People's Artist of the Russian Federation and performer of the role of Fox from the cult Soviet film "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed" (1979) - Alexander Borisovich Belyavsky - is also an Honored Worker of Culture of Poland. But not many people know that this person, who is cheerful and caressed by female attention and fame, has experienced quite a few tragedies of a personal nature. A characteristic phrase of the master is the quote: "He did not live a full life, who did not know poverty, war and love."
In addition to the iconic role of Fox for his creative career, a popular theater and film actor - Alexander Belyavsky - is known to domestic fans of his talent for film works in the projects "I'm Going into a Thunderstorm", "Four Tankmen and a Dog", "Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!" "Zucchini" 13 chairs " and "Brigade".
Behind the shoulders of the creative life of the People's Artist of Russia, there are more than a hundred played roles in films and serials. And one of his last films in his professional career was his reincarnation as a Russian admiral in the Hollywood film The Price of Fear.
Biography and career of Alexander Borisovich Belyavsky
On May 6, 1932, in the capital of our Motherland, in a simple family far from the world of culture and art, the future idol of millions of fans was born. Even in difficult times of war, Sasha did not skip school. And in 1949 he received a certificate of secondary education and became a student of a technical university to obtain a specialization in geology. After graduating from the institute in 1955, Belyavsky went to Irkutsk, where, simultaneously with his work in his specialty, he began to appear on the stage of the local drama theater.
His role in "Woe from Wit" became a key one in life, because then they even wrote about him in a city newspaper. Alexander was imbued with the idea of becoming an actor so much that upon returning to the capital, simultaneously with his work at the research institute, he began to regularly participate in amateur performances. Therefore, no one was surprised that in 1957 he became a student of the legendary "Pike" for four years.
Since 1961, Alexander Belyavsky appeared on the stage of the Satire Theater for three years. And then there were two years at the Stanislavsky Theater in the capital and a period of work at the Theater-Studio of the Film Actor. Then came a long period of time when the actor focused on cinema. But since 1999 he has returned to the stage. He was more familiar to the theatergoers of the capital from the entreprise performances.
The cinematic debut of Alexander Belyavsky took place in 1957, when he starred in the role of Kolya in the film "Tales of Lenin". And then there was a long stage in his career, when he replenished his filmography with six films, filming for Polish directors. The painting "Four Tankmen and a Dog" had the greatest success then.
And Alexander Belyavsky became truly famous in the subsequent Soviet period of his cinematic work. It was the second half of the "sixties" and "seventies" that filled his filmography with cult projects that are currently included in the Golden Fund of Russian cinema. It is interesting that the actor himself did not at all expect that the role of Fox in "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed" would make him so popular throughout the post-Soviet space. According to him, he treated this film work as the most ordinary and even “could not figure out how to portray an animal instinct that discovered a police trap” in a scene with a restaurant, where he had to go out through the window.
And his last significant characters Alexander Borisovich played in the "zero".
Personal life of the artist
Two marriages remained behind the family life of the People's Artist of the Russian Federation. His first wife was Valentina, who gave birth to his son Boris. To the great grief of the parents, the child at the age of two drowned in the pond due to the absent-mindedness of the nanny caring for him. They managed to survive the grief after the adoption of a two-year-old boy from an orphanage. And soon a daughter, Nadezhda, was born. However, seven years after the joy of the birth of their daughter, the married couple still broke up due to the fact that Alexander went to another woman, who later became his second wife. Tragically and fatally, but Andrei (adopted son) at the age of twenty also died, falling from a window opening.
The last wife, Lyudmila, gave birth to a daughter, Alexandra, when she was fifty-two years old, and Belyavsky himself turned seventy. However, this time the people's favorite was not destined to experience the joy of having a child, because soon he suffered a stroke.
For eight years, Alexander Borisovich struggled with his illness. And on September 8, 2012, a great tragedy happened when a person exhausted by the disease decided to commit suicide by throwing himself out of the window. At the Kuzminskoye cemetery of the capital today there is an urn with the ashes of a great man.
