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Video: Broken heart of Natalia Gundareva: Why the actress had to give up her first feelings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Today you can hear what a strong-willed and even sometimes tough person Natalya Gundareva was. However, many colleagues remember her as a completely different: a mischievous, bright, open freckled girl who once came to the Theater of Young Muscovites under the leadership of Evgenia Galkina. There, the actress played her first roles, getting a start in life. In the same theater, she met a man, the memories of whom until the end of days echoed in the heart of Natalya Gundareva with warmth and light sadness for unaddressed happiness.
Redhead, honest, in love
She appeared on the threshold of the Palace of Pioneers on the Lenin Hills in the fall of 1964. In the Theater of Young Muscovites, for which the actress and teacher Evgenia Galkina was recruiting, the competition was almost like in theatrical universities: about two hundred people per seat.
Evgenia Vasilievna tried to feel each child who entered the hall. The teacher was not interested in the material well-being of the parents or their social status; she was looking for truly talented children. The course had already been completed, the guys started their studies, and then Natasha came. Plump, red-haired, all in golden freckles, very smiling. Evgenia Galkina could not refuse her, she immediately realized that this girl was clearly gifted by nature.
Some absolutely crazy energy emanated from her. From the very first months of her studies, Natalia began to be entrusted with serious big roles. And the young actress played them as if she had been doing this all her life. The teacher was amazed at her innate professionalism and ability to feel the main thing in each role.
The boys, often from poor families, immediately sensed a leader in her. And the girl was not conceited, she was sensitive and attentive. Before each of her steps on the stage, she calmed herself with knitting. She sat backstage and quickly, quickly fingered the knitting needles. And then she gave her creations to the boys. Natasha Gundareva became for them almost a guardian angel: she noticed that someone did not have warm clothes, and quietly reported this to the teacher. Evgenia Vasilievna was sure to come up with something.
The girl darned holes in her comrades' clothes, smiled charmingly and found a warm word for everyone. Despite the serious obesity, she always enjoyed the attention of the boys. But Natasha herself singled out only one of her theater buddies - Vladislav Dolgorukov.
The first love
They first appeared on stage together in the production of "Wild Dog Dingo", where Natasha played her mother, Vladik played her son. The girl simply charmed her young colleague. She really was like a mother: soft, caring, calm. Teenage love was still only timidly making its way through the embarrassment, and Evgenia Galkina had already seen: Natasha and Vladik openly sympathize with each other.
Natasha was always very sincerely interested in Vladik's affairs, gave advice, supported and helped as best she could. Vladislav, who by that time was already moonlighting at the plant to help the family, clearly needed attention. They looked amazingly good together on stage, and outside of it the guys had a real, very touching and "adult" romance.
He gave her flowers and even bought modest cheap rings, which the young lovers exchanged as a sign of the strength of their feelings. It seems that everything had turned out differently, and Natalya Gundareva would have found her happiness even in her youth. With Vladislav Dolgorukov, she could live a long and happy life.
Broken heart
But the mother of the future celebrity intervened in the matter. She was categorically against her daughter becoming an actress. Elena Mikhailovna herself had already chosen her daughter's profession: she had a direct road to the design bureau and work at the drawing board as a draftsman. In addition, Natalia Gundareva's mother did not like her daughter's relationship with Vladik. She considered him a guy with a dubious reputation and did not want her daughter to communicate with him.
With all this, Elena Gundareva came to the teacher of her daughter Evgenia Galkina. The latter took a lot of effort to persuade the parent not to take her daughter from the theater studio. And Evgenia Vasilievna promised to look after Vlad. True, she did not intend to fulfill this promise at all.
The entire theater of young Muscovites already knew that Natasha and Vladik had serious feelings. They looked at each other with undisguised tenderness, straightened something in the clothes or hairstyle of the other, held hands and were so touchingly innocent … However, the parents on both sides did not understand how valuable these first feelings were for both.
Natalya and Vladislav, under pressure from their parents, stopped dating, but they were able, with adult wisdom, to bring their relationship to a new, friendly level, which the actress maintained throughout her life.
Natalia in the tenth grade began to work as a draftsman and even managed to grow to the assistant head of the bureau. However, she did not betray her dream of becoming an actress, she entered the Shchukin School, and after that she played many absolutely amazing roles on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theater and in the cinema.
The guy "with a dubious reputation" Vladislav Dolgorukov graduated from GITIS, served in the Moscow Youth Theater, then became a teacher at his own institute. Today Vladislav Aleksandrovich is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, artistic director of the correspondence course, teacher and associate professor of the Department of Acting.
Perhaps they could have a strong, happy family if once adults could see in their almost childish crush the sprouts of a real serious feeling.
Natalia Gundareva was so popular that she was often called the most popular of all folk. She played many striking roles, but her first leading role was Anna Dobrokhotova in the film Sweet Woman, thanks to which her film career took off. But this might not have happened - at first, the actress refused to shoot, not considering herself a "sweet woman", none of those beauties that are usually invited to the main roles.
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