People's Artist of the RSFSR Vasily Livanov is today a real embodiment of a talented actor, director and screenwriter. The successor of the creative dynasty made an invaluable contribution to Russian cinema and won the hearts of millions of Soviet and Russian fans.
Vasily Livanov is rightfully included in the star galaxy of Soviet and Russian theater and film actors of the older generation. And his character Sherlock Holmes in the cult television series based on Arthur Conan Doyle has forever entered the "Golden Fund" of Russian cinema.
Short biography of Vasily Livanov
The future People's Artist of the RSFSR was born in Moscow on July 19, 1935 in a creative metropolitan family (father Boris Livanov - People's Artist of the USSR, mother - an artist). The creative Moscow elite has always gathered in the friendly and hospitable Livanov family, among which among the regulars were Boris Pasternak, Vasily Kachalov, Alexander Dovzhenko and Pyotr Konchalovsky.
During his school years, Vasily attended the "artist" at the Academy of Arts of the USSR, but heredity prevailed, and in 1954 he entered the Shchukin Theater School. It is noteworthy that Livanov Jr. staged his graduation performance "Three Fat Men" with independent decoration.
And then there were courses at the State Committee for Cinematography of the USSR with Mikhail Romm and receiving a second diploma in directing, work for a year on the stage of the Yevgeny Vakhtangov Theater, an acting debut in the dramatic film "Unsent Letter" by Mikhail Kalatozov, a short stay at the Theater-Studio of a film actor and work - an animated film for children "The most, the most, the most".
Behind the shoulders of the People's Artist of the RSFSR dozens of significant scripts for feature and animated films. The rich acting life of Vasily Livanov today can be eloquently assessed by his filmography: "Unsent Letter" (1959), "Blind Musician" (1960), "Colleagues" (1962), "Judgment of the Mad" (1962), "Blue Notebook" (1963), "Big and Small" (1963), "The Return of Veronica" (1964), "A Year Like Life" (1965), "The Gambler" (1972), "Star of Captivating Happiness" (1975), "Yaroslavna, Queen of France" (1978), Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979), Don Quixote Returns (1997), The Master and Margarita (2005), The Male Season. Velvet Revolution "(2006)," Bear Hunt "(2008).
In 2006, the People's Artist of the RSFSR was awarded an honorary award - the Order of Queen Elizabeth II of England, and in 2007 a monument to Holmes and Watson was erected at the British Embassy. The talented sculptor Andrei Orlov endowed the iconic characters with the faces of Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin. Since 2008, the popular artist has stopped acting in films, explaining this decision by an excessive amount of sex and violence on the screens.
Personal life of the artist
The family life of Vasily Livanov today has two marriages behind its shoulders. The first of them with Alina Engelhardt lasted seven years. A daughter, Anastasia, was born in it. It was rumored that the wife insisted on a divorce due to systematic drunkenness and assault by the artist.
Animator Elena became Livanov's second wife. Their life together began in 1969, when they met at Soyuzmultfilm. In this happy and long-lasting family union, two sons were born: Boris (born in 1974) and Nikolai (born in 1984).
