Every time, when watching the movie “The Secret of the Snow Queen”, the sister of the boy who played the role of Kai is amazed at how much her brother looks like his hero. The neglect and coldness that he expresses to Gerde, she still transfers to her relationship with her brother. And she still regrets that, unlike the girl from the fairy tale, she could not find the strength to step over all grievances and try to save her brother from the tragedy. What was he like, the young actor Yan Puzyrevsky, whom schoolgirls of yesterday admired so much?
Just one step to ...
When the young actor was just starting his film career, his colleagues were sure that he had a great future. Indeed, Jan Puzyrevsky possessed all the data that could provide the actor with unconditional success. The guy was outwardly quite attractive, undeniably talented, in the circle of colleagues proved to be good. Nevertheless, on one spring day, he decided to put an end not only in his career, but also in his own life. It was only his choice.
His childhood
Yan Puzyrevsky was born at the end of December 1970. Even in childhood, he began acting in films. Already at the age of ten, he went on the stage of the Spesivtsev Theater, while simultaneously filming a movie. By his twentieth birthday, there were already a dozen paintings in his creative piggy bank. Given the pace that Soviet cinema was striding in the eighties of the last century, such baggage was quite solid.
After leaving school, the guy did not hesitate who he wants to be. Therefore, he enters the Shchukin school. A little later, he works at the Moscow Youth Theater and even enters the troupe of the Taganka Theater. There were a lot of good roles ahead.
Of attractive haughtiness
Yan Puzyrevsky, whose photo in the eighties of the twentieth century was in many glossy magazines, at the beginning of his creative career received episodic roles, as well as many other aspiring actors. He appeared briefly in the Autumn Fairy Gift, based on one of the tales of Hans Christian Andersen. But in the melodrama "Mr. gymnasium student" in the 85th Ian was approved for the main role - fifteen-year-old Igor Stupin. He, faced with feelings of first love, goes to Rostov to visit his brother. And during this trip the boy had to become both a witness and participants in the revolutionary events, he adjoins the underground Bolsheviks.
Perhaps the most striking work of Ian is considered by everyone to be the role of Kai in the fairy tale "The Secret of the Snow Queen", which was released in 1986. Some of the best actors of that time were gathered in this picture - Alisa Freindlikh, Viya Artmane, Oleg Efremov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Alexander Lenkov ... Kai looks like a kind of “star boy” - somewhat arrogant, but attractive precisely because of this arrogance.
Critics took the picture quite ambiguously: some sang the praises of the director for an unusual creative approach to the well-known storyline, others claimed that “Secrets ...” look good only thanks to great musical compositions.
Jan played another major role in the drama Publication. It was a story about how an elderly distinguished teacher of a school with a heart attack gets to the hospital because of a dirty article published in the newspaper with unfair accusations against her. For the role of Vadim Rudnev - a high school student who decided to restore justice, no matter what it costs him, Puzyrevsky was approved.
Another interesting role, though not the main one, was for the young actor in the detective Lawyer, in which he played Oleg Cheptsov (Chepts). This is a rather sad story of a young man unfairly accused of killing a man. Lawyer Pavel Arkadievich Beshmetyev is taken to protect him. And the fate of Kolya Varentsov now depends on him.
One step to death
Perhaps, the fact that Yan Puzyrevsky grew up too loving for himself and his whims, a man who was not able to withstand during difficult times, was the mother's fault. Although it’s hard to call it fault. She loved her son too much, giving him love for two (with her second husband, Jan’s father, she divorced when the boy was still very young). When he went to first grade, Olya, Yan's older sister, was immediately sent to a boarding school for a five-day period. Olya returned home quite rarely, she lived with her father on weekends, and went to pioneer camps for the summer holidays. Then it seemed to her very offensive: well, why mother loves Yana more than her. But getting older, Olga learned to understand her mother: you are always more sensitive to the small and painful than to the prosperous first-born.
Greenhouse education has led Yang to grow too withdrawn. Even with the neighboring boys he did not have a relationship - the older sister often had to intercede for him. Despite the fact that Olya and Yan were friends, they played together, it was worth it to appear to mom, and the friendship on the part of Jan ended - he immediately clung to mom so that his sister would not even get a drop of heat.
At ten years old, the life of Puzyrevsky changed, he ended up in the theater studio of the director Vyacheslav Spesivtsev. Mom always dreamed that her children would become actors, but only her son justified this dream. She was proud that when Ian began acting, he was recognized on the streets and asked for autographs.
The young actor married quite early - shortly after graduation. The wife of Yan Puzyrevsky - Lyudmila - studied with her future husband at the same school and saw how the girls began to follow him (this started after the release of the screen of "Mystery ..."). Yes, Jan didn’t have to do anything either to charm the girls or to look after them. He was distinguished by some strange mankind. But what about - a beautiful, educated, intelligent. In addition, an actor. Luda probably just hastened to “stake” him so that the young man would not go to someone else.
Not very good relations with Olya appeared here. Mom decided to punish her daughter - she did not invite her to her brother's wedding. And Jan, who always supported his mother, did the same. A similar thing happened in his relationship with his wife. Since the young people lived in the porch next to her mother, she constantly came to visit and told Lyuda that things were not stacked, not so prepared ... Jan still took his mother's side. The wife endured everything. In addition, five years after the marriage, their son Istvan was born. Ian was glad for the baby, but at first he was afraid to pick him up.
Unfortunately, more and more often the young actor was jealous of Luda for the men himself invented. And constantly rolled up scandals to her. Periodically, he went to the balcony and shouted that he would jump out. Once he was even taken to a psychiatric hospital, but Jan asked to go home after three days.
The third suicide attempt was fatal. Puzyrevsky was depressed: he was used to the fact that everything was easy for him since childhood, and in the nineties there was a crisis in the film industry, there was not enough money, and at the Taganka Theater they paid a penny.
There was a crisis in the family too. Relations with Luda did not develop, she even drove her husband out of the house. April 3, 1996, he came to her to see his son. Luda went upstairs to a neighbor. After a while, her husband called her with the words: “My son will not go to anyone. Come see the spectacle ... ”Luda rushed into the apartment, but the door was closed from the inside. At this time, Jan, taking the little son in his arms, stood on the windowsill of the 12th floor and stepped into the abyss ...
So the young, beautiful and talented actor Yan Puzyrevsky ended his days. Istvan's son survived. The kid was very lucky that spring day: when he fell, he caught on the branches of trees, which allowed to soften the blow. The two-year-old child only received a slight head injury, broke his arm and leg.
The suicide was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery ...