Famous stuntman Nikolai Vashchilin: detailed biography (photo)

Orthodox holiday Annunciation 1947 in the family Vashchilinyh was marked by the birth of his son Nikolai, and for Soviet cinema - the appearance of a man who later changed, or rather, embellished dozens of films with spectacular stunts. Nikolai Vashchilin is a man with an interesting destiny, a master of sports in sambo, stunt director and a young man who in the mid-sixties trained in the same company as VV Putin. And now he is a pensioner with a second disability group and a benefit of seven thousand rubles.

Childhood

The future stunt man was born in Leningrad on April 7 during the hungry postwar period. My mother worked as a dentist, and my father helped build the city destroyed by the fascists, working behind a lorry of a lorry. The grandmother-peasant woman worked at the Academy of Sciences in the kindergarten, to which little Nikolai went, taking advantage of the privileges granted to Granny. So, the boy got into the society of the intelligentsia.

When the time came, Nicholas went to school and solemnly for good schooling was accepted into the pioneers. The boy's father, with the coming to power of Khrushchev, got into the "Crosses" because he said that he deserved a better life. And since 1957, the mother, left alone with two children, a grandmother, was forced to seek additional income and go to individual receptions to people with a personal drill, for fear of denunciations of neighbors. Two years the family lived without a father, while he was serving a sentence in the Komi.

Youthful leisure

When the game of hide-and-seek, sand kulichiki and schitalochki became a guy uninteresting, parents were worried about the free time available for the child. It was necessary to find a hobby. The first circle, which brought my mother and grandmother Nicholas, was a music class on accordion. But the absence of hearing put an end to this undertaking. Then Nikolai Vashchilin tried himself as a dancer of ballroom dances, skater, swimmer, photographer and basketball player.

So actively and variously passed the school years of the young man. Being in the final, seventh grade, the guy met the first love. Her name was Rita. But they were not destined to stay together, with the passing of the last school examinations and after the prom show, at the end of which they became adults, the love of Nikolai and Rita passed. The young man received the certificate with fives and one four for his behavior.

Choice of profession

Kolya's talent for presenting his own thoughts led the teacher of literature to his parents with an offer to give the guy a decade. But my mother said that she was afraid to leave her son without a profession and means of subsistence. She was wounded in the war years, and she had a fear of death. Therefore, the guy needed to decide on the profession. So, he got into his father's office and began to work as a loader.

Having communicated with the working class, Nikolai Vashchilin decides to enter the educational institution. He did not have enough points in mathematics for full-time studies, and his mother translated his documents to the evening department. Henceforth, Nikolai Vashchilin, a student of the Aviation Instrument Engineering College. Biography guy from this moment finds hope for the intelligent future of an educated person. From the second year, Kolya works in the laboratory at the Institute of Electromechanics and, after an excellent graduation from the technical school, enters the Institute of Aviation Instrument Engineering.

Fighting Sambo

Nikolai Nikolaevich Vashchilin, whose photo was always an example for imitation of a young generation of Sambo wrestlers, failing to decide in the school years with the choice of his favorite occupation, in 1961 decides to go to the section of boxing "Dynamo". Having broken his nose on the first training session, he goes to the sports organization "Trud", where they bring up fighters for self-defense.

Training was three times a week, but studying in the technical school forced Nicholas to skip on Mondays. Loyal trainers allow a guy to attend missed classes in another group. There, NN Vashchilin and Vladimir Putin meet.

Active life, training, study positively affect the appearance of the young man. He becomes strong, slim and tall.

The struggle was necessary for Nicholas not only for the physical form, but also for confronting the gang of gentry, who could not forgive the former comrade of unwillingness to communicate with them.

Achievements

The victory among the young men at the city championship became a ticket to the team for training masters of sports. The hero of the struggle at Kolya was Anton Geesink. Do not leave the young athlete's thoughts to achieve the status of world champion in the chosen sport and visit Paris.

In his autobiographical book, Nikolai Vashchilin writes that the competition was a difficult one, because it was considered a public disgrace. At the age of seventeen, the young man became the champion of Tallinn, and then the winner of the All-Russian Trud championship.

He showed at his competitions in Lviv his well-trained, precise technique, and Nicholas was included in the USSR national team. Upon his return to Leningrad, coach A. S. Massassky sends Vashchilin to Peterhof to prepare for the fight among the masters of sports and arranges his ward in the crowd for the film "Three Fat Men".

Approaching the competition of Europe, the destination of which was Paris, but the unforeseen sore throat, which appeared at Koli the day before departure, was the reason for refusing to participate in them. However, there were plenty of victories over Vashchilin's shoulders until 1976.

Samples in Hamlet

Money was not enough, the sport did not bring a special profit, and the shooting seemed a promising business. After Nikolai was in the crowd in the "Three Fat Men", Alexander Samoilovich brought his ward to the samples to participate in the film "The Shadow of Hamlet's Father." Too plastic Kolya did not fit. But the meeting with filmmaker Grigory Kozintsev gave birth to another dream for Vashchilin: to create films. Then Kozintsev advised the boy to receive a profiling education. In 1965, Nikolai tries to enter the theater for an actor. However, before passing the exams, the guy begins to doubt the correctness of the choice and decides to postpone the idea of becoming an actor.

Nikolay Vashchilin: professional achievements

In 1964, Nikolay left to work for Lenfilm. He is attracted not only by additional earnings, but also by the opportunity to be in different eras, to get used to the role.

In 1969, the future stuntman gets to shoot "King Lear". Having been in the bustle of cinema and in the society of the characters of Shakespeare, Nikolai Nikolayevich remained in this dependence forever. For thirty years he performs tricks for the fascists, pirates, Decembrists, knights, bandits. He works with famous people, such as Grigory Kozintsev, Nikita Mikhalkov, Vladimir Motyl, Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich, Igor Maslennikov, Andrei Konchalovsky.

Nikolay Vashchilin: stunt man, stuntman

In 1974, Nikolay for the first time in the movie "Romance of the Lovers" acts as a staging and staging performer. There is a story connected with this Soviet musical. To perform the trick - breaking glass - stood out one take due to a deficit in the glass attribute. But Nikolai Vashchilin - a stuntman with excellent technique of execution - is very believable and from the first time made an episode.

At the same time, a talented trickster begins to teach at the Department of Physical Education at the Theater Institute. GM Kozintsev blessed the guy for creating programs for stunt training actors.

Later Nikolay graduated from the post-graduate course at the Institute of Physical Culture and became a senior teacher in the development of tricks. Thanks to Nikolai Nikolaevich, for the first time in Soviet cinema, before the shooting of the "Three Musketeers", permission was obtained to perform complex physical elements by the actors themselves without the help of backups, and even to pay for these tricks.

Today, N. N. Vashchilin lives in St. Petersburg, does not engage in professional activities. However, he produces interesting biographical books, one of which was written this article.