Actress Lyudmila Porgina
Photo: Boris KUDRYAVOV
The other day, actress Lyudmila Porgina said that she was leaving Lenkom, where she had worked for almost half a century. Firstly, her salary is “cat’s tears” – about 40 thousand rubles. Secondly, because of wounded acting pride: “I, an artist of the highest category, was pushed into the crowd and they didn’t let me play anything worthwhile. I decided to leave the theater, I will leave it of my own free will.
We call Lenkom.
– Porgina decided to resign? Listen to it for the first time. She did not apply. Well, if he brings a statement, of course, it will be difficult to part with it. For the theater, this will be a serious loss, – Lenkom director Mark Varshaver told us not without irony. But she talks more than she does.
It’s true: 74-year-old Lyudmila Porgina loves loud statements so as not to get bored. She doesn’t complain about life. Her salary in the theater plus a pension of about 50 thousand rubles, including additional payments, is quite enough for her.
In addition, when Nikolai Karachentsov became seriously ill after a terrible accident, his good friend, the then mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov (he and Karachentsov played tennis) rented from the artist (as they say, for a nominal fee of one ruble) a 400 m2 room. in the area of Tverskaya street, in the center of Moscow. “We rented this room from the store all these years,” Porgina told KP. “The money that the tenants pay me helps our family to live with dignity.” Lyudmila Porgina is constantly resting abroad. I recently returned from the United Arab Emirates where I broke my toes in a water park. Of course, he couldn’t afford that way of life on her pension alone.
– He has a salary in the theater of about 50 thousand. The same pension, taking into account the additional payment for the title of Honored Artist. It already turns out 100 thousand, – says Mark Varshaver. -He is decent. Plus two houses in Bulgaria where he likes to relax. He constantly takes sick leave, has been sick for 142 days and flies to the sea, although the theater continues to pay his salary. Agree, it is very convenient to rest at the expense of the state. In addition, he receives 15 thousand dollars a month (and maybe more) for renting the same premises on Tverskaya. From that “modest money” he lives. If she leaves the theater, I don’t even know how she, poor thing, will be able to survive. Too bad about her…
