They joined hands: what Maria and Olga Shukshin had been arguing about for years
Maria and Olga Shukshin joined hands on November 11, when the coffin of their mother, People's Artist of the RSFSR Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina, was carried out of the Moscow church. The sisters' disagreement over the family apartment became public more than a decade ago. Later, Olga challenged in court the transfer of Maria's share in the rights to the works of their father, writer and director Vasily Shukshin. About how the conflict developed and why Lidia Nikolaevna wanted to reconcile her daughters so much is in the Izvestia article.
How was the farewell to Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina?
During the funeral service at the Church of the Resurrection of the Living on the Assumption of the Virgin, the sisters stood on opposite sides of the coffin and did not speak. They followed the coffin out of the temple, holding hands. Actor Sergey Nikonenko, director Mikhail Agranovich and actress Galina Bokashevskaya came to say goodbye to Fedoseeva-Shukshina.
"I really want to believe that the death of my mother and grandmother will unite them.…Masha really wants to make peace with Olga…They should do it in a purely Christian way. Don't family people quarrel?" said Bokashevskaya.
The eldest daughter of Fedoseeva-Shukshina from her marriage to Vyacheslav Voronin, Anastasia Voronina-Francisco, was not present at the ceremony.
The actress was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery next to Vasily Shukshin. They met on the set of the movie "What is it, the sea?". In his paintings "Stoves and Benches" and "Kalina Krasnaya" Fedoseeva-Shukshina played some of her most famous roles. She died on November 7 from heart failure at the age of 89.
How my father's apartment became the subject of a family dispute
In 2014, Olga told 7 Days that her son Vasily was asked to leave the four-room apartment on Bochkova Street, where the family had lived under Shukshin. She later clarified that this happened in 2013. In an interview, Olga recalled an earlier quarrel over a suburban cottage. According to her, after a dispute over who could live there, communication with her mother and Maria was interrupted for several years.
In December 2014, Olga and Lidia Nikolaevna met again in an apartment on Bochkova Street. Later, the granddaughter of the actress Anna Tregubenko became involved in the dispute about her fate. Maria gave her her share. In 2023, Anna said that she owned half of the apartment and she intended to keep it. In the same year, Fedoseeva-Shukshina publicly asked her granddaughter to transfer Olga's share so that the housing would remain in memory of Vasily Shukshin and herself.
Shukshin's books and manuscripts remained in the apartment. Olga told me that she was busy restoring her father's office. After her mother's death, she said kp.ru that in recent years they have been discussing the creation of a memorial room or apartment.
Why did the sisters take different sides in the dispute about the "Kalina Krasnaya"
Olga and another daughter of the writer, Ekaterina Shukshina, demanded that the Russian Song Theater, led by Nadezhda Babkina, stop showing the play "Kalina Krasnaya" and pay compensation. According to their version, the theater continued to show the production after the license expired. Maria played in the play and advocated for its preservation in the repertoire.
"I believe that the name of Shukshin should be popularized, it is necessary to shoot, act, stage more performances, and make more films. And not to forbid it," Maria said.
In February 2023, the Basmanny Court of Moscow recognized the violation of the exclusive rights of Olga and Ekaterina and recovered 638,440 rubles in compensation from the theater in their favor. The court rejected the demand to ban further screenings.
How Olga tried to give her mother back her share of Shukshin's rights
Olga's lawsuit against Maria was based on a contract dated March 5, 2019. According to him, Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina donated to Maria her share in the exclusive rights to more than 100 of her husband's works. According to the court's decision, initially Maria and Olga had 30% each, Lidia Nikolaevna and Ekaterina had 20% each.
In the fall of 2023, Olga appealed to the Tagansky Court in Moscow. She asked to invalidate the contract and return her share to her mother. According to Olga, Lidia Nikolaevna wanted to instruct Maria to monitor the royalties and, when signing the documents, did not understand that she was transferring her rights to her. In April 2024, the actress was brought into the case as a co-defendant. Her representatives supported Olga's demands.
Maria's lawyers insisted that the decision to transfer the share was voluntary. Fedoseeva-Shukshina recorded a video message for the participants in the trial, in which she claimed that she had not given Maria her share. The lawyer of the actress Julia Verbitskaya-Linnik said that Lidia Nikolaevna herself was not going to sue her daughters.
On March 25, 2025, the court dismissed Olga's claim. The decision stated that the contract did not affect her share and possible income, and the arguments that Lidiya Nikolaevna was mistaken about the essence of the transaction remained unproven. The court also pointed out that Olga could have read the contract as early as May 2020. By the time of the appeal to the court, the statute of limitations had expired.
In May 2025, Maria spoke about the conflict in an interview with Empathy Manuchi. She said she usually avoids making public comments about the proceedings. According to her, Olga is suing "the play, then the theater, then me, then my mother."
What Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina asked her daughters to do
Back in 2020, when Fedoseeva-Shukshina was returning the apartment in New Moscow, donated by Bari Alibasov, through the court, Olga urged her sister to come to her mother. A year later, Olga publicly criticized Maria's statements about coronavirus vaccination. In 2022, she said on NTV that Maria reproached her for attracting attention by commenting on her sister's performances.
In the same broadcast of the program "The Million Dollar Secret," Olga said that Maria had stopped visiting Lidia Nikolaevna. According to the youngest daughter, she was ready to leave home for the duration of her sister's visit if she did not want to meet with her.
In June 2023, Fedoseeva-Shukshina suffered a stroke. As Anna Tregubenko told NTV, Olga called an ambulance when her mother became ill, and Maria paid for the actress' stay in a rehabilitation center.
In 2024, Fedoseeva-Shukshina told Boris Korchevnikov that she would like to restore communication between her daughters and was ready to do anything for this. A year later, in a conversation with NEWS.ru The actress said that Olga was taking care of her, and Maria was calling.
The quarrel also affected the grandchildren. In the fall of 2026, Tregubenko said that the conflict with Olga over the apartment on Bochkova Street prevented her from visiting her grandmother. Lidia Nikolaevna herself said a year earlier that she had written out the names and birthdays of her grandchildren on a piece of paper. She thought about them every day and worried that her family had become estranged from each other.
"This is my pain. My only and last wish is for the girls to make up, Masha is calling, Anya is not communicating with us at all. I think about all my grandchildren every day, and I have a lot of them. I wrote out all their names and birthdays on a piece of paper. It is a pity that they are not friends with each other. I do not absolve myself of responsibility and take all the blame on myself. But I'm already so physically weak that I can't do anything, I just pray for all my children," Fedoseeva—Shukshina said at the time.
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