Nadezhda Karataeva: biography and career

Nadezhda Karataeva is the wife of the famous Anatoly Papanov. She herself is a famous actress of theater and cinema since Soviet times. Back in 1981, Nadezhda was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

A family

Nadezhda Karataeva is an actress who managed to become famous in two epochs: under the Soviet Union and already in new Russia. She was born in Moscow, on the twenty-fifth of January 1924. Acting in her case is not a continuation of the patriotic skill - her family had nothing to do with the world of art. Father of Hope was a military man, and his mother worked in the research institute. But Karataeva since childhood gravitated toward the theater and even in her school years went to the drama circle.

Hope has a daughter Elena, who was born in 1954. She followed in the footsteps of her parents and became a famous actress of the Moscow Drama Theater. Ermolova.

Study

Hope, like many, graduated from a regular high school. But then she nevertheless realized her passion for the theater and entered the GITIS for the acting department. The Great Patriotic War changed many lives and plans of an incredible number of people. Nadezhda Karataeva, whose biography includes both the war years , also fell under its influence. About the further study it was necessary to forget for a while. Hope went to the front as a nurse, for some time worked in hospitals.

As already mentioned above, she studied quite a bit. Only in 1946, Hope finally graduated from the institute. Then began her theatrical career.

Front years

As soon as the war began, Nadezhda Karataeva left with her mother to Novosibirsk, and his father went to the front. In Novosibirsk, Nadezhda enrolled in the course of nurses and after their graduation was asked to go to the front. She worked in military hospitals, and then in an ambulance train that shuttled between Moscow and Chita. On these convoys were taken to the rear of the wounded. Hope not only carried food, but also looked after the soldiers. She did injections and dressings, read the wounded poems and leaflets, helped to strengthen morale.

Fateful acquaintance

Towards the end of the war, classes were finally resumed in GITIS, and Nadezhda returned to the institute to finish her studies. She was commissioned, and she again found herself in the world she had been striving since childhood. It was at the institute that she met Anatoly Papanov, who later became her husband. He came to the university from the front, where he was commissioned for health reasons.

Papanov was offered to start his studies straight from the second year. Men were not enough, and the girls had to play sketches with partners. So he was in the same group as Nadezhda. They married Papanov on May 20, 1945.

At first Papanov walked with a wand, because he had a heel shattered and a German grenade tore off two fingers on his leg. But for Hope, the soul was the main thing, and not the appearance. Their romance spun when they went to the same tram stop, talked and recognized each other better. They were united not only by art, but also by the fact that Nadezhda Karataeva, like her husband, was at the front. Many of her classmates did not have such a life experience.

Nadezhda Karataeva, whose photo is in this article, was a very beautiful girl when she was young. Many children looked after her. One of the contenders for her hand was Voroshilov's nephew himself. But Nadezhda preferred Papanova to everyone. She introduced her future husband to her mother, who did not approve of his candidacy and complained that he was ugly. Hope fervently interceded for a loved one, saying that he is a wonderful artist and beautiful soul. At this point the dispute was over.

They lived together for 43 years. There were also hungry postwar times. The young were helped by the parents of Hope. Hope immediately decided to give leadership in the family of Papanov and spent a lot of time dedicated to the family, putting it always in the first place. Nevertheless, the woman always found time for her career. All forty-three years of marriage they were interested in each other. Love of Hope and Anatoly was so strong that they could go through all the hardships of life and keep a happy marriage for many years.

Job

After the end of GITIS, Nadezhda began working with other actors in the Russian Drama Theater, which was in the Lithuanian SSR, in the city of Klaipeda. At first she worked there with her husband. But Papanov returned to Moscow in 1948 at the invitation of the director Goncharov. Nadezhda Karataeva came to her husband a little later.

Since 1950, Nadezhda is a well-deserved actress of the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire. In it, until her death worked and her husband.

The creative path of Hope Karataeva is not only a pair of roles. Even on the stage, she played in a variety of performances:

• "None of your business";
• "Girlfriends";
• "Spinster";
• "My dear ones";
• "Nest of wood grouse", etc.

But a lot of Hope played roles in the cinema - over twenty films on her account! Some of them came out as film-performances. For example, "Fleet Officer", where Nadezhda played the watchman, or "Nest of Wood Grouse" (the role of Sudakov's wife) and many others. There were other interesting pictures in the filmography of Nadezhda. For example, "Under the sky of Verona", "Time to collect stones" and many others.