Galina Milovskaya

Actress, one of the most famous Soviet fashion models of the 1970s. As a student at the Shchukin School, she began working as a fashion model for the Moscow House of Models. In 1968, she demonstrated collections at the Moscow International Fashion Festival. After that, she was invited to shoot for Vogue magazine. Famous photographer Arnaud de Ronet arrived in the capital for filming.

The photo shoot took place on Red Square itself with the permission of the government. But after the publication of these photographs, where Galina sat with her back to the portraits of party members and the Mausoleum itself, the model was banned from appearing in foreign magazines. After some time, Galina Milovskaya starred in an Italian magazine in the nude with her body painted.

After this, the model was completely suspended from work. In 1974, Galina leaves for Israel and from there to Europe. Eventually he settles in London. There, Milovskaya participated in shows and filming for famous magazines thanks to her patron Ellyn Ford, founder of the Ford agency. But despite her successful professional growth, her career took on a political overtone.

In Europe, Galina was called the “Solzhenitsyn of fashion.” In Paris, she met her future husband, bank director Jean-Paul Dessertino, with whom she has lived for more than 30 years. In Paris, she left the modeling business and entered the Sorbonne to study film directing. I became interested in documentary films. She gave birth to a child. My daughter grew up and became an ethnologist, specializing in Guinea.

When “perestroika” began, Milovskaya was able to come home freely. She brought her famous film “This is Russian Madness” to the Leningrad Film Festival - about avant-garde artists who emigrated to France in the 1970s.