Alla Parfanyak was once a style icon - elegant and sophisticated. This is hereditary: her mother is a hereditary Polish aristocrat, and her father is a professor and teacher. And this beautiful actress left the stage for the sake of her family, and never regretted her sacrifice.
Alla was born in 1923 in Minsk. She received an excellent education: her parents tried to instill in her a good taste and interest in art. The father's surname was Parfanyak, and Alla wore it before entering the Shchukin school. Then she added a soft sign to it, and the surname began to sound in the French manner.
When Alla was a teenager, Petr Parfanyak was repressed and sent to a camp. The family, fortunately, did not suffer, and Alla managed to graduate from college.
Career in theater and cinema
After graduation, she got into the Vakhtangov Theater. She participates in the performances Les Miserables, The Two Veronese, Romeo and Juliet, Before Sunset. Former classmate Yevgeny Simonov often invites her to his performances, where Alla Parfanyak shines on stage in all the strength of her talent.
The last year of the war is going on, the mood for Victory is already felt in everything, the directors are shooting pictures about love. Alla is invited to one of these films - she starred in the film "Heavenly Slow Mover" together with Nikolai Kryuchkov.
After the release of the film, viewers could see Parfanyak only on the stage of the theater. She was busy in the performances of "Dion", "Children of the Sun" and others.
She appeared in films very rarely, mostly it was episodes in the films "The Last Day", "House under the Starry Sky", "If the enemy does not surrender."
In the 70s, Alla Petrovna appeared in two performances: "Richard III" and "Stepan Razin". The fact is that after the birth of her daughter, she gave all her strength to the family.
Personal life
Alla's beauty won many hearts, and many men would like to see her as a life partner. Just what are the names of Leonid Utesov, Alexander Vertinsky, Mark Bernes. Even the notorious Beria was credited with an interest in the young actress.
However, she married Nikolai Kryuchkov, with whom she starred in "Heavenly Slow Mover". He was already famous then, he was married to actress Maria Pastukhova. However, this did not stop him - he divorced and offered Alla a family union. They got married, their son Nikolai was born, and the couple lived a happy life.
And then Kryuchkov, apparently, fell ill with "star fever," and life went awry. At that time, Alla saw that a young artist who had recently come to the theater was in love with her - Mikhail Ulyanov, a Siberian and a surprisingly "real" person.
Alla looked at him for a long time, and then she made up her mind and spoke. She saw how his eyes lit up, how he literally lit up. And on stage he was excellent - Alla could not help but notice this, and this also gave rise to respect.
After a divorce from Kryuchkov, Alla marries Ulyanov, and in 1959 their daughter Elena is born. From this moment, difficulties begin in the family: the daughter is sick, the husband is on the set all the time. And Alla Petrovna decides to leave the theater.
She supports her husband, brings up a son from her first marriage and a daughter, then a granddaughter. All her worries are about her family and loved ones.
In the last years before his death, Mikhail Ulyanov was seriously ill, and Alla Petrovna spent all the time with him. After his death, she fell into a coma, she died in 2009.
