Afterword, I left the cheat at the very end of 1945. Until this time, he often met with Vladimir Kotzurea, talked for a long time. The road to his house on Chkalovskaya knew as his five fingers. It is difficult to forget such a person, I still remember it. But years have passed, and all

Lavrov Kirill Yuryevich, People's Artist of the USSR, Laureate of State Prizes.

Born on September 15, 1925 in Leningrad. Father - People's Artist of the USSR Yu.S. Lavrov, Mother Famous Leningrad Actress O.I. Gudim-Levkovich.

During the war, in 1942, the family was evacuated to Novosibirsk, where K.Yu. Lavrov began the labor life of the ammunition plant to the turret. And in 1943 She left the army in the army, graduated from the military aviation school in Astrakhan, served for five years by the aircraft in the bombardment regiment and came to the theater in the 1950th year of the man. The theater career began in Kiev in the theater. L. Ukrainki.

Since 1955, K. Yu. Lavrov - Artist of Big Dramatic, and since 1989, after leaving the life of G.A. Tovstonogov, according to the unanimous decision of the theater team, became the artistic director of the theater team.

In the theater, K.Yu. Lavrov played not one dozen roles. Many of his roles, such as Gennady Lapshin in the play "Looking for joy" V.S. Roshova (1957), glory in "five evenings" A.M. Volodina (1959), Sergey in "Irkutsk History" A.N. Arbuzova (1960), Platonov in the "Ocean" A.P. Stein (1961), Molchanin in the "Mount of Mind" A.S. Griboedov (1962), salty "three sisters" A.P. Chekhov (1965), Nile in "Promenban" M. Gorky (1966), Gingerbread in the "Revior" N.V. Gogol, shamans in the "last summer in Chulimsk" A.V. Vampilova (1974), Evgeny Tulupov in "Three Bags of Wheat" V.F. Tencilakova (1975), Peter Melekhov in "Quiet Don" M.A. Sholokhov (1977), Astrov in "Uncle Vana" A.P. Chekhov (1982), Dugin in "ordinary" A.A. Dudareva (1985), Kostylev in "At the bottom" M. Gorky (1987), President von Walter in "Deceit and Love" F. Schiller (1990), Kabot in "Love Under Embosims" o'Nali (1992), Ivan Kolomytsev In the "last" M. Gorky (1994), Pimen in Boris Godunov A.S. Pushkin (1999), and, of course, Mattias Clausen in the "Before Sunset", Gaptman, entered the history of not only the domestic, but also the world theater.

K.Yu. Lavrov is known and love millions of spectators and thanks to their wonderful work in the cinema. He began to be filmed in 1956, but the decisive for the actor was 1963, when A. B. Column invited K.Yu. Lavrov for the role of Sintsov in the film "Live and Dead" according to Roman K.M. Simonova. In 1969, the film I.A. Pyryeva "Brothers Karamazov", where K.Yu. Lavrov with brilliant skill embodies the most complex image of world literature - Ivan Karamazov. The stage was the role of Andrei Bashkirtseva (the prototype of S. Queen) in the film "Taming of Fire" (1972). Then followed the whole series of excellent work, such as, Count Carneyev in the film "My tender and gentle beast", gladeshev in "explaining in love", Victor in the "long happy life", a bolingbro in the television film "Glass of Water", Yaroslav Wise in " Yaroslavna - Queen of France ", Lenin in" December 20 ", Lenin in" Trust ", Pontius Pilate in the" Master and Margarita ", etc.

K.Yu. Lavrov awarded many of the highest awards: Hero of Socialist Labor, Laureate of State Prizes, owner of the Order "Hall Sign", Labor Red Banner, the October Revolution, "For Merit of Fatherland" IV and III, II degrees, he is an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, Winner of the President's Prize Russian Federation In the field of culture and art, the owner of the Highest National Award "Golden Mask" in the nomination "For the honor and dignity". He was elected to the deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet, he was a member of the Committee on State Prizes, was the president of the International Confederation of theatrical Unions of the CIS countries, a member of the Commission on Science, Culture, Education and Information of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS countries.

Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was a man of rare moral strength and a huge charm, and the active ministry of people, on stage and in life, for K.Yu. Lavrov was organic need.

September 15, 2005, on the day of the 80th anniversary of Kirill Yurevich, the premiere of the play "Quartet" on the play R. Harwood took place. The role of Reginald Padpeta became the last theatrical work of Lavrov.

March 24, 2007 in the Great Drama Theater of G.A. Tovstonogov played the Quartet. After a long break, K.Yu. Lavrov with ecstasy and joy went to the native stage, as it turned out, for the last time ... Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov died on April 27, 2007. He was buried at the Bogoslovsk cemetery of St. Petersburg.

Press

• Andrei Byritkov. "The father believed that old people were not a place on stage. I did not succeed so ": Cyril Lavrov's life // Saint Petersburg.ru // July 09, 2019
• Close Cyril Lavrov about novels, roles and family of the legendary actor // 7 days \u003e\u003e\u003e

• Bavley S. Kirill Lavrov. Light man // Sport day by day. 2010. 22 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• Poznyak T. Recognition in love // \u200b\u200bPetersburg diary. 2010. 20 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• Palchikovsky S. Unit of reliability - one laurel // First Crimean. 2010. 17-23 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• Aminova V. Kirill Lavrov: Actor, Man, and now a steamer // Evening Petersburg. 2010. 15 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• Zaretskaya Zh. Kirill Lavrov - a steamer and a person // Fontanka.ru. 2010. 15 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• The board of memory of Kirill Lavrov // 100tv is open. 2010. 15 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• Cyril Lavrov. Today, on the day of the 85th anniversary of the actor, a memorial plaque will open in St. Petersburg // The Great Epoch. 2010. 15 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• BDT recall Kirill Lavrov // NTV television company. 2010. 15 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• The main theater and the main roles of Kirill Lavrov (photo paras) // RIA Novosti. 2010. 15 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• Tumakova I. Lenin, Korolev and Pondi Pilate // Izvestia. 2010. 15 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• Karsev I. Livsi E. When the dad appeared somewhere, the excitement began at once // Komsomolskaya Pravda. 2010. 15 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• At the house in St. Petersburg, where Kirill Lavrov lived, they will install a memorable board // TV channel Russia. 2010. 6 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e
• Diary of observation. Kirill Lavrov - three years later. Fifth Channel. 2010. Apr 14 \u003e\u003e\u003e
• The Arctic tanker "Kirill Lavrov" was launched on water // TV channel Russia. 2009. Dec 18 \u003e\u003e\u003e
• The opening of the monument to Kirill Lavrov took place // Last news. 100 TV. 2008. 20 Saint. \u003e\u003e\u003e

In the fall of 2010, we celebrated the 85th anniversary of the Great Man - Cyril Yurevich Lavrov. I never went with him on the stage in the performances, did not shoot together in the movies, except that in the "master and margarita", where I had a duty role. There were no such meetings, but I had our conversations with Socrates. My Socrates was Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov.

How I was sometimes important to be sputted with him, consult! And this person who was older for many years (by age, he was quite suitable for me in the fathers), did not just bonded to the conversation, but on the contrary, it is very interested and somehow a friendly friendly, absolutely talked about equal things about very important things, who worried him and me all his life. These are theatrical things, the affairs of the dramatic theater.

I must say that Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov treated the actors that were insanely expensive and close to my mother. She estimated the actors only emotionally, only by the exposure that herself felt on the performance or when watching the film. And there were very few favorite actors. Kirill Lavrov, she probably liked that there was some amazing spring in it. It also delighted me when I found out Cyril Yurevich a little closer: not on the run before the play, not at the meeting of the Union of theater figures, but in those most conversations

I was lucky: one of the last longest of our conversations took place in January of that year, when Kirill Yurevich did not. We wandered with him between lakes in pine forests In the distance from our city, in the sanatorium at our comrade Vadim Somov. Kirill Yuryevich walked with difficulty, with a wand, leaning on her hard. He melted at this time and all the time was internally suffered, it was suffered because he could not reflect abandoned about the fate of the theater.

Lavrov was selflessly devoted to his main theater in life - a great dramatic. And it seems to me, you should always see those personal sacrifices to which the actor goes, binding to both such a process, for example, directory or fulfilling the duties of the artistic director. Lavrov largely denied itself as an actor, but as a person could not leave this house, the great house of Tovstonogov, without care and care and spent a lot of strength on it. Our reflections touched the theater as a whole, his

current state. It was necessary to comprehend the transition of the theater from the century XX, rather familiar, in its own way organized, in century XXI. who demanded completely new efforts.

Priorities changed, the importance of the profession and approach to it was changed, and I received a huge support from Kirill Yuryevich in some of my endeavors. At that time, I was the chairman of the culture committee, and it was sometimes necessary to take not very popular, very difficult to dismissal solutions that, in my opinion, were mandatory.

Lavrov surprisingly knew how to smile, and it was not a physical, but a spiritual property. It happens: people can physically smile very beautifully, grind a wonderful mouth full of brilliant teeth, straw on a cheek ... And Kirill Yuryevich knew how to smile especially. Lask and spark, and warmth, and some kind of inner shyness were read in his smile. It always seemed to me that Kirill Yuryevich was internally shy, but it did not prevent him from being a surprisingly organized and disciplined person. He really denied himself much, because it, in his opinion, could somehow interfere with what he did. And also, of course, it should be noted attention. Deep attention to the one with whom he talked to the one who was near, this quality is very rare for a person, and for the actor, the more rare. The acting profession is quite selfish, there are many female cigors in it. Kirill Yuryevich always left a luxury to be a man, not to succumb to these female profession qualities.

This year turned 85 years old Kirill Lavrov. 80 years Andrei Petrov ... two honorary citizen of St. Petersburg. Two people whose voices will sound many more than many decades. They were forever remained for me by indisputable authorities, examples to imitate ... Sometimes you want to do something and suddenly think: I would be Near Cyril and Andrei, it would be awkward. And no longer do. And this warning may be the main thing that I got and remained from them.

Almost half a century I was in power of his charm. Moreover, it may be, the most important quality of Kirill Yurevich MiG was felt at the first time of our personal meeting, which happened in December 1959. It was then, shocked by the "five evenings", I soon declared themselves in the BDT, in order to take an interview with Tovstonogov, Cophelan, Charcot and Lavrov. The most amazing thing is that it turned out possible. In addition, both Georgy Aleksandrovich, and Efim Zakharovich, and Zinaida Maksimovna treated the intention of a novice journalist quite respectfully, well, and Lavrov (in the play he played the nephew of the main heroine of Slavka), who was then thirty-four, held so easily and simply with a inept interviewer What soon I seemed to me almost a friend-peer ...

And then this is the Lavrovskoy charm - and the artist, and a person - for many years I felt with each of our communication, in every role and "positive", and "negative." Even in any "guiding" chair, Kirill Yuryevich radiates this good light always managed. Where does such a gift come from? Maybe genes? ..

His parents are indigenous Petersburgers. Yuri Lavrov participated in performances just born BDT. Then on the stage of the "Young Theater", in the "Nadridnian" (she - Larisa, he - Karandyshev), met with Olga Gudim-Levkovich. Later, Yuri Sergeevich played Meyerhold in Moscow, then - in the Far East and, finally, firmly settled in the Kiev Theater named after Lesia Ukrainka, where he received the title of People's Artist of the USSR. When the family broke up at the beginning of the war, Cyril in the 155th Leningrad school graduated from the seventh grade, after which, already in evacuation, in order to feed mom, grandmother and a three-year-old sister, rushed "Zagroadzer", to the Military Factory:

The shifts were sixteen hours, and fed us with pasta, which watered some Olifa. And no weekend. I - as a volunteer - asked for rates for racing into the enemy rear, but sent to Astrakhan Military Technical School. Then the aircraft served on Curilah for five years ... in the same place, in the amateur theater (nevertheless, the genes were aucted!), Played his first role - Bob Morphy in the "Russian issue" Konstantin Simonov.

(After years, he will make friends with Konstantin Mikhailovich, who will choose Lavrov for the role of Sintin. Once in a conversation with Simonov, I noticed: "But with its purely external data, a portrait of a hero, outlined in the novel, does not really correspond . Konstantin Mikhailovich nodded: "Yes, in the Book of Sintsz - a long, long-grade, and laurels - medium height, but, perhaps, the actor is better good than long.")

After demobilization, he returned to his native Nevsky Beach, but they did not take the theatrical institute - no "maturity certificate"! But in the Dnieper coast, in the very "father's" theater (although the parent selection of his son did not approve), the churrancy of Khokhlov, the lack of "certificate", thank God, neglected. And soon on the performance of the "servant of the two gentlemen", Kievans are violently applauded Kirill Lavrov and his wife Vauchka Nikolaeva ...

In 1955, he had just appointed by the art of Leningrad BDT Khokhlov Kirill and Valentina pulled to himself. But, alas, Konstantin Pavlovich died, and when this place was taken by Tovstonogov, laurels littered: Does he need a new leader? Moreover, both spouses very angry Akimov. So I wrote a statement with a request to be released from work.

In a day, I was called to the chief who said: "I have a rule - never anyone, if you want to leave, do not detain. In addition, I received the right to reorganize the troupe, and I have to dismiss about twenty people from the theater. Your statement you facilitate me a task per unit. But in this case I decided to change my rule and suggest you stay for one year ... If in a year you want to go away, I promise to not repair any obstacles. Agree? " I do not know why I immediately answered: "I agree." And for the next, spent next to George Alexandrovich, thirty-three years never regretted the decision ...

Of course, the roles created by him under the start of such a mentor, such a master, remember everything to one. For example: the very first impression of his Platonov from the Ocean on the plays of the matte was: "Well, a pedant, well, and a tear!" And then (first vaguely, but from the replica to the replica, from the pause to pause) was more clearly felt that behind the external dryness of the sailor - the passion of thought, the obsession of the idea, even the mental subtlety ... And I first really opened the play "Grief from Mind ", which" passed "at school. After all, how did the silence explained to us in the literature lessons? How did this character appear in numerous theaters? Silent podhalim - and only. But in this case it is not clear why Sofya could love this like a similar man? And if Sofya is capable of high feelings for Lizoblyud, how could the Heart of Chatsky could give her? And the laurels put everything on his place: His Molchanin was not at all pity, but, on the contrary, ambitious! Having notifolded, he did not chase his back - this clever and sinister little Napoleon, who is just getting ready for future battles, but already foresees his celebration. Yes, such Sophia should definitely love! (Then, in life, these silent, piercingly anticipated by the actor half a century, these lackless "business people", young, educated cynics, indifferently crossing - if "necessary" - through the corpses of friends, friends, and even relatives, rapidly and continue Make your desired careers now ...) And his headquarters-captain salty in the "three sisters" - this Pozer, who imagined himself "the messenger of rock", a lonely romantic, the Lermontov hero, whereby nothing to ruin someone else's life ... And his outdoor heart Nile In "Promenban" ... and Gogol Hogolovsky, who does not occupy the mind, although the fear and stacking eyes ... And the Chekhov doctor of Astrov with his late, bitter insight ... And the estimated conscience Ivan Karamazov from the old Pyryevsky film, which Lavrov in his tragedy was also Large, mighth ...

In general, we somehow got used to it: if there can be no small conversation on the stage or screen - laurels. The personality of the actor did not have any secondary, passing ... And, of course, it was not at all by chance that there were quite a few heroes in his "service list", one way or another related to the theme of the revolution. Yes, today we have for what happened in October 1917 and later, a different look, but Lavrov - the son of his time, which always sought this time to express honestly, just as I understood it. That is why, let's say, his sailor Schwanda or Semen Davydov in his revolutionary conviction was not at all primitive "brothers", but with normal living people - with their passions, mistakes, pain. And it is not at all by chance that when BDT put the play "True! Nothing, except for truth! ", The role of" theater "in it was entrusted by Lavrov: This man from a parquet in that difficult conversation was like one of us, the audience ... By the way, and his" Leninsky "theatrical and on-screen work is not at all caused our protest. Probably because there was never in his Lenin nothing beastly-traditional: these, long-known, often almost drowning gestures, this beating in the ears of "mintage". But there were pain, rigidity, the tragedy of fate ... Already in the post-Soviet time, Kirill Yuryevich said me:

I do not regret at all that I happened to embody this image, because I consider Lenin (no matter how "exposed it" now, because we are all strong), all the same, a very significant figure in the history of the twentieth century. By the way, soon after going to the screen of the film "Trust", elegance wanted to try in his "agony" on the role of Nicholas II, however, the cinematic authorities got up the wall: "How can I?! He has just been with a g r a l l e n and n a! " Having learned about it, I came to the Central Committee, to the Gloorious Culture Gloor, and made a big noise: "What do you want me like an artist, to ruin?!"

By the way, when Lavrov played Lenin, to him - as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, various shelters reached with even greater hope for justice. And he, as he could, tried to justify this faith. Once I admitted:

It is characterized to sit in different presidiums ... And after all, in no political career himself did not strive. But we have so established: if some attention dropped on someone, then this wheel (already independently of the will of the person) was spinning and spinning, and faster. Once, having come from the army, I became the Komsomol Secretary in the Kiev theater named after Lesia Ukrainka. Since any order was accustomed from childhood to perform in good faith, then I tried. And it turned out that it was the first "step". Since then and went ... And here, in St. Petersburg, alternately elected - in the members of the district office, the city committee, the community ... to delegates, deputies ...

But no "membership", no titles, the awards could not shake his moral rod, its foundations - therefore the human destinies did not fight on the official "debt", but at the order of the soul. (So \u200b\u200bthe author of these lines also helped: Hardly embarked in urban officials, who, contrary to the decision of the general meeting of members of our housing cooperative, did not allow me to change one-room apartment in my house for a two-room apartment in my house. In general, the leadership of the local department of the Union of theatrical figures of Russia was not entitled to Lavrov at all by chance. (And then - the presidency in the international confederation of theatrical unions of the CIS countries.) And absolutely naturally, when George Alexandrovich did not become, heading the orphan BDT colleagues asked for Lavrov. And Kirill Yuryevich was also very worthy of this difficult one of their missions. And on stage, everything remained with the same magnificent artist. To confirm these words, it is enough to remember the Pushkin Pimena, and Mattias Clausen from the play of Hauptman "before sunset", and his farewell role - the old opera singer of Reginald Pedget from the play of Ronald Harwood Quartet, which Lavrov fulfilled with irony and tuskaya longing ...

To all (after the "Falloon") his anniversaries, I composed the funny "cabbagers", in which there were mischievous washes, and parody couplets, because humor Jubilee adored. Yes, and he himself, in the same genre, under good melodies, congratulated others, due to the round date, Tovstonogov, who won the players of their favorite "Zenith" who won in the country's championship ... Despite the years and heavy loss, this talented, charming The man has always been kept by a young man: both the ball on the field (the permanent captain of football players from the BDT) chased, and the class showed on the tennis court. And again replenished his home library. And again hesitated his hearing music of Grieg, Rakhmaninov, Maleer. And also - classic old jazz, James Lars orchestra, blues ...

Then Valentina Alexandrovna died. And followed by Kirill Yuryevich, the damned disease was drunk, which he resisted very courageously. Remembering how Lavrov was then, in 1959, and seeing it now, sour, almost weightless, I experienced horror. Thank God, there was a kind women's soul, which leaving the artist's life supported ... Some tactless representatives of my profession, "journalists", then the case published photographs: "Lavrov with his wife." With what, damn it, what?!

Next to his wife Kirill Yuryevich was restored in April 2007 in the Bogoslovsky ...

Lion Sidorovsky

As often, in the days of acting jubileev, it is necessary to hear: they say, an expensive NN - the vocabulary of the universal size, but did not happen to meet the role of "in growth," said smallness. Well, it happens. But it happens differently - it will go to a man Hamlet, and he is at the most time the second grave filmmer. And then at all - the skull of the poor Jorik.

An outstanding actor Kirill Lavrov was another fate. The roles of his talent, success, recognition (hero of the Socytrud, Kavaler of the Order "For Merit to Fatherland" three degrees), respect for colleagues and love of the public. Vesunchik? Do not tell me.

Grandfather Kirill Yurevich was in St. Petersburg by the director of the gymnasium, and after the revolution emigrated. Therefore, in 1934, with the beginning of cleaning in the intellectual environment after the killing of Kirov, the parents of Lavrov, famous at the time theatrical actors, moved away from sin to Kiev. And then the war. Cyril in evacuation worked as a turkey at the factory, produced ammunition. In 17 volunteer went to the army. Five years served as an aircraft in the Kuril Islands.

After demobilization, he was refused to enter theatrical - there was no certificate of secondary education. He arrived in Kiev, settled by the actor in the theater of the Russian Drama: the profession received "without separation from production." And a lot later returns to his native Leningrad, BDT, Glory ...

Cyril Lavrov was great and on the stage, and on the screen. One of his best filmmakers - Ivan Karamazov in the outstanding work of Ivan Pyriev "Brothers Karamazov" ("Russia K", Tuesday - Thursday, 23.50). However, three director were indicated in the titers of "brothers": Ivan Alexandrovich died in the middle of the filming and the work ended the performers of the main roles - Mikhail Ulyanov and Kirill Lavrov.

A year ago not became Cyril Lavrov

He had a long time and heavily, however, until the death of the Big Dramatic Theater, he continued to go to the scene, remained artistic director Deployed troupe. Today, the daughter, actress BDT Maria Lavrov recalls about him.

Russian newspaper: What was this year for you without a father, Maria Kirillovna?

Lavrov: not easy in every sense. Despite the fact that I have a husband, daughter, brother, I feel shed. Lack of dad. He was a very powerful support for me. He helped not only a word, an example, and the very fact of his presence on Earth. Saved the past year work. Acting is ungrateful. And if you are not very in demand, then you have to apply a lot of effort to make a normally earn.

RG: You once told me that my father never had troubles for you in the theater, nor in the movies.

Lavrov: True, and I'm not offended. His father, People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Lavrov, brightened on the stage of the Kiev Theater of Drama, also never worried about his son.

WG: Did you meet with him on stage as partners?

Lavrov: We had three joint performances. This is the "last", "sunny night" and "before sunset". I treat that generation of actors for which the interaction of actors on the stage is important. Dad in this sense was a very convenient partner. Unfortunately, in recent years, some isolation prevails. Each performer exists in the proposed circumstances by itself. Perhaps this is due to the development of entrepreneurs when the actors are collected only for a short time. Maybe just time this came - single.

WG: How did Kirill Yuryevich feel at this time?

Lavrov: did not take a lot. In particular, disregard for their profession. He himself belonged to work in the theater as a ministry. And now young actors in the first place of cinema, television series. The theater is increasingly "to keep discipline" without which it is simply impossible. Our profession has always been more in Russia than just a profession. And not at all money (salary, fees) are the main in it. For this reason, Dad refused to participate in the entrepreneurial performances. Although offered often. He and in Soviet times did not like this, what was called cheese. The chef concerts - yes, it is holy, they participated willingly. And then the theater took away a lot of strength.

RG: Kirill Lavrov went on stage, even being already deadly sick. The last performance is "Quartet" - he played, it seems, weeks three to his death.

Lavrov: I was so scary then ... I was not afraid that my dad could die straight on stage, no. But everyone knew about his illness, it was clear what everything goes to, and because it was especially tragic.

WG: BDT has changed over the past year?

Lavrov: We still do not understand a little what happened. Moreover, one unexpected loss happened to us recently - the terrible Andryushina death (Andrei Tolubeeva. - Aut.). Just a mirror repetition by last spring: by the flow of the disease, the outcome. So much diluted, reside in some shock. It is probably necessary for some time for a while. So far there is no feeling that one period ended, another began.

WG: Who is preparing now to performances in the dressing room of Cyril Yurevich?

Lavrov: She decided to make a memorial. Once dad shared her with Efim Cophel. When it was not, one was sitting. Everything is there now, as it was with him. There are students water.

WG: Memorial Cabinet Tovstonogov, Memorial Makeup Lavrov ...

Lavrov: Yes, I will turn into the museum soon. This is happiness, and the trouble of such theaters as BDT. It is known: the theater is alive while his director, his troupe of like-minded people. Tovstonogov went in 1989. Then they began to leave his actors.

RG: Going to a meeting with you, noticed that there is not a single mention of Lavrov in the atmospheres of the theater.

Lavrov: I am very careful about external memory attributes. You can drive the whole theater with wreaths, and the memory is not saved.

Conversation led Lyudmila Belakova

Danzhansky R. Kirill Lavrov: I have never been the last // Power. 2007. May 7th. №17 (721)

St. Petersburg said goodbye to Kirill Lavrov - People's Artist and Chairman of the Union of Theater Workers Soviet Union, artistic director of the Grand Drama Theater named after Tovstonogov, an honorary citizen of the city and - the last of the breed of real theatrical leaders.

The last time Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov went on stage in early April in the play of the Quartet, where he played the old actor who lives in the nursing home, resisting diseases, sclerosis and despondency. And as a public figure, he was seen the last time at the end of March in Moscow - he came to spend Mikhail Ulyanova on the last path of his friend.

Lavrov survived Ulyanov just a month. And in the fact that two, as it is customary to speak, the iconic and most charismatic Russian-Soviet actors left almost simultaneously, seems to see more than just a sad coincidence. So, there really happened a change of milestone.

In human and acting fate, Kirill Lavrov and Mikhail Ulyanov had a strikingly much in common. They were friends. They together (Ulyanov - Mitu, Lavrov - Ivan) played once in the famous film Ivan Pyryev "Brothers Karamazov". They were almost peers (Lavrov just two years older), the children of the turning point of the 20s. Cyril Lavrov, however, starting his acting career not in a large dramatic theater, but still one can say that both of them all their lives - more than 50 years each - were true to their theater houses. Ulyanov - the theater named after Vakhtangov, Lavrov - BDT first named Gorky, then named Tovstonogov.

In the Soviet years, Cyril Lavrov was a "licensed" performer of the role of Lenin (Film "Trust", 1976).

Both of them were clothed in trust, asked by the party leadership - in a word, chosen by the Soviet government as the most reliable representatives of an unreliable acting shop. Both were elected to the Bureau, Committees and Presidues. Moreover, Kirill Lavrov used the favor of the rulers literally until the last day: it is known that Mikhail Ulyanov in the post-Soviet years has not been not very worse in the highest offices, while the honorary citizen of St. Petersburg Lavrov, as they say, and in our times of "equidality" He had the opportunity if necessary to call directly to the first person of the state. Two years ago, to the 80th anniversary, he received a dilapidated Kamenneostrovsky Theater as a gift from President Putin - not in personal use, of course, but as a branch of the BDT, but still the case for our pragmatic times is unprecedented. Lavrov sat according to the right hand from the President of Russia at a strange event called the "Cong Cong Congress Congress" or something like that. And one presence was addressed by a dubious PR cams. He generally knew how to be surprisingly tactfully and calmly add everything in which he participated at someone else. And if he did not participate, it means that it was not subject to this refueling.

In the Soviet years, Mikhail Ulyanov and Kirill Lavrov were a "licensed" performers of the role of Lenin. True, Lavrov played the leader of the world proletariat for less than a Ulyanov. Both were heroes of socialist labor and laureates of the Lenin Prize - the highest ranks, which only read actors were honored in the USSR. At the same time, both in the mid-80s did not become frightened from the past - on the contrary, the leaders of the update were chosen: Ulyanov was headed by the Union of theatrical Workers of Russia, and Lavrov - the Union of theatrical Workers of the USSR, subsequently the international confederation of theatrical unions.

In the "grief from the mind", Kirill Lavrov had the role of silence, and not Chatsky.

Finally, both in crisis moments were called in their theaters for the kingdom. And for everyone, this "moment" dragged into almost twenty years. Moreover, ten years old, both actors pulled the artistic leadership of the famous theaters through strength: the fatigue and ailments have affected. "Send all this to hell!" - Even in official interviews did not hesitate in the expressions of Kirill Lavrov. But since the sense of duty for such people has always been more important than fatigue, both actors against their own will of the debt were performed. Dreamed to go on peace, but they left the heads of theaters.

Surprisingly, they suddenly coincided and one of the last roles of the two largest actors. Both played the Bulgakovsky Pontius Pilate. Mikhail Ulyanov - in the film Yuri Kara, Kirill Lavrov - in a recent television series.

Finally, one more thing - and probably the most important thing - that unites two of these favorite people's actors: they were unconditional moral authorities in the theatrical environment. People approximate to power and loved ones, temptations are no less, and more than those who have not been highlighted, not paid for, not granted awards. Kirill Lavrov, from his time and from his destiny, did not fight, but wonderfully managed not to blocked, do not make an evil to anyone. It concerned not only the rules of trustworthiness of the Soviet regime, but also of intra-matral morals, which actually do little depend on the dominant walls of the theater of ideology.

Lavrov ironically called the theater "Bear", but he himself was never fond of a petty backstage life. I joked that all theatrical intrigues and gossip learned the last, and there was no one who could challenge this recognition. Of course, a good person, as they say, is not a profession, especially in art. However, in the case of Lavrov, all exclusive personal qualities were a natural continuation of his acting talent. In the theater world, they love to repeat the words of Shakespeare from Gamlet: "The actor is a brief chronicle of the century." Lavrov was a kind of chronicler (it's not by chance that one of his last roles was Pimen in Pushkin "Boris Godunov"), and this chronicle convinced his contemporaries, and those who are much younger that it is possible to miss any time through ourselves and not Meet them.

The last time Kirill Lavrov came to the scene of the Big Drama Theater in early April, in the play of Nikolai Pinigina "Quartet".

He was very lucky - exactly one year after the 30-year-old Kirill Lavrov came to work in the Leningrad BDT, the theater was headed by Georgy Tovstonogov. The great director actually became the author of the acting biography of Lavrov.

Amazing, but the fact: Kirill Lavrov, one of the most undisputed actors of his time, there was no real acting education. Although he took place from the acting family: his father was also a People's Artist of the USSR, played in the theater named after Lesia Ukrainka in Kiev. And Kirill graduated from military school of aviation mechanics, for five years worked as technician at the Kuril Islands and then he was not admitted to the theater school due to the lack of a maturity certificate. So a big actor did two: luck and George Tovstonogov.

With his presence, Kirill Lavrov was addressed by any event in which he participated.

Already then the BDT ensemble began to call the unique collection of talents, but the actors Tovstonogov were not acquired by the exhibits - they were pupils, whom the director led from one role to another. Lavrov, it would seem, Nature itself created for the image significant, positive heroes Like Bashkirtseva in the film "Taming of Fire". Or at least those whom the viewer must probably love. But Tovstonogov carefully monitored that the banal theatrical roles would not submit to their identities of his actors. Therefore, Kirill Lavrov became in the best performances of BDT "Mount from Wit" and "Three Sisters" are not Chatsky, but silent and not Tourene, but salty. In the Lavrovskoy working guy, Nile from the legendary performance "Muschanis" in the mid-60s could be seen anger of the proletarian, which mockingly destroy the "old world" of his adoptive parents. And how many observations about the nature of the official authorities cautiously invested Kirill Lavrov in his city of Gogol "Auditor", you can only guess.

There are actors who fly in due time as if by chance, embodying some timeless and non-national human passion for the game as such. They are on stage, and in life - the creatures are not from this world. Lavrov was definitely a man of this world and this time. Such as he, leaving the scene, are lost in the crowd, merge with the people, the best features of which they are exactly in themselves. Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov loved to remember that he was once a completely ordinary boy. Like millions ordinary peopleHe was an avid football fan and did not miss a single match of his beloved Zenit. He smoked a lot and loved the "common" caps. When it became hard on the soul, saved the same tool as the majority of his country. He loved the Leningrad-Petersburg endlessly, and at the end of the life became a parishioner of the very little church, where he was baptized as a child. Over time, he became not just an honorary resident of St. Petersburg - he became an integral part of his city. It can be said, part of its majestic, dermal, dramatic and harmonious landscape. And now the Leningrad-Petersburg silhouette lost one of its most important dominant.

Roman Danzhan

Alla Demidova, actress:

There are actors to which, closely not knowing them, are gentle. Appreciate their insightness, decency, honest attitude to the profession. They are not so much, and they, unfortunately, go. Recently, we held Mikhail Ulyanov, now - Cyril Lavrov. With Cyril Yuryevich, I met twice in the work: in the films "Glass of Water" and "Tchaikovsky". There were very bright memories! For some time, he was considered a social hero, especially after his brilliant work in the "breasts" Georgy Tovstonogov. And now you can see that from this Nile to the last filmmaker - in the "Master and Margarita" - all his life was filled with a variety of roles, in which the skill's plan was always high on Olympic. Acting work remains in memory. Kirill Lavrov left a bright memory after herself.

Mark Zakharov, director, artistic director of the theater "Lenkom":

When such a giant is leaving, such a person, such a sign of our culture, becomes somehow lonely and scary: does our long-suffering country come into some dark strip? About how the magnificent artist was Cyril Yuryevich Lavrov, we all know very well. I would just add that he was, of course, and an outstanding organizer - the builder of theater case. I do not know if someone can replace it in this. At one time, due to its efforts, the broken STD of the USSR was transformed into an international confederation of theatrical unions. Kirill Yuryevich helped preserve the cultural space of the former USSR. I remember how we went to Kyrgyzstan, other southern our republics who live and want to live in the Russian theater. No one else could have done so much to preserve a single cultural Russian space, as it was possible to Kirill Lavrov. I am very sophisticated about the loss of comrade, an outstanding artist and organizer of the theater affairs of Russia. Thanks to him.

Temur Cheidze, Chief Director of the BDT named after Tovstonogova:

One of those qualities that I am also surprised at the same time, and delighted in Kirill Yurevich, - his attitude towards people. It was very easy with him. He was one of those who are always ready to listen carefully, to delve into what you say. He was very easy to come to a friendly contact, and at the same time never an interlocutor nor the best friend - no one could cross some face. Panibrate relations with him were impossible! Availability remained, and at the same time you always felt that he was one step above, is awesome. For me, he is the personification of the real Russian aristocrat, not even an intellectual, but it is the aristocrat. It was very nice and very easy. Otherwise, probably, for 15 years, we just would not be together. I am happy that fate at one time brought me with him.

T. Kirill Lavrov: Should I say that I became wiser than was in 20 years? // Power. 2007. May 7th. №17 (721)

The last statements of Kirill Lavrov recorded BDT Tatyana Tkach.

Among my life goals never stood tasks to make an administrative career, and I never thought about theatrical leadership, there was even no one in my thoughts. I liked my profession, I enjoyed playing the scene. But it so happened that almost all the conscious life was drawn to some public affairs. That was the chairman of the Leningrad WTO (after Yuri Vladimirovich Tolubeeva), in 1986, when the USSR Theater Device was created, elected by the Chair.

And yet, if you remember, even in childhood I have never been the last. For me, the clarity of the position, certainty of attitudes towards major issues, accuracy of the assessment has always been important. Although, naturally, over the years of work, some priorities have accumulated, which I try to follow. Now it is unlikely, and, probably, for this time I am quite outdated, and my views seem conservative. Of course, in addition to white and black flowers, there is a whole range of halftone - it always was, there will be.

Nevertheless, the struggle of conscience and circumstances in which you get, are peculiar to all centuries - and our time too. There is always a problem of choice, the problem of value priority. And the voice of the conscience does not stroke - in each of us to some extent there is a Pilate. And I am very glad that I am at old age, the director Vladimir Bortko proposed in the "Master and Margarita" to play Pontius Pilate. It seems to me that the master does not accidentally write a novel about Pilate: it is also present in it "Pontication".

It is extremely important not to lie yourself, because in the depths of the soul you know yourself. Although in life there are unpleasant discoveries. In the theater, I often come across with hypocrisy, and with unnecessarily increased pruding, and with not always an adequate attitude towards colleagues, partners - there are many human weaknesses that are characteristic of the profession and influence the person. No, I'm not foul, I can't tolerate these manifestations of human nature, but I treat them as a givenness - the humpback grave will correct.

In my life there were a lot of moments when fate had a happily led me without any effort on my part. Happiness is unusually fleeting. Not I say this, there is nothing original in this. I can not say: ah, I was happy for a month. But the moments of some wild happiness are good luck. But it goes very quickly. I try not to faint with any failures, nor with serious life problems and not too rejoice at the good thing that happened to me.

No, wisdom, in my opinion, does not accumulate: it is either there, or it is not. What wisdom? Fatigue accumulates, some ability to behave at certain moments of life, appears, perhaps, the ability to recognize the other. But can I say that he became wiser than was in 20 years? Nothing like this! Well, maybe a little inversion. If earlier I could be perfect idiot, rejoicing some trivia, now much causes only a sour smile. Probably, sometimes I came wiser when I was still very young.

Site actor without acting education. Theatrical laurel dynasty.

In the Tovstone Cabinet of the Bolshoi Drama Theater hangs on the wall. Sketch, made by Alexander Nikolayevich Beno'a to the play "Gloor", depicting an old man, whom the father of Kirill Yurevich Lavrov Yury Sergeevich Lavrov played the 17-year-old youth. He was the subject of the theater dynasty of Lavrov. And today it is already obvious that Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov in many respects repeated the path of his father.

Kirill Lavrov and Mother - Actress and Chtitsa Olga Gudim-Levkovich

People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov, who has gained recognition and glory, successfully filmed in the cinema and made performances, special acting, as the son, did not have. But he heard not only talented, but smart and many knowing. He was from the differences. His father, the son of Stryatchego, at the end of the gymnasium in the city of Yegoryevsk, Ryazan region went to study at the Metropolitan University at the Faculty of Philology and was engaged in tongues. He led the gymnasium of the imperial human-loving society that helped orphans. In the family of Lavrov, the theater loved. Yuri Lavrov Elizabeth Akimovna's mother, a distant relative of Sobinov, sang well and even passed a competition in choir Mariinsky Theater. But the head of the family was opposed to this, and she, obeying his will, remained at home.

The paths of the spouses were still separated. The revolution of Grandfather Kirill Lavrov, Sergei Larov, did not accept, emigrated. Grandmother Cyril Lavrov, the wife of Sergei Lavrov Elizabeth Akimovna, emigrate resolutely refused, not imagining life without Russia. And his future father, being the only man in the family, threw the gymnasium to feed the mother and two sisters. He worked in the bakery, did the coffins. Learning about the recruitment of employees in a newly organized big dramatic theater, went there to hire. The theater was then located in the indoor of the philharmonic. Lavrov was accepted, and at first he ran with alabards on stage. In the theater, he was lovingly called a laurel. He patronized Maximov, he met the block, monastic, Yuryev.

The time itself, assertive, rapid, has placed to bold endeavors. With the same, as he, the tender-talented people, Yuri Lavrov, opened a young theater in the House of Celebrate Panina near the Ligovsky Prospect. Then he went to Moscow and worked at Meyerhold in Tim. In the very first year, he played there a few roles there, replacing the Krasava Vladimir Yakhontova who went out of the theater.

The leaders of the leader in Yuri Lavrov appeared even then. On Tim tour in Kiev in the absence of Meyerhold, who left at the resort to Europe, Yuri Lavrov became a stirring of unrest in a troupe, dissatisfied with the salary delay. Management took appropriate measures, and soon Yuri Lavrov was forced to return to native city. And then he takes for a new thing. Together with Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov, with whom he was friendly, organizes Leningrad Music-Hall.

And life throws new plots. Yuri Lavrov became interested in movies. On the set of the film "Volochevsky Days" became an assistant from the Vasilievy brothers and played a small role. Then his fate reiterates a meeting with Konstantin Pavlovich Khokhlov. With this famous director Yury Lavrov rides in 1939 in Kiev, where he invited him to work at the Lesi Ukrainka Theater. In Kiev, Yuri Lavrov played roschina in the play "Walking on the flour".

Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov became the favorite actor Khokhlov, for many years led the theater named after Lesi Ukraink. Always paying great attention to the external drawing of the role, Yuri Lavrov had a taste for acute characterity: loved to be made, appreciated the expressiveness of the details. He became the favorite of the public, the pride of the Kiev Theater of the Russian Drama. On performances with his participation, theatrians went many times. In the play on the play of Mdivani "New Times" came out on the stage along with the Son: Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov played the chairman of the collective farm, Cyril Lavrov - His Son.

At first, Yuri Sergeevich was categorically against the theater aspirations of the Son. But in 1950, the aircraft worker Cyril Lavrov came to the winter holidays to the Father in Kiev, secretly went to Khokhlov and was adopted at the Lesi Ukrainian Theater. Lavrov-Sr. then said: "Well, what your business, you decide your fate, I warned you."

Yuri Lavrov in the theater was afraid: it was too sharp into the tongue, always said that he thinks. But I warned my colleagues that, noting the 60th anniversary, immediately retire. The word keptped the other day after the celebration of the Round Date wrote a statement about leaving, without responding to the calls to remain. Then he was still persuaded to return, and for some time he headed the theater as an artistic director.

The personal life of Yuri Sergeyevich Lavrov turned out to be very violent. He was married repeatedly. Father became 20 years old, the son of Cyril was given birth to a young spouse Olga Gudim-Levkovich. They met in the young theater, where together participated in the play "Winnight": Yuri Lavrov played Karandyshev, and Gudim-Levkovich - Larisa.

Olga was from the noble family belonging to the family of Lykoshini, the son of Cyrill became a 14th generation representative. Their estate of Grigorievskoe was not far from Vyazma, in three versts from Khmelit, the generic estate of Griboyedov. Olga Ivanovna's father served as an officer in Pavlovsky regiment, and Olga was born in his office in St. Petersburg, on a million street. The coat of arms of Lykoshini found the chief State Geroldmeister Georgy Villybach to the 80th anniversary of Kirill Lavrov.

Olga won her husband early; To maintain a family, worked a lot, and grandmother was engaged in the upbringing of a very small Kira. Olga's mother, grandmother Kirill Lavrov, worked only in the first years after the revolution - having mastered the profession of typists, one time was a secretary from Kurpra. (Their house was located next to the Church of John the Bogoslov - there the newlyweds were in secret, and then the firstborn, the son of Kiru, baptized, was baptized, the family was baptized in a huge communal apartment from six rooms. Boutowing supplies were kept in the storage room - they were and served toys for the boy. Olga Gudim-Levkovich in the theater no longer served: he was engaged in literary-read activities, a lot acted on the radio, played in brigades.

When the war began, she was prescribed by the head of evacuated children from the actor's officer. Lengrad leaving Leningrad, Olga Ivanovna, she was able to take the son of Cyril and a three-year-old daughter Natasha, later her mother joined them. So everyone was in the Kirov region, in the village of Sorviri on the shore of Vyatka and live there. Kirill went to work by a loader to the grain blank, then into the incubator - began to drive around in the sleigh on the villages and enter into contracts for the supply of eggs. The earnings turned out to be doubtful: the adolescent freight forwarder, traveled by dogs. A year later, having moved with his family to Novosibirsk, Olga Ivanovna settled himself to the Philharmonic. And the son of Cyril, to the war seriously fond of sports (played in the Leningrad "Spartacus", had the first rank on gymnastics and stayed by a passionate football fan) and dreamed of the sea, took the N323 of the Munitat's People's Commissar strike at the plant, then to the turret.

As many of his peers, Kirill sought to the front volunteer. But he was sent to study at the Astrakhan aviation military school, which soon evacuated to Ust-Kamenogorsk. Under the school there was a team of musicians who spent on dancing in the city garden and earlier at the funeral. Having arrived to hold the Son, who was preparing to replenish the ranks of the defenders of the Motherland, Olga Ivanovna saw him in a mourning procession: Kirill sadly squinted on the street and mernically beat into the drum. Having met views, mother and son could not resist laughter. Subsequently, the Son still managed to change the ironic attitude of the mother to his creative giftedness. But this story is the story of the actor Kirill Lavrov - everyone is known.

CHKHIDZE T. With him one could talk about everything // Petersburg Theater Journal. 2007. №48.

You could talk to him about everything. There is no topic to which I could not communicate with him.

With him you can always be extremely open, because from the first moment it became clear: he is a grave.

For many years there was no day so that we do not communicate. He had a rare gift - listen, and listen at this moment only you, not in a hurry. When he listened - time stopped, he had a calm conversation. And here is the oddity: the smaller we had time (suppose five minutes!), The calmer these conversations were. I remember a few cases: I say something to him ... Long pause, silent. "Kirill Yuryevich, you do not answer in principle" - "No, I think." Could then offer to drink coffee, talk to other topics, and then, in an hour and a half, suddenly say: "I think it may be like this." He did not apply to anything formally, nothing! Not only read the text of the paper, which was signed, but tried to deduct the context, which is behind this paper, and the consequences of its signing ... But if I did not want to sign - nothing could move it: "Do not sign!" What I believed, but did not impose my faith to anyone, was extremely democratic in this sense. His relationships with people who thought were different, did not deteriorate.

Happiness that he was a leader, but not the point. There are few good leaders, but there is no good leaders, and he was not a supervisor and not a patron, he was in the Father Theater.

In 1989, we met as deputies of the Supreme Council of the last convocation. Not because they climbed into politics, and because each creative union (and STD, including) there were ten places and the theatrical people put forward us ... Just at that time, George Alexandrovich was not. Lavrov turned to Gorbachev and asked him to let him go from the funeral session ... And in a month or one and a half, he invited me to put a performance in the BDT, I remember that Tovstonogov called twice and offered me "Deceit and love" ...

When, after the death of Tovstonogov, Lavrov unanimously chose the artist, the first thing he said to me is: "Temour, I am temporarily ...". 18 years! There were good luck, failures, crisis days, everything was, but - no shocks, earthquakes, wars, intrigues, conflicts. And it's all - Lavrov! Very often, when it came to him, the conflict was filmed, because in front of him stewed.

He all took over. This cannot be learned - the ability of Lavrov to find a common language with people, the ability of Lavrov to be a magnet. How many times in different reasons I said: "Kirill Yuryevich, maybe you will not go" - "Temur, I promised."

As soon as he became a kind, he became significantly less playing. When the time of the distribution arose, and I told him: "Kirill Yuryevich, it's you and only you," he answered: "Think if there is someone else in the troupe - he must play, and not me." Although as a real artist, he, of course, wanted to play. And there is nothing strange that until the last he stood on stage. It is a fact.

I highlight bold: it was very easy to rehearse. Sooooo! He walked on any offer like a boy! Lavrov was from the breed of artists who first try, and then discuss, he had to feel the organism, and then analyze. He needed to hurt an effective word - and then he tried and made an episode richer than I assumed. So that friendship friendshipBut I was very comfortable to work with him. This bonded friendship. When he rehearsed, it was impossible to be nervous next to him, there was confidence from Lavrov, although he himself searched to the last and was not sure that the found was good. But, looking, was confident that together we will find - and inspired you with this confidence. And after the premiere, I said: "Listen, in my opinion, I am worse here ..."

He was a true friend, but nobody in the theater did not allow panibrates with him, even those who called him on "you" and Kira.

And how he was a delicate partner for men and for women! The point is not even in charm, equally irresistibly acting on men and women. And not in a stunning smile, because of which he was adored. This smile caused confidence, and not seduced, she fastened, it became light from her. I, a man, tell you: His morning smile gave half a day of good mood!

The only topic that strained our relationship is when I was delayed in Tbilisi. And when something was once again stretched between Russia and Georgia, and I was delayed, I said that I would not come again ten days - he just flew to Tbilisi.

Prior to this, the days of St. Petersburg in Georgia were played by the performance of BDT Art. With them, he did not fly, but, suspecting that I want to stay in Georgia, I said that it arrives. Why flies, I did not say, I just flew. Having met at the airport of our artists, asked: "Guys, as you were accepted," Gena Bogachev honestly said: "Kirill Yuryevich, we took - like Gagarin." And Valera Degtyar pulled me over the sleeve and says: "We were taken as a squirrel and an arrow, and Gagarin just flew!"

Lavrov said that he wanted to stay in Georgia for several days, and we went to the Borzo Gorge. There is a stunning beauty, a sanatorium on the territory where the Palace of Romanovs was. Autumn, fog ... Arriving, we descended to dine, entered the restaurant, in which there was not a soul, ordered something ... The waiter silently accepted the order. Thirty minutes later the restaurant was full! All tables were busy, but it was suspiciously quiet (this is Georgia!). It was there that Lavrov told me that he flew because he was not confident in my return. We donate, got up - and then the whole restaurant got up! And started! Lavrov will not be surprised by anything, but this province, rain, tense situation (he was not unaware asked the guys, as they were accepted). And they were treated for him, strangers greeted him, gathered in 30 minutes! Lavrov here! Gagarin arrived!

We stayed in Borjomi for three days, walked in the fog and discussed the Piese "Copenhagen" ...

What completely different performances he liked! How he was looking for young! It did not only have anymore, he was amazingly able to trust: "You know something that we do not know," he said about the directors. "I see that there is, and you see what might be." A couple of times we showed the layout that he did not like. And now it comes out. And the first thing he says: "Remember, I did not like the layout? Sorry generously, I did not understand then what is his essence. And now I apologize. "

He understood everything about his illness, I personally told everything for another six months ago. It was not a diagnosis, but a sentence, but did he jerked, threw things? Not. Two days before the death was in the theater and how much time to do! I asked the museum to learn something about bitter, clarify to him some materials, the dates ... "Kirill Yuryevich, well, why do you need bitter?!"

Only the most recently called sometimes: "Temur, today I will not come to the theater." But during the day he called me, then I, he, he was absolutely aware. In addition to the last two days, when his tube in resuscitation did not respond.

Once, a few years ago, after the next "Boris Godunova," he asked me to change him alone Misaneszen: "I'm fifteen minutes later in the foreground, while the guys play. Or change, or I leave there. " - "You are hard to sit there" - "No, not hard. But I look at this tablet and I think: "My God, I will be buried from here ...".

Of course, he had a stunning sense of humor, and, of course, we left sad topics: "I don't like the tablet? Let's change the tablet, only in the summer! "

I'm not afraid to admit: we had real male friendship. Many years. Kirill Yuryevich was one of several very close people, older friends - men who played a huge role in my life: Father, stepfather Maharadze, my teacher Mikhail Ivanovich Tumanishvili and here - Lavrov. Now there is no one of them, Cyril Yuryevich was the last ...

After "cunning and love," I told him: "Kirill Yuryevich, I give you a word: while you are the leader of this theater, I will not bother you." So it happened. But I also told him: "Let's leave together." And here I have a feeling that I betray him ...

My dear man ...

Temur Cheyidze

Dmitrievskaya M. Memory of Kirill Lavrov // St. Petersburg Theater Journal. 2007. №48.

A few years ago, in the heat, news feeds have already passed: "Cyril Lavrov died on tour in Kiev." Two hours of tears, horror and calls to Kiev (I - Sister Kirill Yurevich Natalia Alexandrovna Latysheva, Ta - Kiev Friend Kiro Pitomoye ...). Having found a mistake, everyone happily believed in the signs and decided that now Kirill Yuryevich will live happily ever after.

He lived for a long time and happily. And the happy were those who came up with him next.

In the days of his 80th anniversary, Andrei Tolubeev offered to introduce a unit of decency in art - 1 laurel. I think this currency will remain a measure, the "golden stock" ...

Kirill Yuryevich was an excellent actor, but the main thing is a great man. Better I do not know. And do you need much to find out? Maybe only one case is needed, "a story about simple things."

My father, a major, recognized scientist, in the last years of his life more than once told me that I would like to shake the laurel of my hand. Just at that time, I helped at work on the performance "before sunset", was pretty close to K. Yu. And he told him about the father's desire, but that rehearsals, the turmoil premiere, when embarrassing the dad in the luck of the dressing room and strain . Y. Why hurry? After all, there will be a second performance, the third, fifth ... What problems? Yes, no. Everything tomorrow. Only time went, and dad died.

And when Panhid went in the geographical society, entered ... Lavrov. That is, he did not ask me where and what will happen, did not promise to come, but I did not ask. Having come, he did not tell the speeches about an unfamiliar man, listened to others. He just came. Handshake took place.

Today, when everyone privatizes its own and not, Kirill Yuryevich received a personal gift from the president: V. V. Putin presented him on the 80th anniversary of theater building on the Stone Island - bypass! And he, laughing ("Well, what will I do with it? I do not understand anything in this ..."), gave it a big dramatic. I hope when this theater will open, he will be the name of Lavrov, and a month and a half ago, it seemed to be saved, Kirill Yuryevich showed us a project of reconstruction and discussed where to attract a cafe and what a repertoire to play. By that time, he had already left the hospital, the terrible winter passed, it seemed miracle. We sat in the restaurant, dinner, raised toasts. "It's amazing how all Russia did not cut, drinking the whole winter for your health!" - I said, and he smiled his radiant smile, although I spoke clear truth: All-Union love for him is limitless, hopes for him always and everyone.

And all hospitals last shone with him and confident that "everything will be fine now," Nastya.

People artistic Lord Gives a special story of life. Few people span in the same church, where they baptized. K. Yu. Reference in the "Church of His Childhood." In it real life The Gauptmansky plot of the love of an old man and a young girl played up before this was completed. When they rehearsed, seventy-year-old Kirill Yuryevich is terribly robot to play love: "I am old ...". Whoever knew that in a couple of years, fate would send Nastya, the young costume of the BDT. They settled together in a service apartment, K. Yu. Slapodel, became Bodra, smile, played his last role in the play "Quartet", starred, went to football, went, helped hundreds of people. My God, how many papers - from the telephone station to the government - he signed not for himself! And read each. If Lavrov helped someone with the hospital, then he didn't just call the head physician (and Lavrovsky voice opened all the doors and hearts). It was worth entering the hospital - already the wardrobe proudly reported to you: "Lavrov called, we told him, go around ..."

All of us seemed to us: a miracle happened. K.Yu. I went to the theater, worked, celebrated the 95th anniversary of Efim Kophewan, played two times the "Quartet", I was going to the third and even on tour in favorite Kiev ...

At the funeral, Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili told me: "Why is he not bank herself recently? Here we go to Kirishi to the play, play, but why still sit two hours after the play at the table? It was necessary to go to rest! "

And I think - he wanted to live in the way he always lived. Dining in theatrical buffet Together with everyone, without thinking about infections, watch performances in full hall, meet with Griboedovsky Theater, go where they ask, congratulate the theater women from 8mart (the last time I saw him in the court of theater then) - I wanted to live ! Not a minute he was an old man and disabled.

Our editorial office may be proud: Kirill Yuryevich always helped the magazine (the last paper signed by him extended us for eight years to rent, and another will come into effect, already when it is not ...).

He first stepped over the edition threshold, when it became aware of the death of Volodin. Just came, we drank a glass and agreed that we would bury out of the BDT. He became Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Volodin Festival. But we especially talked, when I participated in the composition of the two performances of BDT - "Arkady" and "before sunset", where he played his last major role.

Actually, it all started the hot summer of 1999. I came to Cyril Yuryevich with a voice recorder, but - tired, confused, tortured the theater, he refused the planned interview. "Remove the recorder, I have nothing to tell you ..." We just sat, quietly talking about BDT plans. What's next? "Kirill Yuryevich, remember how the murissands of Schwartz (the legendary Zeverit BDT.- M. D.) we sat with you and Griska Kozlov, and Grisha remembered her idea - to put with you" before sunset "!" Lavrov's eye revived : "You can find Grisch right now." And after an hour, the goats found in the same category in the same office. The work began. She continued the whole season.

Meeting almost daily at rehearsals, I only felt one thing - I love this person. And then there was always only one thing this feeling. He knew how to inspire him to millions - that I am alone!

Sometimes (happiness!) He asked to help. Once, during the rehearsal period, I found it in the office of absolutely pale and confused. In the hands of the newspaper, where it, like Ulyanov, was accused of dishonestly and violation of ethics: they say, as part of the commission, they participated in the award of the state of their performances of their theaters - BDT and Vakhtangovsky. Kirill Yuryevich did not know what to do, he had only one gust: to quit rehearsals, go to Moscow and give a publication to a physiognomy, at a meeting that was not present. All my life, he found out the relationship straight, and here was dumbfounded, confused, especially since he took his last name from the list of nominees!

In Moscow, we were not allowed, there was a premiere on the nose, I, I remember, wrote an open letter to the author to the author, in order to somehow defend a person, in honor of which no one even doubt the virtue of whose advantage. It was amazing: before the fact of meanness, he is strong, influential - it was absolutely defenseless! Then he heard from colleagues that, being in Moscow, Lavrov still found the criticism and had already headed for him, but ... I didn't want to paint my hands. What told the "addressee" personally.

He was, almost the only of the artists, in whom the human was not defeated by acting. Somehow we talked on this topic, and K. Yu. Said:

The acting profession involuntarily imposes an imprint. The person who is pretending to be all his life on stage cannot refuse it in life. Still involved on "I", on my soul, on my head, on the insides. Therefore, the aggravated sense of pride. Well, how to transfer that my spleen is not like that, like everyone else that she is ugly?! My spleen doesn't like it? !! But she is mine. I will fight for her, I will fight for my spleen! Of course, I am also infected with acting disease, 60 years of staying in this Vertepe could not have no effect. But since all my youth passed in another, not related to the theater of society, I am largely deprived of this. You see, I was and there is a white crow in the theater. Maybe, so they so unanimously and voted for me, choosing the artistic director. I will always find out all theatrical gossip, not participating in any coalitions. In addition, when I got into Kiev, there, thanks to Khokhlov, there was an atmosphere of genuine service to art (I'm not afraid of loud words)! And in such a refraction, this profession does not seem so easy-made, such a infantile, then it becomes a major task, and you are a serious person to count on. It was probably my first school, which very much helped me in life.

He was in the full sense of the word. Skilled silent. I knew how to keep a mystery. I knew how to give a face. I could despise. I could intervene and defend. He knew how to be friends, but was a man of non-isolated principles. I remember a few cases. I'll tell one. We celebrated or the fifth, or the tenth play "before sunset" in the "Red Corner" of the theater, and very respected, but pretty the elderly artist, forgetting that I went with the play "from call to call," asked: "Kira, this is why in our scenes during the play critic?!" Lavrov stood up: "Let's go out." They went out into the corridor. Further, Kirill Yuryevich returned already alone, sat down and said so firmly, as he was: "While I am alive, you will go to the theater from the service entrance," and then, in 2000, I discharged a pass for several years. Until December 2006. As if he counted ...

For many years he dreamed of conveying BDT to the directorial hands, he considered the acting leadership of the temporary misfortune and, providing a meeting with Tovstonogovaya "there," I wanted one thing: to report to the chief director of his life, that the watch passed, while retaining the director's nature of the BDT that the acting barbell , internal civil workers. He was looking, consulted, counted on one director, then another, worried about dramatic disappointment, and the media infinitely accused him of unwillingness to free the chair. "I never got so much dirt as we decided to convey the theater. After all, I could not decide whether to declare. For what they wipe me "- offended, asked Lavrov, reading cruel strings about his power.

His meeting with Tovstong will be easy: he managed to transfer theater Temur Chkheidze, but he himself carried the watch until the last day.

But on this day he was on the stage of the BDT one: on April 29, the Grand City was forgiven with his great citizen.

I have never seen so many colors and so many people.

All night in Church of John the Theologian for Nekrasov, 31 were people. No catfed luxury - a compound resembling the parish church: roving buckets with flowers, quiet prayers. All night the courtyard with burning candles lived an excellent spiritual life. No ranks and no luck, although thousands of thousands passed through the temple. All night, replacing each other, people read the psalter over the coffin: Masha Lavrov, some woman in the old beret, a man in a leather jacket ...

More than a day, Leningrad was going to him. It is Leningrad. I saw forgotten and beautiful faces. These were those who in the 1960s zag at night fires in the hope of buying a ticket in the BDT, who caught an extra ticket in all the nearest corners (maybe we stood Skem - then at the same crossroad ...). People walked with luxurious roses, with one flower or without flowers at all (nothing to buy, but they wanted to say goodbye), they walked old and young, parents and children. Those who came to the Panhid to the theater were defended (as once in the cashier) a lot of hours to put flowers on an external one or simply cross the air over the coffin.

I think April 29 through the Leushinsky compound, and then through the scene of the BDT held the best people of our city with a number of more than 10,000. I would like to look at the president and the governor in their faces, especially since the funeral of Lavrov's funeral was incomparable with the appeal to the elections. But, alas, nor the president nor the governor commemorated the memory of the great person by the presence, the second and third parties performed on the paneir. It was especially offensive, since Kirill Yuryevich himself belonged to the duty and never sent secretaries instead of himself. I was driving myself. Accompanied. Felt. Remembered.

On the eve of the 80th anniversary, I asked him:

Cyril Yuryevich, over the years we are more and more people, but with someone from the left we still continue to talk, to someone internally accountable. In addition to the Lord God, there is someone else, with whom do you continue to communicate?

There were several meetings that had a great influence on me. First of all, it is Konstantin Pavlovich Khokhlov in Kiev and his assistants Nikolai Alekseevich Sokolov and Vladimir Aleksandrovich Nela - Vlad. And the whole theater them. Lesia Ukrainka was a strong impression. And then, of course, Tovstonogov, who has become for me and to this day remains both the teacher and the owner of my Duma, and a smart interlocutor. Well, and in addition to the theater. This is Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, whom I learned in the last segment of his life when he has changed very much, I regretted a lot, quite repent. He was a very wise man, we had a very close relationship, I often remember him. This is Yury Pavlovich Herman. I met him when I was filmed in the pictures of his scenarios "Believe me, people" and "Antonina" on the novel "Our Families." Our meetings were not so frequent, but he taught me a lot, and I came, served eight years in the army, and I absorbed everything as a sponge. Then, quite a short time there was a story with a person who made a significant impression on me. This is Viktor Petrovich Astafiev. We see not at all so often, but a lot of rewrite, he was a man of amazing wisdom, originality and principle. He passed the entire soldier-telephonism soldier, wounded - replaced and physically and spiritually, called, shed ... when he died, I was launched, but because of the cases I could not fly to Krasnoyarsk for the funeral. And in the evening, the wife says: "What are you mumbies, run now to the station, sit down on the train, fly to Krasnoyarsk!" And I put on the cap and rushed, as I was, at the station, I arrived in Moscow, I went to Domodedovo - and turned out to be a flight. Fate. Managed. And I am very glad that I was there.

When Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov died, Lavrov found the strength to go to the funeral. Two "Karamazov's brothers", two great actors, two citizens, real men who had a burden of leadership theaters, who were true to all their lives (Lavrov served in BDT from 1955 to 2007), they often joked - who will leave first. We left with a difference per month. May 4 40 days Ulyanovna, June 5 - 40 days Lavrov.

And - everything. There is no one to confront the "trading and industrial" direction in our theater, to which Kirill Yuryevich trees were so squeamingly, meaningless that it could not overcome, he can only despise. "We defended the house of veterans!" - I called him to the hospital. "Give God, if so, but do not rejoice ahead of time, I have other information," he said.

The last time we called out to record his text "Memory Ulyanova". Whatever mystically, from the editorial folders immediately fell out, it would seem that the lost photo of the "brothers" and the month lay on the table, waiting in the hour ... an hour has come.

Flowers of those who did not get into the theater on April 29, although the farewell was extended by almost an hour and a half, lie on the windowsill BDT, at the photos of Kirill Yuryevich. For some reason, in the eyes there is one wreath of hundreds: "Beloved from Nastya."

Long applause of a huge crowd on the Fontanka embankment - Ovation artist, forever leaving his home ... Militiamen who gave honor throughout the path of following the mourning cortex on the theological cemetery ... We drove through the entire city - and at the form of the procession, passersby stopped: Petersburg knew whom he had to accompany. When the first bus from ten arrived in the cemetery, it was all already filled with the people, a crowd stood around the open grave. The track, covered with flowers ... Short prayer ... Honorary guard, gun salts ... Hymn. And all this - about him: Lavrov was a man of noble origin, intellectual education, Orthodox religion, Soviet biography.

When the coffin was lowered into the grave, the sun looked out for half a second, falling on the coffin cover. This is not an image that fix the fact of the fact.

In a country where no one is a guarantor, he was a guarantor of honor and decency. While he lived, did not die the hope that the meanness could be stopped.

P. S. It so happened that his last small premiere will be held on the eve of Socokin. In March, Ruby Gapyadze arrived in St. Petersburg, and the phonogram of his new puppet play was recorded in the BDT studio. Afterword, the epilogue, the lyrical remark of the outgoing era sounds there by the voice of Kirill Yurevich ... The premiere will take place on May 22 in Moscow. But the main thing for Lavrov was BDT. And he managed to dispose so that in early June Gabydzevsky Lokomotiv was brought to his native theater. I thought that he would see a story about the love of two steam locomotives.

Marina Dmitrievskaya

Today, our city is held on the last journey of Kirill Yurevich Lavrov - the Great Actor, an outstanding theatrical figure, a man who loved Petersburg, who loved life. Among his hatty is a fan of "Zenith" and an amateur athlete, first of all, a football player.

In childhood and youth, Lavrov, like all the teenagers of those years, chased the ball in the courtyards and on wasteland. Before the war, he was taken to the youth team of the Leningrad "Spartak", and who knows, maybe he would not be an actor, but a football player? But fate ordered otherwise - war, evacuation from the blockade city in Siberia, service in aviation in the Kuril Islands, then demobilization and long-term service Mellengene.

In his work, Lavrov did not bypass a sports topic - in the picture of the Leningrad director Viktor Sadovsky "Step by the White Queen", shot on the novel of the Lion Kassil, he played the coach for ski racing. However, all his heroes were people strong, energetic, and in the roles of police officers (in films "from the life of the criminal investigation department", "Ring Charlotte") Lavrov demonstrated good sports training and possession of sambo receptions. They say that on the set he ran faster than many young.

It is the Lavrov who read off the heading text in the documentary film "Gold Zenit" ", and the choice was not accidental - everything in the city knew perfectly that he was not just a passionate fan, but also a true friend of football players and coaches Zenit. This is what Kirill Yuryevich said about Yuri Andreyevich Morozov: "We are already familiar with forty years, since he still played football. He is unusually devoted to this city, and his main rule was the creation of the "Zenit" football team from his own graduates. It was a city team of real boys, pupils of St. Petersburg football school, and he always did in practice, as a result, these boys won the title of champions of the country in 1984. "

In one of the interviews, Lavrov answered the question about the hobby: "What is fond of invariably - football. Is there a common between football and theater? Nothing. Football is perfectly, and the theater is very difficult. "

Georgy Shtil, actor of the Grand Drama Theater, People's Artist of Russia:

We performed in a specific "golden" match "Zenith"

- We played together for many years for the BDT football team. Lavrov - the central striker, and I - the extreme. He is at number 9, and I loved the "top ten". Every year, as I remember, played with the team of the newspaper "Evening", which was headed by the sports observer Valentin Semenov, our big friend. Fun played with full return. And on touring, at least one match was always taken to play, at least with the team of work scenes of the theater, where they performed.

We often walked with him together to the stadium on the matches of Zenit. In those years, we talked a lot with football players - they were in our theater, we did the packs of the chefs, conducted concerts on the basis of them. In 1984, in front of the "golden" match, I and Cyril advocated players based on Zenit. In addition to football, he loved tennis. This I am addicted to this game, although I myself only took a racket in my hands.

Lavrov was a wonderful person. We all respected him. After death, George Alexandrovich Tovstonogov accepted the theater and retained him. For us, all his care is a huge blow.

Leonid Unklestsky, actor of the Grand Drama Theater, People's Artist of Russia:

It was the true leader of our team.

- Kirill Yuryevich has always been a leader in everything. Without it, the BDT team will be completely different. Lavrov had a real spirit of the winner. In our team, he was a captain, and a player coach. A good coach - he always showed patience, never scolded us, rejoiced to every goal. It would seem like non-serious games - against the newspaper "Evening", against the teams of the traffic police, ATC, "Metrostroy" - he gave all his strength. Even when age began to affect and play it became difficult, he did not give himself a concerned - after all, it was written on the chest BDT!

It was difficult to find a more dedicated fan of "Zenith" than he. He tried not a single match of his favorite team. Our theater has always been friends with football players, and not only with Zenit. I remember how Kiev Dynamo came to our performances together with Valery Lobanovsky. And Zenit very warmly congratulated Kirill Yurevich on the day of his 80th anniversary - players came together with Commentator Gennady Orlov. It was wonderful.

His care is such a huge loss that I do not know how we will survive it.

Stanislav Zonudonov, Zenit Player and the USSR Olympic team 1950-1960:

Lavrov knew perfectly in the game

- Kirill Yuryevich all souls had a soul for "Zenit", if he could, always came to matches. We watched matches together many times, talked about football. In it, Lavrov was perfect perfectly, I would say, professionally - he was all correctly analyzed, gave accurate assessments to players. It so happened that the last time we saw on "Petrovsky", on the game "Zenit" - "Dynamo".

With Lavrov, we were familiar from the 1960s. Then we were young, often went to the theater, he spoke at our base, and the friendship of Zenit and BDT began. Yury Andreevich Morozov and Anatoly Nikolaevich Vasilyev are close to him. With them, I was together Kirill Yurevich at a party. Our generation "Zenit" was close to him - by age, in the views on life.

The message about the death of Cyril Yuryevchia became a strong blow for me. We lost a wonderful person. Time is inexorably, and our generation people remain less.

Mikhail Grigoriev