Actress Valentina Serova: biography, family, creativity

Often the life of famous people who always seem happy in public, smile and laugh, is actually tragic and hides many secrets. Fate is a strange thing. These people live to make others happy or just to cheer for a moment. And in return they receive only sorrows and loneliness.

Life is a mystery, from the very first breath

There are many rumors about the date of birth of Valentina Serova. According to official sources, this actress was born on December 23, 1917. But now it became known that her real birthday is February 10, 1919. Relying on the information provided by the daughter of the actress, Maria Simonova, in her youth she added herself several years of life for the sake of fulfilling her dreams. She wanted so much to enter the theater school that she decided to lie to the whole world and did not fail. However, for unknown reasons or on her own conclusions, actress Valentina Serova celebrated her birthday on February 23.

From the very early years it became clear that the vocation of little Vali was a stage. Apparently her talent, she went to her mother, Claudia Polovikov, who was an actress and successfully performed in the theater.

First steps

At the age of 6, the girl and her mother moved to Moscow. There she also received her first role, which served as a kind of impetus for the birth of a dream. At the age of 8 Valentina Serova first came on stage with her mother to play her first and unexpected role. The girl was a boy in the production "The time will come," the son of the main character played by her mother Claudia. This was the first step to fulfilling the dream. After her unusual debut, the girl literally became obsessed with the scene and did everything to somehow improve her talent. She took acting lessons from her mother, and at the age of 14 she even left school and entered the theater technical school. The talent of the girl was so obvious that after a year of training the actress Valentina Serova was invited to work in the Youth Theater. There she worked for 17 years.

First marriage

His birthday Valentine Polovikov (nee) has always celebrated on the Day of the Soviet Army, February 23. And apparently not by accident: ironically, she married a military pilot, the hero of the civil war Anatoly Serov, taking his name. The marriage was short-lived. The first husband of the actress was tragically killed, having broken in 1939. A little later, Valentina gave birth to a son and named him after her father.

The first film

1939 brought many tests to the actress. She not only survived the loss, but also gained a lot. In the same year she got her part in the film "A Girl with a Character". This tape made a furor on the Soviet stage and brought the actress all-Union glory.

Not like everyone else

Valentina Serova was a very impulsive person, but at the same time she had unbridled talent and was very special. The role in the film "Girl with a character" really justified her character. At the same time, she did not have enough patience, so she constantly left the theater under the influence of events and impulses, and then returned again. Because of her unrestrained nature, many directors were afraid to take the actress in their productions, but those who still dared and took risks, worshiped Valentina.

Muse

On her life, actress Valentina Serova met a lot of people. Someone perceived her simply as a talented person, for others she was a mother, and still others were ready to follow her on their heels and compose verses and songs in her honor. In 1940, Valentine met the poet Konstantin Simonov. Their acquaintance was romantic and at the same time obvious. The girl made an impression on this man during her magnificent play in the play based on Maxim Gorky's play. After he first saw her, Constantine came every day to look at the game of a talented girl for several weeks. His behavior was unchanged: he sat in the first row with a bouquet, and after the play the flowers were given to her. Young people began to get acquainted, which soon grew into feelings. However, to legalize their relationship, Konstantin and Valentina did not hurry: both had a bad experience of marriage. For several years the lovers have lived a civil marriage. Valentina Serova became not only a wife for the poet, but also his muse, a friend of life. In 1941 he dedicated to the woman an ardent and sensitive poem "Wait for me", and also wrote a screenplay for the film about love during the war, about long and devoted friendship. The central role in the production of this film was played by the actress Valentina Serova.

The relations of the playwright and poet Konstantin Simonov and the actress Valentina Serova were watched by the entire Soviet Union. The famous woman did not feel a great love for her husband. According to her daughter, the life of the actress was radically different from her heroines. She could not wait. Nevertheless, the period of relations with Konstantin Simonov is considered to be the most calm and happy for the actress.

Another love

Valentina Serova's life changed again when she was asked to speak at a hospital before the wounded in the war. Then just in a separate room was Rokossovsky, the future marshal, who suffered in battle. They met when Serova came to him with a speech. In the heart of the actress flashed a flame of new love, for which she was ready to sacrifice everything: work in the theater, her husband and shared time. Rokossovsky treated this somewhat differently. He was considered a notorious ladies' man. At that time he already had three novels, so the fourth one was to nothing. In addition, this man was legally married and had a daughter from him, so he realized the fleetingness of these relations.

Fading Glory

In 1946, Valentina Serova played an episodic role in the film "Glinka", which hardly anyone could call a sensation. However, for her the actress was awarded the title of "Honored Artist of the RSFSR", as well as the Stalin Prize. During this period, Konstantin and Valentina had almost everything: they lived in a big house with housekeepers, walked around Paris and were especially bright people. This was the reason for gossip and rumors. Evil tongues kept saying that Simonov's feelings toward his wife were not the same, and the actress herself had other novels. In 1946, she is only 27 years old, but this is already the time when the girl has problems with alcohol. She often began to change jobs and skip rehearsals. In the theater, she had few well-wishers. Undoubtedly, Valentina still played in various productions. But these roles no longer rattled the whole country, as it was before. Often they were not even central and could be regarded, rather, as handouts from the directors from the lord's shoulder. But it was in the late 1950s.

Masha

In 1950, Serova Valentina Vasilievna gives birth to a daughter from Konstantin Simonov. At that time, their relationship was slightly tense, for a while the child softened this situation. The daughter was more like her father than her mother, unfortunately Constantine. He always dreamed of a child who would resemble his wife.

However, the baby was not able to save the marriage of these two bright personalities: in 1957 they divorced when her daughter went to the first grade.

Theatrical dynasty

Just like Valentina once followed in the footsteps of her mother, her daughter Maria decided to link her life with the theater.

Valentina Serova's children from both marriages took something from their mother: the daughter is good and the son is bad. The fact is that initially Konstantin Simonov disliked his son Valentina from the first marriage and insisted on being sent to a closed school. There he fell into a bad company, and then to a Moscow colony, where he began to abuse alcohol. As a result, this harmful habit grew into a long illness, from which Anatoly died.

Broken life

The biography of Valentina Serova is filled with sad and tragic moments. Unsuccessful relations with her husband, lack of love, unfortunate fate of Anatoly's son, who disappears in prison, then from alcohol, all this makes the actress sink her grief in a glass of wine. Just in this period the career of the actress who lives on those kopecks, which she is paid for small roles, those handouts from the directors, finally ends. The actress was left alone, only the name that once rattled the whole Union - Valentin Serov - remained. The woman's personal life was exposed to the whole vast country.

Valentina's mother sued her daughter, wanting to take her away from Masha, which brought the glorified artist even more grief. Talking about the life of Valentina Serova, Maria said that to save the situation could be a serious job or a big role. Perhaps, then, a woman could escape from her misfortunes, devoting more time to her creativity. However, everything was in vain.

What prevented me from returning

The directors did not dare to give the role of the extinct star. She spent more time in hospitals, exhausting herself with treatment for alcoholism. In addition, she now had a bad reputation, and Valentina Serova herself was surrounded by gossip and rumors. After the divorce, the woman was in a communal apartment with her alcoholic son. Masha's daughter was brought up by her grandmother. Another reason why Valya could not return to the scene was that Konstantin Simonov was disgusted to see the image of his ex-wife on stage and in the newspapers. Surrendering to a blind feeling of disgust, he takes all the dedications in her poems, except for one thing: "Wait for me ...".

A curtain

In the second half of the life of the actress she is haunted by misfortune and poverty. Valentina's father dies in 1966. He always thought of her as the bright ray of her life. This death makes the actress go into a heavy drinking. Another blow is the death of Rokossovsky in 1968.

The last years of his life, Valentin Serov lives in poverty. She continues to drink, and receives money from alcohol from personal items she sold, which she previously did not dare to give. During this period she communicates with the director at the film studio. Trusting him with all his secrets and even reading the diary entries that she once led, she also shares with him and alcohol.

The daughter of the once glittering woman still selected. She is raised by her grandmother and rarely sees her mother. Valentina Serova very quickly grew old from alcohol, from the sorrows that fate brought to her and from the fact that she could not muster her strength. In 1975, the actress loses her son. Shortly before that, he wanted to renew his relationship with his mother and came to her with a bouquet of flowers, but was rejected. From the threshold he was banished another actress's drinking companion.

Tolya dies of alcoholism, and after him the woman leaves too. This happens just a few days after Konstantin Simonov celebrates his anniversary ... without a single mention of the love for his ex-wife.

There are several versions of the death of the star. According to one of them, a woman in alcoholic intoxication fell, having broken her head. Another version says that Valentina's death was violent. Some drunken whimper bragged about the pub, as if he had killed a woman. Be that as it may, she was found with a bloody face in a small flat on the floor. A coffin with a woman's body was put up in the theater so that everyone could say goodbye. Mother Vali came for the last time to look at her daughter, but did not see off at the cemetery: she left the theater and wandered around Moscow for a long time in tears.

It remains only the name - Valentin Serov. Films are reminiscent of her vociferous glory and the same bright and at the same time quiet fading. In 1973, the woman's last attempt was made to return her name. She played in the production "Children of Vanyushin", where she was assigned the role of General Kukarnikova. The game in this picture did not revive the artist's former glory and did not affect the future fate of the woman. "The children of Vanyushin" did not become a saving straw.

Many actresses behave too arrogantly, and it seems that they can hardly be seen on the streets of an ordinary city, buying in the store products or simply communicating, talking to different people without pathos and deception. Valentine Serov was not considered to be like everyone else and at the same time a simple ordinary woman. She was never associated with those actresses who are on the top of Olympus. On the contrary, Valentine was considered natural by nature a man who is able to bring a little warmth and joy to people, to give a little happiness.

Actress Valentina Serova became an example for many: she was simple and close, but at the same time always attracted and attracted. Few people know that Valentin Serov was called the third blonde of the Soviet Union. She knew how to give happiness, but she could not find her own. Perhaps for many, this girl, an actress, Honored Artist of the Soviet Union, is still that thin girl in a dark dress that sings the song in her beautiful voice, the muse that is dedicated to the world's most sad words: "Wait for me and I'll be back , Only very much wait ... "

In Valentina's filmography there are not so many pictures, only 11, but enough to understand how talented this wonderful simple woman was and how tragic her fate was, giving her so many trials and tears. Whatever the case, Valentina Serova could not become that same girl with a character.