Alexander Malinin left his own father without a monument

Nikolai Stepanovich was buried in a rural cemetery in the village of Kosulino, near Yekaterinburg. At the local churchyard, his grave is considered one of the most visited.

– Now the snow has fallen – you won’t go to the grave, – Tatyana sighs. That’s why we rarely go to him in winter. But for the anniversary, of course, we will definitely go.

– Why is there still no monument on the grave?

We have not yet been able to install it due to financial problems. We don’t have any money yet. I now earn, from each salary I save some amount. When Nikolai Stepanovich fell ill, we spent all the money we had on expensive medicines. They did everything to get him out.

– And Alexander Malinin did not help?

No, it didn’t help. Do you know who helped us? Maxim Fadeev! He watched the program on television, he felt sorry for Nikolai Stepanovich, and he responded. It would seem that a stranger, Fadeev, took and helped, but his own son did not. By the way, shortly before his death, journalists came to us and actually forced us to ask Malinin for money. Then the husband was already very ill, he asked. Although I didn’t want to do it.

How much money is needed for the memorial?

– 60 thousand, probably. Maybe we’ll put it on in the spring. All people, when they come to the cemetery, are surprised: “Not a fig to yourself, Nikolai Stepanovich, and without a monument. Actually a nightmare! His sons have never even been to the grave. Son Oleg, who lives here, in Yekaterinburg, never came. Alexander, when Nikolai Stepanovich was 9 days old, was on tour with us. But he did not go to the cemetery. Passed by, but did not enter. But they posted a video on the Internet, where they seemed to mock their father. Garbage different flogged. Even during his lifetime, they wrote that his father was an alcoholic. It is not true. He never drank. Nikolai Stepanovich was very worried about this. I told him: “You are going to the program. Tell the whole truth there!” And he kept shrugging it off: he was a modest man.

– What is the truth, really?

– The truth is that Nikolai Stepanovich always helped his children. Both during marriage and after. In the Soviet years, it was hard to get out to sea. And he drove them south every year. And Alexander kept even after he moved to Moscow. He supported him for 8-10 years, then he won in Jurmala, he himself had money. And so Nikolai Stepanovich helped everyone. Malinin would not have achieved anything if his dad did not support him. And now Malinin is a good one, and his father is a drunkard. Why humiliate a person? I sometimes think: “Why?

– You were not against the fact that Nikolai Stepanovich sent money to Moscow?

– Of course not. Why should I be against it? These are his children! Why would I get in? I didn’t interfere in their relationship.

– Alexander said in an interview that he was offended by his father because he left their mother and destroyed the family!

Why tell lies that he abandoned the children? Firstly, they did not divorce on his initiative. In addition, Alexander at that moment was 32 years old. What kind of child is he? Such men as Nikolai Stepanovich, still look for! Consider that Malinin abandoned his children at a young age: he practically did not see both Nikita and Kira (from his marriage to Olga Zarubina. – Auth.) from birth. Just a couple of times when she was 10 months old! It’s funny even!

– You said that Nikolai Stepanovich divorced Malinin’s mother against his will. Did she insist?

Yes, she filed for divorce. By the way, another lie is that we were friends with her. We’ve never been friends. They just worked on one base and that’s it. But we are very different people. Yes, she is older than me.

– According to Malinin’s stories, it always seemed that they had holy love!

“Come on, holy love!” Nikolai Stepanovich married her, as people say … in general, she was expecting a child. When he was young, he dated another girl. Angelina should be grateful to Nikolai Stepanovich for not leaving her, for marrying her. And he could just turn around and that’s it! But he was a very decent man, completely harmless. When I saw Malinin on TV, he always smiled. He repeated: “Well, Shurik gives. Well, it does!”

– He went to Moscow when Malinin became popular? How does he like the current wife of Alexander Emma?

– Yes, he went to Moscow and knew Emma very well. I remember coming from Moscow and saying: “Well, damn it, I wouldn’t even live a day like that!” She is very tough, like a boss. As she said, that’s how it should be. Such a person! Nikolai Stepanovich is completely different. He is a hard worker. Didn’t rest a day. He returned home at 5 o’clock, sometimes at 8 o’clock. And he immediately went to the annex, worked there until midnight. He was such a hard worker that he could not be found. I really miss him: we lived together for 32 years.

– Why did he have strokes one after another?

– Because of the high pressure. The first time there was a microstroke. He then went fishing, and there you sit all the time in a rubber boat, the sun is hot. He returned home, said that he did not feel well. But we didn’t even know that it was a microstroke. And then – the second, the third.

– Doctors immediately said that there was no chance?

– We once lay with him in the hospital, so the doctors did not pay any attention at all. Until I raised a scandal! Of course, we had to go to the city. Maybe they could save him there.

– Alexander Malinin did not claim the inheritance?

No, God bless. If our house, of course, would not have been rewritten, then they would have applied. I think they definitely would!

– Are you dreaming of Nikolai Stepanovich now?

– No, I’m not dreaming. They say that people come in dreams when they are offended by something. And we lived in peace and harmony. I believe he is doing well there.