What father's mistakes the youngest son of Vladimir Vysotsky could not avoid

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

Today Nikita Vysotsky is a rather famous person in himself. He acts in films, preserves his father's legacy, writes scripts, teaches acting at the Institute of Culture. And he frankly says that the early death of Vladimir Vysotsky influenced the choice of his profession. During his lifetime, he probably would never have dared to become an actor, although he dreamed about the theater since childhood. Nikita Vladimirovich admits: he could not avoid the mistakes of his father.

Family history

The love story of Vladimir Vysotsky and Lyudmila Abramova began at a time when Vysotsky was still unknown, in fact, an artist with a very ambiguous reputation. During the filming of the film "713th asks for landing" Lyudmila Abramova, seeing the future star for the first time, without a shadow of regret took off her grandmother's ring and gave it to a person in need of help. In fact, it was incredible: a sweet, intelligent young lady from a good family believed the first person she met and gave him a loan, although there was no reason to believe that he would be returned.

And yet … Vysotsky not only repaid the debt, but also made an offer to Lyudmila, overwhelmed by her incredible sincerity and responsiveness. And after that there were seven happy years of marriage, two sons were born, bright memories. And a painful divorce, during which the former spouses were able to maintain not only self-esteem, but also friendly relations.

After parting, the sons of Vysotsky, Arkady and Nikita, did not stop communicating with their father. Nikita Vysotsky later recalled that Vladimir Semyonovich was a very good parent. And I never forgot about my fatherly duty. At the same time, the meetings between father and sons were not regulated in any way. He could just run along the way or drop in on purpose to hand over gifts brought from abroad. And the sons knew that their father would always be glad to see them, even if they appeared before him without any warning.

Nikita Vysotsky has been to the Taganka Theater since childhood. First, in the arms of the parents, after that - already by himself. When Nikita grew up, he specifically began to go to performances with the participation of his father. He admired his acting and dreamed of theater. When Nikita was 16, his father became interested in where he was going to go and offered his help.

He really could have helped his son enter, but he refused, saying that he had not yet thought about his future profession. But he allegedly chose one of two: a journalist or a geologist. Vysotsky carefully asked if he wanted to become an actor, but the boy refused. And Vladimir Semyonovich was upset, not understanding why a completely talented child did not want to follow in his own footsteps.

Nikita really wanted, but at the same time he knew for sure: he could hardly bear comparison with his father. And when his father was gone, Nikita Vysotsky, having worked for a year after graduating from school at the plant, entered the Moscow Art Theater School.

Work on bugs

When Nikita came to the Moscow Art Theater School for auditions, they were ready to take him for the fact that he is the son of Vysotsky. At that time, Marina Vlady advised him to change his last name in order to avoid constant comparison with his father. But Nikita simply put himself in his father's place and realized that he would never change his last name, even if his path with her would be very thorny.

For a year he worked with a speech therapist, correcting diction defects, additionally took lessons in the Russian language, since he could not write correctly. And he entered the same Moscow Art Theater School, which his father graduated from. At the same time, he was not going to repeat his father's path, on the contrary, he chose "his own track." In this he was supported by many, including the teacher Nikolai Skorik, who gave him the role of Don Guan, which was once played by Vladimir Vysotsky. I gave it so that Nikita could play it differently.

Nikita Vysotsky graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, played in the theater, acted in films. At the same time, he himself believes that his acting career was not at all the way he dreamed. And the glory of the father has nothing to do with it. It was his own path, with his victories and defeats.

He generally does not like to talk on personal topics, but at the same time he admits: he had certain problems in life, similar to his father's. And he also tried to solve them on his own, without demanding help from anyone, including in terms of hobby for alcoholic beverages.

Just like his father, Nikita Vysotsky could not build his personal life the first time. He married for the first time very early, during his student years. His wife was an actress who also studied at the Moscow Art Theater School. As the actor himself admits, this marriage was probably doomed. They were both too young to compromise. And even the birth of the eldest son Semyon did not save the family.

However, Nikita Vysotsky's second marriage also fell apart. His second wife had nothing to do with art. She was an economist, later graduated from the Faculty of Religion of Moscow State University, and later took up agriculture. Another son of Nikita Vysotsky was born in this family.

He is currently married for the third time and sincerely hopes that this marriage, in which he is so happy, will be the last in his life. The current wife of Nikita Vysotsky is a child psychologist. Before the birth of their son and daughter, she worked with children in the hospital, helping them recover from injuries and difficult surgeries. The daughter, born in the last marriage of the actor, is only seven years old, and the son was one year old in April 2020.

Nikita Vladimirovich believes that his families broke up solely through his own fault. He did not know how to build relationships correctly, he was too selfish. In general, he made many mistakes in life, but this is not his father's fault. On the contrary, following the example of Vladimir Vysotsky, his son managed to maintain good relations with all his children, to smooth over the consequences of their parents' separation for them. And he tries to always be there, substituting his shoulder in those situations when his help is needed. Nikita Vysotsky says that all his children are very good, he can be proud of each of them.

Today the main activity of Nikita Vladimirovich is the management of the State Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky. He sees his mission in preserving the memory of his great father. This is what became the work of his whole life.

Nikita Vysotsky wrote the script for the sensational film about his father “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive”, in which Sergei Bezrukov played the main role. And, it would seem, there is no role in the world that this master of reincarnation could not play. After all, he not only easily gets used to any image, but also sincerely imbued with the character of his character.