My tribute to Margarita Terekhova

Last December, when a bigger part of the world was approaching the New Year, outside was getting colder and darker, and people were taking a liking in guessing how snowy it would be by the New Year Eve, I got acquainted myself with the outstanding Soviet-Russian actress Margarita Terekhova. I could not but appreciate this time of the year, when books and movies are especially pleasant to make evenings. Of-course, I knew Margarita Terekhova before, like all of the soviet-born millennials, watched D’Artagnan and Three Musketeers and Dog in the Manger, but there’s plenty to look beyond these two movies to understand the talent of this outstanding actress.

No doubts, there was something subtly magnificent about the nature of this actress, and that’s what her colleagues in cinema and theatre, as well as those who knew her as a young charismatic student at the Mossoviet theatre school, are talking over in interviews about Margarita Borisovna. Her style of acting is something which makes believe in true art, in sacrifice, in feelings, in love! despite all grey days, never-ending sadness, melancholy, tragedies, vain thoughts about the sense of life, platitude. Take a glance at Terekhova’s pictures in movies or in her daily life, scan her face — sceptically — like all women like to do — and you will probably find nothing so special that would distinguish her from a galaxy of talented and beautiful Soviet actresses of that time. No, she is not plain…thin traits…enquiring look…but there were plenty of gorgeous actresses already…competing…making hearts tremble and eyes watch…why did I choose to write about Margarita Borisovna?

I watched movies with different Margarita’s characters, destined to struggle and win, like Diana in Dog in the Manger or Lena in “Let’s get married”; drowning in her ill-tempered behavior, like Tasya in “Monologue”; or displaying a simple, yet deep and graceful woman, caring about her beloved all through her inner doubts and the ugly side of her own ego.

Уже в своих первых работах Маргарита Терехова показала свою притягательность, внутреннюю независимость и непокорность. Это очень понравилось Андрею Тарковскому, и он пригласил Терехову на съемки картины «Зеркало», где она сыграла сразу две главные роли — мать (Марию) и жену (Наталью).

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…yet I’m not a movie critic, nor even the one who would thoroughly search for the smallest details in lives of actresses, trying to figure out what their real personalities may look like based on some steamy facts in press releases. Margarita Terekhova’s movie characters are charismatic, noble, tempting, sometimes psychy, discontented, wise…yet always keeping a sense of self-worth and, of-course, attracting men.

Margarita Borisovna gave us a very good sense of a “sterva’ in the Soviet cinema, so that that bitchy (again, in a good sense!) veil looks generations ahead, as Kleopatra or Miledy do. To which extent does the actress share the qualities of her characters in her real life? Where is the core of her mystery?…no point making guesses, just see what Margarita’s work questions, which feelings her art appeals to...