Briefly about the life and work of the theater and cinema artist - Vyacheslav Shalevich.
Vyacheslav Shalevich is an outstanding theater and film actor, awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Parents
This talented man was given life by Anatoly Shalevich, a former white officer who served in the NKVD and had the rank of Major General, and Elena Ivanovna, who worked as a typist at the Ministry of Defense. The artist spent his childhood with his mother in Moscow, his father was considered dead in the Finnish war. By the way, little Slava and his mother lived near the Vakhtangov Theater, because his mother was a big theater lover.
Youth
By 1941, Slava was evacuated to the Saratov region, his mother to the Urals. There he was assigned to an orphanage. The boy was often offended, left hungry, so he decides to run away. Slava lived in a dilapidated house, ate as he had to. The director of the orphanage, learning about this, wrote a letter to Elena Ivanovna. The mother came for the boy, and they moved to Moscow, to a communal apartment. There was no time to raise a child - I had to work a lot, so calls to school became a common thing. Slava fought, disrupted lessons and did not want to study at all. Despite this, it was then that the boy developed a love for reading, cinema and theater. He had to hide in the theater during the day in order to attend the performance for free, the ticket-attendants let Slava go to the cinema for free. In the same post-war years, the boy enrolls in a theater group, where he plays all female roles. He was kicked out of school in the tenth grade, but the young man was not taken aback and entered the school for working youth. After finishing his studies with a good certificate, the young man sent his documents to the Shchukin School and the Pedagogical Institute. He was immediately taken to the "Pike".
Career
From that moment on, we can talk about the first creative tests of the actor. Even in the fourth year of college, Vyacheslav achieves the role of Shvabrin in "The Captain's Daughter". After the premiere, director Vladimir Kaplunovsky invited the novice actor to other film roles. After graduating from college, Shalevich found it difficult to get a job at his beloved Vakhtangov Theater, which became his second home for 60 years. Films with the participation of the artist appear on Soviet screens: Hockey Players, Three Poplars on Ivy, Red Square. Two stories about the workers 'and peasants' army”. Then the artist learns that his father is alive and meets with him in Biysk.
In total, there are about 70 roles in his filmography. In the theater, the artist played about 20 characters.
Many difficulties arose on the creative path of Shalevich. In the wake of anti-Semitism, his surname was mistaken for a Jewish one. Ryazanov refused to take him to any role. But the artist never gave up.
Personal life
Personal life was also interesting. Topla women chased the artist, he was never left without attention. Throughout his life, Vyacheslav Shalevich had four marriages: the first with school love, the second with a classmate, the third with an artist-fashion designer, and the fourth with a doctor. The first two marriages broke up, the third wife died, and the artist lived with the last until the end of his days. In total, the artist has 5 children.
The artist died in 2016 after two weeks in a coma, at the age of 82.
