'This artist has a non-Soviet face!': How Lyubov Polishchuk lived, loved and burned down
'30.06.2021'
Source: Lady.tut.by
The first association that occurs in the head when mentioning her name is bright. Bright appearance, bright personality, bright roles. In the life of actress Lyubov Polishchuk there was no place for dullness and plainness - she herself decided so, writes Lady.tut.by.
Lyubov Polishchuk has not been with us for almost 15 years, but what is surprising: the images played by her do not fade over the years.
She was born in post-war Omsk, in a simple working-class family. Father is a builder, mother is a seamstress. The future star of Soviet cinema deftly helped parents manage the household: ran for water to the well, pricked firewood for kindling and, of course, helped to tinker with the younger ones. The only outlet is to run away to visit a neighboring deaf-mute girl. After all, she had a real TV at home! And in it is such a bright and amazing life. For the sake of these gatherings on TV, Lyuba even mastered the language of the deaf-mute.
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The big world attracted the girl with unprecedented strength. I will be an actress! Successes in school music and dance only strengthened her in this decision. And at the age of sixteen she came to Moscow to enroll as a vocalist. She did one half of her repertoire under Lyudmila Zykina, and the other half under Robertino Loreti. But I was late for the exam. I had to spend the night at the station for several days. But luck keeps the strong and motivated.
And Lyubov Polishchuk entered the All-Russian creative workshop of pop art. Everyday life began to flow, Moscow was in no hurry to take her into its arms. The years of adaptation in the big city did not always go smoothly, later the actress will remember.
“You understand, I am from the provinces. And in the provinces, the people are cleaner. Here, do not be offended, there is much more dirt. I very well, on my own, so to speak, felt this difference when I arrived in Moscow. Every time you are deceived, those whom you sincerely considered friends, whom you helped, whom you trusted, “have” in their own interests - this is a strong mental trauma. I have scars for a long time. True, there have been fewer scars lately - probably the skin has become thicker, ”said the actress.
But she did not despair. And after graduating from the workshop, she went to conquer the stage. She began working at the Philharmonic Society in her native Omsk. I read Zhvanetsky's satire from the stage, thus leading the author to horror: “Lyuba, I write for men! Don't hide your beauty. "
The partner in sketches and monologues was the newly made husband of Lyubov - artist Valery Makarov. They married in 1967, and in 1972 they divorced. And this is despite the birth of a son.
Valery stayed in Omsk, and Lyubov received an invitation to the Moscow Music Hall and gladly accepted it. Little Alexei stayed with her. In his life, he will see his father only a couple of times, and when already becoming an adult he wants to find him, he learns that he has long been dead.
“I aspired to achieve something more in life, and Valera believed that he had already achieved everything. Therefore, our paths diverged. "
In the music hall, she gets the role in the production of "The Red Arrow Arrives in Moscow." The troupe spent on tour eleven months of the year. It was a test of glory and a child.
“I went on tour with little Lesha. In the hotel room there were endless little gruel, grated vegetables, diapers ... And then it was necessary to easily and beautifully fly out onto the stage. ”
Already well-known in the theater, the actress made her film debut. In 1974, she played an episode in the most unsuccessful film by Grigory Alexandrov, "Starling and Lyra." But the appearance in the last film of Lyubov Orlova did not bring her the desired recognition. It came 4 years later thanks to the role without words in Mark Zakharov's comedy "12 Chairs".
“The fact that Polishchuk made his debut on the Chairs was a lot later,” the eminent director recalled. - I thought this: it’s necessary, here - a first-class, experienced master who so easily entered the troupe for this very difficult role of “partner” Mironov ... I saw her: my God, such a joyful, sparkling life in it beats! She, in my opinion, was always young, as then, in 1977. And with me this feeling will remain for life. ”
And with her will forever remain the trauma received during the episode in which the hero Mironov throws her on the floor: they forgot to lay the safety mats, and the actress collapsed on her back on bare concrete. True, Zakharov refuted this story:
“I stood a meter and a half from this stunt fall and saw everything perfectly. It was then that someone came up with a funny story that they forgot to put a mattress and banged the actress on the bare floor. But this is just a theatrical tale! After all, Lyuba was in a terrible car accident, where her spinal disks were knocked out. And after that, she started having problems with her back, ”the director said.
After the episode with Zakharov, Lyubov Polishchuk was constantly invited to the cinema. During her acting career, she played eighty-nine roles and became a People's Artist of Russia. Although, she admitted, her heart has always belonged only to the theater.
“I don't like Lyubov Polishchuk as a film actress. I was not at all lucky with the cinema. There I had no serious proposals. It's the same with television, which I was simply not allowed into for twelve years. There was one to-va-rishch who said: “Don't even show me the screen test - this artist has a non-Soviet face!” And when the face became normal, Russian, for the cinema I seemed to have grown old. And the fact that I could play well on the movie screen is done very well by young girls. Maybe with a slightly less temperament ... In the cinema, age sticks out more than on the theater stage or even in life. When I drive a car, and I just love to drive, many people in neighboring cars recognize me, lower their windows and say all sorts of nice compliments. And some even shout: “Lyubanya! I love you so much! I beg you - let's go drink champagne! "(He laughs.) They probably think that I am very young. "
Nevertheless, she received true popular love precisely thanks to the cinema. The most stellar was the role of a prostitute in the film "Intergirl". Many character traits for her heroine Lyubov invented herself by observing the Moscow sex workers of those years.
“I feel sorry for these women, and I do not believe that they are to blame for this. And whatever my heroine is, I always sympathize with her and always want to justify her. Women have provided men with sexual services for money since time immemorial - this profession is one of the most ancient. So is it wise to close our eyes to this obviousness? This is stupidity, because of which they both suffer - from diseases, bandit lawlessness, police arbitrariness, swindlers and sadists. If this business is legalized, all this dirt will be much less. It's so obvious! But nothing happens. Apparently, it is very unprofitable for someone, ”said the actress.
A year later, the two-part film Love with Privilege was released. In it, Polishchuk was assigned the main role - a woman who marries a party leader, and then learns that many years ago he signed an order for the illegal execution of her father. The tandem with Vyacheslav Tikhonov in the guise of a party boss turned out to be very successful.
Love is happy. Finally, everything is working out for her: in the theater, in the cinema and in love. She had many admirers, but all did not meet her requirements: “They wanted to take them abroad — both to America and France. But it happened in a different way: at first at least this second down the aisle, but when they found out that the child ... Men are such cowards! ”
But one day he appeared - animal artist Sergey Tsigal. She always told the story of their acquaintance with pleasure, a friend of a married couple recalls.
“Tsigal wanted to meet her when he watched“ Aesop ”on TV in his country house in Koktebel, in which Lyuba played Clay. Polishchuk herself was pleased how she was made up and filmed there, she said that she was so beautiful neither in life, nor in any other movie.
And so Seryozha began to besiege common acquaintances - Gennady Khazanov, Mark Rozovsky and others with requests to introduce him to Polishchuk. They began to call Lyuba: “The artist wants to meet you!” Lyuba was intrigued: “Let him get acquainted!” A young woman of 34 years old, with a child, divorced, why not meet?
Friends continued to call her, but the artist himself, however, did not show himself. Then Seryozha appeared at the Miniature Theater at the Lubin performance, looked at her on the stage and said: “Mine!” Lyuba, of course, again passed it on. But again no steps were taken by Seryozha.
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And then one day he nevertheless approached her - after another performance. Seryozha offered to take a ride around Moscow in his green Zhiguli. Lyuba laughed, told how he accelerated on the ice, then decided to slow down, but somehow hit the brakes too sharply - so that the car spun. Seryozha thought that this was the end, now Lyuba will get angry with him and leave. But she was delighted: "What a class!" So their romance began! "
The lovers got married. They had a daughter, Marietta, whose education Love could devote much more time than once to her son. It was a very happy time.
“In recent years, I have stopped dreaming. It so happened that all the dreams came true. I love, loved, I have children, home, work. I should be happy, ”Polishchuk said.
That was until the old back injuries reminded of themselves. A series of operations on the spine followed, and the theater had to be forgotten. And then during one of the routine examinations, like a bolt from the blue: oncology. She is again sent to the table of the surgeon and part of the spine is removed. Rehabilitation is not going as planned: the disease does not want to recede.
“Now in our life there are few sources from which we can draw positive emotions. But the viewer on the screen needs to be given just good energy. Apparently, I took it from myself, took it and spent some money, ”the actress sadly stated.
Nevertheless, Lyubov Polishchuk continued to act in films until recently: her final work was the role of the mother of the main character in the sitcom My Fair Nanny. According to the actress herself, she played her grandmother there "with unexpected outbursts of emotions, infectious laughter, endless ideas."
In the summer of 2006, Love finally went to bed. The husband, son, daughter, and her mother were inextricably beside the bed. But they could no longer help their beloved. On November 28, 2006, at 6 am, she died in a dream. She was only 57 years old. The actress found her last refuge at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. The monument that adorns her grave is visible from afar: a tall column with a crystal bust of a young actress, as if woven from fog.
