Happy native cinema: the last applause for Larisa Golubkina was heard in Moscow

On August 25, a farewell ceremony was held in Moscow for People's Artist of the RSFSR Larisa Golubkina. The actress died on March 22 at the age of 86. Relatives and colleagues of the actress, including Maria Mironova, Andrey Malakhov, Vera Alentova, Ekaterina and Alexander Strizhenov, came to the ceremony at St. Nicholas Church on Three Mountains. For more information, see the Izvestia report.

"She was 18 all the time"

Since the morning of March 25, the Church of St. Nicholas on Three Mountains in Moscow has been crowded — on this day People said goodbye to People's Artist of the RSFSR Larisa Golubkina. Several dozen journalists gathered outside, with armfuls of flowers, relatives and friends of the actress gathered for the ceremony. Andrey Malakhov was one of the first to appear with a bouquet of red carnations. On the day Larisa Golubkina died, he was the first to report the incident on his blog.

"Half an hour ago, the news came that my friend, the star of The Hussar Ballad, the magnificent actress Larisa Golubkina, passed away...," Andrei Malakhov wrote on March 22.

It was the role of cornet Shurochka Azarova in Eldar Ryazanov's 1962 comedy "The Hussar Ballad" based on Alexander Gladkov's play "Once upon a Time" that became Golubkina's film debut and brought her national fame. TV presenter Alla Dovlatova, who also came to say goodbye to the national favorite, recalled that it was in this film that she first saw Larisa Ivanovna, whom she later met personally.

— She was always smiling, she was always very radiant, loving this life. It's hard to meet such a positive person yet. I first saw her in The Hussar Ballad. And we met when she was already an adult woman, just like me. I was surprised at the time because she was exactly the same as on the screen. I think she was 18 all her life," said Alla Dovlatova.

"She was demanding of her partners — she had the right to be so"

Honored Artist of Russia Tatiana Konstantinova also attended the ceremony. She directed the play "The Hussar Ballad" at the Army Theater, to which Larisa Golubkina gave 60 years.

— We saw each other before I started playing The Hussar Ballad. It was very interesting for her to get to the premiere, but unfortunately that didn't happen anymore. But I told her everything. She was at the presentation and then she said: "I only regret one thing —that I'm already so old and can't take part in your performance." I wished you well and good luck. She was great, she's a fighter," Tatiana Konstantinova shared.

Larisa Golubkina joined the staff of the Army Theater in 1964 after graduating from GITIS. Colleagues recall that, despite her kind nature and conflict-free nature, she was not a simple person in communication: she was demanding of herself and others.

"I saw her a year ago. We played Andrei Zhitinkin's "School of Love", the play "Ma-Mure". It was a pleasure to work with Larisa Ivanovna. An amazing partner, an artist who has a lot to learn from. She was hyper-professional. She loved the theater, her profession, and treated her partners the same way she treated herself — demanding. Had the right to do so. They don't make such artists now," said Ksenia Taran, an actress at the Army Theater.

According to her, Larisa Golubkina always warmly remembered Andrei Mironov, with whom she was married from 1977 to 1987, until he died.

"She spoke fondly about Andrey Mironov, was faithful to him until the last days of her life — he was in her heart, and she loved to talk about him very much," Taran said.

"The feeling that parents are leaving"

Andrei Mironov's daughter, actress Maria Mironova, appeared at the ceremony with a bouquet of yellow roses. She did not speak to the press, but on March 22, when Larisa Golubkina died, she wrote on her channel about the amazing coincidence. It was at that moment, when the sad news came, that she and the actress' own daughter, Maria, were rehearsing on the stage of the Army Theater.

"Today, God knows, by an incredible combination of circumstances, Marusya Golubkina and I found ourselves on the stage of the Theater of the Russian Army. For the first time in our lives, we're on stage together!!! At the screening, an hour before our premiere of "The Blue Bird," a play that I had planned as a dedication to our parents, while reading a chapter called "Farewell," which is accompanied by an Aria by Bach, Masha received a call and left the stage. I read her text, not understanding where she was... She came back and said, "Mom is dead," Maria Mironova wrote at the time.

Vera Alentova and Lyudmila Maksakova were among those who also came to say goodbye to the actress. Many recalled Golubkina's exceptional taste.

— Larisa Ivanovna is the standard of a woman with exquisite charm, charm, intelligence and talent. I've never allowed myself to look like anything. She has always been simply gorgeous," Liya Shkirmatova, assistant director of the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army, shared with Izvestia.

Alexander and Ekaterina Strizhenov, in an interview with journalists, recalled how magically Golubkina sang romances during friendly gatherings, how warmly she once accepted them into her social circle.

— It was a real family — a community of great artists and friends. Shirvindt, Derzhavin, Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko, Vera Valentinovna Alentova were there. And Katya and I were lucky to get into the company of these big stars as young artists. They accepted us as their own, as relatives. Therefore, there is a feeling that parents are leaving, a wonderful generation is leaving, to which Larisa Ivanovna is most directly related," said Alexander Strizhenov.

Larisa Golubkina was respected not only by her colleagues in the creative department, but also in the highest offices. Wreaths from the Union of Cinematographers, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation could be seen at the entrance to the temple where the ceremony took place. On her last journey, the actress was accompanied by prolonged applause to the sound of bells. Then the procession went to the Troekurovskoye cemetery, where Larisa Golubkina was buried.