Born Oleg Yankovsky at HJK in 1944, on 23 February. The family was in Kazakhstan's wilderness is not by chance, but because of his father - Ivan Pavlovich had aristocratic origins, the roots of his family went to Poland. He was friends with Tukhachevsky since the time of the joint service in the Semenov regiment. For this reason, in the camp, and I was where the disappeared - after the second arrest.

Background

Contingent in the town was specific - intellectuals, like family Jankowski, and criminals, who worked at the mine. Oleg since childhood had the opportunity to watch two worlds. Houses in chetyrnadtsatimetrovoy room, cluttered with rich - from a past life - the library in the evening going to the same Exiles. The audience that was intelligent, say wise and seditious things, and in many languages. They talked and argued about art and politics, theater and literature. And the street was punks, and football was that Oleg desperately and selflessly worked. With the ball, he spent all his time, or dreaming of becoming a goalkeeper or striker.

At the time, life is not spoiled Jankowski - mum Marina, I learned an accountant, for securing the whole family - three brothers (Oleg was the youngest) and their grandmother.

Later the family moved to Saratov, a city with rich cultural traditions, the city theater. Always dreamed of a theater eldest son Rostislav enrolled in the local drama school. After graduating, he moved to Minsk and became a full-time actor of Russian theater. Fourteen year old Oleg took to himself - that my mother was easier financially. In Minsk there was the first happy accident, which turned out to be so rich in life Oleg Yankovsky.

Once, at the request of his brother interrupted his daily football sessions that continue to be given with all the passion (among other things, in Minsk Oleg one time played a team with Eduard Malofeev), Oleg agreed to replace pribolevshy travesty. The role of the boy in the play "drummer" was a small cameo. It was his first theatrical experience. A football had to end - Oleg completely abandoned his studies and Rostislav categorically forbidden and is close to the ball approached.

"In the countryside, in the wilds, to Saratov! "

As soon as the material circumstances, Maria Ivanovna's son recalled in Saratov. Oleg graduated from high school and enroll in medical school thinking, but it happened to notice an advertisement for recruitment to drama school. Minsk recalled his stage experience, Oleg decided, but, unfortunately, the set was already terminated, all the exams are over. Once in the office of the Director, to clarify the rules for admission to the following year, the young man gave his name and suddenly learned that the applicant Jankowski enlisted in September, classes begin.

Startled, he spoke about everything at home. It was only much later revealed: dreaming of the stage, the middle brother Nicholas secretly from family filed documents at the school and has successfully passed all tours. At that time he was already working at the plant steelworker and provide for the family. He decided to give his brother the chance - since it happened.

Oleg studied at the school, a second-year third-year married Lyudmila Zorina. After receiving diplomas, the two of them arrived in the Saratov Drama Theatre. The wife of a repertoire at once everything was fine, she was every day becoming more and more known, and the "man most Zorina 'role was a bit of it - occasionally. But I come to the aid of another happy occasion, all in the life of Oleg Yankovsky and defined.

Debutant and what happened

While on tour with the theater in Lviv, Oleg somehow went into the hotel restaurant for dinner. And just at the same time, there dined Vladimir Basov, a well-known actor and director. At the time, he was concerned about the search for an actor at a very difficult, invoice and symbolic role of Heinrich Schwarzkopf in the film "The Shield and Sword". The wife of the director Valentina Titova Oleg noticed the diner, and showed her husband - out, they say, the young man sitting with a very Aryan appearance. "Yes, this young man came up would be ideal, but it is likely, or physicist or geologist - where you see the actors with such clever individuals? "- Said Bass. One of the assistants to the Yankovsky still came. That's all.

The film "Sword and Shield" and the painting "were two comrades" took to the screens of the country almost simultaneously. And it happened that sometimes happens in life: Jankowski went to bed the husband of actress Lyudmila Zorina, and woke up the new star of the Soviet cinema.

And if Heinrich Schwarzkopf by Jankowski had a nervous, explosive character - a typical choleric, the Andrei Nekrasov of "were two comrades" was the silent type. The film's director Yevgeny Karelov even turned to screenwriter Valeriy Frid - why the main character and the text is not present, all replicas on a single leaf fit? "You do not understand! Let Bykov says Jankowski plays the face in silence "- that said Fried.

Of course, the hard work began in the theater, directors began to trust him leading roles of classical and contemporary repertoire. In 1972, Jankowski attracted to star in the film "Riders" - a partner Yevgeny Leonov, Oleg is idolized. By the way, good fortune continued to keep the actor under his wing: during the filming of an episode of a racing car overturned and crashed - a miracle none of the actors did not suffer!

Already well-known and honored Yevgeny Leonov was also enthusiastic about the game Yankovsky, he liked him as a person. Turning to 1972, Lenk, Leonov told the young interesting actor Mark A. Zakharov. And Zakharov even went to Leningrad, where at that time toured the Saratov Drama Theater, look at Prince Myshkin by Jankowski. A year later, the actor was invited to the theater of the Lenin Komsomol; Jankowski and Zorin moved to Moscow. Five-meter room in a hostel year-old son ... My wife completely dedicated herself to her husband, thrown theater. But Oleg Ivanovich, by the way, later more than once said that what happened to choose between family and career, without hesitation would choose the family.

And then it was what it was - every year the growing popularity and fantastic role, bright, deep, memorable. In 1991 Oleg Yankovsky to all their regalia and awards received the most valuable - as he later confessed - award the title of People's Artist of the USSR. Last USSR People's Artist.

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