Pavel Sanaev: “Grandmother loved us with tyrannical fury. Vsevolod Sanaev: how things really were in the artist’s family Lidiya Sanaeva biography personal life
Hello dear blog readers"BERGAMOT"! Yesterday I decided to re-read the story "Bury Me Behind the Baseboard" Naturally, there was a desire to write my impressions about this controversial work.
It should be said that the author of the bookPavel Sanaev , director and writer, is the son of a famous Soviet actressElena Sanaeva (Remember Alice the Fox from the movie "Pinocchio"?).Due to family circumstances (Sanaeva’s marriage toRolan Bykov ) the boy's childhood passed in his grandmother's houseLidia Antonovna Sanaeva and actor Vsevolod Sanaeva .
For seven years the child was forced to live in an atmosphere of constant family scandals and disputes. Of course, this could not but leave a certain imprint on the development of little Pavel.
These facts allow us to judge the autobigraphical nature of the work, despite the author’s desire to slightly veil the real details, for example, by changing names and surnames. The story is a series of memories, sometimes mixed with each other, running at odds, but, nevertheless, fully depicting the world in which the hero exists.
It is important to note that the work is perceived and interpreted, as a rule, in diametrically opposed ways: some see a lot of humor and irony in the description of a child’s life, others note the cruelty that permeates the entire plot...
So, the story is told from the perspective of an eight-year-old boy:
“My name is Savelyev Sasha. I'm in second grade and live with my grandparents. Mom exchanged me for a blood-sucking dwarf and hung me around my grandmother’s neck with a heavy cross. This is how I’ve been hanging since I was four years old.” .
These lines immediately plunge us into the world of the Savelyev family, filled with shouting, abuse, insults, a world that seems terrible, unthinkable in its despotism. And the reaction of those readers who saw the gloomy picture of bullying, humiliation, and insults becomes clear to me. But read the first words of the story again. Did you read it? Yes, these words are spoken by a child, but behind each of them there is an adult. And the boy, like any child, full of spontaneity, only echoes what he hears every day about himself, about his mother, about people, often without delving into what he is saying, and simply not understanding, due to his age, the meaning of the words spoken. And then I begin to understand those who make the work smile. Some details of the story are also quite ironic, for example, the story of the bathing, or the grandmother’s forgetfulness about where to keep the money, or the visit to the homeopath.
"- Hello Hello! - An elderly homeopath greeted my grandmother and me.
- Forgive me, for God's sake! - the grandmother apologized, crossing the threshold. “Grandfather wasn’t lucky in the car; he had to take the subway.
“Nothing, nothing,” the homeopath readily apologized and, leaning towards me, asked: “So you are Sasha?”
- I am.
- Why are you so skinny, Sash?
When people told me about being thin, I was always offended, but I restrained myself and endured it. I would have endured this time too, but when my grandmother and I were leaving the house, one of the elevator attendants said to the other in a low voice:
- She's struggling, poor thing. Again his consumption took him to the doctor.
All my restraint went into not responding to the “consumption” of one of my grandmother’s combinations, and it was no longer enough for a homeopath.
- Why do you have such big ears? — I asked with offense, pointing my finger at the homeopath’s ears, which really made him look like an elderly Cheburashka.
The homeopath choked.
- Don’t pay attention, Aron Moiseevich! - Grandma became worried. - He's sick in the head! Well, quickly apologize!
- Since you’re sick, there’s no need to apologize! - the homeopath laughed. “We’ll apologize when we’re cured.” Let's go to the office.
The walls of the office were hung with antique clocks, and, wanting to show his admiration, he respectfully said:
- And you have something to rob.
- Wow! Yes there is even more!
“You idiot, what can you do…” the grandmother reassured the choking homeopath again...”
Of course, we can endlessly talk about the fact that a child cannot live in an atmosphere of endless bullying and abuse, and cannot live without a mother, and I, of course, cannot but agree with this...
“- Damned Gitsel, hated Tatar! - shouted the grandmother, belligerently shaking the reflector and slapping the palm of her other hand on the smoking skirt. - Curse you by the sky, God, earth, birds, fish, people, seas, air! – It was grandma’s favorite curse. – So that nothing but misfortunes will fall on your head! So that you see nothing but retribution!
- Get out, you bastard!
Again the combination is already addressed to me.
- Damn you…
Favorite curse.
- May you end your life in prison...
Combination.
- May you rot alive in the hospital! May your liver, kidneys, brain, and heart dry up! So that Staphylococcus aureus eats you...
Combination.
- Take off your clothes!
An unheard of combination."
But it is important to understand the motives for the behavior of adults...
I read many reviews and reviews of this book, in which they pitied the boy, complained about his unfortunate fate, worried about the mother, deprived of the opportunity to see her child as often as she would like, scolded the crazy grandmother and henpecked grandfather, who agreed with her in everything , talked about personality psychotypes, etc. But I have never come across a single word dedicated to a much more terrible tragedy. It is in the life story of Nina Antonovna Savelyeva, the little woman, as Sashenka calls her, that lies the reasons for what we saw on the pages of the story.
I was struck to the depths of my soul by the terrible fate of this heroine, by understanding which, you can understand everything. When she was very young, having fallen in love, she left her native Kyiv and moved to a small room in a communal apartment, where she lives with her husband and newborn son Alyoshenka. With the beginning of the war, despite all admonitions, her husband Semyon Mikhailovich sends her to be evacuated to Alma-Ata, where she is settled in an unheated room with an icy earthen floor, where she soon dies of diphtheria little son. And she, all sick, having sold all her belongings, goes to her husband... For support, for understanding, for attention and care, which she never felt from him. Therefore, when her daughter Olya was born, an unexpected and very expensive gift, she threw all her strength into protecting her child. Nina Antonovna began to overprotect her daughter, wanted to make her a real person, invest all her unspent love and tenderness, dreamed that her child would be the smartest, most talented, beautiful, and happy. That’s why the girl’s growing up was so difficult, that’s why she languished under her mother’s despotism, striving to isolate herself and gain independence, that’s why Olya’s choice aroused dull aggression and rejection in her mother, that’s why she called her daughter’s husband a dwarf-bloodsucker, because that’s not what she saw for her perfect couple, so she took away Sashenka, judging that she could make out of her grandson what she couldn’t make out of her daughter. This is where the curses rain down on the heads of the heroes, hysterics, screams, mania of persecution, closedness, isolation of existence, the desire to hide every ruble, bribe, appease... From hopelessness, from powerlessness, from all-consuming loneliness, from melancholy and unhappiness... There is not a single soul, who would listen, regret, understand this unfortunate old woman... She doesn’t cause me anger or rage for her actions, I feel immensely sorry for her. It seemed to me that throughout the entire book I was present at a huge human tragedy...
The ashes of Vsevolod Sanaev’s wife were buried almost a year after her death
The ashes of Vsevolod Sanaev’s wife were buried almost a year after her death
Vsevolod SANAEV in this year would have turned 100 years old. His fans learned about the difficult personal life of the wonderful actor from the story “Bury Me Behind the Skirting Board,” written by his grandson Pavel. But the daughter, Elena SANAEVA, actress and widow of Rolan BYKOV, asks not to mix piece of art And real life. She spoke about this in many interviews. But only to the readers of Express Newspaper Elena Vsevolodovna revealed some family secrets, about which I was previously silent.
- There is an opinion that Vsevolod Vasilyevich was unhappy in his personal life.
Happy is every person who is born. Out of millions of spermatozoa, one of them broke through, and the miracle of life happened. At the age of 17, my father became very ill. One day he told his mother: “I’ll probably die soon.” To which she, a woman who had lost half of her twelve children, replied: “Sevka, don’t be sad. There is an old man up there, and he has a little book - everything is written in it about everyone.” These words instilled faith in my dad, he pulled out of a serious illness and decided to become an artist.
Certainly. Faina Ranevskaya, whom I met at the sanatorium, told me that a person with either Yermolova’s talent or Stalin’s character could work in the theater. Dad didn't have that kind of character. When he served at the Moscow Art Theater, he fell ill one day famous actor Mikhail Yanshin, and his father played his role. And according to the law, if you performed the character twice, you already have the right to take turns going on stage with a colleague. So Yanshin came to the second performance with high temperature, just not to give up your place to anyone. Over time, my father left the Moscow Art Theater, realizing that as long as the backbone of the actors of the old theater was alive, he would not be given any meaningful work.
- Did your father have many ill-wishers?
Yes. Especially in the movies. But dad, like the great Kachalov, did not notice them.
Persecution mania
- Your parents have lived together for more than half a century. What allowed them to save their family?
Mom is a person of great devotion, and dad grew up in a family where wives are not abandoned. When, in the early 50s, my mother fell ill and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with a diagnosis of persecution mania, actor Sergei Lukyanov advised my father: “Seva, leave everything to Lydia and leave her. Believe me, it will get worse." Dad replied that his wife bore him two children (the eldest son, Alyosha, died during the war at the age of two from measles and diphtheria. - Ya. G.), gave away youth and beauty. They say they don’t throw a sick dog out onto the street, so how could he leave his wife?
- Was your mother afraid of losing her father?
There are temptations in the acting profession, but it all depends on the measure of talent. You can play any passion without opening your heart to your partner. However, my father never considered himself handsome, my mother thought so too. She was an intelligent, interesting and sharp-tongued woman. I never held back my emotions. She and I often accompanied our father on film expeditions.
Mom was shaking over both of us: when I was little, I almost died from jaundice, and dad had a heart attack at the age of 35. In short, the parents turned out to be very devoted to each other. True, there were moments when my mother cried and repeated: “I am nobody and nothing - a housewife! I hate these pots!” Dad reassured her: “Lida, how can you say such a thing. If it weren’t for you, I would never have succeeded.”- Did he sincerely think so?
Of course. Mom read more than father. She was interested in many things and aroused her husband’s attention to something more than his favorite fishing. She gave advice on work. True, she did not always show insight. For example, she was categorically against her father agreeing to the role of Siply in “An Optimistic Tragedy”: “You are so positive, you play heroes. How are you going to play such scum?!” I was studying at the theater institute then and convinced him: “Dad, you’re an actor, and you can’t refuse such an interesting role.” And it turned out to be right! Before that, he played a series of passable and faceless characters.
Disposable women
- Did your father never have any love interests?
Maybe he had some short meetings, but this did not concern his family. No one wrote him letters, no one stood guard at his door. Once, when I was already an adult, my dad shared with me: “You know, on film expeditions, when you and mom weren’t around, I always told the women that I have a wife and daughter and I will never leave them.” When a man immediately warns about this, women understand: yes, it may turn out to be something one-time, but you shouldn’t count on more.
- Weren’t you afraid that your mother, who was once seen by psychiatrists, could commit suicide?
Depressive states caused by the fact that she did not succeed in life, of course, happened to her. But my mother never blackmailed my father and me. It happened that she expressed dissatisfaction with me, but quite justifiably. Youth is incredibly selfish.
- Your dad held a high position in the Union of Cinematographers. Perhaps his colleagues constantly tormented him with requests?He first headed the acting section in the Union, and then began to lead the household section. Apartments, funerals, monuments, referrals to sanatoriums - his commission dealt with all this. I remember one early morning Regina, Mikhail Kozakov’s wife, called us at home. And she began to complain that they were denied a trip to Pitsunda, and Margarita Gladunko, who was lucky, sent her sister and daughter there instead. Well, the father had to stand on the platform and check who went with whom and where?! By the way, neither dad, nor I, nor my husband Rolan Bykov have ever been to Pitsunda. There was a real war for the right to go there!
- Why did Sanaev put other people’s worries on his shoulders?
He felt that people needed him and that they treated him well. When the House of Cinema Veterans was being built, it was Dad who carried out a huge amount of work: he knocked out the ground and looked for builders. He, a man of great charm, was treated wonderfully by strangers.
The last "sorry"
- Your parents died almost one after another.
Yes, dad died ten months after mom. While she was still alive, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. At the age of 75, he pulled out of a massive heart attack just for the sake of his mother, so as not to leave her alone. They grew into each other, and everything else, no matter who says it, doesn’t matter. Dad died at home with Roland and me. He spent his last days surrounded by love, attention and compassion. My father felt that he was leaving, and shortly before his death he said: “I don’t want to live anymore.” - “Dad, have pity on me, it’s impossible for you and mom to leave one after the other.” “I would be glad, but it won’t work,” he replied.
- Did he often come to his wife’s grave?
We cremated my mother, and, realizing that my father was seriously ill, I was dragging my feet on burying the urn with the ashes. It was kept at my house. I read that the Japanese always keep the ashes of their relatives with them. In a word, when dad passed away, I buried them together. They rest at the Novodevichy cemetery. Roland's grave is nearby. By the way, it was Bykov who secured a place in the cemetery for dad, although his father said that he would be fine at Vagankovsky.
Paul under chilling The title “Bury me behind the baseboard” caused a lot of noise. This was mainly due to the author’s own statement that the book is, in a sense, his autobiography. The wife of Sanaev Sr., according to relatives, was a truly domineering and mentally unbalanced woman. But before judging her for this, you need to know what she had to endure in life.
Death of a son
Vsevolod Sanaev met with his future wife Lida Goncharenko, already a professional artist. This happened in Kyiv, where Vsevolod came on tour with other members of the theater troupe. It was hard not to fall in love with the beautiful Lida, but Sanaev was not a failure either. The young people began dating. It is noteworthy that the girl’s parents were categorically against this marriage and asked their daughter not to commit rash acts. But Lida did not listen to anyone and left with the actor to distant Moscow.
At first everything went wonderfully. The lovers officially registered their relationship, and soon their first child was born, who was named Alexei. And then the war began. But Soviet actors continued to tour, supporting the country's frightened civilians and the spirit of its fighters with performances. It was during such a trip that Sanayev’s Lidiya and her child were evacuated to Kazakhstan. There, 2-year-old Alexei contracted an infection and died. Vsevolod and Lydia did not immediately manage to unite, so a terrible loss only son and the young woman experienced his funeral completely alone. This tragedy will later become one of the reasons for Sanaeva’s further behavior, its echo.
Persecution mania
In 1942, Lydia Sanaeva gave birth for the second time. The girl was named Elena. It is clear that after the death of her first child, Lydia Antonovna began to be terribly afraid for her daughter. And when she fell ill with jaundice, the mother’s fear increased a hundredfold. He manifested himself in excessive care, and in severity, and in all-consuming love at the same time.
Then the Sanayevs lived in a communal apartment. One day in the common kitchen, Lidia Antonovna told some careless joke. Apparently, one of the neighbors reported on her. After some time, the relevant employees came to Sanayeva and began asking her about everything. The already suspicious woman was so frightened that it began to seem to her that she was constantly being watched. She eventually ended up in the hospital with a diagnosis of persecution mania.
Fact or fiction?
When Elena grew up, she followed in her father's footsteps and became an actress. She married engineer Vladimir Konuzin, who is the father of Pavel Sanaev. But the marriage was not entirely successful, and the couple separated. Due to the fact that Elena often went on tour, most Pasha spent his childhood with his grandparents.
Pavel admitted that Lydia Antonovna really did not have the most easy character, but nevertheless she loved her husband, and her daughter and her grandson. Sanaeva did even the strangest things out of love for them.
In addition, Rolan Bykov soon appeared in Elena’s life. Lydia Antonovna didn’t like him at first either, but it was he who managed to establish relationships between all family members.
As for the story, Pavel Sanaev has repeatedly stated that this is still a work of art and a considerable part of it is fiction.
Vsevolod Vasilievich Sanaev. Born on February 12 (25), 1912 in Tula - died on January 27, 1996 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, teacher. National artist USSR (1969).
Vsevolod Sanaev was born on February 12 (25 according to the new style) 1912 in Tula.
His father was a hereditary accordion maker.
Sister Lyudmila (Shemyakina) Sanaeva, lived in Karelia (in the city of Segezha).
In 1926-1930 he worked as an accordion assembler at the Tula accordion factory.
In 1930-1931 he was an artist in the supporting cast of the Tula Theater at the Cartridge Plant.
In 1931-1932 - actor at the Tula Drama Theater named after M. Gorky.
After graduating from GITIS in 1937, Sanaev began working at the Moscow Art Theater. However, there was little work in the theater, and the theater luminaries were reluctant to share roles. As a result, in 1942, Vsevolod Sanaev decided to leave the troupe.
Vsevolod Sanaev explained his departure from the theater simply: “Leaving the Moscow Art Theater, friends, the stage is, of course, not an easy matter. But every person should have a consciousness - maybe this is called a calling - that in some specific area of life he is needed.”
Since 1943 - artist of the Mossovet Academic Theater.
From 1946 to 1994 - actor at the Film Actor's Studio Theatre.
In 1952-1956 he played at the Moscow Art Theater. During this period in the actor’s life, his wife fell ill, and to the young actor I had to quit the theater and act in films to feed my family. The treacherous attitude added to the sadness former colleagues. In particular, actor Sergei Lukyanov asked quite seriously: “Why do you need a sick wife, don’t leave the theater, but leave her.”
He fared better in the movies. He made his debut in 1934, in an episode of the film “ Private life Peter Vinogradov.
In 1938, he starred in the famous Soviet film “Volga, Volga” - playing two small roles: a bearded lumberjack and a beardless musician. The first major work was the role of the worker Dobryakov in the film “Beloved Girl” (1940).
Vsevolod Sanaev in the film "Volga, Volga"
In 1949-1950 he was a teacher at VGIK. Member of the CPSU since 1955.
Among the notable roles of Vsevolod Sanaev are the director of MTS Kantaurov in “The Return of Vasily Bortnikov” (1952), Dontsov in “The First Echelon” (1955), Sergeant Major Kozlov in “Five Days, Five Nights” (1960), Siply in “An Optimistic Tragedy” ( 1962), Colonel Lukin in the film epic “Liberation” (1968).
Interesting are his acting works in films directed by Ermolai Voevodin in “Your Son and Brother” (1965), Matvey Ryazantsev in “Strange People” (1969) and Stepan Fedorovich in “Stove-Benches” (1972).
I really appreciated my work with Vasily Shukshin.
“I’m happy that I worked with Makarych. I doubted: a young director, making only his second big film - that he knew what he could teach. When we started filming, he kept looking at my hands - he was afraid, apparently, that they would not come out stocky. Then I I remember I told him: the main thing in a person is his eyes, and his hands... “Well, I’ll make them restless, not used to being idle,” Makarych answered, after thinking a little, they decided on that... Only nearby with this director, I understood how to live - and not only in art. Many people talk about the truth in our cinematic business - what it is in reality and what it is on the screen, but Shukshin’s is special - the same both here and there..." , - said Vsevolod Sanaev.
At Vasily Shukshin’s funeral, a lot of different things were said in a series of official speeches. Then Vsevolod Sanaev came to the microphone. He was silent for a long time and finally, with difficulty, uttered only three words: “Brothers, what grief!” And he cried without hiding his tears.
A great success was the role of Colonel Zorin, which he played in the detective trilogy about the police - “The Return of St. Luke” (1970), “The Black Prince” (1973) and “The Version of Colonel Zorin” (1978).
Vsevolod Sanaev in the film "Stoves and Benches"
Vsevolod Sanaev in the film "Liberation"
Among Vsevolod Sanaev’s latest film works, it is worth noting the melodrama “White Dews” (1983) and the role of the chief in the ministry from the film “Forgotten Melody for Flute” (1988). Despite the fact that Sanaev was a convinced communist, he was elected secretary of the Mosfilm party committee for a long time.
During his life, Vsevolod Sanaev starred in more than seventy films.
IN last years the actor complained that he was never allowed to sing in films or play a comedic role. When Vsevolod Sanaev was asked what he would have become if he had not been an actor, he answered: “I would be a wonderful harmonious master.”
In 1966-1986 - Secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR.
Vsevolod Vasilievich Sanaev died on January 27, 1996. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery (site No. 10).
Vsevolod Sanaev ( documentary)
Personal life of Vsevolod Sanaev:
Wife - Lidia Antonovna Sanaeva (1918-1995). They had a son, Alexei, who died at the age of 2, having contracted measles and diphtheria during the war.
Daughter, actress, widow of an actor and film director. Before that, she was married to Vladimir Konuzin, an engineer.
Grandson Pavel Sanaev is a Russian actor, screenwriter and director.
The actor’s grandson Pavel Sanaev wrote the book “Bury Me Behind the Baseboard,” in which he described the relationships in Vsevolod Sanaev’s family - according to the recollections of his grandmother, with whom he lived for several years when his mother began her relationship with Rolan Bykov.
The story “Bury Me Behind the Baseboard” was filmed in 2009.
Filmography of Vsevolod Sanaev:
1934 - The private life of Pyotr Vinogradov - Red Navy man (uncredited)
1938 - Volga, Volga - lumberjack
1938 - If there is war tomorrow - a competent fighter
1939 - A girl with character - police lieutenant Surkov
1939 - Youth of commanders - Colonel Grishaev (uncredited)
1940 - Beloved Girl - Vasily Dobryakov
1941 - First Cavalry - Kulik (uncredited)
1941 - First printer Ivan Fedorov - Pyotr Timofeev
1941 - Hearts of four- Eremeev, Red Army soldier
1944 - Ivan Nikulin - Russian sailor - Alekha
1946 - In the mountains of Yugoslavia - Alexey Gubanov, Red Army soldier
1947 - Diamonds - Sergei Nesterov, geologist
1948 - Young Guard - underground communist (uncredited)
1948 - Pages of Life - radio announcer (uncredited)
1949 - The Fall of Berlin - speaker (uncredited)
1949 - They have a homeland - Vsevolod Vasilievich Sorokin
1951 - In the steppe (film) - Tuzhikov, secretary of the district committee
1951 - Zhukovsky - student (uncredited)
1951 - Unforgettable 1919 - Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (uncredited)
1951 - Przhevalsky - archpriest (uncredited)
1951 - Country doctor - Nikolai Petrovich Korotkov
1951 - Taras Shevchenko - episode
1953 - Lawlessness (film) - Ermolai, janitor
1953 - Hostile whirlwinds - episode (uncredited)
1953 - Return of Vasily Bortnikov - Kantaurov, director of MTS
1954 - Faithful friends- visitor to Nechoda (uncredited)
1955 - First echelon - Alexey Egorovich Dontsov, director of the state farm
1956 - Polyushko-field - Nikolai Fedorovich Kholin, director of MTS
1956 - Different destinies - Vladimir Sergeevich Zhukov, party organizer of the Central Committee
1957 - Swallow - Melgunov
1957 - Stories about Lenin - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Emelyanov
1957 - Pages of the Past - Skvortsov
1958 - On the roads of war - Ivan Fedorovich Uvarov
1958 - Another flight - episode (uncredited)
1959 - Ballad of a Soldier - episode
1959 - In the silence of the steppe - Vetrov
1959 - Unpaid debt - Alexey Okunchikov
1959 - Song about Koltsov - Koltsov’s father
1959 - People Too (film) - an elderly soldier
1960 - Five days, five nights - Sergeant Major Efim Kozlov
1960 - Thrice Risen - Ivan Alexandrovich Starodub
1961 - On the way (film) - old man
1961 - Adult children - Vasily Vasilyevich
1963 - Meeting at the crossing (c/m) - chairman of the collective farm
1963 - Optimistic tragedy - Hoarse
1963 - It happened in the police - Major Sazonov
1964 - Big Ore - Matsuev
1964 - Green Light - pensioner
1965 - Your son and brother - Ermolai Voevodin
1965 - First day of freedom - Colonel Davydov
1965 - Roll Call - Varentsov
1966 - Trapped - Kovacs
1967 - Moscow is behind us - General Panfilov
1967 - For the sake of boredom - Timofey Petrovich Gomozov
1968 - Liberation - Colonel Lukin
1968 - Spent cartridges(k/m) - father
1969 - Main witness- Dudya
1969 - Strange People - Matvey Ryazantsev
1969 - I am his bride - Anton Grigorievich Mitrokhin
1970 - Return of “Saint Luke” - Colonel Zorin
1970 - Kremlin chimes- old worker
1970 - The Stolen Train - General Ivan Vasilyevich
1971 - Not a day without adventure - grandfather Danilyuk
1971 - Nyurka’s life - Boris Gavrilovich
1972 - Eolomea (GDR) - Kuhn, pilot
1972 - Stove-benches - Sergei Fedorovich Stepanov, professor
1973 - Here is our home - Alexander Evgenievich Pluzhin
1973 - Black Prince - Colonel Zorin
1975 - There, beyond the horizon - Vikenty Kirillovich
1976 - Moscow Time - Nazar Lukich Grigorenko
1976 - Well, audience! (television play) - chief conductor
1976 - ...And other officials - Oleg Maksimovich Astakhov
1978 - Near Distance - Andrei Zakharovich Pogodin
1978 - Month long days(television play) - Pavel Stepanovich Kashirin
1978 - Version of Colonel Zorin - Colonel Zorin
1978 - My love, my sadness - Farhad's father
1980 - Uninvited Friend - Vladimir Abdullaevich Shlepyanov
1980 - Tehran-43 - Inkeper, owner of the zucchini
1981 - From winter to winter - Pavel Mikhailovich, minister
1981 - From evening to noon - Andrei Zharkov, writer
1982 - Hope and support - Kirill Lvovich Rotov
1982 - Private life - episode
1983 - White Dews - Fedos Khodas
1983 - The Mystery of the Blackbirds - Mr. George Fortescue
1984 - Dead souls - Ivan Grigorievich, chairman of the judicial chamber
1986 - Into the mud - Strogoff
1986 - First guy - Ivan Ivanovich
1987 - Appeal - Ivan Stepanovich Mironov
1987 - Forgotten melody for flute - Yaroslav Stepanovich
1993 - Tragedy of the Century - Lukin
1995 - Shirley-myrli - music lover
Vsevolod Sanaev - Soviet and Russian actor. He had some kind of natural organicity, the ability to be reliable in any role. According to critics, he was very truthful in his work, had a special purity of tone and a keen ear. This probably explains the nationwide love for this artist and the words of gratitude that just passers-by said to him.
Vsevolod Sanaev played more than ninety roles, including a variety of, sometimes completely contradictory, characters. His works were major and episodic, but this does not matter, because the actor put a piece of his broad soul into each of his characters.
Childhood and adolescence
Vsevolod Sanaev was born on February 25, 1912 in Tula. The family was large, the parents besides Vsevolod had 11 more children. The family had little wealth and they lived on the working-class outskirts of the city. Vsevolod had problems at school; his studies were not particularly good for him, and he was not zealous for learning. Therefore, his father, Vasily Sanaev, made the only right decision - there is no point in sitting out his pants, he needs to go to work. This is how Vsevolod ended up at the accordion factory, where his father also worked for many years.
Photo: Vsevolod Sanaev in his youth Vsevolod immediately became an apprentice who had to assemble and configure musical instrument. When the guy turned sixteen, he was already a real master and already taught two students himself future profession collector Vsevolod worked at this factory from 1926 to 1930, constantly feeling some kind of discomfort, often arising when his soul was not in this work.
Introduction to art
The first meeting with the theater in Vsevolod’s biography took place when he was still a child, during a performance by Moskovsky art theater, who came on tour to Tula. Then they showed Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”, and the boy really liked the performance of the actors. But the stage was so far from him that it was in vain to dream about it.
But dreams of theater haunted him, and now the young man is already visiting the Tula amateur theater under the working title “Hammer and Sickle” as a listener. It turned out that he had acting abilities, so after achieving certain results, Vsevolod decided to try his hand at a drama studio. He managed to get there, although he had to work hard.
In 1930, Vsevolod Sanaev was accepted into auxiliary staff theater troupe that worked at the Tula cartridge factory. He amazes the audience with his mastery of transformation and just a year later he leaves for the Tula State Academic Theater named after Gorky. To grow professionally, Sanaev needs to study.
Moscow
In the theater Vsevolod had a mentor who helped young man prepare for admission to the workers' school in the capital. The family was categorically against it; his parents thought his son’s hobby was frivolous; they were sure that their heir would choose a simple working profession. But the guy insisted on his own and left to conquer the capital.
After graduating from the workers' faculty, Sanaev entered the theater technical school under N. Plotnikov. He was sorely short of money, it was futile to count on his parents’ help, and to some extent it was a shame, so every evening Vsevolod went to work part-time.
Sanaev was persistent in achieving his goal, so he did not stop at one technical school, and after graduating he became a student at GITIS, enrolling in a course with the famous director M. Tarkhanov.
In 1943, Sanaev began working at the Mossovet Theater, and in 1946 he moved to the State Film Actor Theater. In 1952, the actor went to the Moscow Art Theater, but nothing good came of it. He had too few roles and a correspondingly small salary, on which it was impossible to support his family. Just at that time, my wife became very ill and needed money urgently. Sanaev turns to the then director of the theater A. Tarasova with a request to leave. They released him, understanding that as long as the Moscow Art Theater luminaries remained in their places, Sanaev would have no chance in this theater. He left the theater in '56.
Movie
Actor Sanaev’s debut film was the film “Volga, Volga,” filmed in 1938, where he was offered two minor roles at once. In this film he was a musician and a lumberjack. And two years later, Vsevolod starred in the film “Beloved Girl,” in which he played the simple hard worker Dobryakova. The role was large and quite serious, but the actor did it brilliantly.
The actor's filmography includes almost 90 films, two television plays and dubbing one cartoon. Last work actor - the film “Forgotten Melody for Flute”, filmed and released in 1988. Vsevolod Sanaev always regretted that he never had comedic roles, and that he never sang in films. And when asked what he would do in life if he had not become an actor, he invariably answered that he would be an excellent master of harmonious matters.
Personal life
The personal life of actor Sanaev has never been publicly displayed. The details of the events taking place in the family became known relatively recently, when the actor’s grandson Pavel wrote a biography book entitled “Bury me behind the baseboard.”
Photo: Vsevolod Sanaev with his wife Vsevolod met his fate in Kyiv, where his theater came on tour. This was just before the war. The girl's name was Lida Goncharenko, she studied at the philology department at one of the Kyiv universities. She was very beautiful and the actor fell in love immediately and forever. Throughout the month, while the tour continued, Vsevolod proposed to the girl, and in the end she agreed. Lida's family was categorically opposed to this marriage, not understanding how one could make such a responsible decision so quickly, and even marry a man with such a frivolous profession. Everyone was sure that nothing good would come of this idea and Lidochka would return. But their marriage lasted almost 50 years, contrary to all the forecasts of pessimists.
Lida loved her husband very much, but she had a severe depressive disorder, which caused a tense situation in the house. When she inadvertently told some joke to her neighbors in the communal apartment, someone informed the special services and they began to make inquiries about her. The woman’s already impressionable nature could not withstand such an onslaught and a breakdown occurred, after which Lida was hospitalized in psychiatry, diagnosing her with persecution mania.
At the very beginning of the war, Sanaev was on tour with the theater in Borisoglebsk. His wife and little son Alyosha remained in Moscow. At this time, the capital was closed as a front-line city and the actor was unable to return back. Lydia and her son are evacuated to Alma-Ata. Alyosha was only two years old when he fell ill with measles and diphtheria and died. The death of her beloved first-born had a strong impact on the woman’s psyche.
And Vsevolod had to stay in Borisoglebsk and go on stage every day. Their theater gave two performances every day for soldiers who were waiting to be sent to the front. And every time he went on stage, the actor thought about what he was doing here, because all young and healthy men should be there, on the front line.
After her son’s funeral, Lidiya Sanaeva tries to break through to her husband in Borisoglebsk. It took her several months to get there, in complete physical and mental exhaustion.
After the family reunification in 1943, their daughter Elena was born. The girl was weak, and she also suffered from jaundice in childhood. Lydia was tormented by constant fears for her daughter’s life; she was afraid of losing her. Lydia Antonovna lived with this fear all her life, never finding the strength to overcome it. There were constant disagreements in the family, the atmosphere sometimes became so tense that Sanaev did not even want to go home, despite his devotion to his wife and child.
The first husband was engineer V. Konuzin. The mother did not approve of this marriage, and the father, in order not to aggravate the already tense atmosphere in the family, preferred to remain silent. In this marriage a boy was born, Pavel, a future writer, actor, and director.
Elena married the director for the second time, with whom she lived until his death in 1998.
Death
Even a young man could envy Vsevolod Sanaev’s energy. He continued to work almost until last days own life.
In 1987, Sanaev had a heart attack, but he managed to cope with the disease, as he was very worried about his wife. He was afraid that she would be left without his support. Lydia Sanaeva died in 1995, and on January 27, 1996, Vsevolod Vasilyevich himself passed away. He died of cancer. The resting place of the Sanayevs was Novodevichy Cemetery in the capital.
Selected filmography
- 1938 - Volga, Volga
- 1941 - Hearts of Four
- 1955 - First echelon
- 1959 - Unpaid Debt
- 1964 - Big Ore
- 1967 - For the sake of boredom
- 1970 - Stolen Train
- 1978 - Close distance
- 1984 - Dead Souls
- 1995 - Shirley-myrley
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