Alexey Samoilov: the youngest of the great Samoilov acting dynasty

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He was lucky to be born in the year of the end of the Great Patriotic War in the family of the outstanding Soviet actor Yevgeny Valerianovich Samoilov. The People's Artist lived a long life (93 years), remaining in the memory thanks to almost sixty roles in the national cinema. Among them are well-known films: "Hearts of Four", "Shchors", "At 6 pm after the war." The elder sister Tatyana became the pride of Soviet cinema after her first successful work in the film The Cranes Are Flying, which brought her worldwide fame. Samoilov Alexey Evgenievich, also an actor by profession, is much less known. How did his fate turn out?

Childhood

Being almost 10 years younger than his sister, Alexei Samoilov, whose biography will be discussed in the article, was born in Moscow. Previously, the family lived in Leningrad, but at the invitation of Meyerhold moved to the capital. From the theater, Evgeny Valerianovich was allocated living space for 7 families in Granatny Lane, where he spent his childhoodAlexey. Mother Zinaida Ilyinichna, an engineer by education, devoted herself to her husband and children, completely taking on all the duties of the house. The father did not want his son and daughter to choose his profession, which requires great emotional and physical costs. Tatyana was even sent to a ballet school as a child, but she became an actress anyway.

And Alexei, who has absolute pitch, was not bought a piano at one time because of the large number of neighbors in the apartment. Perhaps the profession of a musician could have captivated him, but in the end he followed in the footsteps of his father and older sister. As a boy, he, along with his parents, attended the screening of Mikhail Kalatozov's film The Cranes Are Flying at the Cinema House. He remembered how worried his sister was, how immediately after the end of the session there was an alarming silence. And then the hall exploded with applause that did not subside for 20 minutes.

Family Influence

Sister was the closest person for Alexei all his life. Thanks to her, he became addicted to reading, since his father had an excellent library. But even as a fifteen-year-old, he began to notice signs of a nervous breakdown in his sister, which over the years appeared more and more often. Out of jealousy, they stabbed him in the yard, but Aleksey Samoilov did not immediately understand the severity of his condition, so he ended up in the hospital already on the operating table. Parents were frightened, and Tatyana was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, huddled in a corner of the room. She was too emotional and vulnerable in life.

Therefore, after the birth of her son Mitya Zinaida Ilyinichna and Evgeny Valerianovichtook on the main burden of his upbringing, giving his daughter the opportunity to be creative. After a stellar role, she had years of downtime. Almost 10 years have passed before Anna Karenina, therefore, seeing the experiences of his sister, Alexei Samoilov chose the path of a theater actor for himself.

Professional career

The first 14 years were given to the Sovremennik Theatre, the next 30 years to the Maly Theatre, from where the actor would retire after his father passed away in 2006. ", 1983) and Don Sebastian ("Jealous of myself", 1980). Over the years, Alexei Samoilov realized how dependent the profession of an actor is on directors and in the theater, and realized why his father did not really want such a fate for his children. As soon as a new performance was staged, lists of the artists involved in it were posted on the board. It was very painful to approach them and not see my last name.

The film debut took place in 1971 in the film "Day by Day", the events of which unfolded around the neighbors in a communal apartment. After the role of Lyosha Potakuev from the weaving factory, Alexei Samoilov, an actor of the theater school, will take part in the serial television film Past and Thoughts. On the wide screen, he will appear with director Samson Samsonov in the film Much Ado About Nothing (the role of Prince Don Petro) based on Shakespeare's play (1973). It was already a real serious work, but it put an end to the film career. Samoilov will still star in a number of episodes, but only for the sake of a side job. Play onheat, repeating the same phrases take after take, it turned out to be beyond his strength.

Private life

Alexey Samoilov was married twice, but both marriages did not make him happy. The first lasted two years. His chosen one was the figure skater Tatyana Tarasova, with whom they lived in two apartments: either with him on Peschanaya, then with the Tarasovs on the Sokol. He worked at Sovremennik, introducing his wife to Galina Volchek, Mikhail Kozakov, and she introduced him to her legendary father. At first everything was fine, but training and training took all her time, and soon the family broke up.

The second choice was a Frenchwoman named Helen, who was trained in Russia. The couple had a daughter, Natalie (now an art critic), but in 1985 his wife decided to return to France. Devoted to his family, Alexey could not leave his elderly parents and sister. For a long time he will live in two countries until the spouses decide to part.

After her son left for the USA (1995), in the last years of her life, her brother will be next to Tatyana Samoilova. Unadapted to everyday life and living only by art, she will need constant support and attention. In 2014, Alexei Samoilov will prepare with inspiration for her 80th birthday at the Cinema House, on the eve of which the outstanding actress will die, right on her birthday - May 4th. Instead of a festive concert, a civil memorial service took place.