Biography director Lyubimov

Latest news biography of the laureate of the Stalin Prize, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, actor and director, reformer and patriarch of the Russian theater, maestro - as soon as Yuri Lyubimova called. They were admired, at the same time afraid of a heavy and conflict. The master returned to the triumph and to a very old age - up to 97 years - continuously created.

Childhood and youth were born the future artist and director in the autumn of the revolutionary year in Yaroslavl in a merchant family. Pyotr Zakharovich and Anna Alexandrovna brought up three children: Yuri, his older brother David and younger sister Natalia. The first -born Irina died in early childhood. The father was a native of the wealthy family of former serfs.

He caused his grandfather’s discontent, marrying the daughter of settled gypsies. When Yuri was 5 years old, the family moved to Moscow. During the NEP in Okhotnoye, the merchant Peter Lyubimov held a shop in which he traded Scottish herring and sauer vegetables. The parents of the future director were educated people: the father graduated from a commercial school, mother was a pedagogical and worked as a teacher in primary school.

They kept a good library at home, loved the theater and instilled this love to their children. In the second half of the x former merchant, they were deprived of civil rights as living on universal income. The deprived Lyubimov was arrested twice, his wife also fell under arrest. To protect relatives, Pyotr Zakharovich divorced his wife, but the family survived with difficulty.

Yuri Lyubimov graduated from seven classes: the elder guy was not accepted due to origin. He entered the school of factory apprenticeship to get the specialty of an electrician, at the same time was engaged in a choreographic school. After graduating from the FZU and receiving a working category, Lyubimov was going to enter the Energy Institute to become an electrical engineer, but when he saw an announcement in the newspaper, he changed his plans.

Service in the theater named after Evgeny Vakhtangov was interrupted by the army draft. He served as the ordinary in the railway convoy troops, and the next year the artist was taken to the pop ensemble created at the NKVD, the task of which was to raise the combat spirit of the troops on the front line. In the team, Lyubimov acted as an entertainer and played in all interlides.

Having demobilized in the year, the artist returned to the Vakhtangovsky stage and soon became a leading actor. The directorial debut took place in the metro station. The performance turned out to be revolutionary, and if not for the patronage of influential people in power, he would be removed from the repertoire. Lyubimov was offered to head the capital's theater of drama and comedy on Taganskaya Square, which was in decline at that time.

In a couple of years, the director broke the situation, turning the theater on Taganka, as the theaters called him, into the leading platform of the capital. The premiere took place on April 23. In the first years, the production of classics with a completely new aesthetics of dramaturgy went on the stage, then Yuri Petrovich introduced the works of modern writers into the repertoire.

The multifaceted talent of the director is talking about his work in the opera theater. Vladimir Vysotsky, a leading artist of the Taganka Theater, died. The performance in Vysotsky was virtually banned. The revolutionaryness was also seen in the production of "Boris Godunov", which also banned her. Citizenship was granted by Israel to the disgraced director. The master applauded the theatricals of Europe and the USA.

The director was able to return to Russia at the end of X, during the time of perestroika, begun by Mikhail Gorbachev. He was returned to citizenship. In m, he became a national artist of Russia. But in the year the scandal struck: the troupe, dissatisfied with the desire of Yuri Petrovich to privatize the theater building and transfer artists to the contract basis, split.

The troupe under the leadership of the legendary director toured the country and abroad. During this period, the wife of the theater figure Katalin Kuntz, who soon became the theater administrator returned to Russia. But the scandal was furious, and the artistic director remained in the theater. The next year a new scandal broke out. Actors of the Taganka Theater on tour in the Czech Republic demanded that the director pay the money due, but Yuri Petrovich refused.

The conflict worsened. The troupe demanded to fire Katalin Kuntz.

Lyubimov slapped the door. Films in the cinema Yuri Lyubimov debuted in the year. The stars like Marina Ladynina, the director’s spouses, and little -known artists, for example, Sergey Lukyanov and Klara Luchko, entered Cast. Luchko, after the release of the picture, received the Stalin Prize of the second degree and married also awarded Lukyanov. In years, Lyubimov less often appeared on the screen.

In 60 -Yuri Petrovich, he practically did not act in the cinema, concentrating his strength in the theater. The woman’s personal life adored Yuri Petrovich. Rumor has it that in his personal life he was a real heart -eater, charismatic and attractive. In the year, Lyubimov had the firstborn - the son of Nikita, later he became a student of the theological seminary. Soon, the couple broke up - the woman preferred Lubimov by the conductor Yuri Silantyev.

Glory Lyubimova in X gained momentum.In the Vakhtangov Theater, he became close to his colleague and prima Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, with whom he met at the Theater School in his youth. By the beginning of their relationship, Tselikovskaya married four times and was a widow, who had a son Alexander Alabyan from his last marriage. Relations with a teenager have not developed.

According to Alexander, Yuri Petrovich was cold not only to him, but also to his own son, who sometimes came to visit his father. In m in the personal life of Lyubimov, changes occurred - the couple broke up without scandals and clarification of relations. On the tour in the year, Yuri Petrovich met the Hungarian translator Katalin Kuntz. The almost summer age difference did not prevent them from creating a family.

In M, the director married Katalin, who a year later gave birth to the summer wife of his son Peter. Together they lived in forced emigration. Friends of the couple claim that it was thanks to his wife Lyubimov who lived to a very old age and remained in art for a long time. Death in October of the year, the director complained about pain in his heart.

The intensive care course did not help, and on October 30, Yuri Lyubimov fell into a coma. But in the evening of the next day he went out of a coma and was discharged at the end of November. After 2 years, in October, the master was taken to the hospital, diagnosing heart failure. After 3 days, she caused death: on October 5, the summer director died. On the grave of the Patriarch of the stage, a monument of dark granite with gold mosaic rays is erected, symbolizing the artist’s bright creative path.

The design of the tombstone was made by an Italian artist. The performances are “a good man from the Sezuan” - “and the dawns here are quiet” - “Hamlet”.