Nikolai Penkov is a true Mkhatovite

Places where Nikolai Penkov was born, Ivan Bunin called "a fruitful step-up," since Orlovschina gave Russia more than a dozen prominent figures of art and literature. The future artist himself was born near the estate of Ivan Bunin's sister, in which the best works of this author were created. The love for this writer Nikolai Vasilyevich carried through all his life. According to his confession, in difficult moments he always re-read the works of a brilliant countryman.

Choice of life path

The future People's Artist of the Russian Federation was born on January 4, 1936 in the village of Glotovo. For a long time he did not even think about acting, although later he always willingly recited poems. In Lipetsk, the young man graduated from the mining and metallurgical technical school and was sent to Magnitogorsk by distribution, where he worked as a foreman for two years. Hence he is taken to the army in the Far East. Passing the service and participating in artistic amateur performance, Nikolai Penkov is finally determined with the choice of the further life path. From the part in which he served, he is demobilized ahead of schedule, thus giving an opportunity to a talented young man to prepare for admission to a theatrical high school.

One theater for life

In Moscow, he enters the Moscow Art Theater School, in the workshop of Honored Artist of the RSFSR Viktor Karlovich Monyukov, who released such famous actors as Nikolai Karachentsov, Marina Golub, Eugene Kindinov, Alexander Korshunov. In 1963, Nikolai Penkov graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, and he, as a gifted and promising student, was left in the theater, to which until the end of his days NV Penkov remained true. After 6 years, Nikolai Vasilyevich receives the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

MKhAT, but already it. Gorky

On the stage of the Moscow Art Theater, they played more than 50 roles. After the division of the theater in 1987, he became an actor of the Moscow Art Academic Theater named after Gorky, which until now is directed by Tatyana Doronina. Here he tries himself and as the director of several performances - "Avvakum", solo performance "Rose of Jericho" by I. Bunin and "Napoleon in Moscow", which fell in love with the audience and were highly appreciated by critics. In the benefit performance "Ryu Blaz" by V. Hugo, put on the 70th birthday of the actor, he got the role of Don Sallust de Bazan, which he performed, as always, with brilliance.

Talented in many respects

He began to work with such great "old people" as Gribov and Massalsky, Prudkin and Yanshin, Androvskaya and Stanitsin, and absorbed all the best that the term "actor of the art theater" implies. Nikolai Penkov himself believed that his ministry at the Moscow Art Theater allowed him to communicate with God. A man of the deepest decency, enormous talent and highest education, he, in the opinion of connoisseurs and connoisseurs, was a great, powerful artist and an excellent prose writer. In addition to the book about the Moscow Art Theater, he wrote a series of stories published in the journal Young Guard and united under the name "From the Table".

Artist from God

In his favorite theater, actor Nikolai Penkov, whose biography (theatrical) began with a small role as a student named Misha in 1963 and ended with the role of Napoleon in V. Malyagin's play "Napoleon in Moscow", served more than forty years. The actor "by the grace of God", he never screamed on stage, but he could be heard anywhere in the hall. He was engaged in the best performances of the theater, played several leading roles in the Chekhovian repertoire. Nikolai Penkov wrote about his beloved theater a book entitled "It was time", which he managed to publish before his death, she left in 2008.

A popular film actor

In addition to working in the Moscow Art Theater, which the actor gave his whole life, Nikolai Vasilyevich successfully shot in the movies, so he became known throughout the country. Such cult series as "Shield and Sword" and "Eternal Call" made theatrical artist a popular film actor. Nikolai Penkov, whose films the whole country knew, was very popular at one time. His best works of art are referred to as "In the First Circle" (2006) and "Marriage", a picture published in 1977. Along with such recognized, serious works as a role in the film "The Battle for Moscow", one can also name the role in a very nice, unpretentious film "I'll Wait ...", in which N. N. Yenemenko played a rival N. Penkov . Or work in such films and series as "Our Debts", "For the rest of my life" and others.

From the first to the last role

Penkov Nikolai - an actor who was subject to any role and who did not know how to play badly. According to his friends and admirers, he simply became the one he played. His first picture was a small role in the film "In Your Hands, Life" (1959), in which he starred as a student. The latter - in the series "In the First Circle" (2006) based on the works of IA Solzhenitsyn. In this film N. Penkov plays prosecutor Makarygin. In general, the cast of this television series is magnificent. Gleb Panfilov collected the best for the adaptation of the film that hit him. NV Penkov, the filmography of which totals 22 films and series, was memorized in each of them. Therefore it seems that there were many more films.

Death of the artist

Absolutely integral nature, a patriot of his homeland in the best sense of the word, an erudite man - such was Nikolai Penkov. The actor, whose family - his wife, daughter and son - staunchly endured the serious illness of Nikolai Vasilyevich, appeared on the stage, even when his legs did not obey. The People's Artist of Russia died on an early Sunday morning on December 21, 2009. Nikolai Vasilievich was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery. NV Penkov had government awards - two Orders of Pochen and the Order of Friendship.