Stanislav Lyubshin - 87: Who Saved the Life of the Star of the Movies "Five Evenings" and "Shield and Sword"

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

April 6 marks the 87th anniversary of the famous theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Stanislav Lyubshin. Popularity brought him roles in the films "I am twenty years old", "Five evenings" and "Shield and Sword", he played more than 90 film roles and still continues to act in films and perform on the stage. But a few years ago he almost said goodbye to life, but he was saved by a woman, whom everyone around him considered him an evil genius, and the actor himself called a guardian angel …

Viewers might never see him on screens. Stanislav Lyubshin was born and raised in the Moscow region, in a simple family: his father was an agronomist, and his mother was a milkmaid. From the age of 8, the eldest son helped his parents, working in the state farm garden. There was an amateur theater group in their village, and Stanislav's mother often played the main roles in performances. Since then, Lyubshin became interested in theater. But then he did not think seriously about the acting profession. After leaving school, he entered the technical school, having mastered the profession of a welder. When Stanislav served in the army, he was offered a job in his specialty, but he decided to try his luck and try to enter a theater university. On the first attempt, he was admitted to the Schepkinsky school.

From the very first roles, he was assigned the role of a "guy from the people", he was often offered the roles of ordinary workers and the military, in which he looked very organic - after all, he grew up among such people and knew everything about their life. At the same time, there was some kind of mystery and natural intelligence in him, which allowed him to try on himself and radically opposite images.

The first popularity came to him after one of the main roles, the builder-excavator Slava Kostikov, in the film by Marlen Khutsiev "I am twenty years old." This film became the hallmark of the youth of the 1960s. and was highly appreciated abroad - he received the main prize at the Venice Film Festival, although in the USSR at first he was harshly criticized by the authorities for portraying working guys who do not know how to live and what to strive for.

At the age of 35, Stanislav Lyubshin became a real star of the all-Union scale after he played the main role - intelligence officer Alexander Belov - in the serial film "Shield and Sword". After that, the actor's photo appeared on the cover of the Soviet Screen magazine. This picture was watched by more than 68 million viewers, for many of whom, especially for the younger generation, Lyubshin became an idol. For him, this role was special - as a child, he dreamed of going to the front, but at the beginning of the war he was only 8 years old. Lyubshin said: "".

One of Lyubshin's best films was the main role in Nikita Mikhalkov's film "Five Evenings", where Lyudmila Gurchenko became his partner on the set. After the release of the film on the screens, Lyubshin was recognized as the best actor of the year according to the results of a survey of readers of the magazine "Soviet Screen". Surely he was also remembered by the audience in the image of a civil engineer in Georgy Danelia's film "Kin-Dza-Dza".

The famous actor always had many fans, but even in his student years he chose a life partner and stayed with her for 44 years. The couple raised two sons. Their family was considered one of the strongest in the acting environment. Lyubshin was known as an exemplary family man and was never a womanizer, but he was persistently credited with novels with almost all of his partners on the set, and among them were the first beauties of Soviet cinema - Anastasia Vertinskaya, Zhanna Bolotova, Lyudmila Gurchenko. Irina Miroshnichenko said about him: "".

His wife Svetlana did not pay attention to these rumors, because they lived together a whole life. Years later, she confessed: "".

The news that, after 44 years of marriage, the actor, who was already over 60, decided to leave the family for another woman, came as a complete surprise to many. Moreover, his chosen one, theater journalist Irina Korneeva, was 40 years younger than him! Svetlana did not believe that the girl had sincere feelings for her husband and accused her of selfish intentions - they say, she was flattered by the fame and success of the famous actor. Many of their acquaintances then took the side of their wife and did not expect that this marriage would last long. But this relationship withstood the test of strength not only by time, but also by the tests that the spouses had to go through together.

In 2006, the actor, who had never complained of well-being before, was admitted to intensive care with a stroke and fell into a coma. He later said that it was only thanks to the efforts of his wife that he was able to return to life. Irina then did everything possible and impossible to help him fully recover. Since then, Lyubshin calls her his guardian angel and says that his wife gives him the desire to live and inspires him to new creative achievements.

Their friends say that they are simply amazed at how reverent, tender, trusting, touching and respectful relations between spouses are. They have been together for more than 25 years, and even after 85, the actor leads an active lifestyle, continues to act in films and go on the stage of the theater. And Irina does not get tired of repeating that being close to such a person as her husband is a gift of fate and real happiness: "". At his 87 years old, no one dares to call him an old man - the actor looks and feels much younger!

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