Tamer Tamar Nazarova Margarita Petrovna: biography, films

The legend of the circus is not easy. But Nazarova Margarita, even in the most difficult moments in life, went only forward. That is why she achieved the desired goal and thundered throughout the Soviet Union, not only as a beautiful woman, but also as the owner of a very dangerous profession - a tiger animal trainer. What peripeteias was filled with the life of the artist and how did she die?

Childhood

Nazarova Margarita was born near Leningrad in 1926. The girl's father was a forester, so she spent all her childhood in nature. In addition to Rita, the family had two more girls - Galya and Vera.

It is noteworthy that friendship with wild animals from Margarita began at an early age. When she was still quite a child, my father brought them to the lodge of a small bear, whose mother was dead. So Rita three months before the animal was given to the zoo, she taught him to dance. An unusual hobby for a girl ... It was then that the future trainer got her first trauma through the fault of the wild beast - the bear ripped her hand out.

Nazarova always spoke warmly about that period of her life. A little later, already a schoolgirl, Margarita was carried away by the ballet. She studied at the House of Pioneers and dreamed of dancing on the big stage. But the war broke out.

Life in Germany

At the age of 15, very young Rita witnessed one of the most bloody wars in the world - the Second World War. Her father was called up, and her mother moved to a small town of Pavlovsk. There the family, like millions of other Russian people, was starving.

Circumstances developed that on the day when a massive German offensive was announced, Nazarova Margarita was among the other teenagers in a neighboring village. All were evacuated, including Rita's family, and the girl was taken prisoner to the Germans. Soon she was sent to Germany.

Owing to her external data, Nazarova first fell into the house of a servant in the house of rich Germans, and then she was identified as a dancer in a cabaret. Undoubtedly, such a life did not do without humiliation. But Margarita Petrovna never talked about what happened to her in Germany.

Liberation came in the 45th, when Russian troops came to Germany. That day began for a young dancer usually, but the performance never took place: Soviet soldiers rushed into the cabaret and Nazarov sighed with relief.

The first steps in the circus

So Nazarova Margarita returned home. She was lucky to find her family, but her father was still missing.

By the autumn of the 45th the girl herself had prepared an acrobatic number and achieved the fact that she was enrolled in the troupe "Circus on the stage". Soon she had a partner, with whom she made a number filled with tricks, as well as containing elements of animal training. The first to cooperate were horses and dogs.

However, Nazarova was noted for her bright temperament and she always wanted more from life - she was no longer satisfied with the numbers with the dogs. Just at that moment, there was one funny story that prompted the girl to her future destiny.

Nazarova accompanied her future husband - the trainer Konstantinovsky - on the set of the film "The Case in the Taiga". The situation got out of control, and the trained bear suddenly rushed to Konstantin Aleksandrovich. Margarita Petrovna reacted instantly: she lured the she-bear into a cage with a can of condensed milk, and, clutching her new friend in a retaliation, did not let her go for a long time. After that, Konstantinovsky realized that he would not be better than an assistant than Margarita.

Working with tigers

The tamer Margarita Nazarova became so much thanks to her husband - he taught her the basics of dressing. The couple spent a couple of days next to their predatory pupils. Konstantinovsky did not let his wife down, because he knew: every time you encounter a tiger, your life is at stake, so you need to be tough and unyielding.

Margarita justified the trust of her teacher. Soon, Konstantinovsky had no doubt that his wife could work independently. Margarita had her own pupils: tigers Pursh, Rada, Achilles and Baikalochka. In 1954, this friendly company went to the set of the film "Dangerous Paths".

Nazarova first attended the shootings, like a tamer. By the way, she once again had the opportunity to bail out her husband. One of the tigers decided not to obey orders and attacked Konstantinovsky. Nazarova in time stopped the beast, pouring it with ice water from the hose.

The creators of the painting appreciated the abilities of the beginning trainer and offered her the work of the understudy in the "Dangerous Paths". So Nazarova and her husband found themselves in a cage with four Ussuri tigers and contributed to the filming, perhaps, of the most exciting cadres in Soviet cinema. And after the release of the picture on the screens about the artist for the first time talking press.

Shooting at the cinema

In the same 1954, Nazarova was again on the set.

This time she dubbed the actress Lyudmila Kasatkin, who, according to the story, was a trainer in a circus. Margarita managed to prove her professionalism, having trained her tigers not to be afraid of fire in record time. Only because of this it was possible to shoot spectacular episodes, when predators jump through the ring of fire. After that all the newspapers wrote about Nazarov's amazing and at the same time the only woman in the USSR who is able to enter the cage to live tigers. After filming in the film tamer Tamar Margarita finally got the long-awaited place in the circus.

Then there were shooting in the famous comedy "Striped Flight". Margarita Nazarova this time rejoiced: she had the main role, which she undoubtedly deserved. She coped with it remarkably, though, to sound her heroine Marianne had a professional actress Galina Korotkevich. After this film, Nazarova turned into a circus legend. The more famous circus artist was difficult to find throughout the USSR.

Obtained injuries

Margarita Nazarova, whose films were watched by the whole Union, whose dexterity was admired by the audience, only on the stage could afford to put on a smile and carefree to show the trick behind the trick. In fact, for this ease hid titanic work. And of course, serious injuries.

In 1955, one of the tigers made a leap over the artist's head, the curbstone beneath him shook, and the beast fell directly on Margarita. The woman lost her scalp. The actor barely managed to save. It seemed that she would leave her profession, but the first thing Nazarov had done after recovering - came to her tigers.

After many years on tour in Germany, the tigers got out of hand and tore Nazarova's arms and legs, but the trainer recovered each time and returned to the arena again and again.

Personal life

Margarita Nazarova, whose biography is worthy of being a screenplay for a fascinating film, first fell in love at age 19. When she returned from Germany, she went to Riga to her relatives. The girl dreamed about the stage, but she was not taken to the ballerinas. But the Daugavpils Theater agreed to hire Nazarov in the corps de ballet. That's where the future trainer fell in love with one of the directors - Konstantin Konstantinovsky.

Konstantinovsky was an extraordinary man: they say that during the war he trained kamikaze dogs that blew up German tanks. But the German soldiers are also not simple, they eventually learned to bypass the dogs side. And then one day one of the pupils of Konstantinovsky returned to his master unharmed, and then an explosion occurred. As a result, the director had practically no soft tissues left on his right hand, and a bone was bared.

This pair was considered one of the most spectacular in the Union. Nazarova probably loved her husband too much, which destroyed her. When in 1970 Konstantinovsky died of brain cancer, Nazarova left the circus, closed her apartment, and since then her life has changed dramatically.

Last days

Actress Margarita Nazarova first changed in character, when she died of diabetes her pet - Pursch. The actress considered herself guilty of his illness.

Tiger Margarita Nazarova did not even manage to get to the doctor, died on the way. But the problem was not even this: Nazarova always knew that Purchet was a reliable partner, that he could protect her in a difficult moment. And now, without her striped protector, the trainer began to be afraid to enter the cage.

After a while, Margarita's husband died on the operating table, who was diagnosed with brain cancer. Although they did not get along recently, but the actress loved Konstantinovsky - the father of his only son, comrade and mentor. When Constantine was gone, the woman had a nervous breakdown, and she was in a psychiatric hospital.

More Nazarov did not enter the cage with the tigers. For more than 20 years she lived as a hermit in Nizhny Novgorod and saw only her son Alexei, as well as several colleagues on the stage. In 2005, the artist died at the age of 79.

The image of Margarita Nazarova on television and in the cinema

Soon after the death of the actress on the TV channel "Russia" a documentary about Margarita Nazarova was released. In the picture, unique frames from the home archive of the Nazarova-Konstantinovsky family were presented. Also about the great tamer told a few stories of her son and colleagues in the shop.

And in 2015, the screens will be a series about the life of Margarita Petrovna - Nazarova. The main role in the film went to the actress Olga Pogodina. The roles of the second plan will be performed by Andrey Chernyshev, Nikolay Dobrynin and Alexey Peskov.