Alexander Sergeyevich Lazarev (Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ì Ð½Ð´Ñ€
Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð³ÐµÌ ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð›Ð°Ì Ð·Ð°Ñ€ÐµÐ²; January 3, 1938 â€" May 2,
2011) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, the People's
Artist of Russia and the USSR State Prize laureate (both 1977). A
Moscow Mayakovsky Theater veteran (where throughout his fifty years
career he played more than fifty parts) Lazarev appeared in more than
100 films, including One More Thing About Love (1968) which made him
famous.Alexander Lazarev was born in Leningrad, to the artist and
designer Sergey Nikolayevich Lazarev (1899â€"1984) and Olympiada
Kuzminichna Lazareva (née Tarasova, (1907â€"1996). The family
survived the first month of the Siege, then managed to get out of the
city and make it to Orenburg. In 1944 they returned home and the next
year Alexander went to school. By the time of graduation he's made a
decision to become an actor, citing later Robert Taylor's performance
in Waterloo Bridge as the major influence. In 1955 Lazarev joined the
Young actors' studio at the Moscow Art Theater. After a short stint at
the Nikolay Akimov-led Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre, he moved to
Mayakovsky Theater, led at the time by Nikolay Okhlopkov where the
part of Boytsov the electrician in Aleksei Arbuzov's The Irkutsk Story
was his first success.In 1961 Lazarev debuted in film, in thriller
melodrama Free Wind (Ð'ольный ветер, 1961), based on Isaak
Dunayevsky's operetta of the same name. Among his other notable
theatre roles of the 1960s were the sailor anarchist Gushcha in
Between the Rainfalls (Okhlopkov's last production there),
uber-lieutenant Schering in The Defector (1964) and Varavvin in Pyotr
Fomenko-directed The Death of Tarelkin (1966). The leading part of
physicist Yevdokimov in Georgy Natanson's 1968 film One More Thing
About Love (ЕщÑ' раз про любовь, co-starring Tatyana
Doronina) brought Lazarev nationwide acclaim.The director Andrey
Goncharov's arrival as Mayakovsky Theater marked the second phase of
Alexander Lazarev's successful career there. First his performance as
Don Quixote in A Man of La Mancha was lauded by critics, then the
leading part in Venceremos!, after Genrikh Borovik's play, earned him
the USSR State Prize. Among Lazarev's other important stage works of
the period were General Khludov (in Flight, 1978, based on Mikhail
Bulgakov's play), Rittmeister in The Life of Klim Samgin (1981, after
an unfinished Maxim Gorky's novel, premiered as a TV play in 1986),
and Vladimir Mayakovsky in Mark Rozovsky's The Beginnings (1983). In A
Crayfish Laughs (1986, a play about the life of Sarah Bernhardt, the
latter played by his wife Svetlana Nemolyaeva), Lazarev managed at
last to realize his comedy actor potential to the full. Then followed
Circle (1988, after W. Somerset Maugham's 1921 play), A Patron's Joke
(1992, after Arkady Averchenko) and Victim of Our Age (1994, the
adaptation of Alexandr Ostrovsky's The Last Victim), the latter
earning Lazarev the Moscow Prize for Literature and Arts. He received
another prestigious award, Chrystal Turandot, for the leading part of
Edmund Kean in Kean the Fourth, Tatyana Akhramkova's production of
Grigory Gorin's play.
Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð³ÐµÌ ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð›Ð°Ì Ð·Ð°Ñ€ÐµÐ²; January 3, 1938 â€" May 2,
2011) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, the People's
Artist of Russia and the USSR State Prize laureate (both 1977). A
Moscow Mayakovsky Theater veteran (where throughout his fifty years
career he played more than fifty parts) Lazarev appeared in more than
100 films, including One More Thing About Love (1968) which made him
famous.Alexander Lazarev was born in Leningrad, to the artist and
designer Sergey Nikolayevich Lazarev (1899â€"1984) and Olympiada
Kuzminichna Lazareva (née Tarasova, (1907â€"1996). The family
survived the first month of the Siege, then managed to get out of the
city and make it to Orenburg. In 1944 they returned home and the next
year Alexander went to school. By the time of graduation he's made a
decision to become an actor, citing later Robert Taylor's performance
in Waterloo Bridge as the major influence. In 1955 Lazarev joined the
Young actors' studio at the Moscow Art Theater. After a short stint at
the Nikolay Akimov-led Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre, he moved to
Mayakovsky Theater, led at the time by Nikolay Okhlopkov where the
part of Boytsov the electrician in Aleksei Arbuzov's The Irkutsk Story
was his first success.In 1961 Lazarev debuted in film, in thriller
melodrama Free Wind (Ð'ольный ветер, 1961), based on Isaak
Dunayevsky's operetta of the same name. Among his other notable
theatre roles of the 1960s were the sailor anarchist Gushcha in
Between the Rainfalls (Okhlopkov's last production there),
uber-lieutenant Schering in The Defector (1964) and Varavvin in Pyotr
Fomenko-directed The Death of Tarelkin (1966). The leading part of
physicist Yevdokimov in Georgy Natanson's 1968 film One More Thing
About Love (ЕщÑ' раз про любовь, co-starring Tatyana
Doronina) brought Lazarev nationwide acclaim.The director Andrey
Goncharov's arrival as Mayakovsky Theater marked the second phase of
Alexander Lazarev's successful career there. First his performance as
Don Quixote in A Man of La Mancha was lauded by critics, then the
leading part in Venceremos!, after Genrikh Borovik's play, earned him
the USSR State Prize. Among Lazarev's other important stage works of
the period were General Khludov (in Flight, 1978, based on Mikhail
Bulgakov's play), Rittmeister in The Life of Klim Samgin (1981, after
an unfinished Maxim Gorky's novel, premiered as a TV play in 1986),
and Vladimir Mayakovsky in Mark Rozovsky's The Beginnings (1983). In A
Crayfish Laughs (1986, a play about the life of Sarah Bernhardt, the
latter played by his wife Svetlana Nemolyaeva), Lazarev managed at
last to realize his comedy actor potential to the full. Then followed
Circle (1988, after W. Somerset Maugham's 1921 play), A Patron's Joke
(1992, after Arkady Averchenko) and Victim of Our Age (1994, the
adaptation of Alexandr Ostrovsky's The Last Victim), the latter
earning Lazarev the Moscow Prize for Literature and Arts. He received
another prestigious award, Chrystal Turandot, for the leading part of
Edmund Kean in Kean the Fourth, Tatyana Akhramkova's production of
Grigory Gorin's play.
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