Lyudmila Abramova, the ex-wife of Vladimir Vysotsky and the mother of her two sons, the actress and screenwriter died. The first to announce this on social networks was actor Veniamin Smekhov.
“The beauty of VGIK and the friend-wife of Volodya Vysotsky, the mother of Arkasha and Nikita, the “poet’s explanatory dictionary”, unique in the world, Lucy heartily answered every verse of Volodya. Eternal grateful bright memory, ”wrote the actor. Lyudmila Abramova was 83 years old.
The death of the actress was confirmed by her youngest son from his first marriage, Nikita Vysotsky, in an interview with socialbites.ca.
“She passed away yesterday, she was ill for a long time. Bury it Monday. This is where his parents lay, therefore not in Moscow – Dolgoprudnenskoye cemetery. It’s a long way to get there. So far I can’t say for sure. We do not want to make a big deal out of this, everything will be like a family, ”said Vysotsky.
Abramova’s father was the editor of the publishing house “Chemistry”, her mother graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Moscow State University and the Military Institute of Foreign Languages. The future actress lived with her parents, sister and grandmother. The family of the latter was familiar with Anna Akhmatova, so her poems always sounded in the house of the Abramovs.
In 1958, the girl entered VGIK in the workshop of Mikhail Romm. She studied with Andrei Konchalovsky, Vasily Shukshin and Andrei Smirnov in the same course.
Abramov was sought after by many boyfriends for his bright and at the same time romantic appearance. One even took his own life after being rejected. According to rumors, the actress promised to marry the first person who proposed to her from now on.
In 1961, Abramova was lucky for that time – still a student, she was offered the main role in the first Soviet disaster film “713th wants to land.” That’s when She met Vladimir Vysotsky, who plays an American Marine, she.
Filming took place in Leningrad. Abramova said that on the first day of her arrival in the city, she saw a drunk, beaten man in a bloody shirt near the hotel. She asked for help – paying for damaged property at a restaurant and getting a passport left as a deposit. Then the actress gave him a family heirloom, a gift from her grandmother – an amethyst ring.
The same day a man stole her room – she was living in the same hotel. He had champagne and chocolate in his hand. But instead of gratitude, he proposed to Abramova to marry him. The actress went with her to her friends’ room, where the stranger sang with the guitar. It was Vysotsky. It turned out that Abramova and Vysotsky were filming together only in the morning, when they were on the same bus to the set.
The couple moved to Moscow, but did not formalize the relationship, although Vysotsky left behind the first five years of marriage. First the son of Arkady was born, and then Nikita. Vysotsky and Abramova got married only in 1965, on the fateful date of July 25. 15 years later today, Vysotsky will die.
The actress left acting after the birth of children and devoted herself entirely to the family. The marriage with Vysotsky lasted until 1970, parting with the singer Abramova was very difficult – people close to her noted a real spiritual relationship between the spouses. Despite the divorce, Vysotsky continued to look after the children, leaving the family an apartment.
Abramova married a second time a year after breaking up with the singer. Mechanical engineer Yuri Ovcharenko became her chosen one, two years later their daughter Serafima was born.
After the death of her first husband in 1980, she was actively involved in the museum in memory of its artistic director, Vladimir Vysotsky. In 1984, according to his script, the melodrama “Until the snow falls …” with Natalya Saiko and Alexander Porokhovshchikov was released. In 1991, Abramova published a memoir about life with Vysotsky called Facts from her Biography.
Already retired, Abramova taught in one of the Moscow high schools. In 2012, after the death of his close friend Dina Kalinovskaya, a famous playwright and screenwriter, he compiled and published the works of she. The actress did her best to preserve her memory.