Two-time Olympic champion - about the difficulties of post-war childhood, friendship with the great Galina Kulakova and doping charges.

Tamara TIKHONOVA
She was born on June 13, 1964 in the village of Kovalevo, Udmurtia.
Two-time Olympic champion of the Games-88 in Calgary (20 km race, relay). Silver medalist of the Olympic Games-88 in the 5 km race.
Two-time world champion (1985, 1991). Winner of the Universiade (1987).
Winner of the World Cup stage in the biathlon relay (1992).
President of the Ski Racing Federation of Udmurtia.

With the famous skier, the leader of the women's national team of the USSR in the second half of the 1980s, we met in the building of the representative office of her native republic of Udmurtia in Moscow. Our conversation began with memories of Tamara Tikhonova's childhood, which took place in the town of Kovalevo, Kezsky district.

I was born in a small village, about 13-14 households. We had no hospital, no school, no store. I had to go to school in the neighboring village. Directly to it was about 2 kilometers, if you go along the high road - then 2.5 km. I had such a bag, like a field bag - I put it behind my back, myself for skiing, and for lessons. Then, when I got older, I got a bike.

Now you look at some of the teams: they may or may not, but they still climb. I am for the fact that each person should be in his place.

- In those days, it must have been crazy happiness?

I collected and donated pine and fir cones. With this money I bought a bicycle.

At what point did you realize that sports would become your profession?

For a long time I didn't even think about it. We just had a small village stadium outside the garden. I played football there all day long. I grew up with boys, I never sat at home. I look at modern children and it’s so pitiful: they don’t even know how to play properly! Girls come to the cross-country skiing team, you start offering them football, volleyball, basketball, but they can't. But games are coordination, that is, the basis of everything in almost any sport. It is a big mistake when coaches, starting from adolescence, crush their athletes with continuous volumes and monotonous work. Children should play, no matter what sport they play.

KULAKOVA BECAME AN OLDER SISTER TO ME

- How did it happen that four-time Olympic champion Galina Kulakova suddenly became your coach?

Galina Alekseevna at first seemed to me such a legend that I was even afraid to approach her. In 1979, at the competitions in Apatity, I only watched her in the canteen, it was scary to meet her. Already in 1981, we met by chance at the airport. And I was shocked that we were flying to the competition on the same flight. I thought that such great people Olympic champions must travel on separate aircraft. Then already during the flight we met. But they began to communicate closely a year later, at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. I lived in a room with Zinaida Amosova and Nina Paramonova, and they were very friendly with Kulakova and Smetanina. Now I was sitting in the dining room with them all at the same table. Lyuba Egorova later admitted: "I even envied you that you communicate with them!"

- Is it true that Kulakova gave you her skis?

It happened. At that time I had only one pair of skis. And at the same Spartakiad, she did not go at all. I cried a lot: it's a shame to sit at a table with such people with my results! Nina Paramonova at some point asked what was happening to me. And I admitted that I do not have suitable skis. Then Galina Alekseevna gave me her combat pair, and I showed the second result in the relay race. In the same year, she left big sport, and she gave me these skis. They are still in my house.

- Kulakova did not just give you skis, but actually became a personal trainer?

I can't say that she was my coach - I always had a coach in the national team. Galina Alekseevna became a friend, older sister, a mentor in life, if you like ... Between the training camps, she herself took me to training. She helped with all domestic issues: with obtaining an apartment, buying a car, and so on. After the Calgary Olympics, they gave me a two-room apartment. And Galina Alekseevna actually gave me one extra room: I moved into her three-room apartment, and she settled in my "kopeck piece".

- So you still live in Kulakova's apartment?

No. Apparently, the roots, the memory of village life make themselves known. For my 50th anniversary, they gave me money in the republic, and now I live on earth, in my own house. I plant a garden, run a household and get great pleasure from it.

BIATHLON WOMEN Crawled over the distance

The coach of the national team of those years, Alexander Grushin, said about you: "Toma was a classic workhorse who achieved all success through hard work." Are you ready to accept this statement?

In fact, all my indicators of strength and endurance were below average. They even wanted to kick me out of the team for this, but when the main start comes, I'm in the prizes. Of course, in terms of talent, I am far from Anfisa Reztsova, Larisa Lazutina, Lena Vyalba. These are athletes "from God". I can’t say that I worked more in training than they did - we all plowed there. If you look at the titles, they have achieved more in sports than I have. But be that as it may, two Olympic gold medals are also not bad. Grushin later even tried to analyze it and concluded that even though my level of maximum oxygen consumption was low, everything that was consumed was then processed in the body.

Prizes, salaries, of course, beckon. It is necessary to fight this. We need a scientific team that will help us competently restore athletes after competitions. And then we all train, load, but we have no idea how to restore.

- Do you remember how much you paid in prize money for the Calgary Olympics?

We had prize money, I think, was normal. We got much more than we earned ordinary people. Although, of course, this cannot be compared with what they give after the Olympics today. I do not envy anyone, I think: you deserve it - get it. It's another matter when young athletes first think about cars-apartments, and then the results. For the rest of my life I remembered the words of Raisa Petrovna Smetanina on this occasion.

- Which?

It used to be that at competitions you go for "firms" and ask: "Give me a hat, give me gloves ...". We were young, we wanted to look beautiful. And Smetanina, in a friendly way, advised: "Tomochka, never follow the" firms ". Make sure that they follow you." And when I already became an Olympic champion, I realized how right she was.

The same Grushin actually accused you of the fact that after your success in Calgary you caught a star disease and were no longer ready to work as hard as before.

Grushin and I met five years ago at Kulakova's anniversary. And then I said to his eyes: “Alexander Alekseevich, you know how to bring to the title of Olympic champion, but you don’t always know how to work further.” I think it was his mistake too. As soon as something stopped working, he immediately said: they say, you are arrogant. And we weren’t even close to being conceited, for example, what I was before Calgary, I remained like that.

- Why were you sent to the biathlon team just before the 1992 Olympics in Albertville?

I didn't want to go there. But the choice was either to completely end his career, or try his hand at biathlon. I tried it, but to be honest, it's not my thing at all. They didn’t really teach me anything, but they immediately took me to the training camp, took me to the World Cup ...

And you took ninth place at one of the stages. In modern times, this is an achievement even for an athlete who has been engaged in biathlon all her life ...

Yes, I was ninth in the Anterselva sprint, but I fell down during the race. I lost a lot at the turn, and even not only because of misses, but on the way, at the ready. After all, there was no experience, the automatism of all these movements must be worked out for years.

- In terms of speed, did you also stand out among biathletes as Anfisa Reztsova did in her time?

No offense to the biathlon girls, but at first they just crawled along the distance. We sometimes held joint training camps, the difference was huge. When Reztsova came to biathlon, she made a revolution. The speeds have grown very much, and already when I crossed, many athletes there knew how to run and shoot. I did not want to take someone's place in the team. Now you look at some of the teams: they may or may not, but they still climb. I am for the fact that each person should be in his place. If I felt that biathlon was not mine, I left.

Anfisa REZTSOVA. Photo by Alexey IVANOV, "SE"

OUR TEAM HAVE NOT RECENTLY HAVE A DOCTOR

- How do you feel about Reztsova's confession of doping?

You need to know Anfisa. She has such a character as she says - so at least stand, at least fall. I take it the way it is. She is a strong athlete Strong woman, mother. For this I respect and love Reztsova very much.

- But if she used doping, it turns out that with the help of prohibited substances she beat you, too?

I never judge anyone. Anfisa talked a lot about me, even if I don’t hold grudges. She, apparently, cannot forgive in any way that I won the 20 km distance at the Calgary Olympics. And then, to be honest, I was glad not even so much that I won Olympic Games, how much to the fact that she beat Reztsova.

How do you feel about the activity of another ex girlfriend on the team - Elena Vyalbe - as the head of the Russian Ski Racing Federation?

I admire Lena. If I am modest by nature, I am afraid of everything, I am shy, then Lena boldly goes forward. Life hits her on the head: either there are no results, or all these doping - but she still does not stop. No mistakes anywhere, but as they say, only those who do nothing at all do not make mistakes. I think the victories of Sergei Ustyugov this year, at a time when few people believed in them, is a gift for Lena too. Reward for all her suffering.

Biathlon, at first glance, is more attractive than skiing. But he gets bored. When you switch to skiing after it, they seem much more interesting. It’s also a shame: Dmitry Guberniev advertises biathlon in this way, but there are no results there, it’s getting worse and worse.

What do you think about doping accusations against Russian skiers, in particular, your countryman Maxim Vylegzhanin?

It's hard for me to judge, because I don't know many things from inside the team. But all this does not fit in my head. Why if a person took a sample immediately after the race, positive result pops up only after many years? Where could the scratches on the jar come from if the athlete closed it, handed it over to the inspector and generally didn’t see it again? I want to believe that the guys are clean. I see how Maxim is training, he is a real hard worker. I hope that he, along with the rest, will be acquitted.

You worked as a coach, now you are the head of the regional cross-country skiing federation. How common is doping in Russian junior and youth sports?

Prizes, salaries, of course, beckon. It is necessary to fight this. We need a scientific team that will help us competently restore athletes after competitions. And then we all train, load, but we have no idea how to restore. Until recently, we did not even have a doctor in the Republican team. Only recently a physiologist appeared. We work blindly, we don’t take cardiograms, nothing ...

World Championship medalist Natalya Matveeva said that until she got into the group with the German coach Markus Kramer, even at the level of the main team they didn’t even take a lactate test from her finger to check the state of the body ....

Even in my time, we took biochemistry! And now it is not. Everything is done by eye, on a whim. But people from such regional teams as ours come to the main team.

- Do you believe in the "purity" of Norwegian skiers?

Norwegians are strong because they know how to protect their athletes. I don't think they are asthmatics. But since Teresa Yohaug got caught, it means that something is changing. On the other hand, not caught - not a thief. We cannot know anything for certain.

- In your life there were both cross-country skiing and biathlon. What sport do you like to watch on TV now?

Biathlon, at first glance, is more attractive. But he gets bored. When you switch to skiing after it, they seem much more interesting. It’s also a shame: Dmitry Guberniev advertises biathlon in this way, but there are no results there, it’s getting worse and worse. And skis show little, although the results are growing.

- New formats of cross-country skiing - sprints, multi-days - do you like it?

It is very interesting to watch them. But I agree with Raya Smetanina, who once said: "Tomochka, it's good that in our time all this did not exist!" I am by no means a sprinter. And in children's sports in general, the sprint competition would be canceled. If a child reaches the final, it turns out that he competes all day, from morning to evening. And the next day he has another race. All this emasculates the body.

On December 23-24, Izhevsk will host the Galina Kulakova International Ski Marathon. Can we expect you among the participants?

No, only as a guest of honor! Competition for me is a closed topic. Although I ride for myself, but not enough. I'm kicking myself, I need more. Laziness is taking over...

The popularity of this actor cannot be overestimated. Fans idolized him, letters from girls from all over Soviet Union brought in bags to Mosfilm. But the actor was honest not only on the screen, he was honest in his personal life. Vyacheslav Tikhonov honored three women with his attention in his entire life. One became his first and unsteady love, the second burned him with her passion, and the third gave him the long-awaited family comfort and peace.

First love

Yulia Alekseevna is already in adulthood she said that their acquaintance happened at a dance in the club of Pavlovsky Posad, where they lived. Tikhonov, an eighth-grader, drew attention to a pretty girl, invited her to dance, and then escorted her home.

Vyacheslav studied with full diligence and dedication. He sometimes saw Yulia when he went to Pavlovsky Posad. Everything changed when Sergey Gerasimov invited him to star in the film "Young Guard".

Ardent Cossack

Vyacheslav Tikhonov, "Young Guard". / Photo: www.clubbeautiful.ru

Mordyukova and Tikhonov did not communicate with each other for almost half a century, only at the end of their lives they were able to overcome their grievances and forgive each other.

Family happiness

Tamara Ivanovna was married at that time, but she could not control her feelings. For the sake of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, she filed for divorce and in 1969 became the wife of the actor.

The first wife of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, never remarried.

And now, after three and a half years on the grave

Vyacheslav TIKHONOVA on Novodevichy cemetery the long-awaited tombstone appeared.

The grand opening to the tune of "Seventeen Moments of Spring" and in the presence of relatives and colleagues of the deceased took place on the last day of spring 2013.

Author of the monument, sculptor Alexey Blagovestny, is not the first time creates amazing monuments to famous people.

This time the artist depicted his hero, the favorite of millions of viewers Tikhonov, in his most recognizable role - Stirlitz.

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And behind the figure of the legendary actor (its height is 185 cm) there is a relief based on the famous story “The Adoration of the Magi”, which depicts three dozen biblical characters, the central of which are the Mother of God with the Child.

Vyacheslav Vasilyevich in the image Soviet spy, as if coming out to meet us, fans, from the famous painting Leonardo da Vinci.

The sculptural composition was cast in Italy and, according to Blagovestny, it cost a round sum - 5 million rubles.
At the opening ceremony, the daughter of the late actor thanked Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Mashkov and sponsors for their help in erecting a monument to my father.

Daughter of Vyacheslav TIKHONOV, Anna

Apart from Anna Tikhonova her mother, the widow of the actor Tamara Ivanovna, came to the Novodevichy cemetery.

She does not feel well, walks leaning on a stick and cannot stand for a long time. Therefore, for elderly woman prepared a place of honor right in front of the monument, where she could watch what was happening.

Widow Vyacheslav TIKHONOVA Tamara Ivanovna with her grandchildren Slava (in the foreground) and Gosha

The widow was surrounded by relatives - twin grandchildren Slava and Gosha, son-in-law - director Nikolay Voronovsky, as well as relatives of Tikhonov from Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow, where he was born and grew up.

Actress Eleonora SHASHKOVA was remembered for her role as Stirlitz's wife in the television series "Seventeen Moments of Spring"

Many colleagues of Vyacheslav Vasilyevich also came, including actors Larisa Luzhina, Vladimir Konkin, Eleonora Shashkova, Viktor Rakov, Anatoly Yabbarov, Semyon Morozov, Sergey Nikolaev, Natalia Drozhzhina, director Gennady Poloka, poet Andrey Dementiev.

Almost all of them shared touching memories of the wonderful master.

The Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky, who also considered it his duty to come that day to Novodevichy, in his speech said that the images created by Vyacheslav Vasilyevich are images-symbols of the Soviet Union and Russia.

- The monument to Tikhonov is a small material confirmation of the immortality of the beloved actor, - the minister summed up and added, - I want people to come to his grave, talk here with Vyacheslav Vasilyevich.

Olga GOBZEVA, former actress, now a nun

Son-in-law of Vyacheslav TIKHONOV Nikolay VORONOVSKY with sons Slava and Gosha

The widow of the People's Artist Tamara TIKHONOVA

Vyacheslav Vasilievich last years led a secluded life, because he had no one to be friends with.

Best friend and beloved director Stanislav Rostotsky (he shot Tikhonov in many of his films), close comrades-colleagues Yuri Nikulin, Nikolai Kryuchkov died.

And it's hard to find new friends in old age.

Tikhonov lived in a fertile place - in Nikolina Gora.

Here he built a red brick house - exactly the same as Stirlitz's in the film.

When friends were alive, he often and with pleasure went fishing with them.

He was accompanied by the dog Styopka - a mongrel mongrel was thrown to Tikhonov as a puppy.

At the dacha. 2009

But about a year ago, trouble happened with a four-legged friend.

The dog disappeared, and after a while someone threw Vyacheslav Vasilyevich his collar.

Alone, the actor stopped leaving the house altogether.

Whiled away the days in front of the TV, slowly drank.

Often reviewed his work in the cinema.

Tikhonov could not come to terms with the fact that life was coming to an end.

When Vyacheslav Tikhonov was already 40 years old, he married a second time.

His chosen one was the 25-year-old teacher Tamara.

With wife Tamara

They met while working on the French film "Man and Woman", where the actor voiced the role of the main character, and Tamara Ivanovna was at that time a French teacher at the Institute international relations- Helped with translation.

The girl was married, but for the sake of Vyacheslav she broke up with her husband.

Soon in new family daughter Anya was born.

Tamara Ivanovna so tormented Tikhonov with her jealousy that in the end the couple divided the house in half and lived like that until Tikhonov's death: Vyacheslav Vasilyevich in one half, Tamara in the other.

Vyacheslav Vasilievich stopped wearing wedding ring, and Tamara Ivanovna said that Tikhonov ruined her life.

To calm her nerves, she began to drink heavily and attempted suicide several times.

Tikhonov's daughter Anya lived in the Moscow apartment of her parents, but in order to control her mother, she often began to visit the suburbs.

Tikhonov was happy - so he could see his tiny grandchildren - twins Slavik and Gosha.

They said that Vyacheslav Vasilyevich even had to meet with his son Volodya from his first marriage in the garage.

son Vladimir

When Volodya died of a drug overdose (he was only 40 years old), Tikhonov tried to help his son's second wife and his grandson.

But the actor's wife and daughter quickly stopped his noble impulse and forbade him to communicate with "former" relatives.

The wife and daughter made Tikhonov unhappy.

It's sad, but there was no one to cry at Tikhonov's coffin.

By the end of his life, he had only two close people - his wife Tamara and daughter Anna.

These two women made up all Tikhonov's happiness and all his punishment.

Few people know that the hero on the screen, a handsome man, self-sufficient and independent, in ordinary life Tikhonov was a very gentle and helpless person.

It was this “spinelessness” of his that once pushed Nonna Mordyukova, his first wife, away from him.

The Don Cossack Mordyukova herself was a woman of hot temper and just twisted ropes out of him, trying to stir him up.

Tikhonov's patience ended only when he caught his wife Nonna with her lover.

And when Tikhonov slammed the door, Mordyukova was even delighted:

“Well, finally, at least some emotion!”

Their son Volodya was then 13 years old, and despite the separation of his parents, he received the full love of both parents.

True, she did not save him from a tragic death.

From the age of 18, Volodya Tikhonov became addicted to drugs.

To rid my son of an addiction, and Tikhonov, and Mordyukova all the time they patronized the guy for different roles.

in the film "Russian Field"

Volodya resisted, but played.

Soon Volodya fell in love with the actress Natalya Varley, having seen her brilliant performance in The Prisoner of the Caucasus, they got married and gave birth to Tikhonov's grandson Vasily.

But soon divorced...

Vyacheslav Tikhonov always coordinated all his roles with his wife, reported on each scene with a hint of love.

Tamara Tikhonova was literally obsessed with jealousy!

Gina Lollobrigida and Oleg Vidov

Perhaps due to a difficult relationship with his wife, with age, Vyacheslav Vasilyevich began to act less and less.

And then it stopped completely.

In old age, the wife's jealousy became pathological.

Tamara Ivanovna literally "was on duty" on the phone.

If Tikhonov was asked by a female voice, she threw a tantrum.

Most of all got from Tamara Tikhonova to young journalists.

“I remember how everyone was surprised that Tikhonov was not at Nonna’s funeral,” says Nonna Mordyukova’s sister Natalia.

- Even then I thought - God be his judge.

But then I remembered his crazy Tamara.

She probably didn't let him in.

Because Slava Nonnochka himself respected, and after all, they were not strangers.

And his wife even forbade them to communicate on the phone.

The moment came when it became clear - you can make good money on the actor Tikhonov.

daughter Anna

Anna and her husband organized a small film studio, where they began to make films with the participation of Vyacheslav Vasilyevich.

Anna managed her father's affairs, refusing to give interviews to all film companies and TV channels.

By the 80th anniversary of her father, she let him in only one channel - "First", and then for a huge fee.

Konstantin Ernst personally paid 15 thousand dollars for the shooting from his own pocket! Naturally, Tikhonov did not receive a penny of this money.

On the same anniversary, the sponsors of the festive evening at the Cinema House presented the great actor with a luxurious car.

But he never rode it either.

Anya unfolded good business in the name of the father.

With this money, she supports her family and pumps her mother out of hard drinking.

And as for the wishes of Vyacheslav Vasilyevich himself, few people considered them

The will of the deceased was never fulfilled.

Firstly, Tikhonov was against the funeral service in the temple.

But Anna Tikhonova desperately beat out posthumous honors to her father - and Tikhonov was buried already in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Well, he's no worse than Zykina and Rostropovich!

Another wish of the deceased was also violated.

Vyacheslav Vasilievich personally wrote in his will that he wanted to be buried in the same grave with his son Volodya at the Kuntsevo cemetery.

His first wife, Nonna Mordyukova, also rests there.

But here, too, the jealous daughter and wife acted as they pleased.

Tikhonov's body was interred at the Novodevichy Cemetery, next to Oleg Yankovsky.

Immediately, in the neighborhood, Tamara Tikhonova bought a place for her future grave.

Only in one thing was the great Tikhonov happy - a couple of years before his death, Vyacheslav Vasilyevich again found the meaning of life.

After 50 years of separation, he found his first love Yulia.

It was still on small homeland Tikhonov - in Pavlovsky Posad.

Tenth-grader Slava fell in love with nine-grader Yulia Rossiyskaya at a dance.

The young were even going to get married, but Tikhonov went to study in Moscow.

Already married to Mordyukova, he often wandered to Pavlovsky Posad to Yulia.

Gradually, life separated them.

But Tikhonov could not forget this girl all his life.

In old age, he tried to find her himself, but in vain.

Then he turned to his daughter's husband Nikolai.

Yulia Rossiiskaya remembers very well that evening when the bell rang and such a familiar and familiar voice sounded in the receiver:

"Julia, it's me, Slava."

They found each other after almost 50 years of separation.

Of course, Tikhonov spoke with her furtively.

And he called only when his wife was not at home.

But these conversations were an outlet for him.

At 81, Tikhonov realized that all his life he loved only her, that girl from the past.

She and Yulia were all going to meet, but either one had a sore, or the other.

It's been three years since he died famous actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov. All these years his widowTamara Tikhonova refused to be interviewed. But now she agreed to dispel all the rumors that circulated about her before. In addition, she believes that her husband, a great actor, is now undeservedly rarely remembered. " "

On the threshold of a three-room apartment in the area of ​​​​Gogolevsky Boulevard, we were met by a neat, not yet old woman. Tamara Ivanovna smiled affably. She invited me to go into the room and went after me, leaning on a crutch. Thirteen years ago, Tamara Ivanovna broke her femoral neck, and since then she has been disabled.

That is why I didn’t go anywhere during the life of Vyacheslav Vasilyevich, ”she explained. - Neither at his seventieth birthday nor at his eightieth I was not. Because of this, there were gossips about me. Someone said that I was drunk, someone said that I was a drug addict ... God knows what they said. In fact, I just can't leave the house due to a severe leg injury! Now I'm quite lonely. Sometimes I have no other interlocutor, except for the portrait of my husband, which hangs in the apartment. I am talking with him. So when you asked: “How are you?” I was very surprised. None of my husband's former colleagues have asked me about this since Vyacheslav Vasilyevich died. Nobody ever called.

It turns out that they already consider me almost an 80-year-old grandmother, and I am only sixty-seven years old. Some even think that I died a long time ago.

In the apartment where Tamara Ivanovna invited me, the family Tikhonov lives for many years. Here, according to the widow, and now everything is the same as during the life of her husband - neatly, but modestly. In the hallway there is a huge panel depicting Vyacheslav Tikhonov- a gift from fans, in the kitchen - dried roses - the last bouquet that the actor gave to his wife. No luxury. Tikhonov often appeared in the offices of the chiefs to ask for something, but not for himself, but for others. Now, unfortunately, many of those for whom Vyacheslav Vasilyevich tried, forgot about it.

The funeral of her husband was poorly organized, there were not very many people, I generally keep quiet about my colleagues! - Tikhonova is indignant. - Such a callous, indifferent attitude just amazes me. Of course, during his heyday, people worshiped him, called him, we even got tired of this attention. But in the last years of his life this was no longer the case.

He has always helped people, including famous ones, who have now achieved a lot. It is impossible to list all! But some of them now say: “But I don’t remember him helping me!” But I remember well! I'm not talking about the attitude towards me ... Vyacheslav Vasilyevich told me: "Tamara, as for health, medicines, treatment, you will always have everything." He believed that they would not leave me, he believed in a good attitude, he thought that, out of respect for him, they would not forget me either. And it turned out, as it is now fashionable to say, "threw" the old woman.

Tamara Ivanovna shows me a letter she received from the presidential polyclinic. The letter says that she can no longer be served there. And next to it lies a piece of paper listing all Tikhonova's diagnoses. They do not fit on one sheet - asthma, heart disease and those associated with a leg injury ...

I really need help, I need good medical care! Tikhonov says. - And instead they call me from the clinic and say: “Your husband died. We're deregistering you!" But there is a decree, which says that after the death of the Hero of Socialist Labor, the widow has the right to special, extraordinary medical care. I'm not talking about him National artist THE USSR! This is disrespectful to his memory. I'm still not some fan, but a woman who lived with him in a legal marriage for 42 years. And they just took me and threw me out! This concerns not only me. This applies to all unfortunate people of retirement age. And the disabled - what can I say! If my legs could walk ... Yes, I would consider myself the most happy man.

Tamara Ivanovna does not hide: if her husband had not left a small inheritance, then the family would have had a very difficult time. Both her and her daughters and grandchildren.

- Tikhonov received a three-room apartment for his daughter in good area she says. - But Anya and her husband prefer to live in the country. I live only on my pension, I try not to burden my daughter. After all, she has two six-year-old sons in her arms, who will soon go to school, and so much is needed for this!

She is an actress by profession, but now she is not acting. I do not know why. I watch these endless series, they star in mediocre actresses. And Anya has an old, Soviet upbringing, she does not run around auditions, she does not like to ask for herself. Once she was offered a role, but there it was necessary for the actress to lie down in a coffin, Anya did not want to. She refused once, twice, they stopped calling her. Now, after all, they love trouble-free actresses who will lie in the coffin, and in bed, and anywhere. By the way, Vyacheslav Vasilievich often watched TV, switched channels all the time. Once I asked him why he does it. And he replied that he was looking for talented young faces. Of all, he singled out then still a beginner Maxim Averin and said: “This actor has a great future!” And so it happened.

Now about Tikhonov if they show stories, it is only in connection with his relationship with Nonna Mordyukova. Both Nonna's sisters and her daughter-in-law give interviews on this topic. I don’t know why it would be, - Tamara Ivanovna is surprised. - I find it funny when Mordyukov called "Tikhonov's only love" and they say that we were at enmity with her. This is wrong. We had a good relationship. When she called and conveyed something to Vyacheslav Vasilyevich, I always fulfilled her requests. True, it was not something personal, but always concerned the son. I never insulted her, respected her as an actress.

The version that Tamara Ivanovna did not give Vyacheslav Tikhonov communicate with his son Volodya (who was born in marriage with Mordyukova and died at the age of 40 from drugs. - A.P.), appeared a long time ago. Nonna Viktorovna herself even wrote about this in her memoirs. But Tamara Tikhonova says that this is not true.

Lord, yes, Volodya spent the night with me on this sofa! she shows. Of course he drank. But in general he was a good, well-mannered guy, if sober. Vyacheslav Vasilyevich tried to influence his way of life, he talked with his son more than once. But what's the point of talking if he's already bogged down in it? It's a disease! If his mother did not take care of him in childhood, childhood was a nightmare, so he grew up like that. Volodya sometimes came, asked for money, and I gave. The husband did not approve of this, he said: “He doesn’t spend it on what he asks for!” And, oddly enough, I was the first to know about Volodya's death and was forced to tell my husband about it. And further preparations for the funeral went through me, because he did not want to Mordyukova communicate directly. She asked for a certain amount of money and we donated the money for the funeral through our friend. And he left the funeral, did not go to the wake. We had our wake, right here, in this apartment.

In general, Tamara Ivanovna recalls the joint years spent with Vyacheslav Vasilyevich with tenderness. Despite the fact that there was a sixteen-year age difference between them, they understood each other well and created a family very quickly. for the sake of Tikhonov Tamara Ivanovna even refused the groom.

When I got out Tikhonov married, I was 24 years old, she says. - I am a Muscovite, I was born on the Arbat. We lived opposite the Vakhtangov Theatre, many people lived in the alleys nearby. famous artists this theatre. But my parents are ordinary employees who once came from the countryside to conquer Moscow. I graduated from Moscow State University and went to teach at school, although I was assigned to the Ministry of foreign trade. I was just preparing to leave for France, I had a French fiancé. They even got a marriage license. The meeting with Vyacheslav Vasilyevich disrupted these plans. Our romance developed very quickly, and I moved in with him before the wedding - I never suffered from prejudices. A year later, my daughter Anya was born, but for many years I periodically worked as a translator.

Surprisingly, Michel, that was the name of Tamara Ivanovna's fiancé, was not offended by her and still maintains a relationship with his runaway bride.

Michel came to Moscow several more times, we met with him, ”says Tikhonova. And when he found out that Tikhonov died, then through friends he conveyed to me words of condolences. By the way, Michel also has two twin granddaughters, and I have twin grandchildren - Slava and Gosha. And now we dream of introducing them.

Tamara Ivanovna believes that without her wise attitude to fantastic fame Tikhonov their marriage would not last long.

I have never been jealous of Vyacheslav Vasilievich, I was calm about his fans. I knew that he wanted family comfort. He always went to the shooting without pleasure. From filming, he often called, asked how I was, how my daughter was. And when they ended, he immediately hurried home. He said: “I have already lived one bad family life, and therefore now the main thing for me is home, family. I was not jealous, but my husband was very jealous. True, now I remember these moments with humor. But memories alone, unfortunately, cannot be lived. Although I can not say that I do not want to live. I still want to live! But I'll have to do it without my beloved husband.

Reference

Vyacheslav Tikhonov was born on February 8, 1928 in the city of Pavlovsky Posad in working family, received the profession of a turner, worked at the factory. The dream of becoming an actor led him to VGIK, where he met his first wife, Nonna Mordyukova, with whom they lived for 13 years.

Glory to Tikhonov was brought by the films “It was in Penkovo”, “On seven winds”, “War and Peace”, “We'll Live Until Monday”. In 1973, the actor starred in the film "Seventeen Moments of Spring" as a scout Stirlitz and became famous. last role Tikhonov played in 2001 in Eldar Ryazanov's film Andersen. Life without love."

In 2002, the actor suffered a heart attack, and in subsequent years he went to the hospital several times with various diseases. On December 4, 2009, Tikhonov died while in intensive care.