Sergei Afanasevich Vlasov is a Russian theater and film actor, Honored Artist of Russia, who starred in almost 80 films and played two dozen theatrical roles. In order not to be confused with a Belarusian actor - namesake and namesake - Sergei Vlasov often appears in the credits and on posters with the addition of the abbreviation S. A. V.
Childhood and youth
Sergey Vlasov was born in the distant Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Khakass Autonomous Region, in the city of Abakan. Vlasov's parents worked in civil aviation, his father graduated from the Leningrad Aviation School. In 1957 Afanasy Vlasov was sent to serve in Khakassia. By that time, the Vlasov family already had three children, and on July 7, 1958, the fourth child was born - the son Sergei.
The boy grew up athletic and inquisitive, listened with interest to the stories of his parents about distant Leningrad and dreamed of being there someday. At the age of six, Sergei developed an interest in theater: his older brother got a job as a theater artist, and little Sergei often visited him behind the scenes, learning from the inside the specifics of the work of actors, directors, decorators.
In 1965, Sergei entered the 1st grade of school №19 in the city of Abakan. And when he was 9 years old, his father received a new appointment - to the city of Chelyabinsk. It was here that the youthful years of the future actor passed. A school, an aviation modeling club, sports clubs and a chess club - all this was the everyday life of young Sergei Vlasov.
Theater education
Having received a certificate of secondary education, Sergei went to the city of his dreams - Leningrad, and entered the acting department of the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography (the famous LGITMiK). Vlasov's teachers were Arkady Iosifovich Katsman - director and teacher, professor and Lev Abramovich Dodin, actor and director, later People's Artist of Russia. During his student years, Sergei Vlasov devoted a lot of time to activities at the Educational Theater on Mokhovaya at LGITMiK: he was a co-author, actor and director of such performances as "If … if only", "Brothers and Sisters", "Twenty Us", "Fruitless Efforts love”and many others.
In 1979, Vlasov graduated from the theater institute and in the same year he was drafted into the army. The military service did not interrupt the theatrical career of the young actor: for two years he acted as a member of the political and artistic army unit "Politbets".
Theatrical career
In 1981, Sergei Vlasov returned from the army, and soon the Leningrad (later St. Petersburg) Maly Drama Theater - the Theater of Europe - became the place of his creative activity for a long time. On the stage of this theater, the actor played in more than twenty performances, and all the roles are very diverse: these are both classics (plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov) and modern works.
Vlasov plays both a simple peasant, a lumberjack, and a duke, a prince, a second lieutenant, in a word, he masterfully masters the art of reincarnation. His theatrical record includes such performances as "The Cherry Orchard", "Three Sisters", "King Lear", "Demons" by Dostoevsky, "Lord Officers" by Kuprin, "Fiesta" by Hemingway and many others. The actor still works in the troupe of the Theater of Europe.
Film career
Since the early 1980s, Sergei Vlasov began acting in films. As in the theater, the actor was offered a wide variety of roles, and over 80 of them were played by Vlasov! He made his debut in the films Rafferty and Friends of Rambling and Fun, where he played teenagers.
Later, the actor starred in such films as "Cold Summer of the 53rd" (1987, the role of the bandit Vitka), 12th episode of "Streets of Broken Lanterns" (1998, Sergei Sergeevich Gunyaev), "Gangster Petersburg" (2003, Valentin Kravtsov), "Demons" (2008, Ivan Pavlovich Shatov), "Summer of Wolves" (2011, the leader of the gang Gorely-Sapsanyuk).
Later roles - Franz Shekhtel in the movie “Mayakovsky. Two Days "(2011), Koltsov in" Heart of an Angel "(2014), Ivan Dibich in" Union of Salvation "(2019) - the list goes on. It was after 2010 that Vlasov began to add the abbreviation S. A. V. to his name and surname so that he would not be confused with the Belarusian actor Sergei Vlasov.
The actor is very serious about his choice of roles - he never acts in films just for the sake of earning money. He believes that the role should be vital, believable, only then it has the right to be embodied on the screen. Perhaps it is precisely because of this adherence to principles that Vlasov is not often invited to the main roles in films and TV shows, which have been released more and more recently.
In addition to theatrical and film roles, Vlasov made a significant contribution to the "voice acting": at the St. Petersburg film studios "Neva-1" and "Lenfilm" he dubbed a very large number of films.
The artist's work was appreciated not only by fans, but also by the state: in 1993, Sergei Afanasyevich Vlasov was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and in 2002 he received the State Prize of Russia in the field of literature and art.
Personal life
It is known that Sergei Vlasov has a family. His wife is a wonderful St. Petersburg actress Anastasia Vlasova, daughter of the Soviet film director Vladimir Latyshev. Anastasia also graduated from LGITMiK, but later - in 1984, she played on the stage of the Leningrad State Theater named after the Lenin Komsomol and the "Formal Theater" by Andrey Moguchy; starred in two dozen films, including "Streets of Broken Lanterns", "State Protection" and others.
The spouses have children, but the husband and wife carefully conceal information about them. And in general, the personal life of the Vlasov family is completely closed from the public.
