Zinoviy Vysokovskiy is an unforgettable Pan Zyuzya

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

Vysokovsky Zinovy Moiseevich often expressed the idea that his childhood was overshadowed by the war, and his old age - by perestroika. The meaning and truthfulness of these words can only be understood by people of the older generation. Vysokovsky was born in 1932 in the city of Taganrog. He was always an excellent student and graduated from absolutely all educational institutions either with a gold medal or with a red diploma.

Vysokovsky-an excellent student is an axiom

The son of the chief accountant of the Taganrog brick factory studied at the school named after A. P. Chekhov - one of the best educational institutions in the city. After graduating with honors in 1952, Vysokovskiy Zinovy Moiseevich went to Moscow to the Theater School. Schukin.

It was not possible to enter the most prestigious Moscow university right away (they say because of the 5th column), and in the same year the gold medalist enters the radio engineering institute of his native city. Having received a red diploma, becoming a rocket engineer, he makes a new attempt to enter the coveted "Pike", and in1957 becomes her student.

The best scenes of the capital

Having brilliantly graduated from the theatrical high school, where he studied with Veniamin Smekhov, Zinovy Vysokovsky becomes an artist of the Moscow Theater of Miniatures. It should be noted that Vladimir Abramovich Etush recruited students only once, and it was with him that Vysokovsky studied on this single course. Now the Theater of Miniatures is known as the Hermitage, whose artistic director is Mikhail Levitin. And then it was led by its founder Vladimir Polyakov. This theater is often called the "school of clowns". It is clear why Zinovy Moiseevich goes there - a man with a great sense of humor, who later became a master of the colloquial genre, went to serve where he was, of course, in demand (he worked there together with Mark Zakharov). This fact itself speaks of his talent - it is difficult for visitors after the institute to gain a foothold in Moscow. In 1967, Zinovy Vysokovsky moved to the Theater of Satire, where he served for 20 years, and left it only in 1987 after the death of Anatoly Papanov and Andrei Mironov.

Iconic roles

On the stage of the Theater of Satire, he played many wonderful roles. He was especially remembered by the audience for the role of the wise Pharmacist, who spoke with an Odessa accent, in the play "Intervention" by Lev Slavin, and the role of Bartolo in "The Marriage of Figaro", and Schweik in the film-play "Schweik in World War II" (1969).

Vysokovskiy Zinoviy Moiseevich became known all over the country as pan Zyuzya from "Zucchini 13 chairs" (1968-1981). The phrases of the graphomaniac writer scattered throughout the country. And now viewers of the older generation remember his “Good evening to everyone!”. They loved all the regulars of the "Zucchini", they were waiting for the releases so that even the hero of the story "One Hundred Years Ahead" rushes home from the future to the TV, because "Zucchini" will begin at 20-00.

Reverse side of the coin

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the program, all the artists who portrayed regular customers, including Zinovy Vysokovsky, were awarded the title of Honored Worker of Culture of Poland. The transmission ceased in 1981 due to the political aggravation in that country. Filming in "Zucchini" also had negative sides - the main director of the Theater of Satire V. Pluchek, known for his difficult character, jealous of the actors for such a popular program (which Leonid Ilyich also loved very much) in the theater did not give them any noticeable roles. Film directors did the same, because the names given to the actors in "Zucchini" were firmly fixed to them. And in The Living and the Dead, Zinovy Vysokovsky played his role perfectly and was very remembered by the audience. He was good in all his movie roles, although there were few of them, a little more than 10.

Free bread

Very intelligent, non-confrontational, with a wonderful sense of humor, a gentle person, Vysokovsky had a rather decisive character. He left a well-paid job as a rocket engineer in Rostov and went to Moscow, where he received a 22-ruble scholarship for all his years of study. Then he left the Theater of Satire, where he had insufficient, but guaranteed pay, and went "to nowhere", and under the Soviet regime, "free bread" did notwelcome.

To provide for his beloved women - wife, daughter and granddaughter - he worked hard on the radio and toured with concerts, for which he wrote the script. And not always these concerts were only humorous - he knew a lot and performed well the poems of K. Simonov, R. Gamzatov and V. Vysotsky, with whom he was friendly.

Transmission "Odessa Speaks"

In 1985, together with director E. Kamenkovich, he created the play "The Fifth Side of the World", which was successfully staged at the Variety Theater. Zinovy Vysokovskiy hosted the program “Odessa is speaking” on the radio (“Humor FM”). He knew a huge number of anecdotes, many of which he invented himself, and which he skillfully told. He came up with this rubric on the radio station himself, and thought about it after working on the image of the Apothecary from Intervention. Unforgettable were his monologues in the form of a tipsy intellectual who calls his wife (the famous Lyulek) from a sobering-up station. He was very good with the monologues of the “hare specialist”. In a word, who saw and heard the speeches of Z. M. Vysokovsky, remember and love him.

Zinoviy Vysokovsky told Odessa anecdotes superbly, although he himself is not from Odessa. He collected and systematized them.

Happy person

His work on the radio and in the theater did not go unappreciated - he became the People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 2003. A lot of Vysokovsky's statements became winged and went to the people. In the last years of his life, he returned to the Theater of Satire. In 2002, he published the book My Life is a Joke.

Zinovy Moiseevich had a wonderful loving family. Daughter Ekaterina became a journalist and radio host, and her beloved granddaughter, the beautiful Sofia, followed in the footsteps of her grandfather, with whom she was inseparable. Zinovy Moiseevich died in 2009 from kidney failure. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.