Video: Four marriages and a hundred misfortunes of Natalya Kustinskaya: Why the first beauty of Soviet cinema spent her last years in oblivion and loneliness
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5 years ago, an actress who was called the Russian Brigitte Bardot passed away - Natalia Kustinskaya … Her beauty was so bright and even some kind of "non-Soviet" that she easily won the hearts of the most prominent men of her time. But despite the fact that the actress had several husbands and a huge number of fans, in her declining years she was left absolutely alone, having outlived everyone who was once dear to her. She herself often called it retribution for the sins of her youth …
Natalia was born in 1938 into an artistic family: her mother was a singer, and her father was a verse-tap dancer. Therefore, the girl did not hesitate for a long time in choosing her future profession. She graduated from a music school and entered VGIK, during her studies in which she began acting in films. Even in her first year, she married director Yuri Chulyukin. Once he saw her in the corridor of the institute and soon announced: "You will be my wife!" On his part, it really was love at first sight, but for Natalia, a sudden marriage was, rather, a way to take revenge on a former fan who was not going to marry an actress.
Classmates envied Natalya: they were sure that now all the main roles in Chulyukin's paintings would go to his young wife. However, their expectations did not come true: even after promising Kustinskaya the main role in "Girls", her husband, secretly from her, began to shoot Nadezhda Rumyantseva. Chulyukin not only had no intention of filming his wife in his films, but also did not want her to work with other directors. The actress explained it this way: "".
However, Natalia Kustinskaya became the # 1 star even without her husband's help. After the film "Three plus two" incredible popularity fell upon her, she and Natalya Fateeva were called the most beautiful actresses of Soviet cinema, unaware that they would become rivals not only on the screen, but also in life. After 8 years, the marriage of Kustinskaya with Chulyukin broke up due to her husband's betrayal, and the actress married the diplomat Oleg Volkov, who left his family for her. The couple had a son, but this marriage soon collapsed: the actress left her husband for … the husband of Natalia Fateeva.
According to Kustinskaya, Yegorov was the first to show her attention and was very persistent. For a while, the actress did not respond to his advances, but upon learning that Fateeva had an affair with the Romanian singer Dan Spataru at that time, she decided not to resist her feelings. This marriage, which lasted 19 years, became the cause of contention between the two most beautiful actresses of Soviet cinema. and soon misfortunes fell on Kustinskaya one after another.
Once at a rehearsal in the theater, the actress fell, after which she spent six months on crutches. As soon as she got better, a new misfortune happened: "". Her husband rarely visited her in the hospital, and soon she learned that he had another woman.
Many acquaintances told her that Fateeva wanted to take revenge on her so much that it implicitly affected her life, but Kustinskaya herself did not believe in it: ""
Muslim Magomayev, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Alexey Batalov, Vladimir Naumov confessed their love to her, she easily conquered the most beautiful, talented and famous artists, but in her declining years she was completely alone. Her fourth husband, a professor at MGIMO, died suddenly. After him, the little grandson of Kustinskaya passed away, and soon she lost her son - he died of heart failure. For some time after a series of these deaths, the actress found solace in alcohol, but managed to stop in time. "", - said Kustinskaya.
In recent years, the woman, whom thousands of men dreamed of, spent all alone. Because of polyarthritis, she was bedridden for several months, recovered greatly and aged. Despite this, she admitted: "". The last 9 months of her life, Kustinskaya did not get out of bed, she was looked after by a nurse from the patronage service. On December 13, 2012, the actress died at the age of 75, having outlived all her loved ones.
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