Biography of People's Artist of the RSFSR Alla Pokrovskaya

Life in Gorky turned out to be bitter

Alla Pokrovskaya's parents got married while they were students at GITIS. In the 2nd year, on September 18, 1937, the Pokrovskys gave birth to a girl.

The daughter was given the name of the famous actress Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova.

After studying, with diplomas as directors, the couple came to work in Gorky, which on October 22, 1990 was renamed Nizhny Novgorod.

Father Boris Aleksandrovich Pokrovsky began working at the Gorky Opera House.

Mom Anna Alekseevna Nekrasova is at the Gorky Youth Theater.

The parents' career debut was successful. But the war interfered with plans and dreams.

Alla Pokrovskaya - biography

Alla Borisovna was born in Moscow on September 18, 1937 into a theatrical family - her parents were theater directors. Despite the fact that the girl raved about the theater since childhood and wanted to become an actress, her parents did not share her aspirations, believing that she did not have any data for this.

That’s why Alla, after graduating from school, entered the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, but a year later she decided to fulfill her dream - she left the institute, began studying in a theater group and entered the Moscow Art Theater School.

It so happened that Alla’s student years occurred during the period when Oleg Efremov created the Sovremennik Theater, so she, like her fellow students, spent a lot of time in the new theater, and, having received her diploma, did everything to get into his troupe. So Alla ended up at the Sovremennik Theater, where she served for 45 years. But she not only played on the theater stage, but also acted a lot in films.

In 1979, Pokrovskaya began teaching at the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio in the acting department, which she still does today, having received the title of professor.

Father Boris Alexandrovich Pokrovsky

We lived in anticipation of Boris Alexandrovich being called to the front.

But the country’s leadership decided to preserve and develop art even in difficult times. The best representatives are needed to implement the task. Boris Pokrovsky demonstrated impeccable directorial qualities at the Gorky Opera and Ballet Theater.

At the beginning of the war, when the Germans were approaching Moscow, S.S.’s opera was staged at the Bolshoi Theater. Prokofiev "War and Peace". Boris Pokrovsky was invited as director. Since then, the brilliant master has staged 42 performances in the main theater of the country.

The Bolshoi Theater became sacred for Pokrovsky.

Here the director experienced the euphoria of victories and mutual understanding. I recognized betrayal. He was forced to leave his native theater of his own free will. Wrote a book “When they kick you out of the Bolshoi”.

Created the Moscow Chamber Musical Theater. He was involved in staging operas abroad.

Boris Pokrovsky came from an educated background. Before the revolution, Pokrovsky's father worked as an inspector at a private real school. Then he taught Russian. He directed the labor school. My grandfather served as a priest.

The family tree of Boris's mother represented the merchant class.

Opera director Boris Pokrovsky, thanks to his natural talent, lived a brilliant, difficult life filled with grandiose events. Pokrovsky always highly valued the influence of art on a person: “A person who goes to the theater, listens to the opera, watches the ballet, he walks down the street differently, talks differently and asks and thanks.”

Alla Pokrovskaya, biography of the actress

Alla Pokrovskaya's parents got married while they were students at GITIS. In the 2nd year, on September 18, 1937, the Pokrovskys gave birth to a girl.

The daughter was given the name of the famous actress Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova.

After studying, with diplomas as directors, the couple came to work in Gorky, which on October 22, 1990 was renamed Nizhny Novgorod.

Father Boris Aleksandrovich Pokrovsky began working at the Gorky Opera House.

Mom Anna Alekseevna Nekrasova is at the Gorky Youth Theater.

The parents' career debut was successful. But the war interfered with plans and dreams.

We lived in anticipation of Boris Alexandrovich being called to the front.

The Bolshoi Theater became sacred for Pokrovsky.

Created the Moscow Chamber Musical Theater. He was involved in staging operas abroad.

The family tree of Boris's mother represented the merchant class.

Opera director Boris Pokrovsky, thanks to his natural talent, lived a brilliant, difficult life filled with grandiose events.

Pokrovsky always highly valued the influence of art on a person: “A person who goes to the theater, listens to the opera, watches the ballet, he walks down the street differently, talks differently and asks and thanks.”

Mom Anna Alekseevna Nekrasova remained in Gorky with little Alla during the first war years. There were concert teams of artists who came to the military to give performances. The brigade, in which Igor Ilyinsky participated, was led by Anna Alekseevna. Sometimes Nekrasova took her daughter with her.

Children's memory captured how the ship moored to the shore of the destroyed Stalingrad. People emerge from the ruins. They watch and listen to the actors.

Later, mother and little Alla moved to Moscow. Nekrasova began working as a director at the Central Children's Theater.

On my mother’s side, all relatives are educators and missionaries.

Alla's great-grandfather Ivan Yakovlevich Yakovlev created the Chuvash alphabet.

Grandmother Lidiya Ivanovna Nekrasova is a translator, ethnographer, and art critic. She knew 8 languages. Speak 12 fluently.

Before the birth of her granddaughter, Lidiya Nekrasova was sent to the Gulag for treason.

Grandmother was considered the kindest person. Helped fellow inmates learn prayers. When the war began, they stopped feeding the women's camp. Like others, Lydia Ivanovna died of hunger.

Grandmother Lida Nekrasov’s husband, Alexey Dmitrievich, surprised his 3-year-old grandchildren by reading Homer’s “Iliad” and the works of Gogol.

Mikhail Efremov’s mother hid a serious illness even from her sister

Mother Anna Alekseevna Nekrasova

Children's memory captured how the ship moored to the shore of the destroyed Stalingrad. People emerge from the ruins. They watch and listen to the actors. Later, mother and little Alla moved to Moscow. Nekrasova began working as a director at the Central Children's Theater.

On my mother’s side, all relatives are educators and missionaries.

Alla's great-grandfather Ivan Yakovlevich Yakovlev created the Chuvash alphabet.

Grandmother Lidiya Ivanovna Nekrasova is a translator, ethnographer, and art critic. She knew 8 languages. Speak 12 fluently.

Before the birth of her granddaughter, Lidiya Nekrasova was sent to the Gulag for treason.

Grandmother was considered the kindest person. Helped fellow inmates learn prayers. When the war began, they stopped feeding the women's camp. Like others, Lydia Ivanovna died of hunger.

Grandmother Lida Nekrasov’s husband, Alexey Dmitrievich, surprised his 3-year-old grandchildren by reading Homer’s “Iliad” and the works of Gogol.

Little Alla and her great parents

Since her parents were constantly busy, little Alla spent a lot of time in the family of her mother’s sister Ekaterina Alekseevna Nekrasova.

Alla Borisovna shares her memories of how kindness and sincerity reigned among relatives. Together with her cousin Volodya and sister Katya, little Alla was taken out on vacation in the summer.

Alla Pokrovskaya's school years passed calmly and unnoticed for her parents. Anna Alekseevna and Boris Alexandrovich never attended parent meetings. They didn’t even know what class my daughter was in.

The first meeting of Alla the Snow Maiden and Oleg Efremov

And the daughter did not even think of upsetting her parents. She studied well. She behaved with dignity. She took part in school plays. And she once played the Snow Maiden in a New Year’s production on the stage of the Central Children’s Theater, where my mother worked as a director. Oleg Efremov served here after graduating with honors from the Moscow Art Theater School. The ambitious actor’s dreams of the Moscow Art Theater did not come true. The actor received a placement in the Central Children's Theater. No one guessed that young people Oleg Efremov and Alla Pokrovskaya would start a family and continue the Efremov acting dynasty.

Brief biography of Alla Pokrovskaya

The famous People's Artist Alla Pokrovskaya dreamed of being an actress from early childhood. Although she was born into a creative family, her parents did not support their daughter’s spiritual impulse. Therefore, she entered the Moscow Pedagogical University at the Faculty of Philology.

After studying there for only one year, Alla Pokrovskaya dropped out and began studying in a theater group. Later, precisely thanks to the knowledge and theatrical experience gained there, she easily entered and graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School.

Her career began in the troupe of the Moscow Sovremennik Theater. This became Alla Borisovna’s life’s work, because she devoted 45 years to Sovremennik. At the same time, the famous actress was engaged in teaching activities and soon became a professor.

The personal life of the famous actress was no less complicated than the roles she played. Alla Pokrovskaya met her true love while being married for 2 years. She fell madly in love with the talented director, teacher and actor - Oleg Efremov. Their son Mikhail, as well as grandchildren Nikolai and Nikita, also chose the acting profession.

Dreams about the acting profession and the realities of life

In the meantime, Alla dreamed of becoming an actress. The parents were categorically against such a future for their daughter. They took her to the mirror and pointed out the lack of data.

As a result, Alla became a student at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Philology.

I only took one course and left my least favorite activity.

In the House of Teacher V.I. Bogomolov led a theater group. To prepare for admission, Alla chose this option.

Thanks to additional training, Pokrovskaya was enrolled in the Moscow Art Theater School, which Alla graduated from in 1959.

What films did Alla Pokrovskaya star in?

Pokrovskaya was a professor at the Moscow Art Theater School and taught at the acting department of the Studio School and in its foreign branches. She starred in such films as “July Rain”, “Own”, “Unexpected Guest”, “Day Train”, “Diary of a School Principal”, “Choosing a Target”, “Family Melodrama”, “Kindness”, “The Investigation is Conducted by Experts” "("Retaliatory Strike") and many others.

Pokrovskaya has repeatedly won theater awards, including the Stanislavsky Prize (1998), the Oleg Tabakov Charitable Foundation Prize (2003, 2004), and the Golden Mask 2018 festival “For outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art.”

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Mikhail Efremov
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Getting to know the Sovremennik Theater

The first place of service for the young actress Pokrovskaya for many 45 years was Oleg Efremov’s Sovremennik.

The formation of the theater took place during the actress’s student years. Together with her fellow students, the girl worked part-time at the Sovremennik working stage. Efremov with actors and associates Igor Kvasha, Evgeny Evstigneev, Galina Volchek shaped the style of the creation. The theater ideology was based on:

life truth;
do not create illusions;
do not give empty hopes.

Marry Efremov

Alla came to Sovremennik as a married woman. Faced with the charisma, charm, and assertiveness of Oleg Efremov, the young woman’s heart could not resist. Events developed rapidly. Efremov’s parents received the girl warmly and cordially. They began to live together. It turned out that the family was expecting a new addition. Oleg Nikolaevich offered to sign.

On November 10, 1963, Alla and Oleg had a boy. They named their son Mikhail.

Personal life of Alla Pokrovskaya

Alla was the third wife of the famous actor Oleg Efremov. On November 10, 1963, two weeks after the wedding, she gave birth to his only son, and 18 days later she went to work in the theater. Mikhail Efremov followed in the footsteps of his parents and became an actor. At the end of the 70s, Alla and Oleg divorced (and stopped living in the same apartment in 1970), but remained on good terms.

Alla Pokrovskaya has six grandchildren: Nikita, Nikolai, Anna-Maria, Vera, Nadezhda, Boris.

Photo by Alla Pokrovskaya: PersonaStars

Oleg Efremov

The 10-year difference between the spouses concealed Efremov’s numerous novels before meeting Alla.

First marriage to actress Tolmacheva

The first marriage with actress Liliya Mikhailovna Tolmacheva was short and broke up in 1952. But the creative union of actors continued. Tolmacheva was listed as the leading actress of Sovremennik.

Romance with Irina Mazuruk

In 1955, Galina Volchek introduced Efremov to the granddaughter of the polar explorer Irina Ilinichnaya Mazuruk. The acquaintance ended with a magnificent wedding. No official registration. Efremov was married to Tolmacheva. The divorce procedure was considered a problem.

In 1957, in union with Mazuruk, a daughter, Anastasia, was born. The couple had no desire to have a child. Forced by circumstances. Irina suffered an ectopic pregnancy in a previous marriage. Abortion could cause infertility.

The three years that the newlyweds lived together were filled with romances, both on the part of Oleg and Irina. As a result, Efremov left the family. Mazuruk cut her veins in her arms and neck. And then, until the end of her days, she wore massive, jingling bracelets to hide her scars.

Efremov’s only love is work

Once Oleg Efremov was asked: “What are women to you?” - and he replied: “Unfortunately, that’s not the main thing...”

The basis of my life was my favorite work.

Entering the Moscow Art Theater School, Efremov overcame the competition of 500 people per place. In the post-war period, the peaceful profession of an actor was popular.

The artistic family of Pokrovskaya and Efremov

The family with Alla Pokrovskaya also turned out to be in the spirit of artists. No one sacrificed work for family problems. After the birth of her son, Pokrovskaya appeared on stage 18 days later. This seemed normal to the actress, if we remember the principles of her parents.

My grandfather and grandmother took care of my son. They lived on the same site.

As a schoolboy, Mikhail wrote up reports on his progress and took them to his parents in a neighboring apartment. Efremov studied - the youngest does not matter. I had to finish school in the evening.

But Mikhail’s acting skills showed up early.

Alla Pokrovskaya on stage

Alla Borisovna considered herself one of the “actresses of average talent.” And with such an internal assessment she played social roles. In the repertoire of Sovremennik there were just such heroines. Therefore, Pokrovskaya had a lot of work.

The intense workload in the theater brought acting experience, professional growth, and revealed the actress’s talent. But Pokrovskaya attributed all the credit to the partners with whom she was busy on stage.

A curious poster from the production “The Taste of Cherry” served as an example for Pokrovskaya of her importance in the theater. The play features two actors Tabakov and Alla Borisovna. The advertising poster informs: “Starring Oleg Tabakov and others.”

From 1960 to 1963, Pokrovskaya was engaged in the following performances:

A. M. Volodin “Five Evenings” (Zoya);
E. Schwartz “The Naked King” (Maid of Honor);
V. Blazhek “The Third Wish” (his friends);
V. Rozova “Forever Alive” (Veronica);
M. Lvovsky “Childhood Friend” (Maya);
K. Simonov “The Fourth” (the woman he married);
L. Zorina “According to Moscow time” (Tonya);
A. Volodin “Elder Sister” (Lida);
V. Tendryakova “Without a Cross” (Venka).

A good actor through the prism of Alla Pokrovskaya’s experience

Pokrovskaya says that through the image he creates, the actor receives inspiration and dependence. If the role is successful and accepted by the viewer, then the performer experiences euphoria and pleasure. The more characters you play, the better you understand life and yourself through your profession.

But it's difficult to be a good actor. You need to have inspiration, relationship and understanding with your partner. A lot depends on the colleague in the play. On stage you need psychological and behavioral culture.

The attitude of parents and son to Pokrovskaya’s work

Alla's mother Anna Nekrasova never attended her daughter's performances. She was very nervous. And father Boris Pokrovsky was often a spectator of productions. Then he helped, suggested what was done wrong. Husband Oleg Efremov provided invaluable assistance. The couple often played together, both on stage and in films.

Alla Pokrovskaya's filmography includes 30 films.

Son Mikhail Efremov, being an experienced adult actor and theater director, speaks enthusiastically about the work of his father and mother in the film “Own.”

Actress Alla Pokrovskaya died

Alla Pokrovskaya was born into an exclusively theatrical family. Her father is opera director, People's Artist of the USSR Boris Pokrovsky. Mom is the director of the Central Children's Theater Anna Nekrasova.

The husband is the creator of Sovremennik, director and actor Oleg Efremov. The son, accordingly, is Mikhail Efremov.

She always remained as if in the shadow of her famous relatives. But this is only at first glance. Alla Borisovna found herself in pedagogy. For forty years she taught acting at the Moscow Art Theater School.

Since childhood, she dreamed of becoming an actress, but her parents sent her to the philological department of the pedagogical institute. After studying there for only a year, she gave up this idea and went to study in a theater group at the Moscow Teacher's House. At that time, her father was already the chief director of the Bolshoi Theater and, in theory, could have worked for his daughter so that she could become an actress in a less tortuous way. But he didn’t bother. She herself entered the Moscow Art Theater School. After graduation, she was taken to the young, recently created “thaw” theater “Sovremennik”, which by that time had been selling out sold-out theaters on Mayakovsky Square for three years. Alla Pokrovskaya worked there for almost half a century. And then she moved to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.

“She was the best among us, an amazing actress and a great teacher,” says the rector of the Moscow Art Theater School, actor Igor Zolotovitsky . “For me, her death is a personal loss. She was my partner in many performances. And in fact, she was an older, wonderful friend, a very close person, decent and talented, which is very rare in the acting environment.

Of course, she was a great daughter of her brilliant parents. She is probably not so well known to the general public; she has not acted in films so often. But from her work in the theater one could learn a profession. Her role in the play “Gentlemen Golovlevs” directed by Kirill Serebrennikov was one of the best on the Moscow Art Theater stage. She was not at all lost among young and, as they now say, media artists; she felt today’s language, the intonation of modern theater.

Most of the young and middle generation of theater artists. Pushkin and the Moscow Art Theater are her students. Alla Borisovna taught acting to Andrei Panin, Yulia Menshova, Alexandra Ursulyak and Sergei Lazarev. Yes, yes, imagine, a member of the Smash group, our hope at Eurovision, Seryozha Lazarev, is a student of Alla Borisovna. That is why he is a wonderful dramatic artist.

Recently, Alla Pokrovskaya has been seriously ill. Her son Mikhail Efremov invested a lot of effort and money into her treatment. The Moscow Art Theater held charity performances in her support; money was needed. But the disease turned out to be stronger.

Alla Pokrovskaya teacher

The teachers and the rector of the Moscow Art Theater School insisted that Pokrovskaya had teaching abilities. The acting profession is unstable. Alla Borisovna was advised to take up teaching.

In 1979, the actress began assisting, and then moved on to giving lectures on her own.

Gradually, there was little acting work, and more teaching work. Thus, teaching became the main activity. Pokrovskaya teaches students at the Moscow Art Theater School. He teaches at foreign branches in Cambridge and Pittsburgh.

Pokrovskaya regrets that she does not know foreign languages. When I asked why they didn’t teach me, my father explained that there was a time when such things were not encouraged.

Biography of Alla Pokrovskaya

Alla Borisovna Pokrovskaya was born into a family of creative people. Her father, Boris Pokrovsky, was a famous opera director, and her mother, Anna Nekrasova, was a director at the Central Children's Theater. Alla has a younger brother Alexander, a famous pianist.

Alla studied well at school and dreamed of becoming an actress, but her parents believed that she should choose another profession. She entered the philology department of the MPI, but left after the first year and decided to follow her dream. She subsequently entered the Moscow Art Theater School and graduated in 1959.

Then she was invited to the Sovremennik Theater, where she served for more than 40 years. The first role was Zoya in the play “Five Evenings”. She also played in the plays “At the Bottom,” “The Taste of Cherries,” “Ascending Mount Fuji,” “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and others—a total of 39 performances.

In 1975, at the premiere of the play “Echelon,” instead of water, ammonia was poured into her glass. Pokrovskaya began to choke and fell right on the stage. The KGB investigated the incident, but the culprits were never found. Alla Borisovna had a long recovery - she had a burn to the mucous membrane of the larynx, lungs, and stomach - and eventually returned to the theater.

In 1999, Alla Pokrovskaya played one role at the Tabakerka Theater, then five more at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov. She is also known as a theater director - for example, the play “Romeo and Juliet” at the A. S. Pushkin Theater.

In addition to the theater, Alla Borisovna Pokrovskaya actively acted in films; her filmography includes 47 films - full-length films and TV series. The most famous role is the mother of Vladimir Vysotsky in the film “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive".

In the 80s, Pokrovskaya participated in the dubbing of several Soviet cartoons.

Since 1979, Alla Borisovna taught at the Moscow Art Theater School, including in foreign branches.

In 1985 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR.

The end of family relations with Efremov

It is known that acting families do not last long.

The marriage with Oleg Efremov broke up after 8 years of marriage. The divorce officially took place 16 years later.

Alla Borisovna admits that she was more interested in the theater. Therefore, she did not become a good wife or an exemplary mother.

She was not a muse for her husband either. But she bowed and revered Oleg Nikolaevich as a teacher and talented master. Efremov appreciated Pokrovskaya for her decency.

Another, new stage has come in everyone’s life.

In 1970, Oleg Nikolaevich’s dream came true. He was invited to the position of chief director of the Moscow Art Theater.

Pokrovskaya remained at Sovremennik.

Alla Pokrovskaya - personal life

The personal life of the actress is also of interest, and viewers want to know who the husbands of actress Alla Pokrovskaya are.

It is known that the actress was married twice, but she never talks about her first husband, mentioning only that she left him for Efremov. Her romance with the director developed very rapidly, and after Alla became pregnant, they got married.

As the wife of Oleg Efremov, Alla Pokrovskaya still devoted more time to the theater than to everyday life, and Efremov was satisfied with this state of affairs. Even the birth of his son Mikhail did not change the situation. Alla began playing in the theater three weeks after giving birth, and in the future she saw her son quite rarely, devoting all her time to the stage.

Mikhail Efremov’s mother Alla Pokrovskaya, looking back, now says that such an attitude towards the family and child was wrong. The son did not do well at school and grew up as a hooligan, but apparently the genes took their toll, and he not only learned, but also stood firmly on his feet, and today, probably, there is no viewer who does not know the famous actor, director and TV presenter Mikhail Efremova.

Officially, Alla Borisovna was married to Oleg Efremov for 16 years, but in fact, after living for 8 years, they separated. As the actress herself says, she was not a muse for Efremov, and for her he was not so much her beloved husband as a teacher and a great actor and director.

The main thing in life is not to keep negativity

Anastasia Efremova, the daughter of Oleg Efremov from his marriage to Irina Mazuruk, speaks with warmth and admiration about Alla Pokrovskaya as a person.

Anastasia knows Alla Borisovna closely and well. As a stepdaughter, she lived in her father's family. Such close contacts allow Anastasia to characterize Pokrovskaya as a person of deep culture, restraint, and ethics.

Alla Pokrovskaya is adored by students because, in addition to her acting skills, they also receive human and feminine skills from her.

Alla Borisovna notes: “I have the lucky ability not to retain negativity in my memory. Therefore, there were very few insults in my life, and I received a lot from people...”