Actor Vasiliev Igor Alekseevich - a quiet and gentle man, very noble and exalted. His noble aristocratic appearance impresses with his valor and romance, generosity and poetry.
What was he like - the silent Vasiliev Igor Alekseevich, whose family, children, and whose whole personal life remain a mystery to us behind seven seals? Will we be able to comprehend the mystery of his modesty and serenity? Let's try.
Childhood
Vasiliev Igor Alekseevich, whose biography and creative activity began back in the Soviet Union, was born in the spring of 1938 in Moscow in the family of a famous metropolitan architect.
Alexey Vasiliev was a recognized architect, he was known as an educated and gifted person. He inherited the love of learning and art to his children.
In his father’s house, little Igor became addicted to reading. At one time, parents gathered a huge versatile library, which is constantly replenished with new copies. The boy loved to read. He enthusiastically read everything - novels and novels, poems and poems, short stories and short stories, both classical and modern, both domestic and foreign.
Endowed with vivid, immediate imagination, the child imagined everything that he was reading about: he saw himself in the place of a hero, with whom he performed all kinds of feats and experienced various sufferings.
Silent and closed by nature, little Igor in silence experienced a storm of other people's feelings and emotions. Perhaps even then he wanted to become an actor, to convey his literary feelings to the public, to live the life of his beloved character, to embody on the stage everything that he could not achieve in life.
Education
Therefore, having received secondary education, the young Vasiliev Igor Alekseevich did not doubt at all which future path he should choose. He entered the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio - a higher educational institution at the Moscow Art Theater.
Having received the specialty of a drama film and theater actor, Vasiliev remained working at the Moscow Art Theater as a theater director and actor.
Carier start
This happened in 1961. In those days, the Gorky Moscow Art Academic Theater was going through difficult times. Due to the crisis of directing, the choice of repertoire and performers was determined by the biased opinion of the actors themselves, which affected the image of the institution: the theater staged one-day plays, losing both lovers and spectators.
Relations within the team were also aggravated - quarrels, envy, rivalry did not prompt healthy competition and self-improvement, but decomposed the troupe, murderously affecting the performance of roles and the game.
It was in such a difficult time that Igor Alekseevich had the opportunity to begin a theatrical career.
Calm and non-conflict, he did not take anyone's side, did not pull the blanket over himself, did not aspire to a leadership position. He wanted to create - to create on the stage vivid and memorable images that would inspire him personally and inspire the audience to exploits and good deeds.
"Contemporary"
It was impossible not to miss the beautiful sophisticated actor , therefore, for two years, Igor Alekseevich Vasiliev quite often appeared on the Moscow Art Theater, becoming famous not only for his main roles, but for his vivid expressive performance.
During this period, a new wonderful theater was created - Sovremennik. It was founded by a group of young and talented actors, graduates of the Moscow Art Theater, as a theater studio.
With their brainchild, the gifted collective wanted to restore the image of the old Mkhatov’s house, its artistic and ethical ideals, its former glory.
Carried away by the new trend, Igor Alekseevich decides to become at the origins of the new theater and play on its stage.
For seven years, the young actor performed on the stage of Sovremennik. He greatly respected the leader of the troupe - Oleg Efremov, an active, enterprising and very talented person.
He loved Oleg Nikolaevich not only as his subordinate, but also as a fan, as an admirer, as a friend.
The new theater team quickly gained popularity not only in the capital, but also in the province. Long tours throughout Russia, occasional buildings for performances, a minimum of scenery and props - all this, although it increased the popularity of the theater, still affected the quality of performance and shows.
Therefore, by the end of the 1960s, Sovremennik, under the leadership of Efremov, stopped collecting crowds of enthusiastic spectators. One of the reasons for this decline was the fact that the theater too closely linked its fate with the generation of the sixties, for which there came a time of disappointment and sobering.
In 1970, Vasiliev Igor Alekseevich left Sovremennik and returned to his previous job. He went after Oleg Efremov, who was offered the position of the chief director at the Moscow Art Theater.
Theatrical activity
On the stage of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, actor Vasilyev established himself as a responsible performer, carefully preparing for performances, scrupulously trying to understand the image of his hero and the idea of ​​the play itself.
His roles in the performances were not conspicuous by their pomp or pretentiousness, but they were always distinguished by a bright personality of the actor’s play, accuracy and spontaneity of movements, and deep thoughtful realism.
Vasiliev Igor Alekseevich worked at the Moscow Art Theater for thirty years, giving him all his best years.
The actor played talentedly and selflessly, with unprecedented self-denial. I went on the stage even when I felt bad, when I was upset or sick.
Theater roles
A few months before his death, Vasiliev shone in the interesting and colorful role of old man Ali in the new play of the Moscow Art Theater “Tutish” based on the expressive short story “Pension” by A. Tork. A week after the death of the actor, the production was shown again - in memory of the main performer.
Among other roles of Igor Alekseevich, it is necessary to mention the main role in Ostrovsky’s comedy “There is enough simplicity for every sage,” in which the actor played Glumov Egor Dmitrievich, a careerist and sneak, as well as playing the role of a cruel and selfish Svidrigailov, subdued by love for a pure girl, Directed by Dostoevsky’s immortal novel Crime and Punishment.
Cinema
No less widespread popularity brought Vasiliev and shooting in the movies.
Despite the fact that cinema is a little different from theatrical activity, Igor Alekseevich fell madly in love with cinema. He liked to film, liked to play under the watchful eye of the camera, liked to review paintings with his participation and learn from his mistakes.
And again, the roles of Vasiliev harmoniously corresponded to his character. These were undemanding roles, mainly of the second plan, to which he gave all of himself, playing vitally, directly, brightly.
The first films of Vasilyev Igor Alekseevich are film performances with episodic roles. This was followed by more popular tapes, with characters for several frames: “Not the most successful day”, “Goya, or The hard way of learning”, “The only way”.
But, of course, the tape “Omega Variant” brought him the most incredible fame, in which he played the cold and aristocratic Baron Schlosser, Colonel of the Abwehr.
Despite the fact that the character of Igor Alekseevich was sharply negative, he still evokes audience sympathy and attracts the eye. This became possible thanks to the colorful appearance of Vasiliev, his noble posture and valiant performance.
Since then, the photos of Vasiliev Igor Alekseevich began to appear in all fashion magazines of that time. He became a recognized actor, sought after and loved. He began to be invited to leading film roles. This is Lansier in “The Abduction in Savoy”, and Kuzmin in “Let's Return in Autumn”, and Zaitsev in “Tavern on Pyatnitskaya”, and Dr. Robert Korn in “Testament of Professor Dowell”.
Cinematography, the new time
Of the more modern paintings with Vasiliev’s participation, it is worth paying attention to his main role in the film “The Temptation of Dirk Bogard”, where the actor sensibly and impressively played the main character - the legendary English actor.
His next famous works were series, in which Vasilyev, in truth, did not really like to act in films. His role in the historical film “The Feather and the Sword”, where he played Chevalier D'Eon in old age (in a female form), was also interesting and unusual.
Personal life
Very little is known about the personal life of the Russian actor. He was married several times, possibly had children. The wives of Vasilyev Igor Alekseevich are unfamiliar to the modern layman.
Only one wife of the actor was established - actress Irina Miroshnichenko, whose marriage took place in 1975 and lasted five years.
Died Vasiliev Igor Alekseevich at the age of sixty-nine years.