It will not be an exaggeration if we say that the actress Chursina Lyudmila Alekseevna is loved by millions of viewers not only in Russia but also abroad. She is an extraordinary beauty, a talented man, a mystery woman. Chursina is not proud of her unusual appearance and numerous awards. As a child, she dreamed of becoming the chairman of a collective farm, and became a famous actress. She is not interested in diamonds and furs, limousines are served at her porch, and she drives off the subway. She was asked to move to Hollywood, and she remained in her midnight country.
Childhood
Can you remember what you dreamed about as a child? Lyudmila Chursina remembers. Her main desire at the age of three was to eat enough. The childhood of the actress was in the hardest military and post-war years. Biography of Lyudmila Chursina began tragically. She was born a month after the Nazi attack on our lands. This happened in the Pskov region on July 20, 1941. Father had already gone to the front, and her young mother, Genovefa, and her grandmother went on a difficult journey from Riga to Velikiye Luki to relatives. The train more than once fell under the bombing, and during one of them the passengers rushed scattering, a terrible crush began, and the mother lost her newborn girl on the potato field. For two hours she was looking for a child among the mutilated bodies, exhausted and was quite ready to return to the train when a faint squeak came to her. The girl gave her mother a sign that she wants to live.
Sad memories
The family did not reach relatives and stayed to live in Dushanbe, in a tiny little room in a communal apartment. Grandmother lived with Lyudmila and her mother, who sometimes managed to get some rotten carrots or potato peelings on collective farm fields - that is how they ate. Well-off neighbors lived behind the wall, who cooked semolina almost every day. The most vivid childhood memories of the actress are trips with her grandmother to the market. Holding on to her skirt, the girl eagerly looked at fragrant cakes, fragrant melons, bright and ripe watermelons. All this luxury they could not afford. Many years later, becoming a famous actress, Lyudmila Chursina came to Dushanbe on tour. First of all, she went to the market, where, without choosing or bargaining, she bought pomegranates, peaches, tortillas, watermelons. Then she closed herself in a hotel room and began, drenched in tears, eating all this wealth, recalling her hungry childhood.
Sign of fate
Her school friend has always dreamed of becoming an actress. Lyudmila Chursina herself, whose photo you see in this article, dreamed of something more global: build airplanes or lead a collective farm. But her plans were not destined to come true. The biography of Lyudmila Chursina radically changed when she decided to go to Moscow with her friend and, for fun, submitted documents to the Shchukin school with her. A friend failed the exams, and Lyudmila became a student. So she stayed in the capital. She was given a place in the hostel. There was not enough student scholarship, even for bread. Therefore, a beautiful and proud future actress Lyudmila Chursina got a job in her own school to clean the floors. In the morning I got up at five o’clock, went through the whole city on a trolley to the Pike and washed the audience. Then she went to classes, which continued until late in the evening. Hungry and tired, she arrived at the hostel closer to midnight.
Actress and Director
Quite unexpectedly for herself in the school, Lyudmila Chursina from students and teachers found out that she was beautiful. I did not believe it right away. Since childhood, the girl considered herself a clumsy fawn. Slender, tall and awkward, with long arms and legs, large head. And besides, the leg of the fortieth size did not give self-confidence. On this occasion, she terribly complexed, stooped and seemed to say: "I'm sorry that I am." The tall, fair-haired beauty, a student, the directors noticed very quickly. Already during her studies, Lyudmila was invited to act in films. During this period, she played her brilliant roles in the films “When the Trees were Big”, “On the Seven Winds”, “Morning Trains”, “Two Lives”. On the set of the film "Don Tale" the actress’s romance broke out with the famous Soviet director Vladimir Fetin. But it was not love in the usual sense. A talented director, a front-line soldier, a good, decent man aroused admiration and respect among the young actress. Over time, these feelings strengthened and grew into attachment.
Lyudmila Chursina: personal life
The actress, at that time and much later, was accused of having broken her family, and turned the director around. But when they met, Vladimir was already divorced and lived completely alone in Leningrad. Lyudmila lived in Moscow, every weekend she went by train to her chosen one. When the director matured to the proposal of a hand and heart, Lyudmila did not think for a minute - she gathered herself and moved to Leningrad. And this despite the fact that she had to leave work at the Vakhtangov Theater, in which she entered immediately after graduation. For an actress with no experience, this was a rare success. After the marriage, Fetin made his wife in several films, including in the greatest film of all time, "Spring Love". She starred in other directors. Unfortunately, the spouse’s career has come to naught. Experiencing professional setbacks, he began to drink. Lyudmila Chursina alone earned money for the family. She desperately fought for the life of a loved one, asked, begged, talked. Then she began to drink herself and came to her senses only on the Kamenoostrovsky bridge, where she came to commit suicide. Despite her firm belief that she had to marry once and for her whole life, she decided to divorce.
The second husband of the popular actress was an oceanologist who was handsome like a god. As it turned out, this was a random person in her life. Biography of Lyudmila Chursina has developed so that she met another man. It turned out to be the son of Yuri Andropov. However, at the first meeting, Lyudmila did not know who Igor was. They lived for seven years and broke up when the woman realized that love had passed. Fans are often interested in where the children of Lyudmila Chursina live and what they do. On this topic, the actress does not like to talk. This is her pain and an unfulfilled dream - she never gave birth to a child. But Lyudmila Alekseevna never felt alone. Around her there are always many close and dear people, and her nephews replace children.
Hollywood
The biography of actress Lyudmila Chursina could have turned out differently. The appearance and talent of this extraordinary woman was highly valued abroad. Once in Goskino they received a telegram saying that Lyudmila Chursina was invited to Hollywood to shoot in fifteen films at once. The actress was called to the carpet and told that she, a Soviet woman, should not agree to this proposal, since, perhaps, the capitalists would offer her to undress in front of the cameras. By that time, Lyudmila had learned to be philosophical about all problems: they wouldn’t let her in — don’t. She was only upset when she lost loved ones or parted with them.
The secret of youth
In difficult times of perestroika, like many talented actors, Chursina lost her job. Roles were offered to her, but they were so empty and uninteresting that, even without a penny, she refused them. Seriously thought about the work of a housekeeper. Why not? Chursina Lyudmila in her youth washed floors in classrooms. It was possible to refresh memories; she was not afraid of any work. By the way, the director of the Moscow theater called her and offered the role. Lyudmila Alekseevna immediately went to Moscow. Since she was not given a place in the hostel, I had to stay with a longtime admirer of her talent in a wooden dilapidated house on the very outskirts of the capital. A year and a half she wandered around friends and acquaintances and only after that she was able to get a two-room apartment. Life began to improve. There were invitations to shoot, roles in theater and cinema. She did not spend the fees she received, but collected to help the family of her younger sister and mother.
Today Lyudmila Alekseevna is 73 years old. She is still in service, not inferior to the young. For her, the main thing is the well-being of her relatives and work. She does not dream of eternal youth, does not have plastic surgery. He simply enjoys every day he lives, helps relatives and works hard.
Filmography
The filmography of Lyudmila Chursina is so great that it is impossible to represent her in one small article. Therefore, we will introduce you only to the most striking and interesting works.
War film "Spring on the Oder" (1967)
The war ends, events unfold in Germany in April-May of the 45th. On the dusty roads of war, different encounters took place. So met Major Lubentsov and military doctor Tanya Koltsova. In the 41st, they together went out of the environment, and then their paths diverged. Now they have to go along the roads of Germany together ...
The melodrama "The Crane" (1968)
The film is about the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and no less difficult post-war time. Zhuravushka - so her husband Petr Lunin called his wife Marfa. Those who survived returned from the front, but among them there is no Zhuravushka's husband, he will never return. Many in the village are haunted by the beauty of a proud beauty, but she will forever remain faithful to the memory of her love ...
Historical film “Adjutant of His Excellency” (1969)
Five-part tape about the red reconnaissance Koltsov, sent to the headquarters of the Denikin army with a special mission. The film is based on real events.
The drama "Privalov millions" (1972)
The film was shot based on the novel by Mama Sibiryak. Sergei Privalov, the heir to a huge fortune, is returning to his hometown. Having examined the factories belonging to him, he is going to modernize them, wants to improve the lives of workers, build a school and a hospital, but his interests clash with the interests of the local rich ...
Detective "And this is all about him" (1977)
A serial film. Events unfold in the Siberian timber industry, where the tractor driver Yevgeny Stoletov died. Investigator Prokhorov comes from Moscow to investigate this matter ...
Drama “Countess” (1991)
This beautiful romantic story happened in an old Russian manor, where the House of Creators of the Writers Union is now located. On New Year's Eve, an elderly, but still very attractive woman, Nina, with her children, settles in the countess's chambers. Here, a talented and young writer Nikita Shuvalov works under the guidance of an experienced and mature master. Nikita and Nina get to know each other and, despite the age difference, get carried away by each other. The young writer claims that his new acquaintance is very similar to the countess ...
Drama “It Is Not Scary to Die” (1991)
The film is about the tragic history of the family of Russian intellectuals, which was repressed in 1935. Ksenia, the mother of young children, is forced to become an informant. Threats, outright bullying do not scare the young woman. But it turns out that her further fate is a foregone conclusion ...
Melodrama “Another Life” (2003)
The fate of Polina is no different from the fate of young women in provincial cities. She graduated from school, got married, gave birth to a child. Increasingly, she began to think about what awaits her in the future in this godforsaken corner. Before my eyes is an example of a more successful friend who married a Muscovite and now lives richly and happily. A young woman leaves her mother’s child and goes to Moscow in search of happiness ...
Detective "Vaccine" (2006)
The beauty contest "Russian Pearl" is always accompanied by some terrible events. One girl died tragically, another was doused with boiling tar, the third candidate for victory disappeared without a trace. After some time, letters in the Moscow newspaper allegedly came from a girl who disappeared. In them she tells that she is terminally ill, she was left by a young man Anton. In the photograph attached to the letter, the girl is standing with a guy who, like two drops of water, looks like the famous manager of the large company Oleg in the city. From this moment, the life of a young man turns into hell. Everyone accuses him of cruelty and inhumanity. He is trying to defend himself, but only exacerbates the situation ...
Finally
In Soviet and Russian cinema there are many beautiful and talented actresses. But Lyudmila Chursina is a beauty for all time and for all peoples. In her youth she was called Russian Sophia Loren. And today we can say that time is not dominant over this woman.