Alexander Soloviev: photo, biography, filmography

Klenov from The Broken Circle and Grishka Otrepyev from Boris Godunov, Handsome from the Green Van and Edward Morr from the film On the Pomegranate Islands, Vladimir Petrovich from The Child to November and Andrey from the Club of Women. All these heroes are united by one: they were embodied (and it is simply magnificent - it is impossible not to notice) the Soviet actor Alexander Soloviev. It seemed that in this great life he was an occasional guest. Perhaps, in the wide corridors of this life, he with special diligence was looking for the door that was necessary to him, but for some accident or incomprehensible coincidence, he pressed the pen on the wrong one. He was curious: what is there, in that silence and fog? So he crossed the threshold and stepped a few steps. And when he looked back, the road was no longer back. And he walked this life, absolutely sincerely surprised at the cynicism, cruelty and anger that was present in it. So he left this life: misunderstood and forgotten by his contemporaries ...

Healing Mother's Love

Northern settlement near Norilsk. August 19, 1952. A small boy appeared in the family of the repressed. He was very, very tiny, weighed only one and a half kilograms, after all, Alexander Soloviev was born seven months. The living conditions in these parts were quite severe, and the baby had very few chances to survive. But the loving mother tried to do everything she could, she did her best to leave her beloved son. The woman nursed him very reverently, wore a warm fluffy kerchief. When the neighbors noticed a small bundle in her arms, when she went out with her son to the street, they were sure that there was a kitten or a puppy in the package.

As a child, Sasha cherished his dream of becoming an adult like Oleg Popov. He wanted to amuse all people, so that not a single teardrop would drip from the eyes of native people and would not be familiar to him. It was a very bright and kind child. His qualities he managed to retain for all his, though short, life.

After the death of the leader of all nations, Joseph Stalin, the Solovyov family moved to Norilsk. It was in this city that the future actor lived in his childhood.

A young man not burdened with complexes

No one in the family environment doubted that Alexander Solovyov would become an artist. He was always very mobile, enjoyed interacting with friends and neighbors. Shurik every time actively, with pleasure, amused all people around. In high school in high school, he enters a dramatic circle, because for many years he is just dreaming an acting profession. And then came the year 1969. Schooling is completed. Sasha leaves for Moscow.

With inconceivable ease, Alexander Soloviev, whose photo was flooded with pages of Soviet magazines, entered GITIS. He very much surprised the admission committee by appearing in examinations before teachers in shoes, worn on bare feet. When he was asked why he did it, Sasha directly replied that the socks were dried, because he washed them.

Yes, his shyness and some diplomacy were completely absent from him. This often presented Alexander with unpleasant surprises, because he could sincerely say that the play is being staged by a completely untalented filmmaker, without worrying about the fact that tomorrow he will be fired. He gave himself the right to be independent of everyone and everything, but in his profession, in the acting environment, this is a great rarity. Alexander Soloviev was an exceptionally talented man, but he was in no hurry to build a career.

And the talent manifested itself literally in everything, not only in the ability to play enchantingly on the stage and in front of the cameras, but also in the ability to touchingly touch, giving this feeling completely; And in the boundless breadth of his soul, in which there was very much - the pain and problems of close people, his friends, friends and casual acquaintances.

Time for students

Sasha was lucky to learn the course of Andrei Goncharov. Together with him on the course were the future stars of Soviet cinema - Igor Kostolevsky and Alexander Fatushin. All three quickly became friends, besides Goncharov distinguished them from the whole course, because their potential was an undoubted merit of the guys.

A little later, when the work of Vasily Shukshin was staged a theatrical performance, Alexander so talented and inimitably played in it several completely different in character and life positions of the characters that received sincere praise from the author himself.

Among the many people around him, he was quite a noticeable personality: a benevolent, cheerful, very loving life, open to all. Sasha always caused sympathetic sympathy among classmates, being among them the most real ringleader.

First love

While still a student of GITIS, Sasha met his first wife. In the third year, a great feeling came to him in the face of freshman Luda Radchenko. Since all his emotions he was given without a trace, then the love happened all-consuming. Soon the whole educational institution was aware of what was happening to the future actor. The feeling was so strong and violent that the girl could not resist. After a while, they got married. At first they "prepared" for the appearance of the heir, reading to each other aloud the book about family relations, donated by Igor Kostolevsky. In 1972, they had a son, who was named after the pope - Alexander. By the way, after the lapse of time Alexander Soloviev became, like his father, an actor, also a stuntman.

Swirl of the second love

In 1973 Alexander graduated from GITIS. Andrei Goncharov invites him to work in the Theater. Mayakovsky. Unfortunately, the beginning actor had to play in the crowd, because just at this time in the troupe of the theater was not pushed through from the celebrities: Alexander Lazarev, Armen Jigarkhanyan, Evgeny Leonov, Tatyana Doronin. Alexander with such a cluster of stars was difficult enough to get on stage. He survived only a year. And during all this time I thought about what to do next. A year later he left the theater.

In 1974, the actor already serves in the Central Children's Theater and does not regret his choice. And it was understandable, because the main role of a nice mischief, similar to himself, he received, Alexander Soloviev, the filmography of which in the future had several dozens of diverse and interesting roles. The partner for the play was the already known actress Lyudmila Gnilova. According to the idea of the director, they played lovers, but ... Alexander could not stop halfway. He was not stopped by the fact that Luda, who was older than him, had a family and a child, and he himself was not divorced. Sasha talked with her husband, telling the dumbfounded man that he loved his wife and was eager to combine her with her marriage. This situation lasted for three years (and the last couple of years he almost moved to the entrance where Luda lived, where she spent the night on the windowsill between the floors), until all sides of these strange and painful relations came together and decided that Alexander should give way, because That they feared that a tragedy could happen.

In 1977, they created a new family in which their common son Mikhail was born (later he also became an actor, like a father, and a director), and after a time even got married. Lived in a fifteen-meter room, where there was always a bucket of flowers. The usual domestic turmoil did not interfere with their happiness at all.

Anxious Angel

But, unfortunately, there were also black stripes. Very much too snooty and quick-tempered was Alexander Soloviev. The biography of this talented actor also contains such sad facts. His acquaintances often said that when he was sober, he reminded an angel, but when he drank he became like a demon. The further, the more often and more often he was in a state of intoxication. At the request of the leadership, he retired from the theater, and in the movies during this period was rarely shot, because no one wanted to endure the heavy character of the actor when it was possible to pick up wordless and compliant.

Now the money in the family was brought only by his wife, and Alexander felt a sense of humiliation from such a situation. Bars became more frequent. His character did not change for the better: he could become the instigator of a fight or make a small novel, disappearing from home for weeks. However, he always begged Luda for forgiveness. It was then that his determination to recover from alcoholism was strengthened and she arranged her beloved husband to the best clinics.

With this, the disintegration of their family began. Once there was a meeting between Alexander Solovyov and Irina Pechernikova. Previously they were only familiar, and this time the last actor's life was fastened. Their acquaintance took place many years ago, back in 1969. Pechernikova was already a famous actress, and Soloviev's career was just beginning. And here in Feodosia, in 1991, there was a third great love of Alexander.

The final move to Irina took place in August 1997, when the son with Lyudmila became an adult. Alexander's second marriage lasted 22 years, and the romance of their relationship long ago evaporated. In recent years, they were probably the closest people to each other. Gnilova tried to understand and forgive her husband, and let him go to another love pool.

Friends of Sasha and Ira were in full confidence that these relations will not last long, because their common ailment - alcoholism - at some point will destroy everything: both their love and their life. But, no matter how strange it may seem, despite all the forecasts, lovers began to build their cozy little world. Alexander gradually himself repaired their dwelling. He even built a house in the village, because the "young" decided to spend as much time as possible in the open air. Before the tragedy, there was very little time left.

The denouement took place on the eve of 2000. At the end of December (the night of the 26th) in 1999, Alexander Soloviev was found on the street with a traumatic brain injury. The passer-by informed the police department of a bloody, well-dressed man, who was lying on a flower bed. Solovyov was designed as an "unknown person" and sent to the Sklifosovsky Institute, where, without leaving his coma, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on January 1, 2000. And only after the end of the New Year holidays, when it was already two weeks, the duty officer from the police station, remembering the case, uncovered, understood how he knew the face of this man.

They recognized Alexander Solovyov only on January 21, three weeks after his death. And all these days Irina unsuccessfully tried to find him: friends, acquaintances, in hospitals. He found himself, unfortunately, only in the morgue ...

So Alexander Soloviev repeated the story of the death of his father, who also loved to drink and died under very incomprehensible circumstances, after lying in his apartment for a month after death. Anxiety was scored by neighbors, feeling the appropriate smell ...

The actor was cremated on January 25. Irina opposed the burial of the urn with ashes at the Novodevichy Cemetery, firmly deciding to keep it with them at home with Sasha.

So the Soviet and Russian actor Alexander Soloviev lived his short life. The wives of this merry and impressive man brought love, care, tenderness to his heart. He gave them all himself, without a trace. But only for a while ...