Evgeny Petrosyan: biography of the humorist, TV presenter and director in one person

As in the field of politics the most discussed and interesting public is the person V.V. Putin, and on the humorous stage for more than fifty years, Yevgeny Petrosyan holds the lead. Biography of this amazing man is interested in more than one generation of his fans. Thanks to what for so many years he has managed to remain energetic, interesting and inimitable?

Biography of Petrosian Evgeny Vaganovich: the dream of becoming an artist

The future humorist saw the light in 1945 on September 16 in Baku. From early childhood I liked to sit for hours with a book in my father's library. I went with my parents to the circus, drama theater, to various concerts. And from the age of twelve, he actively participated in a circle of school amateur performances, and spoke in the houses of culture. Being a schoolboy, he began to work in the People's Theater, and immediately after the graduation he went to conquer Moscow, even without waiting for the certificate. With brilliance he passed the entrance examinations and became a student of the All-Russia creative workshop of pop art Yevgeny Petrosyan.

Biography of the artist: life on stage

In 1962, Eugene Vaganovich for the first time as a professional entertainer led the program VTMEI under the title "In life, there are 18 years". It lasted for several years. During this time, the artist learned a lot and created a good repertoire. After the completion of the program cycle of the VTMEI Petrosyan went into "free swimming". From 1964 to 1969 he worked in the orchestra of Leonid Utyosov himself. Then he worked for twenty years in the Moscow Concert, first as a leading entertainer, then as a solo artist. In 1985 he became the Honored Artist of the USSR Yevgeny Petrosyan. The biography of the artist is rich not only in a lot of humorous programs. He is the author of eight books, a humorist, an actor, a satirical writer, a parodist, a director of all his solo concerts. For half a century of variety activities, the artist managed to participate in almost all possible humorous competitions, to stage performances on most sites of the country. But, as is not surprising, Evgeny Petrosyan has enemies. His biography contains facts that testify that once, at the request of ill-wishers, they wanted to remove all his television programs from the broadcast. At the same time, the term "petrosyanit" appeared, which meant "bad joke". Probably, people who wished to annoy the artist did not know that most of the texts for him were written by all respected Mikhail Zadornov, Viktor Koklyushkin, Arkady Khite and Lyon Izmailov. In 1991, Yevgeny Petrosyan was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia for spite of all ill-wishers.

Yevgeny Petrosyan. Biography: family

The actor led an active private life, four times was married. Since 1985, his wife is a famous actress of humorous genre Elena Grigorievna Stepanenko. From the first marriage Eugene Vaganovich has a daughter, Victorina and two grandsons, who live in the US. About what an artist in reality in life, without a stage mask, knows only his close environment. That he is a very sensitive and vulnerable person can be affirmed with certainty. Once he was nominated for the Silver Galosh Award for some of the most dubious achievements in the field of show business, but shortly before the ceremony, Mikhail Zadornov persuaded the organizers not to hand it to Petrosyan. He argued his request for the fact that Yevgeny Vaganovich is so vulnerable that he can get a heart attack because of such a joke.