Lyudmila Abramova: the second wife of Vladimir Vysotsky

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:53

Lyudmila Abramova - ex-wife of Vladimir Vysotsky, actress and creator of the Museum of the great singer and poet. She is still the custodian of the bard's creative legacy.

Lyudmila was born and raised in a family of Moscow intellectuals. Her parents were scientists. The head of the family worked in the editorial office of a well-known publishing house, before the war, his mother managed to graduate from the Faculty of Mathematics of Moscow State University, and after that she was educated at the Institute of Foreign Languages. Grandmother introduced her granddaughter to the classics, knew many poems by heart, and gladly arranged literary evenings.

Studying at VGIK

The parents accepted their daughter's admission to VGIK without much enthusiasm. They wanted a serious career for her. But after the very first invitation to take part in the filming of the picture received by Lyudmila, they changed their anger to mercy.

At VGIK, the girl got on the course of Mikhail Romm. During the same period, such future masters of cinematography as Vasily Shukshin, Igor Yasulovich, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andron Konchalovsky studied at the Institute.

Creative biography of Lyudmila Abramova

For the first time on the screens, the actress appeared in 1961. She was invited to take part in the film "713th asks for landing." Lyudmila in this film got the role of movie star Eva Priestley. Her future husband, Vladimir Vysotsky, also starred in the film.

Later there were other shootings (but after the birth of sons and marriage) in films such as:

• "Eastern Corridor", banned from showing and released only after 2 years on the screens;
• "I can't live without you, Juste",
• "Midlife",
• "Red Chernozem".

Private life

Before meeting with Vladimir Vysotsky, the girl knew nothing about his talent and fame. They met at the entrance to one of the Leningrad hotels. The actor looked depressing, he then asked for a loan of 200 rubles from Lyudmila Abramova. She pawned her grandmother's ring in a pawnshop, which Vysotsky later bought out. At that time he was married, which, however, did not prevent him from making an offer to Lyudmila Abramova. The girl was going through hard times, as her boyfriend took his own life. Therefore, she resolutely agreed to the offer of an unfamiliar person.

The wedding was played in 1965 after the birth of their sons: Arkady (in 1962) and Nikita (in 1964). 2 years after the marriage, Vysotsky met a new love - Marina Vladi. The actress gave an official divorce only in 1970. Vysotsky, even after the dissolution of the marriage, supported his ex-wife and sons.

After some time, Lyudmila got marriedagain for mechanical engineer Yuri Ovcharenko, in marriage with whom the daughter Serafima was born.