Galina Yatskina, biography, personal life, the photos of which will be presented below, are an actress, teacher and director, whose impeccable taste causes envy. She did not star in any film that would not be included in the golden fund of domestic cinema. Among her students are Alexander Gordon, Sergey Makovetsky and Sergey Zhigunov. And low-budget films shot at the Kinokontakt studio have such a high moral component that they receive approval not only from the leadership, but also from the Orthodox Church. What is known about this amazing woman?
Childhood
Galina Yatskina hails from Makhachkala, but the childhood of the future actress passed in the Volga region of Saratov. Date of birth - 06.16.1944. The family was the most ordinary: mother Zinaida - the elevator, dad Ivan - the guard. She spent four years in childhood in bed due to tuberculosis of the right ankle joint. For a lifetime, a sore leg will remain much thinner than the other; make-up artists in films will have to correct this defect. The first year of training was held in a hospital, after which little Galya began attending a regular school on crutches, trying to be like peers in everything. Lame, she came to the gymnastics section, impressing her coach with her perseverance.
The girl did not just attend training, but also performed at competitions, having received youthful rank. She completely left crutches and ran to classes in the theater circle of the Saratov Palace of Pioneers, standing out as a special talent among her peers.
Galya Yatskina - actress from the galaxy of circle members Natalya Sukhostav
The circle was headed by a truly unique woman - Natalya Iosifovna Sukhostav, daughter and wife of the repressed in Stalin's time. From 1944 to 1985, she worked at the Palace of Pioneers, staging performances at the level of urban youth theater. An actress by training, once dismissed from the theater, she had a flair for talent, preparing the real creative elite of a new generation. More than 150 future famous actors with titles have left her circle. Among her students are Vladimir Konkin, Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Yankovsky.
She advised the girl to go to the theater, but not in Saratov, but in Moscow. The father reacted negatively to the decision of the daughter, but the seventeen-year-old Yatskina Galina, an actress whose personal life is widely covered in the press, made her own way, showing her character. She entered the Shchukin school, where the competition was 400 people per place. Teachers at the entrance exams did not even notice the natural defect of the applicant. Marianna Vertinskaya, Alexander Kalyagin and Nikita Mikhalkov studied with her, to the level of which she had to reach.
Movie debut
As a freshman, the girl had already played a milkmaid in the film "High Water", but the role of Alka in the feature film "Women" brought her real success. The director Pavel Lyubimov set the task for the actors to be themselves, so the film turned out to be really popular. Screenwriter Irina Velembovskaya during the filming rewrote the dialogs to make the image closer to each artist playing this or that hero. The luminaries of domestic cinema were shot in the 1966 film: Valentina Vladimirova, Nina Sazonova, Inna Makarova, Nadezhda Fedosova. The role of the son of Catherine (N. Sazonov), who fell in love with a single mother Alka, was then played by a student of the Shchepkinsky school Vitaly Solomin.
Yatskina Galina - actress (you can see the photo in this material), who played one of the main roles, made a documentary about the film by the fiftieth anniversary of the picture, which had become one of the rental leaders in its time. In it, she tried to find the answer, why the melodrama about the workers of the furniture factory still excites the modern audience.
Filmography of the actress
Among the twenty three roles of the actress, the most famous:
- "Hit! Another blow! ” Victor Sadovsky (1968). The role of the girlfriend of a football player named Sergei, who played a decisive role as a result of the football match.
- “The Echo of Distant Snows” by Leonid Golovnya (1970). The role of a geologist named Irina.
- “The End of the Lubavins” by Leonid Golovnya based on a work by Vasily Shukshin (1971). The role of Claudia.
- “The word for protection” by Vadim Abrashitov (1977). For the role of a lawyer, Galina Yatskina, an actress whose filmography includes 23 film works, received an award ("Best Actress").
- “French Lessons” by Evgeny Tashkov based on the work of the same name by Valentin Rasputin, where the actress played the mother of the main character (1978).
- “I'll Take Your Pain” by Mikhail Ptashuk (1981). The role of Tasi Batrak.
- "Burn" by Gennady Glagolev (1989). The role of Lydia. The film won the festival prize in Germany (1989).
- The Provincials by Boris Kvashnev (1990). The role of Lydia Andreevna.
Galina Yatskina stopped acting in 2009, but since the nineties she rarely agreed to the roles, believing that the cinema industry has replaced the cinema, and to participate in commercial projects is not in its rules.
Leonid Golovnya in the life of an actress
Filming with the director Golovnya, the author of one of the sensational film works on the novel by V. Zakrutkin “The Mother of Man”, the young woman was already married. The first husband is an engineer in space exploration named Vladimir. But the courtship of the director, also by then married to the daughter of a military attache, was too persistent. Yatskina Galina - an actress whose personal life interests many, could not resist the onslaught of the talented master of domestic cinema. Both left their former families to unite their fates. In 1972, they became husband and wife, having lived together for 4 years. The woman still regrets that she left the first spouse, who, after her departure, drank too much and passed away early.
The marriage with Leonid Golovnoy was not happy. After the birth of her son Vasily in 1972, she again went to a hospital bed with a diagnosis of tuberculosis. It was a fee for deciding to become a mother. Fortunately, it turned out that the child just took the bone tissue. The problem was fixed in the clinic of Dr. Ilizarov, whom the actress considers her savior. She will make the film “Doctor of Last Hope” about him.
When Vasya was 4 years old, Galina Yatskina divorced Golovnya, taking only children's things with her. Only over the years, resentment subsided. The father of his only son Yatskina, who lives in the USA, occasionally called and congratulated on holidays. In 2012, the outstanding director was gone.
Teaching activities
During her stay in the hospital, a young woman, moving on crutches, thought about changing her profession. In the doctor’s office, she spent time writing a dissertation, enrolling in graduate school at her native Shchukin school. Everything was in time thanks to the fact that in 1975 she got behind the wheel of a car with which she never parted. Since 1979, began teaching, which gave 17 years. Yatskina Galina, actress, today is the only candidate of sciences who created a new discipline in a theater university. Until 1991, she graduated courses in parallel with work on stage and filming a movie.
She studied with Mikhail Shirvindt, Sergey Chonishvili, Nikita Dzhigurda. Few people know that the acting school was also led by an actress in Afghanistan, at the Afghanfilm film studio, during the war years. She was the first woman among art representatives to visit a hot spot and speak to Russian soldiers in military hospitals. Seeing young crippled guys, the actress was speechless. Behind the scenes, they poured vodka and advised her to meet on a light positive note, not showing pity for the soldiers waiting for a completely different meeting. With the money she earned, the woman was able to build a summer cottage, because her life was ordered in such a way that Galina Yatskina, the actress, could only count on herself.
Personal life, photo of the son
A child born contrary to the advice of doctors who believe that the health of the actress will seriously suffer, is today the closest person to Yatskina. After Leonid Golovnya, she will be married twice more. Felix, who works in the Komsomol Central Committee, replaced Vasily’s father, but passed away early without a heart attack. The last husband was a businessman from Finland named Matti, producing the film Urga by Nikita Mikhalkov. The outstanding director was even the best man at the wedding and the host at the wedding banquet. For five years, the couple traveled all over Scandinavia by car, but the marriage, unfortunately, ended in divorce.
Basil in childhood was a very agile child, so the teachers advised him to show him to a psychiatrist. He immediately diagnosed schizophrenia. The boy was sent to a hospital in which he never wanted to stay. Helped actress colleague Nikolai Burlyaev. He advised a psychologist who identified the main reason for the guy's deviant behavior. In the lessons, that was trite boring. And soon the situation was helped by the fact that Yatskina Galina was an actress. Filmmakers' children are often invited to film screenings as minors. So Vasily got the main role in the film "People and Dolphins", where outstanding actors were shot: Natalya Fateeva, Vladimir Talashko, Evgeny Leonov-Gladyshev. She was a partner in the film and her own mother. Cinema carried away the young man.
Difficult 90s
In the 90s, chernukha and banditry penetrated the movie screens. The actress was not ready to star in such films. Having created her own film studio Kinokontakt together with her son in 1991, she was looking for ways to earn money for producing films. For this, she was engaged in business: she sold Chinese clothes in the markets of Saratov. Having received a truck with beer for sale, she contacted scammers in a difficult situation. Beer owners demanded money that she didn’t have. She asked for a delay of six months, promising to fully compensate for the loss. Surprised by the courage of a woman, tough guys found out that Galina Yatskina is an actress. Personal life, the son who needed to be helped, pushed her to such a step. Businessmen have promised to help in the promotion of the film studio. Today, she makes low-budget films, releasing one film a year.
Despite the difficulties, Yatskina manages to support beginner talents. Together with Karen Shakhnazarov, they provided financial assistance to Tigran Keosayan, who removed the diploma work “Katka and Shiz” in 1992, which received a prize at the festival in Yugoslavia. She understood that the money would not be returned, but considered it necessary to contribute to the development of cinema. Since 2005, the film studio began to release the series "Under the Sun." With films on Orthodox themes, Vasily Yatskin - director, actor, journalist and screenwriter - traveled all over the country, calling his activity a missionary film lecture hall. The studio has great support not only from the Ministry of Culture, but also from the church. Mother and son were baptized already in adulthood, having come to Orthodoxy.
Way to god
Galina Yatskina, an actress whose photos had often been published in the media before, has been faithful all her life. Her family was not religious, and the actress herself was a party person. A visit to Syria and a trip to the desert, reminiscent of the picture of I. Kramskoi, made a strong impression on her. When visiting an ancient temple, she heard a voice condemning her for coming to the abode of God unbaptized. Arriving in Moscow, the woman decided to correct this mistake. Together with his son, they ended up in a church on Riga, where the sacrament of baptism took place. The actress was about forty years old.
Before this, the son tried many directions, being among the Hare Krishnas and psychics. Alla Andreeva, the wife of the philosopher poet, influenced his path to the church. Daniil Andreev went through repression during the years of Stalin's rule, but neither separation nor deprivation could shake her feelings for her husband. She was not afraid to openly declare this at the Lubyanka, and after his death published his poems, perpetuated the memory of her husband and promoted his work at literary evenings. Being blind for the last 8 years of her life, she spoke at the Literary Institute, and many did not realize that they were a blind person.
Inspired by the life of a great woman, Galina Yatskina and her son made a documentary film “Alla and Daniel”, which tells how a believing woman begged her unbelieving husband. The film could not make its way onto the wide screen, which predetermined the creation of a cultural and educational lecture hall. Being in prisons, orphanages, universities, Vasily Yatskin considers his most important audience those who are responsible for the upbringing: teachers, educators, officers.
Films of the film studio "Contact"
Among the films of the film studio there are many works related to wonderful people met by the actress on a life journey. The documentary “Natalie” (2012) is dedicated to Natalia Sukhostav, who gave many actors a ticket to a great life. Shown by the TV channel "Culture", she had good reviews. Five times, the actress visited Afghanistan, which served as the impetus for the creation of a film about a woman in the war “The Woman Has a Face in the War”. For addressing a new topic at the international Stalker festival in 2015, the film was awarded a diploma.
The sad fate of the film about Kurt Cobain, the 27-year-old leader of the rock group "Nirvana", who shot himself at such a young age, is "Blessing or Curse." It is planned to shoot 4 episodes, but the central channels refused to show the picture, because, in their opinion, Orthodox films today are not formatted. If the picture was shot in the genre of journalistic investigation, it would have been a pleasure to have acquired, but today 8 years of work have turned out to be unclaimed TV. The authors are not ready to cut the picture to remove material about understanding the problem. This is all Galina Yatskina, actress. The personal drama of each person is viewed through the prism of moral dialogue with the audience, whom art is called upon to do better.
She claims that she dreams of peace and wants to retire, but this, given her active position, is hard to believe.