He is well known for his interesting roles in the cinema: criminal authority Eduard Petrovich Denisov from Kamenskaya, FSB Colonel Emelyanych from Lion's Share, Kuzmina from Cavaliers of the Starfish, Safonov from Multiplying Sorrow, Colonel Sogrishin from Sorcerer. ..
But, it seems, just one, the first role mentioned is enough for most viewers to guess who this article will be about. So, Nikolai Dmitrievich Chindyaykin, theater and film actor.
Parents Meet
From the very beginning there was an unusually amazing story of the acquaintance and love of Nikolai's parents. During the Great Patriotic War, his dad served in Kiev in a car regiment. And already in the fall of 1941 was captured. Dmitry Chindyaykin went through several camps and was sent to Brest. When the Nazis drove prisoners of war to work, then in parallel with them they drove out the local population. So there was a acquaintance of Dmitry with the Brest beauty named Stefanida. Relations developed very beautifully, but after a while they had to leave, because Chindyaykin was sent to Germany. Then he did not know that Stefanida was pregnant.
Family reunification
Again, young people met only after the war ended. After the Great Victory, Chindyaykin Sr., as well as many prisoners of war, did not become free. Now he was already in the Soviet camp and was felling forests in the Gorky region.
All this time he recalled his Stefanida, wrote letters in the hope that at least one or two would reach the address. An inexplicable miracle happened: he received an answer from the village of Nanevichi that the girl was alive. So lovers united. Now they lived together, with daughter Lenochka, who was born in the war. And shortly after the meeting, on March 8, 1947, the second child of Stefanida and Dmitry was born, who was named Nikolai.
Children's years of the artist
Despite the fact that Nikolai Chindyaykin, an actor so far in the future, grew up in the post-war, difficult years, his childhood was very happy. Their family had a very sentimental, touching relationship. Parents loved their children very much and they didn’t call them Lenochka and Kolik. Father often sat down at the table and quietly told them how happy they were. And that was the true truth: yes, there were difficulties and burdens, but the family was happy because they were all together.
Nikolasha Chindyaykin, an actor in theater and cinema, grew up as an ordinary Soviet tomboy. With his friends, he ran to a narrow gauge railway, where they hopped with all their might on passing freight, then rolled head over heels along the slope. In winter, the children skated on the frozen surface flowing in the village of Chernoy, where they lived, the river. Of course, they did not forget about the concerts that were given in the local club by prisoners.
Memories of prisoners and non-convoys
A peculiar atmosphere surrounded all the childhood of little Nikolasha. There was a zone nearby, so a car with armed guards drove by their house every day. In it prisoners were taken to a logging site. Many years later, the already held actor Nikolai Chindyaykin, whose biography from childhood was amazing, recalled how he ran out onto the road and waved his hand at the prisoner. He hoped that one of them would carve their horse into a tree and throw the boy on a snowy road. The village where the Chindyaykins lived, often went without a guard - those people who had the right to go outside the zone. It seemed strange to the boy that they wore sweatshirts without buttons and had tattoos on their hands.
"Artist"
In 1959, the Chindyaykins moved to Ukraine in Voroshilovsk (now it is Alchevsk). The boy with pleasure goes to school, perfectly studies German. Probably a good impetus was that the parents spoke it fluently. Like many boys of that time, the future actor Nikolai Chindyaykin dreamed of a heroic profession - a pilot or a scout. He was engaged in tennis, wrote poetry, drew, was engaged in photography, radio, played the trumpet and button accordion. When he arrived in the city after the first years of his life in the village, the boy was interested in everything, he wanted to try everything and catch it all.
Once, a man came to their school who invited all interested children to the theater club of the House of Culture. Nikolai liked it there so much that he attended the club daily. So he got the nickname Artist in his yard. Once he even invited his yard company to his play, where he played a major role. At one time Chindyaykin was fond of the Beatles: he listened to their music, grew long hair. But when the fight against “foreign music” began, the guy was summoned to the director’s office and was tonsured. After this incident, he received the nickname Lysy, which later turned out to be prophetic.
Rostov-on-Don. Theatrical stage
It was classes in the drama club that strengthened Nikolai Chindyaykin’s dream of becoming an artist. His parents were far from art: mother worked as a nurse in the hospital, and father worked as a mechanic. They were worried about such a hobby for their son. Nikolai Chindyaykin, an actor who subsequently received the role of bandits and police officers, did not even begin to finish eleventh grade. Having bought clothes and shoes with his own money, he left for Rostov-on-Don in 1964, where he entered the Rostov Theater School for the first time.
It was at this time that doctors discovered jade in him. With great difficulty, Nikolai's father managed to get a ticket to the only, unique sanatorium in Turkmenistan Bayram Ali, where even the climate treated the kidneys. At school, he hid his illness. In 1968, after graduating from college, the actor Chindyaykin, whose biography contains the fact of miraculous healing, came to work in the troupe of the Rostov Youth Theater, where he served for five years. He went on stage in Cherry Orchard and Dog in the Hay, Elder Son and April. Once, an actor was invited to work in a drama theater in Omsk . He went to Siberia ...
It was there that Nikolai Dmitrievich decided for himself that he would begin a new life without looking back at his illness. And so it happened. He met his second wife, and after another examination it turned out that everything was normal with the kidneys. On this pair kept almost the entire repertoire of the Omsk Theater. Chindyaykin played in "Dowry", "Philistines", "Love under the Elms", "Ghost" and many other performances.
In front of the movie camera lens
Nikolai Chindyaykin, whose filmography totals 83 pictures, began to appear quite late - at 43 years old. It was the year 1990. His career developed very quickly. The debut role was in the film "Sea Wolf" by Jack London. Chindyaykin played Coca Magridge. Up to this point, despite the long persuasion of the director Igor Apasyan, Chindyaykin refused to act, being sure that he was only a theater actor.
After this sentence fell like a cornucopia. In the mid-nineties, having discovered the first signs of baldness, the actor shaved baldly, which only helped him in his career, because he had to play criminal authorities and police officials, generals and bandits. In 1998, Chindyaykin Nikolai Dmitrievich played in the film "Mom, Do not Cry!", Which immediately critics called the best comedy of the late twentieth century. Later there were Volkov’s Hour, Talisman of Love, Children of the Arbat, At Anonymous Height, Autumn Detective, and many others.
Love in the life of an actor
During his life, Nikolai Dmitrievich made three marriages. The first wife of Nikolai Chindyaykin was his classmate Natalia. This happened at a time when he was trying to cure jade. Young people got married, their daughter Nastya was born. They lived for five years.
But a few years later, having defeated the disease and arrived in Omsk, Chindyaykin met his second wife, Tatyana Ozhigova. It was a beautiful love that ended tragically: a woman died from cancer. For Chindyaykin it was a strong blow. He could not recover from him for several years.
But then, over time, he managed to fall in love again. He met a young talented actress who came from Vilnius, Rasa von Tornau. At first, they simply communicated in a friendly manner, but two years passed, and they realized that each of them was vital for the other. So another family was born. Nikolai Dmitrievich is sure that a meeting with the Race is truly a miracle, because meeting your soulmate is a real happiness that can happen only once. Here he is, Nikolai Chindyaykin, an actor. His biography, roles, films from the very beginning of his creative activity were interesting and rich. Each page of his biography is an interesting story of his life, which continues, delighting the audience with new images and characters on the stage and on the set.