About the book: 2006 / Inexhaustible interest in the lives of star couples serves as a life-giving source for all kinds of media that regularly supply their consumers with sensations - real and fictional. And sometimes the stars themselves, for advertising purposes, give the press legends of their own creation. And here it is already difficult to understand where is truth and where is fiction. The authors of this book invite readers to figure this out for themselves. When presenting certain facts of the family life of celebrities, they sought to be objective, without showing sympathy for any of the spouses. The authors also tried to show marriages of various kinds: happy (like Raisa and Mikhail Gorbachev) and not so happy (like Natasha Koroleva and Igor Nikolaev), scandalous (like Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley) and exemplary (like Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin), long as life and short as a theater season... Or maybe the popular singer and composer Igor Nikolaev is right after all, who once admitted to journalists: “Personally, I don’t know a single happy star couple. Public gatherings and divorces kill love, believe my bitter experience”?.. But I really don’t want to believe him…