Actors who went to jail for life. Russian actors with a criminal past…. But which of the most famous actors was arrested and sentenced to real time in prison

On September 8, 1947, actress Zoya Fedorova was sentenced to 25 years in a corrective labor colony. They say that they don’t renounce money and prison. Both can overtake anyone: both a peasant and a superstar. So nothing human is alien to celebrities.
Compilation famous actors, which in different periods their careers were behind bars.
Zoya Fedorova All life is great Soviet actress Zoya Fedorova is like a movie drama. It had everything: success and glory, big love and a romantic relationship with a foreigner, the happiness of motherhood, arrest, torture in prison and death at the hands of a cold-blooded killer.
The path of young Zoya began in pre-revolutionary Russia. After 1917, the whole family (3 daughters, son, father and mother) moved to Moscow, where the head of the family makes fast-paced career in the Bolshevik Party. The girl already then begins to like the theater, but the family is against her hobbies, as a result, young Zoya Fedorova, at the age of 17, begins to work in the State Insurance.


In the 1920s, Zoya meets her first love, Kirill Prove. In 1927, an almost bookish romance was interrupted by the arrest of a young man and his accusation of espionage. Following Cyril, Fedorov also falls into custody, the girl was suspected of complicity English spy. The case was closed in November of that year due to insufficient evidence.


After a series of failures, periods when the girl was completely cut out of the paintings, it would seem that white stripe. The main debut of the actress was the role in the film "Accordion" (1933). After the release of the tape talented actress receives many offers from directors. One after another, pictures with her participation come out. The actress is in demand and famous, success is overshadowed by grief in the family - Zoya's father is arrested. Despite a personal acquaintance with Lenin, the man became a victim of slander and on charges he was threatened with more than 10 years in prison.


Zoya Fedorova in the film "Girlfriends" 1936
To help her father, Zoya made an appointment with Lavrenty Beria. Feeding a weakness for beautiful actresses, he invites her to the mansion. The father was released in the summer of 1941, and Zoya received the right to turn to Beria for help at any time.


In December 1946, the actress was arrested and accused of conducting hostile agitation, creating an anti-Soviet group, vicious attacks against the Soviet government, and even readiness to carry out terrorist acts against the leadership. The actress turns to Beria for help, but she cannot avoid the monstrous accusations and a heavy sentence. Zoya Fedorova is sentenced to 25 years in a reinforced camp regime.


Only in 1955, Zoya Fedorova was rehabilitated, and after a while the charges were completely dropped.


Zoya Fedorova in the film "Wedding in Malinovka"
On December 11, 1981, the actress was found dead in the apartment. The cause of death was a headshot. Who shot Zoya Fedorova is unknown, the mystery of death remained unsolved.

Tatiana Okunevskaya

Tatyana Okunevskaya did not wait for indulgence from fate and authorities. After the girl graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, Tatiana began to play at the Moscow Realistic Theater. In August 1937, her father was arrested and, less than two weeks later, shot at the Butovo training ground.

In 1937-1938, Tatyana Okunevskaya worked at the Gorky Theater, while the girl actively acted in films at the same time. Her main debut is still called leading role in the film directed by Mikhail Romm "Pyshka", which was released in 1934.


November 13, 1948 Okunevskaya was arrested under Article 58.10 - anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. According to Okunevskaya, at the time of the arrest, she was allegedly not presented with any warrant, while she was shown a short note: “You are subject to arrest. Abakumov.

Okunevskaya's daughter claims that her mother was arrested for having an affair with a foreigner, whom she does not name, and that an arrest warrant was issued when her mother was arrested. According to her, no note from Abakumov was presented to her mother during the arrest. After her arrest, the actress spent 13 months in a common cell, then she was sentenced to 10 years and sent to Steplag in Dzhezkazgan, later she served time in Kargopollag, Vyatlag.


In 1954, Okunevskaya was released from the camp and returned to the troupe of the theater. Lenin Komsomol, where she worked until 1959.

A fearless woman at the age of 86 decided on plastic surgery. This was a fatal step: she was infected with a serious infection (hepatitis), and for almost two years Tatyana Kirillovna struggled with the disease. Tatyana Okunevskaya died on May 15, 2002.

Valentina Malyavina

This is a woman with a very difficult fate - all-Union glory after the release of the film "Ivan's Childhood", a sea of ​​\u200b\u200bfans, a lot of main roles, and a few years later a court, prison and oblivion. Moreover, in early XXI century Valentina Alexandrovna after accidental injury completely blind and now lives in a special shelter, where almost no visitors are allowed.


The debut on the screen of the young actress was the romantic melodrama "First Date". And the next job, the role of Maria's paramedic in military picture"Ivan's childhood", made from Malyavina real star Soviet screen. Also, the production drama "Morning Trains", the film about the Second World War "The Tunnel", the light comedy "Lesson of Literature" and the musical humorous tale"The Deer King".


In one of the performances of Hamlet, Valentina saw the already popular actor Alexander Kaidanovsky. After the performance, they met and the amorous woman was immediately carried away by the fatal handsome man, but the fatal passion with constant quarrels did not give an ideal union. It is Kaidanovsky who introduces Valentina to the young actor Stanislav Zhdanko, who will turn the artist's life upside down.


Valentina Malyavina and Alexander Kaidanovsky
For the first time she saw a young man who was 12 years younger than her, on the stage of the student theater at the Shchukin school. During subsequent communication, it turned out that the young man had long and selflessly been in love with Malyavina and even hung her photo in his room above the bed. Their romance was short, stormy and incredibly tragic.

The young man wanted to quickly climb the star Olympus, and then suddenly he was taken away from the role on which he was betting. Stanislav began to experience depression, which Valentina and her husband did not want to see, so they drowned the surrounding problems in wine.


Another evening spent drinking alcohol ended in tragedy. In 1978, Stanislav Zhdanko was found with a knife in his heart. Initially, the police considered the incident a suicide. But five years later, after repeated petitions from the mother of the deceased, the case was raised again, and Valentina Malyavina was accused of premeditated murder. The court sentenced her to nine years in prison. But neither during the investigation, nor in the courtroom, nor subsequently after the amnesty in connection with the seventieth anniversary of Soviet power, the actress did not admit her guilt and insisted on the version of suicide.


Today there is no time famous actress Malyavina lives in a boarding house for veterans of science, where her wealthy friends were able to place her. This is not an ordinary nursing home, but a high-comfort facility with excellent medical and social services but very strict. Visitors cannot get there without special permission, the residents have no connection with outside world- they are forbidden even to use the phone, and they go out for walks exclusively accompanied by staff. Valentina Alexandrovna, who has almost completely lost her sight, spends most of his time in this boarding house.

Sergey Shevkunenko

Serezha Shevkunenko was born into a "cine" family. His father worked as the director of the Second Creative Association of the Mosfilm film studio, his mother worked there ... In 1973, Sergei starred in the film Dirk, in 1974 - in The Bronze Bird, and in 1975 in the film The Lost Expedition ... Brilliant the career of a young talent that had begun was suddenly stopped after a banal fight. The Gagarinsky Court of Moscow sentenced the young artist under Article 206 Part II for "hooliganism with particular audacity and cruelty" to one year in prison.


Sergei served his first term, like all subsequent ones, "from start to finish." In freedom, he got a job at Mosfilm as an illuminator, but a year later, in 1978, he again landed in jail for stealing snacks from the Mosfilm buffet, which the tipsy company lacked. This time the sentence was even more severe. Sergei was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Then for theft and possession of drugs - 4.5 years, then 1.5 years for disobedience to the camp authorities and repeated violation of the regime.


In places of deprivation of liberty, Sergei Shevkunenko acquired the nicknames "Chief" and "Actor" and considerable authority in criminal circles. In 1989, he got married, but it was so destined that in the same year he again received a year for possession of weapons, 49 days after his release, another arrest for possession of stolen icons and a new term - 3 years. Sergey served his fifth term in a special Vladimir colony with a strict regime, as a recidivist ....
After being released, Shevkunenko went into business. AT short term The chief put together a brigade, which began to control a number of points in the area of ​​​​Mosfilmovskaya street. Shef's group became part of the Ossetian criminal group, which specialized in banditry, extortion and kidnapping. She is also known for her successful financial transactions. In February 1995, Shevkunenko was killed.

Spartak Mishulin

The Mishulin family lived in the very center of Moscow - in Nastasinsky Lane. Spartacus with early years was fascinated by the theater and dreamed of becoming an artist. In 1937, Anna Mishulina was arrested as an enemy of the people and exiled to Tashkent, Spartak remained in the care of his uncle Alexander Mishulin, who served as rector of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the Party.


In 1941, Spartak Mishulin entered the artillery artillery special school in Anzhero-Sudzhensk. After studying at an artillery school, he suffered for art - he was convicted on a denunciation for "stealing" electric light bulbs (for reasons of extreme necessity, for a performance), then he was caught stealing books from the library and using portraits of the leader as writing paper, for which he was sentenced to deprivation of liberty. He served three years. But even in the camp, he did not stop doing amateur activities.

In the early 1950s, after failing to enter GITIS, Spartak Mishulin was sent to auxiliary staff the Kalinin Drama Theatre; after graduating theater studio at this theater and for the first five years of work on stage, having played about 40 roles, Mishulin moved to the troupe of the Omsk Drama Theater.


In 1960 he was invited to the Theater of Satire, where he served continuously for 45 years. The actor became widely known for the very first episodes of the television series "Zucchini" 13 chairs "", in which he played the role of Pan Director. His popularity increased even more after playing the role of Tarakanov in the film "Property of the Republic", as well as the demonstration on television of the performances of the Theater of Satire "The Kid and Carlson, who lives on the roof" and "Little Comedies of the Big House", but especially after playing the role of Said in the film Vladimir Motyl "White Sun of the Desert".


Spartak Mishulin died on July 17, 2005, at the age of 79, from heart failure.

Nikolai Godovikov

Nikolai Godovikov - Petruha from famous movie"White sun of the desert", from childhood he hunted by petty theft. When he started filming, something was constantly disappearing on the set: either equipment, or personal belongings ... Later, he took up burglaries. The police called him a "noble thief", because he "cleaned" only the rich.


In addition to a criminal record for theft, he had prison terms for banditry and parasitism. Last time Godovikov got into the zone after a heavy knife wound and barely survived.

Archil Gomiashvili

Who played the role of Ostap Bender from Gaidai's film "The Twelve Chairs" was imprisoned several times for hooliganism and theft.


In 1943, Gomiashvili got a job at the Tbilisi Theater of Russian Drama. Griboyedov. One night, together with a friend, they cut off the skin from all the chairs and sold it to a shoemaker. The friends were arrested. Archil received two years in a correctional camp near Tbilisi...

Vladimir Dolinsky

Once the Theater of Satire, where the actor Vladimir Dolinsky served, was preparing to go on tour to Sweden. During the years of Soviet power, it was allowed to exchange for a trip to capitalist country no more than 30 US dollars. When the trip fell through, Dolinsky sold this modest amount with a “fat” of 200 rubles, which at that time was the monthly salary of a skilled worker ...

After that, Vladimir began to engage in currency speculation and in 1973 he was "covered" by the KGB. He spent a year in the Lefortovo detention center, and then received five years in prison. At the request of many famous actors, Dolinsky was reduced to 4 years.

Boris Yurchenko

Boris Yurchenko, who played in the film The Living and the Dead, was in prison in his youth for hooliganism. Once, after drinking heavily with friends, he beat a man very badly. Witnesses of the crime called the police, the guy was tied up on the spot.


In "Butyrka" Boris spent a year, worked as a servant at the catering unit. He left, almost immediately returned to the cinema, got married and starred in several dozen films.

Georgy Yumatov

Georgy Yumatov in March 1994 shot a janitor with a hunting rifle, who helped the actor bury his beloved dog Frosya, who died the day before.


Yumatov, according to article 103 of the Criminal Code, was threatened with imprisonment for a term of 3 to 10 years. But the lawyer managed to prove that the janitor was the first to attack the actor with a knife. As a result, two months later, Georgy Alexandrovich was released from Matrosskaya Tishina on a written undertaking not to leave. Then, as a front-line soldier, on the 50th anniversary of the Victory, he fell under an amnesty, and at the end of 1995 the case was dismissed.

Arkady Shalolashvili

Actor Arkady Shalolashvili worked in the Maly Drama theater in St. Petersburg. He starred in 18 films, the most famous of which are “The Island of Lost Ships”, “A Bad Case”, “He Came on Memorial Day”, “Three Percent Risk” ... Unfortunately, he used his talent not only on stage and on the movie screen, but also in criminal purposes. Entering criminal gang brothers Sedyukov, better known as Kolya-Karate and Makkena, he used his acting and directing talent in arranging businessmen and did it brilliantly.


Members of the gang, which included more than 100 fighters, respected Shalolashvili very much and called him none other than Arkady Palych. When he was arrested, he was interceded by such famous people like Mikhail Boyarsky and Konstantin Raikin. In 1995, Arkady Shalolashvili died of cirrhosis of the liver.

Sergei Parajanov

On December 17, 1973, film director Sergei Parajanov was arrested on charges of homosexuality with the use of violence (Article 122, parts 1, 2 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR)

Parajanov was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but he could have been sentenced to a long term - Sergei Iosifovich was accused under five articles of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR, which he allegedly violated, in particular, "nationalism", "speculation in antiques", "violence against members of the CPSU" …


At the heart of Parajanov's case, his friends and biographers say, is a joint action of the department of culture of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the republican KGB. It turns out that Paradzhanov was constantly vilifying some employee of the Central Committee in the field of culture ... The authorities acted very carefully - they imprisoned Paradzhanov for homosexuality. Say, in the USSR it is prosecuted by law ... and no politics ...

Georgy Zhzhenov

Georgy Stepanovich's brother Boris was convicted for failing to attend a mourning demonstration after Kirov's assassination. The family was expelled, but Zhzhenov refused to be expelled and was arrested. Thanks to the efforts of S.A. Gerasimov was released and began working at the Lenfilm film studio.

This was followed by an arrest for meeting an American diplomat. In 1938 he was convicted of espionage. He served his sentence in Kolyma. Released March 16, 1945.


The later roles of the actor and the popularity that came to the actor already in adulthood are the result of life's difficulties that George and his family coped with for most of their conscious life.

Yuri Aizenshpis, Archil Gomiashvili, the star of the "White Sun of the Desert" Nikolai Godovikov ... All these famous artists are experienced criminals. BUT the protagonist pioneer drama "Kortik" generally built a "career" crime boss. How long and for what were the heroes of our selection imprisoned?

Nikolai Godovikov

1950−2017
Actor: "White Sun of the Desert"

Godovikov was born into a family of ordinary Leningrad workers. He grew up talented, but difficult child. The parents did not have enough time for their son, and from the age of three, Godovikov went to the “five-day” garden. As a result, the boy became independent early, which gave both positive and negative results. Nikolai taught poetry, wrestled, sang in the choir. But at the same time, the teenager had problems with discipline. Due to hooliganism, Godovikov was registered with the police. Nikolai dreamed of a stage, but his parents insisted that after the eighth grade he enter the Physics and Mechanics College. And yet, the guy managed to get his way: at the age of 15, he auditioned for Lenfilm and received several episodes in the film Republic of ShKID, and two years later he starred in White Sun of the Desert and became famous.

But after filming, his film career stalled. Godovikov served, got a job as a laborer, got married and divorced, was seriously injured in a fight with a neighbor in a communal apartment, after which he could not work. As a result, Godovikov was sentenced to a year for parasitism. In 1980, he sat down for another 4 years - for theft.

After his release, Godovikov tried to act again and even began to play in the theater, but in 1991 he was again convicted of theft - for 2.5 years in a strict regime colony for repeat offenders.

The recidivist actor died at the age of 67 from kidney cancer. AT last years life Godovikov managed to play several episodic roles - in the TV series "Streets broken lanterns”, “Gangster Petersburg”, “Foundry, 4” and others.

Vasily Lykshin

1987−2009
Actor: "Bastards", "Gromovs", "Ranetki"

For 22 years, the actor has experienced many trials. Vasily grew up in orphanage, in his youth he was repeatedly involved in petty hooliganism and theft, and at the age of 15 he got into the cinema. The director Svetlana Stasenko took custody of a talented but unlucky guy. Vasily became famous after his roles in the drama "Bastards" and the TV series "Gromovs" and "Ranetki". Lykshin managed to get married and become the father of the girl Kira. And on the night of October 18, 2009, the actor died of a heart attack.

Igor Petrenko

40 years
Actor: "Sleepers", "Driver for Vera", "Taras Bulba"

As a child, the future actor was a yard bully and one day he went too far. In 1992, the minor Petrenko was arrested for his part in the murder. One of his buddies owed a large sum and decided to deal with the "creditor", calling for help from friends. The young man was shot dead, and a robbery was simulated in his apartment. In 1997, the court sentenced Petrenko to 8 years probation. The verdict was influenced young age the accused positive reviews about him from the Shchepkinsky Theater School, where Petrenko had already studied, and also that the young artist was not a murderer.

Sergey Shevkunenko

1959−1995
Actor: Mitya Polyakov from Kortik

Sergei Shevkunenko's father was the director of the Second Mosfilm Creative Association, and his mother was an assistant director. When the boy was four years old, his father died of cancer. Mom was left alone with two children. She worked hard, and Sergei was left to his own devices from an early age. He began to get into crime stories. But in the cinema he was not drawn at all. Everything was decided by chance: once Sergey came to his mother at work and liked one of the directors. Soon Sergey received the role of the heroic pioneer Mitya Polyakov in the Dirk trilogy. However, in life he still preferred the world of crime. At the age of 13, Shevkunenko was registered in the children's room of the police and had serious problems with alcohol, and at the age of 16 he received his first term - for beating out of hooligan motives. After that, Sergei again and again went to jail for theft. By the age of 30, Shevkunenko, who received the nicknames Chef and Artist, became an authority and headed the Mosfilm organized criminal group. Sergei died at the age of 35. The killer broke into their apartment with their mother and shot them both. The crime remained unsolved.

Eduard Izotov

1936−2003
Actor: "Morozko", "Fire, water and ... copper pipes"

Izotov's acting career was interrupted by a tragic accident: in 1983, the artist and his wife were detained while exchanging currency - in Soviet time it was considered a criminal offence. Both spouses received three years in prison, which affected both the psyche and physical condition Izotov. After being released for several years, the actor suffered five strokes, after which he began to forget the text and could not continue working in the theater. After the forced retirement, Izotov's condition deteriorated sharply. In the last years of his life, he underwent several operations, moved and spoke with difficulty, and sometimes did not recognize his relatives.

Vladimir Dolinsky

73 years old
Actor: "Zucchini" 13 chairs "", "Friendly family", "My fair nanny"

Another famous artist, convicted of "currency fraud". For the illegal exchange of dollars for rubles, Dolinsky spent almost 5 years in prison (a year in a detention center and 4 years in prison). In 1977, Dolinsky was released and returned to work in the theater.

Yuri Aizenshpis

1945−2005
Music producer: Kino, Vlad Stashevsky, Dynamite, Dima Bilan

The famous producer spent a total of 17 years behind bars. The 24-year-old graduate of the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics received his first term for storing currency and smuggling. In 1970, the young engineer was sentenced to 10 years. Aizenshpis served 7 years, was released on parole and almost immediately was convicted again for a new fraud with counterfeit dollars. True, the second term of Aizenshpis was more like a vacation in a kind of sanatorium. In the Mordovian colony, the producer ran an assembly shop of 300 people, earned good money and owned his own office.

Aizenshpis also had a third term - for "farming" with imported clothes. Yuri spent a year and a half in a pre-trial detention center awaiting trial, but perestroika was already in full swing in the country, and they gave up on the “criminal”.

Freed, Aizenshpis began working with the groups "Cinema", "Technology", " moral code”, Linda and Vlad Stashevsky, later with Katya Lel and Dima Bilan. Links in criminal world great help to the producer in the music business.

Yuri Aizenshpis died at the age of 60 from a myocardial infarction.

Savely Kramarov

1934−1995
Actor: "Gentlemen of Fortune", " Big change”, “Ivan Vasilievich is changing his profession”

In his youth, the future actor had a hobby - collecting old icons. True, Kramarov replenished his collection in a semi-legal way. Together with a friend, he traveled around the towns of the Golden Ring and bartered icons for next to nothing. Over time, the actor formed an impressive collection of antiques at home, which he gradually began to sell abroad.

Kramarov wanted to simply get rid of the icons rather than make money. Over the years, he began to take an interest in his roots: he became interested in Judaism, began to attend the synagogue, and practice yoga. Orthodox icons did not fit into the new lifestyle of the actor, but the desire to "sell" his collection almost cost Kramarov his freedom.

The actor and his partner were arrested and held in the bullpen for several days. The connections helped the smugglers to get free.

Later, Kramarov emigrated to the United States, where he began his career from scratch. A few years after the move, Savely was diagnosed with rectal carcinoma. The actor "burned out" in a matter of weeks.

Georgy Yumatov

1926−1997
Actor: "Do not forget ... Lugovaya station", "Officers", "Petrovka, 38"

In the spring of 1994, a drunken actor shot a janitor who helped him bury a dog with a hunting rifle. A dispute arose between the men: the janitor believed that it would be better if the Germans won the war. Front-line soldier Yumatov, the hero of films about war and victory, considered this a personal insult.

Thanks to famous lawyer Boris Kuznetsov, the actor escaped charges of premeditated murder. Yumatov was released on his own recognizance, and after that he was granted an amnesty as a veteran.

After leaving Matrosskaya Tishina, Yumatov stopped drinking, started going to church, but they still stopped inviting him to shoot - they were afraid of outbursts of anger and inappropriate behavior.

2 years after the trial, in 1997, Georgy Yumatov died of a ruptured abdominal aorta.

Archil Gomiashvili

1926- 2005
Actor: "12 chairs"

In his youth, Archil was imprisoned more than once for hooliganism, fights and theft. But 17-year-old Gomiashvili's first article was political. “The street where I grew up in Tbilisi was hooligan. Youth, students danced, - the actor said in an interview. - Unofficial magazines were published, and I also participated. They gave me ten ... I served four years, I was taken from the camp to the construction of the Volga-Don Canal. But after I wrote a letter to the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR Kruglov, for lack of corpus delicti, I was released.”

Then brawls, theft, new drives and deadlines began - in total, the actor sat 4 times. In 1943, Gomiashvili entered the service of the Tbilisi Theater of Russian Drama. Griboyedov, with whom the biggest business of the artist is connected. One night with an accomplice, Gomiashvili cut the leather off the seats in the auditorium and sold it to a shoemaker. For this, the young actor spent 2 years in a correctional camp near Tbilisi.

Having been released, Gomiashvili left for Moscow and entered the Moscow Art Theater School, from where he was expelled - for a fight. The student was threatened with another trial, and Gomiashvili returned to Georgia for a while.

They say that they don’t renounce money and prison. Both can overtake anyone: both a peasant and a superstar. Although, of course, it all depends on the country, time, building, and so on.
So nothing human is alien to celebrities. Here are 10 famous actors and musicians who ended up behind bars at various points in their careers.
1. Vasily Lykshin.
An actor who gained fame after the release of the series "Gromovs" and the film "Bastards". Vasily was brought up in an orphanage from childhood. As the actor himself says: “From the age of 7 I smoked and drank vodka. For such a thing, money was needed every time, but there was nowhere to get it from. At the age of 15, the boys and I decided to rob the dacha of one general. They took money and some equipment there. The next day, the police took me away - a neighbor in the country identified me. Lykshin was given two years and sent to a colony. In 2002, when Vasily Lykshin was 15 years old, director Svetlana Stasenko invited him to try his hand at cinema and gave him one of the main roles in the film Roadside Angel. Vasily managed to star in several films and TV shows, and on October 18, 2009 he died of cardiovascular insufficiency.


2. Igor Petrenko.
Actor Igor Petrenko, who was remembered by many for the film Driver for Vera, became a suspect in a murder case 15 years ago. His friend Sasha, who owed another friend Yegor 100,000 rubles, suggested that Petrenko remove the creditor. The victim was shot dead, and a pogrom was staged in the apartment, simulating a robbery. Petrenko was given eight years probation, taking into account the fact that he was not yet 18 years old, as well as positive reviews about him at the Shchepkinsky Theater School, where he was already a student. The end of the term fell on the very dawn of the actor's career. But Igor flatly refuses to remember what happened: “We are all not saints. I don't want to remember it, my past mistakes can hurt my acting today."


3. Savely Kramarov.
Savely Kramarov had a very good taste: he was very fond of beautiful, expensive things. At the end of the Forestry Institute, there was no money for such a hobby, and the young Sava made a living by walking with a friend through the remote churches of Pskov, Novgorod and luring icons for nothing. When Savely starred in "Gentlemen of Fortune" and became a popular favorite, there were many antique icon paintings in his apartment. These icons were kept in the actor's house for a long time. The actor and his friend were caught smuggling some of this collection overseas. For several days they were kept in the police, but then they were released - influential acquaintances solicited.


4. Roma Zhigan (Roman Chumakov).
The famous Russian rap artist received his first term in 2002 for robbery and car theft. Then Roman was sentenced to 4 years and was released only in 2006. The musician had problems with the law for the second time in 2013. According to the verdict, Zhigan and four of his friends robbed young man who was hired to promote the clips on YouTube. They invited him to a cafe, and then, threatening with a knife, forced him to withdraw 100,000 rubles from his card. Zhigan himself did not admit his guilt, but despite this, on June 3, 2014, the Savelovsky Court of Moscow found the rapper guilty of robbery and sentenced him to 1 year in prison. Zhigan was most famous for participating in the Battle for Respect project, in which he won first place and received an award from the hands of Vladimir Putin (at that time the Chairman of the Government of Russia).


5. Vladimir Dolinsky.
In the early 70s, Vladimir, together with the Theater of Satire, was preparing to go on tour to Sweden. During the years of Soviet power, it was allowed to exchange no more than 30 US dollars for a trip to a capitalist country. When the trip fell through, Dolinsky sold this modest amount with a "fat" of 200 rubles. After that, Vladimir carried out several more currency transactions. “I didn’t do it for the love of the dollar,” says the actor. - And just because of the love of the ruble. Because for one dollar I received as many as five rubles! In money, their main amount! In 1973, Vladimir was "covered" by the KGB. He spent a year in the Lefortovo detention center, and then received five years in prison. At the request of his colleagues, Vladimir Dolinsky was reduced to 4 years, after which he returned to his native theater again.


6. Bogdan Titomir.
In the early 90s, singer Bogdan Titomir was crossing the German border with Sweden, and drugs were found in his car. During the arrest, Titomir fled, was declared in international wanted list. Four days later, he was nevertheless arrested, but Russian lawyers helped the singer win the case.


7. Nikolai Godovikov.
The same Petruha from the "White Sun of the Desert" from childhood hunted by theft. And even when I started filming, something was constantly disappearing on the set: either equipment, or personal belongings of the group. But it is only now, when a criminal trail has appeared behind him, all the losses are attributed to Godovikov, and then - who could have thought that these were the tricks of the underage Kolka. After they stopped offering roles to Godovikov in the 80s, he took a criminal road. Sat Nikolai Lvovich three times. Initially, he was involved in a burglary case. The police even called him a "noble thief", since he "cleaned" only the rich. In addition to a criminal record for theft, he had jail terms for banditry and parasitism. Although now he says that all three times were exclusively for parasitism.


8. Georgy Yumatov.
In March 1994, he shot a janitor from a hunting rifle, who helped the actor bury his beloved dog Frosya, who died the day before. Yumatov, according to article 103 of the Criminal Code, was threatened with imprisonment for a term of 3 to 10 years. But the lawyer managed to prove that the janitor was the first to attack the actor with a knife. As a result, two months later, Georgy Aleksandrovich was released from Matrosskaya Tishina on bail. Then, as a front-line soldier on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Victory, he fell under an amnesty, and at the end of 1995 the case was dismissed.


9. Archil Gomiashvili.
Ostap Bender from Gaidai's film "The Twelve Chairs" ... He was in prison several times for hooliganism and theft. In 1943, Gomiashvili got a job at the Tbilisi Theater of Russian Drama. Griboyedov. One night, together with a friend, they cut off the skin from all the chairs and sold it to a shoemaker. The friends were arrested. Archil received two years in a correctional camp near Tbilisi...


10. Alexey Romanov.
The permanent leader and main songwriter of the Resurrection group. In 1983, charges were brought against him and the group's sound engineer Alexander Arutyunov in the so-called “left concerts” case. In August 1983, Romanov and Arutyunov were arrested. They were charged with private entrepreneurial activity in the form of ticket sales for one of the concerts. Aleksey Romanov spent nine months in Butyrka prison, then two in Serpukhov (a TV was confiscated from the musician, a non-working Corvette player, for which 170 rubles were later taken in court, a Comet tape recorder, two armchairs, his guitar - a red Fender - and that's all money from the savings account). In May 1984, the case was submitted to the court for consideration. The meeting was held in the city of Zheleznodorozhny. The court passed a sentence: Romanov - three and a half years of probation and confiscation of property, Arutyunov - three years in prison.

03.10.2016 06:46

Who would have thought?! It's hard to say about some stars that they could ever get in trouble with the law. Of course have scandalous celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Martha Stewart, but, even beyond them, many in the world of stars not only walked the red carpet, but also took a different, more shameful route out of the courtroom in custody. This list may shock you. He proves perfectly: even if you are rich and famous, the law is still above you.

1. Robert Downey Jr.

In the early 1980s, when critics called Downey Jr. one of the most promising young actors, he became addicted to drugs and alcohol, adopting a habit from his famous father. In 1996, the actor was sentenced to three years of probation and compulsory treatment, but a year later, Downey Jr. did not appear for one of the mandatory drug tests in the body, for which he spent six months in prison. In 1999, the actor again received a term - this time a real one, but for exemplary behavior he served only a year of the three prescribed.

“The best thing about Hollywood, in my opinion, is its short memory. Perhaps no one here now will remember that I was once in prison, - the actor recalls his past with irony (although, sorry, Rob, we remember). “Actually, the prison was fine. Except for one security guard who tried to slip me his script about unicorns.

2 Wesley Snipes

The Blade and The Expendables star was released from prison only two years ago: the actor was serving a three-year sentence for tax evasion. Snipes owes the state about $ 15 million, for which he received the maximum possible term according to his article.

3. Paris Hilton

It can be argued that Paris Hilton went to jail because of her incorrigible stupidity: in 2007, she went to jail for violating probation after the first offense - drunk driving. Paris publicly apologized for this (however, hardly anyone cares). Her term in the women's correctional facility was 45 days. It is curious that she managed to be late even for her own court!

4. Christian Slater

Looks like drugs are pretty common among celebrities! In 1997, actor Christian Slater was jailed for 3 months for cocaine use and sexual assault while under the influence of drugs. It happened late at night in Los Angeles. The police immediately arrived at the crime scene - Slater behaved aggressively and even shot. He later admitted that he used not only cocaine, but also alcohol and heroin.

5. Michelle Rodriguez

Michelle Rodriguez is one of the cutest former prisoners in this list. She was sentenced to 180 days in prison in Los Angeles, California for violating probation after driving under the influence and leaving accident scene. In the prison where she sat, Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie also spent their days!

6. Danny Trejo

Danny Trejo is best known for being a brutal and tough actor in films like Machete. However, before he came to fame, he had to experience life in several prisons in California. He was addicted to drugs and often committed offenses in order to get money for a new portion. Apparently, it was in prison that Danny first developed a reputation as a tough guy.

7. Kiefer Sutherland

Kiefer Sutherland was sentenced to 48 days in prison at the age of 40 on charges of driving under the influence in California. During the investigation, he was sincere and cooperated with law enforcement, so he was allowed to sit in a separate cell. In addition, he helped prepare meals for other prisoners and wash their clothes. Sutherland was extremely dejected that all this happened to him, which suggests that he sincerely repented after prison.

8. Mark Wahlberg

According to Mark himself, in his youth he had about 25 police drives for fights, drug use, and in 1988, 16-year-old Wahlberg was sentenced to two years for attempted murder: future star, being under the influence of drugs, robbed a pharmacy, and then attacked two people. “I deserved my cage and finally realized: this is not at all what I wanted. I came to the worst place imaginable, and I didn’t want to return to my old life anymore, ”the actor says in an interview with the Daily Mail. The past still did not let Mark go so easily: after an early release from prison (he served 45 days), Wahlberg was involved in several more fights.

9. Will Smith

This story took place back in 1989 in Will's hometown of Philadelphia. He then quarreled with record company promoter Charles Alston and asked his bodyguard to deal with the enemy. As a result, Alston ended up in the hospital with a broken bone near his left eye, and Smith was arrested on charges of aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy. However, the case never went to court. Will spent one night in a cell at the police station, and that was it.

10. Matthew McConaughey

In October 1999, Matthew McConaughey's neighbor called the police and complained that the actor turned on the music too loudly and did not respond to requests to turn down the volume. Arriving law enforcement officers found naked McConaughey dancing and playing drums. He was arrested on charges of marijuana possession and drug use. Subsequently, they were removed and the actor escaped with only a $50 fine for breaking the silence.

11. Hugh Grant

In June 1995, the Hollywood police caught a famous actor in the car of a transvestite prostitute Devine Brown, who was engaged in oral sex with him. Grant was arrested for indecency. The remorse of the actor helped him mitigate the punishment. As a result, the court sentenced him to a fine and two years probation.

12 Mel Gibson

The famous Hollywood actor got into trouble with the law in 2006 when he was arrested for drunk driving. Then no serious punishment followed. However, already in 2011, his ex girlfriend and their mother common child accused Gibson of beating. A trial took place at which the actor was sentenced to three years of probation. But besides this, they were obliged to attend a psychiatrist and lectures on the topic of domestic violence.

13. Keanu Reeves

The actor, who seems to be a model of prudence, was actually arrested in Los Angeles in May 1993. The reason for the arrest was driving under the influence of alcohol. He admitted his guilt and promised to improve. This is partly why he managed to avoid severe punishment, escaping with only a fine. However, what happened was a lesson for the actor for life and he never got behind the wheel drunk.

14. Lindsay Lohan

The first time Lindsay Lohan was in prison was in 2007. She pleaded guilty to cocaine use and drunk driving. The judge sentenced the actress to one day in prison and 10 days public works. Just three months later, Lindsey was back in jail, this time she spent 84 minutes there.

In July 2010, the actress was again sentenced to 3 months in prison for violating probation, but was released 14 days later. On November 2, 2011, the Los Angeles District Court again sent Lindsay Lohan to prison for a month for violating the terms of probation.

15. Shia LaBeouf

Many of us may know LaBeouf as the star of Rock Out with the Stevens, but it's not worth judging this actor based on the roles he played. AT early years LaBeouf started not only him actor career but also his problems with the law. At the age of 9, he stole a pair of shoes from a store and was detained for several hours. At the age of 11, he was again detained for 6 hours - this time for stealing a Game Boy. And at 20, he spent two nights in jail for trying to stab his neighbor with a knife. Rich biography!

March 9, 2016, 11:37

Igor Petrenko

In the biography of a handsome actor, laureate of the State Prize and father of many children there is a terrible episode from early youth, which fell on the "dashing 90s". 15-year-old Igor, who hated school, but was fond of sports and wrestling, made friends with an older guy, a small businessman. Once they decided to pull off a speculative deal, for which they borrowed 100 thousand rubles from a friend. But in the end it was just a waste of money. There was nothing to repay.

The merchant did not think of any other way out but to kill the creditor. Having guessed the moment, he shot him with a sawn-off shotgun in the apartment. The underage Petrenko, although he did not kill himself, helped in the development of the plan and was present at the massacre, providing "safety net". As an accomplice, he spent about a year in Matrosskaya Tishina, then he was released before the trial.

The process took place only 5 years later, in 1997, when the future artist was in the first year of Sliver. Taking into account all the circumstances (age at the time of the crime, degree of participation, positive characteristics neighbors, teachers and colleagues) Petrenko was given a suspended sentence (8 years from probationary period 3 years).

Leonid Yakubovich

On August 19, 2001, a famous actor and showman knocked down a pedestrian to death in the Moscow region, but was found not guilty. As the investigation established, his victim, a 30-year-old merchant from Kyrgyzstan, was drunk and thoughtlessly crossed the road under the very nose of an approaching car. Although the Hyundai Accent was moving at a speed of only 50 km / h, and Yakubovich slammed on the brakes, a collision was inevitable. The downed man died a few days later in the hospital. In October of the same year, the case was closed for lack of corpus delicti.

Mikhail Kazakov

On the eve of his 17th birthday in 2005, the Yeralash actor and future Ilya Polezhaikin from daddy's daughters" got involved in teenage street showdowns and stabbed an opponent. Misha, whom everyone knew only as a “good-natured and open” person, like a professional killer, struck right in the heart and carotid artery. During interrogations, he said that he went to the showdown at the request of a school friend who had a fight with her boyfriend and wanted to reason with him, and took out a knife when he suddenly attacked the girl in a rage.

During the investigation, the murder case was reclassified as excess of self-defense, and then the relatives of the murdered man unexpectedly stood up for Kazakov, declaring that his family fully compensated them for moral and material damage. With this in mind, as well as Mikhail's "sincere repentance" for what had happened, the court decided to dismiss the case.

Alexander Kilin

A monstrous murder with rape crossed out the life and career of an aspiring actor who managed to play episodic roles in the series " Real boys"And the film" The geographer drank away the globe. In August 2014, the body of a 19-year-old student was found on a playground in Perm, hit on the head with a stone and strangled. Having established her identity, the investigators found out that the night before she was in a beer bar, where she met a group of guys. Late at night she was seen off by one of them, 22-year-old student of the Perm Institute of Culture Sasha Kilin. According to investigators, the guy on the way persuaded her to be close, and at some point he simply knocked her to the ground, raped her and killed her.

Before the start of the trial in May 2015, it was reported that Alexander partially admitted his guilt, but later he changed his testimony and completely denied his involvement in the crime. Nevertheless, the jury found Kilin guilty on all counts, and the court sentenced the actor to 18 years in a penal colony and a year of confinement after. In an attempt to achieve mitigation, the lawyers went as far as Supreme Court but he upheld the verdict.

Valentina Malyavina

Honored Artist of Russia, who starred in Tarkovsky's "Ivan's Childhood" at the age of 20, and later played a major role in musical fairy tale"The Deer King", served five years in prison on murder charges own husband. 24-year-old actor Stas Zhdanko died in April 1978 from a blow to the chest with a kitchen knife, it happened in Valentina's apartment on the Arbat.

That evening, the couple, together with the famous actor Viktor Proskurin, who was visiting them, washed the premiere of his performance, and when he left, they quarreled. It is still not clear exactly how Stas received a mortal wound, but Malyavina, who is now 74 years old, still does not admit her guilt and insists on the version of suicide by negligence. At first, the investigators also decided so and closed the case.

However, after the death of Brezhnev in 1982, the new General Secretary Andropov began to shake the police and prosecutor's offices, revealing abuses and violations. Among the cases that were ordered to be raised and reviewed was the Malyavina case. The 42-year-old actress was brought to trial, according to eyewitnesses, they were judged very biased. She was found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to 9 years in prison.

So the actress ended up in Butyrka, then there were the Krasnopresnenskaya prison, the Mozhaisk zone, the Voronezh prison and the settlement in Rostov region. Valentina Malyavina was released under Gorbachev's amnesty in 1987 and later released an amazing book-confession "Hear me, pure in heart", in which she described her prison life, judicial ordeals and episodes from her past "free" life, including that fateful evening. She dedicated these memoirs to Stas Zhdanko.

Georgy Yumatov

On March 6, 1994, Georgy Yumatov shot a janitor from a hunting rifle, who helped the actor bury his beloved dog Frosya, who died the day before.

Yumatov, according to article 103 of the Criminal Code, was threatened with imprisonment for a term of 3 to 10 years. But after the lawyer managed to prove that the actions of his client were not a deliberate murder, but went beyond the scope of necessary defense, two months after the arrest, Georgy Alexandrovich was released from Matrosskaya Tishina on bail. Then, as a front-line soldier on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Victory, he fell under an amnesty, and at the end of 1995 the case was dismissed.