Sergey Stolyarov: biography and creativity

Sergei Stolyarov - a famous Soviet actor, familiar to the viewer for the films "Vasilisa the Beautiful", "The Secret of Two Oceans", "Sadko", "Circus", "Ruslan and Lyudmila."

Years hungry

The exact date of birth of the artist is unknown because of the loss of the metric. Actor Sergei Stolyarov, a native of Bezububovo village, Tula region, independently chose his birth date - November 1, 1911. Many years later, the information was found, and it turned out that the artist was born in the old style on July 4. Sergei's family, consisting of three brothers and a sister, was poor, but friendly. Sergei almost did not remember his father - Dmitry Stolyarov, who worked as a forester.

In 1914, during the First World War, the head of the family went to war instead of one well-to-do peasant in exchange for a hut, a cow and a horse. Promised his family received, but Dmitry himself almost immediately killed at the front. During the October Revolution, everything received was confiscated, and the Stolyarovs again began to live in poverty and poverty. The famine in the village prompted the mother to send her older children to the "bread" of Tashkent.

Thus began the wanderings of Sergei across Russia, enveloped in the flames of war. Before Tashkent, the boy did not reach, because he fell ill with typhus. The brothers were forced to leave him, 8-year-old, in Kursk, on the threshold of the hospital, and then disappeared without a trace in the maelstrom of the events around him. Sergei recovered and was identified in the Kursk orphanage, where he first met with the theater. Together with several orphanage children, he participated in the drama circle, where plays were staged from the history of the French Revolution.

Sergey Stolyarov: the biography of the actor

In the late 20-ies, the young man graduated from Moscow's first vocational school and worked for some time on the Kiev railway locomotive driver. At the same time I was engaged in a theater studio for workers, which was organized by actor Aleksey Wild at the House of Scientists .

In 1931 he graduated from the acting department of the Theater School of Proletcult. After that he worked at the Moscow Art Theater (1932-1934), the Central Theater of the Red Army (1934-1938), the Mossovet Theater (1940-1942), the Theater-Studio of the film actor (since 1944).

Successfully developed not only the creative, but also the personal life of the actor. At the theater, Sergei met his future wife - a young actress Olga Konstantinova. In 1934 they were married.

The first successes in the world of the film industry

In 1934 the young artist Sergei Stolyarov got into the attention of Alexander Dovzhenko, who invited him to his film "Aerograd" for the role of the pilot. This was the debut of Sergei Stolyarov in the movies, and very successful. Statuable handsome, immediately liked the viewer, could not fail to notice the directors. Grigory Alexandrov himself in 1936 without any samples invited Sergei to the main role in the film "Circus", which became the star launch of a talented actor. Stolyarov's face grinned with huge advertising posters, often flashed in magazines and newspapers. This circumstance helped Sergei to meet with his mother and brother, who recognized him after 18 years of separation. In 1937, Sergei Stolyarov became a father. Cyril appeared to the world, later, like his father, who chose the actor's way.

Sergei Stolyarov - an actor, whose biography to this day evokes a keen interest of admirers of his talent; He was always in demand, actively acted on the screen, one after another came out films with his participation: "Vasilisa the Beautiful," "Ruslan and Lyudmila," "Kashchey the Immortal."

The military period of Stolyarov's life

After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the actor could not stay away and volunteered for the front. However, he, like the rest of his colleagues, was recalled, motivating the decision made by production necessity.

In the autumn of 1941, Stolyarov moved with his family and Mosfilm to Alma-Ata. On the way to this city there was an unpleasant incident: all food stamps were stolen, which at that time doomed a person to starvation. Then Stolyarov, a hunter by nature, took a rifle at the film studio and went into the mountains. He returned a day later with the prey - a mountain goat of impressive size. The meat was enough for a long time, part of the booty was even sold in the nearest market, and some were traded for Simonov's new play "Russian People", eventually staged by Stolyarov on the stage of the local theater. All the funds from the production actor sent to the defense fund on a tank, named after the play "Russian people". For this act, Stalin himself thanked Stolyarov a telegram sent to Alma-Ata.

Despite his recognition and fame, Sergei Stolyarov lived modestly, not having a dacha or a car. His friends also belonged to a number of ordinary people who had no relation to the world of art. Of the actors, the friendship that lasted a lifetime, led only with Boris Babochkin.

By the way, Sergei Stolyarov was the prototype of the worker in the famous sculpture of Soviet times "Worker and Collective Farm Girl". It was from him sculpted Mukhina his creation, although Stolyarov did not even pose for her.

At the zenith of fame

In 1953 a film with the participation of Sergei Stolyarov "Sadko" appeared on the screens, and received the first prize at the Venice Festival. So the actor, who was not sent to this festival for purely ideological reasons, also gained international fame. The French magazine "Cinema" a year later included Stolyarov, the only representative of the Soviet Union, in the list of the brightest actors of the world cinema, among them were Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, Robert Taylor, Buster Keaton. The actor himself treated this with a certain amount of humor, believing that this list should not be him, but such masters as Simonov, Cherkasov, Babochkin.

The 50th years were marked by the release of two more films. It was the "Secret of the Two Oceans" and "Ilya Muromets", which entered the Guinness Book of Records for the quantitative figure of the extras (1100 horses and 106,000 extras soldiers).

In the 60s, the career of a film actor went somewhat to decline; On the screens of the country with the participation of Stolyarov came out only two pictures: "Man changes skin" and "Nebula Andromeda", which became the last in his acting destiny. Health Stolyarova undermined the scandal associated with the accusation of the latter in the lack of participation in theatrical productions. For this he and his wife were fired from the theater.

Honest, open, sincere

In the late 60's Sergei Stolyarov agreed to shoot the film in his script "When the Fog Diversies". But he could not carry out the plan because of the aggravation of the malignant tumor, and therefore had to go to the hospital. There was no talented actor on December 9, 1969. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

Sergei Stolyarov, who embodied on the screen truly courageous, honest and sincere people, was so in life. And people felt it. There was even such an event. Once on Pokrovka Sergey Stolyarov met a boy who, upon recognizing the famous actor, began to read Krylov's fable on the move. The boy said that he really wants to become an artist, and literally infected his actor with his sincere youthful desire, which forever remembered this meeting. This boy was Valentin Gaft.