Today, December 29, theater and film actor Vsevolod Abdulov would have turned 80 years old. He passed away very early, at the age of 59, seriously ill and tired. Despite his talent (representative of the acting dynasty), good looks and the best theatrical education, Abdulov did not take the place in art that he could.
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The actor is called the “shadow” of his closest friend Vladimir Vysotsky. From a young age, Abdulov served Vysotsky as Sancha Panso – Don Quixote. The actor’s daughter Yulia Abdulova believes that “with the death of Vysotsky, she lost interest in life and meaning.” But she lived for 22 years, drowning out the pain and emptiness with alcohol. And he drank in a very particular way. Actress Tatyana Bronzova spoke in an interview about the “eccentricities” of her husband’s friend and drinking partner Boris Shcherbakov:
– He is walking along Seva Street with a mesh bag in which there is a lot of milk. I asked him: “Now you are drinking milk, well done!”. To which Seva replied: “If you drink vodka with milk, then everything will be fine.” The fact is that in one period he and my Borya drank a lot. Obviously I was not happy with this. Fortunately, Boris Shcherbakov managed to get rid of this addiction, but Seva, alas, failed, – says Tatyana Bronzova.
Vsevolod Abdulov drank not only out of habit, not only from the inability to stop, but also from unhappy love. Boris Shcherbakov named the woman who made Vladimir Vysotsky’s closest friend miserable:
– Seva has loved one woman all his life – actress Irina Miroshnichenko. When I saw her at the Moscow Art Theater School, where they studied together – just in different courses, I fell in love with her all my life, – said Boris Shcherbakov.
Irina Miroshnichenko at the time of meeting Vsevolod Abdulov was married to the famous playwright Mikhail Shatrov. In the theater world, everyone knows that Miroshnichenko married Shatrov because of the calculation. And I fell in love with Vsevolod Abdulov. Miroshnichenko herself does not deny this feeling:
Yes, I was in love. It was impossible not to fall in love with Seva. You are the most romantic of all the men I have met, ”comments Irina Miroshnichenko.
After the divorce from Shatrov, Irina Miroshnichenko and Vsevolod Abdulov tried to live together. But among them was Vladimir Vysotsky, without whom Abdulov could not live. Irina Miroshnichenko is not one of those women who will share her beloved with someone else, even with her best friend.
People’s Artist of Russia, husband and partner of Vladimir Vysotsky Larisa Luzhina recently revealed the secret of the dedication of the song “Crystal House on the Mountain”:
– Everyone thinks that Vysotsky dedicated this song to Marina Vladi. In fact, he wrote it at Vsevolod Abdulov’s request for Irina Miroshnichenko. Seva asked a friend to write such a song to win over Miroshnichenko.
Having broken up with Irina Miroshnichenko (he soon married another), Vsevolod Abdulov flaunted victories in love. He said he “had 13 wives”. He changed women like gloves. The last wife is Olga Sviridova, a waitress in a cafe, who twisted a famous artist for an apartment and other benefits. At least, this is what Abdulov’s friend, actor Valentin Smirnitsky, thinks.
Vsevolod Abdulov’s voice is pronounced by favorite characters from foreign films: Albus Dumbledore (“Harry Potter”), Barliman (“The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring”), Abraham Van Helsing (“Dracula 2000”) and many other.
Photo source: Legion-media, still taken from the film
