Actor Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasievich: biography, filmography, private life

Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasievich - a talented actor and just a wonderful person. How was his life? This is exactly what will be discussed in the article.

Difficult childhood

Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasievich (real name - Kryuchkov, although there were rumors that this is his creative pseudonym) - the native Muscovite. He was born on December 24, 1910. The family had many children. In addition to the little Kolya, who was born seven months old, there were seven more children. However, the conditions were too heavy, so six brothers and sisters did not survive. And Kolya himself did not differ in health. Because of the cervical vertebrae, he could not keep his head straight. And even the doctors were powerless in this situation. Hope remained for only one affordable medicine - sport. And Kolya dealt with them with full dedication. In the winter - skis, in the summer - football. The guy was very keen on boxing. The disease could not resist such pressure and receded.

Yes, and it was impossible to hurt the boy - it was too early to grow up. Kolya was luckier than his peers - his father returned home alive from the First World War. I settled down at the combine to work as a loader and, it would seem, the family could now breathe freely. But the wounds received in the war did not allow his father to live long. Very soon he died. Kolya and Peter (his own brother) stayed with his mother, who now alone raised her sons. It was hard, friends and neighbors helped - who fed up empty cabbage soup, who gave bread, who - the fish. The people did not live well, but if it was not for the help, who knows, the children could survive or not.

Already at the age of 14 Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasyevich began to provide for his family. After the end of the seven-year plan, he went to the factory factory, where he came from the profession of engraver-pokachka. I must say that Kryuchkov took seriously to study. After the end of the FZU, he was immediately assigned the highest category on the working grid.

Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasievich: biography, film debut

However, one should not think that the hard years impose on Kryuchkov an incurable imprint of sadness and tragedy. The guy had time to do everything: learn, work, and skillfully rest. He perfectly played the accordion, he sang beautifully and danced, so he never remained in the shadows. His talents have always distinguished a young man from among friends. But his main passion was not dances and songs. He loved the theater. Engaged in a drama circle, he amazingly showed his talent in any production. For example, in the debut theatrical production "1905" Nikolay Kryuchkov had to play three different roles at once, with which the guy coped excellently. But at that time he was only 16 years old.

Of course, the mother saw his passion and was very unhappy with this. It is understandable, because a clever, diligent Kolya could wait for a serious and profitable profession, which he would have mastered without problems. But what could the mother do? Nikolay still worked at the Trekhgorka, provided his family, and gave all his free time to the theater.

Already in 1928 Kryuchkov played in the Theater of Working Youth, where his teachers were eminent artists Khmelev, Savchenko, Sudakov. He played small roles, but gave himself up to art completely. Such a talent and dedication could not miss Boris Barnet. He saw him in the play "Call, the factory!". By the way, Boris Barnet was a film director and by that time had produced a picture of "Cutter from Torzhok" with Igor Ilyinsky in the title role. And Barnet was the spouse of Natalia Glan, who worked as the main choreographer in the youth theater and was engaged with dance actors. Here at these dances the filmmaker noticed Kryuchkov and immediately invited him to a role in the new film "Outskirts".

Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasyevich agreed. Moreover, he got into the role of Senka the shoemaker so seriously that, as Nikolay Afanasievich himself recalled, it seemed to him that all his life he was only engaged in the craft of a shoemaker. The first role in the movie for Kryuchkov became a pass to the cinema, because the picture became so popular that it was noted even at the festival in Venice. So the big and bright road of the actor in cinema began.

Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasievich: Filmography

The cinema captured the young Kryuchkov completely and did not let go. So many people who managed to play this artist can not boast of anybody. From 1932 to 1993 there were practically no breaks in his glorious activity. Every year a new film with Kryuchkov in the title role came out. There were times when several works with his participation were being filmed simultaneously. And there were voices of other pictures.

Particularly vividly stand out are some works that viewers viewed several dozen times, and the characters of these films became not just loved, but almost native. One of these films was the painting "Tractor". A bright and talented team has gathered here. The film was directed by Ivan Pyryev, the main role was played by his wife Marina Ladynina. On the set of this picture there was a meeting of such masters of acting as Kryuchkov, Aleinikov and Andreev. Could such a film go unnoticed? Of course not. He was visited several times, he was watched by children, old people and adults, the songs of the film immediately began to live their lives, the characters wanted to imitate. Educational effect of the picture and patriotism are just off scale. And yet there were critics who found the film a perversion of real realities, an extremely harmful and mediocre phenomenon. The picture was shown to Stalin, after which the four performers of the leading roles became the winners of the Stalin Prize.

Very interesting was the work of Kryuchkov in the film "Pig and Shepherd". It was a role unlike other characters of Nikolai Afanasievich. As he himself said, even Vasily Stalin, with whom the actor was friendly, dissuaded him from this role. But the artist always made his own choice. He starred in the film and gave the image of his character in a colorful, talented and bright manner.

War time

Special works were films made during the Great Patriotic War. Kryuchkov tried to go to the front line, he asked for active troops, but he was convinced that by his work he would benefit much more. And Kryuchkov began to work on roles. He acted in film, not sparing himself, immediately in 5 paintings (1942). With his participation at this time, the films "Front", "Antosh Rybkin", "Kotovsky", "For the sake of the Motherland", "The guy from our city". The actor works to exhaustion, gets to hospital from exhaustion, but, hardly having risen on legs, again starts to work.

Films by Nikolai Afanasievich Kryuchkov, filmed in wartime, literally raise the people to fight. After all, his characters are the same guys who live next door, who are somewhere in the neighborhood, they also work, study and fight for the Victory.

Life after the Victory

Biography Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasievich saturated, interesting. He was never easy in his life. After the war, the roles became hard for all actors - the cinema began to suffer great difficulties. However, even then Kryuchkov will make a movie. His role in Maksimka is wonderful.

True, Nikolai Afanasievich was not easily working outside his job. A man who has lived through several eras, not one war that saw the country blossom, and its foundations collapsed again, the perestroika times worried painfully. But this strong man could only be treated from all sorrows. Already at a respectable age, he starred in the paintings "Autumn Marathon", "Man at the station".

Over the years, the number of films has increased, skill - all the above, because Nikolai Kryuchkov always had a valuable quality - he, like a sponge, absorbed everything that concerned his profession, did not hesitate to study even in adulthood. With the cinema he did not leave until the last year of his life. "Angels of Death" - the last picture in which a remarkable artist was shot. He died after the film was released.

A family

The heroes of Nikolai Kryuchkov are always cheerful, beautiful, real men, capable of everything for the sake of the Motherland and a beloved woman. No wonder that in real life, ladies lost their head from the artist himself. And he really was confident, determined, handsome, talented, interesting. Therefore, Kryuchkov never felt any lack of attention.

Even while filming the movie "Tractor", he met with Maria Pastukhova. The girl was beautiful and talented, she was also an actress. In this marriage was born the first-born of Nikolai Kryuchkov - Boris. But it was not possible to save the family - it is too difficult sometimes for two actors to live under the same roof. And Nikolai could not resist the charms of other beauties. And during the filming of the film "Heavenly slug" he had an affair with a young actress Alla Parfanyak. Of course, it became known to Maria Pastukhova, after which she left Kryuchkov.

Alla Parfanyak was younger than Nikolai Afanasievich for 13 years, but this did not become an obstacle to their marriage. Kryuchkov suggested that the girl become his wife. In this marriage there was a son Nicholas. But here the family did not last long. Young people divorced after 9 years of marriage. Alla became the wife of Mikhail Ulyanov, and Nikolai had a new hobby.

The third time Kryuchkov married an athlete - Zoe Kochanovskaya. Perhaps, this time the actor would be happy in his family, because he loved the girl strongly and anxiously, but there was a tragedy. In front of her husband, Zoya got under the car and died. It was a huge loss, after which Kryuchkov for a long time could not come to his senses. Only friends and work helped not to lose my mind. And then, two years later, the last, strongest love of the great actor - Lydia appeared.

The girl was young, worked as an assistant director and, like many, could not resist the charm of Nikolai Kryuchkov. They were married, the daughter of Elvira was born, and this marriage became really strong.

Without dynasties

Children Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasevich did not follow in the footsteps of his father, there did not happen dynasties. Only the youngest daughter of Elvira became interested in cinema. She even represented the film with the participation of her father. True, the young woman's career did not develop as well as her father's.

But for his middle son Nikolai Kryuchkov worried constantly, and for this there were occasions. Because of the quarrel with his mother, the guy began to live separately in the apartment bought by the parents. After they sent Solzhenitsyn, Nicholas sent an angry petition to Brezhnev and got into a psychiatric hospital. The loud names of the parents played a role, and the guy was released a month later, but he did not learn any lesson. This went on several times. As a result, he renounced his citizenship and moved to live in Germany.

The usual hero

The life of Nikolai Afanasievich Kryuchkov was not lined with roses. All he achieved with his work, sleepless nights and health. But he achieved a lot.

• He is the owner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1941) for the role of Klim Yarko in the film "Tractor" (1941).
• Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasyevich is the Hero of Socialist Labor (1980).
• He has the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1965).
• He has the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950).
• He received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1942).
• He was awarded two Orders of Lenin.
• Has the Order of the October Revolution.
• He was awarded three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor and the Order of the Red Star.

But his main award is the unshakable memory of the viewer, to whom he devoted his life.