Yesterday and today

How many girls, looking at the beauties that our cinema is so rich in, dreamed of being at least a little like them. People fell in love with them, worshipped them, idolized them! However, in life, everything is more complicated... And although now all the actresses say that they are satisfied with their fate, their happiness is very different. And this is not always the happiness of the family hearth. How do the first beauties of our cinema live today...




Main role: Constance in the film "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers".



What is today: she became the president of the family festival "True Heart", she is engaged in charity. He plays in performances. She has been married to actor Sergei Martynov for 10 years. He has a daughter, Ksenia, and a grandson.



– Irina, did you have a desire to fully devote yourself to your family? I asked the actress. — No, it's very boring. I will not give this advice to any woman. Even children are proud of you and are drawn to you when you prove yourself! Then, if you don't have time for something, you will be forgiven. The main thing is not to sacrifice anything. We need to negotiate. Otherwise, you and the children will suffer, because you will take out the negativity on them. — Isn't your husband jealous of work? "My first husband (Alexander Abdulov – Ed.) was very jealous of me, although he did not always behave in an exemplary manner. With my second husband, we agreed that there is no jealousy in our family. Well, sometimes he misses me... But you still return home, and on this free day you can make up for everything! It is better to live a full life and grasp at everything that is interesting.



The main role: Larisa Ivanovna from "Mimino".





What is today: art director of the Hermitage, was a member of the working group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. Tv presenter. He starred in TV series.



About personal: 19 years married to businessman Andrey. She gave birth to a daughter from him. In her youth, there was her first fleeting marriage, in which she gave birth to a daughter. The second attempt at marriage was also unsuccessful. Proklova's twin sons died immediately after birth, and grief separated the spouses. "Meeting Andrei changed everything in my life... I need a partnership. And I have it," says the actress.



Starring: Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins, Goodbye!





Natalia Andreichenko as Mary Poppins in the film Mary Poppins, Goodbye!, participates in charity, goes to film festivals. Her first husband is composer Maxim Dunaevsky, the second is actor Maximilian Schell, with whom she is now divorced. I have two children.



In real life, Andreichenko has never sought to resemble an ideal woman: "You can deceive everyone around you - both children and colleagues. But sooner or later you will still become yourself. And here lies are unacceptable. You can't fool yourself. I have already gone through a similar thing in the United States, when they tried to convince me that I needed to change – to speak without an accent, to play American roles. But then I'll be different! Not an American, but a broken Natasha. And suddenly it dawned on me that I shouldn't do it. I am Natasha, Russian. Like it – good, dislike it – sorry. I decided that I would stay with myself.



Main role: Nina in the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus"





In recent years, Natalia Varley left her work in cinema - her last film in 2006 was "Wolfhound of the Grey Dogs".



Today he plays in an entreprise, goes on tour. She has not been married for the last six years. Her first husband was the actor Burlyaev. Natalia was cared for by the son of the Belgian Minister of Defense, Lucien Harmegins. But she chose another one - the son of Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Nonna Mordyukova (from this marriage she gave birth to the eldest son). He hides the name of the father of the second child.



For some time she worked at the O'key Theater. 3 CDs with her songs, two collections of poems were released. She was engaged in dubbing and dubbing of foreign films and television series. She hosted the program "Household Chores" on the RTR TV channel. In the spring of 2009, in a duet with Mykola Gnatyuk, she took part in the TV project "Two Stars".



The main role: Aksinya in "And Quiet Flows the Don" by Gerasimov.



What she is doing today: she plays in the Maly Theater. He is engaged in social work. Personal life: after 27 years of marriage, she divorced and has been living alone since the late 90s. There are no children. What did the appearance give? Alas, beauty is not always a guarantee of success in your profession and personal life. For example, in her youth, Elina Bystritskaya was proud of her fragile figure. But it was her slenderness that became an obstacle in the approval for the role of Aksinya. The actress had to gain as much as 15 kg.



In life, her mesmerizing beauty created many problems for her. For example, she was expelled from the Komsomol... for refusing to dance with a young man. Bystritskaya said that "he smells like a village." Later, without reciprocating the feelings of the director of the Vilnius Theater, she was forced to leave the troupe.



When she rebuffed a government official in love with her, she was not allowed to travel abroad for a long time. Bystritskaya has always had a lot of admirers, but she married only in the late 60s to an employee of the translation department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. After 27 years of married life, she decided to divorce after learning about her husband's infidelity, and since then she has been alone.



"I realized that the divorce began to brew when Nikolai Ivanovich began to actively invade my work. I could not allow myself to be commanded... He ceased to be interested in everything except the fact that he was the husband of "the same Bystritskaya," the actress recalled.



— Elina Avraamovna, do you want to arrange your personal life today? I asked the actress. "I have male friends with whom I communicate. But I don't want to have a man in my house. It happens: a man has disappeared from life, and often a woman begins to think that she needs to find happiness as soon as possible. Some other man, or what?



There is no need to grieve because of the lost man. It means that your skills, your work, your actions are not for him... You have to work hard to distract yourself after a divorce. It is necessary to realize what is given by nature, by God. For me, the main thing is to be in demand. I'm always in a fight. My fate is not easy, but it was a success and will continue to succeed. I also have the strength and the desire! My life motto is: do not betray yourself.



The main role: Milady in the film "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers".



What she is doing today: she puts on performances at her native Mayakovsky Theater. Personal life: she has not been married for the last 20 years. Two children.



What did the appearance give? Beauty helped to become one of the favorite actresses of the cult director Andrei Tarkovsky - when he accidentally saw Terekhova for the first time, he exclaimed: "What beautiful hair you have, how beautiful you are!" and invited her to his film "The Mirror".



But his personal life did not work out. Men appeared in her life and quickly disappeared. "There was only one benefit from men - they gave children," Terekhova once said.



The eldest daughter Anna gave birth to the Bulgarian actor Savva Khimimov, after which she broke up with him. She gave the surname Turaev to her son, whom she gave birth to without a husband, and said that his father was a certain prosperous Tajik Turaev.



Journalists found director Georgy Gavrilov, who called himself the true father of the actress's son. As a result, the son took the surname Terekhov, and when asked by journalists, the actress mysteriously replies that this is their family secret, the main thing is that the son knows who his mother is!



"Be happy! Give birth to children, this is the meaning of a woman's life! And men come and go - God be with them," says Terekhova.



The main role: Natasha in the film "Three Plus Two".



What is today: he does not act in films, he is retired. Personal life: single. What did the appearance give? Kustinskaya has always driven men crazy and lived in a boil of passions. In her youth, she was courted by actor Nikolai Gritsenko and director Roshal. Student-director Yuri Chulyukin, having fallen in love with the blonde, tried to seduce her by inviting her to the role.



"On the third day of dating, Chulyukin asked me to get married," Kustinskaya said, "In general, all husbands proposed to me on the third day of dating! But I never got a role from Chulyukin. In the comedy "Girls" I wanted to play the cook Tosya. But the art council decided that I had too spectacular an appearance for the role of a cook.



On the set of "Three Plus Two", Kustinskaya's nascent romance with her partner Evgeny Zharikov was "extinguished" by the actor's wife, who arrived on time for the shooting. The author of the script of the film, Sergei Mikhalkov, also had views of Kustinskaya, came to her for filming for four days and immediately showed up in her room. But the actress refused the master, who left with the words: "If you change your mind, call me."



"Beauty is both happiness and a test. Men betrayed me," says Kustinskaya. "After my first husband's infidelity, I immediately filed for divorce. The state of being in love gave me the strength to live. I was courted by Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Vladimir Naumov, Muslim Magomayev, Alexei Batalov. But I married an employee of Vneshtorg Oleg.



A lot was written about how Kustinskaya stole her husband, cosmonaut Yegorov, from her friend Fateeva. "Again, on the third day of our acquaintance, Egorov proposed marriage to me," Kustinskaya emphasizes. "But then I was married to Oleg, who, having learned about my affair, tried to poison himself, but the doctors turned him out.



However, the marriage of Natalia and Oleg fell apart. Kustinskaya married a cosmonaut, whose first betrayal put an end to their marriage. "I have a difficult fate," says Kustinskaya. "I buried first my grandson, then my son. Egorov's ex-husband died. I thought I would go crazy with pain. But I coped, found the strength to live on. And, although the years take their toll, I feel attractive. Even today I have a man who gives me the strength to live.



The main role: Anna Sergeevna in the comedy "The Diamond Arm"



What's today: Acts in documentaries, photo shoots for glossy magazines. She has not been married for more than 10 years.



— You have always been surrounded by handsome men. Is there any secret to attracting the attention of the opposite sex? "I love handsome men. I loved and will continue to love. But this does not mean at all that if I see a handsome man, I will immediately hang myself around his neck. My eye can see beauty. But in my entire life, I have never used women's tricks to make a man pay attention to me. She never knew how to shoot with her eyes.



She was the first Soviet actress to be naked on the screen. Bashfully covering her chest with her hand, Svetlana Svetlichnaya shouted: "It's not my fault!", and all the men believed her unconditionally.



Only thanks to her, or rather, her heroine, there was a fashion for black arrows and Chanel perfume. Today Svetlana Svetlichnaya is going out together with the young stylist Ruslan Tatiana. According to her, it was he who helped her believe in herself again.



- Svetlana Afanasyevna, you are called the first Soviet sex symbol. Are you flattered by this title? "I'm calm about him. Well, someone wanted to call me that, and for God's sake. Previously, they didn't even know the word "sex symbol". Today, alas, everyone has become such.



A sex symbol is such a shabby concept! It makes me neither hot nor cold. It was much more pleasant to hear that I have a soul without wrinkles. I am proud of this and will be proud of it until the end of my days. And all because I am not evil, I forgive everyone.



She forgave her offenders a long time ago from the bottom of her heart. I can't hold a grudge against someone for a long time at all. I always feel sorry for everyone. Once, in the Epiphany frosts, I went to church to get holy water. An elderly man was sitting there, he was shaking all over from the cold. I got some water, and on the way home I thought that I should bring this poor guy at least hot tea. And I did it!



I am still proud of my act. When he saw me, he cried and said: "I remember you by your hat." The poor man could not believe it for a long time, he kept asking: "Is it because of me that you came back?"



Personal life did not turn out to be happy. In 1995, she buried her famous husband, Vladimir Ivashov. She survived lack of money, severe depression. Her two sons and actor friends helped her cope with difficulties. Unfortunately, 3 years ago, the actress buried one of her sons. Despite all the hardships of life, he is not discouraged



Main role: princess in the film "An Ordinary Miracle"



What's today: He acts in films, plays in the Mayakovsky Theater. She admits: she found female happiness with her second husband, director Andrei Eshpai. He has a daughter from his first marriage with Kaidanovsky, a grandson.



"Well, what should I tell about this? I'm not a vamp woman. I have never been chosen as a sex symbol, not even at our entrance, not to mention on a different scale," Evgenia Simonova once answered a question about the fact that the public wants to know the secrets of her personal life.



In fact, you don't want to learn any "secrets", and there are enough "vamps" in domestic cinema, moreover, almost each of the representatives of this class, willingly or unwillingly, evokes associations with Teffi's famous story "The Demonic Woman". But who is truly feminine is Simonova's heroine from the legendary film by Mark Zakharov "An Ordinary Miracle".



Evgenia Simonova, who was born on June 1, 1955 in Leningrad, unlike many of her colleagues in the acting workshop, is calm about her age. "And why hide if the films, for which, I hope, the audience remembers me, were released more than thirty years ago. So, everyone can guess how old I am," says Evgenia Simonova. "And as for appearance... I've never been insanely good, so I'm not very worried about the wrinkles that appear."



Evgenia Simonova became famous throughout the country after Georgy Danelia's film "Afonya" (1975) was released. Nurse Katya, who sincerely fell in love with the good-for-nothing locksmith Borshchov, was for many a symbol of a real woman who, for all her "quietness", has great inner strength.



The success of the film was enormous. Fans literally bombarded Evgenia Pavlovna with letters. She was admired, confessed in love, proposed hand and heart. It would seem that Evgenia Simonova should have been dizzy from the all-Union glory that fell on her. It wasn't like that.



"I have never had any illusions about myself," says the actress. "Now I'm watching my old films, it seems that I didn't play so badly. And then it seemed to me that I did everything badly, I was worried, I cried. To which my mother shouted: "You need to go to a psychiatrist!" Apparently, all these experiences associated with low self-esteem have become a good vaccination against the "star disease".



Evgenia Simonova does not like big words. On the contrary, she says, "To be honest, I didn't sacrifice much for my job. Most importantly, she gave birth to and raised two daughters (the eldest daughter Zoya - from Simonova's first husband - actor and director Alexander Kaidanovsky). And for me, this has always been in the first place."



Main role: Olenka in the film "My Affectionate and Tender Beast"



What's today: She plays in an entreprise, does yoga to maintain her figure. For 15 years she has been happily married to businessman Sergey, who is five years younger than her. From him she gave birth to a daughter, Anna. (There is a son from the first marriage with the director Lotyanu and a son from the second, civil, marriage with a doctor.)



Rarely do any of the actresses dare to have a maximum of two children. Three is a feat that only Demi Moore is capable of in the presence of Bruce Willis. So, our Russian actress Galina Belyaeva, who played the main roles in the films "My Affectionate and Tender Beast", "Ah, vaudeville, vaudeville...", "Anna Pavlova", imagine, has four children! For this alone, you can give a State Prize.



— Usually, actresses sacrifice their personal lives in favor of a career... — When I want a child, I have one. I don't even think about a profession. Children are treasures. The more of them, the more you want. "But it is important that they are from a loved one. — Of course. Children should be only from loved ones. Ah, these "roe deer" eyes... Emil Lotyanu was looking for an actress for the role of Olenka Skvortsova in the film "My Affectionate and Gentle Beast": "I need a Russian type of girl. Something between Savelyeva and Samoylova.



Assistants found a 15-year-old dancer at the Voronezh Choreographic School. Lotyanu saw her "roe deer" eyes in a black-and-white photo... and immediately summoned the girl to Moscow. Galya Belyaeva's screen tests were terrible. Next to Oleg Yankovsky in front of the camera, she was terribly timid. But the art council nevertheless approved it.



After the release of the film, Belyaeva woke up famous. Olenka Skvortsova loved her on the screen as if it was all for real.



"At the age of fifteen, I had not yet had men with whom I would kiss so openly," the actress recalls. In fact, she was in love then. Only not in Oleg Yankovsky, but in director Emil Lotyanu. It was a beautiful novel. Soon they got married. Galya moved into his one-room Moscow apartment, where their son was born. He was named after his father - Emil.



– Galina, why did you break up with Lotyanu? "When you get married for the first time, you think it's forever. Lotyanu is my first man. I met an interesting person, fell in love. For me, the divorce was a real tragedy. Especially a common child... And Emil Vladimirovich did not want to divorce. Rather, I lacked worldly wisdom. "How do you manage so many children?" "Sometimes I am in despair that I do not know how to educate them. They all have a character. — Did you want to change anything in your life? — No, I don't. In the play "The Islander", one heroine says: "I have been married three times. But I don't regret anything. You have to live in order to survive everything." If I didn't have a past life, I wouldn't have a present life. I value what I have very much. And I don't wish anything else for myself.





What is today: Anastasia Vertinskaya has not acted in films or played in the theater for several years. The actress unexpectedly began to cook in the restaurants of her son, Stepan Mikhalkov. He attends international forums of the restaurant business, adopts experience.



By the way, she stopped filming when the film "The Master and Margarita" with her in the lead role was not seen by the viewer. The actress starred in this film naked, after filming she was ill and then left the cinema altogether.



— In recent years, the actress Vertinskaya has made a few gifts to the public — "Imago", "The Bremen Town Musicians", "Mirage, or the Road of the Russian Pierrot". But the audience's interest in you does not disappear... — I no longer want to work in the theater as a structure, this stage has been passed. It is interesting to play non-repertory performances if there is a worthy play. But, as a rule, Western plays written twenty years ago are taken for entreprises: people from outside our lives discuss their everyday life. This is not what you want to play. I have no creative plans. I would be glad to name it, but there is nothing.



"I'll never play the killer's mom or anything like that. Sitting in the frame like a grandmother and knitting is not interesting for me. I was whimsical in my choice of roles, and I remained. But I don't see any drama in this. Rather, I see the drama in the fact that Marina Neelova and Lena Koreneva, actresses of this level, are not filmed. In 1966, Vertinskaya married Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov, who later became an outstanding actor and film director. In the same year, their son Stepan was born. Their marriage lasted less than four years. Subsequently, Anastasia married for the second time - to the singer Alexander Gradsky. But this marriage suffered the same fate. She has not been married since 1980.



— I think the Lord deprived me of this joy altogether — to be happy in marriage. In fact, there are women born for marriage. They can't do without it. I love silence, solitude... If I'm not married, it doesn't mean anything. Loneliness is the highest spiritual state."



— Do you devote a lot of time to the restaurant business? "My son Stepan is engaged in the interior and everything else. I am passionate primarily about the art of cuisine. Especially Russian cuisine, which I remember from my family and the Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky family. Natalia Petrovna Konchalovskaya was a brilliant cook. I study all the time, it is very interesting to me. — Having overcome the age limit, when a lot was learned and passed, did you begin to hurry to live? Or, on the contrary, do you exist more measuredly? "Strange as it may seem, my activity has increased. When I was young, sleep meant a lot to me. In general, I believe that the companion of talented people is laziness. Since I used to work very hard, any day of doing nothing was a colossal happiness for me. And now I hate these days, so I load myself from morning to evening.



I would like to see my family at the table. So that the grandchildren run around. This is the result of life, when those who remain come to you. Over time, the circle changes. Friends leave, loved ones too. Life is very filtering around me, although I can't say that there are few people around me. And I really want to see those who surround me at my birthday party, so that they all feel comfortable and have fun.



Source: vsiaco.org.ua