Rimma Bykova - a Soviet actress, was the wife of Innocent Smoktunovsky. She played a lot in movies and on the stages of various theaters, traveled around the country during the war years, performed with performances. After a divorce from a famous spouse, she remarried. Lived a long and eventful life. The biography of Rimma Bykova will be discussed in this article.
early years
Rimma Alexandrovna was born in Sevastopol in early May 1926. She devoted her whole life to the stage, the theater where she served for many years, acting as a whole.
In her youth, she had to travel to different cities of the Soviet Union, however, these were not forced measures, it was necessary for the people who went to her performances, saw in her a real, multifaceted personality.
In 1943, Bykova entered the Donetsk Drama Theater, where she studied for several years, then acted as an actress on the stage of this theater. In 1944, at the height of the war, she had to interrupt her studies - the artist was sent with a front-line concert program to Odessa, Ukraine, where she performed at the local youth theater and the All-Ukrainian Theater of the Soviet Army. I had to finish my education only in 1950, but I managed to do this externally.
Rimma Bykova graduated from the Odessa Theater School.
Theatrical activity
After graduating from college from 1951 to 1955. she went to the theatrical stages in Makhachkala, in Grozny and Stalingrad, traveled around the country with tours. However, in 1955 she had to leave for Leningrad, where for 10 years she played at the Lenin Komsomol Theater.
In the sixties, the actress already moved to Moscow, served in the Stanislavsky drama theater, and in the late 80s moved to the Sphere theater, where she served until the last days of her life.
Movie
The first appearance in the movie took place in 1955, Rimma Bykova played an episodic role in the film "The Rumyantsev Case", her last name was not indicated in the credits. However, on the set, I managed to work with Nikolai Rybnikov himself, whose acting in those years was in its prime.
The most famous role in the movie was in 1976, Rimma was played by her mother in the film "Day Train". Among her other roles were notable in the films “Autumn Story”, “Mushroom Rain”, she even worked on the dubbing of the animated film “Dunno in the Solar City”.
Personal life of Rimma Bykova
The actress was married several times, the first and last of her spouses were not as famous personalities as the second. The chosen actor Bykova was the Soviet actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky.
The couple lived in Stalingrad, where Rimma Alexandrovna moved after the divorce - did not want to intersect with the ex-spouse, whose divorce was not easy. The young lived modestly, but contemporaries of Bykova and Smoktunovsky recall that they had an apartment, and the woman always dressed with a needle. The husband was very in love with his wife, did not let her step step, went everywhere with a camera - then he would take off his beauty in a hat, then with a scarf around his neck. And all could not stop looking. However, Rima Bykova herself, personal life with Smoktunovsky seemed hell. She did not hesitate to call him an "idiot" and a "tripod" in public, rather, allowed herself to love than she loved herself.
By 1955, after five years of living together, a real crack had occurred in their relationship. Bykova moved farther and farther from her jealous husband. But he suffered, understood that parting cannot be avoided. At some point, a young boyfriend appeared near Rimma Bykova, he showed her signs of attention, and Smoktunovsky began to suspect his wife of deceit. Once he publicly insulted her, after which she was no longer hiding and continued to defiantly communicate with her lover. One day Smoktunovsky even arranged a brawl in a restaurant, in the theater he was summoned to talk, after which the actor had to leave the troupe, divorce and leave first to Moscow, then to Leningrad, where his career went uphill.
Before marriage to Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Rimma Bykova was married, the first husband was also involved in the art world, he was an actor. After breaking up with Smoktunovsky, the actress married for the third time the very boyfriend - artist Viktor Leskov - and left him from the city for Leningrad. In the late eighties, Bykova received the title of People's Artist of the USSR, and in 2002 she was awarded the Order of Honor. She died in mid-April 2008, is buried next to her husband, who died in 2004.