Maksimova Elena Aleksandrovna was a member of a conglomerate of beautiful actresses of the Soviet era who positioned the image of an ordinary woman, mother, grandmother. These functions are familiar to any person, which additionally gave exceptionally joyful and touching emotions. Living as much as possible in her role, Elena Alexandrovna showed amazing realism in the acting, natural behavior and truthfulness.
Soul impulses hit the minds and hearts of millions. Actress Elena Maksimova was remembered in many guises, despite the fact that she practically did not play the main roles.
Birth and school time
The future actress Elena Maximova was born on November 23, 1905 in Moscow. Her dad was selling groceries. In 1916, he closed his entrepreneurial activities, and the family began to live in Sokolniki, his father worked in a car depot as an accountant. The actress's mother was a housewife, and in 1920 after the death of the head of the family she gave her children (three daughters) to be brought up in orphanage No. 55. A couple of years later she passed away.
At the beginning of 1925, while studying in grade 9, Elena passed a competitive selection for N.G. Cherry. In the same period, she graduated from a nine-year school. Continuing her studies at the film studio, the future actress worked at the button factory as a presswoman until the fall of 1926.
The beginning of an acting career
Maksimova Elena Alexandrovna received the starting work in the cinema in the same year. The actress herself mentioned the debut in the movie “Lame Barin” by K. Eggert. However, in chronological order, the picture “Women of Ryazan” by I. Pravov and O. Preobrazhenskaya, where she played the scandalous Lukery, the wife of a wealthy peasant, will be correctly taken into account first.
The young girl perfectly fulfilled the directorial task, transmitting in the presented image arrogance, arrogance, periods of despair, manifested in connection with the unfaithfulness of her husband. After this film, her subsequent credo was determined as an ordinary Russian woman, which was often used by most directors.
Actress Elena Maximova starred with the creators of the painting "Ryazan Women" several times. One of the best roles was Daria in Sholokhov's "Quiet Don". Elena Alexandrovna revealed this image as plausibly as possible, realistically defeating the character’s temperament, emotionality and inconsistency.
Becoming
In 1930, Maximova played the role of Natalka in the masterpiece by A. Dovzhenko under the title “Earth”. The actress with a titanic anguish realized the tragic orientation of her heroine, who lost her beloved. In one of the frank scenes of the film, Natalka frantically strides around the house naked, terribly worried about the death of her groom. It is noteworthy that Maximova is the first actress of the USSR, naked on the screen.
In the same period, actress Elena Maximova played several more memorable roles. Among them:
- Maria Kudina (wife of the Old Believer) in the film "Aerograd";
- Praskovya in "Pugachev";
- Tatyana (tape "Grunya Kornakova");
- In the film "Virgin Soil Upturned" the image of Melania Atamanchukova.
Such works include the severity of characters, true drama, indicating the wide possibilities of Maximova as an actress.
An interesting fact: after twenty-odd years Elena Aleksandrovna participated in the reinterpretation of The Quiet Don (1957-58), which was successfully performed by Sergey Gerasimov. She got the episodic role of Koshevy's mother. After that, the actress entered the small list of artists who participated in repeated film adaptations of one book.
Life off stage
Actress Elena Maximova, whose personal life was no less successful than an acting career, met her future husband in 1927. And at the beginning of next year she became the official wife of George Nikolayevich Lukyanov. Having an engineer education, he worked at the Heat Engineering Research Institute named after Dzerzhinsky.
In 1934, the couple had a son, who was named Gleb. Elena Alexandrovna gave the child all her free time. Before the war, the actress worked at the Soyuzdetfilm film studio, and after the children of the employees were evacuated near Ufa, Maksimova left everything and went to work as a cook for food, just to be with her child. In the winter of 1942, the children's studio of the film studio was taken to Dushanbe, and in the spring the actress returned to creative work.
Subsequently, the son of Elena Maximova and George Lukyanov chose a creative professional direction: he worked as a cameraman, tried to shoot and make productions of films on state order. Gleb lived to 1999. The grandson of the actress Andrei Lukyanov was educated as a lawyer, was engaged in the music and advertising business, and since the 2000s has acted in film series and feature films, continuing the work of his grandmother.
Last works
For many years, the actress Elena Maximova was remembered by the audience. Her filmography with age is replenished mainly by the roles of ordinary, but at the same time, special women (peasant women, mothers, grandmothers, elderly neighbors), endowed with soulfulness, simplicity and charm.
Some of them pulsate with benevolence and harmony, while other images are scandalous, with character and hitch. Regardless of orientation, negative emotions were absent in any work, the star invested positive energy in each.
Among the distinguished works of the late period, it should be noted:
- the role of Dergachiha in the film "The Sea of Ice";
- “Two Captains” (the image of Aunt Dasha);
- Alexandra’s mother (“Tight Knot”);
- catchy Vera Nikolaevna in the film “Shot in the Back”;
- in the painting "Father's House" - the image of Makariha;
- in "Secrets of the notebook" - Glafira.
- Varvara Stepanovna in "Alien Relatives."
In reality, Elena Alexandrovna Maksimova was known as a strong-willed person, although in general, the actress is remembered as a benevolent and sociable person.
Conclusion
Actress Elena Maximova, whose biography is full of personal twists and turns in the field of acting, often made a bet with her husband about who would leave the earthly world earlier.
The first to die was Georgy Nikolaevich (1983). For a certain time, Elena Alexandrovna continued to participate in rare filming, but age and ailment took their toll. The actress died in a clinic for veterans (1986). The ashes of the honored artist of the RSFSR were scattered over the Chernaya River in the Moscow Region (according to the will).