Elena Sanayeva: biography and personal life of the Soviet actress (photo)

Among the famous Russian actresses, one of the most charming and interesting is Elena Sanayaeva. Her biography is full of dramatic and vivid events both in cinematographic and in personal life.

Rising Star of Cinematography

For the first time a stately beauty with sensual lips and expressive gaze of large brown eyes appeared on the screen in Zagida Sabitov's military drama "General Rakhimov", the next role was the heroine of the early stories of Maxim Gorky in the film "In Russia" by Fedor Filippov. In the film Aida Manasarova's "The Main Witness", created in 1969 on the motives of the stories of A. P. Chekhov, Elena Sanayeva accurately and subtly played the role of passionately in love with the neighbor of the widow of Maria Kapluntsova, who is tried for the murder of her husband. The right to this role actress in the screen test confirmed so convincingly that at once pushed all other contenders. And it happened so thanks to the wise advice of his father.

Recollection of Childhood

It's no secret that actress Elena Sanayeva is the daughter of the famous Soviet actor Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev. She was born in the military in 1943, many and often sick, but her parents were ready to give her life to leave her only daughter after the death of her two-year-old brother Alyosha. The kid died in evacuation from diphtheria, complicated by measles, forever leaving a deep heartache in the heart of the mother - Lydia Antonovna. The audience learned about the uneasy and dramatic relations in the Sanayev family from the story "Bury Me Behind the Baseboard", written by the son of the actress, Pavel. Elena Sanayaeva shared her memories of her childhood and youth in an interview. She talked about how jaundice got sick at the age of five, which was very difficult to deal with in those years, and my mother selflessly treated her daughter, wore fresh air in her arms, and finally decided to baptize the girl. The rite was spent at home, over the basin, putting a copper cross on the pale neck of Lena. After that she went on the mend.

Memories of the actress about the mother and father are full of gratitude and warmth. Maybe in those difficult years Elena Sanayeva learned compassion, patience, the ability to help and support a person. The actress recalls how her mother in 1952, telling an utter joke in the communal kitchen, was under threat of denunciation and fell ill with a "persecution mania". Then the woman suffered a lifetime of depression, which, multiplied by the imperious nature and longing for unfulfilled dreams, turned Lydia Antonovna into a domestic tyrant and provoked quarrels with close people.

Debuts

When Lena grew up, she entered GITIS. And here the father very much supported the daughter in her creative daring. He repeatedly told her: "We, the Sanaevs, are a talented people. Believe in yourself, and the case will come - and you will be ready for it. " After the institute the girl began to play in the Moscow theater-studio of the actor.

Vasiliy Shukshin noted the twenty-six year old Helen. In his film "Strange People" brightly and brilliantly flashed an actor's duet, where Elena Sanayeva and Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev played a daughter and a father. And then the star family appeared in another tape of Shukshin - "Stoves-benches". Elena often got the role of the second plan, but in them she showed such a creative temperament that the directors have always seen and celebrated an extraordinary girl. Nevertheless, the praise of actress Elena Sanayeva, whose biography in the movie shone with new faces after the meeting with Rolan Bykov, was not spoiled for the time being.

Love affair at work

The fatal meeting took place in 1973, on the set of the film "Docker". Rolan Bykov was dissatisfied with idle time due to the fact that some actress Sanaeva, you see, is afraid to fly on an airplane and goes by train. When Rolan Antonovich saw a capricious stranger, whom he knew only that she was "Daddy's daughter," he instantly "fell through" into her bottomless eyes. In the film, they were to play lovers. After too reliable a kiss, Elena's lips were red. Bykov then was 43 years old, he just parted with his first wife, actress Lydia Knyazeva. Elena was thirteen years younger, and looked even younger than ten years. Outwardly, they also do not fit together: it is tall, slim, short and stocky. "Do not mount!" - Identified the possibilities of the father of the actress's father. However, the inner striving for each other, the energy of attraction that arose between these two people, tied them not only in a creative but also in a life union. A year later, Bykov, kneeling in the Tallinn restaurant (in Estonia the shooting of the film "The Car, the Violin and the Blot Dog" was taking place), made a sweet offer.

Facts from personal life

The first husband of Elena Sanayeva, engineer Vladimir Konuzin, which the actress always remembers with respect, gave her a son - Paul. Vladimir's parents were against his marriage to the actress, the couple lived together for a short time - their views and habits were very different. When Lena chose to become Rolan Bykov, for some reason her parents rumbled. The nickname "dwarf bloodsucker", which Lidia Antonovna, son-in-law awarded, is not only an artistic image from the book written by Elena Sanayeva's son. Relations for a long time did not go well, until the strong and purposeful nature of Rolan Antonovich could not redirect the situation to a peaceful channel. Thanks to Rolan Bykov, the mother-in-law lived for three months longer and finally reconciled with her daughter. Sincere conversations with the son-in-law brightened up the last year of his life and Vsevolod Sanayev, who followed his wife a few months after her death.

The best roles

After the wedding, the couple smiled luck to play a couple of crafty scammers in the film novels by Leonid Nechayev "The Adventures of Pinocchio." The idea at first did not like Bykov, but sensitive to the actor's luck, Elena said that such roles are not abandoned. The duet of the fox Alice and the cat Basilio turned enchantingly bright. Elena suddenly revealed herself as an actress. New roles that followed this tape, often were funny and memorable. Sanaeva was also filmed in Rolan Bykov's films. In Moscow there were even rumors that the young actress was flattered for this marriage for the sake of her career. Of course, these were nonsense. Specially "on her" roles a talented director Bulls never did, did not suit her cinematic fate. And about such a tender and creatively rich relationship, what were Bykov and Sanayeva, you could only dream of. In life for each other they were support and joy. Elena gave her husband a magnificent alloy of strength of character, softness, emotionality and peace of mind. He gave her reliable support, many bright moments of creativity, spiritual generosity, with which he unselfishly helped many confused people, shared with her the genius of a rare gift to understand children and feel responsibility for the future.

An Inconstrained book

The story "Bury me behind the plinth" delighted Rolan Bykov. It was exactly the combination of sincerity and artistry that the famous director and actor wanted to see in the writer. The childish agony and misery experienced by the little Sasha Savelyev (the prototype of the author, Pavel Sanayev) are woven into the intrigue of the relationship with the mother, to which her grandmother did not allow her grandson for a long time, and with her stepfather, whom at first the boy was terribly afraid and jealous. When, at the insistence of Rolan Antonovich Pasha was finally taken away from his grandmother and grandfather, a new period began in his life. "The complex neurotic" guy did not, in his words, largely due to the wisdom of his stepfather. He managed to establish relations with the boy and instill in him a taste for creative work.

Life without Rolan

1996 was marked by a terrible diagnosis, which was put to Rolan Bykov. The doctors found a cancer tumor in his lungs and performed an operation. But two years later, Bykov again found himself on a hospital bed and knew that he could no longer survive. In October 1998, he died. It is difficult to imagine how Elena Sanaya experienced the tragedy. The biography of the deserved actress has changed forever with the departure of a close friend and a beloved person. But this test did not break the woman. Before the last breath, Roland courageously endured the pain, and Elena did everything imaginable and unthinkable to push the terrible end. And then she, having gathered strength, began to continue the matter, which the husband did not finish . I took up his archives, continued work on materials for the documentary "The Gospel of Skomorokha", which Roland Antonovich planned and did not have time to implement. The viewers saw two documentary tapes that Elena Vsevolodovna Sanayeva shot as a director: "The Case of My Life" about the photographer Yuri Rosta and "It's Hard to Be a German" about the film director Alexei German.

Theatrical gift

In 2007 Elena Sanayeva starred in the film of her son Pavel "Zero kilometer", for this excellently played an episodic role, the actress claimed the award of the film festival "Constellation".

Then there were several more roles in the movie, but the most interesting thing was that the actress returned to the theatrical stage, from which she began a creative biography. Here she plays in the plays of the most talented modern playwrights - Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Dmitry Bykov, Yevgeny Grishkovets.

Joseph Reichelgauz, the director of the theater "The School of Modern Play", where the actress works, speaks of her as a very informative person, for whom, when she enters the stage, the text is no longer important. It is extremely interesting in itself: how it holds, thinks, talks. Colleagues feel around her a special aura of warmth and talent, and yet - the always invisible presence of Rolan Bykov, the spirit of his era. The gift of living in two times is something that the magnificent actress Elena Sanayeva is well-versed in. Photos of her first roles and illustrations of contemporary works are inspired by that special charge of artistic excitement that this strong, wise and beautiful woman possesses.