Name: Yury Bogatirev
Age: 41 years old
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
A place of death: Moscow
Activity: theater and film actor
Family status: was married
Yuri Bogatyrev - biography
He was admired by fans, adored by women and appreciated by directors. And Bogatyrev himself could hardly tolerate the whole world - and, first of all, himself.
Yuri Bogatyrev - childhood, family
The future artist and actor was born in the capital of Latvia two years after the end of the Great Patriotic War. Bogatyrev's childhood years passed with unusual biography. Surprisingly gentle, bewitchingly affectionate, with refined manners. He was indifferent to everything boyish, was friends only with girls, and tried on his mother’s jewelry and dresses with interest. When guests came to the house, Yura himself ran to tell them poems, sing songs or dance. I listened to the applause with bated breath...
The family left the Baltic states when Yura turned six. Bogatyrev Sr., a naval officer, was transferred to Moscow. The navigator of the submarine brigade realized that his son was a creative person, but still sent the guy to the Nakhimov School. It was a fatal mistake: from a cheerful boy, Yura turned into a hunted outcast. In just two months! The cadets stole his winter clothes and severely beat him. For the first time, Bogatyrev felt like a stranger in this world.
Yuri Bogatyrev - studies
After unsuccessful attempt“raising a man” the parents left their son alone. And Yura began to draw - all day long! After graduating fine art school, entered the Art and Industrial School with a degree in carpet artist.
For a long time, theater in Bogatyrev’s biography was only a hobby. The situation changed in 1965, when Yuri became the leading artist of Globus, a children's doll studio. Tours began around Moscow and the region, and there was no time to design carpets. Bogatyrev took the situation as a sign from above and entered the Shchukin Theater School.
The tall, broad-shouldered young man immediately became the best on the course. Natalya Varley, Natalya Gundareva and Konstantin Raikin studied with him. “We copied his way of walking, joking, even hugging,” said Gundareva. “He was full of unearthly grace!”
There was only one thing that confused him - his unhealthy vulnerability, his general immaturity. From a mere trifle, a stupid trifle, Bogatyrev could burst into tears in front of everyone. “He’s a strong man with the soul of a child!” - Yuri Katin-Yartsev, the actor’s mentor, once remarked. Only a couple of years will pass, and it is this feature that will delight director Nikita Mikhalkov.
Yuri Bogatyrev - films
In less than 20 years acting career Bogatyrev played more than 50 roles in film, theater and TV. And none of the fans had any idea that the leading actor of the USSR was a weak-willed, driven man.
“Yura always needed a “master,” Mikhalkov admitted in an interview. “A person who will tell you what, how and when to do.” This was Nikita Sergeevich, who essentially created the “legendary Bogatyrev.” The director cast him in 7 of his epoch-making films, including the debut full-length “One among Strangers, a Stranger among Ones,” the melodrama “Slave of Love,” the film adaptation of Chekhov’s stories “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano,” and the tragicomedy “Kin.” A role was also prepared for the actor in “The Barber of Siberia,” but Yuri did not have the strength to live up to it.
An amazing fact: he is different in all roles. Sometimes he’s mean, sometimes he’s strong, sometimes he’s stupid, sometimes he’s prudently businesslike - but every time he has nothing to do with himself. How did he do it? The answer is simple and terrible at the same time: Bogatyrev was always happy to run away from himself.
Yuri Bogatyrev - biography of the actor’s personal life
Successful in his profession, Yuri did not find happiness in his personal life. A child and a romantic, he often fell in love. The objects of his adoration were Elena Solovey, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Olga Yakovleva, Natalya Gundareva... Bogatyrev was ready to carry each one in his arms, shower him with flowers and compliments - but nothing more.
When it came to choosing a life partner, lasting relationships and starting a family, Bogatyrev changed before our eyes. He didn’t know how to be a grown man, and he didn’t want to. Having failed to live up to the expectations of his next passion, her friends and his parents, he became more and more withdrawn into himself and plunged into the abyss of loneliness.
Yuri married suddenly, out of a feeling of compassion, to Nadezhda Seraya, an actress at the Taganka Theater. After divorcing her husband, she and her little daughter found themselves in Moscow without registration. The compassionate Bogatyrev did not hesitate to offer his help to his colleague. They signed secretly, without even informing their parents. Over the years this Noble act youth began to weigh on him. Not only marriage, but also life seemed more and more fictitious to him...
Bogatyrev’s mental health was undermined by his long wandering around communal apartments. He himself was partly to blame for this: he learned to earn money, but not how to manage it. Dozens of actors who called themselves friends shamelessly took advantage of his kindness and dependability. There were cases when Yuri lent almost his entire salary to another “good friend”.
Insecure from birth, Bogatyrev was extremely dependent on the opinions of others. To please those around him, having moved from Sovremennik to the Moscow Art Theater, he began to drink. Everyone drinks, and he is obliged not to fight off the team! Imagine Yuri’s surprise when he realized that he was not only disrespected, but also... hated. For talent, leading roles, good fees, success, even for freedom from family ties.
The envy of his colleagues painfully wounded Bogatyrev, “a man without skin.” Unsettled life, one’s own spinelessness and worries about one’s unconventional sexual orientation made him disgusted with himself. He sought salvation in painting and... again in alcohol. Emboldened by the effects of alcohol, Bogatyrev called people “like-minded in spirit.” "We need to talk! - he either begged or shouted into the phone. -I can't stand this anymore! I will go crazy!" And every time I heard the answer: “Yura, it’s already three o’clock in the morning!” I get up early tomorrow..."
Yuri Bogatyrev - deadly euphoria
At the age of 40, Bogatyrev’s life took a sharp turn. He received the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR, an apartment on Gilyarovsky Street, and began preparing for his first exhibition.
Years of depression gave way to unbridled joy. Now the acting parties that began at the Moscow Art Theater necessarily continued at Bogatyrev’s house. Yuri Georgievich meekly paid for taxi services, alcohol and snacks for all guests. And in the morning I went to the theater or to filming.
The actor gained weight from his exhausting life; high blood pressure and heart pain became the norm for him. The process of voluntary suicide was accelerated by antidepressants.
In January 1989, Bogatyrev received a fee for his role in the Soviet-Italian film “Black Eyes” - several thousand dollars! At a party thrown for the occasion, he lost consciousness. The ambulance workers, without hesitation, injected him with a strong drug for high blood pressure. Mixed in the artist’s blood with alcohol and antidepressants, it caused cardiac arrest...
Moscow said goodbye to Yuri Bogatyrev on February 6 - he did not live to see his 42nd birthday just a month. “Friends” took everything from his apartment - money, art books, dozens of his paintings. Where these things are is still unknown.
Born on March 2, 1947 in Riga to the family of Georgy Andrianovich and Tatyana Vasilievna Bogatyrev. My father, an officer in the USSR Navy, was transferred to serve in Moscow in 1953. As a child, five-year-old Yuri suffered from sleepwalking. He got up in his sleep and walked around the apartment, dressed in a silk robe with black ostriches on a blue background. Sometimes my mother’s hat with a feather, veil and flies completed the picture. Then he carefully removed everything and, as if nothing had happened, went back to sleep.
After all, how neatly he hung his robe in place! - Yuri Bogatyrev’s mother Tatyana Vasilievna was amazed - The poker stood next to the robe and did not fall! In such cases, we never woke him up and only... Then we’ll just ask: “Do you remember?” - "No". Over time, Yuri’s sleepwalking went away on its own.
Since childhood, Yura was teased as a “girly person,” and this is no coincidence - he was not boyishly graceful and gentle. And the blond boy was friends exclusively with the neighboring girls. They played with dolls together - in an improvised “puppet theater” in the courtyard of a house on Levoberezhnaya. The little director himself made dolls from his mother’s old dressing gowns, sewed a curtain, assigned roles, staged and acted.
While still studying at high school Yuri became seriously interested in drawing. In his youth, this activity even helped him earn a living, since Yuri did not like to ask his parents for money. He worked part-time at archaeological excavations, sketching for scientists the “treasures” found - the remains of women’s jewelry, coins and pottery shards. Subsequently, the artists stood in line to be painted by Bogatyryov. The artist generously gave away his works - they remained in the collections of famous film and theater actors. “In no way do I pretend to be professional, and my drawings can serve, perhaps, only as a touch to the artist’s portrait,” Yuri Bogatyrev himself wrote, clearly downplaying his talents.
After eighth grade, Yuri entered the M.I. Kalinin Art and Industrial School. Students of the school went to the forests near Moscow to sketch. It was there that Yura met the guys from puppet theater-studio "Globus" of Vladimir Mikhailovich Stein. Communication with them awakened a passion for the stage in the young man. Under Stein's guidance, the young man took his first steps towards acting profession: in a very short period of time I learned to read poetry, prose, move correctly on stage, and overcome embarrassment. Vladimir Mikhailovich revealed to him that he could be an artist.
Yuri left school and entered the Workshop pop art per department conversational genre. Then he left the workshop. In 1966, Yuri Bogatyrev applied to the Shchukin Theater School and was accepted into the Katin-Yartsev course. Yuri's classmates were guys who later became famous actors, including: Natalya Gundareva and Konstantin Raikin. In 1971, after graduating from the Shchukin School, Yuri Bogatyrev was accepted into the Moscow Sovremennik Theater, where he worked until 1977. For a long time, the young actor did not get roles, but over time he began to play a lot.
Vitaly Vulf recalls: “I remember Yura when he came to Sovremennik, it was 1971. Then Fokin and Raikin came. He was received very well at Sovremennik. It was clear to everyone that a talented boy had arrived. Very nervous, very kind, very open. I was always amazed by the degree of his openness. His teacher Katin-Yartsev once called me and said that he was most worried about Bogatyrev, because he was so different from others, so defenseless in front of the world. Yura was very warm and pleasant, people loved him at the theater. He always had some kind of sad eyes. At the same time, Yura had an amazing irony in relation to everything - a very rare acting quality. He understood that he couldn’t take everything seriously. ...He was a very harmonious person, but he lived very inharmoniously.”
Bogatyrev made his film debut in 1970 in Nikita Mikhalkov’s diploma work “A Calm Day at the End of the War.” Then he met Alexander Adabashyan. Later, Adabashyan talked about Bogatyrev: “I think painting for Yura was a continuation of his profession. He painted friends, old women on the street, Chekhov's characters. He loved to walk along the Arbat alleys and amazed me with his knowledge of these places. Yura has for a long time He had a Krasnogorsk registration; he was not entitled to a hostel. Therefore, he lived with classmate Kostya Raikin, and then moved in with me.
As a result of the “grandfather” complex, I came up with the idea that I love washing dishes. When guests came to my parents, I begged my mother: “Don’t touch anything! I’ll come and wash everything away!” I never returned home empty-handed: either I brought high-calorie buns or a bag of biscuits. It was very touching in the hostel. While working at Sovremennik, he moved to a theater dormitory. In which he lived until he received the title of “Honored Artist,” after which he was allocated a one-room apartment.
Yura did not get along with people right away. At first he was a jerk, he was afraid that he would not be accepted, and pretended that he didn’t really need it. But as soon as a person treated him kindly, he immediately “fell in love.” When he, while working at Sovremennik, “fell in love” with Galina Borisovna Volchek, he washed her car every morning. The whole theater thought it was fawning. But Yura could also “fall in love” with the usherette, it didn’t matter, and then it would also come down to washing the floors and courtship. There was a lot of childishness in Yura, and when he pretended to be serious, it still broke through.”
Real fame came to the actor after Nikita Mikhalkov’s famous film “A Friend Among Strangers, a Stranger Among Our Own,” released in 1974, in which Bogatyryov played one of the main roles - Red Army soldier Yegor Shilov. Later, Nikita Mikhalkov often invited Bogatyrev to his films.
Nikita Mikhalkov recalled Bogatyrev: “The first time I saw Yura was in the Shchukin School’s play “Teenager.” It was show time theses, and then many theatergoers went specifically “to see Bogatyrev” in the role of Versilov. There was an unusual interweaving in Yura: on the one hand, he was powerful, taller than everyone else, broader in the shoulders than everyone else, and on the other hand, he was so trusting, touchingly vulnerable. One day, already a famous artist, he calls me and says: “Can you imagine, Nikitushka, I’m standing in line at the store, and no one recognizes me! After all, the film “Two Captains” is currently on screen! I was already spinning, spinning, showing myself to everyone, and so I stood in the entire line unrecognized.” ...Few people know that the role of the general in “The Barber of Siberia” was written for Yura. When I read the script to him, he laughed, clapped his “upper legs” (that’s what we called his hands), dreamed of playing her...”
In 1977, Oleg Efremov invited Yuri Bogatyrev to the Moscow Art Theater. And for some time the actor played in two theaters. But the internal atmosphere in the theater was sometimes terrifying. He even sometimes cried: “I can’t, I can’t stand it!” Following many of his actors, he began to allow himself to drink, drowning out the pain that was growing in his soul with alcohol. As critic Anatoly Smelyansky put it: “...no matter what Yura performed, there was always a feeling that too much was left in excess. He could provide light the whole city, and they offered him to light the closet.” At the Moscow Art Theater, Bogatyrev first felt pain in his heart and high blood pressure - signs of illness. But despite health problems, the rhythm of work at the Moscow Art Theater did not slow down. Bogatyrev was taken by car to the theater for performances, and brought back from the theater.
Nelly Ignatieva recalled: “It’s sad, but he had enough envious people. He was incredibly envied by his less successful colleagues. They were envious of the fact that he had so many roles, and the fact that he was one of the richest actors of that time - after all, Yura acted a lot and had money, they were jealous of the fact that they could not repay his debts. They envied his seemingly iron health. They even envied the fact that he was alone, and they were connected by wives and children who constantly demand something. And Yura doesn’t seem to owe anything to anyone.”
In his personal life, Yuri never found his true love. He preferred to be friends with women. One of his friends, Zinaida Popova, met the actor in 1977. She said: “Back then Yura was thin, didn’t drink at all and was interested in absolutely everything. He had the appearance of a real Russian. He emphasized it - he wore blouses and Ukrainian shirts. Didn't like ties. I preferred calm colors. He loved to sit, listen to music, talk, and eat. Yura was friends with Iya Savvina. They appeared on the same stage at the Moscow Art Theater and were even born on the same day.”
Iya herself recalled Bogatyrev: “We had breakfast together, lunch together, dinner together... Without understanding anything, we watched TV together in Japan... Yura was a man most tender heart. He took pleasure in telling people something good. He sat down to watch TV early in the morning. And if I saw someone, I immediately called. He wanted to say something nice, definitely.” It was the gourmet Iya Savvina who discouraged Bogatyrev from vegetarianism. On the set of the film “Open Book,” Bogatyrev had to gnaw a bone with pieces of meat. He asked to replace it with an apple. Savvina was indignant: “I’ll show you an apple! After all, it’s immediately obvious whether you’re eating meat or an apple!” Yura gave up.
He had wonderful partners on the screen and in the theater, with whom he was constantly interested - Elena Solovey, Olga Yakovleva, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Svetlana Kryuchkova... He wanted to marry each of them. In dreams. But these were platonic feelings - light and pure.
Elena Solovey recalled about him: “Yurochka has always been a big child for me, and that is how he remains in my memory. Affectionate, vulnerable, endlessly touching, kind. I always called him “Yurochka”. He, like a child, was easily offended by nonsense. And like a child, he quickly forgave the offense and never remembered it. He was a man who lingered in childhood. It seems to me that he did not have external and internal protection. And he always dreamed of the impossible.”
But one day Yuri Bogatyrev finally got married. Everything happened unexpectedly. Bogatyrev's roommate in the hostel, former actress Taganka Theater Nadezhda Seraya got into trouble life situation. After scandalous divorce with her director husband Mikhail Ali Hussein, according to the laws of that time, she should have been evicted not only from the hostel, but also from Moscow in general. Friends began to think about how to help the unfortunate woman with her little daughter. At that moment, Nadezhda met Bogatyrev. Gradually their relationship grew into love. They celebrated the wedding without too much noise, one might even say secretly.
Nadezhda Seraya recalled: “Only our neighbors and my parents knew about our marriage. At that time, we could not dedicate Varya and Yuri’s mother to our relationship. Tatyana Vasilievna then underwent a serious operation. And I thought: does she need such a daughter-in-law - with a child in her arms? Moreover, Yura wanted to reveal everything to her, but I insisted that there was no need to tell anything. We didn’t move in together because of Varya - it would have been impossible for the three of us to live in a tiny room. Everything was put off “for later” - when he earned money for an apartment. We waited for the girl to grow up and prepare her mentally. And we’ll prepare mom. That’s it... That’s why Yura and I didn’t have a common household, we had such friendship and love.”
But life apart soon bore its fruits. Yuri began to move away from Nadezhda, and their relationship gradually faded away. Yuri Bogatyrev never told his mother, Tatyana Vasilyevna, about his wife. And after his death, Nadezhda did not dare to disturb old woman. When she saw the stamp in the passport, Nadezhda said that their marriage was fictitious. So she remained in the opinion of those around her as a fictitious wife.
One of latest works Yuri Bogatyreva - costume film “Don Cesar de Bazan”. IN Lately Yura complained that he had to play a lot in the theater, plus rehearsals and tours, but he didn’t feel well. But, unfortunately, few took these complaints seriously. Looking at this huge man, it was impossible to even imagine that he could get sick! Yuri Bogatyrev developed depression and began taking antidepressants. It was then that he received a foreign currency fee for filming in Mikhalkov’s film “Black Eyes” and decided to wash this matter in friendly company. On the evening of February 1, 1989, Yuri Bogatyrev took medicine before going to bed, and at night he had a heart attack. An ambulance was called. Bogatyrev was administered clonidine, which was incompatible with the antidepressants taken the day before. This caused shock and instant cardiac arrest of the actor. The life of Yuri Bogatyrev was tragically cut short on February 2, 1989.
IN last years the translator and editor Klarissa Stolyarova occupied a special place in his life. She recalled: “They called me at night, I arrived on Gilyarovsky Street, when the ambulance doctors were still there, and in confusion - after all, they were mistaken... I was in shock: “What is happening? Why didn’t they call me earlier?” They explained to me that “friends” decided that it was better to call an ambulance. How could I help? Now we can only speculate. First of all, I would immediately call his attending physician Ekaterina Dmitrievna Stolbova and consult with her. I could advise the doctors something - after all, no one except me knew what medications Yura was taking.
By a terrible coincidence, he suffered because the tranquilizers (injected by doctors) were superimposed on the tonic drugs that he drank in the evening. Plus, of course, alcohol... I knew that he dreamed of Oblomov, but played Stolz. In those scary days my daughter, a costume designer, sewed a dark burgundy “Oblomov” robe, and then it was quickly “aged” in the theater workshops. And we put him in Yura’s coffin - we covered his legs with Oblomov’s robe, as a symbol of his unfulfilled dream, unfinished life." He died at the age of 42 - unforgivably early. “Did someone say why he left so early? And he left early because he tore his heart out in every role, he recalls People's Artist Russia Elena Koroleva. “He played so much in Tartuffe that sometimes it was impossible to be around. It became scary for him.”... Yuri Bogatyrev was buried on February 6, 1989 on Writers’ Alley Vagankovskoe cemetery in Moscow.
In 1989, Yuri Bogatyrev prepared the first personal exhibition in his life. It was supposed to open in Moscow on February 6. But on this day his funeral took place. After the artist’s death, his cousin Tatyana Tomnitskaya organized a tour of paintings around the country in order to raise money for the production of a monument to Yuri Bogatyrev.
29 years ago, a popular Soviet leader passed away actor Yuri Bogatyrev, known for his roles in the films “One among Strangers, a Stranger among Ones,” “Slave of Love,” “Two Captains,” “Kin,” “Don Cesar de Bazan” and many others. He did not live exactly one month before his 42nd birthday. The actor’s relatives are sure: he himself brought his departure closer, since he suffered greatly all his life and felt guilty for really being “a stranger among his own”...
Yuri Bogatyrev in his youth
Famous Soviet actor Yuri Bogatyrev
Yuri Bogatyrev was born into the family of an officer navy, but never showed any interest in his father’s profession. Since childhood, he was very vulnerable and sensitive, did not get involved in fights and had a gentle character. He preferred sewing dresses for dolls and making friends with girls to boyish games. He himself loved to dress up and try on jewelry, but his parents did not pay attention to these son’s hobbies, attributing them to the subtlety of his artistic nature.
After graduating from the Shchukin School, Bogatyrev performed on the stage of the Sovremennik Moscow Drama Theater, and later came to the Moscow Art Theater. Even during his studies, he courted girls, but all his loves were platonic and limited to friendly communication. He fell in love with his filming partners, but this, rather, only gave inspiration for film set rather than the need for personal relationships. So, Iya Savvina and Natalya Gundareva became his close friends.
Yuri Bogatyrev in the play *Twelfth Night*, 1978
Actress Elena Solovey admitted that Bogatyrev reminds her of “a big child, defenseless and vulnerable.” Natalya Varley recalled: “ In my opinion, everyone was in love with Yura. And he himself had exclusively platonic hobbies. Everyone knew that he was in love with Olya Yakovleva. A sort of “knight under the balcony.” He went to all her performances - he was so shocked by her performance. It was not so much a man’s love for a woman - Yakovleva was such a theatrical deity for him».
Yuri Bogatyrev in the film *One among strangers, a stranger among one's own*, 1974
His film debut took place in 1966, but real popularity came in the 1970s, when Bogatyrev played main role in the film by Nikita Mikhalkov “One among strangers, a stranger among friends.” Since then he called this director his godfather in cinema, and Mikhalkov considered him his talisman, continuing to shoot in his films - “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano”, “A Few Days in the Life of I. I. Oblomov”, “Slave of Love”, “Relatives”.
Still from the film *Two Captains*, 1976
Yuri Bogatyrev in the film *Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano*, 1977
In the 1980s Yuri Bogatyrev was already one of the most popular, sought-after and richest artists. He made good money on filming, but his money never lasted - according to those close to him, he was unmercenary and an idealist. Soon he had a large number of imaginary friends - those who liked to drink at his expense, with whom they partied all night long. Many people took advantage of its reliability. But almost no one knew about what personal drama was the cause of his prolonged depression and forced him to seek oblivion in alcohol.
Still from the film *A few days in the life of I. I. Oblomov*, 1979
Still from the film * Dead Souls*, 1984
Already at a fairly mature age, Bogatyrev was able to admit to himself his non-traditional sexual orientation. Because of this, he experienced an inferiority complex and suffered greatly due to the fact that he had become “a stranger among his own.” Close friends tried to support him, Natalya Gundareva repeated: “ Calm down, yes, you are not like everyone else, but this is your individual feature. Are you making it worse for someone? Are you making someone suffer? Who does this bother? It's yours - that's all" But this did not help - the actor lived with a constant feeling of guilt and could not accept himself as he was.
Director Alexander Adabashyan said: “ Yura experienced his “otherness” very painfully, unlike current stars who even flaunt this... And Yura made this “discovery” in himself very late, he grew into it somehow very painfully... He suffered very much about this, because he was not like everyone else... He drank, committed while drunk, he did all sorts of stupid things, from which he later suffered madly and was ashamed... This added to him, as it were, an additional complex of guilt... But it was stronger than him. It was neither promiscuity, nor fashion, nor anything else, it was really a deviation that he tried to fight, which he could not defeat».
Yuri Bogatyrev in the film *Unexpectedly*, 1983
For some time, the Moscow Art Theater administrator Vasily Roslyakov lived with him, then bartender Sasha Efimov appeared in his apartment, but the feeling of endless loneliness did not leave the actor. He was even married, but this marriage turned out to be fictitious - the actress Nadezhda Seraya was his neighbor in a communal apartment, and she urgently needed a stamp in her passport in order to stay in Moscow. Bogatyrev went to meet her. They lived in adjacent rooms, although they had a close relationship, and met in the kitchen, pouring out their souls to each other during evening conversations. Even relatives did not know about this marriage.
Yuri Bogatyrev in the film *Don Cesar de Bazan*, 1989
Despite the adoration of the audience, Bogatyrev was never satisfied with himself, constantly doubted his abilities and sought solace either in alcohol and antidepressants, or in his passion for painting - his first personal exhibition was supposed to take place in 1989, but it took place after his death . The actor foresaw his early departure, managed to say goodbye to friends and even predicted the date, but did nothing to prevent tragic ending. In 1988, he gave a friend his photograph with the caption: “From Yura Bogatyrev. A year before his death." The prophecy came true. On the day his exhibition was to open, his funeral took place.
Theater and film actor Yuri Bogatyrev
In the winter of 1989, Bogatyrev received a fee for the film “Dark Eyes.” We celebrated this occasion vigorously and cheerfully, as always, with big amount alcohol. At first, friends did not notice that the actor felt ill. An ambulance was called and he was given a drug that turned out to be incompatible with the antidepressants and alcohol he had taken the day before. On February 2, 1989, Yuri Bogatyrev’s heart stopped.
People's Artist of the RSFSR Yuri Bogatyrev
Yuri Bogatyrev is a famous actor whose life and career, unfortunately, ended too early. He died at only forty-one years old, however, despite this, in such a short time he managed to do a lot for the development of Soviet cinema and theatrical arts.This article, dedicated to the outstanding actor, is a tribute to his memory, as well as further proof that no one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten.
Early years, childhood and family of Yuri Bogatyrev
Yuri Bogatyrev was born in the city of Riga on March 2, 1947. His father was a military officer, and therefore the life of the future actor’s family was often associated with travel. It is for this reason that our today’s hero did not live very long in Latvia. Already at the age of six, Yura moved with his parents to Moscow, where, in fact, he spent his childhood.At an early age, the future actor was already creative child. He put puppet shows, performed on stage as a theater artist, and also showed considerable talent in the drawing studio. In area visual arts he was especially good, and therefore, after finishing eighth grade, the art teacher suggested that Yuri develop in this direction. Bogatyrev agreed. And already in 1964 he entered the Kalinin Art and Industrial School, where he began to study as a carpet artist.
In parallel with this, our today's hero also began to study in theater studio. At first, acting was just a pleasant hobby for Yuri, but over time it became the main passion in his life.
In 1965, Bogatyrev began taking part in productions of the Globus children's puppet theater. Together with other actors of the troupe, he performed on stage, and also traveled to other theaters, appeared in various actor’s houses and other studios.
At one point, such a routine of life became so captivating young actor that he decided to leave art school and go to enroll in a theater university. Among many educational institutions Our today's hero chose the Shchukin School in Moscow.
Here the well-known Yuri Katin-Yartsev became his teacher, and his fellow students were such Soviet cinema stars as Natalya Varley and Konstantin Raikin. During his studies at the theater university, Yuri was considered one of the most talented students in his class. He was set as an example to other students, and therefore at one point he became the most popular student in his group.
Star Trek of actor Yuri Bogatyrev: theater and films
After graduating from the Shchukin School, Yuri Bogatyrev began performing at the Sovremennik Theater. In this place he was received very well, however, despite the pleasant relations within the team, the actor could not count on serious roles for a long time.At first, the talented young actor played exclusively small roles, but over time he was still able to advance to leading roles at the Sovremennik Theater. He played in the productions of “Twelfth Night”, “Forever Living”, as well as in many other performances. Thanks to these roles, Yuri became one of the main stars of the entire theater, however, despite this, in 1977, our today's hero decided to leave the local stage and, at the personal invitation of Oleg Efremov, move to the Moscow Art Theater. IN different years On the local stage, Bogatyrev played in more than fourteen different productions. Among him best works performances - “Days of the Turbins”, “The Seagull”, “Tartuffe” and many others.
In parallel with work on theater stage talented actor He also actively acted in films. Bogatyrev performed his first role - in the graduation film of the young Nikita Mikhalkov “A Calm Day at the End of the War” - in 1970. After that, he played a small role in the film “At the Lower Depths”, and already in 1974 he gained all-Union fame after the role of Yegor Shilov in the film “A Friend Among Strangers, a Stranger Among Our Own.”
Yuri Bogatyrev: a stranger among his own (documentary film)
Among the best works of the actor, which he played over the years, are the films “Kinfolk”, “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano”, “Two Captains”, “Beyond the Horizon”, “The Man from the Country of Green”, as well as many other films. In addition, in the eighties, our today's hero often took part in television performances that appeared in the children's program “Alarm Clock”. this work on television also brought great success to the actor.
When talking about the career of Yuri Bogatyrev, it is also worth mentioning the fact that this wonderful actor often worked on the radio throughout almost his entire life. Over the years, he took part in the recording of nineteen radio plays, which were used great success from the audience.
Besides everything else, painting has always been the actor’s favorite form of creativity. He often painted paintings depicting a wide variety of objects of the material world. At the center of it works of art his friends, colleagues, and acquaintances often also turned up. Perhaps it is precisely this diversity that has become main feature creative path our today's hero. Friends called Bogatyrev a man with a hundred talents and... a big child.
Personal life of Yuri Bogatyrev and the last years of the actor’s life
Yuri Bogatyrev almost never sought to start a family. He admired women, but his feelings for them were always only platonic. For him, girls were only something akin to a work of art. He loved them, but never experienced sexual attraction to women.
In his life there was a wife - actress Nadezhda Seraya. However, celebrities have never hidden the fact that this marriage is only fictitious. Only at the end of his life did Yuri Bogatyrev realize his homosexuality. His relatives did not understand him and his friends did not accept him. Therefore, the actor very soon fell into depression. He gained weight and began to drink a lot. He started having health problems...
Yuri Bogatyrev. Stolen life
On February 1, 1989, Yuri Bogatyrev had a heart attack in his sleep. The arriving ambulance team injected him with clonidine, which, due to its incompatibility with antidepressants, caused cardiac arrest.
Five days later, the actor was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
1938 — 1993
The great dancer, the ballet legend, was unbearable to communicate with. But because of his talent and, most importantly, his willpower, he was forgiven for his intolerable character. However Soviet power the ballet genius was annoying, and what they definitely couldn’t forgive him for was his sexual orientation. During the tour of the Kirov (Mariinsky) Theater troupe in Paris, KGB surveillance was sent to Nureyev, which confirmed that “Rudolf Khamitovich, despite preventive conversations, meets with homosexuals.” After the Paris concerts, the troupe flew to London, but Nureyev was told to return to the Union, supposedly to perform in the Kremlin. Of course, the dancer understood that it was not an ovation awaiting him in his homeland, and he was right: Nureyev was sentenced in absentia to prison with confiscation of property. At the Paris airport, a couple of hours before departure, Nureyev made the legendary “leap to freedom,” escaping from his escorts and literally falling into the hands of French police. Later, Nureyev successfully beat this jump in his games.
In Europe, Nureyev had 32 years of free life ahead of him: he toured, gave 300 performances a year, won fans, became rich - and loved. Nureyev was credited with connections with Yves Saint Laurent, actor Anthony Perkins (who also died of AIDS), ballet dancers and conductors. Nureyev began to suspect his diagnosis in 1984 and took a blood test at the same time. HIV was confirmed, and diagnostics showed the presence of the virus in the blood for several years. At that time, very little was known about the disease: the dancer did not begin treatment immediately and took experimental medications, but still continued to decline year after year. Nureyev danced as long as he had the strength, although his performances increasingly exhausted him, which caustic critics could not help but notice. In the last years of his life he worked as a conductor. Nureyev died in Paris on January 6, 1993.
Georgy Millyar
1903−1993
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“All the evil spirits of our cinematography” - that’s what the actor called himself. Often in his films Millyar played several roles at once. For example, in “Vasilisa the Beautiful” he played both an old father and Baba Yaga, and in “The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors” he played the chief master of ceremonies and the queen!
Georgy Millyar, née de Milieu, was born into a family of aristocrats - the French engineer Franz de Milieu and the heiress of the Irkutsk gold miner Elizaveta Zhuravleva, who was widowed when Georgy was three years old. The boy was raised by governesses and studied music and languages. Millyar was fluent in German and French, but Soviet time didn't advertise it. In 1917, he and his mother were left without funds, their Moscow apartment was turned into a communal apartment, allocating one room to the family, and the house in Gelendzhik, where the artist grew up, was taken away. After graduating from school, Georgy changed his surname Milye so as not to raise unnecessary questions, and returned to Gelendzhik, where he spent his childhood. There he made his debut on stage in a very unexpected way: having got a job as a props man at the theater, he once persuaded the management to let him replace the sick actress who played Cinderella! Millyar began working on stage, then moved to Moscow to the Theater named after. Mayakovsky, began auditioning for film roles and eventually began working with Row in his fairy tales, which brought fame to the artist. At the same time, Millyar continued to live with his mother in a communal apartment and did not have affairs. There was talk about the actor's lack of personal life various rumors. Some attributed this to the trauma of his youth due to the betrayal of his first wife, others said that Millyar was not interested in marriage, since he knew that he could not have children. Of course, the actor was also credited with a love for men.
As a result, Millyar married his neighbor in a communal apartment at the age of 65, with whom he had been friends for many years. Until the end of their lives, the couple maintained a warm relationship.
Yuri Bogatyrev
1947 -1989
Denial of one's own nature has led famous actor to depression and, as a result, alcoholism. The artist, according to his friends and colleagues, began relationships with men, but this only tormented Bogatyrev, who was extremely sensitive to his peculiarity. Successful works in the cinema - “A Friend Among Strangers, a Stranger Among Our Own”, “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano”, “Two Captains”, “Kinfolk” - did not make Bogatyrev happy. The actor was lonely, acutely worried about grievances, and struggled with his gentle nature. As a result, the war with myself ended in defeat. Dependence on alcohol in combination with antidepressants caused a heart attack - Bogatyrev died at only 41 years old.
Sergei Parajanov
1924 — 1990
The famous Soviet director was bisexual: Parajanov was married twice, but did not deny relationships with men. At the same time, the director loved his women sincerely and tenderly, and his second wife supported Parajanov during his imprisonment. In 1974, he was convicted under the article “Sodomy” and spent 4 years in prison. Four terrible years, during which he tried to commit suicide out of despair and the horrors of prison. The article of the convicted Parajanov left him no chance in the zone: the director was humiliated and tortured by his cellmates, his superiors starved him and forced him to do hard work. In prison, Parajanov fell ill with diabetes. All this time, the director was actively supported by his famous colleagues and friends: Andrei Tarkovsky, Lilya Brik, Yuri Nikulin, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert de Niro, John Updike, Irving Stone .
