Yarmolnik Oksana is a theater costume designer. The name of this woman is associated with the last years of the talented actor Vladimir Vysotsky. Biography of Oksana Yarmolnik is the topic of the article.
Childhood and youth
Oksana Pavlovna Yarmolnik (nee Afanasyeva) was born in 1960. Her hometown is Moscow. Oksana matured very early. After the death of her mother, she had to learn to be independent, to make independent decisions. Becoming a student, Oksana exchanged her parents' apartment and purchased a separate apartment.
In the early eighties, Afanasyeva graduated from the Moscow Textile Institute: she acquired a special designer. Oksana Yarmolnik (photo of the heroine is presented below) grew up in an artistic family. There were always a lot of celebrities in the parents' house. Yarmolnik Oksana felt sympathy for creative people from an early age. In addition, she was an inveterate theatergoer, and therefore among her acquaintances there were many directors and actors. Once in the administrator's theater on Taganka, she met Vysotsky. According to numerous interviews, the famous actor did not impress Oksana at the first meeting.
Vysotsky
Yarmolnik Oksana claims that the legendary bard was in love with her at first sight. The eighteen-year-old girl allegedly thought for some time about whether to meet with Vysotsky. However, the realization that every woman in the Soviet Union dreams of being in her place dispelled any doubts.
Their romance began in 1980. At first, Oksana Yarmolnik did not have a clear idea of \u200b\u200bhow terrible the disease from which Vysotsky suffered. Awareness came later. At the time of her acquaintance with Vysotsky, she was only eighteen years old. Financially, life was not easy for her. The actor, who by that time was making good money, provided her with spiritual and material support.
They spent two years together. It was impossible to legalize marriage, because divorce, according to Yarmolnik, could have an extremely negative impact on Vysotsky. Therefore, they decided to get married in the church. They had to visit more than half of the Moscow priests before finding someone who would agree to this step. However, they did not get married. Vysotsky died in 1980.
In 2011, the film “Vysotsky. Thanks for being alive . The prototype of Akinshina, who played the main female role in the film, was Oksana Yarmolnik. The film generated a myriad of reviews, both positive and negative. Of considerable importance in the plot of the film, the script for which was written by Nikita Vysotsky, is the relationship between the singer and Tatyana (the prototype of which is Oksana Yarmolnik). It is worth saying that if it were not for the acquaintance of the heroine of this article with a talented poet, which happened more than thirtyyears ago, her name hardly interested any of the journalists.
In the last years of Vysotsky's life, an aspiring artist Leonid Yarmolnik came to the theater. Vladimir Semenovich gave the young colleague several roles. And once he introduced me to his beloved.
Leonid Yarmolnik
In 1982, Oksana Yarmolnik became the wife of the Taganka theater actor. The personal life of this woman is of interest to the press, because it is she who is considered to be Vysotsky's last lover. And also because she has been the wife of a famous actor for more than thirty years.
Apparently, Oksana Pavlovna Yarmolnik is unable to be interested in men who are far from theatrical art. When she met her future husband in 1982, he was already known as the performer of one of the roles in the film "The Same Munchausen". And the bitterness of losing a loved one finally left Oksana. Yarmolnik played in the same theater as Vysotsky. Even outwardly, Leonid was a bit like a legendary bard. A year after the wedding, the daughter of Alexander was born. Already in the mid-eighties, Oksana Yarmolnik returned to the theater and began to develop a new collection of costumes.
Theater
The heroine of this article participated in the creation of scenery for eighty performances. She collaborated with the Tabakov Theater and Sovremennik. In the cinema of Oksana Yarmolnik does not like to work. According to her, in this area of art she cannot fully realize her creative potential. TodayYarmolnik owns a private art studio, whose activities are focused on the production of handmade toys. This occupation brings not only material, but spiritual satisfaction. Yarmolnik sends most of the proceeds to charity. In 2012, Yarmolnik published a children's book. The heroine of the work is a rag doll that ended up in a Moscow family. Reader reviews of the book are positive.
