Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the most famous and talented actors of our time. In his filmography, there are melodramas, serious movies, and fantastic action films, and serials. The actor was born and raised in the US, but he repeatedly stressed that he was proud of his Russian roots.
What was the name of Leonardo DiCaprio's grandmother?
Russian blood in Leonardo went on the maternal line, namely - from my grandmother. The name of Grandma Leonardo DiCaprio is Elena Stepanovna Smirnova. It was under this name that she was born in pre-revolutionary Russia and lived here the first years of her life. By the way, precise information is not known, where the Smirnov family was born. There is evidence that the Russian grandmother of Leonardo DiCaprio was from Perm. In other sources, the city of Odessa or the Kherson region is called. However, Leo never specified the exact place of her birth, he usually simply says "from Russia." Although Odessa and Kherson now belong to Ukraine, his grandmother left the country even during the revolution, when these regions were part of the Russian Empire.
After the revolution, Elena's parents immigrated to Germany, where the girl grew up. Here her name was remade in German, and she began to call herself Helen.
When Helen grew up, she married grandfather Leonardo DiCaprio and took her husband's surname - Indenbirken. A girl was born in their family, who was named Imerlin.
All the second world war, Russian grandparents and grandfather Leonardo DiCaprio spent in fascist Germany. Departure from the country, and even more so, emigration was impossible at that time. Helen herself in one of the interviews told that her daughter Imerlin was born in 1943 in a bomb shelter during an air raid. The family was not miraculously subjected to repression by the fascist authorities, after all, it seems that the grandfather of Leonardo DiCaprio also had Russian roots. The actor has repeatedly stated this, saying that he was "not a quarter, but half Russian."
Immigration to the United States and relations with his grandson
After the war in the early 50-ies the family moved to the United States. Here the Indenbirkens lived in the community among other immigrant Germans. According to some sources in America, Elena Smirnova arrived no longer with her husband, but with a new lover from Italy, but this information is refuted by an interview with Helen herself. She states that she lived with her husband, and in 1985 they decided to return to Germany.
In 1974 Helen Indenbirken was born a grandson, who was given the name of Leonardo. Grandmother took an active part in the upbringing of the child and was very close to him. Leonardo DiCaprio always lovingly speaks about his grandmother, and also that Russian blood flows in his veins. He especially stresses that his grandfather was Russian, that is, he is not a Russian, but a half, and not a quarter.
About his grandmother, Leonardo DiCaprio also tells us that this was the strongest and most internally solid person he had to meet for his life. Even in difficult times, she could keep her dignity and inner core, her tests did not frighten her.
Despite the fact that Elena left Russia when she was a child, he retained knowledge of the Russian language. Leonardo DiCaprio met with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in 2010, during his trip to St. Petersburg. Then to the question of whether he speaks Russian, Leo replied that he did not, but his grandmother would gladly chat with the prime minister.
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Elena Stepnovna Smirnova, also known as Helen Indenbirken died in 2008 at the age of 93 years. However, the memory of her is alive. Leonardo DiCaprio in many interviews notes the contribution of the grandmother, which she made in shaping the character and education of her grandson , as well as how truthful and honest this person was, what a loving woman she was.
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