Russian and Soviet actor, People's Artist of the USSR Oleg Tabakov died at the age of 83 in Moscow. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the press service of the Tabakov Theater.
In recent months he has been seriously ill. In November 2021, it was reported that he was admitted to intensive care. Performances with the actor's participation were cancelled.
One for all. The real life of Oleg Tabakov Read more
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Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov was born on August 17, 1935 in Saratov into a family of doctors - Pavel Tabakov and Maria Berezovskaya . Tabakov spoke about the origins of his parents as follows: “My dad Pavel Kondratyevich Tabakov came from the bourgeoisie, earlier ancestors were from serfs, ancestors on my mother’s side were from the landowner class. I am a quarter Ukrainian, a quarter Pole, a quarter Mordvin, a quarter Russian. My roots are healthy, I got my energy from my father.”
During the Great Patriotic War, his father volunteered for the front, served as the head of military hospital train No. 87, visited almost all fronts: the Caucasus and Southern Ukraine, near Stalingrad and Romania, and was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medal “For Courage” .
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Her mother worked in a military hospital; in 1943, she and her children moved to the city of Elton, in the north of the Caspian Sea. After the war, Tabakov’s parents separated, and his mother returned to Saratov with her children in 1945.
Death of Oleg Tabakov
In November 2021, the actor was admitted to intensive care, which came as a shock to all fans of his work. Diametrically opposite media reports also added fuel to the fire: some claimed that Tabakov had been diagnosed with sepsis, while others wrote that he was conducting a routine examination. Anton Tabakov reported that his father was admitted to intensive care due to pneumonia (this version was later confirmed). Soon the artist underwent a tracheostomy. On December 25, doctors reported that Tabakov’s condition had worsened. He had to be put into an artificial coma. When he woke up, the actor stopped recognizing his wife and son.
Farewell to Oleg Tabakov In January 2021, information appeared that the artist was feeling better, but later news began to appear in the press about Tabakov’s disappointing condition, allegedly his brain began to fail, although his relatives denied this information. However, it turned out that the actor’s body was so weakened that it could only function in a state of artificial coma. Finally, on March 12, the family decided to disconnect Tabakov from life support. The 82-year-old actor passed away in a hospital bed, surrounded by loved ones. The farewell to the actor will take place on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater, and the funeral will take place at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Education
Tabakov studied well at school and was fond of literature. In high school, he attended the “Young Guard” theater group at the local Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren, and was the host of children’s and youth programs on Saratov radio.
In 1953, he submitted applications to GITIS and the Moscow Art Theater School named after Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. He was admitted to two institutes at once based on the results of entrance exams, but young Tabakov chose the Moscow Art Theater School.
In 1957 he graduated from the Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Studio School (University) at the Anton Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.
Artist of the Moscow Sovremennik Theater Oleg Tabakov as Oleg in V. Rozov’s play “In Search of Joy.” 1960 Photo: RIA Novosti/Mikhail Ozersky
Career
Oleg Pavlovich’s first success on stage came in his second year, when he played Khlestakov in the play “The Inspector General”. In addition to classes at the Studio School, Tabakov attended the “night studio” of the famous theater teacher and director Pyotr Ershov .
Oleg Pavlovich played his first film role while a third-year student in the film “Sasha Enters Life” directed by Mikhail Shveitzer .
Since 1957, he played in the Studio of Young Actors (now Sovremennik), and his roles in the plays “The Naked King”, “Three Wishes”, “Always on Sale”, “An Ordinary Story” brought him success. He became one of the founders of the theater. In just the first three years of work, he played more than 15 roles.
In 1966, he played the young idealist Alexander Aduev in Galina Volchek’s “An Ordinary Story.” The performance was eventually awarded the USSR State Prize.
Since 1957, he worked on television and was one of the first actors to take part in television plays broadcast live.
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Tabakov made his debut as a director in 1968, staged a graduation performance in the youth studio recruited by the theater.
In 1974, he began working with high school students in the “drama club” at the Palace of Pioneers named after Nadezhda Krupskaya, where children studied according to a university program: they were taught the history of world art, the history of Russian theater, stage movement and plastic arts.
In 1976, he left the post of director of Sovremennik, worked on radio and acted in films, and also devoted a lot of time to teaching. On the basis of GITIS, he recruited a course of twenty-six students.
In 1977, he organized the “Tabakerka”, where students began performing their performances.
In 1986 he opened the Studio Theater under the direction of Oleg Tabakov.
In the same year, Oleg Pavlovich became the rector of the Moscow Art Theater School and remained in this position until 2000.
Oleg Tabakov at a rehearsal, 1982. Photo: RIA Novosti/Vladimir Vyatkin
In 1983, at the invitation of Efremov, he moved to the Moscow Art Theater. His first work in this theater was the role of Salieri in Peter Schaeffer's Amadeus.
In 1987, as a result of a conflict within the Moscow Art Theater troupe, it was divided into two theaters: the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater under the direction of Efremov and the Gorky Moscow Art Theater under the direction of Tatyana Doronina . Tabakov followed Efremov.
In the 1990s. continued to actively work in the theater and act in films, without leaving teaching.
In 1990, Tabakov founded the Russian-American Performing Arts Center theater studio at Boston University. Many teachers from the Moscow Art Theater School began working there.
In 1994, Tabakov first acted as a producer of Briceville's "The Dinner" with Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Fouche and himself as Talleyrand.
In 1995, he starred in Vladimir Menshov's "Shirli-Myrli", where he played a drunkard named Sukhodrishchev.
Still from the film “Shirley-Myrli”, 1995.
In 2001, Tabakov was appointed artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov.
In 2010 he opened a theater college at the Tabakov Theater.
On January 30, 2011, Oleg Pavlovich was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmia. The following month, Tabakov was operated on twice at the Bakulev Cardiocenter.
In February 2012, he was included in the list of confidants of Vladimir Putin , a candidate in the presidential elections.
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Personal life of Oleg Tabakov
Oleg Tabakov's first wife was actress Lyudmila Krylova (born 1938), who gave birth to her wife two children: Anton (1960) and Alexandra (1966).
Oleg Tabakov and Lyudmila Krylova were married for almost 35 years. While still a schoolgirl, she came to a performance at the Sovremennik Theater and fell madly in love with Oleg. After that, she firmly intended to enter the acting school, entered the “Sliver” and began working at the Maly Theater, regularly attending all productions with the “Sovremennik” troupe, without losing hope of meeting her idol.
The couple acted in films and played in the theater together. One day they called her from the studio and asked her to send a photo - one “picky actor” could not choose a partner for a new film. As it turned out, this picky person was Tabakov. As I remember now - an empty dressing room, a woman in a white robe is standing with her back, a man is sitting in a chair, I see his reflection in the mirror and I almost fall! Their knees began to shake, their teeth began to chatter. As Lyudmila claimed, the romance between them began on the very first night they met. Two months after the birth of their first child, the lovers got married and immediately after the registry office returned to the theater for rehearsal.
In the photo: young Tabakov and Krylova with their son Anton. It seemed that their marriage would withstand any hardships and vicissitudes of the acting profession, but in 1981, 16-year-old Marina Zudina entered Tabakov’s course at GITIS. Over the years of study, their relationship went far beyond the “student-teacher” framework (despite the 30-year age difference), but for a long time they managed to hide this fact. In 1995, after a 10-year romance, Oleg Tabakov and Marina Zudina got married. Oleg Tabakov commented on his departure from the family: “No matter how banal it sounds, love has come…”
Tabakov exchanged Krylova for Marina Zudina Almost 20 years later, he said in an interview that the relationship between him and Lyudmila deteriorated because she repeatedly got rid of his beloved dogs while he was on tour. Posner. Oleg Tabakov. Fragment (2011) Children from his first marriage did not forgive their father for breaking up with Krylova. Anton and Alexandra left the acting profession. The son went into the restaurant business and raised four children: Nikita, Anna, Antonina and Maria. The daughter, who broke off relations with Tabakov, was a radio and television presenter for some time, then married German film director Jan Liefers, with whom she gave birth to a daughter, Polina, in 1988. After the divorce, Alexandra and her daughter (who bears her father’s surname) returned to Moscow.
Anton and Alexandra Tabakov with their mother In 1995, Marina Zudina gave Oleg Pavlovich a son, Pavel, and in 2006, a daughter, Maria. Having matured, Pavel Tabakov continued his father’s work: he graduated from Oleg Tabakov’s studio school, enrolling there honestly, without cronyism, and was involved in productions of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, played in a number of sensational films (“Star”, “Orleans”, “The Duelist”, “Empire V”).
Pavel, the son of Oleg Tabakov and Marina Zudina, also became an actor
Selected performances
- 1959 - “Five Evenings” by A. Volodin. Staged by O. Efremov, M. Kedrov and G. Volchek
- 1985 - “Simplicity is enough for every wise man” by A. Ostrovsky. Staged by V. Ya. Stanitsyn
- 1987 - “The Seagull” by A. Chekhov. Staged by O. N. Efremov
- 1990 - “Ordinary History.” Victor Rozov after Ivan Goncharov
- 1990 — “Sailor’s Silence” by A. Galich
- 1992 - “Woe from Wit” by A. Griboyedov. Staged by O. N. Efremov
- 2001 - “The Cabal of the Saint” by M. Bulgakov. Staged by A. Ya. Shapiro
- 2000 - “At the Lower Depths” by M. Gorky. Staged by A. Ya. Shapiro - Luka
- 2004- “Uncle Vanya”. A.P. Chekhov. Director M. Karbauskis
- 2004 - “Tartuffe” by J. B. Moliere. Director N. Chusova
Selected Film Works
- "War and Peace" (1967)
- "Shine, Shine, My Star" (1969)
- "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (1973)
- "Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano" (1977)
- "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" (1978)
- “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears” (1979)
- "The Man from the Boulevard des Capucines" (1987)
- "Shirley Myrli" (1995)
- "The Royal Hunt" (1990)
- “State Councilor” (2005), etc.
12 bright roles of Oleg Tabakov in films
A still from the film “People on the Bridge” directed by Alexander Zarkhia. 1959 Actor Oleg Tabakov plays the role of Viktor Bulygin. RIA Novosti / Rodkin
Actors Ada Sheremetyeva and Oleg Tabakov in a scene from the film “Young and Green”. 1962 Directed by Konstantin Voinov. RIA News
Oleg Tabakov as Nikolai Rostov in the film "War and Peace". 1968 RIA News
Oleg Tabakov as Vladimir Iskremas in the film “Shine, Shine, My Star” directed by Alexander Mitta. 1969 www.globallookpress.com
People's Artists of the USSR Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Stirlitz and Oleg Tabakov as Schellenberg in Tatyana Lioznova's film "Seventeen Moments of Spring." 1973 RIA Novosti / A. Goltsin
Oleg Tabakov in the film “Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano” by Nikita Mikhalkov. Mosfilm. 1977 www.globallookpress.com
Oleg Tabakov as Volodya in the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears” directed by Vladimir Menshov. 1979 www.globallookpress.com
Actor Oleg Tabakov as Ivan Ilyich Oblomov in the film “A Few Days in the Life of Oblomov” based on the novel by Ivan Goncharov. 1979 RIA Novosti / V. Baranovsky
Oleg Tabakov and Lyudmila Gurchenko in the film “Applause, applause...” directed by Viktor Buturlin. 1984 www.globallookpress.com
In the role of Kashchei the Immortal in the film “After the Rain on Thursday.” 1985 www.globallookpress.com
"The Man from the Boulevard des Capuchins", 1987. The owner of the saloon and bartender Harry McCue is Oleg Tabakov. www.globallookpress.com
Oleg Tabakov as Tsar Ivan and Marina Yakovleva in the film “One, two - no trouble!” 1988 www.globallookpress.com
Nothing human is alien
Tabakov’s personal life is rich in another affair with Elena Proklova. He was 34, and Elena was only 16 when love broke out on the project “Shine, Shine, My Star.” It is easy to understand that at this time Oleg Pavlovich was the head of a family with 2 children.
It is difficult, years later, to understand why the affair ended quietly without any consequences. Perhaps Oleg Pavlovich did not dare to spoil his relationship with his family, or perhaps Elena was afraid of the age difference and negative consequences. But Proklova now does not hide the fact that it was Oleg Tabakov who was her first passionate love, and which she always remembers with tenderness.
The romance between Elena Proklova and Oleg Tabakov began on the set of the film “Shine, Shine, My Star” Still from the film
