Director Andrey Zhitinkin noted the importance of Tenyakova for the Moscow theater scene

Actress Natalia Tenyakova has remained forever in the history of art, and her move from St. Petersburg to Moscow proved to be a great success for the capital. Andrey Zhitinkin, People's Artist of Russia, director and writer, told Izvestia about this on June 18.

"Of course, Moscow was lucky that we [with my husband, actor Sergei Yursky] saw them," Zhitinkin stressed.

According to him, Tenyakova had wonderful film roles, but at the same time she remained an underrated theater actress.

"She found herself in the art theater, and they really came up with wonderful roles for her <...> when they realized that she no longer had the same strength and temperament, but they came up with roles so that she would not disappear and shine in the troupe, because, of course, young people were attracted to her," he noted. the director.

He added that Tenyakova became a muse for her husband— People's Artist of the RSFSR Sergei Yursky.

"I'll even say more: no one probably knows what a huge influence she had on him. She was saving him. He was a nervous, suspicious man. And even the position of the Mossovet theater, which took them, simply invited them from Leningrad — it was she who pushed Jurassic to move to Moscow. Otherwise, Moscow would not have found such an amazing couple," concluded Zhitinkin.

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People's Artist of the Russian Federation Natalia Tenyakova died on June 18 at the age of 81. The Chekhov Moscow Art Theater called her death a "fundamental, devastating loss." For almost 40 years in the Art Theater, she has played many different roles — from Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, Madeleine Bejar in The Cabal of Saints, Gurmyzhskaya in The Forest to modern heroines.