Mikhail Kazakov

Biography of Mikhail Kazakov

Mikhail Kazakov is a Russian actor and entrepreneur. From 2002 to 2004, he starred in more than 20 episodes of the children's film magazine "Yeralash", playing Bochkin, Bufetov, Kryukov, Belkin and Stepanov. His role as Ilya Polezhaikin in the TV series “Daddy’s Daughters” brought him popularity.

In the photo: Mikhail Kazakov

He appeared in a criminal case of murder and was acquitted. In 2020, the press started talking about Kazakov in connection with his fall from the fifth floor of the building where Mikhail was filming views of the city. The actor miraculously survived, but received many fractures.

Star of "Jumble"

Misha Kazakov first appeared on screen in the children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash". He appeared and immediately won the hearts of many viewers. The good-natured, smiling fellow seemed to have been created for Yeralash. That’s why they filmed it year after year, the last time when he was 16 years old. In total, Mikhail took part in 21 stories, and in all respects he is a real record holder.

Misha was loved not only by numerous spectators, but also by the people around him. He grew up as a gentle, kind boy, although, as he himself admits, he was a goofball and a lover of hooliganism. Nevertheless, the teachers treated him well, because when necessary, Mikhail knew how to pull himself together and learn a verse during recess three seconds before class. True, then, having read it in class, he could just as easily have forgotten it forever.

Two murders

In January 2005, millions of people were shocked by the news: the hero of “Jumble” killed a man! Stabbed him with a knife. And who?! - the same Misha Kazakov! Immediately, details emerged from two years ago, when Misha’s father, a well-known businessman and producer of sparkling water under the “Kazakov” brand, was killed in Tver (also with a knife). The killer was then found, but the charges were later dropped - the case was reclassified as self-defense

And now Mikhail Kazakov himself is under investigation. By the way, he did not deny his guilt, immediately admitting that he was defending a girl he knew, Vika. During the investigation, it turned out that Vika asked Mikhail to go with her to a meeting with her boyfriend, 20-year-old Kirill Gurkin, with whom she had previously quarreled. “I loved Kirill,” she said later, “I just wanted him to be a little jealous of me.” Kirill came to the meeting tipsy. Inflamed, he rushed at Vika with a club, Mikhail, in defense, stabbed him three times with a knife...

At the trial, many came to Mikhail’s defense. And then the mother of the murdered guy went to court. She asked to terminate the criminal case against Mikhail Kazakov, writing a petition for “reconciliation of the parties.” As a result, the case was reclassified as “exceeding necessary self-defense” and closed.

Ilya Polezhaikin

The cinema could not ignore such a textured actor. At first, Mikhail starred in episodes in the films “Escape” and “Money Day,” and in 2007 he was invited to play the role of Ilya Polezhaikin in the series “Daddy’s Daughters.” In fact, the actor was already in his 20th year, and he had to play a tenth grader. But, looking at this huge guy with a wide, childish, white-toothed smile on his face, you can’t help but believe that he is really sixteen years old.

The hero of Mikhail Kazakov is one of those about whom they say: “If you have strength, you don’t need intelligence.” Such a cute goofball. His studies come with great difficulty, and his classmate Galina Vasnetsova (Liza Arzamasova), who is respectfully called Galina Sergeevna for her great knowledge, helps him. At the same time, the hero of Mikhail evokes great sympathy among the audience with his spontaneity and childish naivety. When meeting on the street, viewers often call the actor Ilya Polezhaikin and sincerely thank him for the series.

Translator, financier, actor?

Currently, Mikhail Kazakov is studying at the Moscow Academy of Finance and Law, upon completion of which he will receive two diplomas at once: a translator in information systems and a financier. He admits that he is very interested in this. But he also really likes acting in films. And who he will become - a financier or an actor, Mikhail has not yet decided himself. But I updated my database at Mosfilm. So, draw your conclusions...

Childhood, youth, family

Misha was born in the winter of 1988 into the family of Natalya and Sergei Kazakov from Kalinin (now Tver). His parents were already raising his older brother Stanislav. My father was a well-known entrepreneur in the city, producing sparkling water under the “Kazakov” brand.

Mikhail Kazakov in childhood

Together with their parents, the boys traveled to many European countries, and during the summer holidays they went to visit their grandparents in the village of Myalitsyno. There Misha became interested in plant growing, learned to ride a bicycle, and went swimming with the local boys.

In 2002, Misha’s father was killed - stabbed to death in a street fight. Whether these were accomplices of dishonest competitors, robbers or simply aggressive passers-by is unknown.

In the same year, Misha first appeared on the set of the popular children's film magazine "Yeralash". Due to his textured appearance, over the next 2 years he set a record among other children, starring in 21 stories in two years. Despite the fact that he was no longer suitable in age (the age limit for filming was 14 years), he was filmed because, despite his chubby cheeks, the teenager looked younger than his age.

Mikhail Kazakov in “Yeralash” Later, Kazakov starred in such well-known satirical and humorous projects as “Wick” and “6 Frames”. The actor admitted: However, Misha did not intend to become a professional actor, dreaming, like his father, of starting his own business.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov. Curriculum Vitae

After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, Mikhail Kozakov was accepted into the Mayakovsky Theater (1956-1959), where he played the role of Hamlet in a play staged by Nikolai Okhlopkov.

In 1959, he left the Mayakovsky Theater and moved to the Moscow Sovremennik Theater, where he worked for more than ten years (1959-1970), playing in the 1960s. several bright roles in performances staged by Oleg Efremov: Chamberlain in Schwartz’s fairy tale “The Naked King”, Cyrano de Bergerac in Rostand’s play of the same name, Kistochkin in Aksenov’s comedy “Always on Sale”, Nicholas I in the play “Decembrists”. Later, on the stage of Sovremennik, Kozakov played several more roles in Galina Volchek’s productions: Aduev Sr. in Goncharov’s Ordinary History; Jerry Ryan in Ibsen's Two on a Seesaw; Actor in Gorky's play "At the Lower Depths" and others.

In 1970, Mikhail Kozakov left the Sovremennik Theater, and a year after him, its founder, Oleg Efremov, also left the theater.

In 1971, Mikhail Kozakov, following Efremov, came to the Moscow Art Theater, where he played the roles of Lord Goring in the play “An Ideal Husband” by Oscar Wilde, Gusev in the play “Valentin and Valentina” by Mikhail Roshchin, directed by Oleg Efremov. At the Moscow Art Theater, Kozakov worked on a production of Leonid Zorin’s play “The Copper Grandmother,” but the play was closed, and in 1972 Kozakov went to the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where he worked until 1986.

The actor’s notable works in this theater were his roles in the plays directed by Anatoly Efros “Don Juan” by Moliere (Don Juan), “The Marriage” by Gogol (Kochkarev), “A Month in the Country” by Turgenev (Rakitin). In this theater, Kozakov staged two performances: Leonid Zorin’s comedy “Pokrovsky Gate” and Eugene O’Neill’s play “The Soul of a Poet.”

In 1986, Kozakov left the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya for the Lenin Komsomol Theater, where he played the role of Polonius in Gleb Panfilov’s play “Hamlet”; later, in the late 1990s, in the same play he played the Shadow of the Father, but in directed by German director Peter Stein.

After a successful film debut, in the late 1950s. Mikhail Kozakov starred in several films: in Grigory Roshal’s film “The Eighteenth Year” (1958, the second film in the film trilogy based on Tolstoy’s novel “Walking in Torment”), Alexander Stolper’s melodrama “Difficult Happiness” (1958), in Ilya Gurin’s film “Golden Echelon” (1959), etc. But the actor’s real popularity came in 1961, when the film by Gennady Kazansky and Vladimir Chebotarev based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Belyaev “Amphibian Man” was released on the country’s screens. However, in subsequent years, Mikhail Kozakov acted little. The most striking work during this period was his role in Naum Trakhtenberg’s drama “The Shot” (1966), based on Pushkin’s story of the same name from the “Belkin’s Tale” cycle.

In the 1970s the actor played his best and most famous film roles: “Goya, or the Hard Path of Knowledge” (1971), “The Grandmaster” (1972), “Lev Gurych Sinichkin” (1974), “Straw Hat” (1974), “Hello, I’m your aunt!” (1975), “Ivan and Marya” (1975), “Yaroslav Dombrovsky” (1975), “Comedy of Errors” (1978), “Handsome Man” (1978), etc.

In 1975, Mikhail Kozakov staged the television play “Night of Errors” based on Goldsmith’s play, and in 1978 he made his debut as a film director, directing on television the two-part film “The Nameless Star,” based on the play by Mikhail Sebastian. Later he directed the films "Pokrovsky Gate" (1982), "If you believe Lopotukhin..." (1983), "Masquerade" (1984), "Faust" (1985), "The Lady's Visit" (1989), "Shadow, or Maybe , everything will work out" (1991), "Dinner for Four Hands" (1999), "Joker" (based on the work of Sukhovo-Kobylin "Krechinsky's Wedding") (2002), "Copper Grandmother" (2004).

In the 1980s with the participation of Kozakov the films “December 20th” (1980), “And with you again I ...” (1981), “Syndicate-2” (1981), “Comrade Innocent” (1981), “Sixth” (1981) were released , “The Demidovs” (1983), “Cucaracha” (1983), “Unicum” (1983), “The Hero of Her Novel” (1984), “An Incredible Bet, or a True Incident That Ended Well” (1984), “Warrior” ( 1986), “Keep Me, My Talisman” (1986), “Mr. Decorator” (1988), etc.

He wrote scripts for the films: “A Lady’s Visit” (1989), “The Shadow, or Maybe Everything Will Work Out” (1991), “Dinner for Four Hands” (1999).

In the early 1990s. Mikhail Kozakov and his family left for Israel. Until 1996, he worked at the Tel Aviv State Chamber Theater as an actor and director (the role of Trigorin in Chekhov’s “The Seagull” in Hebrew, production and acting in Harold Pinter’s “The Lover”, etc.), taught, organized a Russian troupe, with which produced four performances, one of which, “Possible Encounter” by Paul Barts, was shown by him in Moscow.

During these years, Mikhail Kozakov rarely acted in films. He starred in the films: “Fools Die on Fridays” (1990), “Football Player” (1990), “Giselle Mania” (1995), “Fatal Eggs” (1996). In 1996 he returned to Russia. In 1997, he created the “Art Club XXI” enterprise, which presented two performances “Possible Meeting” and “Incredible Session”, and later renamed it the “Russian Enterprise of Mikhail Kozakov”. He staged the plays “Paola and the Lions”, “The Laughing Flower”, “Playing Strindberg Blues”. In 1999, the artist, together with saxophonist Igor Butman, staged a concert performance based on Brodsky’s poems, “Concert for Voice and Saxophone.”

In addition, at the St. Petersburg Komissarzhevskaya Theater, Kozakov staged the play “Honoring” based on Slade.

In 1999, Mikhail Kozakov filmed two of his performances, which he had previously staged in his enterprise: the drama “Dinner for Four Hands” (based on the play “Possible Meeting”) and the teleplay “Honoring.”

In the 2000s. he starred in the films “24 Hours” (2000), “Avalanche” (2001), “Duet for Voice and Saxophone” (2005), “Honoring” (2005).

Since 2003, Kozakov has been an actor at the Moscow Academic Theater. Mossovet (played in the plays “The Merchant of Venice” (Shylock), “King Lear” (Lear).

The versatility of the actor’s talent was also revealed on the stage, where he reads poetry from Alexander Pushkin to Joseph Brodsky. He reads poetry and on the radio, on television, and records discs.

He is the author of the books “The Actor's Book”, “Fragments”, the autobiographical script “They will play Brahms for me...”

Mikhail Kozakov - People's Artist of Russia (1980), laureate of the USSR State Prize for theatrical activities (1967), State Prize of the RSFSR (1983) for the role of Felix Dzerzhinsky in the TV film "December 20th".

Awarded the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize - Bronze figurine of Catherine the Second (1997).

In 2010 he was awarded the Order of Honor.

In May 2010, Kozakov returned to Israel again and reunited with his ex-wife, producer Anna Yampolskaya, and in November 2010 he toured the cities of Israel with his new program.

Mikhail Kozakov was married several times, he has five children and grandchildren.

The material was prepared based on information from open sources

Murder

One day, Mikhail was returning home at night, through a vacant lot, and he was attacked by a robber with a knife.
Kazakov did not allow himself to be robbed, took a knife with a silver handle from the attacker and carried it with him ever since. On the eve of his seventeenth birthday, the young man met his school friend Vika. The girl admitted that after the New Year, her boyfriend, twenty-year-old Kirill Gurkin, left her. According to one version, Victoria asked Misha and another guy, Slava, to “deal with” the offender.

The trio entered Gurkin's entrance. The company laughed and joked. Recognizing the voice of his former lover, Kirill went out into the entrance with a bat and, as the local newspaper “Caravan” wrote, hit the actor first. Mikhail pulled out a knife, lunging towards the offender. Kirill collapsed on Mikhail, who had not let go of the weapon, hence the second wound. Komsomolskaya Gazeta reported that the knife entered Kirill’s body three times: twice into the heart, once into the carotid artery.

One way or another, Kirill did not survive. Kazakov remained at the scene, waiting for the police and ambulance. On the same day, a criminal case was opened under the article “murder”. In early February, the prosecutor's office reclassified the charge - now Mikhail was accused of exceeding the limits of permissible self-defense.

Murdered Kirill Gurkin

In April 2005, a trial was held at which the mother and grandmother of the murdered man filed a petition to terminate the criminal case, since Mikhail’s family compensated for moral and material damage. Although the state prosecution was against it, the judge decided to close the case. Kazakov was released in the courtroom, all charges being dropped. Of course, it was rumored that the actor was either “screwed off” by Boris Grachevsky, or that Mikhail’s mother spent the money left over from her husband to save her son from prison. Mikhail himself never commented on this situation.

Actor career

His acting debut, with the exception of filming in “Jumble,” came in 2003 – Mikhail played in a short episode of Alexei Kozlov’s drama “Demon of the Noon.” Then, together with Evgeny Mironov and Alexei Serebryakov, Kazakov starred in Yegor Konchalovsky’s thriller “Escape”, and then appeared in the comedy “Money Day”.

Mikhail Kazakov in his youth

After the uproar caused by the criminal case subsided, the young man entered the Moscow Academy of Finance and Law, began working as a marketer in a serious construction company, but did not forget about his acting hobby.

In 2010, Kazakov appeared on the stage of the Konstantin Stanislavsky Drama Theater. In Sergei Aldonin's production of The Master and Margarita, he appeared in the guise of the cat Behemoth. This ended the actor's theatrical career.

Mikhail Kazakov as the cat Behemoth

After graduating from university, Mikhail went to Tver, where he opened his own clothing store. Later, he created the KinoDom casting agency in Tver and planned to expand the business in other cities, but plans soon changed.

In the television series “My Fair Nanny,” the actor played a small role as Kolya Pampers and was so convincing that he was offered to participate in the “Daddy’s Daughters” project.

Mikhail Kazakov in “My Fair Nanny”

The role of Ilya Polezhaikin, a poor student and admirer of one of “daddy’s daughters,” made Kazakov a popular actor. Fans of the series followed with interest the development of the relationship between the excellent student prodigy Galina Sergeevna (Elizaveta Arzamasova) and the character Mikhail.

Ilya Polezhaikin and Galina Sergeevna

The turn was especially striking when, five minutes before, the Oxford student decided, together with Polezhaikin, to enter the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and become a policeman. And although their romantic relationship soon fizzled out in the feature film “Daddy’s Daughters: Super Brides.” Mikhail Kazakov in "Daddy's Daughters" The main role of the old-timer Vladimir Bulkin went to Kazakov in the lyrical comedy "Building Batya". His commander, Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Arkhipov, was played by actor Sergei Batalov. The series was released in 2010.

Still from the TV series “Stroibatya”

Two years later, the actor appeared in films again, this time playing drug addict Nikolai Sevastyanov in the melodramatic action film Shores. The main roles in the film were played by Alexander Nosik and Ekaterina Vulichenko.

Actor Mikhail Kazakov

His last film role to date was the actor’s portrayal of a traffic police officer in the comedy “President’s Vacation.” In it he starred with Oleg Vasilkov (the president in makeup) and Anna Tsukanova-Kott (the protagonist’s friend).

Mikhail Kazakov in the film "President's Vacation"

Biography[ | ]

M. M. Kozakov April 24, 2007
Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov was born on October 14, 1934 in Leningrad, in the family of the writer Mikhail Emmanuilovich Kozakov (1897-1954) and Zoya Aleksandrovna Nikitina (née Gatskevich, 1902-1973), editor of the Writers' Publishing House in Leningrad " My father came from an educated Jewish family. The mother's ethnic roots were Serbian-Greek; Mikhail Mikhailovich’s grandmother, Zoya Dmitrievna Paraskeva-Borisova, was from Odessa [K 2] During the years of Stalin’s repressions, the mother was arrested twice: in 1937 (together with the artist’s grandmother, both were released in 1938); again - in 1948[7].

During the war, Misha and other Leningrad children were evacuated to the Molotov region (now Perm region). From 1941 to 1944 he lived in the village of Chernaya, Krasnokamsk region.

Since 1945 he studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School.

After graduating from secondary school No. 222 (formerly Petrishule) in Leningrad in 1952, Mikhail Kozakov entered the Moscow Art Theater School. While studying in his final year, he made a successful film debut, starring in the role of Charles Thibault in the political drama by M. I. Romm “Murder on Dante Street” (1956)[8].

In 1956 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School (course of P. V. Massalsky) and went to work at the V. Mayakovsky Theater, where he served from 1956 to 1959. On this stage, at the age of 22, he performed the role of Hamlet. Then he played at Sovremennik (1959-1970), at the Moscow Art Theater (1971-1972), at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya (1972-1981) and at Lenkom (from 1986). Also, according to Mikhail Kozakov, he played on the stage of the Saratov Youth Theater with Yu. P. Kiselev in the play “An Ordinary Story.”

He achieved brilliant success as an actor and theater and film director[9]. He worked extensively and successfully on television as a production director (“Nameless Star”, “Pokrovsky Gate”, “Faust”, etc.). I profoundly read the poems of Pushkin, Tyutchev, Pasternak, Brodsky and other poets. Along with Smoktunovsky, Yursky, Markov and other masters of literary reading, he took part in recording a series of records “Pages of Russian Poetry of the 18th-20th Centuries.”

In his autobiographical book “The Third Bell”[10], the actor wrote that from 1956 to 1988 he collaborated with the KGB of the USSR[11].

In August 1991, M. M. Kozakov was offered a well-paid job in Israel, after which he moved there with his family. For four years he played in Hebrew at the Tel Aviv Chamber Theater; In addition, he created a Russian troupe (enterprise), with which he prepared four performances. In 2012, in a conversation with Dmitry Gordon, producer Mark Rudinstein said[13]:

...having emigrated to Israel, Kozakov immediately wrote a book in which he stated: he left when the time of the Rudinsteins, Yarmolnikovs and Kobzonovs came in Russia. Then, at a difficult time for himself, Misha came back, heroically announcing that he had abandoned Israel, and called and apologized.

In 1996, the artist returned to Russia and organized his own troupe called “Russian Enterprise of Mikhail Kozakov.”

Until 2010, Mikhail Kozakov performed one-man performances (one of these one-man performances is “Pushkin and About Him”) and as a reader (in particular, he recorded a CD) and with poetic works by I. A. Brodsky and A. A. Akhmatova.

In 2010, the actor was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. Treatment was carried out in Israel at the Tel Hashomer clinic[14]. On Friday, April 22, 2011, Mikhail Kozakov died after a long illness. Previously, the media reported that the 76-year-old artist was in a clinic in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv[15]. According to the will of the artist, his body was transported to Moscow and, after the funeral service, interred at the Vvedenskoye cemetery next to his father’s grave (5 parts); no civil funeral service was held[16]. Artistic director of the Lenkom Theater Mark Zakharov said this about Mikhail Kozakov[17]:

He was a very beautiful and very unique person who lived a beautiful, very difficult, sometimes confusing, sometimes strange, inexplicable life. Because the tossing between Israel and Russia, of course, did not add any health, creative strength, or inspiration. But, nevertheless, such a tragic, but at the same time happy fate was prepared for this beautiful, wonderful, very gifted person.

Family[ | ]

Wives of Mikhail Kozakov.

Greta Antonovna Taar (born 1934; 1955-1966), graduated from the Moscow Theater Arts and Technical School, costume department, fellow student in “Petrishula”, costume designer at Central Television;
son Kirill (born 1962), film actor;
granddaughter Maria (from Alena Yakovleva);
Medea Berelashvili (1968-1971), restoration artist;
Regina Solomonovna Bykova (nee Volzinger; born 1940; married 1971-1988)[18], translator of poetry and prose from English into Russian and from Russian into English, writer, has lived in New York since 1988;
Anna Isaevna Yampolskaya (born 1959, Chisinau; 1988-2003), graduate of GITIS, actress and theater producer;
daughter Zoya (born 1995);
Nadezhda Sedova (born 1981, Nizhny Novgorod; 2006-2010), historian[19].

Personal life of Mikhail Kazakov

Mikhail met future MESI student Yulia Kotova during the holidays, when he was visiting his grandmother in the Tver region. A fifteen-year-old girl also came to visit and met Kazakov on the river.

With ex-girlfriend Yulia Kotova

At first they were just dating, then the couple lived in a civil marriage for some time and were going to get married, but the girl changed her mind. According to her, the actor, in a closer relationship, turned out to be “very disorganized,” which Kotova reported to one of the publications: In 2011, Kazakov married his old friend from Tver, Elena. During the time they met, the woman managed to graduate from an economics university, become an accountant, get married and give birth to a daughter, Victoria. But this did not stop Mikhail from proposing to her. In 2012, a son, Miroslav, was born into their family.

Wedding of Mikhail Kazakov

In the summer of 2021, having decided to photograph the views of Tver, Kazakov began to climb the fire escape to the roof of a five-story building. Almost there, he slipped and fell from a great height, seriously injuring both legs. Traumatologists counted 22 compression fractures. After surviving a six-hour operation, the actor woke up in the ward. He told his Instagram followers that he was feeling tolerable. Boris Grachevsky and Liza Arzamasova were the first to call him at the hospital, and Kirill Emelyanov visited him.

Mikhail Kazakov with his wife and son

In the spring of 2021, after the initial recovery, standing on crutches, he appeared in the “Actually” program, where he expressed his suspicions that the fall was allegedly arranged by Vitaly Yelisov, the husband of Yulia Kotova. The man was jealous of his wife because she continued to communicate with Mikhail, and even threatened Kazakov on social networks, and on the eve of the accident he appeared near the actor’s house. Elisov also suspected that the father of his and Yulia’s daughter was Kazakov. The accusations from both sides turned out to be groundless. “Actually” with Mikhail Kazakov

Personal life

While studying in Moscow, Mikhail met Yulia Kotova, a student at the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics. They met and even lived in a civil marriage, but did not officially marry, although some media outlets call Julia the actor’s first wife. They really were going to get married, but in the end they broke up, and very painfully.

The artist’s wife, Elena Kazakova, graduated from the Faculty of Economics and works as an accountant. The lovers knew each other for a long time, but got married in 2011. The girl, like Mikhail himself, is from Tver. Before the wedding, they knew each other for about 8 years, and Elena managed to be married to another person and give birth to a child.

Mikhail is raising his wife’s daughter from his first marriage as his own. And in 2012, the artist became a father for the first time: his wife gave him a son, Miroslav Kazakov. Family photos often appear on the actor’s personal profile on Instagram.

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Mikhail Kazakov with his wife Elena Kazakova
Kazakov repeatedly said that he did not intend to get involved with acting for the rest of his life, but continued to appear in his native Tver at local corporate parties and concert events as a showman and presenter. The businessman opened his own clothing store, but Mikhail’s main hopes are directed toward the KinoDom network of casting agencies. He created the first of the branches in his city, and then opened new branches in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Yoshkar-Ola. Having arranged his personal life, Mikhail hoped to achieve heights in business.

On July 2, 2020, the actor, while filming footage of the city of Tver, fell from a fire escape and fell from a 12-meter height. He survived, but was seriously injured in both legs. Passers-by called an ambulance, and the victim was sent to intensive care.

Already in October, Kazakov appeared in the studio of the talk show “The Stars Aligned” in a wheelchair and spoke about the incident in an interview with presenter Lera Kudryavtseva. Mikhail landed straight on his feet, suffering 22 compression fractures. By luck, the spine was not damaged during the fall. The artist underwent a complex 6-hour operation; bolts and plates were inserted into his legs.

Interesting Facts

Misha was brought to the casting for Yeralash by her mother, without much faith in success. But the teenager came in handy and literally immediately went on the set in the “Defender” story.
On the set of the television series “Daddy’s Daughters,” Kazakov began to lose weight. The actor’s weight at that time was 100 kilograms. After some time, he lost about 35 kilograms, explaining that all he had to do was park his car in the garage and start walking. In nine months, Mikhail walked more than 5 thousand kilometers.
Kazakov remembered well the moment of falling from a twelve-meter height. According to him, life “flashed before my eyes 200 times.” There are still small fragments in the actor’s legs that are “gradually coming out.”
Mikhail wears a platinum wedding ring because he is allergic to gold.