How "Guest from the Future" is connected with the development of the Russian vaccine against COVID-19: From cinema to microbiology

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

As a child, she saved the Earth from a terrible virus in the movies, and when she grew up, she was able to do it for real. Natalia Guseva, the performer of the role of Alisa Selezneva, chose a specialty for herself not related to cinema and became a microbiologist. She worked for many years at the N. F. Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, the very institute where the world's first vaccine against coronavirus was created.

For the first time, Natasha starred in a movie at the age of 11 in the small role of a schoolgirl in a children's short film. A year later, after the release of "Guests from the Future", she became a real star. Her glory even crossed the borders of the USSR. Letters to "Alice" came from all over the world, she was recognized on the street, young fans forced the windows and were on duty at the entrance, but it turned out that the young actress was not ready for such a life. For a while, she even got posture problems - she was so used to lowering her head in the street. Then I had to learn to straighten up. True, one fan still managed to get through to her heart - when he entered the hotel room, hiding in a box from the TV. Natasha was then 15 years old, she agreed to meet an inventive guy and began dating him. He guarded her from too annoying fans in the future. Five years later, Denis Murashkevich became the first husband of "Guests from the Future".

For four years after the release of the stellar tape, Natalia starred in four more films and said further a clear "No". When she was offered the main role - Valery Nikolaev in the crime drama "Accident - the daughter of a cop", the girl refused, as the film contained scenes of violence. Former Alice did not want to spoil the image, familiar and beloved by millions of viewers, and, probably, for this she should be said "thank you". There are too many examples today of how candid shots that actresses agree to spoil not only their personal life, but also relationships with fans. Natalia Guseva in this regard took a very tough position and after 1989 refused all proposals. According to her, all the roles that she was offered contained "new Russian" scenes.

In addition to cinema, the young actress has been fond of biology since childhood. It was this profile that she chose for herself when the question arose about her future profession. After graduating from school in 1989, Natalia entered the Moscow State Institute of Fine Chemical Technology at the Department of Biotechnology. So began a completely different life for her, not related to cinema. She was still recognized on the street, but the promising student had already learned to cope with it. She built her life the way she wanted herself. In her first marriage, she gave birth to a daughter. When the question arose about what to call the baby, I had to endure a real battle - the relatives did not accept other names except Alice. The girl was named as a result Alesya (almost, but not the same). In her second marriage, Natalia, already at the age of 41, gave birth to another girl.

The scientific career of a talented woman was also extremely successful. She worked as a researcher at the N. F. Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. Natalia was one of the leaders of a diagnostic company in the field of infectious diseases, which develops and manufactures enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay systems.

- Alisa Selezneva saved the world from such a terrible scenario in the film "Purple Ball". The explosion was supposed to occur in 2087, but in order to destroy the bomb, the heroes had to fly into the past (for this, by the way, they escaped from a special quarantine cruiser).

On August 11, 2020, the research institute, in which the former cinematic savior of the Galaxy worked for many years, registered a vaccine against the new coronavirus infection for the first time in the world. When asked how it was possible to create this drug so quickly, Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko replied:

Of course, such coincidences happen, but it's always nice to believe in heroes loved from childhood. And since we have “on our own” got from the 90s to the future, we really want this future to be happy, and the distant - wonderful.

But who in this future, more than thirty years later, became Alisa Selezneva's classmates.