Photos from home archives of celebrities of Russian cinema, theater and stage

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

It's hard to believe, but those who are now known not only in Russia, but also far beyond its borders, were also once small and lived an ordinary daily life. They had to carry heavy backpacks to school, draw touching postcards for their mothers, make crafts with their own hands, ride bicycles and skates, get bad luck for unlearned lessons, and, perhaps, blush for unpleasant actions. And who then would have thought that these children would become celebrities? Yes, and what! … In today's review, we continue to acquaint readers with archival photos from the home albums of celebrities of the Russian stage and cinema and suggest guessing popular artists in cute children's faces.

Milyavskaya, Lolita Markovna (born in 1963)

- Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian pop singer, actress, TV presenter, director.

Lolita Markovna Milyavskaya (nee Gorelik) was born into a family of musicians in the city of Mukachevo (Ukraine). The future artist spent her childhood and youth in Lviv. Mom sang in a jazz band, and dad worked as an entertainer and conducted the orchestra. After the parents divorced, Lola and her mother moved to Kiev. After graduating from school, the girl tried her vocal skills in her mother's team. For some time she worked as a backing vocalist and inspired by her success, the young singer entered the directing department of the Tambov Institute of Culture. After graduation, she moved to Moscow and, together with Alexander Tsekalo, Lolita Milyavskaya creates a cabaret duet "Academy".

Kirkorov, Philip Bedrosovich (born 1967)

- Soviet and Russian pop singer, actor, composer and producer.

Philip was born in the Bulgarian city of Varna, into a creative family. His father, singer Bedros Krikorian, an Armenian with Turkish roots, changed his last name to Kirkorov long before the birth of his son. And already being Bedros Kirkorov, he became famous throughout the USSR thanks to his unusual low timbre. Philip's mother is Victoria Likhacheva, a Jew by nationality, in whose family there were Gypsies, Russians, and even Irish and French.

The family moved to Moscow, and Philip's school years were spent on Taganka. In 1984, the future pop king of the Russian stage graduated from school number 413 with a gold medal and applied to the theater institute. However, Philip failed the exams at GITIS, the commission did not evaluate his vocal and artistic data, considering them insufficient for the department of musical comedy. And then, without thinking for a long time, Kirkorov entered the Gnessin Music School and graduated in 1988 with honors.

Valeria (Alla Yurievna Perfilova - born 1968)

- Soviet and Russian pop singer.

Alla Perfilova was born in the city of Atkarsk, Saratov Region, into a family of music teachers. His father was the director of a music school, and his mother worked as a teacher in it. In addition to the secondary school, Alla also studied in the music school - in the piano class, and also attended a dance club, was engaged in volleyball and skiing. From early childhood, the girl was distinguished by curiosity, scrupulousness and responsibility. And as a result, she graduated from both schools with a gold medal.

As a schoolgirl, the future pop star performed in the jazz ensemble "Impromptu". And after school, Alla was invited to work in the ensemble "Reflection" at the Saratov Philharmonic. In the same year, in the direction of the same Philharmonic, she entered the pop vocal class at the Gnesinka correspondence department. In parallel with her studies, performing in the ensemble, Alla moonlighted singing in restaurants.

It was in those years that, in order to avoid confusion and competition with another Alla (Pugacheva) who was already reigning on the stage, the rising star took the pseudonym "Valeria". Subsequently, her whole life passed under this name. Friends, acquaintances and even mother began to call her Valeria.

Zavorotnyuk, Anastasia Yurievna (born 1971)

- Russian theater, film and dubbing actress, TV presenter.

Anastasia Zavorotnyuk was born in Astrakhan in a creative family. The mother of the actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR Valentina Zavorotnyuk worked at the local Youth Theater. Father, Yuri Andreevich, was a TV director, created documentaries in various genres. Anastasia, brought up in a creative atmosphere from early childhood, experienced an irresistible craving for art. - she recalled. Nastya spent all her childhood years in the theater, where her mother played. The girl knew all the roles by heart, often prompting the actors to tell them their lines. For this, Nastya was often exhibited from the audience during rehearsals. In her free time from school, the future star danced in the "Lotus" ensemble and attended a music school, and also wrote poetry, participated in reading contests, and sang songs.

After school, Anastasia faced a difficult choice of university. On the one hand, she dreamed of a theater, and on the other, she understood that she needed to get a "normal" profession. Rationalism brought Zavorotnyuk to the history department of the Astrakhan Pedagogical Institute. However, fortunately, by the end of the first year, the girl realized that she had made a mistake and went to storm the theatrical universities in Moscow. Dad supported his daughter's decision, unlike her mother, to whom Nastya said that she was leaving for archaeological excavations. Nastya did not go to GITIS, having failed the entrance exams. But she was accepted at the Moscow Art Theater School, and in 1989 she became a student at the studio of Avangard Nikolaevich Leontiev.

Khabensky, Konstantin Yurievich (born 1972)

- Russian theater and film actor, film director.

Konstantin was born in Leningrad, grew up in an intelligent family: his father worked as an engineer, his mother taught mathematics. As a child, the boy did not even think about an acting career. After the 8th grade, Kostya entered the Technical School of Aviation Instrumentation and Automation. Having studied only three courses and having defended his term paper, he realized that he understood absolutely nothing in technology. The theory was given to the future artist quite easily, but when it came to practice, Khabensky was lost.

In search of himself, he swept the streets, washed the floors, played for casual passers-by, then got a job as an assembler-lighting fixture in the Saturday studio theater. He first appeared on stage as an actor extras. The hobby grew into something more, and Konstantin decided to connect his life with the theater. In 1990, Khabensky entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography.

Maxim Viktorovich Averin (born 1975)

- Russian theater, film and television actor, TV series star, director and TV presenter.

Maxim Averin was born into the family of a costume designer and decorator who worked at the Mosfilm studio. Despite the fact that both parents were indirectly related to acting, their firstborn from early childhood showed an interest in the theater. So, when the boy was 6 years old, his father took him with him to Makhachkala to shoot a movie. While working on one of the scenes, Maxim was entrusted with the cameo role of a boy dancing in the crowd. It was then in the credits, after the names of the venerable actors, that the inscription “Maxim Averin” appeared on the screen for the first time.

This event inspired the boy so much that he decided to become an actor by all means and enrolled in a children's acting studio at the House of Cinema. And already at the age of nine he made his theatrical debut - Averin played a hungry child in the performance of the Theater of Miniatures "Brandenburg Gate".

By the end of school, Maxim thought out a list of the sequence of auditions for drama schools. The first in line was VGIK, but during the trial of Mayakovsky, who was reciting poetry, the young man was interrupted by one of the members of the commission and asked to show his teeth, to which the offended Averin replied: "I am not a horse."

VGIK was followed by "Sliver", which also made a depressing impression on the future star of the screen. But in Shchukinsky, he immediately felt at home. But, Maxim failed the first audition, only on the second attempt he managed to break through the big competition and get on the course to Marina Panteleeva. From the first days, the young charismatic actor attracted the attention of teachers who predicted a brilliant future for him. After graduating with honors from "Pike" and receiving a red diploma in his hands, Averin settled for some time in the troupe of the theater "Satyricon", where he was invited by Konstantin Raikin himself.

Baskov, Nikolay Viktorovich (born 1976)

- Russian pop and opera singer.

Nikolai Baskov was born in the family of a military man and a mathematics teacher in the suburbs. On duty, the father constantly transported his family from one part to another. So Kolya went to school in the GDR, then studied in Novosibirsk, and completed his secondary education in Moscow. Nikolai's natural talent manifested itself from an early age. Back in the GDR, when the boy was five, he suddenly began to sing in a loud soprano. And the parents had no doubts that their son was destined to become a singer. He inherited his incredible talent for music from his phenomenally gifted maternal great-grandfather - he, without any musical education, could master any instrument.

In Novosibirsk, along with the secondary school, the boy studied at the classical music school at the conservatory and graduated with a gold medal. From 1989 to 1992, Nikolai was a member of the troupe of the Children's Musical Theater of the Young Actor. With his teammates, he toured half the world: the USA, Israel, Switzerland, France. Already at the age of 12, he shone on the stage of the Paris National Opera in the production of "The Magic Flute".

In 1993 Nikolai entered the specialty "musical theater actor" at GITIS and began working on vocals already at a professional level. But at the end of the first year, he had to leave school because of … absences. The next year, the young man entered the famous "Gnesinka" (chamber and opera singing class), which he successfully graduated in 2001.

Dima Bilan (Victor Nikolaevich Belan - born 1981)

is a Russian singer and film actor who, for the first time in history, managed to bring Russia victory at Eurovision.

The future singer was born in the small town of Ust-Dzheguta of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, in an ordinary Soviet family that had nothing to do with either the stage or musical creativity. Dima's father was a design engineer and worked at the Kama Automobile Plant, and his mother worked in a greenhouse and raised her children.

From an early age, the boy kept a diary in which he wrote down his thoughts and his own poems. In the fifth grade, he entered a music school, where he mastered vocals and playing the accordion. The love of music and singing of the future star was passed on from her maternal grandmother. She had a wonderful voice and worked in the choir for thirty years. In high school, Vitya became a regular participant in various creative competitions and festivals. At one of them, the young man received an award from the hands of Joseph Kobzon himself. Therefore, after graduating from school, there was no longer any doubt about what to devote his future life to. He went to the capital and entered the Gnessin School of Music.

At first, Victor stubbornly studied classical vocals and showed great promise as an opera singer. However, by the third year, the young man felt cramped within the academic repertoire and wanted to try his hand at the stage.

Boyarskaya, Elizaveta Mikhailovna (born 1985)

- Russian theater and film actress. The daughter of Mikhail Boyarsky and Larisa Luppian, following in the footsteps of famous parents, made a lot of efforts to get out of their shadow. And this, definitely, she succeeded with interest.

Liza Boyarskaya was born in Leningrad. Despite the fact that the girl was brought up in an acting family, she was attracted by a journalist and a relatively new specialty of a PR manager at that time. She led an active social life: she organized parties at school, in addition, she attended a model school, was engaged in jazz and classical dances. At the age of 15, the first film role, which Lisa accidentally got, did not impress the young girl. And she still saw herself as a journalist in the future.

Having entered the preparatory courses, a couple of months before the entrance exams, the future movie star suddenly realized that this was not her profession at all. Disappointed and a little confused, Lisa decides to become the ninth certified actor in the family. She submits documents to the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts. The entrance exams became a real test for the representative of the legendary dynasty, instead of the prescribed ten minutes that were allotted for each applicant, Boyarskaya had to prove for an hour that she was worthy to join the ranks of university students.

See also previous collections of children's photographs from the archives of celebrities of Soviet cinema, theater and stage Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.