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Vsevolod Sanayev met with his future wife Lida Goncharenko, already a professional artist. It happened in Kiev, where Vsevolod came on tour along with other members of the theater troupe. It was difficult not to fall in love with the beautiful Lida, but Sanaev was not a miss either. Young people began to meet. It is noteworthy that the parents of the girl herself were categorically against this marriage and asked her daughter not to commit rash acts. But Lida did not listen to anyone and went with the actor to distant Moscow.

At first, everything went wonderfully. The lovers officially registered their relationship, and soon the first-born was born, who was named Alexei. And then the war began. But Soviet actors continued to tour, supporting the frightened civilians of the country and the spirit of its fighters with their performances. It was during such a trip that Sanaev Lidia and her child were sent to evacuation to Kazakhstan. There, 2-year-old Aleksey contracted an infection and died. Vsevolod and Lydia did not immediately manage to connect, therefore the young woman experienced the terrible loss of her only son and his funeral in complete solitude. This tragedy will later become one of the reasons for the further behavior of Sanaeva, her echo.

After the publication of Pavel Sanaev's book "Bury Me Behind the Plinth", the heroes of the story began to be identified with the family members of the young writer. Everyone seemed to have forgotten that the book was fiction, not autobiographical. In fact, Vsevolod and Lydia Sanaevs lived together for 55 years, happy and at the same time difficult. The famous actor for many years was next to his wife, who was seriously ill. “Together in sorrow and in joy” is just about them, who have overcome all the trials prepared for them by fate.

Meeting with the beautiful

Vsevolod Sanayev was born into a working class family, where 12 children were born practically one after another. True, half of the kids died at an early age. Vsevolod did not shine with particular success in his studies, and after the sixth grade he already worked at the Tula Harmonious Factory. But his dreams were always far away. A boy from a working-class family, having seen the Moscow Art Theater performance "Uncle Vanya" on the stage of the Tula theater, simply fell ill with the theater.

A new shock for him was the news that one of the leaders of the factory where he worked was attending a drama club. Vsevolod began to come to rehearsals, but it was difficult to get involved. But in the evenings after work, he now hurried to the Tula Drama Theater, where he grabbed for any work. The agile young man was noticed, and he even appeared on stage a couple of times with short remarks. And then one of the actors advised Vsevolod to study.

And he went to study in Moscow. His parents were categorically against it, but neither persuasion nor maternal tears could restrain Vsevolod Sanaev. At first he studied at the workers' faculty, after he entered the theater technical school, then - at GITIS. After graduating from GITIS, Vsevolod Sanaev was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater.

Happy touring

Very quickly, the young actor became one of the leading actors in the renowned theater. At the same time, he began acting in films. First, there was a cameo role in the film "Volga-Volga", then he played in Pyryev's film "Beloved Girl", and real success came to Vsevolod Sanaev after filming in "Optimistic Tragedy".

On the tour of the Moscow Art Theater in Kiev, the actor met a student of the philology department Lydia Goncharenko, who studied and worked at the same time in the city prosecutor's office. The stately beauty did not experience a lack of male attention, but Vsevolod Sanaev quickly won her heart: a month later she was already getting on the Kiev-Moscow train with him.

Through trials

The couple lived in a small room in a communal apartment, rejoiced at the appearance of their son Alyosha, made plans. But then the war began. Vsevolod Sanayev first left for the shooting, from where he returned only two months later. He sent his wife and son to evacuate to Alma-Ata. There little Alyosha fell ill with measles and diphtheria. The two-year-old baby could not be saved. And Lydia Sanaeva began to make her way to her husband, not remembering herself from grief.

They met in Borisoglebsk. And after nine months their daughter Elena was born in Kuibyshev, who will also choose the profession of an actress, and will also become the wife of Rolan Bykov. But that will be much later. In childhood, Elena did not differ in exemplary behavior and gave her parents a lot of trouble.

Lydia Antonovna, who lost her first child, almost constantly carried her daughter in her arms, even when she was already a rather big girl. She did not take her eyes off her daughter and did all her whims. At the same time, Lena was simply unbearable. She did not let her mother go a step away from her and could throw a tantrum for any reason.

One day, a girl put a sugar cube picked up on the ground in her mouth and fell ill with hepatitis. Lydia Sanaeva was completely exhausted, diligently caring for her daughter. She gave her medicine every minute and prepared broths, making sure that Lena did not eat anything forbidden.

The daughter recovered, but then a new misfortune came: Vsevolod Sanaev's heart attack. More hospitals, injections, IVs. Against this background, Lydia Antonovna began to cry often, she had all the signs of fatigue and depression. When she inadvertently told a political anecdote in the kitchen of a communal apartment, one of the neighbors reported. A check came to the apartment, and Vsevolod Sanaev's wife rapidly developed a persecution mania.

The atmosphere in their home has changed a lot. Sergei Mikhalkov, whom Lydia Sanaeva turned to, first stood up for her before the authorities, and then helped to get her into a good clinic. This is not to say that the treatment did not help, but the actor's wife was now constantly in a state of depression.

In joy and in sorrow

Vsevolod Vasilyevich tried as best he could to defuse the home atmosphere. He tried to smooth out the constant discontent of his wife, translating her nit-picking into jokes. He appeared in the house and a small source of light and heat was kindled. But sometimes his patience ran out.

Once he even told his mother, who came to visit them, that he wanted to part with Lydia, he could not endure it. But the mother shook her head sternly, stroked her son's hand and said: "The Sanaevs don't do that." They talked about something for a long time, sitting in the kitchen. But when colleagues offered the actor to divorce his wife, now Sanaev shook his head, explaining: he cannot leave the woman who gave birth to him two children and gave his youth.

Divorce issues were never raised again. The actor simply helped his wife not to unstuck at all: he joked, took for walks, when he had time for this, he fed. True, when he had to leave for the shooting, Lydia Antonovna cried and persuaded to stay, she was afraid to die without him. At the same time, the actor's wife was restrained and kind with strangers, all the neighbors loved her for their warmth and participation. And loved ones often suffered from her mood swings.

When Elena gave birth to her son Pasha, she often had to ask her mother for help. She happily took care of her son, but at the same time accused her daughter of going to the set instead of taking care of the child. Pasha often stayed with Lena's parents, and later she had a lot of work to win her son back from her own parents. They just loved him very much, although they were quite strict with the boy.

Fortunately, when Elena married Rolan Bykov, he managed to unite the whole family in some unthinkable way. At first, Vsevolod and Lydia Sanaevs met him with hostility, but later succumbed to the charm of their son-in-law. Since then, all strife against Paul has ceased.

Lydia Antonovna was diagnosed with brain sclerosis and she was slowly fading away. The daughter patiently looked after her and mentally asked for forgiveness for all the insults she once inflicted on her mother. Lydia Sanaeva passed away in 1995, and 10 months later Vsevolod Sanaev left this world. They went through all the trials together, for a long time they lived under the yoke of their wife's illness. Vsevolod Vasilyevich was ready to carry her in his arms and spoon-feed her. If only his Lydia was alive. He could not come to terms with the loss.

The daughter of Vsevolod and Lydia Sanayev followed in the footsteps of her father, like other famous actresses. They grew up in a creative environment, often attended rehearsals in the theater and on the set, saw what difficulties the actor had to face. However, nothing could make them give up their dream. Our famous actresses were real daddy's daughters, inheriting both their father's talent and craving for the stage.

Soviet cinema is fundamentally different from modern Russian not only in the quality of the films produced. TV viewers from all over the CIS continue to watch "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath" every New Year, and outside of the holidays they do not mind watching the film "Volga, Volga" by the director, "Hearts of Four" by Konstantin Yudin and others.

The secret of the success of films of the Soviet Union period is associated not only with nostalgia, historical value and direction, a great contribution to their popularity is made by the soulful acting of the cast.

Childhood and youth

Vsevolod Vasilievich Sanaev was born in Russia (then the Russian Empire) on February 25, 1912 in a poor, large family of workers (12 children in the family). The boy grew up on the outskirts of the industrial city of Tula. Studying at school was given to Vsevolod with difficulty, and he studied reluctantly. For this reason, Vasily Sanaev took his son from school and sent him to master a working profession at a factory that produced accordions.

So the future actor became an apprentice at the enterprise where his father also worked. The youth's duties included assembling and tuning musical instruments. At the age of 16, Vsevolod himself taught the profession of two apprentices. While working at the factory, the young man did not leave the thought that he was not doing what his soul was in.

Even as a child, Vsevolod and his mother went to the theater, where the touring Moscow Art Theater showed a play based on the play "Uncle Vanya". The boy was very impressed with the actors' play, the atmosphere of the theater, but he did not even dare to dream of a theatrical career. However, Vsevolod began to attend with pleasure the hammer and sickle amateur theater in Tula as a listener. Having achieved positive results in acting, the young man, though not the first time, entered a drama studio.

Already in 1930, Sanaev became an actor of the reserve cast of the theater, which worked at the OJSC "Tula Cartridge Plant". His career was rapidly going up. A year later, Vsevolod already worked as an actor at the Tula State Academic Drama Theater named after. For further professional development, the young man needed to receive a specialized education.

The senior mentor at the theater prepared Vsevolod for the entrance exams to the theatrical working faculty in Moscow. Despite the censure of the family (parents of working specialties did not take seriously the hobbies of an adult son), Sanaev went to the capital to study.

After graduating from the workers' school, Vsevolod raised his professionalism in the theatrical technical school under the leadership of Nikolai Plotnikov. Given the acute lack of finances, the young man had to work hard in the evenings. Vsevolod's diligence helped him, after graduating from college, to enter the State Institute of Theater Arts, where the talented director Mikhail Tarkhanov became the mentor of the future actor.

Since 1943, Vsevolod changed several more theaters on the stage of which he performed. In 1943 he worked at the State Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor Academic Theater named after Mossovet, and in 1946 - at the State Theater of Film Actor. In 1952, Sanaev wanted to go to the Moscow Art Theater, but the proposed roles did not suit him: the actor's wife fell seriously ill, and the family was in dire need of money.

Films

After graduating from the institute, Vsevolod Sanaev got a job as an actor at the Moscow Art Theater. Despite the popularity of art in those days, there was little work, and the competition was high, so the aspiring actor turned his gaze towards the only developing cinema.

In 1938, the musical comedy with the participation of Vsevolod "Volga, Volga" appeared on Soviet television screens. The actor made his film debut in two small roles at once: the young man played a musician and a lumberjack. But two years later, Sanaev was waiting for the first big and serious role of the worker Dobryakov in the feature film "Beloved Girl".

In total, the actor has played 89 roles in Soviet and Russian films, 2 roles in television performances and one dubbed cartoon.

Personal life

The biography of Vsevolod Sanaev in terms of the actor's personal life until recently remained a blank spot, until the grandson of Vsevolod Sanaev published a biographical book "Bury me behind the plinth", which tells about the family life of the famous grandfather.

The actor met his future wife Lydia Antonovna (nee Goncharenko) on the eve of World War II, when he was on tour with the Moscow Art Theater troupe in Kiev. Almost from the very moment he met Lydia, a student of the Faculty of Philology, Vsevolod decided to marry a young beauty. All the girl's relatives were against their marriage, but you can't tell your heart - Lydia left for Moscow with Sanaev.

Lydia Antonovna was sincerely devoted to her husband and family, but she suffered from a depressive disorder, which complicated the Sanaevs' family life. After one rashly told anecdote in a shared kitchen (the family lived in a communal apartment), the special services became interested in the girl's personality, as a result of which the impressionable Lydia ended up in a psychiatric ward with an official diagnosis of persecution mania.

With the beginning of the war, Vsevolod Vasilyevich went on tour to Borisoglebsk, leaving his wife with a young son in Moscow, and could not return back due to the hostilities. Lydia with the baby in her arms was evacuated to the territory of Kazakhstan. There, two-year-old Alexei contracted measles and diphtheria, which is why he soon died. The loss of the first child was a terrible blow for Lydia Sanaeva.

In 1943, the Sanayevs had a daughter who suffered from jaundice in early childhood. Against the background of her daughter's serious illness, Lydia Antonovna developed an acute fear of losing her daughter, following her son, who accompanied the woman all her life. This problem greatly complicated the married life of the spouses. As a result, according to the artist's grandson, Vsevolod Ivanovich often did not want to return home, although he devotedly loved his wife.

Vsevolod Vasilyevich's relationship with his daughter was also complicated: the imperious Lydia Antonovna did not want to accept the choice of her daughter, and her father did not want to argue. Elena Vsevolodovna first married the engineer Vladimir Konuzin, and the director became the second husband of the girl. From her first marriage, Elena gave birth to a son, Pavel, who became a writer, director, actor.

Death of Vsevolod Sanaev

Vsevolod Vasilyevich with irrepressible vital energy worked on the set for the rest of his life, as long as his health allowed.

At the age of 75, the actor suffered a serious heart attack, but, according to his daughter, he survived solely for the love of his wife - he was afraid to leave her without support. In 1995, Lydia Antonovna died, and ten months later Vsevolod Antonovich also died.

The cause of death of the actor was a serious cancer - lung cancer. The grave of Sanaev and his wife is at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

In memory of the actor's contribution to theatrical cinematography, in December 2011, a postal envelope was issued with a photo of Vsevolod Sanaev printed on it.

Filmography

• 1938 - "Volga, Volga"
• 1941 - Hearts of Four
• 1948 - "Young Guard"
• 1959 - "The Ballad of a Soldier"
• 1963 - "Optimistic Tragedy"
• 1969 - Strange People
• 1983 - White Dew
• 1987 - Forgotten Flute Melody
• 1995 - Shirley Myrli

Vsevolod Sanaev

People's Artist of the USSR (1969)
Laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR them. brothers Vasiliev (1967, for the role of Ermolai Voevodin in the film "Your Son and Brother")
Diploma-recipient at the All-Bulgarian Festival in Varna (1972, for the film "The Stolen Train")
Laureate of the 17th All-Union Film Festival in Kiev in the category "Prizes for the best actor's work" for 1984 (film "White Dew")
Commander of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor

Vsevolod's childhood passed on the working-class outskirts of Tula, next to the arms factory. The large family of the Sanaevs was very friendly, but Vsevolod did not study well at school and often stood outside the classroom door for all sorts of tricks, later receiving strong cuffs from his mother. Due to poor academic performance, Vsevolod's father Vasily Sanaev sent his son to work, and the boy became an employee of a harmonious factory. He quickly mastered the profession of a half-man, and by the age of 16 he himself had two students. Sanaev's duties were to collect the accordion and tune the instrument. At the same time, Vsevolod's acting abilities began to appear. When guests came to the Sanaevs on holidays, Vsevolod, in order to amuse the guests, easily parodied any of those present.

When the Moscow Art Theater came to Tula on tour, Sanaev saw the play "Uncle Vanya" by Chekhov, which made a deep impression on him. To try himself as an actor, he, together with his friend, worker Guriy Karneev, came to a rehearsal of the local amateur theater at the Hammer and Sickle club, where Sanaev was again impressed by the skill of the director of the harmonious factory Sinyavin to masterfully transform. Having become interested in the profession of an actor, Sanaev began to frequent club rehearsals, and when a theater studio opened in Tula, he tried to enter there, but was refused due to insufficient education. However, Vsevolod continued to try to get into the studio and asked: "I will do whatever is necessary, just take it!" Thanks to such perseverance, he was still taken to the studio. In the daytime he worked at a harmonious factory, and in the evening he went to the theater, where he was a stage worker, a noise-maker, an illuminator, and even played two small roles. But in order to play in real performances, it was necessary to study, and the actor of the Tula theater Kudashev became Sanaev's mentor, who helped Sanaev to prepare for exams in Moscow at the theater workers' faculty.

For his parents, Vsevolod's desire to become an actor was a surprise, and they decided that he simply did not want to work. “You will die, you will disappear under some Moscow fence,” they said. In order for the son to return as quickly as possible, the mother and father hid his winter coat and did not give money for the trip. But Sanaev did not return. For two years he studied at the workers' faculty, after which another year - at the theater technical school, on the course of Nikolai Plotnikov. He lived in a hostel on the Dog Ground, worked part-time at the station at night, unloading cars, and soon became a student at GITIS.

One of the first performances seen in Moscow was the Moscow Art Theater "At the Gates of the Kingdom" with the participation of Kachalov. Sanaev was shocked, and later said: “Only in this theater I want to serve, this is the only way a real actor should be. Or I'll come back to collect accordions, or I'll learn to play like they do. " In GITIS, the young actor was lucky. In addition to Plotnikov, acting skills were also taught to students on the course by Mikhail Tarkhanov, about whom Sanaev later said: “For us, he was a school of life's truth in art. He knew many secrets of acting, taught students how to handle your body and surrounding objects, how to pronounce words on stage in such a way that, even if you speak in a whisper, you will be heard and understood in the gallery. " Sometimes Vsevolod accompanied Tarkhanov home, and the teacher generously shared his thoughts about art with the student.

When Sanaev graduated from GITIS, the Moscow Art Theater announced a competition for young actors, at which Vsevolod read to the commission an excerpt from Gogol's story "How Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich quarreled." Out of seven hundred applicants, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko chose three GITIS graduates, among whom was Sanaev. Thus, he ended up in the theater he dreamed of. Young actors were not immediately recruited into the staff - they were considered "candidates" and were included only in the auxiliary cast of the troupe, and due to the large number of famous actors it was not easy for a newcomer to enter such a team. Nevertheless, Sanaev soon moved to the main team. There was a tradition in the Moscow Art Theater: on the first floor, “old people” - the “golden fund” of the theater, dressed and put on make-up, and the fourth floor was assigned to young people. Sanaev's "descent to fame" was swift: having played the role of Pikalov in "Lyubov Yarovaya" and Chepurin in Ostrovsky's play "Labor Bread", he descended from the fourth floor to the first floor within a year. Soon, on a tour of the theater in Kiev, he met a student of the philological faculty Lida. The Moscow Art Theater troupe performed in Kiev for only a month, but this time was enough for Sanaev to persuade the girl to marry him and leave for Moscow. In the future, they lived together all their lives.

Simultaneously with the beginning of work in the theater, Sanaev began to act in films, the film "Beloved Girl" directed by Ivan Pyriev became one of the first. Sanaev said that working with Pyryev was not easy. Once the light was exhibited in the pavilion for a long time, the young actors sitting at the scenery told each other anecdotes and the director did not like their laughter. Pyriev jumped up from his chair, shouted and chased the actors, brandishing a stick. Having caught up with them, Pyriev said, looking at Sanaev: "You will still be filming, but you will never!" Sanaev never saw his colleague again at Mosfilm.

In addition to "Girls with character" Vsevolod then starred in "Volga-Volga" and "Hearts of Four". But the beginning of Sanaev's successful creative career was interrupted by the war. And he, having said goodbye to his wife and his son, who was born by that time, went to the assembly point, but the conscripts were ordered to appear at their military registration and enlistment offices and await further instructions. At the same time, work began on campaign film collections for the front, and Sanaev left with a film crew to Borisoglebsk, to the Chkalov aviation school. But when the shooting ended, he failed to return to Moscow - German troops were on the outskirts of the capital, the entrance to the city was closed. The Moscow Art Theater was evacuated, and Sanaev's wife left for Alma-Ata, but Vsevolod did not know about it. He was offered to work at the Borisoglebsk Theater named after Chernyshevsky, which showed performances for soldiers twice a day. Theater actors played at train stations for those who went to war, and in hospitals for the wounded, as well as on the front lines. Sanaev believed that his place was in battle, but after each performance the actors were surrounded by fighters, thanked for their performance and promised to fight the enemy to the death. Once they played for snipers who came from their posts in white camouflage coats, and one of the fighters presented the actors with a small bouquet of snowdrops. This was a very expensive award for artists.

Meanwhile, in Alma-Ata, the first-born of the Sanayevs, Alyosha, fell ill with measles and diphtheria in a cold sports hall overcrowded with refugees. The two-year-old had a high fever, he was suffocating and consoled the crying mother: "Mommy, dear, don't cry, I'll get better." But the boy died, and after burying her son, Lida Sanaeva miraculously found her husband a few months later. Soon during the war, they had a daughter, whom they named Elena. The girl was very weak, with thin arms and legs. Vsevolod loved his daughter very much, when he came home, he always brought sugar to little Lena, but she grew up as a very sickly child, and Sanayev jokingly called his daughter "rotten". Later Elena Sanaeva said: “This is probably why my parents raised me with redoubled severity and love. That is, if I fell, my mother could still give me up for it. And to the question "why?" usually answered: "A curse inspires, and a blessing relaxes!"

After the war, the Sanayev family returned to Moscow and began to live in Bankovsky Lane, in a communal apartment, in a room with an area of ​​nine meters. Vsevolod worked hard to change it for a large apartment, but all family savings disappeared due to monetary reforms. Once, in the communal kitchen, Lida Sanaeva inadvertently told a joke, and the NKVD officers who appeared after the denunciation began to question the neighbors about the young woman. Lydia was very upset and for several months with a diagnosis of "persecution mania" ended up in a psychiatric hospital. Vsevolod Sanayev, who really wanted to protect his family from such situations, bought a separate apartment in a cooperative house in the mid-1950s, but by that time he himself had experienced a massive heart attack while filming the film "Diamonds". Vsevolod Sanaev and his wife Lida lived in this apartment until the end of their days.

His daughter Elena told about the post-war career of Vsevolod Sanaev: “Father did not sit without roles, but he could not move forward, and then it was almost impossible to act in films - they were very reluctant to let go of the theater. Once, returning home after a performance with the director of the Moscow Art Theater Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova, Vsevolod Sanayev told her that he had decided to leave the theater for the cinema. After a pause, she replied: “You are probably doing the right thing, Sevochka. As long as THEY are alive (she meant the luminaries of the Moscow Art Theater), they will not let you play. " The father did not regret his choice. He said about leaving the theater: “Leaving the Moscow Art Theater, friends, and the stage is, of course, not an easy task. But cinema attracted, and it was thought that more could be done in cinema. A soldier who does not dream of becoming a general is bad. " And then a very good offer from Mikhail Kalatozov just arrived - the role of the director of the state farm in the first virgin film. Kalatozov gathered wonderful young actors: Oleg Efremov, Izolda Izvitskaya, Nina Doroshina, Tatiana Doronina. The role was played, they started talking about Sanaev. By this time, his father starred with Pyriev, Gerasimov, Pudovkin. They became friends with the latter. “You are a born comedian,” he said more than once. Indeed, it is a bit of a pity that Vsevolod Sanaev hardly had a chance to play comedic roles. He joked absolutely amazingly, told anecdotes: he never laughed, only the devils played in the corners of their eyes, and he made a terrible laugh.

Sanaev also had a chance to play with Sergei Yutkevich in the film "Tales of Lenin" and with Leo Arnshtam in the film "Five Days, Five Nights", about the rescue of the Dresden Gallery by Soviet soldiers. From the Moscow Art Theater, he moved to the Theater of the Film Actor. When staging the play "Sophia Kovalevskaya" in this theater, Sanaev was involved in it, and the director Samson Samsonov had the idea to shoot "Optimistic Tragedy" with the participation of Boris Andreev, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Erast Garin and the Strizhenov brothers. Samsonov entrusted Sanaev to play the role of Siploi. The film was a great success as a result. The boys, seeing Sanaev, repeated the phrase of his hero: "Two times they had syphilis." At the Cannes Film Festival, the film won an award for the best embodiment of a revolutionary epic. Soviet actors always had a problem with clothes in case of solemn ceremonies, and Vsevolod Vasilyevich hardly found a fashionable suit to look decent during the presentation of the award. Elena Sanaeva said: “My father often told me:“ We, the Sanaevs, are talented people, you just believe in yourself, and the chance will come, be ready for it! ” I have memorized these words for the rest of my life. But, in fact, the roles that Sanaeva made to Sanaev came quite late and, undoubtedly, thanks to his loyalty to the profession, patience, courage, thoroughness inherent in the masters of their craft. "

In 1963, Vilen Azarov invited Sanaev to play the main role in the film It Happened in the Police. At first, the director believed that another actor should play the role of Seabiscuit, but there was no suitable candidate, and they began to try Sanaev. He was approved, but he replied: “Don't be upset. I am so tired after Optimistic that I’ll take the ballot now, and you’re looking for a replacement. ” But the management insisted on the beginning of filming, and the work began. Militia Major Sazonov turned out to be completely different from what the author intended for Sanaev. The actor created his own image of a hero - outwardly inconspicuous, restrained and modest.

In the 1960s, Vsevolod Sanayev became People's Artist of the RSFSR, and then the USSR, and critics started talking about him as a serious artist. Elena Sanaeva told about this period of her father's work: “Once a young director called him and asked him to star in his first work. It was Vasily Shukshin, and the film was called "Such a guy lives." "Whose script is it?" - asked the father. - "Mine too." “He removes himself, writes the script himself ...” - this did not inspire confidence, and Sanaev politely refused. “It's a pity,” said the young director. "I'll wait another time." Then my father saw Shukshin's brilliant debut, he himself found him at the studio and said: “Vasya, a wonderful picture! And I regret that I refused to be filmed with you. If there is something, even an episode, I will gladly go! " So Vsevolod Sanayev became an actor of Shukshin and starred in three of his films: "Your Son and Brother", "Strange People", "Stove Benches". For the painting "Your Son and Brother" they received the State Prize of the Vasiliev brothers. The role of Ermolai Voevodin was Sanaev's favorite. Shukshin was going to make a film about Stepan Razin. Sat down for the script. Having met Sanaev, he said: “Vasilich, we will work. I am writing a good role for you. " The death of Shukshin - not just a director, but a friend and like-minded person - was a huge loss for his father. He did not experience greater grief since the death of his son Alyosha. "

Having played Colonel Zorin in the film directed by Bobrovsky and Ladynin, Sanaev became an honored worker of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was invited to all celebrations, people believed in the decency, reliability and professionalism of his hero. Elena Sanaeva said: “But my father never praised himself, I never heard from him, as from many other representatives of our profession:“ Well, I gave! Well played! " Sometimes you ask him: "Dad, how are you?" - “Nothing, Lel. Fine".

Vsevolod Sanaev was the secretary of the Union of Cinematographers for fifteen years and was responsible for the household section. He was in charge of issuing vouchers, referrals to hospitals, funerals and receiving apartments. Elena Sanaeva said: "Phone calls have been pestering him since 8 am, some hysterical voice yelling:" You gave a ticket to actress N, and my sister went instead! " To which he calmly replied: "What do you want me to stand at the station and check who is traveling on the voucher?" My father never refused to help anyone, and he himself never complained: “I'm fine. Everything is enough for me. " The wife grumbled all the time: "Well, that's right, some secretaries go to London, Paris, and you plug all the holes." And he did not rush to go there. Fishing is another matter. Leonid Derbenev, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov were welcome comrades in this occupation. As Nikolai Afanasyevich told him: “Old man, now, when they offer me a role, I ask: is there fishing? If I am yours, if not, I refuse. " When the USSR collapsed, many threw away party cards. The father did not throw out: “I have nothing to be ashamed of. I haven't been upstairs. And in his place he helped whom he could. In the last years of his life, his father was often recognized on the street, approached him, shook hands or simply smiled with the invariable words: “How we love you, how we believe you! You just live, live longer. " And then he told me: "Lel, of course, we have spent cartridges, but still it's nice that people treat this way." And he smiled into his mustache. "

Critics throughout the creative career of Vsevolod Vasilyevich noted the absence of falsity and the reliability of his game. In turn, the audience especially remembered the work of Sanaev in the last period of his life - in the films Forgotten Melody for the Flute, Shirley-Myrli and especially in the film White Dew, in which he created an inimitable acting duet together with Boris Novikov. Elena Sanaeva said: “My father had a tattoo on his arm, made in his youth - an anchor. Before the performance or filming, he covered her thickly with makeup. Now I think that she, despite the fact that my father later tried to bring her together, was very symbolic. After all, Vsevolod Sanaev is an anchor man - a reliable, golden man. "

Vsevolod Sanayev died on January 27, 1996 from lung cancer and was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

His daughter, Elena Sanaeva, became an actress and married actor and film director Rolan Bykov. Vsevolod Sanaev's grandson, Pavel Sanaev, became a screenwriter and film director.

Leonid Filatov prepared a program about Vsevolod Sanaev from the series “To be remembered”.

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The text was prepared by Andrey Goncharov

Used materials:

Site materials www.peoples.ru
Site materials www.rusakters.ru
Memories of Elena Sanaeva

Filmography:

1938 "Volga-Volga", role: bearded lumberjack / beardless "symphonic" musician
1938 "If tomorrow is war", role: a competent fighter
1939 "Girl with character", the role of Surkov, police lieutenant
1940 "Beloved Girl", the main role: Vasily Dobryakov, a multi-tool turner
1941 "The first printer Ivan Fyodorov", role: Pyotr Timofeev, assistant to Ivan Fyodorov
1941 "Hearts of Four", the role of the Red Army soldier Eremeev
1941 "First Horse", the role of Kulik, chief of artillery of the army
1944 "Ivan Nikulin - Russian sailor", role: Alyokha Lushnikov, Alexey Mitrofanovich, machinist
1946 "In the mountains of Yugoslavia", the role of Alexei Gubanov
1947 "Diamonds", role: geologist Sergei Nesterov
1948 "Young Guard", role: underground communist
1948 "Pages of Life", role: radio announcer
1949 "The Fall of Berlin" Role: Orator
1949 "They Have a Homeland", the role of Vsevolod Sorokin, major
1950 "Zhukovsky", episode
1951 "Rural doctor", the role of Nikolai Petrovich Korotkov
1951 "In the steppe" (short), role: Tuzhikov, secretary of the district committee
1951 "Taras Shevchenko", episode
1951 "Przhevalsky", role: archpriest
1951 "Unforgettable 1919", the role of Boris Viktorovich Savenkov
1953 "The Return of Vasily Bortnikov", role: Kantaurov, director of MTS
1953 "Hostile Whirlwinds", episode
1953 "Lawlessness" (short), role: Ermolai, the janitor
1954 "True Friends", the role of a builder at a reception at Nehoda
1955 "Ways and Destinies" episode
1955 "First Echelon", the role of Alexei Yegorovich Dontsov, director of the state farm
1956 "Different Fates", the role of Vladimir Sergeevich Zhukov, party organizer of the Central Committee
1956 "Polyushko-pole", the role of MTS director Nikolay Kholin
1957 "Tales of Lenin", role: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Emelyanov, worker from Razliv
1957 "Storm"
1957 "Swallow", the role of Melgunov, Colonel
1957 "Pages of the Past", the role of Skvortsov, a police agent
1958 "Another Flight" episode
1958 "On the roads of war", role: Ivan Fedorovich Uvarov, sergeant, party organizer
1959 "Unpaid Debt", the role of Alexey Okunchikov
1959 "Song of Koltsov", role: Koltsov's father
1959 "People, too" (short), role: an elderly soldier
1959 "In the silence of the steppe", the role of Fyodor Vetrov
1959 "Ballad of a Soldier" episode
1960 "Thrice Resurrected", the role of Ivan Alexandrovich Starodub, head of the construction of the hydroelectric power station
1960 "First Date" episode
1960 "Five Days, Five Nights" | Five Days, Five Nights (USSR, GDR), role: foreman Efim Kozlov
1961 "On the way" (short), role: old man, uncle Olya
1961 "Adult children", role: Vasily Vasilievich, family friend
1963 "Optimistic Tragedy", the main role: Husky
1963 "It happened in the police", the main role: Major of the police Sazonov Nikolai Vasilievich
1963 "Meeting at the Crossing" (short), role: collective farm chairman
1964 "Big ore", the role of Matsuev
1964 "Green Light", role: pensioner
1964 "Lark", the role of a German officer
1965 "The First Day of Freedom" | First Day of Freedom, The | Pierwszy dzien wolnosci (Poland)
1965 "Your Son and Brother", the main role: Ermolai Voevodin, father of four sons
1965 "Roll Call", role: Varentsov
1966 "Trapped", the role of Kovacs
1967 "Moscow is behind us", role: General Panfilov
1967 "Not a day without adventure", role: Danilyuk
1967 "For Boredom", the main role: Gomozov
1968 "Shooting Shells" (short), main role: father
1968, 1970, 1971 "Liberation", the role of Lieutenant Colonel Lukin
1969 "The main witness", the role of Dude
1969 "Strange People" (film almanac), main role: Matvey Ryazantsev, short story "Duma"
1969 "I am his bride", the role of Mitrokhin
1970 "The Return of" St. Luke ", the main role: Zorin Ivan Sergeevich, Colonel
1970 "Kremlin chimes", role: worker
1970 The Stolen Train | Otkradnatiyat vlak (Bulgaria, USSR), role: General Ivan Vasilievich
1971 "Nyurkina's Life", the main role: Boris Gavrilovich, Nyura's flatmate
1972 "Not a day without adventure", the role of grandfather Danilyuk
1972 "Stove-benches", role: Stepanov Sergey Fedorovich, professor-linguist from Moscow
1973 "Here is our home", role: Pluzhin Alexander Evgenievich, director of the plant
1973 "The Black Prince", the main role: Ivan Sergeevich Zorin, Colonel
1975 "There, Beyond the Horizon", Role: Vikenty Kirillovich
1976 "... And other officials", role: Oleg Maksimovich Astakhov
1976 "Moscow Time", the main role: Nazar Lukich Grigorenko
1976 "Well, audience!" (TV play)
1978 "Colonel Zorin's version", the main role: Ivan Sergeevich Zorin, police colonel
1978 "My love, my sorrow" (USSR, Turkey), role: Farhad's father
1978 "Close Distance", the role of Andrei Zakharovich Pogodin
1979 "Profession - Film Actor" (documentary) Role: cameo
1979 "A month of long days" (TV show)
1980 "Tehran-43", the role of Inkeper, the owner of the tavern
1980 "Uninvited friend", role: Vladimir Abdullaevich Shlepyanov
1981 "From winter to winter", role: Andrei Trofimovich, minister
1981 "From Evening to Noon", the main role: writer Andrei Konstantinovich Zharkov
1982 "Hope and Support", role: Kirill Lvovich Rotov
1982 "Private Life" episode
1983 "White Dew", the main role: Fedos Khodas, Fedor Filimonovich, honorary veteran of labor, front-line soldier of three wars
1983 "The Mystery of the Blackbirds" Role: George Fortescue
1984 "Dead Souls", the role of Ivan Grigorievich, Chairman of the Chamber
1986 "The first guy", the role of the director of the state farm
1986 "Into the Thaws", the role of Strogoff
1987 "Appeal", role: Mironov Ivan Stepanovich, chairman of the state farm
1987 "Forgotten melody for flute", role: Yaroslav Stepanovich
1993 "Tragedy of the Century", the role of Lukin
1995 "Shirley-Myrley", role: music lover