Artist Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The founder of the Moscow Drama Theater led by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, a teacher of stage skills, People's Artist of the USSR. Armen was not even a year when his father left his family, and the boy stayed with his mother - Elena Vasilievna, who worked in the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR. Later, the child took up the upbringing of the child, with whom the boy had the warmest relationship.

The actor met with his native father as an adult Armen Dzhigarkhanyan with his mother Armen grew in a Russian -speaking environment, studied at the Russian school and absorbed Armenian and Russian culture with the same interest. Dzhigarkhanyan did not remember childhood as such. Although Yerevan was far from the front line, it was not easy for him and his peers. Quite children, they were forced to do hard work in the house, chopped firewood, was hungry and scary.

Therefore, the very word "childhood" for him has always been deprived of the raid of romance and nostalgia. The beginning of a creative path, the desire to become an artist appeared in Armen in early childhood: Elena Vasilievna was a passionate theater and instilled a love of stage art to her son. In the year, after graduation, the young man went to Moscow and tried to enter GITIS, but failed because of his accent and returned to Yerevan, where he got an assistant to the operator at the Armenfilm film studio, and a year later became a student of the Yerevan Art and Theater Institute.

The young Armen Dzhigarkhanyan in the year Dzhigarkhanyan was admitted to the troupe of the Russian Drama Theater. Stanislavsky in Yerevan. Up to a year, Armen took part in 27 productions of the theater in Yerevan, then he arrived in Moscow again, this time - at the invitation of Anatoly Efros. The director accepted the actor in the team of the theater. The Lenin Komsomol, and soon Dzhigarkhanyan received roles in the performances “Filmed cinema”, “Moliere”, “Pages about love” and three more productions.

However, a few months after the arrival of Dzhigarkhanyan to the capital, Efros was removed from his post, and Dzhigarkhanyan, having worked for some time under the leadership of another Khudruk, decided to leave the troupe. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan in the center on the stage of Lenkom by the next milestone of the theater career of Dzhigarkhanyan became work in the theater named after Mayakovsky, on the stage of which he entered over the next 27 years.

The first experience in a new place - the play “Damage”, first demonstrated by the public in the year - gave Armen to work with Odessa actor Vladimir Samoilov. After 2 years, spectators were able to enjoy the acting tandem of Dzhigarkhanyan and Svetlana Nemolyaeva in the play “Tram Desire”, put under the leadership of A. Stanley and Blanche performed by Dzhigarkhanyan and Nemolyaeva ten years later, the same director introduced the audience to the other play by Tennessee Williams - “A cat on a hot roof”.

The cast was brilliantly selected: in addition to Dzhigarkhanyan, Tatyana Doronina and Emmanuel Vitorgan participated in the production. After leaving Mayakovsky, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan briefly returned to Lenkom, and also continued to limit his talent in entreprise performances. The graduates of the course of Dzhigarkhanyan were many who subsequently achieved fame for the actors, for example, Evgeny Podchkin, who graduated from VGIK in the year.

Mikhail Porechenkov, who had not passed the full course of training, also studied with Dzhigarkhanyan. Of course, the master often appeared on stage with former wards. According to Armen, the most interesting works of this period were the roles in the performances “The Last Krapp tape” and “Return home”. Dzhigarkhanyan on the stage of his own theater of the film career work on the stage of leading theaters in Moscow was successfully combined with cinema and, later, with television.

The cinematic debut of Dzhigarkhanyan subsequently he created a whole gallery of wonderful, incredibly charming and unforgettable images. This is a young physicist from the film "Hello, it's me! In the imperishable criminal ribbon, Dzhigarkhanyan performed in the image of the antagonist of the protagonist, the operative of Gleb Zhelov, played by Vladimir Vysotsky.

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, in the role of a humpbacked manner, the comedy “Hello, I am your aunt! Millions of spectators witnessed the adventures of the Aunt Rose Aunt's inheritance. The comic ribbon was full of funny details, for example, the mustache of the Judge Krigs were glued upside down, and the costume of Alexander Kalyagin received a trim from curtains.

The cunning footman with the signature Dzhigarkhanyanov’s charm was remembered by the audience almost stronger than the protagonist performed by Mikhail Boyarsky. By the way, the latter voiced the famous branches of Tristan instead of Dzhigarkhanyan himself. The director managed to collect the exceptional acting: Valery Garkalin, who played the roles of three twin brothers and black Stuart Patrick Krolicou, the incomparable love of Polishchuk, who performed in the image of the wife of the American ambassador, he Igor Ugolnikov, he is the captain of the police, Jean-Piskunov, can continue, because this film became a recognized masterpiece of masterpiece Post-Soviet cinema.The heroes of dozens of favorite cartoons are said in the voice of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan: John Silver from the “Treasure Island”, Uncle Mokus, who is familiar with the adventures of the pig’s piglet, a wolf from the cartoon “Love-Pyl-dog” with his immortal “right now!

Dzhigarkhanyan: "I really love cartoons, I love childishly." Behind Armen Borisovich is more roles - the figure, no doubt, is phenomenal. The recognized wit Valentin Gaft even wrote a well -aimed epigram on this score: “There are fewer Armenians in the world than films, where Dzhigarkhanyan played the colorful appearance of the actor did not become an obstacle to creating completely diverse images.

The incredible gift of reincarnation allowed Dzhigarkhanyan to play people of different nationalities and religious denominations, instantly “spin” with other actors. Creative evening: the summer anniversary of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan personal life of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, like many brilliant figures, the fate of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was not always safe. The first marriage with the actress of the Yerevan Russian Drama Theater Alla Vannovskaya ended with a tragedy - after the birth of Elena’s daughter, named after Armen's mother, it turned out that the actor’s wife suffers from an incurable mental illness.

The actor, unable to withstand terrible attacks, during which a young woman in a seizure of jealousy pounced on her husband with fists, was forced to file for divorce and pick up her daughter. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Alla Vanovskaya comprehended another blow of fate: the summer daughter Elena died, falling asleep in a car with the engine. Armen Borisovich concluded the second marriage with actress Tatyana Vlasova, whom he met shortly after breaking up with his first wife.

According to Dzhigarkhanyan, the wedding took place so unexpectedly for both that they did not even have time to buy rings for the upcoming ceremony, and Armen put on Tatyana’s finger the crown of his grandmother inherited. Armen Borisovich, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Tatyana Vlasova, received a residence permit of the United States by quota for outstanding artists and began to live “for two houses”, staying in his mansion in America for several months a year.

The circumstances were formed in such a way that Tatyana chose to stay on another continent forever, and Armen spent most of his time in Russia. For the last 6 years of forty -year -old relations, the couple practically did not communicate. In the year, Dzhigarkhanyan announced the official completion of his second marriage. Tatyana remained to live and work in the United States, having settled down a Russian language teacher at the University of Dallas.

The spouses did not have common children, but at one time Armen Borisovich adopted the son of Tatyana from Stepan's first marriage. In the center is Stepan, the son of Tatyana Vlasova in an interview with Armen said that the actor’s last great love is the Siamese cat Phil Full Name - the philosopher. Unfortunately, in the year he passed away. In recent years, the pet lived in America with Tatyana, and every conversation between Dzhigarkhanyan and his wife began with the phrase: “And how is Phil?

The portrait of the pet is still hanging in the artist in the office. Siamets Fil-the beloved cat of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan at the beginning of the year was struck by the news of the novel by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, musical leader of the Moscow Drama Theater. Many shocked a significant difference in age: the girl was 47 years younger than the theater master.

In February, Armen and Vitalina officially formalized their relationship. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya in the last years of his life and death in recent years, the health of Armen Borisovich has been undermined-including due to the nervous parting with Vitalina Tsymbalyuk. In October, the actor said that he would get divorced with his young wife. He publicly called Vitalina a thief and stated that she had encroached on his life to take possession of his inheritance.

Because of this, Dzhigarkhanyan, according to him, hit the hospital bed, and then fired Tsymbalyuk from his theater and wrote a statement to the police. Dzhigarkhanyan’s smile is well known to everyone a few days after his statement at the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater came unknown people who began to withdraw accounting documentation. According to her, it was very similar to a raider seizure.

The next day, police with a search came to the theater. Later, Dzhigarkhanyan claimed that he was not allowed to the threshold of his own theater. Vitalina reveled in five minutes of glory, pouring the mud of the ex-spouse in the media and literally registered on the air of the talk show. In response, Armen Borisovich called her a thieves, accusing her of theft of three apartments.

According to the documents, they were issued on Vitalina, so formally Armen Borisovich was left without a roof over his head, his friends sheltered. Let them talk. Dzhigarkhanyan and Tsymbalyuk. The most sharp moments after the divorce Tatyana Vlasova again began to communicate with Dzhigarkhanyan. From Vitalina she was horrified. It turned out that the woman called Tatyana and asked "to convey to Dzhigarkhanyan, I wish him a painful and long death." Vlasova hinted that she forgave the prodigal husband: “I went walking, I realized what was happening, and enough.

Now he will know. "At the work of Armen Borisovich was lucky with such a devoted and wise wife. Но развод и полоскание честного имя актера на всю страну негативно сказались на его здоровье. In August, he was hospitalized with cardiovascular and renal failure, and in November the artist was in intensive care due to exacerbation of pneumonia. Dzhigarkhanyan's friends told reporters that recently his chronic diseases have become aggravated.

As the artist bequeathed, he was buried in the Vagankovsky cemetery, next to his daughter. Farewell to Dzhigarkhanyan.