Lidia Melnikova Biography

You are here by the press Lidia Melnikova Acting - the profession is dependent and often ungrateful. Yesterday's favorite of the public, caressed by directors and criticism, today can remain in absolute loneliness - alone with their own fears, doubts and pain. Lidia Melnikova is one of the favorite students of Igor Vladimirova - a graduate of his very first, the very stellar course, still shining with the names of Sergey Migitsko, Larisa Luppian, Vladimir Matveev, Oleg Levakov.

Elena Shanina for a long time she was one of the leading actresses of the Lensovet Theater: the Leningrad Theaterwheels still reverently recall the roles played by her in the performances “Mother”, “The Diva”, “How to Draw a Bird”. In the year, Lidia Ionovna celebrates the thirty anniversary of her creative activity. Today, she remained only a short output in the play “Little Girl” lasted this year for three years, of course.

It seemed to me that I would never get out of this darkness, that I will never have anything, that no one needs me, and they would not call me anywhere else. But it turned out that you could not despair! No wonder they say that despondency is the greatest sin. It is very easy to fall into it. You can’t lock yourself in your house, you can’t get close in yourself, you have to go to people, you need to save yourself in a completely different matter that is not connected with my profession in any way.

Go to where there are people so that no one knew me, no one even thought that I was an actress. And I got a job. Every day I got up at 6 in the morning, dressed and went to clean the pool. With songs, with a mop - wonderful! Then she swam, was engaged in aerobics, it was a wonderful restoration - both physical and psychological power. I felt differently. The people who were nearby accepted me, and I was pleased that they respect me simply because I was doing my job well.

Then - the case brought me to the girl who taught me the art of Ikebana. It's so interesting! You need to see what beauty it is! I was very carried away, I dragged all the material home until the children pray: “Mom! Which is categorically the ballet is contraindicated, because there is no data for this! You never danced before I laughed at me: where are you in the ballet?

But I rushed into this business with pleasure. For a year we rehearsed a performance dedicated to the fate of Marina Tsvetaeva. I played Sophia Parkonka. And I danced! I was all bruised, in abrasions, but I got great pleasure from work. True, because of financial issues, we were not able to release this performance, although we already reached the final recently Volodya called, said that there was some hope but I don’t know if I could repeat all this again.

It was necessary to be in such despair to rush into the pool of a completely unfamiliar business for you, but at that time there were still performances with your participation - “Ptushkina jokes”, “Hell Garden” but “Hell's Garden” I believed that this was not for me, but I did not refuse! I never refuse work! On the contrary, I am glad to try to try. Always, everywhere now we have released in the “Classical Theater” “Three Sisters”.

I play Olga. This is a very chamber performance, it is played in small rooms - in rooms, in the library, even, perhaps, on the stairwells. We did everything ourselves: the costumes invented, the props selected and the audience said that it was warm to them during the performance that they were hugged and affectionately and affectionately, I came from the city of Dzhetygar, this is Northern Kazakhstan.

There were seven children in our family, and everyone was welcome. I spent a beautiful, wonderful childhood: mom and dad loved each other very much, and this union still remains perfect for me. When I graduated from school, my mother died. This was the first real grief that I had to face in life. The older sister at that time was already studying in Leningrad at the financial and economic institute and called me to her to somehow make the life of my dad somehow-there was too much of us for him alone.

At first I had no thought! I wrote in school works that I want to become a turner. Everyone laughed. Why suddenly a turner? We stood at huge machines, everything flew, sparkled and was very beautiful and there were adult serious people around, and I wanted everyone to look at me, how pretty I was standing, in a white scarf I composed poems and loved to read them to others. Everyone told me: “Lida, you need to become an actress!

I laughed: “What an actress I am! For three years I have studied at the Economic Institute at the Cybernetics department and just cried: I didn’t succeed with these numbers, I just drove them all the time for the necessary result. And then the next summer came. I handed over the session, and there was nothing to do next. In the pocket - 28 rubles, it is clearly not enough to go home to Kazakhstan.

And I thought: “And I'll go, I'll try! Although it was so ashamed to me that I was terribly old and ugly. Twenty years. And I very funny asked passers -by: “Excuse me, but you don’t know where the theater institute is here?This I do not ask for myself, no. My younger sister - she’s so beautiful and talented for me - wants to go there the guys come up to me: “Well, don’t cry, you will remember her next year?

And I'm trying to keep it in myself. She was very naive, ridiculous, touching sometimes even outsiders approached me and clicked on the nose. I evoked such strange feelings among others. Once in the subway, at the crossing, some young man grabbed my hand and shouted: “Stop! Now you will pass and disappear! I always disappeared. This is then, when he saw me in the cinema, he was convinced of the correctness of my decision.

We starred with Igor Petrovich Vladimirov - E. I played Sima Krupitsyn, a big contest passed and did not even know about it. And dad, looking at this picture, sent me a telegram: “I approve. In our Kazakhstan, everyone watched this film, and I instantly became a real heroine for them. And, when I came home, they arranged creative evenings, and I was terribly shy because I thought that evenings were arranged for mature artists who were able to give some report on their work.

And who am I? Because it was primarily an entertaining theater, and it seems that I had the energy, the internal pressure that is needed for it, but at the same time I always had a dramatic, I would even say, the tragic perception of the world around me since childhood. I always knew that I would die, and from this I very keenly felt the short duration of everything, momentary