Viktor Rakov

Viktor Rakov is a Russian theater and film actor, since 2003 - People's Artist of Russia. Coming from a working-class family, thanks to his extraordinary talent, he managed to conquer the stage of the stellar Lenkom and join the ranks of the leading artists of the famous theater. TV viewers know him for his film roles in the films "The Master and Margarita", "Love in Russian", "Petersburg secrets". In the frame, he is able to transform into a hero of any role, from an aristocrat to a notorious villain, for which the public loves him.

Viktor Rakov was born in Moscow into a working class family. The parents of the future actor, like his elder brother later, worked at the Moscow machine-building plant "Molniya". The only person in the family who was disposed to the stage was his father, who loved to sing and even participated in amateur performances at the local Palace of Culture.

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As a child, Victor was fond of sports, went in for judo at a children's and youth sports school, played football in the yard. But the secondary school was torture for the boy. The only subject that he perceived positively was the art lesson. Vitya often surprised his relatives when he dressed up in their clothes and copied their demeanor, gait and gestures.

After graduating from the 10th grade in 1979, Viktor Rakov got a job for a year at the same machine-building plant, where his whole family had worked for many years, and was even able to pass the exam for the third grade of an installer of radio equipment and devices. But a year later, he decided to try to change his life and entered the famous theatrical university - GITIS named after Lunacharsky.

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Rakov was enrolled in the acting department, his course was led by Vladimir Andreev. After graduating from the institute, Victor immediately began a professional acting biography and was admitted to the famous troupe "Lenkom" by Mark Zakharov. At the interview, a tall young man of athletic build (Victor's height is 188 cm) showed the number "Cowboy Jokes" and a fight in the style of the Wild West. The abilities of the graduate of the theater institute were useful to him in the production of "The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta", for which the director was just recruiting the cast. Rakov still works in this team.

Thanks to his excellent vocal skills, the actor participated not only in performances, but also in musical productions and rock operas. After the leading role in the play by Mark Zakharov based on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky "The Sage", Victor became a popular and sought-after theater actor. He performed the leading roles in the rock operas Juno and Avos, The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta, and The Mystification to the music of Alexei Rybnikov. Moreover, in the cult performance "Juno and Avos" Rakov played 4 roles at once.

His repertoire also includes the role of Laertes in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Thomas Cromwell in The Royal Games, for which the artist received the Seagull Award in the Best Villain nomination, the image of a mountain troll in the magnificent play by Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, the role in children's performances "The Golden Key" and "Troubadour and His Friends", as well as other characters in famous performances. Recently, Rakov has been touring with the tavern-keeper based on the play by the Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni.

Victor made his film debut in 1983 in the film "The Record of the Oath" in the cameo role of Gavrila. Then there were episodes in the children's film "Strong personality from 2" A "" and the romantic comedy "Accelerat". They started talking about Rakov as a good film actor after the release of the film "To Kill the Dragon" based on the play "Dragon" by Yevgeny Schwartz. The artist played the role of the mayor's son Heinrich, performed all the stunts himself and received very high marks from specialists.

The next significant role on the screen was the image of Pavel Vlasov in the film adaptation of Maxim Gorky's novel "Mother". The actor liked cooperation with director Gleb Panfilov so much that Rakov starred in two more of his films. In 2003, Viktor was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia. He has also been a member of the Union of Theater Workers since 1989 and a member of the Union of Cinematographers since 1990.

Viktor Rakov is superbly successful in his roles in film adaptations of famous books, so it is not surprising that director Yuri Kara invited him to replace the Master from the famous Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita. The actor's popularity was strengthened by the television series Petersburg Mysteries, based on Vsevolod Krestovsky's novel Petersburg Slums, in which Rakov plays Prince Chechevinsky.

After that, in his filmography began a number of interesting roles in the films "To Love in Russian", "Barkhanov and His Bodyguard" and the TV series "Detectives", "Kamenskaya", "Satisfaction", "Dasha Vasilyeva", "Wolf Messing: Who Seen Through time". In 2005, the actor played the role of Lunin in the 6th season of the detective series Deadly Force, and also played the main role of the FSB captain in the series Nine Unknowns.

In 2006, Victor played 4 main roles: in the film "Krom", the Russian-Ukrainian comedy detective "It is better not to know about it", the action movie "The main caliber" and the melodrama "Your strange sister". In 2007, the actor introduced the historian Rogachev in the drama Oranienbaum. Silver Samurai ", in which the storylines of the times of Peter III and the present are shown in parallel. In 2009, Rakov played the main roles in the comedy "Lost Double" and the melodrama "There are no miracles".

In 2011, the actor appears in the melodrama Porcelain Wedding. Rakov played the head of the neurosurgery department, Oleg Maksimov, whose wife found out that her husband was leading a double life, just before the 20th wedding anniversary. In 2013, Victor played the role of the haberdasher Bonacieux in the film by Sergei Zhigunov "The Three Musketeers". In the same year, the actor received a Russian state award - the Order of Friendship.

In 2014, Rakov played the role of MGB Major Polishchuk in the Russian-Ukrainian family saga "House with Lilies" about events that unfold immediately after the Great Patriotic War and continue to this day, are associated with a house with a curse. In the same year, the actor appeared in the film performance of the Lenkom theater "Heavenly Wanderers". The drama is based on the works of Aristophanes and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, but is not a strict adaptation, but is positioned as a stage fantasy directed by Mark Zakharov.

At the beginning of 2015, the actor appeared on television in the title role of an employee of the district police department Nikolai Belozero in the mystical detective series “Alchemist. Elixir of Faust. " In November 2015, Rakov appeared in the form of Alexei Grigorievich Razumovsky, the favorite of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, in the drama The Great about the youth and court intrigues of Princess Sophia Frederica, the future Catherine the Great.

In the same year, Victor played Senor Balboa in the film-play "A Lie to Salvation" based on the play by A. Casona "Trees Die Standing". The actor's character is a grandfather, whose only grandson became a villain and disappeared. To calm his wife, Señor Balboa writes those letters on behalf of his grandson, in which the young man corrected himself and began to succeed. The deception is gaining momentum, forcing the venerable lord to hire actors and falsify facts.

One of the last films of Viktor Viktorovich is a supporting role in the melodrama "Blue Rose", which viewers saw in 2017. In the TV movie, the actor played the role of a friend of the protagonist Alexander Korotkevich (Nikolai Fomenko). On the big screen, Rakov appeared in the cast of the drama In Cape Town Port, which premiered in August 2018 at the Window to Europe Film Festival. Evgeny Tkachuk, Vladimir Steklov, Alexander Robak, Yuri Kuznetsov, Yulia Aug and others also took part in the making of the film.

The actor married twice, Rakov has two children and one adopted. Victor entered into his first marriage when he was a student at GITIS. The future actor married fellow student Olga Ilyukhina. They had a son, Boris. This union lasted 5 years, after which Olga left her husband for another man. The artist was going through a break with his first wife and, according to him, became a tougher and more cynical person in relation to the opposite sex. Subsequently, he long feared a serious relationship.

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The actor's heart was melted by a girl named Lyudmila. She became the second wife of Victor. The acquaintance of the future spouses took place at the performance of Rakov at the Lenkom Theater. Young people talked backstage in a friendly company, after which they began to meet. At first, Victor and Lyudmila lived in a civil marriage, but before the birth of their daughter Anastasia in 1992, they officially signed and got married in a church. In 2009, the actor and his wife adopted the boy Danila and are raising the child as their own son.

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According to the artist, after the daughter grew up, he and his wife decided to become parents again, especially since they still felt young. The child turned out to be very artistic and sociable. Now Danila is attending a music school, is engaged in water polo. Victor assumes that the boy will choose the profession of an actor in the future.

Rakov's daughter Anastasia is fond of capoeira, and as a higher education she chose the production department of GITIS. While studying at the university, the girl managed to get married. The artist hopes that his daughter's personal life will be happy, although at first he was not delighted with Nastya's choice.

Viktor Viktorovich spoke about the events of his family life on the air of Boris Korchevnikov's author's program "The Fate of a Man". Viewers saw the release of the program in early 2019. During the conversation, the actor mentioned that, as a first year student, he courted Elena Yakovleva, who was also studying at GITIS at that time.

In his free time, Rakov is engaged in painting, the actor's paintings were exhibited in the Bakhrushinsky Museum in Moscow and in the Yermolova House-Museum. The artist has his own workshop where he sculpts from clay. He was introduced to ceramics by his colleague Irina Serova, with whom Viktor Viktorovich subsequently organized joint exhibitions. In many films with Rakov's participation, viewers hear songs performed by him. These are mainly romances or soulful ballads.

In August 2018, with the participation of Viktor Rakov, filming of the Abode project began based on the novel of the same name by Zakhar Prilepin, published in 2014. The film was produced by Valery Todorovsky and directed by Alexander Veledinsky. Together with the star of Lenkom, Konstantin Khabensky, Andrey Chadov, Sergey Bezrukov will appear on the screen.

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The motion picture will focus on a special purpose camp located in Solovki. The artist announced the beginning of the filming process from his personal Instagram page, where he posted photos and videos of the first days of the working process.

In 2019, an 8-episode film "Tobol" about the development of Siberia was released, the genre of which, by analogy with Westerns - films about the development of the Wild West - was designated as Eastern by the creators. The plot of the film unfolds in the times of Peter the Great and shows the life of famous personalities: the educator Semyon Remezov and Prince Matvey Petrovich Gagarin, the first Siberian governor. One of the main roles in the film was played by Viktor Rakov.

1988 - "To Kill the Dragon" 1989 - "Mother" 1994 - "The Master and Margarita" 1994 - "Petersburg Mysteries" 1995 - "Love in Russian" 2001-2005 - "Detectives" 2004 - "Four Loves" 2008 - "Silver Samurai" "2009 -" Wolf Messing: Seen Through Time "2009 -" Admiral "2012 -" Once in Rostov "2014 -" House with Lilies "2015 -" Great "2017 -" Blue Rose "2019 -" Tobol "

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