People's Artist of the USSR Rostislav Yankovsky, an older brother, died at the age of 86.

In Minsk, at the age of 87, an artist of the National Academic Drama Theater named after I. Maxim Gorky, People's Artist of the USSR Rostislav Yankovsky.

This was reported by the press service of the theater.

"His death is a grievous and irreparable loss for his family, for friends and for millions of fans of his talent, a huge loss for the art to which he devoted his whole life," the message says.

The head of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky expressed his condolences to the family, friends and fans of the deceased, noting the talent and skill of the actor. The minister called the death of the last of the Yankovsky brothers a loss for the inhabitants of the entire post-Soviet space.

"Each of his roles was a real event," Medinsky said.

A civil funeral service and a farewell ceremony will take place at big stage National Academic Drama Theater named after Gorky in Minsk on June 28 at 10:00.

Biography of Rostislav Yankovsky:

Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky was born on February 5, 1930 in Odessa in the family of a hereditary nobleman, former staff captain of the Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment.

Rostislav is the eldest of the three Yankovsky brothers. The middle brother Nikolai passed away last year. And the actor Oleg Yankovsky, who was the youngest of the brothers, died in May 2009.

Wife - Nina Cheishvili. Children: son - Igor (born 1951), actor; son - Vladimir (born 1960), actor and director. Nephew - Philip Yankovsky (born 1968), actor and director.

The Yankovsky family has Belarusian and Polish roots. In the 1930s, my father was repressed and arrested twice. After his return, the family moved from Odessa to Rybinsk. During the war, they lived in Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan), then in Leninabad (Chkalovsk, Tajikistan), where my father worked in construction.

While studying at school, Rostislav studied in a circle amateur performances, played comedic roles. Then he started boxing and became the Champion of Tajikistan among youths.

After graduating from school, he got married, worked as a dispatcher at a motor depot in Leninabad, continued to participate in the amateur performances of the Palace of Culture, where he was noticed by the head of the local theater D.M. Likhovetsky and offered to work in the theater. At first, Rostislav refused, because there was no education, but he was told: "You will work and study, we have teachers." And so it happened: Rostislav studied in the studio at the theater and was busy in the theater performances: "Makar Dubrava" by A. Ye. Korneichuk, "The Last" by M. Gorky.

In 1951 he graduated from the Theater Studio at the Leninabad Drama Theater, until 1957 he worked in this theater.

In 1957, together with his wife Nina and son Igor, he moved to Minsk, was accepted as an actor in the State Russian Drama Theater of the Byelorussian SSR. M. Gorky (now the National Academic Drama Theater named after M. Gorky), where he served until the end of his life.

From 1995 to 2010 - Chairman of the International Film Festival of the CIS and Baltic countries "Listapad" in Minsk.

Secretary of the Board (1988-1998), member of the Rada and the Presidium (since 1998) of the Union of Theater Workers of Belarus.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR (1985-1990).

Since 2000 - member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus.

Member International Academy theater at the Russian charitable public fund for assistance to theater and television "Masks" (2001).

In 2006, the publishing house "Mastatskaya Literatura" published a book by T. Orlova and A. Karelin from the series "Life wonderful people Belarus "-" Rostislav Yankovsky. Artist".

Rostislav Yankovsky is dedicated to the BT TV documentary "Monologue with digressions" (1987, directed by L. Gedravichus), and the BVTs video "On the anniversary - a day off" (1990, directed by B. Berzner).

Rostislav Yankovsky in the film "Two Comrades Served"

Rostislav Yankovsky in the movie "The Sea on Fire"

Rostislav Yankovsky in the film "Battle for Moscow"

Rostislav Yankovsky in the film "In June 41st"

Filmography of Rostislav Yankovsky:

1958 - Red Leaves - Victor
1968 - Quarantine - Member of the Commission of Inquiry
1968 - Two comrades served - Vasilchikov
1969 - I, Francisk Skorina ... - Ivan Skorina
1969 - Waterloo - Flachau
1970 - Peace to huts - war to palaces - Pyatakov
1970 - The sea is on fire
1970-1972 - Ruins shoot ... - commander of the partisan detachment
1971 - All the King's Men - Theodore
1971 - Rudobel Republic - episode
1972 - Land on Demand - Aguirre
1973 - Dagger - school director
1974 - Flame - Member of the Headquarters
1975 - Wolf Pack- Chief of Staff of the Partisan Detachment
1975 - Reliable person - Sergei Sergeevich
1975 - Olga Sergeevna - writer
1978 - Meeting at the end of winter - Semyon Petrovich, editor
1979 - Problem with three unknowns - Belov
1980 - Atlantes and Caryatids - Arseny Nikolaevich Lazyevich
1980 - Big conversation - Fyodor Pavlovich
1982 - Take Alive - Doctor
1982 - Department - Flyagin
1983 - The Tale of the Star Boy - Master of the Constellation
1983 - The Last Argument of Kings - Scott
1983 - Acceleration
1984 - Time and Family Conway - Gerald Thornton twenty years later
1984 - The Brazen Angel - Leuven
1984 - State border... film "Red Sand" - Lukin, Colonel
1984 - Cancan in the English Park - Daniel Roebuck (Torchinsky)
1984 - The Limit of the Possible - Lyubomir Sergeevich Samarin
1985 - Battle of Moscow - Smirnov, Major General
1985 - Volodya the big, Volodya small - Yagich
1985 - Jump
1986 - Race of the Century - Stanley Best
1986 - Dolphin Cry - Minister
1986 - Do not forget to turn off the TV - Mikhail Mikhailovich
1987 - Saber without scabbard
1990 - The Man from the Black Volga - Deputy Minister
1990 - Eternal husband - Fedosey Petrovich
1990 - Adam's Rib - Viktor Vitalievich, 1st husband of Nina Elizarovna, father of Lida
1991 - You yourself are burning to me with insane passion - Vladimir Frantsevich
1991 - Forgive us, stepmother Russia - Steblin
1991 - Ghost - Konstantin Grigorievich
1991 - The sin of acting (film-play) - Vladimir Frantsevich
1992 - Sunny Day at the End of Summer - Professor
1996 - To love in Russian 2 - Yaroshevich
1997 - Friend of the deceased - Igor Lvovich
1998 - Cursed cozy house - Anthony Brynitsky
1998 - To love in Russian 3: Governor - Yaroshevich
1999 - Directory of Death (short story "Parrot") - neighbor, retired / elderly husband
2000 - Anomaly - General
2002 - Law - Nikolay Sklyar
2005 - State Councilor - Khrapov
2007 - Before Sunset (film-play) - Matthias Clausen
2008 - In June 41st - Wojciech Belsky
2010 - Revenge - Runners

Last Sunday, June 26, he died in Minsk at the age of 87 National artist USSR, theater and film actor Rostislav Yankovsky. The death of the artist is reported on the website of the National Academic Drama Theater. Gorky in Minsk, where the actor served.

The civil funeral service will take place today, June 28, on the big stage of the theater. “His death is a grievous and irreparable loss for his family, for friends and for millions of admirers of his talent, a huge loss for the Art, to which he devoted his whole life. Great actor He will always live in roles brilliantly played by him, and a kind and sincere, open and bright, unique, courageous person will forever remain in the hearts of relatives and friends, in the memory of millions of people for whom he was, is and will be an idol, ”says in a statement published on the theater's website.

Rostisla Yankovsky is the eldest of the three Yankovsky brothers. The middle brother, Nikolai, died in 2015 in Saratov, in a coma after a stroke. The younger brother, Oleg, died in May 2009 after battling pancreatic cancer.

Rostislav Yankovsky was born on February 5, 1930. He has more than 160 leading roles on the theatrical stage and more than 50 film roles, in particular in such films as "Two Comrades Served", "All the King's Men", "Dagger", "The Tale of the Star Boy".

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Rostislav Yankovsky was born on February 5, 1930 in Odessa. The "roots" of the Yankovskys are Belarusian, which, by the way, is evidenced by the surname itself, founded on behalf of Yan, Yanka. Yes, and the founder of the clan was originally Yan Yankovsky, it later became Ivan in Russia. Guards officer, staff captain of the Semenovsky Life Guards regiment, Ivan Yankovsky, had to serve in the Red Army, along with Tukhachevsky ...

And, nevertheless, despite faithful service in the Red Army, in Soviet time Ivan Yankovsky was nevertheless repressed. And the family of the "enemy of the people" lived with him in many cities and villages. After the second arrest, the family moved to a village near Rybinsk. The city was famous for its huge "zone". What people were sitting there at that time: actors, musicians, poets! And what concerts were given by my father's friends, "free settlers"!

It was in this intelligent, highly educated family that Rostislav Yankovsky grew up. True, he did not particularly appreciate school as a temple of science, therefore he did not particularly remember his school years... After school, the boy always hurried home. He was not very sociable at all. I preferred such childish loneliness. The guy read a lot, pondered, and fantasies were born in his soul, filling his soul with a deep inner meaning ...

But playing in various drama circles was, perhaps, the only outlet among the school routine. Then, during the war, the young man was drawn to play, to portray something unexpected, bright. In school amateur performances, he was always entrusted with the main, responsible roles. Parents, who themselves loved theater, art, music, always supported their son's hobby. And then they continued to help him, and were the first advisers. So the appearance on the stage of Rostislav Yankovsky, perhaps, was prepared by his whole life.

In Leninabad, having already married and working as a dispatcher at a motor depot, Rostislav Yankovsky continued to take an active part in the amateur performances of the Palace of Culture. It was there that the talented young man was noticed by the head of the local theater Dmitry Mikhailovich Likhovetsky and immediately offered to work in the theater.

At first, Rostislav Yankovsky studied in a studio at the theater and was busy in performances. At first, of course, there were several small episodes, then - the play by Korneichuk "Makar Dubrava", and after that he played Peter in "The Last" by Gorky.

Having moved to Minsk with his wife Nina and son Igor in 1957, Rostislav Yankovsky was accepted into the troupe of the Gorky Russian Drama Theater and became a stage star in his youth. Here his most famous classical roles were played: Macbeth, Arbenin, Anthony, Vershinin.

More than once the famous actor of the Belarusian stage was lured to the best theaters in Moscow and Leningrad, but he refused every time: “Well, as Belarus accepted and loved me, probably no country can. In Minsk, the Lord helped me, my acting fate was good, I played many roles. I love this theater, and he loves me! " Rostislav Yankovsky is a knight of the Minsk theater! And being the permanent president of the Listapad international film festival, Rostislav Ivanovich never canceled a single performance with his participation, even on the opening day of the film forum!

For Rostislav Ivanovich, the assessment of his no less famous younger brother Oleg Yankovsky has always been very important. And when, at the Vakhtangov Theater, Yankovsky, the elder, had a chance to play in Hauptmann's play "Before Sunset" the role with which Astangov himself shone in the old days, he was very worried. But Yankovsky, the younger, highly, though a little briefly, appreciated his play: “You don't play anything. You live the role from start to finish. "

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Rostislav Yankovsky's debut in cinema took place at the Belarusfilm studio in the historical-revolutionary adventure film Red Leaves. Director Vladimir Korsh-Sablin invited then rising star Minsk theatrical stage for the role of one of the young rebels along with famous actors: Mikhail Zharov, Clara Luchko, Evgeny Karnaukhov, Vladimir Chobur, Vladimir Dedyushko.

Rostislav Yankovsky began to comprehend the real cinematic life with the role of a serious-minded Red Army soldier Vasilchikov in a film about Civil War"Two comrades served" by Evgeny Karelov. In this film, the Yankovsky brothers starred together for the first time. The younger Oleg Yankovsky played a role in the film former photographer- soldier Andrey Nekrasov. Then, however, more than once cinematic fate brought them together on the same set.

In the historical and biographical film “I, Francysk Skaryna ...” directed by Boris Stepanov, the Yankovsky brothers created romantic images of other brothers who lived in the first half of the 16th century. Rostislav brilliantly played Ivan Skorina, and Oleg looked just as successfully in the role of the Belarusian publisher and educator Francysk Skorina.

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70s - 80s - the heyday of creativity Rostislav Yankovsky. Possessing an innate aristocracy and charm (which, in fact, is inherent in all Yankovsky), the actor created a whole gallery of memorable images. The actor's ability to fit easily into a variety of artistic worlds allowed him to be in demand by a wide variety of directors in films of various genres.

Among his heroes: Aguirre in Veniamin Dorman's adventure film "Land on Demand", editor Semyon Petrovich in Joseph Shulman's drama "Meeting at the End of Winter", Colonel Anton Georgievich Belov in Boris Shadursky's detective story "A Problem with Three Unknowns", Professor Flyagin in the film Ivana Kiasashvili "Department", Master of the constellation in "The Tale of the Star Boy" by Leonid Nechaev, disabled war, book lover Mikhail Mikhailovich in the children's comedy by Nikolai Lukyanov "Do not forget to turn off the TV ...".

Yankovsky looked organically both in pictures on military themes (chief of staff of a partisan detachment in Boris Stepanov's war film "Wolf Pack" and strong-willed clever Major General Smirnov in "Battle for Moscow" by Yuri Ozerov), and in film adaptations of the works of Russian classics (drama by Vyacheslav Krishtofovich Volodya the big, Volodya the little ", based on the stories of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, or one of the best screen versions of Dostoevsky - the drama" Eternal Husband "by Evgeny Markovsky).

Among the most notable films with the participation of Rostislav Yankovsky in the early 90s are: Vyacheslav Krishtofovich's tragicomedy "Adam's Rib" (where the actor created the image of a successful lawyer Viktor Vitalievich) and an ironic fantasy from the backstage life of theatrical bohemia based on plays by Durenmatt and Anuy "The Sin of Acting." V latest actor shines with a stormy play of colors in starring in partnership with gorgeous Anastasia Malankina.

Yankovsky did not just play roles, he really "lived on the screen." This talent of the actor was clearly manifested in the melodrama "Sunny Day at the End of Summer", which tells about an unexpected and inappropriate feeling that arose between two already completely mature people, each living his own life, and in the movie parable "Anomaly", based on Clifford Simak's story "All Living Is Grass."

Rostislav Yankovsky also starred in two films of Yevgeny Matveev's famous trilogy "To love in Russian - 2", playing the role of a vain in pursuit of the benefits and career of Yaroshevich. As Rostislav Ivanovich himself admitted, he simply could not deny himself the pleasure of acting alongside such masters of Russian cinema as Yevgeny Matveev, Galina Polskikh, Larisa Udovichenko, Viktor Rakov.

V last years Rostislav Ivanovich rarely, but still appears on the screen, delighting fans of his talent with his new works. One of these roles is the Polish farmer Wojciech Bielski in the war film "In June 1941".

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The "clan" of the Yankovskys is a separate page in the national cinema. Native brother Rostislav Ivanovich - Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky during his lifetime became a sex symbol, the idol of millions of viewers. He acted in films until his very last days. The children of the Yankovskys also took place. The son of Rostislav Ivanovich - Igor Yankovsky, having filmed a movie in his youth, later found himself in the advertising business. And the son of Oleg Ivanovich, Philip Yankovsky, is a successful film director and actor. And already the third generation of the famous surname - Ivan Yankovsky, who loudly declared himself a role in the film "Indigo".

Of the year ( died) - , .

The Yankovsky family has Belarusian and Polish roots.

In the 1930s, my father was repressed and arrested twice. After his return, the family moved from Odessa to Rybinsk. During the war, they lived in Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan), then in Leninabad (Chkalovsk, Tajikistan), where my father worked in construction.

While studying at school, he was engaged in an amateur art circle, played comedy roles. Then he started boxing and became the champion of Tajikistan among youths. After graduating from school, he got married, worked as a dispatcher at a motor depot in Leninabad, continued to participate in the amateur performances of the Palace of Culture, where he was noticed by the head of the local theater D.M. Likhovetsky and offered to work in the theater. At first, Rostislav refused, because there was no education, but he was told: "You will work and study, we have teachers." And so it happened: he studied in a studio at the theater and was busy in the theater performances: "Makar Dubrava" by A. E. Korneichuk, "The Last" by M. Gorky.

In 1951 he graduated from the drama school at the Leninabad Drama Theater, until 1957 he worked in this theater.

In 1957, together with his wife Nina and son Igor, he moved to Minsk, was accepted as an actor in the State Russian Drama Theater of the Byelorussian SSR. M. Gorky (now the National Academic Drama Theater named after M. Gorky), where he served until the end of his life.

From 1995 to 2010 - Chairman of the International Film Festival of the CIS and Baltic countries "Listapad" in Minsk.

Secretary of the Board (1988-1998), member of the Rada and the Presidium (since 1998) of the Union of Theater Workers of Belarus.

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR (1985-1990). Since 2000 - member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus.

Member of the International Theater Academy at the Russian charitable public fund for assistance to theater and television "Masks" (2001).

In 2006, the publishing house "Mastatskaya Literatura" published a book by T. Orlova and A. Karelin from the series "The Life of Wonderful People of Belarus" - "Rostislav Yankovsky. Artist". The documentary TV film “Monologue with digressions” (1987, directed by L. Gedravichus) and the video film “On the anniversary - a day off” (1990, directed by B. Berzner) are dedicated to Rostislav Yankovsky.

Rostislav Yankovsky Personal life

Brother - Nikolai Yankovsky (1941-2015), Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR, worked in the municipal theater of plastic drama, since 2002 - deputy director of the Teremok puppet theater in Saratov.

Family: the Yankovsky clan

Old things are like a departing nature ... I remember the first time I brought my fiancée, Lyudmila Zorina, into a communal room, to introduce her to her family. And all that's left of past life, all these darned napkins, surviving forks ... You can guess how it looked. But everything was served. And my wife still remembers this evening. This memory is important to both of us. And it is very important that the family remains a family. So that everyone would get together, at least for dinner, at least at the dacha. I managed to insist on it.

For me, more than creativity, stronger, closer - family, hearth, son, grandchildren. Another question is that I am lucky, my family, and in particular my spouse, helps me to succeed in my profession. And I would be very unhappy if the opportunity to do what I love was taken away from me. But relatives are still more important ... Today I constantly feel my family behind my back: son, grandson, granddaughter ...

My wife, Lyudmila Zorina, is very wise woman... She did a lot to make our union happy. I also put a lot of effort into this. When we got married and worked together at the Saratov Theater, I long time was called "Zorina's husband". She was a heroine and I was a fledgling actor. But at some point, Lyudmila began to be called "Yankovsky's wife" ... It is sometimes very difficult for a family to go through such turns of fate without loss. There were not always times when Lyudmila was quite in demand in the profession, and it was hard for both of us, it was even difficult to talk and look into each other's eyes. But we did it.

Probably, if not for our profession, we would have had more children. But in the Saratov theater, they put out seven performances a year. And my wife was busy, if not in each, then after one ... And our son turned out to be good. And everyone told us: why is he alone with you? And then we moved to Moscow, and I began to act in films a lot. Today on the plane, tomorrow on the train. This is the acting profession: if you missed a chance today, nothing will happen tomorrow. You can't say, "Let's take a break." Alas, you have to pay for everything in life ... I am grateful to Philip and Oksana for allowing themselves such a wonderful luxury and giving us happiness by having two children - a boy and a girl.

To relive a novel on stage, and then to experience it, and in my life, of course, it happened to me. The actor should be amorous, it helps, his eyes should always burn. But my wife had enough wisdom to understand this feature of the profession, and I always had enough stock of love for my family.

My son, at the age of five, starred in Tarkovsky's "Mirror". Recently I watched the film - I cried. He exists there so wonderfully. Andrei, I remember, kept asking me: "Listen, does he understand anything?" I said, "Well, let's check it out." And Philip did everything exactly, in the top ten.

Some secrets of the acting profession were declassified for Philip in the family. And of course, like everyone acting child, he spent a lot of time behind the scenes. And when he grew up, I took him to the theater for a performance. Coming out, he said: "Dad, thank you, I will never go to the theater again." The performance must have been bad. But when Philip grew up, he still wanted to study directing at VGIK, and I supported him in every possible way. Now he has his own studio, he shoots videos, advertisements, plays, he himself, as a director, made several interesting films. Looks very good, somehow matured. His facial structure is very interesting. The father cannot be objective, but we have no other such person in the cinema today.

Fortunately, my son did not fall under the spell of any movement. The only stressful moment for me was when the avalanche of freedom hit his generation. They had a company: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Stepan Mikhalkov, Yegor Konchalovsky ... They were clip-makers, communication mostly happened at night, a kind of night club life... But it passed quickly.

I can't say that Philip and I see each other very often. He is an adult, he has his own circle, I have mine, but spiritually we are close.

And my grandson Ivan starred in my film "Come to see me." Before that, even Philip did not shoot him, so this is Vanin's film debut. But there were no indulgences on the site. Ivan was only slightly frightened at first, and then - as befits - behaved professionally on the site. His role was small - such an angel, because of whom the whole story happened. Whether the grandson will be an actor, I don't know, but he has the data for this: rich imagination, emotionality ... Genetics, I guess.

I repeat: I really appreciate the very concept of a family, it is sacred to me. Our mother and father, and my brothers with their spouses, and God grant the son long happiness with his wife, have lived with us a long married life. I have a beloved grandson and granddaughter. Such values ​​are not scattered around.

Our parents have three sons. Once everyone was scattered, the father was repressed ... Therefore, now we especially value those minutes when we get together. The spirit of the family is deep within us. Today the Yankovskys are really a real clan, in the best, domestic sense of the word ...

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On February 23, 1944, Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky was born, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, film director, the most famous representative acting dynasty of the Jankowski. In addition to Oleg, two older brothers grew up in the family: Rostislav (Soviet Belarusian theater and film actor) and Nikolai (who worked as deputy director of the Teremok puppet theater in Saratov).

The future actor was born in Kazakhstan in the city of Dzhezkazgan, where his father, a former tsarist officer and nobleman, was in exile.

The Yankovskys are a fairly large noble family with Polish and Belarusian roots. The actor's father Yan Pavlovich Yankovsky (later the name Ivan was fixed) was born in Warsaw, and had a family estate near Vitebsk. During the First World War, he served with the rank of staff captain in the Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment. Co-worker and friend of Jan Yankovsky was the future red marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky. During the famous Brusilov breakthrough, Yan Yankovsky was seriously wounded, and was awarded the Order of St. George for his bravery. After the revolution, Yankovsky served in the Red Army under the command of his former colleague Tukhachevsky. Subsequently, this close acquaintance with the disgraced marshal has repeatedly "echoed" for the Yankovsky family.

- He was a very noble man, of amazing beauty - both external and internal. He sang beautifully and recited poetry, in the evenings he read novels aloud. Therefore, the inner artistry, acting genes, in my opinion, we have from our father,- later recalled Rostislav Yankovsky.

Not much is known about the family of Marina Ivanovna, the mother of Oleg Yankovsky. Perhaps because her father, a general and a hero of the defense of Port Arthur, fought on the side of the whites, and the Yankovskys tried not to advertise this fact. The troubles caused by their acquaintance with Tukhachevsky were quite enough for them. But once Oleg Yankovsky mentioned that his maternal grandmother in childhood was closely acquainted with Volodya Ulyanov.

- Actually, when Lenin was little, he was friends with my grandmother. And my great-grandfather, her father, went abroad and once brought her a doll with closing eyes. And so Volodenka still wanted to pick out her eyes to find out why they were closing,- Oleg Ivanovich admitted in an interview with the edition http://www.aif.ru.

The first son, Rostislav, was born in the Yankovsky family in Odessa on February 5, 1930. However, the father was soon arrested. First-born Maria Ivanovna had to lift herself. In 1936, Ivan Pavlovich was released, but a year later he was arrested again. However, this time he was released much faster. In 1941, a month after the beginning of the Great patriotic war the second son, Nikolai, was born in the family. During the war, Ivan Pavlovich worked in the rear: first at the smelting plant in Dzhezkazgan, and then, after Oleg was born, at the secret plant in Leninabad, where uranium was mined.

As Nikolai Yankovsky (middle son) admitted, after the birth of two sons, my mother really wanted a daughter, but Oleg was born. In the Yankovskys family archive, a photograph has been preserved where Marina Ivanovna even tied a bow to her youngest son. Oleg, born when his father was already at a very respectable age, was the favorite of the whole family. And although they lived very poorly and often from hand to mouth, they tried to support the younger and, if possible, pamper.

After the war, when it was difficult with qualified personnel in the country due to huge human losses, Ivan Pavlovich, remembering his military past, was involved in the training of reserve officers. In 1951 the family moved to Saratov. But by this time Ivan Pavlovich Yankovsky was already seriously ill: the years spent in prison, old injury and age affected. He died in 1953.

The eldest son of the Yankovskys, Rostislav, by this time had already graduated from the drama school at the Leninabad Drama Theater and worked in the same theater. And Oleg with Nikolai, mother and grandmother first huddled with relatives in Saratov, and then received a 15-meter room in which they all lived together. “But even under such conditions, my grandmother tried to talk to us in French,” Nikolai Ivanovich Yankovsky said later. To support her family, Maria Ivanovna learned to be an accountant. The middle son, Nikolai, while still at school, also began to earn money, at the same time studying in the factory theater group. However, the family's financial situation remained deplorable.

In 1957, Rostislav Yankovsky (who by this time had already managed to get married), together with his wife Nina and son Igor, moved to Minsk. He was adopted by the National Academic Drama Theater named after. M. Gorky, where he worked until the end of his life. To save the mother from material worries (there was only one breadwinner left in the family - Nikolai), a year later Rostislav took 14-year-old Oleg to his place, although he himself had nowhere to live with his family.

- My wife Nina and I arrived in Saratov and were simply horrified to see how poorly they live. The house was located almost in the center of the city, they slept on the floor, the toilet was located on the street. And Nina says to me: "Let's take Oleg to us." Mom, however, did not want to tear the child away, by that time he had already finished the 7th grade ... We took him away, although there was nowhere to live. We lived then in the dressing room, - told later about this period Rostislav Yankovsky.

At this time, Oleg Yankovsky was fond of football and that's it. free time"Drove the ball". As a result, he practically completely abandoned his studies and his older brother had to put a lot of effort into directing Oleg to the "true path." Despite the fact that Oleg showed great promise on the football field, Rostislav forbade him to disappear in training and ordered him to concentrate on his studies. By the way, it was in Minsk that Oleg Yankovsky first appeared on the stage in the episodic role of the boy Edik in the play "The Drummer". But he was not going to become an actor. After returning to his mother in Saratov, where he finished 10th grade, Oleg Yankovsky was going to apply to the medical institute. But it was Rostislav Yankovsky, who considered acting talent in his younger brother, who convinced him to enter Theatre Institute... Oleg decided to try to enter the Saratov Theater School. To inquire about the rules of admission, he came to admissions committee and calling his last name "Yankovsky", he heard in response - "You are accepted." It turns out that by this time Nikolai Yankovsky, Oleg's middle brother, had successfully passed the exams at the same school. But since he loved Oleg very much, he decided not to disappoint him and hid that it was he who was accepted to study, and not Oleg.

So Oleg Yankovsky became a student at the Saratov Theater School. And in his second year he met a third-year student Lyudmila Zorina, who soon became his wife. In 1968, Oleg and Lyudmila had a son, Philip, who also followed in the footsteps of his parents. He became famous actor and a filmmaker who shot several famous films, including "The State Councilor" based on the book of the same name by Boris Akunin. The wife of Philip Yankovsky, Oksana Fandera, is also an actress. She played her most famous roles in the films of her husband. The son of Philip and Oksana, Ivan Yankovsky graduated from the International Film School and works at the Theater Studio of Theater Arts.

It is noteworthy that all three Yankovsky brothers married before the age of 21. And despite such an early marriage, all the brothers have lived with their wives all their lives. Oleg Yankovsky somehow in his ironic manner spoke about this: “In general, living with a woman is already heroism. Building a one-person family for life is a feat ».

Oleg Yankovsky achieved the greatest fame among those brothers. But this did not affect their relationship in any way. They were friends and supported each other until the death of Oleg Ivanovich in 2009.

Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky, who brought his younger brother into the profession, played more than 160 roles in the theater, more than 60 roles in films (“Two Comrades Served”, “I, Francysk Skorina ...”, “The Tale of a Star Boy”, “In June 1941 " and etc.). Two sons, Igor and Vladimir, also became actors. Igor Yankovsky is remembered for his role in the TV series The Adventures of Prince Florizel, where he played Colonel Geraldine's nephew.

Nikolai Ivanovich Yankovsky, who "ceded" his place to Oleg at the Saratov Theater School, worked at the municipal theater of plastic drama, and then as deputy director of the Teremok puppet theater in Saratov.