Soviet-Russian postcard by Bjuro Propagandy Sovetskogo Kinoiskusstva, 1973.
Soviet-Russian postcard. Photo: G. Ter-Ovanesova.
Russian postcard by Bjuro Propagandy Sovetskogo Kinoiskusstva, 1978. Photo: B. Bondareva.
Dutch postcard by Eye. Dutch poster for Zerkalo/The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975). The title in Dutch is 'De spiegel'. Caption: Digitally restored classic (Sovet Union, 1974) of Andrei Tarkovsky.
Cleopatra
Margarita Terekhova (Russian: Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова) was born in 1942 in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR. Her parents were Boris Terekhov, an actor of the Sverdlovsk Theater, and actress Galina Stanislavovna Tomasevic. In school, Margarita was interested in sport and was a basketball captain.
After finishing school with a gold medal, Margarita studied at the physics and mathematics faculty at the National University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent from 1959 until 1961. Then, she left everything behind and went to Moscow, where she applied to the WGIK, but was rejected.
Instead, she trained at the drama studio of director Yuri Zavadsky in the Mossovet Theatre in Moscow until 1964, when she joined the troupe of this theatre. While still a student, she played Cleopatra in George Bernard Shaw's 'Caesar and Cleopatra' in 1964.
Terekhova's film career began in 1965 with the Armenian film Barev, yes em (Здравствуй, это я!)/Hello, it's me! (Frunze Dovlatyan, 1965). The film is based on the biography of Artem Alikhanian, a famous physicist and founder of a cosmology laboratory in Aragats. The film was entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, nominated to Palme d'Or, and awarded the State Prize of Armenia in 1967.
Margarita Terekhova continued her film career with the dramas Belorusski vokzal/Belarus Station (Andrei Smirnov, 1970), and Monolog/Monologue (Ilya Awerbach, 1972), which was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Soviet-Russian postcard by Bjuro Propagandy Sovetskogo Kinoiskusstva, 1971.
Soviet-Russian/Ukrainian postcard by Ukrreklamfilm, Kiev, 1973.
Soviet-Russian postcard. Photo: B. Bondareva, Caption on the back: "The Wonderful Artist of the RSFSR", 1978.
Milady de Winter
In 1975, Margarita Terekhova played a dual role in Andrei Tarkovsky's acclaimed art film Zerkalo (Зеркало)/The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975). It is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and incorporates poems composed and read by the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky. The Mirror initially polarised critics and audiences, with many considering its narrative to be incomprehensible. The work has grown in reputation since its release and is now considered one of the greatest films of all time. Tarkovsky also directed her on stage as Gertrud in 'Hamlet' (1977).
Her next film was the Finnish-Soviet historical drama Doverie/Trust (Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, 1976) which portrays the events leading up to the Finnish Declaration of Independence from Russia in 1917. Terekhova also worked in international co-productions such as in the children's fantasy film The Blue Bird (George Cukor, 1976), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda, and the East-German film Mama, ich lebe/Mama, I'm Alive (Konrad Wolf, 1977) with Donatas Banionis.
Terekhova was also popular in the Soviet Union for her roles on television, including Masha in My Life (1972) based on Anton Chekhov, and Countess Diana in Sobaka na sene/The Dog in the Manger (Yan Frid, 1977) based on the eponymous 1618 play by Lope de Vega.
She gained national fame with her role as Milady de Winter in D'Artanyan i tri mushketera/D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers (Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich, 1978), based on the 1844 novel 'The Three Musketeers' by Alexandre Dumas, père. The Mini-series contained numerous songs that became extremely popular in the Soviet Union throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the series is now considered a classic.
In 1983, together with Igor Talkov, Terekhova set up her own theatre group 'Balagantchik' (The Puppet Show) where she performed until 1986. She then returned to the Mossovet theater. In 1996, the actress was named People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
As a director, she staged Gabriel Garcia Lorca's 'Once Five Years Pass' and Alexander Ostrovsky's 'The Guiltlessly Guilty' (Без вины виноватые) at the Mossoviet Theater. In 2005, she directed a film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (Чайка).
Terekhova was married three times. Her first husband (1964-1967) was the actor Vyacheslav Butenko. From 1967 till 1969, she was married to the Bulgarian actor Savva Kirillovich Hashimov and her third husband (1980-1995) was director Georgiy Yurievich Gavrilov. She has a daughter, actress Anna Terekhova (1967 or 1970), from second husband Savva Hashimov. Her son is actor and artist Alexander Terekhov (1981). His father is Georgiy Gavrilov.
Since 2011, Margarita Terekhova is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She does not leave her home anymore and does not give interviews. In 2013, she was awarded the Order of Honor for her life's work.
Soviet-Russian postcard by Len. Otdelenie Bjuro Propagandy Sovetskogo Kinoiskusstva, no. 109/76, 1976. Kirill Lavrov and Margarita Terekhova in Doverie/Trust (Edvin Laine, Viktor Tregubovich, 1976). The postcard was issued in 200,000 copies. Retail price: 5 Kop.
Soviet-Russian postcard, issued by Patvinskoe Otdelenie Bjuro Propagandy Sovetskogo Kinoiskusstva, Riga, 1977, no. 2119783. Margarita Terekhova as Milk and Jane Fonda as The Night in the American-Russian coproduction The Blue Bird (George Cukor, 1976). The man behind them is Richard Pearson, who plays Bread.
Soviet-Russian postcard by Bjuro Propagandy Sovetskogo Kinoiskusstva, 1983.
Sources: Wikipedia (German and English), and IMDb.
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