Biography Zinaida Kirienko: a happy woman and a great actress

Actress Zinaida Kirienko was born in early July 1933. Her father, Georgy Shirokov, was from a fairly wealthy family. He graduated from the Junker School in Tbilisi, and in 1919 he was sent to England with other cadets. Only there before them was no one's business, and after several years of wandering in a foreign land, he returned to Russia in 1928. Only now George settled in Dagestan, where he met Alexander Ivanov - a beautiful, strong-willed and very desperate girl. She combined the work at the cannery with the leadership of the circle "Voroshilovsky Shooter", while dashing on horseback, participated in all competitions and always took prizes.

Being pregnant, Alexandra read the novel "Aida", he made a great impression on the girl. Sasha decided that she will definitely have a daughter named Aida, and she will certainly become an actress. So, one might say, the biography of Zinaida Kirienko was predicted. Erroneous was only the chosen name, which my father immediately did not like his pretentiousness. And he, while his wife was ill, went to the registry office and registered the girl as Zinaida.

When Zina was not yet 3 years old, her parents, unfortunately, were divorced: they were too different. Although, perhaps, it was this divorce that later saved them from the mother. Georgiy Shirokov was arrested in 1939, and no one else heard about him. Even before the war, Zina's mother was sent to the Stavropol Territory to restore the farm in the village of Novopavlovskaya. There, in 1942, Alexandra met Mikhail Kiriyenko, who was out-of-war with the war. Soon they married. Her stepfather truly replaced her daughter's daughter, the girl even took his patronymic and surname, now she is Zinaida Kiriyenko. Biography of the future actress after graduation continued in Moscow.

Immediately she entered the financial railway technical school, but studied there for six months and returned to the village. The next school year, Zina again goes to the capital and tries to enter VGIK, where she is accepted, but conditionally. In the admission committee was Tamara Makarova, she drew attention to a beautiful provincial girl and advised her to come next year. Zinaida did just that - she entered the course of Sergei Gerasimov.

Creative biography of Zinaida Kirienko began after the end of the first year. Sergei Appolinarievich shot the picture "Hope" and was not afraid to give the main role to his student. And her second work in films Zina also received from her teacher. She played Natalia Melekhova in "The Quiet Don". This role brought her a huge success, and by the end of VGIK (1958) on the account of Zina already had several paintings.

Then she enters the drama theater on Malaya Bronnaya, but in 1961 she moved to the theater-studio of the actor. By the mid-sixties Zinaida became one of the most famous young actresses. But suddenly it seems to disappear. What happened? Zinaida Mikhailovna herself recalls this bit of her life with bitterness and explains that she did not want to pay for the role with her own feelings. Until 1974, she did not act in film, all this time she was occupied with work in the theater. The official ban was violated by Yevgeny Matveyev, who invited her to the role of Euphrosyne in the film "Love of the Earth". For this work, the actress received the State Prize and the title of People's Artist.

It must be said that the biography of Zinaida Kiriyenko is not only work in the cinema and theater. She is also a happy woman who lived with her husband Valery Tarasevsky (died in 2003) a long and happy life. They had two sons: Timur and Maxim. Today Zinaida Mikhailovna is the grandmother of five grandchildren, but Zinaida Kiriyenko's creative biography is not over. She still works in the theater and travels a lot around the country with concerts.