Galina Belyayeva

Galina Viktorovna Belyaeva (Russian: Гали′на Ви′кторовна Беля′ева; born 26 April 1961) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress, best known for her leading roles in A Hunting Accident (1977) and Anna Pavlova (1983). Belyaeva, the Meritorious Artist of Russia (2003), has been one of the leading actresses at the Moscow Mayakovsky Theatre since 1983.[1]

This article is about the actress. For the Russian-born Kazakh sport shooter, see Galina Belyayeva (sport shooter). For the Russian sport shooter, see Galina Belyayeva (Russian sport shooter).
Galina Belyayeva
Born
Galina Viktorovna Belyayeva

(1961-04-26) 26 April 1961
Irkutsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
OccupationActress
Years active1977–present
Spouse(s)
    ​
    (
    m. 1979; div. 1984)
      Sergey Doychenko
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      (
      m. 1989)
      Partner(s)Levon Sakvarelidze (mid-1980s)
      Children4
      AwardsMeritorious Artist of Russia (2003)

      Biography

      Belyaeva was born in Irkutsk and spent her childhood years in Nevinnomyssk, Northern Caucasus, raised with her younger sister by a single mother, who worked at a local construction site.[2][3] At age thirteen, she went to Voronezh to study classical ballet at the Choreography College. It was there that she was spotted by the assistant of film director Emil Loteanu, who was at the time looking for a teenage actress for the role of Olya Skvortsova in A Hunting Accident.

      External video
      Belyaeva and Yankovsky in A Hunting Accident (fragments). Music by Eugen Doga. 3:30, YouTube

      Belyayeva's performance next to Oleg Yankovsky earned her critical acclaim and an epithet 'Russian Audrey Hepburn'.[2] Yankovsky stated later that it was her presence that imparted the film its unique, haunting atmosphere. During the shooting, Belyaeva became romantically involved with Loteanu, who two years later married the 18-year-old actress.[1]

      In 1979, Belyayeva enrolled into the Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. After her graduation in 1983, she joined Mayakovsky Theatre and made her debut there as Vika in Tomorrow There Was War, after Boris Vasilyev's novel. While a Shchukin Institute student, Belyaeva appeared in several films. After her performance as Vera Lisichkina in Ah, Vaudeville, Vaudeville (1979), she was lauded as one of the brightest hopes of the Soviet film industry.[1]

      In 1983, Loteanu filmed his wife in the biopic Anna Pavlova, where Belyayeva, playing the great ballerina, had also to perform most of her stage numbers. "We've done a lot of home work. Contacted the Anna Pavlova Society in London (where she lived in emigration) and received from them invaluable help. For days on end I was studying footages of her stage performances, practiced in Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre with finest ballet instructors," the actress remembered later. Despite some criticism, from the Bolshoi Theatre headquarters mostly, the film was met with popular acclaim and confirmed Belyaeva's status as a Soviet film star. Also highly successful were her performances in the lyrical comedy Her Romantic Hero (1984), film-operetta Pericola (1984) and The Black Arrow (1985), after Robert Louis Stevenson's novel.[1]

      In the post-Perestroika years, Belyayeva continued to work in the theatre but mostly ignored the approaches from the film directors. Her most notable role in film in the recent times was that of Valeria, the dance teacher, in Vitaly Tarasenko's They Danced Just One Winter (2004).[1]

      Private life

      In 1979, Belyayeva married film director Emil Loteanu. Their marriage was a stormy one and lasted five years. Later Belyaeva spoke with great admiration and respect of her first husband, giving him credit for being her first serious tutor who in many ways shaped her as an actress.[2] Their son, Emil Emilyevich Loteanu, was born in 1980. A Moscow University graduate, he studied music in the USA and, as of 2013, lived in Los Angeles. He has a daughter, Masha, and a son, Christian.[3]

      Belyayeva's second son's father is the surgeon Levon Sakvarelidze, her partner in the mid-1980s. Platon (born 1985), a Moscow University's Law faculty graduate, appeared in two films his early years, Bembi's Childhood, Детство Бемби, 1985) and Lermontov (1986, as an infant poet). He studied at the Moscow University Law faculty and then Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, to become an independent film producer.[3]

      In 1989, Belyayeva married the businessman and publisher Sergey Doychenko (b. 1966). They have two children, Anna (b. 1993) and Markel (b. 1999).[4]

      Selected filmography
      Film
      Year Title Role Notes
      1978 A Moment Decides Everything Nadia Privalova
      1978 A Hunting Accident Olga
      1980 A Piece of Sky Anzhel
      1981 Lenin in Paris girl student
      1983 Anna Pavlova Anna Pavlova
      1984 Park Vika
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      References
      1. "Беляева, Галина Викторовна". www.kino-teatr.ru. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
      2. Наедине со всеми. Galina Belyaeva in Yulia Menshova’s Show.
      3. At Home With Galina Belyayeva. 1TV, Russia, December 2013
      4. "The Dance of Fate // Галина Беляева: Танец судьбы". Archived from the original on 2015-11-22. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
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