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May 20, 2009 is the date of the death of the outstanding actor Oleg Yankovsky, with his work the universal love of the audience. Oleg Yankovsky died at the age of 65. He was struck by a serious illness from which the doctors could not save him - cancer. He was sick with pancreatic cancer.

Oleg Yankovsky biography:

"He taught us to always smile. He himself knew how to remain a gentleman in any situation in life and a master in any role on stage.

He was the same Munchausen from the film "The Same Munchausen", who instilled faith in humanity - that there is a person on earth who knows everything, and therefore is able to judge everyone and leave beautifully. He taught us to fall in love of our own accord, to fly in a dream and in reality, to be able to carry and cope with feelings of nostalgia, to live in the houses that Swift built, to fight the dragon and kill it, first of all, in ourselves - enclosed within a person. He explained everything about the generation of children of our lost and scattered intelligentsia, playing the modern Protasov and Pechorin together in "Flights in a Dream" and explaining their mental anguish. In any era - Chekhov's, Peter's, or today's, he was extremely convincing as an actor - it seemed that after him it was impossible to add anything more to any role he played ...

Until quite recently, it was impossible to believe that the disease would not recede. Now the thought refuses to fit in my head that he left us so early: after all, the fact that only 65 years old was written to his family is the greatest injustice in life. As if fate could not take and at least once make an exception - to give him a little more life.

It seemed that this would definitely happen when, in telephone conversations, he encouraged his friends (it was he who first of all, and only then their turn came - he did not allow the reverse sequence), and the phrase of his baron Munchausen “Laugh, gentlemen! ". Ailments were a forbidden topic, and creative plans for the future were built in quite optimistic and not at all feigned intonations. He did not allow others. One could imagine what it cost him ... And when he came out in "The Marriage" in Lenkom (as it turned out, for the last time), everyone prayed that since the stage heals, well, it will certainly cure him! Well, how else is it?! ..

And here it’s just some kind of black theater of the absurd - next to the name of Oleg Yankovsky and his date of birth - February 23, 1944, the second one - final and final - May 20, 2009, fits in. And a terrible message that farewell to Oleg Ivanovich and a civil memorial service will take place on Friday, May 22, at the Lenkom Theater, and the funeral service will take place in the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Khamovniki. And the burial place is the Novodevichy cemetery. And the list of his awards - People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR and Russia, holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, and so on - to which, if anything is added now, it will be only posthumously. And the list of his film roles more than a hundred films, in which in the last lines - Guilty Without Guilt by Gleb Panfilov, Stilyagi by Valery Todorovsky, Anna Karenina by Sergei Solovyov and Tsar by Pavel Lungin - a picture in which the hero of Oleg Yankovsky Metropolitan dies in terrible torment ... And the understanding that this list can no longer and can never be replenished.

It happens. When, suddenly, during a performance, the lights on the stage suddenly go out, and everyone - both the actors and the audience - find themselves in a state of weightlessness. When neither to breathe, nor to move, nor to understand what to do next ... "

Oleg Yankovsky - a legend of Soviet cinema, since 1991 - People's Artist of the USSR.

Childhood

Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky - a native of Kazakhstan, was born on February 23, 1944 in the city of Dzhezkazga, Karaganda region. Oleg has noble roots.

His father, Ivan Pavlovich, was the owner of the St. George Cross, before the revolution of 1917 he commanded the Life Guards of the Semenovsky Regiment, received the rank of staff captain.

However, later Ivan Pavlovich became a victim of Stalinist repressions - on a trumped-up charge, the man was sent to Stalinist camps. Oleg's mother Marina Ivanovna, fearing arrest, destroyed all family archives.

Despite their noble origin, the Yankovsky family lived very poorly. After the arrest of Ivan Pavlovich, Marina Ivanovna was left alone with her three sons - Rostislav, Oleg and Nikolai.

Also, the grandmother lived with the Yankovskys, and the whole family of five had to live in a room of 14 meters. Despite poverty, the Yankovskys had a rich library, so from childhood the children were well-read and educated.

Since childhood, Oleg's mother wanted to become a ballerina, but her parents did not allow the dream to come true. Marina Ivanovna tried to instill love for art in children.

Oleg Yankovsky in his youth

In 1951, the Yankovsky family moved to Saratov. There, Oleg's older brother Roman graduated from the Saratov Theater School and began working in the local theater. Soon the young man received a job offer in one of the Minsk theaters.

Roman agreed and moved to Minsk, taking young Oleg with him. At that time, only the middle brother Nikolai earned money in the family, so Roman decided to take 14-year-old Oleg with him in order to somehow alleviate the difficult financial situation of the family.

Debut in the theater

In Minsk, Oleg first appeared on the stage of the theater. Then an actor in the troupe of Roman's older brother fell ill. The theater management began to urgently look for another person for the role in the play "Drummer Girl". As a result, Oleg was chosen for the role.

However, the young man himself did not pay much attention to the opportunity that presented itself. Once he even fell asleep in the dressing room, missing his exit.

Back in Saratov, Oleg Yankovsky loved football. After moving to Minsk, the passion for football did not fade away, and Oleg continued to play. However, this hobby soon began to negatively affect my studies. Then Roman strictly forbade his younger brother to appear on the field.

fateful event

Soon Oleg returned to Saratov again. There he graduated from secondary school No. 67 and began to think about entering. Initially, Yankovsky wanted to enter a medical university, but accidentally saw an ad for admission to the Saratov Theater School.

Remembering his performances in Minsk, Oleg decided to take a chance. But I didn’t have time - the set was already over. Frustrated, he wanted to know about the next year's admission and went into the director's office.

The director of the university asked for his last name and, after checking the lists, said that the guy had passed the competition and could start studying from September. Oleg was amazed: was he really taken without a competition? Later it turned out that his brother Nikolai secretly wanted to become an actor and passed the entrance exams at the university.

Nikolai, who loved his younger brother very much, gave him a place at the university. So Oleg began attending classes at the Saratov Theater School.

After graduating from high school in 1965, Oleg worked at the Saratov Drama Theater. In 1973, Yankovsky began performing on the stage of the Moscow Lenkom, where he worked until his death.

Film work

Oleg also began acting in films thanks to a fluke. Then the theater troupe of Oleg toured in Lviv. Jankowski went to a restaurant for lunch. The crew of the film "Shield and Sword" also dined there.

Then the film crew was looking for an actor for the role of Heinrich Schwarzkopf. Valentina Titova, seeing Yankovsky, said that he would be a good candidate. Then one of the assistants approached Oleg and offered to work in the cinema.

The debut film "Shield and Sword" brought the first glory to the actor, the success was consolidated by Yevgeny Karelov's film "Two Comrades Served", which was released almost immediately after the release of "Shield and Sword".

The success of two paintings brought Oleg new job offers. In 1970, the actor starred in the films "About Love", "White Land" and "Payback".

In 1972, the film "Racers" was released, on the set of which Yankovsky had an accident. The car with Oleg and the operator overturned. The operator was thrown out, and Oleg's jacket burned down. Fortunately, Jankowski remained safe and sound.

Successful was the role in the film "Mirror" directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. In 1983, Oleg again collaborated with Tarkovsky, this time the actor played in the drama Nostalgia.

The 1970s was the period of Yankovsky's most fruitful work. During this decade, he starred in about 30 films. Among them were the tapes “Award”, “Trust”, “Feedback”, “Sentimental Romance”, “Alien Letters”, “My Affectionate and Gentle Beast”.

Collaboration with Mark Zakharov

The film "An Ordinary Miracle", which appeared on the screens in 1978, was the first collaboration between Zakharov and Yankovsky. Oleg got the role of the Wizard.

The next joint work was the film "The Same Munchausen", which brought Oleg incredible popularity and became the hallmark of the actor.

The films "The House That Swift Built" and "Kill the Dragon" also followed, but they did not repeat the stunning success of the previous two works by Zakharov and Yankovsky.

The heyday of a film career

Many critics consider the 80s to be the heyday of Yankovsky's work. During this decade, the filmography of the actor was replenished with the films "Kiss", "Flights in a dream and in reality", "Filer", "Keep me, my talisman" directed by Roman Balayan.

Also significant for Yankovsky’s film career were the films “In love of his own free will”, “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson” (episode “The Hound of the Baskervilles”), “Hat”, “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka” and “We, the undersigned”.

In the early 1990s, Yankovsky became disillusioned with the Soviet film industry. According to him, the professionalism of the films ceased to play a major role - money came out on top at that time, so the directors shot a huge number of low-quality films.

In 1991, the film "The King's Killer" was released, for which the actor received the Nika film award.

At the invitation of the famous director Claude Régi, Oleg stayed in France for six months, where he took part in an international theater project.

During the 90s, Yankovsky starred in the films The Inspector General, Fatal Eggs, First Love. Jankowski also worked with the British director Waller in the film Silent Witness, starred in Greece in the film Terra Incognita and in France in Mado, Poste restante.

In 1993 he became president of the Sochi film festival Kinotavr.

The year 2000 was marked by the first work of Yankovsky as a director. The film "Come to see me" was received warmly enough by the public and film critics.

For the picture "Lover", released in 2002, Oleg received two awards at once - "Golden Aries" and "Kinotavr" for the best male role.

Personal life

All his life, Oleg Yankovsky has been married to the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Lyudmila Zorina. Young people got married in their second year of university and have been inseparable ever since.

In 1968, Lyudmila gave Oleg a son, who was named Philip. Philip married Oksana Fadeeva, young people gave Yankovsky two grandchildren - Ivan and Elizabeth.

With wife Lyudmila Zorina

The son and grandchildren continued the work of the famous grandfather and also became actors.

Illness and death

In the summer of 2008, the actor became ill at a rehearsal. Oleg was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with coronary heart disease. After being discharged, Yankovsky continued to work, but at the end of the same year, Oleg again went to the doctor.

Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (February 23, 1944, Dzhezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, USSR - May 20, 2009, Moscow, Russian Federation) - Soviet, Russian theater and film actor, director. People's Artist of the USSR (1991).

Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1987), State Prize of the Russian Federation (1996, 2002).

The actor was most famous for his work in the films “Shield and Sword”, “Two Comrades Served”, “The Same Munchausen”, “Flying in a Dream and in Reality”, “Nostalgia”. On the theatrical stage, his most striking works were the roles in the performances “Idiot” by F. M. Dostoevsky, “Blue Horses on Red Grass” by M. F. Shatrov, “Optimistic Tragedy” by Vs. V. Vishnevsky, "The Seagull" by A. P. Chekhov, "Jester Balakirev" by G. I. Gorin.

Doctors could save the actor only if they found cancer at a very early stage and without symptoms. But the best doctors could not help him. Oleg Yankovsky's health problems began about a year ago. The Lenkom actor turned to one of the Moscow clinics with complaints of feeling unwell. But the examination carried out revealed that he had only coronary heart disease. Yankovsky was sent to the emergency cardiology department, underwent a course of treatment and was allowed to go home.

A few months later, the disease again overtook the artist. On New Year's Eve, he was hospitalized in critical condition. Oleg Ivanovich complained of incessant pain in the gastric region, loss of appetite, including an aversion to fatty foods. Having discovered ominous symptoms, doctors urgently ordered a tissue biopsy for the artist. The analysis confirmed his worst fears: Yankovsky has advanced pancreatic cancer, and the disease is advanced.

Why did Yankovsky, who was given the same diagnosis, leave so quickly - are they really not cured?

Operations for pancreatic cancer are among the most difficult in oncosurgery, explains radiologist Pavel Tkachuk. - We have to clean the duodenum, affect the stomach, liver ... If Yankovsky went to the doctors already with pain, then this was a serious stage of cancer. It sprouted to the nerve nodes, the aorta, and most likely was already inoperable. Plus metastases.

The main cause of high mortality is the difficulty of early detection of the disease. Due to the fact that the pancreas is located deep in the abdomen, it is difficult to determine during examination and palpation. Currently, there are no research methods that can detect tumors in people without symptoms of the disease. By the time symptoms appear, the tumor is usually large and has spread to other organs.

At the end of January, a month after the sad diagnosis was made, Oleg Ivanovich went to Germany to undergo a course of laser therapy. He even seemed to feel better, on his return to Moscow he celebrated his 65th birthday with family and friends, in early March he received a high award from the hands of the President of Russia - the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, returned to the theater ... But at the end of April, Yankovsky's health deteriorated again - he started bleeding internally. The third hospitalization was the last...

German doctors were unable to save Jankowski. We all hoped that the operation would prolong his life, but the tests showed that Oleg Ivanovich had a very high blood sugar content, they say, therefore he is inoperable - the wounds after the operation may not heal. In Germany, they refused to operate on him, so it made no sense for him to return there. But although Oleg Ivanovich was in a very bad condition in the hospital for the last week of his life, he practically did not get out of bed, where his wife was constantly on duty, we still believed in a miracle to the last ...

Alexandra KUCHUK, Evgeny ZYRYANKIN - 20.05.2009

Let's see what his FULL NAME code will tell us about the reason for the death of the wonderful actor OLEG YANKOVSKY.

Watch in advance "Logicology - about the fate of man".

Consider the FULL NAME code tables. \If there is a shift in numbers and letters on your screen, adjust the image scale\.

32 46 57 72 75 93 104 114 124 139 151 157 161 171 174 175 189 204 207 217 241
Y N K O V S K I Y O L E G I V A N O V I C
241 209 195 184 169 166 148 137 127 117 102 90 84 80 70 67 66 52 37 34 24

15 27 33 37 47 50 51 65 80 83 93 117 149 163 174 189 192 210 221 231 241
O L E G I V A N O V I C H I N K O V S K I Y
241 226 214 208 204 194 191 190 176 161 158 148 124 92 78 67 52 49 31 20 10

YANKOVSKY OLEG IVANOVICH = 241.

241 = HARD TO CANCER CANCER.

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4. Pancreatic cancer:

This type of cancer begins to develop in the tissues of the pancreas, which helps digestion and is involved in the regulation of metabolism. It is extremely difficult to detect it in its early stages, as it often progresses quickly and imperceptibly.

(cancerous) I (and) N (toxic) K (ation) (organ) OB + (oncological) (b) OL (noy) + (bleeding) E + GI (bnet) + (disease) VAN (s) ( cancer) O (voe) + B (internal) (bleeding) I (e) + (con) Ch (ina)

241 \u003d, I, N, K, OV +, SKY, OL, +, E + GI, +, VAN, O, + V, I, +, H,.

Reference

Cancer intoxication - causes, symptoms, diagnosis ...
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Cancer intoxication is a complex of disorders that occur in cancer patients when the body is poisoned by the decay products of a malignant tumor.

DATE OF DEATH code: 05/20/2009. This is \u003d 25- \ (20 + 05 \u003d (died) W (y) \ + 29-\ (20 + 09) \u003d RAK\ \u003d 54.

241 \u003d 54 + 187 LAST ST (adiya).

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The fourth stage of cancer is considered the last, characterized by irreversible ...

5 8 9 14 37 38 57 72 78 91 92 124
D V A D C A T O E M A Z
124 119 116 115 110 87 86 67 52 46 33 32

"Deep" decryption offers the following option, in which all columns match:

(unexpected) D (this) (stop) B (k) A (ser) DCA + TO (xic) (poisoning) E (organism) MA + (died) I

124 \u003d, D, B, A, DCA + TO, E, MA +, I.

COMPLETE DATE OF DEATH code = 124-MAY TWENTIETH + 29-CANCER \ YEAR OF DEATH code\ = 153 = DEATH FROM CANCER.

241 \u003d 153 + 88-DEATH (a).

Code of COMPLETE YEARS OF LIFE = 177-SIXTY + 96-FIVE = 273.

25 31 49 68 97 102 108 126 158 177 193 225 244 273
SIXTY FIVE
273 248 242 224 205 176 171 165 147 115 96 80 48 29

"Deep" decryption offers the following option, in which all columns match:

(udu) Sh (b) E + S (mer) Th + (ser) DE (full) (under) C (accuracy) + (sbils) I (ri) T (m) P (pulse) + (sudden) I (death.

273 \u003d, W, E + C, T +, DE, C, +, I, T, P, +, I, T.

Let's see what "MEMORY OF THE INFORMATION FIELD" will tell us:

111-MEMORY + 201-INFORMATIONAL + 75-FIELDS = 386.

386 = 241-(FULL NAME code) + 145-DIED; (zak) ENDED LIFE.

241 - 145 = 96 = FINISHED (life).

386 = 124-MAY TWENTIETH + 262-SUDDEN DEATH FROM CANCER.

262 - 124 \u003d 138 \u003d DEprived of life (life).

386 \u003d 273-SIXTY-FIVE + 113-DIED (I).

273 - 113 \u003d 160 \u003d 106-SICK WITH CANCER + 54-DEATH (t).

We look at the column in the lower table of the FULL NAME code:

37 = CME(Mg)
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208 = 106-SICK WITH CANCER + 102-DEATH

208 - 37 = 171 = DONE LIFE.

If you are a big connoisseur of quality films, you are unlikely to know Oleg Yankovsky, an actor in Russian and Soviet cinema and theater. Known for his charisma, he could fit into absolutely any role - be it a hero or a comedic character.

All the directors who worked with him claimed that, apart from Oleg, no one could have approached their characters so accurately and confidently. Concurrently, he was friends with the theater legend Mark Zakharov. It was filmed by directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Georgy Danelia.

Height, weight, age. Cause of death of Oleg Yankovsky

Having access to the Internet, curious fans will be interested to know such data of the actor as height, weight, age of Oleg Yankovsky. So, the height of the great actor was 183 centimeters, and his weight was about 75 kilograms.

Many publications called this ratio of height and weight an ideal figure for a film actor. At the time of his death, Oleg Yankovsky was 65 years old. According to the sign of the Zodiac, he was Pisces. According to the Chinese horoscope, he belonged to the sign "Monkey".

Biography of Oleg Yankovsky and cause of death

The biography of Oleg Yankovsky begins in the Kazakh SSR, the city of Dzhezkazgan. The future actor was born in February 1944. The family of Oleg Yankovsky had roots in Belarusian and Polish lands.

There were 2 more children in their family - the older brothers of the actor, Rostislav and Nikolai. Their family was poor, due to the recently ended war and the repressions that their father, and then the whole family, were subjected to. But, despite this, they still had an excellent library, which helped them to receive guests of the same people from intelligent families. The upbringing of sons lay on women's shoulders, because. The father of the family was a construction worker.

In his youth, Oleg dreamed of becoming a football player or a military man in order to get the status of a "hero" like his father. When the actor was 7 years old, the whole family left for Saratov. Here, the wound of his father began to affect his health even more strongly, and in 1953 he died.

The older brother Rostislav, who worked in the theater, moved to Minsk, where he later took Oleg. At that time, he was 14 years old. He had not yet connected his life with theater or cinema, and soon returned home to Saratov.

Some time later, entrance exams were held at the theater institute, and Oleg wanted to try himself in this. But, it so happened that he did not have time to pass the exams. It was here that he was helped by a happy accident. His brother Nikolai also passed exams at this university, moreover, successfully. The management of the institute thought that they mixed up the name and told Oleg that he had entered. The first course was given to him with great difficulty, he was on the verge of expulsion. And already in the last years before graduating from the institute, he discovered the potential of a good actor.

The actress and the actor's wife, Lyudmila Zorina, helped him break into the Saratov Drama Theater. For a long time, the actor played the "shadow" role of his wife. Filming helped change the situation.

May 20, 2009 actor Oleg Yankovsky died. The cause of death is a prolonged illness. Initially, he was treated for coronary heart disease. Later, he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor of the pancreas, which did not respond to treatment. After spending a month in the hospital after the discovery of internal bleeding, the actor died.

Filmography: films starring Oleg Yankovsky

Oleg did not participate in castings or extras. To get into the cinema, he, again, was helped by an incident that occurred in 1967. Being on tour in Lviv together with the Saratov Drama Theater, the director Basov drew attention to him, who then had the mini-series "Shield and Sword" in production. And there was no actor to play the main role. The actor garnered attention for his appearance, which suited the character very well. This film instantly brought fame to the actor.

Since 1969, Oleg Yankovsky has been playing many roles, both main and secondary. These paintings include "I, Francysk Skaryna", "Sweet Woman", etc.

In 1973 he moved to Leningrad, to work in the theater. Lenin Komsomol. He quickly became a central actor.

Subsequently, various pictures and performances came out, which brought all the great popularity to the actor. For example, his phrase from the film "The Same Munchausen" - "smile, gentlemen, smile" became associated with the actor, and often flashed in biographies and interviews.

There were a large number of historical films where Jankowski also played great people of the past. It is impossible not to mention the film "The Man Who Cried", which was filmed jointly by the French and the British.

Oleg Yankovsky personal life and his women

The personal life of Oleg Yankovsky was not diverse, and he himself did not strive for this. Almost all his life, he spent with his wife Lyudmila Zorina. The wedding took place when Oleg was in his second year. For the public, this couple has become an example of a successful and exemplary family. Although, very often there were unconfirmed rumors about the adventures of the actor.

Son Philip was born in 1968, who made the star couple happy to become grandparents in the 90s.

But, despite the strong marriage of the actor, Oleg Yankovsky, biography, personal life and his women often worried journalists and were a good platform for creating rumors. So, for a long time it was believed that he was married to Irina Kupchenko. Such rumors appeared after they starred in several films in which they played the role of lovers. Oleg later said in an interview that they don’t even see each other outside of work, so there can be no talk of a love relationship.

When the actor died, the actress Prokolova began to give interviews in which she spoke about her relationship with Yankovsky and even about an abortion in order to get rid of his child. The opinions of the fans were divided, and many took these words for another PR stunt.

Family of Oleg Yankovsky

As mentioned earlier, the family of Oleg Yankovsky was poorly provided for, due to the war and repression. The actor's father, Jan, went through two wars. During the First World War he was seriously wounded, which soon became the cause of death. During World War II, he worked in factories in the rear. Twice he was arrested and sent into exile. Fearing for the rest of the family, the actor's mother burned many of the family's awards.

Both parents dreamed of art. This was passed on to the children, and the children began to get involved in the theater - they were engaged in circles of theatrical and artistic art. Mother, after the children grew up, got a job as an accountant.

Children of Oleg Yankovsky. Grandchildren Ivan and Liza

The grandchildren and children of Oleg Yankovsky are a topic in which it is not customary to speak in the plural. In a single marriage with Lyudmila Zorina, the actor has one son - Philip. From childhood, the boy's life was connected with cinema and theater. He was often taken backstage to watch performances being made.

As you know, children who grew up in such conditions choose one of two things - to completely love art, or to hate everything related to acting and theater. Philip liked the magic of cinema, which is why he decided to connect his life with cinema.

The son of Oleg Yankovsky - Philip

The son of Oleg Yankovsky - Philip was born on October 10, 1968. He followed in the footsteps of stellar parents, became a film actor and director. His debut took place in 1974, in the film "Mirror".

Until 1990, he studied at the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio, successfully graduating from it, went to study at VGIK, on ​​the director's course. He has over 150 clips to his credit.

In general, the filmography of the actor has about 16 films. As a director, Philip Yankovsky acted in 4 films.

He married Oksana Fandera. In 1990, his son Ivan was born. After 5 years, daughter Lisa was born. Thus, Oleg Yankovsky and Lyudmila Zorina became grandfather and grandmother.

Oleg Yankovsky's wife - Lyudmila Zorina

The wife of Oleg Yankovsky - Lyudmila Zorina was born in 1941. She is an actress of Soviet and Russian cinema. In 1999, she was awarded the status of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

While in her third year, she met her future husband. After a short period of time, they got married. Behind him, he has more than 50 main roles on the stage of the Saratov Theater. When Oleg moved to the Lenkom Theater in 1974, his wife went with him, where they were gladly received. At the moment she is the widow of Oleg Yankovsky.

It is not possible to find a photo of Oleg Yankovsky before and after plastic surgery, because. all fans know that the actor has his sculptural facial features by nature, and never needed such operations. In addition, the actor lived at a time when operations to change the appearance were either not carried out at all, or for this it was worth leaving the USSR.

The actor did not like to go to the hospital at all, and until the last he could stand on stage. Perhaps it was this feature that caused the fatal disease - pancreatic cancer at a late stage.

Instagram and Wikipedia Oleg Yankovsky

When it comes to actors who became famous in the USSR, you should not hope to find their pages on any social networks. So, Instagram and Wikipedia Oleg Yankovsky was no exception. Although the actor does have a Wikipedia page that is filled with well-known facts from close friends and family.

As for Instagram, the actor did not even live to see its creation for a year. It becomes clear that it is simply pointless to look for any social networks of an actor of Soviet and Russian cinema.

Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky. Born February 23, 1944 in Dzhezkazgan (Kazakh SSR) - died May 20, 2009 in Moscow. Soviet, Russian theater and film actor, film director. People's Artist of the USSR (1991). Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1987), two State Prizes of the Russian Federation (1996, 2002).

The actor was most famous for his work in the films “Shield and Sword”, “Two Comrades Served”, “The Same Munchausen”, “Flying in a Dream and in Reality”, “Nostalgia”.

On the theatrical stage, his most striking works were roles in the performances of The Idiot, Blue Horses on Red Grass by M. F. Shatrov, Optimistic Tragedy by Vs. V. Vishnevsky, "The Seagull", "Jester Balakirev" by G. I. Gorin.

The best actor in 1983 according to a poll of the magazine "Soviet Screen" for the main role in the film "In love of his own accord."

Winner of numerous film awards. Among other things:

1983 - Laureate of the All-Union Film Festival in the nomination "Prizes for the best acting work" for 1983;
1989 - Prize "For outstanding contribution to the profession" at the film festival "Constellation" - for his role in the film "Kill the Dragon";
1992 - Award "Nika" - for the best male role in the film "Regicide";
1992 - Nika Award - for the best male role in the film "Passport";
1993 - A. A. Khanzhonkov Prize "Film Event of the Year";
2000 - Prize "Golden Horseshoe" - for directing the film "Come see me";
2001 - Prize for the best male role at the ORKF "Kinotavr" in Sochi - for the film "Come see me" ... And many others.

Oleg Yankovsky was born in the city of Dzhezkazgan of the Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan) on February 23, 1944 in the family of Ivan Pavlovich and Marina Ivanovna Yankovsky. The Yankovsky family has Belarusian and Polish roots.

The father of the actor Yan Yankovsky (later the name Ivan was fixed) before the revolution of 1917 was a guards officer, staff captain of the Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment, was awarded the Order of St. George during the First World War. During the Brusilovsky breakthrough, he was seriously wounded. He served with Tukhachevsky, who also began his career in the Semyonovsky regiment. In the early 1930s he was arrested and released in 1936.

In 1937, Ivan Pavlovich was arrested again, - as Oleg Yankovsky himself claimed, - "got burned" for "being a friend of Tukhachevsky." Released soon after. During the Great Patriotic War, he worked in the rear - in construction in Dzhezkazgan and Leninabad. In 1951, the family moved to Saratov, where in 1953 Ivan Pavlovich died (a wound received in the First World War made itself felt).

Ivan Pavlovich loved the theater, art, music; Marina Ivanovna dreamed of becoming a ballerina in her youth. They had a large library, which was collected by the father and managed to save the mother. When the family moved from Dzhezkazgan to Saratov, the theater became a hobby for the sons - the elder Rostislav was engaged in an amateur art circle, the middle brother, Nikolai, in a theater circle. The brothers adored the performances of the local Youth Theater. Rostislav, after graduating from the theater studio in Leninabad, began working in the local theater. In 1957 he moved to Minsk, where he began to play on the stage of the Minsk Russian Drama Theater. M. Gorky.

In order to save his mother from part of the material worries (there was only one breadwinner in the family - the middle brother Nikolai), a year later Rostislav took 14-year-old Oleg to him, who had just finished the seventh grade. In Minsk, Yankovsky Jr. made his debut on stage - it was necessary to replace the ill travesty - the performer of the episodic role of the boy Edik in the play "The Drummer" by A. D. Salynsky. Oleg did not feel the importance of his participation in the performance - once he fell asleep in the dressing room and did not have time to leave. Oleg loved football, which he became interested in while still living in Saratov. After moving to Minsk, he played for some time with Eduard Malofeev. But this hobby had a negative impact on his studies, and his older brother forbade Oleg to play football.

Marina Ivanovna was worried about the departure of her sons, and as soon as the opportunity arose, Oleg returned to Saratov, where he graduated from school No. 67. After school, Oleg was going to enter a medical institute, but accidentally saw an ad for admission to the Saratov Theater School. Remembering his Minsk experience on stage, he decided to try his hand. To his disappointment, the entrance exams had already ended, but Oleg decided to find out about the admission rules for the next year and went into the director's office. He only asked for his last name and said that Yankovsky was enrolled and that he needed to come to classes in early September. As it turned out a few months later, Oleg's brother, Nikolai, secretly decided to enter the family and successfully passed the creative competition. Sincerely loving Oleg, Nikolai did not separate him from the stage. Oleg studied not without problems. As the stage speech teacher recalled: “He spoke badly, had a heavy apparatus, opened his mouth incorrectly.” But in the role of Tuzenbach in the graduation performance "Three Sisters" Oleg Yankovsky managed to show himself as a promising, interesting actor, and this dispelled the doubts of the master of the course.

In the second year of college, Oleg met Lyudmila Zorina, who was a year older. They soon got married. When, after school, Zorina was invited to the Saratov Drama Theater, she insisted that Oleg be taken there too. After graduating from the Saratov Theater School in 1965 (teacher - A. S. Bystryakov), Oleg was enrolled in the troupe of the Saratov Theater. Lyudmila quickly became a theater star, all of Saratov went to see her. Oleg got only episodic roles.

Oleg Yankovsky got into the cinema almost by accident. The Saratov Drama Theater was on tour in Lvov. Oleg went to the hotel restaurant to have lunch. Director Vladimir Basov and members of the film crew of the future film novel are located in the same restaurant "Shield and Sword". They discussed where to find an artist for the role of Heinrich Schwarzkopf. Basov's wife, Valentina Titova, noticing Oleg at the next table, told the director: "Here sits a young man with a typical Aryan appearance." Basov agreed that the young man would fit perfectly, but “he, of course, is some kind of physicist or philologist. Where to find an artist with such a smart face? Having met Oleg again at Mosfilm and having learned that he was an actor, Natalya Terpsikhorova, Basov's assistant, proposed his candidacy to the director. She found Oleg in the Saratov theater and invited him to audition. Stanislav Lyubshin, who had already been approved for the role of intelligence officer Johann Weiss (Alexander Belov), was called to play along with the young artist. Oleg was very worried. He had no experience in cinema at all, and in the theater his experience consisted of tiny episodes.

Stanislav Lyubshin said: “We play and, like all actors at screen tests, we play terribly. It’s not scary for me, I’ve already been approved, and Oleg began to worry so much! We had a white column there, marble, and he was paler than this column. The whole tragic state was expressed on his noble face. And the longer Oleg held on to the column, the more beautiful he became. I then told Basov: “Vladimir Pavlovich, look how this guy suffers, how exactly you chose the artist.” Cameraman Pasha Lebeshev supports me: “Really , it is becoming more and more interesting". And Basov agreed: "Yes, he is getting prettier with every second, we approve him" "".

So Oleg Yankovsky was invited to his first film. The theater troupe went after Lvov to Yalta, where Oleg read the script for the film "Shield and Sword". In the same year, Oleg played the Red Army soldier Andrei Nekrasov in the drama of Evgeny Karelov "Two comrades served". At first, he auditioned for the role of lieutenant Brusentsov, but the director, seeing Oleg on the samples, exclaimed: “We will not give this person to Wrangel”.

Oleg Yankovsky in the film "Shield and Sword"

Oleg Yankovsky in the film "Two Comrades Were Serving"

On the set of this film, Yankovsky met two stars at once - Rolan Bykov, who played Ivan Karyakin, and who played Lieutenant Brusentsov. The young actor became friends with Rolan Bykov. Bykov's advice became prophetic for Yankovsky and sunk into his memory: "Don't rush to Moscow right away, Oleg. Moscow is suffocating, it lacks talented people. And you will be popular as soon as this film comes out. Many theaters will be called - both Moscow and Leningrad".

In the role of Nekrasov, Yankovsky learned to be silent and learned to look. Valery Frid, one of the authors of the script, recalled how the director of the film Yevgeny Karelov ran to him and asked with concern why Nekrasov, played by Yankovsky, had so little text, all his remarks fit on half of the printed page.

After the release of the films "Shield and Sword" and "Two Comrades Were Serving", Yankovsky became famous. Saratov audience began to go to the theater on Oleg Yankovsky. Oleg Ivanovich began to receive serious roles, both classical (“Glass of Water” - Meshem, “Talents and Admirers” - Meluzov, “Idiot” - Myshkin), and modern repertoire (“Man from the outside” - Cheshkov).

In 1972, Oleg Yankovsky played Igor Maslennikov in the film Racers. The film was shot as an advertisement for the export version of the Moskvich-412 car. As in his first two films, Yankovsky had a great partner, Yevgeny Leonov. They were two rally drivers: Leonov played the experienced Ivan Kukushkin, and Yankovsky - the young, successful handsome Nikolai Sergachev. In the interior of the car, they actually lived for several months, leaving for filming in Abkhazia, the Baltic states, and Finland. Yankovsky bowed before Leonov. Leonov also noticed the "Saratov nugget". It was Leonov who recommended the newly appointed chief director of Lenkom, Mark Zakharov, to take a closer look at Yankovsky. Mark Zakharov made a special trip to Saratov (as he describes this episode in his book "Theater Without Lies") and watched the performances "Idiot" and "Talents and Admirers" with the participation of Oleg Yankovsky (in August 1973, the Saratov Academic Drama Theater toured on the stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky).

After a successful tour in Leningrad, Oleg began to receive offers to play in various Moscow and Leningrad theaters, but he was waiting for an offer from Mark Zakharov. Mark Zakharov did not come to a meeting with Oleg, which did not discourage the young actor, who himself called the director and reminded him of the meeting. In 1973, at the invitation of Mark Zakharov, Oleg Yankovsky moved to the Moscow theater named after Lenin Komsomol (Lenkom) and began to rehearse the main role there - Goryaev, the young secretary of the party organization at the construction site of a giant automobile plant in the "youth-musical" performance "Autograd XXI", the first production of Mark Zakharov as the chief director of this theater. The play was written by him in collaboration with Yuri Vizbor. The performance did not last long in the repertoire, was coolly received by critics, but the actor recalled it with a good feeling, as "a joint debut with Zakharov in Lenkom." Oleg Yankovsky recalled that time: “My transition to Moscow was difficult mainly in everyday life. A five-meter dorm room, a little son... But professionally, I didn't feel any apprehension.".

In the cinema during these years, Oleg Yankovsky creates many interesting images: the uncompromising party organizer Solomakhin in the "Award" based on the play by Alexander Gelman and the cheerful scholar Francis Skorina ("I, Francis Skorina"), the investigator Vorontsov ("Long, Long Business") and the Decembrist Ryleev in the film by Vladimir Motyl "The Star of Captivating Happiness", a polar explorer ("72 degrees below zero") and a special correspondent of the capital's newspaper ("Wait for me, Anna").

Oleg Yankovsky's notable work in the mid-1970s was the role of the Father in the film Mirror. The actor got into the film due to his resemblance to Arseny Tarkovsky, the director's father. For Yankovsky, the role of the Father was expanded. Also in the film was played by little Philip, the son of Oleg Yankovsky (he played Andrei Tarkovsky himself in childhood). Tarkovsky dreamed of filming William Shakespeare's play Hamlet and offered the role of Hamlet to Oleg Yankovsky, but Tarkovsky was not allowed to make the film. And then he decided to stage this play on the stage. Oleg Yankovsky brought this play to Lenkom, persuaded Mark Zakharov, waited two years, but five days before the start of rehearsals (the premiere took place in 1977), Tarkovsky said: “You, Oleg, are a romantic hero, your role is Laertes, and Tolya Solonitsyn will play Hamlet”. Yankovsky offendedly refused to participate in the play. This cooled the relationship between the director and the actor.

In 1976, Mark Zakharov was supposed to start filming the film "An Ordinary Miracle" based on the play. The management of Mosfilm needed a picture that could be suitable for showing on New Year's Eve. It was supposed to be a light, sweet comedy. It was offered to shoot it to Mark Zakharov, a theater director, on whose account there was only one picture - "12 Chairs", filmed for television and recognized as unsuccessful.

There was a black-and-white adaptation of Schwartz's fairy tale, which was filmed in 1964 by Erast Garin. Despite the fact that Oleg Vidov, a recognized sex symbol, was in the role of the Bear, and Garin himself was in the role of the King, the film was forgotten. Mark Zakharov did not like this play, he considered it lightweight, did not see philosophical overtones in it. But, having decided to tell this story in his own way, he nevertheless agreed. In the role of the Wizard, Mark Zakharov saw only Oleg Yankovsky. He was easily approved by the artistic council, mindful of his great track record in the cinema. But before filming began, the actor suffered a heart attack, and he ended up in intensive care. When Mark Zakharov came to the hospital to Jankowski, the actor said he was ready to give up the role. But the director said: "Not. I will not part with you. Will wait". Filming has been suspended. And they started only after the actor left the hospital.

Mark Zakharov recalled how Yankovsky helped him with his film experience on the set. And this time the movie worked. The bear was played by a very young one, and the Princess who fell in love with him was played by Evgenia Simonova. And the culprit in this whole story was the Magician - Oleg Yankovsky. Mark Zakharov contrasted the Wizard with all other characters in his world. He is the only figure with a philosophical character. The rest are either lyrical or satirical. He is the main person, and it was he who told the moral of this tale: “Glory to the brave men who dare to love, knowing that all this will come to an end. Glory to the madmen who live as if they were immortal."

Oleg Yankovsky in the movie "An Ordinary Miracle"

The magician of Oleg Yankovsky was not lost against the backdrop of the courageous charm of the Bear-Abdulov, the enchanting grotesqueness of the King-Leonov and the gentle charm of the Princess-Simonova. Despite the fact that the director gave Yankovsky less funds to create his image, he managed to show the essence of the Creator with stingy colors - he had the ability to work miracles, but at the same time he was a very real person - selfish, domineering, sometimes cruel, and at the same time wise . Mark Zakharov later admitted: if there was no Wizard, then there would be no Munchausen, Swift and the Dragon. Thanks to the resounding success of The Ordinary Miracle, the director was finally able to prove that he was "not a random person in cinema."

In 1978, Oleg Yankovsky played the investigator Kamyshev in the film by Emil Lotyanu "My Sweet and Tender Beast" based on the story of A.P. Chekhov "Drama on the Hunt". “A handsome man in a white suit,” as Mark Zakharov wrote about it. Oleg Yankovsky dedicated this role to his mother, Marina Ivanovna. The film was poorly received by critics due to the free treatment of the original source, but it was a resounding success with the audience (especially the spectators), and Yankovsky after the film became, as they say, a "sex symbol". In film concerts, which were so loved to be shown on our television screen in Soviet times, the scene where Kamyshev - Oleg Yankovsky circles Olenka - Galina Belyaeva in his arms to the sounds of Evgeny Doga's brilliant waltz, was mandatory.

Oleg Yankovsky in the film "My sweet and gentle beast"

Also in 1978, Mark Zakharov staged the play "Blue Horses on Red Grass" based on the play by Mikhail Shatrov in Lenkom. It was a bold experiment - Oleg Yankovsky played not just Lenin, but Lenin without makeup, without the usual burr of the leader, he played him not as a bronze monument, but as an ordinary person, sick, tired, tormented by the fact that he had little left. Even those who did not accept the performance admired the work of Yankovsky, who was able to move away from the traditional portrayal of Lenin. The actor played not the real Lenin, but his romantic representation in the minds of people, not the person he was, but the way they wanted to see him.

In 1979, Mark Zakharov began filming the film "The same Munchausen", which was based on the play by Grigory Gorin "The Most Truthful", originally written for the theater of the Soviet army. In this performance, the main roles were played by Vladimir Zeldin and Lyudmila Kasatkina, it would be logical to invite them to the film, but Mark Zakharov saw only Oleg Yankovsky in the image of Munchausen, despite the fact that it was in a certain sense a bold decision.

As Gorin later recalled, “during the dubbing of the film, it turned out that the magnificent-looking Baron Karl Friedrich Jerome speaks with some kind of Saratov accent and with great difficulty pronounces some words and expressions inherent in the German aristocracy.” Gorin was not present during the dubbing of the final scene in the tone studio, where Baron Munchausen says the phrase that later became famous: “A smart face is not yet a sign of intelligence, gentlemen”. In the script, the phrase sounded like this: “A serious face is not yet a sign of intelligence, gentlemen,” but Oleg Yankovsky misspoke, and so this phrase, to Gorin’s displeasure, became winged.

On December 31, 1979, the premiere took place. This film has become the hallmark of Oleg Yankovsky. Despite the large number of excellent roles played by the actor after this film, his best role is often called the role of Baron Munchausen. In the performance of Oleg Yankovsky, Munchausen appeared not at all the liar-baron that is familiar from the book by Erich Raspe and the canonical illustrations by Gustave Doré. This is a parable about the courage of a person who is able to remain himself, not giving in to hypocrites and hypocrites. Oleg Yankovsky often recalled in his interviews about the “role formula” that Mark Zakharov found for him.

Oleg Yankovsky in the film "The Same Munchausen"

In 1981, Oleg Yankovsky played the role of Jack Stapleton in the film The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

In 1982, Oleg Yankovsky played a major role in Sergei Mikaelyan's film "In love of my own accord". Yankovsky got into this film thanks to Evgenia Glushenko, who had already been approved for the main role of Vera. Glushenko persuaded director Sergei Mikaelyan to stop looking for the main character and invite Yankovsky: “Only Oleg can play a gentleman, even a downcast one. He's a real aristocrat!". Sergey Mikaelyan agreed, despite the fact that the main character of the film was 27 years old, and Oleg Yankovsky was already 38, and he had not seen another actor in this role. When Lenkom was supposed to leave for filming in Central Asia, Mikaelyan insisted that the entire film group be sent after Yankovsky. The film was watched by almost 25 million viewers, and Oleg Yankovsky was recognized as the best actor of the year according to a poll of readers of the Soviet Screen magazine.

Also in 1982, Oleg Yankovsky starred in Roman Balayan's film "Flying in a dream and in reality." The script was written by Viktor Merezhko specifically for, but when Roman Balayan accidentally saw Yankovsky in the film "We, the Undersigned", he was so struck by his game that he immediately called Merezhko and said: "We take Yankovsky." Balayan recalled this: “Why did I decide so? It seems to me that Oleg had something that many do not have: he is in the frame and above him. There was something else, besides what he said, in his face, in his eyes..

Viktor Merezhko called the actor and offered him the lead role, but Yankovsky, having learned that the film would be shot by an unknown director at the Dovzhenko film studio, refused. But then, accidentally finding out the details of the plot from Nikita Mikhalkov himself, Oleg Yankovsky agreed. This film was the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between the actor and director Roman Balayan. Roman Balayan described the main character of the film as follows: “The hero in the plot is both this and that. So you don’t like it, here he is good, here he is almost a scoundrel, here he is wonderful again, here he is making jokes, here he is crying. In one film, the artist was given to play everything. Oleg Yankovsky was awarded the USSR State Prize for his role in the film "Flights in a Dream and in Reality". In the 1980s, Roman Balayan made the films The Kiss (1983), Keep Me, My Talisman (1986) and Filer (1987) with Oleg Yankovsky.

Andrei Tarkovsky's favorite actor, his friend and protagonist of his films, Anatoly Solonitsyn, was supposed to play the main role in the film Nostalgia, but he died of lung cancer in June 1982, and Tarkovsky offered the main role to Oleg Yankovsky. Solonitsyn died before the script was written, and therefore the script was written specifically "under Yankovsky." The hero of "Nostalgia" was originally supposed to be a Russian serf composer (whose prototype was Dmitry Bortnyansky), sent to study in Italy. But according to the script, the main character of the film was the modern writer Andrei Gorchakov. He comes to Italy to find materials about the serf of Count Sheremetev, the composer of the 18th century, Sosnovsky.

Tarkovsky decided to prepare the actor for the role. Yankovsky was settled in a hotel and simply abandoned - without knowledge of the language, without money. One week passed, then another, no one showed up. The delight from the meeting with the capitalist abroad was replaced by melancholy. Yankovsky was already in despair, and then Tarkovsky finally appeared. Seeing the dead look of the actor, he said: "Now you can shoot."

The film was shot in three months. In 1983, Italy entered the film at the Cannes Film Festival with the expectation of a Grand Prix. But the film did not receive a prize, Tarkovsky blamed Sergei Bondarchuk, who was on the jury, for everything. The leadership of the Goskino, especially the chairman of the Goskino of the USSR F. T. Yermash, demanded that Tarkovsky return to the country. The director decided to stay in Italy, "Nostalgia" was banned from showing in the USSR.

In 1983, Mark Zakharov staged Vsevolod Vishnevsky's play Optimistic Tragedy on the Lenkom stage. Oleg Yankovsky played in this performance the tsarist officer Captain Bering - a role that demonstrated his textured aristocracy and his ability to expressively remain silent.

In 1986, Oleg Yankovsky played the role of Hamlet in Gleb Panfilov's production at Lenkom. It was the first work of a film director in the theater. The performance did not last long in the repertoire and was underestimated by critics. They did not accept the debutant director's interpretation of Shakespeare's famous play. The biggest dislike was caused by the role of Hamlet performed by Oleg Yankovsky. The actor played not a spiritual quest, but the end result. This was not a madman and not a man pretending to be mad, he was a cold, sober-minded person.

Despite the fact that Oleg Yankovsky understood his role better and better from performance to performance, the performance was withdrawn from the repertoire, and the actor believed that this role was his failure.

But the role of Vasily Pozdnyshev in the film by Mikhail Schweitzer "Kreutzer Sonata" (based on the novel by L. N. Tolstoy), filmed in the same 1986, Oleg Yankovsky considered his luck. The actor was approved without audition for this role. It was physically difficult for Jankowski to play. Most of the film was occupied by the monologue of the protagonist, who killed his wife. The actor had to learn a huge text and not deviate one iota from the original source. The director's wife stood next to Tolstoy's volume and made sure "every syllable and every preposition was pronounced." For the role of Pozdnyshev, Oleg Yankovsky in 1989 was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR.

In the 1980s, Oleg Yankovsky starred in two more films by Mark Zakharov - in 1982 in the film The House That Swift Built and in 1988 in the film Kill the Dragon. Both paintings had a difficult fate. The film "The House That Swift Built" was not released by censors for a long time on television because of the complex "Aesopian language" of Grigory Gorin's play. Although this time the playwright was pleased with the work of Oleg Yankovsky, in contrast to the difficulties with scoring the film "The Same Munchausen", and noted with a grain of irony: “On the other hand, in the next film,“ The House that Swift Built ”, Oleg worked flawlessly ... because for almost the entire film, Dean Swift did not speak, but simply silently watched ... No one can look at this world better than Yankovsky in silence". The play "Dragon" by E. Schwartz was staged by Mark Zakharov at the student theater of Moscow State University, the performance was played only a few times and then closed. But at the end of "perestroika", the play was finally transferred to the television screen. Oleg Yankovsky played the Dragon in the film, which keeps the whole city in fear. The wandering knight Lancelot arrives in the city, who wants to free the inhabitants from his domination. But people are so accustomed to the tyrant that they put up all sorts of obstacles to the liberator. Critics accused Mark Zakharov of being opportunistic, because this time the parallels with modernity lay on the surface and were easily recognizable.

In 1991, Oleg Yankovsky played in the film "The King's Killer" by Karen Shakhnazarov - the first Russian film about the execution of the family of the former Russian Emperor Nicholas II. In the same year, the actor was awarded the national Nika Award for the best male roles in The Kingslayer and Passport.

In the early 1990s, “everything collapsed in the country, including film production,” Oleg Yankovsky recalled. At the invitation of director Claude Regis, Jankowski left for France for six months, where he participated in an international theater project. He recalled how Mark Zakharov came to his dressing room, sat down and sadly asked him: “Oleg, are you for good, right?”

While working in France, Oleg Yankovsky learned that he had become a People's Artist of the USSR. His last name was last on the last list. It made him ironic. He joked that after the introduction of this title in the Soviet Union, he was the first to receive it: Who did you start with and who did you end with?.

In the spring of 1992, Oleg Yankovsky returned to the country and did not recognize it: “I was driving through the center of my native city and felt as if I had landed on a foreign planet. I was most struck by the flea markets near the Bolshoi Theater and Detsky Mir. Around the same time, the Savoy Hotel was opened in Moscow, and striking luxury against the background fires on the street, people selling clothes from their hands, seemed a terrible absurdity, surrealism".

Anyone who wanted to take on the production of films. Since they thought not about creativity, but about money laundering, very soon the number of produced films grew to four hundred a year - in the early 90s more films were riveted in Russia than in India.

At this time, Oleg Yankovsky also starred a lot, but some of the pictures with his participation were never completed. Sergei Solovyov was unable to complete the film “Ivan Turgenev. Metaphysics of Love”, where Oleg Yankovsky played Ivan Turgenev, and Tatiana Drubich played Pauline Viardot. Director Semyon Aranovich died without completing his film "The Lamb of God", where Oleg Yankovsky played an NKVD colonel. The shooting of the serial film Anna Karenina by Sergei Solovyov, launched in 1993, dragged on for 16 years due to financial problems.

In 1993, Oleg Yankovsky became the president of the Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi, ORKF Kinotavr.

Oleg Yankovsky also played in the films of Roman Balayan in the film "First Love", Igor Maslennikov in the film "Darkness", in "The Government Inspector" (screen version of the work of N. V. Gogol), the screen version of Mikhail Bulgakov's story "Fatal Eggs". He was filmed by British director Anthony Waller in the film "Silent Witness", in France in the film "Mado, Poste restante" by Alexander Adabashyan and in Greece in the film "Terra Incognita".

In 2000, Oleg Yankovsky, together with Mikhail Agranovich, staged his own film “Come See Me” based on the play by Nadezhda Ptushkina “While she was dying ...” and played the main character in it, Igor, the “new Russian”, who mistakenly got into the “old Russian "- an old maid caring for her dying mother. Oleg Yankovsky spoke about this work: "It was a" test of the pen ". In the stream of monstrously black cinema, I suddenly wanted to shoot some kind, bright story, I wanted some kind of fairy tale and kindness. Although I profess and love other cinema".

In 2001, Mark Zakharov staged the play Jester Balakirev based on the last play by Grigory Gorin in Lenkom. The playwright died without finishing the second act of the play, so Mark Zakharov had to bring the separate dialogues of the second act into a single whole for more than a year, which, according to critics, did not work out very well. Oleg Yankovsky played Peter the Great in this performance. Despite the ambiguous assessments of the production, critics noted the excellent performance of Oleg Yankovsky, calling this work one of his best roles of these years. For this role, Oleg Yankovsky was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation, the Stanislavsky Theater Prize, the Idol Prize and was nominated for the Golden Mask Theater Prize.

In 2002, Oleg Yankovsky starred in Valery Todorovsky's film The Lover. For his work in the film, Oleg Yankovsky was awarded the Best Actor prize at the XIII Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival and the Golden Aries Guild of Film Critics and Critics of Russia.

In 2004, the well-known Estonian director Elmo Nyuganen staged the play “Tout payé, or Everything is Paid” in Lenkom based on the popular play by French playwright Yves Zhamiak “Monsieur Amilcar Pays”. Oleg Yankovsky, who previously did not take part in the entreprises on principle, this time agreed to play in the play, because he liked the play. He played the main character - Monsieur Amilcar, a lonely and lost faith in the life of a man who hires people for money to portray loved ones for him - an old friend, daughter and wife. The wife is portrayed by an unsuccessful actress, the daughter is a prostitute, an old friend is a poor artist. When at the end of the play it turns out that Monsieur Amilcar is not a rich man at all, but only a clerk who robbed his bank, everyone already has time to become attached to him for real. The play was modernized, the gloomy ending was replaced with a happy ending. Oleg Yankovsky was also the director of this performance.

In 2006, the TV series was released "Doctor Zhivago" based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, for which the writer received the Nobel Prize. The authors of the film put the words "based on" in the credits, because the series has strongly departed from the original source. This also applied to the display of the lawyer Viktor Ipollitovich Komarovsky, a character played by Oleg Yankovsky. In the novel, Komarovsky is described only in black paint, but Oleg Yankovsky did not want to play this character as superficially as the actors did in other adaptations of the novel. He plays a bright personality, a person who will always be in the spotlight at any time.

Oleg Yankovsky in the series "Doctor Zhivago"

Oleg Yankovsky was accused of agreeing to star in the series, although he promised never to participate in such projects. But the actor considered "Doctor Zhivago" a television film, filmed according to the laws of cinema. “I agreed to act because I was impressed by the personalities of screenwriter Yuri Arabov and director Alexander Proshkin. These people have always worked honestly.”- said the actor. The series was filmed on the order of the NTV channel, but for some reason the channel did not immediately release it on the screen, which the "pirates" did not fail to take advantage of, thanks to which the film was released before the premiere on NTV in poor quality on DVD. Then NTV nevertheless released the series on the screen, but filled it with advertising, each episode accounted for up to 40% of advertising, which repelled viewers. The show of the series in Russia, unlike the show in Belarus, had a low rating and was declared a failure. Many critics did not accept the interpretation of the novel, but noted the brilliant play of Oleg Yankovsky. For his role in this series, Oleg Yankovsky was awarded the Golden Eagle Prize and the Russian Academy of Television TEFI Prize.

In 2009, director Sergei Solovyov was able to complete his film Anna Karenina. In the early 1990s, the picture fell under the sequestration of the state budget. Although all the actors had already been selected and costumes sewn, the project's funding was suspended. The director admitted: if he had been allocated money to work on the picture, there would have been no money to shoot any other films. The painting came under conservation. As soon as money appeared, Solovyov returned to filming. In 1998, the economic crisis again forced to stop work on the picture. During the filming, Irina Metlitskaya, who was originally approved for the role of Anna Karenina, died of leukemia. Her role passed to Tatyana Drubich. The actors were getting older, but, according to the director, this was a boon for Oleg Yankovsky, because “that bitterness of life” that he needed for the role of Karenin appeared in his eyes. Solovyov devoted a lot of time to Karenin, the film itself comes from his face, this is the story of a man who sincerely loved the woman with whom fate divorced him.

In 2008, Oleg Yankovsky played Metropolitan Philip in Pavel Lungin's film The Tsar. In the center of the story is the conflict between Ivan the Terrible and the abbot of the Solovetsky Monastery Philip, a childhood friend of the tsar, summoned by Ivan the Terrible to Moscow and elevated to the rank of metropolitan. Philip agrees to become a metropolitan in the hope of stopping the oprichnina and convincing the tsar to follow Christian virtues. According to the director, in the film he expressed his admiration for the deed of the saint, who "himself made a sacrifice, trying to stop the unimaginable bloodshed."

Lungin for a long time could not find a performer who could cope with the complex role of the metropolitan. According to him, it was he who advised Lungin to take Yankovsky for this role, which was the last one in the movie for the actor. When the director was asked why he chose Oleg Yankovsky, he replied: “Because we don’t have a better actor now.” For this role, a pectoral cross was specially made - an exact copy of the one worn by Metropolitan Philip. At the end of filming, Oleg Yankovsky asked Okhlobystin to consecrate this cross.

The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival three days before the actor's death.

The working title of the film "Ivan the Terrible and Metropolitan Philip" was changed to the short "Tsar" and with this title the film opened the 31st MIFF. On October 13, a closed screening of the film was held in the State Duma and caused a heated discussion among deputies and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The film was released on November 4 and collected 25 million rubles in two days, becoming a contender for the title of the most successful film project of the year. The picture caused dissatisfaction with critics because of the director's free treatment of historical facts, but most of them noted the impeccable play of Oleg Yankovsky.

The last work of Oleg Yankovsky in the theater was the role of the sailor Zhevakin in the play "Marriage" after N.V. Gogol, staged by Mark Zakharov on the stage of Lenkom. On February 18, 2009, the actor took the stage for the last time in this role.

Yankovsky was an academician of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia, president of the Yevgeny Leonov Charitable Foundation (1996-2009).

In July 2008, Oleg Yankovsky became ill at a rehearsal, he was hospitalized in the emergency cardiology department of one of the capital's clinics. Doctors diagnosed coronary heart disease and prescribed a course of medication. In the clinic, the actor admitted that the pain had been bothering him for several months, but he did not attach any importance to this. Despite the poor health of Oleg Yankovsky, the play "Jester Balakirev" was held in Lenkom, where he played the main role. In order for the actor to withstand the load, doctors injected potent drugs that stabilized the heart.

After leaving the clinic, the actor returned to his previous lifestyle, and only at the end of 2008, when his condition worsened, he again turned to the doctors. The actor complained of constant pain in the stomach, nausea, aversion to fatty foods, he lost a lot of weight. After serious symptoms of the disease appeared, the doctors ordered a biopsy, and the diagnosis confirmed the worst fears - the disease (pancreatic cancer) was detected at a late stage. At the end of January 2009, the actor flew to Essen, Germany, for treatment by the German oncologist Professor Martin Schuler, a specialist in cancer therapy. The treatment did not help, and Yankovsky, interrupting the treatment, returned to Moscow in less than 3 weeks. In February, the actor returned to the theater and on April 10, 2009 Oleg Yankovsky played his last performance ("Marriage").

At the end of April, the actor's condition worsened, he had internal bleeding, and he was again taken to the clinic. On the morning of May 20, 2009, Oleg Yankovsky died in a Moscow clinic.

The President of the Russian Federation sent a telegram of condolences to the relatives of O.I. Yankovsky. Among those who sent their condolences to the family and relatives of Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky were his colleagues in the acting profession, friends, those who knew him and loved his work. On May 22, 2009, a farewell ceremony was held at the Lenkom Theater in Moscow, thousands of people came to pay tribute to the memory of Oleg Yankovsky.

Oleg Yankovsky - interview

The growth of Oleg Yankovsky: 182 centimeters.

Family and personal life of Oleg Yankovsky:

The widow is an actress, Honored Artist of Russia, the marriage took place while Oleg Yankovsky was studying in the second year of the theater school.

Nephew - Igor Yankovsky - film actor.

Filmography of Oleg Yankovsky:

1968 - - Heinrich Schwarzkopf
1968 - Two comrades served - Andrey Nekrasov
1969 - Wait for me, Anna - Sergey Novikov
1969 - I, Francysk Skaryna - Francysk Skaryna
1970 - About love - Andrei, friend of Nikolai
1970 - Retribution - Alexey Platov
1970 - Saved the fire - Semyon
1970 - White Land - Franz Ritter
1972 - Racers - Nikolai Sergachev
1974 - Unexpected joys - Lyosha Kanin (the film is not finished, the film is washed away; later it was re-shot by Nikita Mikhalkov under the title "Slave of Love")
1974 - Anger - Leonte Chebotaru
1974 - Mirror - Alexander, father
1974 - Under the stone sky - Yashka, Odessa driver
1974 - Prize - Lev Alekseevich Solomakhin, secretary of the party committee
1974 - Police Sergeant - "Prince"
1974 - Feast during the plague (teleplay) - Priest
1975 - Trust - Georgy Pyatakov
1975 - Star of captivating happiness - Kondraty Ryleev
1975 - My home is a theater - Dmitry Andreevich Gorev, provincial tragedian
1975 - Retired colonel - Alexei, son of a colonel
1975 - Other people's letters - Zhenya Pryakhin
1976 - Seventy-two degrees below zero - Sergey Popov, navigator
1976 - Long, long business ... - Vladimir Vorontsov, investigator
1976 - Sentimental novel - Ilya Gorodetsky
1976 - Sweet woman - Tikhon Dmitrievich Sokolov
1976 - A word for protection - Ruslan Shevernev
1977 - Feedback - Leonid Alexandrovich Sakulin
1978 - My affectionate and gentle beast - Sergey Petrovich Kamyshev
1978 - Ordinary miracle - Master, wizard
1978 - Turn - Viktor Vedeneev
1978 - A guy from our city (teleplay) - Arkady Burmin
1979 - The same Munchausen (TV movie) - Munchausen
1979 - Open Book (serial TV movie) - Raevsky, publisher of Professor Lebedev's letters
1981 - We, the undersigned (TV movie) - Gennady Mikhailovich Semyonov, member of the commission
1981 - Belkin's Tales. Shot (teleplay) - Count
1981 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV movie) - Jack Stapleton / Hugo Baskerville
1981 - Hat - Dmitry Denisov
1982 - Nostalgia - Andrey Gorchakov, Russian writer
1982 - In love of his own free will - Igor Bragin
1982 - The House that Swift Built (TV Movie) - Jonathan Swift, Dean
1982 - Flights in a dream and in reality - Sergey Ivanovich Makarov
1982 - Trustees (teleplay) - Vadim Grigorievich Dulchin (Based on the play by A. N. Ostrovsky "The Last Victim")
1983 - Kiss - Mikhail Ryabovich, staff captain
1983 - Evenings on a farm near Dikanka - Narrator
1984 - Two Hussars - Fedor Ivanovich Turbin, Count
1986 - Keep me, my talisman - Alex
1987 - Kreutzer Sonata - Vasily Pozdnyshev
1987 - Filer - Vorobyov
1988 - Kill the Dragon - Dragon
1989 - My twentieth century (Az én XX. századom) - Z.
1990 - Mado, on demand - Jean-Marie, director
1990 - Passport - Borya, an emigrant from the USSR
1991 - The regicide - Smirnov, psychiatrist / Nicholas II
1992 - Dreams about Russia - Kirill Laksman, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
1992 - Darkness - Terrorist
1993 - I am Ivan, you are Abram - Count
1994 - Silent Witness - Larsen
1994 - Metaphysics of Love - Turgenev (The film was not completed, conservation)
1994 - Agnus Dei. Lamb of God - Colonel of the NKVD (The film was not completed due to the death of the director)
1995 - First love - Father
1995 - Crusader - cameo
1995 - Fatal eggs - Vladimir Ipatievich Persikov, professor
1995 - Terra incognita - Audie Atragon, writer
1996 - Auditor - Ammos Fedorovich Lyapkin-Tyapkin, judge
1997 - Schizophrenia - cameo
1997 - Alice - Kutz
1998 - Paradise apple - Zhora, cultural worker
1999 - Chinese Service - Dmitry Petrovich Stroganov, Count
2000 - Bremen Town Musicians & Co - Troubadour senior
2000 - Memories of Sherlock Holmes (TV movie) - Jack Stapleton / Hugo Baskerville
2000 - Come see me (TV movie) - Igor
2000 - The Man Who Cried - Abramovich
2000 - Procrustean bed - George Ladima
2001 - Pollyanna - Mr. Pendleton
2002 - Lover - Dmitry Charyshev
2003 - Poor, poor Pavel - Peter Palen, Count
2006 - Doctor Zhivago (TV series) - Viktor Komarovsky
2006 - Living Fish (The film was not completed)
2006 - In love at will 2
2007 - Loser - cameo
2008 - Birds of Paradise - Nikolasha
2008 - Guilty without guilt - Grigory Lvovich Murov
2008 - Stilyagi - Brusnitsyn Sr., Fred's father
2009 - Anna Karenina - Alexey Aleksandrovich Karenin
2009 - Tsar - Metropolitan Philip (Kolychev).

Directed by Oleg Yankovsky: 2000 - Come see me (together with Mikhail Agranovich).