Dvigubsky Nikolai Lvovich. The stranger among his

To death, Dvigubsky Nikolai Lvovich was well prepared: he waited until his wife left the house, turned on Rachmaninov, drew his seemingly vanishing portrait, and then shot in the heart. The artist knew the human anatomy well, so he did not miss, he got exactly where he wanted to, and there was not a drop of blood on his shirt. Only when the gendarmes turned the body over, a little blood spilled onto the floor.

The daughter of the father

This is how Ekaterina Dvigubskaya, the director, actress and writer, writes about her father. My father was only seventy years old. To the end, no one knows why he did this. And ten years before, Catherine had written a story where she described everything that would happen to Nikolai Dvigubsky over the past ten years, until his death.

In recent years, Dvigubsky Nikolai Lvovich - artist-director - wrote such paintings, from which I wanted to cry. The artist suffered from cancer, but it is known that he was cured of it. The mother and the child depicted, the repentance of a man, the cry of a sick person, and so on, and the canvases were huge, not for sale. Apparently, the artist himself has driven himself into unbearable suffering, which devoured him from within, and could not stand such a life. There is an opinion that the artist did not want to grow old, be weak, a burden to someone. Deciding that in this world he had done all that he could, Nikolai Dvigubsky cut scores with life.

Dvigubsky Nikolai Lvovich. Biography: origins

He was born on November 18, 1936 in Paris. It is interesting that the real name of Father Nicholas is Biryukov, and not Dvigubsky at all. His mother, Galina Olegovna, after the revolution of 1917, fled to Paris with Dvigubsky, a white officer, who became her husband. Living in the capital of France and having acquired five children, Dvigubsky changed his wife, and she drove him out of the house, not giving a divorce.

After marrying Leo Nikolayevich Biryukov, Galina Olegovna did not change her surname, and all her children wear the name of Dvigubsky. Being a noblewoman, Galina Olegovna was not a Belorussian, began to sew to order dresses and soon progressed along this path - she became a dressmaker Marlene Dietrich and other famous personalities of that time. Nikolai's father, Lev Nikolaevich, was engaged in auto repair, they lived in a spacious four-room apartment and had four cars.

During the Second World War, Lev Nikolaevich joined the Resistance and fought against the fascists, and Galina Olegovna everywhere found Russian girls captured and helped them to return to their homeland, not knowing that they were immediately exiled to the camps.

Homecoming

After Stalin's death, the artist's parents decided to return to their historical homeland, as they suffered greatly from nostalgia. Dvigubsky Nikolai Lvovich, the only child who had not reached adulthood (the others refused to go), arrived with his father and mother to Moscow.

On a young man, the living conditions in the Soviet capital had a depressing effect, in addition, it was difficult for him to learn the language. Although Nikolai spoke Russian, he still thought purely in French. Life for the newcomers was so heavy, neighbors in the communal were so defiant and indecent that Galina Olegovna went to the police and said that if they are not pleased here, it is better to immediately put them to the wall.

The policeman turned out to be a conscientious person and "pacified" the neighbors. The woman also did not sit idle in Moscow, and soon the rumor of a wonderful dressmaker spread across the capital. She began to embroil prominent political figures and film actresses. Among the clients of the mother of Nikolai Lvovich were the wives of Gromyko and Kosygin, as well as the movie star of the Soviet Union Lyubov Orlova.

Thanks to her efforts, the family soon received a modest but separate two-room apartment on Leninsky Prospekt.

New acquaintances

In France, Dvigubsky Nikolai Lvovich studied at the Parisian Higher National School of Fine Arts, his teacher was Paul Colen. If the parents did not love their homeland, they would certainly have gone up the career ladder in France, but fate led him along a different path.

In the Soviet Union, Nikolai entered VGIK, where he met the best young people of that time. These included Felix Soloviev, Konstantin Stramentov, Alik Ryabsky, Andron Konchalovsky and others. Nikolai Dvigubsky himself did not really get close to anyone. For many, he became the personification of France - something beautiful and inaccessible. Remembering the artist, many people mark his manner of dressing, behaving. In the USSR, only two or three people could afford such a jacket and shoes as Dvigubsky had.

Dvigubsky Nikolai Lvovich: personal life

Nikolai Lvovich became a little closer with Andron Konchalovsky-Mikhalkov, he liked the same girls as Konchalovsky, and his first wife was Zhanna Bolotova. They met at a party at Andron, the actress was in love with the compelling dandy Konchalovsky, but he did not think to make her an offer. Therefore, when Nikolai Dvigubsky seriously approached the girl and offered her a hand and heart, she did not refuse.

However, their marriage was not based on love and lasted less than a year. Then Nicholas made an offer to Irina Kupchenko, who starred in The Noble Nest by Andron Konchalovsky. The actress, becoming a victim of a loving director, suffered on the set, and to comfort her, Nikolai Dzigubsky jokingly invited her to go to the registry office, which the actress, also jokingly, agreed.

Jokes were jokes, but the marriage turned out to be real, although it did not last long, afterwards Kupcekno married Vasily Lanovoy, and Dvigubsky finally married (for fifteen years) to actress Natalya Arinbasarova.

And again fate plays with the artist a joke. Natalia was the first wife of Andron Konchalovsky, and their son Yegor grew up. Nikolai brought up the boy as his, Natalia gave birth in a marriage to her daughter Catherine, who became for him a ray of light in a dark kingdom.

Filmography of Nikolai Dvigubsky

The filmography of Nikolai Dvigubsky includes a small number of paintings, including cartoons, where he acted as an artist.

• "The Road to the Festival" - a film by Renita and Yuri Grigoriev.
• "The Noble's Nest" is a film by Konchalovsky.
• "Uncle Vanya" is a film by Konchalovsky.
• "A visit of courtesy."
• "Mirror" is a film by Tarkovsky.
• "Sibiriada" is a film by Konchalovsky.
• "Vassa" is a film by Gleb Panfilov.
• "Wings of Uncle Marabu" - an animated film.
• "The Legend of Griege" is an animated film.
• "Today's birthday" is an animated film.

"Sibiriada" (Konchalovsky's film) brought Nikolai Dvigubsky with another artist - Adabashyan, and in the films "The Road to the Festival" and "Noble's Nest" he managed to play small roles.

Conclusion

After leaving a person's life, strangely enough, they begin to understand better. The artist's daughter understood all the tragedy of his father. His unusual talent, loneliness. At first glance, the paradoxical and extraordinary life and love for everyone who was close, especially to the daughter and son of Yegor, who was raised as his own, instilled a love of painting and culture, led to museums and theaters.

Dvigubsky Nikolai Lvovich (whose cause of death is not fully understood to the end) still lived a happy life both behind the Iron Curtain and his own castle in his beloved Normandy.