Yuriy Vasiliev

Yuri Vasiliev - People's Artist of the Russian Federation, a famous actor who starred in the films Journalist, The Bat and Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, significant for the history of Soviet cinema.

The future screen star and favorite of Russian women was born in Moscow a couple of years before the start of World War II. Although Yuri was very young and did not even remember the horror of those terrible years, the war still affected the character and worldview of the actor.

The artist's family was very intelligent and belonged to the intellectual elite of the capital. Mom worked as a librarian, and father - as an engineer. Vasiliev most of all wanted to learn to understand other people, and the future artist saw the best opportunity for this to transform into other images. Therefore, after graduating from high school, the young man enters one of the most prestigious theatrical universities in the country, the Moscow GITIS named after Lunacharsky, from which Vasiliev graduated in 1961.

The gifted and talented actor was immediately invited to the troupe of the famous Maly Theater, and there Yuri Vasiliev served until the end of his days, remaining a constant participant in almost all the theater's performances.

In cinema, Yuri Vasiliev made his debut, studying in the last year of the institute, and immediately in the lead role. The actor played the role of Nikolos Stangas in the dramatic film "The Sponge Catchers". This was followed by the film-play "Washington Story" and the melodrama "Tsars". But the all-Russian popularity to the artist was brought by the production drama "Journalist".

It would seem that a young, attractive and talented actor should have had no end to proposals from directors and screenwriters. But the main part of Vasiliev's filmography continued to be television performances. Most likely, this was due to the fact that the theater for Yuri Nikolaevich always came first.

From 1960, the year of his own film debut, and until the early 70s, the actor appeared in only five films, but in the theater Yuri Vasiliev received 16 roles during the same period. The actor's repertoire included both classical and contemporary performances.

A significant part of Vasiliev's theatrical biography was made up of roles in performances based on recognized works of Russian classical literature, and most often the basis of the performances was the works originally intended by the authors for drama: the play "The Power of Darkness" by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, his play "The Living Corpse", the dramatic play " The Thunderstorm ”and the comedy“ Mad Money ”by Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, the drama in verse by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov“ Masquerade ”, the famous comedy by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol“ The Inspector General ”.

The actor also appeared in the performances of world classics, and, for example, in the production of Lady Windermere's Fan based on the work of the same name by Oscar Wilde, Yuri Vasiliev first played an unnamed young man, and a year later he got the role of Mr. Dumble. Also, Yuri Vasiliev played in productions based on "The Robbers" by Friedrich Schiller and the late play by Henrik Ibsen "Yun Gabriel Borkmann".

The creative biography of Yuri Vasiliev and the works of Soviet authors have not been spared: "Wings" by Alexander Evdokimovich Korneichuk, "Love Yarovaya" by Konstantin Andreevich Trenev, "Money" by Anatoly Vladimirovich Sofronov, "Port Artur" by Alexander Nikolaevich Stepanov and others. Moreover, "Port Arthur" became the debut performance of the young actor. Yuri Vasiliev played an unnamed sailor. Subsequently, the actor again played in this production, but the more significant role of Akinfiev.

In the 70s, the number of films in which the actor was filmed annually began to grow steadily. Fans could see him in the military film "Personal Happiness", the television series "First Joys" and the musical comedy "Handsome Man". But, nevertheless, most of the actor's cinematic roles remained secondary.

The peak of the artist's fame came at the end of the 70s. First, the actor played Prince Orlovsky in the humorous operetta The Bat, and after that he portrayed the selfish Rodion Rachkov on the screen in the cult melodrama Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, which was awarded the famous prestigious Oscar.

None of the crew took part in the awards ceremony. The director generally learned about the Oscar award only from a news report on the Vremya program. The coveted award instead of the representatives of the film crew was received by the cultural attaché of the USSR embassy in the USA. In the Soviet Union itself, the film won the State Prize.

The plot of the picture tells about the life of three provincial girls who came to conquer Moscow, but faced human cruelty and many problems on the way to happiness. The role of Yuri Vasiliev in this famous film is rather negative. The actor played a man who found out that his beloved was not a professor’s daughter, but a factory worker who came from the provinces, and in cold blood left the girl, despite the fact that she was pregnant.

It is also worth noting such works by Vasiliev as the film story "They Don't Change Horses in the Ferry", the production drama "We Live Here", the musical "We are from Jazz" and the youth film "Valentine and Valentine". In the last years of his life, Yuri Nikolaevich continued to work hard. He took part in the creation of the fantastic action movie "Dolphin's Cry", the spy tape "Not Public," and the crime drama "Nothing Happened".

The last film in the life of Yuri Nikolaevich Vasiliev was the tragic melodrama "Just Don't Go," in which he starred together with Elena Sotnikova.

With his only wife, actress Nelly Kornienko, Yuri Vasiliev met on vacation in Gelendzhik. The stormy holiday romance did not fade away even upon his return to Moscow. Young people met for about three years, and then got married. After 8 years of joint relations, the couple had a daughter, Ekaterina, who turned out to be the only child of Yuri Nikolaevich.

At the same time, the feelings of the lovers turned out to be so great that the husband and wife did not part either at home or at work, since Nelly also went to work at the Maly Theater. Vasiliev and Kornienko played together in a movie a couple of times. For example, in the actor's debut film "Catchers of the Sponges", the lovers, in fact, showed their own feelings to the whole country, because the characters of the actors were also in love with each other.

In his personal life, the actor was a very quiet and intelligent person. He did not like to give interviews, to draw public attention to his private life. The man's modesty was even expressed in the fact that he built a private house in the suburbs with his own hands, while he had every opportunity to get anything with the help of one phone call.

In early summer 1999, actor Yuri Vasiliev arrived in his car for a mandatory technical inspection at a service station. Several hours spent in the heat, as well as the nervous situation, overworked the man. Upon returning home, having had dinner, the actor lay down to rest on the sofa, and soon his wife found his lifeless body. The cause of death was a heart attack. It is noteworthy that shortly before the tragedy, Yuri Nikolaevich was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation.

Yuri Nikolaevich was buried at the Donskoy cemetery. The actor's grave is combined with the grave of Yuri Vasiliev's parents.

1960 - "Sponge Catchers" 1962 - "Washington Story" 1967 - "Journalist" 1973 - "The Last Day" 1977 - "First Joys" 1979 - "Bat" 1979 - "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" 1979 - "Unusual Summer" 1980 - "They don't change horses in the ferry" 1982 - "We live here" 1983 - "We are from jazz" 1984 - "Valentine and Valentine" 1989 - "Nothing happened" 1992 - "Just don't go" 1992 - "The Gonzago murder"

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