How was the fate of Oleg Tabakov's first wife: "Happiness in spite of" actress Lyudmila Krylova

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

She could build her own brilliant acting career, because in the late 1950s. was reputed to be one of the most promising young actresses, but devoted herself entirely to her husband and children. For 35 years, she played the role that she considered the most important and important - the wife of Oleg Tabakov and the mother of his two children. And after he left the family, Lyudmila Krylova led a secluded life, did not give interviews, and for a long time almost nothing was known about her fate. How the actress, who recently celebrated her 82nd birthday, lives now - further in the review.

Lyudmila Krylova was born in 1938, her childhood fell on the difficult war and post-war hunger years. At the age of 8, she lost her mother, and literature helped her survive this tragedy - reading became for her a salvation from loneliness and a way to escape from reality to another world. Another of her hobbies was theater. During her school years, she studied in a drama circle, and then entered the Schepkinsky school.

Once she came to the play "Forever Alive" at the Sovremennik Theater. A young actor Oleg Tabakov performed on the stage. His game impressed her so much that Lyudmila then decided: by all means, she would one day meet him. And for this it was necessary to achieve success in the acting profession herself, so that her chosen one would pay attention to her. This became an additional incentive for Krylova. Already in the first year she got a role in the production of "One Night" and in her student years began to act in films.

When she was offered to star in the film "Volunteers", she immediately agreed, learning that one of the roles was to be played by Oleg Tabakov. True, at that time he was already a sought-after artist and refused this work. At the age of 21, Lyudmila Krylova played the main roles in two films - "Companions" and "Katya-Katyusha", which brought her first popularity. This success helped her to fulfill her dream - in the late 1950s. the actress finally met Oleg Tabakov at the Mosfilm pavilions. She was 20 years old, he was 23.

This meeting was really fateful - on the fourth day of their acquaintance, they decided that they should live together. The school soon learned that Krylova had moved to Tabakov's room in a communal apartment, and her teachers even tried to dissuade her from the decision to marry so early. Her acting career had just begun, and Krylova was advised to fully focus on her and postpone her marriage. Of course, the girl in love did not want to listen to anyone. When Lyudmila played in her graduation performance, she already knew that they would soon have their first child. In July 1960, Anton Tabakov was born, and two months later, Lyudmila and Oleg signed. They went to the registry office during a break between rehearsals.

In 1966, the couple had a daughter, Alexandra. At that time, both were popular artists, they starred a lot, toured all over the USSR, and the children literally grew up behind the scenes and on the set. The careers of both actors were rapidly taking off, but Lyudmila considered the talent of her husband to be incommensurable with her own. At the same time, Oleg Efremov called her a very gifted actress, spoke highly of her skill and even tried to look after her, but Lyudmila made her choice once and for all. She considered Tabakov a brilliant artist and devoted her whole life to him. Service for her was not a profession, but family life, which has always remained in the foreground. The directors offered her new roles, but Krylova often refused, and later the offers began to come less and less.

Lyudmila Krylova knew how to create such a warm and cozy atmosphere in the house that not only her relatives admired this, but also the guests who often came to Tabakov's. Once, Marcello Mastroianni arrived in the USSR, who worked with Nikita Mikhalkov on a joint project. They came to visit Tabakov. Later Mastroianni admitted: "".

The actress raised children without the help of nannies and did all the housework on her own. Her colleague Pyotr Shcherbakov recalled that during the theater tour abroad he constantly ran into Lyudmila in hardware stores: "". At the same time, Krylova was the leading actress of Sovremennik for many years and was engaged in many performances. Of course, there was no time left for filming, and she was not known to the general public.

She always knew that her husband was an enthusiastic and passionate person. During his film expeditions, his romantic relationships with partners more than once went beyond the limits of the set, but at the same time he treasured his family very much and vowed to himself that he would never leave his wife and children. But one day he had to break this oath.

When in the early 1980s. a student Marina Zudina came to him for a course at GITIS, Tabakov realized that this time his feelings grew into something more than a simple hobby. For 10 years, he actually lived in two families, but at the same time he could not decide on a divorce. This decision was made by Lyudmila herself, once telling her husband: ""

The betrayal of her husband was a heavy blow for Lyudmila, because they lived together for 35 years. She was never able to forgive him. The children took the side of their mother and stopped communicating with their father. If Anton, after years, found the strength to understand and forgive him, then Alexandra never resumed communication. At the same time, Krylova did not arrange scandals and public clarifications of relations, did not comment on the new marriage of her ex-husband in any way. But when he was gone, neither she nor Alexander's daughter came to say goodbye to him.

After 1989, Lyudmila Krylova stopped acting in films. Since then, she has appeared on the screens only once, when in 2008 the TV show "Steep Route" was filmed. She continued to perform on the theater stage, but led a very secluded life - she did not appear in public, did not participate in social events, did not give interviews.

Many felt sorry for the actress, deciding that the divorce broke her, and the voluntary hermitage was evidence of inescapable melancholy and misfortune. But Lyudmila herself denied these rumors. Despite all the hardships, she learned to be happy. When the journalists of one of the publications called her recently, Krylova, when asked if she regretted parting with Oleg Tabakov, answered: “” It remains only to wish the actress good health and express admiration for her steadfastness, self-esteem and fortitude!

After the divorce of her parents, Alexandra made a difficult decision: Why the life and career of the eldest daughter of Oleg Tabakov did not work out.