She died the day before her birthday and got drunk: the tragic fate of the actresses who played the Soviet teachers

In Soviet cinema, images of teachers occupied a special place. A simple worker in the USSR was the main character, and therefore, of course, films about the school were shot in abundance. Well, if the photo also had an interesting human story, viewer success was guaranteed. The actresses who played the teachers immediately became stars, millions of viewers were fascinated by them. Alas, the path of life for some of them turned out to be difficult.

Wide-open eyes, thoughtful gaze – actress Nina Ivanova, in the image of a young teacher Tatyana Levchenko, conquered the Soviet audience, and her on-screen duet with Nikolai Rybnikov caused the audience to sincerely worry of the evolution of the lovers’ relationship. The film “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” became the box office leader – in 1956 it was watched by more than 30 million viewers.

This is all the more surprising since Nina was, in fact, a completely inexperienced beginner. As a child, she once starred in a movie, but things didn’t go any further. The girl graduated from a medical institute, and then, by chance, starred in the thesis of her friend, a student of VGIK. Marlen Khutsiev saw her in this educational film, himself a recent graduate of the Institute of Cinematography and preparing to shoot Spring on Zarechnaya Street with co-director Felix Mironer.

However, it was no longer possible to repeat the success of Ivanova – the lack of specialized education was affected. Nina’s acting range was very limited, the main roles were no longer offered. Yesterday’s All-Union star herself realized she was in a strange place. In 1966, Ivanova decided to stop acting and continued to work as an assistant director (then second director) at the film studio. Gorky. She would work there until her retirement at the end of the 1980s. In the dashing 1990s, however, she again had to return to work – she could not live on her pension. At this time, Ivanova filmed several issues of Yeralash magazine. In December 2020, Nina Ivanova died a month before her 87th birthday.

Mystically, the fate of Irina Pechernikova echoes this sad end. The actress died of a heart attack on September 1, 2020, the day before her 75th birthday.

Soviet audiences particularly fell in love with Pechernikova as a young English teacher in Stanislav Rostotsky’s We’ll Live Until Monday. It was this role that brought fame to Pechernikova. In the 1960s and 1970s, the actress performed a lot and successfully she was considered one of the main beauties of Soviet cinema.

But his personal life was very chaotic. Irina’s first husband was Polish musician Zbigniew Bizon, the second – actor Boris Galkin, but both marriages were short-lived.

The real blow for the actress was the 90s, when the cinema fell into decline and she remained completely disavowed in the profession. During this period, Pechernikova began to have serious alcohol problems. In 1997 she met actor Alexander Solovyov, who became her third husband. Alas, very little time was given to this happiness either – in 2000 Soloviev died in terrible circumstances. In late December 1999, he was found unconscious on the street and sent to hospital, where he was diagnosed with a head injury. For several days, never identified, he remained in the room and finally died on January 1.

Well, in 2020, Pechernikova also died. She had no children.

The main character of the tape, Nestor Petrovich, once said that Svetlana Afanasievna, the Russian language teacher, whom Bogunova played, seemed to him an ideal. And millions of viewers agreed with him on that. A slightly dreamy blonde with a romantic appearance caught the eye. Fabulous, as if out of this world, Bogunova captivated audiences – it’s no coincidence that her second most famous role was the Snow Maiden.

But the actress star began to roll, barely having time to climb. Immediately after the triumph of “Big Break” in 1973, his career began to decline. She plays her last major role in the film Smart Things, released the same year.

The reason lies in a terrible diagnosis – in the 1970s Bogunova was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The actress tried to fight with her, regularly visited a psychiatric hospital, but the disease progressed. Since 1992, she has not acted in films. After the death of her mother in 2011 (an elderly woman fell from a window), Bogunova’s condition deteriorated sharply. The real estate immediately tried to take ownership of the scammers. On August 9, 2013, Bogunova died of a heart attack while vacationing in Crete, but her death was not known until August 12, when insurance company representatives were finally able to contact Union of Cinematographers. Bogunova had no children, they said that she had several abortions, then she could not get pregnant, and only a nephew of her close relatives remained.

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