Alla Larionova (February 19, 1931, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR - April 25, 2000, Moscow, Russia) - Soviet and Russian actress; People's Artist of the RSFSR (1990).
The wife of the actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Nikolai Rybnikov.
Alla Larionova was born on February 19, 1931 in Moscow on Spartakovskaya Street, directly opposite the Yelokhovskaya Church. The father is a worker of the district food trade, the mother is the caretaker in the kindergarten. Received a name in honor of the idol of that time - actress Alla Tarasova.
While studying at school, Alla Larionova began acting in films in crowd scenes. After leaving school, she entered GITIS, then, in 1948, VGIK, where she met her future husband Nikolai Rybnikov.
In 1953, the film-tale of Alexander Ptushko "Sadko" was released on the screens of the USSR, where the role of Lyubava, Sadko's wife, was entrusted to play Alla Larionova. The film received acclaim at the Venice Film Festival. Film partner Sergei Stolyarov for playing the role of Sadko was ranked among the best actors in the world for half a century of cinema history. And the young actress was showered with offers from foreign directors, including Charlie Chaplin.
Since 1953, she has been an actress at the Theater-Studio of a film actor.
The real fame and universal recognition in the USSR was brought to the actress by the main role in the famous film directed by Isidor Annensky "Anna on the Neck" - one of the leaders of film distribution in the mid-1950s, which received the prize - "Golden Olive Branch" at the International Film Festival in Italy, 1957. Crowds of people, often in bad weather, lined up in front of cinemas to see this motion picture.
On January 2, 1957, she married actor Nikolai Rybnikov, with whom she lived for 33 years. Shortly after registering the marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, Alena, from the actor Ivan Pereverzev, with whom she became close during the joint filming of Polesskaya Legend. In 1961, the second daughter, Arina, was born (died in 2004).
Once the actor Georgy Yumatov, in a state of intoxication, decided to take Alla Larionova home and braked unsuccessfully, she hit her head and cut her lip. The actor's tale says that after that the artist stopped acting in films, as the scar was too noticeable.
In the 1970s, her popularity faded. In the last years of her life, she practically did not act in film, although she was awarded the honorary title "People's Artist of the RSFSR" at the age of 60.
Alla Larionova died on April 25, 2000 from a massive heart attack, a year before her 70th birthday. She was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery next to her husband Nikolai Rybnikov.
