Nadezhda Karataeva is the wife of the famous Anatoly Papanov. She herself is a famous theater and film artist from Soviet times. Back in 1981, Nadezhda was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
A family
Nadezhda Karataeva is an actress who managed to become famous in two eras: during the Soviet Union and already in the new Russia. She was born in Moscow, on January 25, 1924. Acting in her case is not a continuation of tribal skill - her family had nothing to do with the world of art. Nadezhda's father was a military man, and his mother worked at a research institute. But Karataeva gravitated towards the theater from childhood and went to drama circle even in her school years.
Nadezhda has a daughter, Elena, who was born in 1954. She followed in the footsteps of her parents and became a famous actress of the Moscow Drama Theater. Ermolova.
Study
Hope, like many, graduated from a regular high school. But then she still realized her passion for theater and entered GITIS at the acting department. The Great Patriotic War changed many lives and plans of an incredible number of people. Nadezhda Karataeva, whose biography includes the war years , also fell under her influence. I had to forget about further studies for a while. Hope went to the front as a nurse, worked for some time in hospitals.
As already mentioned above, she studied quite a bit. Only in 1946, Nadezhda was finally able to graduate from the institute. Then began her theatrical career.
Front years
As soon as the war started, Nadezhda Karataeva left with her mother for Novosibirsk, and her father went to the front. In Novosibirsk, Nadezhda enrolled in nursing courses and after they graduated, she asked to the front. She worked in military hospitals, and then in a medical train that ran between Moscow and Chita. On these trains the wounded were taken to the rear. Hope not only delivered food, but also looked after the fighters. She gave injections and dressings, read poems and leaflets to the wounded, and helped strengthen morale.
Fateful acquaintance
Toward the end of the war, classes at GITIS were finally resumed, and Nadezhda returned to the institute to finish her studies. She was commissioned, and she again found herself in the world that she had been striving for since childhood. It was at the institute that she met Anatoly Papanov, who later became her husband. He came to the university with the forefront, from where he was commissioned for health reasons.
Papanov was offered to start his studies immediately from the second year. Men were not enough, and girls needed to play studies with partners. Thus he ended up in the same group with Hope. They married Papanov on May 20th, 1945.
At first, Papanov walked with his wand, because his heel was crushed and two fingers were torn off with a German grenade. But for Hope, the main thing was the soul, not appearance. Their romance spun when they went to the same tram stop, talked and got to know each other better. They were united not only by art, but also by the fact that Nadezhda Karataeva, like her husband, was at the front. Many of her classmates did not have such a life experience.
Nadezhda Karataeva, whose photo is in this article, was a very beautiful girl in her youth. Many guys looked after her. One of the contenders for her hand was Voroshilov’s nephew himself. But Nadezhda preferred Papanova to everyone. She introduced the future husband to her mother, who did not approve of his candidacy and lamented that he was ugly. Nadezhda fervently stood up for her beloved, saying that he was a wonderful artist and beautiful in soul. This was the end of the argument.
They lived together for 43 years. There were also hungry post-war times. The parents of Nadezhda helped the young. Nadezhda immediately decided to give the leadership in the family to Papanov and devoted much time to the family, always putting her first. Nevertheless, a woman always found time for her career. All forty-three years of their life together they were interested in each other. The love of Hope and Anatolia was so strong that they were able to go through all the hardships of life and maintain a happy marriage for many years.
Job
After graduating from GITIS, Nadezhda began working with other actors in the Russian Drama Theater, located in the Lithuanian SSR, in the city of Klaipeda. At first she worked there with her husband. But Papanov returned to Moscow in 1948 at the invitation of director Goncharov. Nadezhda Karataeva came to her husband a little later.
Since 1950, Nadezhda has been a distinguished actress of the Moscow Satire Theater. Her husband worked in him until his death.
The creative path of Nadezhda Karataeva consists not only of a couple of roles. Even on the stage, she played in many performances:
- "None of your business";
- "Girlfriends";
- "Spinster";
- “My dear ones”;
- "Capercaillie nest", etc.
But Nadezhda played a lot of roles in the cinema - over twenty films on her account! Some of them came out as movie performances. For example, "Fleet Officer", where Nadezhda played the watchman, or "Capercaillie's Nest" (the role of Sudakov's wife) and many others. There were other interesting pictures in the filmography of Nadezhda. For example, “Under the sky of Verona”, “Time to collect stones” and many others.