Elena Chernyak is a Soviet actress. Her most famous role is Ustyusha from the two-part color Soviet film “Two Hussars”. She starred in films from 1982 to 1987, then, together with her husband, from whom she got the last name of Mikhailov, she began to sing original songs. Photos of actress Elena Chernyak are presented in the article.
Biography
Elena Alexandrovna Chernyak was born in 1957 in Moscow. The actress celebrates her birthday on December 10. The second surname of Elena, received during the marriage is Mikhailova. Her husband, Alexander Nikolaevich Mikhailov, is also an actor. He became famous in the Soviet space thanks to the role of Alexei from the Formula of Love. Spouses have been together since those times when they were students of the Shchukin School and employees of the Central Moscow Children's Theater.
Filmography Elena Chernyak
Elena passed the competition and entered the Shchukin School at the Vakhtangov Theater, where she began her career as a movie actress. The Theater Institute gave her a higher education in the direction of "Dramatic Actor." The first role in her student years, Elena Chernyak performed in the 1982 film "Flights in a dream and in reality", directed by Roman Balayan. The Central Children's Theater of Moscow accepts Elena into the main staff of the troupe after she graduates from the Schukin School. In the theater, she played the main female roles in the performances, while at the same time she continued to act in films.
The active cinematic career of actress Elena Chernyak continued from her first film in 1982 to 1987. Over the years she starred in five films. Both spouses Mikhailov overtook a creative crisis in their original profession, and in 1987 both decided to break with an acting career. Acquaintances reacted to this act with a lack of understanding, a close friend from the Church Orthodox community insisted on considering the decision. Many colleagues stopped communicating with them after the Mikhailovs left the theater.
Further creativity
Serious about faith and religion, Elena and Alexander began to learn a new art form in the theater, this time - singing. In view of their beliefs, they planned to direct their creativity to church singing. The couple was close enough to continue to engage in joint creativity and spend all the time together. In the new for Mikhailov region they were looking for new opportunities and did not regret their action. They entered a spiritual choir in a village church near Moscow and sang there for several years, content with liberation and their charitable creativity.
Possessing timbres of voice suitable for a duet, Elena and Alexander got the idea to perform vocal spiritual compositions together. Since 1994, they began performances and went on tours to Russian cities, and after that they came to concerts in other countries. His performances delighted the inhabitants of orphanages, patients of hospitals, residents of nursing homes and prison inmates, leaving no one willing without their compositions. A significant part of the performances was reserved for Orthodox churches and cathedrals.
The new works of the Mikhailovs carried patriotic and highly spiritual Christian motives. They sang songs to verses of great Russian poets, including Yesenin and Gumilyov, and representatives of the Orthodox clergy wrote poems for the duet. The main values that Mikhailov presents in his work are decency, good nature and faith.
By 1997, Elena and her husband together graduated from a theological institute in the field of religious studies and art criticism. In addition to vocals, they were engaged in setting their own drama performances to achieve creative maturity. Unlike past theaters where they had to work, spouses now created theatrical productions based on works to which the soul lay. The first performance was staged based on the work of Saltykov-Shchedrin, the spouses themselves played several roles in it simultaneously. Of the well-known works, Solzhenitsyn's novels formed the basis for Mikhailov’s performances.
Personal life
The wedding of Elena Chernyak and Alexander Mikhailov took place even when both were students of the Shchukin Theater School. Their marriage remains unbreakable. The marriage of actors by all fans was considered safe, but the spouses themselves experienced difficulties at first. Problems were related to omissions and deceit. According to the recollections of Elena Chernyak herself, a lie soon began to appear in the relationship of the newlyweds, since both of them owned acting.
It was also difficult for each of the spouses to carry out their work, while having conflicting roles with the principles. Elena could not perform somewhat indecent choreography, thinking about what her husband would say. Alexander refused negative roles in the productions, since the leadership allocated him for the execution of negative, from the point of view of the actor, characters. He rejected the roles of murderers and suicides at first, until this began to cause discontent among the directors. Due to problems with attitude, Mikhailovs left the theater and felt free