In Tikhonov actor biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. This happened thanks to the roles of Prince Bolkonsky in the film epic “War and Peace”, the ordinary soldier Streltsov in the film “They Fought for the Motherland”, the teacher of history in the melodram “We will live until Monday”, the writer in the Drama “Bely Bim Black Ear” and, of course, thanks to the legendary role of the SS Standartenfuhrer, the Soviet intelligence officer Stirlitsa-ISEV in military Detective "Seventeen Moments of Spring." In the photo: Vyacheslav Tikhonov in life is a very modest, conscientious and far from ambitions by a person, he gained popular recognition and love, and during his life he turned into a symbol of Soviet cinema.

Childhood and family Future People's Artist was born in February in the year in the Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow, in the family of a mechanical worker Vasily Romanovich, who worked at a textile factory, and the teacher of the kindergarten Valentina Vyacheslavovna. Vyacheslav Tikhonov with his parents grew up by an ordinary boy, romantic and a little shy. He loved to make something around the house with his father, but at the same time he could “wake up”-he stole apples from other people's gardens with his friends, tried to smoke and even made a “glory” tattoo on his hand in accordance with the fashion of those years.

This tattoo hurt him subsequently a lot of inconvenience - during the filming it had to be covered with makeup or hid it under gloves.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov in childhood at school Glory studied well. He liked the exact sciences - mathematics and physics, he was also interested in history. When the war broke out, the school building was taken to the hospital, and the summer teenager first went to the craft school to study the profession of a turner, then he worked at the factory along with the adults, performing defense orders.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov in the youth of the cinema fascinated and beckoned a boy. Secretly from everyone, he began to dream of an actor’s career, although relatives saw his son as an engineer or agronomist. At the age of 16, he went to the zero course of the Auto -mechanical institute, which made it possible to gain knowledge for admission to applicants. A year later, Vyacheslav told his parents that he wanted to become an actor.

They were categorically against. A grandmother, a wise and kind woman, stood up for her grandson. After that, he went to VGIK, where the competition did not go through his face recognized as “not quite photogenic”, but managed to touch the heart of the teacher Boris Bibikov, and he out of pity took him on his course. The start of the blue period was given the shooting of the third-third-year-resource in the film “Young Guard”, where Sergei Gerasimov entrusted him with the role of Osmukhin.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov, on the set of “Young Guard”, the appearance in this picture, which received the status of a cult, was for him an excellent ticket to life, as well as for other artists busy in the film - Nonna Mordyukova Roman between the actress and Tikhonov began on the set, Sergey Bondarchuk, Inna Makarova, Clara Luchko, Sergey Gurzo, who received the people who received it.

The popularity and love of viewers. The frame from the film “Young Guard” is true, unlike them, Tikhonov remained in the shade for almost 10 years. The reason for this was his intelligent appearance - in those years, persons were “simpler”. Director Ivan Pyryev, a large value on Mosfilm, each time categorically objected to Tikhonov’s participation in a particular picture.

He considered a stately handsome man too like an Armenian. Periodically, Tikhonov, who completed his studies with honors in the year, nevertheless appeared on the screen - played the sailor of Grinevsky in the picture of the Kyiv film studio “On Peaceful Days”, where his partners were Leonid Kmit, who became famous for the role of Petka in Chapaeva, Elina Bystritskaya.

The frame from the film “Peace Days” in the same studio was occupied in the historical tape “Taras Shevchenko” with Sergey Bondarchuk, a year later - in the film “Maxima” with his idols Boris Andreev and Nikolai Kryuchkov. But there was no real role, where he would have the opportunity to fully reveal his talent, until Rostotsky suggested playing Matvey in the melodrama “The case was in Penkov”.

After the film “It was in Penkovo”, Glory came to Vyacheslav Tikhonov according to one of the legends, initially his former classmate Sergey Gurzo was supposed to be shot in the tape, but he was prevented by health problems. According to another, the young director saw the glory, who spoke on the stage of the theater studio of the film actor, in the form of a bear in the play “An ordinary miracle”, was subdued by his game and exclaimed that he would make the guy of the Soviet Gerard Philip.

The artistic council was again against the “first guy in the village” was played by a young man with such a “urban” face. But the director, who passed the war, who also lost his leg at the front, did not give up, saying that he would leave the party if the role was given to another actor. As a result, Vyacheslav approved. The film was a great success and brought Tikhonov all -Union fame.

The producers and directors finally believed in it and began to offer roles. The frame from the film “Thirst” in the X Another gift of fate was the role of “The most mysterious hero of the novel by Tolstoy”, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, in Sergey Bondarchuk’s epic “War and Peace”.The picture, which was filming for six years, was recognized as outstanding - received Oscar, Golden Globe and the main prize of the Moscow Film Festival.

And the first of the four series called Andrey Bolkonsky became the leader of the rental of the year. Vyacheslav Tikhonov in the role of Andrei Bolkonsky Pravda, as a prince, the director did not see Tikhonov, but Innocent Smoktunovsky, but he preferred the prince to shoot as a prince of Danish in the film "Hamlet" Grigory Kozintsev. The second of the candidates planned by Bondarchuk for the role was Oleg Strizhenov.

However, he had a serious conflict with him. Then the Minister of Culture Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva intervened in the situation, who offered the director to pay attention to Tikhonov, to whom she sympathized. Vyacheslav got a role, burned with her and lived. However, critics coolly appreciated the image he created. In addition, at that time he was not approved for the role of Ladeinikov’s scout in Savva Kulish’s tape “Dead Season”.

The actor decided that he would no longer act in films. Rostotsky again helped to leave the creative crisis, Rostotsky, who literally forced him to star in the picture “We will live until Monday”. It should be noted that cooperation with the director, who became a good friend to him after the picture “The Case in Penkov” was especially fruitful for Arist.

Tikhonov and Rostotsky became good friends in him successfully played the role of Sapere Rukavichkin in the military film Poles of Stanislav “May Stars”, in - he perfectly reincarnated into Captain Suzdalev in the drama “On Seven Winds”. Tikhonov, who accepted the unpleasant statements about Bolkonsky close to heart, categorically did not want to act and agreed only after the director said: “If you are a friend to me, you will play!

Vyacheslav Tikhonov in the film “We will live until Monday” as a result “Let's live until Monday”, which was released in, was adopted by the public with warmth. After the premiere show, the audience applauded to the actors and the director. The artist brilliantly embodied the image of the teacher Melnikov, perfectly performed in the film the song “In this grove of the Birch Drama, shot according to the novel by Julian Semenov about the intelligence officer’s authorities introduced into the highest echelons, the streets of Soviet cities were empty and even the crime levels fell at the TV screens.

The military film “Front without flanks” was released in the screens, where the artist appeared in the image of Major Mlynsky, receiving a prize of the Lenin Komsomol for this main role, a year later - the drama “They fought for their homeland” about heroism and incredible severity of the soldier’s being, where he transformed into an ordinary Streltsov.

In the melodrama “And other officials” Tikhonov starred in the central role of Ivanov, the head of the Soviet foreign trade enterprise. A fragment of another creative success for Tikhonov, according to critics and spectators, was the central role of a lonely pensioner in Rostotsky’s touching melodrama “White Bim Black Ear”, who brought him the Lenin Prize. The tape was nominated for an Oscar as the best film work in a foreign language and was recognized as the best film project on the survey of readers of the Soviet screen.

On the set of the film “White Bim Black Ear” in the same period, Vyacheslav Tikhonov appeared only in his career in a comedic tape - in the film “The chests of drawers was driven through the streets”, starring as the owner of the chest of drawers. And at the request of Brezhnev himself, he began to read on television a sunbeam text from the author of the documentary book “Small Earth”, written according to the memoirs of the Secretary General.

The frame from the film “The Comod was driven” to the artist’s fans could see him in the key role of the political observer Lossera in the criminal tape “European History”, where the real daughter of the actor, Anna, debuted as the daughter of his character. In the tape, Vyacheslav appeared in the image of a special employee of the special services, securing the image of an impeccable intelligence officer, a man of business and honor.

In the same year, he transformed into the revolutionary of Lepeshinsky in the biography of the impatience of the soul. B-embodied on the screen the image of Archivarius Charleman in the fairy tale film, Mark Zakharov, “Kill the Dragon”, where his colleagues in the filming were Alexander Abdulov, Oleg Yankovsky, Evgeny Leonov. According to the plot, his hero on vacation meets a young employee of the sanatorium Irina Lyubov Polishchuk and makes her an offer.

But the young spouse soon finds out that her husband’s signature was under the document of the “collective condemnation” of her father, on the basis of which he was repressed and shot. Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Lyubov Polishchuk late the actor was not enthusiastic about the perestroika that had begun. He did not accept a new ideology, a change in the political situation in the country and values.

Due to internal discomfort, he refused to lead the workshop in VGIK, did not want to play the role of immoral generals or unscrupulous deputies, considered it unacceptable to appear in series with blood, shooting and violence. With he was the artistic director of the creative and production studio "Actor Kino", founded by him along with Yuri Chekulaev.Tikhonov continued to act, but less often he received his former feeling of satisfaction from filming.

Among his works of that period, it should be noted the vivid role of the bishop of Tikhon in the film “Demons” based on the novel of the same name by Fedor Dostoevsky, the memorable image of the accountant of Chugunov in the detective ribbon of Vsevolod Shilovsky “Conducts Code”, as well as the role of Golovin, Uncle Marushi Ingeborg Dapkunayite in Nikita Mikhalkov “Tired of the Sun”.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov in the film “Tired by the Sun” in the screens was released by the melodrama “Boulevard Roman” with Anna Samokhina, shot through the novel by Valentin Pikul “Go and NOT SIND”, where the actor got the role of Kandinsky. A year later, the tape “Dear Friend of the long-forgotten years of Vyacheslav Tikhonov, the last hero of the outgoing era in the artist appeared as the director of the orphanage in the television series“ Waiting Hall ”, as well as in the Drama-Grotesk“ Composition for Victory Day ”, where he played one of the main roles-the veteran of Morgulis, who, like his front-line comrades Dmitry Oleg Efremov and Ivan Mikhail Ulyanov, did not suit a new reality.

Desperate to achieve justice, they flew away on the airline in an unknown direction. A frame from the film “Composition for Victory Day” to the role of the key character of the diplomat Astakhov, the artist played in the film “Berlin Express”. According to the plot, his hero on the eve of World War II returned from Berlin to Moscow, and the only charming fellow traveler Renata Litvinov was not accidentally his neighbor in the carriage.

In the request of his daughter, Anna Tikhonov starred as an old scientist in the fantastic thriller of her husband, director Nikolai Voronovsky, “the eyes of a wolf”. Life without love ”, created on the basis of the biography of the famous Danish writer. According to the actor, he played this role with joy, because he had not starred for a long time, missed this atmosphere, and also because the picture is interesting, and its basis is kindness.

The last role of Vyacheslav Tikhonov was God from the film “Andersen. Life without love ”The personal life of Vyacheslav Tikhonov women of the entire Soviet Union went crazy about the artist with the face of an aristocrat, a stately embodiment of nobility and decency. He received letters with bags with confessions in love, but remained a model of moral purity.

There were never rumors about a romantic relationship on the side about him. According to colleagues, he was witty, mentally attractive, but not very happy in his personal life. His first love was the girl from the Pavlovsky Posad school, Julia Russian, with whom he began to meet in the eighth grade. Their novel lasted three years. He was married twice.

The first wife of the actor was Nonna Mordyukova, included in the British "" in the top of the most outstanding actresses of the twentieth century. They studied together at VGIK, and when he barely turned 17, and she was 20, they starred in the “Young Guard”, then married and lived in marriage for 13 years. Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Nonna Mordyukova in their youth in them, the first-born Vladimir appeared, who continued the family acting dynasty, but tragically died in 41 years of life from heart failure due to drug abuse.

Vladimir Tikhonov passed away in the year as Mordyukova recalled, immediately after the birth of her son, she realized that she was mistaken with the choice of her husband. Tikhonov experienced the same feelings. They were too different people: Nonna - sociable, companion, adored noisy feasts, and Vyacheslav is a calm, closed, spent evenings with a book in their hands.

At the same time, Vyacheslav Tikhonov and his first wife lived in a passage room in a communal apartment and barely made ends meet, constantly sitting in debt. It was rumored that Nonna did not remain loyal to her husband, and at some point Vyacheslav was carried away by actress Dzidra Ritenbergs. In, two days after the death of Mom Nonna, who all this time discouraged the actress from the divorce, they broke up - hard, with claims.

After the divorce, Mordyukov did not officially marry more. And Tikhonov in the year married a translator from the French language Tamara, a graduate of Moscow State University younger than him for 16 years.