Biography
Alexey Vladimirovich Tikhonov is a figure skater, who advocated Russia in pair skating with Maria Petrova and for Japan with Yucik Kavasaki. It was repeatedly champion in Europe and the world, and also took gold medals in the championships of the Russian Federation and Japan. Completed a professional career in 2007 in the rank of Honored Master of Sports. Looking from figure skating, became an actor.Childhood and youth
European champion and world was born on November 1, 1971. Father Vladimir Nikolaevich Tikhonov was one of the first bodybuilders in Kuibyshev, has three higher education, worked in senior positions at the state service, and after he opened his own business. Larisa Grigorievna's mother worked in the legal sphere. The couple have two children - the youngest son Ilya when choosing a profession went in footsteps.
Parents gave Lesha to the children's school of skaters at the age of five. The first coach Tikhonov was Vera Birbraer, who had seen a single-man athlete for a long time. Only at the age of 14, the teenager first got up in a couple and after 2 years he went to Yekaterinburg, because there was more prospects. In 1989, he paired with Irina Saifutdinova achieved the first noticeable achievement - the guys took the bronze awards of the World Junior Championships.
True, more with Irina, the figure skater did not dance, because he went to Moscow and stood in a couple with Catherine Murogova. At about two years old, they dedicated the CSKA club for about two years, and then partner Tikhonov completed speeches in amateur figure skating due to marriage. Alexey again remained alone, and then the Soviet Union was falling apart.
Personal life
Almost immediately after Tikhonov and Maria Petrov stood in a couple, a spark broke out between them. After a few years, after the Olympics in Salt Lake City, the lovers began to live together.In 2010, the family of Polina appeared in the family, but after the birth of daughter Alexei and Maria continued to live in a civil marriage, as they could not solve whether to arrange a magnificent wedding or simply sign.
Contrary to rumors and gossip, an athlete and his civilian wife are not going to submit to a divorce. Parents gave Polina to Ballet School, where the daughter is already doing successes. Subsequently, the pair plans to enjoy the girl to curled figure skating.
Alexey leads accounts in Facebook, Twitter. He also has its own website, and in "Instagram" the page is equipped only at Mary, where the figure skaters lay out family photos.
Figure skating
After the departure of the Morogova from Sports, Tikhonov had a choice - or herself to throw ride, or leave abroad. He chose the second way, went to Japan and, together with the former single Single, Yukiko Kavasaki twice in a row became the champion of this country. In the international arena, successes were modest. You can note only the bronze medal of the NHK Trophy tournament in 1993.
Probably, the Russian figure skater and further would continue the speeches in the country of the Rising Sun, but in 1994, when Alexey was on vacation, he received a proposal to enter the troupe of the Tatiana Tarasova Ice Theater "All Stars". The young man agreed.
All the time that the figure skater was outside of a big sport, Tikhonov dreamed there to return there. However, from the first chance to speak with Petrova, he refused - did not risk leaving a profitable theater for the sake of dubious prospects.
And when in 1998, the troupe broke down, Tikhonov himself found the Petersburg figure skater and, together with the girl, after 4 months, took the 1st place at the qualifying stage in Germany, and later became the champion of Europe.
Maria got into a great sport on the recommendation of doctors who advised parents to avoid daughter's disease to give it to the sports section. In figure skating, Petrov came at 7 years of age and immediately began to do progress. Later came to pair skating. Anton Siharulidze became the first partner, the second - Teimuraz Pulin, and only after that the athlete stood in a couple with Tikhonov.
Partners managed not only once to charm Figure skating lovers not only within the Russian championship, but also at the rinks of European championships and the world.
In 2006, Alexey and Maria were going to complete his career at the peak of Glory. A couple persuaded to stay for another season, which, unfortunately, brought more disappointments than satisfaction. At the last World Championship, the skaters took only the 11th place in the short program, and the arbitrary had to be missed at all, as Tikhonov was injured. Upon returning home from Tokyo Duet finally announced that a big sport was left behind.
Films and Tele Show
Since 2006, Alexey has combined the performances in figure skating with the participation of the star on the ice, where he danced with actress Anna Basya and took the 3rd place.The athlete was then invited to the "Ice Age" rating project, which started since 2008. The artist has become his regular participant. The wards Alexey became stars like Alice Grebenchikov, Ekaterina Strizhenova, Tatiana Arntgolz, Alena Babenko, Christina Asmus, Anita Tsoi, and others. The show comes out annually on the air of the First Channel. Exceptions were 2015 and 2017, since professional skaters and coaches were occupied in other projects.
In the show "Ice and Flame" in 2010, a man went on ice with the love of Tolkalina, however, at the 4th stage he changed the partner to Svetlana Svetikov.
In 2011, Alexey, together with the faith of watermelon, soloist of the Mikhailovsky Theater, participated in the Dance TV project "Bolero". He then took part in the "Cup of Professionals", in which the company Figiefist was Tatiana Navka.
Almost with all partners Alexei reached the final, but in some cases before the podium. The athlete is deservedly considered one of the most artistic and reliable partners in the doubles.
Tikhonov interested and acting career, after him as Kameo was invited to the TV series "Swaha" about the work of the marriage agency and his head of Anna Polon (Anna Bigov).
Then Tikhonov, already on the rights of a full-fledged actor, was involved in the detective "hot ice", in which we were talking about events in the sports world and relationships between the skaters. In addition to Alexei Yagudina, Roman Kostomarova, a popular artist of Ekaterina Guseva starred in the series, Boris Nevzorov, Anna Bolshaya.
In the tragicomedy "Freaty-2" 2010, the figure skater played Kameo. After 2 years, the series "Emergency Situation" came out on TV channels, in which Alexey reincarnated in the father of the character of Maxim. In the film, we were talking about an athlete who decided to change the scope of activity and settled to work in the Ministry of Emergency Situations. In 2013, the artist was starred in the criminal film "Team" about the work of the elderly investigator and the police station.
In 2014, the demonstration of the children's film "My grandfather" started, where Alexei was invited to the role of Hero Oleg. At the same time, the skater was filmed in the melodraman "Heart Memory" about the life of a 17-year-old girl who had lost his family overnight.
In addition, Tikhonov managed to go out on the theatrical scene in the play "abnormal" on the eponymous play of the hopes of the pussy. This happened in 2009 in the theater named after Evgeny Vakhtangov.
More serious roles got celebrities in the short filing "Business offer" and melodrame "Memory of the Heart". In 2015, a criminal melodrama "Fallen in salvation" was published with the participation of the actor, where Alexey played the dentist Konstantin. In the adventure militant "Sea Devils", the athlete appeared on the screen as a figure of Nicholas.
Then the actor appeared in a secondary role in the film "Insomnia", which was created by the forces of American filmmakers. In it, Alexey played Russian Mr. Smirnov.
In 2017, work on the musical "Romeo and Juliet" continued, in which Petrov and Tikhonov reincarnated in Laura and Father Lorenzo. The project director became Ilya Averbukh. In addition to Lorenzo, Alexey fulfilled the role of a living narrator, whose voice sounds throughout the performance. The artist reads poetic lines from William Shakespeare's play.
Staging, on the idea of the director, is not a direct translating of the play, but a dance interpretation of the work. In Romeo and Juliet, Tatyana Tutmianin and Maxim Marinin, the role of Mercuzio and Tibalt went to Alexey Yagudin and Roman Kostomarov. The image of Paris tried on Ilya Kulik. Tatyana Volosozhar, Maxim Trankov, Oksana Domnina, Maxim Shabalin also played in the performance.
In October 2017, the "Boomerang" of the director Kira Angelina film director was started on the TV channel "Russia-1". Tikhonov reincarnated in Tikhonov's tape in Dmitry's character, the spouse of the main character.
At the same time, the premiere of a multi-sieuled plenty detective "second vision" was held, in which the figure skater played an ophthalmologist. Alexei's colleagues on the set became Pavel Trubiner, Valery Burduja, Maria Shumakova, Alexander Galibin.
In 2019, the celebrity filmography was replenished with the series "At Dawn". Alexey embodied the image of Vitaly Podgorodetsky, Father Sergey (Timofey Karatayev) and a friend of childhood Roman (Igor Filippov). Anna Starianbaum was also filmed in the project, Vyacheslav Krikunov, Alexander McOn. The film tells about the girl Lena, which as a result of the accident forgot the last 10 years of life. She does not recognize his boyfriend and does not know about the death of his father, and also does not remember the love relating to the business partner of the parent and his own mother.
Another premiere of 2019 - "Paradise knows everything!", Or the 2nd part of the series "Paradise knows." The actor got the role of the second plan.
Alexey Tikhonov Now
The skater takes part in the project "Ice Age - 2020", this season has become the seventh for the show. His partner is the actress of theater and cinema Irina Pegov. Premiere on the first channel - in October 2020. About your impressions about training with Tikhonov, Irina told on the program "Evening Urgant". In an interview about a colleague, the actress joked:
"He is the best partner! The only one that can raise me.By the way, weighs the artist 65 kg.
On the same channel in 2020, a show of the 2nd season of the Medical Drama "Practice" started. This series began to show in May 2018, but after several episodes were removed from the broadcasting grid for incomprehensible reasons. For 40 episodes, it is described about the difficult weekdays of the ordinary Tula Hospital. Tikhonov has an episodic role in the project, and the main characters came to the project from the 1st season - Surgeon Evgeny Queen (Ksenia Lavrov-Glinka) and the doctor Ilya Sokolov from Moscow (Eldar Lebedev).
Achievements
- 1993, 1994 - Japan Champion
- 1999-2001, 2003-2005 - Silver winner of the Russian Championship
- 1999, 2000 - European Champion
- 1999, 2003, 2004 - Bronze medalist of the final series of the Grand Prix
- 2000 - World Champion
- 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 - Bronze medalist of the European Championship
- 2002 - Bronze medalist of the championship of Russia
- 2003, 2006 - Bronze medalist of the World Cup
- 2004, 2007 - Silver winner of the European Championship
- 2005 - Silver winner of the World Cup
- 2005 - Silver medalist of the final Grand Prix series
- 2006 - Champion of Russia