Despite the fact that Lyudmila Abramova is a famous actress, still more often her name is identified with the second wife of Vladimir Vysotsky, with whom she lived for seven years. In this marriage, two sons were born. Lyudmila Vladimirovna still remains the main keeper of the bard's great heritage. She stood at the origins of the creation of the museum of the famous singer and poet, was the artistic director of the Vysotsky House on Taganka.
Lyudmila Vladimirovna Abramova lives and works in Moscow. She still devotes her life to professional activities in the Vysotsky Museum Center. Currently, her eldest son Arkady Vysotsky is a screenwriter and actor, and her youngest son Nikita Vysotsky runs his father's museum and is engaged in acting and directing.
For the second time, the famous artist married Yuri Petrovich Ovcharenko, with whom she has been living together for over 40 years. In the large and happy family of Lyudmila Vladimirovna, there are already five grandchildren, and from the "zero" great-grandchildren began to appear.
Brief biography of Lyudmila Abramova
On August 16, 1939, the future famous artist was born in an intelligent metropolitan family. Lyudmila's father worked as an editor at the Khimiya publishing house, and her mother had two higher educations, which at that time testified to an exceptional level of academic knowledge. The girl's upbringing was greatly influenced by her grandmother Lyubov Borisovna, who, according to the actress herself, "knew the abyss of poetry by heart."
Remembering the military evacuation of the family near Perm, Lyudmila Abramova is delighted with the grandmother's recitation of poems by Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilyov. It is known that the brother and sister of Lyubov Borisovna were on friendly terms with the first. And in the Abramovs' house, despite the scientific activity of Luda's parents, it was precisely the creative atmosphere that reigned. This was the reason for the admission of a young and gifted girl to VGIK, which, quite naturally, was perceived by the mother and father, who dreamed of the "serious" profession of their own child, with great restraint.
However, the very first successes of Lyudmila in the cinematic field were received by her parents with great enthusiasm. After their daughter's debut in cinema, they firmly believed in her artistic talents and a successful career as a film actress. At the university, Abramova received the basics of acting on the course with Mikhail Romm, and her classmates were Andron Konchalovsky and Andrei Smirnov.
Creative career of an artist
The cinematic debut of the aspiring actress took place in 1961, when she was still a student at VGIK. The main role in the movie drama with an adventure plot "713th asks for landing", where the director was Grigory Nikulin, immediately made Lyudmila Abramova popular. This film project was called the first Soviet disaster film. It tells the story of the behavior of passengers on a transatlantic liner of a Western airline, who found themselves in a catastrophic situation caused by the euthanasia of all crew members. The actress played Ava Priestley (Western movie star). And together with her, Nikolai Korn, Vladimir Chestnokov and Vladimir Vysotsky appeared on the set.
The extraordinary success of the actress after the release of her debut motion picture could develop further only in 1966, when she took part in the filming of Valentina Vinogradova's military tape "Eastern Corridor". Until that time, Lyudmila Abramova was busy with family concerns related to motherhood.
However, the fate of the "Eastern Corridor" was quite difficult, which was due to the verdict of the Soviet censorship, which accused the creators of "aestheticism and symbolism." And even after overcoming a two-year period of oblivion and the release of the picture in the rental in 1968, the decision to ban was implemented again. And then the filmography of the actress was replenished with such film projects as "I Can't Live Without You, Yuste" (1969), "Middle of Life" (1976) and "Red Chernozem" (1977), where she starred in secondary and episodic roles.
After that, Lyudmila Abramova stopped participating in the filming of feature films. She was only engaged in the creation of documentaries about Vladimir Vysotsky (a cycle of six tapes) and Svetlana Svetlichnaya (one picture). And in 1984, Lyudmila Vladimirovna tried her hand at the role of a screenwriter for the only time when she became the author of a dramatic plot in Igor Apasyan's film project "Until the Snow Falls".
In early 1989, the Moscow City Council decided to create a center-museum of Vladimir Vysotsky, designed to preserve the cultural heritage left by the great singer and poet. Lyudmila Abramova subsequently worked in the open "Vysotsky House on Taganka", and also was engaged in teaching at the Moscow Lyceum. In the "nineties" she published her memoirs "The facts of his biography", and in 2012 she published a posthumous collection of stories by Dina Kalinovskaya, thus showing her attitude to the work of a close friend.
Personal life
On the debut filming of the film "713th Asks for Landing" Lyudmila Abramova met with Vladimir Vysotsky, whom she met a little earlier under rather strange circumstances. The future husband of the actress appeared before the stranger in a rather unsightly form. The bard was extremely drunk and in a bloody shirt. Seeing a decently dressed girl, he bluntly asked to lend him 200 rubles to pay for the damage caused to the restaurant of the Evropeyskaya Hotel. Then the pledged grandmother's ring went into action, which Vysotsky subsequently bought and returned to the mistress.
And the offer to become the wife of the bard Lyudmila received on the set of the film. It is noteworthy that the aspiring actress was then in mourning for a fan who committed suicide. Despite this circumstance and the fact that Vladimir was then married to Isolde Zhukova, Lyudmila agreed. Her parents did not like the choice of their daughter, who saw only a problematic person in a constantly drunk and married man. However, the actress's grandmother, who enjoyed unquestioning authority in her family, agreed to this marriage.
By the way, the mother of the singer and poet Nina Maksimovna was also not delighted with Lyudmila Abramova. She did not want her son's divorce and subsequently began to communicate normally with her daughter-in-law only after the birth of her grandchildren. And the wedding of the artists took place in 1965, when Arkady was already three years old, and Nikita was a year old. Moreover, the name of the eldest son was given in honor of Arkady Strugatsky, who became a friend of the family.
And in the summer of 1967, Marina Vlady appeared in the life of Vladimir Vysotsky, who played the role of a homeless woman. When Abramova found out (the last!) About the existence of a rival, she let her husband go without unnecessary scandals. It is noteworthy that until the age of majority, the sons bore the mother's surname. The actress herself explained this circumstance by her desire to protect them from excessive press attention. Moreover, Vysotsky himself, and after the divorce in 1970, regularly visited and supported Abramova and his sons.
After some time, Lyudmila married an engineer Yuri Ovcharenko, in a marriage with whom in 1973, a daughter, Seraphim, was born. Vysotsky also maintained a very warm relationship with her until the very end of his life.
