Video: From the orphanage to the big screen: 5 Russian artists who grew up without parents
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Today their names are known to everyone, and thousands of fans find it hard to believe that their path was not strewn with roses from the very birth. Their stories are rather exceptions to the rule, but by their own example they prove that even orphans abandoned by their parents and raised in orphanages can still achieve success and recognition and even become pop and movie stars.
They began to call her Lydia Ruslanova in the shelter to hide her peasant origin, otherwise the girl would not have been accepted there. At birth, she received the name Praskovya (according to other sources - Agafya) Leikina-Gorshenina. Her family was very poor, her father went missing in the Russo-Japanese War. The mother died after an illness, leaving three children. All of them ended up in orphanages and orphanages. A 4-year-old girl begged for alms on the streets until she was noticed by the widow of an official, who arranged for her under the name of Lidia Ruslanova in the best shelter in Saratov. The regent of the local church drew attention to her sonorous voice, and soon the girl became the soloist of the church choir. During the Civil War, Lydia Ruslanova already performed on the stage as a professional artist. During the Second World War, Ruslanova, as part of the front-line concert brigades, together with the soldiers, reached Berlin, performing folk songs on the steps of the Reichstag. Her career was not easy: the legend of the wartime stage in the late 1940s. biennium was arrested and convicted, and returned to the stage only after Stalin's death.
Nina Ruslanova is often called "the main foundling of Soviet cinema" in the press. In the winter of 1945-1946. a two-month-old baby was found on the street of the Ukrainian city of Bohodukhiv and sent to an orphanage. She never knew her parents, as well as the exact date of birth. She decided that she would celebrate it on December 5, since then it was the Day of the Stalin Constitution, and on this holiday in the orphanage they arranged concerts and tasty food. The name, patronymic and surname were given to her in the orphanage. The inspector of orphanages in the Kharkiv region named her Ruslanova in honor of the singer Lydia Ruslanova. "" - says the actress.
Before becoming a movie star, Nina Ruslanova changed 5 orphanages, graduated from a construction school and worked as a painter-plasterer, then entered the Kharkov Theater Institute, and later - at the Shchukin School. Already in her sophomore year, she played her first role in Kira Muratova's film "Brief Encounters", and since then her film career has taken off. On account of her dozens of brilliant works in cinema. "Shadows disappear at noon", "Gypsy", "Do not shoot white swans", "Be my husband", "My friend Ivan Lapshin", "Winter cherry", "Heart of a Dog" and other films brought her popular love and popularity … In total, she performed more than 170 roles!
Stanislav Sadalsky was born in the village of Chkalovskoye of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. At the age of 12, he lost his mother. She was seriously ill, and his father did not even visit her in the hospital. He often beat his sons and, after the death of his mother, sent them to a boarding school in Voronezh. There Stas began to study in a theater studio, and at the age of 16 he went to conquer the capital. He was not admitted to the Shchukin school and, before entering GITIS, he worked for a year at the Yaroslavl Motor Plant as an apprentice turner. His film debut took place in 1970, and since then the actor has performed more than 100 roles in theater and cinema.
Petr Logachev was born in 1985 in the small village of Testovo into a complete family, but at the age of two he lost his father, and his mother, due to serious health problems, could not cope with raising three children. Therefore, they all ended up in an orphanage. Classes in the theater studio at the local Palace of Pioneers became a real salvation for Peter - they helped him forget about the difficult life of the orphanage and get rid of numerous complexes. He entered the stage from the second grade, participating in all concerts and competitions. Drawing attention to the outstanding abilities of the student, the head of the theater-studio "Harlequin" L. Gladilina prepared him for admission to a theater university. His film debut took place in 2008, when he played the main role in the film "The Captive". Since then, he has performed about 20 film roles and continues to successfully act in films.
Evgeny Shirikov was born in 1988 in Vologda. At the age of 11, he became an orphan and grew up in the Vologda orphanage №2. He dreamed of becoming a military man, but at an early age he showed artistic talent, and he began to study in a theater group. In 2001, he became the winner of the All-Russian Children's Festival "Christmas Meetings" in the nomination "Best Actor". Shirikov made his film debut in 2012, starring in the series “Patrol. Vasilievsky Island ". To date, there are 13 works in his filmography.
Often, fate tested them for strength even after they managed to achieve success. I had to go through a very difficult path Lydia Ruslanova: from poverty to national glory, from confession to prison.
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