Zinovy Vysokovsky - unforgettable Pan Zuzia

Vysokovsky Zinovy Moiseyevich often expressed the idea that his childhood was marred by war, and old age by perestroika. The meaning and truthfulness of these words can only be understood by the people of the older generation. Vysokovsky was born in 1932 in the city of Taganrog. He was always an excellent student and graduated from all educational institutions either with a gold medal or with a red diploma.

Vysokovsky-excellent pupil - an axiom!

The son of the chief accountant of the Taganrog brick factory studied at the school named after A.P. Chekhov - one of the best educational institutions of the city. Having graduated from it in 1952 with honors, Vysokovsky Zinovy Moiseyevich goes to Moscow to the Theater School. Shchukin. To enter the prestigious Moscow high school did not work right away (they say because of the 5th column), and in the same year the gold medalist enters the radio engineering institute of his native city. After receiving a red diploma, becoming a rocket engineer, he makes a new attempt to enter the cherished "Pike", and in 1957 becomes her student.

Best scenes of the capital

Having brilliantly graduated from the theatrical high school where he studied together with Veniamin Smekhov, Zinovy Vysokovsky becomes an artist of the Moscow Theater of Miniatures. It should be noted that Vladimir Abramovich Etush recruited students only once, and this is the only course he studied Vysokovsky. Now the Theater of Miniatures is known as the "Hermitage", the artistic director of which is Mikhail Levitin. And then it was led by its founder Vladimir Polyakov. This theater is often called the "school of clowns". It is clear why Zinovy Moiseyevich arrives there - a man with a great sense of humor, who later became a master of the colloquial genre, went to serve where he was undoubtedly in demand (he worked there with Mark Zakharov). This fact itself speaks about his talent - visitors after the institute are difficult to gain a foothold in Moscow. In 1967, Zinovy Vysokovsky moved to the Satire Theater, where he served 20 years, and left it only in 1987 after the death of Anatoly Papanov and Andrei Mironov.

Signed roles

On the stage of the Satire Theater, he played many remarkable roles. He especially remembered the audience the role of the wise Apothecary, who spoke with the Odessa accent, in the play "Intervention" by Lev Slavin, and the role of Bartolo in "The Marriage of Figaro" and Svejk in the film "Shveik in World War II" (1969).

Vysokovsky Zinovy Moiseyevich became known to the whole country as Pan Zuzia from "Kabachka 13 stools" (1968-1981). Phrases of the writer-graphomaniac scattered throughout the country. And now the audience of the older generation remember him "Good evening everyone!". They loved all the regulars of the "Kabachka", they waited for the releases so that even the hero of the story "One Hundred Years Onwards" rushes from the future home to the TV, because at 20:00 "Kabachok" begins.

but on the other hand

By the 10th anniversary of the transfer, all artists depicting regular customers, including Zinovy Vysokovsky, were awarded the title of "Honored Worker of Culture of Poland". The transfer ceased in 1981 due to the political aggravation in that country. There were shooting in the "Kabachka" and the negative side - the main director of the Satire Theater V.Pluchek, known for his heavy character, being jealous of actors to such a popular show (which Leonid Ilich very much loved) did not give them any significant roles in the theater. Also, filmmakers also acted, because the names given to the actors in the "Kabachka" were fixed firmly behind them. And in the "Living and the Dead" Zinovy Vysokovsky played his role perfectly and was very memorable to the audience. He was good in all of his film roles, although there were not many of them, just over 10.

Free breads

Very intelligent, non-conflicting, possessing a fine sense of humor, a gentle person, Vysokovsky had a rather decisive character. He left a well-paid job as a rocket engineer in Rostov and went to Moscow, where he received 22 rubles of scholarships all his years of study. Then he left the Theater of Satire, where he had inadequate, but guaranteed payment, and went "nowhere", and under Soviet rule "free bread" was not welcomed. To provide his beloved women - his wife, daughter and granddaughter - he worked a lot on the radio and toured with concerts, the script for which he wrote himself. And not always these concerts were only humorous - he knew a lot and performed well the poems of K.Simonov, R.Gamzatov and V.Vysotsky, with whom he was friendly.

Transfer "Says Odessa"

In 1985, together with the director E. Kamenkovich, he created the play "The Fifth Side of the World", which successfully took place on the stage of the Variety Theater. The program "Says Odessa" Zinovy Vysokovsky conducted on the radio ("Humor FM). He knew a lot of anecdotes, many of which he invented himself, and who skillfully told. He invented this heading on the radio himself, and thought about it after working on the image of the Apothecary from the "Intervention". Unforgettable were his monologues in the form of a drunken intellectual who calls his wife (the famous Lulek) from the sobering-up station. He was very good with the monologues of the "rabbit". In a word, who saw and heard the performances of Z.M. Vysokovsky, remember and love him.

Zinovy Vysokovsky Odessa anecdotes told splendidly, although he himself is not Odessa. He collected and systematized them.

Happy man

His work on radio and in the theater did not remain invaluable - he became a People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 2003. A lot of Vysokovsky's statements became winged and went to the people. In the last years of his life he returned to the Theater of Satire. In 2002 he published the book "My life is an anecdote". Zinovy Moiseevich had a wonderful loving family. Daughter Catherine became a journalist and radio presenter, and beloved granddaughter beauty Sophia followed in the footsteps of her grandfather, with whom she was inseparable. Zinovy Moiseevich died in 2009 from renal failure. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.