Son of Boris Novikov biography personal life. The son of a famous actor lost his home in the famous Moscow skyscraper

(Sergey Novikov - son of Boris Novikov)
The heir of the famous actor was seduced by an insidious doctor.
We were the first to write about a mysterious story related to the son of the famous actor Boris NOVIKOV. After the death of his parents, the mentally ill Sergei became the only heir to the "kopeck piece" in the legendary house on Kotelnicheskaya embankment. People who called themselves the guardians of Novikov Jr. took over his elite apartment. The man himself, who, without his knowledge, was registered in a wreck in the Tver region, is now in the mental hospital. Alekseeva (Kashchenko). Family friends are desperately trying to get him back to his home.
(Boris Novikov)
Recall that Sergei Novikov disappeared from his high-rise apartment on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in mid-April. Neighbors and friends could not find him for a month and a half. Finally, hungry and helpless, they found him in the village of Cherkizovo near Moscow. And the living space of Novikov Jr., which is estimated by realtors at $ 500 thousand, has already, as it turned out, been taken over by rogues.
Sergei was shaved bald in the hospital
New mistress (Adezhda BONDARENKO took over the apartment of the NOVIKOVs)
Alexander Tvardovsky knocked out an apartment in a Stalinist skyscraper for Novikov. The poet was shocked by how penetratingly Boris Kuzmich played at the Theater. Moscow City Council the role of Vasily Terkin. Films with the participation of the actor - "Shadows disappear at noon", "Quiet Flows the Don", "Seven old men and one girl" - are loved by the audience to this day. The postman Pechkin speaks in his voice. Despite this, the actor died in poverty and forgotten by almost everyone.
Novikov's elderly wife, the former actress of the Youth Theater Nadezhda Klimovich, understood that sooner or later their mentally ill son Seryozha would be left alone, and began to look for guardians. After her death, the ministers of the Church of St. Nicholas in Kotelniki, priest Alexy Yushchenko and headman Alexander Brodsky, took care of Sergei. They hired a nurse, brought groceries. But when Novikov Jr. became the full owner of the apartment, he suddenly disappeared. After an intensive search, it turned out that Brodsky took the unfortunate man to Cherkizovo near Moscow. And he settled in a hut belonging to a certain Nadezhda Bondarenko, who became the owner of the prestigious apartment of the Novikovs.
Investigators of the Tagansky district police department began checking, but formally everything was according to the law. According to the documents, it turned out that Bondarenko bought a living space for $180,000 from an unknown citizen Sergunov, who had previously allegedly purchased a “kopeck piece” from Sergei Novikov.
Boris Kuzmich always worried about his only son Seryozha
The son of the actor, alas, was never officially recognized as incompetent. And, of course, he did not see any money in his eyes.
mysterious death
Having snatched Novikov Jr. from the hands of Bondarenko, his friends placed him in a psychiatric hospital named after Alekseev.
“In the Moscow region, Serezha was kept in terrible conditions,” says a family friend, actor Nikolai Denisov. - Therefore, the doctors had to work hard to at least bring him back to normal. Sergey now feels better, but he has nowhere to go from the hospital. In order to return the apartment, it is necessary to cancel the sale and purchase agreement through the court, this is now being handled by a lawyer from the Screen Actors Guild. Bondarenko does not appear in court... The worst thing is that in the Tagansky District Department of Internal Affairs they told me that they would not open a criminal case on the fact of fraud. They are not embarrassed that Novikov was discharged from Moscow without his knowledge and on the same day was registered in a hut in the Tver region, where several alcoholics are still registered. By the way, the first buyer of Serezha's apartment Sergunov, in fact, a figurehead, recently died under mysterious circumstances. I was told that he had a criminal record, had drug problems. Maybe his death has something to do with our case? It was possible to find out that Nadezhda Bondarenko also has a dark past.

NOVIKOV gained nationwide fame for half a role in the film "Shadows Disappear at Noon"
In her homeland in the Novonikolaevsky district of the Volgograd region, several people drink too much in rustic wrecks, where she moved them from Moscow and the Moscow region.
Didn't recognize my son
Friends of the Novikov family handed over the diary of Serezha's mother to Express Gazeta. Shortly before her death, Nadezhda Antonovna revealed the secret of why her son became handicapped. It turns out that in childhood, Sergei was a healthy boy with a creative streak. Mental illness was discovered after graduation.
“In 1975, my son was diagnosed with cerebral vasospasm,” Nadezhda Antonovna explains. - On simple sedatives, he felt great for a month and a half. And once he deceived me, saying that he needed to go to see a doctor. From there he called home and said that he still needed to undergo a course of treatment. It turns out that he fell in love with a doctor who was 11 years older than him.

(mother of Sergei Novikov)
Nadezhda Antonovna was unable to transfer her son into safe hands
So, the guy had an affair with the attending physician. What happened next is hard to understand. Either the doctor sincerely wanted to improve the health of the young lover and began to stuff him with strong psychotropic drugs, or in such a barbaric way she decided to get rid of the annoying admirer. In any case, the result was terrible.
“Literally a week later I didn’t recognize him,” Novikova recalls. - There was increased salivation, lethargy, the legs could hardly move ... When I met with the doctor and asked what happened, she said that "the process went so quickly." Discharging home, I asked to issue a disability for my son, to which the doctor replied that it was impossible ...
So Sergei Novikov is still considered an absolutely healthy person. To the delight of swindlers who shamelessly robbed a helpless person.
Nadezhda BONDARENKO took possession of the apartment of the NOVIKOVs
Valeria GUSCHINA, director of the Film Actors Guild:
- In recent years, there have been several tragic cases at once, when crooks hunted for the living space of famous people. For example, Marianna Strizhenova, who lived in the Arbat area, unexpectedly sold her prestigious apartment for ... $ 4,200. And just a day after that, she died of a heart attack. Actress Svetlana Chachava was found dead at her home. Her body lay in an unnatural position: as if in the last moments of her life she was crawling to the phone. And the cord from it was torn out. It soon became clear that Svetlana's apartment at the time of her death was officially sold to strangers. Dark stories are also connected with the square meters of the ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya and the actress Tamara Nosova.
(Boris Novikov is buried at the Danilovsky cemetery in Moscow)

“How many times did the two of us sit in the back of a bakery and Boris Kuzmich taught me about life while drinking vodka!” - recalls the actor Nikolai Denisov. “Kolka,” he said, “be cunning, careful with them.” "With whom?" I asked. "With those who adapt, creates appearance." Kuzmich himself could not do any of this.

If a person was born a comedian or a character actor, then for some reason all sorts of ridiculous situations will arise in his life. So, once a young student Borya Novikov decided to approach Solomon Mikhoels, to whose performances he ran, giving his last pennies for tickets.

In the post-war years, life was tight, it was bad with clothes, Borya’s mother, who taught Russian at the NKVD school, sewed a short coat, but not from anything, but from an overcoat, which only employees of the “organs” wore. Citizens recognized this mouse-colored fabric from a mile away. And after the performance, in which Mikhoels shone, Borya, shy, approached him to ask for an autograph and pay his respects. But Mikhoels, apparently, did not even have time to make out a thin, shy boy, because he saw in front of him an NKVD overcoat, even if it was altered. At the sight of the “mouse”, the famous actor instantly recoiled and blew away from the dumbfounded admirer.

The boy who dreamed of the stage most likely never met the idol of his youth, while Mikhoels himself soon died at the hands of those who wore these same gray overcoats ...

There are few people left who could tell about Boris Kuzmich. He has been dead for more than fifteen years, and Nadezhda Antonovna, a widow, who in a desperate moment of her life destroyed his letters to her and her own to him, and all her own records that concerned her husband, also died. Their son Seryozha, himself no longer young, has been ill for a long time, shares his memories of his parents little and reluctantly. And I talked with Kuzmich for almost a quarter of a century (with interruptions for the time that I was not in Russia). And now, as Seryoga's closest friend, I help him.

Of course, my story does not claim to be complete, but I will try to show what kind of person Boris Novikov was, who was adored by millions of viewers in the Soviet Union.

As soon as you hear: “Let's thunder to the fanfares” (his hero pronounced “panfare”) - and immediately before his eyes his cunning childish look. Novikov - an actor by nature, not without reason said that he did not want to be anyone else since childhood. In ordinary life, he always remained a natural person, but, apparently, the game was his nature, and therefore around him, especially when he was in high spirits, small fireworks flared up.

For example, Boris Kuzmich, who lived in the famous skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya embankment, came to the bakery, which was located below. My sister Galya worked there. Kuzmich began from the threshold: “Girls, how are you, how are you?” Jokes, jokes, compliments followed. In a word, the joker was a merry fellow.

He remembered all the birthdays, brought gifts to the “girls”, at least a chocolate bar, once gave Galya a flower, shyly confessing: “I plucked it from the flower bed. Nothing?"

It was in my sister's bakery that Kuzmich and I met. We often sat in the back room, where he went down directly from his apartment, by the back door. There was a “bubble”, there was a snack, there were talks about the theater-cinema, about life. “Kolya, you have a character like mine,” sighed Boris Kuzmich. - You're so straight! You can't do that, be smarter." And he himself, a truth-seeker, did not tolerate injustice, climbed to intercede for the offended. And he got it in full: he made enemies, left the theaters. But the younger generation in my face taught life, and I listened. At some point, Nadezhda Antonovna appeared and gently but persistently dragged her already drunk husband home.

They had creative people in their neighbors: actors, directors, writers. When Kuzmich was offered a three-room apartment in the main entrance, he refused, considering that it was too “luxurious” for him, and as a result, he agreed to a two-room apartment in another entrance. After a while, he became a neighbor of Alexander Tvardovsky, who moved to this house, whose Vasily Terkin played in a play staged at the Mossovet Theater. And Terkin came out like that, that you can’t imagine better on stage, Tvardovsky really liked it. The only thing that surprised him was the false nose with a “potato”, which was attached to Novikov for the sake of the “reliability” of the image. Boris Kuzmich's own nose was hooked. One of the actors, namely Rostislav Plyatt, said at the artistic council, when they were going to stage Terkin, that a Russian soldier could not have such a nose.

Apparently, they listened to him and corrected the "flaw". But even with a false nose, Kuzmich played quite naturally, it was not for nothing that the audience laughed and cried at the performance, his Terkin was so charming and truthful.

Such success of Novikov stunned his colleagues at work. Some of them disliked Kuzmich anyway, primarily for his sharp tongue and directness. And he really behaved as if he was allowed a lot, and not only in the theater. My sister told me how one day a famous composer wrote a complaint about the workers of their store “upstairs”: you see, they didn’t bring Borodinsky home to him. In those days, this bread was not brought to the bakery at all - the premises were being repaired there. And now, in one of the central newspapers, an article appeared about how the popularly beloved composer was offended.

“Don't worry,” said Boris Kuzmich to Galya. “He will apologize to you.” "Yes you! Apologize, how! - "You'll see." And what do you think? A few days later, the composer came to her work together with Kuzmich and asked for forgiveness for his act.

So in the venerable metropolitan theater, which has its own hierarchy, Novikov, apparently, tried to exist as if everyone was equal, not accepting limits and conventions. Like Faina Ranevskaya, with whom they were friends and often teased each other. “Are you, Fanya, a hooligan?” - Novikov shouted when Ranevskaya from her second floor asked my sister to throw a loaf out of her window to feed the pigeons. “Borya,” she answered, “wouldn’t say hello, but you’ve been talking nasty things to me since morning.” And both laughed ... So, the glory that came to Boris Kuzmich did not give anyone peace.

Of course, the main director Yuri Zavadsky, who staged the performance, and Novikov himself were nominated for the Lenin Prize. But like Zavadsky, this hurt: the leading actors do not have such an award, but here he played one role, albeit a success, and on you! As a result, the head manager received the award, and Kuzmich was bypassed ...

However, the premium is not so important: they didn’t give it - and that’s fine. Something else was offensive: in the theater, except for Terkin, Boris Kuzmich did not have serious roles. He waited for years and got nothing. Finally, he decided to talk with Zavadsky, which was difficult for Kuzmich, who was modest and even shy, if he needed to solve his problem. I imagine a dignitary, self-confident, sitting in the chair of the chief director and stuttering with excitement Novikov, whose fate was being decided at that moment.

Boris Kuzmich could not help but understand that many things would be remembered to him. The same drinks. And although he did not disrupt the rehearsals, he probably violated discipline, was late, once they even decided to work him out at a friendly meeting. He listened to his colleagues and said in response something like: “If I don’t drink, I will outplay all of you.” But, probably, Kuzmich hoped that it was not drinking or insolence that would solve the matter, and therefore he went to Zavadsky. He asked Yuri Alexandrovich why he did not give him big roles. Zavadsky looked at Novikov for a long time and answered the question with a question: “Who are you?”

And it should be noted that Kuzmich was a vulnerable person, offended to tears. I remember an incident that happened between us many years after that story. We had a driver at the Youth Theater, where we worked together with Novikov's wife Nadezhda Antonovna, also Borya.

Once he promised me something to do and did not fulfill the promise. I called my sister, she says: "Borya is sitting with me." I, indignant, demand: “Give him here!” Fits the phone. Me: “Well, you, moron ...” And before I could finish, a broken voice was heard in the receiver: “Who? Am I… am I a jerk?” Then I realized that it was Kuzmich. And he already smashed me with a three-story obscenity, but with quirks, for which he was a great master! And cursed and sobbed. I was taken aback by surprise, then burst out laughing, began to apologize to him, explaining that I thought about another Boris, the driver. But it was necessary to get so fired up because of nonsense!

Now can you imagine how Boris Kuzmich took Zavadsky's words? Of course, he was silent, but immediately left the theater.

Gone nowhere. Soon, Valentin Pluchek, who headed the Theater of Satire, found out that Novikov had gone to free bread, and called him to him. In that theater, he also had a difficult time, both because of his character, and because he had only one notable work - in the play "Terkin in the Other World."

Truly his acting fate has developed in the cinema. However, also if not episodes, then the role of the second plan. But what! .. Kuzmich loved to improvise, and the directors were pleased with his free manner of acting and verbal pretzels. Remember how Ilya in the Soviet TV series “Shadows Disappear at Noon”, when his pants were set on fire on a raft, falls into the water and bursts into a tirade that he will get tuberculosis: “Will you pay me a pension?” Novikov composed it on the go, floundering in cold water. Even his misfires in the text became stories.

For example, they filmed a scene for The Quiet Don, where Natalya walks in full view of the whole village. The filming involved local residents who gave replicas. The heat was at forty degrees, everyone was sweating utterly. Someone from the extras certainly did something wrong, so they shot take after take, although the expensive film had to be saved. The hero of Novikov, Mitka Korshunov, had to answer the words of the boy: “You speak and bite!” And Kuzmich, having completely evaporated, gave out: “You talk and have a bite!” I had to shoot another double.

His wife went to the shooting with him for a long time. They met in Zavadsky's studio. She, a beauty, enjoyed great success with men, and at first she did not like the outwardly unremarkable Novikov. Moreover, he made fun of the girl, for example, he came up and said, they say, your skirt is too short or, conversely, too long.

But Nadia was a neat woman, she always knew how to dress - and such words! But Boris kept joking, and she already involuntarily began to pay attention to him. And then they went from the studio to the suburbs with performances, and there they became friends ...

The studios, having learned that the beauty Nadia had an affair with Borey Novikov, were perplexed: what did she find in him? Although Kuzmich was a cavalryman, he knew how to roll up to a woman, and in general he could charm and chat with anyone. In addition, he was very gifted, stood out among fellow students, and this is a lot for a girl who herself is a creative nature. Nadia didn't care that her fiancé was poor. And who in those days of the young actors had more than he? One of the joys of that time for both was to scrape together some money and go to a pastry shop on the Arbat, where they would take a cake and a glass of tea.

They merried.

Nadenka, as her husband called her, became like a mother to him, took care of him literally like a son. Boris Kuzmich did not memorize texts very well, especially poetry, so she sat next to him and taught with him. So Kuzmich learned the role of Terkin - completely poetic. He was freed by Nadenka from all household chores, and he was rarely at home, acting in several films a year. If Nadezhda Antonovna left, then, returning, she saw the following picture: in the kitchen in the sink - a mountain of dirty dishes, the refrigerator was empty, the dog was not fed, and Kuzmich and his son Serezha were sitting like kings and listening to music or reading books. Then the mother began to wash, wash, cook. She was a rare and excellent hostess. The husband and son walked around in good suits, polished and ironed, Boris Kuzmich told everyone that Nadenka both dresses him and looks after his wardrobe.

She looked after him herself, so she went to the shooting: suddenly she doesn’t eat properly, and he has diabetes, suddenly he drinks too much, filmmakers love this business on expeditions. When her husband, while in Moscow, sat up with friends for a drink, Nadenka came and affectionately, like a child, persuaded him: "Well, Borenka, let's go, let's go." She carefully escorted the drinking companies brought by Kuzmich out of her house. In general, his wife fought diligently and variously with his drinks, and she also paid a lot of attention to her son. And this despite the fact that until a certain time she herself played in the theater and was actively engaged in social work there.

My sister recalls how she saw all three of them when they went to the graduation party to Seryozha: happy Boris Kuzmich, dressed with a needle, elegant Nadenka, a little taller than him, and between them is an elegant young man.

The son graduated from school with a gold medal, soon entered the institute. He was a fashionista, even a dandy, slender, interesting, only gloomy, something Byronic was seen in him ...

Recently, Sergei's classmate told me what he was like at school. Well, he could laugh at the lesson. Sometimes in a conversation he would suddenly launch into abstruse reasoning. But what's so special about it? Unpredictable, well-read, a little abstruse boy-excellent student. And so what happened to him was a complete surprise. Serezha was sick a lot as a child, already a young man suffered a severe flu, probably, all this led to the fact that soon after graduation he ended up in a psychiatric clinic.

Since then, I have been staying there from time to time.

In general, Kuzmich tried to keep his feelings in public in public, as before to everyone with a smile, with a gentle accent. And yet he has changed. Maybe this is a coincidence - after all, the craving for drinking is only gradually increasing - but, as many of those who knew Boris Kuzmich recall, he began to drink more often. His libations did not interfere with his work, the directors did not remember that Novikov appeared on the set out of uniform, for example, Uskov and Krasnopolsky, who filmed Shadows Disappear at Noon, say that they have never seen Boris Kuzmich tipsy. So he could take matters into his own hands. So, work was the last thing that kept him. Because in ordinary life he let go of the reins. He wandered around Kotelnicheskaya, drank with friends and even strangers, no matter who poured everyone's favorite actor, who himself never distinguished between ranks and estates and communicated equally willingly with both the general and the janitor.

Returning home drunk, sometimes, in order not to annoy his wife, Kuzmich fit into the hallway on the couch. But it happened that he began to perform, and then Nadezhda Antonovna hurried to lock herself in her room. I think it was her husband’s drinking that she ultimately could not forgive him when she destroyed the part of the family archive associated with him.

Of course, it was hard for Kuzmich at home: an unhealthy son, as well as a sick and lost his wife's brother, who was dying with them. Let's be honest: this, as a rule, a woman can tense up and drag a heavy load on herself day after day - take care of the sick without feeling like a victim.

Men endure the suffering of others worse, even if it is a native person, especially if they are used to giving most of their lives not to the family, but to work, and even to be absent from home for a long time.

Seryozha's father loved and pitied him very much. Usually Kuzmich was closed in everything that concerned his experiences, but one day, when he went to my sister's store when no one was there, he said to her: “I can’t go home. How can I look at it? It was clear what he meant. “Boris Kuzmich, everything can still get better,” Galya consoled him. “No,” he answered, “it won’t get better, the best professors were shown, they said that there was no hope for recovery.” And when, as always, we met with Kuzmich in that same boiler room, he muffledly said: “Pour it up ... Seryoga will not come to his senses.”

Now Kuzmich earned money for his family alone: ​​his wife had to leave work to be with her son. Kuzmich acted in films and traveled around the country with performances, despite his diabetes and heart problems: after all, at the age of forty he suffered a heart attack. He loved to film and perform in front of the audience, but in the 90s there was less work. And when it became very bad with health, the family began a beggarly life. Nadezhda Antonovna spun around as best she could, trying to make ends meet in their simple household. She and her husband were both proud to turn to someone for help - no way! It was to Kuzmich, while he was earning, that someone, even an unfamiliar person, could always come up and say: “Hello, to the fanfare!” - they often addressed him so familiarly, calling him "to the fanfare" - and ask for money "on loan". Novikov gave and certainly added: "To your health."

His debts were almost never returned to him, he never asked... But he himself could not go and tell someone about his current plight, it's good that others, primarily in the Screen Actors Guild, found out about this and began to help.

On one of the winter days, Boris Kuzmich went to the store, slipped and fell on the way back. He could no longer get up, and lay on the sidewalk, holding a bag of eggs in his hand. Some of the passers-by recognized Novikov, called for help, he was carried home - several blocks away. It turned out that Boris Kuzmich had a broken femoral neck. And he was in so much pain...

He died in the summer, at the height of the Moscow Film Festival. The ashes stood on the bookshelf in the apartment for more than one year, until they finally buried him ... Time passed.

Once I went with financial assistance from the theater to Nadezhda Antonovna. "Seryozha, come here! she called her son. - Kolya Denisov has come! Sergey came out of the kitchen, stopped, stared intently into my eyes for a long, long time, and in his gaze there was, as I later thought, a certain sign. Finally he said: "Hello, Kolya." After that meeting, I began to visit them more often than before, and carried out all sorts of orders from Nadezhda Antonovna.

She was already old, she only went out to the store, and Sergey generally stayed at home for months, because it was difficult for his mother to walk with him without outside help. And then one day Nadezhda Antonovna fell at home. I couldn’t get up, and Seryozha didn’t open it to any stranger, so she called my wife (I was on the set). They called the Ministry of Emergency Situations, they broke down the door and took away Nadezhda Antonovna, who, like Boris Kuzmich, broke her hip ...

Of course, in recent years she has been worried about how her son will live when she is gone, she has been considering some options with an apartment, looking for a guardian for Seryozha. Found it wrong...

After the death of his mother, Sergei fell into the hands of apartment swindlers and as a result disappeared. We were looking for him all over the world, the Actors Guild joined in, even television was attracted. Found in the village, in a dilapidated house, deprived of a Moscow residence permit, thin, suffering. They were admitted to the hospital for treatment. I remember once again I came to Seryoga, and my long-standing conviction that he was not so sick was confirmed. Seryozha was sitting at the table, eating, when one of the patients approached us and immediately asked me a question: “Are you Stirlitz?” Serega, continuing to drink tea, muttered: "Fool."

He declared that he was the president, and promised to give me an apartment, “in which music will play -“ Nightingale ”... this, how is it?” And Sergey answered gloomily, still without raising his head: "Alyabyeva" - put down his glass and got up from the table. No, one recognizes in him, at least in part, his father - a well-read and sharp-minded Kuzmich. And it's comforting.

But when I came to the hospital, I kept thinking: what to do with Serezha after? The apartment was recaptured, but it was ruined, things that the “new owners” had not yet stolen were packed in the corridor, soot settled on the walls after a smoky summer. I brought Seryoga to my place, asked a woman I knew to sit with him for money. They slowly cleaned the apartment, moved the owner into it, now he, as his mother wanted, lives here under good supervision. Happiness that everything ended like this, probably, Boris Kuzmich deserved.

He did love people...

One summer evening, at about eleven o'clock, a mini-bus drove into the courtyard of the house on Kotelnicheskaya. Kuzmich came out of it, followed by a whole gypsy choir. Kuzmich gave a sign, the gypsies began to sing, played the guitars, started dancing. And the courtyard of the famous house with its high walls on three sides and garages on the fourth has perfect acoustics, just a concert hall. Residents looked out of the windows, smiled, listened. Nadezhda Antonovna was worried that her husband would be taken to the police for breaking the silence. But the neighbors were satisfied with the concert and to this day they remember it ...

Boris Novikov is a Soviet theater and film actor, who in the mid-90s earned the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In his filmography, there are a number of leading roles in such films as "Shadows disappear at noon", "Seven old men and one girl" and the show "Zucchini" 13 chairs ".

Also, Novikov's voice is known to small viewers, because he voiced many cartoon characters, including those from Prostokvashino. But at the same time, Boris Kuzmich remained in the annals of Soviet cinema, primarily as the King of Episodes.

Childhood and youth

He was born in the Ryazan region, at the Ryazhsk station, in a family of ordinary working people. Boris was an obedient, but at the same time very active and inquisitive boy. He studied well at school, spent a lot of time in various circles at the House of Pioneers. But the fate of many of his peers was changed by the war. Novikov was lucky to return home alive, after which the guy thought about his education.

Boris leaves his parental home and leaves for the capital. There he manages to interest the director Yuri Zavadsky with his artistic abilities, who accepts a talented young man in his Studio School.

Theatre

After completing an acting course, Novikov became a member of the troupe of the Mossovet Theater in 1948. For a long time, the novice actor was on the sidelines, but then he was entrusted with a responsible role in the production of the famous poem. Novikov made a splash. Many people thanked him for the fact that he was able not only to convey the image of the character, but also to realistically show the feelings of the recent war. Even the author of the poem himself was stunned and enthusiastic.

But, as is often the case, success is accompanied by envy. Other theater employees began to "poison" the talented performer, and Boris Novikov decides to change his job. He is gladly invited to the troupe of the Maly Theater, but ill-wishers call there and discredit the actor in front of the new leadership. Of course, the transition did not take place.

But Valentin Pluchek from the Satire Theater decided not to pay attention to idle talk. Novikov approached him as a professional, and for almost 10 years Boris Kuzmich proved with gratitude almost daily that the great director was not mistaken. But in 1972 he still had to end his theatrical career due to serious health problems. Since then, Novikov has focused on cinematography.

Movies

During his long creative life, Boris Novikov took part in more than 150 projects. It is interesting that at first he was offered negative roles of drunkards, truants and bandits, but then the directors began to understand that, firstly, the actor's type did not correspond to these characters, and secondly, Novikov himself was capable of much more.

Boris himself considered the painting Quiet Flows the Don to be his real debut. He got the small role of Mitka Korshunov, but the actor played this image beyond praise. And after playing the roles of the hairdresser Matvey Yakovlevich in the comedy "Girl with a Guitar", the secretary of the Komsomol organization in the social drama "My Friend Kolka" and especially the jeweler Isaac Liberzon in the action-packed television series "His Excellency's Adjutant" Novikov began to be called the "King of episodes."

But do not assume that Boris Kuzmich did not get the leading characters. He starred in the film adaptation of Pushkin's "Shot", in the comedy "Seven Old Men and One Girl", the historical film "Shadows Disappear at Noon", the drama "Father and Son", the grotesque comedy "The Talking Monkey".

The last film in which Boris Novikov starred was the adventure film The Return of the Battleship, released in the year of his death. The actor appeared in the detective story "Transit for the Devil", but his "role" was edited from frames shot for the film "Your will, Lord!", And the image was voiced by another performer,.

Personal life

Boris Novikov met his only wife Nadezhda Klimovich in his student years. The girl also studied as an actress, their relationship developed very rapidly. Soon the young people got married. By the way, the husband and wife did not work in the same theater, although this practice is quite common in acting families: Nadezhda Antonovna performed at the Moscow Youth Theater.

In 1949 their son Sergei was born. But instead of the expected joy of the spouses, an additional test of strength awaited. The boy was born very painful, and over the years it became clear that he was lagging behind his peers in development. Nevertheless, Sergey managed to finish school and even studied at the institute, but then a mental disorder made itself felt.

Boris Novikov and Nadezhda Klimovich took care of their sick son until the end of their days, took care of him and took care of him. Later, after the death of his parents, unknown scammers sent the man to a psychiatric clinic and took away his living space. And only thanks to the intervention of neighbors and the Screen Actors Guild, Novikov's apartment was returned to his son, where he still lives under the supervision of a nurse.

Death

Back in the early 70s, Boris Novikov began to develop diabetes. Because of this illness, the actor was forced to say goodbye to the theater stage and focus on cinema. Recently, the family has lived very poorly. Not only was there practically no work for actors of the older generation in the 90s, but the illness of Boris Kuzmich required large financial costs. But the old people had to take care of their disabled son.

But Novikov was a very modest and secretive person. He did not seek help from any of his past acquaintances. Help for an elderly family was provided only by the one who sent them a certain amount every month.

Just as quietly and imperceptibly as he lived in recent years, Boris Novikov left for another world. He died of diabetes causing cardiac arrest on July 25, 1997, less than two weeks after his 72nd birthday.

The death of the actor was not reported either in the press or on television. Much later, the journalists of one of the printed publications, having learned about the tragedy, printed a note. Fans of the artist collected money, for which a tombstone was erected.

Filmography

• 1958 - Quiet Don
• 1958 - The Captain's Daughter
• 1963 - "Extraordinary City"
• 1964 - "The Adventures of Tolya Klyukvin"
• 1966 - "Shot"
• 1968 - "Seven old men and one girl"
• 1969-1981 - Zucchini "13 chairs"
• 1971 - "Shadows disappear at noon"
• 1974 - "These are the stories"
• 1979 - "Father and Son"
• 1987 - "Autumn Dreams"
• 1990 - Far, Far Away
• 1991 - Talking Monkey

Actor Boris Novikov: biography, family, films Our today's hero is the famous Soviet actor Boris Novikov, who has several dozen bright roles in big films. Do you want to know the details of his biography, creative and personal life? Then we recommend reading the article from beginning to end. Biography: childhood and youth Novikov Boris Kuzmich was born on July 13, 1925 at the Ryazhsk-1 station in the Ryazan province. His parents are ordinary people who earned money by hard physical labor. He grew up as an active and obedient boy. Boris studied well at school, attended various circles. Teachers praised him for his efforts, craving for knowledge and responsible approach to any business. Boris's youth fell on the war years. The guy was accepted into the ranks of the Red Army. He returned from the war and took up education. Our hero went to Moscow. There he managed to enter the School-Studio of Y. Zavadsky the first time. Theatrical work In 1948, Boris was awarded a diploma of graduation from the university. He had no problems finding work. A young and talented actor was accepted into the troupe of the Theater. Moscow City Council. For a long time he was on the sidelines. And only in 1961 he was able to fully demonstrate his creative abilities and talent. Novikov played Vasily Terkin in the production of the same name. He accurately conveyed the character and emotional mood of his character. In 1963, the actor had to leave the Theater. Moscow City Council. And all because of the terrible persecution that his colleagues in the troupe arranged for him. Novikov got a job at the Theater of Satire. On the stage of this institution, he performed until 1972. During this time, Boris played many prominent roles. For example, in "Intervention" Novikov was a pharmacist. And in the production of "The Old Maid" he tried on the image of Churin. Few people know that actor Boris Novikov suffered a heart attack in 1971. He also battled diabetes for over 20 years. Due to deteriorating health, the artist was forced to say goodbye to the stage. Since 1972, he was no longer a member of the troupe of the Theater of Satire. Boris Novikov: films When did our hero first appear on the screens? It happened way back in 1954. He was approved for a small role in the film “Birthmarks. The auditors willy-nilly." The young actor saw the filming process from the inside. Boris liked everything. He made every effort to develop a film career. At first, Novikov had to play negative characters: bandits, spies, drunkards and others. Boris received his first significant role in 1958. He successfully got used to the image of Mitka Korshunov in the film Quiet Flows the Don. The actor learned about what all-Union fame is after filming the film “Shadows Disappear at Noon”. His character was Taras "Kupiproday". Boris Novikov starred in more than 150 films. The films in which he played the main roles are listed below: "An Extraordinary City" (1962) - Evgeny Oblaposhkin; "Shot" (1966) - Kuzma; "Seven old men and one girl" (1968) - Stepan Bubnov; “These are the stories” (1974) - Gavrilych; "Father and Son" (1979) - Porfiry Isaev; "Autumn Dreams" (1987) - Mikita; "Far, far away" (1990) - Stepan; "The Talking Monkey" (1991) - Vasilich. Recent years In the early 1990s, the national cinematography experienced a severe crisis. Few films were made. Actors have been out of work for months. Boris Kuzmich was no exception. He hoped that some director would offer him an interesting role. But there were no calls. Actor Boris Novikov continued acting. He got small roles. However, he was happy with any work. And in 1997, luck smiled at the artist. Boris Kuzmich starred in the film "The Return of the Battleship". Director Gennady Poloka was satisfied with the collaboration with him. After all, our hero 100% coped with the tasks assigned to him. The Russian-Belarusian film "The Return of the Battleship" was watched by millions of viewers. Many of them liked the image created by Boris Kuzmich. The last role of Novikov took place after he left this mortal world. How can that be? Shortly before his death, the actor starred in the detective series Transit for the Devil. And the picture was released only in 1999. Frames with the participation of Boris Kuzmich were included in the film. However, the role for him was voiced by Yuri Sarantsev. Personal life of Boris Novikov A handsome guy with a radiant smile has always attracted the attention of girls. However, our hero could not be called a ladies' man and a womanizer. He dreamed of marrying once and for life. In the end, it did. Our hero met his wife Nadezhda Klimovich as a student. She also chose acting. Their romance developed rapidly. Soon the lovers got married. The celebration turned out to be modest. But the eyes of the bride and groom shone with happiness. In this marriage, a son, Sergei, was born. The boy was constantly ill and lagged behind in development. In 1975, he was diagnosed with cerebral vasospasm. In order to avoid complications and seizures, Sergei had to take special drugs. Achievements Acting is not the only area in which Boris Kuzmich worked. He was an excellent vocalist. The song performed by him sounded in the film "On the Count's Ruins" (1957). Surely many of you remember the next line - "Because of a pair of loose braids ...". Boris Novikov, whose biography we are considering, voiced many animated films. At one time, such characters as the postman Pechkin from Prostokvashino, the black-moustached crook from The Adventures of Vasya Kurochkin and so on spoke in his voice. In May 1961, B. Novikov was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. But that's not all. In August 1994, he became a People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Death In recent years, our hero almost did not leave the house and communicated with few people. Before his death, he was chained to a bed. The only person who looked after him and provided moral support was his wife Nadezhda. The family was in dire need of money. After all, the sick actor needed good food and expensive medicines. Every month, Leonid Yarmolnik sent him $200 from the L-Club. However, more money was needed for treatment. July 25, 1997 Boris Novikov left this world. The sad thing is that no one noticed his departure. Then the International Film Festival was held in the capital. All eminent artists and directors participated in this event. Boris Novikov's funeral was attended by several people - his wife and elderly relatives. The famous actor found his last refuge at the Danilovsky cemetery in Moscow. A few years ago, a black marble monument was erected on his grave. The money was collected by ordinary citizens. Another tragedy Hardest of all the death of an actor was experienced by his wife Nadezhda Antonovna. The woman withdrew into herself, stopped communicating with friends and relatives. The Film Actors Guild began to patronize Nadezhda Novikova and her seriously ill son. They were provided with medical and material assistance. Year by year, Nadezhda Antonovna's health deteriorated noticeably. One day she fell in her apartment and broke her hip. This event proved fatal. The widow of a famous actor has fallen ill. She passed away on September 18, 2008. An unpleasant story with the son of Boris Novikov The only heir to Nadezhda Antonovna was her son. It was he who got a kopeck piece on Kotelnicheskaya embankment. At that time, the property was valued at $1 million. After the death of his mother, Sergei was left completely alone. The fraudster Nadezhda Bondarenko took advantage of this. She worked as a nurse and received a penny salary. And then the son of Boris Novikov appeared on her life path. The woman won over a mentally unhealthy man, promised him help and protection. Soon Nadezhda Bondarenko developed a cunning plan. She found guardians for Sergey. These were figureheads who agreed to play a certain role for a fee. In April 2009, the son of Boris and Nadezhda Novikov suddenly disappeared. Neighbors and family friends began to worry about him. Later they managed to find out that the apartment he owned was sold. Now housing belongs to Nadezhda Bondarenko. And what happened to Sergei? Firstly, he was prescribed in a dilapidated house located on the territory of the Tver region. Secondly, a mentally ill man was placed in a mental hospital. Alekseeva (Kashchenko). Family friends have repeatedly tried to help Sergei return housing. And not so long ago they managed to do it through the court. In conclusion Now you know where he was born, studied, with whom he was married and when the actor Boris Novikov died. In the life of this wonderful person there were ups and downs, sad and joyful moments. He made a significant contribution to the development of Soviet cinema. Blessed memory to him...