Не пил, не курил, занимался йогой, избегал врачей и лекарств, но умер в больнице. Легендарный Вицин

Neither the rich noblemen, nor the honorable guard, nor the expensive catafalque managed to turn these funerals into an official and solemn ceremony. Everything was somehow ridiculous, a little crooked, like Georgy Vitsin himself, who in his lifetime would not have endured such pathos and would have preferred to leave quickly. His sense of measure, the sense of organics was limitless. In 1998, he suddenly gave up, and everyone understood that the actor needed to be treated seriously, but Vitsin refused to go to the doctors. In 1990, Georgy Vitsin was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR, but he did not come to present a high award to the Kremlin. You know, Georgy Mikhailovich, come and finally get a diploma, because then we will be liquidated. And what to do with it? Well, will your diploma be in the garbage? Vitsin's neighbors thought he was starving, and this was picked up by journalists. He played a sufficient number of films, and he was not in trouble, he was not in trouble, you know, he lived just fine. Vitsin looked just terrible, worn out, as if from someone else's shoulder, poor clothes, not shaved, unhappy. There was some kind of smell, I can't even say, you know, like old clothes, maybe this cloak that was on it. He fed wandering dogs and birds, and from the outside he looked like an old madman, abandoned by both his relatives and the state. But it was a special tactic, that in Yeltsin, that in the era of stagnation, that in Khrushchev. Vitsin did not want to be recognized as a movie star in it, he did not want to be a brother with his colleagues. He rarely let anyone into his soul, he was really a closed person. And many noted that he never invited his colleagues to his house. Since he played the drunkard very often, he was not just a favorite, but a relative for the millions of drinking citizens and their relatives, who cherish it. He found such a mask for himself, a drunkard, such a fool, who can perfectly exist in this universe. And the audience, watching the endless reincarnation of the actor from one drunkard to another, were more and more convinced in the opinion, our man drinks. They said, well, Vitsin, will you be the third? No, I can only be the second or the fourth. And while people were trying to figure out what he was talking about, he quickly ran away. Moscow, September 6, 2001. Vitsin agreed to participate in the concert, which took place in the capital theater of the movie star. He was asked to replace the sick actor. He made a condition, I want to perform first, I felt bad, I wanted to go home. But this did not save him. After the performance, his heart stopped. Doctors decided to urgently hospitalize him in the emergency room of the 19th City Hospital. I remember then one publication, on the cover they published a photo of Vitsin, where he lies in the hospital with tubes, with some wires. He was admitted to the general ward, but the doctors allowed him to stay with his daughter. The doctors began to inject him with antibiotics, and Vitsin refused to take medicine all his life. He died on October 22, 2001. And in the newspaper Vechernaya Moskva they wrote, The actor, according to the doctors, has failed his serious passion for yoga. According to this method, Georgy Vitsin is engaged in almost all of his conscious life. Lately, doctors have warned the actor, breathing delays and excessive concentration of the forces of the whole body can adversely affect the health of an elderly person. However, he did not take their advice. Moscow, October 25, 2001. People came to the Central House of Cinematographers in advance, before the beginning of the farewell. The widow Anita Gaidai recalled that many episodes of the Caucasian captivity, which have been laughed at by several generations of people, was not invented by her husband, but by Georgy Vitsin. Everything he did was always included in the picture, and his sense of measure, sense of organics, was limitless. For the first time, the legendary trinity appeared in the film Leonid Gaidai, Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross. The director was friends with Georgy Vitsin, and he knew that no one would play the coward better than him. Vitsin got into this trinity already as a popular artist. He was already famous in the cinema. He is the oldest of them, much older than them, who had great dramatic roles before this film. At first, Gaidai wanted to invite Sergei Filippov to play the role of a fool, but he was busy filming another film. He saw Nikulin in the circus. But Gaidai could not understand who to entrust the role of an ex-convict to for a long time. And he re-tried 20 famous actors. Mikhail Zharov, Igor Ilyinsky, Ivan Lubezny, Mikhail Pugovkin. But the director of the Mosfilm, Ivan Pyr'ev, literally insulted the director, Yevgeny Margunov, who was filmed more than once in episodes. The absolute opposite of Vitsin. He was arrogant. Vitsin was a modest person. The success of the Caucasian captivity was great. The film was watched by 76 million viewers. It was bought by 100 countries. It received the Cannes Film Festival Award. This trinity was loved by everyone. All the people were in love with them. To live, as they say, is good. And to live well is even better. Then the trinity was filmed in moonshine. And Nikulin, Vitsin and Margunov finally secured the title of superstars of Soviet cinema. The trinity was filmed in moonshine. There was no need to write in the credits, who was filmed in this film. If it was written that the trinity would be in this film, the hall was full. An enchilada. An interesting and mysterious chain of the date of death of three famous artists. They passed away every two years and in the twentieth. At the funerals of Nikulin, Margunov asks Luzhkov, Yuri Mikhailovich, where are you going to bury us and Vitsin? What kind of inappropriate question is this? People are upset, weeping, mourning the dead, come to the cemetery and suddenly see Vitsin, Nikulin, Margunov lying there. The mood rises, people smile, and everything is fine. But they were buried in different cemeteries. The farewell with Yuri Nikulin lasted three days. This has never happened in the history of Russia. For the night, the body of the artist was taken to the morgue, and the next day it was returned to the arena of the circus. He spent the night there, in the morning, as if to work, brought to the circus, and the people went, went, and went. There were few people at the farewell with Evgeny Margunov. Neither the theater of the film actor, nor the Association of Cinematographers in the family did not help. The Ministry of Culture pretended that Margunov did not die. But the funeral of Vitsin was paid by the Association of Cinematographers, and a lot of people came to say goodbye to the actor. Starting from all his colleagues in the workshop, ending with the old men of Arbat, with whom he loved to communicate, with faded clothes, in some torn jackets. He was always nervous, and tense, as it seemed to me. That's why I went to the actors. For a long time, it was believed that Georgy Vitsin was born in 1918. But in fact, this is not so. He was actually born in 1917, and then he already crossed himself off from any anniversaries, said that, oh, you are already a year late, I was already born, and, in principle, I do not want to celebrate anything. Gosha, as his loved ones called him, was born in the Finnish city of Tiryok. Already after the Great Patriotic War, the city became part of the USSR, and began to be called Zelenogorsk. And that's why it turns out that someone says that he was born in the Leningrad region, someone says that he was born in Finland. According to the family legend, a year later his mother asked to take the sick boy to a forest school, where he was taught and treated. The places in this school were only for a very young group, that is, for those who were born in 1918. He was born so sick, thin, small, tiny. And, of course, his mother told him how he would live on. Little is known about the family and childhood of Georgy Vitsin. The boy grew up without a father. Mikhail Yegorovich was seriously injured in the First World War, and his mother could not get married anymore. He was poisoned with gas, and he did not live long. And his mother got a job as a postwoman in Moscow, in the column hall of the House of the Union. And so, in fact, they moved to Moscow. Gosha was sickly shy. He wanted to be a forester or a gardener. Nature attracted him more than people. He could not speak in front of the board at school, because he began to stutter and blush. It was a terrible pain for him. He was such, I would say, a God's dandelion, in fact, his own. But the forest school had an independent theater, and during rehearsals, Gosha became a different person. He danced well, and even received a recommendation from the teachers to do ballet. Working on the roles somehow helped him to concentrate, and to imagine himself as a different person. Suzdal. Here, half a century ago, the episodes of one of the best films of Witsen were shot. Witsen played a small official, who was 25 according to the script, and the actor at that time was 20 years older. And he made himself a youthful makeup, mixing, as he said, putty with red paint. Why are you here? I'm in love. Why? Because of the fence. Because of feelings. And he pointed out that this film should be called Zhenya Balzamirovna, which, in my opinion, is very good. The scene with the kiss had 29 takes. The director still lacked expression, and Mrodyukova pressed Witsen so hard against the fence that the actor's nail got stuck in his back. I like him. You are mine. I want to go home. It was hard for Georgy Mikhailovich to kiss so many times. But this scene turned out to be very funny. And after that, that's all. At least tomorrow is the wedding, as Kupchik and Milotev said. And the film crew was amazed at how quickly Witsen could shake off his fatigue and return to the camera cheerfully. When the break was announced, Witsen didn't have to sleep for 10 minutes. That was enough for him. Moscow, October 25, 2001. A lot of stars gathered to say goodbye to Georgy Witsen, with whom he played in the favorite paintings of the whole country. There were no false speeches. The smartest, the most talented, and my absolute favorite person. Evgeny Morgunov was not the only one to leave. He left in 1999. And Yuriy Nikulin, who died in 1997. In the 90s, each of the legendary trinity had a long list of serious ailments. Nikulin had worn out vessels, sick liver and lungs, diabetes, which usually spoils a person's character. But he remained an optimist, loved feasts, drank, juggled. Cookies. Horseshoe. He was insulin-dependent. He got sick. But he was calm about it. He was ironic. Oh, I seem to have become too sweet. Evgeny Morgunov also had diabetes. And he was gloomy, depressed, tormented by complaints and anger of his close and few friends. His leg hurt wildly, which was eventually removed. But he continued to work. It was necessary to feed the family. Suffering from pain, he went on stage and worked, as they say, for the audience. Yuriy Nikulin was treated by the best doctors in the country. The mayor of Moscow and the president were worried about his health. The healing doctor of the orchestra reported at the highest level. Yes, come here. Everyone went to his clinic. Luzhkov, Chernomyrdin, the actors' delegations, the administration of the president, and so on, and so on, and so on. But Morgunov remained with his illness one on one, like Georgy Vitsin, who would never ask for the help of representatives of the authorities, would not look for ways to a good hospital. He did not want to turn to people in white robes at all. Actors from the guild called him and offered some kind of treatment. He said, no, why? There are a lot of people much more in need than me. And he quietly faded away somehow from this disease. Somehow the light closed, closed, the frame closed, and he went into the dark. As a child, Vitsin loved to draw. He found a secluded place and could do it for hours. He was very interested in the career of an artist. He was interested in both painting and sculpture. In sculpture, perhaps, he found himself more, but he did not go to an art school. Dancing, painting, the choice was not easy. As a result, Vitsin entered the theater school named after Schepkin. He got lost, as he says. But in the second year, the future star was awarded with the formulation that he did not want to engage in disciplines that did not concern the skill of the actor. He was awarded for his attitude, so to speak, to such sciences, if it can be said so, as political political information. The following year, he submitted documents to three theater universities and easily entered all three. Fans of Georgy Vitsin are convinced that Vitsin was a man of violent love affairs. He did not play the violin. He kissed Mordyukova almost in the twilight. There were rumors, conversations, that you had with Vitsin, and so on. Mordyukova answered, what kind of man is this? He can't drink, he can't play the violin. And his first great love happened at the age of 18, when he got a job at the Yermolova Theater. Either his eyes were burning, or he is such a man. After all, it is not necessary to have a luxurious appearance in order to please a woman. There must be something else. He was very fond of a woman named Nadezhda Topoleva. She was 36 years old. Nadezhda Topoleva, whom Vitsin worshiped and considered his teacher. But she left her husband and devoted herself to the care of Mila Gosha. Soon after the beginning of the novel, they began to live a civil marriage. Topoleva was like a mother. She brought him sandwiches, coffee, tea, everything he wanted. She watched him. The most amazing thing is that he did not leave him. He did not quarrel with him. He did not reproach him. They continued to communicate, to be friends until the end of the day. Who are you meeting, guys? Come in. Vitsin began to shoot in the cinema. It is interesting that the first role was entrusted to him by the director Yudkevich, who at one time, at the entrance exams in Avgik, cut Yuri Nikulin off. He said that you are not suitable for the cinema. You will be badly imprinted on the film. Vitsin really liked to shoot in the cinema. After all, he could not get rid of his shyness. And he made titanic efforts to go on the stage without tremors in the knees and hostility to the audience, in which he admitted publicly. I don't like the audience. I don't like when I see a wild number of eyes. And in the cinema, when I shoot this crowd, I don't see. I exist inside myself. He lived with Dina Topoleva for almost 20 years. They had no children. Dina was already old. She could not give birth. And Vitsin completely replaced her child. As Vitsin's friends told, he offered her many times to end the relationship and get married. But Dina refused. Moscow, October 25, 2001 At such moments, it is a pity for the relatives of the famous deceased. High faces, stars, a gathering of the press and a curious people are around. You need to keep your face. After all, your sorrow will be shown on TV. Vitsin's daughter Natalia spoke little that day and could hardly stand on her feet. But the wife of the actor Tamara Fedorovna felt so bad that she could not stand on her feet. He fell in love with her in 1948. Tamara worked as a costumer in the Yermolov Theatre. She was a beauty. Blood with milk. As it often happens, seductive men are very attentive to women of their appetite. Dina Topoleva, the previous wife of the actor, took care of Vitsin calmly. She even wished him happiness. Vitsin was Tamara's friend and a member of the family. Vitsin did not leave Dina until the end of her days. He always gave her a lot of money. He came to her all the time. He lived in two houses. But this is not living in two houses in the usual sense of the word between a wife and a lover. It is better not to know anything about each other. In 1954, Vitsin's daughter Natalia was born and the only child. The girl was also friends with her first husband, her father. Vitsin brought food and medicine for old and helpless Dina. He often took his daughter with him. Dina could even take care of the child. Of course, it is not about the wives themselves, but about the man himself, a deeply intelligent and decent man. Evgeny Morgunov had the same story. When he was young, he was married to a ballerina who was much older than him. Having created another family, he continued to help his first wife. She was dying in his arms. But Vitsin did not love Morgunov and did not want to accept him. How can he be friends with Morgunov? They spoke different languages. They are aliens. Evgeny Morgunov was a very talented artist, but surprisingly, he set up ordinary and more famous colleagues. But the authorities simply could not stand him. He was not given roles in new films, he was not given an apartment, he was not wanted anywhere, and he took revenge on them using his own methods, blackmail and shocking impudence. A comrade who refused him to receive the title of an honored artist regretted it very much. He was not lazy, he found a long staircase, climbed up, and the official who pointed out to him was a secretary near the table, Shura Mura. He took pictures of them and then sent them to him in an envelope. He wrote, if you do not include me in the list, it will be printed in the newspaper Pravda on the front page. Well, how should officials treat him in this case? Morgunov was a very ambitious and explosive person. And when he was next to Nikulin, sparks were flying. Morgunov was jealous of Nikulin. It seemed to him that he was older than them in the films. He wanted to transfer it in his life, but he could not do it. Morgunov constantly joked about Nikulin and often crossed the borders. One day he came to the building on the Colored Boulevard with the deputy badge on Latskan and said that if there were no housing problems, they could contact the director of the circus. Of course, the people went behind the scenes and wondered where the apartment was. There was such a scandalous story. And they quarreled over the phone. Vitsin tried to stay away from such conflicts. He did not like the rudeness and familiarity of Morgunov. Mogostroinov tried all the time to turn away, because he understood that there could be a scandal or noise. And he somehow avoided him. But loud Morgunov joked about Vitsin rarely and treated him with great reverence. He repeated more than once that neither he nor Nikulin would touch Vitsin. Morgunov loved Vitsin very much. Despite the fact that he was very harsh to his colleagues and sometimes even cruel. If he had the strength, he would carry Vitsin on his arms. He respected him very much and worshipped him. With great difficulty, Morgunov received the title of Honored Artist of the Soviet Union. He got much less fame, honor and money than Yuri Nikulin and Georgy Vitsin. He was not given the title of People's Artist because his filmography was weak. He did not do anything interesting except killing. Vitsin did much more in the cinema. And his career began long before he met Gaidai. In 1950, the whole country fell in love with his Vesnushkin. This is another Vesnushkin. The one who called me was a little older. When you were called, you were also older. It's like a gift from God. Vitsin was for the audience. Comedians are generally loved. And here, apart from something bright and comical, there was something tempting, something very kind. Vitsin was 40, and he played yesterday's schoolboy. There are very few actors who can change so much for the sake of the role. I agree to a draw! I don't like the word genius. Vitsin was a top-class artist. To count on the role of a heroic person or a man who beats in a bright love passion, Vitsin, of course, could not. His appearance was too funny. Georgi Vitsin was not fully realized. Because there was some great mystery in him. And everyone perceived him as one of the three. And he was a very deeply dramatic actor with an emotional, and a lot of potential. Vitsin dreamed and was worthy of Hamlet. But all his life he played funny and ridiculous people. Whose shoe is this? It's mine. Thank you. I think that honest directors, and their majority, they knew that he could play a serious role, a dramatic one, even a tragic one. They had to find a comedian like Vitsin. And where to find him? Yuri Nikulin died as the first of the legendary trinity of Gaidai's films. Only Lenin and Stalin said goodbye. It seemed that the queue had no end. People would go for a week or two, as long as it was possible. The whole Kremlin's council stood at the coffin. It was a great state of man. It was his duty as the director of the circus to contact him with the authorities. Yuri Nikulin made a real place of power out of a dusty building on the Colored Boulevard. The circus flourished and started a new life. Nikulin was a man who was respected by the whole country. And his support helped him to become a president. I think that elections are not a joke. So today we will vote for him. We agree. Anatoly Chubais came to congratulate the beloved clown on his birthday. Vitsin was not involved in politics. He did not have a career. He did not need it. Once Nikulin asked Vitsin to visit him. It was not easy to break into his house. But the dinner was sad. There was nothing to talk about. They were parallel. They were parallel realities that did not touch. And when Nikulin left with his wife, Vitsin said, how tired I am. Vitsin never wanted to have a business with money and gifts. There were legends about it. Margunov always asked for something. If he could not get something, he said that Nikulin asked for it. He always said that. Only sometimes they called Nikulin. And he said, how tired I am. These were the superstars of Soviet cinema. Their main fan was Brezhnev, who saved the Caucasian prisoner. Government officials did not want to accept the picture. They did not like the jokes. They did not like the songs of the composer Alexander Zatsepin. One of them was declared immoral. If I were a sultan, I would have three wives. I would be surrounded by triple beauty. One of the officials was so excited that he said that he could see the screen only through his body. Fortunately, Brezhnev saw the Caucasian prisoner at his dacha. He laughed, gave good, and ordered to caress the talented artists. In America, they offered to go to 22 states. Margunov really wanted to go to America. Vitsin did not care. But there were a lot of ordinary people who loved the artist. There were a lot of people. The only thing was that he lay with a beard. No one had ever seen him with a beard. He had a beard in the hospital. He could not shave. Fans of Vitsin brought cages with pigeons to the funeral, the favorite birds of the actor. When he was brought to the coffin, all the pigeons flew into the sky. Everyone sat on the platform near the coffin. Vitsin had a dog whose name was Malchik. He fed homeless animals. Residents of Arbat streets often witnessed such a picture. The artist walked along the street accompanied by a whole flock of dogs. Birds were flying over his head, which he fed a kilogram of specially bought wheat for them. Hitchcock was resting here. There were crows, squirrels, sparrows and pigeons. All the windows, all the fences and fences were covered with birds. In the early 90s, people stopped making films. The most famous artists lost their jobs. They were beaten and suffered. They were depressed and led to death. Cold wind was blowing in the pavilions of Mosfilm. General Konechkov was a massage lover. He was lying like a massage therapist today. It was a stupid erotic humor. He starred in one of the main roles. Then he starred in a similar film but in a more distilled version called Brave Guys. Then there was erotic comedy with several love stories. De Cameron Bocaccia was the basis. It was without nudity, but it was still vulgar. In 1994, Vitsin was involved in a movie with elements of mysticism. I don't know what I can be useful for. I'm just a puppet master. These films were not appreciated by the audience or critics. They were not popular. For the sake of money, Vitsin didn't even hesitate to shoot commercials. The piano. I was his accompanist. There was a big bottle of Royal on the piano. He was singing a romance. I met you and everything happened. But such orders did not happen often. Vitsin spent many days in his pajamas at home. He read a lot. He rarely watched TV, but he turned it on if a white parrot was walking. But he didn't watch TV for a long time. What is written on the windows of the tram? Don't stick out. This is about me. Those who managed to get into the artist's apartment could not recover from the situation for a long time. There was a pile of garbage in the rooms. Instead of curtains on the windows, there were bags of sugar. The emptiness was long-lasting. But Vitsin was not embarrassed. The kitchen is as dirty as I have never seen. The wardrobes are all in cockroaches. The dishes are not washed. The coffee is everywhere. The goose is spilled. Everything on the table is thrown away. There is a high degree of disorder. It's like a hobo. When he was told to repair the apartment, there were cockroaches. He said, these are God's creatures. Let them live. Vitsin moved from a communal apartment to a separate apartment for a long time. The star artist never had a car. He did not buy furniture for himself. He did not pay attention to what his apartment looked like. It was not his priority value. Well, there is a place to live. In the 90s, the wife of the artist Tamara was very sick. He was always there. He was a devoted husband His relatives knew that the artist had problems with his daughter. But he carefully hid them. They said that he had a difficult situation at home. Something was wrong with his daughter. Natalia lived separately in the 90s. When she came to her parents, she tried to put things in order. But her father was against such a fuss. He did not care about household matters. He did not have teeth. But he deliberately did not want to put prostheses. He let the whole philosophy down. A person comes into this life without teeth. And without teeth he must leave. This is his postulate. Before I ate meat. Now I eat porridge, jelly, compote. Why do I need it? I do not need teeth at all. Till the end of his days, Vitsin was engaged in yoga. He got involved in yoga and almost no one knew about it. He did such deep breaths with his nose. Then I saw how he washed his nose. Every morning he washed his nose with ice water. He stood on his head. And when it was time to shoot, he said, I need to stand on my head. Everyone was waiting. The colleague of the artist was always amazed how little Vitsin ate. He did not accept invitations He said, I will take a nut. And I was already full. And it was easy for me. And I was not hungry. And nothing. And you are eating sardines with this jelly, with this mustard. Guys, don't do it. Guys, think about it. Vitsin wore the same clothes all his life. He was 18 years old. He was always in good shape. And the main key of physical and mental health Vitsin considered the absence of fuss and stress. The actor was convinced that even a rapid rise after sleep leads to diseases. If you jumped on the alarm clock and ran, you have violations, He was terribly afraid of doctors. He did not take any medicine. And he just quietly disappeared in his dirty apartment. Despite the fact that Vitsin had money, he ate doshirak, because he was too lazy to cook. And every year he became weaker and weaker. He was hiding. He did not tell anyone, even to his loved ones, that something was itching, that something was hurting. Vitsin was asked how he saw his anniversary. He said, leave me alone, I have three years left to live. How could he say that? Why? He lived three years after that. He really knew something about himself. Some kind of non-living smell. When a person is energetic, everything is different. And then the cold came from him. And I often remember this. Of course, Vitsin's death was the fault of doctors. They just did not know what to do with him. Heart, kidneys, liver, lungs. A clean body could not stand the attack of drugs. He said, I know what is, I know what was, and I know what will happen next. These are his last words. He wanted his body to be cremated after his death. His body was buried in a field in Moscow. But the priest convinced his relatives that this was not the right thing to do. Vitsin was buried at Vagankovsky Cemetery. A couple of years later, his daughter got a call from a rich man who offered to buy this land. Vagankovsky Cemetery is a very expensive place. His daughter was offered a large amount of money, several thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, Natalya refused. And then, a photo was stolen from the grave of the actor, flowers, and the land was scattered. He loved peace most of all in the world. But, as it turned out, there is no peace even after death. Evgeny Murgunov has a beautiful tomb made of expensive granite. At the grave of Nikulin, at the Novodevichy Cemetery, there is a whole composition with his beloved dog. She was offered money for a monument worthy of the scale of the beloved by the whole country of the artist. But she put a modest Stella and refused all sponsors. They even collected money. She refused to take them because, as usual, the one who gives money orders music. She thought that her father would like the monument. He was such a pillar. He lived a spiritual life and did not love, did not understand, did not accept anything external.