Conversing with People’s Artist of Russia Lyudmila Zaitseva aif.ru I remembered how Vasily Shukshin gave his flowers to his wife, Lidia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina.
“We were happy for each other, we hugged. Shukshin says: “Little (she liked to call me that), I heard you did well on Hello and Goodbye. I’m happy for you. And she adds with a nod to me: “Lid, why are there so many flowers?” Lida reacts in a purely feminine way. gave: “Vasya, well, to scatter everything?” – “Come on, there will be more.” And they gave me all this, ”saits Zaitseva.
The next meeting of the actress with Fedoseyeva-Shukshina took place in 1974, when the director was sent off on his last journey. Zaitseva admitted that she compared Shukshin with a celestial and treated him with great respect. She said it was a great pleasure working with the director. According to Zaitseva, Shukshin “cannot compete with some existing directors.”
Formerly Grigory Leps compared to Russian culture with an unstoppable bloc.