She has protested the law that prohibits adoption of Russian children by US citizens, the persecution of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the incarceration of Vasily Aleksanyan. Īkhedzhakova is a critic of contemporary Russian politics. She was criticized for her speech by Alexander Prokhanov, Alexander Rutskoy, Stanislav Govorukhin and others who blamed intelligentsia for escalating the conflict. He later wrote in his memoirs, "I will always remember Akhedhakova – shocked, fragile, but firm and courageous". Yeltsin watched the broadcast in his office. She expressed support to Boris Yeltsin while also criticized the army for "not protecting us" from the old Soviet Constitution and encouraged people "to wake up", or "the Communists will return". In the summer of 2001, Liya Akhedzhakova married the Moscow-based photographer Vladimir Persiyanov.ĭuring the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis on the night before the storming of the White House, Akhedzhakova and several other popular actors attended a live broadcast at the "reserve studio" outside of the Ostankino Technical Center. Her second husband was artist and poet Boris Kocheishvili. In the 2000 film Old Hags she played alongside her stepfather.Īkhedzhakova's first husband was Valery Nosik, an actor of Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre and Maly Theatre. In 1986 she played four main roles in the play Apartment Columbine directed by Roman Viktyuk.Īs a film actress Liya Akhedzhakova became widely known due to her roles in Eldar Ryazanov's films, including Tania in The Irony of Fate (1975), Verochka in Office Romance (1977), Malaeva in The Garage (1979), and Fima in Promised Heaven (1991). In 1977 she joined the Sovremennik Theatre. Her debut in this drama was awarded several prizes at international film festivals in Locarno, Switzerland and Varna, Bulgaria. Her first film appearance was in Ishchu cheloveka (1973) (Russian: Looking for a Man). In 1962, she graduated from Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts (GITIS). She first appeared on stage in 1961 at Moscow Youth Theatre.
In 1956 she entered the Moscow Institute of Nonferrous Metals and Gold where she studied for eighteen months.
In response, a rare drug was delivered to her family. At the age of 10, when her mother and aunt were suffering from tuberculosis, she wrote a letter to Joseph Stalin with a request for help. Her mother, Yuliya Alexandrovna Akhedzhakova (1916–1990), was also an actress at the same drama theatre.
Her father, Medzhid Salehovich Akhedzhakov (1914–2012), was a Circassian nobleman who served as the Principal Director of the National Theatre of the Republic of Adygea. She grew up in a theatrical family in Maykop. Akhedzhakova was born in Dnepropetrovsk (modern-day Dnipro, Ukraine).
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