Mother
The girl’s mother did not work as anyone, but was an ordinary housewife. She cleaned houses, kept things clean and raised her only daughter. An interesting fact: there was also a boy in the Sanaev family, but, unfortunately, he lived only two and a half years. Then Elena's brother fell ill with diphtheria and died.
However, not everything was so rosy with the mother, because she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital several times with a diagnosis of persecutory mania. But the mental illness, thank God, was not passed on to her daughter, and Elena grew up absolutely adequate.
Parents' relationship with daughter
They loved their daughter very much and protected her from all kinds of adversity. The whole family often gathered on film expeditions to film another report. At this time, Elena discovered a lot of new things.
According to her, her mother loved her father very much and was devoted to him. In general, calm and peace reigned in the relationship between Elena’s parents. That's why the girl grew up to be such a good and pleasant person.
There was another case when a girl fell ill with jaundice; a religious mother wanted to have a baptism ceremony in the Orthodox Church. However, at that atheistic time, such actions were prohibited and could arouse suspicion among investigative authorities.
Passion for theater
From early childhood, Vsevolod’s mother took him to the theater. The capital's art theater constantly came to their city. He especially remembered the play “Uncle Vanya” based on the play by Anton Chekhov. The whole atmosphere of the theater and the excellent acting made a strong impression on Vsevolod. But at that time he could not even think about becoming an actor himself.
When the Hammer and Sickle amateur theater appeared in Tula, he immediately began to attend it with great pleasure. Vsevolod managed to enter this circle not the first time, it took a lot of effort.
Studies
After studying at school, the girl decided to enroll in her favorite specialty at a theater university. She was encouraged to do this by her father, who had been involved in cinema for a long time. Elena often watched him, and she liked the work of an actress.
Unexpectedly for herself, she has a strong desire to enter the theater department at GITIS. Elena, of course, successfully passes the casting and goes where she always wanted.
She studies with the famous Soviet artist Mikhail Tsarev, who taught the girl a lot. This is how Elena Sanaeva’s personal biography began as an aspiring actress.
Childhood and youth
Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanaev was born in Russia (then the Russian Empire) on February 25, 1912 into a poor large family of workers (12 children in the family). The boy grew up on the outskirts of the industrial city of Tula. Studying at school was difficult for Vsevolod, and he studied reluctantly. For this reason, Vasily Sanaev took his son from school and sent him to learn a working profession at a factory that produced accordions.
Actor Vsevolod Sanaev
So the future actor became an apprentice at the company where his father also worked. The young man's duties included assembling and tuning musical instruments. At the age of 16, Vsevolod himself taught the profession to two apprentices. While working at the factory, the young man was haunted by the thought that he was not doing what he was passionate about.
Even as a child, Vsevolod and his mother went to the theater, where the touring Moscow Art Theater was showing a play based on the play by A.P. Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya". The boy was very impressed by the acting and the atmosphere of the theater, but he did not even dare to dream of a theatrical career. However, Vsevolod began to enjoy attending the Hammer and Sickle amateur theater in Tula as a listener. Having achieved positive results in acting, the young man, although not the first time, entered the drama studio.
Vsevolod Sanaev in his youth
Already in 1930, Sanaev became an actor in the backup cast of the theater, which worked at the Tula Cartridge Plant OJSC. His career was rapidly going up. A year later, Vsevolod was already working as an actor at the Tula State Academic Drama Theater named after M. Gorky. For further professional development, the young man needed to receive a specialized education.
A senior mentor at the theater prepared Vsevolod for the entrance exams to the theater working faculty in Moscow. Despite the family's censure (the parents of working professions did not take the hobbies of their adult son seriously), Sanaev went to the capital to study.
Vsevolod Sanaev in his youth
After graduating from the workers' faculty, Vsevolod improved his professionalism at the theater technical school under the leadership of Nikolai Plotnikov. Given the acute lack of finances, the young man had to work hard in the evenings. Vsevolod’s diligence helped him, after graduating from college, to enter the State Institute of Theater Arts, where the talented director Mikhail Tarkhanov became the mentor of the future actor.
Since 1943, Vsevolod has changed several more theaters on the stage of which he performed. In 1943, he worked at the State Academic Theater named after Mossovet of the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and in 1946 - at the State Theater of Film Actors. In 1952, Sanaev wanted to move to the Moscow Art Theater, but the proposed roles did not suit him: the actor’s wife became seriously ill, and the family was in dire need of money.
First debuts
After studying at the theater department, the girl goes to work in the troupe of the Film Actor Theater Studio, after which she begins acting in films, TV series, and so on.
A beautiful and smart girl, Elena Sanaeva, made her debut in a military film called “General Rakhimov.” It was not the most interesting or high-quality movie, but we had to start somewhere.
Then Elena played a cameo role in the drama “Across Rus',” where she participated in a serious film for the second time. Each time she improved her acting skills and tried to surpass herself.
Movies
After graduating from college, Vsevolod Sanaev got a job as an actor at the Moscow Art Theater. Despite the popularity of art in those days, there was little work and competition was high, so the aspiring actor turned his attention to the developing cinema.
Vsevolod Sanaev in the film “Optimistic Tragedy”
In 1938, a musical comedy with the participation of Vsevolod “Volga, Volga” appeared on Soviet television screens. The actor made his film debut in two small roles at once: a young man played a musician and a lumberjack. But just two years later, Sanaev had his first big and serious role as the worker Dobryakov in the feature film “Beloved Girl.”
Vsevolod Sanaev in the film “White Dews”
In total, the actor has played 89 roles in Soviet and Russian films, 2 roles in television plays and one voice-over in a cartoon.
Serious film roles
It was after the film “Across Rus'” that the girl was noticed by director Alexander Shukshin, famous not only in the Soviet Union among his colleagues, but also abroad.
He invites Elena to star in the film “Strange People”. An interesting fact: in this novel, not only Elena played, but also her own father. Thus, the family relationship between daughter and dad was transferred to the cinema. And it is precisely because of this that the film deserves special attention, because it turned out to be of extremely high quality.
The famous director liked the young actress's performance and decides that she has hidden potential. Therefore, he invites you for further filming in the film “Stoves and Benches”. This movie turned out to be very funny and cheerful.
Theater career
In 1930, Vsevolod Vasilievich Sanaev became a theater actor who worked at a cartridge factory in the city of Tula. But at first, the young and aspiring actor was only taken into the backup cast. Soon his theatrical career began to develop quickly and successfully. Soon he began working at the State Academic Drama Theater named after Maxim Gorky.
But in order for his theatrical career to advance further, it was necessary to receive some kind of theater education. The mentor began to prepare Vsevolod Vasilyevich for exams at the theater technical school in Moscow. And even though his parents were against it, Sanaev still went to Moscow to enroll.
When the working faculty at the theater institution was successfully completed, Vsevolod Sanaev, whose photo is in this article, remained for some time within the walls of the theater institution in order to improve his professionalism. But he didn’t have enough money, so he was forced to work in the evenings.
Diligence and desire to get an acting profession led to the fact that he soon entered the Institute of Theater Arts. He was lucky, and the talented and famous director Mikhail Tarkhanov became his teacher.
Since 1943, Vsevolod Sanaev has been performing in the theater, but he cannot stop at one theater. So, in 1943, he went to work at the Mossovet Academic Theater, and three years later he moved to the film actor’s theater. It is known that in 1952 he was offered to move to the Moscow Art Theater, but the roles that were offered did not suit him at all. Just at this time his wife was seriously ill, so he needed money. Vsevolod Vasilievich had to refuse such an offer.
Professional growth
The girl’s career developed rapidly, because she gained invaluable experience in the filming of the film “Stoves and Benches,” which was directed by the famous director Shukshin. She begins to gain popularity among actors, and soon she is invited to play one of the main roles in the fairy tale film “The Adventures of Pinocchio.”
This movie brought real fame to Elena Sanaeva, her biography changes radically from that moment on. Now she is not a little-known actress, but an actor of an all-Union scale, with whom an at least somewhat famous director wants to work.
But there was an obvious disadvantage. The role of the Fox, played by the actress, seemed to connect Elena with comedy roles. Later she was invited to play in the fairy tale “The Adventures of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”, and then in the adventure comedy “Once Upon a Time There Was a Tuner”. After two comedic roles, Elena was invited to play in the film “Where did Fomenko disappear?”
Elena Sanaeva: biography
Elena Sanaeva is a famous Soviet and Russian actress, who plays a lot and successfully on the theater stage, and has also starred in more than 60 films, of which viewers especially remember the roles of Alice the Fox in the fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, the class teacher in the social teenage drama “Scarecrow” and Baba Yaga in "The New Old Tale".
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Elena was born in Samara in the family of the famous film actor Vsevolod Sanaev and his wife Lydia Antonovna. The girl’s mother was sick a lot, so she didn’t work. In the early 50s, Lydia Antonovna was treated in a psychiatric hospital for persecution mania, and then was subject to long-term depression. However, the woman devoted herself entirely to her family. According to Elena Sanaeva, the father succeeded as a film actor largely thanks to the support of his wife.
Actress Elena Sanaeva
Sanaeva herself was also susceptible to frequent illnesses, like many children of the war. The parents, who had already lost their eldest son, who died in evacuation at the age of two, worried over Lena, even to an excessive degree. When her daughter fell ill with jaundice, Lydia Antonovna insisted on baptism, and in those anti-religious times this was more than a risky act.
Growing up, Elena Sanaeva often saw her father’s creative work, so after school she didn’t even consider any other option - only the acting department, only the theater institute. After GITIS, where Elena studied with Mikhail Tsarev, the young actress joined the troupe of the Film Actor Studio Theater and began acting in films.
Elena Sanaeva in her youth
Since 2008, Elena Vsevolodovna became a theater artist, where, in addition to her, Tatyana Vasilyeva, Leonid Yakubovich, Tatyana Vedeneeva, Alexander Tsoi and other artists already served in the troupe. On the stage of this theater, Elena Sanaeva played in the plays “Russian Jam” by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, “Home” by Evgeny Grishkovets, “Accompanist” by Alexander Galin and others.
Return to serious cinema
For a long time, the actress could not get rid of the comedy role, but Rolan Bykov, a famous director, actor and screenwriter, helped her. He helped a girl get out of a frivolous movie.
Rolan Bykov cast our beautiful Elena in a teenage social drama called “Scarecrow.” In the film, the actress had to play the class teacher of a troubled class and convey all the emotions of the main character, as well as show her character.
The social drama “Scarecrow” also starred the famous comedic actor of Soviet cinema, Yuri Nikulin, who also for a long time could not get rid of the role of a cheerful and carefree person. The young Kristina Orbakaite also took part in the film.
During the filming of the film “Scarecrow,” the actress began to be invited to other projects. For example, she was offered to participate in a detective story based on Agatha Christie’s novel “The Mystery of the Blackbirds.”
Film career
Despite the fact that the famous actor Sanaev worked in the capital's art theater after graduation, there was little work. Therefore, Vsevolod Vasilyevich decided to try himself in cinema. The first film in which Vsevolod Sanaev, whose personal life was of interest to the public, starred was the film “The Private Life of Pyotr Vinogradov” directed by Alexander Macheret. This film was released in 1934, and the talented actor plays a small and episodic role of a Red Army soldier.
Success and popularity came to Vsevolod Vasilyevich after he starred in the film “Volga, Volga” directed by Grigory Alexandrov. In this film, which was released in 1938, he played two small roles at once. According to the plot of the film, he first plays a musician from an orchestra, and then also a lumberjack. He was noticed in this film and soon received job offers.
So, in 1940 he played his first leading male role in the film “Beloved Girl” directed by Ivan Pyryev. According to the plot of the film, the famous turner Vasily Dobryakov, who works in the capital's automobile plant, gets an apartment and invites Varya, who is expecting a child from him, to move in with him. But already on the first day of their life together they quarrel. The young people are not painted, and the words thrown by Vasily greatly hurt Varya. And she immediately runs away to her home.
When Varya’s baby is born, she hides from everyone who the father of her child is. But relatives and friends, caring for the child and Varya, try to reconcile the quarreling lovers. The famous actor Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanaev has about 90 roles in his cinematography.
Interesting information
Sanaeva Elena Vsevolodovna is a wonderful actress, and she was often invited to the first roles, but she simply could not break away and play in all films at once. Therefore, she was very selective in choosing who to play.
She preferred to play with already famous directors with whom she developed friendly relations. Elena loved (as a professional) Rolan Bykov very much and even dedicated to him a book she wrote in her own hand entitled “The Enchanted Princess.”
For a long time, Elena was involved in social activities because she was a humanist and loved helping people. She was the vice president of a small children's fund, which bears the name of her favorite director, Rolan Bykov.
Pavel Sanaev's book “ Bury me behind the baseboard ” created a sensation among the reading public. The prototype of the main character was Pavel’s grandmother, the wife of the artist Vsevolod Sanaev. “She loved us, but she loved us with such tyrannical fury that her love turned into a weapon of mass destruction,” Pavel recalls in an interview...
The limit to tyranny was set by Rolan Bykov, the second husband of Elena Sanaeva. Only he had enough strength of character to resist his domineering mother-in-law. Recently, a film based on the book was released, where Svetlana Kryuchkova played the grandmother.
And a new edition of “Plinth” came out of print, supplemented by three previously unpublished chapters. We met with Pavel to separate fact from fiction.
Pavel Sanaev
From 4 to 11 years old, Pavel Sanaev spent in the house of his mother’s parents. Elena Sanaeva worked a lot, went to filming. And one day I met Rolan Bykov. It was love at first sight. And from the very first day together, Rolan Antonovich insisted that Pavel live with his mother.
Grandmother spoke out strongly against it. My daughter didn’t like her romance with Bykov Sanayev at all. “Rolan Antonovich had the nickname “king of the departers.” There were legends about his adventures and ability to easily part with women,” recalls Pavel. “Bykov’s ex-wife, Lydia Knyazeva, called my grandmother.” In the film "Aibolit-66" Knyazeva played the monkey Chi-chi when Roland and Elena were already together.
“Roland will ruin your daughter’s life,” she warned. However, the gloomy forecast did not come true. Not only did Bykov become a good husband, he reconciled the family and helped the parents find mutual understanding with their daughter.
Pavel Sanaev with his mother and stepfather. Photo from the archive of Pavel Sanaev.
Started writing in 8th grade
— What are these three new chapters?
— I started writing my first stories very early - in 8-9 grade. Some turned out to be successful, and later became chapters of the book, such as “Cement” or “Bathing”. And some didn't work out at all. These three chapters did not work out, they remained on the table, and I did not include them in the book. And today I rewrote it and included it in the deluxe edition.
These texts are united by one theme, which was left behind the scenes in the book. After all, the main characters are grandmother, mother, grandfather, and the boy is a passive observer. Learns lessons, gets sick. And in these three chapters it turns out that he was also a bandit. He makes and invents something all the time.
— Builds a rocket out of cast iron tubs.
“And he makes two gas masks, dreaming that someday a gas will burst in their house.” And if it doesn’t break through, then maybe he’ll open it himself. And the grandmother will be writhing from suffocation in the kitchen, and he will come up to her in a gas mask, look at her with wise eyes from under the gas mask glasses, give her a second gas mask, she will put it on, come to her senses, the gas will dissipate... And the grandmother will finally praise him. It turns out that I had such an interesting life as a child!
Bykov didn't urinate on his grandfather's car!
— Elena Vsevolodovna Sanaeva was supposed to play the grandmother in the film adaptation of the book. And you had to film. Why didn't it work?
— On the one hand, such a role is a gift for any actress. Mom really wanted to play this role. On the other hand, this is her own mother, a mentally ill person. There is some kind of panopticon in the fact that the daughter will play her sick mother. Rolan Antonovich (Bykov) had such a case. When he was filming the film “The Nose,” he came up with this shot with the monument to Peter I: a rearing horse in the pouring rain.
Elena Sanaeva
They brought in watering machines, drained a lot of water, the night - unearthly beauty into the hole of the lens. They stopped the shift, let the cars go, the operator came up to him and, almost crying, said: “Roland, I’m sorry, but my diaphragm was closed.” Well, that means Gogol doesn’t want this, Rolan Antonovich decided. The situation is the same here. There was no need for me to film it and for my mother to play it.
— But you both didn’t like Sergei Snezhkin’s film.
— What upset me most: the film, which is a thousand steps away from the book, some began to perceive as real life, and they said: well, you see how Sanaev lived: Bykov urinated on his car. It is unpleasant. Even more unpleasant are hasty conclusions.
One journalist, without specifying the information, decided that it was my script. And she wrote, “Sanaev went through his star family, portrayed everyone as monsters, and was not even ashamed to portray Rolan Bykov, who raised him, as a monster.” If she had inquired, she would have found out that the script was written based on my book by Sergei Snezhkin. Written absolutely without my participation.
Vsevolod Sanaev
And in the book, the character in whom you can guess Bykov is trying to normalize this family. And in the end everything works out thanks to him! In the film, all the “plus” signs are changed to “minus”... There is no understanding of the images at all. For example, in the very first scene, when the grandmother sees a mouse nailed by a mousetrap and begins to set fire to her grandfather.
The “bookish” grandmother is sincerely heartbroken with pity for the mouse. And then we understand that her child is a “bastard” because she is afraid of losing him. The boy stumbled, and she is terrified that he will break something. And in the film, the grandmother is only looking for an excuse to peck out the brains of her loved ones. If there was a reason, we’d turn off our brains. And the whole picture is made in this key.
But there may be a plus here. The grandmother, played by Svetlana Kryuchkova, has a right to exist. After all, there are such people too.
Svetlana Kryuchkova played a completely different grandmother.
“And I kept expecting that the boy would eventually be slammed by his grandmother somewhere or that he would freeze to death...
— The director would have used such a move. There is my script on the website plintusbook.ru. Initially, the project was launched according to this scenario and in my production. But then a sticky situation arose. There is a mechanism for launching a film through Goskino.
A script is submitted, a year passes, and then the launch is announced. I was working on “Kilometer Zero” when the studio called: “Pavel, you have a script for “Plinth.” Come on, we'll get you started. I thought: how great, now I’ll finish one picture, and then immediately another... I hurried and agreed.
Elena Sanaeva in the film “The Adventures of Buratino”
Further work on “Kilometer Zero” dragged on for six months. Then the project “At the Game” arose. And I realized that making a film adaptation of “Plinth” was terribly uninteresting for me. I will not be able to tell “with a twinkle” a second time what I have already told once. Besides, I've made two films and I want to move forward technically too, and not just film two actors in an apartment.
I refused the film adaptation, left the script to the studio and was glad when they invited Snezhkin. I hoped that he would film what was written in the book, and not settle his own scores with the Soviet regime and release black stuff under the name “Plintus”.
Until the age of 11, Pavel rarely saw his mother...
I told my mother about the book
- Pavel, why didn’t you show the book to your grandfather?
“He simply wouldn’t understand the difference between a book and life.” He would say: “How?!” I couldn’t drop the reflector in the bathtub!” He would take everything at face value and be offended.
— Isn’t everything pure coin?
- 60 percent fiction. Grandmother did not utter piercing monologues under the door and did not die when they took me away. And a lot of things actually didn’t happen. I told my mother some stories from my life with my grandmother after they had already taken me and Roland. For example, just about swimming. I told her to make her laugh. And, of course, he thought of something to make it funnier for her. And then I tried to write it down.
Vsevolod Sanaev with his grandson
I wrote it and saw the effect: everyone laughs, everyone is curious. I began to write further. In addition, after talking with my grandmother at a more mature age, I learned from her about the war, about the fact that she lost her first child. I began to understand that she was not just a mentally ill tyrant, but a person broken by circumstances.
Lidiya Antonovna Sanaeva lived a tragic life. A powerful, active person, she devoted herself entirely to her family, but never received a profession. In an interview with one of the magazines, Pavel admitted that his grandmother may have been intellectually superior to his grandfather. “I’m learning the role with Seva, he can’t even put two words together, but I’ve already learned everything by heart!” - she told her friends. During the evacuation, in Alma-Ata, Lidia Antonovna lost her one-year-old son. Daughter Lenochka was born after the tragedy. And at the age of five she caught infectious jaundice: she found a lump of sugar in the yard.
Elena Sanaeva
The girl was treated by the best homeopaths. One day Lydia told a political joke in the communal kitchen. A few days later some people came asking about her. Lydia Antonovna was terribly scared. She developed persecution mania. She destroyed the gifts her husband brought from abroad. She broke a bottle of perfume and cut up her fur coat. Even on the bus she imagined she was being followed.
Vsevolod Vasilyevich had to admit his wife to the clinic. She was treated with insulin shock. This is when a person is given a high dose of insulin and falls into an induced coma. Unfortunately, more humane methods were not used in Soviet clinics.
How Bykov reconciled Sanaeva with her mother
— How did grandma’s fate turn out? Her character in the book dies. And Lydia Antonovna lived a long life.
— In the story, the thread connecting the grandmother and grandson was severed. In reality, this thread has stretched. My grandmother could no longer take me back, I lived with my mother, it was decided. But she could meet me near school, take me home and tell me on the way what a scoundrel and traitor I was. Then she weakened and for the last 7-8 years of her life she simply cried from morning to night. But it is very important that in recent years she has reconciled with both her mother and Rolan Antonovich.
Rolan Bykov and Elena Sanaeva are one of the most beautiful couples in Soviet cinema. Photo from the archive of Pavel Sanaev.
When my grandmother developed pulmonary edema, the ambulance doctors were at a loss. Rolan Bykov ordered them to take his mother-in-law to intensive care. She lived in the hospital for another three months and allowed her daughter to take care of herself. “Their painful relationship was redeemed by the love that my mother gave to my grandmother,” recalls Pavel.
A healthy grandmother would never allow anyone to take care of her. After the death of Lydia Antonovna, Vsevolod Vasilyevich did not survive his wife by much. First, he went on a cruise along the Volga, and his daughter made renovations in his apartment. But when he returned, he became sad and died a few months later.
“Turns out you're not an idiot!”
Elena Sanaeva and Rolan Bykov were made for each other. He was 43, she was 29. Love helped them overcome not only the age difference, but also all the slander of “well-wishers.” “For me it was not in the nature of a woman. God specially invented you and sent you to me,” Rolan Antonovich told Elena. “I am sure,” Pavel recalled, “that without Rolan Bykov’s mother, the fate of many actors awaited them, who burned in the fire of their own temperament. Vysotsky, Dahl... Rolan Bykov could well continue this sad list.”
— Pavel, as a child, your grandmother “twisted” you against Bykov. Having seen him in person, you recognized him as a “cool guy.” How did you like him in the book?
Rolan Bykov in the film “Two Comrades Served”
“He didn’t perceive the book as a description of himself, his mother or his real grandmother. He perceived it as literature. I remember his reaction to what he read. He was truly shocked. After all, he only read the first chapters, and I didn’t show him the whole thing until I put the finishing touches on it.
Very often parents support their children. But this is not always 100% sincere. Like, “Son, you did everything very well.” But you don’t know for sure whether you really did well or whether your family and friends just praise you, and then you will face the real world and get hit in the face... I knew that Roland would never praise for nothing, so his sincere shock was for me highly appreciated.
- How did it all start?
— At school we wrote essays. The teachers said all sorts of correct phrases, that our party is building a socialist society that will be advanced, and so on. I wrote an essay on the topic “One day of our Motherland” - “prosperity... in a single impulse... advanced power... all efforts are united...” and all that. This essay remained on the table in a notebook, already beautifully rewritten from the draft.
Elena Sanaeva and Rolan Bykov in the film “The Adventures of Buratino”
Rolan Antonovich read it, was horrified and said that either I was an idiot or a victim of the educational system. He said, “I have to find out for myself. That's why I'm asking you. Here’s a turtle made of shells, write whatever you see fit about it.” I was confused, but he said: “As a person involved in childhood psychology, I need your help, Pasha. Please, write!” And at that moment I had a task - to win the respect of Rolan Antonovich.
I didn't play sports, I couldn't bring home a gold medal. The airplanes that I glued were a worthy activity until I was 13, and I was already 16. And I decided to use this turtle as a chance - I wrote a humorous sketch. Rolan Antonovich read: “But this is a different matter, this is great! You're not an idiot, it turns out." We had a portrait of Meyerhold hanging on the wall: let's talk about him now.
I wrote, he said: well, that’s even better. And after two or three such essays, I thought: well, now I need to try something more serious. And to suit the mood, I wrote my first story, “Bathing.” That’s where it started, thanks to Rolan Antonovich.
- Was he a strict stepfather? Did you scold or punish?
- I didn’t scold you, no. But Rolan Antonovich simply nagged me for my loafing, and that was more than enough. He was a very powerful man. Not authoritarian, but authoritative. If I came home late, he sat me down and explained that I was losing my starting position in life, that I was wasting my time, and so on - I sighed, lowered my gaze, and realized: something needs to be done about this, somehow to please him so as not to nag...
When I wrote the story and realized that it was getting his approval, a month later I thought: I need to write more so that I can take a walk in peace later!
“My wife is also younger than me!”
— Are you going to have your own children?
- I want three. This is a mutual desire of my wife and I. We'll wait a little for her to finish her studies and, I think, we'll get started.
- Is she much younger than you?
“I don’t notice that we have any difference at all.” She is an amazingly wise person, and it is a great pleasure for me to communicate with her. And consult. Even if I know in advance what to do, I still sometimes consult, just to once again enjoy her wisdom.
Pavel Sanaev with his mother
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Filmography of the actress
As noted, Elena Sanaeva was and is a wonderful actress who not only gets used to the role, but also plays it perfectly. Therefore, she was often invited to act in films, most of which were released during the Soviet Union.
So let's find out what films Elena starred in. We have selected only the most famous and most recognizable, the list is provided below:
- "Chief Witness"
- “Days of Surgeon Mishkin”, where Taisya plays.
- “I figured it out, congratulations!” She played the role of a random fellow traveler.
- “Nose”, my daughter Podtochina took over the game.
- “Temptation” - plays the secondary heroine Lena.
- “They drove a chest of drawers through the streets” - an ordinary passenger.
- “Once upon a time there was a tuner” - again, Lena plays.
- "Russian steam locomotive".
- “A New Old Tale” is a relatively new film where Elena plays Baba Yaga.
- "Goldfish in the city of N."
- "Time for two."
- "Perfumer."
- "Smart ass".
- "Nurse".
- "Perfumer 2".
In general, Elena’s filmography is quite extensive, but only the most popular films of the actress are presented above.
Elena Sanaeva now
Elena Sanaeva has not acted often in recent years. The actress continued to work on the image of Taisiya Konstantinovna, the mother of the main character Natalya (Maria Kulikova), in the second and third parts of the melodramatic series “Perfumer”. In one film, the daughter of the heroine Elena Sanayeva goes to conquer Moscow and finds new love there, and in the last one, Natalya needs to understand the financial frauds that are happening behind the back of her beloved husband Alexander (Alexander Nikitin).
Elena Sanaeva in the film “Consequence of Love”
In 2020, the actress received the main role in the crime detective film Consequence of Love, in which she again played the mother of the main character, investigator Nadezhda (Nonna Grishaeva). Now Elena Sanaeva is filming in the comedy melodrama “The Diary of a New Russian,” where the main cast includes Elena Podkaminskaya, Kirill Kyaro, Svetlana Kolpakova, Anna Ardova. And again Elena Vsevolodovna will give maternal advice, this time to her daughter, who works as a psychologist. The film is scheduled to premiere in 2020.
Personal Life of Elena Sanaeva
Her first husband was Vladimir Konuzin, who worked as an engineer. A son was born into a not particularly happy marriage; he was given the name Pavel. Thanks to the efforts of his famous and talented mother, the boy grew up very smart.
At the moment, he is a real genius, is engaged in acting, writes books, by the way, his work “Bury Me Behind the Skirting Board” scattered all over the world and became a real bestseller.
The guy also translates from foreign languages, makes films and writes scripts for them. The only son gave Elena a granddaughter, Veronica, who was born in 2012.
Her second husband was Rolan Bykov, whom she first met on the set of the film “Docker.” He immediately fell in love with the beauty, and they soon got married. They lived for a very long time, but now Elena is a widow.
Facts from personal life
Elena Sanaeva’s first husband, engineer Vladimir Konuzin, whom the actress always remembers with respect, gave her a son, Pavel. Vladimir’s parents were against his marrying an actress; the couple did not live together for long - their views and habits were very different. When Rolan Bykov became Lena’s chosen one, for some reason her parents complained. The nickname “bloodsucker dwarf”, which Lidia Antonovna awarded her son-in-law, is not only an artistic image from a book written by Elena Sanaeva’s son. Relations did not go well for a long time, until the strong and purposeful character of Rolan Antonovich was able to redirect the situation in a peaceful direction. Thanks to Rolan Bykov, the mother-in-law lived three months longer and finally made peace with her daughter. Intimate conversations with his son-in-law brightened up the last year of life for Vsevolod Sanaev, who followed his wife a few months after her death.
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