Sonya was out of work, and sold all the antiques and moved into a two-room apartment. In 2000, her husband died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-nine. She was a hereditary fortune-teller, and according to rumor, Galina Brezhneva, daughter of Soviet politician and longtime General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Viktoria Brezhneva, and Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev came for Timofeeva’s predictions.
They lived in a mansion in Tverskaya, with antique furniture and a servant. She was married to Alexei Khmelev (1943-2002), son of the legendary gypsy Lyalya Chernoy and Nikolai Khmelev, Stalin’s cultural adviser and one of the most sought-after suitors of the Soviet USSR. She became a star at the Romen Theater with the song “Not Evening”. Sonya was discovered by one of the artists of the Romen theater singing with the gypsy ensemble in Tula. And investigation was started, but Sonya demanded the “groom” retract his statement to the police, and it was said they parted amicably. The men had a fight, and Anatoly slightly hurt his sister’s would-be kidnapper. At home, she told her family, and her brother Anatoly went to deal with the failed groom.
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She was brought to a strange house, and locked in a room, but there were no bars on the windows and she got free and ran twenty kilometers back home. The next day she was kidnapped from her school by matchmakers, but she put up a fight, that left scars on her body. When Sonya was fourteen, her uncles wanted her to get married and some guests came to visit. Sonya’s older brother, Anatoly Alekseevich, who was later was killed by unknown people, at that time worked in the Sevastopol Red Banner Ensemble. Military men in trucks arrived at the camp, and fifty gypsy families were taken to the city of Sovetsk in the Tula region. Nikita Khrushchev issued a decree that all gypsies should become settled life. At an early age, Sonya liked to imitate her mother dancing. The Baurov dynasty hailed from Leningrad gypsies. Her mother was Evgenia Baurova, a singer and dancer. She was interviewed in her elite apartment overlooking the Kremlin where she lives with her husband Vyacheslav Bobrik. In August 2021, Andrei Malakhov again featured Sonya Timofeeva, this time in the “Live” program, after reports that she had become reclusive, stopped seeing visitors and stopped walking in the park. In August 2021, Andrei Malakhov again featured Sonya Timofeeva, this time in the “Live” program, after reports that she had become reclusive.
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In 2014, she appeared on Andrei Malakhov’s program “Let Them Talk” (Пусть говорят), “The Return of the Gypsy Sonya”, at the age of 69, and with a young husband, a quarter of a century younger than her, for a retrospective of her career, and talked about the secrets of gypsy magic, and how to determine by the cards whether a husband cheats. There were rumors that the singer left the country and was living abroad, or even that she had died.
In the 1990s, she left the theater, and nothing was known about her fate. She was a soloist of the Moskontsert, a performer of Russian romances and gypsy songs. She was Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1991. She became popular after the premiere of the film “Gypsy” ( Цыган).
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