Nikolai Dobrynin: filmography, biography and personal life (photo)

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

The artist Nikolai Dobrynin today is associated by millions of viewers with a folklore character - a village peasant Mitya Bukhankin from the village of Kuchugury, who plays a special integrative function in the popular family series.

The humor oozing out of him recreates the unity of the surrounding world broken by modern civilization. The audience does not even have questions about how old Nikolai Dobrynin is, because the image he found, like Shchukar, Sholokhov's creative find, is eternal.

Mityai's naive ego, his desire to be in the spotlight does not coincide with his real social status. With the air of a connoisseur, he generously distributes “advice inappropriately” to those around him, no worse than Munchausen shares his “memories” with his interlocutors, loudly tells others about his views on life. But for some reason, it is precisely such tales from his lips that are remembered, they turn out to be significant, they gain weight. Needless to say, the Honored Artist of Russia organically entered this image. In this article, we have set ourselves a difficult goal - to trace the milestones of the biography of Nikolai Dobrynin.

Childhood

Did he thinkas a child, what will become a film actor? Did the parents envision such a path for their second son? Hardly. Nikolai Dobrynin was born in Taganrog on August 17, 1963. My mother worked in trade, and my father worked as an investigator. Kolya's father was a gypsy by nationality. My paternal grandmother lived in a real gypsy camp. From childhood to school, Kolya lived with his grandmother, was free as the wind, played with the children. It was a real gypsy freemen.

Dad played the button accordion well and sent his son to study piano at a music school. The boy was proud of him, his "cool" and necessary work. He was really strict but fair. If indeed the misdeed of this or that son deserved a "belt", then it happened so. Especially when the brothers, having fought, got into the police (at that time, fights “district to district” were popular among the guys). Father was an investigator known in Taganrog.

Death of father. Broken childhood

Dad died suddenly and paradoxically: he just crossed the road at the crossing, besides the green light. He was hit by an ambulance. From childhood, Nikolai Dobrynin was forced to earn money. His work biography began in the 6th grade: he sewed potato sacks (this simple science was taught by his gypsy grandmother), knocked together mailboxes, worked as a loader. The early departure of his father affected Nikolai. He did not graduate from music school: having completed his last grade, he had a conflict with the principal.

When sixth grader Kolya stood on the scales, they showed a weight of 87 kilograms. It was grade III.obesity. He was terribly shy and complexed. He was oppressed by the nickname given by classmates, "Package". And when he had to swim in the pioneer camp in the summer, he entered the water in a shirt, embarrassed by his chest, to put it mildly, of non-Hellenic proportions.

Help brother

Nikolai Dobrynin is still grateful to his older brother Alexander, who took full responsibility for his father's upbringing.

By the way, Alexander Nikolaevich Naumenko (he and Nikolai have different fathers) also "from God" got an outstanding creative potential and amazing performance, thanks to which he became a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater. Svyatoslav Richter became his godfather.

Alexander brought Nikolai to the ballroom dancing school and strictly followed his sports. To make the weight cut go faster, he built for Nikolai a “running” belt with lead inserts. The "belt" weighed twenty kilograms, but for Kolya it seemed even heavier when he had to run up and down Petrovsky Street.

Dobrynin Nikolai Nikolaevich speaks ironically about his ballroom dancing lessons. The girls didn't want to dance with the "Package", and his first partner was a guy, long and with youthful acne. "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza", as they were called, was the brand of the ballroom school. But later, when twenty kilograms “went off,” the girl “found herself.”

Moscow, university admissions

Alexander, a first-year student at the conservatory, took his brother to Moscow. He, like a maximalist, agreed, because the young man was left by a ballroom partnerdancing (thanks to her from the whole country). If not for this decision - to go to Moscow - Kolya, like half of his classmates, most likely would have gone to a nautical school.

But it happened differently: he entered GITIS (workshop of L. Knyazeva, I. Sudakova), however, on the third attempt. In one stream, Nikolai studied with Vladimir Vinogradov and Dmitry Pevtsov.

The first attempt at admission was the most disastrous. As soon as a young man with a terrible accent and a characteristic letter “G” said to the commission that he was from Taganrog, he heard in response: “Goodbye.”

First marriage

He did not sit idly between receipts, he worked: as a locksmith, plumber, metro builder. But when Dobrynin, already being a “shot sparrow” among applicants, passed acting exams wherever he could, he was invited to study simultaneously at the Shchukin School, the Moscow Art Theater Theater Studio, the Schepkin School and GITIS. It was a kind of psychological revenge for all the previous fiasco.

The real "energizer" was Nikolai Dobrynin. His biography is filled with paradoxes: he somehow argued with his classmate Ksenia Larina (daughter of Andrei Barshev, a diplomat, later the creator of Radio Nostalgia), and they got married purely on a bet. What a precedent: the daughter of a diplomat marries a gypsy! To support his family, the student worked in the subway as a drainer. A talented person is talented in everything, the metrostroy assigned the 6th category to drainage worker Nikolai, he was a virtuoso worker. However, the student marriage lasted five years.

Satyricon Theater

GITIS wascompleted in 1985. As the actor Nikolai Dobrynin recalls, the situation was again paradoxical: he was invited to seven theaters at once, he chose the Satyricon Theater, he wanted to work with the growing Konstantin Raikin. The very spirit of this theater corresponded to the inner energy of the actor, and although Nikolai spent four whole years there as extras, he invariably recalls these years positively. In addition, there he happened to go on stage with the legend - Arkady Raikin (the play "Peace to your house").

Like any actor, Nikolai Dobrynin yearned not only for "his own viewer", but also for the millionth audience. His filmography began in the New Year's (1986) melodrama "The Right People" (directed by Vladimir Alenikov), where he played the builder Kolya. The following year, he played the role of the thief Vitka, named Gavrosh, in a film directed by Pankratov. In 1989, the role of Lyova - Katsap (directed by Vladimir Alenikov) fell.

Second marriage

In 1988, actor Nikolai Dobrynin married for the second time. His chosen one was Anna Terekhova, daughter of Milady - Margarita Terekhova.

Marriage was (unfortunately, was) really for love. The fact that Anna is seven years younger was simply not noticed, because Nikolai, as we have already said, is an energizer. He dearly loved his wife. Son Michael was born. As Anna herself admits (which she regrets), the gap occurred because of her (the demand in the "Theatre of the Moon"). Dobrynin, until the age of 16, took care of and raised his son Misha, while not meeting his ex-wife (he loved, his soul was sick). The son of Nikolai Dobrynin Misha did not follow in the footstepsparents, he chose the profession of a psychologist.

The actor is very respectful of his "star mother-in-law". He thinks she's great. A kind of litmus test of the acting level of Margarita Terekhova for Dobrynin was the phrase dropped by Jane Fonda (who starred with her in the film The Blue Bird): “Rita, I will never play like that!”

Army. Working with Roman Viktyuk

However, back to the main chronology of the biography. The army then was "wow" - a state within a state, it pulled into its bosom both talented athletes and young artists. After five years of acting, Nikolai Dobrynin joined the Moscow Air Defense Ensemble. As a creative person, he was released on leave to play in the Satyricon. When he participated in one of the skits, Roman Grigoryevich Viktyuk "found" him. However, the army service of Nicholas also did not go like clockwork. The culprit was the ill-fated German Rust, who landed on Red Square. All the dogs were released into the air defense, the air defense ensemble was then disbanded, and Nikolai was sent to serve for a year in a regular combat unit.

Viktyuk Theater

After demobilization in 1989, Dobrynin was lucky to touch the great. Viktyuk's "Satyricon" play "The Maids", where he played Claire, had the honor of opening a new era in the history of the World Theater. Critics hail The Maids as a renewed theatrical manifesto.

Working with Roman Grigorievich captured Nikolai for 16 years. Creativity with a living legend - Viktyuk is something special(“The Master and Margarita”, “Solomeya” pulled all the juice out of the actor, demanded complete dedication). Nikolai Dobrynin can talk about this for hours. The filmography of the actor in the 90s was promoted according to the principle "rarely, but aptly". Interesting and intense work in the theater simply did not give the right to "random roles" in the cinema.

Cinematic roles in the 90s

In 1993, he played the role of Misha Raevsky in the film by S. Ursulyak "Russian Ragtime" (plot plot: fooling youth plucks the red flag). This is really a dramatic role that led his hero to a choice: to betray and substitute under the "punishing sword of the Soviet Law" or remain decent, but suffer himself. The actor's play was recognized at the film festival "Constellation-94" as the best male role. The role of Kolya Dolgushin in the detective story "Kings of Russian Investigation", Gordanov in the drama "On Knives", Zhenya in "White Dance" did not go unnoticed by the audience.

The role of a film actor in the 21st century

In 2004, the actor broke off his collaboration with the Roman Viktyuk Theater. The latter was a forced step. It is not given to a person to simultaneously burn to the ground on the stage in "The Master and Margarita", "Solomey" and fully correspond to the demand in the cinema. He was drawn into the work in the series "Life is a field for hunting", "Chess player", "Amapola". There was a conversation with the director-master, where they decided: to take a break, for three years.

Objectively speaking, not everyone is given to play as many film roles as they fell to Dobrynin. No wonder Roman Viktyuk called Nikolai "not two-core, but seven-core."Indeed, Nikolai Dobrynin deeply and organically accepted the satirical credo formulated by Konstantin Raikin, “Work until the aorta ruptures”. The growth of his creative potential is obvious. The actor was ready for a stream of directorial proposals in connection with the renaissance of Russian cinema. For almost a decade he has been playing 4-5 roles every year! Lives between St. Petersburg and Moscow. But in 2013, he played in 7 films: "Prisoner of the Caucasus-2", "Scouts", "The Village", "Molodezhka", "Pyotr Leshchenko: All That Was", "New Year's Trouble".

However, the love of the theater does not leave him. Since 2007, he is again listed as a theater actor. But he plays for the soul: several roles in the "Theater Center on Kolomenskaya" (performances "Maupassant in Love" and "Pajamas for Six").

Third marriage

In 2002, 45-year-old Nikolai Dobrynin married for the third time. Personal life brought him together with Ekaterina Komisarova. A fan of the actor then worked as a flight attendant and attended all his performances. Once Katya plucked up courage and went backstage to give flowers to her idol. Nikolay was then out of sorts and rejected the flowers, but then caught up with the offended girl.

In 2008 their daughter Nina was born. For 10 years, God did not give the Dobrynins a child. According to Nikolai himself, they begged for their daughter together. There was a period in his work when he was broadcasting about Orthodoxy, about churches. Filming the transfer, he had a chance to visit the Damascus monastery of St. Thekla. In this temple, believers ask for the birth of children. After praying, mother handed Dobrynin a specialmonastery belt. Such belts are worn by women who want to have a child, and removed after pregnancy. Katya only had to wear the belt for two months.

Now Ekaterina works as an assistant director for Roman Viktyuk. The couple built a family nest in St. Petersburg. Nikolai Dobrynin considers it to be related to his native Taganrog: both cities are the brainchild of Peter I. Both are sea cities. He likes the rhythm of life in the City of Peter, and Nikolai knows Peterhof, Pavlovsk, Pushkin as if he were a native Leningrader.

However, for convenience, the Dobrynins also have an apartment in Moscow, where they work. Such is their rhythm of life and work: they travel together along the Moscow-Petersburg route.

Conclusion

Finishing the article, I would like to return again to the hero Dobrynin, who was especially beloved by the audience. The impressive "track record" of the actor eventually led him to an undeniable creative find. Millions of Russians enjoy the way Nikolai Dobrynin uniquely presents the image of Mityai Bukhankin, the “grown up child”, who is dear mainly for who he is.

Conceived by the director as a secondary image of Mityai, thanks to the personal charm of the actor, came to the fore in the series "Matchmakers". Nikolai Dobrynin, contrary to the logic of the script, "outplayed" the main actors, just as once Bronevoy outplayed Tikhonov. In fact, with this role, he created a brand, prepared the potential for the following films.

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