In May 2016, shocking news came through all the media that Andrei Maltsev, an actor, was beaten to death in Elektrogorsk near Moscow. It was said that the waitress of one of the local cafes complained about his behavior. A fight ensued, during which he received injuries incompatible with life.
The actor was romantic in nature, he wrote poetry under the pseudonym Wind.
The beginning of life
Andrei Maltsev, an actor and director who writes interesting poems and music, was born on the ninth of March 1973 in Eastern Siberia. It was there that he spent his childhood and youth.
From early childhood, the boy intensely and persistently showed subtle artistry, sought to develop creatively. Little Andryusha studied at a music school in piano and even quite seriously engaged in academic vocals with a teacher.
After graduating from school, Andrei Maltsev, an actor in the future, becomes a student at the East Siberian Academy of Culture and Arts in the city of Ulan-Ude. He studied on the course of A. Zyuzin, at the faculty of directing, pop and theatrical performances.
Go to Moscow!
After the cheerful student years are over, the young man receives a diploma from the academy and decides to move to Moscow. It was in the Russian capital Maltsev, the actor at that time, just a beginner, began to collaborate with the author's theater "New Project". In parallel with this, he begins to lead the Corporation for the Association of Free Creativity. He does not forget even for a minute about his dreams: Maltsev managed to organize his own film company Veterfilm, where the production of short films was organized.
Film career
The big screen opened its arms to Andrei Maltsev when he was already at a fairly mature age. He almost reached the age of Christ. At 32, he began working on the set in the film “Love as Love” and played in a short episode of the acclaimed action movie “Shadow Boxing,” where his partners were Andrey Panin and Denis Nikiforov.
A little later, he was invited to the famous series of recent years - the medical detective "Doctor Tyrsa", the crime drama "Karpov" (second season), the army comedy "Soldiers". In the last picture, actor Maltsev played a small role as ensign Kapitonov already in the 13th season, the saga about the adventures of draftees, soldiers waiting a hundred days before the order, and their superiors, loved by millions of viewers. In addition, his character "lit up" in a new story about the familiar characters of the series. It was there that the actor Andrei Maltsev starred. “Soldiers. Dembelsky album ”became, in a sense, his hallmark in Russian cinema.
His last work on the set was the television film Geniuses and Villains, which it was decided to shoot specifically for the Culture channel. The actor was invited to the role of the young Winston Churchill.
Briefly about personal
The biography of actor Andrei Maltsev is known in a rather modest amount. Official sources know almost nothing about Maltsev’s personal life. But if you build on the information posted on social networks, officially he was not married.
In addition to working with productions on the theatrical stage and filming a movie, Andrei Iosifovich was fond of writing poems, which he periodically published on various websites, using his pseudonym Veter. He wrote copyright songs.
Andrei Maltsev, an actor in the series “Soldiers,” respected Russian sport, was his loyal fan. To all other sports he preferred football, hockey and martial arts.
Fatal cafe
On May 20, 2016, the news that the 43-year-old actor, who played a small role in the series “Soldiers”, was very badly beaten (as a result of which he died) in Elektrogorsk. Local law enforcement officers uncovered the crime very quickly.
On that unlucky evening for him, actor Maltsev accidentally wandered into a local diner, where alcoholic beverages were sold at any time of the day. Having ordered a glass of vodka, the actor tried to pester the waitress. The girl at first tried to politely refuse a regular customer, because he had never allowed himself such a thing before. But in the end, she turned for help to her tipsy young man, who was nearby. After a short verbal skirmish, the man began more active actions and began to beat Maltsev.
Death
Biography of actor Andrei Maltsev ended that night. He managed to get out of the store, but the man followed him up. Caught up near the square. There, a former felon (later it turned out that he had already been tried for 5 and a half years earlier) beat his victim to death. During the fight, he inflicted a large number of kicks and hands on the body and head. The death of Andrei Maltsev came from a closed head injury. Doctors will later say that even if they arrived at the place a couple of minutes after what happened, the actor would still have died, the damage inflicted on him was so severe.
The body of the actor in a bloody puddle was discovered by a passerby late at night. The offender was detained almost immediately. At the first interrogation, he confessed to the murder. This was a 27-year-old formerly prosecuted local resident.
The colleague of the murdered actor on the series "Soldiers" Alexei Oshurkov said that he remembered him as a cheerful, calm, smiling man. He was a conscientious and very reverent artist.