How many women did Peter I have. Andrei Dzhedzhula: “When I read how many women Casanova had, I laughed softly

Peter I was a passionate person, and therefore the list of ladies of his heart is very extensive. But among the string of names there were those who left a special mark on the fate of the emperor.

Evdokia Lopukhina

Historians suggest that the first woman of Peter I was his legal wife Evdokia Lopukhina. The future emperor married her at the suggestion of his mother in 1689 at the age of 17.

Brought up in the customs of Domostroy, Evdokia did not support her husband’s pro-Western way of thinking and after 3 years of marriage she finally disappointed him, despite the fact that during this time she managed to give him three sons.

The stubborn and poorly educated Lopukhina irritated Peter I, who soon after his marriage fell in love with Anna Mons. As long as his mother was alive, he diligently concealed this connection, and after her death in 1694, he decided to take control of his own destiny, forcing his unloved wife to take a haircut as a nun of the Suzdal-Pokrovsky monastery.

But it should be noted that the nun Elena, as Evdokia began to be called, despite a strict upbringing, showed herself in the monastery as an emancipated lady, having an affair with officer Glebov.

This love affair lasted seven years, until it accidentally became the property of Peter I, who, to his surprise, found out that all worldly joys were available to his married wife within the walls of the monastery.

It turned out that the entire monastic community sympathized with the disgraced queen, pandered to her, condemned the activities of the emperor and contributed to a conspiracy against him with the aim of enthroning Tsarevich Alexei.

By order of Peter I, some servants of the monastery, Glebov and son Alexei accused of treason, were sentenced to death, and Evdokia was sent to the Assumption Monastery, where she spent another 7 years of imprisonment. She left shortly before her death, during the short reign of her grandson Peter II.

Anna Mons

She was the complete opposite of Lopukhina, her bright appearance, energetic disposition, European culture, lively mind and femininity instantly captivated the active Peter I, who was not at all disturbed by the turbulent past of the German beauty.

Having the fame of a courtesan, the black-eyed Mons, before meeting with the emperor, was listed as the mistress of his friend Lefort, who introduced them.

Gifting the winemaker's daughter with wealth, Peter I lived for 10 years with the beloved Anna, whom the legal wife contemptuously called "Monsikha", and the Muscovites called the "Kukuy Queen", since in those days the German settlement was called "Kukui".

The ruler's feeling for the German woman was so strong that by 1703 he planned to make her his official wife, but it turned out by accident that her lover had been cheating on him for several years with the Saxon Koenigsek, who even managed to give birth to a daughter.

Enraged by the shocking discovery, Peter I ordered Mons to be placed under house arrest, which lasted two years. Probably, he would have acted tougher with her if by that time a new love had not settled in his heart in the form of the future Catherine I.

Catherine I

Another sweetheart of the emperor Ekaterina Trubacheva caught his eye, having behind him a vast experience of a frivolous life in which lovers changed like gloves.

A native of the Baltics, who before moving to Russia bore the name Marta Skavronskaya, before becoming Empress, she managed to work as a laundress, marry a Swede Rabe, be in Russian captivity, bewitch Count Sheremetev and visit Menshikov’s bedroom.

Catherine shared the hardships of army life with her husband, went on military campaigns with him, received from him tender letters and gave him 8 children, only two of whom survived to the age of 18 - Elizabeth and Anna.

In the autumn of 1723, the coronation ceremony of Catherine I took place, and a year later, Peter I received documents that convicted his wife of a long-term love affair with her chamberlain Mons, Anna Mons's brother.
The enraged emperor brought down all his anger on Mons - so as not to denigrate own name, he accused the lover of embezzlement and sentenced to death.

By order of Peter I, his wife, who denied the fact of treason, was to be present at the massacre. She appeared, but not a single muscle on her face betrayed excitement. Catherine I showed self-control and self-control in the evening, when she discovered in her chambers a jar with the head of Mons in alcohol.

Peter I forgave his wife only on his deathbed.

Evdokia Rzhevskaya

The emperor’s connection with Evdokia Rzhevskaya, who was called “boy-woman” behind her back, began at a time when the girl was barely 15 years old. Not having serious feelings for her, Peter I, a year later, married her to an officer Chernyshev, who was awarded a rapid career growth to the rank of general.

However, the presence of a spouse did not interfere with the meetings of old lovers, who, according to some information, had 7 common children, although given the free lifestyle of Evdokia, Peter I may not own authorship of her children.

Maria Hamilton

Another fleeting but memorable story connected the emperor with the maid of honor Hamilton. Having quickly bored Peter I, she found solace in the arms of her ancestor, Count Orlov, to whom she gave jewels stolen from the chambers of Catherine I.

When the investigation into the disappearances began, Orlov was the first to come into view, who immediately handed over his mistress, talking about her numerous abortions and one infanticide.
Focusing on the fact that Hamilton had deprived his army of potential warriors, Peter I sentenced her to imprisonment, which was later replaced by the death penalty.

After the execution of the sentence, he allegedly raised Mary's head, kissed her lips and read a lecture on anatomy to the onlookers present.

Maria Cantemir

The fragile Moldavian Maria Cantemir appeared in the life of Peter I after the death of his son Peter Petrovich. A pretty and educated southern woman managed to console the ruler, who without hesitation appeared in society arm in arm with her and her lawful wife. Catherine did not like this alignment very much.

Having lost her only son, she was afraid that Cantemir would give the emperor a son who would become the heir to the throne. In order to prevent this, she followed her lovers on the heels, and when Kantemir was relieved of her burden in Astrakhan, she sent people to strangle the boy.

Having learned about the unsuccessful birth, Peter I immediately lost interest in Mary and returned to the bosom of the family.

Elizabeth Senyavskaya

A special place in the list of ladies of the emperor's heart was occupied by the owner of a sharp mind - Elizaveta Senyavskaya. The wife of the Polish hetman charmed Peter I with her dissimilarity to other ladies, she gave him wise advice, delighted his ears with interesting thoughts and had her own point of view in everything.

Senyavskaya was a faithful friend of the emperor.

April 2, 1725 was born Giacomo Casanova - one of the most prominent historical heroes of the Renaissance. He became famous not so much because of his love affairs, but because of his extraordinary personality and adventurous spirit.

Casanova during his life managed to visit a church employee, lawyer, military man, musician, referent, spy, writer and even a librarian.

Fake nobleman

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born in Venice on April 2, 1725 in the family of actor and dancer Gaetano Giuseppe Casanova and actress Zanetta Farussi. In order to rotate in high society, Giacomo appropriated title of nobility and the name is Chevalier de Sengalt.

17 year old genius

At the age of only 12, Casanova entered the University of Padua. At 17, he already had a law degree. However, Giacomo himself always wanted to become a doctor. He even prescribed his own medicines for himself and his friends.

Gambler

Even while studying at the university, Casanova began to gamble and quickly found himself in debt. At the age of twenty-one, he decided to become a professional gambler, but lost all his savings.

Casanova played throughout his adult life, winning and losing large sums of money. He was trained by professionals, and he could not always overcome his desire to cheat. At times, Casanova teamed up with other cheaters to earn money.

As Casanova himself explained his addiction in his memoirs: “Greed made me play. I enjoyed spending money and my heart bled when that money wasn't won at cards."

Freemason and sorcerer

As a child, Casanova suffered from nosebleeds, and his grandmother took him to a local witch. And although the "magic" ointment that the sorceress gave to Casanova turned out to be ineffective, the boy was delighted with the mystery of magic. Later, Giacomo himself would demonstrate "magical" abilities, which were in fact ordinary tricks. In Paris, he posed as an alchemist, which earned him popularity among the most prominent figures of the time, including the Marquise de Pompadour, the Count of Saint-Germain, d'Alembert and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

During his trip to France in Lyon, Casanova became a member of the Masonic society, which attracted him with its secret rituals. People with intelligence and influence were accepted into society, which later turned out to be very useful for Casanova: he received valuable contacts and access to secret knowledge.

Inquisition and prison break

Due to his involvement in the Masonic lodges and interest in the occult, Casanova attracted the attention of the Inquisition. In 1755, Giacomo was arrested and sentenced to five years in Piombi - the "Prison of Lead".

An apostate priest from a nearby cell helped him escape from prison. With an iron lance, they, along with Casanova, made a hole in the ceiling and climbed onto the roof of the prison. From the roof they descended with the help of a rope made of sheets.

Some historians believe that one of his wealthy patrons actually helped Giacomo pay off. However, some confirmations of the adventurer's story have been preserved in the state archives, including information about the repair of the ceiling of the cells.

Inventor of the lottery

Having escaped from prison to Paris, Casanova had to find a means of subsistence. Then he came up with the idea to raise money for the state with the help of the first national lottery. Tickets were sold successfully, and Giacomo gained popularity and earned enough money to shine again in the world.

French Foreign Minister de Berny, who was an old friend of Casanova, sent him on a spy mission to Dunkirk in 1757. Giacomo brilliantly completed the task, gaining the confidence of the captains and officers of the fleet. He found out information about the structure of the ships and their weak points.

Respectable Librarian

The last years of Casanova's life were spent at Dux Castle in Bohemia (Czech Republic), where he worked as a library curator for Count Josef Karl von Waldstein.

Loneliness and boredom recent years life allowed Casanova, without distraction, to focus on his memoirs, entitled "The Story of My Life". If not for this work, his fame would have been much less, or the memory of him would have completely disappeared.

How many women did Casanova have?

Giacomo Casanova is known as a seducer and conqueror of women's hearts. In his memoirs, he does not name the exact number of mistresses, rounding the figure to several hundred. The Spaniard Juancho Cruz, a researcher of Casanova's biography, calculated that Giacomo had 132 women, that is, about three novels a year. By today's standards, this may seem like a very modest result to some.

However, Casanova became famous for his art of seduction, flirting and the passion with which he indulged in love. Relationships with women were the meaning of his life. In each mistress he saw something special. Most of all, Casanova loved Italians. His mistresses, as a rule, were from 16 to 20 years old. By social origin, most of them were servants, but many of those seduced belonged to the highest circles of society.

A saint and a charlatan, a seer and an erotomaniac, a healer and a daring corrupter, a man of God and a heretic, Grigory Rasputin was not honored with any "titles". Countless myths about his personal life and love affairs are so intertwined with real facts that it is almost impossible to distinguish truth from fiction.

Women of Rasputin

From historical materials, it is known that in 1917 the Extraordinary Investigative Commission of the Provisional Government was convened to interrogate ladies who often visited Rasputin. What was the surprise of the interrogators when, one after another, women from the alleged harem denied an intimate relationship with the "Russian Casanova".

The widow of the Cossack Yesaul Nadezhda Voskoboynikova, the actresses Beling and Varvarova, the society coquettes Tregubova and Lunts, Golovina and Lokhtina, the writers Dzhanumova and Zhukovskaya, the princesses Dolgorukova, Sana and Shakhovskaya, and many other ladies of noble birth testified before the commission. With one voice, the women claimed that they were with " God's man only in platonic relationships.

The rumors about Grigory Efimovich's affair with the maid of honor of the Empress Anna Vyrubova, whom everyone considered his main favorite, were not confirmed either. Denying her relationship with Rasputin, she asked for a medical examination, which revealed that the "shameless harlot" was innocent.

Culturologist Vadim Rudnev in the collection "The Truth about the Russian royal family and dark forces" wrote that "the amorous adventures of Rasputin did not go beyond the framework of nightly orgies with girls of easy virtue and chansonnet singers, and sometimes with some of his petitioners. As for his proximity to the ladies high society, then in this regard, no positive materials were obtained by observation and investigation.

In the book "Rasputin. Three demons of the last saint ”Andrei Shlyakhov states that the healer’s opponents, in particular the leader of the Octobrist party, Mikhail Rodzianko, did not stop trying to accuse him not only of voluptuousness, but also of numerous rapes and corruptions. However, in reality, there were only three written complaints of this kind from Pepelyaeva, Timofeeva and Vishnyakova, which turned out to be fabricated for verification.

The Russian historian Yuri Rassulin draws attention to the fact that, despite a lot of mistresses prescribed to Rasputin, none of the women ever presented him with illegitimate children.

Bullying initiators

The publicist Oleg Platonov discovered facts in declassified archives that indicate that the initiators of the persecution of the seer were members of the World Masonic Organization, who at the assembly in Brussels decided to discredit the imperial family through him. Throwing false information about Rasputin's numerous love affairs to the masses, the liberal press not only denigrated his image, but also cast a shadow on the monarchy, helping to fulfill the plans of the revolutionary parties.

Among the persons involved in the campaign to compromise Grigory Efimovich, Platonov named Vinaver, Amfiteatrov, Gessen, Maklakov, Dolgorukov, who worked in the editorial offices of newspapers " Russian word' and 'Speech'.

Thanks to their work, to which the anti-monarchists Chkheidze and Kerensky, Dzhunkovsky and Rubinshtein were involved, by 1916 most of the country's population saw the devil in Rasputin. He was considered guilty of all the troubles of Russia and fooled the gullible Emperor Nicholas II, who therefore ceased to care about the welfare of his subjects.

Whiplash accusation

Fuel was added to the fire by rumors that Rasputin belonged to the Khlysty sect. Through controlled newspapers, this information continued to spread even after 1903, 1907 and 1912 the Spiritual Consistory of the Russian Orthodox Church I did my own research and found no evidence for this.

A brochure by a pseudo-specialist in sectarianism Mikhail Novoselov appeared, with falsified data on Grigory Efimovich, as well as fake letters from his “victims”. Excerpts from there were replicated in numerous underground publications and appeared on the pages of the newspaper "Voice of Moscow", which was edited by the liberal mason A. Guchkov.

The basis for the accusation of whiplash was the confirmed fact of Rasputin's joint washing in the bath with women, which was very reminiscent of the custom of sectarian zeal followed by orgies. However, Professor Gromoglasov, having studied the issue, came to the conclusion that in Siberia collective bathing was a common practice. The religious scholar Firsov remarked that Rasputin "was too independent and self-centered" to share their communal ideas.

The publicist Boris Romanov, in his work Truth and Falsehood about Rasputin, concluded that the Siberian elder at a certain period of time still had a connection with the whips.

However, before 1905-1907, he completely departed from them and created his own teaching, declaring that the holy spirit settled in his body, and he, passing through a series of torments and constantly taming his flesh, achieved the ability to heal and prophesy.

But, according to Romanov, Rasputin, who had a powerful libido, could not completely cope with attraction to the opposite sex, and in order to justify his weakness, he declared himself the chosen one, having sexual contact with whom an unhappy marriage or a fallen woman could get rid of sinful lust.

Okhrana agents dressed in civilian clothes, who constantly watched Grigory Efimovich, repeatedly reported about his strange adventures with prostitutes, whom he treated to wine, asked to undress, examined their naked bodies, and then, not allowing rapprochement, retired, struggling with carnal temptations.

Powerless bisexual

An alternative version regarding the debauchery of the elder was put forward by psychologist Alexander Kotsiubinsky and historian Daniil Kotsiubinsky. In their work "Grigory Rasputin: Secret and Explicit," they cite facts that testify to his bisexual inclinations.

Based allegedly on Rasputin's unpublished diary, they claim that the seer deliberately spread the rumor about his love affairs. The purpose of these rumors was frequent sexual impotence and interest in the same sex.

The authors of the book cite the words of Hieromonk Iliodor, who was personally acquainted with Rasputin and divided all his passions into four cohorts: the first consisted of those whom he only kissed, the second - washed, the third - rid of the devilish influence, and the small fourth group included the elect, with whom he had an intimate relationship.

Having once spied on the Siberian elder, Iliodor saw how he, using all kinds of erotic caresses, extremely excited the young ladies, but at the most piquant moment endowed them with a chaste kiss and did not bring the matter to intercourse. Instead, they knelt down together and began to pray for sinful lust.

He wrote about Rasputin's inability to act of love in the book “The Romanovs. The brilliance and decline of the royal dynasty ”British historian S. Montefiore.

The Kotsiubinskys, developing the theme of Rasputin's bisexual inclinations, cite the words of a seer who liked to say that he heals "not only females, but also males" in a known way. In addition, they put forward the version that the only mortal who managed to get through to Rasputin's heart was the handsome Felix Yusupov, who, ironically, became his killer.

Popular presenter and "people's expert on sex" told "FACTS" about his sexual preferences

Andrey Dzhedzhula is one of the most famous and titled presenters in our country. Many years of experience in television and radio, thousands of parties, corporate events and weddings, five Night Life Awards Host of the Year Nine years ago, Andrey was the first on the radio to dare to air the erotic program First Kiss, in which he began sexual poses, complexes and fears of first sex, mistakes of men and women in bed, etc. were listened to by radio listeners. Almost all Ukrainian stars and many foreign celebrities confessed on the night air at Dzhedzhula - from the popular Italian singer Ingrid to the outrageous Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The guardians of morality once tried to close the program, but, faced with an army of fans grateful to Jejula for psychological support, they abandoned this idea.

The other day, “First Kiss” celebrated its “anniversary” - the three thousandth listener phoned the studio. It would seem that what's new can be said about sex for the three thousandth time? ..

“Thousands of virgins listen to me on the radio”

People never cease to amaze, - says Andrey. - There was a case: a listener, who is 78 years old, called and began to talk with rapture about her young lover, who is about thirty. I assumed that the grandmother is single and has a three-room apartment. No, the grandmother assures, there is no apartment, no fortune. So, I say, you are hypersexual

And it happens that people call about whom I had only read about in books before and never thought that I would have a chance to communicate personally. For example, one woman had sex with a dog - a huge dog. I didn't believe her, it hurt her, and she came to the studio! Moreover, the woman was wealthy, occupied a serious post in a state institution and arrived not on anything, but on a Mercedes convertible. We even changed her voice on the air so that no one would recognize her.

Quite often, not only adherents of the "classics" share their experiences, but also supporters of group sex, gays - they call and tell how they feel how "this" is happening to them. I do not condemn, but I do not promote such forms of sexual life among the young people who listen to me. The lion's share of my audience adheres to traditional views on sex. During the existence of the program, four couples from among the listeners got married! We talked on my website in the “First Kiss” section, met, made friends, created families.

How has the attitude of Ukrainians towards sex changed in nine years?

It surprises me myself, but the trend is a departure from licentiousness and depravity to high morality. And to compare with the same Moscow - we are much less spoiled. They, as once in the Roman Empire, have everything, and this "everything" is overflowing. Relations at the level of purchase and sale. There are many very rich perverts who do not value women, family, or friendship. Everyone remembers how the Roman Empire ended. We have, thank God, much less spoiled people. For example, I am listened to by thousands of virgins who are interested in sex, but they are in no hurry to engage in it, and I strongly support their choice so that in the eyes of more advanced peers they do not look like white crows.

They often call me for advice. Because young people are embarrassed to ask their parents and friends about sex. One 17-year-old guy was genuinely surprised: he called, told that he was sexually active, and then asked if it was possible to get pregnant from oral sex? I laughed it off: "The whole world thought it was impossible until the Becker story happened." (In 1999, the famous tennis player Boris Becker had oral sex with a fashion model, which resulted in the birth of a girl. It is assumed that the model used the tennis player’s sperm for artificial insemination. - Auth.) People who listen to me like that I am not scientific, but in a simple, understandable language, using slang, sharing personal observations

"My first sex is not the best life experience"

They say that while studying at the Institute international relations you ran a virgin club?

Yes, I came up with and led this organization. The fact is that in school I was an ugly duckling who was not popular with girls. I really wanted to change myself, people's attitude towards me. And he decided that for this he needed to enter the most elite university in the country, the most elite faculty - in other words, he made a bet on the mind. There are people who are talking nonsense about the fact that I am a major. But this is nonsense - I entered without any connections, wrote term papers for many, and now I help my relatives financially. I studied day and night, including with tutors, and I did not have time for parties and dates. There were many like me at that time. We loudly declared: “Sex is bad! We must resist the insidiousness of women, strive for a higher goal and concentrate on our studies!” They even paid membership dues. But already at the age of 18, in my second year, I ruined this club

And under what circumstances did you have your first sexual experience?

Alas, it was not my most successful life experience, I imagined the first sex to others My childhood friend threw a party, invited the girls. Under the influence of alcohol, I succumbed to the charms of one of them. The girl was older - 26 years old, experienced and knew well what to do with me. But everything went too fast, and I did not experience moral satisfaction.

It seems that you have unpleasant memories associated with the first kiss.

I really really don't like to think about him There was a high school student in our school. She is 16, I am 14. And so she gathered the boys she liked in a queue and decided to teach us how to kiss. From time to time she called one of us, filled up and bit her lips. And you won't break out, and you won't rip

You appear to be vulnerable and romantic What is sex for you?

I really always loved romance, appreciated everything deep, real and brought up my sexuality on classical literature. Therefore, sex for me is a mechanic.

As Frank Sinatra said, if I want to have sex, I go to the bathroom and masturbate. With a woman, I make love. These concepts are different for me. In general, sex is unique in its sensations and, probably, the most enjoyable experience for a couple. There can be nothing better or worse than sex. This is an incomparable pleasure.

One of the latest studies says that only three percent of Ukrainians have sex every day. Are you in the majority or minority?

I'm in the three percent. They say that with age, the libido weakens, but when I listen to these conversations, I can’t even imagine what has to happen for me to lose interest in sex.

I heard from the girls that before meeting Santa (Andrey's common-law wife. - Ed.) You were a ladies' man and Casanova. This is true?

When I read how many women Casanova had, I laughed softly. (In fact, no one knows the exact number of Giacomo Casanova's women. - Auth.) Because I had much more, but I'm absolutely not proud of it. At one time I worked in nightclubs, and in a day I received five direct offers to have sex and a few more hints. Once a girl even tried to buy me - she handed over an envelope through the waitress, which contained the keys to her apartment and 500 dollars. Then it was ten times more than I received for an evening at the club. I asked the waitress to return the envelope to the stranger and give her from me a glass of martini with a pile of ice and wishes to cool down.

You put out T-shirts that say "I slept with Jejula." What circulation?

- (Laughs.) In fact, this comic inscription has a continuation - “ in the“ First Kiss ”. We give them to radio listeners on the air and sell them on the website. In general, this is the idea of ​​​​my fan club.

You and Mila Jovovich's sister seem to have dated Why did you break up?

Mila does not have a sister, she was a cousin. Our romance lasted four months, but distance killed it. She spent all her time with her sister going to clubs. Somehow I called her, and she had fun in the company of Puff Daddy (famous rapper. - Auth.). I even got to talk to him. Cheerful and simple person.

"Sex shop toys are boring"

Many men envy you because your wife is dazzlingly beautiful. How did you meet Santa?

Yes, Santa is really very beautiful and I love her madly! Let them completely envy me (laughs), but her dazzling and impeccable external data is inferior to her spiritual beauty.

And we met almost by chance - at the birthday party of a mutual friend. Both Santa and I were tired, but we went so as not to offend him. And at first I drew attention to Santa's girlfriend, offered to treat her with a cocktail. And a friend suddenly clarifies - not with a cocktail, but with two cocktails. I see Santa coming up to her. And somehow I immediately switched to her And this girl, by the way, is also very beautiful, now our godfather.

When Santa and I saw each other, our tiredness vanished. It was an explosion of emotions and feelings! We talked for a long time and even kissed that evening They say that the acid-base balance, taste, smell must match. It all came together and made my head really spin. Since that evening, I practically lived under her house, and then I said: “That's it, I have no more health, move in with me!” He gave flowers, took me to restaurants, and we talked and talked all the time and could not talk enough This is also very important for me, because in my life there were enough girls with whom there was nothing to talk about. They were attractive on the outside, but empty on the inside. In Santa, in addition to beauty, there is intelligence, depth. Such a woman should be surprised and delighted regularly.

And how do you surprise Santa?

We like to travel, often change our place of residence, travel to other countries. The scenery changes, new impressions appear, and this greatly enlivens the relationship. It is also important not to be lazy. Laziness kills love. As for the sex itself, even banal everyday clothes in different combinations can be exciting. But I don’t like toys from sex shops - it seems boring to me, and in general, we have enough of each other.

Since you travel so much, tell us which country's sexual customs impressed you?

There is the island of Guam in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, where there is a profession - a deflorator! He is called on the wedding night to deprive the girl of innocence, after which she is given to her lawful husband. I imagined how this person is going to work in the morning, is worried, marks out a plan of meetings and orders in a notebook

I wonder how sex is treated in China, India. I read a lot about tantric currents, when people consciously abstain from sexual intercourse for days, caress each other, spoon-feed, wash in the bathroom, and then, when the excitement builds up to the limit, they merge in a single impulse. I myself tried tantric sex, but, let's say, on a shortened, one-day program. Indeed, the sensations of intimacy, when you do not pounce on a woman, but prolong the foreplay as much as possible, are amplified, and tangibly.

Recently, you complained that because of filming in the "Star Factory" you are forced to live without sex for forty days, because Santa is not around. Is this really a big problem?

To begin with, male and female physiology are different. It seems that you work for yourself, you don’t see sexual objects in other women, but when you turn on the TV and they show your wife there - that’s it, it’s impossible to endure! But what happiness you experience later, when, finally, there is an opportunity to drown your beloved in your arms and drown yourself.

Did Santa inspire your leg tattoo?

Of course she is. I really wanted to do something nice. I sent her to rest in Turkey, and before that I asked: "Write me a nice name." She, without suspecting anything, drew SANTA in beautiful letters, I went to the salon and made myself such a tattoo. Withstood almost six hours of bullying! Oh, and it hurt By the way, this is not my first tattoo. After the operation, I left an ugly scar on my stomach, which I really did not like. I visited a tattoo artist right after I was discharged from the hospital, leafed through the catalog, and it seemed to me that the scorpion would look great and cover the scars neatly. By the way, according to my horoscope, I am not a Scorpio at all. But imagine how happy I was when it turned out that my son was born under this sign! It turns out that everything on my body is now organic and on topic.

Is there a magic number of women that a man can stop at without traumatic consequences for his male identity? There is such a number - and it is more modest than you think.

I've had sex that I later regretted. I've had sex that I'm embarrassed about. I also happened to have sex, which I will take with me to a desert island. But most of all I had to have sex, which I don’t remember anything about. The volume of crumpled cases that have vanished from my memory terrifies me. Something, of course, settled in the brain - hickeys in the back seat of a taxi, a ragged montage of business trips, a hotel room in an exotic country (or was it a hotel for an hour on the outskirts?), but nothing more. What was your name, fleeting accomplice - desired but forgotten accomplice in a love crime? What did we do the next morning - showered each other with kisses or spat, briskly pulling on our underwear? Did we have fun? Why don't I remember you at all? Why haven't we met since then?

A man loves not once or twice - but not much more. Each of us has the love of our life, the second half, the one and only. Let some never get to know her, but she is still somewhere, wandering through the unfamiliar labyrinths of other people's biographies - the one with whose name on your lips you will crawl, waving off hellish howitzers, to the final judgment. The main thing is that you don’t have the whole list on your lips - because in the intervals between the main Loves, most men have to put up with sexual episodes, the significance of which in his life is comparable to eating dried pizza with a hangover or a reckless trip to fast food.

But times are changing - promiscuity is out of fashion these days; everyone began to cross their fingers. A theory has emerged that happy life it is enough to have a limited number of partners. And the number is ten. The rule of ten says that as soon as you cross the double-digit line, your significant other must loom somewhere on the horizon. The Rule of Ten clarifies: few people want to deal with virgins (you never know what's on their minds), but it's better to stay away from too sophisticated ones (you'll never guess what's on their hospital records). The rule of ten tells you: when the next Piers Morgan asks you about the number of sexual partners, you honestly answer him: “Ten, Pierce” - and call each one by name and patronymic.

"Ten? my friend Fred asked. “Is it only in the first year, or does school count too?” Figurines, Freddy - the theory says that ten is more than enough for you for a lifetime. And yet, most men who are reading this now can easily count a dozen mistresses who have irrevocably disappeared into a black hole of memory. There is nothing to be proud of here, but it is pure and honest truth, a cruel reality of our crowded everyday schedules. In addition, we were convinced that we had a simple program called "Fuck everything that moves."

The rule of ten suggests that after making a certain number of mistakes of youth, you will eventually have the first serious relationship, which will end in a painful break, as a result of which you will fly off the coils for a while and will be a male to the fullest, after which, as a result of a series of unconvincing monogamous experiments, you will meet the love of your life. Played around, and waking up. Drum roll, fanfare, curtain.

The rule of ten was derived from a survey of dating sites. Where else can you meet so many sad lonely hearts at once, scouring the Internet in search of non-random connections. These treat sex with the quivering prudence of an apothecary and remember everyone they've slept with in the same room since kindergarten. The most frightening thing is that, according to the British Ministry of Health, a typical English male Homo sapiens has an average of 9.3 sexual partners in his life. True, right? So the rule of ten doesn't lie.

I'm starting to mentally appreciate the argument that since you're sticking your dick in someone, it's logical to remember that creature's name. When the Parkinson-stricken poet John Betjemen was asked if he regretted anything, he simply replied: “Yes, I didn’t have enough connections).” From modern men, it seems, not everyone will subscribe to this recognition. We gorged ourselves on sex - we drank sweet wine from venus furs and we can hardly stand on our feet. When this question is asked of us at the end of life's race, we will be the first generation of men in the history of mankind to answer: "Perhaps I have made love too much."

We are well aware that the point is not in quantity, but in quality, but this does not change anything. Shortly before his death, the greatest seducer in the history of American sports, NBA titan Wilt Chamberlain, admitted that he had 20,000 mistresses: “It would be better if I loved one woman a thousand times. I am not a great lover - on the contrary, you can safely consider me a bad lover. I had so many women because none of them came for more."

Paul Newman echoes Wilt: “Why go somewhere and eat a hamburger when you have a juicy steak waiting for you at home?” And yet every man in the closet of the subconscious has a small belief that the more the better. Julio Iglesias vehemently denied the claim that he had slept with 3,000 women. “This is only until 1976,” said the old womanizer.

It's funny, but the gentlemen who have a reputation for being the greatest lovers can hardly be considered role models - take Roger Moore ("I've had more women than James Bond") or Bill Wyman ("Crazy for girls").

Each of us would rather be Keith Richards than Bill Wyman; Sean Connery, not Moore, Sinatra - much more so than Iglesias. And yet, while we understand the difference between a hamburger and a steak, and realize the advantages of monogamy over depravity, we can't help but feel envious of the kings of seduction. It seems to us that they squeezed everything out of this life to the last drop.

There you are real story. One character checked into a hotel for a month to copulate with a new woman every night. Everything worked out for him - after thirty days he honestly checked out with the completed task. As a pure experiment in debauchery, this is a pretty impressive record, I would like to ask this guy what he got out of this seduction marathon. Was there a moment when he started to get sick of the novelty?

Did he feel at least once that he would like to spend the next night with the same woman with whom he spent this one? This pathological experiment in a strange way sums up our collective male experience - a constant flight into the unknown, to one-time experiences and oblivion of what could gain meaning and significance, but inevitably dissolves in the gallop of a washed-out memory. And so - until nausea, until the very end, until the moment when it becomes unbearable and we say to ourselves: that's it, now I want her alone. And this realization comes as liberation.

If we could choose, would our lives be better? May be. And yet the rule of ten carries a systemic error. This theory is based on the fact that at each site life path The man is looking for the one and only. Almost all misunderstandings and misunderstandings between a man and a woman stem from this false assumption. Of course, we are all looking for a soul mate, but sometimes we just want to spend the night with someone. The rule of ten states that ten partners times life equals happiness. Who knows, maybe that's the way it is. In any case, in this situation, we would definitely remember each one.