At the age of 80, the famous Soviet and Russian actress Alexandra Zavyalova. She is known to the general public primarily for her role as Pistimea in the film “Shadows Vanish at Noon.” Law enforcement officers believe that the actress was killed by her own son.
Two days before turning 80, the famous Soviet actress Alexandra Semyonovna Zavyalova died.
He spoke about the death of the Honored Artist of Russia in his blog. “Two days before the anniversary, Alexandra Zavyalova passed away. Found dead in her apartment, what is it? I know that she has a wonderful, loving family, a beautiful daughter, a son, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, a husband with whom, although she separated a long time ago, she was friends all her life. An actress of incredible beauty and tragic talent has left, with a fatally unfair creative fate. There is no news, zero information. She died, it turns out, four days ago, maybe she was buried already? Just yesterday they showed all the episodes of “Shadows...” - classics of our cinema - is this in memory?!”, he wrote.
Alexandra Zavyalova
The actress was found dead in her apartment on the eve of her 80th birthday.
According to LifeNews from sources in law enforcement agencies, Alexandra Zavyalova died in her apartment in St. Petersburg at the hands of her own son Peter.
The man killed his mother two days before her 80th birthday and has already confessed.
According to neighbors, Alexandra and her son lived in poverty and often had conflicts. When Peter drank heavily, he beat his mother.
Children of Alexandra Zavyalova: daughter Tatyana and son Peter
Alexandra Semyonovna Zavyalova born on February 4, 1936 in Titovka, Sosnovsky district, Tambov region.
In 1958 she graduated from the Leningrad Theater Institute. A. N. Ostrovsky, after which she was assigned to the Brest Drama Theater. Alexandra worked in this theater for about a year, refusing invitations to film filming: she considered herself a theater actress. But one day she received a personal invitation from director Alexander Zarkhi to play a role in the film “People on the Bridge.” She couldn't refuse.
Alexandra Zavyalova never returned back to Brest. In the lyrical comedy “Alyoshkina Love”, the actress played switchman Zinka, with whom a timid guy, drilling geologist Alyoshka (), is in love.
People started talking about Alexandra Zavyalova, and invitations from directors appeared. One after another, films with her participation were released: the melodrama “Wait for Letters”, the social melodrama “Bread and Roses”, the youth film story “Weekdays and Holidays”.
In 1961, a photograph of Alexandra Zavyalova appeared on the pages of the American Life magazine. Photographer Philippe Halsman decided to photograph the most famous people Soviet Union, and among those whom his choice fell on was the rising film star Alexandra Zavyalova.
In 1963, Alexandra Zavyalova married the artist Dmitry Buchkin. Soon the couple had a daughter, Tatyana, and Alexandra stopped acting in films. She also had to leave the Maly Theater, where she worked in Lately.
A year later, the actress received an invitation to the Moscow International Festival. One evening, Alexandra Zavyalova was invited to a diplomatic dinner party. Of the Soviet actresses, only Zavyalova was invited to the reception.
Beautiful, dark-haired, with almond-shaped eyes, similar to the then fashionable Italian film type, she created a real sensation among the diplomatic corps. And the American ambassador, after a whole hour of conversation, officially invited her to visit the United States. After this success, the management of the film festival instructs the actress to meet the stars of Italian cinema in Leningrad with dignity, at the highest level, among whom was Giulietta Masina. And Alexandra Zavyalova did not lose face.
A year later, one chance meeting turned her whole life upside down. Alexandra Zavyalova met a 50-year-old American businessman, co-owner of a large shipping company. The American fell in love with the actress, a romance broke out between them, which was immediately noted by the KGB. The intelligence services suspected the businessman of espionage and, declaring him persona non grata, offered him to leave the USSR within 24 hours. As for Alexandra Zavyalova, she was labeled as unreliable, and she had to say goodbye to cinema for some time. Moreover, this affair marked the end of her family life- Alexandra divorced her husband.
In 1966, Alexandra Zavyalova was initially cast in the role of Pannochka in the film “Viy”. However, immediately after filming began, she became seriously ill.
At the audition for the film "Viy"
In 1969, directors Valery Uskov and Vladimir Krasnopolsky began filming Anatoly Ivanov’s novel “Shadows Disappear at Noon.” They invited Alexandra Zavyalova to play the role of Serafima Klychkova (Pistimeya Morozova). Filming lasted three years. Zavyalova started playing a 17-year-old girl, and in the last episode, according to the script, she was already 70 years old.
In the movie "Shadows Vanish at Noon"
The film, released in 1971, turned out to be the last for Alexandra Zavyalova during the Soviet era. After this picture, the actress was not filmed for more than 20 years. Complete oblivion to the cinema resulted in her deep depression.
Alexandra Zavyalova, torn away from her children, was placed in a psychiatric hospital. Two months later, Zavyalova returned from the hospital. During this time, Tatyana’s daughter was taken in by her father, and her little son was sent to an orphanage. For a long time Zavyalova did not want to return her son, and a year later she was taken to the hospital again, this time along with the child. Dmitry Petrovich Buchkin adopted Peter, the son of Alexandra Semyonovna Zavyalova.
Many years later - in 1994 - Zavyalova was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.
Daughter Tatyana became an artist-designer. Son Peter worked in the construction industry.
Filmography of Alexandra Zavyalova:
1959 - People on the Bridge - Lena
1959 - Song about Koltsov - Dunya
1960 - Alyoshkina's love - Zinka
1960 - Wait for the letters - Rimma
1960 - Bread and Roses - Lyubasha Tiunova
1961 - Weekdays and holidays - Svetlana
1964 - Loneliness - Natasha
1964 - Fro - Fro
1965 - Hippocratic Oath - Valentina Tomilova
1967 - Sergei Lazo - Olga Grabenko
1967 - Four pages of one young life - Polina
1969 - Meeting at the old mosque - Masha
1971 - Shadows disappear at noon - Pistimea Makarovna Morozova (Serafima Arkadyevna Klychkova)
1992 - White clothes - Raechka.
The Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg confirmed the death of the performer of one of the main roles in the famous Soviet film “Shadows Disappear at Noon.” Two days before Alexandra Zavyalova’s 80th birthday, her son killed her.
“At about one o’clock in the morning, in his apartment at 6 on Gavrskaya Street, a 40-year-old unemployed citizen killed his 79-year-old mother with a knife during a sudden quarrel. The suspect was detained by officers of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Vyborg district at the scene of the incident, according to citizens,” the report said. Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
As investigators learned, Pyotr Zavyalov often abused alcohol. On the night of February 3, the man was also drunk. He was at home with his mother, an Honored Artist of Russia. There was a conflict between them, and the son hit the actress with a knife. She died on the spot.
Zavyalov does not remember well how and why he stabbed his mother to death. In the morning he called his sister and said that “it looks like he killed his mother.”
He has already confessed. A criminal case has been initiated under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Murder”), and the man has been charged.
Zavyalov was arrested. Investigators are looking into the circumstances of the case.
According to some reports, Zavyalov worked in construction. However, friends of the family claim that the actress and her son lived poorly and often had conflicts - often when Peter was drunk, he beat his mother.
Alexandra Zavyalova also had a daughter, Tatyana.
The actress played many memorable roles in films. And the film “People on the Bridge,” directed by Alexander Zarkhi, instantly made the 23-year-old actress famous.
Zavyalova was also involved in such films as “People on the Bridge”, “Wait for Letters”, “Bread and Roses”, “Everyday Life and Holidays”.
Photos of the actress constantly appeared on the covers of the Soviet Screen magazine, and once her photo appeared on the cover of the American Life magazine.
In 1969, she began acting in the film, which became both the peak of her career and her final chord.
In it, 34-year-old Zavyalova played the role of one of the main characters - Serafima Klychkova (Pistimeya Morozova), and in the first episode she had to play a 17-year-old girl, and in the last episode, according to the script, she was already 70 years old.
The film turned out to be autobiographical for Zavyalova: the actress’s father, like the father of her on-screen heroine, came from a wealthy merchant family and was also dispossessed after the revolution.
The film, released in 1971, turned out to be the last in the life of Alexandra Zavyalova - after it the actress was not filmed for more than 20 years.
The lack of roles and longing for the stage resulted in deep depression, as a result of which the woman ended up in a psychiatric hospital for several months. “It’s scary to remember what I endured there. They didn’t let me sleep. They gave me an injection with sleeping pills, and then woke me up. The children weren’t allowed to see me. I screamed, begged, but they closed the doors,” said the actress.
In 1994, Zavyalova was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia. However, this did not greatly affect her life: the woman had to survive on a tiny pension.
Recently, she rarely left the apartment and almost never gave interviews.
The bright roles of strong heroines instantly earned Alexandra Zavyalova the fame of a “star” of Soviet cinema. The pinnacle of her work was the role of the nun Pistimea in the epic “Shadows Disappear at Noon,” and then the actress disappeared from the screens. The unspoken boycott by directors and studios lasted for decades.
Already in old age, Zavyalova played in the film “White Clothes,” but then oblivion set in again. Tragic fate the artist, who was never able to recover from creative isolation, ended no less sadly. She was killed on the eve of her birthday, and her own son was accused of the crime.
Childhood and youth
Alexandra Semenovna Zavyalova was born in 1936 into a family of peasants in the village of Titovki in the Tambov region. Date of birth: February 4th. The girl was an average student and could have missed a lesson or failed to complete homework. As the future artist’s fellow countrymen recall in the documentary “Alexandra Zavyalova. Recluse" (TVC), Sasha was "combatant, with a naglinka."
Already in my school years I enjoyed participating in productions, concerts, performances, reading poetry and, telling stories, showing them in person. Many of her classmates liked the girl, but the boys were afraid to approach her.
After graduating from school, the girl moved to Leningrad and entered the theater institute (later renamed LGITMiK). Studying here, she does not imagine herself as a film actress - she is attracted to work on the theater stage. And when she is assigned to serve at the Brest Drama Theater, Zavyalova is pleased with the turn of fate.
Movies
While playing in the theater, the actress rejects offers to act in films. But director Alexander Zarkhi manages to persuade the artist: in independent Alexandra, the filmmaker sees the wayward Lena, the heroine of his upcoming film “People on the Bridge.” And for sure: Zavyalova, who flew to Krasnoyarsk for filming, fits into the character so well that after her, screenwriter Sergei Antonov, who saw the footage, arrives in Siberia. Later he will remember that the heroine embodied by Zavyalova turned out to be more lively and more voluminous than the image he created.
Already in Moscow, Antonov introduces Alexandra to writers and film masters. Her fans also become. After her debut in 1959, filming offers poured in on the 23-year-old actress as if from a cornucopia. In the same year, he released “Song about Koltsov” - a biographical film about the poet, where Zavyalova again gets the main female role.
In 1960, the artist’s biography was replenished with three films at once, the most notable of which was Aleshkina’s Love. The melodrama, filmed by two directors under the direction, was watched by 24 million viewers. Alexandra Zavyalova, who starred in the film with the famous, turns into a star of Soviet cinema.
Her face never leaves the covers of magazines and the front pages of newspapers. The actress is photographed by an American Life photographer who works only with heads of state and Hollywood artists. The photo session takes place in one of the rooms of the National Hotel. During a film festival in Moscow, she is invited to a dinner party at the US Embassy.
The actress’s favorite role is Fro, the main character of the film of the same name by Rezo Esadze. The basis of the script is the story. Unlike previous works, when Zavyalova played capricious, complex characters, in Esadze’s melodrama she plays a gentle, loving heroine. For the sake of this role, Alexandra agrees to become a blonde.
An affair with the director of the film led to the fact that in 1967 Zavyalova appeared in another of his films - the film “Four Pages of One Young Life”. But the peak of his career was the multi-part film “,” which shows the life of the people in the first half of the 20th century.
The performance of Zavyalova, who is invited to play the role of Serafima Klychkova, impresses not only the filmmakers, but also the actress’s colleagues on the set. In an interview for the film “The Recluse,” the actors say that Alexandra Semyonovna did not act, but actually lived every episode in front of the camera.
At the same time, she managed to convey the nuances of age: in the first episodes, Seraphim appears as a 17-year-old heir to the owner of Siberian mines, and as the film progresses she turns into an evil, repulsive old nun.
After a resounding success, silence falls: Zavyalova suddenly finds herself in unspoken isolation. She is no longer offered roles or invited to social events. The artist is going through a severe crisis. Trying to get out of it, a few years later Zavyalova visits film studios, but no one gives a clear answer about the reason for the unofficial boycott.
Only 30 years later, when the artist is invited to a meeting with film fans, director Leonid Belozorovich notices her. The filmmaker includes Zavyalova in the cast of the upcoming film “White Clothes” with and starring. Alas, this return to the screen in 1992 turns out to be the last for the actress. Alexandra Semyonovna is no longer acting.
Personal life
While still studying at the institute, Alexandra met her future husband Dmitry Buchkin. The young man studied at the art school named after V.I. Mukhina, where LGITMiK students came to cultural events. In 1963, the couple married, although Dmitry's parents opposed his choice, foreseeing future difficulties.
In the same year, daughter Tanya was born. Taking care of her, Alexandra takes a break in her career. But already next year she began an affair with Rezo Esadze. Zavyalova confesses these feelings to her husband, and, despite the small daughter, the couple decides to divorce two years after registering the marriage.
Relations with Esadze turn out to be equally short-lived. On the one hand, Zavyalova is not satisfied with her lover’s jealousy, on the other hand, daughter Tatyana refuses to perceive her mother’s new companion as a father. The couple breaks up.
Zavyalova's next novel costs her career. A businessman from the United States who has turned her head spends two weeks with the actress in Odessa. However, it is clear to both that the romance is doomed: Alexandra will not move to America, and her chosen one will not remain in the USSR.
After the foreigner returns to his homeland, Zavyalova is summoned for questioning by the KGB, and then surveillance is established. Coincidentally or not, the flow of filming offers dries up after interrogation by law enforcement agencies.
In 1976, Alexandra’s son Peter was born. The actress does not admit who the father of the child is to journalists or relatives. In the 90s, Tatyana became a mother - Zavyalova had a grandson, Dmitry, and a granddaughter, Darina. And in last years During the life of the actress, Alexandra’s great-granddaughter, named Anna, is born into Dmitry’s family.
Death of Alexandra Zavyalova
In 2016, on the eve of her 80th birthday, the actress in her apartment. Death occurred from a wound inflicted by a knife. As investigators later found out, the tragedy occurred during a quarrel between mother and son. It is known that Peter embezzled money that was allocated to Zavyalova as financial assistance.
Documentary film “Alexandra Zavyalova. Recluse"Peter was found guilty of murder. The court sentence determined him. Alexandra’s son will spend eight years in a maximum security colony.
The actress’s grave is located at the Smolensk cemetery in the Northern capital. The Union of Cinematographers collected funds for the funeral.
Filmography
- 1959 – “People on the Bridge”
- 1959 – “Song about Koltsov”
- 1960 – “Alyoshka’s Love”
- 1960 – “Wait for letters”
- 1964 – “Fro”
- 1967 – “The Hippocratic Oath”
- 1967 – “Sergei Lazo”
- 1971 – “Shadows Disappear at Noon”
- 1992 – “White Clothes”
In St. Petersburg they said goodbye to the famous actress, star of the series “Shadows Disappear at Noon” Alexandra Zavyalova. A woman of rare beauty, in recent years she has not acted anywhere, did not communicate with colleagues, and led an extremely secluded lifestyle. And only now, after the tragic death of the artist, it became clear how difficult it was for her. Zavyalova’s son, Peter, was not present at the funeral at the Smolensk cemetery. The investigation believes that it was he who killed his mother on the eve of her 80th birthday.
Honored Artist of Russia Alexandra Zavyalova lived in a high-rise building in one of the residential areas of St. Petersburg for most of her life, from 1968. Together with her son, the actress huddled in a cramped two-room apartment on the second floor. Neighbors say: she led a secluded, reclusive lifestyle and had little contact with people. But no one here remembers conflicts in the family.
The Honored Artist of Russia avoided publicity. She often walked alone and hardly spoke to anyone. They were rarely seen together with their son Peter. The man, neighbors say, did not work anywhere and never started his own family. The mother was mainly looked after by the eldest daughter.
“She sometimes went out for a walk, like all pensioners go out for a walk. But about Petya, I can say that he was a decent person, and that he drank, well, what can you do! He was good, he was not a drug addict,” says the woman.
It was Pyotr Zavyalov who called his sister on the night of the tragedy and confessed to his terrible act. This happened a day before the actress’s anniversary. On the fourth I would have turned 80.
“According to the investigation, on the night of February 3, 2016, Zavyalov, while intoxicated in one of the apartments at house 6 on Gavrskaya Street, due to a sudden personal hostility, stabbed his mother, Alexandra Zavyalova, born in 1936, Honored Artist of Russia, who died at the scene of the incident,” said Sergei Kapitonov, senior assistant to the head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg.
A graduate of the Leningrad Theater Institute, she began acting in films early. In the comedy "Alyoshkina Love" - the cheerful switchwoman Zinka. Zavyalova’s partner in the film was Leonid Bykov. Although the most important role happened, of course, later. It's essentially two characters in one film. In the legendary “Shadows Disappear at Noon” she is both the still very young Serafima Klychkova and the unsociable recluse Pistimea Morozova, hiding under an assumed name. After this role, he almost did not appear on the screen at all. She became a hostage to her talent, say those who worked with her.
“Sasha had eyes that told about the inner world of this woman. And therefore the role became not only externally, but internally, it was interesting to look at her. They didn’t just admire her beauty when she was dressed differently, or her anger. They admired skill, the way she carried her image,” says director Vladimir Krasnopolsky.
After the resounding success, directors stopped offering her roles. One of possible reasons What turned away from the successful actress was her marriage to a major American businessman. He was suspected of espionage and expelled from the country. Many years of oblivion in the cinema, family failures - all this developed into severe depression.
“I heard that she was often sick and was in hospitals, that her memory was not very good,” said Eleonora Shashkova.
Peter, as law enforcement officers say, confessed. The family still doesn’t believe that a man could consciously decide to do this.
Pyotr Zavyalov is now in custody. There is silence behind the ordinary wooden door of their apartment. Images from documentary film our colleagues - in fact, one of the last appearances of the bright actress on the television screen. She plays with her great-granddaughter and seems quite happy man. If it weren’t for Bella Akhmadulina’s lines, which the actress reads half-turned in front of the window.
02/03/2016, 2 days before her 80th birthday, the national actress Alexandra Zavyalova died at the hands of her own son. Few people know what's up last days she lived with her alcoholic son in poverty and conflict. The only person who supported her until her last days was her first and only official husband, artist Dmitry Buchkin.
Childhood and youth
Popular actress of the 60s Alexandra Zavyalova celebrated her birthday on February 4th. She was born in the village of Titovka, which belongs to the Sosnovsky district of Tambov. In 1958, the girl completed her studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts and got a job at the Brest Drama Theater. Over the course of the year, she successfully won the hearts of viewers, refusing to act in films. It’s not that she was completely indifferent to this type of activity, it’s just that the young actress was devoted to the theater. The recent graduate’s attitude towards filming changed the offer of film director A. Zarkhi for a role in the film “People on the Bridge”. She agreed.
Further expectations of the actress in Brest were in vain, as after this she received a new offer. In the lyrical comedy film “Alyoshkina Love” the star appeared in the role of the switchwoman Zinka. She won the heart of a timid guy, drilling geologist Alyoshka (Leonid Bykov). Being awkward and unattractive, he stubbornly sought the attention of the proud beauty. The ending of the story is the eyes of a girl glowing with love, who spent a long and difficult journey to meet him, Alyosha...
The unusually kind and bright love story aroused genuine interest from viewers and directors. Alexandra Semyonovna was at the peak of popularity. One after another, films with her participation were released: the musical drama “Wait for Letters”, the social drama “Bread and Roses”, the feature film “Weekdays and Holidays”, etc. But these films did not receive wide recognition.
Filmography of the late 50s
Alexandra’s film debut took place in the film “The Song of Koltsov,” where she immediately received the main role. The main plot of the film is based on a segment from the life of the famous Russian poet, which occurred in the 30s of the 19th century. What distinguishes him from writers is his type of employment - entrepreneurship, to which he devoted his entire life, being the successor of the family business. Alexey doted on poetry and love for the peasant woman, the heroine Zavyalova. But by the will of fate, the main characters were never able to reunite; the poet became engaged to an unloved girl, and then left the world of the living at the age of 33.
She played her next role in the dramatic film “People on the Bridge,” where she was to play the master demolition artist Lena. Her heroine was brave and beautiful, with an illegitimate son. She fell in love with the son of the bridge construction manager. This connection became the talk of the town, where the woman tried on the image of an evil genius for the Bulygin intellectuals. The end of the story - the girl sacrificed her life to save other people. After being an ambitious subversive, the actress repeatedly tried on the role of femme fatales, showing strength, attractiveness, and a kind of threat.
Creativity of the 60s
The actress was especially famous in the 60s. The role of Zinka from the musical drama “Alyoshkina Love” helped her in many ways. Then the woman worked in tandem with Leonid Bykov, whose wife was very jealous and was always with him during filming.
The reason is obvious: the actress’s face adorned not only the “Soviet Screen”, but even the American gloss “Life” (June 16, 1961). One of the rooms at the Nationals Hotel in the capital was chosen for the photo shoot. Its editors nicknamed the actress the Soviet Greta Garbo, and domestic directors offered the star only first roles. The woman also made it to the list of the most famous people USSR, awarded a photo shoot by Philippe Halsman (he previously worked with such film divas as Brigitte Bardot, Sophi Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn).
This act was very brazen even for the Khrushchev Thaw. But government officials did not react immediately. After all, the USSR sought to prove to the “rotten West” that there were beautiful actresses here too. The star’s global triumph continued with participation in the capital’s festival in 1963. It was attended by such famous personalities, like Jean Marais and Giulietta Masina.
Latest filming
As a result of Zavyalova’s close communication with emigrants, as well as the interest of foreign media, played a fatal role in the artist’s life. In the 1965s, the KGB became seriously interested in her. As a result of interrogations, the special services asked the head of Lenfilm to stop filming in domestic cinema. However, the woman did not give up without a fight and continued to work with other companies.
About personal life
The actress was in official relations only with the artist Dmitry Buchkin. She got married in '63. This was led to by a long-standing acquaintance with Dmitry, who captivated her with his beautiful courtship. The marriage produced a daughter, Tanya, and the woman stopped filming. She also had to leave the Maly Theater, where she worked in recent years.
Zavyalova attracted the attention of the public with her outstanding appearance, which played a cruel joke on her. In 1964, she went on another shoot, and during the flight she did not feel well. An American in his 50s responded to help. Offering her a glass of water, he introduced himself as Othello Ceresolli, a retired US Navy admiral. He admitted that he was flying to Odessa for work. The woman spoke briefly about herself.
An affair began between an American billionaire and a Soviet celebrity. Othello was struck by her rare beauty, Alexandra by the refined manners of a foreign admirer. Their relationship lasted for 2 weeks. The lovers wandered the streets of Odessa and visited the best restaurants. “I will take you to the USA, divorce my wife, and we will always be together!” - the boyfriend echoed day after day. And suddenly he disappeared. Not a little thing, not a couple of lines to remember... The KGB told the lover: her acquaintance was engaged in espionage, and he was quickly expelled from the country, not allowing him to say goodbye to those he knew. Later, Alexandra was put under surveillance and abruptly stopped inviting her to filming.
The woman divorced Buchkin, and her 15-year-old daughter Tatyana remained to live with her father. After this, the path to cinema was blocked, and closer to the age of 40, the woman gave birth to a son and closed herself off from the outside world.
It is important to note that after a scandalous affair with a foreigner, the woman fell in love again, and her chosen one again turned out to be a foreigner - Yugoslav Moma Kosic. He was very caring and attentive, and was ready to marry her. However, Zavyalova’s ex-husband did not allow her daughter Tatyana to be taken out of the country.
Role as a sentence
The film “Shadows Disappear at Noon,” filmed in 1971, was the thirteenth in the actress’s short career. Having taken on the role of Pistimea (Seraphim) based on the plot of A. Ivanov’s novel, she had to play one heroine in 3 age categories - a young beauty, a middle-aged woman and an old woman. For the first time, Zavyalova tried on the image of such a tough person who justifies all atrocities by religion. This was a serious test for a Christian woman.
The woman was forced to agree to the role, since every year she was losing past glory. And the new success became a triumph and a curse for the performer. She played the role of the enemy of the Soviet regime so talentedly that many had doubts: are they really good, these higher power?
The patience of the organs has come to naught. They remembered everything for her: photographs in foreign magazines, and the Moscow Film Festival, where she was the only one Soviet actress, who received an invitation to dinner at the American embassy, and an affair with the owner of the seaport. After this film, the actress no longer received invitations to film, which negatively affected her state of mind. And then she decided to give birth to a son in order to give him her unspent tenderness. After 2 years she became depressed. The woman led a secluded life and did not allow doctors from the clinic to see her son. Neighbors, concerned and puzzled by the baby’s constant screams, called the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
It soon became known that the woman was sent for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. It was rumored in the boudoirs that it was the higher powers who punished the performer Pistimea for filming in the film “Shadows Disappear at Noon.” After 2 months, the woman returned home and discovered that her home had been robbed. They took out everything that the former celebrity had managed to acquire: from leather and furs, to jewelry, souvenirs and money. There were no children either. Tanya's daughter was taken by her father, and the baby ended up in an orphanage.
Zavyalova tried for a long time to return her son, and a year later she again found herself in a hospital ward, now with the baby. There, under the influence of threats and blackmail from doctors, the woman was forced to sign an agreement to retire on disability. This was the final verdict. Petya was adopted by her ex-husband.
The incidents experienced had a negative impact on the woman’s well-being. She became embittered, withdrawn and unkempt. Alexandra Semyonovna re-read printed publications of “her time” hundreds of times. According to eyewitnesses, the woman could have suddenly pushed the stroller.
The only person she doted on was her son Peter. She praised him over trifles, showed pity and found excuses. The young man grew up lazy and spineless. After serving in the army, he could not decide on a profession and made small livings. Zavyalova’s daughter, Tatyana, believes that the whole problem is alcoholism, because Peter began drinking in high school.
In 1992, Alexandra successfully played the role of a secretary in the novel “White Clothes”, and 2 years later she was recognized as an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. In 2000, the actress gave her last interview in O. Pushkina’s program “ Women's stories", where she told the audience the whole truth about life and fate. Then she disappeared from sight again.
Murder of an Actress
According to the voluntary testimony of Alexandra Semyonovna’s 40-year-old son, the woman died at the hands of her own son at the age of 79. He was sentenced for murder while intoxicated. The investigation believes that Zavyalov, on the night of February 3, 2016, while drunk, amid another scandal, dealt a fatal blow to his mother. The events took place in house No. 6 on Gavrskaya Street.
He has been unemployed for the past 20 years. People judged him differently: sitting on his mother’s neck, wasting her meager pension. And they forgot about the main thing - that he kept the apartment in order, fed and cared for his elderly mother, even dyed her hair. Perhaps they occasionally sorted things out, but the actress’s daughter believes that mother and son loved each other.
The funeral was organized by the Union of Cinematographers. The funeral service was held for the actress at the Smolensk cemetery.
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