Why the famous actor Sergei Filippov for many years refused to communicate with his own son

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

Sergei Filippov, who often played negative characters on the stage and in the cinema, was so popular that in Leningrad, on the streets, drivers stopped transport at the sight of the famous artist. In life, Sergei Filippov was burdened by the obsessive attention of the public, although he was frankly proud of himself. He was a rather complicated person, and the relationship with his son Yuri was so tangled that the period of their mutual alienation dragged on for many years.

Provincial and aristocrat

Sergei Filippov met Alevtina Gorinovich while studying at the ballet department of the Leningrad Variety and Circus College. Alevtina's mother, Lyubov Ippolitovna, was proud of her noble origin and categorically did not approve of her daughter's choice to become an artist.

An even bigger blow for the aristocrat was the daughter's desire to start a family with Sergei Filippov, a simple boy from Saratov. She had no idea that the young man's own father was a real German baron who served as the manager of a nail factory. The father of the future artist was forced to leave Russia during the First World War.

Perhaps, if Lyubov Ippolitovna knew about the true origin of her son-in-law, she would have been more supportive of him. Mother-in-law considered Filippov no match for her Alevtina, the granddaughter of General Kupriyanov. However, Alevtina herself did not suffer from class prejudices. She loved her Seryozha with all her heart and planned to live with him in grief and joy until her death.

After graduating from college, Sergei Filippov was invited to the Mariinsky Theater, which the artist was extremely proud of. However, Filippov's ballet career ended very quickly: the actor became ill during one of the performances and the doctors strongly recommended that the young dancer change his profession due to a weak heart. At first, Filippov was confused, became rude and irritable, often taking out his anger on his family. He tried himself on the stage and in the music hall, and then was admitted to the Comedy Theater.

Family boat crashed on glory

Soon, Sergei Filippov began to be invited to filming a movie, he became a real celebrity. Along with fame, fans and admirers appeared in the life of the actor. Filippov was flattered by the female attention, he began to allow himself not to come home to spend the night.

He is accustomed to the fact that the heart of his wife belongs entirely to him. Alevtina tirelessly cared about the adored Seryozha, admired his talent, defended him from the attacks of her own mother.

But everything changed with the appearance of the son of Yuri in the family. Alevtina is now much less than before, worried about the creative throwing of her husband. She was passionate about her motherhood and enthusiastically raised her son. Now, not Sergei Nikolaevich, but little Yurochka got all the attention of Alevtina Ivanovna.

Sergei Nikolaevich increasingly began to go on long spree. After another week of absence of her husband, Alevtina Ivanovna collected his things, and even put her husband out, threatening to ostracize with a log. He was indignant, offended, threatened, but did not wait for mercy. He tried many times to reconcile with his wife, but she could not forgive him.

During the war, with the help of the actor, his wife, son and mother-in-law were evacuated. In Tajikistan, the family was reunited, but after the war, the couple broke up completely.

Confrontation

The real confrontation began when his second wife, Antonina Golubeva, appeared in the life of Sergei Nikolaevich. They lived together for over 40 years.

According to the memoirs of the writer's son, Antonina Golubeva did not like him at all. Yuri believed that there were no real feelings between his father and second wife. True, in Yuri Sergeevich, a childish resentment could well speak. He really wanted his parents to live together. Nevertheless, it was because of the interference in the life of Yuri's second wife's father that the teenager had to change several schools. Antonina Golubeva tirelessly "signaled" to the management of the next school about the gaps in the upbringing of the child and the boy's insufficient patriotism.

Later, the father was very offended by his son, who categorically refused to follow in the footsteps of his father and entered the Mukhinsky school, firmly resolving to become an artist.

The very first days of training presented Yuri with an unpleasant surprise. The young man was informed that, at his father's insistence, he was not included in the list for a scholarship. Allegedly, student Yuri Filippov is fully supported by his father. The misunderstanding was resolved, but even then Yuri understood: the pope's wife, acting on his behalf, would not just leave him alone.

Later, when Yuri Sergeevich was already working in the Hoodfond, a lady began to come to him demanding to visit his father. By that time, Yuri had already accumulated a critical mass of grievances against his dad. For his lack of participation in life, for the fact that he never once visited his son when he was ill, for the endless attacks of his wife. When the critical mass of mutual grievances was exceeded, the young man changed his father's surname to his mother's surname and patronymic. This time Sergei Nikolaevich was already offended.

Do not ask for forgiveness and peace

After Yuri repeatedly refused to join the party, they stopped giving him interesting and lucrative orders. And soon he decided to emigrate from the country.

For Sergei Filippov, this was a real blow. During a meeting with his ex-wife and son, the actor said that he no longer had a son. He submitted a certificate of absence of material claims through third parties. In a statement, he offered to severely punish his traitorous son.

Subsequently, Sergei Filippov suppressed most of his son's attempts to resume communication. He sincerely considered him a traitor and was ashamed of his relationship with him. Only once, in a telephone conversation, Sergei Filippov admitted: he loved his first wife all his life. However, he refused to meet with her and his son.

Yuri Sergeevich learned about the death of his father late and did not have time to fly to the funeral from America. During their lifetime, they never said the main words to each other. And after the departure of his father, Yuri Sergeevich wrote in memory of him the book "Is there life on Mars …"

Even the episodic appearance of Sergei Filippov in the film became a real event. At the peak of his popularity, the actor bathed in the rays of national glory, lived in grand style, but fortune turned out to be merciless to him: the last years he spent in oblivion and isolation from the outside world, suffering from serious illness, poverty and abandonment.