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Putin came to Sovremennik to congratulate Galina Volchek on her anniversary.

Today, December 19, the legend of theater and cinema, Galina Volchek, celebrates her 85th birthday, 60 of which she gave to her beloved Sovremennik theater. Volchek personally congratulated on the anniversary among many friends and acquaintances, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Russian leader arrived at the historical building of the theater on Chistoprudny Boulevard, which is opening after reconstruction. Volchek replied to the president that congratulations were not needed, but he did not agree with her.

“Absolutely necessary, because this is an opportunity intkbbee and sum up some results, and tell you words of gratitude for your contribution and national culture, and to the world,” the president said, handing her a bouquet of flowers, a picture and a book.

Putin also asked if there were any comments on the reconstruction of the building. The artistic director noted that so far there are no comments, but first you need to move and get comfortable. Volchek also invited Putin to watch a play at Sovremennik.

It should be noted that today in the play "Two on a Swing" at the Sovremennik Theater, Kirill Safonov plays with Kristina Orbakaite, who replaced Chulpan Khamatova. As Volchek shared, she was dumbfounded by the behavior of the actress, because of which the performance, which was gathering a full house, almost closed, Kommersant writes.

The thing is that some time ago, Chulpan approached Volchek and said that she "had an accident" and she was temporarily unable to continue working in the theater for medical reasons for at least six months. At the same time, she vowed not to act anywhere, asking for permission only for concert activities in order to somehow live.

"But less than a month later, I found out that Chulpan was rehearsing in one theater in Moscow, then I found out that she was rehearsing in Riga at that time, and somewhere else ..." Volchek said.

From such deceit on the part of the famous actress, the director was simply numb.

“It didn’t just offend or hurt me. I realized that I had to say goodbye to this performance, and that’s all. Then I thought:“ No, I have no right, since the audience believed so and went like that ... And Cyril ... Well, how in general ... No, it's impossible. "But who will play? I understood that replacing Chulpan Khamatova is not just difficult, it's very difficult..." Volchek concluded.

It is noteworthy that, unexpectedly for everyone, the performer showed such a strong acting talent that Galina Borisovna herself, who had seen everything on stage, was moved to tears.

“It was the first time in my theater ... I suddenly burst into tears and I can’t stop,” admitted Volchek.

Galina Borisovna Volchek – Russian actress theater and cinema, director. Artistic Director of the Sovremennik Theatre. Laureate of the State Prize and People's Artist of the USSR, full cavalier of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.

Galina Volchek. Biography

Galina Volchek was born on December 19, 1933 in Moscow, in creative family cinematographer and director Boris Izrailevich Volchek and screenwriter Vera Isaakovna Maimina. Galina's father, winner of four state awards, is known for his work " Thirteen”,“ Lenin in October ”,“ White Fang", and in 1943 Boris Izrailevich became a professor at the All-Union. Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. FROM young years Galina watched with delight the famous people who visited their house: Julius Raizman, Mikhail Romm and others Soviet leaders art opened the world of cinema to her.

Galina Volchek recalled her childhood in this way: “I was such a downtrodden child with pigtails who boasted: how well I study, what commendable letters I have. Mom said: “All the girls are running around somewhere, stealing apples, climbing fences, and my Galya is always near the entrance.” Books to be read, intonations to be spoken with - all this was introduced into me in such a way that it gave rise to a feeling of protest. This feeling extended to small things as well as big things. Mom was good woman, but she did not understand that the personality is formed earlier than we can assume.

When did the Great Patriotic War, her family was evacuated along with the entire Mosfilm studio to Alma-Ata. At the age of thirteen, Galina was very upset by the divorce of her parents, and left with her father, she defended her right to study at the Moscow Art Theater School. Boris Izrailevich offered his daughter the Literary Institute, but Galina dreamed of a theater at the age of sixteen.

On the course of A.M. Karev, she met a teacher Oleg Efremov. After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School in 1955, Galina Volchek with other graduates: Lilia Tolmacheva, Evgeny Evstigneev , Igor Kvasha and Oleg Tabakov, headed by Efremov, create the Studio young actors, which was later called "Contemporary". In 1962, she staged her first performance based on the play by W. Gibson " two on a swing", and ten years later, after Oleg Efremov left for the Moscow Art Theater, Galina Volchek became the chief director of Sovremennik.

Galina Volchek: “Someone had to stand at the head of the theater. I am sure that it is unrealistic to combine this work with rehearsals and performances. I also told Oleg Efremov: in order to become a director, you need to defeat your acting consciousness. It always seemed to me more important to look for new plays, to invite young directors, to give the role of leading artists, than to play myself.

In the early 1970s, the young directors of Sovremennik were Valery Fokin, Joseph Rakhelgauz, Mikhail Ali-Hussein, and novice actors Yuri Bogatyrev , Konstantin Raikin, Marina Neelova and Valentin Gaft. The most striking productions in the history of the theater were " ordinary story"Rozov by Goncharov (1966)," At the bottom"M. Gorky (1968)," Echelon"M. Roshchina (1975)," The Cherry Orchard" and " Three sisters" A. P. Chekhov (1976), " Hurry to do good" M. Roshchina (1980), " Steep route" according to E. S. Ginzburg (1989), “ Pygmalion"B. Shaw (1995)," Three comrades» by Remarque (1999).

Sovremennik is the first theater after the Moscow Art Theater to perform on Broadway. The leadership received one of the most prestigious US national awards in the field of drama theater Drama desk award.

In addition to "Contemporary" in the life of Galina Volchek there is a place for cinema. She played in such films as " Don Quixote"(1957)," Beware of the car"(1966)," Autumn marathon"(1979) and in more than twenty films. AT last time Galina Borisovna starred in the role of herself in the TV series "Mysterious Passion" based on novel of the same name Vasily Aksenov , which was released on Channel One in 2016, and which was produced by her son Denis Evstigneev.

Galina Volchek was elected a deputy State Duma Member of the Federal Assembly from the NDR faction, but she resigned her position in 1999, explaining that a serious existence in politics leads to the loss of the main thing - human relations.

In the 2000s, Galina Volchek became an academician Russian Academy cinematic arts Nika».

Galina Volchek - holder of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of three degrees for an outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art, laureate of the USSR State Prize and the President's Prize Russian Federation in the field of literature and art.

To date, Galina Volchek does not act in films and practically does not play on the stage of the theater. She devoted herself to directing and continues to direct Sovremennik.

Galina Volchek: “I am a person who actively exists, pah, pah, pah! Figuratively speaking, I don’t even walk, but run through life. Say what I see in pink color, it is forbidden. But it is also not true that every day I slam all the windows and doomedly wait for the end of the world. I believe in some kind of miracle of reason in our country, a miracle of divine influence - without this it would be very difficult to live and work.”

In November 2017, Alla Pugacheva shared a photo showing her children Lisa and Harry and Galina Volchek, who has long been friends with the Diva's family. At the same time, 83-year-old Galina Borisovna was sitting in wheelchair. Volchek explained to Lisa and Harry Galkin that her “leg hurts.”

In June 2019, information appeared in the media that Galina Volchek was urgently hospitalized at the Vishnevsky Research Institute and she underwent surgery. However, almost immediately this information was refuted, and representatives of Galina Borisovna reported that the famous director went to the hospital for a routine examination.

The head of the literary and dramatic part of Sovremennik, Evgenia Kuznetsova, explained that Galina Volchek’s health was not in danger: “Galina Borisovna was hospitalized on Saturday due to scheduled examination which takes place in the Department of Cardiology of the Vishnevsky Institute.

Galina Volchek. Personal life

First husband Galina Volchek became famous Russian actor theater and cinema Yevgeny Evstigneev, with whom they raised their son Denis Evstigneev, who later became a director.

Galina Volchek: “Life is dedicated to the theater, the rest is trifles. I am still amazed how Zhenya Evstigneev and I did not die of hunger, giving a quarter of a small salary for a rented room in a communal apartment. Mikoyan's five-kopeck cutlets managed to make up in different ways, serving either with tomato or fried slices ... And what companies gathered in our "mansions" on Gorky Street! We very successfully rented a room a stone's throw from Mayakovka, where Sovremennik was located at that time, and after the performances the troupe often filled up with us for tea.

Galina Borisovna lived with Evstigneev for nine years. As Volchek herself later said, it was she who initiated the divorce from Yevgeny Aleksandrovich. Volchek's friends believe that Volchek owes such a great zeal for work not only to his character, but also to rather tragic circumstances. Galina Volchek's first husband, from whom the director gave birth to a son, Denis, cheated on her for several years.

“My friends say to me: “You are a fool, you believe him, and he has had an affair with Irina for two years now.” I called her to me, directly asking: “Do you love him?” She was so wide-eyed, because they are for a long time hid, ”Volchek herself recalled the unpleasant past.

However, later Volchek revised her views on life and said that love for Evstigneev was not only a great and bright feeling, but also "a desire to show everyone what he is."

The second time Galina Volchek married a professor at a construction institute Mark Abeleva but this union did not last long. According to Abelev, for a long time he tried to get through to Volchek, but she was adamant and always devoted more time to the theater than to her family.

Mark Abelev on the reasons for the divorce from Volchek: “We broke up because I was jealous of the theater. In addition, she did not dare to have children, I think, because of her love, namely the love of the theater and the profession. It seemed to me then that our marriage was dead. Theater every day.

For another ten years, Galina Borisovna lived in civil marriage and then finally concluded that family life- not for her.

As Galina Volchek joked, she "had two husbands, several novels and one misunderstanding."

Galina Volchek. Filmography

• ROLES IN MOVIES
• 1996 Twenty minutes with an angel (film-play)
• 1992 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film performance)
• 1985 Tevye the milkman (film-play)
• 1983 Black Castle Olshansky
• 1983 Unique
• 1977 Pro Little Red Riding Hood
• 1976 Little Mermaid
• 1976 Just Sasha
• 1975 Mayakovsky laughs
• 1975 Waves of the Black Sea
• 1973 My destiny
• 1970 King Lear
• 1969 Own
• 1967 First courier
• 1966 Theatrical meetings of the BDT in Moscow (film-play)
• 1965 Bridge under construction
• 1963 Cheka officer
• 1962 Sinful Angel
• 1958 Soldiers were walking...
• 1958 Vasisualy Lokhankin (short)
• 1957 Don Quixote
• PRODUCER
• 2009 Hare. Love story (film-play)
• 2008 Steep route (film-play)
• 2006 The Cherry Orchard(film performance)
• 2003 Three Comrades (film-play)
• 1992 Difficult people (film-play)
• 1992 Anfisa (film-play)
• 1988 Echelon (film-play)
• 1987 Bolsheviks (film-play)
• 1982 Hurry to do good (film-play)
• 1976 Forever Alive (film-play)
• 1974 Dombey and Son (film-play)
• 1972 At the bottom (film-play)
• 1971 Own Island (film-play)
• 1970 Ordinary story (film-play)

December 19 marks the 85th anniversary of the People's Artist of the USSR, actress, director, teacher Galina Volchek. AT theater circles she is called the Iron Lady - she is strict and demanding in her work, but no one doubts her professionalism. She reached considerable heights in her work, however, for this she had to sacrifice personal happiness ...

Galina Volchek was born in 1933 in Moscow in the family of the famous director and cameraman Boris Volchek and screenwriter Vera Maimina, so her path was predetermined from childhood. Just a year after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, she, along with other actors - Evgeny Evstigneev, Oleg Efremov, Igor Kvasha, Oleg Tabakov and Lilia Tolmacheva - organized the "Studio of Young Actors",

The acting career of Galina Volchek did not last long - in the late 1950s. she entered the theater stage as an actress, but since 1962 she took up directing activities, and since then she has given all her strength only to her. The last time she played in the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" in 1984, and on this she actor career completed in the theater. But Galina Volchek periodically appears in the cinema. Her film debut took place in 1957, and since then she has often received offers from directors. True, as a rule, these were episodic roles. But she turned each episode into a masterpiece. What are her Wolf in the film-tale "About Little Red Riding Hood" and Buzykin's friend in the "Autumn Marathon"! True, she herself believed that she was offered very monotonous roles of “all sorts of half-monsters”, it was simply impossible to realize her creative potential in such conditions, so she decided to leave the movie.

As a film director, Galina Volchek began with film adaptations of her theatrical productions, and then made films and original scripts- “Echelon”, “Steep Route”, etc. However, the theater always remained in the first place for her, to which she devoted her whole life. In 1972, she became the chief director of the Sovremennik Theater, and in the late 1980s, its artistic director. She was also called the first theater director who broke through the "cultural blockade" between the USSR and the USA - in the 1970s, in the midst of cold war, she staged several performances of Russian classics in American theaters, including Broadway, and taught at New York University. Sovremennik became the first off-Broadway theater to receive prestigious award Drama Desk Award.

Galina Volchek had to sacrifice a lot for her beloved work. Including personal happiness. Officially, she was married twice. Her first husband was famous actor Evgeny Evstigneev - she lived with him for 9 years and gave birth to a son, Denis, who also became a director. Due to the infidelity of her husband, this marriage broke up. The second marriage with scientist Mark Abelev also lasted about 9 years. Later, Galina Volchek admitted that her mother-in-law was absolutely right, reproaching her that nothing exists for her except the theater: “Alas, my absolute immersion in the theater greatly interfered with our lives. Mark was jealous, worried. Yes, and the publicity of my profession added discomfort - very difficult self-sufficient man constantly feel as if on the sidelines ... In general, I did not give Markusha what is necessary in family life, the theater took me all, without a trace».

About another relationship that stretched for 10 years and did not end in marriage, Galina Volchek prefers not to remember at all. After that, she decided to devote herself completely to work, concluding that combining an active theatrical activity and family worries just impossible. Moreover, she always treated her work fanatically - on the 17th day after the birth of her son, she had already returned to the theater. Later, Galina Volchek admitted: “As a result of this experience, I finally realized: family life in its usual sense is excluded for me. My theater bulldozed over it ... All my life I led myself to the fact that the family became impossible for me. This is the natural state of a man who sold himself into slavery to the theater».

Galina Volchek's first directorial work was a production of William Gibson's play Two on a Swing. Subsequently, she did not leave the Sovremennik stage for more than 30 years and became a landmark for the director. She explained:In order to talk about human relations from the stage, one must be able to analyze them, even dissect them. And the best subject for research is yourself. I once formulated my personal life as follows: I had two marriages, several novels and one delusion, and everything lasted a long time. But besides love, my whole life, and now no less than in my youth, is also a kind of swing».

Unfortunately, all the outstanding actors with whom Volchek began working at Sovremennik are no longer alive - Oleg Efremov, Nina Doroshina, Evgeny Evstigneev, Oleg Tabakov. Galina Volchek is older than all the leading actors-old-timers of the theater - Valentin Gaft, Marina Neelova, Leah Akhedzhakova. Over the years, it was increasingly difficult for her to manage the theater and remain in the ranks.

On December 19, the wonderful actress and artistic director of the Sovremennik Theater Galina Borisovna Volchek turned 85 years old. Students, friends, and colleagues came to congratulate the talented woman on this significant date.

A huge bouquet of flowers was presented to the birthday girl by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. I did not miss the birthday of my close friend and Alla Pugacheva.

The celebration in honor of the birthday girl was arranged within the walls of her native theater Sovremennik, which Volchek has been directing since 1972. Galina Borisovna was handed a telegram signed by the first person of the state.

"Belief high purpose art, a responsible attitude to one’s vocation, love for the native theater and the audience - are fully embodied in your inspired work, in serving Russian culture, people, country, have earned you unquestioned authority and great respect, ”the message quotes Russian President Kremlin press office.

Kristina Orbakaite, who has recently been playing leading role in the play by Galina Volchek "Two on a swing". And Alla Borisovna Pugacheva prepared a heartfelt speech for her dear friend. Legendary women closely communicate throughout years and often appear together at various events. Looking at the photo, many did not fail to note that at 85, Galina Volchek looks no worse than Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, who is preparing for her 70th birthday.

The director moves mostly in a wheelchair, but this does not prevent her from leading the theater productively.

Galina Volchek stood at the origins of the formation of the Sovremennik Theater. Together with a group of young artists led by Oleg Efremov, she created a troupe that brought a stream fresh air into the musty theatrical world. Galina Borisovna staged her first performance when she was only 29 years old. It was to her that the theater staff entrusted leadership when Oleg Efremov was offered to head the Moscow Art Theater.

The first husband of Galina Volchek was the famous artist Evgeny Evstigneev. In this marriage, their common son Denis was born. The family union lasted only nine years. Evstigneev had a romantic interest on the side, and Volchek herself packed a suitcase for him. Soon Galina Borisovna married a doctor technical sciences Mark Abel. He was a smart and subtle person, but he was terribly jealous of his star wife. Nine years later, this marriage broke up.

Now Volchek relies on the help and support of his son in everything. Denis Evstigneev made successful career in cinema as a director, cameraman and producer.

This year Galina Borisovna will celebrate her 85th birthday. It is known that Volchek big problems with health, namely with the spine. famous actress and the theatrical figure suffers from a herniated disc. This happened, among other things, due to excess weight which presses on intervertebral discs, creating unbearable pain and making it difficult to move without support. The disease began to manifest itself especially acutely in 2014.

Why is Galina Volchek in a wheelchair?

Galina Volchek, artistic director of the Sovremennik Theater, was brought to a memorial service for Nina Doroshina in a wheelchair. Black glasses and a mourning shawl added to the sadness of the actress and director, who was already far from a blooming appearance. She looked emaciated and sick.

Galina Borisovna will celebrate her 85th birthday this year. She is older than all the leading artists of Sovremennik - Leah Akhedzhakova, Valentin Gaft, Marina Neelova. And she outlived everyone with whom she began to build Sovremennik - Nina Doroshina, Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Efremov. But over the years, it is becoming more and more difficult for her to lead, to stage performances, to stay in the ranks.

Galina Volchek has big health problems. Many, when they first saw her in a wheelchair, even whispered that the famous director was paralyzed. In fact, she has serious problems with the spine - intervertebral hernia. Volchek is a lady with forms, so the weight of her body presses on the intervertebral discs, creating unbearable pain and making it difficult to move without support. At the same time, since 2014, the disease, as they say in the theater, has been progressing.

Volchek has been in intensive care several times

Volchek was observed by Dr. Ilya Pekarsky, one of the most famous vertebrologists and spinal surgeons in Israel and the world, who once treated Evgeni Plushenko. But Galina Borisovna refused the operation. After all, everyone who is familiar with this problem knows that spinal surgery is one of the most dangerous. An MRI is performed, and only if it turns out that the hernia is compressing spinal cord or its roots, surgical intervention is prescribed, but even it does not guarantee 100% success. And Volchek interferes with the operation diseased heart. It is worth noting that constant stress and nerves in the life of the artistic director and director also led to lung problems and hypertension.

Per last years Volchek was taken to the intensive care unit several times with various diagnoses. The position of artistic director of a complex creative team brings stress and nervous situations every day. Hence the hypertensive crises, and cardiac arrhythmias. One can only hope that strong-willed character Galina Borisovna will help her not to give up and defeat the disease.