Description: War Thunder is a next generation military MMO game dedicated to...
Galina Volchek is a Soviet and Russian theater director, actress and teacher, who in 1989 received the title of People's Artist of the USSR. In the theatrical environment, it is, by example, called " The Iron Lady- worship and fear, respect and worship. Galina did a lot in her life to raise culture to a high level, for which she became a holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
Galina Volchek was born in the early 30s in Moscow, in a family that was directly related to the stage and cinema. Galina's mother, Vera Maimina, is a Soviet screenwriter, and her father, Boris Volchek, is a famous director and cameraman who filmed Soviet hits Pyshka, Thirteen, Lenin in October and others.
As a child, Galya loved reading, so she rarely free time girls passed without a favorite book in their hands. Seeing his daughter's interest, his father pushed Galina to enter the only Literary Institute named after him in the Union. But it is unlikely that a child who has absorbed the acting and directing life from the cradle would have chosen a different path. Galina entered the Moscow Art Theater School, where she studied until 1955.
Theatre
The theatrical biography of Galina Volchek is full of significant events from the very beginning. A year after graduation, Galina Volchek, together with Lilia Tolmacheva, founded the new Studio of Young Actors, which would soon turn into the cult Sovremennik Theater.
And if in the late 50s Volchek appeared on stage as an actress, then in 1962 Galina Borisovna began directing, which will go down in the history of Soviet and Russian art. Looking ahead, we note that in 10 years Galina will become the chief director of the theater, and in the late 80s she will head the theater as an artistic director.
In 1984, Galina Volchek plays Martha in the production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", and this role becomes Volchik's last appearance in the theater as an actress. Since then, the artist has been focusing on her directing career.
Volchek's first directing experience brings tremendous success. It was a production of William Gibson's play "Two on a Swing", which did not leave the stage of Sovremennik for more than 30 seasons. Two more significant works of the director are "An Ordinary Story" based on the novel and the play "Three Comrades" based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. The first of them brought Galina Volchek the State Prize of the USSR, and the second in 1999 "raised Moscow on the ears" and made a splash.
Galina Volchek was the first Soviet director to break through the cultural blockade between the Soviet Union and the United States. She staged several performances of Russian classics in American theaters, including the famous Broadway, where the Russian troupe played for the first time since 1924. And these were not just performances "for show". Volchek's tour was marked by one of the most prestigious US national awards in the field of drama theater - the Drama Desk Award, which was awarded to a non-American theater for the first time in the long history of this award.
The famous director shared her experience with the new generation, and she taught mostly not in Russia, but abroad. For example, recently Galina Volchek gave a course of lectures and practical exercises at New York University.
Galina Volchek's latest production today was William Gibson's Two on a Swing in 2015. This is the same work that started Volchek's directorial career. Fans see this as a mystical and cyclical meaning and note with sadness that the first work can be chosen by the director to be staged specifically in order to be the last.
Movies
On the screen, Galina Volchek made her debut in 1957 in the film adaptation of the Spanish classic novel Don Quixote, playing the role of a strong maid Maritornes. Then there were roles in the films Sinful Angel, A Bridge Under Construction, King Lear and others.
Sometimes the actress appeared only in episodes, but she made them bright and unforgettable. For example, in the tragicomedy Beware of the Car, she simply played a buyer of a tape recorder in a store, but managed to attract the attention of the audience in ten seconds.
In the fairy tales "About Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Little Mermaid" Volchek has the negative roles of the mother wolf and the sea witch, but in them the actress perfectly realized her own talent. The films were also successful Autumn marathon”, “Unicum” and “Tevye the Milkman”.
In 1996, the actress stopped acting in feature films, but began to appear annually in documentary projects.
In the new millennium, Galina Volchek starred in a number of films dedicated to her colleagues: “The Life of Desdemona. ”,“ Unknown ”,“ . Frantic actor”, “Three loves”, “. From hate to love”, “. A man with a past” and others.
The actress also starred in the multi-part documentary projects “To Remember”, “Idols” with and “Film About the Film”, where she also talked about her colleagues, and not about herself. So far only books have been written about Galina Borisovna herself: “Galina Volchek. In an absurd and tragic mirror” Gleb Skorokhodova, “Galina Volchek. Usually outside the rules” and “Galina Volchek. By itself” by Marina Raikina.
Galina Volchek also tried herself in cinema as a director. Truth, for a long time she just filmed her best theatrical performances"An Ordinary Story", "Hurry to Do Good", "The Cherry Orchard" and many others. But she also had experience in filming according to original scenarios, for example, the heavy psychological dramas Echelon and Steep Route.
Galina Volchek on the set of the series "Mysterious Passion" In 2015, Galina Volchek suddenly returned to television as an actress in a feature series. The actress played herself in the drama "Mysterious Passion", an adaptation of the novel of the same name. The series is about real creative people of the last century, which, for the sake of the artistry of the narrative, bear fictitious, but easily decipherable names.
Personal life
Officially, Galina Volchek was married twice. The first husband of the actress is the famous actor Yevgeny Evstigneev, with whom she lived for 9 years and gave birth to a son. The son of Volchek and Evstigneev also could not leave the world of cinema and became a director. The child did not save the acting marriage, Volchek and Evstigneev separated.
Volchek claims that it was she who initiated the divorce from Yevgeny Aleksandrovich. Despite subsequent relationships, the actress no longer had children, the son from Evstigneev remained only child Galina Volchek.
Galina's second husband is the Soviet scientist Mark Abelev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, who taught at the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute. Their union also did not last long, and the couple divorced.
The third marriage of Galina Volchek was civil, lasted almost 10 years, but the director prefers not to remember this period. In her own words, she "had two husbands, several affairs and one misunderstanding." After these relationships, she did not try to create a family anymore, believing that it was impossible to devote herself completely to theatrical activities and at the same time be a happy family man.
The main hobby of Galina Volchek, as the director likes to say, is “making stars”. Of course, you can’t argue that thanks to Galina Borisovna, the world learned about a huge number of artists. But if we talk about hobbies, then it is worth noting that Volchek is not bad at modeling clothes and has created a number of memorable outfits.
In 1995, Galina Volchek agreed to put forward her own candidacy for the elections to the State Duma and entered the federal list of the All-Russian Socio-Political Movement Our Home is Russia electoral association.
For four years, the director sat in the State Duma and worked as a member of the Committee on Culture, but in 1999, by her own decision, she left the walls of parliament.
Galina Volchek now
Recently, the health of the 83-year-old star began to fail. The director often ends up in hospitals, the last time Galina Volchek was on March 21, 2016 with suspected pneumonia. After the state of health of Galina Borisovna stabilized, the director returned home.
Today, Galina Volchek moves in a wheelchair, but details about the director's health were not disclosed. The press did not come to a consensus on this matter: some argue that Galina Borisovna is confined to a wheelchair and no longer walks, others adhere to an optimistic theory that the director is simply trying not to burden himself and give the body a rest.
At the same time, the wheelchair does not prevent Galina Volchek from organizing creative evenings, meeting friends and attending social events.
April 28, 2017 Galina Volchek received the title of Hero of Labor Russian Federation with the wording "for special labor services to the state and people." Also in 2017, Galina Borisovna celebrated a double theatrical anniversary: 60 years as she has been working in Sovremennik, 45 of them as the main director.
Filmography
- 1970 - "King Lear"
- 1975 - "Waves of the Black Sea"
- 1977 - "About Little Red Riding Hood"
- 1979 - "Autumn Marathon"
- 1983 - "Unique"
- 1983 - "Black Castle Olshansky"
- 1985 - Tevye the Milkman
- 1992 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
- 2008 - "Contemporary"
- 2010 - "Catherine III"
- 2015 - "Secret Passion"
Omnipresent, like paparazzi, the artist is aware of all the events taking place in show business, and always knows who, where and with whom. For example, the artistic director of the Sovremennik Theater Galina Volchek, according to Sadalsky, is now treating her legs in Israel. The prima donna, who went to improve her health with her faithful friend Alina Redel, occasionally pampers the public with pictures of Alla Borisovna in an informal setting, also receives the help of specialists there.
ON THIS TOPIC
The day before, a friend of Pugacheva published her portrait with a glass of wine. “Don’t drink, so at least smell…” – Alina jokes in the caption to the photo, hinting that Prima Donna Concerned About Her Health, no longer drinks. Some media claim that for some time now, the mother of the twins Lisa and Harry has also quit smoking and for the sake of her kids leads healthy lifestyle life.
According to Stas, Alla and Galina not only rest in Israel, but visit local specialists. "Galina Volchek at a consultation with Israeli doctors ... Doctors from six metropolitan clinics today started an Italian strike, maybe that's why the two star ladies preferred Jewish doctors? (Hereinafter, the author's spelling and punctuation are preserved. - Approx. ed.)", - ironically in his blog in "LiveJournal" Sadalsky, who published a photo of Galina in Israel.
The actor claims that almost all talented Israeli doctors are graduates of the Soviet school. “And we could deal with the equipment no worse, only here, even in paid clinics, you don’t always find what is the norm abroad. The best equipment in Moscow is in the 67th hospital and the Krasnogorsk military hospital, which MP Kobzon adores. By the way in Israel for a consultation with sore feet and Allusya - only for some reason without a comedian, with a castle in Gryazi?"- Stas is perplexed, known for his love of Internet revelations and intrigues.
A little earlier, Sadalsky demonstrated awareness of the personal life of the star of the 90s Natalya Vetlitskaya. The artist named the reason why the famous performer suddenly left the stage and went into the shadows. According to him, once sultry blonde and sex symbol "gained a lot of weight and turned ugly".
This is a film about a man who for half a century firmly holds the famous Sovremennik Theater in his hands, but at the same time remains vulnerable and even naive in some ways. This is a film about an incredible attraction, thanks to which today in Sovremennik there is such a bright and stellar troupe, consisting of actors popular and in demand in the cinema, but absolutely devoted to the theater. Which always comes first for them.
Once the actress Chulpan Khamatova came to the rehearsal with her two-month-old daughter. So that no one would wake her daughter up, she left her in a wheelchair in Volchek's office, put a baby monitor next to her and went to rehearse. Very soon Volchek entered the office.
Chulpan Khamatova: “We are rehearsing and suddenly we hear this: “Well, did your mother leave you?” Then she starts talking to her like an adult. "Don't be offended by her," she says.
Amazing intuition for talent. Khamatova Volchek accidentally saw in the popular television program "Vzglyad". And said: "She should play in our theater!" In exactly the same way, she once called Kristina Orbakaite and said: "I see you in leading role in the play "Two on a swing". Come, let's try!"
Actress Olga Drozdova generally considers Galina Volchek her second mother: “I spent only 17 years with my mother, and 30 with Galina Borisovna”. And this is again a story about Volchek's intuition. " Give me back that little eye!”, - said Volchek, when Olga came along with other graduates of theater universities to appear in Sovremennik. And she will leave the “eyed” one in Sovremennik. And he will take care of her, and put, as they say, on her feet.
Liya Akhedzhakova played roles in the children's theater, and Volchek took her in, believed her and gave her "adult" roles. Konstantin Raikin immediately after the theater university was invited to Sovremennik. Mikhail Efremov and Anton Tabakov just call her mother. Because she and Sovremennik are their childhood.
Musician Garik Sukachev became the director of "Anarchy" on the stage of "Sovremennik" - a performance with "explosive" content. Elena Yakovleva left the theater twice and returned twice. And twice Volchek accepted her again.
And, of course, the son Denis, who does not hide that he was always jealous of his mother for the theater. But, growing up, I understood that Sovremennik is more than a theater.
« I do not have,- says Volchek, - and minutes free, the theater takes everything. Still! There is no longer anyone who created Sovremennik, but she is. And she is a theatre. Mark Abelev, her second husband, said in an interview for our film that Volchek is "special state of insanity".
On the day of the anniversary of Galina Volchek, December 19, after a major overhaul that lasted several years, the Sovremennik building on Chistye Prudy opens. Repair, reconstruction - testing. And even more so for a person who does not know life without theater. The happy end of this stage is also the happy beginning of another. In the life of the theater, and therefore in the life of Galina Volchek.
Galina Volchek manages everything at her age. She is a popular actress, whose theatrical and film works are known to many admirers of her artistic talent.
The artist brought up more than one generation of the most prominent actors and actresses of the Russian film industry. The talented woman was awarded a large number of various awards. Among them, in a special place is the title " People's Artist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” and the order received for services to the Fatherland.
In her piggy bank there are awards from the most prestigious film festivals, including several as a director. She is a self-sufficient person who has achieved everything herself. Her life and creative destiny are of interest to many lovers of Soviet and Russian cinema.
This dramatic artist became famous in the last century. Fans of Soviet cinema even then knew everything about her, including height, weight, age. How old is Galina Volchek - also not a secret behind seven seals. Soon the star of the Russian film industry will celebrate his 84th birthday. But our heroine does not like to talk about age. She declares that this is of no interest to anyone, and the mere memory of the number of years she has lived has a depressing effect on her.
The actress has a height of 163 cm and a weight of 63 kg. But in recent times weight data is constantly changing. This is due to the state of health of the artist.
Galina Borisovna Volchek, whose photos in her youth and now are significantly different, has recently been confined to a wheelchair. But admirers of her talent and relatives hope that this strong woman be able to deal with health problems.
Biography and personal life of Galina Volchek
The childhood years of the actress fall on the most severe years in the history of our country. The girl was born at the end of December in 1934. She was born with black hair, so her parents decided to name her Tick.
She recalls that she was terribly proud that Moscow, the capital of Soviet Union. Her family contributed to the development of the famous actress. Father - Boris Izrailevich Volchek was a famous film director in the Soviet Union. He wrote scripts for many Soviet films and then directed them. Mother - Vera Isaakovna Maimina was a very famous screenwriter.
From childhood, the young girl was fond of reading books. Having studied well at school, our heroine goes to study at the Moscow Art Theater, where the biography and personal life of Galina Volchek began. Since 1955, the star of Soviet and Russian cinema has been working at the Studio of Young Actors. Popular artists in the future become her colleagues: Oleg Efremov, Evgeny Evstigneev and many others. Later, the well-known Sovremennik appeared from this "Studio".
Our heroine conquered the audience with her theatrical roles. For example, she brilliantly played in "Three Comrades" and " Ordinary history”, with whom she traveled almost the whole world and conquered theater lovers and critics with her talent.
Our heroine entered into marriage twice. For the first time, her colleague at Sovremennik, Evgeny Evstigneev, from whom she gave birth only son. The second time the woman married a scientist. But they were very different, which led to a divorce.
Family and children of Galina Volchek
Our heroine is proud that she was born in a creative family. Father and mother were constantly busy with work. But that didn't stop them from giving great attention to their daughter Galochka, as they called her. The girl dreamed that her family and children would be very happy. Parents supported the girl in her desire to become an artist.
In the media of that era, it was written that the family and children of Galina Volchek were a taboo topic for our heroine, but this is not so. She always spoke in detail about loved ones.
The only thing the star of theater and cinema regrets is that she was able to give birth to only one son. Denis is very popular now. He is a famous director and producer. He currently lives civil marriage with a girl named Ekaterina.
The son of Galina Volchek - Denis Evstigneev
Galina Volchek gave birth to her only son at the end of October 1961. Interestingly, the boy did not have a name for 2 weeks. The young mother herself wanted to name him Alexei, and her husband, Evgeny Evstigneev, wanted to name the first-born Vladimir. Galina's mother helped. She offered to name the boy as fate would say. Having written 15 names on pieces of paper, the parents pulled out a note with the name Denis, so the boy was named that way.
The son of Galina Volchek - Denis Evstigneev is now a very famous director. He is the owner of numerous awards not only from the Russian Federation, but also from the Soviet Union.
Denis has never been married. He was on the threshold of this several times, but each time something prevented him. He has no children, but Galina Volchek hopes that her son will someday give her a grandson or granddaughter.
Former husband of Galina Volchek - Evgeny Evstigneev
A boy was born on one of the autumn rainy days of 1926. The family lived in poverty. After studying only a few classes at school, Eugene went to work. His father arranged for a factory in which the future popular theater and film artist worked for several years. The only outlet for the young worker was participation in a theater group at his native factory. Immediately after the war, he enters one of the theater schools.
Here he met his future wife. They needed to play a married couple. After the kiss, according to the stories of Yevgeny Evstigneev himself, he, as an honest man, was obliged to marry. Soon the happy union was strengthened after the birth of Deniska's son. In the early 70s, popular actors parted, but until the end of the days of Yevgeny Evstigneev, they communicated as friends.
The ex-husband of Galina Volchek, Evgeny Evstigneev, played in a large number of films. They are still watched by movie lovers, although the popular artist died in the early 90s of the last millennium.
Former husband of Galina Volchek - Mark Abeleev
The second husband of the popular artist was in no way connected with cinema and theater. The boy was born in the mid-30s. According to his passport, his birth falls on the year 35, but in fact the boy was born in 1934. For what reason it was recorded a year later is unknown.
Since childhood, he had a dream to connect his life with science. The young man graduated from one of the technical universities in Moscow.
Galina Volchek met Mark at one of the parties with mutual friends. What attracted her to a man, the movie star is now at a loss to answer. Soon they began to live together. But after a few years the marriage broke up.
Now ex-husband Galina Volchek – Mark Abeleev writes annually scientific work. He is the director of the Center for Innovation. After a divorce from Galina Volchek, Abelev never married again, he has no children.
Party worker Slivko tried to seduce the artistic director of Sovremennik in the bathhouse, and she was madly in love with the artist Pechnikov
Colleagues, friends and fans are getting ready to congratulate the director of the Sovremennik Theater Galina VOLCHEK on her 80th birthday. Galina Borisovna once dropped to herself: “I had two husbands, several novels and one delusion.” But she did not name the names of the gentlemen. Friends did it for her, sharing with Express Newspaper very juicy details from the life of the famous director.
Galya's parents - film director and cameraman Boris Volchek and playwright Vera Maimina - separated when she was still a schoolgirl. The girl decided to stay with her father and quickly got out of control: she began to smear her lips brightly, and once lightened her hair with wool dye. The unrequited love of a 14-year-old Moscow girl for a man much older than her was to blame for everything.
To appear older, Galya began to smoke. Catching her with a cigarette, dad burst into tears, and, as it turned out, not in vain. To this day, Galina Borisovna has not been able to overcome the bad habit, and, not at all justifying herself, remarks:
- When I die, stick a cigarette in my mouth. This will be my truth!
In the same bed
Real serious feelings came to our heroine in the first year of the Moscow Art Theater School. Then she met her future first husband and father of Denis's only son, Evgeny Evstigneev.
- Gali always had a good appearance, - smiles Oleg Basilashvili, who studied a year younger. - Since my friend Zhenya Evstigneev married her, what kind of conversation can there be? Zhenya had excellent taste and always understood women better than many of us.
However, Volchek herself assured that she fell in love with the poorly dressed provincial Evstigneev out of a sense of protest. She wanted to prove to everyone that this "space character", always walking in a ridiculous raincoat and the same shirt, is a genius.
- Galya herself has always been a real woman, - says the star of Sovremennik, Lyudmila Ivanova, Shurochka from Office Romance, who at the same time studied at the Studio School. - When we had no money at all, Galya managed to get hold of an incredibly fashionable dress. Then the staple came into fashion, and her mother sewed wonderfully. So I made my daughter a blue outfit with white branches.
Galya spent the first money she earned on new clothes for Evstigneev. I bought a French suit, shirt and boots from a secondhand shop. And Zhenya immediately changed. When he put it all on himself, those around him were stunned - it was as if he had been wearing such wonderful things all his life.
Well, now no one will pay attention to the fact that you have a kilogram of eyes, - Volchek was delighted. - You will also read “War and Peace”, and it will be quite good.
For her family, marriage to Zhenya seemed like a terrible misalliance. After another scandal, Galina took her lover away from her father's house. A couple of nights they turned over at the station, and then rented a room.
“When Evstigneev left Gali for his next wife, Lila Zhurkina, Volchek suffered a lot,” recalls Lyudmila Ivanova. - At this time, they starred in films together, where they played spouses and lay in the same bed in the frame. Despite everything, they managed to maintain friendly relations. Later, when Galina Borisovna staged the play “At the Bottom”, and Zhenya was already working not at Sovremennik, but at the Moscow Art Theater, nevertheless she invited him to this production, and he agreed.
Revenge on wife
After breaking up with Evstigneev, Volchek was not alone for long. entered her life quickly. next man- Mark Abelev, professor of the construction institute.
- Mark is a wonderful scientist, - says Volchek's friend, Tatyana Putievskaya, the widow of Igor Kvasha. - Of course, their relationship went through different stages and gradually exhausted itself, ending in an offensive divorce.
Muscovites Volchek and Abelev met in Murmansk. Galina Borisovna brought her Sovremennik there on tour, and Mark Yuryevich came on a business trip.
He turned out to be familiar with Kvasha, and he invited a friend to the play.
- The production is junk, but Tabakov played well, - Galina Borisovna accidentally heard the words of the commander and was very offended by him.
In the evening they met near the hotel, talked, and then Volchek realized that this large man with a subtle sense of humor was interesting to her.
- Mark always reminded me of Pierre Bezukhov, - says Lyudmila Ivanova. - In thick-rimmed glasses, with a clumsy gait. They said that he beautifully looked after Galina Borisovna: for all his savings - almost 1000 rubles! - I bought her a luxurious astrakhan fur coat. It was with him that she felt like a woman who is loved and tenderly cared for.
Abelev was wildly jealous of his wife, constantly checking where she went after work. And once he really caught Galina in a restaurant, having dinner with a distinguished colleague Georgy Tovstonogov. Whether there was a romance between the two directors, now no one will say for sure, but Mark did not make scenes. Through the maître d', he called the missus outside and took her home, where little Deniska was waiting for her.
When Galina Borisovna married a professor, the boy was only five years old. Denis even tried to call his stepfather dad, but Volchek cut him off:
- Dad, son, you can only have one!
According to her friends, Galina Borisovna dreamed of having more children (she adored babies), but, alas, it did not work out.
- These are already women's affairs, which did not work out for her there, - says Tatyana Putievskaya. - I know, at one time she was madly in love with the actor Gena Pechnikov and, probably, also dreamed of giving birth to him, but again nothing happened. How she liked Gena!
According to Lyudmila Ivanova, Volchek was always surrounded by male friends:
- Among them stood out Mikhail Ulyanov, Yuri Vizbor. In general, smart, educated gentlemen really liked her. When we rested with her in the south, she had no end to them. These were not novels, but coquetry. Galya loved this! Once, on tour in Tomsk, a local party official, it seems, by the name of Slivko, immediately began to court Volchek. He even organized a bath for us, the actors, but Galina Borisovna is a serious person, she did not allow him great liberties.
Well, who was the very “delusion” that our heroine spoke about, remembering her beloved men? And there was an answer to this!
- This is a married physicist named Volodya, whom Galya loved very much, - Putievskaya is sure. - She left Mark for Vladimir. True, the physicist's mother was very ill, so it was difficult to find time for meetings.
They say that Volchek suffered greatly because her lover did not dare to leave his wife for her sake. Now it’s clear what kind of beloved person, whom she still cannot forgive, Galina Borisovna recently mentioned in an interview:
- Once she told him: “You will never call here again and you will never see me!” He tried, but for me it was all over. The only thing I warned him about in the end: “You will take revenge on her (wife. -G. W.) for staying...” People who visit their house say that this is how it happened.
