Alexander Abdulov: biography, personal life, children. Games with death and life to the fullest: Why relatives believe that Alexander Abdulov could have left even earlier Personal life of Alexander Abdulov

Alexander Abdulov is an icon of Soviet cinema. He starred in films that are now considered classics and a model of what "it used to be better." On his account "Ordinary miracle", "Carnival", "The most charming and attractive" and many others. A huge country went crazy for a tall handsome man. Abdulov won recognition not only as a film actor, but also as a theater and voice actor, as a director.

The childhood of Alexander Gavrilovich Abdulov passed in a family of theatergoers. Papa Abdulov Gavrila Danilovich was engaged in directing in Fergana, and mother Lyudmila Alexandrovna worked as a make-up artist. By nationality, Alexander is recorded everywhere as Russian, but, most likely, he had Tatar roots.

Before Alexander, the mother gave birth to two boys, but did not want a third. When it became known that a boy would be born again, it was quite difficult to make a decision. Conscientious doctors dissuaded the woman, saying that she was carrying a girl under her heart. Was it a mistake or a deliberate deceit - it doesn't matter if a boy was born.

For the first time, Alexander Gavriilovich touched art on the stage of the theater in Fergana, where his father took him out of the wings. The first experience in the creative biography of Alexander Abdulov took place in the play "Kremlin Chimes". A very young heart captured for life touching moment. The memory of my father is perhaps the most beautiful of childhood memories. The main character of the Fergana Drama Theater brought up his son's love for drama, as if he was preaching the truth.

The acting path was predetermined by fate, but the active inquisitive boy deliberately did not delve into the distant future. Little Abdulov went into music and sports so much that in free time made guitars from improvised instruments. His idols were the Beatles. A loyal fan on homemade guitars performed such compositions that he was known among his peers as the “fifth Beatle”. Often he got it from his older brother, who all the time strove to advise the younger "brother" on the right path. In order to tie the boy to the house, the older brother cut off a piece of hair, hoping that the youngster would sit down at books from nothing to do.

Abdulov studied well, but he was always drawn to trouble: he broke a window, participated in a brawl, etc. Alexander Abdulov made his first achievements in sports, namely, in fencing. Regular and hard training brought a talented guy to the master of sports of the USSR. As a result, fencing came in handy in cinematography when the actor starred in the film "Ordinary Miracle" without an understudy. The family assumed that one of the sons would surely repeat the fate of his parents and become an actor.

Following the instructions of his father, Alexander Abdulov made an attempt to enter the theater Sliver, however, was refused. At the direction of his mother, he settled for a year in Pedagogical University, at the physical education department, so as not to get into army snares. In parallel with his studies, he worked at the stage of the theater, where his father was.

Movies

A year later, Alexander Abdulov, as he intended, again went to Moscow to try his luck. This time he entered GITIS to I. M. Raevsky. The older brothers also decided to become actors, but the admission attempt was a failure. The eldest of the sons studied at the Petrochemical Institute. Gubkin. The middle one suffered a misfortune - he was found dead. The cause of death has not been established. The main version was that he was killed by hooligans.

The career of Alexander Abdulov, like all provincials, was not easy. He compared himself with a cur who swung to conquer Moscow. For 13 years of living in Moscow, he wandered around hostels, worked unloading wagons, and never complained. In the same period, Abdulov Alexander Gavrilovich began to take part in extras.

At the graduation performance in 1974, he noticed a talented young man and invited him to Lenkom. On the stage of the theater Alexander Abdulov performed leading role in the play “I wasn’t on the lists” based on Vasiliev’s story. For the role of Lieutenant Pluzhnikov, he was awarded the Theater Spring Prize. Since that time, Alexander Gavriilovich lived and breathed the brainchild of Mark Zakharov.

The native scene did not let Abdulov go until the last days. Significant performances are considered to be the production of "Juno and Avos".

The role in the play "And the Heretic", a stage adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot", was also successful. For participation in this production, he received the independent non-state award "Crystal Turandot" and the award of the "K.S. Stanislavsky". The acting game of Abdulov was also noted by the International Theater Fund named after E.L. Leonov.

In 1985, the film "The Most Charming and Attractive" was released, which instantly captivated the Soviet audience, became the most popular picture of the Perestroika era and remains one of the favorite Soviet comedies with modern audiences.

Abdulov played the role of the handsome Volodya Smirnov, the love interest of the main character Nadezhda Klyueva. Played her. The role of Nadezhda was specially written for Muravyov, and the director followed her literally on the heels and begged to play in the film, Irina for a long time refused: after "Carnival" she firmly decided not to act in comedies. If in the end the actress did not agree, the film simply would not have been made.

But the director was still able to persuade his heroine, and the country received a comedy that remained in the hearts of the audience for many years, and Alexander Abdulov one of his iconic roles. Despite the choice of the main character, many girls gave their preference to Abdulov and his character, a well-groomed music lover with high growth and good looks.

Second half of the 70s. productively reflected in the career of Abdulov. He took part in the productions of a series of famous films: "12 Chairs", "The meeting place cannot be changed", "The Lost Expedition". But national recognition and incredible love came to the artist after the film adaptation " Ordinary miracle under the command of Zakharov.

An outstanding talent expands the role and successfully performs diverse roles. A wide creative range and unique appearance allowed Abdulov to actively act in comedies, adventures, detective stories, historical films, lyrical, romantic, and even take on deep dramatic images. In addition, Abdulov himself performed all the stunts in his many films and even received awards as the best stuntman.

The film “Do not part with your loved ones”, where Alexander played Mitya, was reflected as a large-scale success. Early 80s. the actor is gaining wide popularity and is in demand among directors. Most of all, Abdulov is removed from Mark Zakharov and Sergei Solovyov. Often I had to shoot several films at the same time due to the tight schedule.

The most memorable roles of the actor of this period are Nikita from Carnival, Ivan from Enchanters and Robert de Charance from Look for a Woman. In addition, Alexander Abdulov played in such films, still popular to this day, as “The Same Munchausen”, “Midshipmen, Forward!”, “Formula of Love” and in many other films.

The popularity brought official recognition. In 1986, the actor received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

In 1991 Alexander Abdulov became the People's Artist of the RSFSR.

In the same year, the actor played a major role in the film "Genius" by Viktor Sergeyev. With this picture, Abdulov's cooperation with the director began. The film tells about a talented inventor who, due to his poverty and general lack of demand, smart people became a fraud. The picture became a revelation for the viewer and firmly entered the leaders of the box office, it is recognized as one of the most interesting works of that period.

Later there was a popular melodrama with a criminal bias "The Strange Men of Ekaterina Semenova" and "Schizophrenia", for which the script was written by Abdulov himself. The latter film, however, did not enjoy much strong love viewers or critics.

In the 90s, Abdulov presented his new brainchild, the Backyard Festival, to the public. The actor not only led the event, but also organized it himself. It was a charity festival, which was attended by the actors of "Lenkom" and various invited celebrities, mostly musicians, rock stars. Such charity evenings enjoyed great respect among the intelligentsia, both creative and entrepreneurial.

With the proceeds from the event, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki, located next to the theater, was restored. But mostly the actor gave money from concerts to orphanages and other people in need.

The actor actively participated in the restoration of the Moscow International Film Festival, and until 1995 he worked as its general director.

In 2000, Alexander Abdulov made his debut as a director. Based on the fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians", Abdulov made a musical.

In 2004, the country saw its favorite actor in the birth of the TV presenter of the program " Natural selection on REN TV.

In 2005, the actor played Koroviev in the TV series The Master and Margarita, which added to Abdulov's successful and iconic roles.

Personal life

Abdulov has always been a hero-lover, both on screen and in life. He had many admirers all over the country, and the press attributed to him novels with the most different women famous and not so famous. His romantic and impetuous nature was simply incompatible with the quiet harmony of the calm family life that he demonstrated in all his relationships.

In the early 70s, Abdulov felt the first love torments and even tried to commit suicide when he found his beloved Tatyana in the arms of another man. To the credit of the girl, it should be noted that Alexander himself was not faithful to her, and Tatyana went for treason only when she found out that her chosen one loves not only her. Alexander was saved from blood loss by a friend from the hostel, who, by a lucky chance, returned earlier. Even more lucky was the fact that the future actor miraculously escaped being placed in a psychiatric clinic after such an incident. The actor recalled this situation with a smile, and said: “There was a fool!”.

Another Tatyana followed. Still unknown to anyone, Abdulov charmed the successful dancer Tatyana Leibel. It was a really beautiful romance, but it ended quickly. Tatyana realized that Alexander's feelings for her had faded, and another, young actress and his future wife, Irina, took her place in his heart. The separation was amicable, the couple maintained friendly relations until the dancer moved to Canada.

Alexander Abdulov met his first wife on the set of "Do not part with your loved ones." The life of the plot characters mirrored the couple's relationship outside of work. They were deservedly called the most romantic and beautiful couple of Soviet times.

Alferova got married when she was pregnant from a foreign businessman Boyko Gyurov. Abdulov and his wife carefully concealed this fact from curious newspapermen, adopted daughter Alexander Gavriilovich brought up as his own. The actor had no children of his own until he was in his fifties. But he never considered Ksenia a stranger. The girl always felt the support of her famous stepfather even after her parents divorced. Much later, she made the film "Fictionalist" dedicated to the memory of her stepfather.

Despite the fact that Abdulov and Irina Alferova were married, in 1993 exemplary family broke up. Together with his wife, Alexander lived for 14 years. But the amorous adventures of the incorrigible womanizer could not pass without a trace.

The romance between Abdulov and Larisa Steinman continued for two years. Larisa worked as a journalist and, on duty, came to interview a celebrity. The actor has always disliked the press, which did not prevent him from starting a relationship with one of them.

Alexander Abdulov had to endure a difficult operation, but he got out and continued his career. After a miraculous recovery, the successful artist began building a house, where he later lived with civil wife, ballerina Galina Lobanova and mother. The house was often visited by close friends who helped Abdulov build a house.

Having lived in the same house with his beloved woman for 8 years, the actor never registered a marriage, moreover, he did not even terminate his union with Irina Alferova. The first marriage of the artist was connected by church ties, and Alexander, as a believer, did not consider the possibility of breaking this oath in the face of God. As a real man believes, Abdulov left housing for both of his women, and he wandered around the theater back rooms. It was difficult to endure parting with Galina, he suffered from depression for a long time, he became haggard and aged.

Despite this promise, after antidepressant therapy, Alexander Abdulov's personal life improved: he married a second time. Julia Mashin became the chosen one. According to the artist himself, this girl brought him back to life. They met in 2005 quite by accident. We flew side by side in an airplane to Kamchatka. Alexander - to friends, relax, hunt and fish, and Julia - on a business trip. The fact that they have many common friends, new acquaintances found out on the plane, and on the peninsula they were once again convinced of this. Julia and Alexander met again in a friendly company.

Abdulov, already middle-aged, behaved like a teenager in love, kissing his chosen one's hands. Even then, they had warm feelings for each other that seemed unreal: too big difference in age, profession and worldview. But the future spouses flew back to the capital separately.

The holiday romance convinced Julia that her marriage no longer suits her. At that time, she was married to Alexei Ignatenko, a man higher circle. Many were surprised that the girl was divorcing a young loving wealthy husband from an intelligent family. After the rupture of relations, Yulia had little to keep in the capital, and she left for her small homeland, to Odessa.

The actor tormented himself with love. He realized that he no longer wants to live without his beloved Julia. Abdulov ordered his director to contact his chosen one and invite him to St. Petersburg. Julia surprised everyone here too, the girl refused the recognized favorite of women, said that if he wants her attention, he must come to her himself. And the actor flew to Odessa. The couple celebrated the old New Year together, and after that the lovers no longer parted, denied their relationship and did not try to hide it.

In 2006, a modest wedding took place in the restaurant of the Central House of Writers. Journalists were not allowed to the celebration, the holiday was only for the closest friends. There was none white dress, nor many photos.

In March 2007, Yulia Abdulova gave the actor a daughter, who was named Eugenia.

family union Almost everyone condemned Alexander and Yulia. The girl was accused of a thirst for fame and commercialism. The difference in the age of the spouses haunted the public. The rumors had no basis. The pretty brunette was not at all a hunter for star husbands, she had a stable job, career and numerous useful acquaintances.

In fact, at the time of the beginning of the relationship, Abdulaev's financial condition was much less stable than that of his chosen one. Yulia's parents were also against it. From their point of view, everything was exactly the opposite, and the actor was already unworthy of their daughter. They did not like either Abdulov's profession, or his age, and especially the age difference with their daughter, or the relationship of the couple as a whole. But all the attacks only made the lovers unite.

Death

At the end of August 2007, the media made a fuss about terrible disease actor. The examination in Israel shocked relatives - Abdulov was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer, which caused the death of the actor, the passion for smoking could not pass without a trace. The most amazing thing is that just at that time Abdulov was filming in his last film, where he played an artist dying of lung cancer. An amazing coincidence.

The fighter in life Alexander Abdulov until the last refused to accept reality, and, despite the support of millions of viewers, he died on January 3, 2008.

It was possible to say goodbye to the actor at the Lenkom Theater. Despite the winter cold, a crowd of thousands of fans formed a crush in the theater itself and around it, and law enforcement they seriously feared that people might die in this mess. At some point, some people were pushed out into the street, promising that they would be allowed to say goodbye to the idol when those who were lucky enough to stay came out. Fans tried several times to storm the theatre.

People gathered from all over the country, some even flew in from Siberia to pay tribute to the memory of their favorite actor. But that did not happen. A huge number of people stood for several hours in the cold only to see how the car with the coffin leaves in the direction of the Vagankovsky cemetery.

A scandal broke out around the grave of Abdulov. As the widow of an actor, Julia, quite naturally, led the funeral and gave orders. This did not suit the actor's friends, and several men in a rather blunt manner ordered the unfortunate woman to keep quiet and not get involved in such an important process for her. According to eyewitnesses of the quarrel, Julia led very reasonably and logically. Most likely, the point was not at all what and how the widow did, but in the hostility of the actor's friends to his new wife, whom they splashed out at such an inopportune moment.

Perhaps the nerves were affected because of the tragedy, but such an act of friends and relatives in relation to a woman who has lost a loved one still remains unforgivable. The widow with a small child in her arms had a tantrum, and Yulia could not be calmed down for a long time.

Filmography

For the enormous contribution - the actor starred in 112 films - to the domestic cinematography, Alexander Abdulov repeatedly received all kinds of awards. The winner of the "Golden Horseshoe" award went to the director of the plot "The Bremen Town Musicians and Co".

Filmography of Alexander Abdulov includes great amount masterpiece paintings, including:

• "Ordinary Miracle"
• "The Lost Expedition"
• "12 chairs"
• "Love Formula"
• "Captain's daughter"
• "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers"
• "The same Munchausen"
• "Schizophrenia"
• "The Master and Margarita"
• "Trap"
• "Anna Karenina"

For his life, Alexander Abdulov played in more than a hundred films. Courageous fairy-tale heroes and realistic negative characters, comedic and dramatic images - his diverse works invariably captivated the viewer. Alexander Gavriilovich was incredibly hardworking, never lost his sense of humor and often took risks: on almost all shootings, he worked without an understudy.

Beatleman from Fergana

Alexander Abdulov was born on May 29, 1953 in Tobolsk. However, the boy's childhood passed in Uzbekistan. There, in the city of Ferghana, his father Gabriel Abdulov created the first Central Asia Russian Drama Theater and became its artistic director. Mother Lyudmila Alexandrovna worked in the same theater as a dresser and make-up artist.

Alexander was the third son in the family. His two older brothers did not want to follow the theatrical path, and his father dreamed of a successor. Therefore, from childhood he brought up in his son "artistic nature". At the age of five, Alexander first went on stage with his father in a production of the famous play of socialist realism "Kremlin Chimes". Abdulov recalled that from childhood he was inspired to treat the theater as a temple. Father even forbade walking around his theater without removing his headdress.

Nevertheless, for a long time the stage was not at all the main hobby for Alexander. He often misbehaved, made explosives from chemicals stolen from school, painted his face with his mother's makeup to scare the neighbors, and played the songs of his favorite The Beatles on the guitar. Abdulov studied averagely: the only subject where he achieved obvious success was physical education. He was professionally engaged in fencing and was even awarded the title of Master of Sports of the USSR. Subsequently, this skill helped him on more than one occasion. film set, for example, in the "Ordinary Miracle" Abdulov fenced himself, without understudies.

After school, his father insisted that Alexander go to Moscow to enter the Shchepkin Theater School. The son fulfilled the request, but failed in the exams. Abdulov returned back, passed the exams for the Faculty of Physical Education of the Ferghana Pedagogical Institute, and in order not to lose his creative form, he got a job as an actor to serve his father in the theater. But even here there were some excesses: Abdulov was late for the show and disrupted one of the performances. For this, his father kicked him out of the troupe and appointed him a simple stage worker. After dragging the scenery in Fergana for a year, in the summer of 1970 Alexander again went to storm Moscow. This time, luck smiled at him - Abdulov successfully passed the exams and entered GITIS for the course of Joseph Raevsky.

First theatrical successes

In Moscow, Abdulov had a hard time: he wandered around the dormitories, worked on unloading wagons, and rejoiced when the opportunity arose to act in extras. Alexander himself later compared himself to a mongrel who swung to conquer the capital.

The main romantic experience in Abdulov's life was also connected with Lenkom - a meeting with Irina Alferova. She joined the troupe in 1976. According to legend, Alexander proposed to her on tour in Yerevan. Irina then jokingly replied: "Carry me in your arms through the park, I'll marry you!" Alexander fulfilled the condition with ease, and upon returning to Moscow, the lovers secretly got married.

Bear, Lancelot and Volodya Smirnov

Since the mid-1970s, Alexander Abdulov began to offer the first full-fledged roles in the cinema. His debut was the film "About Vitya, about Masha and marines". Abdulov also took part in a series of famous films: "12 Chairs", "The meeting place cannot be changed", "The Lost Expedition". But national love came to the artist after the adaptation of the "Ordinary Miracle" by the same Mark Zakharov.

Abdulov tried to play the widest possible range of roles. After the iconic romantic hero Bear in The Ordinary Miracle, he happily played the charming anti-hero - Volodya Smirnov in The Most Charming and Attractive
. After the melancholy Lancelot in "Kill the Dragon" -
tragic Kashtanov in Eldar Ryazanov's late film Quiet Pools.

Abdulov's readiness to turn to comic roles and nonconformist position remained unchanged. Alexander Gavriilovich himself connected these things:

In the 1990s, Abdulov was looking for new creative directions for himself. He played the main role in the landmark post-perestroika film "Genius", wrote the script for the film "Schizophrenia", arranged a charity festival "Backyards", where not only Lenkom actors, but also rock musicians performed. The actor sent the proceeds from the event to orphanages, and the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki, located next to the theater, was also restored with the funds raised.

In 2000, Abdulov made his debut as a director, staging the musical The Bremen Town Musicians and Co. With the participation of the actor, the Moscow International Film Festival was revived, which Alexander Abdulov headed for several years.

In August 2007, the media reported for the first time about the actor's illness. On January 3, 2008, Alexander Abdulov passed away. He is buried on Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow.

Alexander Abdulov - one of the brightest, talented and beautiful actors of the Soviet, and later Russian cinema, who died prematurely, was born on May 29, 1953 in provincial Tobolsk.

Childhood

Alexander's childhood passed in hot Ferghana under the hot Uzbek sun. The world of art was familiar to him from childhood. The family left for Uzbekistan, since his father was entrusted with an honorable mission - to become the head of the first Russian drama theater in the republic. And her mother worked all her life as a costume designer and followed her husband like a thread for a needle.

Sasha was youngest child in family. His mother had a child from her first marriage, and then she gave birth to another son, Vladimir, and Sasha became the third and last. His very birth may not have happened. Parents decided on another child, dreaming of a daughter.

In childhood

Therefore, when they found out that there would be a boy, they were so upset that the mother was ready to terminate the pregnancy. But by a lucky chance, Sasha managed to be born. But the world could lose a great actor!

The boy grew up as a real tomboy, which is why he constantly brought trouble to the neighbors. They tried to complain to their parents, but they lived their own theatrical world, sincerely believing that children should grow up in freedom. Sasha often abused this freedom. He started smoking early, often arranged home-made fireworks, studied poorly, showing himself only in physical education.

However, in what he was interested in, he always succeeded. The boy first appeared on the stage at the age of five. His father involved him in one of the performances. And this tomboy absolutely seriously played his episode. From childhood, he treated the theater with reverence - this was passed on to him from his father.

Sasha was no less serious about music and sports. At the age of 10, he enrolled in the fencing section and by the end of the school he passed the standard for the master of sports. But he didn’t even ask his parents for a guitar, although he dreamed of it more than anything in the world, carried away by the music of the Beatles.

He made his first instrument somehow with his own hands from improvised material, which was in abundance in theater workshops, where he often appeared after school.

Carier start

In high school, his father began to slowly prepare him for admission to the theater school, dreaming that his son would follow in his footsteps. But Sasha himself wanted to connect his life with sports, not theater. Therefore, he went to Shchukinskoye, but failed the exams and, returning to his native Ferghana, applied to the Faculty of Physical Education.

Studying at the institute was easy for him. And in order to have pocket money, he got a job with his father in the theater as a stage worker. Having the opportunity to watch the rehearsal process almost every day, Sasha gradually became imbued with the theatrical spirit and the next year, by his own choice, he decided to storm the Pike again.

This attempt proved successful. His mentor was Joseph Raevsky, who did everything possible to reveal the creative talent of a provincial guy. Capital life spun Abdulov like a whirlpool.

Parents could not help him, so he had to study during the day and earn extra money in the evenings. It became a little easier when the first roles appeared, albeit in extras - it was still such a necessary experience and a little extra money.

After passing the graduation performance, the talented guy was invited to his troupe by the legendary Mark Zakharov, who was considered a great honor to get to. Moreover, the work of Abdulov in Lenkom began immediately with the main role in the military drama "I was not on the lists."

No less bright actor became his stage partner. Zakharov generally knew how to select artists - only the brightest stars worked next to him.

Abdulov's favorite work in this theater was the musical "Juno and Avos", in which he got as many as three small diverse roles. In a star cast with a leading role, the performance entered the history of the Russian theater as one of the most durable - it was shown more than a thousand times and it always gathered full houses.

Movie

Abdulov became a movie star thanks to the same Mark Zakharov, who first filmed him in the small role of the wife of the famous cannibal Ellochka from 12 Chairs, and then entrusted him with the image of a young man turned into a bear by a wizard. And again, this unique tandem Abdulov-Yankovsky appeared before the audience, striking with its soulful play.

The little tender princess, who was destined to disenchant the young man and turn him back into a bear, was another star - Evgenia Simonova.

The morning after the film was released, Abdulov woke up as a celebrity, adored by all the women of the Soviet Union from 16 to 60 years old. The melodrama consolidated the success, in which he played, together with his then wife (), a married couple who tried to revive their old feelings.

The talented performance and stunning beauty of both actors made the film, average in terms of plot, one of the most successful premieres of 1979.

The offer fell on Abdulov as if from a cornucopia. He could act in three or even four films at the same time. Friends called him a workaholic, but he simply adored what he was doing. Almost all of Abdulov's characters are very memorable and dearly loved by the audience.

The talented actor even managed to play negative characters in such a way that the viewer was imbued with sympathy for them. Vivid examples to that - Koroviev from the film adaptation of "The Master and Margarita" and thief in law Lavr from the TV series "NEXT". And although Abdulov himself did not like to act in serials, considering them to be too long and boring genre, he took part in these shootings with great pleasure.

The filmography of the artist includes about a hundred large and small roles, each of which the audience was looking forward to. Alexander was such a versatile actor that it was very difficult to predict in what form he would appear on the screen again. Acting a lot, he practically did not have time to play in the theater. But he recorded several songs, satisfying his passion for music.

tragic death

Unfortunately, such a hectic activity was the reason for the premature departure of the actor from life. Since his student years, he was tormented by an ulcer, which he treated from time to time, but could not stop in any way in order to thoroughly improve his health.

In 2007, he suddenly became ill, and an ambulance arrived and took him to the hospital, where he almost immediately got on the operating table - the ulcer opened.

A few days after the seemingly successful operation, unforeseen complications began. The actor was flown to the Institute of Cardiology, but the local doctors recommended that he be examined in a good foreign clinic.

The diagnosis made by Israeli doctors turned out to be disappointing - lung sarcoma, and already in the last stage and inoperable. The artist passed away on 01/03/2008 in Moscow, in a hospital bed. He just turned 54...

Personal life

Abdulov's personal life was no less vibrant than his creative biography. There were always women in it, whom he could conquer with just one look. For the first time he seriously fell in love at a very young age, being in the first year of the theater.

Moreover, his chosen one had nothing to do with the world of art at all - she studied to be a doctor. Finding her with another, the impressionable Sasha almost committed suicide. But a classmate saved him.

The next significant woman in his life was the American Karen, who, as it turned out later, worked for the CIA. Abdulov immediately came to the attention of the special services and received an offer of cooperation. But he flatly refused to use his personal life in public interest. I had to break up with Karen, and a few months later she was expelled from the USSR.

Having fallen in love with the beautiful Irina Alferova, Abdulov not only married her, but also adopted her daughter from her first marriage, Xenia. She called him until the end of his days and considered him a father. For 17 years, the couple was one of the most beautiful and strongest in Russian cinema.

With Irina Alferova and daughter Xenia

But Abdulov could not curb his passion for beauties. In his life, new loves very often arose, then he came to repent, but after a while it all started again. Tired of constant betrayal, Irina asked her to let go.

The actors parted quietly, maintaining a warm relationship. Moreover, they did not file a divorce immediately, but only when Irina had a new chosen one from whom she was expecting a child.

Abdulov twisted new novel- with talented ballerina Galina Lobanova. They lived together long enough - Galina was wise woman and forgave Sasha infrequent hobbies. But she wanted to be a full wife famous actor, and Abdulov categorically refused to go to the registry office. Not finding a solution that would suit both, they parted.

Content

On May 29, 1953, Alexander Abdulov was born in the Siberian city of Tobolsk. He was born into a family of theater workers. His father, Gavriil Danilovich, founded the first Russian drama theater in Central Asia. And her mother, Lyudmila Alexandrovna, worked there as a costume designer. Abdulov was the youngest child in the family, he had two brothers: Robert and Vladimir.

School bullying moves

The biography of the legend of Soviet and Russian cinema is known to many. AT three years old he moves from the Uzbek city of Fergana. Actually, it was Uzbekistan that considered its small homeland. At school, Sasha studied somehow. The only lesson that I attended with interest and desire was physical education. He was constantly bullying. Not a single fight or broken glass was complete without Abdulov Jr.

At the age of 13, he started smoking. This habit appeared, like many others - at first they collected cigarette butts with their peers; they shot cigarettes from older guys. And, unfortunately, cigarettes became the reason Alexander Abdulov died.

Parents are creative and busy people, they never punished the young mischief-maker properly. But the brothers decided to take up the upbringing - once, they cut his hair so that Sasha would stay at home and study. In adolescence, he fell under the general influence of the Liverpool musical bands The Beatles. He even made his own guitar.

However, the greatest success in school years the future actor has achieved in sports. He became a master of sports of the USSR in fencing.

Through thorns in GITIS

Gavriil Danilovich devoted his whole life to the theater and wanted one of his sons to inherit his business. However, the eldest and middle did not seek to associate fate with acting or directing. Therefore, his father insisted that Alexander enter the Shchepkin Theater School. Abdulov failed the exams. But prudently submitted documents to the Faculty of Physical Education of the local Pedagogical Institute. The young man entered the physical education without any problems, while simultaneously working in his father's theater.

A year later, Alexander Abdulov again came to the exams at Moscow theater universities. This time, luck smiled at him - a guy from the outback becomes a student of GITIS, gets on the course of Raevsky.

Activities in cinema and theater

Talent young actor noticed right away. So the persuasion of the father was not in vain. Since 1970, Abdulov has acted in films as an extra. And in 1974, Mark Zakharov invited him to the troupe of the Lenkom Theater. For his first (and immediately the main role) in the play “He was not on the lists”, Alexander received the “Theatrical Spring” award. Since then, the fate of Abdulov has been inseparable from Lenkom and Zakharov.

The first film roles also came in the 1970s - these are the tapes “About Vitya, about Masha and the Marine Corps”, “Vera and Fedor”. Next - shooting in famous paintings - "The Twelve Chairs", "Ordinary Miracle". After these roles, the whole Soviet Union, and he did not leave the screens for a long time.

What did Alexander Abdulov die of?

The star of "Wizards" was a heavy smoker. He could smoke two or three packs a day. Naturally, the long-term nicotine effect on the body was not in vain. In 2007, the actor was worried about a perforated ulcer, which he was operated on in August in a Sevastopol hospital. But after the operation, he became sharply worse, so a few hours later Abdulov again lay down on the surgical table. This time the reason is heart problems. After that, the artist spent six days in intensive care.

Then the doctors decided to transfer the patient to the Bakulev Moscow Cardiology Center. However, a few days later, Abdulov became even worse, and it's not in the heart. In Tel Aviv, the actor visited the Ichilov hospital, where he was diagnosed with the fourth stage of lung cancer. This is the final stage at which the disease cannot be cured. Metastases that originated in the lungs spread by this time to all organs, even distant ones.

How old was Alexander Abdulov when he learned his death sentence? 54 years old. His newborn daughter at that time was not even a year old. Always fit, fresh, physically strong actor instantly covered with gray hair and wrinkles. He faded before our eyes.

Israeli and Russian doctors immediately began a course of treatment, which obviously could not give significant results. Death was already knocking on the door of Alexander Abdulov. Last days he spent his life at the Bakulev Center for Cardiovascular Surgery. On a frosty morning on January 3, 2008, at 7:20, Alexander Gavriilovich Abdulov, an extraordinary, talented person, died. A bright and unforgettable actor.

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The sensual and obvious beauty of Alexander Gavriilovich Abdulov was accompanied by an ardent and amorous disposition. So, he almost committed suicide by cutting his veins, due to the betrayal of a companion in his student years. And later he fell head over heels in love with an American, vice-president of a Moscow bank. This fact attracted the attention of the KGB - they explained to him that his passion was a spy. Therefore, the couple broke up.

In 1976, Irina Alferova, who had just come to work at the Lenkom Theater, took his heart. They secretly got engaged, Abdulov adopted Irina's two-year-old daughter from his first marriage, and were considered the most beautiful couple Soviet cinema. For 17 years, this union has delighted, inspired, enchanted and evoked malicious, envious whispers. In 1993, the stars of the film “Do not part with your loved ones” announced a divorce.

Then he lived with ballerina Galina Lobanova for eight years. Then he started an affair with journalist Larisa Shteiman. And at the dawn of his life, in 2006, he married Yulia Meshina, who gave birth to his daughter Evgenia on March 21, 2007.

But happiness was short-lived. Less than six months after the announcement of the terrible diagnosis, Alexander Abdulov died. He starred in hundreds of films, gave dozens of roles that we will never forget.

Alexander Abdulov died on Thursday at 7.20 Moscow time at the Bakulev Center for Cardiovascular Surgery. The actor died after a serious illness - he had a fourth degree of lung cancer. He courageously fought for his life, but the disease turned out to be stronger. The artist's entire creative life was spent in Lenkom, which takes him on his last journey.

This sad news came to me from close friend Abdulov, who called from mobile phone Alexander Gavrilovich himself, ”said Sergey Volter, deputy director of the Lenkom Theater.

“He courageously fought for life, but the illness turned out to be stronger”

A civil memorial service and farewell to Abdulov will take place on January 5 at 10.30 at the Lenkom Theater, where he served. On the same day, the actor will be buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

The artistic director of "Lenkom" Mark Zakharov is shocked by the news of the death of the great actor.

“This, of course, is a shock, a terrible blow ... His departure is a shock for the theater, and I don’t know how we will stand on our feet. Alexander Gavrilovich Abdulov is our everything in Lenkom. And we mourn, we weep, we pray for the repose of his bright soul,” Zakharov said.

Abdulov was admitted to the hospital in August 2007. During filming near Sevastopol, his stomach ulcer suddenly worsened. The actor was immediately operated on. A few days later he was transferred to Moscow, and then he went to Israel for a consultation. There he was diagnosed with lung cancer.

AT last time Abdulov appeared in public in mid-December last year, when, at a ceremony in the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded him the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.

Abdulov was 54 years old - he was born on May 29, 1953. The actor made his stage debut at the age of five in the play "Kremlin Chimes" at the Fergana Drama Theater, where his father worked. In 1975 he graduated from GITIS them. Lunacharsky (course of I.M. Raevsky). In 1974, a talented fourth-year student was noticed by the director of the Moscow Theater named after Lenin Komsomol("Lenkom") Mark Zakharov. He invited Abdulov to the role of Lieutenant Pluzhnikov in the play "He was not on the lists."

This was followed by roles in the performances "The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta", " cruel games”, several roles in “Juno and Avos”, in “Optimistic tragedy”, “Enough simplicity for every wise man”, “Hamlet”. Among the last theatrical roles: Menachem ("Memorial Prayer"), Verkhovensky ("The Dictatorship of Conscience"), Trubetskoy ("School for Emigrants"), Alexei Ivanovich ("Barbarian and Heretic"), Executioner ("The Executioner's Lament"), McMurphy ( "Eclipse").

In 1974, Alexander Abdulov made his film debut as a paratrooper in the film "About Vitya, about Masha and the Marine Corps." National recognition and love brought Alexander Abdulov the role of a young bear in love in the television version of the play-tale by Yevgeny Schwartz "An Ordinary Miracle" (1978), staged by Mark Zakharov.

After the "Ordinary Miracle" Abdulov starred in Zakharov's films "The Same Munchausen" (1979), "The House That Swift Built" (1983), "Formula of Love" (1984), "Kill the Dragon" (1988).

At the same time, Abdulov starred with other directors - in such films as “Do not part with your loved ones” (1980), “Carnival” (1981), “Magicians” (1982), “Look for a Woman” (1982), “Kiss” (1983) , “The most charming and attractive” (1985), “Descended from heaven” (1986), “Keep me, my talisman” (1986), “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district” (1989) and others.

Among the movies last decade Abdulov starred in the films "Quiet Pools", "Yellow Dwarf", "Next" and "Next-2", "About Love", " ice Age”,“ The Master and Margarita ”,“ Kapkan ”and others. In 2000, he made his directorial debut: he directed Feature Film The Bremen Town Musicians and Co is a musical based on a well-known fairy tale.

Abdulov was elected secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. For several years he headed the Moscow International Film Festival.

In 1991, Alexander Gavrilovich was awarded the title People's Artist Russia. He was awarded the Order of Honor, winner of the Crystal Turandot award for the best male role in the play The Barbarian and the Heretic.