Beauty and the monsters: the magnificent Tatyana Okunevskaya, before whom the "big leaders" could not resist

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

Tatyana Okunevskaya shone on stage and in cinema, was very popular with men. Her husband was the writer Boris Gorbatov, she was worshiped by the Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito, the Minister of State Security of the USSR, Viktor Abakumov, was sympathetic. And she fell in love with the man with whom fate brought her in the Stalinist camps. At the end of her life, Okunevskaya confessed to her daughter Inge:.

Dmitry Varlamov

The first love of Tatiana Okunevskaya was Dmitry Varlamov, a student of the directing department of the State Institute of Arts. He was nine years older than Tatiana and won her over with his incredible beauty. She fell in love with him almost at first sight and accepted the marriage proposal without hesitation.

Parents could not dissuade the obstinate daughter from such an early marriage. Expectedly, Tatyana Okunevskaya did not find happiness in marriage. Mitya was not at all going to limit himself in freedom, he did not even consider it necessary to hide his very free way of life. Then he began to apply physical force to his young wife. Even the birth of his daughter Inga in 1934 did not stop him. Tatiana's parents were able to convince their daughter of the need for a divorce.

Later, when Tatyana Okunevskaya returns from the Stalinist camps, he will try to renew relations with her, appearing at her doorstep with a huge bouquet. But she could not forgive him either an unsuccessful marriage or his remorse to the authorities that he could not see the enemies of the people in Tatiana's family.

Boris Gorbatov

The actress met Boris Gorbatov in 1938, in a summer cafe, where they served amazing crayfish. Tatyana Okunevskaya later recalled that the writer did not know how to look after, so he simply invited her to write a script with him.

It was this period that was the happiest in their relationship. They were young and energetic, they felt good together, and the script, which never saw the implementation on the screen, was easy and fun to write.

It is difficult to say why Tatyana agreed to marry Boris Gorbatov. According to her own recollections, she never loved him. Maybe that's why she shamelessly cheated on her husband?

Later, the actress in her memoirs will write a lot of hard-hitting words about the writer. However, the daughter of Tatyana Okunevskaya, in contrast to the mother's words, will tell that Boris Gorbatov loved his wife very much. After the arrest of the actress, he did everything so that her daughter escaped prison and was able to go to college. And Tatyana Kirillovna simply could not forgive her husband for marrying another.

Lavrenty Beria

The sympathy of the famous lover of women, the People's Commissar of the NKVD, turned into a real tragedy in the life of Tatyana Okunevskaya. In fact, by luring her into the mansion, he first forced the actress to drink strange wine, and then simply took advantage of her helplessness. She could neither change anything in the scenario prepared in advance by the People's Commissar, nor refuse him physically.

Josip Broz Tito

Tatyana Okunevskaya met the head of Yugoslavia, Josip Tito, on a foreign tour. During the official reception, Tito was so fascinated by the beauty that he even invited her to stay in Yugoslavia and promised her to build a film studio especially for her. He offered her a hand and a heart, but only in perspective.

Tatyana obviously did not reject the offer, but she did not give her consent either, she returned to the Soviet Union. True, the relationship did not end there. On the stage of the Lenkom Theater every evening after the end of the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", in which Tatyana played, an employee of the Yugoslav embassy brought a huge basket of extraordinary black roses onto the stage. And in words he conveyed warm words from the Yugoslav marshal.

However, Tatyana Okunevskaya did not have a chance to meet with Tito anymore, she was urged to refuse to tour in Yugoslavia under the threat that the whole troupe would not be released abroad.

Vlado Popovich

Vlado Popovich was the same employee of the Yugoslav embassy who brought her baskets of roses from Tito to the stage. He was so beautiful that Tatyana Okunevskaya simply could not help falling in love with him. However, he answered her in full reciprocity.

Vlado Popovich was ready to marry her, but he ruined everything by throwing a scandal on the actress, demanding her immediate move to him from her husband, Boris Gorbatov. Tatiana could not stand any pressure, let alone hysterics. The beloved quarreled, and soon Vlado Popovich had to hastily leave the Union due to disagreements between Stalin and Josip Tito.

Victor Abakumov

Tatyana Okunevskaya at one of the official receptions recklessly slapped a stranger who climbed to kiss her. At that moment, she could not even imagine what this slap would turn out to be for her. The tipsy man was none other than the Minister of State Security, Viktor Abakumov.

In November 1948, Tatyana Okunevskaya was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda. For 13 months she was held in solitary confinement, interrogated for a long time, even beaten. After all these tortures, they brought him to Abakumov's office on the Lubyanka. When the thinner, emaciated actress became ill, he again tried to kiss her. And again got a slap in the face. The penalty for her disobedience was the sentence, according to which she was sentenced to 10 years in the camps.

Alexey

Tatiana Okunevskaya met Alexey in Kargopollag during rehearsals of the camp propaganda team. The most painful thing in this love was the inability to openly demonstrate feelings, even though the beloved reciprocated her. If one of the overseers guessed their feelings, the consequences could be unpredictable. But the separation was inevitable.

Therefore, they just met at rehearsals, explaining their love to each other with their eyes. They had only one kiss, when they were able to stand for only a few seconds, covered with a dense curtain of snow. She was released from the camp ahead of schedule in 1954. And Alexey, who was released later, died of tuberculosis.

Archil Gomiashvili

After her release from the camps, Tatyana Okunevskaya was still a beauty and still enjoyed success with men. But the actress decided never to marry again, never to associate her life with men. But still she had another short marriage: she married Archil Gomiashvili, who was 12 years younger than her. True, they soon parted, but Archil Gomiashvili was the only one of all the men of the actress with whom she was able to maintain friendly relations.

In her memoir "Tatiana's Day", the actress told about all her fans, exposing many in an unpleasant light. But what in the memoirs is true, and what can no longer be learned by fiction.

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