'Her two main passions are work and men': love stories of Nonna Mordyukova
'29.11.2020'
Source: TVC
Before the filming of the film "Young Guard" began, rumors spread around VGIK that director Sergei Gerasimov was going to leave his wife Tamara Makarova. The director suddenly replaced Ulyana Gromova, and now, instead of Klara Luchko, Nonna Mordyukova was supposed to play the courageous underground worker, says TVC.
The peak of the scandal came at the moment when the wildest dreams of a young, distinctive actress from the Kuban began to come true: Moscow, studying at VGIK, first film role, first success, first state award.
“She hardened from all sides,” Mordyukova herself joked many years later. Perhaps it was these difficult events that helped her in the future to overcome everything that was associated with the two main passions in her life: work and men. Until the end of her days, Nonna Mordyukova managed to remain an Actress with a capital letter and a Woman with a capital letter.
When Sergei Gerasimov came to Ukraine to the Mordyukovs, everyone decided that this visit was just a tribute to the director for the actress after the tremendous success of Young Guard. By this time, the household was not only familiar with Slava Tikhonov, but also believed that there would be a wedding soon.
And then Nonna appears with Gerasimov himself, who ... came to ask her hand in marriage. And what about Tikhonov, but what about the age difference? There was only one person, whom Nonna could not disobey, and my mother cut it off: “Either I, or he. If you have talent, you will be a star and so, and he is completely bald! " Nonna obeyed, left for Moscow and did not write for a long time, but her family knew that she would go mad.
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Mordyukova from a young age was unusually amorous. After the film "Bogdan Khmelnitsky", the girl began to rave about Nikolai Mordvinov and even wrote him a letter, asking "How to learn from Lyubov Orlova?" The famous actor soon replied shortly: "Be sure to finish school and come to Moscow to enter."
Immediately after the war, the girl received a certificate, told her mother that she was going to Rostov, but in fact she went to Moscow, found the Institute of Cinematography there and, having conquered the examination committee, was admitted to the acting department. The relationship between Mordyukova and Tikhonov was not cloudless, but when Slava was fond of another girl, Nonna literally tidied him up. And after Gerasimov began to look after Mordyukova, Tikhonov wrote a letter to her mother: “Irina Petrovna, influence Nonna, if she doesn't want to be with me, I will throw myself under the train ...” After a while, the young couple had a son, and their the marriage lasted thirteen years.
When her mother died, Nonna was dragging her five younger brothers and sisters, and her husband was so “tired of this collective farm” ... For the first ten years they lived in a passage room in a communal apartment, but they cannot even give an unequivocal answer to the question of why the spouses parted. the closest people.
On the set of A Simple Story, Nonna had a feeling for Vasily Shukshin. Recalling that expedition, the actress wrote: “I lay down on the bed, waiting for his tarpaulin boots to go. So she fell asleep, not waiting for him to leave the porch. To be honest, I never wanted to part with him. ” Shukshin confessed his love to Nonna, but she was married. And Slava, feeling that something was wrong, came to the shooting, holding the hand of his little son.
Did Mordyukova regret that she had fulfilled her mother's will and refused Sergey Gerasimov? It is known that once the famous director invited her to a conversation, but Tikhonov threw a scandal, and Nonna did not go. This, after years, she certainly regretted. The role of Aksinya in "Quiet Don" went to Elina Bystritskaya.
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But no matter how life developed, Mordyukova never lived without love. Her second husband was the son of the writer Pilnyak, Boris Andronikashvili. And at one time even a very young man, almost the same age as her son, courted Nonna. But she could not understand how it could be - it’s a shame to be with such a young man, and he shot himself in the arm to prove his love.
Nonna dreamed of a family hearth again, was looking for her only one, and every time it seemed that it was him. Another lover of Mordyukova was actor Vladimir Soshalsky. The new husband in the cinema was in little demand, and he played a little in the theater, but his wife provided him with a comfortable existence.
Years later, Mordyukova said that her man probably died at the front ... She needed to take care of someone, but the sisters and brothers grew up long ago, a worthy man never met, and she lost her son.
Once on tour, Mordyukova met a young singer, a student at GITIS, Julian, and soon he became her director, press attaché, friend, taught her not to hesitate to take decent royalties for performances, and she seemed to have found a second son. In 1999, the actress played in the film "Mom", which was the last in her career.
Nonna Mordyukova loved life, and even in the hospital ward at the last moment she whispered to her sister what a beautiful attending physician she got. The actress could hardly speak, but when the doctor appeared, her eyes lit up with a special light, the light of love, which saved her from troubles and gave meaning to her existence.
There was no official message about the funeral of Nonna Mordyukova, but rumor spread quickly, and thousands of spectators came to say goodbye to her, who, unlike their husbands, were faithful to her and loved her for many years with disinterested and pure love.
