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Full name: Georgy Ivanovich Burkov

Date of birth:
May 31, 1933
Zodiac sign:
Gemini
Age:
57 years
Place of birth:
Perm
Date of death:
July 19, 1990
Activities:
Theater and film actor
Education:
Perm State University
Marital status:
Married
Spouse:
Tatyana Sergeevna Ukharova
Children:
Maria Georgievna Burkova
Parents:
Ivan Grigorievich Burkov, Maria Sergeevna Gogoleva

Georgy Burkov - biography

In his youth, a gypsy told Georgy Burkov that his life would be short.
They say she even announced the date of her departure. Maybe that’s why in recent years Georgy Ivanovich lived with the feeling that death would soon knock on his door. Georgy Burkov was one of those whom his friend Vasily Shukshin called “weirdos.” He did not intend to become an actor, and even having become one, he was sure that he would not stay in this profession for long. And for this reason, I did not even imagine that in 1980 the actor would be awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Georgy Burkov's paintings brought real national fame and popularity: “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”, “They Fought for the Motherland,” “Old Robbers,” “Cruel Romance” and many others.

Around Georgy Burkov, during his lifetime, and even more so after his departure, there were some ridiculous rumors, stories, and a strange biography. Perhaps Burkov himself, with his endless stories, in which he “humorously” transformed what was happening to him, fueled these rumors.

In fact, Burkov was always looking for his place in life and literally tormented himself with these searches since childhood, as evidenced by his biography and his personal diary. For example, he called his youthful diary “The Tale of How I Was Born, Lived and Died, So and without guessing why.” Most of all I was afraid of living my life meaninglessly. The “meaning of life” has, of course, changed over the years, but on one level – creative.

Before deciding to become an actor, Georgy Burkov was preparing himself to be a writer. With childish persistence, Zhora accumulated impressions and wrote them down in his diary, not suspecting that they would be useful to him on stage. “All accumulations, all experience are laid in childhood,” he later wrote. - because you live for a long time with the same people in the same city. And people change during this period.

The gypsy predicted death: Georgy Burkov knew that he would leave this world early

Today, May 31, the famous Soviet actor Georgy Burkov could celebrate his 88th birthday. However, the artist died in an accident. Burkov died on July 19, 1990.

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Actor Georgy Burkov often starred with Eldar Ryazanov, and in episodic roles. He also played comical roles of rowdies and bandits, as well as no less interesting roles of military men. At the same time, the artist showed alcoholics on screen so well that many viewers even thought that Georgy abused alcohol in life. However, although Burkov could sometimes drink, he was not an avid alcoholic. His wife, actress Tatyana Ukharova, always said that her chosen one was an excellent husband and father.

The widow of Georgy Burkov spoke about the tragic death of the actor

The star of the film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!” died at the age of 58. More than 27 years have passed since the death of the famous actor, but fans still remember the artist for his work in films.

In 1990, Ryazanov offered Burkov one of the main roles in the film “Promised Heaven.” On the same day, Georgy fell unsuccessfully at home and broke his leg. He was alone in the apartment, reached for a book and stood on a coffee table on wheels, from which he eventually fell and hit his hip on an antique brass knob in the shape of a lion. The artist suffered a splinter fracture. All that day his wife Tatyana was alone at the dacha and felt strange. She wanted to return home, and when she found out that her husband had been offered a role in the film, she did not experience joy, she only wanted to leave the dacha even faster, but it was already evening. At that very moment, Burkov fell at home. Due to the fracture, the artist lost a blood clot that blocked the pulmonary artery.

Georgy Burkov died on July 19, 1990 at the age of 57 due to thromboembolism. He knew that he would leave this world early, since even in his youth a gypsy woman told him that he would live to a maximum of 55 years. George was a very sensitive and impressionable person, and after he turned 55, the artist’s health deteriorated sharply and problems with blood vessels began. Sometimes it was difficult for him to move, and that unfortunate fracture became fatal.

His wife Tatyana took the actor’s death seriously and continued to live with difficulty. She never married again, but also worked in the theater. The widow is convinced that her husband is still with her and in difficult moments of her life helps and guides her. Tatyana and Georgy loved and supported each other very much in the most difficult moments of their lives. The couple did not immediately succeed in becoming parents. The actress suffered two miscarriages, but then still gave birth to a daughter, Masha.

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Georgy Burkov loss

Childhood, family

Georgy Burkov was born in the city on the Kama on May 31, 1933 in a family where kind relations with each other were commonplace. Father, Ivan Grigorievich, worked at Motovilikha, an old factory district of Perm. He started as a worker and rose to become the chief mechanic of the plant. His high position did not change his character - soft, benevolent. There is nothing to say about mother Maria Sergeevna. She always remained her son’s best friend and closest person. “All my life I hid the fact that I was a “mama’s boy.”

In 1939, the happy Burkov family sailed on the ship “Vyach.
Molotov" to Astrakhan and back. The swim was fabulous. But the journey turned into a disaster that almost became a tragedy. Zhora fell ill with typhoid fever. He barely made it to the hospital. “It was located in an old merchant mansion. The mother spent the day and night near the hospital. Zhora developed blood poisoning, they started cutting and operating without anesthesia, fearing for her heart or something. We performed six operations. We were preparing for the seventh... Zhora was already in the ward for the most hopeless patients. The mother managed to get into this death ward by cunning - she bribed the nurse - and she herself took her son to the operating table. And then I heard the surgeon’s words: “Wow, he’s alive! When will he die? Then the mother grabbed her son and rushed out of the hospital. “She gave birth to her son with herbs and love...

Then the war came. In the rear city there is cold, dim reddish glow of lamps in short hours when the electricity is not turned off, hunger and a lot of people. All residential areas are “densified” to accommodate evacuees. The trams are crowded. You have to walk to work and leave the house in the dark. For being late for work - trial and imprisonment.

Father Ivan Grigorievich worked at the plant throughout the war. Dressed and fed teenagers. who, hungry, cold, worked equally with adults for 16-18 hours, he felt very sorry for them, he was a naturally kind person. Therefore, when Burkov’s father was nominated as a people’s assessor, people with their troubles did not go to someone higher and more influential. and to him.

He is in any offender. maybe even a criminal, he saw his yesterday’s neighbor, an acquaintance who was simply unlucky - he stumbled. This person should not be punished, but should be helped... For Zhora this was not only a lesson in kindness. In the future, this attitude towards people will become the key to his profession: no matter who you play, you are not a prosecutor for your character.

There was happiness in that wartime. The Leningrad drama, opera, and ballet theaters were evacuated to Molotov, as Perm was then renamed. Zhora Burkov managed to get into the theater for free every evening through his friends. But the stage, although he participated in school amateur performances, attracted him in a completely different way than books.

Burkov studied at school with laziness, at the graduation party he was awarded a certificate as one of the last, along with the poor students. But he read more than anyone in the class. And, having set myself the task of “mastering the word,” I analyzed each book literally with a pencil in my hand - how it was “made.” He was also interested in sports.

Zhora was an excellent volleyball player, and it was as a promising athlete that he was admitted to Perm University. Normal for those times. Each university wanted to be famous for its record holders. Georgy played for the law faculty team. Should have become a lawyer. Although everyone at the faculty knew that he was a future writer. And a bit of an actor, because he plays in the youth studio at the Perm Theater.

After two years of studying in the studio, Burkov made a discovery: “When I tell something,” he wrote in his diary, “it turns out much more interesting, more expressive than if I wrote it. And why do I have to become a writer? More precisely, why only as a writer, because the idea of writing a series of novels, for which he came up with the name “Chronicle” as a child, never left him.

Burkov dropped out of the law faculty - he was sure that in Moscow, at theater schools, they were waiting for him. On the first attempt, it turned out that they didn’t wait. Yes, and the second one too. In fact, everything was against Burkov’s artistic future - not his heroic appearance, his unintelligible speech instead of competently articulated speech, his stooped posture, his clubfoot... The assault on theater schools failed. However, the refusals of the admissions committees did not bother Burkov.

Returning to Perm, Georgy Burkov began going to the city library as if for work - reading everything he could find about acting and directing. He even liked this life. Only he was very afraid of the police - then you could get a prison term for parasitism. Later in his diary he wrote: “I deceived the State. I gained time and educated myself... That’s how I became an actor. Without a father who understood me, believed me and, if you like, supported me at his own peril (the son is a parasite) and at risk (I could fall apart), I would not have achieved anything..."

Burkov finally got a job. He was invited to Berezniki; the local theater needed a “hero-lover”. None of the real actors wanted to go to this small mining town. Georgy instantly became a star there, so he came to Kemerovo, where the youth troupe was being created, with the intention of nothing less than to create a new theater: “The strength, the confidence, the limitlessness of one’s own capabilities is breathtaking... I am ready and responsible for the genius of the performance... - He wrote in his diary. He failed to create a theater, but he was allowed to do some experiments on stage.

Childhood and youth

Burkov was born on May 31, 1933 in Perm. The parents of the future artist were simple workers. His father had a kind and gentle character. Thus, Burkov Sr. worked in the factory area, first as an ordinary worker, and later was promoted to chief mechanic. Burkov's mother was involved in raising her beloved heir.

Georgy Burkov in childhood

The future actor almost died in his childhood. So, at the age of six, Burkov traveled with his parents on a ship along the Volga and later fell ill. Doctors diagnosed the boy with typhoid fever. Then the doctors decided to urgently perform surgical intervention, but the operation was unsuccessful. The specialists did everything possible, but his condition still worsened. The little patient underwent six operations, but then doctors said that the baby was simply impossible to save. At the same time, the parent decided to take her son from the medical institution in order to continue treatment on her own. The disease subsided after the mother began giving the baby all kinds of medicinal herbs.

The future artist loved to attend theater performances and read books. After completing his studies at a general education institution, Burkov became a student at Perm State University. There he began studying at the Faculty of Law. At the same time, his love for acting was so strong that he began studying in the studio of the Perm Drama Theater in parallel with receiving higher education. The guy was denied admission to theater universities four times. This was due to the fact that he had a peculiar speech defect - unintelligibility of pronunciation.

After several years of active studies in the studio, Burkov realized that he would like to connect his own life with the stage. He decides to drop out of law school and begins looking for work in the theater. Soon he managed to find such a cultural institution - a provincial theater in the small village of Berezniki.

Georgy Burkov - theater and film actor

During one of the theatrical performances, a critic from Moscow was in the hall. He was amazed by the artist’s performance, so he advised the chief director of the Stanislavsky Theater to take a closer look at the talented guy. Later, Burkov received an invitation to Moscow, where he was enrolled in the troupe of the institution.

Theater

There, in Kemerovo, a famous Moscow theater journalist saw George, and upon returning to Moscow, she told her friend, the chief director of the Stanislavsky Theater Boris Lvov-Anokhin, about the original actor.
He showed interest and invited Burkov to come to audition in Minsk, where the Moscow theater was touring at that time. Burkov has arrived. In the diary entry: “I, as always, begin to give up. Nothing worked out with Moscow. Lvov-Anokhin is silent...” But the artistic director of the Stanislavsky Theater did not forget about the original actor. He invited me to Moscow to the artistic council of the theatre. After Burkov played Poprishchin from Gogol’s Notes of a Madman, he was asked:

— What is your education?

- None. Isn't this obvious from the game?

They took it as humor. Also appreciated. And the 32-year-old artist was accepted into the capital’s theater, accommodated in a dormitory, and given a role in the upcoming production. And the day of the premiere arrived. After the artistic council of the theater approved Zhora, the question arose: what bet? The seats were all occupied, but the theater could not accept anyone under the contract. And then Lvov-Anokhin said: “Okay, for now I’ll pay you myself, from my own…”

And he paid out of his own pocket until Georgy was hired.

Personal life

In February 1965, a thin, stooped, strange man in glasses, a red sweater with white specks (fly agaric) and cloth trousers stood at the notice board - this is how Tatyana Sergeevna describes her first meeting with Georgy.
-He didn’t look like an artist at all. I was preparing to see such a “burring monster from the provinces,” but I saw an intellectual who looked like a librarian. “I am Burkov. We’re going to rehearsal together tomorrow.” He looked at me and smiled slyly. Later we played together. Zhora is the Fox, I am the Prince. He went to walk me to the bus. But I didn’t leave, we didn’t part until late in the evening, we talked about “The Little Prince”... There was no love at first sight. But for some reason my heart began to pound, maternal tenderness arose, and this feeling did not leave until the end, until the last minutes in the hospital ... "

From then on our personal life began, they never parted again. And soon they got married. Georgy was then renting a room in a dilapidated hostel on Baumanskaya. Tatyana’s housing situation was no better, and her parents were against moving in a new tenant. At the theater, Burkov worked on one-off appearances, received 1 ruble 50 kopecks per performance, and only played a soldier in “The Devil’s Disciple.”

When there were no nickels for the metro, we walked. In the evening we ate soup “from a bag”. The married couple was “asked” from the hostel that was provided to Zhora. “I was already pregnant,” recalls Tatyana. — Traveling to friends began. I used a prop mattress from a crib from “The Witches of Salem,” and we went with it...

The turning point in the actor’s fate was the role of Ryaby from Maya Ganina’s play “Anna”. Burkov was noticed by critics, noted his comic talent, and admired, but Lvov-Anokhin believed that Burkov’s capabilities were not limited to this.

Unfortunately, the director was soon forced to leave the theater. With his departure at the end of the 60s, the troupe began to shake, there was a leapfrog of the “main ones”, performances were brought down to the theater from above.” “I remember how not the latest artists sat in the orchestra pit, pretending to be extras, among them was Georgy. And by this time he had already become very popular, and this could not be called anything other than humiliation.”

Movies

After his success in the role of Ryaboy, filmmakers paid attention to Burkov. He starred in a couple of films, but people began to recognize him on the street only in 1969, after Ryazanov’s film “Zigzag of Fortune,” where Burkov played a prominent role as a drunken retoucher. And he himself became something of a signature seasoning for the director’s subsequent films. I remember at one of Georgy Burkov’s creative evenings, which was hosted by Ryazanov, the director admitted: “Georgy is my talisman. Whenever possible, I always try to invite him to the film. He is capable of playing deliberate nonsense, and the audience will believe him...”

Burkov played easily. It was as if his characters stepped onto the screen straight from the street—simple, understandable, like their own. The viewer perceived this lightness and ease with gratitude. The simple expressions of his heroes - drunkards, klutzes, but not despondent people - became attached to the audience and became figures of popular speech. “I never get drunk”, “Nonsense! - bandit bullet”, “I sold my homeland for the sake of a car”...

Burkov was convinced that acting was temporary. Ahead, if not literature, then at least directing. Moreover, in Sovremennik, where he went after the Stanislavsky Theater, there were no worthy roles for him. “I’m afraid that I will be squeezed into their usual type and I will become an ordinary comedian.” Cinema helped.

Since the early seventies, Georgy Burkov has starred in several films a year. And the films were notable - “Old Robbers”, and “Yegor Bulychev and Others”, and Shukshin’s “Stoves and Benches”, and the roles, although almost episodic, were memorable. “Life became better,” recalled Tatyana Ukharova, “there were many offers for filming. Zhora felt euphoric. And then came the most terrible period in our lives. He could not stand the recognition and popularity that fell upon him. Now I think how I could bear all this.”

What helped, apparently, was Tatiana’s “motherly” pity for her husband, her little daughter Masha, in whom they both doted, and, not least, Georgy’s good nature.
“Once I was waiting for him from the shooting of Sergei Solovyov’s film Family Happiness,” where he worked with wonderful actors Anatoly Papanov and Katya Vasilyeva. It was the first day of shooting, he was supposed to come during the day, but showed up after 12 o'clock at night. I was already red-hot, strangling monologues. But when she opened the door, she froze. Burkov stood in a white suit, with a cane and a boater. Leaning on the door and throwing his head back, he said: “Well, what did I say, I’m all in white, and you’re in the city..!” How angry it was with him! His drinking habits were legendary. Burkov wrote about these inventions in his diary: “It’s already been a month since I’m being treated for chronic alcoholism...”

“He never received treatment,” Tatyana Sergeevna said. - Yes, I drank. But no time for binge drinking, that never happened. And he was a very homely person. If there is no performance or filming, at home at the table: writing, reading. After all, Georgy had re-read all these books. Tatyana made a sweeping gesture around the room filled with shelves of books. — He read a lot of books about the theater. Back then, in Perm, when I was “parasitizing.” He was a very educated man, perhaps the most well-read in the theater..."

“Georgy Burkov has the ideal face for the role of a drunken intellectual,” said Eldar Ryazanov
in 1977 at the Theater.
Stanislavsky's artistic director was Andrei Alekseevich Popov, one of the best directors of his time, known also for his attentive and sensitive attitude towards actors. He brought with him talented young directors - Anatoly Vasilyev, Boris Morozov and Joseph Raikhelgauz. And Georgy Burkov returned to the theater, which he considered his home. Vasiliev directed “The First Version of Vassa Zheleznova,” in which he assigned the role of Prokhor to Burkov. The retrogrades received the production with hostility, the rest of the audience - with delight. In 1980, Burkov moved to the Moscow Art Theater to Efremov. but suddenly he left there for no apparent reason. “Efremov saw in him a good artist with extraordinary organics, but did not see a deep and extraordinary personality.” — this is how Tatyana Ukharova explains this step. Next - two years at the Pushkin Theater. Both there and there, Burkov had significant works - General Panfilov in A. Beck’s “Volokolamsk Highway” at the Moscow Art Theater and excellent work in the play “Ivan and Madonna at the Pushkin Theater.

But these successes did not please him. Although Burkov was barely over fifty, he suddenly decided: “This is old age. That’s how I’m built, that I experience all the negativity with myself at best, and at worst when my loved ones and family are with me...” However, his heart actually began to hurt more and more often. And several heart attacks have already left marks on him.

Departure

However, it only seemed that he was no longer interested in new roles.
He just strictly decided for himself that he no longer has the right to trade for passing roles. “I have the right to play only roles that are large-scale and suitable for discovery,” he wrote in his diary. The last role that Ryazanov offered to Georgy Burkov was just that, large-scale. Main role in "Promised Heaven". The script was brought to him in July 1990, already in the hospital, where he ended up due to absurdity, if we consider accidents leading to death to be absurd. In his office - the Burkovs, as a result of the exchanges, finally moved to a decent apartment on Frunzenskaya Embankment - Georgy reached for a book on the top, far shelf. Fell, hip fracture. Things were getting better in the hospital, but a detached blood clot, wandering around in the body for a long time, blocked the pulmonary artery. For this reason, the actor’s death occurred.

WHAT A COINCIDENCE!

In those very minutes when an insidious blood clot blocked the actor’s artery, the wall of Georgy Ivanovich’s country house suddenly collapsed.
He built this house with love and dreamed of moving into it permanently. The bricks scattered several meters away, as if they had been hit by a shell. On July 19, 1990, Georgy Burkov passed away. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.

After the funeral, an entry was found in the diaries: a program of action for the future, until 2001.
There were many plans, including finally making a book, the materials for which he had been collecting in his diary all his life. The last lines that Burkov wrote in his diary already in the hospital were: “Our life is not at all the one for which we were born. And sometimes only when, by chance, we gather together in large numbers and begin to sing, joy arises in our souls from the anticipation of the great purpose of Human life...”

The life of Georgy Burkov's only daughter was destroyed by a marriage swindler

Maria was born in 1966 in Moscow into the family of actors Georgy Burkov and Tatyana Ukharova . Burkov’s mother, who moved to them from Perm after the death of her husband, helped the young parents raise the girl. George's career was rapidly going uphill, but despite his busy schedule, he always found time for his daughter. Her father was Masha’s best friend and role model all her life.

Georgy Burkov with his daughter Masha. Photo stuki-druki.com

Having received a certificate, the girl applied to all theater universities in the capital, but did not enter anywhere (like her famous dad once did). Burkov prepared his daughter for the next attempt, and in 1984 she passed the competition at the Moscow Art Theater School . After graduation, Masha did not go to theaters - she wanted to work at the Shukshin Cultural Center, which her father had recently headed. His unexpected death from thromboembolism was a huge shock for 24-year-old Masha and crossed out all her plans.

Maria Burkova. Photo kto-po-znaku.ru

In 1990, Maria was accepted into the Stanislavsky Drama Theater , where she served for more than 20 years. And then the management of the theater changed. The new artistic director Valery Belyakovich fired 15 actresses, including Burkova, and took 15 actors in their places. She failed to build a career in cinema - Maria starred in only a few films in minor roles.

“Beauty Salon” 1985

Her personal life was very unsuccessful. For the first time, Masha married the son of the famous actor Pyotr Velyaminov - Sergei . They knew each other since childhood (they lived next door), they studied at school together, only in different courses.

Sergey Velyaminov. Photo kino-teatr.ru

Masha’s father was against this marriage, because he believed that the young people had nothing in common, but he did not put pressure on his daughter. And he turned out to be right - a couple of years later she divorced Sergei without informing him that she was pregnant. At the request of his mother-in-law, the ex-husband met Maria from the maternity hospital, which is where his participation in the life of his son Zhora ended. The grandfather, in whose honor the boy was named, died two years before his birth. Mother and grandmother raised Zhora without any financial support from Sergei, although he, unlike them, was not in poverty - he went to commercial structures. By the way, Pyotr Velyaminov never expressed a desire to meet his grandson. Burkov Jr. saw him only on the screen.

Maria Burkova with her mother Tatyana Ukharova and son Zhora. Photo sobesednik.ru

And the second marriage, which was no longer at a young age, turned into a financial disaster for the actress. According to Tatyana Ukharova, her daughter fell into the web of a marriage swindler. met Alexei Preobrazhensky on the Internet. The beautiful, fast-paced romance ended with a trip to the registry office. Having fooled the woman in love, the cunning guy took out a loan from the bank to buy a Mercedes worth 60 thousand dollars. Alexey convinced his wife that he would pay off the loan himself, and her signature on the guarantee agreement was nothing more than a formality. Maria signed the documents without reading, and at the same time signed her verdict. Having received what he wanted, Preobrazhensky divorced her. Of course, he had no intention of repaying the debt by placing it on the naive Burkova. Since then, she has not trusted men and lives alone. In one of her last interviews, the actress said that to this day she cannot pay off the banks and is going to sell her second apartment.

Georgy Burkov Jr. Photo veasy.ru

At the moment, Maria does not work in the theater. She runs the Georgiy Burkov Center , which she created together with her mother. Burkov Jr. did not continue the acting dynasty. He does video editing, although at an amateur level for now.

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