Kuravlev Biography Years of Life

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. This is Afonia's trouble -free plumber from the drama of the same name, and the eloquent thief Georges Miloslavsky from the comedy “Ivan Vasilievich Changes the Profession”, and Homa Brutus from Viya, and Shura Balaganov from the Golden calf. Of course, with these works, his filmography, numbering more lines, is not limited to, as his talent is not limited to purely cinema: he is also known as a theater actor, a voicing artist and a public figure.

The childhood of the future actor, which fell on the war years, was not rainbow. The family lived on the poor outskirts of Moscow.

The head of the family, Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlev - was a native of Ryazan, worked at the Salyut aviation plant, and died almost immediately after the birth of his son. His wife Valentina Dmitrievna -, a hairdresser with incomplete secondary education, immediately after the outbreak of war became a victim of the denunciation and once in the middle of the night was delivered to the NKVD and arrested under the 58th article “counter -revolutionary activity”.

The woman was exiled to Kazakhstan, where she worked at the metallurgical plant for several years. Leonid Kuravlev and her mother in the year, the woman achieved permission to write out her son to her, in the village of Nashek Murmansk Region. And although Lyon had to live in the hut, the memories of this time he remained the brightest. In the year, Valentina Kuravleva was allowed to return to Moscow.

The family reunited. At school, Leonid studied well, but was not distinguished by a great love for the exact and natural sciences. Already in Moscow, a cousin, who lived with Kuravlevs in the same communal apartment, advised him to submit documents to VGIK, where she was not taken a year earlier: “Try it, there are at least no mathematics there.” In the year, the young man graduated from school and followed the council of his sister, but failed on the third round.

After the entrance exams, one of the members of the commission approached Kuravlev and said: “Try next year. I feel something in you. " Relatives did not share their son's enthusiasm. Their workers from the outskirts, the head was scored by more important things: how to feed the family, where to find money. It’s not up to acting, the existing, in their opinion, pampering. The next year, so as not to be known as a parasite, Leonid worked at a soft toy factory, then at an optical factory, and in made another attempt, this time successful.

Boris Bibikov took him under his wing. True, among the best students the surname Kuravlev was not listed, and in the second year the master almost drove him out of the university - a young actor was too clamped. Leonid Kuravlev, in his youth, however, to the third course, Bibikov changed his opinion - after Kuravlev, along with Svetlana Druzhinina, brilliantly put an excerpt from Ibsen's play.

Witnesses of this triumph were young directors Alexander Gordon and Andrei Tarkovsky, who called Kuravlev to his thesis “There will be no dismissal today” for the role of Sapier Morozov. This work became the actor's debut in the cinema. Kuravlev played a stuttering combineer Senya, who urgently needs to get spare parts for the combine. A year later, both played in the film by Lev Kulidzhanov “When the trees were large”, and in the year Kuravlev played the main role in Shukshin’s film “Such a guy lives.” His hero is a young driver Pashka Kolokolnikov, a balagur-idealist who is happy only when the people around are happy.

It was this role that brought Kuravleov the first popularity. The frame from the film “Such a guy lives” is interesting that more eminent directors like the legendary Sergei Gerasimov persuaded Shukshin to take another actor for the role of Pasha, they say, Leonid’s tests were “unconvincing”. But he, risking many - and even more so, it was his first full -length film - defended Kuravlev's candidacy.

On the set of the film “Such a guy lives”, the audience again saw the fruits of Tandem Shukshin - Kuravlev, this time in the film “Your Son and Brother”. We can say that it was Vasily Makarovich that opened his eyes to the domestic cinema to a promising actor. The idea of ​​creating the picture belonged to the outstanding film director Ivan Pyryev, however, the directors of the “Viya” were students of the highest directorial courses Georgy Kropachev and Konstantin Ershov, since the master himself did not have enough time.

Leonid Kuravlev in the role of Homa Bruta was a stunning success. The creative duet of Kuravlev-Warly turned out to be incredibly successful. Not accustomed to such a genre, Soviet spectators appreciated the magnificent adaptation of Gogol's famous story. The popularity of already well -known young actors has rapidly increased. On the set of Viya, a tragedy almost occurred when Natalya Varley at frantic speed fell out of the coffin at a 3-meter height.

Fortunately, Leonid Vyacheslavovich managed to catch the actress literally on the fly the image of the small crook Shura Balaganov, created by Leonid Kuravlev, was so bright that it was considered canonical and now, despite the fact that several adaptations of a cult novel were subsequently created. Who else could play Shura Balaganov so much?Among Kuravlev’s favorite roles is the image of Sorokin in the film of Krasnopolsky and Uskov “Inappropriate”, where the magnificent Oleg Strizhenov played the main role of the pilot Egorov.

Leonid Vyacheslavovich admits that Sorokin slander was extremely interesting to him precisely his monstrous meanness. The actor rarely had to play similar roles. The frame from the film “Inappropriate” by the year is inconspicuous and unfulfilled, according to authoritative teachers of VGIK, student Kuravlev turned into a wonderful multifaceted actor.

Leonid Vyacheslavovich created more vivid, incredibly popular images in films and television series in various genres. And at first Liosnova wanted to see Leonid Vyacheslavovich in the image of Hitler, but changed her mind. According to Leonid Armor, his favorite episode in the series was Müller’s conversation with Iceman, despite close cooperation with such a brilliant actor as Vyacheslav Tikhonov.

Kuravlev very hard survived the loss of a friend and later named his son in his honor. His hero must convince the selection committee to accept the built bakery into operation, for which he will have to resort to cunning and even deception. The frame from the film “We, the Nizhchaty” one of the most striking roles in X was the image of the inspector of Granden in Alla Surikova’s television movie “Looking for a woman”.

The tape immediately became extremely popular thanks to the truly star composition of actors. In years, Leonid Vyacheslavovich also starred quite often, but, by his own admission, did not receive much pleasure from that work. There was too difficult time when a whole country was rapidly falling apart. Releasing at the beginning of X in the film “The Queen’s Personal Life,” the actor quarreled with the widow of Shukshin, with whom he maintained friendly relations after the death of her husband.

Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina was offended due to the fact that the Kuravleva fee was more, and accused her friend of concealing this information. He tried to explain that he was not right to disclose the amount, but in vain. Since then, they have not communicated, and the same “Film of discord” has not even remained in the memory of the audience. The widow of Shukshin and Leonid Kuravlev quarreled because of money in the zero years, Kuravlev almost left work in the cinema and rarely appeared on the screens.

Leonid Vyacheslavovich did not hide that he was referring to modern Russian cinema without food. He believed that good resonant films became a rarity, and without hesitation rejected many, sometimes very favorable offers. Colonel Savely Lutikov from the series "Detectives" and yet the audience remembers him well according to the series of those years. These were mainly honest and charismatic warriors and employees: a conductor from the Railway Romance, Colonel Lutikov from the “detectives”, Colonel Ershov from “Streets of Broken Lights”, General Sokolsky from “Hunting on Risaur”.

But for almost 60 years, Leonid Kuravlev kept a truly swan fidelity to the only one - his wife Nina. Leonid Kuravlev with the family of G. Once the summer young man-nine-grader came to the rink. His gaze was faced with a fragile girl, selflessly skating, not paying attention to others. Leonid later found out that her name was Nina, she was two and a half years younger and studied in the seventh grade.

A year later, the young man became close to the girl, they began to spend a lot of time together. It was the absolute unity of souls. I have a woman I love, ”he said. Nina paid him full confidence: she was never jealous, did not suit scandals. Leonid and Nina Kuravleva lived together for almost 60 years, Nina Kuravleva has always been next to her husband. She herself worked as a teacher of English, later she rose to the director of the school.

The actor led a rather secretive lifestyle and all social events and gatherings with colleagues preferred evenings at home, with his family: he, his wife and daughter Catherine. The girl was born in the year 2 years after the wedding. Having matured, she followed in the footsteps of her father, graduated from the Schukin school, played in the film “The most charming and attractive” and 5 more films, but in the beginning of the X decided to go to another area and learned to be a psychologist.

Ekaterina Kuravleva B, when Catherine was already preparing to fly out of the parental nest, the son Vasily appeared in the family named so in honor of Shukshin. By education, he is an economist, teaches in RUDN. Vasily Kuravlev was able to separate the spouses only death. In the year, the couple noted the golden anniversary of the wedding, and two years later Nina Vasilievna suddenly felt bad.

It turned out that she literally on her feet transferred two heart attacks. Doctors appointed the operation, but she did not help. This I went successfully! A woman does not have a husband and children. Only the boys did not let grandfather finally close from the outside world. The last years of his life and death after the death of his wife Leonid Kuravlev almost did not star in the cinema.

His last role dates from the year - he played the clergyman in the film by Alexander Andrachnikyan "All this jam." And this is rather an exception: he disappeared from the screens at the end of X, after the role in the film “Book of the Masters”, when Nina Kuravleva was still alive.On the right: Leonid Kuravlev in the film “All this jam” in the summer of the year Leonid Kuravlev shocked fans, telling about the acquired place in the cemetery.

Obviously, the actor could not come to terms with his wife’s death and was in a serious emotional state. On the monument located on the grave of Nina Kuravleva, during the life of Leonid, his name was knocked out, he bought a place next to his wife. In honor of the anniversary, the Culture channel invited the actor to the Island program to tell about his life: childhood, ways to acting, working with favorite directors and much more.

At first it was reported that he had a coronavirus, but the actor’s son denied this information: Leonid Vyacheslavovich brought with pneumonia, the texts on Covid gave a negative result. During the examination, he was also diagnosed with damage to the vessels of the brain and dementia. He had an urgent operation, inserting a pipe into the esophagus so that he could receive food through it.

In the afternoon of January 30, it became known that Leonid Kuravlev was gone.