"You are a good man, but not an eagle": Why Nonna Mordyukova's personal happiness did not work out

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

She was bright and talented, and on the screen she often embodied the images of strong women. Nonna Mordyukova herself seemed the same as her heroine. She really was a real Cossack, she knew how to show her strength and independence. But in fact, the actress has always remained a woman who definitely needs a strong shoulder next to her. Nonna Mordyukova desperately wanted to be happy, but for some reason all the time she became hostage to her own ideas about male strength and beauty.

Sergey Gerasimov

Nonna Mordyukova starred in "Young Guard" with Gerasimov, and the famous director unexpectedly fell in love with the young actress. The student of VGIK conquered Sergei Apollinarievich with her love of life and lively disposition. For some time, the young actress accepted his courtship, and Gerasimov even went to Mordyukova's parents to ask for the hand of their daughter.

But Nonna's mom was determined. Irina Petrovna found the director too old for her eldest daughter, and besides, she had already managed to get to know Vyacheslav Tikhonov, whom she really liked as a future son-in-law.

The actress herself claimed: she had no affair with Gerasimov, it was just that Sergei Apollinarievich was in love with her and decided that he could count on reciprocity. After the refusal, Gerasimov was angry with her for a long time.

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Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Nonna Mordyukova has been staring at a beautiful and modest classmate for a long time. When Vyacheslav Tikhonov was carried away by another girl, Nonna Mordyukova moved on to active actions: she flirted, accompanied to the dining room. Only many years later she will realize that she was behaving insolently. But then she considered her actions absolutely justified.

She was able to get Tikhonov's attention, introduced him to her parents, to whom he seemed to be a quite suitable party for her daughter. When rumors arose about Mordyukova's romance with Gerasimov, he even wrote a letter to the girl's mother asking her to influence her daughter, threatening to throw himself under the train if she refused to marry him.

Nonna Mordyukova and Vyacheslav Tikhonov lived together for 13 years. Only after the wedding did each of them realize what mistake he had made. The family was kept from breaking up only by the mother of the actress, who kept persuading her daughter not to give up Slava. But life together for both actors seemed like continuous torment. Even son Volodya could not become a connecting link for them.

Nonna Mordyukova subsequently complained: Tikhonov did not pay attention to her at all. Not once in 13 years have I congratulated on my birthday, did not ask about my health. When Mordyukova's mother died, they filed for divorce immediately after the funeral. And only half a century later they were able to talk for the first time.

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Vasily Shukshin

They met while working on the film A Simple Story. They were drawn to each other with such force that everything else seemed completely unimportant. Shukshin at that time had an affair with another actress, Mordyukova's husband and son, who suddenly suddenly appeared on the set: they came to visit her. Then Nonna Viktorovna stopped herself, did not dare to destroy the family. But for many years later she regretted her unfulfilled happiness. She believed: if she decided to go to Shukshin, her life would turn out completely differently.

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Boris Andronikashvili

They were a stunningly beautiful couple, screenwriter Boris Andronikashvili and Nonna Mordyukova. The actress, it seems, was happy: he read her poetry and admired her culinary skills. The civil marriage lasted five years, but they never became a real family.

Perhaps, like many other fans of Nonna Mordyukova, Boris Andronikashvili simply could not compare in strength of character and temperament with his beloved. However, Nonna Mordyukova herself has repeatedly said that she simply did not meet a strong man, next to whom she could afford to become weak.

Yuri Kamorny

The actor was almost 20 years younger than Nonna Mordyukova, but he was passionately in love. She refused to accept his advances, considering him too young. And his love was somehow frightening. When the actress once again answered Yuri Kamorny with a refusal, he shot himself in the hand as a sign of proof of his love. Mordyukova was not particularly impressed by his act, she was still not going to give the unlucky lover a single chance.

Vladimir Soshalsky

The famous actor became the second official husband of Mordyukova. Immediately after the wedding, Nonna Viktorovna began to equip her home with her husband, broke the wall between the kitchen and the living room, trying to increase the space. But later it becomes clear: she again chose the wrong one. They just turned out to be very different. Vladimir Soshalsky loved noisy companies and attention to his person, and Nonna Mordyukova quickly got tired of guests and the abundance of people. Be that as it may, their marriage lasted only six months and the actress did not like to remember this time.

Abu Razak Ghanem

The Syrian filmmaker was passionately in love with the beautiful actress. They met at the Moscow International Film Festival, and then Ghanem for several years came to Moscow and organized tours of Soviet actors in his homeland. But the romance of Abu Razak Ghanem and Nonna Mordyukova gradually simply faded away.

Julian

In the late 1990s, Nonna Mordyukova met the novice performer Julian. It seemed that a famous actress and a young singer could have in common? In fact, Nonna Viktorovna treated Julian as her own son. Son Volodya, who died in June 1990, has always remained her pain. Julian was able to replace her deceased son for some time. In addition, he became an assistant to the actress. Their relationship was confidential and kinship. He still carries flowers to the grave of the actress.

In the film "A Simple Story" the heroine Mordyukova utters a phrase that has become a winged one: "You are a good man, but not an eagle." All her life she was looking for her "eagle", but she never met someone with whom she could finally become simply happy. Although until the end of her days she continued to fall in love: with colleagues on the set, politicians and even her own attending physician.

Nonna Mordyukova was one of the greatest actresses of her time. She embodied on the screen the images of strong-willed women who would stop a galloping horse and enter a burning hut. She herself was called "baba-flint", but the fate of the actress developed in such a way that Mordyukova could be put on a par with those tragic heroines, whose images she embodied in the cinema.