- The last years of her life were a road to Calvary. Doctors had put to it the terrible diagnosis - a squamous cell carcinoma of a skin. (Skin cancer). The entire body of the actress was covered with sores that bleed and did not heal. The disease could not be stopped. Doctors sounded the alarm: an urgent operation was needed, but she was afraid to "lie down under the knife." The film legend was at that time 100 years old, and she was sure that her heart simply would not survive the surgical intervention.
- Many say that the main Soviet subjugator of men's hearts was Tatiana Karpova. Everyone loved the actress in his own way, each gave her a piece of his soul.
- Karpova was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress.
- After the death of her husband, a lonely and seriously ill actress decided to bequeath all her property to her great-nephew Konstantin. But the relative of the actress did not wait for the entry of the document into legal force. He registered in Tatiana's Moscow apartment and sold it. The movie star was not at a loss and immediately wrote an application to the police, and through the court she was able to regain her dacha and apartment. After such a betrayal of a close relative, she did not want to live any further. she even wanted to take care of herself: in complete despair Karpova Tatyana wanted to jump from the fourteenth floor.
- Born in what became Kharkiv, Ukraine, on 17 January 1916, Karpova began acting at the age of 13.
- She joined the Mayakovsky Theatre in 1938.
- Hert third marriage with Dmitry Dolgopolsky was an unhappy one too. She almost killed Dmitry Dolgopolsky when she threw a bottle of Borjomi to him. He also did not like her and spoke openly about that fact. He worked in her theater, probably thinking that endure-fall in love would arise; this was the most important mistake.
- Tatiana Karpova, was in Russia an actress with a capital letter who played in fifty performances.
- She also had an affair with actor Mikhail Kazakov. He was eighteen years younger than her (1934 - 2011).
- Her second husband was director Sergey Mayorov. She was his first wife. In 1947, they visited his parents in the village of Skurchi near Sukhumi. Tatiana conquered all the male population of the village with her beauty. Border guards "strengthened" patrolling the beach to look at the Moscow beauty.
- She studied theatrical art at the Mayakovsky Theater.
- Because of the fact that the film legend was chained to a wheelchair she hadn't left her apartment for five years.
- Tatiana has achieved recognition in the profession. She was one of the leading actresses of the Mayakovsky Theater, and she played in well-known movies, but in her personal life, the actress had setbacks for many years. Tatiana could not get pregnant and have a baby. She had a husband who went insane. To care for her sick husband, she had to quit her profession, but despite the care, her husband became worse, he stopped recognizing Tatiana and once he wanted to kill her.
- In 1960, Karpova was named a People's Artist of the RSFSR, and designated a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.
- Karpova was not very fond of acting in films, as she was accustomed to receive a payoff from the audience right away. But despite this, everyone in Russia knew perfectly well who Tatyana Karpova was.
- She worked in the theater for sixty years, and retired in 2003.
- Tatyana Karpova loved her fourth husband -Evgeny Alexandrovich- most of all. Because he had mental problems, -he was out of his mind-, he shot himself with a gun. Whether it happened by chance or maybe he just wanted to save his wife from the hassle, one will never know.
- The marriage with Sergey Mayorov was a marriage without love. As she did not like him, they parted.
- Her first husband Konstantin Kuleshov was conquered by Tatiana's charisma.. They worked in different theaters, but fate still brought these two people together. They were separated by war, and they were in different places during the evacuation. When they met, a year later, she was already married to another.
- The secret of longevity from the actress was to love oneself, not to deny oneself in anything, to give oneself completely to one's feelings, in no case to restrain them. After all, in order to love you, you must first love yourself.
- She played in more than fifty performances, including Hamlet, The Dog in the Manger, Simple Hearts, The Seagull, Mother Courage and Her Children, Mary Stuart. In 1947, for the role of Lyuba Shevtsova in The Young Guard based on the novel by Alexander Fadeev, she was awarded the Stalin Prize. However, she had only one main film role - in the 1973 melodrama "Mother-in-Law".
- For playing the role of Lyubov Shevtsova in the play "The Young Guard" by A.A. Fadeev she was awarded the Stalin Prize of the 1st degree.
- Tatyana Mikhailovna acted in a little in movies. Her best roles were: Surmilova in the film operetta "On the stage stage" by Konstantin Yudin and Klavdia Ivanovna, in the comedy "Mother-in-law" by Sergei Sploshnov; Fraulein Erna Brinkel in A Game Without Rules; Madame Touré in the film-play "The Gulya Queen"; Efrosinya Alekseevna Kvashnina in "Walking Through the Torments"; Elena Konstantinovna Glebova in the film-performance "Session of the Hypnotist".
- For merits in theatrical activities, she was awarded the Honorary titles "Honored Artist" and "People's Artist of Russia", "People's Artist of the USSR".
- From 1932 to 1933 she studied at the Kharkov Musical College named after B.N. Lyatoshinsky, and at the same time she performed on the stage of the youth working theater "Temafor", the Theater of Small Forms.
- In 1934, she took an exam to enter a school at the second Moscow Art Theater and was accepted as a volunteer; a few months later, Serafima Birman ( theatre director) kicked out Karpova for speaking the language spoken in her city of Kharkov.
- The People's Artist fell unsuccessfully and broke her femoral neck. The bones did not grow together properly, and after that she was confined to a wheelchair. Karpova was also diagnosed with skin cancer.
- Tatyana Mikhailovna celebrated her 100th birthday at the Central House of Actors, CDA. There was an evening called "Tatyana Karpova's boring age", and passed with the participation of the birthday girl. At the evening, fragments of the play "Nine-to-ten" directed by Nikita Kobelev, dedicated to the history of the Mayakovsky Theater, were performed.
- She first appeared on stage at the age of thirteen in the play Maclena Gras by Nikolai Kulish , directed by Alexander Kurbasand at the Berezil Theater.
- She was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, the Order of Honor; medals "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of the City of Moscow".
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