Unforgiven insult to Marianna Vertinskaya: Why the actress tried to commit suicide

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

Marianna Vertinskaya served at the Vakhtangov Theater for 38 years, played many wonderful roles in films, but she was always as if in the shadow of her relatives. First, the father, the great singer Alexander Vertinsky, and then the younger sister Anastasia, whose film career was more successful. But for the actress, personal happiness was much more important than her career, and the greatest offense in her life was inflicted on her by the man whom Marianna Vertinskaya loved.

Early career

The main thing that she remembered in childhood was the endless love that her father gave to the whole family. Alexander Vertinsky has traveled all over the Soviet Union with concerts, he never refused to work. And all this so that his daughters remember childhood as the happiest time in life. The father was often not at home, but his daughters Marianna and Anastasia always felt his participation.

Marianna Vertinskaya was still a schoolgirl when she was first invited to act in films. She often visited the film studio with her mother, Lydia Vladimirovna, where a pretty girl with a scattering of perky freckles was noticed and offered to star in the film "The Pier".

Mom also brought Marianne to the film group. And then she took him back. As soon as the Vertinskys entered the room, where the members of the creative group were already there, Lydia Vladimirovna saw all five men, including Savva Kulish and Gennady Shpalikov, looking at her daughter. Lydia Vertinskaya said goodbye to everyone, resolutely took her daughter by the hand and took her home. She later explained that there is no need to spend too much time in the company of young men.

For the first time she starred in the film Marianna Vertinskaya after graduation, and her first work was the small role of Katya Bortashevich in the film Leap Year by Anatoly Efros. Marlen Khutsiev's film "I am twenty years old" ("Ilyich's Outpost") became truly fateful for the young actress, thanks to which she met people who took an important place in her life. One of them was Andron Konchalovsky.

With no intention to marry

Today Marianna Vertinskaya admits: she can't even remember how their romance began. It's just that at some point she and Andron Konchalovsky found themselves in love with each other. At the same time, the feelings were ardent and passionate, they tried not to part for a minute. The time was extremely gracious. They met in common companies, where they talked about everything in the world, argued to the point of hoarseness and read the poems of Mandelstam, about whom they had no idea before.

Konchalovsky was completely different from other young people from Marianne's entourage. He was imposing and distinguished by some incredible inner freedom. And Konchalovsky was also a very interesting conversationalist, he was well versed in art and sang amazingly.

In relation to Marianne, he became a real knight. He did not insist on a quick rapprochement, but he was incredibly caring and noticed such little things that many men do not even think about. At that time, Marianna wore only mini and stockings on her belt, but Andron actively protested against her beloved being cold in winter. And I bought for Marianna those same knitted warm knee-length pants, which are popularly called "goodbye youth."He ignored all the girl's protests against these leggings and made her wear "this horror". When they came to the dacha on Nikolina Gora, he took off fashionable boots from Marianna Vertinskaya, exchanging them for warm felt boots.

The shooting of "Ilyich's Outpost" dragged on, and all this time Andron Konchalovsky and Marianna Vertinskaya did not part. At that time, in cinematographic circles, their couple was discussed with might and main and were waiting for two famous families, the Mikhalkovs and the Vertinsky, to become related.

Andron Konchalovsky did not hide his ardent feelings, fell on his knees either in front of Marianna herself, then in front of her mother, vowing eternal love and the most serious intentions. However, he did not invite me to marry. The first to talk about the wedding was Lydia Vladimirovna Vertinskaya, saying: stop fooling around, if Andron is so much in love, let him marry. And Lydia Vertinskaya literally insisted on a conversation between her daughter and her boyfriend.

Marianne really talked to him, although before that she had not even thought about the wedding. Everything, by and large, was fine with her. When Konchalovsky asked why she needed a stamp in her passport, Marianna answered honestly: her mother thinks so. And they set a date for the wedding: on the 24th, however, due to the remoteness of the years, Marianna Vertinskaya forgot what month they were supposed to sign.

Unforgiven resentment

After that conversation, Marianna continued to lead her usual way of life, and Andron Konchalovsky plunged into completely different problems. It was just starting up with the movie The First Teacher. Soon he left for Kyrgyzstan, from where he periodically called Marianne. Everything seemed to be the same between them. But Andron Konchalovsky was then already carried away by Natalia Arinbasarova, whom he soon married.

Marianna Vertinskaya at that moment was desperately worried about the betrayal of a loved one. And the desire to commit suicide began to visit her more and more often. She did not want to live without Andron and could not come to terms with the fact that all his ardent words and confessions, his touching care and knightly gestures were in the past. And there will never be that 24th when they become husband and wife.

Once, during a party, Marianne, looking at the people having fun, suddenly decided to drink vinegar essence. And then she returned home with burns on her neck and around her mouth … She could not calm down and was ashamed of her mother, who saw her in this state.

It was her weakness and fear in the eyes of her mother that she could not forgive Konchalovsky. Although I realized a long time ago: it’s good that he didn’t marry her then, otherwise she would have just added to the list of wives he had abandoned. However, the list of Marianna Vertinskaya's men, from whom she left, was also quite large. But that's a completely different story.

God endowed both daughters of the famous chansonnier Alexander Vertinsky with an extraordinary talent, beauty and charm, both became actresses, both conquered the hearts of the most brilliant men of their time. Anastasia and Marianna Vertinsky have been compared all their lives and, as a rule, this comparison has always been in favor of the younger sister - the inimitable Assol, Gutierre and Ophelia.