Ivan Shapovalov what's wrong with him now. The terrible sinner Shapovalov discovered real life for himself! Produced by t.A.T.u.

Ivan Shapovalov's mistress gave birth to his grandson from his own son!

Last summer, the metropolitan party was shocked by the news of the serious illness of the producer of the legendary group "t.A.T.u." 46-year-old Ivan SHAPOVALOV was hospitalized in one of the Moscow hospitals with a terrible diagnosis - a brain tumor. Since then, no information has been received about him. Relatives and friends of the producer refused to communicate with the media. Shocking Details recent years Shapovalov's life was revealed to Express Gazeta by Ivan IRBIS, the Russian manager of world superstar Enrique Iglesias. Many years ago, Ivan participated in Shapovalov's project "Celestial Empire" and was on close terms with him.

When I found out that Vanya had brain cancer and he was dying, my first desire was to see him, - told Irbis . - It was possible to find out that Vanya was admitted to the Burdenko hospital. Unfortunately, the doctors did not let anyone see him, except for his wife Valeria Prokopievna and their eldest son Volodya. Moreover, as one of Vanya's wards told me, he had a conflict with Vova. “If you forcibly put me in the hospital, I will disown all of you!” - said Shapovalov. He tried to heal himself with some Buddhist method of alternative medicine. But relatives and friends still insisted on hospitalization. In Burdenko Van, a course of radiation therapy was carried out. After that, the doctors said that he had two months to live, and they let him go home to die. Now Vanya is under the supervision of his mother at the dacha in Konakovo, which he bought with the money he earned from t.A.T.u.

Irbis wanted to go there. Tried to call Ivan on his cell phone. But Tatyana always answered the phone - a woman who at one time was with him in intimate relationships. She let Irbis know that his relatives and friends did not want him to visit a friend.

They always hated me, - admitted Irbis. - One day Vova's son came to his house and saw me lying naked in his father's bed. And he began to demand that he immediately swept out. Shouted that I am the dirt of the earth and fuck everyone for profit. And one of Vanya's mistresses, Olga Maslikhova, tried to influence the administrators of the "Celestial Empire", so that they would close the entrance to me there. But Vanya ordered that they let me in again. He was attached to me, loved. And, apparently, everyone felt a threat in me, they considered me a rival.

According to Irbis, among the few who were allowed to reach Shapovalov in Konakovo was the boy Gena. He, as Ivan says, at the time of the "Celestial Empire", being a minor, also had an intimate relationship with him.

- Gena told me that Vanya looked like an alien from fantasy movie: the head swelled up like a pumpkin, and one eye almost fell out, - Irbis sighs. - Of course, I'm terribly sorry for Shapovalov. But, on the other hand, I believe in God and believe that this is his retribution for sins. For me and many other boys and girls from whom this man stole childhood. Take, for example, the unfortunate guy-transvestite from the "Celestial Empire", who mowed down Yulia Volkova to look like a "tattoo". At one time, he often spent the night in a rented apartment, which Shapovalov rented so as not to live with his wife on Voykovskaya. Vanya said that he wanted to do a musical project with him called "It". I remember how Ivan stuffed his socks with buckwheat and stuffed this little gay man into a bra to find the right breast size. And when huge parties gathered in the "Celestial Empire" and everyone drank and used illegal drugs, Vanya and other men took this transvestite behind the curtain in turn, after which he spat something into a plastic cup. The production of the project "It" was limited to this.

Place near Vanya

Vanya's relations with women were built no less peculiarly. All his life he had only one wife - Valeria Prokopyevna, - continues Irbis. - They met and got married while studying at the medical institute in Saratov. And although Vanya had not lived with her for a long time, they did not officially divorce. His wife gave birth to two sons - Vova, who is now 24 years old, and Vanya - he is 9. Shapovalov also has a daughter, Uma, from her mistress Olga Maslikhova. This redhead loved him madly and desperately fought with other admirers and admirers for a place near Vanya. I remember how the financial director of China Katya Icebreaker Obnosova found naked Maslikhova in Shapovalov's bed and chased her around the apartment with a huge samurai sword, donated to the group "t.A.T.u." in Japan.

Irbis recalls that when Ivan invited him on a date to the hotel "Ukraine", Olga, who was on last month pregnancy, bursting into their room with wild cries. But Vanya did not want to see her and asked to call security to get rid of her.

- They said that he even beat Maslikhov when he got it completely, - our narrator said.

Irbis shared that another child, who was named Kurt (in honor of the leader of the rock group Nirvana Kurt Cobain, deceased strange death- either murder, or suicide), Shapovalova was born by his rich admirer Lucy Shiza Sokolova.

She got a lot of money from her bandit husband, who was shot in front of her eyes at the door of their house. Hanging out with Vanya, she became addicted and started investing in Vanya's projects. This Lucy was fucked not only by Vanya, but also by his eldest son Vova. From Vova, she also gave birth to a child - Vanya's grandson. Lucy sent her children from her late husband to London. And the children from the father and son of the Shapovalovs live in her dacha in Voskresensky - with knowledge of the matter says Irbis. - Vanin the arranger hangs out there - a paralyzed invalid Slava Katsev, who suffered some kind of unrealistic stroke from a heroin overdose, barely speaks and cannot walk. They gathered a studio there, thump, get stoned with drugs, fuck all together and write songs. This is a complete pip! During our last meeting at the Ukraina Hotel, Vanya and I played the following game: I asked him what this or that word meant, and he, in his own way, gave it a transcript. To the question "What is love?" he replied, "It's a garbage pit." To the question "What is terrorism?" - "It back side states".

In conclusion, I asked him: “What is death?” Vanya smiled, looked into my eyes and said: "Death is something new." Then he got madly drunk, lay down on the windowsill and threw up from the 17th floor right at the front entrance of the Ukraine Hotel. After that, I didn't see him again. Estimate!

In addition to the above-mentioned persons, in intimate relations with Ivan Shapovalov in different time consisted of: soloist of the group "t.A.T.u." Yulia Volkova, producer and songwriter Elena Kiper and TV presenter Beata Ardeeva. Volkova and Kiper, according to the latter, closeness with him brought to the point of going to the doctors. And Ardeeva in 2003 got into a terrible car accident and became disabled.

Only one person out of ten who learned about their terrible disease may not fall into despair, but pull himself together and eventually rise to his feet. This one turned out to be Ivan Shapovalov, known to us mainly as the producer of the scandalous Tatu group.

Disappointing news

Child psychiatrist by profession, former owner of one of the Russian printed publications, chapter public organization, a marketer and advertiser of leading insurance companies in Moscow, and in addition, screenwriter and producer Ivan Shapovalov, in recent 2012, found out that he had a malignant tumor in his head, and if he did not start treatment urgently, then he would not live long. Many of his acquaintances even ahead of time "sent him to the next world" in their interviews, but not Ivan himself. He for a long time did not get in touch with the press, did not allow his friends and relatives to do the same. But, apparently, the famous producer had enough "well-wishers" who were just waiting for the right moment to merge the whole truth and untruth into the broad masses.

Here, for example, one of the managers of Enrique Iglesias, who at one time was on rather friendly terms with Shapovalov, although he sympathizes with his former friend, he sincerely believes that this is the very retribution for the sins of youth. What are the sins? Well, if you believe the rumors, then Ivan has not so few of them.

Retribution?

Just a few years ago, everyone was just talking about the sexual promiscuity and bisexual inclinations of the star. The first thing that comes to mind is, of course, the path by which the obvious favorite of her mentor, Yulia Volkova, got into the Tatu project, and he apparently lies through the bed. Moreover, if we compare all the dates, it turns out that producer Ivan Shapovalov seduced her at a very young age. “Yes, and what is there to hide,” Ivan himself apparently thought, and boldly declared to one of the British publishers that underage girls attracted him most of all.

Moreover, the unfortunate producer is credited with sexual relations with for the most part people who have ever worked with him. With all this, Ivan Shapovalov was married. His only lawful wife Valeria, with whom he formalized his relationship while studying at the Saratov medical institute, although she moved out of her husband a long time ago, she did not dare to get a divorce. The spouses, by the way, have two children: 27-year-old Vova and 11-year-old Ivan Ivanovich. But on the side of the "family man" there is a daughter Uma, born of her mistress Olga.

Breaking all moral taboos

Ivan Shapovalov, who earned fame as a world pervert hero, whom the London newspaper The Times compared with Patrick Swayze, announced the problems of pedophilia all over Britain, but at the same time, he did not hesitate to use it as a publicity stunt in the music industry.

The same Ivan Irbis told about a poor young transvestite, who, one might say, was a double of Yulia Volkova. According to him, for some time the guy lived in an apartment rented by Shapovalov. And although the producer justified this fact with the desire to create a new, even more compromising project with the scandalous name “It”, Irbis says that all this was just a matter of the sexual satisfaction of the star. Such, it turns out, is Ivan Shapovalov. "Tatu" is another confirmation of this. Only a twisted brain could freely release two kissing teenage girls onto the stage. Nobody has done this before, and therefore the scandalous group in the West was dubbed "the collapse of the last pop taboo."

The first pancake is not always lumpy

The Tatu group is Shapovalov's production debut. He began working on the project together with the composer Voitinsky back in 1999. The first member of the team was with whom several compositions were recorded at that time. A little later, Yulia Volkova appeared on the horizon, and the duet got its name. It is worth noting that Alexander Voitinsky would later refuse to cooperate with Shapovalov, as he considered the project to be devoid of moral principles.

The year 2000 was a turning point for Tatu - their song “I'm crazy” was heard from all the radios, and a video about two schoolgirls openly kissing in the pouring rain appeared on the blue screens. The music for the song, by the way, is the work of 17-year-old Sergey Galoyan. Already at the beginning of 2001, the group recorded their first studio album called "200 in the opposite direction", which in a year will become English-language. The song "Half an hour" is gaining particular popularity, and the "tatushki" begin to briskly tour around the world.

Fall from Heaven

In 2003, a successful producer came up with a brilliant idea: why not make an equally scandalous reality show? And already at the beginning of next year, the STS channel presented the Russians with a new "entertainment" - "Tatu" in the Celestial Empire, in which the girls were supposed to record their new album in front of the viewers. Filming took place on the 13th level of the Beijing Hotel, where Shapovalov set up a recording studio. But we did not wait for the final result - Ivan abandoned his “brainchild” and transferred the producer rights to the Tatu group to Boris Rensky.

But in 2004, the British music award BMI awarded him the Pop Awards. And all thanks to the composition All the Things She Said, which, bypassing even the legendary No Doubt team with their hit It`s My Life, became the leader in this nomination. Imagine, the song was aired over 2 million times!

At the foot of glory

After giving up tattoos and triumphing on the British charts, Shapovalov began work on a new project called Nato. Then he took himself one more ward - the group "7B". Heavy sound and depressive notes have become something new in the work of the producer.

In 2004, he took up the aspiring singer Helei, and already in 2005 he loudly announced his intention to create a new reality show. Filming was supposed to take place on one of the icebreakers, which followed the Arctic Ocean. But plans remained plans.

Well, you can’t take away the desire to work with Ivan Shapovalov, but none of the projects that he led received such success and recognition as Tatu. A group that provokes absolutely contradictory comments (they were called an international shame, then national pride Russia), became " calling card» Producer.

A fatal diagnosis, it would seem ...

But back to the news that became public knowledge in the hot summer of 2012. Brain cancer is terrible diagnosis Ivan heard from the doctors in his direction. He himself did not want to make this information public, so everyone thought and wondered about what was happening with Ivan Shapovalov and why he did not go out in public. But his friend and colleague, soon told the press about the state of affairs of the patient. It turns out that immediately after the announcement of Ivan's diagnosis, he was placed in the intensive care unit of one of the Moscow clinics. In this, the former ward Yulia Volkova helped him in every possible way. A large number of courses of chemotherapy contributed to a significant reduction in the tumor, which, by the way, was so neglected that it even pressed on Shapovalov's eye. Ivan, who took his health into his own hands, got on his feet a year later.

Doctors' predictions: will Ivan Shapovalov have time to atone for his sins?

Ivan Shapovalov's illness, you understand, does not promise him an absolute recovery. Perhaps that is why the producer took the illness sent to him as a chance to turn the next page of his "non-angelic" life and start everything from scratch.

He practically left Moscow and settled in the town of Konakovo, in the Tver region. There he found new way maintaining vitality. Horses - that's what helps him in difficult times. And it's not just a hobby. Horses, in a way, became his life. But Ivan Shapovalov did not leave music either. Cancer did not prevent him from performing and recording his own song titled "My Love Walks Somewhere".

Perhaps it was this attitude to his illness that allowed Ivan to remain among the living. After all, the forecasts of doctors were, to put it mildly, disappointing. None of them at first would have dared to give Shapovalov more than 3 months of life, and what a life! Constant wandering around hospitals and communicating with people in white coats - that's what should have accompanied the sinful producer throughout the rest of his life allotted to him. But it was not there! After intensive courses radiation therapy and "chemistry", endless droppers and debilitating medications, the tumor began to noticeably decrease. Now, after more than two years, doctors do not notice any metastases in Ivan's body, but he looks like a completely healthy person.

Despite the fact that now Tina Kandelaki holds a high position on television, she fondly recalls the program "Details", which she once hosted at the dawn of her dizzying career. "The program "Details" made me the leader. If it weren't for her, no Tina Kandelaki would exist. The moment of the steepest professional growth. The genre of the interview endlessly develops a person ... "Kandelaki noted.

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Tina ended her work in the program because she "talked to everyone." However, in her life there were frankly disastrous conversations. This happened to the producer of the Tatu group Ivan Shapovalov. The piquancy of the conversation was given by the fact that the man was not quite sober.

According to Kandelaki, she realized from the very beginning that the conversation would not work. "Unlike my mother, I am not a narcologist. But there it would become clear to anyone. When talking with a person, you will immediately feel whether he drank a glass or five? At the same time, Ivan had a well-thought-out image - such an infant terrible from the East. Hefty layer of Russian pop culture had no chance of exporting. Suddenly, absolutely world-class content appears! Demanded on any American show! I remember a funny fragment - girls are driving in a car. It seems that Van Damme wants to meet them. Yulia Volkova says: "Van Damm... What about Van Damme? What to do with him?" - "Cho, cho ... Get to know!" They themselves did not expect this phenomenal fame, "said Tina.

Kandelaki did not even try to save the interview. She explained why: "Yes, watching his agony on the air is much more interesting! You look and understand that such a state kills."

According to Tina, there are six tricks to present the interlocutor in an unpleasant light, but this is not for her. “Vanya is so… How can I tell you… He was way ahead of his time. There were no hashtags yet, and Vanya was already thinking with trends, memes. This is just an American scenario about a person who has achieved rapid success! he can take it away. Because in the future, Shapovalov didn’t have anything. The breakthrough with Tatu is, yes, phenomenal. Never before has the Russian stage in the West interested anyone. After, too, "Kandelaki is quoted by Sport -Express".

Ivan Nikolaevich Shapovalov
Ivan Shapovalov
Occupation:	Russian music producer
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:	Kotovo, Volgograd region
Citizenship:	Russian Federation

Ivan Nikolaevich Shapovalov- Russian music producer, best known for his musical project "t.A.T.u."

Biography

Ivan was born on May 28, 1966 in the Volgograd region (the city of Kotovo). His mother, Nadezhda Richardovna, worked as a physics teacher. Dad, Nikolai Alexandrovich was an artist. Rather, thanks to the influence of his mother, Ivan went to school with a physical and mathematical bias. Chose after school medical direction, studied at the Saratov Medical Institute, specializing in psychiatry. After graduation, he worked in a children's psychiatric hospital, at the same time he led a private practice in the field of psychocorrection of children. Early married his classmate Valeria, gave birth to a son, Vladimir. Until a certain period, Ivan was an exemplary citizen, like many others, a cog in a large social system. Then the gradual transformation of an ordinary provincial doctor into something else began, sometimes not always clear to the layman.

Change of life course

In 1992, Ivan decides to change his life dramatically. He leaves medicine and establishes a PR organization called the Formation Service. public opinion"Context". During the gubernatorial elections, there was a rather high demand for the services of the company.

For the next two years, Shapovalov worked for the Slavia insurance company and pension fund"Russian capital". In both companies, Ivan is engaged in marketing and promotions. A little later, he was transferred to work in the Moscow branches of companies. At that time, he met the composer Voitinsky.

Since 1994, Ivan has been trying himself as a screenwriter for commercials. The topic of advertising and television then generally only gained momentum.

In 1996, he made a landmark commercial for the R&K computer company. One of the founders of the company later acted as a sponsor and co-producer of Tatu. Another commercial gave an acquaintance with the girl Lena Katina, who voiced the clip. A little later, on the set, Ivan collaborates with NTV journalist Elena Kiper, who became a full-fledged co-producer of the project. The pieces of the puzzle fit together.

Project «t.A.T.u.»

The first casting for the role of the soloist was won by Lena Katina. It was 1999 year. Voitinsky records two songs with Lena: "I am your enemy" and "Yugoslavia". The composer and producer got the feeling that one singer would not be enough and a second girl, Yulia Volkova, was added to the group.

In 2001, joint hard work finally gives a tangible result - the album "200 in the opposite direction" is released. In May of the same year, Shapovalov signed a contract with the famous label "Universal Music". The contract was not as simple as it might seem: he obliged Ivan to release three albums without fail and forbade him to change the composition of the group.

The group is gaining popularity. In 2002/2003, a lot of concerts are planned, an English version of the first album is released, a world tour is launched.

In 2004, within the framework of the same advertising campaign, the show "Tattoo in the Middle Kingdom" was launched on the STS TV channel. The office was filmed, all the demo versions of the songs of the new album were accepted, but the show was never launched. Ivan Shapovalov resigned as a producer and actually gave the brand to Tatu. In October 2004, Ivan Shapovalov received a medal for the composition "All the things she said", of which he was a co-author. The song has been played over 2 million times.

New projects

After the success of Tatu, Ivan wanted to do something equally explosive and grandiose. He takes on several projects, but these projects are in force various reasons could not be implemented. This is the singer Nato in 2004, the rock group "7B", the singer Helya and Nano-project.

There was even an idea to shoot a reality show on an icebreaker during a trip to the North Pole.

Disease

Completely unexpected for Ivan in 2012 was the realization that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer. At first, he categorically refused to believe that something could be wrong with him, he tried to be treated by shamans and psychics. Help was provided by his former ward, Yulia Volkova. She convinced Ivan to undergo diagnostics in a modern medical center and even brought him herself. A course of chemotherapy was prescribed and a survival period of two months was indicated. Friends, doctors, and especially the media buried Ivan together. Only the closest friends and family remained. They announced a fundraiser for treatment and, in fact, snatched Shapovalov from the hands of death.

On the this moment Ivan lives and works in China. He returned to show business, though not as a producer, but as a singer. Recording his new album.

We are sitting in the Correa's restaurant on Voykovskaya - Shapovalov lives nearby. There are crutches at the table, it is still difficult for Ivan to walk without them. He drinks mineral water with gas and flips through his iPhone contacts, dictating one name after another.

Nine out of ten people, upon learning that they have a brain tumor, fall into despair. 46-year-old Ivan Shapovalov, who was diagnosed with this last summer, managed to get back on his feet by this spring. He is still in treatment. It is expensive to be ill now - even for those whose life from the defense seems secure. Ivan's friends understood this and organized an online campaign "Vanya for you", created a page in social network"In contact with".

Members of the group helped raise money for treatment. StarHit joined the action. They asked Ivan: “How else can you help? Maybe publish a checking account? Shapovalov replied: “I need money for treatment - I don’t refuse. But it is better to announce a fundraiser to those who need it now. And I went through this, and thanks to everyone who helped me with this.

Write down... Valeria Shapovalova, every day, Vera Shapovalova, my sister, Yulia Volkova, well, you know her, Borya Rensky, my partner in the t.A.T.u project... Vlad Agulnik, long time no see, Artem Suslov, poet from St. Petersburg, Anna Merkusheva , the person who has always helped me, Olya Maslikhova, she is a rarity ... Sergey Bobza, warmly Krasnodar Territory, Vadim Gorbachev, you also know Lena Katina, she sang a song for me, Yuri Bardysh, the most romantic producer, Martyn with Traction, they brought flowers ... "

Ivan’s eldest son, Volodya, comes up to our table, his father nods with a smile: “You see, I’m renting everyone!”

The list of close friends, which Shapovalov called “my Facebook”, includes more than 30 names, and those who took part in the online campaign “Vanya for you”
It's hard to list hundreds! Behind every name is a story true friendship, relationships, proven over the years. “They gave me the opportunity to sit here, talk to you and see the sun,” says Vanya. And here are just a few of those stories.

Valery's wife was with him every day - both in intensive care and in the hospital ward. She is a pediatrician at the SM-doctor clinic for children and adolescents. “You know,” Ivan smiles, “our youngest son Vanya is often asked by the parents of classmates: “Are you Ivan Shapovalov? Ivan Ivanovich? Yes? Is that your mom, the doctor at our clinic?” Not a word about me."

Hearing the question of how much effort it took for her to hold on, Valeria clarifies: “You mean, am I an iron woman? No, I cry, and quite often. It’s just that I don’t have a person closer to Vanya, and I hope he doesn’t have anyone closer to me either. I adjusted my schedule at work, I didn’t take vacations, because I had to live on something. We always came with younger son Vanya, he is 10 years old. When dad was in intensive care for a month and a half, his son sat next to him and read fairy tales to him - Japanese, Indian. Then, already in an ordinary ward, the son told dad jokes, funny stories. Whenever possible, we tried to take Ivan away from the hospital for a while. Between chemotherapy courses, which lasted 2-3 weeks, he spent 5 days at home, and then every day was like a holiday for us.”

Many acquaintances, having learned about Shapovalov's illness, prayed, lit candles for his health. “I am a doctor myself and I believe in my colleagues,” says Valeria. – But subconsciously I still rely on the power of prayers, although I don’t know them. Vanya's sister Vera went to church, brought an icon to the clinic. I am grateful to everyone who supported us then! Even complete strangers called me and offered any help.

Ivan managed to surprise the doctors of the Hematological scientific center RAMN. “Vanya is certainly a bright personality, it is interesting with him, but for his behavior I give him a deuce! – Shapovalova’s attending physician Anna Morozova shares with StarHit. – Either he listened to Indian music in intensive care, terribly annoying to the staff, then they found forbidden products in his ward - lemonade or exotic fruits. Our head of the department Evgeniy Evgenievich Zvonkov gave him such a blast! But it is useless to fight Vanya. He was absolutely not afraid and is not afraid of his illness, it is difficult to scare him with some consequences.

On the one hand, this simplified our work, but on the other hand, it made it more difficult. He used to control the situation, he tried here too. And the predictions were dubious. And we must give Ivan his due: he had some kind of maniacal desire to get up and go. Nine out of ten people in his situation
hands would have dropped, and he didn’t even have to cheer him up. Other patients, when you tell them about the slightest improvement, do not believe their happiness. And Vanya, when a miracle happened and positive dynamics appeared, was not even surprised. Or maybe he was so masterfully hiding his joy - they say, he always has everything under control!

Shapovalova's mother, Nadezhda Richardovna, was watching a program on the Kultura channel and accidentally found out that there was a Bechstein piano in the conference room of the Center where her son was lying. I told Ivan about it. He asked the head of the department, Yevgeny Zvonkov, to give him the keys.

- Imagine what a coincidence: there are ten buildings in the hospital, and this musical exclusive is located in the same building and even on the floor where Ivan Nikolayevich is lying! - says Shapovalov's friend, pianist Luka Zatravkin. - And the ward next to the entrance to the conference room, in general, no one lay closer to Vanya than this piano. I came to the hospital with my friend Sergei, he is a tuner, and Bechstein sounded even better. Evenings came when it seemed that hell was around, but we did not want to notice it. Vanya and I worked together on my concert program- I played Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov. Vanya made comments to me or sat down at the piano himself, and we played four hands.

In Goa in the winter of 2009, Ivan met Evgeny Nizhemetov, the owner of Express.ru. “Somehow, friends asked me to shelter a Russian guy with two children. He forgot the child's passport in the guest house, and because of this he had to fly on another flight, - Evgeny recalls.

- Sure, not a problem! I filmed alone huge house, five people. That guy with the kids was Shapovalov. The following year, they met again in Goa, and then they saw each other two or three times a year in Moscow or St. Petersburg, shared their plans. “When I found out that Ivan had brain cancer, I immediately dialed his number and heard a suppressed voice. Vanya asked to contact him later, - Evgeny continues. “A couple of weeks later the phone rang and I recognized a playful set of familiar interjections. Well, thank God, I thought! We agreed to meet when I return from Sochi - in early January I was visiting friends there. They slipped me a few bags of local elite tea with them on the road.

When I arrived at Ivan's house and unpacked the tea, we were amused: rustling plastic bags with greenish grass inside could create difficulties at any other airport, except for Sochi, where they were already used to it, most likely! For three hours we talked about plans - Ivan has no less of them than I do. For example, the last project he thinks about is aimed at combating Moscow traffic jams.”

: For the past five years, Shapovalov has not communicated with his longtime friend, the owner of the Chaikhona No. 1 network, Timur Lansky. No, they didn't fight.
“It’s simple,” the restaurateur told StarHit, “it happens that you don’t see friends for years.” But as soon as Timur found out about Ivan's illness, he immediately offered money for treatment, began to pay for medicines, and was ready to send Shapovalov to any clinic in Germany or the USA.

“Money is money, but it was important to give him hope,” says Timur. - Although Vanya is a man marked by God, and he was not going to give up. “As it happened, so it shall pass!” he repeated. And I wanted to do something special for him. And I asked my cooks to cook pilaf for our dear patient, then I sent it to him with a driver. Vanya had a million ideas even during his illness, we developed one restaurant project together, connected with environmentally friendly products, so we will launch it together.

She has known Ivan for more than ten years, but even for her he opened up this difficult period from an unexpected side.

“The disease has changed Vanya a lot,” Tatyana shared with StarHit. - He became more attentive and sensitive to the people around him. He began to show participation and interest in the problems and affairs of close and dear people. When I faced the deterioration of my health, Vanya gave me a very useful advice. “Sometimes you need to stop and rethink your life,” he said. This helped me a lot. From myself I would like to add: take care of those who are dear to you, be attentive to each other!

Bakhyt Kilibaev, the screenwriter of the film The Needle, has known Shapovalov for about ten years.

“Timur Bekmambetov introduced us,” he told StarHit. – Previously, we often talked, vacationed in India with our children. And last year, they called up more and more, agreed to meet, but ... I found out about Vanya's illness just before he was put in intensive care. Came to his house. The conversation was short: “Do you understand what is happening to you?” - "Understand". His determination to resist the disease made an impression on me.

He's stubborn! I visited Ivan in the hospital, a lot interesting people I saw him - they continued to start some projects together ... I think it was the interest in life that made Vanya so strong. Once I brought him a book called The Shaman's Experience - it's about what Vanya thinks about. When Ivan began to recover, I offered to make a film about his recovery. Vanya himself was ready for any experiments, but Lera and other relatives were not allowed -
maybe out of superstition. And we didn't argue with them.

Ivan Shapovalov asked to thank all the people on our website who helped him. StarHit is happy to convey to these people:

// Photo: Personal archive of Ivan Shapovalov