Honored Artist of the RSFSR Galina Ivanovna Yatskina is a native of Makhachkala and comes from the family of a career soldier. The mass domestic audience is more familiar with her film works in the title Soviet films "French Lessons", "Women" and "The End of the Lyubavins". In recent years, she changed her professional career to missionary work, in which she excelled.
Currently, Galina Yatskina does not appear on the stage and film sets due to the fact that she lives exclusively by faith in God and actively participates in the missionary activities of Orthodoxy. According to the actress, there are no passing film works in her filmography, although there could be more of them. The Honored Artist of the RSFSR is preparing to write a book in the genre of memoirs and helps her son-director to stage documentary films.
Biography and career of Galina Ivanovna Yatskina
On June 16, 1944, the future Soviet film star was born in Makhachkala. At the age of three, Galya was diagnosed with bone tuberculosis, which is why she spent up to seven years in the hospital, and then moved exclusively on crutches. However, the stubborn girl was not going to give up, but fully studied at school like all healthy children and even went in for physical education. Interestingly, Yatskina was able to overcome the pain of broken bones and go in for sports according to an individual program, which resulted in the 2nd sports category in the youth gymnastics program.
In high school, Galina Yatskina enrolled in the stage studio "Young Guard", which allowed her, after receiving a certificate of secondary education, on the first attempt to enter the legendary "Pike" (workshop of B. Zakhava). And then the aspiring actress's creative career began, in which she was part of the troupe of the Stanislavsky Theater for a year. Then there were six years at the Mayakovsky Theater, and, finally, work at Lenkom.
A difficult period in creative activity was the second half of the "seventies", when the illness returned to Galina. Only the operation of G. Ilizarov himself could put the actress on her feet. And she used the time of rehabilitation to finish the graduate school of her native university and start teaching.
Galina Yatskina made her cinematic debut with the role of the milkmaid Dasha in the film Flood (1962). The film "Women" (1966) also belongs to the student days of the aspiring actress, during the persistent filming of which the young woman was even subjected to a hypertensive crisis. The most active period in the creative life of a film actress can be considered the "seventies" and "eighties". At this time, her filmography was replenished, including film projects "Hello, Doctor!" (1974), French Lessons (1978), People and Dolphins (1983), The Emir's Secret Journey (1986).
Yatskina's last films include roles in the films Blessed (2008) and City Lights (2009).
Personal life of the actress
Four marriages and one child remained behind the family life of the Honored Artist of the RSFSR. The first spouse of Galina was the engineer Vladimir, with whom she broke up because of a romantic infatuation with the director Leonid Golovnya.
It was he who became the second husband of the actress, to whom she gave birth to her son Vasily in 1972 (now a graduate of Moscow State University, director). However, four years after the marriage, this marriage also fell apart. By the way, after giving birth, Yatskina spent two years on crutches, since after that her chronic illness worsened. But during this period she defended her dissertation.
For the third time, Galina married the Komsomol functionary Felix, but his sudden death due to a heart attack caused the termination of this family union.
But the most incomprehensible thing in the biography of the actress was precisely the last marriage with the Finnish businessman Matti in the late "eighties", with whom she even got married in an Orthodox church. This spouse managed to get entangled in financial encumbrances and secretly left Russia, without even warning his own spouse.
