Yankovo ​​biography photo

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. He is also well known for his theatrical work in the famous Lenkom, to whom he dedicated thirty -five years of creative life. In the photo: Oleg Yankovsky childhood and youth years, the future actor was born in a family of hereditary nobles who had Polish and Belarusian roots. The maternal grandfather had its own shipping company in Astrakhan and fish crafts on the Volga.

Father, Ivan Jan Pavlovich Yankovsky, the former headquarters captain of the Life Guards of the Semenovsky regiment, passed the First World War, was seriously wounded during the Brusilov operation. Personally knew Marshal Tukhachevsky, with whom he served in the same regiment. Oleg Yankovsky with his parents and older brothers in the center did not save him from repressions - he was arrested three times the second time for being a friend of the repressed Tukhachevsky and sent to the Stalin camps, and at the beginning of the war they sent the whole family to Kazakhstan.

They had to destroy all the archives and noble letters that connected Yankovsky with a past life, as well as the St. George Cross of the head of the family.

Only a unique library has been preserved, which, despite material difficulties and deprivations, was protected as the apple of an eye. In Dzhezkazgan, his father first got a job at the Mining and Metallurgical Plant, then worked on the uranium mine in Leninabad. Mother, Marina Ivanovna, worked as an accountant and raised the children - Oleg and his older brothers Rostislav and Nikolai.

The youngest son was her favorite; Dreaming about her daughter, Marina Ivanovna tied a bow on his head - he was so pretty. In childhood, Oleg Yankovsky, as she could, tried to instill good manners to her sons, taught them the rules of etiquette and the French language. In her youth, she dreamed of becoming a ballerina, adored music and theater and tried to convey love for art to her children.

And Oleg grew up by a real disorder, loved to play football with yard friends, often got involved in fights and came home with a broken nose. In the year, the family moved from Kazakhstan to Saratov, to her grandmother, Olga Nenastieva, an aristocrat, who taught his grandchildren to the French. The elder brother Rostislav signed up in the amateur performances circle, and after graduation entered the theater school.

Nicholas was fond of theater, but Oleg still liked football more. The difficult working conditions finally undermined the health of his father, who had not recovered from severe wounds received at the front. In the year, Ivan Pavlovich died, and all the concerns of his sons lay on the fragile shoulders of Marina Ivanovna. The boys and mother and grandmother huddled in the meter room, which in the winter had to be heated with firewood.

I practically do not remember my father: he was repressed, for a long time was in custody. We met only shortly before his death. After graduating from the school, Rostislav went to Minsk by distribution and got a job at the Russian Drama Theater. To somehow help his mother, he took Oleg with him. The brothers lived in the tiny make -up of the theater, and Oleg spent a lot of time behind the scenes.

Soon he himself went on stage - he played the pioneer Edik in the play "Drummer". Children's sandals, in which the young artist made his debut on theatrical stages are still stored in the Museum of Minsk Russian Drama. The school years ended, and it was necessary to think about a further profession. He wanted to enter the medical institute, but when he saw an announcement of admission to the theater school, he decided to submit documents there.

A surprise awaited him in the selection committee - it turned out that the student Yankovsky was already enrolled in the first year. It turned out at home that brother Nikolai secretly entered the school from all home, but then changed his mind to study and decided to join the army. Nobody noticed the substitutions, and Oleg began on September 1. Oleg Yankovsky in his youth at first, a student Yankovsky did not stand out among his classmates.

He didn’t grab stars from the sky, had problems with diction, but in the diploma play “Three Sisters” he so vividly proved himself to be Tuzenbach that all doubts disappeared - he turned out to be a magnificent artist. The path of the actor in the second year Oleg met Lyudmila Zorina, his future wife. She was considered a very talented and promising student, already during her studies she played in the Saratov drama theater and, after receiving a diploma, organically joined his troupe.

Lyudmila put a word for her chosen one, and the artistic director, unable to refuse a young charming actress, found a place for Oleg. The young Oleg Yankovsky most often Yankovsky got the second -plan roles, but in the year, after the actor’s successful debut in the cinema, he was entrusted with playing Prince Myshkin in the “Idiot” according to Dostoevsky. Despite this, he still remained only his wife Zorina, Prima of the Saratov Theater.

Oleg Yankovsky in the play “Idiot” in the cinema Yankovsky was due to a random meeting that occurred during the tour of the troupe of the Saratov Theater in Lviv. In the hotel restaurant, Oleg was noticed by director Vladimir Basov, who had lunch there with his wife, a beautiful actress Valentina Titova.They discussed where to find an actor with a suitable Aryan appearance for the role of the German officer Henry Schwarzkopf in the film epic “Shield and Sword” The noble face of Yankovsky, and the exquisite manners were the best suited this screen image, and the novice Saratov actor was invited to Moscow to samples.

Oleg Yankovsky in the film “Shield and Sword” after the release of the picture on the screens of Yankovsky woke up famous. He was recognized on the streets, asked for autographs and guarded at the entrance to the theater. The role of the Red Army soldier Andrei Nekrasov in the military drama “two comrades” of the same year, where Rolan Bykov and Vladimir Vysotsky, added popularity in the military drama, added popularity.

Oleg Yankovsky in the film “Two Comrades served” at first Oleg Ivanovich was supposed to play the White Guard Brusensov, but after the first samples, director Yevgeny Karelov said: “Well, no, we will not give this guy to Wrangel! In the same picture, one of the secondary roles was played by the elder brother of Yankovsky Rostislav. There was no more sense in staying in Saratov - the directors of the leading metropolitan theaters, including Mark Zakharov, became interested in a promising actor.

He personally came to see the performances with the participation of Yankovsky and, impressed by his game, called Oleg Ivanovich in Lenkom. Oleg Yankovsky on the stage of the Lenkom performance “Autograd - XXI”, Mark Anatolyevich immediately introduced a young actor into the main repertoire performances, fully trusting his acting talent. And Yankovsky did not fail the great master - he gave the theater thirty -five years of his creative biography and did not part with the stage almost until the last days of his life.

The photo from the play “Dictatorship of Conscience” in parallel with theatrical activity, the actor continued to actively act in films. The role of Nikolai Segachev in the film “Racers” almost cost his life - the car in which Yankovsky was located turned over and caught fire. By some miracle, he remained intact and only a jacket burned on it, but the operator received serious injuries.

On the set of the film “Raids” in the year, Oleg Ivanovich was lucky to work with Andrei Tarkovsky - in the film Drama “Mirror” he played the father of the protagonist, whose prototype was Arseny Tarkovsky, the director’s father. And the role of young Alyosha went to the five -year -old son of Yankovsky Philip, who later followed in the footsteps of his father and also tied his life with cinema.

Oleg Yankovsky in the film “Mirror” impressed by the acting of Yankovsky, Tarkovsky thought about the adaptation of the Shakespearean Hamlet and offered Oleg Ivanovich the main role. Because of the bureaucratic, it was not possible to make the film, and then Yankovsky took the script for Mark Zakharov and persuaded him to put Hamlet on the stage of the Lenkom. But Tarkovsky unexpectedly decided that Yankovsky was more suitable for Laerte, and gave the role of Hamlet Anatoly Solonitsyn.

The offended actor refused to participate in the play and did not communicate with the director for almost ten years. Tarkovsky, together with the Italians, decided to remove the deep psychological drama "Nostalgia" about the tragic share of the Russian writer, who was in a foreign land. The main role was to play the same Anatoly Solonitsyn, but a few months before the start of the filming, the actor died of lung cancer.

Andrei Tarkovsky and Philip Yankovsky on the set of Nostalgia Tarkovsky turned to Yankovsky, and he, barely reading the script, immediately forgot all the insults and began work. The film turned out to be ingenious and at the Cannes festival received a prize for the best directing. But in the USSR, he was banned and for a long time lay on a shelf, like other paintings by the disgraced "defeat" of Tarkovsky.

Mark Zakharov and Oleg Yankovsky should especially note the roles of Yankovsky in the films of Mark Zakharov, which became the classics of domestic cinema. In the year, the director began filming the musical film-fairy tale “An ordinary miracle”, the role of a wizard in which was written specifically under Yankovsky. But after the release of the picture to the screens, Gorin publicly admitted the case of the master and paid tribute to his brilliant directorial instinct.

On the set of the film “The same Munchausen” in the year Yankovsky played the main role in the touching melodrama “In love with his own free will.” The film was watched by 25 million spectators, and Oleg Ivanovich was recognized as the best actor of the year according to the Soviet screen magazine. Oleg Yankovsky in the film “He was in love with his own free will”, parallel, the actor starred in the tragicomedy of Balayan’s Roman “Flights in a dream and in reality”, which became one of his favorite works.

Victor Merezhko wrote the script near Nikita Mikhalkov, but the director, seeing Yankovsky in the film “We, the Nizhche”, insisted on his candidacy. The frame from the film “Flights in a dream and in reality” Nikita Sergeyevich was not at all offended and even helped to persuade Oleg Ivanovich, who at that time was already littered with work. The decisive moment was the promise of Balayan to take the actor’s wife Lyudmila Zorin to one of the roles, who sacrificed his career for the sake of the family and rarely appeared on the screen.

This work was followed by a whole series of brilliant paintings, in which Yankovsky managed to show his brilliant acting talent “Keep me, my talisman”, “Kreutzer Sonata”, “Kill the Dragon”, “Passport”, “Tsareubian”. Alexander Abdulov, Roman Balayan and Oleg Yankovsky and then the collapse of the Soviet Union and a difficult economic crisis that followed him practically destroyed domestic cinema.

The screens were filled with low -grade criminal series, in which Yankovsky fundamentally refused to act. He also did not go with creative evenings in provincial recreation centers, he did not participate in corporate parties for the “new Russians”, so he very soon remained without work and money. The press conference of the Lenkomovtsev, at the invitation of the French director Claude Oleg Ivanovich, went to Paris for six months, where he played a policeman in an international theater project.

There he learned that he became a national artist of the USSR - the last owner of the honorary title of a great country, which ceased to exist. It is interesting that neither the director of the performance, nor the producer of the project, even suspected how popular in Russia they deal with. Only a few years later, having met Yankovsky in Moscow, they were able to appreciate all the strength and power of a comprehensive folk love that surrounded this artist.

Hour of the peak. Oleg Yankovsky returning to Russia, Oleg Ivanovich began to shoot in several interesting projects at once, which, unfortunately, were never completed. On the film by Sergey Solovyov “Turgenev. The metaphysics of love ”elementary did not have enough funding, and the military drama of Semyon Aranovich“ The Lamb of God ”was not completed due to the death of the director.

The shooting of Anna Karenina Solovyov dragged on for sixteen years - the premiere of the picture took place in February, three months before the death of Yankovsky. And in the beginning, X tried himself as a director and took off his touching New Year's melodrama “Come to see me” with Irina Kupchenko in the title role. The picture turned out to be very kind and bright and was warmly met by the audience.

One of the roles in it was played by the grandson of Oleg Ivanovich Vanya, who also continued the acting dynasty. The frame from the film “Come to see me” in the year the dramatic tape “lover” of the director Valery Todorovsky was released on the screens. This picture has become one of the best works by the actor of recent years. For her for her, Oleg Ivanovich canceled all other projects in order to fully concentrate on this strongest in psychological intensity of history.

The film was shown at the Cannes festival three days before the actor’s death and became a worthy ending of his creative biography and life path. During the filming, an accurate copy of what the Metropolitan himself wore, which he asked to consecrate and give him for personal use, was specially made for Yankovsky. Oleg Yankovsky’s last film “Tsar”, the actor already knew that he was mortally ill, but did not talk about this from the film crew.

But the audience felt that the actor was saying to them through the screen - many could not restrain his tears, listening to his prophetic words in the final of the picture.