Galina Makarova: Biography and Creativity

Galina Makarova is the most sincere woman of Soviet cinema, who has experienced a comprehensive spectator's love at the age of 57.

Simplicity, inner beauty, strength and wisdomPeople's Artist of the USSR, on whose account - more than fifty roles in the cinema, attract television viewers to the audience, giving the opportunity to join in the true creativity.

Galina Makarova: Biography

Galina (real name - Agata) - a native of the villageStarobina of Soligorsk district (Belarus). According to official data, she was born on December 27, 1919. According to the calculations of the actress herself, her year of birth was approximately 1916th. The girl's father, Klimentiy Chekhovich, served in the tsarist army during the First World War. The family even kept a gift from the Tsar - a tea set and a silver tray. With the advent of Soviet power, he fought on the side of Denikin's army, was arrested and spent about a year in prison. With a view to rehabilitating the Chekhoviches, where the family of the disenfranchised remained, they had to destroy documents confirming their identity; Agatha took the name of her mother and became Apanashchik.

At the beginning of acting career

At the age of 16 Agata left for Minsk, where she settled down as a housekeeper, and then as a nurse to a clinical hospital. In parallel, the girl participated in artistic amateur performances.

Her talent was noticed by the famous surgeon Shapiro andadvised to audition for a theatrical. The attempt was unsuccessful. Enter the theater studio talented girl helped the influential father of her friend. There, Agata with the light hand of Valentina Semenyuk became Galina, and Makarova got her name from her husband.

Personal life of Galina Makarova

Handsome Ivan Makarov once came to the theater andAt first he was fascinated by one of the actresses, and then gradually switched to Galina. Easily, without a drop of regret, the enamored actress in 1939 left the theater and left with her military husband in Kandalaksha (Kola Peninsula). There the couple had a son Edward.

The war began.Spouse Galina went to the front, and she and her son were evacuated to Yaransk, then moved to Moscow and was interviewed at the Vakhtangov Theater. From the front the husband came not alone, but with his marrying friend, which for Galina was a big blow. In 1944, she divorced, moved to Minsk and returned to the stage of the National Academic Theater named after Yanka Kupala, where she achieved great success. Makarov never believed in the talent of his ex-wife and was very surprised to learn about awarding her the title of People's Artist. Years later, the former spouse was very offended when Galina Makarova, an actress already known and in demand, when she came to Moscow, did not call him.

Then he himself dialed the hotel number and, proudlyappearing as a relative, asked: "Did the People's Artist of the USSR stop here?" The former spouses never interrupted their communication. When Makarov died, Galina suffered a hypertensive crisis. The second time Galina Makarova was married to the actor of the Kupalovsky Theater - Pavel Pekura, from whom Tatiana was born. She appreciated and respected him, but until the end of her life she loved her first wife.

Galina Makarova is an actress from the people

The starry hour of the talented actress struck afterthe play "Lyavonikha in orbit", the script to which Andrei Makayonok wrote. Before this actress Galina Makarova, whose biography is genuinely interesting to the modern generation, played minor roles on the stage or dubbed the reception of the Rzeskaya Theater. Makaenok set the condition: either Galina was given the role of Lushka in his play, or he took the play. As a result, this scenic image Galina Makarova played more than six hundred times.

In the movie for a talented actress starting pointwas the film "Widows" (1976), where she piercingly and believably played the role of Alexandra Matveyevna Gromova - an old woman who looked after other people's graves. Further on the screens there were pictures "White dew", "Autumn dreams", "Ivan", "White clothes". And in each of them Galina Makarova was real, organic, colorful. On the actress in 1983 came out a documentary film "I did not play Korolyov."

On the kindness of Galina Makarova

About the kindness of Galina Makarova you can make legends.Strong and wise woman, she never closed her eyes to another's grief. She could feed ice cream to a whole class of children walking past the orphanage or carefully cover with a blanket and put a pillow under the head of a pillow sleeping near the house on the bench with a drunk man. Grieving abandoned children, Galina always wanted to adopt an orphanage. For a long time she visited her daughter Tonya, who was lying in the hospital with her daughter. Her relatives were then taken away, and some time later Galina learned that Tonya was dead from a carnivore.

Nature, work and family - three lifefrom which the people's actress received real pleasure. All the free time Galina Makarova spent at her dacha, located 30 kilometers from Minsk. On a small piece of land, the actress broke a chic botanical garden and constantly replenished it, bringing from all business trips seeds of strange plants. For example, only more than 100 bushes grew in pions. Galina Klimentevna was very fond of the land and could after the performance on the train go to the country house and with the moon to weed her plot. It was there that the last moments of her life passed. There was no Galina Makarova on September 28, 1993. The people's actress was buried at the Eastern cemetery of Minsk.

On October 23, 2009, a stamp was introduced in circulation dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Galina Makarova.