Russian acting universities annually release many artists. One of them is in demand, acts in films, plays in theaters. Someone is much less fortunate: they remain unknown. There is a third category - these are actors who played their "star role" and no longer receive offers. So, perhaps, the hardest thing - just yesterday you are a star, today - no one else. Yulia Tarkhova also belongs to this category of artists, whom most will remember for the role of Vika Lyuberetskaya from the film adaptation of the story of Boris Vasiliev.
early years
Julia Borisovna Tarkhova was born on July 26, 1964 in Moscow, in an intelligent family. Papa Boris - actor, opera singer, mother Lina - journalist, writer. Yulechka grew up the only child in the family, surrounded on all sides by care and attention. She was always called refined - what else could she have become if she had spent her whole life in an atmosphere of goodness, love and respect, where no one raised her voice, where they took into account the opinions of others and supported the traditions of Russian intellectual culture? Love extended not only to each other, but also to others, to animals - cats or dogs always lived in the house. Since childhood, parents in everything supported Julia, were a support and her best friends. Thanks to them, Yulia Tarkhova kept a small world inside herself, accessible to her alone, in which it is so comfortable to live, without seeing the dirt happening around in reality. She herself calls herself a little naive, but able to remain herself, and this is important.
Friends called Julia a Turgenev girl, a real lady. Its fragility was manifested in everything, it was extremely sensitive, could burst into tears from any injustice, the slightest trifle. As she admitted later, she lacked the inner core, the desire to achieve something, to be in front, because even so she has everything. Perhaps it was this quality that did not serve her very well in the future.
After school, Julia did not even have questions about where to go - of course, in acting. Parents fully supported the girl. For some reason, her choice fell on the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, however, Julia extended her time, and as a result, when she came to submit documents, it turned out that she was late, the set was completed. It was the first blow to her pride - it turned out that shining with beauty and mind is not enough. However, she did not give up and got a job as a prop at the Moscow Art Theater to be as close to the stage as possible. Every day, Julia Tarkhova prepared the props, watched the artists rushing to the performance, their peers - and she dreamed of being among them.
The next year, she still entered VGIK. And then luck smiled at her: on the higher course, the very one where she had not time to go, a vacant place appeared. Yulia was offered a transfer. Dad said - come on, and Julia, having passed the necessary exams, was immediately in her second year in the workshop of S.F. Bondarchuk.
Mom, recalling her student years, which happened just in the sixties, painted Julia this period as the most fascinating and joyful in life. However, the daughter could not fully believe her motherly words - it was too difficult the time at which she had to study. Years of stagnation, when it is not clear what will be ahead, a lot of doubts and worries ... There were few films shot, students were invited even less, even the beautiful intelligent Julia. Probably, it was precisely the intelligence that interfered with - such roles, such a movie in the difficult eighties and nineties in Russia simply did not exist. The first breakdown in the movie for Yulia was Zhenya’s small role in Silent Outpost, then, a year later, in 1986, she played Zina’s friend in Zina Zinul. And then in her life a second big luck happened. Good luck was called
Yuri Kara.
"There was a war tomorrow"
Boris Vasiliev’s novel “Tomorrow Was War” tells of ordinary Soviet schoolchildren of the forties who first encountered life injustices, including the harsh Stalinist regime. At that time, this topic was very popular. It was her who chose the graduate of the VGIK directing faculty Yuri Kara as her thesis. As he himself later admitted, the film was originally intended to be an exclusively diploma thesis and not get on screens, but it happened as it happened.
Yuri encountered Yulia Tarkhova at the institute and was immediately struck by her intelligent appearance. I thought - here she is, Vika Lyuberetskaya! In the story of Vasilyev, Vika Lyuberetskaya is a girl from the right family, intelligent, intelligent, loving poetry, including the forbidden Yesenin. She dreams of great love, loves her father very much. When he is mistakenly arrested - like many in those years - and at school, Vika is required to publicly abandon him, to admit that he is an enemy of the people, Vika commits suicide.
Yuri gave Tarkhova read the story, and then began to persuade to play the role of Vicki. This turned out to be rather difficult, because the actors are very superstitious, afraid to play the dead. And according to the script, Julia, portraying Vika, had to lie in a coffin. Still, Julia agreed - not without the influence of her parents. This scene was filmed in a cemetery, surrounded by graves and crypts. Yulia was very scared to lie in a coffin, in flowers, listening to how speeches were made above her. At some point, her nerves could not stand it, she jumped up, began to laugh and cry - the girl had a tantrum from overstrain. Nevertheless, they managed to take the double as it should. The film was released in 1987, and the day after its appearance, Julia Tarhova, like her colleagues in the film, woke up famous.
After fame
Unfortunately, fame did not last long. For a couple of years, Julia managed to star in several films, play several roles in the theater. And then 1991 broke out - the collapse of the Soviet Union. Cinema has become unclaimed, at least one where Julia could play. Gang warfare, hard times, starving lives ... Many actors were forced to earn extra money without disdaining anything - they worked as janitors and washed floors to survive. Someone went into business.
Actress Yulia Tarkhova was relatively lucky - small roles for her were still there, episodes, but she did not refuse them. Of course, such a stunning popularity as with Vika Lyuberetskaya did not bring her such works ... And then the third luck happened - Julia was called up for advertising. Usually self-respecting actors shun such work, but in those years the main task was to survive, to have money for food. And Yulia was offered, by the local standards, a very good amount - $ 800 a month. The team was good, it was necessary to advertise not underwear or pads, but medicine. So she agreed and for many years was associated with the audience with a pretty woman from an advertisement for pharmaceutical preparations, bleaches, etc.
Here and now
Now Yulia Tarkhova is still starring a little, mostly these are small roles in the series. She does not refuse offers and with a smile recalls her stellar past. Nevertheless, she does not have the feeling that the “train has left”. The most important thing for Julia is the inner peace, which she maintains throughout her life.
Now in the creative biography of Yulia Tarhova there is the most important role - the role of mother. Julia has two daughters, Alexandra and Maria. With their father, photographer Vladimir Vyatkin, Julia lived for six years, after which they broke up as friends. It is girls that Julia considers the most important and necessary in her life, and lives for them.