The son of the famous Burnash from The Elusive Avengers and Hanuma, Kirill Kopelyan, followed in the footsteps of his parents and began to serve in the theater. Efim Zakharovich and Lyudmila Iosifovna - famous actors of theater and cinema of the mid-twentieth century. For their work, both received the title of people's artists of the USSR - and this was a well-deserved award.
Parents
Lyudmila was only twenty years old, and Yefim was twenty-nine when they signed in the Leningrad registry office, and a month later the war began. Kopelyan went into the militia, and Lyudmila mowed down typhoid fever.
The spouses had to go through a lot at the beginning of family life, but in the most difficult moment they were saved by love. This is evidenced by Kopelyan’s letters to his wife, which she kept all her life at the head of the bed and often reread.
Efim Zakharovich was nine years older than Lyudmila, or, as everyone called her, Lucy, and George Tovstonogov was Lucinda. She learned a lot from her husband, and although, unlike him, Lyudmila Iosifovna did little in the movie, there was never any envy between them. Efim Zakharovich for her was a father, and a friend, and a husband. In addition, Lucy herself shone on the stage of the Leningrad Bolshoi Theater.
In November 1948, the family replenished on November 28, the long-awaited son, Kirill Efimovich Kopelyan, was born.
Youth
Unfortunately, little is known about the son of famous parents, but in an interview Lyudmila Iosifovna said that Cyril was a good artist, just something went wrong.
Kirill Kopelyan, having studied at secondary school No. 161 of the Smolninsky District, decides to continue his parents' work and in 1967 enters the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. And he finishes it in 1972, having studied on the course of L. Makariev. How parents looked at the decision of his son to become an artist - history is silent. But it is known for certain that Efim Zakharovich tried to be a fair and strict father. It was not for nothing that, after the artist’s death, Georgy Tovstonogov expressed himself that conscience had left the theater.
The relationship between father and son becomes similar to the relationship of the heroes of Turgenev. At this time, Kirill Kopelyan is associated with a bad company and even drinks. And once without demand he takes his father’s car, gets into an accident and crashes it. Fortunately, everything works out, but despite this, the son is very worried about what he did, the relationship with his father does not improve, the constant reproaches of Yefim Kopelyan only distance them from each other.
Creation
After a while, Kirill Efimovich Kopelyan met with a talented parodist of that time Viktor Chistyakov. Victor’s fate was cut short early, but his performances are still shown on TV, and for fans of talent there are videos with his participation, which are available on various portals.
Lyudmila Iosifovna said that Kirill Kopelyan was a very kind boy, with a light character, easy to communicate, not arrogant, with a subtle sense of humor, like his father. His friends said the same thing. Acquaintance with Viktor Chistyakov opened in Kirill new facets of his talent. He could make parodies of Mikhail Boyarsky, the famous sports commentators of the time Nikolai Ozerov and Viktor Nabutov. And especially well, he portrayed the CPSU Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev ("Uncle Lenya"), the chief director of the BDT Tovstonogov G. A. He loved to imitate his father and tell his jokes about Stirlitz.
Kirill Kopelyan, biography: personal life
After the death of his father, Georgy Tovstonogov, at the request of Lyudmila Iosifovna, took Cyril to his theater, but he did not serve there for a long time. He went to the Comedy Theater, from there to the Liteiny Theater, participated in children's productions in the theater on the Neva, but did not play any serious and significant roles. In 1980, Kirill Kopelyan (actor) took part in the project of A. Gutkovich, starred in the multi-part film “Atlantes and Caryatids,” and this ended his career.
Cyril’s personal life also did not work out, apparently, he could not find a woman who would love him as much as she loved her husband Lyudmila Iosifovna. This was a courageous and faithful wife and mother. She lived for 93 years, survived both her husband and son, and still remained optimistic.
She remembered that Cyril was terribly beaten half to death, after which the doctors barely brought him out of a coma. The son became an invalid of the first group and did not work in recent years.
In this she saw her sadness and her cross and did not blame anyone, believed that, rather, she had sinned in something. She regretted that her son had never married, and she had no grandchildren.