Actress Elena Maksimova: biography, personal life, filmography

Maksimova Elena Aleksandrovna was a member of the conglomerate of beautiful actresses of the Soviet era who positioned the image of an ordinary woman, mother, grandmother. These functions are familiar to any person, which additionally gave exceptionally joyful and touching emotions. Getting as much as possible in her role, Elena Alexandrovna showed amazing realism in the acting, natural behavior and truthfulness.

Emotional impulses amazed the minds and hearts of millions. Actress Elena Maksimova was remembered in many ways, despite the fact that she practically did not play the leading roles.

Birth and school time

The future actress Elena Maximov was born on November 23, 1905 in Moscow. Her dad was selling groceries. In 1916, he closed his entrepreneurial activities, and the family began to live in Sokolniki, his father worked as a bookkeeper in the caravan depot. The mother of the actress was a housewife, and in 1920 after the death of the head of the family she gave the children (three daughters) for education in the orphanage No. 55. A couple of years later she passed away.

At the beginning of 1925, while studying in the 9th grade, Elena passed the competitive selection to the film studio N.G. Cherry. In the same period she graduated from a nine-year school. Continuing her studies at the film studio, the future actress worked at the pugovoi combine as a pressman until the fall of 1926.

The beginning of acting career

Started work in the cinema Maximova Elena Alexandrovna received the same year. The most famous actress is the debut in the film "The Lame Barin" by K. Eggert. However, in the chronological order, the first picture of the "Ryazan women", I. Pravova and O. Preobrazhenskaya, where she played the scandalous Lukerya, the wife of a rich peasant, will be correctly taken into account.

The young girl performed the directed task positively, passing in the presented image the arrogance, impudence, periods of despair, manifested in connection with the infidelity of the spouse. After this film was determined her subsequent credo as an ordinary Russian woman, which often used by most directors.

Actress Elena Maksimova co-starred with the creators of the picture "Baba Ryazan" several times. One of the best roles was Daria in Sholokhov's "Silent Don". Elena Alexandrovna maximally believably revealed this image, beating the realistically temperament, emotionality and contradictory nature of the character.

Becoming

In 1930, Maksimova played the part of Natalka in the masterpiece of A. Dovzhenko called "The Earth". The actress with a titanic tear realized the tragic thrust of her character, who lost her beloved. In one of the frank scenes of the film Natalka furiously rushes around the house naked, terribly worried about the death of the groom. It is noteworthy that Maximova - the first actress of the USSR, naked on the screen.

In the same period, actress Elena Maksimova played several memorable roles. Among them:

• Maria Kudina (the wife of the Old Believer) in the film "Aerograd";
• Praskovya in the Pugachev;
• Tatyana (tape "Grunya Kornakova");
• In the film "Virgin Soil Upturned" the image of Melany Atamanchukova.

Such works include the sharpness of the characters, true drama, pointing to Maximova's broad opportunities as an actress.

An interesting fact: after more than twenty years, Elena Alexandrovna participated in the reinterpretation of the "Quiet Don" (1957-58), which was successfully carried out by Sergei Gerasimov. She got the episodic role of Koshevoi's mother. After that, the actress was included in a small list of artists who participated in repeated screen versions of a book work.

Life outside the scene

Actress Elena Maksimova, whose personal life was no less successful than her acting career, met her future husband in 1927, and at the beginning of the next year became the official spouse of Georgiy Nikolaevich Lukyanov. Having an engineer education, he worked in the Thermotechnical Research Institute. Dzerzhinsky.

In 1934, a married couple had a son, who was called Gleb. Elena Alexandrovna gave all her free time to the child. Before the war, the actress worked at the film studio Soyuzdetfilm, and after the evacuation of the children of the employees under Ufa Maksimova left everything and went to work as a cook for food, just to be close to the child. In the winter of 1942 the children's camp of the studio was taken to Dushanbe, and in the spring the actress returned to her creative work.

Subsequently, the son of Elena Maximova and Georgy Lukyanov chose a creative professional direction: he worked as an operator, tried to shoot and make productions on state orders. Gleb lived until 1999. Grandson of the actress Andrey Lukyanov was educated as a lawyer, he was engaged in music and advertising business, since 2000 he has been shooting films and feature films, continuing the work of his grandmother.

Last works

For many years, the audience was remembered by actress Elena Maksimova. Filmography of her with age is replenished mainly with the roles of ordinary, but at the same time, special women (peasant women, mothers, grandmothers, elderly neighbors), endowed with sincerity, simplicity and charm.

Some of them are pulsing with kindness and harmony, other images are scandalous, with a character and a hitch. Regardless of the direction, in any work there were no negative emotions, the star in each invested positive energy.

Among the distinguished works of the late period, it should be noted:

• The role of Dergachychi in the painting "The Sea of Students";
• "Two Captains" (image of Aunt Dasha);
• Mother of Alexandra ("Tight knot");
• Memorable Vera Nikolayevna in the film "A Shot in the Back";
• In the painting "Father's house" - the image of Makarikha;
• In "Secrets of the notebook" - Glafira.
• Varvara Stepanovna in the "Alien Home".

In reality, Elena Aleksandrovna Maksimova was known as a man of strong-willed character, although in general the actress is remembered as a benevolent and sociable person.

Conclusion

Actress Elena Maksimova, whose biography is full of personal peripetias and achievements in the field of acting, often made a bet with her husband about who will leave the world on earth earlier.

The first to die was Georgi Nikolaevich (1983). For some time, Elena Aleksandrovna continued to participate in rare filming, but her age and herd have taken their toll. The actress died in a clinic for veterans (1986). The ashes of the deserved artist of the RSFSR were scattered over the Chernaya River in the Moscow Region (according to the will).