Tenyakova Natalya Maksimovna is a famous Soviet and Russian actress who has played hundreds of roles in films and on the stages of the largest theaters in the state.
The future actress was born in 1944 in the city of Leningrad. From childhood, Natalya firmly decided to become a world-famous actress. However, Natasha’s parents wanted their daughter to connect her future life with teaching. After participating in several theater productions, the girl decided not to give up on her goal. To fulfill her own dream, Tenyakova entered the Leningrad Theater Institute. The woman’s classmates included Olga Antonova, Lev Dodin, Leonid Mozgovoy and other talented people who played an important role in Russian cinematography. At first, Natalya hid from her father the fact that she was studying not to become a teacher, but to become an actress. Only Tenyakova’s mother knew about this.
After graduating from college, the actress was hired by the Leningrad Theater. Here the girl was able to show herself for the first time as a talented actress. In 1967, Natalya was invited to the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater. The role in the play “The Fox and the Grapes” was the beginning of the actress’s brilliant career. After this production, Natalya Tenyakova, whose biography is full of various events, began to receive various offers from directors to act in films.
The year 1979 was marked for the actress by leaving for the Mossovet Theater. Here the woman was offered many leading roles in famous performances. After working for almost 10 years in this theater, Tenyakova decided to move to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. For several years, the actress played roles on the stage of the Ermolova Theater. Here Natalya was offered a lot of leading roles. This actress has always been a repertoire performer, and she did not accept enterprise offers, considering them projects created to receive big money.
"Elder sister"
The first film with Tenyakova appeared on wide screens in 1966. It was the melodramatic film “Big Sister”. Natalya Tenyakova, whose films the audience loved, played the role of Lida’s younger sister in this film. The film tells the viewer about two girls who live with their uncle. The man took them from the shelter and is trying to create comfortable living conditions for them. The older sister, knowing her little sister's dream, sacrifices everything so that she can achieve her goal. Only after many years does she realize that she is doing this completely in vain.
Theater
After graduating from the institute, Natalya joined the troupe of the Leningrad Komsomol Theater and played on this stage for a year in the plays “Days of Our Lives” and “The Threepenny Opera”. In 1967, the actress moved to the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater and very quickly became the leading artist of the troupe along with Innokenty Smoktunovsky. Tenyakova gave 12 years of creative life to the BDT and became a household name within the walls of this theater.
Then on her horizon were the capital's Mossovet Theater, the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, the School of Modern Play, and the Vakhtangov Theater. For her role as Gurmyzhskaya in the play “The Forest” based on Ostrovsky’s play, Natalya Tenyakova was awarded the Stanislavsky Prize.
In recent years, the actress, together with Sergei Yursky and Lyudmila Drebneva, played on the stage of the Ermolova Theater in the play “Flying with an Angel. Chagall”, in which she has several prominent roles. Tenyakova has always been an exclusively repertoire actress and categorically refused enterprise offers, considering them obviously commercial.
"Our friends"
The film was released in 1968. In this film, Natalya played the main role of Antonina Staroselskaya. The film shows the events of 1925. After the death of her father, Tonya tries with all her might to find a decent job. Difficult life circumstances lead to numerous diseases in women. A merchant seaman takes care of the main character. After marriage, a man is arrested for illegally transporting contraband across the border. Antonina is looked after by his neighbor, who very often lends a hand. A meeting with a construction crew changes the life of the main character - she decides to go to a construction site.
Filmography
- 1966 — “Big Sister”
- 1967 — “Green Carriage”
- 1983 — “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”
- 1984 — “Love and Doves”
- 1985 – “The investigation is being conducted by Experts”
- 1985 — “Stove on a Wheel”
- 1988 — “And the light shines in the darkness”
- 1989 – “The Widow’s Ship”
- 1990 – “Swan Song”
- 1993 – “Ornifle, or Through the Breeze”
- 2002 – “Christmas Dreams”
- 2003 — “This Queen of Spades”
- 2004 — “The Case of Dr. Lekrin”
- 2008 — “Fathers and Sons”
- 2009 - “About the Bald Singer...”
- 2010 – “Chairs”
"Love and pigeons"
This popular film appeared on wide screens in 1984. Natalya Tenyakova played the role of Baba Shura in the film. The main character Vasily Kuzyakin, while repairing a winch, receives a serious injury, due to which he is given a trip to the south as an incentive. On vacation, a man meets the femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna. The man returns from the resort not to his wife and children, but to his new lover. In the new world, everything turns out to be much more interesting than in ordinary family life. However, will Vasya be able to live the rest of his life away from Nadya and the children?
Dreams about teaching and a new hobby
The future star of the theater stage was born on July 3, 1944 in the cultural capital of Russia - Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). During her school years, Natalya had absolutely no plans to connect her destiny with acting, but wanted to get a teacher’s diploma.
While studying in high school, Tenyakova played in a couple of amateur performances, which determined the girl’s future. The schoolgirl liked the new experience so much that she firmly decided to become a professional actress and entered the local Institute of Theatre, Music and Film.
"Chernov"
The film “Chernov” was released in 1990. In this film, Tenyakova was offered the role of Tanya, Chernov’s wife.
This film will tell the viewer about the life of the famous Moscow architect - Alexander Petrovich Chernov. In addition to the real life of a man, the film will also show the thoughts of an architect. The main dream of this person will be a trip to the sunny country of Spain. A trip to this place will not be a cheap pleasure, so the main character will have to resort to betrayal. As a result of his activities, a talented builder will be a few steps away from death.
Movies
Natalya Tenyakova first appeared on screen in 1966 in the melodrama “Elder Sister,” where, together with Tatyana Doronina, she portrayed two orphans striving to realize their dream of acting in the theater. Immediately after this, in the biographical drama “The Green Carriage”, she told the life story of the St. Petersburg actress Varvara Asenkova. Already in her youth, Natalya realized that she was primarily a theater actress, so she later reluctantly agreed to act in films.
Tatyana Doronina and Natalya Tenyakova (still from the film “Big Sister”)
The actress refused a large number of proposed scripts and rarely appeared on the television screen. With her participation, two full-length films were released in the late 60s. This is a war film “The Thunderstorm over Belaya” about the victory of the Red Army soldiers under the leadership of Mikhail Frunze in Ufa over the “whites”. The second film was the film story “Our Friends,” where Natalya Tenyakova appeared in the acting ensemble along with Kirill Lavrov.
Natalya Tenyakova: personal life
Natalya got married 2 times. The actress’s first husband was another classmate and subsequently a popular and talented director, Lev Dodin. The marriage with her first husband did not last long.
The second time the woman married the famous actor Sergei Yursky. This man was very different from his work colleagues. He never played for the “fun” of the audience. Sergei and Natalya met in 1965. At that time, they were both actors in the theatrical production “The Big Cat's Tale.” During this period of time, Tenyakova was not a free lady - she was married to her first husband. However, even this fact did not stop the lovers. They decided to be together. Dodin decided to leave his wife forever. Now no one bothered the lovers anymore. On April 25, 1970, the acting couple got married. In 1973, the couple had a daughter, Daria. The daughter of actors decided to follow in the footsteps of her parents and devote her life to the theater.
Today the whole family is playing their roles in a new play called “After the Rehearsal.” Currently, Sergei and Natalya are raising their grandchildren: George and Alexei. The first of them was born in 2002, the second in 2009.
Love is like a lightning strike. The main role in the life of actress Natalia Tenyakova
While studying in her third year at LGITMiK, Natalya Tenyakova met actor Sergei Yursky and fell in love at first sight. It was like a lightning strike, the actress admitted in an interview.
But at that time she was married to director Lev Dodin , their marriage was quite prosperous. But Tenyakova could not lie - live with one and love the other. “When I realized what hit me, I came and honestly told Leva: “I’m sorry, Leva, but I fell in love.” He turned pale and asked: “God, who?” I said: to Sergei Yursky. He said: “Thank God, you would have fallen in love with Jesus Christ!” the actress admitted in an interview. The fact is that in the late 1960s, Jurassic was incredibly popular. He became a star immediately after the release of his first films “The Man from Nowhere”, “The Black Seagull”, etc. After listening to Dodin’s words that she could not achieve Yursky, Tenyakova said that she was filing for divorce, because feelings are stronger than reason.
The romance between Yursky and Tenyakova began in 1965 during the filming of the television play by David Karasik , based on the fairy tale by the Czech writer Karel Capek . The film was about a crying princess who was cheered up by an “unknown animal” - a kitten. But the animal runs away, and the most famous detectives go in search of the wizard who allegedly kidnapped the kitten... American detective Sidney Hall was played by Jurassic. His hero hides how much good he has done to people. But Alice, played by Tenyakova, knew about his good deeds: “Do you know, Mr. Sidney Hall, that you are a terribly good person? And for what you did for the little girl in Genoa, for the Indian washerwoman and for the strange woman at sea, everyone should love you.” Tenyakova thought so too - in real life.
Sergei Yursky and Natalya Tenyakova in the television play “The Big Cat's Tale.”
As Yursky says, on his part it was also love at first sight. But at that moment, Yursky’s wife was the popular Soviet actress Zinaida Sharko . Tormented by guilt, he continued to live with his family. When Sharko found out about the betrayal, she locked herself in her room for a week. Then she came out and said that she would commit suicide if her husband went to Tenyakova. Yursky, who hated ultimatums, packed his things and moved in with his friend Oleg Basilashvili . And then he moved to Tenyakova’s dacha, where she moved after the divorce and lived alone. Soon they signed.
Life presented them with many trials. After one of them, Tenyakova took her husband’s surname and became Natalya Yurskaya according to her passport. It was a kind of protest against the persecution of her husband in Leningrad. As the actress later said, Yursky was not allowed to work; he was banned everywhere as a dissident. “When he was forced out of the city, we were forced to leave for Moscow,” she recalled. “And such disgusting persuasion began from the series: “Natasha, why do you need it, they don’t touch you, stay in St. Petersburg, you are the first actress of the BDT, you will play all the roles... That is, utter disgusting. And as soon as these conversations began, I went that same day and out of spite changed my last name to Yurskaya.”
Honored Artists of the RSFSR Evgeny Steblov, Sergei Yursky and Natalya Tenyakova in a scene from the play “Hedda Gabler”. 1984 Photo: RIA Novosti/V. Bazhenov
By the way, when Yursky has difficult times, his wife, according to him, never calms him down, “no pats on the head.” Natalya Maksimovna simply tells her husband that many people have it even more difficult in life than he does, and in general the main rule of life is not to become limp. Tenyakova-Yurskaya is convinced that only a strong character can help cope with tragedies and blows of fate.
Sergei Yursky with his wife Natalya Tenyakova and daughter Daria. Photo: www.russianlook.com/ Valery Khristoforov
One day, life put the actress in a terrible situation. He and Yursky's daughter Daria was hit by a car racing at full speed. After the disaster, a girl with dozens of fractures was taken to Sklif. It happened during the day. And in the evening Natalya Maksimovna had to play Ranevskaya in “The Cherry Orchard” based on Chekhov. And she went on stage.
“They told me later that I had never played so well. But I don't remember. Of course, they injected me with something to keep me going.” In one of the scenes, actor Vladimir Kashpur was supposed to address Tenyakova with the phrase: “My daughter, Dashenka, I bowed to you. Colleagues, knowing about the tragedy, strictly forbade him to pronounce the name “Daria”, threatening him with reprisals, moral and even physical. Kashpur himself was worried about the daughter of Yursky and Tenyakova, so he agreed and on stage, hesitating slightly (everything had already been rehearsed hundreds of times to the point of automaticity), he replaced Dashenka with Mashenka. “And I felt even worse,” admitted Tenyakova. “Because I understood everything.”
Tenyakova explains the ability to play in the most tragic moments of life as if nothing had happened by saying that artists “have some other nervous system. Inhuman." More than once she went on stage sick, with a high fever, with a broken leg, and pneumonia. And not a single viewer saw this. And when she returned backstage, she fell.
Oddly enough, it was a blow of fate for the actress that Daria Yurskaya decided to follow in her parents’ footsteps. Then, in the 1990s, as Natalya Maksimovna admits, terrible times came in culture. Nobody went to the theater, the actors were practically starving. Therefore, when Dasha went for the entrance exams to the Moscow Art Theater School, Tenyakova called Oleg Tabakov and asked: if she doesn’t see any inclinations in her daughter, let her not take her. “I didn’t want her to do it because she’s a daughter. No. No. But Oleg, when he met me, when Dasha had already completed all the rounds, threw up his hands and said: “Sorry, Natasha, I couldn’t help but take it,” the artist said.
But the stress over the actress-daughter did not end even after all the enrollment orders were posted. In one of the performances, Daria Yurskaya, while still a student, played the daughter of the heroes Natalya Tenyakova and Vyacheslav Nevinny .
As the actress says, her colleagues told her after the performance: “Natalya Maksimovna, it was a pity to look at you. A most professional person, you repeated the text with your lips after your daughter.” This is a sign of a very bad actor, Natalya Maksimovna complains to herself. And she adds that at that performance, her wig pins even fell out of her wig due to nervous trembling. Tenyakova the mother turned out to be stronger than Tenyakova the actress. People's Artist of Russia Sergei Yursky with his wife Natalya Tenyakova and daughter Daria on the stage of the Mossovet Theater at his anniversary evening. 2010 Photo: RIA Novosti/Vladimir Vyatkin
