In St. Petersburg they said goodbye to famous actress, star of the series “Shadows Vanish at Noon” Alexandra Zavyalova. A woman of rare beauty last years she did not act anywhere, did not communicate with colleagues, and led an extremely secluded lifestyle. And only now, after tragic death artist, it became clear how difficult it was for her. Zavyalova’s son, Peter, was not present at the funeral at the Smolensk cemetery. The investigation believes that it was he who killed his mother on the eve of her 80th birthday.
Honored Artist of Russia Alexandra Zavyalova lived in a high-rise building in one of the residential areas of St. Petersburg most life, since '68. Together with her son, the actress huddled in a cramped two-room apartment on the second floor. Neighbors say: she led a secluded, reclusive lifestyle and had little contact with people. But no one here remembers conflicts in the family.
The Honored Artist of Russia avoided publicity. She often walked alone and hardly spoke to anyone. They were rarely seen together with their son Peter. The man, neighbors say, did not work anywhere and never started his own family. Mainly looked after mother eldest daughter.
“She sometimes went out for a walk, like all pensioners go out for a walk. But about Petya, I can say that he was a decent person, and that he drank, well, what can you do! He was good, he was not a drug addict,” says the woman.
It was Pyotr Zavyalov who called his sister on the night of the tragedy and confessed to his terrible act. This happened a day before the actress’s anniversary. On the fourth I would have turned 80.
“According to the investigation, on the night of February 3, 2016, Zavyalov, while intoxicated in one of the apartments at house 6 on Gavrskaya Street, due to a sudden personal hostility, stabbed his mother, Alexandra Zavyalova, born in 1936, Honored Artist of Russia, who died at the scene of the incident,” said Sergei Kapitonov, senior assistant to the head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg.
A graduate of the Leningrad Theater Institute, she began acting in films early. In the comedy "Alyoshkina Love" - the cheerful switchwoman Zinka. Zavyalova’s partner in the film was Leonid Bykov. Although the most important role happened, of course, later. It's essentially two characters in one film. In the legendary “Shadows Disappear at Noon” she is both the still very young Serafima Klychkova and the unsociable recluse Pistimea Morozova, hiding under an assumed name. After this role, he almost did not appear on the screen at all. She became a hostage to her talent, say those who worked with her.
"Sasha had eyes that told about inner world this woman. And therefore the role became not only externally, but internally, it was interesting to watch. They didn't just admire her beauty when she was dressed differently, or her anger. They admired the skill in how she carried her image,” says director Vladimir Krasnopolsky.
After the resounding success, directors stopped offering her roles. One of possible reasons that from successful actress turned away, there was a marriage with a major American businessman. He was suspected of espionage and expelled from the country. Many years of oblivion in the cinema, family failures - all this developed into severe depression.
“I heard that she was often sick and was in hospitals, that her memory was not very good,” said Eleonora Shashkova.
Peter, as law enforcement officers say, confessed. The family still doesn’t believe that a man could consciously decide to do this.
Pyotr Zavyalov is now in custody. For the usual wooden door their apartments are quiet. Images from documentary film our colleagues - in fact, one of the last appearances of the bright actress on the television screen. She plays with her great-granddaughter and seems quite happy man. If it weren’t for Bella Akhmadulina’s lines, which the actress reads half-turned in front of the window.
The star of the series “Shadows Vanish at Noon” was kept in prison for two years. psychiatric hospital
Fame came to Alexandra ZAVYALOVA after the role of Pistimea in the multi-part film “Shadows Disappear at Noon.” It's not so Soviet Beautiful face graced the covers of Western magazines, critics predicted a stunning career, and men dreamed of looking at her live at least with one eye. But two years passed, and the actress stopped appearing on screen. There were many rumors about this, but then they died down. There was only one left - Zavyalova went to a monastery and took a vow of silence. On the eve of her 75th birthday, which Alexandra Semyonovna will celebrate on February 4, Express Gazeta managed to find one of the most mysterious actresses of Soviet cinema.
Telephone Alexandra Zavyalova in her St. Petersburg apartment on the Vyborg side he stubbornly did not answer. The lights in the windows were not on, and the neighbors assured that Alexandra Semyonovna had not been here for a long time - she had transferred the living space to her son Petya, who seemed to work as a security guard.
“Yes, there he is,” they showed us a strong young man approaching.
Ask all questions about your mother to my sister Tatyana, she takes care of her,” Peter muttered and, holding out a piece of paper with mobile phone sisters, disappeared into the front door.
Zavyalova's eldest daughter, St. Petersburg artist Tatyana Buchkina, assured that Alexandra Semyonovna lives not in a monastery, but in a dacha, but cannot talk to journalists.
She finds it difficult to speak. She has no teeth. We didn’t have time to insert it for the anniversary,” Buchkina explained. - If you want to talk to your mother, you can do it on the Internet. She knows how to use it. She and I are now slowly writing a book of her memories. Unfortunately, her memory is no longer the same; she already has difficulty remembering some events. My mother had terrible depression because they stopped filming her. The success after the film “Shadows Disappear at Noon” was stunning. But she was no longer offered leading roles. It was very difficult for an actress with such appearance Soviet time. By type, she is not a tractor driver, not a milkmaid, and not a production leader.
There was a way out for her: she had to agree to any job, but she did not do this, deciding that supporting characters were not for her. She found salvation for herself in motherhood. She thought it was the right thing to do. One day she went to her homeland, met some handsome young man there, and at the age of 39 gave birth to Petya from him. She never saw Father Peter again. Petya no longer remembers his mother being healthy. All the troubles of raising a child fell on my shoulders. Peter can be good and intelligent, but until he drinks. It’s a shame that at that time I was still a child and didn’t understand how to support her. My dad, a famous artist Dmitry Buchkin, also couldn’t do anything. They still have a good relationship, but they lived only two years. Now my dad is 84 years old, I help him too. He won’t tell you anything except that he has a small pension. |
Our cinema scares me
Due to the lack of teeth, Alexandra Zavyalova still finds it difficult to talk; in addition, the actress is embarrassed by her temporarily unpresentable appearance. But she enjoys using new technologies and loves the Internet. With his help, we “talked.”
- Alexandra Semyonovna, how are you going to celebrate your birthday?
There will be no magnificent celebrations. Still, it’s better for a woman not to remember how old she is. But I haven’t drawn a line under my life yet... Let’s gather with our family. I have two beautiful children - daughter Tatyana and son Peter. Tatyana gave me wonderful and beautiful grandchildren - Dmitry and Dashenka. My daughter is a great girl, she achieved everything in life on her own, I couldn’t help her with anything. Today Tatyana is an accomplished and sought-after artist-designer. How she manages to take care of her children and husband is a mystery to me. Unfortunately, I could never combine family with profession. Fortunately, no one has followed in my footsteps yet. I wouldn’t want this fate for my family.
- Your most bright role- Pistimea in the series “Shadows Disappear at Noon”...
The role of Pistimea is a great test of talent and individuality. After all, I had to play three ages: at the beginning of the film, my Seraphim Pistimea was 17, then I played a 40-year-old woman, and at the end of the film, the make-up artists turned me into a 70-year-old. I never associated myself with my heroines. I was just an artist, creating an image and working on the set with full dedication. I remember they were filming a scene when Ustin Makarovich looks at 70-year-old Pistimea, and he imagines she is the same, but young. Then they did two makeups for me at once - for the old and for the young. Returning to the hotel, I discovered that all the wrinkles were still there, and they had not disappeared in the morning. I immediately ran to the make-up artist shouting: “What have you done to me? Will I remain an old woman forever?
And in the film “Aleshkina Love” I played with Leonid Bykov. Leni's wife was terribly jealous of me. She even came to the shoot with her husband. But there was no reason for jealousy. Lenya was a very decent person and a wonderful family man. The film was a resounding success. At the presentation of the film, the audience greeted us standing. But our “triumphant march” ended with both of us left without work. I don’t know what caused this in relation to Bykov, but last minute was sure to be heard phone call and Lena were informed that someone else had been approved for the role. Lenya complained to me: “There is nothing to feed the family.” And he moved to Kyiv. IN last time We met him by chance at the Kyiv film studio. Lenya said: “I nailed a horseshoe to the door frame. For good luck. I will direct the film and act myself. main role" And he made an extraordinary, surprisingly warm film, “Only “old men” go into battle.”
- How did you end up in Moscow, in the cinema?
I was invited Alexander Zarkhi in the film "Men on the Bridge". He saw my photo on Mosfilm. At first I didn’t want to go: I don’t like big cities, I’m afraid of them. But he persuaded...
At the beginning of your career, you served at the Brest Theater. How did your relationship with theaters develop further? There is no doubt that one of the artistic directors wanted to get you on staff.
After the film “Aleshkina Love”, the main director himself invited me to the Maly Theater Mikhail Tsarev. I have already submitted the documents to the HR department and even talked about it in the press. But soon an offer was received from the Lenfilm film studio from the director Vladimir Shredel- star in the film “Everyday Life and Holidays.” This is the first picture made according to the writer's script Yuliana Semenova.
It was in Leningrad that I met my future husband, an artist Dmitry Petrovich Buchkin. I stayed in this city and was accepted into the staff of the Lenfilm film studio.
You are fantastic beautiful woman. It is clear that an actress needs to be attractive, but what is it like to live with such unique beauty?
I inherited my appearance from my parents. My dad is a dark-skinned, brown-eyed handsome man, and my mother is like a noblewoman: sophisticated, her grandmother is Greek. And I turned out so... Islamic. Beauty helps not only in the acting profession, but also in life: it is like medicine. In my opinion, an actress with both talent and beauty - very rare. I had enough fans not only among actors and directors, but also among writers, poets and artists. I still have a book signed by the poet Rasul Gamzatov: “To my independent republic - Zavyalova”, and Kaisyn Kuliev wrote: “If people had not invented God, I would have prayed for you!”
But I believed that I had not yet done anything in the profession, so men faded into the background. And then I had a family, a daughter was born... What fans here!
Your photo has been published on the covers of the most prestigious American magazines. Surely an actress of this caliber could be received abroad. Have you ever considered going abroad?
At the time when I worked as an actress, any mention of foreign countries negated all further biography. And even today our actors are not welcome in Hollywood. Unfortunately, today's Russian cinema scares me. Especially TV series concocted on a quick fix. And a complete lack of memorable faces.
- Alexandra Semyonovna, there was talk that you were disliked by the authorities because of an affair with a foreigner.
They made an artificial enemy out of me. Suffered for love. I have loved one person all my life, which is probably why I never got married again. He was a foreigner. We met him on the plane. He was a stunningly handsome American. Tall, stately... I felt seasick, and he poured me Borjomi. The next morning at the hotel I leave my room - rested, fresh, in a snow-white suit. And I come face to face with him. He can't take his eyes off. He asks me: “Are you Polish?”
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His name was Othello. Just like Shakespeare! Othello Ceresolli. Former admiral naval forces USA, owner of a shipping company that supplied wheat to the port of Odessa. He was twice my age; his wife was waiting for him in America. Othello said that she is very beautiful, but he loves me. If we didn’t suspect all foreigners to be spies, I would have married him and left. However, then I knew that I could pay dearly for this connection, so I often took my friend’s wife of the local prosecutor with me to meetings with him. But it did not help.
Our romance lasted only two weeks. One morning people burst into the room and grabbed my Othello. It turns out that we were being followed, all conversations were tape-recorded... They showed a bunch of photographs of us together... It’s all scary. I don’t know who needed to separate us. When we parted, we both cried. Othello was immediately declared persona non grata and was not even allowed to fly to New York via Paris, as he had planned. He had to drag himself across the ocean on his own ship. I didn’t hide anything from my husband. She said honestly that she fell in love with someone else.
- Do you think that because of your affair with a foreigner they stopped filming you?
I think I got in someone's way. Someone didn't like my talent, my independence. And you also know - there are such unfortunate fates... Just one day the phone went silent, which until that moment had been ringing off the hook without a break. I won’t lie, it was unexpected and unusual for me. All the doors were immediately closed in front of me. I was kept in a psychiatric hospital for two years. What I endured there is terrible to remember. They didn't let me sleep. They gave me an injection with a sleeping pill and then woke me up. Children were not allowed to see me. I screamed and begged, but they closed the doors. The profession of an actress, which was the meaning of my whole life and to which I wanted to devote myself entirely, was interrupted. I went through a difficult period of oblivion. I won't lie, it was difficult. Today I have come to terms with the fact that I am not filming, although it is difficult. It's a pity... I didn't reveal myself at all. All my life I dreamed of acting in a costume, historical film, in a fairy tale.
I sometimes dream set with the spotlights pointed straight at me...
And it's all about her
Vladimir KRASNOPOLSKY, second director of the film “Shadows Disappear at Noon”:
- We filmed the film “Shadows Disappear at Noon” in the Urals for a whole year and a half. Sasha was amazingly efficient. She knew very well what she wanted. She got into the role so much that if she bit on camera, she bit until she bled, if she loved, she brought tears to her eyes, and she reproached her so much that you wanted to fall into the ground. Sasha, even when she was silent on camera, was irresistible. Without uttering a word, she could express both hatred and boundless tenderness. Sasha gave a lot to her heroine. I think that is why her consciousness could not withstand ordinary everyday troubles. There was always something surrealistically demonic about the beauty of this woman.
Evgeny LEONOV-GLADYSHEV, President of the Screen Actors Guild St. Petersburg:
- Alexandra Semyonovna, unfortunately, has a serious illness. When a relapse begins, she disappears for six to eight months, sometimes for a year. I’m sure that the KGB is still watching her... One day we decided to arrange a creative evening for her at the House of Cinema. A full hall of people gathered, but she did not come. Once I scolded her son: why don’t you help your mother, sometimes she simply goes hungry. He remained silent. This is a strange young man with no specific occupation...
I feel sorry for Alexandra Semyonovna to the point of tears: her talent, like the Northern Lights, blazed brightly, but not for long.
On February 7, Peter confessed to the murder of his mother. © Still from the film “Shadows Disappear at Noon”
On February 4, the body of actress Alexandra Zavyalova was found in the apartment of house No. 6 on Gavrskaya Street in St. Petersburg. Actor Stanislav Sadalsky was the first to report her tragic death on his LiveJournal, but his post on February 6 went unnoticed.
“Two days before the anniversary, Alexandra Zavyalova passed away. Found dead in her apartment - what is it? I know she's wonderful loving family, a beautiful daughter, a son, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, a husband with whom, although she broke up a long time ago, she was friends all her life,” Sadalsky wrote, heading his message with the phrase “Why is the media silent?”
Two days later, information about the death of the Honored Artist of Russia was confirmed by the press service of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg. The department also noted that a murder suspect has been detained. According to investigators, the performer of the role of Pistimea from the film “Shadows Vanish at Noon” was stabbed to death by her own son.
“According to the investigation, Pyotr Zavyalov, on the night of February 3, 2016, while intoxicated, in one of the apartments of house 6 on Gavrskaya Street, due to a sudden personal hostility, stabbed his mother - Alexandra Zavyalova, born in 1936, Honored Artist of Russia , who died at the scene. As a result of investigative actions and operational search activities, the accused was detained,” the Main Investigative Directorate reported.
Zavyalov was charged under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). The maximum penalty is 15 years in prison. The court arrested the suspect.
-Have you heard? - This is the phrase used by residents of a high-rise building on Gavrskaya Street to greet each other at the entrance. Today nothing reminds us of the tragedy that happened last week. The door to the apartment where Alexandra Zavyalova lived with Peter was not sealed. Is it true, Mailbox empty - perhaps relatives are still collecting mail. Some of the neighbors did not even know about what had happened until that day.
“I didn’t see the investigators, perhaps they interviewed the closest neighbors, and that’s all.” It’s just terrible,” Anatoly, who lives in the same building as the Zavyalov family, told a Rosbalt correspondent. According to him, the deceased suffered from various diseases, and her son was a “half-drunkard.” However, not all neighbors agree with this.
“I can’t say anything bad about Peter.” In general, I am very sorry that such a situation happened. I contacted him several times: “Petya, come, help,” he always responded,” said a woman living on the third floor.
Alexander Vasilievich noted that his neighbor once entered into the role and before last days didn’t get out of it: “It happens that you go to the door, she opens it and closes it right in front of you! I’ve lived here for 11 years and paid attention to her because she’s different from everyone else. It feels like man walking with dignity…"
Little is known about how Peter and Alexandra Semyonovna lived. Sometimes relatives visited them. The neighbors did not confirm reports that the Zavyalovs were in poverty - they say, “they lived like everyone else.” The Honored Artist of Russia kept her distance from other people - according to neighbors, the woman fell into depression due to oblivion.
“I said hello to her, she said nothing to me,” recalled one of the actress’s acquaintances.
- No, it was impossible to communicate with her in principle. But they lived together with Peter. My heart really hurts for him - how could this even happen? He wasn’t violent, he wasn’t rowdy, he didn’t cause scandals. In general he was a very friendly person. There are aggressive people, but he was not like that,” Maria said.
Moreover, some neighbors reported that Peter had “tolerated” his mother for so many years. But no one noticed any serious scandals, much less fights, between them. Those who knew Zavyalova also deny that Peter allegedly suffered from alcoholism.
“I’ve known him since birth, since 1975, and I can’t say anything bad about him. And I don’t understand how this situation could even happen. I can't wrap my head around it!
“She never walked around with bruises, and he never even raised his hand to her.” But she didn’t say hello to us—she recognized us, but didn’t say hello. And I saw Petya that week - it’s in vain to say that he drank. He was dressed normally and said hello. And he’s already 40 years old, I didn’t even believe it, so I said: “Petya, are you so old already?”
However, according to data Investigative Committee, On February 7, Peter confessed. Investigators still have to figure out what happened and prove his guilt.
The Honored Artist of Russia was buried at the Serafimovskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg.
Ilya Davlyatchin
Alexandra Zavyalova was born on February 4, 1936 in the village of Titovka, Sosnovsky district. Tambov region. In 1958 she graduated from the Ostrovsky Leningrad Theater Institute, after which she was assigned to the Brest Drama Theater. At first, she categorically refused invitations to filming, because she considered herself a theater actress. But one day she received a personal invitation from film director Alexander Zarkhi. He offered her a role in the film “Men on the Bridge.” She couldn't refuse. Alexandra Zavyalova never returned back to Brest. Later there were roles in the films “Song of Koltsov”, “Alyoshka’s Love”, “Wait for Letters”, “Weekdays and Holidays”, “Fro”, “Hippocratic Oath”. But perhaps Zavyalova’s greatest fame came from her role as Serafima Klychkova (Pistimeya Morozova) in the film “Shadows Disappear at Noon.” After this picture, the actress was not filmed for more than 20 years. Many years later, in 1994, Zavyalova was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia. The children had already become adults by that time: daughter Tatyana became an artist-designer, and son Peter, after serving in the army, took up construction.
// Photo: Still from the series “Shadows Disappear” at noon
At the beginning of February, Honored Artist of Russia Alexandra Zavyalova passed away. The details of the unexpected death of the actress were not covered in any way, but recently the details of her death became known. According to media reports, Alexandra Zavyalova was killed by her own son. Many noted that the Honored Artist of Russia spent her last days in poverty and shared an apartment with her son. Neighbors claimed that the man drank alcohol quite often and quarreled with his mother, and sometimes it came to assault.
Peter's father - American businessman, whom the actress met after breaking up with her husband Dmitry Buchkin.
However, Peter himself does not remember the details of what happened - what made him hit my own mother with a knife. The suspect did not stay at any workplace for long and Lately lived with Zavyalova on her pension. The actress’s daughter Tatyana brought them food. After the tragedy, Peter called his sister and told him about what he had done.
Lately, the actress has not wanted to communicate with fans and journalists. Some noted that Zavyalova did not like being recognized on the street, much less being asked to take photographs together. According to the recollections of one of the eyewitnesses, Valery, she tried not to contact strangers.
“Once they also persuaded me to go to her house and wait until she came out so that she could at least ask for an autograph,” says Valery. - Home phone didn't work for her. After several hours of waiting, we risked calling the apartment, the call also did not work. And one of us knocked on the door. Zavyalova's drunken son answered the knock. When he realized what we needed, he called his mother, but she refused to come. He took her photographs from us, took them to her, then brought them out signed. I told a Muscovite friend from TV about this, and she said that she had somehow arranged a short interview with Zavyalova. Three people arrived from Moscow, and when they had already installed a camera and light in the apartment, Zavyalova suddenly announced to them that she had changed her mind, and they had to turn up and leave.”
For the last twenty years, the Honored Artist of Russia has not acted anywhere. In 1994, she played in the film “Born Again,” but since then no one has offered Zavyalova any more roles. Two years before the release of this picture, she took part in the filming of the series “White Clothes”. This film was the first after more than 20 years of oblivion. Having played main character in the Soviet TV series “Shadows Disappear at Noon”, she gained enormous popularity. They say that after such success, she no longer wanted to accept minor roles, which is why she disappeared from the screens.
Complete oblivion broke the actress’s psyche - she spent some time in a psychiatric hospital.
On February 4th, Alexandra Zavyalova would have turned 80 years old. She died in her apartment in St. Petersburg. According to LifeNews, her son Peter confessed to the crime.
02/03/2016, 2 days before the 80th birthday by hand own son People's actress Alexandra Zavyalova died. Few people know that until her last days she lived with her alcoholic son in poverty and conflict. The only person Supporting her until her last days was her first and only official husband, artist Dmitry Buchkin.
Childhood and youth
Popular actress of the 60s Alexandra Zavyalova celebrated her birthday on February 4th. She was born in the village of Titovka, which belongs to the Sosnovsky district of Tambov. In 1958, the girl completed her studies at the St. Petersburg Academy theatrical arts, and got a job at the Brest Drama Theater. Over the course of the year, she successfully won the hearts of viewers, refusing to act in films. It’s not that she was completely indifferent to this type of activity, it’s just that young actress was devoted to the theater. The recent graduate’s attitude towards filming changed the offer of film director A. Zarkhi for a role in the film “People on the Bridge”. She agreed.
Further expectations of the actress in Brest were in vain, as after this she received a new offer. In the lyrical comedy film “Alyoshkina Love” the star appeared in the role of the switchwoman Zinka. She won the heart of a timid guy, drilling geologist Alyoshka (Leonid Bykov). Being awkward and unattractive, he stubbornly sought the attention of the proud beauty. The ending of the story is the eyes of a girl glowing with love, who spent a long and the hard way to meet him, Alyosha...
The unusually kind and bright love story aroused genuine interest from viewers and directors. Alexandra Semyonovna was at the peak of popularity. One after another, films with her participation were released: the musical drama “Wait for Letters”, the social drama “Bread and Roses”, Feature Film“Everyday Life and Holidays”, etc. But these paintings did not receive wide recognition.
Filmography of the late 50s
Alexandra’s film debut took place in the film “The Song of Koltsov,” where she immediately received the main role. The main plot of the film is based on a segment from the life of the famous Russian poet, which occurred in the 30s of the 19th century. What distinguishes him from writers is his type of employment - entrepreneurship, to which he devoted his entire life, being a successor family business. Alexey doted on poetry and love for the peasant woman, the heroine Zavyalova. But by the will of fate, the main characters were never able to reunite; the poet became engaged to an unloved girl, and then left the world of the living at the age of 33.
She played her next role in the dramatic film “People on the Bridge,” where she was to play the master demolition artist Lena. Her heroine was brave and beautiful, with illegitimate son. She fell in love with the son of the bridge construction manager. This connection became the talk of the town, where the woman tried on the image evil genius for the Bulygin intellectuals. The end of the story - the girl sacrificed her life to save other people. After being an ambitious subversive, the actress repeatedly tried on the role of femme fatales, showing strength, attractiveness, and a kind of threat.
Creativity of the 60s
The actress was especially famous in the 60s. The role of Zinka from the musical drama “Alyoshkina Love” helped her in many ways. Then the woman worked in tandem with Leonid Bykov, whose wife was very jealous and was always with him during filming.
The reason is obvious: the actress’s face adorned not only the “Soviet Screen”, but even the American gloss “Life” (June 16, 1961). One of the rooms at the Nationals Hotel in the capital was chosen for the photo shoot. Its editors nicknamed the actress the Soviet Greta Garbo, and domestic directors offered the star only first roles. The woman also made it to the list of the most famous people USSR, awarded a photo shoot by Philippe Halsman (he previously worked with such film divas as Brigitte Bardot, Sophi Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn).
This act was very arrogant even for Khrushchev's thaw. But government officials did not react immediately. After all, the USSR sought to prove to the “rotten West” that there is beautiful actresses. The star’s global triumph continued with participation in the capital’s festival in 1963. It was attended by such famous personalities, like Jean Marais and Giulietta Masina.
Latest filming
As a result of Zavyalova’s close communication with emigrants, as well as the interest of foreign media, played a fatal role in the artist’s life. In the 1965s, the KGB became seriously interested in her. As a result of interrogations, the special services asked the head of Lenfilm to stop filming in domestic cinema. However, the woman did not give up without a fight and continued to work with other companies.
About personal life
The actress was in official relations only with the artist Dmitry Buchkin. She got married in '63. This was led to by a long-standing acquaintance with Dmitry, who captivated her with his beautiful courtship. The marriage produced a daughter, Tanya, and the woman stopped filming. She also had to leave the Maly Theater, where she worked in recent years.
Zavyalova attracted the attention of the public with her outstanding appearance, which played a cruel joke on her. In 1964, she went on another shoot, and during the flight she did not feel well. An American in his 50s responded to help. Offering her a glass of water, he introduced himself as Othello Ceresolli, a retired US Navy admiral. He admitted that he was flying to Odessa for work. The woman spoke briefly about herself.
Between an American billionaire and Soviet celebrity a romance began. Othello was struck by her rare beauty, Alexandra by the refined manners of a foreign admirer. Their relationship lasted for 2 weeks. The lovers wandered the streets of Odessa and visited the best restaurants. “I will take you to the USA, divorce my wife, and we will always be together!” - the boyfriend echoed day after day. And suddenly he disappeared. Not a little thing, not a couple of lines to remember... The KGB told the lover: her acquaintance was engaged in espionage, and he was quickly expelled from the country, not allowing him to say goodbye to those he knew. Later, Alexandra was put under surveillance and abruptly stopped inviting her to filming.
The woman divorced Buchkin, and her 15-year-old daughter Tatyana remained to live with her father. After this, the path to cinema was blocked, and closer to the age of 40, the woman gave birth to a son and closed herself off from the outside world.
It is important to note that after a scandalous affair with a foreigner, the woman fell in love again, and her chosen one again turned out to be a foreigner - Yugoslav Moma Kosic. He was very caring and attentive, and was ready to marry her. However, ex-spouse Zavyalova was not allowed to take her daughter Tatyana out of the country.
Role as a sentence
The film “Shadows Disappear at Noon,” filmed in 1971, was the thirteenth in the actress’s short career. Having taken on the role of Pistimea (Seraphim) based on the plot of A. Ivanov’s novel, she had to play one heroine in 3 age categories - a young beauty, a middle-aged woman and an old woman. For the first time, Zavyalova tried on the image of such a tough person who justifies all atrocities by religion. This was a serious test for a Christian woman.
The woman was forced to agree to the role, since every year she was losing her former glory. And the new success became a triumph and a curse for the performer. She played the role of the enemy of the Soviet regime so talentedly that many had doubts: are they really good, these higher power?
The patience of the organs has come to naught. They remembered everything about her: photographs in foreign magazines, the Moscow Film Festival, where she was the only Soviet actress invited to dinner at the American Embassy, and an affair with the owner of a seaport. After this film, the actress no longer received invitations to film, which negatively affected her state of mind. And then she decided to give birth to a son in order to give him her unspent tenderness. After 2 years she became depressed. The woman led a secluded life and did not allow doctors from the clinic to see her son. Neighbors, concerned and puzzled by the baby’s constant screams, called the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
It soon became known that the woman was sent to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. It was rumored in the boudoirs that it was the higher powers who punished the performer Pistimea for filming in the film “Shadows Disappear at Noon.” After 2 months, the woman returned home and discovered that her home had been robbed. They took out everything that former celebrity managed to make money: from leather and furs, to jewelry, souvenirs and money. There were no children either. Tanya's daughter was taken by her father, and the baby ended up in an orphanage.
Zavyalova tried for a long time to return her son, and a year later she again found herself in a hospital ward, now with the baby. There, under the influence of threats and blackmail from doctors, the woman was forced to sign an agreement to retire on disability. This was the final verdict. Petya was adopted by her ex-husband.
The incidents experienced had a negative impact on the woman’s well-being. She became embittered, withdrawn and unkempt. Alexandra Semyonovna re-read printed publications of “her time” hundreds of times. According to eyewitnesses, the woman could have suddenly pushed the stroller.
The only person she doted on was her son Peter. She praised him over trifles, showed pity and found excuses. The young man grew up lazy and spineless. After serving in the army, he could not decide on a profession; small earnings. Zavyalova’s daughter, Tatyana, believes that the whole problem is alcoholism, because Peter began drinking in high school.
In 1992, Alexandra successfully played the role of a secretary in the novel “White Clothes”, and 2 years later she was recognized as an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. In 2000, the actress gave last interview in the program by O. Pushkina “ Women's stories", where she told the audience the whole truth about life and fate. Then she disappeared from sight again.
Murder of an Actress
According to the voluntary testimony of Alexandra Semyonovna’s 40-year-old son, the woman died at the hands of her own son at the age of 79. He was sentenced for murder while intoxicated. The investigation believes that Zavyalov, on the night of February 3, 2016, while drunk, amid another scandal, dealt a fatal blow to his mother. The events took place in house No. 6 on Gavrskaya Street.
He has been unemployed for the past 20 years. People judged him differently: sitting on his mother’s neck, wasting her meager pension. And they forgot about the main thing - that he kept the apartment in order, fed and cared for his elderly mother, even dyed her hair. Perhaps they occasionally sorted things out, but the actress’s daughter believes that mother and son loved each other.
The funeral was organized by the Union of Cinematographers. The funeral service was held for the actress at the Smolensk cemetery.
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