Sofya Pilyavskaya is an actress with a difficult destiny

The talented student of Konstantin Stanislavsky himself, despite being in demand in the acting profession and a well-established personal life, did not consider herself to be one hundred percent happy. Sofya Pilyavskaya won the love of a huge army of viewers, showing them the full range of their creative potential. She was an experienced teacher, having brought up a whole galaxy of actors, who later became eminent.

For her filigree roles in film and theater, Sofia Pilyavskaya became a Stalin Prize laureate and received the "high" title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union. However, she was constantly burdened by the events that happened to her relatives: she survived the death of her sister and brother, her father's arrest in 1937, her friends and colleagues were passing away ... She had to put up with this and adjust to the new conditions that were dictated to her from the outside.

Biographical information

Sofya Pilyavskaya was born in Krasnoyarsk on May 4, 1911. His childhood years of prima MKhATa remembers with warmth. Actress Sophia Pilyavskaya, whose family travels to Petrograd six months later, and then to Moscow, did not realize that her father, a Pole, was obsessed with a "revolutionary" idea. After many years she learned that her parent was an "old Bolshevik" from Lenin's entourage. It can not be said that her family was poor. On the contrary, on New Year's holidays she received luxurious gifts from Poland, her parents tried not to deny her anything.

From the school, she became interested in acting: she took part in the morning performances and skits, where mini-performances were staged.

"The first pancake is lumpy"

But the first attempt to become a student of the Studio of the Art Theater Z. S. Sokolova was a failure. The Polish accent of the girl confused the teachers. But the perseverance and diligence of the young "Siberians" were rewarded. Lessons from the speech therapist gave positive results, and soon the theatrical high school was subdued.

The Moscow Art Theater

After studying at the Studio of the Art Theater Sofya Pilyavskaya gets into the Moscow Art Theater's troupe. When fascist Germany attacked the USSR, the Melpomene temple was evacuated to Saratov and only in the fall of 1942 he returned to the capital. The actress from Krasnoyarsk served in the Moscow Art Theater almost seventy years.

It should be noted that at the beginning of her creative career the leadership of the Moscow Art Theater actively involved her in productions, as she masterfully transformed herself into representatives of Soviet junk drama. However, it was not difficult to remove this "communist" charm, so Sofya Pilyavskaya (MKhAT actress) could play diverse roles, which is proved, for example, by her work in the performances "The Ideal Husband" and "The School of Sinology." However, in the 60's and 70's in the career of the "Siberian" fiction person came a creative crisis: she was offered very few roles.

Work in the cinema

In the cinematography, Pilyavskaya played not so many roles, but for the image of Christina Padera in the movie "The Conspiracy of the Doomed" (M. Kalatozov, 1950), the actress was awarded the Stalin Prize. The critics noted her brilliant work in Anna Karenina (A. Zarkhi, 1967).

And, of course, the viewer remembered Pilyavskaya in the roles of Raisa Pavlovna in "We'll Live Up to Monday" (S. Rostotsky, 1967) and Alisa Vitalievna in the "Pokrovsky Gate" (M. Kozakov, 1982).

Personal life

The husband of the actress was Nikolai Dorokhin, also an actor of the Moscow Art Theater. Only together they lived very little - our heroine survived her husband for 46 years. The fact that he tried to enlist in the NKVD, and he refused, why one after another there were heart attacks. The first was when Nicholas was 33 years old, the last at 48 years old.

last years of life

At the end of life Sofya Pilyavskaya rarely agreed to take part in filming a movie. She preferred to lead a solitary way of life, without forgetting to visit from time to time in the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio.

The actress died on January 21, 2000. She was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in the capital, where her people, Knipper-Chekhov, Nemirovich-Danchenko, and Moskvin, found their last shelter.