4 marriages and the forgotten happiness of Marya the artiste: Paradoxes of fate Ninel Myshkova

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

She was one of the most famous and beautiful actresses in the Soviet Union. Viewers still remember the roles played by Ninel Myshkova: the fabulous Marya the artisan and Ilmen the princess, Vasilisa and Olga Zotova from The Viper. Her beauty attracted men like a magnet, the actress has always enjoyed success with the stronger sex, she managed to be married four times, but she could not recover from the loss of her last husband.

Choosing a path

She was born in Leningrad and from childhood was surrounded by warmth, love and care. The girl's father was not only a talented military leader, but also an exemplary family man and a very gentle father. When he died in 1942, his widow and daughter took the loss very hard. Ninel, whom everyone called Eva in the family, even wanted to become a military pilot for some time, but the tears of her mother, who was afraid of losing her only daughter, convinced her to choose a peaceful profession.

Ninel Myshkova herself admitted: she had to choose between medicine and cinema. Even as a student at the Shchukin School, Ninel Myshkova studied at the same time in nursing courses, but studying at the theater still convinced the girl of the correctness of the chosen path. Moreover, already in student performances she stood out among other students. Studying at the nursing courses helped her very reliably play the role of a military doctor in the debut film "For those who are at sea" by Alexander Feintsimmer.

And even in her student years, she met her first husband.

Vladimir Etush

Vladimir Etush recovered at the Shchukin school after he was discharged after being wounded during the Great Patriotic War, and became not only a student, but also a teaching assistant. Perhaps he would never have dared to pay attention to the beautiful freshman Ninel Myshkova, if she herself did not look at him with loving eyes.

For Ninel, he was a true romantic hero who went through the war and was badly wounded at the front. She clearly gravitated towards men older than herself, trying to find in them the care that her father surrounded her in childhood. True, Vladimir Etush was born only four years earlier than Ninel herself, but his front-line past made him, as it seemed to the student then, an ideal candidate for the role of her future husband.

The girl was not at all embarrassed to demonstrate her feelings, and Vladimir Etush, still completely inexperienced in matters of love, did not even think to resist. Later, he confesses in his memoirs that Ninel Myshkova became his first woman, and then his wife. Real feelings for her came to him later, he fell in love with his charming wife.

But Ninel, by the time feelings woke up in her husband, managed to fall in love with another.

Antonio Spadavecchia

The composer, who wrote the music for the actress's debut film, often visited the house of Ninel Myshkova and Vladimir Etush. And the addicted, temperamental actress at first got carried away, and then fell in love with a man. They were separated by a 19-year age difference, but Ninel, apparently, was again trying to find paternal care in the man.

At first, the wife of Vladimir Etush hid her passion for others, but later she herself told her husband about her new feelings. Etush immediately collected his things and left his wife, although after many more years he suffered from her betrayal. A few years after the divorce, he met a rival on the beach in Yalta, and Antonio Spadavecchia complained to the actor that Ninel had left him too.

It is unlikely that Vladimir Etush could sympathize with the composer, rather, he was quite satisfied.

Konstantin Petrichenko

The actress met the cameraman Konstantin Petrichenko on the set of the fairy tale "Sadko". Konstantin Nikiforovich was handsome and stately, women liked him very much, but Ninel was much more attracted not by the appearance, but by the human qualities of the second operator. He was very kind, and also gentle and reliable. And again, the girl saw in the new hobby the image of her courageous, but such a touchingly tender father.

In 1953, Ninel Myshkova became the wife of Konstantin Petrichenko, and already in 1954 they had a son, Kostya Jr. The couple were really happy. Both of them were in demand in the profession, they had common interests in life. Ninel and Konstantin were often absent from home, but they devoted every free minute to their beloved son. And the actress's mother helped young parents to raise their grandson.

But this happy marriage also ended.

Victor Ivchenko

When she came to Kiev to audition for Viktor Ivchenko, who was preparing for the filming of the film "Hello, Gnat!", The director fell in love with her at first sight. Surprisingly, on the same day he announced to his wife that he had met a woman, without whom he could not imagine his future life. And he left the family, feeling himself not entitled to care for a woman without ending other relationships.

The sympathy of Viktor Ivchenko did not go unnoticed by Ninel Myshkova. She fell in love again. She still had a rather difficult conversation with her husband and son. Most of all, she was afraid to meet misunderstanding on the part of Kostya Jr., who was already 12 years old. But the son acted wisely beyond his years: the happiness of his mother was obvious to him, so he did not even think to oppose her new marriage.

It was a happy family in every way. Viktor Ivchenko filmed his wife in his paintings, and outside the set literally carried her in his arms. He shot her in the title role of the most significant film for the actress "The Viper", which brought him the State Prize, and Ninel Myshkova - the Diploma of the All-Union Film Festival.

For Ninel's sake, he was ready for any madness: he accompanied her at the train station in Kiev, and then rushed to the airport and took a ticket to Moscow to meet his beloved on the platform in the capital.

According to the son of the actress, endless separations helped the spouses to maintain the fervor of feelings: Ninel Myshkova lived in Moscow and did not intend to move to Kiev, and Viktor Ivchenko held obligations at the Dovzhenko Film Studio.

But their meetings have always been a celebration. As soon as her husband arrived, Ninel turned into an exemplary wife: she always prepared for his arrival and always met her husband with a smile and a laid table. She never allowed herself to wear a robe in his presence or let him see her without a manicure. She arranged surprises for him at every meeting: she was looking for some rare thing for him or preparing a whole costume performance. They constantly exchanged affectionate letters and appreciated every minute they spent together.

In 1972, Viktor Ivchenko in Rostov-on-Don had a heart attack, the fourth in his life. The actress flew out to her husband as soon as she found out about what had happened. She still found Viktor Illarionovich alive, but he soon died in the arms of his beloved woman. She transported her husband's body to Kiev, put all the letters in the coffin of her beloved husband and said goodbye to him forever, as well as to the city where she met her last love. It was too painful and painful for her in Kiev, saturated with the memories of her happiness.

Ninel Myshkova could not recover from this loss. For some time, she still went to creative meetings with the audience, she was sent scripts, which the actress most often refused … In the early 1980s, Ninel Myshkova was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

The son, trying to stop the progressive disease, will take his mother to France, where he himself served as a diplomat at that time. But even Paris could not save her from the pain of loss … It seems that she chose to forget everything that happened to her before so as not to experience this unbearable pain, which became her constant companion after the departure of Viktor Ivchenko.

On account of the first husband Ninel Myshkova Vladimir Etush there were dozens of roles, among which the most popular were the heroes of the comedies of Leonid Gaidai and the characters of children's fairy tales. And each role is so vivid that the audience stole them for quotes. "Sportswoman, Komsomol member and just a beauty!" Everything that has been acquired by overwork!”- today these phrases have become winged.