The fate of a man whose rainbow-colored image has been pleasing viewers from TV screens for 16 years now, was not at all so sunny and carefree. In the bright life of this young artist, the death of a loved one, stabbing, and love have already happened!
Childhood
On January 28, 1988, in the city of Tver, which lies on the banks of the frozen Volga River, a boy, Misha, was born in the family of an entrepreneur, Sergei Vyacheslavovich Kazakov, and his wife, Natalia Mikhailovna.
The Kazakov family was very friendly. Father succeeded, and they traveled a lot, traveled almost all European countries. But during the summer holidays, Misha, along with his older brother Stas, was taken to the village of Myalitsino, located in the Kashinsky district of the Tver region. There, the future actor Mikhail Kazakov was fond of a rather unusual occupation for a child of his age - he grew exotic plants. The second passion for the holidays for the boy was a mountain bike, on which he traveled all around Myalitsino. He fell many times, broke his knees and elbows, but invariably returned home with a smile.
At school, young Mikhail Kazakov was known as a sloven and a bully. However, a clever boy from birth, if required, could quickly get together and have time to memorize a verse literally before the start of the lesson, expressively read it and immediately forget it forever.
Father
Sergei Vyacheslavovich was a fairly well-known person in Tver and its environs. Having opened his own enterprise for the production of carbonated drinks, he named the brand of produced lemonade by his own surname - “Cossacks”, thereby guaranteeing high quality in a peculiar way. At the same time, drinks "Cossacks" were much cheaper than their counterparts in stores in Tver. Residents of the city eagerly preferred them, and Sergey Vyacheslavovich’s business grew by leaps and bounds.
However, in 2002, Kazakov Sr. was tragically killed with a knife in a fight. His killer was subsequently acquitted, but the remaining wife and two children suffered an irreparable loss, were on the verge of survival.
Mom
On the shoulders of Natalia Mikhailovna, who had just lost her husband, in addition to taking care of her sons left without a father, more terrible trials fell. For a long time, she was pursued by unknown criminals. They regularly threatened and even beat the unfortunate woman, knocking out of her entire proceeds of the enterprise of the deceased husband. The police turned out to be powerless; they didn’t catch anyone.
At the same time, the father of Natalia Mikhailovna died, followed by a paralyzed mother. The life of mother of Mikhail Kazakov was painfully similar to a terrible tale. The only thing that kept her afloat was the goal she had invented herself - to put Misha on the feet of her youngest son.
Jumble
At school, despite irrepressible energy and mobility, Misha was a rather obese child, who now and then fell into such comical situations that even make a movie.
Seeing that her son's acting potential is confidently manifesting, her mother wrote him to the Moscow acting studio, in which Mikhail Kazakov traveled for some time, learning the basics of choreography, stage movements and speech.
After several months of classes, he, along with the rest of the group, was shown the commission of the children's magazine "Jumble", which selects the guys suitable for filming. Misha was the only owner of a textured, colorful and expressive appearance. From the whole group they took him alone, without any selection.
I was just lucky. They urgently needed a guy of my complexion for the new series of "Jumble" ...
The first episode of the newsreel with his participation was called "Defender".
Evil rock
A few days before the tragic events, Misha was wounded with a knife - unknown robbers tried to take away his phone and money. However, the obese young man, unexpectedly for the criminals and himself, was able to give them a fitting rebuff and even took the knife away.
January 24, 2005, being in the center of Moscow, Mikhail Kazakov met two of his many friends - Vyacheslav and Vika. Having walked along the snowy streets for a while, they went to warm up in the entrance of one of the apartment houses, where they began to look at the photos from the filming of "Jumble" which Misha had with them, they made fun of each other and laughed out loud. By tragic accident, and, perhaps, by the informed initiative of Vika, who wanted to cause jealousy, it was in this porch that her ex-boyfriend Cyril lived with whom she broke up on New Year's Eve.
Probably upon hearing their laughter and recognizing in him the voice of an ex-girlfriend, Cyril became angry. Armed with some kind of stick, he jumped out into the porch and began to beat Vika and Misha. Trying to somehow protect the girl and not really realizing what he was doing, Kazakov grabbed the very knife that he had taken from his robbers ...
As a result, Cyril fell bleeding. The ambulance caused by the frightened guys rode for a very long time. Militia arrived much faster, which was called by the neighbors.
There was a court. Seventeen-year-old Misha, immediately admitted his guilt, was convicted and sent to prison. However, a year later his case was reclassified as a necessary defense and closed by mutual agreement of the parties.
After some time, the young man returned to television screens, starring in the sitcom "Daddy's Daughters."
In the photo - Mikhail Kazakov in his starry image of Ilya Polezhaikin.
Ilya Polezhaykin and other roles
In the youth television series "Daddy's Daughters," Mikhail Kazakov played the role of Ilya Polezhaikin’s double, whose brilliantly executed image brought widespread fame to the young actor. In total, for five years, Mikhail starred in twenty seasons of this series, which has become today his main work on television.
In 2010, he starred in the comedy about the vicissitudes of the recruits of the construction battalion, the TV series "Stroybat", where he played the good and simple-minded Bulkin. Then, three years later, Mikhail played the role of a drug addict in the drama series "The Shores."
In addition to roles on television, Mikhail played the Behemoth cat in the play “The Master and Margarita” of the Moscow Drama Theater.
Personal life
In 2007, a few months before the filming of Daddy's Daughters began, Kazakov met with Yulia Kotova.
They met on a river near the village of Myalitsino, during one of the summer trips to their grandmothers. Julia rarely watched television, so she did not recognize the star of "Jumble" in a stout young man. Fifteen-year-olds almost immediately fell in love with each other.
The couple met for several years and even lived in a civil marriage, until Nikolai Efremov, the son of famous actors, appeared on the horizon of Julia. As a result, the young lovers broke up.
In 2011, the artist married. The wife of Mikhail Kazakov was the girl Elena, whom he had known for about eight years, still in the native city of Tver for both.
Having a higher economic education, the girl works as a bookkeeper. Before the wedding with Kazakov, Elena already managed to be officially married, from whom she has a daughter, Victoria.
In 2012, Mikhail was born the first-born - the son of Miroslav.
Cossacks makes no distinction between Miroslav and Victoria. For him, they are both relatives.
Mikhail Kazakov now
In March 2017, Kazakov for the first time impressed with his appearance the audience of the famous talk show "Hello, Andrey!" Instead of the usual rounded youth with long hair, a completely different person appeared before them.
Diet and regular exercise turned Michael into a muscular tall handsome man, whose weight was only 68 kilograms.
The secret is very simple - walking. Many acquaintances simply don’t recognize me now ...
Not only the appearance of the actor has changed. He himself changed, almost completely revising his entire previous life.
Mikhail Kazakov suddenly realized that he no longer wanted to be an artist. Following in the footsteps of his deceased father, he received an economic education, returned to Tver and opened his own business.