"New Russian grandmas": actors Igor Kasilov and Sergey Chvanov

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The concerts of this pop humorous duet are always sold out. They have been incredibly popular for 15 years. It is not always possible for even the most devoted fans to recognize their idols on the street and get an autograph, because the actors do not give interviews and do not take pictures outside of their stage image. Have you guessed who we are talking about yet? Of course, about the actors of the "New Russian attendants". But today we will tell not only about the concert image, but about these actors without makeup.

About the project

Two young comedian actors － Igor Kasilov and Sergey Chvanov － created their unsurpassed duet many years ago. He appeared at a time when young people worked on Samara television. The actors spent their filming in the village, it was here that they came up with the idea of reincarnation as attendants. They sat down on a bench with village grandmothers, at first they listened to their conversations, after which they began to imitate them. I'm talking.

Soon there was a project called "New Russian grandmas". The creators themselves became the actors. Real fame came to them thanks to their participation in Yevgeny Petrosyan's program "Crooked Mirror". Cheerful and perky, keeping up with the times, the grannies resemble the duet of Mavrikievna and Nikitichna, extremely popular in the Soviet Union.

"New Russian grandmas": biography of the actors

Extraordinarily talented, popular, beloved by a huge number of fans, actors do not like to put their personal lives on public display. But still we have some information, we will gladly share it with you. Let's find out what the actors of the "New Russian grandmothers" are without makeup.

Sergei Nikolaevich Chvanov

This artist performs as Matryona Ivanovna Nigmatullina, or simply Matryona.

In the city of Chistopol of the Tatar Republic on January 19, 1965 Sergey Chvanov was born. He received his education at the Togliatti Polytechnic Institute. In it, he met Irina Fedorova, who later became his wife. Here he met his stage colleague I. Kasilov. The first performances (together with Igor) happened to them on the student stage of the institute. Later, Sergei Chvanov worked at the local variety theater in the duet "Deficiency". The actor has a son and a daughter, whose names, according to media reports, are Danya and Manya.

Igor Vladimirovich Kasilov

His character is Claudia Ivanovna Flower. Kasilov - a native of the city of Togliatti, Samaraareas. May 31, 1966 is his birthday. When the parents decided to leave, Igor was still a child. He stayed with his father, who worked at the factory. Igor's sister lived all the time with her mother, who worked as a merchandiser. Mom currently lives in the same area as Igor.

The actor graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Togliatti, was in the ranks of the members of the Komsomol committee. From the second year he was drafted into the army. He served in the missile forces of Kazakhstan. After returning from the army, Igor is restored in the third year of the Polytechnic University. There he meets his future wife, Elena Nazarenko. Speaking on the stage of the institute, he simultaneously worked in the theater "Wheel", in which he was the leading actor and played all the main roles. He graduated from the theater courses of GITIS at the theater "Wheel", a little later, and the courses of P. Fomenko in the capital. Has a son Yegor.

Work activity of the actors in the duet "New Russian grandmas"

On one of the channels of Togliatti television ("Lik") in the nineties of the last century, the actors were the hosts of the humorous program "Dessert". In parallel with this, they starred in the author's program by I. Ugolnikov "Oba-na", very popular in those years, and once a month they flew to the capital to shoot. In addition, they worked as an entertainer for celebrities.

Working on local television, we created an interesting project called "New Russian grandmas". Later, he brought S. Chvanov and I. Kasilov unprecedented popularity, on the waves of which the actors are currently. The first fame "grandmother" received inon the air of the local radio station "August". However, at first this project was used in the form of small humorous screensavers. Noticing the interest of the audience in the new project, the management gave the actors a live broadcast. In an incredibly short time, "Babki" gained immense popularity not only in their native land, but also in all regions of the country. At present, it is difficult to imagine any humorous evening without the participation of these two outstanding personalities.

Conquest of Moscow

In 1999, the actors took part in the E. Petrosyan Humor Cup. At the same time, the first solo concert of the New Russian Grandmothers took place in their life (in the photo, the actors are in the images already beloved by the Russian audience). This event took place in the State Variety Theater of Moscow.

Igor and Sergey together with their families moved to permanent residence in Moscow. They worked for Yevgeny Petrosyan, performed in the TV show "Crooked Mirror". By 2009, they decided to leave this project. In the image of "New Russian grandmothers", the actors led such television projects as "Saturday Evening", "Veselaya Street". They have worked and are working in all major television projects, touring all over the country with a concert program.