Talented people often die too early. Perhaps the whole thing is in a special mental organization, requiring a lot of physical and moral strength. Today we will talk about Soviet and Russian actors who passed away in their youth. And also remember the outstanding artists and directors who left us in 2017.
When it comes to Soviet actors who passed away too early, two names come to mind: Oleg Dal and Vladimir Vysotsky. These were amazingly talented people. During their short career in film and theater, they have done more than many of their colleagues for a long, measured and correct life.
Oleg Dal
The Soviet actor, who died at the age of 39, had a reputation as a disgraced figure. Several films with his participation were banned. For ten years he was not allowed to travel abroad. Oleg Dal often clashed with directors, refusing to play in performances that, in his opinion, were far from real art.
He abused alcohol, but tried to overcome himself. He had a sore heart, but despite this, he worked for wear and tear. The actor died on March 3, 1981. A heart attack, according to one version, was triggered by the use of alcohol. Recent films with Oleg Dahl’s participation: “The Uninvited Guest”, “We Stayed in the Face of Death”, “Vacation in September”.
Vladimir Vysotsky
The death of the author’s songwriter and actor, who died during the Olympics in Moscow, shocked the whole country. There is a version that Vladimir Vysotsky foresaw his imminent death. It was thanks to him that the shooting of the film “The meeting place cannot be changed” began. He really wanted to play a major role in this film. But when work began on the painting, he tried to refuse - he realized that he had very little left.
The actor, who passed away in 1981, according to doctors, was doomed. For many years he suffered from alcohol addiction. Shortly before his death, he found a way to "cure" a terrible ailment. Vysotsky began to use drugs. Doctors predicted his death, either from withdrawal or from an overdose. The actor died in his Moscow apartment on Malaya Gruzinskaya on July 25. He died in a dream as a result of a heart attack. The Soviet press kept silent about the death of a national favorite, nevertheless, several thousand people came to the funeral. The performance with Vysotsky’s participation in the Taganka Theater was canceled, but not a single person returned the ticket to the ticket office.
Death on stage and behind the scenes
Actors who passed away too early are Andrei Mironov and Yuri Bogatyrev. The first was overtaken by death, which many artists dream of. Andrei Mironov died on stage.
Yuri Bogatyryov was an extremely talented, diverse actor. Any images were subject to him. In addition, Bogatyryov painted. True, the first exhibition of his works took place after his death. He was very lonely. Like many people of art, the actor is addicted to alcohol. Yuri Bogatyrev died at the age of 41 from a heart attack caused by the use of alcohol and incompatible antidepressants.
Soviet actors who passed away young: Nikita Mikhailovsky, Yan Puzyrevsky, Igor Nefyodov, Alexey Fomkin, Irina Metlitskaya, Maria Zubareva, Elena Mayorova. Some of them played only two or three roles in the movie. Nevertheless, the audience was remembered forever.
Nikita Mikhailovsky
The actor of Soviet cinema, who passed away at the age of 27, became famous in 1981 for his role in the film "You Never Had A Dream ...". Nikita Mikhailovsky was promised a brilliant future, but fame, oddly enough, weighed him down. For several years he left the cinema. He was engaged in painting, became one of the most active figures in the semi-underground culture of Leningrad. Closer to the 90s he played in several films: "Accelerate", "For the sake of a few lines," "Umbrella for the bride and groom." Mikhailovsky starred with such prominent actors as Vera Glagoleva, Alexei Batalov, Nikolai Karachentsov.
Perhaps in his filmography today there would be many wonderful roles. But in 1990, the actor discovered leukemia. It is noteworthy that shortly before that, he organized an art exhibition in England, the profits from which he directed to the treatment of children with cancer. Nikita Mikhailovsky died in 1991. He was buried in St. Petersburg.
Igor Nefedov
The actor, who passed away in 1993, the audience remembers primarily for his role in the film "Criminal Talent." It was Igor Nefedov who played the investigator, who became the next victim of the adventurer, the heroine of Alexandra Zakharova. He was one of Oleg Tabakov’s students, playing on the stage of two Moscow theaters. He made his film debut in 1978, playing the role in the movie Nikita Mikhalkov's "Five Evenings." The filmography of Igor Nefyodov fifteen works. In December 1993, the actor committed suicide.
Maria Zubareva
The actress played in the films "In the mud", "Bitch children", "Parting", "Muzzle". In 1993, the first Russian television series, "Little Things in Life", was launched on Russian television. Maria Zubareva played the main role - the role of a teacher of the Russian language and literature. In the second part of the series, the heroine, according to the plot, dies in a car accident. Initially, this was not in the script. It had to be changed due to the death of the leading woman. At the age of thirty, Maria Zubareva was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away in November 1993.
Yan Puzyrevsky
The actor, who passed away at the age of 25 years, forever remained in the memory of the audience in the image of Kai from "The Snow Queen". By the age of twenty, Yan Puzyrevsky played in 15 films. He graduated from the Schukin School, played on the stage of the Taganka Theater. The actor married at the age of 18. Family life did not work out. On April 3, 1996, he came to his ex-wife’s apartment to see a one and a half year old baby. It is not known that led the actions of a young and successful artist that day. He took his son in his arms and jumped out of the window with them. The apartment of the ex-wife was on the twelfth floor. The child, fortunately, remained to live. Puzyrevsky crashed to death.
Alexey Fomkin
He was known and loved by all the schoolchildren of the Soviet Union. Alexei Fomkin - a movie actor who passed away at the age of 26 - was ruined by fame. He began his career with the filming of "Jumble". Then he auditioned for the role in the movie "Scarecrow." But in this film he did not happen to play. Alexei was invited to a major role in the science fiction film, which became the most popular guest in the 80s - “Guest from the Future”.
The trouble is that fame does not mean relevance. Fomkin was no longer invited to the cinema, and after graduation, he joined the army. He never received a certificate of maturity due to frequent filming. When he returned from the army, he tried to work at the Moscow Art Theater, but was soon fired.
Alexey Fomkin left Moscow. For some time he lived in a village in an empty house, worked as a miller, got married. The famous Soviet actor, who played the role of the Moscow schoolboy Kolya Gerasimov in the legendary film, died in February 1996. The cause of death is an accident.
Irina Metlitskaya
The career of this actress was developing successfully. The girl from Severodvinsk successfully passed the exams at the Shchukin school, after receiving her diploma, she was accepted into the troupe of the Sovremennik Theater. The film debut of Irina Metlitskaya took place in 1978. She has played in films such as Redemption, Dolly, Executioner, Makarov, Katka and Shiz, Creation of Adam and many others. In the mid-nineties, the actress was diagnosed with leukemia. She passed away on June 5, 1997. She was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery.
Elena Mayorova
In the biographies of many talented actors who passed away early, there is one common detail. Date of death falls on the nineties. Not surprising. Lack of work, disorder, a sense of unfulfillment - all this entails the development of heart disease and mental disorders. However, the death of Elena Mayorova remains a mystery today.
She was born in a family that had nothing to do with theatrical art. GITIS received from the second attempt. She began acting in films since 1980. In the 80s, the actress married a fashionable, wealthy artist. True, his paintings after the collapse of the USSR ceased to be sold. However, Elena Mayorova, even during the years of the economic crisis, was not left without work. She was known to all theatergoers in Moscow. She was often invited to the cinema.
The actress died on August 23, 1997 under rather strange circumstances. She set fire to herself on the landing, then ran to the Mossovet Theater, which was in a building adjacent to her house. At the entrance to the theater, in which Mayorova worked for many years, she lost consciousness. She died in the hospital that evening. According to the official version, the actress died in an accident.
Evgeny Dvorzhetsky
The topic of the actors of Russian cinema, who passed away in the last decade of the last century, will end with the tragic story of a representative of the famous artistic dynasty. Eugene Dvorzhetsky first played his role in the movie in 1980. Then he played the adopted son of the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. In subsequent years, he received a lot of offers from directors. The actor was quite in demand. He played in the films "Tender Age", "Day of Anger", "Two Hussars", "Defeat", "Mikhailo Lomonosov" and others. In addition, he participated in theater productions on Malaya Bronnaya and hosted television programs.
December 1, 1999, the actor, returning from the Institute of Immunology in his car, violated the rules of the road. As a result, his car collided with a ZIL. From injuries Dvorzhetsky died on the spot. The actor, like many of his other colleagues, is buried in the Vagankovsky cemetery. He was only 39 years old.
Young Russian actors who passed away in the 2000s are Dmitry Egorov, Vasily Lykshin, Alexey Zavyalov, Vladislav Galkin, Sergey Bodrov Jr., Daniil Pevtsov, Egor Klinaev, Natalya Yunnikova. None of them lived to be forty years old. Famous actors who passed away in 2017 but managed to do a lot for domestic cinema are A. Petrenko, A. Batalov, V. Tolokonnikov, V. Glagoleva, G. Taratorkin, D. Maryanov. First, let's talk about celebrities whose life was tragically cut short at the beginning of the 2000s.
Sergey Bodrov Jr
The fame came to the actor in the mid-nineties, when he played the main role in Alexey Balabanov's film "Brother". His film character Danila Bagrov became almost a national hero. Sergei Bodrov starred in the films "I Hate You", "Stringer", "East-West", "Sisters", "War". As a director, he made his debut in 2001. A year later, as part of the film crew, Bodrov went to the mountains from Vladikavkaz. Work went on all day. When it got dark, filmmakers went back to the city. At eight in the evening, glacier descent suddenly began. In just a few minutes, he covered the Karmadon Gorge. Nobody managed to escape.
Large-scale work to search for the dead lasted several months. Relatives of the crew members and volunteers took part in it. Missing are more than a hundred people. Including Sergey Bodrov. The official date of death of the actor and director is September 20, 2002. He was only 30 years old.
Dmitry Egorov
In preparation for the shooting of the film "Scarecrow" Rolan Bykov for a long time could not pick up a young actor for the role of a boy who betrayed the main character. Seeing the son of the famous actress Natalya Kustinskaya, the director exclaimed: "It is he who I need!" So Dima Egorov got on the set. By the way, parents were against the boy connecting his life with art. After graduation, he entered MGIMO. He never acted in films Dmitry Egorov passed away in 2002 at the age of 32 years. The official cause of death is heart failure.
Vladislav Galkin
Which actors passed away under unclear circumstances? In answer to this question, it is worth mentioning first of all the name of Vladislav Galkin. The famous actor, who began his career in the early eighties with the role of Huckleberry Finn, was found dead in his own apartment in February 2010. For more than a day he did not get in touch with relatives. Father sounded the alarm.
According to the results of the examination, the cause of death was acute heart failure. This became the official version, despite the assumptions of Boris Galkin about the murder of his son. The actor was 38 years old.
Vasily Lykshin
The future actor was brought up in a boarding school. In 2002, he starred in the movie "Angel on the Sidelines." Fame came to him after the premiere of the movie "Bastards". Lakshin also played a major role in the series "Thunder". The actor died in 2009 from a stroke. He was only 22 years old.
Alexey Zavyalov
After graduating from the Schukin School, the actor was accepted into the troupe of the Vakhtangov Theater, where he worked for several years. In the movie, Zavyalov made his debut in 1996. He played in such films as the Cop Wars, Flowers of Love, Atlantis, and Savior under the Birches. In 2011, the actor was injured while parachuting. A month later, he died in a hospital. Aleksey Zavyalov was buried in the Khovansky cemetery. The actor was 36 years old.
Daniil Pevtsov
Another actor who passed away at the very beginning of his life and career is Daniil Pevtsov. The son of the famous artist died in the hospital on September 7, 2012 at the age of 22 years. While visiting one of his former classmates, Daniel went to the balcony, leaned on the railing, lost his balance and fell from the third floor. He died in hospital as a result of numerous injuries.
Actors who died in 2017
On September 26, Natalya Yunnikova, the star of the TV series “Return of Mukhtar”, died. The actress worked for many years on Israeli television. In 2006, she returned to Russia, where she was offered a role in the famous television film. The cause of Yunnikova’s death is cardiogenic syncope, which occurs with complications of cardiovascular disease. The actress was 37 years old.
September 27, on the 19th year of his life, Yegor Klinaev was tragically killed . Having witnessed an accident, the young actor tried to help the victims. He got out of his car, and at that moment a passing car hit him. Egor Klinaev was known primarily for the TV series "Fizruk."
Actor Dmitry Maryanov passed away on October 15. In recent years, he was ill. On October 15, the actor was heading for the city of Lobnya, near Moscow, on the way he felt ill. Maryanov was sent to a local hospital, where he passed away after several hours. The cause of death is a detached blood clot.
The legendary Russian actors who passed away in 2017 are Georgy Taratorkin, Alexey Petrenko, Alexey Batalov, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Vera Glagoleva.
George Taratorkin
Almost half a century ago, a young and unknown actor was invited to the film "Crime and Punishment" for the role of Rodion Raskolnikov. With this, his brilliant path to the cinema began. Taratorkin played in the films “Purely English Murder”, “Little Tragedies”, “Rich Man, Poor ...”, “Moon Rainbow”, “Last Report”, “Mysterious Passion”. To the younger generation of Russian dividers, he is known for his role in the TV series "Don't Be Born Beautiful." An outstanding actor for many years played on the stage of the Mossovet Theater. In 1984 he received the title of People's Artist. George Taratorkin passed away on February 4 after a long illness.
Vladimir Tolokonnikov
This actor played his famous role at the age of 45 years. Until 1988, Vladimir Tolokonnikov was known only in his hometown of Alma-Ata. Here he worked for many years in a local theater. Before the director Bortko invited an unknown actor for the role of Sharikov in the film adaptation of Bulgakov’s novel, he played only two roles in the movie. After the premiere of "Dog Heart", the actor became known throughout the country. Later, he played in the films Dreams of Idiots, Sky in Diamonds, Citizen Chief, Hottabych. But the colorful image of Sharikov could not overshadow any role.
Vladimir Tolokonnikov died on July 16, 2017. His heart stopped on the set while working on the movie Super Beavers.
Alexey Batalov
His acting career began during the war. Being evacuated in a city in Bugulma, Batalov first appeared on the scene. Then he was only 13 years old. The young artist played a small role in the play of his mother. Glory came to Alexei Batalov, of course, much later. Namely, in 1957, when the picture "Cranes are Flying" was released. This is one of the best military films of the Soviet period.
Vera Glagoleva
The future actress was born in Moscow in a family of teachers. In childhood, was fond of archery, was a master of sports. For the first time Glagoleva starred in the movie immediately after graduation. It was 1974, the film was called "To the End of the World". Three years later, Glagoleva played the role of Vary in A. Efros’s film "On Thursday and Never Again." The director was so impressed with the play of an unprofessional actress that he invited her to work in his theater on Malaya Bronnaya. However, Glagoleva listened to her husband R. Nakhapetov and refused, which she later regretted.
She acted in films a lot, despite the lack of professional education. In the nineties, she tried herself in the role of director, removing the picture "Broken Light". This was followed by the films "Order" (2005), "Ferris Wheel" (2006), "One War" (2010), "Two Women" (2014).
Also, the artist played in the theater, was the head of the theater department of MITRO. In March 2017, she began shooting the new Clay Pit movie, which was scheduled for release next summer.
On August 16, 2017, the Russian media reported the death of Vera Glagoleva in a German clinic. She was 61 years old. It turned out that the artist was treated for stomach cancer there. Only close people knew about Glagoleva’s disease, so the news came as a shock to many colleagues and fans of the actress. Glagolev was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery.