Talent does not die - he continues to live increativity: in roles, in images. It is with these words that I want to start a story about how the life of the actress Lyudmila Marchenko was formed. She was delightful, charming, tender, but so unhappy. Her fate is “this is a white moth tango”. Tragic, but impudent.
Happy start
Lyudmila Marchenko - actress, not only had a charming appearance. She was very talented, but she simply did not give her full talent.
In her youth, she was envied by all her friends, and the boysinvoluntarily peered at the fragile beauty. However, since childhood she cherished the dream of an acting career, she diligently prepared for final exams. After finishing school, she went to enroll in several theater schools at once. And everything was accepted. Luda chose VGIK and after two months of her first year of study, she received an offer from the famous Leo Kulidzhanova to play in Father’s House, to which, of course, she agreed.
Perseverance or obsession?
Пырьев стал частым гостем квартиры в Демидовском Lane, which took off for Lyudmila. With all his actions, he demonstrated that he was the owner of not only housing, but also the tenant herself. Having understood this, L. Marchenko moved to live with her relatives (mother and sister). But this did not stop the insistent director. Lyudmila Marchenko - a beginner actress - was very afraid to arouse the anger of her high-ranking chief. Therefore, neither yes nor no answered, hoping that his enthusiasm would pass. But it was not there. Pyryev's perseverance gradually grew into obsession. He no longer concealed his feelings for a young actress from anyone, and she was increasingly getting drunk in noisy companies, hoping that she would finally give up under the influence of alcohol. Luda understood that the situation was heating up. All the acquaintances in vain advised to agree to Pyr'ev’s claims, because he was reputed to be cruel and vindictive, and if he wanted to, could ruin Lyudmila’s life. But Marchenko was not able to step out of disgust, because Ivan Pyryev was the same age as her grandfather, and even the husband of her favorite actress Lyuda, Marina Ladynina.
Lyudmila’s refusal caused such an explosion of emotions in him that he seriously decided to ruin Lyudmila’s life.
First marriage
Lyudmila Marchenko - an actress, certainly an outstanding one, was left almost without work, because no one dared to invite her to act without the “command” of Ivan Pyryev.
Soon she married.Her husband, a student at MGIMO, Vladimir Verbenko, loved his wife, but was jealous madly. And the rumors about a film director in love that went all over Moscow inflamed him even more. He did not let her to work. He arranged terrible scenes, scandals.
Fail Natasha Rostov
Pyryev knocked out for Ludmila cooperative apartment ina house built specifically for the actors. He began to frequently visit her, continuing to persuade him to marry him. It was at this time that Pyr'ev wrote the “War and Peace” script. Lyudmila he promised the role of Natasha Rostova. Having received another refusal, he handed over the work on the script to Bondarchuk.
New love and new pain
Soon Ludmila met ValentinBerezin. He held a high position in the exploration party, was quite wealthy man. Becoming his common-law wife, Lyudmila Marchenko, an actress who was still dreaming of a banal female happiness, could not even imagine what fatal role this man would play in her fate.
Knowing many representatives of Moscow bohemia,Berezin often heard gossip about his wife and famous director. Being a suspicious and unbalanced man, he did not understand that most of the rumors during the discussion were overgrown with non-existent details. He began to arrange sudden checks, interrogations. One day, having heard a lot of “dirty” conversations, he broke loose and attacked Lyudmila. He did not just beat her, he crippled and disfigured, not only health, but also life.
When the aggression receded, he took her to the hospital,Silent that he had done this. Berezin came up with a legend that she got into an accident. Strange as it may seem, Lyudmila confirmed this version, but everyone understood that this was the atrocity of the hands of Berezin himself.
Alien child
Doctors were able to save Lyudmila, but her face,disfigured by a cruel jealous man, they now covered the scars forever. Scared Valentine tried all the time to be next to his wife, fearing that she could tell someone about the true circumstances of the incident. He pretended that he was very sorry for his deed and asked for forgiveness. And she forgave.
But she was waiting for a new shock.In 1968, Lyudmila learns that Berezin has another family, a child is growing up. She, who had forgiven physical violence, could not endure this betrayal. She packed up a civil husband and kicked him out. Perhaps she was so hurt because she herself could not have children.
Her pain actress Lyudmila Marchenko, whose personal life brought her only misfortune, began to drown out the drink.
Depression
Loneliness and oblivion completely undermined the morale of the actress. Disfigured and sick, nobody needed it. She began to drink a lot.
Ей помог Виталий Войтенко, администратор Mosconcert. He was able to pull her out of depression, organized concerts in the country. She traveled through the cities of the Soviet Union, but in every hall she caught in the eyes of the audience not admiration, but pity. Then there was a breakdown, she refused to continue traveling, because each time she was asked the same question: “What are you working on now? Where are you filming now? ” And there was nothing to answer.
Again followed by depression, in which there was a lot of alcohol, pain and tears.
Behind the stone wall
Вскоре (в этом же 1975 году) актриса Марченко Lyudmila, whose biography is full of tragic and sad events, met Sergey Sokolov. He was also a creative person, famous as a talented graphic artist. Sergey fell in love with Lyudmila. Feelings were mutual. After a while they got married. Now the former actress has become a housewife. She coped well with the responsibilities of the family's keeper: she kept the house in order, she prepared Sunday dinners ... For the first time in her life, Lyudmila was behind her husband, like a stone wall. This is not to say that she was absolutely happy. She lacked theater, cinema, spectators. She wanted to prove herself at work, but people who met her on the path of life broke her fate.
In July 1996, her husband L.Marchenko, artist Sergei Sokolov, suffered a heart attack, followed by a sudden death. This event shocked his wife. She could not imagine her future life in solitude. She again tried to find tranquility in alcohol.
Actress Lyudmila Marchenko (photo in article) survivedSergei Sokolov exactly six months. Either the passion for alcohol undermined the already poor health, or the loneliness and longing for the only man who truly loved her was shortened by her days. Anyway, on January 23, 1997, the wonderful, unjustly forgotten Marchenko Lyudmila passed away. The actress, whose cause of death - a banal flu. She deliberately started the disease, did not take medication, and asked her relatives not to come, so that they allegedly did not catch a cold. She could not imagine her life alone, she did not see the meaning in it. She left quietly and unnoticed. Just a few people came to say goodbye to the once famous actress.
Call from the past
After some time, the phone rangin the apartment where Lyudmila Marchenko used to live, an actress who rejected a famous fan and paid for it with her own happiness. The tube was picked up by Lyudmila Vasilievna’s nephew. This was called by a friend of his youth L. Marchenko, Yevgeny Peshkov. He had not seen Lyudmila for almost half a century and did not know that she was no longer alive. The sister of the actress who took the phone from her son, of course, remembered cadet Zhenya Peshkova, who in her distant youth was in love with her sister Lucy. Now, the colonel, who had passed the war in Afghanistan, was married, had two children ... When he learned that Lyudmila Vasilyevna had died, he asked his sister where she was buried. Galina Vasilievna explained where the grave is located at the Vagankovo cemetery. And when Peshkov called again and said that he could not find the grave, she explained again. Only a few days later, Galina Vasilyevna realized that because of the photo faded in the sun, it was impossible to recognize Lyudmila on it. Then she herself found the telephone of the colonel and called. It turned out that he was still able to find the burial place of L. Marchenko. Moreover, he and his wife ordered a marble monument and a shadow portrait. Of course, Galina Vasilyevna did not have the material opportunity to do this.
I want to believe that there are still people left, likeColonel Evgeny Peshkov, who did not forget what a talented person was Marchenko Lyudmila. The actress, whose grave is located on the 25th section of the Vagankovo cemetery, will forever remain in the memory of a strong, unshakable and principled woman who has lived not too long, not too happy, but an honest life.
