Valentina Titova, an actress. Biography. Films

Valentina Titova is an actress of theater and cinema, who for fourteen years was the faithful wife of her husband - the famous director and actor of the USSR Vladimir Pavlovich Basov. Acting career became Valentina's destiny absolutely by accident, the girl was not going to associate her life with the cinema, however, fate decreed otherwise.

Biography

Born future actress in the Moscow region, in the city of Korolev, in February 1942. However, the childhood and youth of the girl passed in Sverdlovsk. Her family was evacuated to this city during the Great Patriotic War. In school years, Valya was fond of studying in a drama club at the city House of Culture. And these studies allowed the girl to play small roles in the Theater of the Young Spectator.

Valentina received her theater education at the Sverdlovsk Theater School. She gave the study two years. And then I got into the studio at the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Gorky in Leningrad at the course of George Tovstonogov. And purely by chance, thanks to his girlfriend. As the actress admits in some interviews, the set was on the course, and her friend suggested that Valya take a chance. The actress claims that she herself would not dare to take such a brave step, because she always looked at the people of art as something divine, from the bottom up, believing that she had no right to such impudence. So Titova was in Leningrad.

Fate could throw the future actress and the capital of the USSR - Moscow. The girl was going to be transferred to a Moscow high school at that time - the reason for this was Valentina Titova's personal life - and only by a miracle she stayed in Leningrad. In 1964, Titova successfully completed her studies.

Acquaintance with Basov

Young, 22-year-old beauty Valentina was in love. Her favorite person was in Moscow and it was an actor Vyacheslav Shalevich. As the actress tells, at that time she was experiencing crazy feelings, bright, passionate. Young people wrote letters to each other and came to visit each other. However, they could not be together - Shalevich had a family and a small child.

Somewhere in the depths of her soul, Valentina understood that this relationship has no future, and in her mind realized that it was time to stop everything. At the right time, the director Basov appeared on the path of the actress. They met in one of Valentine's visits to Moscow - the director was just looking for an actress for filming in Blizzard. Seeing the young beauty, he recklessly, immediately invited her hands and heart. By the way, it was with "Snowstorm" that the filmography of Valentina Titova began.

As Valentine admits, at first it looked stupid, incomprehensible. She did not even take this proposal seriously. However, after reflection, I realized that the choice between an adult man proposing serious intentions and a young man who has nothing to offer, except for the illusion of relations, is not a choice. Everything is obvious ...

Marriage

Valentine accepted Basov's proposal. They began to live together. And soon the light appeared their first-born son Sasha. However, these men and women have not yet been legally married. Basov was a genius, an incredibly talented director, and a man with an attractive strong character. In the work he was not equal, however, in everyday life he was like a child. Encouraged at first with his feelings, Vladimir Pavlovich was ready to do anything to ensure that Valya responded positively to his proposal. Having received an affirmative answer, he immediately forgot about his intentions. Postponed the marriage in a long box. But he remembered his promise to marry, only when the actress in one of the family verbal skirmishes stated that she does not need marriage. This caught Basov. Registration of their marriage, however, was skommed, at the steps of the registry office. Valentina at first did not even understand what was happening. They went to register a newborn son, and they were quickly painted in an absolutely uninhibited atmosphere. Basov agreed on everything in advance.

Family life

Talking about her family life, Titova says: "In order to be an ideal wife, you need a daily and exhausting work on yourself and over relationships." To live with a talented person, with a genius, which, according to the woman, was her husband is an arhisome task. To coexist under one roof to two strong characters is very difficult, and the spouse of a talented person must be the shadow of her husband, his reflection. Only then such a marriage will be happy. This is exactly what Valentina Titova thinks.

The biography of her interpersonal relations with Basov could not stand the test of strength. Two strong characters are always two different poles, two different opinions. In their family relations was everything. Both good and bad. But living with a talented director is not easy. He is absolutely not adapted to life, all problems and tasks on the house lay on the shoulders of his young wife. Cooking; parenting; The presence in the house of foreign strangers who needed to be fed; Foodstuffs that constantly had to walk around and which melted like snow in the refrigerator - Valentina decided all these tasks on a daily basis.

In addition, the frequent change of moods and depressive states of the husband, if something was not going well in business - another burden, which Valya regularly carried - it was necessary to constantly restore balance and harmony of the internal state of the spouse. And it took a lot of energy. Soon a second child, a daughter, appeared in the family, and another responsibility fell on Titov's shoulders.

Divorce with husband

Family life at some point brought Valentina Titov to exhaustion - moral and physical. She was very thin, looked, in her own words, awful, with huge bruises under her eyes. And when I got to the hospital with oncology - I realized that this can not continue any more. Urgently need to change something in your life, otherwise it will be the beginning of the end. In her own words, she was a good wife - she served her husband, because this is the norm of female being. But it's time to start to treat yourself well.

Valentina Titova made a difficult decision for herself. She left Basova. It was a difficult period for her. Without a permanent job, without own housing, without a penny to the soul - God alone knew what was happening in her soul.

According to the court's decision, both the son and daughter of Titov and Basov stayed with their father. His financial position at that time was more profitable - he was a secured and sought-after director - so there was nothing to even try to change something.

Basov did not forgive his wife a divorce. Previously, the filmography of Valentina Titova consisted of paintings, directed by her own husband - Vladimir Pavlovich. After the divorce, almost all directors refused to work with her.

Children

Titova and Basov divorced when their children were teenagers: son Alexander was 14 years old, daughter Elizabeth - 8 years old. Relationships of children with my mother were not easy. At first they did not meet with each other, and communicated only by phone. According to Valentina, the children were being set up against her, and the woman was worth enormous efforts to gradually re-conquer the trust and love of her son and daughter step by step.

Many years have passed since that time. And the emotional wounds did not fully last. In the memories of the son of Alexander between the lines read offense to my mother. The man believes that she betrayed her father and had no right to do so. The son is difficult to fully understand and accept that this was the only way for mom to survive and save herself.

The daughter of Elizabeth and her mother are closer, although they are rarely seen. A young woman lives in Greece. But when she comes home with her daughter (granddaughter Valentina Titova) - all three get together and spend hours enjoying each other's company.

After the divorce from Basov time passed. Valentina Antipovna got married for the second time. Her chosen one was cameraman Georgy Ivanovich Rerberg. Together they lived 20 years.

About love

Recalling in conversations about past years and her experience in family life, Titova says that life has taught her a lot. Once upon a time, when she married Basov, Valentina was an innocent girl who did not know the woman's tricks. Today, as she claims, she knows all the secrets.

In the theory of Valentina Antipovna, women's destiny is to serve their husbands. And the ideal wife is one that for the sake of her husband is ready to forget about herself. According to Titova, any marriage is a marriage of convenience, because even in case of sympathy at the first meeting, people evaluate each other and try on a partner-whether or not.

The most important rule that Titova advises to remember to all wives is simply simple. You just need to make it so that the husband, coming from work, got into the home atmosphere and did not remember until tomorrow about work matters. Do not ask him about anything, you just have to disappear for an hour from his field of vision, feeding him dinner - and wait for time. Valentina Antipovna claims that this method works 100%. Just have to be a cat on soft paws, you can not beat your forehead.

What is Titov today?

Valentina Titova is an actress who is interesting not only for her beauty, but also for her inner content. She is a very logical and convincing person, who knows her own worth and is versed in people and in life. Wise, understanding, today she lives alone. And rejoices in this. The actress says that at last she can do what she pleases. She owes nothing to anyone; In her house thunder and lightning ceased to rumble; The woman is her own mistress. She very much appreciates her freedom and lives every day consciously, not understanding tearful complaints about the lives of her friends.

And Valentina Titova has no friends. She says that they never were. Sooner or later everyone betrayed her. Betrayed out of envy, out of meanness, for various reasons. And envy, above all, incredible beauty.

Valentina Titova believes that beauty is not a gift, but a severe test for a woman, because in any situation to her - prejudice. How ridiculous and absurd it may sound.

Looking back on her life, the woman shares that she lived a difficult life. There was everything. However, life has developed. There are children, there is a granddaughter, behind more than eighty roles played in the cinema. She gave the theater 22 years of life (the house for Valentina Titova was the Theater-Studio actor in Moscow). But she knows that in any case there are people who are much harder and it's always worth remembering when you want to ponet and feel sorry for yourself.