Natalya Ryazantseva always seemed one of the most mysterious and restrained people in Soviet cinema. This is the greatest screenwriter of our time, from under whose pen scripts for films such as Wings, Parent's Day, Foreign Letters, and Portrait of the Artist's Wife were born. One of her last works was the script for the tape "Lights of the brothel", which was released in 2011. Despite the tremendous talent of the writer and screenwriter, Natalya Ryazantseva, whose photo will be presented in our article, has always attracted the attention of a wide audience with her personal life. This woman had two official marriages, both times cult Russian directors became her chosen ones - her first husband was G. Shpalikov, and the second was I. Averbakh. Also, for many years she was a faithful companion and interlocutor of one of the greatest philosophers - Merab Mamardashvili.
Natalia Ryazantseva: biography
No wonder this woman has a certain mysterious image. Even in our time, developed information technologies and open access to all kinds of data find detailed information about her biography is not very simple. It is known that she was born in 1938. Natalia Ryazantseva is a native Muscovite, she spent all her childhood and youth in the capital. It is known that the family of the future screenwriter was educated and intelligent, her great-grandfather - Sergei Rzhevsky - at one time was the governor of several regions, including Ryazan, Tambov and Simbirsk.
Being an adult woman, Natalya Ryazantseva in her interviews more than once proudly recalled her noble roots. And even in Soviet times, during the heyday of communism, she said that she was always proud of her origin, which was far from the working class. Her second husband, Ilya Averbakh, who all his life dreamed of staging the White Guard, held the same position. Once, when meeting with the poet V. Nekrasov in an informal setting, he proudly announced that he was a true White Guard.
Received education
In 1962, she successfully graduated from VGIK, namely, his screenwriting faculty. During this period, as a student, Natalya Ryazantseva met her future first husband - Gennady Shpalikov, who over time will be called the best screenwriter and songwriter of the sixties. Almost 20 years later, becoming herself a recognized screenwriter, Natalya returned to her native VGIK, but already as one of the most powerful scriptwriting teachers.
Difficult profession
In cinema, a regular injustice is almost always traced: when an interesting film appears on the screens, the popularity comes to a greater extent to the actors who played the main roles. Also, the audience, as a rule, appreciated the director's work. But few people are interested in screenwriters who prescribe the main idea, structure and dialogues of all the characters in this film. Most often, scriptwriters, alas, remain in the shadows. But Ryazantseva Natalya Borisovna is a screenwriter, a talented author who managed to avoid such unfair oblivion. In the cinema circle, her work is deservedly appreciated, and she herself has an unshakable reputation as an undoubted professional.
For example, Sergei Solovyov in the preface to the book “The Voice” says that Natalya Ryazantseva is a screenwriter who is capable of painfully and painstakingly rewriting and remodeling the same dialogue dozens of times until he is ideally suited to a particular actor, director or even weather shooting conditions. In order to get such high marks among colleagues, Natalya had to write a lot of brilliant works.
For the first time as a screenwriter, she made her debut not in feature films. Then she became one of the screenwriters of the film “Zastava Ilyich” and at the same time even played one of the roles in it herself.
Unfortunately, this film could not stand the censorship of Khrushchev, its full version was shown on wide screens many years later, in the late 80s.
After that, Natalia Borisovna Ryazantseva continued her career and in 1966, co-authored with V. Yezhov, wrote the script for the film “Wings”.
Filmography
In addition to the films already mentioned, Ryazantseva wrote scripts for such films as:
- "The Scarlet Flower";
- “Another's letters”;
- "Long wires";
- "Open book";
- "I am free, I am nobody";
- “Portrait of the artist’s wife”;
- "Vote";
- "Parents day";
- “Own shadow”;
- "No one wanted to leave."
In total, after “Wings” written in 1966, another 16 scripts came from Ryazantseva’s pen.
Relationship with men
Those who know Natalia closely say that her personality is very deep and belongs to that rare kind of person who is capable of sincere sympathy. She has a certain magnetic charm, because she sees a lot of things that are not understood and not noticed by others. Ryazantseva evaluates everything quite correctly, coldly and soberly and therefore gives the impression of a tough person.
Many mistake it for some arrogance. Since Natalya Borisovna is a creative person, in each person she is looking for a prototype of a possible hero for her scenarios and considers people from the point of view of how interesting this person can be for building a future image. It becomes obvious that it will not be easy for any man to live with such a spouse. In addition, many note that Natalia creates the impression of a person who is constantly concentrating on something of his own and slightly detached from everything around what is happening.
At first glance, it might seem that such a person cannot have a permanent pair at all. But at the same time, Natalya was always a mystery for men, which was impossible to solve to the end, which attracted them to her.
The history of the first marriage
The first elect of this fateful woman was the student Shpalikov, who eventually turned into a screenwriter and director known throughout the Soviet Union.
Young people turned their attention to each other in Leningrad, where chance brought them together. Gennady Shpalikov and Natalya Ryazantseva, having felt not only mutual sympathy, but also a certain proximity, got married very quickly. Over time, in his memoirs, Ryazantseva will write that she really could not fall in love with Gennady. But at that time their novel was not a student in the classical sense of this expression. The young people took each other seriously and decided to formally formalize their relationship without wasting time. They got married in 1959.
Their life was quite easy and fun, but the general picture was overshadowed by the widespread lack of money. Spouses were glad to any work. Natalia Ryazantseva recalls that she and her young spouse were glad to work even on primitive advertising.
Many acquaintances considered them an ideal couple, because the young couple seemed to really complement each other perfectly: they were talented, energetic and enthusiastic. Those who witnessed this relationship recall that Gennady did not cherish the soul of his wife, and Natalya answered him in full reciprocity. Over time, the financial situation of the couple began to improve significantly, due to the fact that the spouse began to write hit songs for Soviet films (for example, he was the author of the song-legend “And I am walking, walking around Moscow”).
But, oddly enough, this marriage did not last long, and the young people divorced 2 years after the wedding. They say that the reason for the divorce was Shpalikov’s love for booze, and it was for this reason that Natalia decided to divorce.
The second spouse of the writer
Ilya Averbakh became the second man to whom Natalya Ryazantseva officially married. This man was known as a film director, screenwriter, often called him "the idol of an intelligent viewer."
They married in 1966 and lived together for almost 20 years. This marriage ended in 1986 with the death of Elijah.
Today's life of a great screenwriter
Since Ryazantseva became one of the most talented and experienced women screenwriters of Soviet and, later, Russian cinema, it would be unfair if she did not pass on her knowledge to the younger generation. After the death of her husband, in 1988, Natalia Borisovna began her career as a teacher.
Initially, she taught at the Higher Courses of Directors and Scriptwriters. And almost 10 years later she began to conduct her screenwriting studio at VGIK.