Ninel (Nelli) Konstantinovna Myshkova is a Soviet theater and film actress, who received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1976. Her famous roles in the films: "Mary the Skilful", "Sadko", "Ilya Muromets", "The Viper" became truly stellar for the actress and brought the well-deserved fame and love of the audience.
Ninel was a delightful woman, and the men around her idolized the actress and admired her beautiful, slightly slanting eyes and a snow-white smile. She was a very kind and sympathetic person, always ready to help her loved ones. The creative biography of the actress began at the end of the 40s, and Ninel Konstantinovna played the last role in the 82nd in the picture "Races along the vertical."
Childhood
The girl was born in the spring of 1926 in the family of an officer who served in the tsarist army and a former noblewoman. In those years, it became fashionable to call children unusual names that had a hidden meaning, so the girl was named Ninel, and if you read the name the other way around, it turned out Lenin. She did not like her name and, even starting to act in films, tried to change it and asked to call her Eve.
Ninel spent her childhood in Leningrad, but then the family moved to Moscow, where her father, as a military man, was given a large apartment. During the war, Konstantin Romanovich served in the aviation and died heroically in the defense of Stalingrad.
The girl received an excellent upbringing, she was taught art and good manners. After graduating from school, Ninel decided to become an actress and immediately entered the theater school, thanks to her talents and amazing beauty.
First roles
The actress performed her first film role in the film “For those at sea”, but her appearance on the screen was not noticed. The next work was the image of the geologist's wife in the painting "The House I Live In". Her partner was Mikhail Ulyanov, and the role brought Ninel her first creative victory and fame.
The starring role was followed by other film work. The actress was actively invited to the shooting, and the audience was looking forward to her new roles. She starred in one of the first films of the famous Eldar Ryazanov "Man from Nowhere", worked with famous actors: Yuri Yakovlev, Faina Ranevskaya, Rostislav Plyatt, Nadezhda Rumyantseva.
The actress was loved not only by the older generation, because she played many roles in children's films. The first fabulous role went to Ninel with the director Alexander Ptushko in the famous fairy tale "Sadko", where she played the Ilmen princess. Soon there were new proposals, and Ninel starred in the films "Ilya Muromets" and "Marya-artiste". Thanks to her amazing beauty, the actress could make almost any film with her participation popular.
One of the main successes in Myshkova's acting career can be called the role in the film adaptation of A. Tolstoy's novel "The Viper", where she got the image of the main character - Olga Zotova.
Throughout her life, Myshkova played dozens of roles. She was invited by the best directors, and she was truly a star of Soviet cinema.
Personal life
As a student at the theater school, Ninel met with Vladimir Etush, who was then an assistant to one of the teachers. Soon they began an affair, despite the fact that Vladimir was several years older than Ninel. Vladimir soon proposed to the girl, and they got married. The first years for them were filled with love and happiness, but later the relationship began to deteriorate. Perhaps the reason was Etush himself, who tried to restrain his feelings. Ninel began to appear at home less often, and after a while confessed to her husband that she had an affair with one famous composer - Antonio Spadavecchia. As a result, Etush and Myshkova divorced.
Her new romance did not last long, and soon she became interested in director Alexander Ptushko, and already on the set of the film she met Konstantin Petrichenko, who became her second husband. In this marriage, Ninel had a son, Constantine.
The third husband was Viktor Ivchenko, the director who shot the actress in the film "The Viper". They lived together for several years and were very happily married until the death of her husband. Ninel took this loss hard and could not come to terms with it for the rest of her life.
Ninel Konstantinovna Myshkova died in 2003 from progressive sclerosis, which tormented her for almost two decades.
