Biography of Sergey Yursky

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The versatility of his talent is striking, because this outstanding master is capable of, it seems, to absolutely everything. He starred in the cinema, played in the theater, worked as a director, writer, and voice actor. And this is still far from a complete list of his achievements! Sergei Yursky is a man with remarkable talent and an interesting fate.

His mother, Evgenia Mikhailov, in the girlishness of Romanov, was a music teacher, and his father, Yuri Sergeyevich, was a theater director, Khudruk - at different times he led a circus, theater, was a dramatic and pop -up director, put a pantomium, played a little. The father of the future actor came from a noble family, and therefore after the revolution he was forced to change his last name from Zhikharev to Yursky.

In childhood, Sergey Yursky, during the blockade, the family was evacuated to Uzbekistan, where Seryozha went to first grade. In the year, a cat appeared in the family, more precisely, a circus cat Ksyusha, and since then there has been no such period that there were no cats in the house of Sergei Yursky. After the end of World War II, Jurassic Sr. got a director at the Moscow circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.

It was here in the world of circus backstage that the childhood and youth of Sergey passed. In those years, as once his father, the boy dreamed of connecting his life with circus art. He knew in the face of all circus stars, animals, he remembered circus numbers by heart. What can I say, they, in fact, lived in the circus - the family allocated two rooms in his building. In this city, Sergei graduated from a gold medal in the year and began to study jurisprudence at the University of Leningrad.

Already in the first year he was captivated by the student theater, so after the third year of study, the young man broke with the right and entered the Leningrad Theater University, having hit the course towards Leonid Makaryev. Sergey Yursky - the Tovstonogov Theater of Tovstonogov for years, the mature game of a talented actor was noted by all teachers, and already in the second year Sergey began to receive proposals from famous directors of Leningrad.

So Sergey Yursky ended up in the troupe of the Great Drama Theater, which at that time was considered almost the most authoritative theatrical platform of the USSR. Under the leadership of director Georgy Tovstonogov, he performed many wonderful roles and served in his native theater up to a year. Jurassic connected life with the theater of Georgy Tovstonogov in the photo on the left among those of those most vivid became the role of Alexander Chatsky in the play “Woe from Wit”.

It was this acting work that put Yursky on a par with the recognized figures of the theater, providing Sergei Yuryevich with new interesting roles. It is noteworthy that the censors, generally recognizing the performance of the good, clung to Chatsky all the time - he was called “harmful”, saw in it “undermining of the foundations”. In general, the actor subsequently called this period of his life the happiest.

Young Sergey Yursky Tovstonogov trusted the talent and instinct of Yursky. As the actor recalled, once, at the end of X, he brought the director of Hemingway's story “and the sun rises”, which Yura was literally in love with the scene. Tovstonogov suggested that Yursky put the play on his own, modestly adding: "If anything, I will help." Trust was mutual - it was a "his" director.

And although the play “FIEST” failed, Yura remembered this experience for life. Two years later, he made a television version of the performance - “FIEST”. Then Yursky presented the public with the second directorial work, the play “The Chosener of Fate” based on the play by Bernard Shaw, but he did not be too suitable for the BDT repertoire. He was placed about 30 times outside the theater.

It all started with the fact that Tovstonovov took the second actor for the role of Chatsky because of the pressure of the authorities. Following Yursky received the role of Khlestakov in the play “The Examiner”. The audience was delighted, but official criticism for some reason hated the actor.

I was angry, offended and sometimes forgot in my grievances what I owe to this great man. This offended him, and he forgot that I became an adult feeling the hesitation of the ward, Tovstonovov invited Yursky to forget the story of the “fiesta” and put any performance - to choose from. Sergei Yuryevich chose Moliere on Bulgakov, himself directed and played the main role - Moliere.

The performance, first demonstrated in the year, on the year of the anniversary of the birth of Moliere, had a deafening success with the public, but even to take it to other cities, not only abroad. Sergei Yursky in the play “Moliere” at the end of x the actor began problems with the authorities. He was accused of supporting the “Prague Spring”, although the actor, on the contrary, said that he had not seen the Soviet troops in Prague, communicating with the “socially dangerous element” Solzhenitsyn, also Yura was not at the CPSU.

He was forced to leave Leningrad and move to Moscow, however, in the capital he was refused several theaters, and with a creak he was taken only to the Mossovet Theater. Sergei Yursky in cinema, although Yursky never considered himself a film actor - his heart belonged to the theater - he forever entered the annals of Soviet cinema. The debut of Sergei Yursky in the cinema came for a year.Jurassic got a tiny role in the extras - a passerby in a yellow hat.

He played a savage, whom Yuri Yakovlev discovered during the expedition and transported to Moscow. In attempts to adapt to modern life, the hero of the Yursky passes through many adventures and meets love. Mikhail Suslov did not like the film and was banned up to a year. The frame from the film “Man out of nowhere” is the next “loud” role in the cinema is a strict, but fair director of the school for street children Viknicor from the Republic of Skid.

This acting work was not the first cinematic role in the career of Jursky, but it was she who brought him the greatest success. By the way, his wife Natalya Tenyakova played his “screen” wife Baba Shur. Sergei Yursky in the film “Love and Pigeons” in total, a talented actor for his long life performed about fifty screen roles. He played Tsiolkovsky, Oppenheimer, as well as many other interesting characters.

Sergei Yursky in the film “The meeting place cannot be changed” such a rich filmography can only be envied. Looking at the list of roles of Sergei Yursky, you understand that the numerous awards of this actor are not at all accidental. Pushkin’s medal, two orders “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the 3rd, 4th degree, a prize of the Kinotavr festival, as well as the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR - all this is just a small fraction of the recognition that Sergei Yursky really deserves.

Sergey Yursky - “Good upbringing” for his long life, he participated in the voice of films, worked as a screenwriter. The actor also tried himself, and quite successfully, as a writer. Thus, his autobiography “Game of Life” was published, a book of memoirs “Who I love, that is not here”, dedicated to his loved ones, departed: Father, Tovstonogov, Faine Ranevskaya, Evgeny Evstigneev and others.

Also, his pen belongs to the collections of the stories “Who keeps the pause” and “The contents of the box”. Jurassic is the author of the entertaining book “I am a cat”, which, according to Sergey, was whispered to him by a cat Satik. In the actor’s family, cats always lived the personal life of Sergei Jurassic - the civilian - wife of Sergei, in his youth, became actress Zinaida Sharko.

The marriage with her lasted seven years, but subsequently broke up due to unclear circumstances. After the gap, Jurassic with one suitcase of things moved to his friend Oleg Basilashvili. In the photo: Zinaida Sharko all subsequent life Sergei Yursky is married to another actress - Natalia Tenyakova, whom the audience probably remember the role of Baba Shura in Love and Pigeons.

They met on the set of the film "Big cat Tale", which can be considered familiar from above, because the actor simply adored cats. Sergei Yursky with his wife and daughter in the last years of his life and death in recent years, Sergei Yuryevich rarely starred in films. His last roles: Stalin in the multi -part biographical drama "Comrade Stalin" and Boris Pasternak in the series "Furtseva".

Both series went out in the year. Sergey Yursky as Boris Pasternak in the morning of February 8, the actor passed away in his apartment. The cause of death was a cardiac arrest. The last years of his life, Jurassic was seriously ill, but did not want to advertise health problems so as not to upset fans of his work. It is known that at the end of the year Sergey Yuryevich was already treated for a serious illness, but then it was only about planned hospitalization.

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