Igor Gorbachev - one of the prominent theatrical figures of St. Petersburg

In Leningrad there was always a famous school of actors. Such artists as Nikolai Cherkasov, Yuri Tolubeev, Yefim Kopelyan, Bruno Freundlich and many others, with their talents, multiplied the glory of Soviet art. Igor Gorbachev belongs to this generation of fine artists.

A Significant Role

A wonderful actor who was born (1927), worked and died (2003) in the Northern capital, was very famous at the time. Millions of Soviet TV viewers, not looking up from the screens, watched a four-part historical film "Operation" Trust "(1967). The series is based on real events and tells about the fate of the head of an underground monarchist organization, which is gradually and hard, but has taken on new power. At first, an ardent counterrevolutionary, and then a true patriot of the country, Alexander Yakushev, was brilliantly played by Igor Gorbachev.

Blue blood

A talented actor can play both the king and the vagabond, but in the image created by Igor Olegovich, the breed was struck. Hereditary nobleman by father and mother, the actor absorbed the best features of ancestors - intelligence, become, the desire for improvement. His father was a civil engineer who took part in the design and construction of one of the bridges across the Neva. Mother, who graduated from the Smolny Institute, taught foreign languages. According to Igor Olegovich himself, it was the mother who instilled in him love for everything beautiful and the theater.

Childhood and adolescence

Igor Gorbachev went to school number 9 in 1934, and after graduation from the 6th class, remaining in the besieged Leningrad, experienced the most terrible winter of 1941-1942. The boy, who received dystrophy in severe form, still worked with the defense enterprises of the city as far as he could. In 1942, the family was evacuated to Krasnouralsk. In his hometown Gorbachev returned in 1944. In 1945, Igor Olegovich graduated from secondary school No. 79 and entered the Leningrad University (Faculty of Philosophy), where he studied for three years.

A bright start to a career

The University of the city on the Neva was also famous for its student theater, which was organized by actress EV Karpova in 1944, immediately after the lifting of the blockade. The importance of this theater-studio is spoken by the names of the theater masters who studied there. It was attended by S. Jurassic, N. Podgorny, I. Krasko, A. Tolubeev, L. Kharitonov and many other masters. On the stage of the studio, Igor Gorbachev, an actor of great talent, first came out in 1948 and in the same year won first place at the All-Union Review Contest, acting as Khlestakov. And the hero of the Inspector General was so good in his performance that the director VM Petrov, who staged a film on this famous play in 1951, was invited to the main role by I. Gorbachev, a student at the Leningrad Theatrical Institute.

The first scaffolding

His second major theatrical role was Shvandy's sailor in the play "Love Yarovaya", filmed and shown in the country's cinemas. Shvandyu Igor Gorbachev played on stage BDT then they still. AM Gorky, whose troupe was adopted in 1952. He was noticed in the "Ryu Blaza" and "Servant of two masters." Specialized theatrical education was a famous actor only in 1959.

Favorite Theater

However, his theater became his native theater. Pushkin (now the theater was returned to his pre-revolutionary name - the famous "Alexandrinsky"), which he received in 1954, and to whom the actor will give the best years of his life, replay many famous roles, in 1975 become his artistic director and chief director. This post he will retain until 1991. He performed grandiose productions, included in the Golden Fund of Russian theatrical art - Maria Tudor, While the Heart Beats, Veranda in the Forest, and Field Marshal Kutuzov.

Talented, demanded, successful

It so happened that he played the first roles in Leningrad. For example, Ostap Bender in the "12 chairs" or servant Matti in the play by Berthold Brecht. These plays were staged then in the city on the Neva for the first time. He is known as a talented teacher. In the current Academy of Theater Arts, he taught from 1958 to 1975 and from 1979 to 1991. Hero of Socialist. The actor becomes an actor in 1987. For a certain time he holds the post of deputy chairman in the Soviet Peace Fund. Undoubted merit is the foundation in 1992 of the theatrical institute, the first rector of which he was - "School of Russian Drama."

54 wonderful roles in the cinema

Igor Gorbachev, whose films are known no less than the performances, appeared in 54 films. The roles he played were remembered forever, because he played superbly, exactly, his game always had a subtle sense of humor. He was so original that even comparing him so immediately with no one. Of the film works, in addition to the already mentioned series, the most famous were the roles in the films "Two Tickets for the Afternoon Session" and its continuation "Circle". The artist in "Sveaborg", "The Taming of Fire" and in all the others - he had no bad roles was good and accurate.

Friendship-feuds

You can not ignore the friendship that went into hostility between Yuri Tolubeev and Igor Gorbachev. The story is not very beautiful, it is difficult to find the guilty - Y. Tolubeev blames I. Gorbachev for the authoritarian manner of leading the theater, which is why he left. No one drove him away. Obviously, two talents of this scale were closely at one site. But Tolubeev forbade Ivan Gorbachev to admit his coffin, which was done. One died, and the second stayed to live with this insult. And about envy, gossip and dirt in the theatrical circles do not need to tell.

Leaving a life

They blame Igor Olegovich and his love for the "golden tsatsak". This is how state awards are called envious persons, who do not see them. Igor Gorbachev really had a lot of them - he was awarded the highest state awards. But they are not given for nothing, because people love them. The artist held high posts and always coped with the tasks. Igor Gorbachev, whose biography ended in 2003, is buried on the Literary Bridge of Volkovsky Cemetery, where all the great artists of the Russian Federation who lived, worked and died in St. Petersburg are buried. His wife was one - Honored Artist of the RSFSR LI Gorbachev, and he lived with her more than 50 years.