March 22, 2025
A 85-year-old actress died in Moscow. Larisa Golubkina. The legendary Shurochka Azarova from the "Hussar Ballad".
I have no time for love! I must serve!
She was born in 1940 in Moscow. Her father was a military man who served in the Great Patriotic War. Her mother was a dressmaker.
My parents lived by the principle that it's awkward to show off. And they instilled that in me.
And all my life I have doubts: am I an artist or not?
She dreamed of becoming an opera singer. In 1959, she graduated from the Moscow Music and Pedagogical College. In 1964, she graduated from the musical comedy department of GITIS.
While still a student, she made her film debut in the role of 17-year-old Shurochka Azarova in the comedy Eldara Ryazanova "The Hussar's Ballad." The film was seen by 49 million people in its six-month run, and 22-year-old Golubkina and her partner performed a duet Yuri Yakovlev became famous throughout the Union.
The film defined my path. I didn't have to strain myself.
The prototype of her heroine (according to one version) was a real woman Nadezhda Durova - She entered the service as a cavalryman and, with the permission of the emperor Alexander I, made a military career by posing as a man. Although the author of the play "Long Ago" Alexander Gladkov, on which the film was based, claimed that the plot was largely fictional.
Golubkina performed all the vocal parts and some of the stunts herself (she sprained her ankle during a jump from the mezzanine). However, after the premiere, critics praised her for her "flexibility, vivacity, and temperament" and noted that, despite her hussar uniform, her cornet portrayal exuded "all-conquering femininity."
She starred in other films: “Give Me the Complaint Book” (the role of the director of the restaurant “Dandelion”), the film epic “Liberation” (nurse Zoya), “Three Men in a Boat” (Anne), “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” (the queen).
She also played on the stage of the Central Academic Theatre of the Soviet Army.
In 1977, she received a special prize at an international festival in Poland for her role as Eliza Doolittle in Larisa Golubkina's Benefit, filmed by Ginzburg based on the play Pygmalion. Bernard Shaw.
She performed on stage, singing songs Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet composers and old Russian romances.
In the 1970s and 1980s, she toured the USSR with her husband. Andrey Mironov, became famous as a performer of romance.
A man must be charismatic, serious, thorough, and able to "answer his own questions." And in civilian life, he must be a true warrior. That's the whole secret.
Whatever you do, whatever you are, you are the one who should give in [to your husband]
A girl should be raised to be feminine, gentle, and wisely obedient. We've let women fly free these days, and that's why so many families fall apart. It's no surprise to me that men who are "stubborn and rebellious" start cheating on them. A woman should be charming, attractive, and a bit mysterious. That's her weapon.
After Mironov's death in 1987, she continued to perform, but began to lead a more reclusive life.
The less information about a person, the more attractive he is.
She was a TV presenter for "Morning Mail" and "ArtLoto", and in the 2000s she participated in the programs "Dancing with the Stars" and "Toch-v-Toch".
In 2014, at 74, she was diagnosed with blood cancer. The actress moved to a Moscow boarding house but continued to work in the theater. One of her last productions was the one-woman show "Larisa Golubkina. Patches."
When you play someone else, everything seems artificial and fake to me. Drama is a spiritual undressing, a kind of striptease, and I can't bare myself too much anymore, either literally or figuratively.
In the last year of her life, she used a wheelchair and lived in a hospice—by that time, her cancer had been complicated by hip fractures and Parkinson's disease.
After the start, SVO refrained from making harsh statements about colleagues who had left Russia.
It would be too easy to strictly divide everyone into traitors and patriots.
Her daughter, actress and TV presenter Maria Golubkina, She also did not condemn the emigrants and said that she did not want to leave Russia because of “love for her native ashes, love for her father’s graves” (a quote from Pushkin’s poem).