Lyudmila Ivanova biography of the actress, photo, her son

Nina Ivanova was born in Moscow in 1934. She did not strive to become an artist since childhood; cinema itself found her. A girl lived with her family not far from the Soyuzdetfilm studio. She also attended school there. The photogenic girl was noticed by the director’s assistants and invited to shoot a film about besieged Leningrad, “Once Upon a Time There Was a Girl . This film is unique in that, for realism, director Viktor Eisymont moved the filming directly to Leningrad, which had just been liberated from a months-long siege. Together with Nina, 5-year-old Natasha Zashchipina . In the future, Natasha will become a star of children's films, but in adult life she will not achieve noticeable success in cinema.

Nina Ivanova and Natasha Zashchipina. “Once upon a time there was a girl” 1944

As for the film itself, it caused a great resonance in those difficult years. Although now, from the height of his years, it still causes bewilderment - why did the director cast Moscow children in the roles of siege girls, whose appearance did not quite correspond to the constantly starving children of besieged Leningrad.

Nina Ivanova is a very private person. And now she does not want to talk to journalists, much less participate in television shows. That’s why there are many blank spots in the actress’s biography. According to one version, the girl successfully graduated from high school and then medical school. According to another version, the girl was forced to leave school and go to work at a factory; she subsequently never received a secondary education.

Biography

Nina Ivanova’s filmography includes a little more than a dozen films, but viewers remember the actress for one star role – teacher Tatyana Sergeevna in the cult melodrama “Spring on Zarechnaya Street.”

Actress Nina Ivanova

Ivanova’s fans, speaking in defense of their favorite artist, counter: some contemporaries - Ivanova’s colleagues - appear in a dozen films and TV series in a year, but their names mean nothing to the viewer. And if we take into account that Nina Ivanova is a non-professional actress, then a peculiar phenomenon emerges.

Childhood and youth

The future star of the melodrama beloved by millions was born in January 1934. Nina Ivanova is a native Muscovite. In the family where four children grew up with Nina, there were no artists or people of art. Ivanova herself did not dream of becoming a screen star. The girl studied diligently and pleased her parents with A's in all subjects.

Nina came to the set by accident. Director Viktor Eisymont selected two Muscovites - 7-year-old Ivanova and 5-year-old Natalya Zashchipina - to play the roles of the main characters in the drama “Once Upon a Time There Was a Girl,” which tells about the most tragic period in the life of Leningrad - the siege.

Little Nina Ivanova in the film “Once upon a time there was a girl”

Preparations for work on the painting began at the beginning of 1943, when Soviet troops broke through the blockade ring. The director, wanting to bring into the film as much as possible the atmosphere and surroundings of a city experiencing a terrible famine, began filming in virtually besieged Leningrad: the siege of enemy troops ended a year later, in January 1944.

Filming was carried out at risk to the lives of the film crew - during breaks between air raids. The parents sent their little daughter to Leningrad with her aunt. They feared for a break in school and a decline in the girl’s academic performance, but most importantly, they feared for her life.

Nina Ivanova and Natalya Zashchipina in the film “Once upon a time there was a girl”

Nina Ivanova and her colleague, who is 2 years younger, did a brilliant job. The children felt the atmosphere of the besieged city and the tragedy experienced by the Leningraders. At the same time, the little artists who played Nastya and Katya remained children. The girls lived in their own world, played with dolls, sang and steadfastly endured the same hardships as adults.

The drama was shown in December 1944. The film was first seen by audiences in the Soviet Union, then the film was shown in Europe. In Venice, at the 7th Film Festival, the creators of the film were awarded a prize.

Nina Ivanova in her youth

The young artist Ivanova met triumph and accompanying fame calmly: unlike Natalya Zashchipina, Nina did not intend to connect her life with theater and cinema. The schoolgirl quickly made up for the gap from the educational process and even surpassed her peers in academic performance.

Nina Ivanova never finished school: financial problems in a large family did not allow her to complete her studies. Many sources that give the actress’s biography say that she was a medical student. This is mistake. After 8th grade, the girl got a job at a factory that produced equipment for film studios.

Nina Ivanova in her youth

Later, after starring in the cult melodrama, Nina Ivanova completed directing courses. She never entered a theater university due to incomplete secondary education. When they advised her to finish her studies, she replied that after the role of a teacher, going to a school for working youth as a student was “a shame and disgrace.”

A blank spot in my biography remains my second education – medical. After all, after leaving cinema in the late 1980s, Nina Ivanova got a job as a nurse in an oncology clinic. The former actress avoids publicity, does not give interviews and has never shed light on this circumstance.

Famous bearers

A

Ivanova, Alexandra
:

Ivanova, Alexandra Ivanovna (1804-1830) - Russian opera and chamber singer.
Ivanova, Alexandra Ivanovna - Russian water polo player.
Ivanova, Alexandra Pavlovna ( Varvara Karaulova
; born 1995) is a Russian woman convicted of trying to join ISIS.

Ivanova, Alena Sergeevna (born 1994) - Russian biathlete.
Ivanova, Alina Petrovna (born 1969) - Soviet and Russian athlete, European and world champion in race walking.
Ivanova, Albertina Petrovna (born 1954) - Mari poetess.
Ivanova, Anastasia
:

Ivanova, Anastasia Andreevna (born 1990) - Russian fencer.
Ivanova, Anastasia Semyonovna (1958-1993) - Soviet actress.
Grechka (Anastasia Ivanova, born 2000) is a Russian singer and musician.

Ivanova, Anna Vladimirovna (better known as Hannah
; born 1991) is a Russian singer and fashion model.
Ivanova, Antonia (1931-2004) - Bulgarian chess player, grandmaster (1983).

B

Ivanova, Borislava (born 1966) - Bulgarian rower and kayaker.

IN

Ivanova, Valentina
:

Ivanova, Valentina Dmitrievna (born 1927) - surgeon, professor at Samara State Medical University.
Ivanova, Valentina Nikolaevna (born 1954) - rector of the Moscow State University of Technology and Management, deputy of the State Duma of the 3rd and 4th convocations.
Ivanova, Valentina Sergeevna (1937-2008) - Soviet and Russian film critic.

Ivanova, Valeria (born 1972) - Russian writer.
Ivanova, Varvara (born 1987) - Russian harpist.
Ivanova, Varvara Mikhailovna (Solomina; 1862-1903) - Russian opera and operetta artist
Ivanova, Victoria Nikolaevna (1924-2002) - Soviet opera singer (soprano), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1973).
Ivanova, Violeta - Bulgarian astronomer, discoverer of asteroids, works at the Rozhen Observatory of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

G

Ivanova, Galina
:

Ivanova, Galina Andreevna (1928-2007) - Soviet actress.
Ivanova, Galina Vladimirovna - Russian boxer.
Ivanova, Galina Mikhailovna (born 1953) - Russian historian.
Ivanova, Galina Pavlovna (born 1937) - Soviet tennis player, master of sports of the USSR, biologist, professor at the State Academy of Physical Culture.
Ivanova, Galina Pavlovna (Vishnevskaya; 1926-2012) - Russian opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR.
Ivanova, Galina Peneva (better known as Gloria
; born 1973) is a Bulgarian singer.

D

Ivanova, Daria Nikolaevna (in her marriage to Saltykov
“Saltychikha”; 1730-1801) - Russian landowner who went down in history as a sophisticated killer of more than a hundred serfs under her control.

E

Ivanova, Evgenia
:

Ivanova, Evgenia Andreevna (born 1987) - Russian water polo player.
Ivanova, Evgenia Nikolaevna (1889-1973) - scientist, soil scientist, awarded the gold medal named after V.V. Dokuchaev.

Ivanova, Evdokia Alekseevna (nee Sokolova
; 1810-1905) - Russian theater actress, opera singer.
Ivanova, Ekaterina
:

Ivanova, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna (born 1949) - Soviet test cosmonaut. Has no space flight experience.
Ivanova, Ekaterina Evgenievna (married Lopez
; born 1987) - Russian tennis player.
Ivanova, Ekaterina Nikolaevna (1962-1994) - Soviet and Russian climber, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

Ivanova, Elena
:

Ivanova, Elena (born 1979) - Russian singles figure skater, world junior champion in 1996.
Ivanova, Elena Vladimirovna (better known as Sviridova
; born 1988) is a Russian athlete, champion of the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London.
Ivanova, Elena Nikolaevna (1915-1988) - ballet dancer, teacher. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1957).
Ivanova, Elena Pavlovna (born 1986) is a Russian football player who played as a goalkeeper. European champion 2005 among girls under 19 years old.
Ivanova, Elena Semyonovna (1922-?) - team leader of the seed-growing state farm "Sibiryak" of the Ministry of State Farms of the USSR, Tulunsky District, Irkutsk Region, Hero of Socialist Labor (1948).

Ivanova, Elizaveta
:

Ivanova, Elizaveta Mikhailovna (1837-1882) - Russian writer.
Ivanova, Elizaveta Fedorovna (1923-1975) - Hero of Socialist Labor.

Z

Ivanova, Zinaida
:

Ivanova, Zinaida Grigorievna (1897-1979) - Soviet sculptor.
Ivanova, Zinaida Ivanovna (born 1923) - Hero of Socialist Labor.
Ivanova, Zinaida Nikolaevna (better known under the name Zorich
; 1892-1971) - Russian Soviet actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Ivanova, Zinaida Sergeevna (pseudonym N. Mirovich; 1865-1913) - Russian writer, historian, teacher.

Ivanova, Zoya
:

Ivanova, Zoya Aleksandrovna (born 1952) - Soviet and Kazakh runner, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (marathon, 1984).
Ivanova, Zoya Leonidovna (born 1934) - Soviet operetta artist, People's Artist of the RSFSR.

AND

Ivanova, Isabella Nikolaevna (1929-2006) - Soviet and Russian conductor, choirmaster, teacher, musical figure.
Ivanova, Isolda Anatolyevna (1932-2017) - Soviet and Russian writer, historian, researcher of the Battle of Leningrad, surgeon.
Ivanova, Iraida Trofimovna (1919-2002) - Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Ivanova, Irina Fedorovna (1917-2002) - collective farmer, Hero of Socialist Labor.

TO

Ivanova, Kira
:

Ivanova, Kira Valentinovna (1963-2001) - Soviet figure skater.
Ivanova, Kira Nikolaevna (better known under the name Golovko
; 1919-2017) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.

L

Ivanova, Lydia
:

Ivanova, Lidia Alexandrovna (1903-1924) - ballet dancer.
Ivanova, Lidia Gavrilovna (born 1937) - Soviet athlete and gymnastics coach.
Ivanova, Lidia Mikhailovna (1936-2007) - Russian writer, journalist, actress and TV presenter.
Ivanova, Lidia Pavlovna (1915-1979) - twice Hero of Socialist Labor.

Ivanova, Lili (born 1939) - Bulgarian singer.
Ivanova, Lyudmila
:

Ivanova, Lyudmila Vasilievna (1928-1999) - Soviet and Russian historian, leading employee of the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Ivanova, Lyudmila Ivanovna (1933-2016) - Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Ivanova, Lyudmila Mstislavovna (known as Olesya Ivanova; 1925-1995) - Soviet film actress.
Ivanova, Lyudmila Nikolaevna (born 1929) - Doctor of Medical Sciences, academician, professor.

M

Ivanova, Maria
:

Ivanova, Maria Grigorievna (1872-1929) - Russian opera artist (lyric and colorful soprano), concert singer and vocal teacher.
Ivanova, Marina Konstantinovna (better known as Odolskaya
; born 1975) - Ukrainian singer, Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Ivanova, Maria Pavlovna (born 1931) - plasterer, leader in production, Hero of Socialist Labor.

N

Ivanova, Nadezhda
:

Ivanova, Nadezhda Sergeevna (born 1990) - Russian gymnast.
Ivanova, Nadezhda Yuryevna (born 1953) - statesman, financier.
Ivanova, Nadezhda Yuryevna (born 1989) - Russian theater and film actress.

Ivanova, Natalya
:

Ivanova, Natalya Aleksandrovna (born 1979) - Russian gymnast, international master of sports, world championship medalist.
Ivanova, Natalya Borisovna (born 1945) - Russian literary scholar and literary critic, publicist.
Ivanova, Natalya Vasilievna (born 1947) - Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation (2004).
Ivanova, Natalya Ivanovna (born 1949) - Soviet and Russian scientist, specialist in the field of theory of innovative development, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Ivanova, Natalya Nikolaevna
:

Ivanova, Natalya Nikolaevna (1926-2009) - Soviet and Russian doctor.
Ivanova, Natalya Nikolaevna (born 1971) - Russian taekwondo athlete, silver medalist at the 2000 Olympic Games.
Ivanova, Natalya Nikolaevna (born 1981) - Russian track and field athlete, silver medalist at the 2004 Olympic Games.

Ivanova (married Obreskova) Natalya Fedorovna (1813-1875) - an acquaintance of M. Yu. Lermontov, the subject of his youthful hobby and the recipient of a cycle of poems, the daughter of the Moscow writer and playwright F. F. Ivanov.
Ivanova, Natalya Yuryevna (born 1947) - Russian costume designer.

Ivanova, Nina
:

Ivanova, Nina Aleksandrovna (1919-1974) - Soviet artist.
Ivanova, Nina Georgievna (born 1934) - Soviet film actress.
Ivanova, Nina Ivanovna (1933-2016) - Soviet worker at a furniture factory, Hero of Socialist Labor (1971).

ABOUT

Ivanova, Olimpiada Vladimirovna (born 1970) - Russian track and field athlete (race walking).
Ivanova, Olga
:

Ivanova, Olga (born 1984) - Estonian politician.
Ivanova, Olga Viktorovna (born 1961) - Russian theater actress.
Ivanova, Olga Viktorovna (born 1979) is a Russian track and field athlete specializing in shot put.
Ivanova, Olga Vladimirovna (born 1984) - Russian and Belarusian actress and radio presenter.
Ivanova, Olga Dmitrievna (1898-1958) - Soviet theater actress.
Ivanova, Olga Evgenievna (also Polina Ivanova
; real name
Yablonskaya
; born 1965) - Russian poetess.
Ivanova, Olga Ivanovna (also Krokhotina
; born 1966) - Russian tennis player.
Ivanova, Olga Nikolaevna (1916-2008) - Soviet and Russian scientist and teacher, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics.
Ivanova, Olga Timofeevna (born 1944) - Russian opera director.
Ivanova, Olga Erikovna (born 1993) - Russian taekwondo player.
Ivanova, Olga Yakovlevna (born 1945) - Soviet and Russian diplomat.

P

Ivanova, Petya Koleva (better known as Preslava
; born 1984) is a popular Bulgarian pop-folk singer.

R

Ivanova, Raisa Ivanovna (better known by the name Dement
; born 1941) - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of Russia.
Ivanova, Rimma Mikhailovna (1894-1915) - Russian sister of mercy.

WITH

Ivanova, Svetlana
:

Ivanova, Svetlana Andreevna (born 1985) - Russian actress.
Ivanova, Svetlana Vasilievna (born 1953) - Russian politician, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
Ivanova, Svetlana Veniaminovna (born 1954) - State Councilor of the Russian Federation, editor-in-chief of the journals “Values and Meanings”, “Domestic and Foreign Pedagogy”.
Ivanova, Svetlana Mikhailovna ( Svetlana Gaier
; 1923-2010) - literary translator from Russian into German.

T

Ivanova, Tatyana
:

Ivanova, Tatyana Apollonovna (1918-2011) - philologist, author of a textbook on the Old Church Slavonic language.
Ivanova, Tatyana Borisovna (born 1947) - Russian theater actress, People's Artist of Russia (2006).
Ivanova, Tatyana Vladimirovna (born 1965) - Russian and Ukrainian actress.
Ivanova, Tatyana Gennadievna (born 1971) - Russian singer, lead singer of the group “Combination”.
Ivanova, Tatyana Georgievna (born 1965) - Russian theater and film actress.
Ivanova, Tatyana Ivanovna (born 1991) - Russian athlete (luge).
Ivanova, Tatyana Nikolaevna
:

Ivanova, Tatyana Nikolaevna (born 1948) - Soviet and Russian film and voice actress, Honored Artist of Russia.
Ivanova, Tatyana Nikolaevna (1926-2015) - Soviet and Russian cardiologist, professor of the Northern State Medical University, head of the department of faculty therapy of SSMU (1965-1997), Honored Doctor of the RSFSR (1973).

Ivanova, Tatyana Pavlovna (1925-1979) - German actress and singer of Russian origin.

F

Ivanova, Fatima Zalimgerievna - Russian politician and public figure.

YU

Ivanova, Yulia
:

Ivanova, Yulia Anatolyevna (born 1985) - Russian skier (cross-country skiing).
Ivanova, Yulia Viktorovna (born 1977) - Russian gymnast.
Ivanova, Yulia Vladimirovna (1922-2006) - ethnographer, leading Soviet and Russian specialist in the ethnography of Albanians and Greeks.[1]

I

Ivanova, Yanina Grigorievna (born 1930) - Hero of Socialist Labor.

Movies

While working at the factory, the Muscovite did not refuse additional income by starring in diploma films for graduates of theater universities. One day, a charming blonde girl caught the eye of director Marlen Khutsiev. The director took a risk and entrusted the key role to a non-professional actress.

Nina Ivanova in the film “Spring on Zarechnaya Street”

The poignant story of the relationship between an evening school teacher and steelmaker Alexander Savchenko, in whom 25-year-old Nikolai Rybnikov played, became a favorite of millions of Soviet television viewers. The film stars Vladimir Gulyaev, Yuri Belov, Valentina Pugacheva, Gennady Yukhtin.

Melodrama became the leader in film distribution in the 1950s. It was watched by over 33 million viewers. The song “When Spring Comes, I Don’t Know” was sung by the whole country, and all the fashionistas copied the main character’s hairstyle.

Nikolai Rybnikov and Nina Ivanova in the film “Spring on Zarechnaya Street”

However, if Nina Ivanova had naturally curly blond hair, the beauties who imitated the heroine of “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” bleached their hair on purpose, curling with curling irons the “lock of passion,” as the naughty curl on the temple of teacher Tatyana Sergeevna was called. The film was shot in Odessa and Zaporozhye. After the triumph of melodrama, streets named after the film appeared in cities.

The further career of the actors of the hit movie Marlen Khutsiev developed brilliantly. Nikolai Rybnikov starred in the films “Height” and “Girls.” Vladimir Gulyaev played bright supporting roles in the melodrama “Aleshkina Love” and the “golden” comedies of Leonid Gaidai. Yuri Belov appeared in “Carnival Night” and “Girl Without an Address” by Eldar Ryazanov. But Nina Ivanova was not offered star roles.

Nina Ivanova in the film “Kievlanka”

Cameraman Radomir Vasilevsky, with whom Ivanova had an office romance during the filming of “Spring on Zarechnaya Street,” directed the melodrama “Kievlanka,” entrusting his beloved with the main role. The film was conceived as a continuation of the famous “Spring”, but it turned out to be weak and did not find support among the audience.

The key role in the melodrama “Love Must Be Treasured,” released in 1959, also did not receive a response in the hearts of viewers and film critics.

Nina Ivanova in the film “Love must be treasured”

In the first half of the 1960s, the artist starred in the film “Confession,” the melodrama “Shurka Chooses the Sea,” and the satirical comedy “Easy Life.” The latter starred a constellation of Soviet actors: Yuri Yakovlev, Faina Ranevskaya, Rostislav Plyatt, Nadezhda Rumyantseva. Ivanova had an unnoticeable episode.

In the wonderful film story based on the script by Vasily Shukshin, “There Lives a Guy Like This,” directed by the author, Ivanova was lost among the stars. After all, the main characters were played by Leonid Kuravlev, Rodion Nakhapetov, Nina Sazonova and Bella Akhmadulina. The film received an award at the Venice Film Festival and an award from the Leningrad All-Union Film Festival, but Nina Ivanova’s work - she played the wife of the collective farm chairman - went unnoticed.

Nina Ivanova and Leonid Kuravlev in the film “There Lives Such a Guy”

In 1966, the actress appeared in Yakov Segel’s fantastic comedy “Grey Disease”, after the release of which she left cinema forever. In 1974, attentive viewers recognized the star of “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” in an episode of the social drama “You Can Still Make It”: Ivanova played a factory worker.

After completing directors' courses in the mid-1960s, Nina Ivanova got a job at the film studio named after. Gorky: worked as an assistant director. She shot a couple of stories for the children's film anthology “Yeralash”. In the late 1980s, when difficult times came for Soviet cinema, the movie star got a job as a nurse in a hospital. Colleagues remember her as an activist and social activist.

Ivanova Nina Georgievna

Ivanova Nina Georgievna Born on January 6, 1934.

Nina Ivanova was born in Moscow in the family of Georgy Sergeevich and Alexandra Pavlovna Ivanov, she was the eldest of their three daughters, and her mother’s main assistant. The Ivanovs lived not far from the Soyuzdetfilm film studio; nearby was the school where Nina studied. It was precisely there that in December 1943, the assistant of director Victor Eisymont, who was starting to stage the film “Once upon a time, there was a girl,” came in search of the main character. Walking around the classrooms and peering into the children's faces, she fixed her gaze on Nina Ivanova, sat down at her desk and asked the question: “Girl, do you want to act in films?” The girl did not resist and immediately agreed. After auditions at the House of Cinema, Nina Ivanova was approved for the role of Nastenka and in February 1944 she went to film in Leningrad, which had just been liberated after the siege. All locations were filmed there, and the pavilion scenes were filmed in Moscow, at Soyuzdetfilm. In December 1944, “Once Upon a Time There Was a Girl” was completed and released, and was a great success with audiences. For her participation in this film, young Nina Ivanova was awarded a ticket to Artek, where for the first time in her life she saw the sea and cypress trees, which she mistook for nuts.

In 1949, Nina’s parents had a fourth daughter, and soon after that Georgy Sergeevich left the family. Alexandra Pavlovna had a hard time with her four minor daughters. In order to somehow help her mother, Nina left her studies and went to work as a quality control inspector at. This lasted five years, during which she managed to graduate from an evening school for working youth.

In the fall of 1955, Nina Ivanova again came into contact with cinema. Iskra Babich, a final-year student at the VGIK directing department, invited her to star in her thesis work “Nadia,” in which Ivanova starred in partnership with Vladimir Andreev. Based on the story that served as the plot of this short film, a year later Vladimir Ordynsky shot the film “A Man Is Born” with the same Andreev in the title role, but in a duet with a different actress – Olga Bgan. Well, “Nadya” won first prize at one of the international student film festivals, thanks to which Nina Ivanova was noticed by Felix Mironer and Marlen Khutsiev and invited to play the main role in the now cult film “Spring on Zarechnaya Street.” The simple story of relationships between people with different worldviews was told in the film in a simple language that everyone can understand. It is for this reason that “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” fell into the hearts of a huge number of people and had a great public resonance. Nina Ivanova, an unprofessional actress who did not master acting techniques and felt awkward in front of the camera, instantly became one of the symbols of the Thaw cinema of the second half of the 1950s.

“Spring on Zarechnaya Street” changed Nina Ivanova’s life in literally every sense. She not only gave her all-Union popularity, opened up the prospect of new roles, but also brought her together with a person who would be close to her for several years. During the filming of “Spring,” she had an affair with cameraman Radomir Vasilevsky, which ended in marriage. Vasilevsky was living in Ukraine at that moment, working at the Odessa film studio, and Nina Ivanova remained next to him. She played leading roles in the films “Kievlanka” and “Heirs” by Timofey Levchuk, “Love Must Be Treasured” by Sergei Sploshnov, “The Secret of Dimka Karmiya” by Boris Mityakin, but all these works could not reach the artistic level of “Spring on Zarechnaya Street”. Ivanova’s lack of acting education and difficulties in conveying dramatic experiences and feelings were increasingly affecting her. I think that over time, Nina Georgievna herself realized that she, as an actress, was of rather average talent. She was offered fewer and fewer roles; they were insignificant and uninteresting. And soon her personal life began to crack. Her marriage to Radomir Vasilevsky broke up, she returned to Moscow.

Regarding acting, Nina Ivanova no longer deluded herself, although she was billed as an actress of category I, group I, she understood that she could wait for new interesting roles for years and decided to try herself on the other side of the screen. In April 1964, she went to the M. Gorky Film Studio, where she had her first close acquaintance with cinema, joined the studio staff as an assistant director, then became an assistant director, and since 1973 she worked as a second director. She appeared on the screen several times in small roles, but later completely switched to directing. She worked on the films: “Come to Baikal” (1965, director Veniamin Dorman), “Neutral Waters” (1968, director Vladimir Berenstein), “The Deer King” (1969, director Pavel Arsenov), “Ivanov’s Boat” (1972, director Mark Osepyan), “Talents and Admirers” (1973, director Isidor Annensky), “Traitor” (1976, director Nikita Khubov), “Disappearance” (1977, director Veniamin Dorman), “The Circus Kid” (1979, director Vladimir Bychkov), “Petrovka, 38” and “Ogareva, 6” (1980, director Boris Grigoriev), “Young Russia” (1982, director Ilya Gurin) and others.

While working at the M. Gorky Film Studio, Nina Ivanova remarried the studio artist Andrei Valerianov, but this marriage also turned out to be unsuccessful. Having never created a family again, Nina Georgievna devoted herself to work, and when retirement age arrived, she left the film studio in October 1989. However, she did not have to sit in retirement for long. The advent of the 1990s, with all its difficulties, forced the former actress and director to get a job as a nurse in the operating unit of city clinical hospital No. 40, where she worked for several years. Now Nina Georgievna lives alone, almost never leaves the house, her social circle consists of several former colleagues at the M. Gorky Film Studio. He doesn’t even want to hear about his acting past; he flatly refuses interviews and filming on television. He only remembers with pleasure his first work in cinema.

Films and roles:

1944: “Once upon a time there was a girl” (Nastenka); 1955: “Nadya”, VGIK, film (Nadya); 1956: “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” (Tatyana Sergeevna); 1958: “Kyivan Woman” (Galya Ocheretko); 1959: “Love must be treasured” (Katya Doroshevich); 1960: “Heirs” (Galina Ocheretko), “The Secret of Dimka Karmiya” (Ksenya Pilipovna); 1961: “Trainers”, film (mother); 1962: “Confession” (registry office registrar); 1963: “Shurka chooses the sea” (Nadya); 1964: “There lives such a guy” (the chairman’s wife), “Easy Life” (Tanya Savchenko); 1966: “Grey Disease” (Lena); 1974: “You can still make it” (adjuster).

Personal life

The love that broke out on the set of the hit movie with cameraman Radomir Vasilevsky did not end after the premiere of the melodrama. Married Vasilevsky left his wife and 4-year-old daughter Tanya, unable to resist passion. The couple settled in an Odessa apartment, the keys to which were handed over to the movie star and cameraman by the city authorities.

Nina Ivanova and Radomir Vasilevsky

The couple lived until the early 1960s and separated. Ivanova and Vasilevsky did not have any children together. The reasons for the separation are unknown: some colleagues call the absence of children, others - infidelity. True, who cheated on whom – opinions differ.

Vasilevsky’s personal life and career have developed. In his fourth marriage, his second daughter was born. Radomir Borisovich made a wonderful children's film “4:0 in favor of Tanechka.” Nina Ivanova also had novels, but they all ended in breakups. The actress did not give birth to a child.

Nina Ivanova now

The star of the 1950s, and now a pensioner, Nina Ivanova lives in Moscow. In 2014, the woman celebrated her 80th birthday.

Nina Georgievna avoids meeting with journalists, although they have repeatedly sought to meet the star of the Soviet best-selling film and get into her modest apartment in a house on Mira Avenue.

Nina Ivanova now

The last person to talk to the actress was TV journalist Roman Pobedinsky. Nina Ivanova spoke briefly with the journalist who begged for a meeting for a couple of minutes near the metro. She said that she lives with her sister. Receives a pension from the Actors Guild. She bitterly mentioned that she was not the only one of her forgotten colleagues, and once again refused interviews and filming.

Excerpt characterizing Ivanov

– She was truly an amazing woman, Isidora! Never giving up and not feeling sorry for herself, just like you... She was ready at any moment to give herself for those she loved. For those whom I considered more worthy. And simply - for LIFE... Fate did not spare her, heaping the burden of irreparable losses on her fragile shoulders, but until her last moment she fought fiercely for her friends, for her children, and for everyone who remained to live on earth after the death of Radomir... People called her the Apostle of all Apostles. And she truly was him... Only not in the sense in which the inherently alien Jewish language shows her in her “sacred writings”. Magdalene was the strongest Sorceress... Golden Mary, as people who met her at least once called her. She carried with her the pure light of Love and Knowledge, and was completely saturated with it, giving everything without a trace and not sparing herself. Her friends loved her very much and, without hesitation, were ready to give their lives for her!.. For her and for the teaching that she continued to carry after the death of her beloved husband, Jesus Radomir. – Forgive my meager knowledge, Sever, but why do you always call Christ Radomir?.. – It’s very simple, Isidora, his father and mother once called him Radomir, and it was his real, family name, which truly reflected its true essence. This name had a double meaning - the Joy of the world (Rado - peace) and the Bringer of the Light of Knowledge to the world, the Light of Ra (Ra - do - peace). And the Thinking Dark Ones called him Jesus Christ when they completely changed the story of his life. And as you can see, it has firmly “taken root” to him for centuries. The Jews always had many Jesuses. This is the most common and very common Jewish name. Although, funnily enough, it came to them from Greece... Well, Christ (Christos) is not a name at all, and in Greek it means “messiah” or “enlightened one”... The only question is, if the Bible says that Christ is a Christian, then how can we explain these pagan Greek names that the Thinking Dark Ones themselves gave him?.. Isn’t it interesting? And this is only the smallest of those many mistakes, Isidora, which a person does not want (or cannot!..) see. - But how can he see them if he blindly believes in what is presented to him?.. We must show this to people! They must know all this, North! – I couldn’t stand it again. “We don’t owe people anything, Isidora...” Sever answered sharply. “They are quite happy with what they believe in.” And they don't want to change anything. Do you want me to continue? He again tightly fenced himself off from me with a wall of “iron” confidence in his rightness, and I had no choice but to nod in response, not hiding the tears of disappointment that appeared... It was pointless to even try to prove anything - he lived in his “correct” world, without being distracted by minor “earthly problems”... - After the brutal death of Radomir, Magdalena decided to return to where her real Home was, where once upon a time she was born. Probably, we all have a craving for our “roots”, especially when for one reason or another it becomes bad... So she, killed by her deep grief, wounded and lonely, decided to finally return HOME... This place was located in the mysterious Occitania (today's France, Languedoc) and it was called the Valley of the Magicians (or also the Valley of the Gods), famous for its harsh, mystical majesty and beauty. And there was no person who, having once been there, would not have loved the Valley of the Magicians for the rest of his life... - Forgive me, Sever, for interrupting you, but the name Magdalene... didn’t it come from the Valley of the Magicians?.. - unable to resist the discovery that shocked me, I exclaimed.