For several years now, the famous domestic actress Margarita Terekhova has Alzheimer's disease. This was announced from her daughter, who admitted that her mother was suffering, explaining why she had not appeared in public for a long time. How this disease develops and how dangerous it is, how long the actress has undermined her health, we will tell in this article.
Terekhova’s disease
Even the most famous people suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Margarita Terekhova was no exception. This ailment leaves its mark not only on health, but also on the appearance of a person. The one who recently led an active life, talked a lot and appeared in public, becomes closed, avoiding acquaintances. The disease leaves its mark. This happened with Terekhova, who during her long and bright creative career played several dozen roles in cinema and theater, tried herself even in directing, and now she is helpless and sick.
Margarita Terekhova was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease several years ago. Now the actress is almost 76 years old, while she no longer appears at public events. This isolation is explained not only by respectable age, but also by a serious ailment.
Margarita Terekhova’s talk about Alzheimer's disease a few years ago was told by her daughter Anna, who also works as an actress. She noted that her mother’s memory problems started about ten years ago, and from that period onwards, she could no longer do without outside help.
Manifestation of the disease
Today, many people suffer from Alzheimer's. Margarita Terekhova, whose photo is in this article, also turned out to be uninsured from her. Although doctors assure that intellectually developed and educated individuals have little chance of getting sick.
Everyone with Alzheimer's will sooner or later experience memory problems. They forget the appearance and names of even the closest people, cannot remember any important and significant dates, events that took place recently.
Often they have speech impairment, patients cannot express themselves clearly, their words are often confused so that they cannot be made out. Often with Alzheimer's disease, a person ceases to simply monitor his decent appearance, this is largely due to the fact that it becomes unbearably difficult to perform even the most basic actions. All these symptoms are present in Margarita Borisovna Terekhova, her Alzheimer's disease develops according to the classical scenario. For a long time, she can no longer do the simplest household chores without outside help, get together to leave the house, for example, to the store. The illness of Margarita Borisovna Terekhova became a serious burden for her family and friends.
How does an actress cope?
Her daughter Anna took care of the mother. She is a popular actress, plays a lot in movies, performs at the Moscow Theater of the Moon. Anna is a busy person, so she had to hire a nurse to cope with Margarita Terekhova’s illness. The medical worker helps the famous Soviet actress in everything and takes care of her.
Photo now Margarita Terekhova (Alzheimer's disease struck her several years ago) many can hit. For this reason, her every walk ended in problems. Those who recognized her began shamelessly staring at a celebrity struck by an ailment. In addition, due to illness, she often forgot the way home, now she can’t go outside without help at all.
About the disease, the biography of Margarita Terekhova is described in detail in this article. According to her daughter, her mother’s health was greatly shaken after filming the movie "The Seagull" in 2005. It was her first directorial experience, in addition, she wrote the script for the film, based on the play of the same name by Anton Chekhov.
Terekhova herself in the film played Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya. The work exhausted her so much that she simply had no strength left for other projects, and soon she developed a terrible ailment.
What causes the disease?
Margarita Borisovna Terekhova, whose photo is in this article, manifested Alzheimer's disease for a reason not completely understood. The fact is that the disease itself has not yet been fully investigated. Most scientists believe that it is transmitted at the genetic level.
Most often, the disease manifests itself after 55 years. At the same time, the sex of the diseased does not matter much, although women are sick more often than men. Usually those who have close relatives who have had a similar disease or Down's disease are usually affected.
At the very beginning, to recognize this disease is very difficult, almost impossible. Even the closest people do not understand that a person has the first signs of Alzheimer's disease.
The saddest thing is that it is completely impossible to prevent it. Especially if you can prove that it really has genetic roots. In this case, you can only slow down its development and improve the quality of life of a sick person with the help of drugs. This is what Anna Terekhova is doing her best to do for her mother .
Biography of the Soviet actress
Margarita Terekhova was born in 1942 in the Sverdlovsk region. She was born in the small town of Turinsk. Her parents were actors of the regional drama theater, she decided to follow in their footsteps. Over time, the Terekhova family moved to Uzbekistan.
The heroine of our article graduated from school with a gold medal, from childhood she was engaged in basketball, even was the captain of the youth team of Uzbekistan. She began to get higher education at Tashkent University at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, but then dropped out of high school and went to Moscow. She decided to realize her dream of becoming an actress, enrolling in the Zavadovsky school-studio, which was opened at the Mossovet Theater.
Stage debut
She received a theater education in 1964, made her debut on the stage of the Mossovet Theater. She worked there for many years, playing many bright roles. For example, Marie in the play “Through the Eyes of a Clown” based on the novel of the same name by Heinrich Belle, Cleopatra in “Caesar and Cleopatra” by Bernard Shaw, Sonya in “Crime and Punishment” by Dostoevsky.
Terekhova also tried herself as a theater director, staging the play "When Five Years Pass" based on the works of Garcia Lorca.
On the big screen
In the movie, Terekhova made her debut in 1965 in the drama Frunze Dovlatyan "Hello, it's me!", Playing a character named Tanya. The fame for the heroine of our article came in the next picture of 1966 - the drama by Pavel Lyubimov "Running on the Waves". In the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alexander Green, she got the role of Frezy Grant.
Among her other high-profile works of that period, it is worth noting the role of Natasha Shipilova in the melodrama of Andrei Smirnov “Belorussky Station” and Natalia in the film-reflection of Andrei Tarkovsky “Mirror”.
Milady winter
In a short time, Terekhova became a popular and sought-after actress, which the directors invited to the roles of a variety of characters. Popular love reached Terekhova in 1978, when the musical adventure adventure comedy by George Yungvald-Khilkevich "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" was released.
In this film adaptation of Alexander Dumas novels, she appears on the same set with the most popular artists of her time - Mikhail Boyarsky, Veniamin Smekhov, Valentin Smirnitsky, Igor Starygin, Oleg Tabakov, Alisa Freindlich.
Terekhova gets the role of the cunning Milady Winter, who deprives the duke of pendants, kills Constantine's beloved protagonist with the help of poison, and weaves a network of intrigue in medieval France.
In 1980, another tape came out, thanks to which everyone today remembers Terekhova. This is Jan Fried’s melodramatic comedy “Pious Martha.” In the film adaptation of the comedy of the same name by the Spanish playwright Tirso de Molina, she plays a noble doña that drives one crazy and makes all the men in the audience fall in love with herself, and even all the spectators in the hall.
Also among the works of Terekhova can be noted the roles in Alexander Orlov’s drama “The Secret of Edwin Drud”, Alexander Efremov’s melodrama “Let's Get Married”, Valeriu Zheregi’s drama “Everything could be different”, Olgerd Vorontsov’s melodrama “Beyond Blue Nights”, and the historical film “Rus” original ", the psychological drama by Valeriu Zheregi" The Dissident ", the tragicomedy of Sergei Ovcharov" Ono ", the drama by Vera Glagoleva" Broken Light ", the drama by Yuri Shvyrev and Yuri Sorokin" Ivan Fedorov ".
Her role in her own film "The Seagull" was the last in her career. After that, Terekhov was finally overcome by the disease.
Work outside the cinema
Outside the set, Terekhova has always remained a vibrant and creative personality. She was close friends with Igor Talkov, and in the 80s played in the theater group he formed under the name "The Fairy Tale".
In 2012, at the Moscow Premiere Film Festival, Margarita Terekhova was honored on the occasion of her 70th birthday. Festival President Aleksey Batalov handed her a diploma and an honorary prize for his contribution to domestic cinema.
Personal life
Margarita Terekhova was married three times. For the first time, she married Vyacheslav Butenko, Honored Artist of Russia, who was her peer in 1964. The marriage was fragile, breaking up after three years.
Immediately after parting with Butenko, Terekhova formalized her relationship with Bulgarian actor Savva Khashimov, with whom she played in the film "Running on the Waves". Then in the 67th, daughter Anna was born. This marriage broke up in 1969.
Only after a long break Margarita Terekhova decided to get married for the third time. In 1980, she married the director Georgy Gavrilov, who was 16 years younger than her. His most famous work is a documentary about the narcotic subculture Confession. Chronicle of Alienation, filmed in 1988. They have been married for 15 years.
In 1981, the couple had a son, Alexander, who received a graduate diploma from VGIK, became an actor. In 1995, they divorced, and soon Gavrilov left for New York.