If you read the biography of this actor, you would think that he is just an inexplicable lucky guy. After all, after the acting faculty of GITIS, he managed to get into the famous Lenkom troupe. After Victor Rakov amazingly played the role of Glumov in the play “The Sage”, which was staged by the legendary Mark Zakharov, they began to talk about him as a talented actor.
He was introduced to the play "Juno and Avos." A little later, he begins to act in films. Those spectators who are not avid theatergoers met him in the nineties, when the series “Petersburg Secrets” was released. Rakov Victor, an actor, embodied the character of Nikolai Chechevinsky. Then there were the roles of Mikhail - "To love in Russian", Alyosha - "Humiliated and offended."
Childhood
On the fifth day of February 1962, a boy was born in an ordinary working-class family, who was named Vitya. His parents and older brother worked at the Molniya engineering plant. Dad had an amazing voice, he spoke at the local Palace of Culture.
The makings of the actor appeared in the boy very early. At ten years old he very skillfully portrayed his granny. All relatives liked it very much. As a schoolboy, he was very fond of drawing. In the company of friends was going to enroll in the boxing section. But after talking with my mother, I decided to abandon this idea. He began to engage in judo, but, becoming a high school student, thanks to the persuasion of his parents, quit sports for the sake of the educational process.
From factory to theater
After receiving a school certificate, Viktor Rakov came to work at the same factory where his family worked. He worked there for a year, even managed to get a discharge. But fate was destined for him differently, so in 1980 the guy decided to go to the theater, so he sent his stops to GITIS, where he easily passed through the competition. Four years later, the future actor completes the course of Vladimir Andreev.
Hello, Lenkom!
After graduation, Viktor Rakov decided that for him the best choice would be the troupe of the Lenin Komsomol Theater - Lenkom (although he was even afraid to dream about it, because it was difficult to get there), so he came under the canopy of these very scenes. At that time, the theater was just selecting singing actors to participate in one of the performances.
When viewing his plastic studies, Mark Zakharov, the head of the Theater, gave a decent assessment of his work and opened his arms to him. After all, here they always paid attention to how the artist knows how to move, how he sings. It was on this stage that Rakov happened to play a lot of bright, memorable roles. These are Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Games and Joaquin in the Star and Death of Joaquin Muretta, Laertes in Hamlet and Menshikov in the Shuta Balakirev and other equally interesting characters.
From Karachentsev to Rakov
Recently, the piggy bank of his theatrical works replenished with the role of Count Ryazanov from "Juno and Avos." And despite the fact that he is still unwittingly compared to the magnificent Nikolai Karachentsev, who appeared on the stage countless times in the form of Ryazanov, viewers cannot but admit that Victor Rakov was able to bring something special, intelligent, to the role. His count is no better and no worse than Count Karachentsev. He is simply different, but at the same time he remains the same ardently loving person.
In parallel with this project, Rakov is working on the “Innkeeper” entreprise. He goes on stage with his theater colleague Tatyana Kravchenko, as well as Valery Garkalin, Tatyana Vasilyeva, Vladimir Murashov, Georgy Martirosyan.
Master, Nikolai Chechevinsky and others ...
In the movie, Viktor Rakov, films with the participation of which deserve the sympathy of viewers of different ages, came back in 1983. It was a small role in the television movie Oath Record. And only after five long years, Mark Zakharov invited him to a serious, big role in his film “Kill the Dragon”. Then there was work with Gleb Panfilov in the film "Mother" (the role of Pavel Vlasov).
The year 1994 came when a decision was made on a new adaptation of Bulgakov’s sensational novel “The Master and Margarita”. Yuri Kara, who was shooting the film, invited the actor to the role of Master. Unfortunately, all the footage somehow mysteriously evaporated for ten whole years. Therefore, the audience and saw the series after a long time.
"Stars passed me"
Unprecedented fame actor Victor Rakov, biography who has been interested in his fans for more than two decades, received thanks to the series “Petersburg Secrets” based on Krestovsky’s novel, in which the character of Rakov was the noble Count Nikolai Chechevinsky. A year later, already being a "star" of Russian cinema, he participated in the filming of the first part of the trilogy of Evgeny Matveev about love in the Russian manner. A year later, in his film career, the main role appeared in the comedy "Barkhanov and his bodyguard."
Rakov is sure that he managed to avoid the "star disease", because he became universally known already in adulthood. Therefore, he already differently realized, perceived, knew how to avoid this condition.
Two thousandth come. Victor Rakov’s characters can be seen in many series, but detectives - “Dasha Vasilieva - 3. A lover of private investigation”, “Kamenskaya”, “Detectives” and melodrama - “Star of the era”, “Salome” and others are in the first place.
Seven years ago, in 2009, the actor became the voice of the TV Center, and a year later the audience watched the movie "Twilight" with his participation.
Family and hobbies
Victor Rakov’s mother knitted very well. As a child, little Vitya also decided to try to master this art. Victor Rakov, whose personal life was never put up for public discussion, never learned to knit, but he loved to embroider - with a cross and a stitch. He had his own hoop, he often bought floss. Much later, when he already started a family, he even embroidered pictures on his wife’s dressing gown. And in childhood, when he appeared in the free sale of beads, he wanted to master this technique. But since this was a rather painstaking task, little Vitya did not finish his picture. But he paints great pictures. His works were even exhibited in the Bakhrushin Museum, in the Ermolova House-Museum.
Today, the actor is married for the second time. In his first marriage, his son Boris was born. In the second marriage, Victor Rakov and his wife became parents of the daughter of Nastya. At first they lived without registration, but before birth, their daughters legalized their relationship and even got married in a church. In his family, Victor is a full owner, because he believes that as a man he is obliged to be responsible for his family and people close to him.
From the height of the past years, the actor is confident that the appearance of children in his life made him more sentimental. Each time, looking at his son and daughter, he sees himself in them. And despite the fact that both of them (his children) have long come out of their infancy, Rakov dreams of acting in at least one fairy tale. Or yourself to be its director.