Favorite and forgotten ...

In the USSR, it would seem, all the artists were imushchestvenno equal - but someone went on his own "Volga" and even a foreign car, and someone stretched his 130-ruble salary. And it happened that in poverty not only provincial actors, far from fame, dating and opportunities to earn.





The well-known actor of the 1960s Alexei Smirnov (Fyodor bully in "Operation Y" Makarych in the movie "go to fight some old") died of grief, immediately after learning of the death of his closest friend Leonid Bykov. The actor was so poor that he collected in the coffin for neighbors and friends. And that is insulting all, even the graves of his left - after 25 years of it, no one cared.



Wonderful actor Sergei Filippov (Jon Dough) lay dead in his apartment for two weeks. He lived very poor, funds for burial was not, and the studio "thumbnail" refused to bury their own expense. Money on the coffin and wreaths collected Alexander Demyanenko (Shura, Dima Gorin), who in the early 1990s, he was in the grip of the most severe needs.



Perestroika and "transition to a market economy" was thrown to the side of most of the old actors - it was a terrible tragedy of national culture. But not less than the needs of artists killed indifference and oblivion viewers. People's Artist Nikolai Kryuchkov ("Tractor"), who gave the film industry for almost 50 years, ohamevshie of freebies and permissiveness liberals began to call "Stalin's servant." Each month, the actor had to wander in the social security to recalculate inflation eats retirement.



Harmful eccentric old man, as we remember the actor Nikolai Parfenov for his roles in the films "Thirty-three", "Seven Old Men and a Girl", "Athos", while "Gaidar's reforms" has lost all his savings and lived in dire poverty. He did not have a TV, foster children pulled out of his apartment everything except the old couch out of his pants, he had only one training.



Honored Artist of Russia Radner Muratov, who gave us his catch phrase as Vasily Alibabaevicha of "Gentlemen of Fortune", in his old age went to eat at the soup kitchen, the living in a studio apartment.



Died forgotten one of the most inimitable actors past Borislav Brondukov. With the collapse of the USSR, he was in Ukraine, although he was called to Moscow, big plans - but, alas, in Nenko were not in demand not only individual artists, but also the film industry as a whole. When the actor was ill, Power to appoint him to supplement pensions of Merit - Merit of these officials was estimated at $ 15. Family dying from poverty actor saved renting the apartments, and even some "unknown gunmen" several times humbly and silently handed him the money.



Forgotten by all, a few years spent bedridden Semen Farad. His family find it difficult to collect a few hundred dollars a month on expensive drugs. And while the famous actor of trouble more than once in newspapers, all that society were honored to help him - 1000 rubles per month, paid by a Russian Actors Guild. But no less medication Faraday support the attention of those who come to visit him - and such guests getting smaller, and this actor recently crying bitterly. And once it hypocritical to penetrate the paparazzi - just to take a picture of a dying Seeds Farad.



The most tragic fate of Vladimir Ivashov, who played a major role in the film "Ballad of a Soldier," which is now in the West as one of the masterpieces of Soviet cinema. This artist in 1993 was just fired from the theater redundancy. And, with no means of livelihood, he went to work at the construction site laborer - lugging bags and bricks, until he opened an ulcer. Operation made drunken doctors killed him ...



Modest coffin, accompanied by a widow, a daughter and a few old women-neighbors. From the side it might seem that this is a Funeral usual poor pensioners, hundreds of thousands of whom die quietly around us every year ...

In fact, so ten years ago went on his last journey famous actor George Vitsin. I would like to add a "favorite", but for some reason in the love of the audience, looking at the small number modest procession arrived at the cemetery in a shabby bus, hard to believe. Spectators at the funeral Vitsin did not exist. Came home and neighbors. Only a few of our colleagues - the others were busy filming, receptions and presentations.

Extremely kind man, Vitsin daily entertained neighborhood kids candy, fed pigeons street (in addition to being kept his dovecote), not just picking up and nursed stray dogs - and all on a modest pension and small fees from speeches.

However, how many will earn in the ninth decade? So for a lifetime of good and not amassed. And when he died, there was no money for the monument, nor even on ogradku. Make them free of charge or collect the money, none of the "Gratitude" viewers did not want to.

For several years, the actor represented a grave mound of earth with a sign that is not just going to press slain in sorting "'brotherĀ» ...



And how many of them, when you love and adore the audience, have died forgotten by everyone. How many more lives, rather mired in poverty and oblivion ...

Boris Novikov



Victor passes,



Alexander Knights



Mikhail Kononov



Alexander Kajdanovsky



All you name it. Everyone must have the memory of their beloved and unforgettable actors and actresses

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