Why the life and career of the eldest daughter of Oleg Tabakov did not work out

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

The debut of Alexandra Tabakova in the cinema was bright and promising. The audience remembered the actress for the role of the friend of the main character in the film "Little Vera". However, the good start had virtually no continuation. The actress starred in only a few films, and she did not achieve much success on the stage. The sudden news of the departure of the famous father from the family seemed to cripple Alexandra. It seems that she was simply lost somewhere on the bends of her not very foldable life.

Happy childhood

Alexandra became the second child in the family of Oleg Tabakov and Lyudmila Krylova. And she spent all her childhood in a joyful creative atmosphere. It seemed that this familiar and happy world should have always existed. The parents were successful in their profession, and the children, Anton and Alexandra, often happened to be backstage, waiting for their father or mother to finish working and take them home. Anton and Sasha had a nanny, but what could be more interesting than spending time behind the scenes, when friends were already waiting there, the same children of artists as themselves ?!

The girl was only 7 years old when she first appeared on television in the form of Little Red Riding Hood in the program "Alarm Clock", hosted by Lyudmila Krylova.

Despite her obvious inclination to the exact sciences, Alexandra could not even imagine that she could choose some kind of non-creative profession. Therefore, after graduating from school, taking advantage of the absence of her parents in Moscow, the girl submitted documents to the Moscow Art Theater School, where she was admitted on the first attempt.

The complexities of being

She studied at the course of Vladimir Bogomolov together with Mikhail Efremov, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Maria Evstigneeva. Alexandra enthusiastically comprehended the secrets of the acting profession, teachers treated her with great favor. Fellow students noted: Alexandra read a lot, was smart and understood many issues of culture and art, was fond of painting and in the classroom invariably deserved praise for her talent and hard work.

After graduation, the teachers persistently recommended Alexandra to try herself in teaching. She was offered the position of a teacher here, at the Moscow Art Theater School, but the graduate dreamed of a stage. Oleg Tabakov accepted his daughter into the "Tabakerki" troupe, but he was in no hurry to present the heiress with the main roles.

Oleg Pavlovich believed that a talented person could achieve everything on his own, without the patronage and help of influential relatives. He almost never gave good roles to either his daughter or his own wife.

When in 1987 Tabakov became a co-director of the film-play "Armchair", then Alexandra had a chance to play only in an episode. Marina Zudina was then approved for the main role. At that time, Sasha Tabakova had already heard rumors about her father's romance with his student, but her daughter refused to even think that this might be true.

In just a year, Alexandra Olegovna will brilliantly play Lena Chistyakova in Little Faith and become famous. The small role played by the actress turned out to be very bright and colorful. It seemed that the girl was able to reverse the circumstances and now she will always be accompanied by good luck. However, "Little Vera" was followed by the film "Dark Nights in the City of Sochi", then there will be a short film "Another District". And that's all. More Alexander Tabakov was not filmed anywhere else.

For many years, Alexandra tried to put up with the fact that she plays in the theater exclusively in extras. However, the moment came when the cup of her patience was overflowing. Pain and despair are mixed in her soul: rumors about the romance of Oleg Tabakov and Marina Zudina have long ceased to be just rumors. Then Alexandra decided to talk to her father and in the heat of the moment, of course, expressed everything that she had been thinking about for many years.

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Broken dreams

When in 1994 Oleg Tabakov announced his divorce to his wife and children, it was a real blow for Alexandra. It seems that she most painfully experienced the betrayal of her father. Surely, the actress, to whom Oleg Tabakov always spoke about an independent path in art, immediately recalled the main roles of Marina Zudina, which she received with enviable regularity.

Alexandra, following the example of her mother Lyudmila Krylova, categorically refused any comments about her father's personal life and his divorce. In general, she somehow plunged into herself, almost stopped communicating with friends and acquaintances. And she tried to simply erase her father from her life. As if it never existed.

Many years later, the actress will tell her brother that she seemed to have passed some point of no return, after which she would like to, but physically could not communicate with her father. I couldn't forget, I couldn't forgive. She chose to just withdraw into herself.

Unworkable happiness

The personal life of Alexandra Tabakova cannot be called happy either. In the second half of the 1980s, she married Jan Josef Lifers, a student at the Berlin Theater Academy, and went with him to Germany. In 1988, the couple had a beloved daughter, Polina, but the family subsequently broke up. Polina grew up and became a theater artist, and Jan Lifers, even when his wife returned to Russia, continued to help his wife and daughter financially.

The civil marriage of Alexandra Tabakova with actor Andrei Ilyin, which arose after the return of the actress from Germany, did not lead to the creation of a full-fledged family. Due to the mismatch of goals, the relations of the actors reached an impasse and soon they finally decided to part ways.

Today, Alexandra Tabakov does not appear in films and on television, does not appear at social events. She did not come to say goodbye to her father when he was gone and never gave a single interview. Some acquaintances of the actress mentioned that the woman, who will soon turn 54, leads a very secluded life and mostly communicates only with her daughter. Nobody knows whether this is true or not. Alexandra Olegovna herself categorically does not want to share her joys and sorrows with strangers.

Her affair with Oleg Tabakov was discussed, the young actress herself was condemned, envied and suspected of commercialism. But then it was easy for Marina Zudina not to pay attention to gossip and envy, because there was a real man next to her, for the sake of whom she was ready to endure anything. Her life used to be divided into two parts: before Oleg Tabakov and together with him. When Oleg Pavlovich died, Marina Zudina had to learn to live without him.