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Video: Russian celebrities who "came in large numbers" from the provinces and conquered Moscow
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"Come in large numbers here" - Muscovites grumble. "Enough space for everyone!" - the visitors parry. It is they who, at times, without not only having connections - not even an idea of how to build a future career, literally dig the ground under their feet in order to achieve success. And they get it! Today we want to remember the stories of celebrities who moved to a Moscow alien to them in order to gain love and fame in it.
Natalya Varley
The future "student, Komsomol member and just a beautiful woman" was born into the family of a sea captain, at that time whose family lived in the Romanian city of Constanta. Later they moved to northern Murmansk, where from a young age Natasha studied music and wrote poetry. As a 13-year-old girl, she entered the children's circus studio, and then was able to break into the troupe of the State School of Circus and Variety Arts. Due to her flexibility and plasticity, the young acrobat attracted the administration of the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.
Acquaintance with the artist Leonid Yengibarov was decisive - under his patronage, the beauty was invited to play a small role in the comedy "Formula of the Rainbow". There, the aspiring actress had to play with the masters of Soviet cinema - Georgy Vitsin, Savely Kramorov, Frunzik Mkrtchyan. At that time, Natalya Varley did not know that in a few months she would meet with them while working on another film. It was "Prisoner of the Caucasus" that made the young girl without acting education a real star.
Dima Bilan
Dmitry Belan (exactly through the "e" - this is the singer's native surname) was born in the small town of Ust-Dzheguta. After a while, the family moved to the city of Maysky of the same Karachay-Cherkess Republic. Nothing boded that the boy would soon become a famous singer - his parents had quite ordinary professions. At the age of 13, Dima began attending a music school in the accordion class, but the teachers convinced him to transfer to the vocal class. The young singer performed in various competitions, and once he was noticed by the organizers of the Chunga-Changa festival.
He was invited to Moscow, which he conquered with his voice and received a laureate diploma from the hands of Joseph Kobzon. Two years later, Dmitry returned to the capital again to enter the Gnessin School. He makes his debut at the "New Wave" competition, where he is noticed by producer Yuri Aizenshpis. Soon they released a music album together, and after only three years, Dima Bilan becomes one of the most popular and highly paid stars.
Vera Alentova
People's Artist of the Russian Federation was born in Kotlas, Arkhangelsk Region. After the early death of her father, the girl and her mother moved to Ukraine in the city of Krivoy Rog. Her school years passed here. And after that, the young actress, along with her mother, is enrolled in the group of the Orsk Drama Theater, where Vera was involved in many performances. Having decided on the profession, the girl next summer leaves for Moscow, where she enters the Moscow Art Theater School. The successful student was noticed by the director of the Moscow Drama Theater, and since 1965 Vera Alentova has been an actress of this famous scene.
But the wide audience liked the actress after her starring role in the cult film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears." The role of Ekaterina Tikhomirova was taken by her husband, also a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School, Vladimir Menshov. The film was so successful that it even received an Oscar as the "best picture in a foreign language." In the future, the couple worked together on the same set several times: Alentova played roles in the comedy "Shirley-Myrli" and the film "The Envy of the Gods".
Elena Temnikova
The Russian singer was also born in the outback - in the city of Kurgan, which is located on the banks of the Siberian Tobol. Her parents also had very widespread professions as a chauffeur and baker. They sent their talented daughter, who sang well and wrote poetry since childhood, to a music school and a vocal studio. After Elena received a certificate of maturity, the whole family moved to Omsk. Lana continued to participate in various festivals and after one of them was sent to Moscow. That time she won the Grand Prix at the All-Russian Talent Competition.
Her fate could have turned out differently, had she not come in 2003 on the last of the qualifying days to audition for the musical talent show "Star Factory-2". She managed to win third place and sign a contract with legendary producer Max Fadeev. Together they worked for several years on Elena's individual style. Their joint project "Serebro" was chosen as the representative of Russia at the international Eurovision Song Contest. The girl group managed to win not only the third place, but also millions of hearts around the world.
Egor Creed
Let's face it - the idol of a whole generation of modern youth, Yegor Creed, also came to conquer the capital from a town thousands of kilometers from Moscow. Although he could have become a successful businessman - his family heads the largest walnut processing enterprise in Russia, and his sister has chosen the profession of an actress and now lives in Los Angeles. Nevertheless, Yegor Bulatkin (the real name of the singer) showed promise in music from a young age. He played great guitar and wrote poetry, danced hip-hop and painted graffiti. In 2011, an aspiring singer and musician shot a video for his song on his own in his native Penza and posted it on the network.
Soon the managers of the Russian label Black Star contacted him and offered to sign a contract. Yegor graduated from a prestigious lyceum, but he could not attend his graduation - it was on this day that his first major concert took place at the Luzhniki stadium. And a little later, in 2014, the works of the young talented performer began to occupy the first lines of the charts.
Irina Shayk
As they say, Russian girls are the most beautiful, and it doesn't matter in which corner of our country they were born. The famous provincial Irina Shaikhlislamova was born in the Chelyabinsk region into a mining family. After losing the main breadwinner, her mother had to work in several places to feed Ira and her older sister. After leaving school, Irina moved to Chelyabinsk, as she entered the economic college in this city. A tall and beautiful girl was noticed in a local image club and was invited to work as a model. At first, she demonstrated the outfits of local craftsmen, and after participating in the Supermodel 2004 competition, she was invited to work for a French modeling agency.
It was it that at one time opened the world to the Russian beauties Natalia Vodianova and Evgeny Volodin. Now Irina Shayk not only leads the ratings of the most beautiful women in the world, defiles on the world catwalks, but also conquers the hearts of famous ladies' men. At her feet was the football player Cristiano Ronaldo, and now Irina is raising a daughter from American actor Bradley Cooper.
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