Actress Valentina Malyavina is still considered one of the most beautiful and talented in Soviet cinema. In her life there were a lot of bright and interesting novels, but her personal life did not work out. If many years ago, when she was at the peak of her popularity, there was always a huge number of admirers, acquaintances and friends, then after Valentina Alexandrovna she lived, forgotten by everyone, in one of the closed boarding houses near Moscow. Once she accidentally fell. This led to the damage to the optic nerve, which caused Malyavina to become blind. But her life began so happily …
The beginning of life
The famous actress Valentina Malyavina was born on June 18, 1941 in the family of a Soviet general. At that time, her father served in the East. After his demobilization, the whole family moved to Moscow. The outwardly very interesting daughter of the general immediately attracted the attention of all the boys, not only studying with her at 71st school, but also from those located in the neighborhood. The girl already understood that she belongs to the bohemian elite.
Meeting with Alexander Zbruev
At the same time, the future Ganzha from the “Big Break”, Sasha Zbruev, was studying at the neighboring school No. 69. He was a joker and handsome, with whom almost all the girls of the district were in love. Once Valina’s girlfriend, who looked at Sasha with a gasp, persuaded her to go dancing with them, saying that he would be there. Later, Valentina Alexandrovna recalled that she fell in love with the boy as soon as she saw him.
Young Sasha also could not pass by. They started dating. The couple decided to sign immediately after graduation. One fine day, having told their parents that they would go to see the play, they went to the registry office. At home they were met by mom and grandmother. It was the grandmother who noticed that they were hiding behind a "piece of paper with a coat of arms." The newlyweds had to confess.
Unborn daughter
After recognizing Vali’s relatives, they went to tell all of Sasha’s parents. His mother reacted calmly to the marriage itself. She was excited that the future actress Valentina Malyavina, whose personal life from the very beginning of the appearance on the screen aroused the genuine interest of the audience, was already expecting a baby. Both future grandmothers did not want this. They thought it was too early. At the seventh month of pregnancy, the girl was taken to the doctor so that he artificially caused a birth. She did not know what was done to her until the very end, she was sure that this was another inspection. As a result of all medical interventions, her daughter died.
Film debut
After receiving a school certificate, Valentina Malyavina, a Soviet actress in the near future, became a student at the Schukin Theater School. And immediately, when she was still in her first year, the still-unknown director Andrei Tarkovsky drew attention to her. He could not pass by the beautiful woman with black eyes that seemed to pierce through and through. In his first film, “Ivan's Childhood”, he invited her, Valechka, to the main female role.
During these shootings, a passion flared up between a young actress and a novice director. Many years later, actress Valentina Malyavina recalled that then she was sure: it was Tarkovsky who was her happiness, it was he - her great love and fate. But she was married to Zbruev, and Tarkovsky was also married. He very much asked his Valya that she acted only in his films. Unfortunately for both of them, they never worked together anymore. Life brought them closer, now pushing them apart.
Malyavina was sure that by letting go of Andrey, she made it easier and better for everyone. Other actresses who came to him on the set could not divide him even after his death.
Arsenov and Kaydanovsky: a complex triangle of relationships
With the light hand of Andrei Tarkovsky, Malyavina’s quarry began to develop very successfully. In addition, she met her second husband (while being married to Alexander), who became Pavel Arsenov. She honestly told Zbruyev about this. But the second marriage did not become happy. Another Sasha prevented this - Kaydanovsky.
It all started with the play "Hamlet", in which he played just amazing. A little later they met. They went to each other's performances, they were just friends. And then a crazy romance began.
As in the first marriage, she told the second spouse everything. He tried to convince her, said that it would pass quickly and that it was not worth destroying the family. Arsenov even tried to make friends with Kaidanovsky, wanting to maintain their relationship. For Valentina, such a “triangular” relationship was rather painful and painful.
All this went on for six years. With Alexander they often quarreled and clashed. Once, after a very serious quarrel, actress Valentina Malyavina even returned to her husband. Alexander also got married. But their families were never happy.
Married to Arsenov, Valentina became pregnant for the second time. But this her child also died in the hospital. It was also a girl. The actress returned home in deep sorrow, shocked, she wanted to drop everything and go to the monastery. But she didn’t dare …
Popular fame
While still a student, Malyavina managed to appear in several more films. The most significant was the role of Asi in the film novel "Morning Trains". And in the fourth year, director Ruben Simonov invited her to the Vakhtangov Theater.
Now she has become a theater actress. But she didn’t leave the movie either. Valentina Malyavina, whose roles in the theater were diverse, did not just play all her characters. She lived their fate. Each time it was just brilliant productions - “Portrait of Dorian Gray”, “For every sage, rather simplicity” and others.
In the movie, too, everything went well. She was invited to the carnival-theatrical adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's fairy tale "The King of the Deer", where each frame with this stunningly beautiful woman looked like a small miracle. There was also the role of the officer’s wife in Red Square.
Photos of actress Valentina Malyavina throughout her life were printed in many publications. On each of them she looked dazzling beauty.
Unfortunately, not all the films in which Malyavina was shot were of a high level. There were also just walk-throughs. If it were not for the presence of Valentina Alexandrovna in them, hardly anyone would have remembered them after 20 years.
Another marriage, also unhappy
As well as Kaydanovsky, with her third husband, who became actor Stas Zhdanko, Valentina Malyavina, whose filmography includes about four dozen paintings, met when she saw how he plays in the play of Raskolnikov.
Later, she found out that Stas was in love with her in absentia and her photograph had long hung in his apartment. That decided everything. They shortly after meeting began to live together. It was not an easy time for both. Stas did not succeed either in the cinema or in the theater. He was a very ambitious person and longed to become famous.
Valentina Alexandrovna also began to be invited to shoot much less often. She, trying to muffle at least a little the ongoing pain from the loss of her child, increasingly applied to the bottle. At this time, the actress was fond of palmistry and once she saw a prison sign on her hand. But then she and her husband just laughed at it.
Suicide or …
In 1978, what happened was what the palm sign predicted. Malyavina’s husband died. Now no one will determine how it really was. Valentina Alexandrovna told that everything happened during Great Lent. During dinner, she drank a little, and Stas was against it, because Post was walking. Valentina went into the kitchen, and when about five minutes later she again entered the room, her husband fell from her chair in front of her eyes. At first, Malyavina thought that he was drunk, but then she saw that he had thrust a knife into himself.
The actress said to the investigator that she was sure that he just wanted to scare her, and not commit suicide. The investigator also came to this opinion. The case was closed.
But five years later, the case was raised from the archive. The initiator was a friend of Stas, who convinced his parents that their son was killed by Malyavina. Again there was a court according to which the actress Valentina Malyavina, whose brief biography contains a lot of ups and downs, was found guilty of intentional murder and was sentenced to nine long years.
