Turchanova Tatyana Petrovna Biography

Not only talent, the highest skill, they carry in themselves, but the main thing is the highest moral and spiritual qualities - the criteria for their attitude to life, to the homeland, theater, and the viewer. Having celebrated the summer, she plays a lot, performs in new roles, loves tour, participates in public life. Everything next to her on stage comes to life, everything acquires a deep meaning, everything reaches his heart, because behind her every word and gesture is great love.

You and your sister Nina, and the brothers Vasily and Pavel went to the actors.

He amazingly wrote poems and read them perfectly. And the upbringing and education of children began with the theater. But since my older brother Vasily was the first to go to the theater, dad accused him of what had happened. Vasya died on August 28, at the very beginning of the war, which found him at the Theater of the Red Banner of the Baltic Fleet. The ship where they gave the performance flew into the mine.

The first to save women and children. And when the men got into the boat, the Nazis shot them, from a shaving flight. But even earlier, in the last classes of the school, I went to theaters - I looked after where I want to work. When Maly came to Leningrad on the tour, I went to see the play “Children of Vanyushin”. The authenticity of the experience, the acting and human return shocked me so much that I thought: I have to go only to the Maly Theater.

But when he told my father that I wanted to follow in the footsteps of the older brother, he replied: first get a profession, and then you will engage in this nonsense. I graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Leningrad University, put my dad on the table and went to Moscow to enter the Sheppin School. And from the year, studying at the School of the Maly Theater is read out in work experience, 65 years, I am in a small one.

Then there was a very complex technology of voiceover. My voice is rude - for example, I copied the neighing of Voroshilov’s horse in the “first horse”. Everyone laughs at me, but I proudly tell about it! This is my entry! .. Every summer Elena Nikolaevna Gogoleva helped to earn: she arranged in the military-chef commission, where they paid small daily per diem.

They collected something by winter. But I graduated from the school with continuous debts. The last money - rubles - gave to Igor Ilyinsky, who did not give anyone in debt, but he helped me out, because I was always very accurate: if I promised to give it on Tuesday afternoon, it was on Tuesday afternoon, and not in the evening. The war began, they were one of the first to leave the brigades to the front, and then the front branch was organized, in which I spent two years.

We were on the front lines. The soldiers made a scene in the forest, and we played. As soon as the light was lit, the Messerschmites flew, the artists hid under the stage, everything was extinguished. Performances were seven to eight hours. I have a “Small Theater - Front” aircraft here. We refused vacations, weekends, and a flight squadron was built with this money.

I remember how at the airfield our artists from the youngest to the most venerable handed over to the pilots passports to airplanes. And they wrote to us from the front: there were so many enemy aircraft, and such and such a plane died that two such words as happiness and war were incompatible, but I was happy. Happy with its demand. We worked from 11 a.m. to 11 in the morning.

On the decks of the destroyers staged performances. And on the submarine they performed one at a time. Worked in hospitals. We once enter with one of our actor in the ward, where there were three people. It would seem: sick people need to read something funny. My colleague began to read a funny Chekhov story. But the wounded turn away, do not listen.

I realized that something else needed. And she read one of Maxim Gorky's “Italian fairy tales” about her mother, who killed her son for treason. They listened better, but also not very. When I finished reading, the wounded called me and said: "Open the blanket." I look: he does not have two legs and one hand. He asked: take the address under my pillow and write a letter to my wife.

Write that, I still love her, but I understand everything and no complaints, I will not allow myself any grief if she refuses me. I will understand her. Let him raise our son. I roared Beluga when I wrote this letter, and on the third day she came after him. That's how we were in demand, and not necessarily our acting work. But I never made a special gait or voice.

Age did not play, but worked on the role in essence. And, going on stage, she became older. Now my heroines are a little younger than me, and earlier it was forty to five years older. I can’t say that I could not be my first role in the “Creation of the World” - I love her very much. But the first great happiness was the following - the role of Efrosinya Staritskaya, which I played in turn with Vera Nikolaevna Pashenna.

I was 21 years old, and my heroine - the plowed broke my leg in the ankle, how I broke an electric light bulb. It was for a long time. And Stalin loved the performance very much - he looked six or seven times. In those days, they did not disregard the desire of the government. So I played Efrosin.The role was taken by Yakovlev, Sadovsky, Ryzhov, Turchaninov - I am proud that they put me in a straight line with arable land.

The third role is Stepanid in the "bourgeois" of Gorky. The tables of other participants in the play are littered with flowers, only mine is empty. But suddenly, by the end of the performance, a huge bush of lilacs is brought in the tub. Turn off - Pankova from Mikhoels. He was at the performance. These three roles were my formation in the theater. Without failures, the actor cannot!

When I was upset, my teacher Konstantin Aleksandrovich Zubov said: Tanya, remember: they are not growing on success, they grow in the failures. Only then do they begin to analyze their work. Do not be afraid of failures. I played a huge role in the play by Goldoni Babi Gossip. How badly I played her, there is no strength! And when I was in Venice, I saw a monument to Goldoni, I knelt before him and exclaimed: “Forgive me, Carlo!

Do you have any of your own tricks? And then he asks her: oh, Mashenka, let's sew it soon! Rather, rather! And Masha’s hands shake, she already throws needles, takes pins, tears. She jumps out onto the stage at the last minute and plays brilliantly. I do not have such special techniques. But, let's say, I never repeat the role on the day of the performance. Only the day before. So that on the day of the performance it was fresh.

And so that any word would be in a novelty. God forbid, that I have always been to the Lada with the text. I still remember it very quickly. And it saved me more than once. I played a lot in the theater urgently. After all, our old women were incorrect people - they were eighty, eighty -nine years old. Once I played for Turchaninov. I go to Ryzhova: "Varvara Nikolaevna, let's repeat the text, I am worried about something."