Moments of happiness Irina Pechernikova: How an actress learned not to bend under the blows of fate

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

The whole country recognized Irina Pechernikova after filming the film "We'll Live Until Monday," they wrote to her and called her the Soviet Audrey Hepburn. However, the actress least of all at that moment thought about her popularity. On the contrary, she stopped acting in films and left her job in the theater, having gone abroad. Later, she repeatedly had to be reborn from the ashes, proving her right to a creative life and happiness. She managed to become happy when she no longer hoped for anything. However, fate again and again continued to test Irina Pechernikova for strength.

The right to choose

Irina Pechernikova has never seen herself as particularly beautiful. However, there was some kind of attraction in her that made me pay attention to her. For the first time, the actress felt all the delights of her attractiveness at the moment when she accidentally heard about her non-Platonic romance with two actors at once: Yuri Puzyrev and Pavel Massalsky.

At that time, Irina was a second year student at the Moscow Art Theater School and not only did not think about novels, but did not even kiss anyone. Yuri Puzyrev, who found a young actress sobbing somewhere behind the scenery, advised Irina Pechernikova to be proud of the gossip about herself. This can only mean one thing: she herself is worth something. So Irina lived on, not paying attention to what they write or say about her.

After filming the movie "Let's Live Until Monday," the actress became truly famous. And again became the object of rumors. This time they talked about her romance with Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Irina Pechernikova did not feel like a celebrity at all. She still worked a lot in the theater, acted in films and suddenly disappeared from the screens.

She then had to choose between a profession and a possible family life. During filming in Poland, the actress broke her legs and was motionless for a long time. When the plaster cast was removed for her, friends invited Irina to a concert of the Polish group. Zbigniew Bizon, a talented musician, immediately drew attention to the slender beauty. Soon a romance broke out between the young people.

There was only one opportunity to see a foreign young man: marriage. Irina got married and left for Poland, leaving cinema and theater. Soon the couple moved to Sweden, and Irina began to languish. She wanted to go back to the theatrical stage, to be at the gunpoint of cameras, to feel the unique atmosphere of creativity. And she returned to the Soviet Union.

Erroneous marriage

Boris Galkin saw her portrait in the theater. And for some reason, of all the actors, I remember exactly her, a dark-haired girl with a piercing gaze. The real acquaintance literally stunned the actor. He began to persistently look after Irina. And she didn't even know that at that time he was still married. However, the tragedy that happened in the family alienated him from his wife. They lost their newborn baby and could not get through this grief together.

Irina Boris Galkin asked never to touch on this topic. He was in love. And he began to insist on the official conclusion of marriage. Irina Pechernikova succumbed to persuasion, finally filed for a divorce from her first spouse, and became the wife of Boris Galkin.

Many years later, the actress admitted that she was too hasty with her decision. Their marriage lasted only a year. Boris Galkin, after filming the film "In the zone of special attention", became very popular, traveled a lot around the country. And she was so passionate about her work at the Maly Theater that she did not think about anything at all, except for roles. Soon the couple parted.

At the crossroads

At first, the actress did not feel lonely at all. She gave up cinema in favor of working in the theater. The busy rehearsal schedule, many interesting roles did not leave time for filming.

And then it was all over in an instant. Mom died, and later Mikhail Tsarev died, thanks to whom she at one time went to work at the Maly Theater. The actress was no longer offered roles in the theater, in the cinema she was long forgotten. Irina Pechernikova was left alone with her problems. Unable to endure the oppression of lack of demand and loneliness, she was carried away by alcohol.

The moment came when Irina Viktorovna realized: her life was rapidly going downhill. She firmly decided to quit drinking, at first she struggled with the problem on her own, later she turned to specialists.

For the first time she saw Alexander Solovyov when he was still a boy. He went to the stage to present the actress with a flower after the performance. It was many years before she saw him on stage in the musical "The Man of La Mancha". But Irina Pechernikova remembered a touching boy with a flower in her hand when new actors were presented at the theater.

The actor was already divorced at that time, but continued to live with his wife and little son. The new feelings discouraged both of them. Alexander had sincere feelings for Irina, but was torn between his son and his first family. One day he came after a meeting with his son depressed and unhappy. Then Irina realized: he will constantly face a choice. And she asked him never to come to her again. Alexander returned to the family, and for eight years they did not communicate.

Real love

And then Alexander Soloviev just called Irina. And he said that his son went to college and he had a girlfriend. And he simply asked: "Are you still waiting for me?"

Of course she waited. For the first time in her life, she realized what true love is. He drove up to her house and since then they have never parted. They were incredibly happy. We walked the streets holding hands. At 51, she became the wife of Alexander Solovyov.

Then they both did not know that fate measured out only three years of happiness for them. Then Alexander Solovyov died tragically. He was found unconscious on the street and died in hospital. Irina was able to find him only three weeks later, before that Alexander was listed as unidentified in the morgue. And the next day after Sasha's funeral, Irina Pechernikova's father died. For two years Irina lived in oblivion and cannot even remember what happened to her.

19 years have passed since the departure of Alexander Solovyov. And Irina Pechernikova still cannot hold back tears, talking about her husband, about her true love.

Today Irina Pechernikova lives with simple human joys, communicates with family and friends, tries to find small reasons for joy. But time did not heal her pain, it only dulled her.

The film by Stanislav Rostotsky "We'll Live Till Monday" became the hallmark of the actress Irina Pechernikova and the next creative peak of Vyacheslav Tikhonov. The film story was incredibly popular with viewers, and officials saw it as a threat and prevented its release on screens. For many actors, the film became a landmark, and Vyacheslav Tikhonov helped to abandon the decision to leave the cinema. If not for this role, the audience would never have seen Stirlitz in his performance.