Biography
Yuri Yakovlev is the legendary Soviet and Russian actor, whose name is well known to several generations of the Patriotic Public. For some, he remained the prince of Myshkina, for others - the brilliant guarantor Rzhevsky, someone admired his comical Ivan the Terrible or intelligent and hypolyte. Yakovlev demonstrated the ability to embody on the screen equally bright comedy and dramatic amplua.Childhood and youth
The famous Soviet actor Yuri Vasilyevich Yakovlev was born on April 25, 1928 in Moscow. His father of Vasily, a leaving of a merchant class, worked as a lawyer, although in his youth was preparing to become an actor and reappeted 2 years in the conservatory. Olga's mother worked as a diet in the dining room under the Kremlin clinic and was forced to hide the unpole origin. By nationality, the parents of the boy were Russian.
The Yakovlev family together with the sister and two brothers Olga Mikhailovna lived in the Saddensna Lane, and later they moved to a new building in Kolobovsky Lane. By that time, Yuri's parents divorced. The boy stayed with Mom, and his father came to visit him on Thursdays.
In 1937, mass purges and arrests began. Uncle Yura, the party leader of Ami Ivanov, who was friends with Tukhachevsky, was taken away and shot after a quick court. Olga Mikhailovna was saved by following the advice of the bosses and quit. In the autumn of 1941, the house where Yakovlev was lived were evacuated. The family moved to Ufa, the teenager began to work in the hospital, where his mother had a nurse. In parallel, the boy studied at school.
Home, in the dilapidated Moscow, they returned in 1943. Yunoy Yakovlev received the work of the tanker, and later - the master in the fine automotive repair at the US Embassy. After graduating from the evening school, the young man had already gathered to file documents to the Institute of International Relations, in order to further become a diplomat, but as a result, I changed my mind and decided to try the forces in the acting craft.
The guy rehearsed in a small pantry apartment, honed the diction and voice formulation. The goal of Yakovleva was admission to VGIK, and there was a disappointment of an ambitious young man: his appearance did not suit the admission committee. The young actor was informed that he would look bad in the frame.
It was not the first refusal because of the appearance in Yakovleva's life. Even before the war, the young man was tried on a secondary role in Timur and his team. The defeat on the exam crossed the applicant, but then the case was intervened, which predetermined the creative biography of the young man.
An explorer student who met Yuri in the corridors of Vgika, advised him to apply for Schukin's school, the only institution where the exams had lasted. The admission committee was not delighted with Yakovleva. He has already decided that everything was lost, but at that moment the Cecilia Lvivna Mansurov intervened, which was gaining a course and insisted that the young man accepted.
In Schukinsky, the student's business school was bad. On the 1st year, he almost flew out, managed to get "neud" on acting, the main courses discipline. The situation was again saved by the brilliant actress Cecilia Lvovna, who taught the glushing subject. She looked at the potential in young Yakovlev and took a unlucky student under personal care.
Gradually, the situation has improved, the young man began to receive four, and by the end of his studies managed to establish itself as a young hope of theatrical art. There is nothing surprising that the graduate of Schukinsky school instantly accepted into the Academic Theater named after Vakhtangov. Soon, Yuri Vasilyevich became one of the main actors.
Theater
Going to a big scene Yakovlev began in 1952. In early productions, the artist played episodic roles, for example, gendarme in the play "Molded" based on the novel by Viktor Hugo. But the next year she brought a young actor first a secondary role in the "European Chronicle" and Makar Dubrava, and then the Central Pieces of Sergey Mikhalkov "Cracks". Yakovlev, the embodiment of the image of Lensky, caused the viewers and critics delight.
A truly close to his temperament Yakovlev considered the identity of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov. The artist not only participated in the performances of the author's immortal creations, but also embodied his image on stage and screen. For the first time, Yuri Vasilyevich came to the stage in the role of Chekhov in the play "Mocking my happiness" on the play Leonid Malyugina.
As contemporaries assured, Yakovlev had a great similarity with the hero: even their height was coincided (187 cm), so when one day the actor was lucky to try on the jacket of the classics, he sat down at him as he could.
In subsequent years, the artist participated in a variety of productions, interrupting his career only for the period between 1954 and 1962, when he began to act intensively in the cinema. In 1968, the actor played Hydra Glumov in the play "On all sages of pretty simplicity", and this role brought Yuri a lot of laudatory feedback from the public. By the end of the 60s, the Contractor approved himself as the leading actor of the Evgeny Vakhtangov theater.
Thanks to the talent and film-knownness of the formulation of Yakovlev, the full halls were collected. The artists fell out proposals from the directors and art leaders of competing theaters. The actor was called to MCAT, the Small Theater, but Yakovlev in nature is a conservative, so it remained faithful to the place of work.
For 60 years of service in the theater named after Vakhtangov, Yuri Vasilyevich worked with the most different actors and directors, ranging from Vladimir Ethe and ending with the shockful Roman Viktyuk. The last theatrical role of Yakovlev performed in the play "Pier" put in 2011. Total actor played more than in the polustener of the plays of various genres.
Films
In the filmmaking, the actor debuted in 1954, he was entrusted with an episodic role in the historical film of the Soviet-Albanian production "The Great Warrior Albania Skandardbeg". This film festival was shown at the Cannes Film Festival and even received a premium for the director, which was none of the way on the fate of Yakovleva.
A year later, the actor received a small role in a brilliant water waters "on the stage of the scene." In 1956 and 1957, another 3 more films with actor participation were released.
Success to Yuri Yakovlev came when the artist was filmed in the adaptation of the first part of the novel "Idiot". Director Ivan Pyriev for 8 years thought about the work on this work, but did not find among the performers of the required type. Accidentally seeing the photo of the young yakovyev in the map "Mosfilm", and then looking at the artist samples for another film, the director instantly made his choice. At the meeting, Ivan Alexandrovich only talked with the actor, finally making sure the loyalty of his decision.
In 1959, this film was named the best according to the Journal of the Soviet screen, and Yuri Vasilyevich himself as the leading leader was instantly gained popularity. In 1961, the actor took part in the filming of the ribbon of Eldar Ryazanov "Man nowhere."
Perhaps, thanks to this movie, Yakovleva was invited to embody the image of the Lieutenant of Rzhevsky in the next filmmaker Eldar Ryazanov "Hussarskaya Ballad", which went to the screens in 1962 and immediately became popular. This comedy looked at almost 50 million spectators.
Filmorezhsters began to shower the young actor with suggestions, and Yakovlev starred over the next decade in more than 20 films. The 70s fastened the All-Union Glory of the actor when Yuri Vasilyevich played first in the regiment "Ivan Vasilyevich is changing profession," and then in the most important New Year film "Irony of Fate, or with a light steam!".
Initially, Oleg Basilashvili was invited to the role of Ippolit, but then he had a family tragedy, and it was decided to replace the actor Yakovlev, who eventually got into the desired image.
In the future, a few more religious films appeared in the artist filmography - this is a comedy "perfect husband", the Karnival melodrama, the military drama "Battle of Moscow", the tragicomedy "Kin-Dza-Dza!", The adventure film "Gardenarya III".
The actor was filmed on television, including in television spectacle "Princess Turandot", playing the role of Pantalon. Thanks to the perfect voice, Yakovleva was invited to voicing artistic and documentaries, plates and cartoons.
His pronunciation manner was compared with the talent of the Speaker Yuri Levitan. Yuri Yakovlev entrusted to pronounce the text for the scene in the Military drama Grigory Chukhraya "Ballada about Soldiers", in the comedies "Beware of the car", "Old men, the Robbers". Ben Gunn from the Treasure Island is told by his voice later from the Soviet Children's Children.
The films of the new post-Soviet period Yuri Vasilyevich did not like and filmed them rarely. Since 1993, until his death, the actor participated only in several TV projects and 4 films, one of which is the continuation of the "irony of fate." This film did not like the film crimits.
Personal life
In theatrical circles, the actor was known to love love. His first wife became the doctor Kira Manchulskaya. Marriage lasted less than 10 years. The actor's spouse could not bear the child, the husband began to walk "left" and did not really hid it. As a result, when Kira gave birth to her daughter, it turned out that the actress Ekaterina Raykin was pregnant from Yakoveva, to which the actor in the end and left.Despite the fact that the actor's deed looked defiant, Yuri Vasilyevich himself suffered from serious change in his personal life. Later, the artist confessed himself in an interview that he did not want to hurt anyone. The second marriage lasted 3 years. Couple divorced because of a change and abuse of spouse alcohol. Alexey's son stayed with mom.
Only the third marriage of Yakovleva with the director of the theater museum Irina Sergeyev became happy. The woman closed his eyes on the spouse's intrigues, and in 1969 he gave him the son of Anton. Yuri Vasilyevich and Irina lived together for more than 40 years, right up to the death of a brilliant actor.
What is noteworthy, all the children of Yakovlev went at the footsteps of the Father and chose an acting path. Alena Yakovleva consists in the troupe of the theater of Satira, like her daughter Maria Kozakova.
Alexey Yakovlev one time served in the theater. M.N. Yermolova, later went into business. Anton Yakovlev became the director. Yury Vasilyevich managed to establish warm relationships with all the heirs, by friendly family they often gathered in the house of the Father.
Death
Yuri Yakovlev died on November 30, 2013 after a long illness. According to friends, the actor predicate his care, every time leaving the scene as the last time. His final phrase from the statement of the "Pier" sounded prophetic:
"The Lord will ask me if I was happy in earthly life? And from sweet tears, I will not have time to answer, on the knees of prison. "A few weeks before death, the artist needed hospitalization. Doctors did everything possible, but the state of the actor's health was not improved: the heart failure progressed. The cause of the death of Yuri Vasilyevich became swelling of the lungs and the heart attack.
Master's care has become a big blow for his relatives, close and colleagues. The farewell ceremony took place in the native theater of the actor. At the funeral, the farewell word uttered Rimas Tinas, Vladimir Etush, Vasily Lanova, Maria Aronov and others. Two years later, at the Mogilee Yakovleva, which is located at the Novodevichy Cemetery, a monument was established a monument to Evgeny Lancer and Alexander Teleshev.
Filmography
- 1958 - "Idiot"
- 1962 - "Hussar Ballad"
- 1967 - "Anna Karenina"
- 1973 - "Ivan Vasilyevich is changing profession"
- 1975 - "Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Ferry!"
- 1981 - "Carnival"
- 1985 - "Battle for Moscow"
- 1986 - "Kin-Dza-Dza!"
- 1990 - "Trap for a lonely man"
- 1992 - "Gardemarins III"
- 1997 - "Countess de Monsoro"
- 2007 - "Irony of Fate. Continuation"