Yevgeniya Golynchik(1913-2000)
- Actress
Evgenia (Yevgeniya) Golynchik was the student at the Leningrad Theatre
and Film Institute under Sergey Gerasimov. There she met Georgi Zhzhyonov and they were
married in 1936. She was trying to help Zhzhyonov after his arrest and
imprisonment in the NKVD (KGB) prison in Leningrad. Their separation
was forced by his arrest by the KGB. At their last meeting in prison,
Zhzhyonov sincerely advised her to drop any hopes of seeing him again,
because he already was tortured and had little hope to be released.
Zhzhyonov told her that she was a great actress and should move on with
her career. After that she was cast in 'Istrebiteli' (1939), which
became a popular propaganda film in the Soviet Union. Zhzhyonov
petitioned to see this film while in his exile in Gulag prison-camp in
Siberia, because he wanted to see his wife again. He was allowed by the
prison guard to see the film and after that he wrote letters to
Golynchik. She never received his letters, because all prisoner's
letters were examined and usually destroyed by the Gulag prison
administration. Golynchik and Zhzhyonov saw each other only after the
end of Zhzhyonov's imprisonment. By that time she already had another
family, and they never met again.
