Margarita Nazarova – star “Striped flight”.
The name tiger tamer Margarita Nazarova in the Soviet Union was well known: the star of the film “Striped flight” loved fearless nature, and her performances of the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard watched with bated breath. However, few people knew what had gone through pretty young lady before in her life had a chance to Shine on stage. Prisoner in Nazi Germany, post-war poverty in Latvia… By the will of fate, Nazarova managed to find himself in taming wild animals, but its popularity was brief.
Childhood Margarita Nazarova, like many children of the war, ended relatively early: when she was 15 years old, came the Great Patriotic war, and she and her mother and sisters had to go to the evacuation in Pavlovsk, and from there were deported to captivity in Germany. Due to its good artistic skills, she was able to get a job in a cabaret in Hamburg. There she lived until the end of the war, and after went to Latvia in search of lost relatives. Mother and sisters managed to find, but the fate of his father remained unknown to her.
Circus debut took place in Latvia: at first it was dances, after – training small animals, and one artist came up with the most difficult trick on a motorcycle, which attracted the attention of well-known at the time of the trainer of Constantine Constantine. Seeing the tenacity and fearlessness Nazarova, he offered her to join the training. It’s forever changed the life of the artist.
What Constantine taught Margaret to dealing with predators. Don’t fall in love with this strong man who in every way took care of his companion, was impossible, and soon the couple decided to get married. This marriage was not happy, but he was born the son Alyosha that kept artists from the breakup.
Fame came to Margarita Nazarova after participating in the filming of the movie “tiger girl” and “Striped flight”. In both cases, the Margarita has done with the understudy, though, and tame animals would have in a short time. After filming Nazarova began to think seriously about a solo circus performances, assistance in the formulation of the offer it received from Constantine, he’s always back her speech.
The tigers played a fatal destiny in the life of this couple: they have become an occasion for exploring and collaboration, they also caused the death of Constantine. In the accident the trainer was wounded in the head and died from the inflammatory process.
Many years later, Margarita Nazarova had also experienced the wrath of the predator: during a speech on the public eye she was attacked by a beast. The actress managed to save, but to psychologically recover after that she never did, and the doctors forbade her to continue to go to the circus. Her career ended in 1983.
In the last years of her life Margarita Nazarova was forgotten. From the former glory is not gone, there are few who recalled, she lived in a miserable apartment, the guests also visited rarely. Died of Margarita Nazarova at the age of 78 years. Only on the third day after the death of worried neighbors, at their request, there arrived rescuers, who found the body of the legendary tigers a toggle. So tragically ended the lives of fearless women, which is the first in the USSR was not afraid to enter the cage with predators…
