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Tatyana Konyukhova: A Legendary Actress and her Battle with Dementia

Evgenia Korobkova

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Tatyana Georgievna’s son believes that she is developing dementia. Tatyana Konyukhova will turn 92 in November. To understand how popular she was in the 1950s, it is enough to recall an episode from the film Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears. “Oh, I adore, Konyukhova!” – whispers the admiring heroine of Irina Muravyova, seeing off the stars of Soviet cinema with her eyes.

The actress starred in cult films of her time, but her VGIK course was considered unlucky. A terrible fate awaited almost all graduates. Who committed suicide, who boiled alive in the bath, who died of hunger and alcoholism. The pestilence began back in the student years, when novice actors buzzed along with the son of Isaac Dunayevsky, then they decided to ride at night on his Pobeda and got into an accident in which one of the students died.

So Konyukhova, one might say, was lucky. Even though she doesn’t think so. In recent years, the actress has increasingly voiced long-standing grievances. Like, she was betrayed too often by both directors and lovers. It was Konyukhova who could star in “Carnival Night” instead of Gurchenko and in “The Cranes Are Flying” instead of Samoilova. But she herself refused these roles, because she did not want to let down Grigory Roshal, who approved her in The Passage. Something went wrong with the director, he did not start the picture in any way. Konyukhova honestly waited and refused cool roles. As a result, when the shooting began, the role of Dasha Roshal took his new passion.

Approximately the same story unfolded with the gentlemen.

The first marriage was unsuccessful. The husband was a terribly jealous man and one day, when young Tatyana was on the set, he thought of dropping into the hotel early in the morning, and even with witnesses: giggling maids peeking over their shoulders. It was not possible to catch his wife hot, but Tatyana herself kicked out the “checker” in disgrace.

Tatyana according to the horoscope Scorpio

Then Leonid Bykov, “Alyoshenka,” as she called him, broke her heart. They met in 1953 on the set of the film The Fate of Marina.

“He kept giggling, giggling, and I don’t even remember how we began to kiss furiously,” the actress recalled. She expected that after such and such Leonid would definitely propose to her, but that was not the case. It turned out he was married.

Following her began an affair with Strizhenov. And then it turned out again that Oleg has not just a wife, but also a heavily pregnant woman.

Only for the third time Tatyana was lucky in marriage. Her friend Tatyana Piletskaya introduced her to the javelin thrower Vladimir Kuznetsov, after whose victory in the USSR-USA athletics competitions, his figure began to be printed on boxes of chocolates.

She lived with him for 27 years, but in 1986 Kuznetsov burned out from cancer.

After that, the actress devoted herself to her only son Sergei. He married early, so the actress supported a young family, and then helped with her granddaughter. Now Sergey helps his mother. Tatyana Georgievna has not even answered the phone lately. According to her neighbor Larisa Luzhina, her son forbade her mother to communicate with strangers.

“Sergei believes that his mother began to talk nonsense and that she has dementia,” said Luzhina.

Photo source: Frame from the film, Boris Kudryavov

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