Elina Bystritskaya. A beauty with character

Her bewitching beauty was admired by the whole country, while the actress herself often became hostage to this universal admiration - after all, he was often accompanied by envy. The glory of an impregnable beauty with a firm character was assigned to her from her youth, although she herself did not consider her appearance to be extraordinary. “They never told me in childhood about my appearance ...” she admitted.
In 1955, she successfully went through samples for the role of Aksinya in the "Quiet Don" Sergey Gerasimov. The student Nonna Mordyukov claimed this role, because of the refusal, she almost committed suicide. But Mikhail Sholokhov himself insisted on the candidacy of Bystritskaya, seeing in it a real heroine of his novel. The role of Aksinya became an acting triumph of Bystritskaya. "Quiet Don" recognized the film of the year - 1957, 47 million spectators watched it. About what personal tragedies the most beautiful actress of the last century hid in her impregnable and proudly look, says a new book by Yulia Andreeva