Tatyana Okunevskaya is a bright star of Soviet cinema, a favorite of leaders and ordinary viewers. Her fate was unusual, in many respects tragic and consonant with the difficult era in which the actress happened to live.
Brief biography and career
Tatiana Okunevskaya was born in 1914 in a fairly wealthy and very close-knit family. However, at a very young age, she had to experience hardships and shocks - the girl's father, a former police officer, was imprisoned three times and was forced into hiding. Having lost the breadwinner, the family was in poverty, Tatiana was expelled from school as the daughter of a “hostile element” and a bereaved. The mother had to file a fictitious divorce and place the girl in another school, the leadership of which turned a blind eye to the dubious biography of the new student.
After graduating from school at the age of 17, young Tatiana worked as a courier, while at the same time taking evening courses. Both classes were not to her liking, the further fate of the girl was determined by chance. For her spectacular appearance, she was invited to act in films, the first episodic shootings showed that this beautiful girl has a great future.
The first big motion picture was "Pyshka" by Mikhail Romm. The audience and the director appreciated the work of the aspiring actress, and the next offer was not long in coming. The most striking role of Okunevskaya was Tonya Zhukova in the film "Hot Days". After the release of the film, Tatiana became a real star. However, she was not limited to a film career, creating many vivid images on the stage. The popularity grew, the actress enjoyed interesting roles and recognition from fans.
The triumph of the young actress was interrupted by 1937. It began with the sudden arrest of his father and grandmother. Already in the 50s, Tatiana learned that the closest people were convicted and very quickly shot. The actress herself received the stigma of "enemy of the people" and was immediately removed from all productions. It was a hard time, Okunevskaya had to think about how to live without work, having a mother and little daughter in her arms. During this difficult period, she was saved by a hasty marriage with a successful writer Boris Gorbatov, who enjoys patronage in the highest circles. The name of her husband again opened the way for the actress to the cinema, she successfully starred in the films "May Night" and "Alexander Parkhomenko".
During the war, Okunevskaya took part in concerts, went to the front with her husband. After 1945, the shooting continued, for 3 years Tatiana starred in 3 films. Work in the cinema was accompanied by tours, including abroad. A real triumph awaited the actress in Yugoslavia - she was received by Marshal Josip Broz Tito, fascinated by the talent and beauty of Okunevskaya.
A sudden shock for the actress and her family was the sudden arrest on the personal instructions of Abakumov. The wording was rather vague: the actress was accused of anti-Soviet propaganda. There is an opinion that this decision was influenced by the cooling of relations with Yugoslavia and the personal enmity of Lavrenty Beria. The actress spent 13 months in the cell, after which the sentence was announced - 10 years in the camps.
In 1954, the sentence was revised, Okunevskaya was released and rehabilitated. She returned to the theater. Lenin Komsomol, in which she served before her arrest. At the same time, she acted in films - on the account of Okunevskaya about 17 diverse roles. However, she did not succeed in repeating the pre-war success - Okunevskaya forever remained a half-forgotten star of the 30-40s. The actress was not upset by such a creative fate. Until a ripe old age, she retained a spectacular appearance and an outstanding mind, was keenly interested in modernity, and was very concerned about her health. She worked part-time by participating in group concerts, traveling to the provinces, performing at concert venues and in clubs. The last year has become very difficult - during plastic surgery, Okunevskaya contracted hepatitis, which led to bone cancer and liver cirrhosis. The actress died in 2002 at the age of 88 and was buried in the Vagankovskoye cemetery next to her mother.
Personal life
Tatyana Okunevskaya never suffered from a lack of male attention. Spectacular, very beautiful, possessing bright charisma, they attracted at first sight. The first husband of the aspiring actress was the future director Dmitry Varlamov. The marriage did not last long, after him remained a daughter, Inga.
The second husband, Boris Gorbatov, saved the actress in the most difficult years of repression and provided her with a vibrant bohemian life. However, this marriage also did not stand the test - after the arrest, the husband did not defend his wife, disowned her and drove his mother-in-law and stepdaughter out of the house. Subsequently, Gorbatov remarried.
Archil Gomiashvili became the third and last husband of Okunevskaya. This marriage was quite successful. However, the actress did not hide the fact that in addition to her legal spouses, she had many hobbies. Okunevskaya is credited with having affairs with the Yugoslav dictator Broz Tito, Minister Abakumov, Chief of General Staff Popovich and Lavrentiy Beria himself. All the twists and turns of her confused, complex and vibrant life, the actress outlined in her memoirs "Tatiana's Day".
