Zoya Yakovleva was not only a talented theater actress, but also a heroic woman. Together with her husband, she was in the underground group "Falcon", which included workers from the Simferopol Theater.
During the Great Patriotic War, many feats were accomplished. Behind one of them is the name of Zoe Yakovleva. This actress and her husband worked underground in the Falcon group. At the cost of their lives, such wars brought the heroes closer to Victory Day.
Biography
Zoya Yakovleva was born in 1898, on March 17 in Chuvashia. The girl was left an orphan early. Zoya was six years old, when her father died, when she was nine, her mother died.
So Zoe was left alone with her brother Arkady. Children wandered, lived with their aunts, then with their grandmother. These relatives also did not have enough, so everyone was starving.
To somehow support her brother, Zoya sang to him, told tales.
The girl was unable to get a secondary education, but she graduated from several classes of the school, learned to read and write and read a lot. Zoya Titovna wanted to be an actress, but first she went to work in the veterinary department, since she had to earn money to feed herself.
Theatrical career
But the girl did not abandon her dream, she entered the Theater collective, where various plays were staged. Half-starved actors played in cold rooms, but they were happy that they were doing what they liked.
Zoya Yakovleva participated in the decisions even in the warehouse, where earlier they kept the matting and bast. Here enthusiasts created an auditorium, a stage.
In this small theater, Yakovleva played under the direction of Maximov-Kashinsky, it was he who insistently advised Zoe to go to study as an actress. So she went to Kazan, where she graduated from two-year courses in a theater studio.
But the girl did not forget about her homeland. She often played on the stage of the city of Cheboksary.
Then she met her future husband. It was Dmitry Konstantinovich Dobromyslov. The couple toured with a group of the theater, and in 1938 went to the Crimea. Here they began to play in the regional drama theater.
