Rina Zelyonaya and Konstantin Topuridze: forty years with the Angel

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

She always said that she was lucky enough to live next to the Angel. Rina Zelenaya and Konstantin Topuridze loved each other and loved life. They always had something to talk about and something to keep quiet about. Two personalities, two great talents, two destinies, firmly connected by one thread.

Rina Zelena

This wonderful actress was admired, her appearance on the screen was always expected, her sharp jokes were quoted. She has always remained a little funny girl, naive, kind, very sincere. It's amazing how so much life energy and love was placed in it.

She was born at the dawn of the twentieth century in Tashkent, studied at a prestigious gymnasium in Moscow, by chance entered a theater school and first appeared on stage in Odessa. Her unusual name Rina appeared only because the full name of Catherine did not fit on the first poster.

Her whole life is like a series of accidents and coincidences. But in fact, it was the actress who spoke about her life easily and fervently. She rarely mentioned how she had to support her mother and sister. And I tried not to talk about my own appearance. The complex of an ugly girl, which appeared in her school years, has forever remained in her.

Road to happiness

The future star jumped out to get married at the age of 18 and seemed to herself now completely grown up. Her husband was Vladimir Blumelfeld, a well-known lawyer in the capital. Too great a difference in age and lifestyle prevented them from maintaining a marriage. Young Rina looked like a chirping bird, jumping merrily along the branches. She always had a bunch of incredible ideas in her head, she wanted to move all the time, to play everyone around. But the husband did not share the endless fun of the young wife. Despite the divorce, Rina and Vladimir remained good friends for life.

Then the actress fell in love with the popular journalist Mikhail Koltsov. But then Rina herself decided to break up the romance, not considering it possible to destroy the family of a person dear to her.

Konstantin Topuridze

He was born in Tbilisi and from childhood dreamed of building beautiful buildings. His dream has come true. He became not just an architect, his stunning creations continue to delight with their beauty to this day. Fountains of Friendship of Peoples Stone Flower, Golden Ear at VDNKh were created according to his projects. He impressed with his talent and incredible breadth of creative thought.

He married quite early, but his first marriage broke up. The ex-wife did not cease to respect Constantine, because, except for his excessive love for his work, there was nothing to reproach him for. Sometimes it seems that he was just preparing himself to meet true love.

Merry happiness

They met in Abkhazia. The novel spun so rapidly that both of them, without having time to look back, were already husband and wife. Rina Vasilievna and Konstantin Tikhonovich possessed, in addition to their professional talents, an extraordinary gift - to be friends. It's hard to imagine, but Rina's first husband and Konstantin's first wife were happy to visit their house.

Almost all the time they had relatives: the husband's children from his first marriage, a niece, then grandchildren. There was a place for everyone, everyone was comfortable, warm and cheerful in this extraordinary house. They constantly joked and laughed at each other, but there was so much tenderness, love and happiness in these cute skirmishes!

Together and forever

The rhythm of life of two talented people did not give them the opportunity to be together constantly. She had filming, tours, concerts, he had complex projects and sometimes work on them around the clock. But they spent every free minute together. They had enough strength to go to concerts, exhibitions, visits to friends and family. It seemed that their vital energy would be enough for ten. Sometimes, after spending some fifteen minutes at a party, Rina Vasilyevna began to rush her husband, reminding them that they were already expected in a completely different place. They managed to attend a bunch of events during the evening.

But most of all, the wonderful actress loved those evenings when she could sit quietly in a corner and watch how Konstantin Tikhonovich worked with concentration. She admired him, and after dozens of years lived together she could not believe that this strong, strict, serious man belongs only to her. This is her, an adult woman who has retained the naivete and enthusiasm of a little girl, he is ready to carry in his arms, to sing her serenades, to just love.

During the Great Patriotic War, Rina Zelenaya very often spoke to the soldiers on the front line. But in short moments of rest, she and her husband were together again. When he happened to be on duty during shelling, the actress asked him to put at least a saucepan on his head so that he would not be killed by a shrapnel. But this stately man proudly stated that his noble origin did not allow him to die with a saucepan on his head.

And how much trepidation and care was in his categorical order to write to him every day when she was away. At the same time, he admitted that he might not read the letter. But when the envelope from his beloved is on the table, he knows that everything is in order with her. And she wrote to her beloved Kote about everything in the world, although she did not like writing very much.

I will never forget you…

Their lives were filled to the brim. Love, talent, happiness. Rina Vasilievna herself did not have children, but she raised the children of her husband, niece, neighbors' children. They understood her, she admired the depth and purity of children's souls.

And he was always there - her Kote, her Angel. When in 1969 he had his first heart attack, the actress suddenly realized that she absolutely could not imagine life without him. From that moment on, they became even warmer towards each other, living every day as if the next dawn would not come. They were given a few more happy years. A second heart attack in 1977 claimed the life of her Angel. Rina Vasilievna, after the loss, almost completely lost her sight, as if she did not want to look at the world in which he was not.

She outlived her beloved by 14 years, thinking about him every day. She lived for his memory and sincerely believed that they would definitely meet somewhere in heaven.

It was a happy, harmonious marriage in which feelings were preserved until the very end. History Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard helps you understand how you can maintain mutual respect even after breaking up.

And one of the most famous and beloved musical numbers of Rina Zelyona from the children's film "The Adventures of Buratino".