When did Yuri Nikulin die and where was he buried? The grave of Medvedev, who shot Nicholas II, at the Novodevichy cemetery. About the Novodevichy necropolis

Biography and episodes of life Yuri Nikulin. When born and died Nikulin, memorable places and dates important events his life. Actor Quotes, Photo and video.

Years of life of Yuri Nikulin:

born December 18, 1921, died August 21, 1997

Epitaph

Here is the love that gave the truth,
Here is the sadness that wisdom brought.

Biography

Yuri Nikulin is one of the country's favorite actors, a circus director, an honored clown with an impeccable sense of humor and an open heart. Nikulin's biography is the life story of a man who sincerely loves his family, his work and his fans.

Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin was born in the city of Demidovo, Smolensk region, into a family of theater actors. Nikulin's birthday is December 18, 1921. As a child, he moved to Moscow, where he played in the school drama club, which was led by his father. After school, Yuri was drafted into the army and, not having time to demobilize, went to the front in 1941. Colleagues always praised Nikulin’s comic talent, which convinced him that he should go to theater school. But at VGIK the future People's Artist of the USSR was rejected in a harsh manner - “of course, you have something, but you are not suitable for cinema.” They did not accept him into a number of other institutes, schools and studios, until, finally, he entered the studio at the Noginsk Theater, where, however, he did not stay long, having fled to the clownery studio at the Moscow State Circus. Two years later, Nikulin performed in the circus arena, then becoming an assistant to the most beloved clown in the country at that time, Pencil. It was there, at the circus, that he met his future wife, Tatyana, who came to watch the troupe rehearse, and witnessed an accident - Nikulin was attacked by a horse and the artist had to be taken to the hospital, where the girl began to visit him. After Nikulin’s recovery, the young people got married and lived in marriage for almost 50 years.

It was Tatiana who pushed the self-doubting Nikulin into his first film role - “just play yourself!” Image simple guy in the episodic role of Nikulin in “Girl with a Guitar” he immediately fell in love with Soviet viewers, and the roles followed one after another - “Moonshiners”, “Operation “Y” and other adventures of Shurik”, “Prisoner of the Caucasus”. The script for the immortal “The Diamond Arm” was already specially written for Nikulin. At the same time, the artist did not limit himself to comedic roles - one of his best works was his performance in the dramatic film “When the Trees Were Big.” In the early 70s, the actor received nationwide love, which, however, did not affect his character in any way - he remained the same simple and sympathetic person he was before his popularity, never refusing to help friends and colleagues.

The biography of Yuri Nikulin is closely connected with the Moscow State Circus, of which he became director in 1982. It was under Yuri Nikulin that the circus received its second life, having survived a global reconstruction. Now the circus is run by Nikulin’s son, Maxim. But with all Nikulin’s characteristic modesty, he never considered himself either a great clown or a great artist. Quote from Nikulin in one of his latest interviews: “They are already lying about me, they write: “a great clown.” It's about me. But what a “great thing” when the clowns were better than me.” A few months after the interview, in August, the actor underwent heart surgery, during which he stopped working, causing organ damage. The whole country was worried about Nikulin. The operation was simple and planned. Nikulin was sure that he would quickly recover, but at the very last moment the vessel closed and his heart stopped. Resuscitation began immediately, but while Nikulin was in a state of clinical death, all organs were damaged - kidneys, brain, liver. Doctors fought for the actor’s life for 16 days, without leaving his side, but, alas, they were unable to save him.

Nikulin's death occurred on August 21 at 10:16 am. On August 26, the funeral of Yuri Nikulin took place. Nikulin's grave is located at the Novodevichy cemetery. The funeral service, which was attended by the then Russian President Boris Yeltsin, took place in the circus building on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. During Yuri Nikulin's funeral, thousands of people came to say goodbye to him. The line stretched along Tsvetnoy Boulevard, turning onto the Garden Ring.

Life line

December 18, 1921 Date of birth of Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin.
1939-1946 Military service, participation in hostilities during the Great Patriotic War.
1946 Admission to the clownery studio at the Moscow State Circus.
1948 First independent performance in the circus arena with partner Boris Romanov.
1949 Meet Tatyana Pokrovskaya, future wife.
1956 Birth of son Maxim.
1958 First film role.
1963 Receiving the title “Honored Artist of the RSFSR.”
1982 Assuming the position of director of the Moscow State Circus.
August, 1997 Heart surgery, clinical death.
August 21, 1997 Death of Nikulin.
August 26, 1997 Nikulin's funeral.

Memorable places

1. The city of Demidov in the Smolensk region, the birthplace of Yuri Nikulin.
2. Moscow Nikulin Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.
3. Monument to Nikulin in front of the Circus building on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.
4. Monument to the heroes of the film “The Diamond Arm” near the Sochi shopping mall building seaport in Sochi.
5. Boarding school No. 15 of the circus profile named after. Yu. V. Nikulina for orphans.
6. Center for Endosurgery and Lithotripsy, where Nikulin’s death occurred.
7. Novodevichy cemetery, section 5, row 23, where Nikulin is buried.

Episodes of life

Yuri Nikulin's father brought him to the circus when he was a child. Then little Yura decided to become a clown. Once, at a children's masquerade, he decided to portray a clown and, when his performance began, he immediately fell to the floor, remembering that this is what clowns do. Nobody laughed. Nikulin repeated the trick several times, but he failed to amuse the audience.

Yuri Nikulin’s mother, with whom he always had a warm relationship, initially objected to her son’s decision to become a clown. But his father supported the actor, saying: “Let Yura take a risk. You can experiment in the circus. The work is endless. If he finds himself, he will move forward. And in the theater? There is too much tradition, everything is known, complete dependence on the director. In the circus, a lot is determined by the artist himself.” At Nikulin’s first performance as a clown, my mother was very moved and even cried.

When he was killed in 1992 Commercial Director Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard Mikhail Sedoy, Yuri Nikulin transferred the position to his son, Maxim. Once Eldar Ryazanov asked Nikulin: “Yura, after the murder of your colleague, weren’t you afraid to put your son in this place?”, to which he answered without hesitation: “Why should I substitute someone else’s son?” .

Tatyana Pokrovskaya was a close friend of Nikulin all her life, including working as his assistant in the circus. Nikulin said: “Tatyana, my wife. I always listen to her advice. Tanya is my only wife. I always get nervous when Tanya is sick. I'm always happy when Tanya has good mood. How are you, girl? I’ve been saying this phrase all my life when addressing Tanya.”

Testaments

“If each of us can make another person happy - at least one, everyone on earth will be happy.”

“A lot of good can be done if you are in a good mood.”

“I was always happy when I made people laugh. He who laughs with a kind laugh infects others with kindness. After such laughter, the atmosphere becomes different: we forget many of life’s troubles and inconveniences.”

Film for the 90th anniversary of the actor “Yuri Nikulin. I'm not going anywhere"

Condolences

“I am proud of my friendship with the amazing, talented, warm person. I'm lucky. Large. I share my luck. I want to believe in “that” life.”
Isaac Magiton, director

“If we sum up everything that Nikulin did - a soldier of a difficult war, Nikulin - a citizen, Nikulin - an artist, then we agree that this man is a block. The phenomenon is large and unique. We will always miss him very, very much. But we will always remember."
Eduard Popov, journalist, writer

“Probably this is the secret of his popularity, universal love - other people saw in him not just a clown, an artist, a director, a joke teller, no, they saw in him honest and caring, kind and sympathetic, sincere and gentle, sincere person. And we all miss this so much. For one very good and talented person there is less in this world."
Vladimir Shakhidzhanyan, journalist, psychologist

“Nikulin is meant to be the embodiment of kindness. And he was. With his departure, there was a nagging feeling that there was much less kindness left. It would seem like one less Nikulin, but it’s so much!”
Grigory Gorin, playwright, prose writer, satirist

Today, on my tour of the Novodevichy cemetery, one good incident happened that I really liked.
At the end of the walk, as always, I showed the group the graves of Primakov and Yeltsin in the central square.
And, right behind Yeltsin, Grigory Petrovich Nikulin, one of the soldiers who shot the Tsar and his family in Yekaterinburg.
Here is his tombstone, obscured by trees specially planted behind Yeltsin’s grave so that it would not be visible: plot 6, row 23.

As usual, I briefly told the story of the execution of Nicholas II and his family. After all, Nikulin shot the Tsar’s son, Alexei.
And after my story, one of the excursionists, an elderly man, very erudite and knowledgeable in history, asked me about the grave of another participant in the execution - Medvedev, who shot the Tsar himself. Like, you read somewhere that Medvedev is also buried on Novodevichy, to the left of the entrance.
I read about Medvedev, but didn’t know that he was also at Novodevichy. Therefore, after finishing the tour, I rushed to look for the grave. And I found it right away, in a minute. Section 6 is the one to the left of the main alley. It’s very easy to find: go left from the diagram, which is opposite the entrance, there is a trodden path to the road. 2nd row. At its end is a tombstone.
This is what it looks like:


Do you see? The excursionist taught me something new by opening another burial. Now I will show it. And the story of the execution royal family added an important detail.
Medvedev died on January 13, 1964. In the same year, Grigory Nikulin left his memories, they were recorded on film in the archive. Just in time, for he died soon after, on September 22, 1965.
This is how my excursion is complemented and expanded. Constantly, almost every time I change it and improve it. And my story about history, the revolution and the USSR is becoming more complete and harmonious.
Just in case, in addition, I will cite the memories of Nikulin and Medvedev, on which I rely in my stories:

“From a typewritten transcript of the memories of Grigory Petrovich Nikulin, a participant in the execution, as stated by him in a conversation on May 13, 1964 at the USSR Radio Committee (RGASPI, fund 588, inventory 3, file 13, l. 1-71).
Before proceeding directly to the execution, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Medvedev came to help us; he then worked in the Cheka. It seems he was a member of the presidium, I don’t remember exactly now. And here is this comrade Ermakov, who behaved rather indecently, later assuming the leading role for himself, that he did it all, so to speak, single-handedly, without any help. And when they asked him the question: “Well, how did you do it?” “Well, just,” he said, “he took it, shot, and that’s all.”
In fact, there were 8 of us performers: Yurovsky, Nikulin, Mikhail Medvedev, Pavel Medvedev - four, Pyotr Ermakov - five, but I’m not sure that Ivan Kabanov - six. And I don’t remember the names of two more. When we went down to the basement, we also didn’t think at first to even put chairs there to sit down, because this one was there. he didn’t go, you know, Alexey, he should have been locked up. Well, then they brought it up instantly. So, when they went down to the basement, they began to look at each other in bewilderment, they immediately brought in chairs, they sat down, that means Alexandra Fedorovna, the heir was imprisoned, and Comrade Yurovsky uttered the following phrase: “Your friends are advancing on Yekaterinburg , and therefore you are condemned to death." They didn’t even realize what was going on, because Nikolai just said immediately: “Ah!”, and at that time our salvo was already one, two, three. Well, there’s someone else there, which means, so to speak, well, or something, they weren’t quite completely killed yet. Well, then I had to shoot someone else.
- Remember who was not completely dead yet?
- Well, there was this one. Anastasia and this one. She covered herself with a pillow - Demidova. Demidova covered herself with a pillow, so they had to pull the pillow off and shoot her.
- And the boy?
- And the boy was right there right away. Well, it’s true that he tossed and turned for a long time, in any case, the boy was finished with him. Fast.
- How long did this whole operation last?
- ...Then, when they came down, everything was completed there within half an hour.
- So, all the inhabitants of this place entered there?..
- Absolutely everything, all eleven people, with the exception, that is, little boy Sedneva."

From the memoirs of Mikhail Aleksandrovich, a participant in the execution of Medvedev (Kudrin), written on December 21, 1963. (RGASPI, fund 588, inventory 3, file 12, l. 44-58): “.They decided: to save the life of only Lena Sednev. Then they began to think about who to allocate for the liquidation of the Romanovs from the Ural Regional Extraordinary Commission. Beloborodov asks me:
— Will you take part?
— By decree of Nicholas II, I was tried and imprisoned. Of course I will!
“We still need a representative from the Red Army,” says Philip Goloshchekin. — I propose Pyotr Zakharovich Ermakov, military commissar of Verkh-Isetsk.
- Accepted. And from you, Yakov, who will participate?
“Me and my assistant Grigory Petrovich Nikulin,” Yurovsky answers. — So, four: Medvedev, Ermakov, Nikulin and me.
They distributed revolvers to the Latvians internal security, - we considered it reasonable to involve them in the operation, so as not to shoot some members of the Romanov family in front of others. Three Latvians refused to participate in the execution. The head of security, Pavel Spiridonovich Medvedev, returned their revolvers to the commandant’s room.
There were seven Latvians left in the detachment. Yurovsky invites us to take the remaining five revolvers. Pyotr Ermakov takes two revolvers and puts them in his belt; Grigory Nikulin and Pavel Medvedev each take a revolver. I refuse, since I already have two pistols: an American Colt in a holster on my belt, and a Belgian Browning behind my belt (both historical pistols - Browning No. 389965 and a Colt 45 caliber, government model "C" No. 78517 - I saved until today). The remaining revolver is first taken by Yurovsky (he has a ten-round Mauser in his holster), but then he gives it to Ermakov, and he tucks a third revolver into his belt. We go out onto the landing of the second floor.
Yurovsky goes to the royal chambers, then returns - following him in single file: Nicholas II (he is carrying Alexei in his arms, the boy has blood clotting, he hurt his leg somewhere and cannot walk on his own for now), following the king, rustling their skirts, a corseted queen, followed by four daughters (of whom I know by sight only the youngest, plump Anastasia and the older one, Tatyana, who, according to Yurovsky’s dagger version, was entrusted to me until I fought the Tsar himself from Ermakov), men follow the girls: doctor Botkin, cook, footman, the queen's tall maid carries white pillows. Following the procession, Pavel Medvedev, Grisha Nikulin, seven Latvians (two of them have rifles with fixed bayonets on their shoulders) follow the stairs; Ermakov and I complete the procession.
When everyone entered the lower room (the house has a very strange arrangement of passages, so we first had to go out into the courtyard of the mansion and then re-enter the first floor), it turned out that the room was very small. Yurovsky and Nikulin brought three chairs - the last thrones of the condemned dynasty. On one of them, closer to the right arch, the queen sat on a cushion, followed by her three eldest daughters. For some reason, the youngest, Anastasia, went to the maid, who was leaning against the frame of the locked door to the next storage room. A chair was placed in the middle of the room for the heir, Nicholas II sat on the chair to the right, and Doctor Botkin stood behind Alexei’s chair. The cook and footman respectfully moved to the arch pillar in the left corner of the room and stood against the wall. The light from the bulb is so weak that those standing opposite closed door two female figures at times seem to be silhouettes, and only in the hands of the maid two large pillows become clearly white. The Romanovs are completely calm - no suspicions. Nicholas II, the Tsarina and Botkin carefully examine me and Ermakov.
- I’ll ask everyone to stand up!
Nicholas II stood up easily, in a military manner; Alexandra Feodorovna reluctantly rose from her chair, her eyes flashing angrily. A detachment of Latvians entered the room and lined up just opposite her and her daughters: five people in the first row, and two with rifles in the second. The queen crossed herself. It became so quiet that from the yard through the window you could hear the rumble of a truck engine. Yurovsky steps forward half a step and addresses the Tsar:
- Nikolai Alexandrovich! The attempts of your like-minded people to save you were unsuccessful!
And now, in a difficult time for Soviet republic. - Yakov Mikhailovich raises his voice and chops the air with his hand, - we have been entrusted with the mission of ending the house of the Romanovs!
Women's screams: “Oh my God!” Oh! Oh!" Nicholas II quickly mutters:
- Oh my God! Oh my God! What is this?!
- And that’s what it is! - says Yurovsky, taking the Mauser out of his holster.
- So they won’t take us anywhere? - Botkin asks in a dull voice.
Yurovsky wants to answer him something, but I’m already pulling the trigger on my Browning and putting the first bullet into the Tsar. Simultaneously with my second shot, the first volley of Latvians and my comrades is heard from right and left. Yurovsky and Ermakov also shoot Nicholas II in the chest. On my fifth shot, Nicholas II falls in a sheaf on his back. Female squeals and moans; I see Botkin fall, the footman slumps against the wall, and the cook falls to his knees. The white pillow moved from the door to the right corner of the room. In the powder smoke from the screaming group of women, a female figure rushed to the closed door and immediately fell, struck by the shots of Ermakov, who was firing from his second revolver. You can hear bullets ricocheting off stone pillars, flying lime dust. You can’t see anything in the room because of the smoke—the shooting is already on the barely visible falling silhouettes in the right corner. The screams have died down, but the shots are still roaring - Ermakov is firing from the third revolver. Yurovsky's voice is heard:
- Stop! Stop shooting!
Silence. Ringing in my ears. One of the Red Army soldiers was wounded in the finger and in the neck - either by a ricochet, or in the powder fog, the Latvians from the second row burned with bullets from rifles. The veil of smoke and dust is thinning. Yakov Mikhailovich invites Ermakov and me, as representatives of the Red Army, to witness the death of every member of the royal family. Suddenly, from the right corner of the room, where the pillow moved, a woman’s joyful cry:
- God bless! God saved me!
Staggering, the surviving maid rises - she covered herself with pillows, in the fluff of which the bullets were stuck. The Latvians have already shot all their cartridges, then two people with rifles approach her through the lying bodies and pin the maid with bayonets. From her dying cry, the slightly wounded Alexey woke up and groaned - he was lying on a chair. Yurovsky approaches him and fires the last three bullets from his Mauser. The guy fell silent and slowly slid to the floor at his father’s feet. Ermakov and I feel Nikolai’s pulse - he’s riddled with bullets, he’s dead. We inspect the rest and finish shooting Tatyana and Anastasia, still alive, from the Colt and the Ermakov revolver. Now everyone is lifeless. Security chief Pavel Spiridonovich Medvedev approaches Yurovsky and reports that shots were heard in the courtyard of the house.”

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