Original hats and fans, active life position, interesting TV shows, lectures and creative meetings. This is how the writer Lydia Ivanova remembered the viewers. She was an unusually energetic and charismatic person who always aroused sincere interest and sympathy.
Biography
Lydia Mikhailovna Ivanova was born on March 7, 1936 on the outskirts of Moscow into an ordinary Soviet family. Lydia's father Mikhail Ilyich Samsonov died when the girl was still a baby. Her mother's second husband, Vasily, raised Lydia as his daughter. Mother Nadezhda Alexandrovna, after hard work in the timber industry, fell seriously ill and soon died at the age of 42.
Creativity and career
After graduating from school and receiving a technical education, Lydia got a job at an automobile plant. In 1953, she became interested in sports and two years later became a member of the Soviet Union national rowing team, which resulted in numerous awards with the title of "Master of Sports". In 1968, after working all summer in a children's camp, Lydia Mikhailovna decides to change her profession and enters the State Pedagogical University.
Having received a pedagogical education, Ivanova graduates from graduate school and, having successfully defended her thesis, becomes a candidate of pedagogical sciences. While teaching at an agricultural technical school, she was actively involved in writing scientific books and articles. Since 1981, the writer completed her teaching career. Now Lydia Ivanova travels around the country, giving her lecture series.
Television work
In 1991, a woman came to television, where in a very short time she became the host of popular television programs. Numerous business trips to various countries make Ivanova famous all over the world.
Five years later, Lydia Mikhailovna opens her own club, where, together with famous artists, she holds various meetings and themed evenings. All subsequent years, an active woman continued to change her occupation. She sang and danced, went in for sports and floriculture, while continuing to write her new articles.
Personal life
Despite a rich and interesting creative life full of success and glory, Lidia Mikhailovna was disappointed in love. In 1956, being a very young girl, she met her first husband, sports coach Oleg Ivanov. Soon they got married, and three years later, in 1961, their daughter Marina was born. Having been married for over 20 years, the couple divorced. Two years after the divorce in 1999, Lydia Ivanova is getting married for the second time.
This marriage became a real sensation, causing a storm of conflicting feelings among the fans of the famous writer. Her husband was an unknown young swindler Andrei Pravin, who was forty years younger than her. Family happiness did not last long, and after two years of marriage, her beloved husband fled abroad. Unable to withstand such a betrayal, the woman fell seriously ill and, having not recovered from the illness, on the morning of November 6, 2007, passed away from a heart attack.
