Grigoryev Konstantin: biography, filmography, personal life, photo

Konstantin Grigoriev - a famous actor of Soviet cinema and theater, which in the early 80's became the star of the first magnitude. He could play a Siberian peasant, a hereditary nobleman, a foreign intelligence agent, and a red commissar. In the guise of a vile bandit Grigoryev repelled, causing a sea of negative emotions, but fell in love with himself, playing the fearless chief of the expedition. Pictures with the participation of Konstantin Grigoriev collected a huge audience from TV screens. And today, those Soviet paintings have a lot of fans. However, not everyone knows the tragic fate of Konstantin Konstantinovich, as if he had fallen out of life at the height of his popularity.

At the beginning of the actor's way

Born Konstantin Grigoriev, whose filmography numbers more than a dozen films, in Leningrad on February 18, 1937. He was in high school with his grandmother. I survived the blockade of Leningrad, after school I entered a building university, which I did not finish. He was attracted to the theater, so the whole life and work of the young man revolved around him. Working as a stoker in the Vyborg Palace of Culture, he visited the theater circle in parallel . Working as a stage installer at the Lensovet Theater, Grigoriev studied at the acting studio. At the end of her two years was part of the troupe of the Leningrad Komissarzhevskaya Theater. After interceding for a drunken colleague, he was rude to the art director, for which he was fired furiously. It seemed everything! Dot! Life is over! Where to go? To people like Grigoriev, they use the saying "God kissed the top of the head."

Conquer Moscow!

Even the absence of theater education did not become an obstacle on the road that the future actor Grigoriev Konstantin chose. In 1973, without a penny in his pocket, the young man went to Moscow, where in a short period of time he became a leading actor in the Pushkin Theater. On the production of the "Legend of Paganini" with the participation of Grigoriev, it was very difficult to get tickets, it was almost impossible. Vera Alentova was often his partner in many productions. Somehow at the rehearsal, the actress stumbled, fell from high scenery and suffered serious injuries. Kostya reacted first, took it to the wings behind the scenes and worried about the ambulance.

Actress Tamara Semina, recalling the shooting of the film "The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya", from the perfectly selected cast of actors especially singled out Grigoriev Constantine - sociable, light, with a fine sense of humor and a somewhat explosive character. There was even a time when Alexander Fajtsimmer - the director, afraid of censorship, took some ideologically harmful moments from the film. For such an untruthful interpretation of historical events, the indignant Grigoriev together with Eremenko Nikolai wanted to even beat the director.

Actor, which everyone dreamed of!

Nikita Mikhalkov, who spoke about the actor as an artistic nature with an acute mobile character, invited Grigoriev to his film "The Slave of Love" (Captain Fedotov). The famous director believed that such a talent as Grigoriev, can thinly feel the plasticity of the character on any move of the plot and the director's proposal. It was with the light hand of Mikhalkov, who considered Grigoriev the dream of any director, that the actor became a real star. In the late 70's and early 80's, the biography of Konstantin Grigoriev grew rich not in one dozen films, among them "Tavern on Pyatnitskaya", "Transsiberian Express", "Treasure Island", "Green van", "Walking through agony" "The Queen of Spades."

At the peak of popularity

The actor, in popularity not inferior to the deserved actors, was in demand, the proposals came one after another. In 1981 he was invited to the Moscow Art Theater by Oleg Efremov, and Grigoriev immediately began to play the main roles in the so-called first USSR national team. Charismatic Grigoryev Konstantin Konstantinovich admired his eccentricity not only on the stage; He was engaged in painting, making silver products, carving wood, playing banjo and guitar, writing songs, poems, scripts and stories. Grigoryev even knitted; He was often seen surrounded by the beautiful ladies of the theater, with whom he talked about the number of loops. Operetta "Alenka and scarlet sails, written by Grigoriev, put many theaters of the country. The Leningraders of the sixties adored the song "Rain on the Neva", written by him.

Konstantin Grigoriev: personal life

Grigoriev was able to find an approach to women and in a short time charmed actress Catherine Vasiliev, was in close relationship with the assistant director at the "Mosfilm" Alla Mayorova - a former muse Bulat Okudzhava. Fell in love, without hesitation, made a marriage with the 19-year-old requisitioning theater Elena, who gave birth to his son Yegor. From the second marriage with the actress Grigoriev, a daughter was born whose fate was tragic: the girl was thrown out of the window during a drunken party. The official version is suicide.

Everything has changed forever

Grigoriev Constantine had a complex character and was often harsh in his statements. It was such incontinence that played a fateful role in the fate of the actor. On February 17, 1984, he received a salary, he sat in a restaurant with friends and celebrated his birthday. At one point, it seemed to him that at the next table two men were oddly looking in his direction. Grigoriev did not like this, and he went to them to understand. After some time, when Constantine came out, one of the insulted struck him on the head with a metal object and pushed him down the two-meter staircase. The only thing that the victim was able to say when his friends were bleeding was found by his friends: "Guys, it hurts me!" The abusers were never found; It is possible that the investigation for some reason did not want to bring this matter to the end.

At the Sklifosovsky Institute, Konstantin was given 8 surgeries, pumping out a liter of fluid from the brain region. The actor spent two weeks in a coma, spent a year and a half at the hospital and almost lost his speech. It was already a completely different person, sharply aged and losing his memory. The diagnosis made by the doctors is total aphasia. In this case, the actor, who had broken the work of the left hemisphere, understood everything perfectly. After the incident, everything was as good as playing the guitar, but he hardly remembered the words. In communication often asked interlocutors to speak more slowly or redirected questions to his wife.

Loneliness, unclaimedness, poverty ...

The rehabilitation period of the actor, who at first did not intend to give up, stretched out for years. He was occasionally involved in extras, the main roles were transferred to other actors. In the children's play "Mumu" Grigoriev played the deaf-mute Gerasim. When he came to the cashier's office for his salary, he asked the cashier why he had been paid so little. To which the woman, without thinking, answered: "Work, Kostenka, need more!" After this incident, the actor immediately wrote a statement of resignation.

The last filming with Grigoriev occurred in 1991 in the film "Taganka Walking Tanks" by Alexander Solovyov. There, the actor played the role of a patient in a psychiatric hospital. And he played so brilliantly and it seems that many associates thought about his madness. Many friends became former and gradually stepped aside, leaving Grigoriev alone with his shaky health and material problems. In addition, the last four years of life, the actor, who until recently was admired by the whole country, had kidney cancer. Grigoriev Konstantin began to lead a closed way of life, badly needed, perhaps, from despair began to drink. He, who lives on one pension, which even at one time was dismissed for reasons unknown by officials, was even robbed by some young hooligan. I snatched a bag from my hand that had money, a passport, a blockade and a pension certificate.

The last years of life: Konstantin Grigoriev

The actor, whose personal life began to crack, was in deep depression. From constant stress, the third wife began to have problems with alcohol, which led to the dissolution of marriage. Later in the life of Constantine, either accidentally, or with a certain intent, there was a woman named Olga, who gave birth to his son. At her insistence, the Moscow apartment was sold and the place of residence was changed. The family moved to the outskirts of St. Petersburg in the "Khrushchev". Some time later, the young wife filed for divorce, took out all the things from her house and even tried to challenge a part of the living space in court. The last years of life next to the actor was a young woman Nadezhda, who took care of him. She even moved to the apartment to Grigoriev, where he cooked his meals, cleaned it, often read books to him, they watched movies together.

Konstantin Grigoriev (photo taken in the last years of his life) died on February 26, 2007 and was buried at the Bolsheokhtinsky cemetery in St. Petersburg. His life, brightly contrasting and deeply unhappy, formed the basis of the documentary film "Idol. Without memory and glory. "