Parodist and actor Viktor Chistyakov: biography, creativity

A talented Soviet actor and a wonderful parodist Viktor Chistyakov was born in Leningrad on June 30, 1943. From a very young age, he surprised those around him with the ability to skillfully imitate any sounds he heard - birds, animals, people. Viktor Chistyakov copied people even in intonations. Parents saw the future of the acting skills of his son, when he accurately copied the fragments of the ballet "Swan Lake", which they watched in the theater. The child was given to a choreographic school, where he studied until the seventh grade. Then physical exertion became excessive for him, and he changed the ballet to music - he entered the school in the class of clarinet.

Studying at the Institute

After graduating from high school, Viktor Chistyakov began his studies at the acting department of the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema. The course was cohesive, fun and talented, and the program is experimental. It was thanks to her that Viktor Chistyakov learned to imitate anyone skillfully, using both the flexibility of the voice, and the correctness of the intonation, and the accuracy of the facial expressions, and the eloquence of the gesture. Friends-students and teachers were delighted. None of the events took place without his participation. Even then, Viktor Chistyakov was a parodist.

He easily sang not only for Kozlovsky with Lemeshev, but even for Lyalya Chernoy. After graduation, he was invited to the Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater, where he made his debut as a beggar (Prince and the Pauper). However, the talent was called to the road, and Viktor Chistyakov, whose biography as a parodist has not really begun yet, is sent to Moscow. At first, by arrivals. It was in 1966, only in 1971 he started work at the Gogol Theater, already being a universally known variety artist.

Stage

In 1968, a new star appeared on the platform - Victor Chistyakov, a parodist. Solo performances made him incredibly popular, he was not equal in the musical parody. Little by little, he left the theatrical career, because he felt that his fate would not develop as splendidly as on the stage.

Already his first independent number showed how rich this nature is from the nature. Not only did the gift of the parodist and imitator strike the listener, but also the absolute hearing, the voice range and the true talent of the actor. The range was really unique: Viktor Ivanovich Chistyakov was singing along with Claudia Shulzhenko, Lyudmila Zykina, Edita Pyekha, and Mireille Mathieu. Almost immediately he got a real glory.

Persons

It's a pity that not all of the work done by Viktor Chistyakov was saved on film, but something was done to remember the great parodist, his exceptional artistic quality and phenomenal vocal data. It was not far from the miracle and mysticism - what he was doing with his voice. All parodized were recognizable absolutely: breathing, timbre coloring, character of performance. Viktor Chistyakov parodies did not with the help of a certain vocal trick, it was always an image, and always - kind. Although often parodied still offended.

Offended Nikolai Slichenko, persuaded not to imitate his Polad Byul-Byul Ogly, Lyudmila Zykina was angry. However, all recognized recognition. And how gracefully the artist Chistyakov Victor sang for Anna Herman! This is the absolute identity of singing. Once on the radio listeners were tested right on the air: from two couplets of the song of Maya Kristalinskaya one sang Viktor Chistyakov. Even specialists could not distinguish performers. Shulzhenko, preparing to enter the stage, heard the parodist singing the "Blue Handkerchief", and exclaimed in surprise: "What is this? It's I sing!" Sometimes Victor sang better than his parodied (Claudia Ivanovna, of course, this does not concern, but there were a lot of such).

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A great actor, the parodist showed the audience not only fantastic musicality. He incredibly subtly conveyed the manner of singing of all his characters. However, his personality did not dissolve in a parodied, always his own attitude was in the construction of each parody. It was clearly not a copy, it was high creativity.

Vocal skill Chistiakov was at such a high level that when the elderly Lemeshev could not cope purely with some fragments of arias in the filming of a documentary, unsuccessfully rewriting the soundtrack a dozen times, Victor helped him. Not only did viewers of this substitution not notice, but even specialists who were not aware of. However, Viktor Chistyakov was, in his turn, unhappy, he could not sing anything with his own voice. He did not even know what he had. I tried, but all the time I switched to imitation.

For four years

Work on the stage took all the time parodist and took away all his strength. He only sold out for four years. During this time I managed to make him remember his work for many decades. He managed to give more than a thousand concerts, it's about three times a day. In the holidays and holidays there were six and ten times a day, and even in different cities. The geography of his trips covered the whole country.

Here you need to remember what a bundle is. The voice apparatus is preparing for concert activity for many years, and Victor did not have a singing school. Absolutely. But even professional singers lead a strict way of life, in every possible way try to save ligaments from colds and overloads.

Companions

Starry numbers were first written by his theatrical colleagues - Ilya Reznik and Stanislav Landgraf, then he worked closely with Yuri Entin, a poet with a subtle sense of the subject. On his poems, Viktor Chistyakov, five songs for the cartoon "The Blue Puppy" were recorded, then Gennady Gladkov decided to draw him to the second series of his legendary "Bremen Musicians". But in both cases it did not happen to bring the matter to an end. "Puppy" was voiced by Alexander Gradsky, Andrei Mironov, Mikhail Boyarsky and Alisa Freindlich, and Leonid Berger sang for Bremen Musicians-2.

Very warmly recalls Viktor Chistyakov Gennady Khazanov. According to him, this artist was far from any politics, he was an independent act of art. And this is much more belongs to eternity than the existence of certain political views. It was a truly theatrical person, his world was closed and fragile. Viktor Chistyakov - a parodist unique in which the artistic principle prevails over the talented imitation.

To Kharkov

In May 1972 the Kharkiv Theater of the Operetta celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, Viktor Chistyakov was among the invited to participate in a gala concert on this occasion. Tickets were bought in advance, the plane took off in the morning, and Viktor Chistyakov, as it was almost always, overslept. At night, he usually lingered long at work or books. On the eve he was late at a party, and then signed a huge pile of photographs obtained from the photographer.

On the plane Victor still managed. And it was planned the last flight: the flight was delayed due to a malfunction, the pilots refused to lift the car into the air. But it was attributed this old, flying off his technique to Kharkov, and therefore it was decided all the same the flight did not cancel, to drive the plane to the address. He did not reach the place, collapsed in the air. Almost a hundred passengers were lost, the whole crew. Viktor Chistyakov also was on board this ill-fated plane. I sat on the thirteenth place.

Presentiment

He seemed to foresee his death. Suddenly, a few days before the flight returned all the debts, began to wear a black shirt and stoically transferred all the comments on this matter. Even when there was a performance in the Hall of Columns - this was his last concert - and Boris Brunov gently asked Victor why he was not in a concert form, the answer was not understood immediately. Chistyakov explained the black shirt with mourning, although none of his relatives died. A few hours later he died himself.

The artist was not such an easy and cloudless person as his work draws. It had real depth, full of uneasy, fragile and delicate components, which is the real artistry. That's why it's not strange that Viktor Chistyakov, an absolutely unsuitable person for the struggle for a place under the sun, has reached the heights of the incredible. He was only twenty-eight, and he managed not only to take place professionally, he was truly loved by the broadest layers of modern society. Inwardly, he was not a joyous person, but his sadness was bright.

Memory

At the Theater Institute of Leningrad at parting with his beloved artist came his grateful audience in huge numbers. At the funeral, they talked about cheerful student skits, about jokes and rallies, about the most amusing episodes that were associated with the artist. Everyone was involved in memories, and there was no sadness among them, however, the grief from the early and unexpected departure of all the beloved people has not gone away.

In 1993, a book about a genial parodist (on his fiftieth birthday) was published. She absorbed the stories of friends, relatives and friends. His creative biography is extremely short - only four years, but it is inscribed in the history of the stage the brightest page. The record on which everything that Victor Chistyakov had fit to fit was just one. In 2005, a documentary film was filmed, which is still being watched with inexhaustible interest. It is called "Viktor Chistyakov - the genius of parody."