Sofya Pilyavskaya - an actress with a difficult fate

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A talented student of Konstantin Stanislavsky himself, despite being in demand in the acting profession and a successful personal life, did not consider herself a hundred percent happy person. Sofya Pilyavskaya won the love of a huge army of spectators, demonstrating to them the full range of her creative potential. She was also an experienced teacher, having brought up a whole galaxy of actors who later became famous.

For her delicately played roles in cinema and theater, Sofya Pilyavskaya became a laureate of the Stalin Prize and received the "high" title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union. However, she was constantly weighed down by the events that happened to her relatives: she survived the death of her sister and brother, the arrest of her father in 1937, her friends and colleagues passed away … She had to put up with this and adapt to new conditions that were dictated to her from outside.

Biography

Sofya Pilyavskaya was born in Krasnoyarsk on May 4, 1911. The prima of the Moscow Art Theater remembers her childhood years with warmth. Actress Sofya Pilyavskaya, whose family six years later goes first to Petrograd and then to Moscow, had no idea that her Polish father was obsessed with a “revolutionary” idea. Many years later, she learned that herparent - "old Bolshevik" from Lenin's entourage. It cannot 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 refuse her anything.

From the school bench, she woke up an interest in acting: she took part in matinees and skits with pleasure, where mini-performances were staged.

The first pancake is lumpy

But the first attempt to become a student of the Art Theater Studio Z. S. Sokolova was a failure. The teachers were embarrassed by the girl's Polish accent. But the persistence and diligence of the young "Siberian" were rewarded. Classes with a speech therapist gave positive results, and soon the theater university was conquered.

MKhAT

After studying at the Art Theater Studio, Sofya Pilyavskaya enters the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. When Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, the Melpomene temple was evacuated to Saratov and only in the late autumn of 1942 did it move back to the capital. The actress from Krasnoyarsk served at the Moscow Art Theater for almost seventy years.

It should be noted that at the beginning of her career, the leadership of the Moscow Art Theater actively involved her in productions, as she masterfully reincarnated as representatives of Soviet waste drama. However, it was not difficult for her to remove this “communist” charm, so Sofia Pilyavskaya (actress of the Moscow Art Theater) could play diverse roles, which is proved, for example, by her work in the performances “Ideal Husband” and “School of Scandal”. However, in the 60s andIn the 1970s, a creative crisis began in the career of the "Siberian" actress: she was offered very few roles.

Film work

In the cinema, Pilyavskaya did not play many roles, but for the image of Christina Padera in the film "Conspiracy of the Doomed" (M. Kalatozov, 1950), the actress was awarded the Stalin Prize. Critics noted her brilliant work in Anna Karenina (A. Zarkhi, 1967).

And, of course, the moviegoer remembered Pilyavskaya for her roles as Raisa Pavlovna in We'll Live Until Monday (S. Rostotsky, 1967) and Alisa Vitalievna in Pokrovsky Gates (M. Kozakov, 1982).

Private 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 outlived her husband by 46 years. The fact is that they tried to recruit him to the NKVD, but he refused, which is why heart attacks happened one after another. The first was when Nikolai was 33 years old, the last - at 48 years old.

Last years of life

At the end of her life, Sofya Pilyavskaya rarely agreed to take part in filming a movie. She preferred to lead a secluded life, while not forgetting to visit the Moscow Art Theater School from time to time.

The actress died on January 21, 2000. She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery of the capital, where people dear to her found their last refuge: Knipper-Chekhova, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Moskvin.