Friends spoke of Elizabeth Dahl as very patient woman with a huge heart, always open to people and ready to warm and help everyone. Relatives remember her as very sensitive and good man, responsive.

Childhood of Elizabeth Apraksina

Elizaveta Dal, nee Eikhenbaum Apraksina, was born in pre-war Leningrad, in August 1937.

The girl was brought up in a family close to people of creativity, representatives of the literary beau monde very often gathered in the house. The merit of this is Liza's grandfather, Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, who adored his granddaughter.

Being a well-known literary critic, he was the one who gathered around him writers and poets, and simply interesting people who connected their lives with creativity and science. So, the poetess Anna Akhmatova often visited the Eichenbaum family.

The girl's father, Alexei Apraksin, was a theater artist and often took her to work behind the scenes of the theatre. He died during the blockade of the city, from starvation. Those horrifying years took away from Lisa not only her father, but also her sister Tanya. She stayed with her mother, grandfather and grandmother.

Having matured, Elizabeth herself chose her path, initially assumed that she would study at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, but she could not do it, no matter how hard she tried. Then she chose a career as a teacher, but over time, studying at a pedagogical institute seemed very boring to her, and Lisa dropped out of school.

The girl managed to find a job at the Zoological Museum and enter the Forestry Academy, but it didn’t work out there either, after studying for only a year, Liza went to work as an editor at the Lenfilm film studio, She remained there until her second marriage.

Personal life

Elizabeth's first marriage was short, she lived with her husband for only six months. Leonid Kvinikhidze(director of the film "The Straw Hat"), despite complicated relationship, it was Leonid who became the starting point of Lisa's career, arranging her to work at a film studio. After the divorce, the girl decided never to tie the knot again.

Elizabeth met the actor Oleg Dal in a restaurant, on your thirty-second birthday, then the film "King Lear" was being filmed, but the romance began a little later. It so happened that one evening two were courting her - Sergey Dovlatov and Oleg Dal, and the next day Oleg already asked for Lisa's hand. Six months later, the couple got married.

For the sake of Oleg Dal, she became wonderful hostess, learned to cope with his impulsive behavior, constant mood swings and outbursts of anger. Oleg Dal was a difficult person, pedantic, with a difficult character. He lived thanks to the cinema, while rejecting many roles, playing only those that really interested him.

At first, the couple lived in northern Palmyra, then moved to Moscow, where they were forced to change housing several times. In the end, they began to live with their mothers on Smolensky Boulevard. The actor did not allow his wife to continue his career, he believed that she should be at home and provide him with comfort, meet him from the shooting. Therefore, Elizabeth left her job and became a housewife.

The couple lived together for ten years, they never had children. Oleg was 39 years old, when he passed away. Elizabeth said that the cause of death was a sick heart. However, it is known that the actor drank a lot. And the wife continued to love and forgive everything.

Despite the fact that the actor had no real friends, feasts were frequent in his house. They say that Liza collected at least one mug of alcohol for one feast, or even more (she didn’t drink herself, she poured the alcohol she poured into a special mug).

The health of the actor was shaken, Oleg Dal was aware of everything and even repeatedly went through the coding procedure, but nothing helped. Three months before the death of the actor, The couple got into a serious fight the reason was precisely the irrepressible use of alcohol by Oleg.

In the same period, he turned out to be "not allowed to travel abroad", he was not given permission to travel abroad, and began to conflict with the director. The actor died while on a business trip in Kyiv in March 1981. Elizabeth kept warm memories of her husband for the rest of her life.

The remaining savings were not enough for a long time and Lisa had to start looking for work. For a whole year she lived on the pension of her mother and mother-in-law. And in order to recover at the film studio, she had to learn everything anew, since the work at the film studio for the ten years that Elizabeth was at home has changed significantly, among other things, the shooting was carried out on a new 16 mm film, with which Lisa Dahl had not previously had to work.

But the woman managed, and a year later she was offered to become head of the sound department.

The widow never got married again, and she didn’t enter into a relationship anymore - she kept the memory of her beloved husband.

Elizabeth Dahl has died in 2003 as a result of a long illness. She for a long time suffered from attacks of bronchial asthma and coronary heart disease. Shortly before her death, she experienced clinical death. Before her death, Elizabeth said that she actually died more than twenty years ago, along with her husband.

Oleg Dal: biography, personal life and children of this famous actor are still of interest to the public, despite the fact that he is no longer alive.

Oleg Dal became a legend of Russian cinema, although he lived a relatively short life. Most young viewers know him from the fairy tales “How Ivan the Fool went for a miracle” or “An old, old fairy tale”.

Oleg Dal

The actor lived a bright life, was an emotional and sensitive person who did not play a role, but reincarnated as his characters. His constant walking on the edge led him to an early death: Dahl died in 1981 at the age of forty. The biography of the artist is replete with many interesting stories about Oleg Dal, but family and children were always in the background for him.

Oleg Dal: early years of life

Oleg Dal was born in Moscow on May 25, 1941, in his family he became the first actor. Mom of the future movie star worked at school, dad was an engineer at a transport company associated with rail transportation. Oleg's decision to become an actor in the family was perceived negatively. The father did not doubt his failure. But Dahl Jr. could not give up his dream and entered the Higher Theater School named after M. Shchepkin.

Oleg Dal in childhood

As a child, the actor burred and, it seemed, with such a defect, his path to the profession was ordered. But selection committee considered in him a natural gift for reincarnation, and from the second monologue at the exam he was accepted.

The biography of Oleg Dal is such that he managed to reach heights in his profession, became a popular and famous actor, questions about how his personal life developed, whether he has children, torment more than one generation of his fans.

Oleg Dal: school years

First roles, first marriages

Oleg Dal was a creative, restless nature. His sensitive soul could not come to terms with the many injustices of life. For this reason, he left, slamming doors, from many projects. Because of this, personal life in the biography of Oleg Dal is little mentioned, and there are no photos of children in it. Dahl died childless. And his first families did not last long.

The actor's first film work was the film "My Little Brother", released on screens in 1962. And in 1963 he married actress Nina Doroshina. She is known to viewers for her role as the wife of an unfaithful husband in Vladimir Menshov's comedy Love and Pigeons.

Oleg Dal in his youth

Nina in her youth seemed to be a windy person. She was in love with Oleg Efremov. And right at the wedding, she allowed herself a rather frank flirting with her boyfriend. It seems that Doroshina needed this whole idea of ​​marriage just to annoy her lover.

Oleg Dal was greatly hurt and humiliated by this attitude: his personal life did not work out, photos of his happy wife and children did not become an adornment of his biography. He divorced Doroshina with lightning speed, and tried not to remember his shame.

Oleg Dal and Vladimir Vysotsky

The second marriage with actress Tatyana Lavrova had a similar fate. Oleg did not like to talk about him, only casually mentioning that the second wife was a rather aggressive and angry woman. They managed to live together for only six months.

True love and national glory

No wonder they say: behind everyone's back successful man stands strong Strong woman. Whether this is true or false, everyone judges for himself. But in the biography of Oleg Dal, the sharpest turn took place when he met a woman named Lisa Eichenbaum, with whom her personal life finally improved, they even had joint children in their plans. But this didn't work out. But the artist's career went uphill when he found the one who became his support, accepted him with vices and shortcomings. And he had them in abundance.

Oleg Dal in the film "The Man Who Doubts"

Dahl was a difficult man. It was necessary to love him very much in order to be able to live with him for 11 years, as Elizabeth did. The actor did not tolerate sycophancy and mediocrity, injustice and imperfection. And in the theatrical environment, where he worked a lot, all this was in abundance. It was difficult for a sensitive person to break through in an environment where intrigue and envy rule the show. In addition, Oleg was generous, he could give the last shirt to the enemy.

He also drank a lot, which made life with him sometimes unbearable. To combat this defect, the actor used special ampoules: "sewn up." But this did not help for long - for 2-3 years, after which he broke down and went into a binge again.

Shot from the film "King Lear"

The biography of Oleg Dal, despite his stormy personal life, does not have such an item as “children”. He didn't seem to need them. And his third wife has come to terms with the fact that their marriage remains childless.

Dahl woke up truly famous after the release of The Chronicle of a Dive Bomber (1967), and in the film King Lear (1970) he played a jester. Elizaveta Eikhenbaum (nee Apraksina) worked as an editor in the project. So they met, after which they quickly got married.

Oleg Dal in the film Chronicle of a dive bomber

The first years of married life with Elizabeth were not easy for her: Dal drank heavily, and nothing helped him cope with the scourge. In films, the directors tried to put him with his back to the camera so that his swollen face could not be seen. But a career in the theater suffered from this even more.

Lisa claims that she adored her husband. Despite some shortcomings, he was a real prince. Romantic, kind, generous. He could come to a spontaneous date uninvited, with a huge bouquet of roses. Or come to the meeting in a police car.

Frame from the film "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha"

The couple tried to have a child, but they did not succeed. They even considered adopting the baby. But they did not dare to do so. In Soviet times, this was such sedition that for the sake of wanting to take a child from an orphanage into the family, they would have to go to the outback for a year in order to return from there as if with their own baby. Despite the spirit of adventurism, the actor did not dare to do this.

Big child: why schoolchildren love Dahl so much

The actor had a penchant for spontaneous, sometimes outrageous acts. His wife Elizabeth Dahl remembered him as a big child.

Many journalists tried to write a biography of Oleg Dal, which is why they turned to Elizabeth for advice and memoirs, especially interested in his personal life. But the children in it were present only on the video: in some projects, he starred with young actors. After all, Dahl is remembered by many from children's fairy tale films. Because of these projects, even modern schoolchildren will recognize the actor.

Actor Oleg Dal fell in love with many schoolchildren

Unfortunately, such qualities as naivety and excessive emotionality were not very appreciated in the cinema. Dahl was often denied roles, and he was even hounded for harsh remarks about the leadership and the government.

Oleg was not a traveling person for a long time. He was not allowed to go abroad. And it was especially offensive for him to realize this when the theater troupe went on tour abroad, and he was replaced in the production by some more accommodating understudy.

Oleg Dal on the stage of the theater

Elizabeth Dahl, the third wife of the actor, believes that many shortcomings were attributed to him out of envy. Rumors about his passion for alcohol were exaggerated. IN last years life, he managed to take control of this scourge. But endless stress, persecution and persecution undermined his health.

Shot from the movie "It Can't Be"

Dahl had a very weak heart since childhood. For this reason, he could not become an aircraft pilot or a submariner, although he dreamed of these professions at school. Actors with such a disadvantage are taken, but, as it turned out, in this area, a sick heart can lead to very early death.

The actor's wife believes that he died of a heart attack that happened to him in a dream. At that time, Dahl was in Kyiv on tour. Death came on March 5, 1981. Elizabeth survived her husband by 20 years, but she never managed to find anyone who could replace him.

Oleg Dal died of alcohol addiction

Great love story

The biography of Oleg Dal, his entire personal life and even unborn, but such desired children, are evidence of great, unearthly love. The actor was difficult person, direct, sharp, uncompromising. The first two spouses ran away from him, headlong. The marriage with each of them did not last even a year. And only Elizaveta Dal, nee Apraksina, and Eikhenbaum after her grandfather, managed to get along with this difficult genius.

Oleg did not like gossip and speculation, he did not let journalists and strangers into his personal life. His house was closed to the theatrical beau monde, although due to the actor's addiction to alcohol, sometimes noisy campaigns of people gathered in it, whom both spouses could not call friends. These comrades appeared only at the moments of Oleg's binges, and then disappeared until the next similar incidents.

Oleg Dal with his wife Lisa

Lisa was completely behind-the-scenes, non-public. So what about them family life little is known. Although after Dahl's death, Elizabeth gave several touching interviews in which she told a lot of the history of her relationship. She modestly kept silent about the fact that their family was built on her patience and great love. Lisa loved her husband just like that, in spite of everything. She managed to survive his spree, and she also knew how to leave him alone.

Having carried out a complex exchange, the family settled in big apartment on Smolensky Boulevard. There Oleg had his own Personal Area, in which he could not let his wife in for weeks. He needed a large individual space, a sense of freedom of creativity. And Lisa gave it to him without reproach for anything.

Dahl, however, was not a callous person. He spoiled his wife with baskets of flowers and unexpected gifts. In general, he showed attention, which she remembered later for many years. So, he could arrange a birthday surprise by filling the room with buckets of roses. And even if Lisa thought that he forgot about her date, she was not disappointed.

Oleg Dal in the film "Sannikov Land"

Despite the fact that Oleg was a closed person who did not let anyone superfluous near him, he knew how to take care of his loved ones. And he did not hesitate to show them the warmest feelings.

Elizabeth has become a muse for Oleg, who supports him in all creative matters. For the sake of her husband, she even quit her job to serve a genius who was completely helpless in practical matters. Dahl was considered by many to be underestimated.

And he himself jokingly called himself a "foreign" artist: his craving for perfection interfered both in the theater and in the cinema. Some directors considered him capricious and intractable. Despite national love, which the artist had in the early 1970s, he rarely starred.

The actor played the main roles in legendary films

When Dahl passed away, Elizabeth had a hard time. She had to take care of two elderly women - her mother and mother-in-law. And she got a job again, although after a long break it was difficult to make a career.

Due to excessive closeness, Oleg Dal did many things that others did not understand. He slammed the door, refused to go on stage, or arranged unexpected improvisations there right during the performances, putting other actors in an uncomfortable position.

Legendary actor Oleg Dal: the last years of his life

And only a faithful wife understood his antics, realizing what pain lies behind them due to the realization of the imperfection of the world and all of humanity. The beloved woman of the great actor was also ready to support him in his creative choice.

Dahl was ready to starve, but he threw into the basket all the scenarios in which he was offered the role of pompous officials or party bosses.

Grave of Oleg Dal and his wife

Maybe that's why everyone considers him a talent that he did not agree to passing scripts and not memorable roles? Neither he nor his wife regretted such uncompromisingness, which is why Dahl became a legend in Russian cinema.

He was full of contradictions, and behind the ostentatious recklessness he hid his own complexes and fears.

In his life there was a place for great feelings, but having survived the betrayal once, Oleg Dal began to be wary of women. And yet he met the one who accepted him entirely, with his shortcomings, contradictions and complexes. Elizaveta Eikhenbaum (Apraksina) became his guardian angel and guiding star for 10 years. It was to her that he promised incredible torment from himself.

Twists of love

Oleg Dal.

They first met at a time when both of them already had a lot of disappointments and separations behind them. Oleg Dal managed to survive two painful divorces, and Elizaveta Apraksina - many novels and a not entirely successful marriage.

Oleg Dal, frame from the film "King Lear".

She was amazingly beautiful, both peers and men much older fell in love with her. At the time of meeting Dahl, Sergey Dovlatov courted her and Lisa reciprocated.
Oleg Dal appeared in the Lenfilm editing room to watch the footage. Elizabeth looked at the tall thin actor and her heart was filled with aching pity for this man, who looked sadly at the screen. Pointy shoulders, yellow hair dyed for the role of the jester in King Lear, and piercing blue eyes. He seemed at that moment touchingly defenseless, in need of love and care. However, he needed love and care all the time.

Elizabeth Apraksina.

Then there was an expedition to Narva to shoot, but Elizabeth tried not to pay attention to him. She worked as an editor and strictly followed the principle of not falling in love with actors. True, when real feelings come, all principles are powerless.

Oleg Dal and Elizaveta Apraksina.

In Narva, Liza Apraksina met with a married Lithuanian, hoping that their romance would develop into something more. And Dahl constantly showed her signs of attention. Either he will come with a bouquet of flowers, or he will arrange a prank with the police, bringing the girl to a fainting state.

He often appeared on the set in a fair amount of drunkenness. But director Grigory Kozintsev forgave the actor. When asked why he was so condescending to Dahl, the director replied that he was sorry for the actor, he would not live long.

Oleg Dal.

Lisa was flattered by Oleg Ivanovich's courtship, and when he invited her to his performance in Moscow in the fall, she went without hesitation. She called the theater directly from the station, but Dahl, having heard that Lisa was calling, did not even remember her. The offended girl immediately went back to Leningrad, where she lived. Then she did not know yet: during rehearsals, he could forget his own name, completely immersed in the role.

Oleg Dal.

Soon Dahl arrived in Leningrad, rushed to Lisa, explained the reasons for his behavior. And then he began to visit the girl, completely fascinated her mother Olga Borisovna.

He came to Lisa's house when Sergey Dovlatov was visiting her. They all drank alcohol together, ate something, and the men were not going to leave the apartment alone. When they were already saying goodbye, Liza imperceptibly whispered to Oleg Dal to come back.

That night, he broke his vow never to marry after his divorce from Tatyana Lavrova. At five in the morning, he resolutely went to ask for the hand of Elizabeth from his future mother-in-law, Olga Borisovna, Olenka, as he called her.

"He's so hard to live with!" - Colleagues talked about Dahl. To which his wife Lisa always answered backhand: “Nothing like that!” She always called Dahl "the greatest gift of Destiny." She loved him so much that she looked at everything through his eyes, lived by his deeds. And when the actor died, as if she died with him.
For the first time, Lisa saw him on the screen. “Even before I met Oleg, when I was just watching him in the cinema, he struck me with some kind of otherness,” the actress recalled. With her own eyes, she saw Oleg Dal on the set of the film "King Lear". He played the Jester. And Lisa worked in the editing workshop at Lenfilm. Famous actors often flashed before her eyes, but, knowing their easy disposition, she clearly hacked into her nose: "Never fall in love with actors." But as it happens in life: what we run from, sooner or later catches up with us.

Don't fall in love!
One day, in a noisy Estonian restaurant in Narva, where Liza was celebrating her 32nd birthday amid the clink of champagne glasses and loud toasts, she met Dahl. It wasn't fateful meeting. On the contrary, love at first sight did not happen. But Lisa seemed to be pushed towards him by an invisible hand. And where did this courage come from to tell him, hardly a familiar person, a famous actor: "Come to me in Leningrad, I will show you what happiness is."

And he came. In Leningrad, after filming the picture, they met again. By that time, Liza had another boyfriend, and Dahl, albeit reluctantly, had to compete with him. Once Oleg came to Lisa's house just when a gentleman was visiting her. There was confusion. The three of them had to sit: the men seemed to be waging an invisible struggle - "who will outlast whom." In the end, they left together. Having moved a few meters away from the house, Dahl went into a telephone booth and called Lisa. She said only one word that decided everything for them: "Come." Dal came and stayed for the night. And in the morning he asked Lisa to wake her mother to ask for the hand of her daughter. Having received consent, an hour later he joyfully flew away on tour to Uzbekistan.

Favorite "kangaroos"
When they met each other, both of them already had the experience of family life behind them. Dal spent six months married to Tatyana Lavrova, Elizabeth gave four years of her life to the famous film director Leonid Kvinikhidze. But these two marriages had one thing in common - they were "mistakes of youth." Or maybe just a necessary step on the way to each other ...

On November 27, 1970, the young people celebrated their wedding in Leningrad. After the registry office, as appropriate, we went to an ice cream parlor and drank champagne. And on the marriage certificate, Dahl wrote in a flourish: "Oleg + Lisa = Love." On Honeymoon they were given only three days. But ahead of them were waiting for 10 years of unshakable happiness. Almost ... The acting profession is associated with colossal emotional overload, often a bottle comes to the rescue. Dahl started drinking. They fought this problem together. Lisa understood that if he didn’t help, he would simply be left alone with his misfortune. She became for her husband the fortress he always needed. He knew that in whatever condition he came home, his wife would accept and support him.

Two years later, the family moved from Leningrad to Moscow. At first, the three of us, with Lisa's mother, huddled in a tiny cramped Khrushchev. Then Dahl moved from Sovremennik to the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, and the theater director helped the actor with new housing. The whole family moved into a luxurious four-room apartment. In the company of two beloved ladies (Dal adored his mother-in-law), Oleg lived warmly and comfortably. At home, he jokingly called his women "kangaroos" - because they had to carry heavy bags from the store.

Irreplaceable
Dahl was against Liza working, he really appreciated home comfort. To his wife, he liked to repeat the same phrase: “When you serve me, you bring more use to cinematography than sitting at the editing table. They can replace you there."

Oleg Dal loved his wife. There was something of parental love in this, when moms and dads are proud of their children. Once, introducing his wife to actor Rolan Bykov, Dal proudly and significantly said: “Lisa Eichenbaum, she is also Countess Apraksina, she is now Dal.”

He felt like he didn't have much left. Therefore, he wanted Lisa to spend as much time with him as possible. She thanked God for every day she lived with him. Even when Dahl played decrepit old people in the theater, Lisa felt that he was not destined to live to old age.

... March 3, 1981 Oleg Dal passed away - his heart stopped in a dream. In his diary, which the artist kept since 1971 and never showed to anyone, his wife read it only after his death - he foresaw his departure.

Elizabeth never tried to re-arrange her personal life. She survived her husband by twenty-two years. Until the birthday of Oleg Dal, the widow did not live only five days.