The original, unique actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Petrenko Alexei Vasilyevich, who played Rasputin, Peter I, Stalin and dozens of other roles, continues to enjoy life at his seventy-eight years, pamper the audience with his appearance on the stage of theater and cinema and raise children. At the age of 72, he began his third youth, which was created by his love for a journalist from Kyrgyzstan and a longtime admirer of the talent of an actor - Azima Abdumaminova. In addition, Alexei Vasilyevich is a member of the Patriarchal Council of the Orthodox Church. But back to basics.
Parents
Petrenko Alexey Vasilyevich, an actor whose filmography includes more than fifty roles, including kings, judges, military leaders, generalissimos, was born into a peasant family on the Chernihiv farm.
In general, the artist's pedigree originates fromPoltava province. It is from Lokhvits that his parents are. The elder brother, grandmother, grandfather died of starvation, and the father was condemned by Stalin's people for disrupting plans for grain delivery and exiled to serve his sentence in a camp. The innocent Vasily Alekseevich incredibly managed to elude the work on the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal, which was carried out by the convicts. Hiding from persecution, Alexei's father went in 1935 to the Chernihiv region. Not far from Chemer, in one of the state farms, the elder Petrenko settled down. And three years later, the future actor Petrenko Alexei Vasilyevich was born. When my son was 11 years old, the family moved to Chernihiv, where they were able to buy half a house on Boeva Street for the money they earned.
Childhood and youth
In fact, Alexei was born on March 26, although in some sources about the artist's biography, and in the passport itself, the date is April 1. The fact is that Vasily Alekseevich came to the village council on April 1, 1938 to register his son, and in order to avoid unnecessary questions about the untimely registration of the baby, he called the current day the date of birth of Alexei.
Muscular build guy - Petrenko Alexey Vasilyevich, was fond of sports. Manila his struggle. Yes, this is understandable, because feeling the superiority in physical education over peers, the guy understood what success could be achieved in sports. But a parallel hobby in the drama club took over the sports hobby. Then the head of the theatrical circle of the Palace of Pioneers explained to Alexei about the importance of the appearance of the actor, and this could be prevented by a broken nose and other injuries received inthe result of the struggle. Now, observing an impressive list of the actor's works, it is easy to conclude that the guy connected the future with the theatrical and cinematic scene.
Entrance exams
Alexey Petrenko was able to enter the Temple of Art only the third time. The actor's filmography dates back to 1967, when the guy was 29 years old, and this is a rather late date for an aspiring artist. The fact is that for two years in a row the guy stormed the Kyiv Theater Institute. The entrance exams resulted in the following marks: dictation in Russian - 2, and the composition in Ukrainian was not written at all.
In the breaks between admissions, Alexey learned the professions of a locksmith, a hammerer and a sailor. In the third year, fate obeyed the guy's desire to become an actor, and he entered the Kharkov Theater Institute. Remembering now those years, Alexei Vasilyevich is grateful to such a combination of circumstances that allowed him to know the life of a factory worker and a worker until he became a student of his alma mater. This powerful school of life has helped him ever since.
"If you believe in the Lord, then no matter what happens to you, it will be good," - this is how actor Petrenko Alexei Vasilievich describes all the life situations that happened to him.
There is in the credits, but not in the frame
Now film schools are studying the roles of Alexei Petrenko, but the first reincarnation of the then young actor (1966) was simply cut out of the film. The film was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the October Revolutionand told about the young commissar and the fight against the American capitalists. Alexei in the film "Head of Chukotka" was intended to play the role of a bandit, and Petrenko's appearance in the frame was short-lived. For the artist himself, this premiere was long-awaited, and before it was released on the screens, he was not told that the episode with him was cut out. So what was the reason?
When the film was shot at Lenfilm, the censors in Moscow had to approve the film. Initially, the picture was accepted normally, but already before the premiere, the director was called and ordered to remove the robbery scene, in which Petrenko Alexei Vasilyevich was filmed, justifying this as an insult to the Soviet authorities. The fact is that according to the scenario, this was the second attack on the chief, and the members of the commission were outraged by this repeated incident, they say, there cannot be so many robberies in the country.
Meanwhile, Alexei had already invited his friend to the premiere of the film at the cinema, who, risking his reputation, left classes in order to watch Petrenko's first work. The beginning of the film, in the credits the name of the actor, the plot and the absence of an episode with a robbery. This is such a disappointment and an awkward moment that a novice artist had to endure. But this was also for the good, the director, feeling guilty for himself, invited the actor to the film "Marriage", which was released ten years after the failure for Petrenko "Chief of Chukotka".
To new roles: to Leningrad, to Moscow
After graduating from the institute in 1961, Alexey got into the Zaporozhye Musical Drama Theater. Then he transferred to the Russian Drama Theater in the city of Zhdanov. By the will of fate therepeople from Leningrad worked, who, having assessed the potential of a young guy, told him that there was nothing to do with such talent and wrote a petition to Igor Vladimirov (director of the Lensoviet Theater). Without reading even a line from the letter, Alexey packed up and left for Leningrad for the main roles.
The director asked Petrenko who he would like to play. Alexei answered: "The Knight of Tribald." But this role was assigned to another promising actor. Then Igor Vladimirov advised him to look in the advertisements of the Kultura newspaper for the characters that are required to play in new productions. Petrenko managed to find a role, but this time it was fleeting with only one phrase. But he was delighted with this, because this was the beginning of his creative activity in Leningrad. For 10 years, Alexei Vasilyevich has reincarnated in eleven performances of the Leningrad City Council. Since 1977, he went to conquer Moscow.
First wife
In 1960, Alexey married the opera singer Alla, who at that time was raising one daughter from her first marriage, Polina. They lived together for nineteen years. However, a split in the family occurred two years before the official dissolution of the marriage, and the reason for this was the residence of the spouses in different cities. In 1977, Alexei Vasilyevich Petrenko worked at the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Alla Petrenko at that time lived in Leningrad with her daughter. Polina was already 15 years old, and her father secretly told the girl about his new relationship with a journalist from Moscow, Galina Kozhukhova. But a teenagerReading Conan Doyle, decided by an anonymous letter to tell his mother the name and surname of the woman whom his father fell in love with. Then Alla Alexandrovna told her husband about the decision to dissolve the marriage.
After the divorce, the daughter stayed with her father, Alexei Petrenko insisted. Polina Petrenko moved to Moscow. She tried to enter the Shchukin school, but, having failed the exams, she returned to her mother in Leningrad. Now Alla Alexandrovna, Polina and her daughter Anastasia live in Munich.
Alexey Petrenko (actor): wife for 30 years
Galina Kozhukhova has become a support and support for the actor for many years. The artist himself speaks of this union as the happiest event in his personal life. She is a theatrical observer of Pravda, a journalist, one day she came to interview Alexei Vasilyevich. Soon she became his wife and chief critic. She dissuaded Alexei from taking peripheral roles and always answered laudatory odes to her husband: “Don’t spoil my man.”
They, together with Galina, raised her son from her first marriage, Mikhail, who is now known to the viewer as the TV presenter of the programs “Around the World”, “In Search of Adventure”. Their marriage was doomed to happiness, but the death of Galina Petrovna stopped the countdown of living together for thirty years.
Meeting with Messing
Playing at the Lensovet Theater, Petrenko spotted Elem Klimov, who was just looking for an actor for the role of Rasputin in the film Agony. Elem Germanovich before the approval of the candidacy of Alexei, who met all the criteria,decided to invite Messing to make sure that his decision was correct.
Then Alexei was 30 years old. They met with Wolf Grigorievich and talked for about an hour about life and he alth. Petrenko even gave advice to Messing on how to cure his sore knees with burdock. After their conversation, Wolf wished to take a photo with Alexei as a keepsake and asked to bring him a photo card home the next day.
When Alexey Vasilyevich Petrenko, actor, showed the photo to Messing, Wolf Grigoryevich turned the photo over and made the inscription: “Dear Alyosha! You will be fine, my thoughts are with you, 1973.”
Agony
After Messing saw in Petrenko the potential of an artist capable of playing Rasputin, Klimov approved him for the role and intense shooting began. The film became the hallmark of the actor. He got used to the role, passing through himself all the energy of the historical character. As a result, Alexei Vasilievich was admitted to the hospital with angina pectoris.
After Petrenko's recovery, filming resumed, and the result was a historical drama with excellent acting, which was released only 10 years after the planned show.
Images of influential people
The creative activity of Petrenko Alexey Vasilyevich contains solid and solid images. “The Tale of How Tsar Peter the Arap Married” is a picture in which Alexei Vasilyevich reincarnated as the autocrat of Peter the Great. ATIn this work, his partner in the frame was Vladimir Vysotsky. The image of Peter turned out to be versatile: emotional, energetic, but at the same time kind and suffering.
In the pictures "Belshazzar's Feasts", "Politburo Cooperative" and "Wolf Messing", the artist reincarnated as I. V. Stalin. The actor created his characters according to his flair and often went beyond the director's limits for a particular role. Both the viewer and the filmmakers liked such a responsible approach. He was invited to their works by Dinara Asanova, Eldar Ryazanov, Nikita Mikhalkov.
Third youth
In 2010, information appeared that Alexey Vasilievich Petrenko, Azima Abdumaminova signed. He is 72, and she is 30 years younger than her husband. The couple met in White Pillars at the film festival. Azima was an invited guest and represented the Kyrgyz State Film Fund. By the will of fate, like the second wife of the actor, she worked as a journalist.
Their love has become the subject of discussion and gossip. They got married in an Orthodox church. The groom was wearing an Uzbek national costume, and the bride was dressed in Ukrainian attire.
Children
Six children from three marriages raised and continues to do Petrenko Alexey Vasilyevich. The actor, whose daughter (non-native) now communicates little with her stepfather, is raising two girls, Azima. Although the Kyrgyz wife has four children, the two older ones already have families of their own. In someinformation sources have information that the youngest girl Aliya is supposedly a joint child of the couple. Stepson Mikhail also does not communicate with his stepfather and does not want to know anything about the new life of Alexei Vasilyevich.
Another talent of the famous actor
Petrenko's craving for singing began in childhood. After all, how can one not fall in love with Ukrainian folk songs, and even when they are sung by the native voice of the mother. Over time, Alexey Vasilyevich began to perform songs in performances, films and sing accompanied by an orchestra. The artist's repertoire is different: Ukrainian folklore, romances, classics and Russian folk songs. As a believer, Alexei Vasilyevich also fell in love with church hymns.
