Kyunna Ignatova: biography, personal life, roles and films, photos

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Very often in the world of theatrical or cinematic art, stars are formed in such a way that the most beautiful and talented actors and actresses, blessed by God with the ability to live many lives, children of worthy and famous parents, did not receive the only personal happiness that could let their planets illuminate the gray reality for many, many years, giving grateful audiences the great magic of theater and cinema.

Kunna

A Muscovite with the exotic name Kyunna was born on September 26, 1934 in an aristocratic family of an academician and a former ballerina.

The strangeness of her name was explained by the fact that her high-ranking official father, Nikolai Mikhailovich Alekseev, was a Yakut by nationality. He named his daughter Kunna, which means "sun" in his native language.

From her parents, the girl inherited a special beauty, sophistication, intelligence and creative gift. But simple human happiness to her,alas, it didn't work out. Mom and dad soon separated, and the girl began to bear her mother's maiden name - Ignatova.

Origins

Kyunna Ignatova's father, Nikolai Mikhailovich, was an academic ethnographer, as well as a leading librarian of Yakutia. He dressed luxuriously, smelled of expensive perfumes, and was known as a great connoisseur of the real Russian language. He was the grandson of the philanthropist and merchant Stepan Alekseev, a person who flaunted a gold watch donated by the tsar, and quite famous for Yakutia.

The mother of the future movie star, Tatyana Nikolaevna Ignatova, was a professional ballerina in her youth, so she retired very early. She was an attractive, thin and small woman. When her marriage to Kyunna's father fell apart, she took on the task of raising her only daughter herself. In this she was helped by Nikolai Andreevich Ignatov, her father, who was a naval officer, captain of the first rank, commander of the first submarines of Tsarist Russia, and then the Soviet Union.

His only love and wife, Künna's maternal grandmother, was Aleksandra Alexandrovna Zhukovskaya from Odessa.

They died in 1956, on the same day.

Here is what their grandson, Pyotr Sokolov, says about those events.

Alexandra Alexandrovna died in the hospital. It was decided not to tell Nikolai Andreevich, first to prepare. But there was someone who hastened to express condolences. "Dead?" - only Nikolai Andreevich asked, picking up the phone. Then he dropped it, sat on the floor and died. I didn't care about the date before.death, then we were not religious. But they died on July 7, when they begin to serve the morning of the next day, commemorating Saints Peter and Fevronia - symbols of fidelity and conjugal love, who lived together a whole life and died on the same day …

However, they did not succeed in having children. Therefore, they adopted a little girl, Tanya, who later became the mother of one of the most beautiful actresses in the Soviet Union.

Brilliant take off

After graduating from school, in 1953, Kyunna Ignatova entered the Shchukin Theater School. Two years later, the young and bright beautiful student was noticed by Leonid Gaidai, who at that time was engaged in the selection of actors for filming.

So Ignatova gets into the world of cinema - she was taken to the main role in the new film "Lyana".

This film was a resounding success. On the wave of its popularity in the country, the name of new cigarettes, varieties of grapes and tomatoes, and even wine - "Lyana" instantly appeared.

In 1956, Leonid Gaidai shoots his new film "The Long Way", in which Kunna also played one of the central dramatic roles.

After graduating from the Shchukin School, a young but already well-known actress gets a job at the Moscow Drama and Comedy Theater, where she immediately began to give leading roles in such performances as "The Quiet American", "On a Farm near Dikanka", " Roommates” and other theatrical productions.

Parallel to work in the theater, Kyunnacontinues to act in films. In January 1960, the wonderful lyrical picture "The Tale of the Newlyweds" appeared on the screens of the country.

Photos of Kyunna Ignatova are increasingly appearing in the press, she is beginning to be recognized on the streets.

The audience received this amazingly kind film very warmly.

Then, in 1962, the fantastic and technically daring film Planet of Storms followed, the creative ideas of which were subsequently used by Hollywood in the person of the famous director James Cameron.

"Planet of Storms" became her last landmark film work, after which the personal life of actress Kyunna Ignatova completely lost her way.

Vyacheslav Sokolov

While still a student at the Shchukin Theater School, Ignatova hastily married actor Vyacheslav Sokolov.

However, they were a very beautiful and romantic couple, both were born on the same day, September 26, and together they dreamed of becoming famous in the acting field.

In 1958, when Sokolov's young wife was already in her last year, the couple had a son, Peter, who became the only son of the actress.

However, their marriage was short-lived. Even during the filming of the tape "Long Way" in 1956, Kyunna Ignatova met the then famous actor Vladimir Belokurov, to whom she left after two years of his persistent courtship. Practicallyimmediately after the birth of Peter.

Vladimir Belokurov

Vladimir Vyacheslavovich, Honored and People's Artist of the RSFSR, was thirty years older than his chosen one, who at that time was only twenty-four years old.

He sought the heart of Ignatova very beautifully and persistently. What, for example, were the only bowls with roses carefully cut off from the stems so that, God forbid, his Kunna would not hurt her tender fingers on the thorns that he gave her daily.

Vladimir Belokurov understood that his young wife was too beautiful and desirable for all the men who surrounded her in one way or another, and who were much younger and prettier than he, at 54.

And so that the young beautiful bird does not fly away, he put it in a cage. Having married Vladimir Vyacheslavovich, Kyunna Ignatov, at the insistence of her husband, began to play only in those films in which he himself played, even in the most insignificant role. Afraid of losing his young wife, Belokurov did everything to never lose sight of her and always be able to control.

Gradually, in the life of the famous and bright Kunna, who previously did not know peace from numerous offers for filming, lack of demand has firmly entered. The artist could not and did not want to forget the former popularity and adoration of the audience, who turned her head so recently. Seeing the suffering of his wife, Vladimir Belokurov got her a job at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, to teach acting. EyesThe Kyuns sparkled again.

However, this time Belokurov did not let her go too far away from him - he himself taught a course at this educational institution.

Anyway, their marriage lasted fourteen years.

Strange as it may seem, Pyotr Sokolov, the son of Kunna, remembering that period, speaks of Belokurov with gratitude. Vladimir Vyacheslavovich treated the boy very warmly.

Already at a very mature age, going through my life, I realized that he did me only good. Unobtrusively, without demanding anything in return. He forgave me that I climbed into his room, dragged imported cigarettes for adult hooligan friends, that I fired from his pistol, which, fortunately, turned out to be a starting one. I realized that he was a real husband, a real man and a talented artist…

The only thing that Belokurov could not forgive his young wife was that she never allowed him to adopt Petya.

Being infrequently busy with roles in the theater and even less in the cinema, Kyunna Ignatova again lost her usual attention of the audience. Life with her rapidly aging husband became more and more a burden to her. And when in 1972 Vladimir Vyacheslavovich fell seriously ill and took to his bed, she left her practically dying husband for a young actor.

Alexander Dik

Alexander Yakovlevich was fourteen years younger than Kunna. At the time of meeting the actress, he was only twenty-three.

Despite everything, even in the soon followed death of Vladimir Belokurov, next to the young Alexander, lifeIgnatova acquired colors and paints. In the small apartment of her husband, in which the couple began to live after their wedding, which happened in 1972, guests gathered very often. Gatherings with them almost always turned into noisy festivities. The personal life of Kyunna Ignatova was rapidly changing. Young faces of her husband's peers and peers flashed around and, looking at them, it seemed that the actress herself was getting younger.

She was still not given roles in cinema and theater, probably in memory of her deceased husband Vladimir. Therefore, Künna, together with Alexander Dik, toured the country, giving concerts.

Sad ending

For the last ten years of her life, the actress was unclaimed, only occasionally appearing on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater Theater, in the crowd. Her life was filled with loneliness, madness and alcohol.

Her husband Alexander Dick, whose acting life was in full swing, leaving for the next tour, forgot the keys at home. On February 18, 1988, when he returned, he rang the doorbell. However, no one gave it to him. When the door was forced open in the presence of the police, Kyunna was found unconscious but still alive on the floor of the bedroom.

On February 20, without regaining consciousness, the actress died.

The strange death of Kyunna Ignatova at the age of only 53 caused a lot of rumors. Many saw a bruise on her temple. There were versions of suicide and even the murder of the actress. However, the doctors issued a dry verdict - death as a result of a stroke. Perhaps, falling, the unfortunate woman hit the corner of the table.

Descendants

Today is the only onethe son of the actress, Pyotr Sokolov, became a famous cultural figure and the winner of various awards for dramaturgy and directing. His life is connected with the world of theater.

Kunna has grandchildren - Savvaty and Arseniy, as well as granddaughter Liza.

Kyunne Ignatova was not destined to see her grandchildren - they were all born after her death. Savvaty, Arseniy and Lisa studied at St. Tikhon Orthodox University.

Elizaveta became an artist-restorer. All relatives consider her very similar to Kyunnu's grandmother in her youth.