First wife
The director was married 2 times. His first wife was Anastasia Vertinskaya. Mikhalkov was popular with women from a young age. During his student years he met Vertinskaya. Their romance developed rapidly. By that time, Anastasia was already a famous actress. She had many fans, including famous ones. But Mikhalkov managed to outshine everyone.
Nikita Mikhalkov and Anastasia Vertinskaya
Anastasia recalls that it was impossible not to fall in love with Nikita. The couple started dating, but then the young people quarreled due to Mikhalkov’s jealous nature. Nikita left for another shoot. And upon his return he began dating the ballerina Matveeva.
But after some time, the young people found themselves in the same company. Their romance flared up with renewed vigor. Soon the couple had a son, after which Anastasia and Nikita got married. However, their life together lasted no more than two years.
Despite the fact that they had a common profession, after the birth of the child there were few common points of contact. Anastasia stopped acting, devoting herself to the child. Nikita was always offended that everyone except his wife admired him. She didn't say whether she liked what her husband was doing. In relation to Mikhalkov, she was ironic and restrained.
When appearing together in public, all attention was focused on Vertinskaya. Mikhalkov was not affected by this, but a certain complex appeared. The marriage of two strong personalities was bursting at the seams. Anastasia and Nikita loved each other, but were unable to find a common language. Vertinskaya did not want to sit at home, she was interested in her career and cinema. And Mikhalkov wanted to see his wife next to him, who takes care of the children and cooks borscht. Of course, the relationship with Anastasia left a certain mark on Mikhalkov’s development.
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Kharkov roots of Nikita Mikhalkov
On February 21, 1876, in the provincial town of Slavyansk, Izyum district, Kharkov province, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Stalin Prize laureate Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky was born. Now he is more famous as the grandfather of Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky, but earlier, before the painter became successful...
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And before he was known as Pyotr Petrovich Jr. and the son-in-law of the great artist Vasily Surikov. Using the example of his family’s history, one can see who and why has been in the spotlight over the past hundred and fifty years, and how nature does not always rest on sons-in-law and children. Five generations, without which Russian art is unthinkable.
The painter's father, Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky Sr. (1839-1904), remains in memory mainly thanks to his portrait by Valentin Serov, painted in 1891. He was born in Sevastopol in the family of a naval doctor.
This graduate of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University appeared in Slobozhanshchina thanks to his marriage to the Kharkov noblewoman Victoria Timofeevna Loiko. After the wedding, they settled on the Ivanovka estate in Starobelsky district, Kharkov province.
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The nobleman Konchalovsky did not turn out to be a successful landowner, and very soon he was elected a justice of the peace in the city of Svatovo, then in the Kharkov province, and now in the Lugansk region. “He did not turn out to be an exploiter, and very soon Loiko’s farm fell into complete decline,” this is how his granddaughter, mother of Nikita and Andron, Natalia Konchalovskaya, described him.
Pyotr Petrovich lived at that time in Svatovo, then in Slavyansk, then in the provincial city of Kharkov itself, in the very center. In Shlyapny Lane, in the house of the cross-merchant Alexander Shteifon, the father of the future white general and collaborator.
Victoria Timofeevna regularly gave birth to his children - four daughters and three sons. So director Andron Konchalovsky is clearly like his great-grandfather in terms of fertility.
At that time, it was fashionable among the intelligentsia to “go among the people” - to treat and educate the peasants, and at the same time to turn them against the government. Judge Konchalovsky also succumbed to this trend and helped the peasants in every possible way.
And altruists would have walked around the villages of Slobozhanshchina further, but in February 1879, the terrorist Goldenberg killed the Kharkov governor, Prince. D. N. Kropotkina. In June of the same year, Konchalovsky was arrested for propaganda among peasants and by order of the Kharkov Governor-General, Count. M. T. Loris-Melikova was exiled under public supervision to Kholmogory, Arkhangelsk province.
“One day Pyotr Petrovich was sitting on the river and reading a newspaper. He was just about to take a swim when suddenly the gendarmes arrived, grabbed Pyotr Petrovich by the arms, put him in a prisoner's carriage and took him away. And only the newspaper remained in the grass, rustling in the wind... His wife, Victoria Timofeevna, with the help of the housekeeper Akulina Maksimovna, began to give dinners and only fed the family with this. A year and a half later, all the children fell ill with typhoid fever, which was then rampant in Kharkov, three of them were near death,” writes granddaughter Natalia Petrovna in her memoirs “A Priceless Gift.”
However, the exile was short-lived; at the request of Victoria Timofeevna, who remained in Kharkov with her children, Mikhail Tarielovich allowed the guilty intellectual to be returned from exile, but at the same time added: “I am returning him, even though he is so harmful that he should be hanged!”
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Away from his family, Pyotr Petrovich studied English and made complete translations of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Swift's Gulliver's Travels. “The New Heloise” by J.-J. Rousseau also appeared in his presentation. All these works are republished to this day.
Returning from exile, Konchalovsky took up book publishing. Together with the French doctor Kervilli, he opened a bookstore in Kharkov, which his wife began to manage. But soon the store was sealed, Kervilli was sent to France, and Victoria Timofeevna was arrested. Two weeks later, Victoria Timofeevna was released, and she returned home safely. Then the store was opened without them, and books and albums with reproductions were sold there until the “dashing nineties.”
The Konchalovskys left Kharkov after their eldest daughter Nina Petrovna died from consumption. Even the famous professor Frankovsky, whom the Kharkov people considered a wizard, could not help her.
In 1889, the family moved to Moscow, and there Pyotr Petrovich became a successful book publisher. His success also lay in the fact that he attracted Serov, Vrubel and L. Pasternak to work as authors of illustrations. In 1891, Valentin Serov painted the famous portrait of Konchalovsky. Pyotr Petrovich died in 1904, Victoria Timofeevna survived him by eight years.
The Konchalovskys raised their children in the most progressive, as was then considered among the intelligentsia, traditions.
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“They instilled in their children the deepest concepts of goodness and justice. Eternal disputes about literature, art, politics, merciless criticism of everything backward, reactionary, ardent defense of the beautiful in the speeches of their father very early awakened in children a desire for the high, the ability to select the best, to separate the main from the secondary, so as not to clog the soul with the husk of vulgarity.
Almost from the cradle, children knew the fairy tales of Andersen, Perrault, then the novels of Dickens, Walter Scott, and even later - George Sand, Lermontov, Krylov's fables and entire pages from Gogol's Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. We became acquainted with music, painting and sculpture early. Early on they learned the name of Chernyshevsky.
They were touched and made to tremble by the heroic lives of Zhelyabov, Kibalchich, and Perovskaya. And they saw Vera Figner at home: the Konchalovskys repeatedly hid her from the police,” wrote Natalia Petrovna.
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People's Artist of the RSFSR Pyotr Konchalovsky with his family
Oh, if Pyotr Petrovich and Victoria Timofeevna had seen the film “The Barber of Siberia” and especially their descendant in the film “State Councilor”!
The eldest son, Maxim Petrovich (1875-1942), became a doctor, a famous specialist in the clinic of internal diseases. Victoria Petrovna went to France, took French citizenship and subsequently became a prominent professor of the Russian language in Paris. Elena Petrovna got married and was the mistress of one of the respected houses in Moscow until her death in 1935.
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Standing apart in the family is professor-historian Dmitry Petrovich Konchalovsky (1878-1952), born in Kharkov. Natalia Petrovna writes about him in her memoirs with reluctance, mentioning only that in childhood he called the policeman a fool. Why didn’t the wife of the author of the Soviet anthem and the mother of laureates of all possible awards favor her uncle?
Yes, because in the summer of 1941, Dmitry Konchalovsky, along with his wife and three daughters, went to his dacha near Mozhaisk and ran over to the Germans.
“I deliberately left my place of permanent residence, Moscow, and without fear of the danger of ending up in an area where fighting was taking place, I took the opportunity to go as quickly as possible to meet the Wehrmacht in order to take part in its fight against Bolshevism,” he wrote in his letter to A. Rosenberg.
His son, Ivan Dmitrievich Konchalovsky, remained on Soviet territory, was a captain in the medical service in the Red Army and died in Lithuania in the summer of 1944. During his work in German-occupied Smolensk, D. Konchalovsky at the height of the war openly declared himself as a Russian nationalist, seeing in the Germans only a means for liberating Russia from the Bolsheviks, he scolded the writings of the main ideologists of National Socialism and criticized the Fuhrer himself, but no one arrested him.
After the defeat of the Nazis, he fled to Germany and then to France, where his family was sheltered by his sister Victoria Petrovna. He escaped punishment for serving in the ideological apparatus of the occupiers. According to Andron Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, “Dmitry Konchalovsky remained an irreconcilable absolutely anti-Bolshevik and remained an enemy of the Soviet regime, so he never came here, and we never communicated, or rather, we never met.”
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The middle son, aka Pyotr Petrovich Jr., studied in Kharkov at the 3rd men's gymnasium. At the same time, he received lessons at the drawing school of Maria Dmitrievna Raevskaya-Ivanova, the wife of a prominent educator and a permanent member of the Kharkov City Duma for forty years. It was from this private institution that both the art school and the art and industrial institute later emerged.
“Petya became a favorite in the family. Everything came easy to him. The boys were flying a kite in the yard - Petya's kite soared highest and farthest into the sky. They played gorodki - Petya knocked out the most difficult pieces with the first cue ball. He was the best performer in home performances, he made the scenery excellently, sang, danced, recited well, but he studied very poorly - not because he was incapable, but simply lazy. However, since childhood he developed a passion for drawing,” said his daughter Natalia Petrovna.
After the family moved to Moscow, Peter Jr. studied at the 1st men's gymnasium, and at the same time studied painting and drawing in evening classes with V.D. Sukhov at the Central Stroganov School of Technical Drawing. Thanks to his father's publishing activities, he met V.I. Surikov, I.E. Repin, V.M. and A.M. Vasnetsov, V.A. Serov, M.A. Vrubel, I. I. Levitan, K. A. Korovin and other famous painters.
This is what he was like at that time, judging by the description of his daughter Natalia: “The younger Konchalovsky was taller than his father, broad-shouldered, with large arms and legs. His dark hair was cut short. On a matte face, small gray eyes looked seriously and attentively. A large mouth, a large straight nose, a beautiful forehead - everything spoke of originality, but when he smiled with his mouth closed, shyly and silently, this face became delightful, it seemed to be illuminated from within by some kind of joyful friendliness.”
At first, he does not plan to make painting his main occupation, and in 1896, at the insistence of Pyotr Petrovich Sr., he entered the natural sciences department of Moscow University. However, soon, under the influence of Konstantin Korovin, he decides to go to Paris to study painting at the Academy of R. Julien.
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While Peter the Younger is in France, V. A. Serov petitions for a deferment from military conscription for the young painter, who was supposed to serve as a simple private for three years, since he did not receive a higher education. Later, his grandson Nikita served in the navy as a simple sailor, and voluntarily.
Returning to Russia in 1898, Peter entered the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where he studied with V. E. Savinsky, V. I. Tvorozhnikov and G. R. Zaleman, and then moved to the battle painting workshop of P. O Kovalevsky.
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People's Artist of the RSFSR Pyotr Konchalovsky
In 1901, in the Kremlin, near the Tsar Bell, he proposed to Olga Surikova, the daughter of the famous painter.
“Two young people swore a strange oath to each other: never turn their future life into an “ordinary married life,” never complain or lament, no matter what happens, never reproach each other for anything—nothing should interfere with creative life, no everyday conventions. True, deep, selfless love should not turn into a habit, and comradely support, loyalty and understanding of each other should last throughout life.
They vowed never to be separated from the children they would certainly have, and wherever their working life took them, to take their children with them, sharing with them everything that they themselves would learn and receive from life,” writes N. Konchalovskaya .
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The future father-in-law did not approve of his daughter's choice. “He told me: “Well, where will she go with you? You have neither a stake nor a yard! Which husband are you? And in general, being the wife of an artist is an unenviable lot,” and I answered him: “But you, Vasily Ivanovich, raised her for your artist husband.” He looked at me so angrily, fell silent and just waved his hand,” Pyotr Petrovich himself told his parents.
After 55 years, Olga Vasilievna wrote:
“...All this took three weeks at Maslenitsa 1902. We got married in the Khamovnichesky Church (it still stands in the same place, decorated with bouquets), and I always asked Pyotr Petrovich to paint this colorful church. I arrived at the wedding in a white veil, Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov’s little son, Yura, came with me with an image, and in the church the best man carried my huge train behind me. The best men were Maxim Petrovich Konchalovsky, the artist Miliotti and David Ivanovich Ilovaisky. Immediately I saw Vrubel, he was very strange even then, apparently he was beginning to develop an illness that led him to a mental hospital. After the wedding, we all went to our place in Leontyevsky Lane. Then we were escorted to the station, and we left for St. Petersburg.”
Could Pyotr Petrovich then imagine that in 1936 he himself would find himself in Surikov’s position! Only now the young poet Comrade Mikhalkov, the author of “Uncle Styopa,” proposed to Natalia Petrovna Konchalovskaya not in the Kremlin (it was already closed to the public at that time), but by long-distance telephone from Kharkov, where the Soviet artist Peter once grew up in Shteifon’s house Konchalovsky and where the real anti-killer Count Loris-Melikov exiled the father of the family.
But before that, the painter Konchalovsky will become the father of two children.
“My parents never broke the oath taken under the Tsar Bell - they dragged us with them everywhere. My brother Misha and I were surprisingly comfortable children, like folding penknives - no whims or demands, no matter where we slept, no matter what we ate, no matter how we traveled. Olga Vasilievna, who herself was accustomed to living on wheels from infancy, taught us to such a life,” recalled Natalia Petrovna.
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In 1911, Pyotr Konchalovsky became the founder of the avant-garde association “Jack of Diamonds,” created with the goal of “spreading modern concepts on issues of fine arts.” This name came from two associations. Aces of diamonds in Russia were used to call convicts for the black diamond on their back, and in France they called jacks for roguish lackeys. The core of the association was R. Falk, A. Lentulov, I. Mashkov, A. Kuprin, P. Konchalovsky, its members were N. Goncharova, M. Larionov, V. and D. Burlyuk, N. Kulbin, K. Malevich and others subsequently famous artists.
In 1914, Konchalovsky was mobilized as an artillery officer. At the front he comes under fire, is shell-shocked and is evacuated to the rear for treatment. Spends two months in a hospital in Nara. Continuing to serve until his demobilization in April 1917, he did not fight again. And then he becomes a realist; until the end of his life, fifteen of his personal exhibitions are organized. During the Great Patriotic War he did not leave Moscow.
On February 2, 1956, Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky died. I don’t think there is any need to introduce his numerous offspring.
Second marriage
Who is Nikita Mikhalkov's second wife? After the divorce, the actor did not marry for 6 years. He still had a lot of fans, but he was in no hurry to go to the registry office. He met his future wife Tatyana when he was a famous actor and began his directorial career.
Tanya Solovyova worked as a fashion model. But she was an incredibly modest girl. The meeting with Mikhalkov took place at the House of Cinema. They were introduced to each other at the premiere of the film “Telegram” by Andron’s wife Vivienne.
Tatyana Solovyova in her youth
The very next day Nikita invited the girl to a restaurant. The couple started dating. Their relationship developed rapidly. The actor soon realized that in front of him was a woman with whom he would like to have children. He proposed to Tatyana just a few months after they met.
However, Mikhalkov was soon drafted into the army. He did not go to Kamchatka to serve. After returning, the young man went to see the girl, but it turned out that she and her family had moved to another place. Having made an effort, Mikhalkov finally found his beloved. The couple got married in 1973 in Grozny, where at that moment Nikita was filming his first film.
– Sergey, if it’s not a secret, how is your marriage going, which you told me about at one time, almost the first?
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(Smiles.)
This marriage has been gone for a long time... For us, artists, all this is so fickle in life. Monogamous people are practically never found.
From our conversation seven years ago:
- Who is she? Did I hear you are English?
– No, Lena is Russian, it’s just that her parents live in London. Why did I choose her as my wife?.. Lenochka attracted me first of all because she perceives me as I am. With all my shortcomings and advantages. It's the most important. I feel at ease and comfortable with her. Therefore, even with her I feel like a free person!
– So, are you tired of your bachelor life?
– (Laughing.)
You know, in principle, this is exactly how my life continues. Lena wanders back and forth all the time. I’m also on tour all the time... But the most important thing is that we understand each other and miss each other terribly when we’re apart.
- What does she do?
– She is your colleague, a journalist.
-...So we parted ways. But they remained, however, friends.
- That is, you now live alone in your country house...
- No, I don’t live outside the city yet, I just go there, and I still can’t get used to it - I’m bored there... The house is very big. So more and more visiting, with companies. Although, you know, even if there are twenty people there, they will still not be visible, in this house! It will seem like no one is there. Well, one and a half thousand square meters - what do you want?!
- Why do you need such a big one?
– I wanted there to be a swimming pool, a concert hall for a hundred people, a dance hall, a large living room... I always have good music playing there... (Laughing.)
In general, all this looks like some kind of five-star hotel! "Penkin Plaza!"
– Don’t you forget your sisters?
“They come to see me every week.” They monitor everyday life, how people work there...
- Do you have a whole staff there?
- What about it? Security, maids... Well, and everything else. As it should be.
- And your security...
- No, not for pathos. Necessity. But only for the sake of the house. She doesn’t go anywhere with me, she’s always just there... (Smiling.)
Why are you looking at me like that?
– Did the scar on your forehead appear before the guards?
- Oh, I hate to even talk about this...
– Hit or hit?
-...They flew into the apartment. Hooliganism. Immediately in the face... And then I already had a VCR, and a cool color TV, the ultimate dream... The 90s, they were dashing years.
The only dream left is to sing with Elton John
– What else was so interesting in your life during the time we didn’t see each other?
– In general, I accomplished a lot... I worked with the Silantiev Symphony Orchestra, we traveled together throughout Russia and Ukraine. I flew on an airplane. Himself, at the helm. Well, on such a small one, you know?.. I really like to fly at the level of... well, let's say, the forest - right? - at an altitude of one hundred, two hundred meters... Starred in a movie. Then what else?.. I sang with many famous foreigners... Everything goes on as usual. (Pause.)
Perhaps my only dream left is to sing in a duet with Elton John. Or rather, even so – to make a truly high-quality, cool project with it!
– Did you go to his recent concert?
- Walked.
– What about Madonna?
- Same. And it was on George Michael.
- So how is it?
– I didn’t like Madonna. As a show - well, yes, maybe it’s interesting, but so... Elton John was very cool! (Laughing.)
It so happened - I advertised for myself there. People constantly recognized me, came up for autographs, took pictures, right during the concert!
Biography of Tatyana Solovyova
The girl worked as a fashion model at the House of Models on Kuznetsky Most for more than 5 years. Mikhalkov did not like the profession of his chosen one. Therefore, he introduced Tatyana to his friends as a teacher. After the wedding, he insisted that his wife leave her profession.
It is worth saying that Solovyova never dreamed of walking on the catwalk. She graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages. The girl tried for a long time to get a job as an English teacher. But chance changed her fate. After another refusal, Tatyana read an advertisement for a set of models. The girl went straight to the Model House, where she was immediately hired.
At first, she felt awkward on the catwalk, because she didn’t know how to walk gracefully or do makeup. Its parameters did not really correspond to the standards of the models. All the girls were taller than Tatiana. And her height was only 172 cm. But she quickly got used to the podium. Over time, Tatyana became Zaitsev's favorite model. She was invited to work for an Italian agency and for Silhouette magazine in Estonia.
Models at that time were not famous, they were not paid high fees. Besides, they were always being watched. The girls' reputation had to be impeccable.
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Fraternal relations
Very little is known about the fate of Sergei Mikhalkov’s brothers; much of the information is still classified. After the release of the memoirs “Two Brothers - Two Fates”, many learned that the poet had two more brothers. The book contains very scant information about Alexander and Mikhail Mikhalkov.
Alexander Mikhalkov is known as an engineer who was involved in local history. He was clearly interested in his ancestors and noble origins. In 1996, he managed to publish the work “Essays on the history of the Moscow merchants, whose enterprises served Moscow after the revolution.” It was this work that made him famous.
From the memoirs of Moskovskaya Pravda employees it is known that Alexander Vladimirovich Mikhalkov appeared at the newspaper’s editorial office without calling and did not like to talk about his famous brother. The circulation of his work is only 1,500 copies; it is now on the lists of recommended literature for studying the history of Russian entrepreneurship.
The younger brother Mikhail also distinguished himself in the literary field and wrote an autobiographical story “In the Labyrinth of Mortal Risk,” where he told his own story of struggle.
Family life
In 1974, Tatyana had a daughter. For several more years she worked as a fashion model, although Mikhalkov really did not like it. His career was put on hold after the birth of his second child. The husband gave Tatiana an ultimatum: either family or work. Of course, the woman chose her husband and children.
The personal life of Nikita and Tatyana was not always simple and smooth. Conflicts often arose in the family. But the wise woman learned to smooth out rough edges and not contradict her husband. You can see what Tatyana looks like now in photos and videos on the Internet. The children have long grown up and found their calling. However, after many years, Tatyana still managed to return to the world of fashion.
In the nineties, Tatyana created the Russian Silhouette Foundation. The main activity of the organization is to support young designers and create a national style. What is Nikita Mikhalkov’s wife doing now? As part of the front program, she organizes shows for emerging talents. Every year, young fashion designers receive awards and support for further development. Thanks to the competition, many new names were discovered.
Photos of Mikhalkov’s wife and children can be seen on Instagram and social networks. The director's daughters act in films and play in the theater, and the son tries his hand at directing. Tatyana actively travels around the world, she has created several interesting projects about fashion on television.
Creativity and life
Despite his noble blood, Mikhalkov accepted the state system and perceived the collapse of the USSR as a great tragedy. Until the end of his life he asked to be called a “Soviet man” and was glad that his peers did not live to see the collapse of Soviet power.
In the lifetime of Sergei Mikhalkov, twelve rulers and four regimes have changed. The Stalinist government loved Mikhalkov, but he, as an apolitical person, simply appreciated the opportunity to work.
Mikhalkov is known as a children's poet, but he wrote not only for children. The script of the famous film “3+2” was written by him. Many children's fairy tales have been based on his works. Until the end of his days, he remained the editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine “Fitil”. Sergei Vladimirovich worked until the end of his life, because creativity was the meaning of life for the poet.
Sergei Mikhalkov is not just the author of hymns and children's poems, on which more than one generation of Soviet children grew up, he is the father of famous actors and directors Nikita and Andrey. Their films have received more than one award.
1987–2005
In 1988, Nikita Sergeevich plays tennis - quite an aristocratic sport. You can easily spot the Lacoste crocodile on the wool vest, and the three adidas stripes on the socks. And a couple of years later, the director sported the treasured sweatpants that defined the aesthetics of an entire decade. But closer to the 2000s, Nikita Mikhalkov abandoned experiments, switching to conservative suits, wool vests and leather jackets with suit trousers and sneakers (we especially do not recommend repeating the latter).
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Nikita Mikhalkov will play the Chairman in the theatrical version of the film “The Twelve”
Viewers will see the stage version of the famous film “The Twelve” with Mikhalkov in the title role
Photo: still from the film
Million dollar news. The Theater and Cinema Center (formerly the Film Actor Theater) opens a new season. Moreover, it is a special season. The head of the Center, Nikita Mikhalkov, announced a high-profile premiere: the audience will be presented with a stage version of the famous film “The Twelve,” nominated for an Oscar in 2008! The plot of the film centers on a discussion by twelve jurors of a criminal case about the murder of his adoptive father by a Chechen youth.
“Together with the Presnyakov brothers, we wrote a play based on the film of the same name, which, in my opinion, is very modern, with a lot of know-how, which for me personally can be extremely interesting from the point of view of directing and acting,” said Nikita Mikhalkov.
The director noted that, alas, it would not be possible to gather all the actors: “There are no others, and those are far away.” Actor Alexei Petrenko, who played the metro builder, passed away; Valentin Gaft, who brilliantly played the role of a Jewish intellectual whose father went through the camps, is seriously ill. Under investigation is Mikhail Efremov, the eighth assessor, an artist who was late for the tour...
It is not yet clear whether we will see the rest of our movie stars on stage: Sergei Garmash, Sergei Makovetsky, Yuri Stoyanov. But it is absolutely certain that Nikita Sergeevich himself will play the same role as in the film: the chairman of the jury, a military veteran.
Before the pandemic, an agreement was signed between the Center and the owner of the group, Andrei Simanovsky, to create a fund to support the Theater and Cinema Center, so all season premieres will be released with the participation of this fund.
The head of the Center spoke about this in a video message.
The viewer has already become accustomed to the fact that every year actor-graduates of the Nikita Mikhalkov Academy present the play “Metamorphoses” based on the stories of Bunin and Chekhov. Last academic year, the course had to be taught online and, due to the pandemic, the actors were unable to play “for the audience,” however, Nikita Sergeevich promised that the screenings of the graduation play “Metamorphoses VI” would be postponed to the fall of 2020.
“I hope that the pandemic will not hit us a second time; of course, we will follow all the rules,” Mikhalkov emphasized.
The season opens on October 11. Tickets (with social distancing) are already on sale on the Center's website. Shows during the renovation of the main building are held at the GITIS Educational and Theater Complex at the address: st. Academician Pilyugina, 2.
