Cyril Copelian. "This is my cross" (confession of the mother)

The son of the famous Burnash from the "Elusive Avengers" and Khanuma - Cyril Kopelyan - followed in the footsteps of his parents and began to serve in the theater. Efim Zakharovich and Lyudmila Iosifovna - famous actors of theater and cinema of the middle of the twentieth century. For their work, both received the title of People's Artist of the USSR - and it was a well-deserved award.

Parents

Lyudmila was only twenty years old, and Yefim was twenty-nine when they signed their names in the Leningrad registry office, and a month later the war broke out. Kopelyan went to the militia, and Lyudmila mowed down typhoid fever.

Through much had to pass to the couple at the beginning of family life, but at the most difficult moment they were saved by love. This is evidenced by Kopelyan's letters to his wife, which she kept all her life at the head of the bed and often re-read.

Yefim Zakharovich was nine years older than Lyudmila, or, as everyone called her, Lucy, and George Tovstonogov - Lucinda. She learned a lot from her husband, and although, unlike him, Lyudmila Iosifovna did not act in film a lot, there was never any envy between them. Yefim Zakharovich was for her both a father, and a friend, and a husband. In addition, Lusia herself shone on the stage of the Leningrad Bolshoi Theater.

In 1948 on November 28 the family was replenished, the long-awaited son - Cyril Efimovich Kopelyan was born.

Youth

Unfortunately, little is known about the son of famous parents, but in an interview Lyudmila Iosifovna told me that Cyril was a good artist, something just went wrong.

Kirill Kopelyan, having studied in secondary school No. 161 of Smolninsky district, decides to continue the work of his parents and in 1967 he enters the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. And he finishes it in 1972, having studied on the course of Makariev LF. How did parents look at the son's decision to become an artist-history is silent. But for certain it is known that Yefim Zakharovich tried to be a just and strict father. Not for nothing after the death of the artist George Tovstonogov expressed himself that the conscience had left the theater.

Relations between father and son become similar to those of Turgenev's heroes. At this time, Cyril Copelian communicates with a bad company and even drinks. And once without a demand takes his father's car, gets into an accident and breaks it. Fortunately, everything is fine, but despite this, the son is very worried about what he did, the relationship with his father does not improve, the constant reproaches of Yefim Kopelyan only alienate them from each other.

Creation

Kirill Yefimovich Kopelyan gets acquainted after some time with the talented parodist of that time Viktor Chistyakov. Victor's fate ended early, but so far his performances are shown on TV, and for the fans of talent, there are video recordings with his participation, which are posted on various portals.

Lyudmila Iosifovna said that Cyril Kopelyan was a very kind boy, with a light character, available in communication, not arrogant, with a subtle sense of humor, like his father. The same was said by his friends. Acquaintance with Victor Chistyakov opened new facets of his talent in Cyril. He could do parodies of Mikhail Boyarsky, on well-known sports commentators of the time Nikolai Ozerov and Victor Nabutov. And especially well, he portrayed the Secretary-General of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev ("Uncle Lenya"), the main director of the Bolshoi Theater Tovstonogov GA. He liked to imitate his father and his voice telling anecdotes about Stirlitz.

Kirill Kopelyan, biography: personal life

After the death of his father George Tovstonogov at the request of Lyudmila Iosifovna took Kirill to her theater, but he did not serve there for a long time. He went to the Theater of Comedy, from there to the Theater on Liteiny, participated in children's productions in the theater "On the Neva", but did not play any serious and significant roles. In 1980, Kirill Kopelyan (actor) took part in the project Gutkovich A., starred in the serial film "Atlantes and Caryatids", and this is his career ended.

Cyril's personal life also did not work out, apparently he could not find such a woman who would love him just as her husband Ludmila Iosifovna loved. This was a courageous and faithful wife and mother. She lived 93 years, survived both her husband and son and yet remained an optimist.

She remembered that Cyril was terribly beaten to death, after which the doctors barely brought him out of the state of coma. The son became an invalid of the first group and has not worked in recent years.

In this she saw her sadness and her cross and did not blame anyone, believed that, rather, she had sinned in something. I was very sorry that my son did not marry, and she does not have grandchildren.