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The legends of the Soviet screen behind the scenes were far from the ideal. Behind the outer brilliance hid fate full of dramas, loneliness, confusing love stories and loud scandals.

1. Valentina Malyavina

Valentina Malyavina went down in the history of Soviet cinema not only as a talented actress, but also as one of the most scandalous and tragic figures of her time. She was an incredibly capricious, eager and reckless woman.
In 1978, actor Stanislav Zhdanko, a former lover of Malyavina, died. Initially, the case was closed, and death was considered suicide. However, a few years later, in 1983, Malyavina was arrested. She was sentenced to 9 years in prison. This event shocked the whole country - the star of Soviet cinema was in prison on charges of a deliberate murder of a cohabitant.
Interestingly, Nina Ruslanova, a close friend of Malyavina, testified against the actress, because she was sure that the murder had occurred. In response, Valentina cursed her friend and her daughter right in the courtroom. She believed that Ruslanova envied her beauty and success in men. By the way, the daughter of Ruslanova was not able to start a family. Nina Ivanovna believed that the reason for her loneliness was the very curse of her friend.

2. Natalia Gundareva

Natalya Gundareva is the owner of a powerful dramatic talent and one of the greatest actresses of Soviet cinema. However, an ambiguous person was hidden behind the facade of folk love and indisputable professionalism, whose sins at one time preferred to be silent.
Although Natalya Georgievna was not a typical “scandalist”, however, without a twinge of conscience, she twisted novels with married men and weaved intrigues behind the scenes of the theater. It is impossible not to mention her protracted conflict with Tatyana Doronina. Both actresses were strong personalities and bright movie guides. The tension between them increased gradually. In the end, the actresses fought. Doronina was forced to leave the Mayakovsky Theater.
This step caused a resonance: some considered Gundarev a winner, others considered a cunning intriguer. Since then, the state -owned studio has been an unspoken, but strictly observed rule: Tatyana Doronina and Natalya Gundareva, under any circumstances, could not be together on the same set.

3. Lyudmila Gurchenko

Around Lyudmila Markovna, the aura of scandalousness has always been hung-either due to the fault of rumors, or because of her daring nature and independent disposition, which did not fit into the framework of the "exemplary Soviet woman." Gurchenko was never afraid to express her opinion, did not obey the directors and did not suffer humiliation. This aroused respect for some and frank irritation among others. At the studios with her, they did not always want to work, even for a while they actually stopped shooting.
The actress was officially married six times, and many of her relations were accompanied by stormy quarrels, ruptures and reconciliations. In the theater environment, there was an unpleasant rumor that Lyudmila Markovna had a fantastic gift to turn all her men into service staff.

4. Natalia Kustinskaya

At a time when the image of a “modest worker” dominated the cinema, Kustinskaya with her bright appearance and difficult character looked defiant. She allowed herself bold outfits, luxurious hairstyles and easily started love affairs. The actress was married seven times. She was accused of mercantile, but Kustinskaya claimed that she was simply looking for true love.
A huge scandal erupted when a blond beauty took her wife from her best friend Natalia Fateeva. Subsequently, actresses did not hide hostility towards each other, and the relationship between them have been tense for decades. Later, already in old age, Kustinskaya openly said in her interview that it was Fateeva that was one of the main causes of her life suffering, directly hinting that thanks to the connections upstairs, she destroyed her career. After the death of her son and the seventh husband, the actress lived in poverty and oblivion.

5. Margarita Terekhova

Margarita Terekhova is not an easy person. She did not look for easy ways, did not compromise, and for this she was respected and afraid at the same time. Especially difficult were her relationship with director Jan Frida, with whom she worked on the film adaptation of the Comedy “Dog on the Shen”. The actress touched the director, threw sharp phrases in his direction, tore the shooting from due to any little thing. Later, Jan Fried, despite all the difficulties, admitted that Terekhova was an actress of rare talent and charisma. But cooperation with her required tremendous patience and flexibility.