 Olympic champion titles, Khorkina becomes the most titled gymnast on one apparatus. From 1995 to 2001, she won every World Championship and Olympic uneven bars title. In 2002, Khorkina won the all-around at the European Championships; it is believed that she won only due to the judges' favor. In 2003, Svetlana admitted that gymnastics had taken a toll on her body and that she began to “feel her age,” but she promised to compete at the Olympics. At the World Championships in Anaheim, she became the absolute champion for the third time, which no woman had ever achieved before.
2004
Khorkina was again the favorite of the Games; this was her last Olympics. She reached the finals only in the all-around and uneven bars. In the team competition, her strong performances helped Russia win bronze, which was judged favorably, in stark contrast to the reaction to silver in 2000 (the team was significantly weaker in 2004).
Finally wins a medal in the all-around Olympic Games, but only silver. At a press conference after the performance, Khorkina stated that the victory was given to the American even before the start of the competition, essentially accusing the judges of bias.
Gymnastic elements of Khorkina
Svetlana Khorkina is the author of the following gymnastic elements:Rondat on the bridge - a float with a 360 turn on the horse - a bent back somersault (vault).
Rondat to the bridge - flap with a 180 turn on the horse - a forward somersault in a tuck with a 540 turn (vault).
From a handstand on the lower pole, turn back without touching with a stall flight and turn 180 while hanging onto the upper pole (uneven bars).
An analogue of Markelov's flight with his legs apart on the men's crossbar (uneven bars).
Stalder legs apart with a rotation of 540 in a mixed grip (parallel bars). Besides her, only American athlete Emmy Chow managed to repeat this element.
From a standing transverse position, a one-leg float with a 360 turn to a standing position (beam).
Dismount: one backflip with a 900 turn (beam).
After leaving the sport
For performing the most difficult combinations on the uneven bars, she was awarded the unofficial title “Queen of the Uneven Bars.”She completed her sports career in the fall of 2004.
She gave birth to her son Svyatoslav on July 21, 2005 in Los Angeles, thus giving him US citizenship. According to official version, the boy’s father is actor Levan Uchaneishvili. In 2005, information appeared in the media that Svetlana gave birth to a baby from businessman Kirill Shubsky! Kirill Shubsky, together with his wife Vera Glagoleva, sued the press more than once because of these rumors!
Vice-President of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation.
Member of the United Russia party. On December 2, 2007, she was elected to the State Duma of the fifth convocation.
Since July 26, 2010 - member of the Patriarchal Council for Culture (Russian Orthodox Church).
Having replaced Nikolai Baskov, she hosted the television project “Dom-1” on the TNT channel.
On October 6, 2012, she was appointed as an assistant in the Control Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation.
It has military rank reserve lieutenant colonel. By order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation S.K. Shoigu dated February 2016, she was appointed to the military position of first deputy head of the Federal Autonomous Institution of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation “Central Sports Club of the Army” (FAU RF CSKA).
In September 2016, she became a confidant of the United Russia party in the elections to the State Duma of the 7th convocation.
Awards and recognition
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (February 18, 2006) - for great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports and high sporting achievements
Order of Honor (April 19, 2001) - for his great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high sporting achievements at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad 2000 in Sydney
Order of Friendship (January 6, 1997) - for services to the state and high sporting achievements at the XXVI Summer Olympic Games 1996
Certificate of Honor from the President of Russia (2017),
Badge of honor (order) “Sporting Glory of Russia” (editorial office of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” and the board of the Russian Olympic Committee, November 2002)
Laureate of the National Award for Public Recognition of Women's Achievements "Olympia" Russian Academy business and entrepreneurship in 2005
Svetlana Khorkina’s personal star was unveiled on February 25, 2017 on the Olympic Walk of Fame at the Rosa Khutor resort (Sochi).
To the cinema
She became one of the central characters in the film “Champions: Faster. Higher. Stronger", which was based on real events.Mentioned in the series "Gymnasts" (Make It Or Break It, 4th episode of Season III) as a gymnast who achieved great success with inappropriate height for the uneven bars.
Gymnast Svetlana Khorkina gave birth to a son, Svyatoslav, in 2005 in one of the prestigious American clinics. However, the star tried her best to hide this joyful event. The reason for this was the painful relationship between the famous athlete and the father of her child - businessman Kirill Shubsky, who has been in an official union with the actress since 1992 Vera Glagoleva and raises three children - their common daughter Anastasia, and two daughters of Glagoleva from her previous marriage with director Rodion Nakhapetov - Anna and Maria.
The two-time Olympic champion met millionaire Kirill Shubsky in the spring of 1997 at a dinner in Lausanne, Switzerland, where they both flew as part of the delegation of the National Olympic Committee. Some time after they met, a romance began between the athlete and the businessman, which actually developed into a civil marriage. Despite all the rumors circulating around them, the couple did not advertise their relationship. “Because of my youth, because of stupidity, because of inexperience, I delayed the initial stage of the relationship with the person who entered my destiny too much, I believed too much in the promises of living together, of starting a family. I repeat, I had no one to consult with. And they told me something about a civil marriage, about the fact that we are like husband and wife,” Svetlana recalls life with Shubsky.
Over time, Khorkina began to feel that her relationship with married lover have reached their limit. “Gradually I realized that the expression “civil marriage” is self-deception. What marriage?! It’s just cohabitation,” Khorkina recalled. Having learned about her pregnancy, Svetlana immediately informed Kirill about it, for whose sake she kept their love affair in the strictest confidence. However, Shubsky did not take this news at all as she expected.
At the request of Kirill Shubsky, so that this event would not receive wide publicity, Khorkina flew to Los Angeles, where she gave birth under someone else’s name. “The man with whom I was expecting a child hid me from everyone. He didn’t want to advertise our relationship, so he tried not to show me to any of his compatriots. And although, it seems to me, I have not committed a single shameful act in my life, I was told that I should go as far as possible and not tell anyone about my pregnancy. I didn't understand why it had to be this way. And yet she agreed,” Svetlana admitted in an exclusive interview with 7 Days magazine.
Kirill still took her from the maternity hospital, however, there was no talk of continuing the relationship. “It’s a pity that this turned out to be happiness not for the two of us, but only for me,” the gymnast recalls. “But even that couldn’t darken my joy.” I was incredibly happy. And today I can’t imagine life without my little firefly.” A few years later, Shubsky, at Svetlana’s insistence, finally officially recognized his son Svyatoslav. “By and large, this man played too small a role in my life,” shares Khorkina. - Although very important - I have a son from him. But my life no longer intersects with him.”
