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At the end of January, the star of the TV series “Kitchen” and “Hotel Eleon” Elena Ksenofontova drew public attention to problems in her family. The artist revealed the shocking truth about the separation from her husband, lawyer Alexander Ryzhikh. Elena claims that her husband brutally beat her. According to the artist, the ex-lover turned the situation so that a criminal case was opened against her. Ryzhikh himself denies all accusations against him.

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On February 3, the Presnenskaya District Court heard the actress’s appeal. Ksenofontova provided evidence of her husband’s guilt - documented evidence of beatings and testimony of a woman who saw with her own eyes the quarrel between the spouses. According to Elena, he pressed her to the bed and twisted her arms, threatening her at the same time. The artist also claims that Ryzhikh tried to strangle her. When Ksenofontova fought back, she scratched his face with her hands.

At the meeting, the artist met her ex-husband face to face. Her lawyer was present at the meeting with Ksenofontova, while Ryzhikh was alone. Being a lawyer, the former lover of the actress decided to represent his own interests. Alexander continued to defend his point of view and claim that he did not raise his hand against his wife. According to the man, the celebrity's conviction is fair.

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After listening to the positions of the two conflicting parties, the judge decided to carefully study all the materials provided by Elena and Alexander. He stated that he was postponing the consideration of Ksenofontova’s appeal until February 17.

When the actress left the courthouse, journalists asked her for a comment about the meeting. She admitted that she was very worried on the eve of this event. According to Ksenofontova, she was surprised by the postponement of the case.

“It’s difficult for me to talk about my feelings, I didn’t expect such an outcome today, I thought that the trial would begin immediately, but, apparently, our complaint was enough for the court to take time to think about it. I am more confident, I am not creating any illusions, I believe and want to hope that today’s decision is due to the fact that we are finally heard,” the artist shared.

Ksenofontova also admitted to a Wday.ru correspondent that she did not sleep all night before the meeting.

On February 3, a meeting of the appeal commission will take place, which will decide the fate of Elena Ksenofontova. The star of the TV series “Hotel Elion” and “Kitchen” (STS) continues to fight her ex-husband in court. Elena is afraid that he will take her daughter away, and the actress also wants to get rid of the criminal record she received because of her ex-husband. In addition, she claims: her husband wanted to take away her apartment, despite the fact that he has real estate in Moscow and abroad. To attract public attention, Ksenofontova shared the misfortune that happened to her in several television projects and on social networks. Lawyer Alexander Ryzhikh claims that he himself suffered from his hot-tempered ex-lover Elena, and their common daughter Sonya hopes that the parents will reconcile.

44-year-old actress Elena Ksenofontova officially got married twice, the third marriage with Alexander Ryzhikh was civil. Five years of relationship ended in scandal. The actress said: her husband cheated on her, and when she asked him to leave, he began to threaten, used physical force and was trying to deprive her of her apartment and daughter. Fans in support of the woman created a petition, which was signed by almost 6 thousand people in a week and sent to the Chairman of the Supreme Court demanding a fair hearing of the case (petition on the website www.change.org). The male version of the conflict is, of course, different.

We present facts from both conflicting sides and remember the couple's love story.

Version of Elena Ksenofontova:

1) The actress complains that her husband earned little, so the main financial burden was on her. And then she found out about the betrayal, but even when she presented correspondence from his own phone as evidence, Alexander did not admit guilt. In the program “You Won’t Believe It!” (NTV) the actress said that after this, conflicts began to happen more often. Ksenofontova asked him to move out of their apartment:“After several years of moral and physical humiliation, lies, betrayal, scandals, blackmail, reproaches that I was to blame for all his failures, endless intimidation, I voiced my intention to break up and asked to leave...”

2) The actress believes that at that moment her ex-husband “realized what a mistake he had once made.” At the beginning of the relationship, Alexander gave his wife a 4-room apartment and drew up a deed of gift for her. Four of us lived in the new apartment: he, Lena, her son from a previous marriage, the couple’s common daughter. Ksenofontova sold her apartment and invested money in repairs and arrangement of a new, now “family nest.” She took on all the expenses because her husband had “problems at work.”

3) The former spouse decided to revoke the deed of gift. “It turns out that if you prove that the recipient (that is, I) made an attempt on the life of the donor (him), then the deed of gift can be revoked,” explains the star. And here the testimony of the spouses differs. Ksenofontova says: “He entered the bedroom, grabbed me by the face and throat, threw me on the bed, sat on top... He served in the Airborne Forces. He grabbed his hands and chest and began to threaten. I began to choke and tried to scream for help, because we were not alone at home. He tried to choke me, I fought back. When I did this, I scratched his face with my hands,” said the actress. Elena regrets that she did not immediately contact the police: she did not want to punish the child’s father, she was terribly afraid of him, and she was also afraid for the psyche of the children.

But the ex-husband was the first to write a statement to the police, the magistrate found the actress guilty under the article “hooliganism” - she intentionally inflicted an abrasion on her husband, for which she must pay a fine. At 25 court hearings, Ksenofontova tried to prove that she was not guilty, but the decision was not made in her favor. Elena said that her husband tried to convince the court that she caused him serious injuries, which led to a concussion. Now she wants to clear her criminal record. “I don’t need her, and it’s humiliating,” says Elena.

4) Most of all, Ksenofontova is worried about another court - a civil one - about the place of determining the residence of their daughter Sofia, the procedure for communication and the collection of alimony. “In order to take my child away from me, he is trying to look for some incriminating evidence on me... to make me look like I am terminally ill, mentally unstable... He is brandishing a sentence that has not entered into force - how can you trust a child to a criminal?!!” - Ksenofontova worries, “He wants the child to live with him.”

Version of the artist’s former common-law husband:

1) In court, Alexander presented documents stating that he ended up at the Sklifosovsky Institute with injuries. By the way, the man refused hospitalization.“Our relationship deteriorated, partly because of Elena’s temper,” Ryzhikh said in an interview with StarHit magazine. - Sometimes, word for word, we argued... But if in a normal family it all ended there, then it doesn’t happen with us. Elena, in a fit of emotion, often began to beat me... I endured it for a long time, until at some point I received a concussion and ended up in the Sklifosovsky Institute.”

2) According to Ryzhikh, he filed a counterclaim in court to determine the place of residence and meetings with their 5-year-old daughter Sonya only after a similar claim was filed by Ksenofontova herself. After the couple separated, Alexander did not see his daughter for almost three months. Now communication with the child has improved. Red says that Sonya wants her parents to make peace and be together. By the way, according to information from the actress’s ex-husband, she has already sold the apartment.

From love to hate...

At the age of 21, Ksenofontova married Igor Lipatov for the first time, when he worked as a real estate agent. Elena lived with her first husband for 11 years, successfully overcoming the period of lack of money. The reason for the divorce initiated by Ksenofontova was that the feelings passed over the years. Despite the fact that Lipatov soon married, they remained good friends.

On the set of “Taiga” by Valeria Todorovsky, the actress met her second husband, producer Ilya Neretin. In 2003, Ksenofontova gave birth to his son Timofey. The firstborn was not even a year old when Elena found out about her husband’s betrayal and decided to break up with him. “It’s scary when a son doesn’t have a father, but life in an atmosphere of lies is worse,” Ksenofontova commented on the divorce.

And then Elena’s lawyer Alexander appeared in her life. Ksenofontova met him in a law office and soon fell in love with the smart, courteous, impressive lawyer who surrounded her with attention. Sasha looked after her beautifully, gave flowers and gifts. The actress said that she felt like she was behind a stone wall - a weak and beloved woman, whom her beloved carried in his arms. Sasha gave her an unbearable lightness of being.

“Together we enjoy walking around Moscow, holding hands, talking, visiting friends we haven’t seen for a hundred years, having sex, damn it!” – Ksenofontova shared her happiness.

When Elena became pregnant six years ago, doctors warned that pregnancy and childbirth would not be easy. The actress’s son was not easy for her: toxicosis, cesarean section... But Lena always dreamed of a daughter and gave birth to a girl. She was happy, quickly went to work in the theater, acted, and always earned money herself. She gave a quarter of the money from the sale—$120,000—of her own apartment to the education of her husband’s nephew in London. A woman in love is not capable of such actions. And then Ksenofontova began to notice that her husband was changing - and next to her was the man she described above.

On February 10, Sonya Ryzhikh will turn 6 years old. I want her to have a calm and happy mother next to her, who is not afraid of her dad. And dad also had the opportunity to congratulate the child on his birthday.

By the way

Elena Ksenofontova is a healthy woman who works hard and manages to devote time to her children. The health problem that Elena had for a long time does not prevent her from living. During her student years, Ksenofontova began to suffer from headaches. But she learned to live with this migraine. Several years ago, in an interview, the actress described her condition in her younger years as follows: “It felt like I was filled with a mass of mercury all inside, and my head was about to split. For three years I was given various diagnoses, given IVs, and wrapped in some kind of wires. I still don’t know what my illness is called... Igor (first husband) supported me in everything. He dragged himself around hospitals with me. In one of them, the doctor, having read my referral, where the diagnosis was written “General disorders of the brain,” exclaimed: “Wow, so young, and already cancer!” And I fainted... Then there were some examinations again. The diagnosis was either confirmed or not... Then they told me approximately the following - that we don’t know about you, but you will have to live with it. How? The pain was sometimes simply unbearable! Then I pricked myself with needles to somehow kill one pain with another. But little by little I learned to be friends with my illness, to negotiate with it. The union, of course, is tiring, but it’s okay, you can live. I live".

Already, she is again suing her former common-law husband Alexander Ryzhikh. First, he accused Ksenofontova of violence, then he wanted to sue her daughter, and this time the ex-husband intends to take away from the actress the apartment that he once gave him.

Elena has already suffered once from her former common-law husband. When Ryzhikh accused her of violence against him, the actress was found guilty and ordered to pay a fine. After the decision to decriminalize domestic beatings, Ksenofontova was eventually acquitted.

Many celebrities expressed support for Ksenofontova on social networks. However, Elena herself did not want publicity. However, well-wishers believe that public outcry will help the actress win her case.

“I think that a wonderful actress, mother, and my friend is once again forced to return to this hell! In this endless circle of court hearings, made-up stories and lies! I want to help as a human being and I really want Lena’s story to touch a nerve, and for this monstrous persecution to finally end!”– admitted the director of the actress.

Alexander Ryzhikh insists that his ex-wife return the apartment and pay him monetary compensation. A hearing on the new case will take place on January 17.

Initially, we planned material about a happy life in a new apartment, where Elena moved with her daughter Sonya and son Timofey at the end of last year. But at the last moment the situation changed.

When it began to seem that the two-year epic of the trials with her ex-husband was behind her, Elena was again summoned to court as a defendant. The plaintiff is Alexander Nikolaevich Ryzhikh, Elena’s former common-law husband and the father of her daughter, who exactly a year ago won a criminal case, accusing Elena of intentional battery. On this basis, he demands to cancel the gift agreement, under which he once transferred the apartment to Ksenophon, and either return the living space to him, or pay monetary compensation.

- As soon as I believed that all the worst was behind me, life collapsed again. I no longer have this apartment, since I sold it and bought a new one, in which we now live. It was morally impossible to remain where years of nightmare had been experienced. But in this case he provided for a very large monetary compensation. I don’t have that kind of money, of course. If he wins, then my children and I will just be left on the street. Unfortunately, on the eve of the New Year holidays there were interruptions in the work of the postal service. I received not the first, but the third summons; the previous two simply did not reach me. And when I came to the court to get acquainted with the case materials, there were already 210 pages, a whole volume.

The current situation is the result of the fact that back in 2015 I was unfairly slandered by Mr. Ryzhikh. And in December 2016, a guilty verdict was handed down, which was later confirmed in the appeal court. By coincidence, at the same time a law was passed on the decriminalization of beatings in the family, and the article under which I was tried no longer exists, and there is no such case, it was closed. But the so-called “admission of guilt” by the court seemed to remain... And on the basis of this, Ryzhikh came to court again.

I do not accuse anyone of anything, but I maintain and will maintain that the verdict is unfair: a person comes to court and declares “I was beaten!”, without confirming this with any evidence other than his own words and the only recorded abrasion. I say: “It was the other way around, he attacked me.” And I confirm the words with recorded beatings and the testimony of several witnesses. Including our au pair, who saw everything happen.

This is the absurdity that forms the basis of my guilty verdict: “She ran into the room, struck me three times, which knocked me into a state of knockdown (the fragile woman knocked out the former paratrooper!). When I came to my senses, she was already lying on the bed and calling for help.” That is, based on his words, there was no mutual fight, I just attacked and beat him. And the court didn’t even ask questions about where I got the abrasions, how did I get them? Did I beat myself up at that moment? These abrasions were recorded in the emergency room and were seen by many witnesses on the same day. Do you know what the judge answered me when I tried to draw her attention to this: “When they judge him, then present your beatings!” According to Mr. Ryzhikh, the picture emerges as if I had carefully planned all this, but the question arises - for what? If I planned all this and all the witnesses who came to the hearing were in cahoots with me, then why didn’t I file a statement against him? Did he submit it? The court was not bothered by the fact that there was no logic in his version. By the way, according to the testimony of Alexander Nikolaevich, I not only knocked him out once, but bullied and beat him for a long time.

Just like that, a man came and said, “She beat me!” And I was convicted, and then, as a consequence, there was persecution of me and my family for almost three years. What was it all about? For the sake of what is happening now: he wants to take away my apartment, which I talked about from the very beginning. There is a clause in the law that allows the donor to cancel the fact of the gift on the basis of intentional infliction of bodily harm. Ryzhikh enjoys the process; he understands perfectly well that I have to pay for lawyers, examinations, and so on. This takes money from the family budget, which means I take it away from the children. Despite the fact that he himself does not pay alimony and is suing to pay less. For more than a year, he also sued me to take Sonechka away, and he does not give up his intentions to do this. After the court determined my daughter’s place of residence with me in June last year, he filed an appeal. And on February 2 there will be a new meeting. Mr. Ryzhikh was given a procedure for communicating with the child, and as practice has shown, he has difficulty sticking to it due to lack of time. Although I do not interfere with anything and have never limited their meetings, neither before the court decision, nor after.

- Lena, how are the children coping with what’s happening?

The son is already an adult fourteen-year-old boy, he doesn’t watch much TV, but he goes to school, where he is asked various unpleasant questions. Children at school come up to my six-year-old daughter and ask: “Is it true that your parents are suing you?” When this hell began, we spent almost a year working with psychologists. Sonya and Timofey are very worried, and they have no answer to the question “Why is dad doing this?” Children perceive me and themselves as a single whole, and my pain is their pain too. Of course, I try to hide my emotions from them, but there are things that I cannot control.

With son Timofey

Alexander Nikolaevich refuses to communicate with me. I tried to ask him questions: “What’s going on? What did I do to you, explain, maybe I was really wrong about something?” Then she simply asked: “What do you want? What is all this for? Well, he couldn’t immediately openly declare that he needed an apartment. More precisely, he told me this in private. And in public he had to play the victim, and he planned it very well.

I am not making any statements, everything that is happening now on the Internet - support campaigns, petitions - is solely on the initiative of friends and people who are not indifferent to my situation. But I don't have very high hopes for all this. Because when there was the first trial and the first verdict, people also signed a petition - more than 43 thousand signatures. It lies in the Moscow City Court, in the Supreme Court, in the Presnensky District Court - and nothing. I don’t know who to look to for protection? I’m not asking for anything supernatural, I ask, both then and now, just to read the verdict. Where the materials of the case are described on six and a half pages, and then the conclusion follows. And everyone will immediately understand how crudely it was put together. And you will have a lot of questions to which you will not find answers there. When I filed a counterclaim, where I said that it was not me, but me, who was beaten, I was told that it was impossible to initiate a case, because Mr. Ryzhikh has a certain status - he is a lawyer. I went to testify to the Investigative Committee and filed a counterclaim there eight times. And I was refused eight times! Eight times we wrote a complaint to the prosecutor's office, and each time the prosecutor's office canceled the refusal, and still, in the end, the Investigative Committee never accepted our claim. Without explaining it in any way. Why? Because Mr. Ryzhikh is a lawyer? Or because the Investigative Committee does not want to deal with such a “trifling” matter? But the basis of this “trifling” matter is a human life, and not even one, but three - mine and my children. This nightmare has been going on for three years now, with more than seventy meetings behind us, and no one knows how many are ahead. But I need to feed my children, I need to work, but I just want to live... I’m tired of the courts, of the endless examinations, of the lies, of the tears of my daughter and son.

Alexander Nikolaevich set himself a goal - to destroy me. And he does everything for this. On January 17, the first hearing on the new claim was supposed to take place, but he did not appear in court, having sent papers justifying his absence. I didn’t inform anyone in advance. He represents himself in court and has expressed his will that court hearings take place only in his presence. And the hearing in the Presnensky court was postponed to February 5.

I don’t communicate with journalists now, although many publications and television channels attack me, saying how they want to help. But this is what killed me just the other day. Everyone knows that I am a private person, I don’t go on talk shows. If I agree to anything, it’s just to give an interview, one-on-one with the host. And they tell me: “No, only together with Alexander Nikolaevich!” They want to make a series out of my life, gathering some “experts” who do not know me and the nightmare that I have experienced over the past two years and even earlier, during my life with this person. I am not faced with the task of talking about my difficult situation, I am simply trying to defend my honest name.

With daughter Sonya

Despite all this, I really want to believe that I live in a legal state, because I honestly followed all the laws of my country and continue to follow them. And I instill in children a love for their homeland. To be honest, I look at the future with horror, because I have neither the physical nor the moral strength to get involved in another year-long trial. I don’t even want to think how much dirt and lies will be poured out on me again. You can’t imagine what it’s like when you’re constantly preparing for the next meeting, don’t think about anything else, and can’t go anywhere. I lost so much work over these two years, how many projects I refused because they required going on expeditions. Being in the status of an accused, you do not have the right not to come to meetings, much less be absent when the fate of your child is being decided.

Of course, many friends and colleagues write and call me, offering help, but what can they do? I have a lawyer, and I am absolutely convinced that I was unfairly convicted, that my name was simply dragged through the mud. I want to be acquitted, not decriminalized. I don’t want this stigma to hang on me because I didn’t commit this crime. I don't want to be disappointed in our justice anymore. I have never asked my state for anything. Now I ask - I ask you to protect me.

Anyone who wants to support me can sign the petition for a fair and objective review of the case in which I was convicted and found guilty. The petition is posted on my pages on social networks - Instagram and Facebook.

I will not give up and will not stop living and believing in people. I will continue to decorate Christmas trees, draw the living alphabet, take care of my children, prepare for Sonechka’s birthday... I’m not going to be a cog in the game of a person who decided to have fun in this way. He finally found the meaning of life - in the destruction of his ex-wife and the mother of his daughter.

- Who or what helped you to survive and not break over the years?

First of all, my children. Sonya is such a sunny creature who will not let you down. And secondly, it turned out that I have wonderful friends. Probably, it was necessary to go through these circles of hell to understand that there are people around. Because, unfortunately, due to my character, due to some kind of pride, I was not inclined to ask for help. Everyone was sure that I was fine. As a result, having learned about my trouble, people responded and helped. Maybe they didn’t play a significant role in the trial itself, but they gave me new strength, I felt needed...

You certainly don't need to endure anything. This provokes the sadist; any impunity gives him the opportunity to behave even more brazenly and defiantly. It doesn't matter whether it's physical or moral oppression. In my case, it was more moral than physical, by the way.

But never, even in the most difficult moments, did I stop believing in people and in the highest justice. Maybe partly because I am more inclined, probably, to delve into myself and, first of all, blame myself. And in any situation, first I think whether I did the right thing. I don’t think that if this happened to me once, then I should expect something similar in the future. You know, women would not give birth a second and third time, having experienced pain during the first birth. And sometimes they give birth for the eighth time. Why? Because there is an enzyme in our body that dulls difficult memories, the pain is forgotten. In me, this enzyme is apparently present in a horse dose in some hypertrophied form. I love people, I love life, I don’t think that there is any stigma on me, that now my life has gone downhill, I will now lock myself in a cell and will only deal with Christmas trees and dolls. No, I can't do that. My profession requires moral and emotional nourishment all the time, and what nourishes me if not love? Love, passion, tenderness, enthusiasm - all this is necessary, like air. Otherwise you are empty.

The world is what it is. For some reason we either idealize him or demonize him. But I will never say that the dramatic events and legal proceedings with my ex-husband put my psyche and physics through a meat grinder, made me tougher, I stopped believing in people, in men... No, that’s not true! I am still romantic, I still believe that people are inherently kind and beautiful. It seems to me that this is the most correct way, and we will always have time to become stale.

- Lena, you had a day in Decemberbirth- 45 years. What can you say about the famous expression “after forty, life just begins”? And is it possible to start everything from scratch?

You can start with a clean slate both after sixty and after seventy. As far as I know, 40 is often a milestone for men; for them it is a midlife crisis. I won’t delve into male psychology, but I can say that I myself have reset myself more than once. This is very difficult, not everyone can do it, but it is very important and very useful. Sometimes a person, submitting to the modern harsh rhythm, pushes himself - in emotions, in vices, in demands on life. And he misses a lot, forgets what he once dreamed of. Some incomprehensible, unnecessary grievances against life and people accumulate.

But you need to reset yourself completely, starting with your environment, your own views, work... Your people will still stay with you, and everything unnecessary will be eliminated.

- Did you manage to celebrate your housewarming?

We haven’t celebrated yet, because I’m a perfectionist and it’s still difficult for me to come to terms with the fact that wires are sticking out somewhere and a whole block of repair work has not been completed. By the beginning of the school year, I tried to finish the children’s rooms and the main part - the living room and kitchen.

I received this apartment as an empty box. There was nothing here, just concrete, everything was done practically from scratch, I had to delve into all the details, be both a foreman and a designer. When thinking through the layout, I tried to do everything so that the children would be happy to return home, even when they become adults. We celebrated this New Year here with children and friends, came up with various competitions, showed performances, Sonya played the piano...

- Your collection of dolls is simply a work of art. Is this a secret love from childhood?

I always played with dolls. Even at school, already in the 11th grade, when I got bored, I pulled out a baby doll from my briefcase. My mother always tied and trimmed these dolls for me, and I made houses for them. At that time, I didn’t know about the existence of houses for dolls and invented them myself - from parcel boxes, painted and glued wallpaper. At some point, already in adulthood, I got one designer doll, then another. Then I found out that it is possible to purchase them at exhibitions, auctions, and galleries. And that’s it, there was no stopping me anymore, it became a real passion. In addition to dolls, I am interested in Christmas tree decorations; I already have more than five thousand of them. There are special display cases for dolls in the apartment. But I can’t display the entire collection yet, because the renovation in my room is not finished, there will be a lot of dolls there. I would like to organize my own exhibition, because I have unique interior art dolls, almost all in a single copy with their own certificates, insignia, made by the hands of fantastic craftsmen.

- Does Sonya love them as much as you?

I don’t let anyone love them, I’m selfish in that sense. My dolls are not for play, they are quite fragile, I am always very worried about them. Sonya has her own toys, there are dolls that I buy especially for her. But even with her dolls I have a professional look, nothing can be done about it.

- Having talked with Sonya, I would venture to suggest that she has great acting talents...

Just don't tell her about it...

Here Sonya herself joins the conversation and shocks her with the news that she will not be an artist, but wants to become a waitress.

Sonya: I like to please people. And I myself like to go to restaurants with my mother.

- Do you like to cook?

Sonya: Yes. Mom and I are making pies with potatoes.

Elena: That's it, and you say you're an artist. But children's desires change quickly. Tim also wanted to be a chef for a long time. He definitely never had his eye on the acting profession. For a very long time, my son could not understand why people on the street approached me, he kept asking: “What do you owe them?” Tim is now interested in cinema, but rather as a film critic: he studies how cinema was created, knows all the directors, artists, their biographies, which episodes were in the film and which were not. He is a theorist, remembers all the dates, and is interested in history. But, truth be told, he is practically not interested in modern history. In general, this world prevents him from existing harmoniously, he does not live in reality, he likes mythology.

- What if Tima, having graduated from school with honors, says: I’ll go to study to become a cook?

Please. If you like it, if you feel like it's yours, why not. If he says: I want to be a janitor because I need time to do something more, then please, that’s your choice. It’s another matter that I’ll sit him down and say: “Only this choice will be associated with such and such a number of difficulties, obligations, realities. Are you ready?" I will have to explain this to him, but the main choice is his. My mother prepared me for admission to Moscow State University and MGIMO, and it was an absolute shock for her when I said: I’ll become an artist. She had a collapse of hope, the world turned upside down. I came and announced that I was going to take exams at the theater school, they would fail before everyone else, I would go to the institute that she chose. Mom replied: “I will go with you.” And she traveled with me and worried, although she was sure that I would not act, that I was a little ugly duckling. I will always come to the aid of my children. The child must be sure that he can contact him at any time, tell him everything and his mother will understand. Yes, she may be outraged, she may be upset and generally not even approve, but she will support you anyway.

I want to show children that nothing is impossible. That everyone must choose the path and go their own way. I had a lot of crossroads when I could have seriously made my path easier and shortened the distance from point A to point B, sacrificed some principles, betrayed someone a little. I chose a different path, often very much around. But I never regretted it later.

Elena KSENOFONTOVA

Family: children - Timofey (14 years old) (from marriage with producer Ilya Neretin), Sofia (6 years old) (from civil marriage with Alexander Ryzhikh)

Education: graduated from VGIK (course of Marlena Khutsieva, acting group of Joseph Raikhelgauz)

Career: Honored Artist of Russia. From 1999 to 2013 - actress of the Theater under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. She has starred in more than 35 films and TV series, including: “Taiga. Survival Course”, “Heaven and Earth”, “Frozen Dispatches”, “Good Hands”, “Heartbreakers”, “Cadets”, “Kitchen”, “Hotel Eleon”

Photo by Andrey SALOV

44-year-old actress Elena Ksenofontova, star of the TV series “Kitchen” and “Hotel Eleon,” spoke about her personal life and domestic violence on Channel One.

In 2016, Elena Ksenofontova separated from her common-law husband, lawyer Alexander Ryzhikh. There were rumors that the actress was simply tired of waiting for a marriage proposal. Ksenofontova did not advertise the reason for the divorce.

However, now Elena Ksenofontova decided to admit what was the reason.

Elena Ksenofontova spoke live on the program “Time will tell” about beating her husband.

Now Ksenofontova is fighting with her ex-husband for their common child and apartment.

Ksenofontova spoke about what she had to endure in her civil marriage with lawyer Alexander.

“I am a successful person, everything is fine with me. At least, I live in such a way that it seems to everyone. On December 26, 2016, I was sentenced in the Presnensky court. Because I “beat” my husband.

At the forefront is the apartment in which we lived. We have a daughter, we lived together for many years, but at some point the relationship collapsed.

When I declared that we would no longer live and asked to leave, he said: “You didn’t understand something. You will leave. If you rock the boat, I will destroy you,” said Ksenofontova.

Elena Ksenofontova admitted that her common-law husband almost killed her after a family quarrel.

“He entered the bedroom, grabbed me by the face and throat, threw me on the bed, sat on top... He served in the Airborne Forces. He grabbed his hands and chest and began to threaten.

I began to choke and tried to scream for help, because we were not alone at home. He tried to choke me, I fought back. When I did this, I scratched his face with my hands,” said Elena Ksenofontova.

Unfortunately, Alexander was the first to write a statement to the police, for which Ksenofontova was later sentenced. “It was a big mistake... I had to return home and continue living in the same apartment with the person I was terrified of.

Recently, the artist wrote about her problem in social network. “I was silent. For a long time. For too long. I was silent because I was protecting my family, my children.

I was silent because I was ashamed and scared. Because she believed that justice would prevail (and how could it be otherwise). Because my brain refused to perceive SUCH reality. REALITY

Exactly a year ago, on the false accusation of my former common-law husband and father of my daughter, a criminal case was opened in the Presnensky District Magistrate's Court as a private accusation of committing a crime under Part 1, Art. 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism).

For exactly a year (more than 25 meetings!) I tried to prove that I was not to blame for anything, that neither I, but he attacked me, and I was only DEFENDING myself. There was everything: a bunch of witnesses, including one who was in the house at the time of the conflict and saw with her own eyes how he sat on me and twisted my arms; my recorded beatings in the emergency room, a medical examination confirming the beatings; district police officer's report, etc. But in vain.

On December 26, 2016, the Magistrate handed me a GUARANTEE, completely ignoring all of the above and accepting the plaintiff’s testimony as true - “... Ksenofontova, who had previously stood with her back to me, sharply turned in my direction and struck me with her hand more than three times in the head, in the right temporal part, as well as in the area of ​​the middle facial part, after which she lay down on the bed and began to call for help, while also shouting the statement that I was killing her.

All of the above violent actions of Ksenofontova caused me severe physical pain. Being in a state of “knockdown”, I instinctively grabbed with my right hand the part of the head/face where Ksenofontova was struck, and with my left hand and left knee I leaned on the bed, on which Ksenofontova was already lying at that moment...”

At the end of December 2016, the actress was convicted and sentenced to a fine. Elena is sure that Alexander Ryzhikh specifically wrote a statement against her in order to take away the apartment and the child.

“Everything is simple to the point of vulgarity. And vomiting... Once upon a time, in a fit of unpredictable (now quite understandable) generosity, my common-law husband gave me an apartment by registering a deed of gift. An apartment that was under renovation and burdened with a considerable debt for utilities.

At that time (and then throughout our entire life together) he had “difficulties at work.” Sincerely wanting to protect my loved one from unnecessary upsets, I took on all the financial expenses myself,” said Ksenofontova.

Ksenofontova’s family life was, as she admitted, difficult. “Now, when after several years of moral and physical humiliation, lies, betrayals, numerous scandals, blackmail, reproaches that I was to blame for all his failures, endless intimidation, I suddenly voiced my intention to leave and asked to leave, he suddenly realized what a mistake did it once.

From that moment on, the serious work of the brain of a professional lawyer began. And a solution was found,” the actress noted, saying that Alexander decided to revoke the deed of gift. Allegedly, that’s why he staged the attack.

A meeting of the appeal commission will take place in the district court in early February. The actress has little hope that she will be acquitted.

After all, before this, she had repeatedly tried to file a counterclaim against her ex-lover and appealed to the Investigative Committee. However, she was constantly refused.

The situation is aggravated by the fact that in parallel, for more than six months, a civil court has been going on to determine the place of residence of the common daughter of Ksenofontova and Ryzhikh, the procedure for communication with the child and the collection of alimony.

In order to take the child away, Ryzhikh tries to find all kinds of incriminating evidence, portrays Ksenofontova as terminally ill, mentally unstable, etc. Waving a sentence that has not entered into force - how can you trust a child to a criminal?!!

A year ago, at the first court hearing, a counterclaim was filed to initiate a criminal case against A.N. Ryzhikh. A refusal was received because he was a person of special status (lawyer).

“You can’t speak in silence. I’m speaking. Because I’ve tried everything (much remains left out). Because, finally, I understand that further silence is akin to suicide. Because, having taken one step, you need to take the next and go to the end.

Because I'm choking on injustice. Because I’m just afraid I won’t make it,” Elena Ksenofontova asked the public for help.

For the first time, Elena married Igor Lipatov in 1994; after 11 years they divorced. Ksenofontova’s second husband in 2003 was the famous producer Ilya Neretin (born 1964), but this marriage again ended in divorce.

In this marriage, the actress gave birth to her first child in 2003 - son Timofey Neretin.

In a civil marriage with lawyer Alexander Ryzhikh, on February 10, 2011, the actress had a daughter, Sophia. In 2016, the couple separated.