Soviet actresses whose lives went downhill due to alcohol addiction

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

These Soviet actresses were beautiful, talented, in demand, had crowds of fans and fame. However, everything collapsed in an instant due to the fact that they could not defeat the destructive addiction. It's not for nothing that they say that female alcoholism is not cured. We will not say whether this is so or not, but the fate of these stars of Soviet cinema is a vivid example of the fact that the green serpent does not spare anyone.

Valentina Malyavina (78 years old)

Valentina Malyavina is rightfully considered one of the most beautiful actresses of the Soviet screen. Many people remembered the spectacular brunette from the films "The Deer King", "Ivan's Childhood", "Sunflower". She could play many more bright roles, but fate decreed in its own way. The actress's personal life did not work out from the very beginning. The marriage with Alexander Zbruev, with whom Malyavina signed immediately after graduation, did not last long. Perhaps the reason for the discord was that Valentina later got rid of the child she was expecting. Although the actress herself later claimed that her parents and her husband were tricked into taking this step. The girl's second marriage with director Pavel Arsenov did not work out either: the actress became pregnant again, but the child died almost immediately after birth.

And although Malyavina's film career was developing well, tragedies in her personal life turned into a protracted depression. The actress increasingly found solace in alcohol, and later even wanted to go to a monastery. But she was stopped.

The third (already civil) husband of Valentina was the actor Stanislav Zhdanko. He was 12 years younger, but admitted that from his youth he was in love with a beauty. However, the couple's life together did not work out. The man, who was also an actor, was worried about the lack of good roles, Valentina could not come to terms with fading fame. The couple drowned their grief in wine.

In 1978, tragedy struck: Zhdanko was found with a knife in his body. Malyavina explained to the investigation that the roommate was against her drinking, and decided to teach her a lesson by taking a knife, but did not calculate the strength. The case was attributed to suicide, and the actress was acquitted. But a few years later, a man's friend got the case reviewed, and Valentina was sentenced to 9 years for the murder. She was released from prison after five amnesty.

Once free, the actress made an attempt to improve her life: she returned to the cinema, married several more times, but could not quit with a destructive addiction. Friends-drinking companions tried to rewrite her apartment on themselves, perhaps they beat her, after which the woman went blind in one eye, and later completely lost her sight. One of the former cellmates helped Malyavina to return her home, who was free to build a good business. Now Valentina lives in one of the Moscow region boarding houses.

Izolda Izvitskaya (1932-1971)

In 1956, after the release of the film "Forty-first", Izolda Izvitskaya woke up famous. She was noticed not only in the USSR, but the whole world applauded the talented actress (one Cannes festival is worth something).

It would seem that after such a stunning success, the world of cinema has opened its doors for a long time in front of a talented girl. But it turned out quite differently: yes, Izvitskaya starred a lot, but all her roles were similar to the one that made her a star. Isolde was very worried about this and increasingly began to kiss the bottle. Perhaps everything would have turned out differently if friendship with the green snake had not been encouraged by the actress's husband Eduard Bredun, who also loved noisy feasts.

Not to say that the star did not realize the destructive effect of alcohol. She even tried to quit a bad habit, but after her husband left for her friend, she broke down again. In March 1971, the body of the dead actress was found in her own apartment. Apparently, it had been there for at least a week. Experts came to the conclusion that chronic alcoholism and prolonged starvation were brought to the grave of Izvitskaya - only a small piece of bread was found from food in her house.

Valentina Serova (1917-1975)

Stalin's favorite, the muse of the poet Konstantin Simonov, one of the most popular actresses of the 40s, the favorite of the audience - Valentina Serova, it would seem, was the darling of fate. But her further life was tragic.

The first husband of the charming blonde was the pilot Anatoly Serov, who crashed during a test flight. From him the girl has a son. For the second time, Valentina married the poet Konstantin Simonov, who long sought her favor and dedicated the legendary poem "Wait for me …" to her.

But, apparently, the actress was never able to fall in love with her husband. It was rumored that during the war she was the mistress of the married Marshal Rokossovsky and took the poet's courtship out of despair. However, the couple's family life could hardly be called cloudless: Simonov insisted that Serova's son be sent to a boarding school in the Urals, Serova was against it, but could not refuse.

Relations between the spouses soon deteriorated completely, and even the birth of their common daughter Masha could not save their marriage. Valentina, who could have had a glass or two before, began to drink even more. In addition, her popularity began to decline, and roles began to be offered less. Simonov soon left the actress, and custody of his daughter was transferred to his grandmother, who did not allow her to see her mother.

In December 1975, the dead actress was found in her apartment, which was completely ransacked. Perhaps this was done by friends-drinking companions, of whom Serova had many. However, it was not possible to find out whether Valentina herself died or she was "helped".

Künn Ignatova (1934-1988)

"The Long Way", "The Planet of Storms", "The Tale of the Newlyweds" - Kunna Ignatova shone in all these films. The beautiful actress could have played in more than one picture, but again, fate decreed in its own way.

While still a student, the girl went to the registry office with actor Vyacheslav Sokolov, gave birth to a son from him. But soon she met Vladimir Belokurov, who was 30 years older than her, and could not resist his charms. It is believed that it was the second husband, who drank heavily, that addicted to wine and the young wife.

However, this marriage also cracked when fate brought Künnu to the young actor Alexander Dick. She was not even embarrassed by the fact that the new chosen one was 14 years younger and that Belokurov by that time was terminally ill. Ignatova married again, but the relationship with the new chosen one was not cloudless: the couple either converged or diverged.

In addition, the actress was very worried about the onset of the creative crisis and found solace in alcohol. When in the late 80s there was a split in the Moscow Art Theater, where the artist was listed, she ended up in the troupe of Tatyana Doronina. However, Ignatova was no longer given the main roles, and she had to be content with episodes. The passion for alcohol began to develop into an addiction, and there were even rumors among colleagues that the actress also used illegal substances.

Once Ignatova disappeared, and they could not find her for two days. Colleagues, wanting to check if everything was normal, broke down the door of Künn's apartment and found her lying on the floor. Two days later, the actress died in the hospital. Until now, it has not been possible to find out what caused her death: investigators did not exclude the option that the star herself took her own life.

Natalia Kustinskaya (1938-2012)

One of the most beautiful Soviet actresses, a sex symbol of the era (although in Soviet times such an epithet was not a vowel), a woman who drove men crazy … - Natalia Kustinskaya was remembered just like that. But few people assumed that at the end of life, the star would remain alone.

It is believed that Kustinsky's life change happened after a break with his second spouse (and the actress got married 6 times) Boris Egorov. Natalia found out about the betrayal and could not forgive it. Although many believe that the actress paid for the fact that she herself once stole her lover from her colleague in the film "Three plus two" Natalia Fateeva.

After the divorce, Kustinskaya came to her senses for a long time, besides there were practically no roles in the cinema, along with this, the fans began to disappear. The star began to drink, and the addiction did not reflect in the best way on her appearance: the woman had noticeably aged and gained excess weight. In addition, Natalia's health condition left much to be desired: in the late 80s she broke her hip, but did not have time to recover, as she fell down the stairs, and again underwent a long course of treatment. In 2002, the actress lost her only son and after this tragedy plunged into severe depression.

This is not to say that she drank herself. On the contrary, the last years of her life Kustinskaya even tied up with a pernicious addiction, but the long years of friendship with the green snake did not pass without a trace: not a trace of her former beauty remained, and health problems made themselves felt even more.

In December 2012, the actress was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, and two days later suffered a stroke. One of the most beautiful girls in the Soviet Union died in loneliness and poverty.