In Tarasova’s personal life, not everything worked out as well as in her career. She was married three times, but never became a mother. Now looking back at the past, Tatyana Anatolyevna has come to terms with this and now puts her whole soul into her students. In addition, she takes care of the heirs of her sister Galina as if they were her own children.
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“Why regret something that doesn’t exist. I have a lot of worries, I help people I meet along the way. Love for my grandchildren Galin, always at the skating rink with the children. What can I say, this is how it happened. These are your mistakes, there was no time, Olympic Games We were there all the time,” Tarasova admitted in the program “The Fate of a Man” with Boris Korchevnikov.
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Tatyana lived with her first husband for only a year. At that moment, her career and sports were important to her, so family did not fit into her plans. Tarasova’s second husband, Vasily Khomenkov, died young, at the age of 29. The third husband of the famous coach was Vladimir Krainev. Her father, Anatoly Tarasov, loved his son-in-law very much. The couple lived together for many years; in 2011, Vladimir passed away.
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Tatyana Anatolyevna dotes on her nephew Alexei. He continued the sports dynasty and now stands at the head of the “Golden Puck” Young Hockey Players Club named after A.V. Tarasova." She treats his children like her own grandchildren.
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Really successful career Is it worth depriving yourself of the joy of motherhood?
Tatyana Tarasova is a legendary coach who has trained a whole galaxy of brightest stars figure skating, thanks to which Soviet athletes won almost every Olympics in this sport for more than 30 years.
Childhood
Tatyana was born on a cold winter day - 02/13/1947 in one of the Moscow maternity hospitals. Her parents were professional athletes: her father was a famous hockey player, her mother was a coach. Therefore, both she and her Native sister did it every day without fail morning exercises, water treatments and played sports.
In young age
The girl took this for granted, since the example of her parents was always before her eyes. She first skated when she was not yet five years old. Learning to stay on the ice next to her star dad was fun and interesting, so she gladly attended her first classes.
A little later, her parents sent her to the figure skating section and this decided the girl’s fate, becoming not only a lifelong hobby, but also her profession.
Flights on ice
Young Tarasova spent several hours a day on the ice. Brought up on sports training since childhood, the girl was always aimed only at winning. She perfected every movement, every pirouette. Such efforts could not go unnoticed by the coaches, and soon she was paired with another talented skater Georgy Proskurin.
The couple was taken in by Elena Tchaikovskaya - by that time already an experienced and renowned coach, under whose leadership the skaters reached unprecedented heights. Working together for only two years, the Tarasova-Proskurin couple managed to win the World Universiade and showed very high hopes.
However, during a particularly intense training session, while practicing one of the pair’s most difficult signature elements, Tatyana Tarasova fell unsuccessfully onto the ice and was seriously injured. She spent in the hospital for a long time and transferred complex operation. The young athlete patiently endured all the painful manipulations, still hoping to return to the “big ice.”
Alas, hopes of continuing his career were not destined to come true. The doctors' verdict was disappointing - even after long-term rehabilitation, Tatyana would not be able to play sports professionally. The following injury can make the girl disabled, and it’s too serious physical exercise are contraindicated for her.
Her partner had been training with another athlete for a long time. And Tarasova’s sports career was over.
Coaching talent
Tarasova experienced this period very difficult. She couldn't imagine her life without big sport and serious victories. Fortunately, at that time she was already a student at the Institute of Physical Education and was not left without support. That's when the thought of coaching came to me for the first time. And if a goal appears, opportunities for its implementation also come.
And in 1967, Tarasova returned to the ice, but in a new capacity. Being a young coach herself, Tarasova takes on very young students and begins to improve herself in coaching in the same way as she previously honed her sports skills on the ice. It starts completely new stage in her life, and with it come new victories.
Tarasova’s young students occupy the top steps of podiums at competitions of various sizes, including all-Union and international youth tournaments. But Tarasova herself always dreamed of Olympic medals, so she aimed even higher.
Working with young athletes, she constantly came up with new tricks, developed lifts and beautiful combinations of steps and elements.
Long-awaited victories
Tarasova first had the chance to fulfill her dream when another famous Soviet coach, Stanislav Zhuk, who was famous for his very tough style of working with athletes, which, however, produced results - his students regularly won competitions of the highest rank, left the newly formed couple Rodnina-Zaitsev .
Irina Rodnina had already won several international championships by this time, but her ex-partner married another figure skater and started dancing with her. Stanislav Zhuk picked Rodnina a new partner - the talented but novice figure skater Alexander Zaitsev.
But the relationship new couple things didn't work out with the coach. Zaitsev did not tolerate Zhuk's harsh style, he was often nervous, and the pair could not work normally on the ice.
And in 1974, the couple went to train with Tarasova. For them, she was more of a friend than a stern mentor, although her demands were no less, and sometimes even more strict, than Zhuk’s. The guys enthusiastically began to master completely new elements, doing incredibly complex combinations of tricks on ice.
Just two years later, the Rodnina-Zaitsev couple triumphantly won the Olympics, receiving maximum marks 6.0. Finally, Tarasova’s main dream is coming true! Irina Rodnina cries on the top step of the podium as the USSR anthem is played during the awards ceremony. And Tarasova cries with her with joy and pride for her students.
These were her first Olympic champions. But not the only ones. In ice dancing, this achievement was repeated by her other students, the Moiseeva-Minenkov couple. Later, foreign athletes trained under her leadership, bringing great victories to their countries. But these two couples have become peculiar business card Tarasova as a successful coach.
Tarasova School
After the collapse of the USSR, the situation in sports, as well as in the whole country, turned out to be difficult. Tarasova continues to train students, but at the same time creates a commercial project - an ice theater, in which she gives the leading roles to her best students who completed sports career. The theater very quickly becomes super popular - it is impossible to buy tickets for performances.
Tarasova did not stage the ice ballet herself; she invited the best Russian choreographers to collaborate. Often traveling abroad, Tarasova always attended such shows, trying to spy on and bring to Russia all the best and most interesting things. And we came up with a lot ourselves. In total, the theater existed for 14 years, during which more than a dozen outstanding performances were staged.
But Tarasova’s favorite brainchild was and remains the Figure Skating School, which continues to educate future champions. She worked in a similar school for many years in the USA after the fall " iron curtain", thus being torn into two countries. But still, the heart and soul of the talented coach were devoted to Russia, where she invariably returned.
Personal life
Tarasova's first husband was a theater actor. Prisoner in at a young age in a fit of violent passion, this union was initially doomed due to the dissimilarity of the characters of the young spouses. Two years later, they separated peacefully, remaining good friends for the rest of their lives.
The coach's second marriage to athlete Vasily Khomenkov ended sadly - the husband died tragically at a very young age. Tarasova felt the death of her husband very deeply, and if it weren’t for the support of her loved ones and students, she might have broken down and left big-time sports. But Tarasova survived, life went on.
With her husband Vladimir Krainev
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"Able" legs
“Tarasov’s” methods bore fruit: at the age of 19, Tatyana won the World Universiade, performing in tandem with Georgy Proskurin. And then, while making a lap of honor on the ice, she received a ridiculous injury: she fell on the path leading to the podium. The diagnosis of “chronic shoulder dislocation” left no chance: with figure skating it was necessary to say goodbye. Character, tempered by training and the harsh upbringing of her father, played a role: Tarasova did not give up. She decided that she would become a coach - and immediately began to advise the country's leading skaters, without wasting time on beginners.
The Figure Skating Hall of Fame, more than 40 gold medals for her students - all this will come later. And then, having returned with the “silver” of the Olympics for her wards Moiseeva and Minenkov, Tarasova received a condescending message from her father: “We are fired from work for second place.” Only after five gold medals from his daughter’s students did he recognize her as a colleague.
All the "gold" in the world
Tatyana Tarasova with her students, Natalya Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin, photo: RIA Novosti/Dmitry Donskoy By the age of 30, Tatyana Tarasova had gained a reputation as an experimental trainer, invariably leading her students to victories. It's no joke - the youngest honored coach of the USSR! The great Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev, under her leadership, had already become Olympic champions, her father no longer doubted her professionalism, and she was surrounded by honor and respect from her friends and colleagues. While training pairs on the ice, in life Tarasova remained a “single skater” - although she already had two marriages behind her. Her first husband was actor Alexei Samoilov, thanks to whom Tarasova made many actor friends. They lived together for only two years: Tatyana did not intend to preserve the family hearth by sacrificing work. The marriage broke up.
For the second time she married track and field athlete Vasily Khomenkov - according to Great love which ended in tragedy. Vasily died at the age of 29, and Tarasova refuses to talk about the reasons and circumstances of what happened throughout her life. By the age of 30, her family consisted of her parents, sister and nephew and, of course, figure skaters. She devoted all her time to work, until one day Tarasova’s friend, actress Marina Neyolova, dragged her to a fortune teller. She predicted that on this day Tatyana would meet the love of her life.
“Then I stopped by a friend’s house and saw Krainev there - it was so unexpected that I couldn’t help myself, laughed and said: “This is it - my happiness!” And so it happened. Volodya immediately volunteered to take me home, and when we drove off, two rainbows appeared in the sky at once. It was a good sign."
Coach and pianist
He was allowed a "window" of 16 days. Lifting everything up possible connections, in these two weeks they managed to organize registration at the registry office. On March 2, 1979, Tatyana Tarasova became the wife of Vladimir Krainev.
Their compatibility was ideal: for both, work was not just a job, but a matter of life, a calling. That is why they endured separation so easily. That's why they were so interesting together. “I have always been amazed by Tanino’s vision of music - she has a talent for turning sounds into movements. When I traveled abroad, Tanya asked me to bring records that were not available in Moscow, and from a dozen discs she unerringly chose a few minutes of music,” said Vladimir Krainev. Together they created music for 18 of her skaters' programs. Her intuition and his musical gift together worked wonders: the numbers choreographed by Tarasova were admired by the whole world.
Their parents also lived in perfect harmony: Anatoly Tarasov doted on Vladimir’s mother Ila Moiseevna. And Nina Grigorievna Tarasova just shrugged: she thought that pianists lived alone, but the number of guests in their house only increased - musicians were added to the skaters.
...Everything ended in May 2011. News came from Hannover, where he taught at the conservatory for several years: Vladimir Krainev suddenly died from a rupture of the pulmonary artery. The usually inflexible Tatyana Tarasova turned black with grief. “Volodya made me happy. He supported me in everything. Together we made 18 programs for my skaters and lived 33 best of the year life... And now he’s gone and I don’t know how I’ll live further,” that’s all she said. And again her character saved her. They were waiting for her on the ice; they couldn’t do without her! And Tarasova pulled herself together. Since 1967, she has not missed a single Olympics as a coach - and continues to keep her mark.
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For the first time, Tatyana Tarasova will openly tell you how terrible the last four years have been for her. She spent all this time in constant struggle. Not for Olympic medals, but for the lives of their loved ones. She was ready to snatch this victory at any cost. But even the great Tarasova can be powerless... One after another, with a difference of a year, everyone who was family and support for her passed away - sister, mother, husband.
“I was the favorite,” says Tatyana Anatolyevna. “My husband, my sister, my dad, my mom loved me very much. And I loved them. Only now I understand that everything I did - building a dacha, furnishing an apartment - all this was not for myself, but so that my mother could walk comfortably, and later, ride in a stroller. I don't need this myself...
Tatyana Tarasova was married three times. Her first husband was the son of the famous people's artist Evgenia Samoilova. But their union did not last even two years. The topic of second marriage is taboo in the Tarasov family. And yet Tarasova’s friends risked lifting the veil of secrecy. According to them, Tatyana Anatolyevna was very fond of her second husband, track and field athlete Vasily Khomenkov. In 1976, he committed suicide... Tarasova is ready to talk about her third wife, the outstanding pianist Vladimir Krainev, for hours. He died last April in Hannover from a pulmonary aneurysm.
Now Tatyana Anatolyevna does not teach any of the students, being a consultant to the Russian figure skating team, and helps a wonderful coach at CSKA, champion Elena Vodorezova.
I'm just a consultant. I can say what I like and what I don’t, what needs to be done to make it better. I can tell this to any person, including even Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin. True, it’s his business to listen to me or not,” Tarasova admits. - I also referee on the “Professionals Cup” project. I will always find myself a job. If not this one, then I’ll open a figure accessories store, I’ll draw there and sew dresses. Or I’ll start a clothing store for plus size women...
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