The fate of Nonna Mordyukova, who all her life blamed herself for the death of her only son

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

All her life Nonna Mordyukova has been chasing women's happiness. She did not want to be alone, but in the end she lost her beloved and only son. Why did the actress blame herself for the rest of her life for the death of the heir?

Childhood and youth

Nonna Mordyukova was born in November 1925 in the village. Konstantinovka (now - Ukraine, Donetsk region). The girl spent all her childhood in the village. Glazing of the Krasnodar Territory. Her mother was the chairman of a collective farm, and her father was a military man.

Nonna was a very responsible and hard-working girl. She had to do hard work around the house and in the garden, raise her younger brothers and sisters (there were 6 children in the family, and Nonna is the oldest).

And then the war began. There was a threat to be sent to forced labor in Germany, so a large family sat in a remote farm Trudolet. In 1944, the father and mother divorced, the mother, along with all the children, moved to the city of Yeisk.

Carier start

Since childhood, Nonna dreamed of acting in films, becoming famous and recognizable. Before the war, in June 1941, a 15-year-old girl, after watching a film with Nikolai Mordvinov "Bogdan Khmelnitsky", wrote a letter to the actor. She asked: is it possible to learn from Lyubov Orlova ?. The actor appreciated the childish spontaneity of the sender and replied that first he had to finish school, come to Moscow and find him.

Nonna came to Moscow only after the war, in 1945, and on the advice of Sergei Bondarchuk, with whom she studied at the same school. The talented girl immediately entered VGIK, and became a professional actress in 1950.

Mordyukova gained fame while still studying at VGIK. She played Ulyana Gromova in the film "Young Guard" (based on the book by Fadeev). After Nonna starred in more than 50 films, from 1948 to 1999. After the collapse of the USSR, she appeared on the screens less and less, she ceased to like the proposed roles and plots of films.

The last work of Mordyukova is the role of Polina's mother in the film "Mom".

Personal life

Nonna Mordyukova was married 2 times, but for a long time she also lived with her common-law spouse Boris Andronikashvili.

Nonna met her first husband and father of her only son on her very first filming in the film "Young Guard". It was Vyacheslav Tikhonov. It seemed that by nature the young people did not fit each other at all. An energetic, cheerful and bright Cossack woman was the complete opposite of a quiet, calm and intelligent young man. But as they say, opposites attract.

The marriage lasted for 13 years. Its result was the birth of a son, Vladimir, in 1950.

After the divorce, Nonna married a second time, to the actor Vladimir Soshalsky. This union lasted only six months.

Relationship with only son

From the very birth of the child, it was clear that young parents did not really need him. Both were too young, pursuing their own careers, constantly on the set. The boy was raised by his grandparents from Vyacheslav's side.

When the child was 12 years old, his mother and father divorced. Vladimir was very upset by the separation of his parents. Moreover, dad almost immediately got married and became the father of his daughter, and mom began to change men like gloves. The young man again turned out to be of no use to anyone.

It was then that he contacted a bad company, began to drink heavily, and by the time he graduated from school, he began to suffer from alcohol addiction. But the mother, who was trying to arrange her personal life, practically did not communicate with the teenager and seemed not to notice the terrible moments in his life.

Vladimir entered the Shchukin School and continued the dynasty of actors. He even starred in several films.

In his personal life, it did not work out. Vova then suffered from addictions. Both wives - Natalya Varley and Natalya Egorova, could not cope with this, left him with children in their arms. Vladimir has 2 sons.

Naturally, such a lifestyle affected the health of a young man. By the age of 40, he suffered 2 strokes.

On the last evening of his life, in June 1990, Vladimir Tikhonov drank with his friend Anatoly. A friend said that a friend fell asleep at the table, and he went to spend the night at his place. And when he came back, Vova was no longer breathing. Anatoly blamed himself so much for the death of his comrade that a few days later he committed suicide.

How parents suffered the death of their son

Elderly, by that time, Vladimir's parents had a hard time.

Father, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, already quiet and uncommunicative, became even more isolated in himself. He blamed himself for the death of his son, saying that he did not pay enough attention to him. Vyacheslav stopped meeting people and received practically no one at his place. The man died in December 2009.

It was harder for Nonna Mordyukova. After the funeral of her son, she locked herself in her apartment and did not leave it for almost a year. The actress also blamed herself: inattention, constant employment, somewhere carelessness and disregard for her only son.

Later, Mordyukova recovered a little. She blamed herself for the rest of her life and even looked for her child in other men. So, the actress motherly took care of the singer Juliana: she cooked for him, allowed him to live in her apartment, glued his shoes.

Nonna Viktorovna died in July 2008. She was buried at the Kuznetsovsky cemetery. One monument for two was erected on the grave to forever unite mother and son, who had little contact during their lifetime.