Alexander Mikhalkov: history of a noble family

Great-grandfathers

Modern Mikhalkovs are descendants of the Golitsyn princes. Princess Elizaveta Nikolaevna Golitsyna married Vladimir Mikhalkov, and the family inherited 720 acres of land from the Golitsyns with the village of Nazaryevo. The estate was a dowry from the Golitsyn princes.

Vladimir Sergeevich Mikhalkov, the poet’s great-grandfather, came from a poor noble family of the Mikhalkovs. Their family estate is partially preserved in Rybinsk. The new family began building their own estate. It was a two-story building, decorated in the Gothic style.

This estate became their summer residence, and the family spent most of their time in Moscow. The village of Nazaryevo was located on the territory of the Zvenigorod district, and when the poet’s great-grandfather was elected leader of the nobility and honorary justice of the peace for this district, the family moved to their family estate.

Kharkov roots of Nikita Mikhalkov

On February 21, 1876, in the provincial town of Slavyansk, Izyum district, Kharkov province, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Stalin Prize laureate Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky was born. Now he is more famous as the grandfather of Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky, but earlier, before the painter became successful...

A day in history. November 12: the most popular Kharkov woman was born

©

RIA Novosti, Dmitry Korobeinikov | Go to photobank

And before he was known as Pyotr Petrovich Jr. and the son-in-law of the great artist Vasily Surikov. Using the example of his family’s history, one can see who and why has been in the spotlight over the past hundred and fifty years, and how nature does not always rest on sons-in-law and children. Five generations, without which Russian art is unthinkable.

The painter's father, Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky Sr. (1839-1904), remains in memory mainly thanks to his portrait by Valentin Serov, painted in 1891. He was born in Sevastopol in the family of a naval doctor.

This graduate of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University appeared in Slobozhanshchina thanks to his marriage to the Kharkov noblewoman Victoria Timofeevna Loiko. After the wedding, they settled on the Ivanovka estate in Starobelsky district, Kharkov province.

Goldenberg's Blood List

©

Public domain

The nobleman Konchalovsky did not turn out to be a successful landowner, and very soon he was elected a justice of the peace in the city of Svatovo, then in the Kharkov province, and now in the Lugansk region. “He did not turn out to be an exploiter, and very soon Loiko’s farm fell into complete decline,” this is how his granddaughter, mother of Nikita and Andron, Natalia Konchalovskaya, described him.

Pyotr Petrovich lived at that time in Svatovo, then in Slavyansk, then in the provincial city of Kharkov itself, in the very center. In Shlyapny Lane, in the house of the cross-merchant Alexander Shteifon, the father of the future white general and collaborator.

Victoria Timofeevna regularly gave birth to his children - four daughters and three sons. So director Andron Konchalovsky is clearly like his great-grandfather in terms of fertility.

At that time, it was fashionable among the intelligentsia to “go among the people” - to treat and educate the peasants, and at the same time to turn them against the government. Judge Konchalovsky also succumbed to this trend and helped the peasants in every possible way.

And altruists would have walked around the villages of Slobozhanshchina further, but in February 1879, the terrorist Goldenberg killed the Kharkov governor, Prince. D. N. Kropotkina. In June of the same year, Konchalovsky was arrested for propaganda among peasants and by order of the Kharkov Governor-General, Count. M. T. Loris-Melikova was exiled under public supervision to Kholmogory, Arkhangelsk province.

“One day Pyotr Petrovich was sitting on the river and reading a newspaper. He was just about to take a swim when suddenly the gendarmes arrived, grabbed Pyotr Petrovich by the arms, put him in a prisoner's carriage and took him away. And only the newspaper remained in the grass, rustling in the wind... His wife, Victoria Timofeevna, with the help of the housekeeper Akulina Maksimovna, began to give dinners and only fed the family with this. A year and a half later, all the children fell ill with typhoid fever, which was then rampant in Kharkov, three of them were near death,” writes granddaughter Natalia Petrovna in her memoirs “A Priceless Gift.”

However, the exile was short-lived; at the request of Victoria Timofeevna, who remained in Kharkov with her children, Mikhail Tarielovich allowed the guilty intellectual to be returned from exile, but at the same time added: “I am returning him, even though he is so harmful that he should be hanged!”

A day in history. On January 13, a Kharkov professor who taught chemistry to Nicholas II was born.

©

Public domain

Away from his family, Pyotr Petrovich studied English and made complete translations of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Swift's Gulliver's Travels. “The New Heloise” by J.-J. Rousseau also appeared in his presentation. All these works are republished to this day.

Returning from exile, Konchalovsky took up book publishing. Together with the French doctor Kervilli, he opened a bookstore in Kharkov, which his wife began to manage. But soon the store was sealed, Kervilli was sent to France, and Victoria Timofeevna was arrested. Two weeks later, Victoria Timofeevna was released, and she returned home safely. Then the store was opened without them, and books and albums with reproductions were sold there until the “dashing nineties.”

The Konchalovskys left Kharkov after their eldest daughter Nina Petrovna died from consumption. Even the famous professor Frankovsky, whom the Kharkov people considered a wizard, could not help her.

In 1889, the family moved to Moscow, and there Pyotr Petrovich became a successful book publisher. His success also lay in the fact that he attracted Serov, Vrubel and L. Pasternak to work as authors of illustrations. In 1891, Valentin Serov painted the famous portrait of Konchalovsky. Pyotr Petrovich died in 1904, Victoria Timofeevna survived him by eight years.

The Konchalovskys raised their children in the most progressive, as was then considered among the intelligentsia, traditions.

A day in history. December 21: the discoverer of Donbass was born near Kharkov

©

artmuseumtomsk.ru

“They instilled in their children the deepest concepts of goodness and justice. Eternal disputes about literature, art, politics, merciless criticism of everything backward, reactionary, ardent defense of the beautiful in the speeches of their father very early awakened in children a desire for the high, the ability to select the best, to separate the main from the secondary, so as not to clog the soul with the husk of vulgarity.

Almost from the cradle, children knew the fairy tales of Andersen, Perrault, then the novels of Dickens, Walter Scott, and even later - George Sand, Lermontov, Krylov's fables and entire pages from Gogol's Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. We became acquainted with music, painting and sculpture early. Early on they learned the name of Chernyshevsky.

They were touched and made to tremble by the heroic lives of Zhelyabov, Kibalchich, and Perovskaya. And they saw Vera Figner at home: the Konchalovskys repeatedly hid her from the police,” wrote Natalia Petrovna.

© RIA Novosti, Mikhail Ozersky | Go to photobank

People's Artist of the RSFSR Pyotr Konchalovsky with his family

Oh, if Pyotr Petrovich and Victoria Timofeevna had seen the film “The Barber of Siberia” and especially their descendant in the film “State Councilor”!

The eldest son, Maxim Petrovich (1875-1942), became a doctor, a famous specialist in the clinic of internal diseases. Victoria Petrovna went to France, took French citizenship and subsequently became a prominent professor of the Russian language in Paris. Elena Petrovna got married and was the mistress of one of the respected houses in Moscow until her death in 1935.

A day in history. December 10: the most famous Russian artist was born between Kharkov and Belgorod

|

Standing apart in the family is professor-historian Dmitry Petrovich Konchalovsky (1878-1952), born in Kharkov. Natalia Petrovna writes about him in her memoirs with reluctance, mentioning only that in childhood he called the policeman a fool. Why didn’t the wife of the author of the Soviet anthem and the mother of laureates of all possible awards favor her uncle?

Yes, because in the summer of 1941, Dmitry Konchalovsky, along with his wife and three daughters, went to his dacha near Mozhaisk and ran over to the Germans.

“I deliberately left my place of permanent residence, Moscow, and without fear of the danger of ending up in an area where fighting was taking place, I took the opportunity to go as quickly as possible to meet the Wehrmacht in order to take part in its fight against Bolshevism,” he wrote in his letter to A. Rosenberg.

His son, Ivan Dmitrievich Konchalovsky, remained on Soviet territory, was a captain in the medical service in the Red Army and died in Lithuania in the summer of 1944. During his work in German-occupied Smolensk, D. Konchalovsky at the height of the war openly declared himself as a Russian nationalist, seeing in the Germans only a means for liberating Russia from the Bolsheviks, he scolded the writings of the main ideologists of National Socialism and criticized the Fuhrer himself, but no one arrested him.

After the defeat of the Nazis, he fled to Germany and then to France, where his family was sheltered by his sister Victoria Petrovna. He escaped punishment for serving in the ideological apparatus of the occupiers. According to Andron Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, “Dmitry Konchalovsky remained an irreconcilable absolutely anti-Bolshevik and remained an enemy of the Soviet regime, so he never came here, and we never communicated, or rather, we never met.”

A day in history. February 21: the Germans shot the “chief Russophobe of Kyiv”

©

Public domain

The middle son, aka Pyotr Petrovich Jr., studied in Kharkov at the 3rd men's gymnasium. At the same time, he received lessons at the drawing school of Maria Dmitrievna Raevskaya-Ivanova, the wife of a prominent educator and a permanent member of the Kharkov City Duma for forty years. It was from this private institution that both the art school and the art and industrial institute later emerged.

“Petya became a favorite in the family. Everything came easy to him. The boys were flying a kite in the yard - Petya's kite soared highest and farthest into the sky. They played gorodki - Petya knocked out the most difficult pieces with the first cue ball. He was the best performer in home performances, he made the scenery excellently, sang, danced, recited well, but he studied very poorly - not because he was incapable, but simply lazy. However, since childhood he developed a passion for drawing,” said his daughter Natalia Petrovna.

After the family moved to Moscow, Peter Jr. studied at the 1st men's gymnasium, and at the same time studied painting and drawing in evening classes with V.D. Sukhov at the Central Stroganov School of Technical Drawing. Thanks to his father's publishing activities, he met V.I. Surikov, I.E. Repin, V.M. and A.M. Vasnetsov, V.A. Serov, M.A. Vrubel, I. I. Levitan, K. A. Korovin and other famous painters.

This is what he was like at that time, judging by the description of his daughter Natalia: “The younger Konchalovsky was taller than his father, broad-shouldered, with large arms and legs. His dark hair was cut short. On a matte face, small gray eyes looked seriously and attentively. A large mouth, a large straight nose, a beautiful forehead - everything spoke of originality, but when he smiled with his mouth closed, shyly and silently, this face became delightful, it seemed to be illuminated from within by some kind of joyful friendliness.”

At first, he does not plan to make painting his main occupation, and in 1896, at the insistence of Pyotr Petrovich Sr., he entered the natural sciences department of Moscow University. However, soon, under the influence of Konstantin Korovin, he decides to go to Paris to study painting at the Academy of R. Julien.

A day in history. October 3: Kharkov merchant's wife, who received an Oscar award, was born

©

classicaltheatre

While Peter the Younger is in France, V. A. Serov petitions for a deferment from military conscription for the young painter, who was supposed to serve as a simple private for three years, since he did not receive a higher education. Later, his grandson Nikita served in the navy as a simple sailor, and voluntarily.

Returning to Russia in 1898, Peter entered the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where he studied with V. E. Savinsky, V. I. Tvorozhnikov and G. R. Zaleman, and then moved to the battle painting workshop of P. O Kovalevsky.

© RIA Novosti, Mikhail Ozersky | Go to photobank

People's Artist of the RSFSR Pyotr Konchalovsky

In 1901, in the Kremlin, near the Tsar Bell, he proposed to Olga Surikova, the daughter of the famous painter.

“Two young people swore a strange oath to each other: never turn their future life into an “ordinary married life,” never complain or lament, no matter what happens, never reproach each other for anything—nothing should interfere with creative life, no everyday conventions. True, deep, selfless love should not turn into a habit, and comradely support, loyalty and understanding of each other should last throughout life.

They vowed never to be separated from the children they would certainly have, and wherever their working life took them, to take their children with them, sharing with them everything that they themselves would learn and receive from life,” writes N. Konchalovskaya .

A day in history. December 28: the most famous Ukrainian bandura player and father of the Russian avant-garde was born

©

lifo.gr

The future father-in-law did not approve of his daughter's choice. “He told me: “Well, where will she go with you? You have neither a stake nor a yard! Which husband are you? And in general, being the wife of an artist is an unenviable lot,” and I answered him: “But you, Vasily Ivanovich, raised her for your artist husband.” He looked at me so angrily, fell silent and just waved his hand,” Pyotr Petrovich himself told his parents.

After 55 years, Olga Vasilievna wrote:

“...All this took three weeks at Maslenitsa 1902. We got married in the Khamovnichesky Church (it still stands in the same place, decorated with bouquets), and I always asked Pyotr Petrovich to paint this colorful church. I arrived at the wedding in a white veil, Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov’s little son, Yura, came with me with an image, and in the church the best man carried my huge train behind me. The best men were Maxim Petrovich Konchalovsky, the artist Miliotti and David Ivanovich Ilovaisky. Immediately I saw Vrubel, he was very strange even then, apparently he was beginning to develop an illness that led him to a mental hospital. After the wedding, we all went to our place in Leontyevsky Lane. Then we were escorted to the station, and we left for St. Petersburg.”

Could Pyotr Petrovich then imagine that in 1936 he himself would find himself in Surikov’s position! Only now the young poet Comrade Mikhalkov, the author of “Uncle Styopa,” proposed to Natalia Petrovna Konchalovskaya not in the Kremlin (it was already closed to the public at that time), but by long-distance telephone from Kharkov, where the Soviet artist Peter once grew up in Shteifon’s house Konchalovsky and where the real anti-killer Count Loris-Melikov exiled the father of the family.

But before that, the painter Konchalovsky will become the father of two children.

“My parents never broke the oath taken under the Tsar Bell - they dragged us with them everywhere. My brother Misha and I were surprisingly comfortable children, like folding penknives - no whims or demands, no matter where we slept, no matter what we ate, no matter how we traveled. Olga Vasilievna, who herself was accustomed to living on wheels from infancy, taught us to such a life,” recalled Natalia Petrovna.

"Russian Polyphemus". Great futurist from Kharkov province

©

Public domain

In 1911, Pyotr Konchalovsky became the founder of the avant-garde association “Jack of Diamonds,” created with the goal of “spreading modern concepts on issues of fine arts.” This name came from two associations. Aces of diamonds in Russia were used to call convicts for the black diamond on their back, and in France they called jacks for roguish lackeys. The core of the association was R. Falk, A. Lentulov, I. Mashkov, A. Kuprin, P. Konchalovsky, its members were N. Goncharova, M. Larionov, V. and D. Burlyuk, N. Kulbin, K. Malevich and others subsequently famous artists.

In 1914, Konchalovsky was mobilized as an artillery officer. At the front he comes under fire, is shell-shocked and is evacuated to the rear for treatment. Spends two months in a hospital in Nara. Continuing to serve until his demobilization in April 1917, he did not fight again. And then he becomes a realist; until the end of his life, fifteen of his personal exhibitions are organized. During the Great Patriotic War he did not leave Moscow.

On February 2, 1956, Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky died. I don’t think there is any need to introduce his numerous offspring.

Grandfathers and parents

Alexander Mikhalkov, landowner of the Moscow, Kostroma and Yaroslavl provinces, captain and honorary justice of the peace, was the poet’s grandfather. Grandmother Anna Miller, his wife, was also of noble origin.

Alexander Mikhalkov and his wife Anna also lived in Nazaryevo, where their son Vladimir, the father of the famous writer, was born.

The family of Vladimir and Olga had three sons - Sergei, Mikhail and Alexander (Mikhalkov). The writer spent his childhood in the nest of his ancestors near Moscow. But these were difficult revolutionary times.

After the revolution, the estate was nationalized, and the family moved from Moscow to Pyatigorsk. The upbringing in the family was Spartan. The boys were educated by a governess of German origin.

Login to the site

October 21 marks the birthday of Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), a famous Russian director, actor, screenwriter and producer, People's Artist of Russia, laureate of State Prizes.

In 1959, Mikhalkov made his acting debut. Nikita was 14 years old at the time. His older brother Andrei suggested: “If you want, I’ll take you to the shoot. But the shooting will be early. At five in the morning the operator will be waiting for us on site.” It was necessary to shoot a shot with a woman walking away from the camera. Nikita was happy. He was supposed to wake up his brother in the morning, but he overslept. Didn't hear the alarm clock. Andrei was very angry with his brother, but the scene had to be filmed. I had to take Andrei’s wife’s fur coat and high-heeled shoes - these were props. When we arrived at the shooting location at the Nikitsky Gate, the actress was no longer there. “Well, you bastard, you bastard! - Andrei shouted at Nikita. - You will play now as an actress. Roll up your pants!

Nikita obediently rolled up his trousers, put on his shoes, put on his fur coat, the cameraman lay down on a newspaper, set up the camera, and they started! Nikita was in tears, trying his best, hobbling around in high heels. “Go be more feminine,” Andrey shouted. - Wiggle your butt! Why are you walking like a boy!” This is how Nikita starred in a movie for the first time.

Already in 1963, Nikita played the main role in Georgy Danelia’s film “I Walk Around Moscow.” Nikita got this role thanks to the recommendation of the film’s screenwriter Gennady Shpalikov and his older brother Andrey.

Some time after the start of filming, Nikita Mikhalkov approached Georgy Danelia and asked to raise the fee from 8 rubles to 25. Since this had to be coordinated with Goskino, Danelia used a trick and told Nikita that they were taking another actor in his place. Nikita burst into tears, asked for forgiveness and said that his older brother Andrei taught him this.

“I played myself in this film,” recalls Nikita Sergeevich. “I even thought: “How easy it turns out to be an artist.” You say your text and that’s it.” Then, when I had a chance to feel all the hardships of the profession, I realized that the filming of “I’m Walking...” was just a happy free flight, which probably happens once in a lifetime.

In 1974, Nikita Mikhalkov made his debut as a director of the film “One among Strangers, a Stranger among Ones,” where he also played one of the roles. This was followed by famous works, including: “Slave of Love” (1975), “Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano” (1977), “A Few Days in the Life of I.I. Oblomov" (1979), "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1981), "Kinfolk" (1981), "Station for Two" (1982), "Cruel Romance" (1984), "The Barber of Siberia" (1999), "Burnt by the Sun" (1994), etc.

Nikita Mikhalkov won the Golden Lion in Venice for the films “Urga - Territory of Love” (1991) and “12” (2007), received the Grand Prix in Cannes and an Oscar for the film “Burnt by the Sun” (1994).

Creativity and life

Despite his noble blood, Mikhalkov accepted the state system and perceived the collapse of the USSR as a great tragedy. Until the end of his life he asked to be called a “Soviet man” and was glad that his peers did not live to see the collapse of Soviet power.

In the lifetime of Sergei Mikhalkov, twelve rulers and four regimes have changed. The Stalinist government loved Mikhalkov, but he, as an apolitical person, simply appreciated the opportunity to work.

Mikhalkov is known as a children's poet, but he wrote not only for children. The script of the famous film “3+2” was written by him. Many children's fairy tales have been based on his works. Until the end of his days, he remained the editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine “Fitil”. Sergei Vladimirovich worked until the end of his life, because creativity was the meaning of life for the poet.

Sergei Mikhalkov is not just the author of hymns and children's poems, on which more than one generation of Soviet children grew up, he is the father of famous actors and directors Nikita and Andrey. Their films have received more than one award.

Today Nikita Mikhalkov accepts congratulations on his anniversary

Actor, director, public figure and true patriot. Literally everyone in our country knows his name. Talent is also appreciated abroad. Nikita Sergeevich is an Oscar winner, the Cannes Palme d'Or and the Venice Golden Lion. Mikhalkov is capable of any genre of cinema; some of his films have long become classics. However, the director does not stop creating to this day.

Coming onto the stage to look his audience in the eyes, Nikita Mikhalkov still does not know that the film “Sunstroke,” which he has dreamed of making for 37 years, has been nominated for an Oscar from Russia. He will be informed about this literally in 10 minutes. But Mikhalkov will not give free rein to his emotions, although he does not know how to hide his feelings. After the Oscar for Burnt by the Sun, according to his relatives, he sang in the shower for ten days in the morning, and when Georgy Danelia threatened to remove the aspiring actor from the role for insolence, he even burst into tears, apologizing.

“It’s hard for me to imagine that I would advise anything to myself during the times of “I’m walking around Moscow”... And I don’t know what I would be like next. Therefore, as Tolstoy said, “Do what you must, and let it be what will be!”; “The happiness of life is in life itself,” said Lev Nikolaevich,” says the director.

In order to make films calmly, Mikhalkov wrote denunciations about allegedly unworthy behavior against himself with his left hand, just so that he would not have to join the party. He became so immersed in his work that, looking at the screen later, he often didn’t understand how it was done.

“The pleasure you get from watching the sun set is not available to me in the same way that it is available to you. Because I immediately apply it to this or that episode of the picture, or the future, or the past - why it should have been this way, or not, and so on,” says Nikita Mikhalkov.

The director admitted that, having flared up during work, he just as quickly moves away and forgives everything. But God forbid if an actor or lighting technician has no sense of humor.

“When you are absolutely convinced that you will now be supported in what you just said, and this is funny, you see a person who, so to speak, does not understand... Everything immediately goes down five floors, and it is impossible to work,” the director laments.

The most important thing, says Mikhalkov, is that after the command “Motor!” everything in the frame breathed with him. And for this, he is ready to show to the point of exhaustion how and what to play.

“When you’re shooting a long panorama, when a lot of things have to work synchronously at exactly the moment when the camera is in this exact place... You’re sitting at the monitor, and that’s it, and we’re off on time, that’s the word “shot!”... Happiness is the word “ removed"! - says Nikita Mikhalkov.

Almost all his life he dreamed of filming “Burnt by the Sun. Anticipation", his film about the war. Tell about everything that I heard from her heroes, about everything that I read in the documents, not believing my eyes. And often in interviews he repeats the main prayer of the generation of his parents, who knew exactly what happiness was - “If only there was no war.”

“Happiness is, you know, when at seven in the morning you want and can jump into a river from a cliff in the summer. If you want to, it means you’re not sick! You can - that means there is no war! And the feeling of jumping into the cold morning water at home, in the Motherland, is always happiness,” says Mikhalkov.

He says that he doesn’t feel these 70 years at all. And not only because he still keeps himself in shape - he runs in the morning, swims a lot and plays tennis. And not even because four children and nine grandchildren, in principle, do not allow you to relax. If there is a secret to his youth, then it is most likely in the dream of a new film, a new job and even a new hassle. After all, all this is, in the end, the happiness of his life.

“And that’s why I don’t feel age. Because when you think about how much you have done, you begin to distribute it in the years when you did it... It turns out to be a lot. And when you don’t think about it, everything is pretty easy!” - says the director.

Nikita Mikhalkov was congratulated by the President today, and Channel One also congratulates him. This Saturday on our air watch the documentary project “Nikita Mikhalkov. A Stranger Among Our Own,” as well as films in which Nikita Sergeevich played some of his best roles: “I Walk Through Moscow,” “Cruel Romance,” “Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano.”

Fraternal relations

Very little is known about the fate of Sergei Mikhalkov’s brothers; much of the information is still classified. After the release of the memoirs “Two Brothers - Two Fates”, many learned that the poet had two more brothers. The book contains very scant information about Alexander and Mikhail Mikhalkov.

Alexander Mikhalkov is known as an engineer who was involved in local history. He was clearly interested in his ancestors and noble origins. In 1996, he managed to publish the work “Essays on the history of the Moscow merchants, whose enterprises served Moscow after the revolution.” It was this work that made him famous.

From the memoirs of Moskovskaya Pravda employees it is known that Alexander Vladimirovich Mikhalkov appeared at the newspaper’s editorial office without calling and did not like to talk about his famous brother. The circulation of his work is only 1,500 copies; it is now on the lists of recommended literature for studying the history of Russian entrepreneurship.

The younger brother Mikhail also distinguished himself in the literary field and wrote an autobiographical story “In the Labyrinth of Mortal Risk,” where he told his own story of struggle.

2015–2018

Recently, Nikita Mikhalkov’s love for noble fabrics has become more and more obvious - and this is not luxurious fur, like Sir Henry from “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” but discreet suede, wool and cashmere. The director's glasses also deserve special mention - just a couple of years ago Nikita Sergeevich preferred a frameless model (this is worth choosing only if you are faced with the task of throwing on a tenner). But now the director prefers round frames with slightly tinted lenses - it looks respectable and not boring at the same time. And in general, by his 73rd birthday, the director had finally decided on the details that define his style - in addition to the mustache, the list includes classic coats, rings and scarves. Although the mustache (even if not the hope) still comes first.

2015

2015

2015

2015

2018

2018

Rybinsk

Data about the Mikhalkov family and its noble origins were kept in the family archive of the personal estate in Rybinsk. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, archives were handed over to relatives and the truth about the life of the Mikhalkov ancestors became available to relatives.

It is known about the estate in Rybinsk that before the advent of Soviet power, many works of art were stored there - paintings and ancient household items passed into the hands of the state and were forever lost to the famous family.

Now the park in Rybinsk has the status of a monument of landscape art. Shady alleys and centuries-old trees preserve the memory of the glorious noble family of the Mikhalkovs.

LiveInternetLiveInternet

[/td]

Photos of samples of New Year's figures

On October 21, director Nikita Mikhalkov turned 63 years old. The future eminent director was born in 1945 in the family of a prominent Soviet writer, one of the authors of the text of the USSR anthem, Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov, and poetess, writer and translator Natalya Petrovna Konchalovskaya.

Nikita Mikhalkov began acting in films at the age of 14. At the age of 18, he played one of the main roles in Georgy Danelia’s film “I Walk Around Moscow.” In the year the film was released, Mikhalkov entered the Theater School. Shchukin. In 1966 he was expelled. Then Mikhalkov transferred to the 2nd year of the VGIK directing department in the workshop of Mikhail Romm, where his older brother Andrei Konchalovsky studied eight years before him.

After graduating from the institute, Nikita Mikhalkov, unexpectedly for everyone, joined the army, the nuclear submarine fleet in Kamchatka. After demobilization, he returned to cinema. In 1974, the first film by director Mikhalkov, “A Friend Among Strangers, a Stranger Among Our Own,” was released on the country’s screens.

Mikhalkov’s next film, “Slave of Love,” was released in 1975. The main role was played by Elena Solovey, who played the star of Russian pre-revolutionary cinema, whose prototype was Vera Kholodnaya.

Over the years of work, Mikhalkov has made many films that have repeatedly received Russian and foreign awards. “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano”, “The Barber of Siberia”, “Dark Eyes” - these films have become a real asset to the Russian cinematography. The film “Burnt by the Sun” received the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for best foreign film.

In July 2008, at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, Mikhalkov’s film “12” received a special “Golden Lion”, despite the fact that the film was presented out of competition.

Now Nikita Mikhalkov is filming a large-scale film about the Great Patriotic War, which will be a continuation of the film “Burnt by the Sun.”

Nikita Mikhalkov revived the greatness of the International Moscow Film Festival (MIFF). Since 2000, the festival has been held annually.

MIFF has turned into a status event - world stars of the first magnitude began to come to the festival: Richard Gere, Monica Bellucci, Jack Nicholson, Charlize Terron, Emir Kusturica, Gerard Depardieu.

The director is friendly with Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Vladimirovich repeatedly came to the film sets where Mikhalkov worked.

The creativity and social activities of Nikita Mikhalkov cause not only praise, but also critical attacks. The director himself in such cases considers it necessary to follow Tolstoy’s commandment: “Do what you must, and let it be what will be.”

Mikhalkov has four children - Stepan, Anna, Artem and Nadya. The director's daughters became famous Russian actresses. Stepan Mikhalkov is engaged in business and producing, Artem studies abroad.

inflatable New Year figures