Yevgeny Evstigneev did not take care of himself. Over time, the artist’s heart was seriously exhausted. To such an extent that, waiting for the next appearance on stage, I had to lie down on the first bench that I came across backstage. The actor asked for help from a man for whom until recently he was ready to go even to the ends of the earth. And in response I heard: “Retired”. October 9 marks the 96th anniversary of Evstigneev’s birth. He died at 65.
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“Zhenya sold her soul to Oleg”
During his short life, Evgeny Evstigneev managed to act in more than 130 films. He was never handsome, he started going bald early, but the audience loved the charismatic and energetic artist.
He may live in Clover in Vladimir, where he left for distribution after graduating from a theater school in his native Gorky. He has acted a lot in the theater. Lunacharsky and the audience were already ready to carry the artist in their arms.
Evstigneev always wanted more. In the Moscow Art Theater school-studio. Gorky was accepted immediately in the third year. Oleg Efremov became a great friend of Eugene for a long 30 years.
Evstigneev at first brilliantly turned out to be in the Sovremennik he created, and then, without thinking about it for a long time, left for his beloved companion at the Moscow Art Theater. “Zhenya sold his soul to Oleg,” laughed the colleagues.
“If I had roles, I wouldn’t say a word”
At the Moscow Art Theater for Evstigneev, everything was not as rosy as in the same place. However, the artist did not think to grumble. He acted in films, but theater has always remained the main art for Yevgeny Aleksandrovich.
A large audience, however, knows the artist, first and foremost, precisely from his cinematographic works. Among the most loved are Kalachev in Zigzag of Fortune, Koreiko in The Golden Calf, director of popular theater in Beware of the Car, Professor Preobrazhensky in Heart of a Dog.
In the 1980s, Evstigneev survived two heart attacks. In the early 1990s, he went to a friend and asked a lot about reducing the theatrical workload.
“If I had roles, I wouldn’t say a word. But there are no roles, but there are many interpretations. I can’t take it anymore, the age is not the same “, the artist tried to talk to Efremov. And I heard:” If you can’t, retire! “
Evstigneev really left the stage, forever. He informed his good comrade Vsevolod Shilovsky: “I am free from the theater. They sent him to … “Evstigneev didn’t have long to live.
“Jolly Man died immediately”
He had high hopes for the operation in London. With enthusiasm, despite the fact that he was not feeling well, he played the role of Ivan the Terrible in the film “Ermak”. The viewer saw the image after the death of Yevgeny Alexandrovich.
“We moved to a new apartment and I have an office there. Now I will go to England, I will have an operation, I will come back and equip it “, the artist dreamed. He believed:” It is only necessary to repair the engine and everything will be in order “.
Foreign doctors turned out to be no less direct and harsh than Efremov. Before the operation, they began to tell Yevstigneev in detail about the possible risks and that the operation would not make him immortal. The impressionable artist died before reaching the operating table.
“I saw with my own eyes – a calm and cheerful person died immediately after drawing his heart and said: this is how you can die,” assured the last wife of Evgeny Aleksandrovich Irina Tsyvina. The famous artist died on March 4, 1992.
And then?
Evstigneev married three times. None of his wives are now alive. The first, director Galina Volchek, and the last, actress Irina Tsyvina, died in 2019.
The second wife, Lilia (before Zhurkin’s marriage), also a colleague, died in 1986. Lily is not even 50 years old. She suffered from a neurological disease and besides she was very worried about an unfortunate career. After the death of his wife, Evstigneev suffered a second heart attack.
Yevgeny Alexandrovich has two children: his first and second wife. Born to Galina Volchek, Denis Evstigneev has become a famous director, cameraman and producer. Denis Evgenievich has no children of him.
After breaking up with his first wife Tatyana Tsyplakova, he went to the registry office with Zinovy’s adopted daughter Gerdt Ekaterina. Evstigneev Jr. is very fond of his son from a previous relationship, Orest Fokin, as well as his daughters Tatyana and Maria.
Lilia Zhurkina gave Evgeny Alexandrovich a daughter, Maria. She, as her father, graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School. You have been employed in Sovremennik since 1990. Maria bears the surname Selyanskaya, but her daughter Sophia received the surname of her famous grandfather.
Sofya Evstigneeva, having graduated from the acting department of the same Moscow Art Theater School, has been serving at the Moscow Art Theater for five years. Chekhov. You have starred in ten feature films, including the fifth and sixth seasons of the sensational Mosgaz.
Photo source: Legion-media, frame from the film, Evgenia Guseva / KP, Maria Selyanskaya, collage: frame from the film and Legion-media
