The romantic of the revolution

Elena Afanasyeva: Mikhail Bocharov left. The father of my children and my former and so far the only husband

We met in the Kremlin!

Now say that the novel began in the Kremlin - they will not believe! And then, at the turn of the 80s and 90s, the Kremlin was a place of incredible energy, including sexual. The broadcasts of the congresses of people's deputies looked and really listened to the whole country then a very large country. In them - these incredible people who create our new future - it was impossible not to fall in love. And fell in love! All. Including journalists - girls in short skirts, who came to the Kremlin instead of old cores in gray suits.

And what passions were boiling there! What novels! Ours is one of the few that ended with legal marriage and the birth of two children.

Misha was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Deputy Yeltsin in the Committee for Construction and Architecture. A member of the legendary interregional deputy group of MDG - ally of Sakharov, Afanasyev, Sobchak. He is one of those elected who performed at a hundred -thousand -up rallies at the still not reconstructed arena and in Luzhniki, who felt a single breath of these hundred thousand and all who could not accommodate the square.

He almost became Prime Minister of Russia. He said that Yeltsin passed him at the last moment and then Ivan Silaev was elected. But everything that happens in our life is not by chance. He then become the prime minister, a young journalist from Rostov could not break through to him for an interview and nothing would have happened.

And everything happened.

At some point, much later, it began to seem to me that the world had specially turned over only to be born our children. A few years earlier or a few years later, life could no longer reduce us - there were too different worlds from the director of the factory, the creator of the world's first BUTEK concern and a young journalist. But!

At the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia, which then, in 1990, was split exactly in half of communists and democrats, I interviewed Alexander Lyubimov. And he said the phrase: “Look how Bocharov hate. Because he created a "beetle", but they are not. "

I did not know Bocharov, I did not hear anything about the “beetle”, but I could not believe the leader of the legendary “gaze”.

And she went to look for Bocharov to take an interview from him.

When, in the “Workshops of the Interview” school of Channel One, I say that the interview is the whole life and that my main romance and the birth of two children in my life began with an interview, this is absolute truth. So the old cassette with a record remained in the family archive, where in about the fortieth minute he asks: "What is your name, by the way?" And I answer with a challenge: "Lena, by the way!"

Yes, he created the “Boete” - the first concern in the Soviet Union, which included enterprises that worked on the principle of self -leveling, which “struck at the top” is also. The "beetle" was deciphered as a "Butovsky experiment."

Created. But he did not receive anything from this. The directors of enterprises that were part of the Books, with the beginning of the new time, quickly privatized their plants and further lived well. And only Bocharov, as he was an unrelectric person and a romantic, remained.

He was considered a billionaire, and we lived in a one -room Khrushchev near the Kuntsevsky market, which my aunt exchanged incredible efforts for me. It is ridiculous to remember how Valentin Pavlov, the ex-Prime Minister of the USSR, once came to visit Misha, and could not believe that Bocharov himself lived like that, thought it was some kind of setup and a draw.

Another time, his potential partners persistently invited us to make a luxurious bathroom for free, showed catalogs and could not understand why we refused, and they would hardly have believed that our entire apartment was less than those bathrooms, the design of which they made.

The revolution, as you know, thinks romance. Mikhail Bocharov is exactly from them. He is the deputy Yeltsin in the Supreme Council of the USSR, the chairman of the Higher Economic Council of Russia, the author of the 300 Days program (Yavlinsky later admitted in the interview that his “500 days” program was a borrowing from Bocharov)-the first in September 1991 he left Yeltsin and the new government, as soon as the fruits of this revolution, according to the same statement, began to “divide the scoundrels”.

At the beginning of the year, he was a healthy person. Congratulations to me and my daughter on March 8, he mentioned his back pain. Thanks to the wizard Alexei Light. Hospitalized, operated on. Along the way, they found a dimming in the lungs, it was necessary to transfer to another department, but there was a March 2020 in the courtyard, Covid happened, everything was deposited.

Last Sunday, I called him on a trifling issue - the next day was the birthday of our son. He hardly said - a hospital, a pulmonological department, took a puncture, and wait for the result. The next day, exactly on the birthday of his son, it turned out that the tumor is malignant. The fourth stage of lung cancer (you, who read these lines, if you smoke, throw it right now, at that moment, if you want to live!).

But they did not manage to transfer to the oncological department - cardiological resuscitation, Covid.

At six in the morning he was gone today.

Misha! You are a very important person in my life! You gave me the main thing that I have - our children.

And you are always with us. Such as in this photo, as I saw you for the first time there, in the Kremlin.

Thank you for being in our life.

Elena Afanasyeva