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The popularity of this actor cannot be overestimated. Fans idolized him, letters from girls from all over Soviet Union They brought them in bags to Mosfilm. But the actor was honest not only on screen, he was honest in his personal life. Vyacheslav Tikhonov honored three women with his attention throughout his life. One became his first and unsteady love, the second burned him with her passion, and the third gave him long-awaited family comfort and peace.
First love
The first love of the future actor was Yulia Rossiyskaya. Vyacheslav often accompanied her home, they went to the cinema together and were generally very friendly. The beautiful couple attracted attention, and the parents of two teenagers secretly hoped that the guys would be able to build a family.
Yulia Alekseevna is already in mature age she said that they met at a dance in a club in Pavlovsky Posad, where they lived. Eighth-grader Tikhonov noticed a pretty girl, invited her to dance, and then walked her home.
They dated for three years, and then Vyacheslav suddenly disappeared. As it turned out, he went to go to college in Moscow. Since childhood, he dreamed of a career as an actor, admired the talent of Pyotr Aleinikov and thought that someday he would be able to play on the screen no worse than his idol.
Tikhonov was very upset when he did not find his name on the list of those enrolled in the course, but fate gave him another chance. Boris Bibikov met a sobbing applicant on the stairs and invited him to his course. First on probation, and after Tikhonov they were already enrolled as students.
Vyacheslav studied with full diligence and dedication. He sometimes saw Yulia when he went to Pavlovsky Posad. Everything changed when he was invited by Sergei Gerasimov to star in the film “Young Guard”.
Ardent Cossack girl
Nonna Mordyukova, it seemed, did not suit Vyacheslav Tikhonov at all, either in character or temperament. But the ardent Cossack woman was seriously carried away by the intelligent and reserved Vyacheslav.
The romance flared up quickly, the actors’ colleagues could not imagine what charmed Nonna modest guy. Be that as it may, in 1950 Nonna Mordyukova became the wife of Vyacheslav Tikhonov.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov, "Young Guard". / Photo: www.clubbeautiful.ru
They both took the flaring passion for a real feeling that would allow them to go through their entire lives hand in hand. But when the youthful love passed, it turned out that there were two strangers nearby. The actress was an enthusiastic, passionate, hot person. The reserved Tikhonov turned out to be very far from her ideal. And Mordyukova did not become for him the only woman next to whom he would feel warm.
They were both burdened by this marriage, but it was too late to change anything: their son Vladimir was growing up in the family. They lived like this for 13 years. Two good people, two talented actors, two deep personalities who have not found common ground with each other.
The reason for the divorce was the actress’s communication with another man. Tikhonov did not begin to sort things out, and Mordyukova did not consider it necessary to justify herself. And so they parted, mutually dissatisfied with each other. Divorce allowed them both to end this painful relationship.
The death of his son became another reason for alienation. Vladimir died from a drug overdose. Nonna Viktorovna blamed her ex-husband for the tragedy, who did not pay due attention to her son. Vyacheslav Vasilyevich also blamed himself. But he never allowed himself to say a single bad word about his first wife. He always spoke with great respect about Nonna Mordyukova as an actress, but never commented on his personal life with her.
Mordyukova and Tikhonov did not communicate with each other for almost half a century, only at the end of their lives were they able to overcome their grievances and forgive each other.
Family happiness
Tikhonov met Tamara during the dubbing of the French film “A Man and a Woman.” She worked at Sovexportfilm, was a French teacher by profession, and helped Vyacheslav Vasilyevich with translation.
Tamara Ivanovna was married at that time, but could not cope with her feelings. For the sake of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, she filed for divorce and in 1969 became the actor’s wife.
Tikhonov will live with this woman for 42 years, until his death. They will have a daughter, Anna, who will later become an actress. According to Anna Vyacheslavovna’s recollections, her parents kept good relations until old age.
They were truly kindred spirits: both outwardly reserved, modest, well-read. They always had something to talk about and be silent about together. Despite the rumors about Tamara Ivanovna’s toughness, Anna claims that a very warm atmosphere always reigned in the house.
When the actor stopped acting, he moved to Vacation home, where he took care of the site with pleasure and often went fishing. Rumors overtook the actor here too. Everyone was talking about discord in the family, about the actor’s life away from his family, although in fact the whole family lived with him. He loved his daughter very much and rejoiced at the opportunity to communicate with his grandchildren.
The last role of the great actor was the man with a halo in the film “Andersen. Life without love." His hero utters wonderful words in the film: “You are a fool, Andersen, for passing by such a miracle as the love of a woman. Here, as a man, I don’t approve of you...”
The first wife of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, she never married again.
Vyacheslav Vasilyevich led a secluded life, because he no longer had anyone to be friends with. Best friend and beloved director Stanislav Rostotsky (he directed Tikhonov in many of his films), close comrades and colleagues Yuri Nikulin, Nikolai Kryuchkov died. And it is difficult to find new friends in old age. Tikhonov lived in a fertile place - in Nikolina Gora. Here he rebuilt a red brick house - exactly the same as Stirlitz’s in the film. When friends were alive, he often and with pleasure went fishing with them. He was accompanied by his dog Styopka - the mongrel mongrel was given to Tikhonov when he was still a puppy. But about a year ago four-legged friend trouble happened. The dog disappeared, and after a while someone threw his collar to Vyacheslav Vasilyevich. Alone, the actor stopped leaving the house altogether. I whiled away my days in front of the TV and drank slowly. I often reviewed my film works. Tikhonov could not come to terms with the fact that life was coming to an end.
It’s sad, but there was no one to even cry at Tikhonov’s coffin. By the end of his life, he had only two close people - his wife Tamara and daughter Anna. These two women constituted all of Tikhonov’s happiness and all of his punishment. Few people know that the hero on the screen, a handsome man, self-sufficient and independent, ordinary life Tikhonov was a very soft and helpless person. It was this “spinelessness” of his that at one time alienated Nonna Mordyukova, his first wife, from him. The Don Cossack Mordyukova herself was a woman of a fiery disposition and simply twisted ropes out of him, trying to stir him up. Tikhonov's patience ended only when he caught his wife Nonna with her lover. And when Tikhonov slammed the door, Mordyukova was even happy: “Well, finally, at least some emotion!” Their son Volodya was then 13 years old, and despite the separation of his parents, he received the full love of both parents. True, she did not save him from tragic death.
From the age of 18, Volodya Tikhonov became addicted to drugs. To rid their son of his addiction, both Tikhonov and Mordyukova always patronized the guy for different roles. Volodya resisted, but played. Soon Volodya fell in love with actress Natalya Varley, after seeing her brilliant performance in “Prisoner of the Caucasus”, they got married and gave birth to Tikhonov’s grandson Vasily. But they soon divorced...
When Vyacheslav Tikhonov was already 40 years old, he married a second time. His chosen one was 25-year-old teacher Tamara. They met while working on the French film “A Man and a Woman,” where the actor voiced the role of the main character, and Tamara Ivanovna was at that time a French teacher at the Institute international relations– helped with translation. The girl was married, but for the sake of Vyacheslav she broke up with her husband. Soon in new family daughter Anya was born.
Unlike the bright and sometimes overly emotional Nonna Mordyukova, Tamara was a match for Tikhonov - just as restrained and silent. However, it was this inconspicuous woman who managed to keep her husband under strict control for many years. Tikhonov coordinated all his roles with her, reporting on each scene with a loving hint. Tamara Tikhonova was literally obsessed with jealousy! Possibly due to difficult relationship with his wife, as Vyacheslav Vasilyevich grew older, he began to act less and less. And then he stopped completely. In old age, the wife's jealousy became pathological. Tamara Ivanovna was literally “on duty” on the phone. If Tikhonov asked female voice, threw a tantrum. Young journalists suffered the most from Tamara Tikhonova.
“Vyacheslav Vasilyevich was very fond of communicating with young people,” says the “victim”, journalist Anna Vershinina. “He liked to share his experiences. And he loved to flirt with young girls. Once, when I was arranging an interview with Tikhonov over the phone, Tamara Ivanovna snatched the phone from his hands and shouted: “I know, this is your mistress!!!” This is funny! Tikhonov was 80 years old.
“I remember how everyone was surprised that Tikhonov was not at Nonna’s funeral,” says Nonna Mordyukova’s sister Natalya. “Even then I thought: God will judge him.” But then I remembered about his crazy Tamara. Surely it was she who did not let him in. Because Slava himself respected Nonnochka, and they weren’t strangers after all. And his wife even forbade them to communicate on the phone.
Tamara Ivanovna tormented Tikhonov so much with her jealousy that in the end the couple divided the house in half and lived like this until Tikhonov’s death: Vyacheslav Vasilyevich in one half, Tamara in the other. Vyacheslav Vasilyevich stopped wearing wedding ring, and Tamara Ivanovna said that Tikhonov ruined her life. To calm her nerves, she began drinking heavily and attempted suicide several times. Tikhonov’s daughter Anya lived in her parents’ Moscow apartment, but in order to control her mother, she began to often visit the Moscow region. Tikhonov was happy - so he could see his tiny grandchildren - twins Slavik and Gosha.
They said that Vyacheslav Vasilyevich even had to meet his son Volodya from his first marriage secretly in the garage. When Volodya died of a drug overdose (he was only 40 years old), Tikhonov tried to help his son’s second wife and his grandson. But the actor’s wife and daughter quickly stopped his noble impulse and forbade him to communicate with his “former” relatives.
The moment came when it became clear that you could make good money from the actor Tikhonov. Anna and her husband organized a small film studio, where they began making films with the participation of Vyacheslav Vasilyevich. Anna managed her father’s affairs, refusing interviews to all film companies and television channels. For her father’s 80th birthday, she allowed him only one channel - “First”, and then for a huge fee. Konstantin Ernst personally paid 15 thousand dollars for the filming from his own pocket! Naturally, Tikhonov did not receive a penny of this money. For the same anniversary, the sponsors of the festive evening at the House of Cinema presented the great actor with a luxury car. But he never rode it either. Anya unfolded good business on the father's name. With this money she supports her family and helps her mother get rid of her drinking bouts. As for the desires of Vyacheslav Vasilyevich himself, few people took them into account. The will of the deceased was never fulfilled. Firstly, Tikhonov was against the funeral service in the church. But Anna Tikhonova desperately extorted posthumous honors for her father - and Tikhonova’s funeral service was held in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Well, he’s no worse than Zykina and Rostropovich! Another wish of the deceased was violated. Vyacheslav Vasilyevich wrote in his will that he wanted to be buried in the same grave with his son Volodya at the Kuntsevo cemetery. His first wife Nonna Mordyukova also rests there. But here, too, the jealous daughter and wife did as they pleased. Tikhonov's body was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, next to Oleg Yankovsky. Right there, next door, Tamara Tikhonova bought a place for her future grave. The great Tikhonov was happy in only one thing - a couple of years before his death, Vyacheslav Vasilyevich again found the meaning of life. After 50 years of separation, he found his first love, Julia.
It was still on small homeland Tikhonov - in Pavlovsky Posad. Tenth-grader Slava fell in love with ninth-grader Yulia Rossiyskaya at a dance. The young couple were even planning to get married, but Tikhonov went to study in Moscow. Already married to Mordyukova, he often traveled to Pavlovsky Posad to visit Yulia.
“He tortured me terribly,” Yulia recalls now. “I knew that he had a pregnant Mordyukova in Moscow, and he was fawning over me.” And I felt sorry for him, and I was tormented myself.
Gradually life separated them. But Tikhonov could not forget this girl all his life. In old age, he tried to find her himself, but in vain. Then he turned to his daughter’s husband, Nikolai. Yulia Rossiyskaya remembers very well that evening when the call rang and such a familiar and familiar voice sounded on the phone: “Yulia, it’s me, Slava.” They found each other after almost 50 years of separation. Of course, Tikhonov communicated with her furtively. And he called only when his wife was not at home. But these conversations were an outlet for him. At 81, Tikhonov realized that all his life he had loved only her, that girl from the past. She and Yulia were all going to meet, but first one had a sore, then the other.
We didn’t get a chance to see each other.
The famous actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov was born on February 8, 1928 in Pavlovsky Posad. The parents wanted the boy to become a turner or agronomist. But the thirteen-year-old teenager, entering a local school, dreamed of an acting career. During the youth of Soviet Stirlitz, tattoos with the names of lovers were popular. Then the future actor did not have a girlfriend, so he tattooed on his hand given name- Glory. Perhaps this became a prophecy, because the artist gained nationwide popularity. But he managed to find personal happiness only in his second marriage with French teacher Tamara Tikhonova (and even then his wife tormented him with jealousy).
Vyacheslav Tikhonov was born in 1928 in the Moscow region. His father worked as a mechanic at a local weaving factory, and his mother worked as a teacher in kindergarten. Tikhonov spent his childhood among the children of ordinary workers. He was absolutely no different from other yard boys who most spent their free time on the street. After the start of the war in 1941, Vyacheslav, then still a schoolboy, went to study at the school. His school housed a military hospital. Learning a profession was not difficult for Vyacheslav. He was inquisitive, and since childhood he loved to do things around the house or make things. Like many teenagers of that time, after graduating, he got a job as a metal turner at a military plant. He worked instead of men who went to the front.
After his shifts, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, along with other teenagers, ran to the Vulcan cinema to see heroic films. His favorite movie characters were Alexander Nevsky performed by N. Cherkasov, Chapaev performed by B. Babochkin, as well as everyone’s favorites and Mikhail Zharov. Tikhonov later recalled that it was these people who ultimately led him to art. Then he began to dream of such a job, but his father saw his son exclusively as a mechanic, and his mother wanted him to enter the Agricultural Academy. At the insistence of his elders, Vyacheslav entered the Automechanical Institute, but closer to the victorious year of 1945 he decided to try his hand at the entrance exams at VGIK.
The beginning of an acting career
At first he was not accepted, but then, by the will of fate, he nevertheless became a student at VGIK. enrolled Vyacheslav Tikhonov in his course. The parents were immensely outraged by the act of the obedient Slava, but the grandmother stood up for their grandson. She did not allow Tikhonov to say goodbye to his dream so easily. So Vyacheslav Tikhonov became a student at VGIKA and ended up in the workshop of teachers Olga Pyzhova and Boris Bibikov. Acting debut young man took place already during my studies. Tikhonov’s first work was the role of Osmukhin in the film “Young Guard”. The work was atypical for Soviet cinema: the directors thoroughly recreated the artistic environment, before filming the film there was a long period of preparation, the actors got used to the images of the characters, and a thorough development of the characters was carried out. The film could be considered a successful debut for a whole generation of domestic actors.
First love of Vyacheslav Tikhonov
The young man, whom censorship did not allow on screen for “some kind of non-Soviet” and “noble” appearance, met his first love at a dance. In the tenth grade, he invited a girl he knew, Yulia Rossiyskaya, to a slow dance. A romantic relationship began, but the young people did not have time to legitimize them, because Tikhonov went to the capital to study. Journalists often mentioned that he came to Yulia even during the marriage, but later these meetings stopped. Fifty years later, when Vyacheslav Vasilyevich already had two marriages behind him, he again found his first love. According to some reports, on the sly from Tamara Tikhonova, he communicated with Yulia on the phone when he lived at the dacha. They did not have time to meet in person.
Hasty marriage with Nonna Mordyukova
On the set of “The Young Guard,” fate brought the young man together with Nonna Mordyukova. Vyacheslav was nineteen years old, and Nonna was twenty-two. At first, the young man did not pay attention to the stately beauty, so it took her considerable effort to turn his head. They quickly got married. At first they lived in the VGIK dormitory, then they moved to a nine-meter room, in which Tikhonov especially did not like the floors. Both actors received Stalin Prizes for the Young Guard, and young Vyacheslav was outraged that the state was trying to leave prized artists without good living space. The fighting friend did her best, so that soon the young spouses were given a little more living space.
Suspicious rumors
There were rumors that young people got married not from Great love. Close friend Tikhonova and People's Artist I. Yoshka recalled that Mordyukova had an affair as a student with S. Gerasimov, who was the director of her course and filmed “The Young Guard.” The director asked Vyacheslav Tikhonov to marry a fellow student in order to divert suspicion from himself (the jealous wife suspected Gerasimov of infidelity). Vyacheslav could not refuse his teacher and eminent director. Even then it was clear that the calm Tikhonov and the expressive Nonna were unlikely to get along in marriage.
Discord in relationships
The directors really liked Vyacheslav Tikhonov, but the censors considered his appearance too “noble” for Soviet cinema. Therefore, Nonna earned money in the family. For the young and beautiful girl Many men tried to court her, but she never encountered a lack of attention. She was talking with one of the fans in the room when Tikhonov returned home. The couple did not explain themselves. Nonna did not consider herself guilty, so she did not make excuses. Tikhonov was sure that he had found his wife with her lover. He didn’t ask any questions, but simply left, hastily packing his suitcase.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Nonna Mordyukova did not communicate for fifty years. At the bedside of his dying son, who died at the age of forty due to a passion for drugs), they did not say a single word to each other. When journalists were filming a biographical film about her, they asked the actress if she wanted to call Tikhonov. The woman said that she would have contacted him long ago, but there was no phone number. The number was found immediately. They called each other and forgave each other. In the same year, Nonna Mordyukova passed away.
Meeting Tamara Ivanovna
Forty-year-old Tikhonov in 1967 finally met a woman who understood and accepted him completely. Teacher French Tamara Tikhonova worked with the Soviet actor on the set. She helped the film crew with translation. Tamara and Vyacheslav worked on the film “Man and Woman”. The partner was the complete opposite of Mordyukova. Twenty-five-year-old Tamara was quiet and silent. The girl was married, but divorced her husband in order to marry Tikhonov. He greatly valued the institution of marriage. But the passion was so strong that he took the woman away from the family.
Tamara's life before meeting Vyacheslav
Few facts are known from the biography of Tamara Tikhonova before her meeting with the Soviet artist. It is known that the girl trained as a French teacher and taught at the Institute of International Relations. She was married and had no children in her first marriage. She became Vyacheslav Tikhonov’s beloved woman and his wife after collaboration over the film. By the way, the Tikhonovs’ daughter Anna said that at the time they met, her mother was not married, she had a French fiancé, but she was in no hurry to bind herself to marriage. Everything went towards the wedding, but Tamara’s relatives were against it, because at that time this was not welcomed in the USSR.
Happy unhappy marriage
The inconspicuous Tamara Tikhonova, the wife of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, managed to keep her husband under total control. The handsome man in ordinary life was a completely helpless and too soft person. Vyacheslav Tikhonov had to report to his wife about each scene with a hint of love relationship, coordinate their roles. It soon became clear that Tamara was simply obsessed with jealousy. Perhaps it was precisely because of the tense relationship with his wife that Vyacheslav practically stopped acting after the film “A Man and a Woman” and several other works. He could not stand the constant hysterics, packed his bags and moved to a country house in Nikolina Gora.
Tamara did not calm down, she tormented her husband so much that for the rest of his life they actually divided the house in half. Vyacheslav himself was in one half, and Tamara was in the other. Vyacheslav Tikhonov stopped wearing the ring, and Tamara Ivanovna did not forget to mention that her husband ruined her life. There were rumors that even with his son from his first marriage, the actor had to meet secretly in the garage. He did not appear at the funeral of his first wife. However, Tikhonov’s daughter Anna, who was with Tamara, spoke very warmly about the atmosphere that reigned at home. She calls the actor loving father And happy family man, says that father and mother were in love and inseparable from each other until old age. It is known that Tamara Ivanovna (to somehow calm her nerves) became addicted to alcohol when her daughter grew up, and even tried to commit suicide several times.
The last years of Vyacheslav Tikhonovo
The actor’s personal life developed during his second marriage, although his wife tormented him with groundless jealousy and threw hysterics. However, they also had a happy period. For example, when their joint daughter Anna was just born, Tikhonov simply glowed with happiness and tried to spend every free minute with the girl. Vyacheslav Ivanovich also loved his grandchildren very much - the twins Vyacheslav and Georgy, whom Anna often brought to visit her parents. In those years, it became necessary to monitor his mother, who drank alcohol, but Tikhonov was glad that his grandchildren often visited him.
Since 2000, the actor has led a secluded life. He had no friends left: his beloved director S. Rostotsky, close colleagues Yu. Nikulin and N. Kryuchkov had already passed on to another world. Then the daughter of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, actress Anna Tikhonova, organized a film studio, where her husband began making films with the participation of the Soviet Stirlitz. She managed all her father’s affairs, and for his anniversary she organized an interview for a fee of fifteen thousand dollars. Vyacheslav Tikhonov did not receive this money. The sponsors of the evening at the House of Cinema presented the actor with a car that he had never driven. But Anna Tikhonova built a business for herself on the name famous father.
At the same time, the Soviet actor began to get sick. In 2002, he suffered a heart attack, in 2007 he was hospitalized after an injury with complaints of heart pain, in the spring of the following year he underwent surgery, and in the fall of 2009 he was admitted to the Central Clinical Hospital. Another vascular operation followed a week after hospitalization. Surgical intervention Vyacheslav Tikhonov had a very difficult time, but the doctors still hoped that the actor would recover. Alas, he died the next day. The last hours of his life, Soviet Stirlitz was in intensive care, connected to a ventilator and hemodialysis. The attending physician of Vyacheslav Tikhonov said that loneliness and absence, difficult for the artist, played a role in this death. good care for the patient from relatives.
Difficult family relationships
After the death of Vyacheslav Vasilyevich, addiction to alcohol almost destroyed Tikhonov’s widow, Tamara Ivanovna. Anna had to admit her mother to the hospital so that qualified doctors could monitor her condition around the clock. Even when Tamara Tikhonova coped with alcoholism, it turned out that everything in the family was not as smooth as it could have been. Tamara Ivanovna did not get along with her son-in-law and complained that her daughter was trying to deprive her of her apartment and dacha. At one time, the widow even said that her daughter’s husband beats her, drinks, and does not want to work. declined to comment on these allegations.
What the actual relationships in this family were is unknown. Anna spoke of her parents with love, saying that they communicated well with her husband. At the same time, Tamara Ivanovna herself mentioned that Vyacheslav Tikhonov did not like his son-in-law, and they did not have harmony in the family.
Tikhonov was born into a simple family in Pavlov Posad near Moscow. His father worked as a mechanic at a weaving factory, his mother was a teacher at school. Growing up normal Soviet child and was quite a bit interested in cinema.
When the schoolboy Slava was 13, the war began. School education had to be completed quickly. As a teenager, he passionately wanted to be useful to the front, so he went to work at a military factory - in order to make at least some contribution to the victory.
The war ended, and Tikhonov decided to continue his education. Like his parents, the guy chose a working profession, entered college and learned to be a turner. Only sometimes did the young man allow himself to go to the movies, and then daydream about the fact that he could easily do the same himself.
Of course, none of the prominent guys went to the cinema. At a very young age, at a dance, he fell in love with a charming girl named Yulia. She fell so deeply into the heart of the future star that he even planned a wedding. But first I had to get an education.
And Tikhonov went to Moscow. He entered the Automechanical Institute, but, cherishing hope, he still went to VGIK. His performance did not impress the teachers, but his passionate desire to study at this university was memorable.
He failed his exams. But after a couple of months, when theater university The first deductions have already begun, VGIK teacher Boris Bibikov recalled about an applicant with sparkling eyes who so wanted to be an artist. He found Slava and took him on his course.
Talent
State photo factory "Lenphotoartist", ITAR-TASS
The newly minted student quickly justified his trust. Already in his third year he was invited to the first filming - in “Young Guard”, and then in “Peaceful Days”. The second film revealed a talented artist in Tikhonov - directors began calling him for filming more and more often.
But the first one brought him together with classmate Nonna Mordyukova, whom he didn’t seem to notice before filming. And then I saw a temperamental young artist with a Scythian profile and sparkling eyes and fell in love.
Soon Mordyukova became pregnant, but he still could not believe that now it was time to start a family, to be its head, to become an example for his own child.
According to the testimony of that same Yulia, who was still waiting for Tikhonov in his small homeland, he came there several times without Mordyukova. Julia knew about his pregnancy new girlfriend, tried to survive it intelligently and without scandals. But as if he didn’t understand the importance of what was happening, he continued to fawn over his first love.
Family man
Kassin Evgeniy; Mastyukov Valentin, TASS
However, they still got married to Nonna and began to live together. First in a student dormitory, then his wife “knocked out” a nine-meter room in which Tikhonov did not like the floors. Both actors received Stalin Prizes for “Young Guard,” and Vyacheslav Vasilyevich was extremely indignant that the state was trying to leave such awarded artists without good living space.
Combat Mordyukova, in order to respect her husband, was busy getting a new room. And it was really highlighted - a little wider than the previous one, but it was a passable one.
After graduating from VGIK, Tikhonov quite quickly received an offer to join the stage - he was accepted into the troupe of the Film Actor Theater. The artist played there for seven years, until film directors finally lured the telegenic artist to permanent job to the Maxim Gorky Film Studio.
However, Vyacheslav Vasilyevich had very few roles: rarely was a man with noble traits approved by Soviet censorship. Nonna was the breadwinner in the family.
50 silent years
The story of their separation is probably known to everyone who is interested in Soviet cinema. Then many men courted the beautiful and famous artist. She talked with one of the fans in her and Tikhonov’s room when her husband returned home.
They did not explain themselves: Nonna was not guilty of anything, and did not consider it necessary to justify herself. And Tikhonov, confident that he had caught his wife with her lover, did not ask unnecessary questions. He simply packed his suitcase and walked out.
The actors did not communicate for fifty years. Even at the bedside of their dying son, they did not say a word to each other. But ten years later, already at an advanced age, television crews who were filming a biographical film about Mordyukova asked her a question: would she like to call ex-husband? She said that she would have called long ago, but there was no phone. Of course, the phone was found immediately.
They said just a few words to each other and forgave each other. That year Nonna Mordyukova passed away.
Second family
film "War and Peace" (1965−1967)
They say that to communicate with ex-wife, and then with his son’s wife and grandchildren, his second wife Tamara and their common daughter Anna.
Tikhonov was already about 40 when he worked on the dubbing of a French film. A 25-year-old French teacher from the Institute of International Relations helped him understand the intricacies of translation. Vyacheslav Vasilyevich charmed the girl so much that she left her family for him.
They got married and Tamara, silent and cool, like Tikhonov himself, suddenly discovered a tendency to pathological jealousy. She controlled every step of her husband, forbade him to speak with his ex-wife, and communicated strictly and arrogantly with young journalists.
According to gossip, Tikhonov even saw his son from Nonna while hiding in the garage. However, their daughter speaks very warmly about the home atmosphere. He says that mom and dad were inseparable and in love until old age. Calls him a happy family man and a loving dad.
Gone
It was in this family that Tikhonov spent his last years. Gossips claim that Tamara tormented their love with her jealousy, and by the end of their lives they divided in half a beautiful brick house “like Stirlitz’s” on Nikolina Gora. But Vyacheslav Vasilyevich was very fond of his daughter and grandchildren - little twins Slava and Gosha, whom Anna often brought to visit her parents.
The fourth of December is the anniversary of the death of the man of the era, Vyacheslav Tikhonov [audio]
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For almost half a century, in all polls, viewers in our country named him their most favorite actor. And among the whole series of his diverse heroes, the legendary Stirlitz, whom many perceive as a symbol of the Russian intelligence officer, became an unsurpassed role-fate. Vyacheslav Tikhonov himself said that he could not let his viewer down by agreeing to act in consumer goods, because he had the honor of living with the image of Maxim Maksimovich Isaev, and this is a huge responsibility. Tikhonov was an officer and a MAN to the core. Not only in movies, but also in life, especially in the family. His widow Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova is a non-public, closed person and does not give interviews. On the anniversary of the death of our beloved actor, we still took the risk of calling her to find out what Vyacheslav Vasilyevich was like behind the scenes, at home, “without a uniform.” And we heard this dramatic story, which, to be honest, shocked us with its injustice. "Everyone forgot about me" - Tamara Ivanovna, how are you feeling?- I started with a routine question. - It’s even strange for me to hear that you called Tamara Ivanovna to the phone. It seemed to me that everyone thought that I was no longer alive! - The resentment in the voice was poorly hidden. - After Slava’s death, everyone thinks that I’m gone too. But Tamara Ivanovna is still alive, thank God! But everyone has already forgotten about it! - Yes you! We remember you very well! And we know that you were a support for Vyacheslav Vasilyevich!
Widow of Vyacheslav Tikhonov: I hear his voice all the time
She was a support, yes. And I myself lost my support 12 years ago when I got on crutches. I complain about poor healthcare, now paid for. I need medical help, but they demand such huge amounts of money from me that I simply don’t have! - The widow of such a great man as Tikhonov cannot receive FREE medical care?!- Like this. You see what times we live in. You have to pay for everything. I'm not leaving the hospital. I'm constantly sick. And now I’m trying to get to the sanatorium. I am disabled, the widow of a national artist. And they tell me: pay one hundred thousand rubles to get into the sanatorium, and even one hundred thousand for an accompanying person. Where will I get that kind of money? I live on a pension. I have a daughter. She is raising two small children. I have an official document that gives the widows of Socialist Labor Heroes a plus folk artists USSR, like me, are entitled to financial benefits for treatment. But today I cannot get free help. I need a sanatorium where problems with the musculoskeletal system are treated, where there is a pool, I need to swim. I can barely walk on crutches. I need to strengthen my poor muscles on one leg and just save the other leg. There is also a problem with the heart. I don’t communicate with anyone, so no one knows. And it’s awkward for me to talk about my ill health, it’s awkward for me to complain. And yet we treat widows like this! - There are so many different funds open!- There are a lot of funds, but no help. Maybe you ask - will anyone respond? It would be nice if someone could help. When Slava was alive, he and I were placed in the Barvikha sanatorium. There was attention. And after the death of her husband, there is no previous attention. We live in very difficult times. People have become callous... - It turns out that the state didn’t notice...- If our state kept an eye on everyone, people would live better. Unfortunately, it is not. - Tamara Ivanovna, we will definitely try to help you. I'm ashamed of you for such an inattentive attitude.- Thank you. Call me... And yet, despite her condition, Tamara Ivanovna found the strength to talk to us a little and remember her life with Tikhonov...
“I preferred Tikhonov to my French groom” - Tamara Ivanovna, I read in the press that you met Tikhonov on the set?- Oh, you know, there were so many rumors, many versions were written about us in the press, and all of them were not true. We didn't meet him on set. We had a symbolic acquaintance - at the dubbing of the French film “Look for a Woman.” Slava voiced the Man. And I, as a professional translator, translated several scenes from the film and helped with dubbing. By the way, the woman was voiced by actress Nina Evgenievna Menshikova, the wife of director Rostotsky, and we later became family friends. I communicated with Nina until her last days. In general, we met Slava at the studio. He made an impression on me. And he liked me at first sight. I didn’t look like the actresses around him. He saw that I was educated a smart girl, unlike those he was used to seeing around him. In the sense that... oh, well, in many ways! Culture, education, upbringing, good figure, pleasant appearance, of course, all this attracted him. We started a relationship very quickly. In fact, Slava came up with an excuse - he asked me to help read the letters that he received from France. I agreed. I soon realized that this was just an excuse to get to know me better. Our relationship developed rapidly. I then had a French fiancé, with whom I was going to go to France. I had to not go to France, to stay with Slava! - They exchanged the Frenchman for a Russian actor?!- Love is spinning! There was glory an interesting man, gallant, courteous... - Apparently, you are a unique woman!- Yes, how unique! You see, now culture and education are not valued. And then it was very much appreciated. Besides, I was young, I was 24 years old, and he was 40 years old. - Did you have a wedding?- Yes. Not the same as what is accepted now. We had magnificent wedding, because famous people came. There was registration at the registry office. None long dresses, I didn’t have a veil. This was not accepted in my family. I was wearing a short mini dress, no diamonds. And not because there was no opportunity, but because we just thought it was necessary. More modestly... We got married during the filming of the film “We'll Live Until Monday.” His role as Melnikov is my favorite... “Mordyukova did not understand his subtle soul”
- Tikhonov’s first wife, Nonna Mordyukova, said that living with Tikhonov was very boring. According to her expression, he was like a cracker, staring at one point and silent.- She could not understand his subtle soul. Tikhonov is a wonderful person! A wonderful family man. Caring, sincere, worried. We didn’t like feasts, but liked to sit, talk, and read. His heart was worried about his homeland and his profession. He chose only human roles in which the human qualities of the hero could be revealed... He is a sensitive person. And next to him, lilacs bloomed in his soul... - It’s just that the people still have the memory of the Tikhonov-Mordyukova couple...- I don’t know, for what people, sorry... How did he run away from her fifty years ago and didn’t remember anything pleasant about that life?! What I know about his life is unpleasant. She was, excuse me, his first woman as a youth, that’s all. And the fact that he ran away and how he lived on a bench, just so as not to live there... It is indecent to have a conversation on this topic. He didn’t even say anything about her death. He's sorry, that's all. She called when she was dying and said that she asked for forgiveness. He said: and I apologize. This is how it is supposed and accepted among the Russian people. Daughter Anya was born in our marriage. Vyacheslav Vasilyevich doted on his grandchildren, which our daughter gave him. He loved Anna very much. I lived with Vyacheslav Vasilyevich for 42 years. This probably means a lot. I had many bright moments with him. - Vyacheslav Vasilyevich had a film “Seventeen Moments of Spring”. And the moment with him that you remember as the brightest?- There is no one and only brightest thing. The brightest moments are in the soul and in secret. They don't talk about them... I can't remember one picture! I have so many of them pop up in my dreams at night. I have a huge portrait of him hanging opposite the bed. I live in our room with him. Everything is here as it was with him. His portrait is from the film “Seventeen Moments”, where he is sitting on the ground in thought, planning to go to Berlin... remember, that last frame. And I talk to him... He comes to me in a dream, just as if alive. If we talk about bright moments with him, they are very intimate (embarrassed). Sometimes you wake up and you just feel like there is a living person next to you. I wake up and it’s as if I’m with him. Sometimes I shudder as if he were nearby. So it's all hard. And I hear his voice all the time. A real live voice.
- Is it difficult for you without your husband?- Oh, well! Certainly. That’s why all the sores got worse... (Holding back sobs.) Here’s my grandson standing next to me, saying: “Grandma, why are you crying?” Addressing his grandson: “Slavochka, why am I crying, I remember my grandfather and cry.” The grandson's name is Slava, like his grandfather's. Slavochka also remembers her grandfather. So he says to me: “Don’t cry.” That's it, I won't cry... - Tikhonov gave the impression of a very warm person.- He was very a kind person. But to outsiders he gave the impression of a reserved person. He was closed with people. He was friendly with everyone. But even the unsmiling one... - They say that bags of letters came to him from fans.- There were a lot of letters. Slava read them and responded to someone. And now letters are coming, but only sporadically, these are memorable ones. Modern generation young people don't write. It doesn’t really know what kind of artist this is... But all the letters have been preserved. Now they are with my daughter Anya. Anya will write a book about her father; she has already signed a contract. Letters in progress. - You say that he was a worried person. Why should he worry - no matter what his role, he was a success!“He played every role through himself, through his heart, through his soul. I was very worried about each of my jobs. He was preparing for the role of Bolkonsky in the film “War and Peace”. And then I looked at the picture and was upset - it seemed that I could not do what I had planned. I took it dramatically and wanted to leave the profession. But an invitation came to star in the film “It Happened in Penkov”. And he was inspired new job. He devoted himself entirely to his work and profession. He LIVED for his profession. - The whole country loved him. What is it like to be the wife of a man with whom the entire female population of the country is in love?- Not easy. But we were happy. He valued what he was able to do at work. -Who was he friends with?- I was very friendly with the director Stanislav Rostotsky... Last years he spent alone. His friends all left for another world... His grandchildren made him happy. My soul ached for them, for their fate...
“Brezhnev personally congratulated” - Did your couple communicate with political figures?- In your understanding politicians who is this? If we take cultural figures, cinema and artists, this is also high level was. The man who advised Slava on “Seventeen Moments” was very a famous person, deputy head of the KGB Tsvigun. Unfortunately, a tragedy happened to him, which we experienced... Of course, Slava and I were at various receptions in the Kremlin. They did not communicate directly with Brezhnev. And Vyacheslav Vasilyevich talked to him on the phone. I personally received congratulations from him when Brezhnev gave him the Hero of Socialist Labor - the only actor who received this title at the age of 50! We even have an audio recording of the conversation with Brezhnev. I have it in my archive, as a keepsake. - They wrote that you were very sick. And that’s why they lived separately from Tikhonov in recent years.- They didn’t talk about my illness. Our family relationships with Vyacheslav Vasilyevich they distorted everything in every possible way. Vyacheslav Vasilyevich was a decent person. He was a family man. - What was he like in everyday life? His favorite dish? - He was unpretentious. Porridge, something light, dietary, that's all... - How will you remember Vyacheslav Vasilyevich?- We'll go to the cemetery on the fourth. Thanks to the fans, there are always fresh flowers on his grave. Then at the dacha we will remember at the family table. People will come, there are not many of them. Those who were there for nine or forty days will come to remember. The closest. Let's order a prayer service at the church. As it should be. Unfortunately, after death people showed themselves in such a way that we do not receive attention from them. - I heard that Broneva has a very warm attitude towards the memory of Vyacheslav Vasilyevich.- Yes, Bronevoy is an attentive person. It's nice to be shown respect. But not everyone behaves this way. Now a film is being made for TV in memory of Vyacheslav Vasilyevich, my daughter approached many actors, there are those who did not respond. And it was very surprising to me. Daughter Anna registered the Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov Foundation. But no one helps the foundation. Nobody applies, and probably doesn’t know about such a fund. - They say that behind every great man there is a great woman...- Unfortunately, this is forgotten. Even great people are forgotten. And their wives... Since I am disabled, I don’t go anywhere, they buried me a long time ago. Unfortunately, respect and love, and interesting, a good life are a thing of the past. And now, excuse me, this is a terrible old age that you wouldn’t wish on anyone. Even my daughter thinks with horror what will happen next. And I tell her with horror that, unfortunately, old age comes quickly. I had interesting life, but it’s just a pity that it passed. - I wish you health and courage. We loved the actor Tikhonov very much and will try to help the woman who was with him almost all her life. Thank you! Afterword After talking with Tamara Ivanovna, we contacted the Vympel-Garant special forces veterans fund and Colonel Valery Kiselev and agreed that Tikhonov’s widow would be assisted in obtaining a free trip to the sanatorium. We will be glad if various foundations and unions also remember the actor’s widow.