Artist Bogatyrev Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. According to the recollections of directors and colleagues, he could play anyone: the hollow of Cleant in Tartuf, a noble turbine in the "days of the Turbins", the scoundrel of Romashov in "Two Captains", intellectual Stasik in Rodna. His characters became archetypes in which the era was reflected. In the photo: Yuri Bogatyrev is an artist and a subtle connoisseur of poetry, he never managed to reconcile with his own nature and keenly experienced inner loneliness.

A year before his death, he became a People's Artist of the RSFSR, and in the year Bogatyrev died from a cardiac arrest at the age of 41 years. Childhood and youth Yuri, a late child, was born in the spring of the year in the family of George and Tatyana Bogatyrev. Mom, Tatyana Vasilievna, was a housewife and raised Yura and his sister Rita, who later became a dentist.

Soon the Bogatyrevs moved to Leningrad, where they sent their father. Yuri Bogatyrev with his parents from early childhood, the son surprised his parents with his preferences-he played in kindergarten with girls in "daughter-mother" and spoke little with peers. From the age of four, Yura heard a “girlfriend” tenderly in his address, but he was silent, peaceful and did not rush into fights.

His mother recalled that the child sometimes got up at night, wrapped in her silk robe with black ostriches on a blue field, put on a hat with a veil and a feather and in this form walked around the apartment, then returned everything to his place: “And how carefully! The poker stood nearby and did not fall! In such cases, we never woke him ... ”The next morning, Yura remembered anything from his night travels.

Lunatism has passed over time, but the craving for the female world remained. Father, a harsh man, a peasant by birth, decided that for a boy he would correctly join discipline and order from childhood: Yura was sent to the Nakhimov school. Yuri Bogatyrev in childhood secretly Bogatyrev Sr. hoped that his son would follow in his footsteps and continue the officer dynasty.

But Yura was a home boy, soft and kind. He did not manage to fit into the boyish team, his peers considered him Rochly and mercilessly poisoned him. Since Bogatyrev did not complain to anyone, they was not notable to noticed something wrong in the winter when he appeared on the street without outerwear. Eye was stolen. After that, the parents finally took the boy from the school.

Father was transferred to Moscow, where Yura went to a new school. And there he literally fell in love with the painting, with which the student of drawing Vladimir Tarasov introduced the students. Bogatyrev found artistic abilities. He became interested in drawing so much that at the age of 16 he entered the Mikhail Kalinin Art and Industrial School at the Kovrovo-Kotsk Department.

Yuri said about that period: at first there was an art school where I was going to acquire the profession of an artist in carpets and fabrics. Then he entered the workshop of pop art, preparing to become a reader on the stage. But the love of the stage art of the living, non -academic art of the Vakhtang school, its magnificent masters - Gritsenko, Ulyanov, Borisov, Pashkov, Yakovlev - give an example of great indefatigability, a constant desire for perfection ..

It was in search of perfection that Bogatyrev came to acting, although not at once. He traveled as a student every season as part of archaeological expeditions, where he made a sketch of finds. For the first self -earned money, I bought a brown nylon cloak to seem more solid. Yuri Bogatyrev in his youth in one of the seasons met the guys from the Children's Puppet Theater "Globus", which was led by the famous teacher Vladimir Stein.

Yura was so interested in dolls and how to treat them that he signed up for the studio. Once, Vladimir Mikhailovich decided to put a performance on the verses of Vladimir Mayakovsky and chose Bogatyrev by the host. Yuri Bogatyrev and his paintings in a short period of time, Stein unobtrusively taught the guy to read, recite, move along the stage correctly. The teacher was clear that this big talented young man would not become a puppeteer.

And he helped him prepare for admission to the Schukin school. Bogatyrev successfully passed the exams, and in the year he became a student of the course of Yuri Katina-Yartsev. At the university, he met with Nikita Mikhalkov, who first took him off in his own thesis "Calm Day at the end of the war." The creative path of the year, having completed his studies, Bogatyrev entered the service in the Contemporary Theater.

For some time he was given secondary roles. The first role of Bogatyrev in the movie “Calm Day at the end of the war” Relations with his colleagues, Yuri tried to maintain friendly, and many people similar to him, who were a sensitive, similar to him. Of the memoirs of colleagues, Bogatyrev was most remembered by one fleeting episode: when I worked in a “contemporary”, I wore a beard for a while.

Once I decided to shave her. In the morning, Valentin Gaft meets me at the entrance to the theater. At first he was surprised, then he said an impromptu: Bogatyrev is not you - another, Bogatyrev was with a beard. So I was among the characters of the epigrams that this actor composes.Yuri Bogatyrev in the play “Tartuf” but the All -Union glory came to the actor thanks to the movie - with the release of the paintings “His among strangers, a stranger among his own”, where he, who had not yet had the experience of filming in full -length paintings, brilliantly played the bold and fearless security officer Egor Shilov.

Yuri Bogatyrev, in the role of Yegor Shilov, is an oversight and unsportsmanlike Bogatyrev for this role not only to lose weight, but also learned to jump on horseback, which brought into the admiration of Chechen dzhigits. The shooting was carried out in Chechnya and Azerbaijan, Yuri performed almost all the tricks himself, he was not even afraid to jump with Konstantin Raikin Tatar Kayum into the mountain river, although then they barely got ashore.

Later, Raikin recalled that they were drowning for real, during a double. The Argun River turned out to be too fast, the water was ice. But the episode was shot the first time. The frame from the film “His among strangers, a stranger among his own” the most difficult thing for Bogatyrev was to learn how to beat beliefly. He did not like to fight, but in the frame his blows were so convincing that no one had doubts about the strength and skill of the character.

Director Nikita Mikhalkov, who studied at the same Schukinsky school two courses older, the actor considered his godfather in the cinema. It was with him that he played his most striking roles: the impressive Vladimir Maksakov in the “slave of love”, the absurd serge in the “unfinished play for a mechanical piano”, pragmatic disgusted Andrei Stolz in “several days from the life of I.

Oblomov” a frame from the film “Inexpensive play for a mechanical piano” Mikhalkovskaya "Rodney" Bogatyrev learned for almost a month to achieve, in his opinion, the greatest expressiveness. Yuri Bogatyrev in the film “Relatives” by the last joint work of the two geniuses was the tragicomedy “Black Eyes”, where Yuri Georgievich played the leader of the nobility of Alexander.

Incredibly disgusting, the actor managed to make the character of Mikhail Romashov in the drama of Yevgeny Karelov “Two Captains”. In thin strokes - a speech, a look, a manner of behavior - Bogatyrev created such a repulsive image that the audience for a long time did not perceive the actor as an individual person. Yuri Bogatyrev in the film “Two Captains” only after the appearance on the screens of the touching writer Filip’s in love in the melodrama of Ilya Averbach “Explanation in Love” Bogatyrev stopped identifying with the traitor Romashov.

On the set of the film “Explanation of Love” in the actor’s filmography there were several more significant roles: the doctor Andrei Lvov in the social drama “Open Book”, Teacher Sergey in the adventure film “Last Hunt”, surgeon Boris Petrov in the film “My Dad is an idealist”, poet Vladislav Razlogov in the drama “Flight of Birds”. The frame from the film “Don Cesar de Bazan” Personal life of Yuri Bogatyrerev’s stately, beautiful, kind - Yuri attracted the attention of the opposite sex from his student years.

On his part, they also found a response of manifestations of sympathy, but only at the level of admiration and friendly relations. At one time, Olga Yakovleva was his beautiful lady, whose performances he constantly came, shocked by her game. He began to communicate with Iya Savvina after filming in the film “Open Book”. The actor had warm feelings to another colleague, Natalia Gundareva, and then made friends with the translator Clarissa Stolyarova.

Yuri admired strong women for a long time Yuri thought that he simply did not meet his only one, so only tender friendship connects him with women. He even once married good motives to help actress Nadezhda Sery to get a Moscow residence permit. He himself then lived in the hostel of “Contemporary”, and the woman divorced her husband-director and remained with her little daughter under the threat of eviction.

And Bogatyrev suggested signing a sulfur fictitious, without publicity. Even relatives did not say that he had entered into an official marriage. And Nadezhda never insisted on anything more, remaining with the “husband” in friendly relations. Hope is gray if some woman tried to attract his attention, Yuri always stated that he had a wife of Zinaida, architect. Bogatyrev realized his dissimilarity to other men already in adulthood and experienced it very painfully.

This stars can flaunt homosexual inclinations, and in the days of the USSR it was “not like everyone else” were very difficult and even dangerous. Especially for the supersensitive subtle nature of Yuri. He tried to fight with Clarissa Stolyarova, considering homosexuality a deviation, and when he did not work, he began to drink. It became a little easier, but not for long.

But the actor did not leave the feeling of inner loneliness. The death and memory of the only outlet for Yuri Georgievich was creativity. Filming in the cinema, roles in performances and painting. Bogatyrev painted constantly. In the year, his personal exhibition was supposed to be held. Few knew that the actor was in protracted depression and took antidepressants. He seemed to foresee his early departure, even presented one of his friends with a photo with the inscription "a year before death." Bogatyrev did nothing to protect himself.

On the contrary, having received a currency fee for shooting in the film “Black Enches” gathered a company at home to note this. They drank a lot, and the friends did not notice that Yuri became ill. He asked to call Clarissa, who knew what tablets the actor was taking. But they called an ambulance. Bogatyrev introduced a drug incompatible with its medicines and alcohol. The heart could not stand the load and stopped.

This happened on February 2. Four days later, the famous actor was buried in the Vagankovsky cemetery. After the funeral, an exhibition of his paintings took place at the branch of the Ermolova Museum, but many work did not reach the exhibition hall - they disappeared. Several documentary films were created about him, including a “big, big child” and “stolen life”. Three books were written about Bogatyrev, as well as an album of his graphics.