Watchwoman, cleaning lady, grandmother, nanny... These are the simple images that made the actress without special education Galina Stakhanova memorable. She can safely be counted among the actors whom cinema experts classify as the “kings of the episode.” However, before entering the acting profession, Galina Konstantinovna had to work as a telephone operator, an usher, and a make-up artist. But she developed an interest in the art of transformation as a child. At the same time, the path to the acting profession turned out to be difficult and thorny.
And yet, Galina Stakhanova never once in her life regretted that she chose the path of acting. In films, her roles are no less memorable than the images of the main characters. How did Galina Stakhanova turn into a bright and textured actress? Let's consider this issue in more detail.
Difficult childhood
She was born in Moscow on October 12, 1940, shortly before the start of the war. When the Germans occupied the capital in 1941, the Stakhanovs left for the capital of Kazakhstan. After some time, Galina Konstantinovna’s father left the family, and then her mother fell ill with a serious infectious disease.
But the troubles didn’t stop there: Galina’s grandmother dies from malnutrition. There was a catastrophic shortage of food: potato peelings were considered a delicacy...
The actress remembers this period of her life with regret and sadness.
When Moscow was finally liberated, Galina Stakhanova and her mother returned to her hometown. But it seemed that life's hardships did not want to leave her family. When they arrived in their native land, other people lived in their apartment. Such a practice was not uncommon in those years. The future actress Galina Stakhanova and her mother were forced to live in a small basement where three other families lived.
Alexey Stakhanov married a 14-year-old schoolgirl (unknown facts from the biography of miner No. 1)
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New details from the life of the famous Soviet hero of labor. 68 years ago, miner Alexei Stakhanov started a movement named after himself by cutting down fourteen times more coal than normal. The former poor assistant, who had only 3 classes of a rural school behind him, suddenly received all the benefits of Soviet civilization: Stalin’s favor, a luxurious apartment in Moscow, personal cars, receptions in the Kremlin, chapters in history textbooks.
Alexey Stakhanov married a 14-year-old schoolgirl (unknown facts from the biography of miner No. 1)
And although plenty has already been said about the famous miner, the Interlocutor correspondent managed to learn about new facts from the life of Alexei Stakhanov. The first wife ran away with a gypsy camp. Alexey Stakhanov worked in Kadievka at the Tsentralnaya-Irmino ordinary mine, which was never famous for its performance in coal mining. But party organizer Konstantin Petrov was haunted by the thought of leadership. A scheme was thought out: the miner only chops the coal, and those who follow fasten the face (until then, the miner himself both chopped and secured the mined-out space, which is why he lost a lot of time). Alexey Stakhanov was chosen as the executor of the record. “My father’s fist was the size of a child’s head,” recalls Stakhanov’s daughter Violetta Alekseevna. “I used to, on a dare, crawl under a horse and lift it up.” Therefore, it is not surprising that he was sent to the record. True, Evdokia, the gypsy with whom he then lived, unexpectedly spoke out against it. He met her in 1929. We lived without signing. Evdokia bore him children Claudia and Victor. Evdokia was persuaded by the party organizer of the mine Petrov and the head of the site where her father worked, Nikolai Mashurov. And she gave up. On the night of August 30-31, Stakhanov delivered 102 tons of coal. The miner's initiative successfully took root among the people; people learned about Stakhanov not only in the Soviet Union, but also beyond its borders. “Of course, my father began to earn more,” says Violetta Alekseevna. “He was given a more spacious apartment, and he was always assigned two places at the club. In general, life began to improve. But then unexpectedly Evdokia ran away with the gypsy camp. She left the children to their father. In November 1936, Stakhanov came to Moscow and was elected as a delegate to the VIII All-Union Congress of Soviets. The people's hero was attacked by journalists. In addition to protocol questions, they asked him questions about his personal life, which Stakhanov tried in every possible way to avoid. He did not want to talk about his new marriage - with a Kharkov schoolgirl Galina, with whom they had an age difference of 17 years. “My father saw my mother at one of the schools where he was invited to speak,” says Violetta Alekseevna. — Mom sang in the choir. She looked older than her 14 years and her father immediately liked her. She didn’t even think about marriage, but she was simply left with no choice. In order to get my mother married, she was given two years. So 14-year-old Galina immediately became the “mother” of two children - Klava and Viktor Stakhanov. In 1937, the young family moved to Moscow. Alexei Stakhanov was sent to study at the Industrial Academy, where many Stakhanovites who had only two or three years of rural school behind them improved their literacy. Then they had their own children. Violetta was born in 1940, and Alla was born three years later. Two children, son Volodya and daughter Emma, died very young, before reaching the age of one year. He threatened to kill Beria. The Stakhanovs lived in a luxurious apartment in the Government House. They had two official cars at their disposal. At evenings in the Kremlin, Stalin shook hands with Stakhanov. But life with the famous miner was not easy. Stakhanov was terribly jealous of his beautiful wife for literally every pillar. “Father called mother “goat,” says Violetta Alekseevna. “He loved her madly, but this love was somehow sadistic: father could hit mother only because someone looked at her admiringly. And if she suddenly had an affair on the side, he would simply kill her. Her attractive appearance played a cruel joke on Galina Stakhanova. One day in GUM, in broad daylight, some people, in front of the driver’s eyes, pushed Galina into a car and sped off in an unknown direction. “Father immediately realized that these were Beria’s tricks,” says Violetta Alekseevna. “He knew that on his orders beautiful women were being kidnapped in Moscow, and he shouted in rage that he would kill “this bastard.” Started calling Stalin. I don’t know whether he spoke to him personally or to his assistants, but my mother soon returned home. Later she said that in the reception room she warned Beria that she was Stakhanov’s wife. But they just grinned: “You are all Stakhanov’s wives.” Then, of course, they apologized, saying they were mistaken. Because of his passion for alcohol, he was nicknamed Stakhanov. Stakhanov perceived the death of Stalin as a personal tragedy. And in 1957, Khrushchev sent a miner to the Donbass city of Torez. The Stakhanov family remained in the capital. “Many people reproached my mother for not following her father,” says Stakhanov’s daughter. - But she’s not a Decembrist. I was finishing school, my sister was going to enter theater school. What would await us in Donbass? In addition, both my mother and I constantly went to see our father. In Torez, Alexey Stakhanov was appointed to the position of assistant chief engineer of the mine management. He loved to talk about the healthy spirit of competition at the mine, advocated social competition, and more than once presented prizes and valuable gifts to its winners. The famous miner began to drink more and more often. He drank out of resentment at being thrown out of Moscow and at the fact that his services to the country were never properly recognized. Arriving from the capital in Torez, Stakhanov first rented a corner. Afterwards he lived for several years on the fifth and last floor of the hostel. Only under Brezhnev was he given a small two-room apartment on the outskirts of the city in a one-story brick house designed for two families. “We constantly invited our father to come to Moscow with us,” says Violetta Stakhanova. “But he didn’t agree to anything.” He only insisted that everything was taken away from him there and that he was not welcome there. The title of Hero of Socialist Labor was awarded to Alexei Stakhanov only in October 1970 - decades later than those people with whom he once began to “move mountains.” “This award, which Stakhanov had been waiting for for many years, crippled him, he had an attack,” says Vladimir Petrov, the son of the party organizer of the mine where the record was set. “And although he held on, the drink gradually finished him off. Due to his excessive passion for alcohol, Stakhanov began to be called Stakanov. “From the men who worked with my father, I often heard: “Stakanov got drunk again yesterday,” says Natalya Galkina, who spent her childhood in Torez, where Stakhanov then worked. - He was rowdy. Once he fired at the ceiling of the Shakhtar restaurant in the city center. But they couldn’t even take him to the police station - he was a celebrity, after all. My father was a people's warrior. More than once he had to calm Stakhanov down. They tie you hand and foot, throw you into the sidecar of a motorcycle and take you home. And the pistol, a gift from Stalin, was always returned to him. Lived in a homeless situation On September 23, 1975, the All-Union Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of the Stakhanov movement opened in the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions. Stakhanov himself was not in Moscow. Those gathered were informed that Alexey Grigorievich was unable to come due to illness, and wished him a speedy recovery. “Shortly before the fortieth anniversary of the Stakhanov movement, my father and I came to Alexei Grigorievich in Torez,” recalls Vladimir Petrov. — My father then worked in Kadievka as deputy manager of the Shakhtostroy trust. I wanted to ask Stakhanov to sign a letter of appeal to Soviet students. No one opened the door for us, although we knocked so hard that even the dead would wake up. I had to climb through the window. I was horrified by what I saw. Bare walls, almost no furniture. A completely homeless situation, as they would say today. Stakhanov himself, dressed, slept on an unmade bed. Everyone simply forgot about him. Alcohol did its job: the Hero of Socialist Labor began to progress with sclerosis. Alexey Stakhanov dried up literally before our eyes. He ended his life in a psychiatric hospital, where he ended up after suffering a stroke. I even stopped recognizing my relatives. He confused his daughter Alla with his son Victor. He died in November 1977. Lying in solitary confinement, Stakhanov missed people and constantly visited the men in the next ward. The doctors allocated him a “personal” bed there, like they once did in the club in Kadievka; it was always free. But one of these visits became fatal. Stakhanov slipped in a tea puddle and hit his head on the bed. For the exhausted body, this blow turned out to be fatal.
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Dream of "great"
Despite all the troubles and adversities, young Galina began to dream about the stage while still at school. But she could not realize her ambitions at that moment, since she had to take care of her “daily bread.” After dropping out of school, Stakhanova got a job as a telephone operator. I had to continue my studies at the school for working youth.
In order to get at least a little closer to her dream, she asked her parent to enroll her in the drama club of the Moscow State University club. Since her mother worked as a janitor at the above-mentioned university, the future actress spent quite a lot of time at the university. In the drama club, young Galina Stakhanova, whose films were loved by millions of television viewers, tried on the images of fairy-tale characters, in particular the Jester in the play “Love for Three Oranges”, Grandmother Bees in the play “The Fly-Buzzing Fly”. However, the girl wanted to play something more typical, for example a princess, but for some reason the director did not see her in this image.
Biography
Galina Stakhanova is a native Muscovite, born into a simple working-class family with no connection to the world of art. Galya, like all children of war, did not have a childhood. For several years the family lived in evacuation in Alma-Ata. In the difficult post-war years, the parents divorced, the mother and small children returned to Moscow, worked day and night in order to somehow feed themselves.
Galina studied at a school for working youth, and at the same time worked part-time as a telephone operator. In her free time, she attended a drama club and a choreography studio.
A fateful meeting for the future artist was the famous actress Vera Pashenna, whose mother was a housekeeper. Stakhanova recalls: “I ended up in the house of that incomparable Vera Pashennaya, and came to help with the housework. Vera Nikolaevna loved us and addressed us only affectionately: Verochka, Galochka. And one day my mother confessed to her: “My daughter wants to become an artist like you.”
Vera Nikolaevna agreed to watch the young talent, listened to the girl’s performance of Katerina’s monologue from Gorky’s “The Thunderstorm” and praised: “Galochka, you have a lot of warmth inside you. If it were up to me, I would take you right now for the role of Katerina.” However, she advised against becoming an artist, citing difficulties with admission: “You won’t get there - the competition is big, you need acquaintances.” Stakhanova agreed and abandoned this idea for a while.
But the desire to be on stage did not let me go. “When I turned twenty, I decided to try anyway, I entered several theater institutes, but they didn’t take me anywhere, they said I wasn’t the right age. And then I decided: since it doesn’t work out, I’ll go work in the theater as anyone. By that time, my mother got a job as a costume designer at the Mayakovsky Theater and placed me as a make-up artist apprentice. I liked it there so much!” - Galina Konstantinovna admitted.
Over the years, the actress worked in a number of Moscow theaters: either as an usher, or as a costume designer, or as a supplier. During this time, I met many famous actors and directors. “By connections” she played in the crowd scenes of plays and starred in scenes of films at Mosfilm.
Make-up artist
Soon Galina’s fateful acquaintance with the famous actress Pashenna took place. Her mother worked as a housekeeper for Vera Nikolaevna and one day asked to listen to Galya. She agreed, and after reading Katerina’s monologue from Ostrovsky’s play, she stated that the girl definitely has the makings of an acting talent.
Ultimately, Pashennaya recommended that the young lady get a job in the theater, but, naturally, not as an actor, but simply to get into the creative atmosphere. After some time, Galina Stakhanova, whose biography is of great interest to experts of Soviet cinema, becomes an assistant make-up artist at the theater. Mayakovsky. Working in a new capacity turned out to be difficult: representatives of the acting community often expressed dissatisfaction with the way they were made up by a young and inexperienced employee. Natalya Gundareva was more loyal to her and advised Galina to try her hand at amateur performances.
Drama club
During her school years, little Galina was fond of dancing and studied in the drama club of the Moscow State University club. Her mother worked part-time as a janitor at the university, so the little girl often whiled away her time there. She was Granny Bee in “The Fly Tskotukha”, and the Jester in the fairy tale “The Love for Three Oranges”. She wanted, of course, to play the main role of some beautiful princess, but even then she was given non-standard roles of typical characters. However, an acting career seemed to her such an incredible, transcendental dream that Stakhanova did not even dare to think about it seriously. It should be said that relatives and friends of the family noted her dramatic talent, always amazed at the reality of the transformations she performed.
Student theater
Galina Konstantinovna heeded the advice of the eminent actress and decided to join the acting ranks of the Moscow State University student theater. The selection was tough, but Stakhanova successfully passed it. The director of the above-mentioned Melpomene temple at that time was the now eminent director Mark Zakharov. It was he who gave Galina Konstantinovna the opportunity to express herself on the theater stage, approving her for one of the roles in the production “I Want to Be Honest.” The maestro made strict demands on the actors, seeking their full performance on stage. And she got the role of the barmaid, and she coped with it perfectly thanks to improvisation.
Photos of Galina Stakhanova began to appear more often on theater posters in the mid-70s, when Roman Viktyuk took the reins of the Moscow State University student theater. The director immediately noticed the actress’s unusual talent and involved her in the play “Music Lessons” (author L. Petrushevskaya). But this work of Viktyuk, where the actress played a mother of many children, was subsequently subjected to severe criticism from the party committee of Moscow State University. The director did not despair and took the risk of staging other plays by Petrushevskaya, in which he offered to play Stakhanova. We are talking, in particular, about the performances “Smirnov’s Birthday” and “Cinzano”. They were a success with the audience, and the credit for this partly belongs to Galina Konstantinovna.
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The creative biography of Galina Stakhanova began with a tiny role in the movie “Girls”, and as a theater actress Galina Konstantinovna made her debut in the student amateur theater of Moscow University, which was then directed by Mark Zakharov.
In the photo: Galina Stakhanova in the film “Girls”
All this time, Stakhanova worked and did not give up her dream of becoming a real artist, but time passed, and in the end it was too late to enter the theater school.
In seventy-three, Galina Konstantinovna got a job as a supplier at the Central Stadium. Lenin, and at the same time she played for Roman Viktyuk when he directed the amateur theater in Moskvorechye. On the stage of this theater, Stakhanova first appeared in a major theatrical role in the production of “Music Lessons” and learned what real success was.
Six years later, Galina Konstantinovna again acted in films, playing an atelier employee in the film “Scenes from Family Life.” At the same time, the acting profession for Stakhanova still remained not the main one - since 1985, Galina Konstantinovna worked as a controller at Luzhniki.
Film work
Few people know that the actress first appeared in films during the filming of the famous comedy “Girls” (1961) directed by Yuri Chulyukin. She only appeared in the frame for a few seconds in the image of the girl Gali. But the eminent prose writer, poet, screenwriter, and director Yevgeny Yevtushenko helped Stakhanova truly begin her film career.
It was he who noticed Galina Konstantinovna’s filigree performance and invited her to his autobiographical film “Kindergarten”. Filming took place in cold Siberia. Stakhanova, who at that time was forty-something, had to reincarnate as a grandmother. However, representatives of the Arts Council did not want to see Galina Konstantinovna in the image of a pensioner, stating that she was too young for this. But Evgeniy Aleksandrovich showed integrity in this matter, and Stakhanova was approved for this particular role. Her partner on the set turned out to be Nikolai Karachentsov. Working as a grandmother, she learned a lot about the cultural life of Siberians and even learned their dialect. Film critics subsequently responded with delight to Yevtushenko’s film.
Men and children in the life of actress Galina Stakhanova
The actress never led a wild lifestyle. After work, she always returned home and was not seen in noisy companies. For a long time she lived in a communal apartment. Her neighbor there was Rolan Bykov. The actress claims that she was in a relationship with him. They had been friends together since their student years. Galina Stakhanova claims that he knew how to look after very beautifully.
After a while, the actress learned that Rolan Bykov had relationships with other women. She couldn't stand it and decided to leave. However, the former lovers maintained their friendship for life. Immediately, a charming young man Nikolai Makhlyaev began to court Galina Stakhanova. The artist does not say the duration of their relationship. At the same time, the actress found out that she was expecting a child. After some time, a daughter was born. Galina Stakhanova named the girl Maria.
Fame and recognition
After a successful debut, directors, one after another, began to pay attention to the extraordinary actress. She starred with Roman Viktyuk in the film “Long Memory” (1985), with Nikolai Dostal in the film “Shura and Prosvirnyak” (1987), with Alexander Kaidanovsky in “The Kerosene Man’s Wife” (1988). Today, Galina Konstantinovna has almost 200 film roles, and today she is one of the sought-after actresses.
Stakhanova herself loves working in the film “We are taking the cat with us” (dir. T. Pavlyuchenko, 1989). In it, she appeared as naturally as possible in the image of nanny Pasha, who, despite her addiction to alcohol, surrounds sick children with care and attention during the war years. At the end of the film, Stakhanova’s heroine, having gone for brushwood, freezes in the forest.
Lucky case
So Galina Stakhanova would have worked for the benefit of culture in auxiliary work, if not for chance. Stakhanova’s mother was busy putting things in order in the apartment of actress Vera Pashennaya, and Galina sometimes helped her with this. One famous actress heard that the cleaner's daughter dreams of becoming an artist and asked her to read something. Galya chose Katerina's monologue from The Thunderstorm. Surprised, Pashennaya praised Stakhanova for her sincerely good performance and advised her to go into amateur performances and try herself in the acting field. After this, Galina decided to change her life. She was taken to the Moscow State University Student Theater, which at that time was directed by the young Mark Zakharov, where she played her first roles on stage. At the age of 33, Stakhanova worked in the supply department of the Central Stadium. Lenin and worked at the Roman Viktyuk Theater, which was located in the Moskvorechye cultural center. It was with Viktyuk that Stakhanova played her first major role in the play “Music Lessons.”
Roles in the modern era
It would seem that the actress has long earned the right to rest on her laurels. But, despite her advanced age, Galina Konstantinovna actively continues to act in films. She enjoys acting in TV series. Just look at the gossipy Makarovna from Taxi Driver. Many people know her from “Ranetki” and “Kremlin Cadets”. The actress was also remembered for her participation in the films “Yolki”.
She has amazing modesty and does not boast about the fact that she has played an unimaginably huge number of roles in films. The actress gladly takes part in television talk shows, and a huge number of viewers still remember how Galina Stakhanova in “Fashionable Sentence” changed the image of an old pensioner to the image of a fashionable lady. Today she lives in a very ordinary apartment, located on the outskirts of the capital's metropolis, which only emphasizes her unpretentiousness in everyday life.
Films with Galina Stakhanova
The actress played her first and only major film role when she was forty-three years old. Having starred in the film “Kindergarten”, Galina Stakhanova appeared in the image of the grandmother of a boy who made his way to her in difficult wartime conditions.
In the photo: Galina Stakhanova in the film “Kindergarten”
She embodied the image so professionally that she immediately attracted the attention of other directors who began inviting the actress to their projects. In addition, Stakhanova’s performance was noted at the Venice Film Festival and received a good review from the famous film director Michelangelo Antonioni.
Galina Stakhanova was invited to the next film by Roman Viktyuk, with whom she had a professional friendship. In his film “Long Memory” Galina Konstantinovna played Marya Vasilyevna Shtyrenko.
In the creative biography of Galina Stakhanova, most of all the roles of kind, sympathetic grandmothers, technicians, watchmen, nannies, each of which does not go unnoticed by the viewer.
Despite the fact that the actress has no professional education, Galina Konstantinovna plays superbly - one cannot fail to note her roles such as Baba Pear in the film “The Kerosene Man’s Wife”, and the head teacher in the film “Doll”. It is extremely rare, but among the characters played by the actress in films, there are not only positive ones, but also negative ones, such as, for example, the mischievous old woman in the film “Love with Privileges.”
Even after the difficult years of perestroika, when there were almost no film offers, Galina Konstantinovna did not fall out of the picture and continued to act mainly in television series, which she loves no less than big cinema.
Galina Konstantinovna took part in such popular TV series and films as “Taxi Driver”, “Happy Together”, “Night Watch”, “Gloss” and others. The creators of the comedy “Yolki” did not forget about this wonderful actress, in all episodes of which the actress played Baba Manya.
In the photo: Galina Stakhanova in the film “Christmas Trees”
She quickly finds a common language with young actors who adore their cheerful colleague. Galina Konstantinovna can be seen in such high-rated TV series as “Deffchonki”, “The Eighties”, “Kitchen”. In addition, the actress starred in the videos of Garik Sukachev and the group “Secret”.
Although Stakhanova is an actress of episodic roles, her popularity can be the envy of many more eminent colleagues. Any minor role played by Stakhanova did not go unnoticed, remaining in the memory of the audience for a long time.
And now, despite her advanced age, Galina Konstantinovna continues to act in films, never tired of convincing others that you should never give up on your dreams.
About the secret...
Of course, many are interested in how Galina Stakhanova’s personal life turned out? They say that there was no great love in her life. As the actress herself stated, she simply did not meet a person with whom she was ready to live her whole life.
The press previously wrote that back in the 60s, Rolan Bykov tried to attract the attention of Galina Konstantinovna, who at that time had already managed to establish himself as a talented actor and director. But she was a simple girl from the crowd. Their meetings took place within the walls of the student theater of Moscow State University. Ultimately, the director’s courtship achieved its goal, and feelings flared up between Bykov and Stakhanova. However, Rolan Antonovich was distinguished by his instability in relationships, so after a while he began to cheat on the actress, which was the reason for their separation.
Personal life
In Galina Stakhanova’s personal life there are close, beloved people - daughter Masha and granddaughter Lisa, whom she adores, but she never got married - she did not meet a person with whom she would want to live together until the end of her days.
In the photo: Galina Stakharova with her granddaughter
In her life, of course, there were novels and hobbies, but her family life did not work out. One of Galina Stakhanova’s most notable novels was her affair with the famous actor and director Rolan Bykov, but he never became Galina Stakhanova’s husband.
They met when Galina Konstantinovna was a young artist of an amateur theater, and he sometimes went there to visit his many friends. Rolan Bykov rented a corner in a communal apartment from the Stakhanovs, and there their relationship began, which grew into a whirlwind romance.
According to Stakhanova’s recollections, their relationship was difficult, because of which she had to go through many dramatic moments. Bykov, although he was not a heavy drinker, often stayed with friends or in a restaurant. At any time of the day or night, he could call Galina and ask her to take him home, and she would rush to help her lover.
Stakhanova became pregnant, but the actress was not destined to become a mother at that time - she was hospitalized and lost her child due to the onset of sepsis. Galina Stakhanova's common-law husband sometimes visited her, but then completely disappeared from her life. According to the actress, Bykov turned out to be too loving and was not averse to having an affair on the side, and Galina Stakhanova could not stand this.
But the actress still learned the happiness of motherhood - at the age of thirty-five her daughter Masha was born, but Galina Konstantinovna does not reveal the name of her father to anyone. Now the actress lives in a modest apartment on the outskirts of the capital and loves it when her daughter and granddaughter Lisa come to visit her.
