People's Artist of the RSFSR, long-term President of the Golden Mask Association and the idol of millions of domestic fans - Georgy Georgievich Taratorkin - has always considered himself more a theatrical actor than a cinematic actor. However, his calling card is still a film work in the film "Crime and Punishment" (1969), where he brilliantly played Raskolnikov. It was for this talented transformation into a classic character that made him a laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR.
A native of the city on the Neva and a native of a simple family not associated with theatrical and cinematographic activities, Georgy Taratorkin, during his professional career, played many roles on the stage and on film sets. In the opinion of both critics and spectators, his characters in a variety of roles have always had a certain emphasis that makes them the most lively and natural.
Biography of Georgy Taratorkin
On January 11, 1945, the future artist was born in Leningrad. Despite the fact that at the age of seven, Georgy no longer had his father, who died after a long serious illness, his mother very often took him with his sister Vera to the theater. The Leningrad Youth Theater was their favorite place, where they gained the most vivid and festive impressions for a long time.
After receiving a certificate of secondary education, Taratorkin begins to work as an illuminator in the Youth Theater. And after a conversation with the artistic director of the Youth Theater Zinovy Korogodsky, who was able to discern artistic nature in a thin young man, he enters the studio at the Youth Theater, having overcome a competition of one hundred people for a place. His debut on the theater stage took place in his student years in the mid-sixties, when Georgy played the role of schoolboy Vitaly Romadin in the play "Dedicated to You".
In 1966, the aspiring artist graduated from the theater studio and entered the service in the Leningrad Youth Theater. Here he entered the stage until 1974, playing the leading roles of Boris Godunov, Hamlet, Podkhalyuzin and Pyotr Schmidt, which his colleagues in the creative department could only dream of. In 1974, Georgy Taratorkin moved to the capital and became a member of the troupe of the Mossovet Theater. And since 1996, he begins to engage in teaching at VGIK.
On the stage that remembers Faina Ranevskaya and Rostislav Plyatt, the People's Artist of the RSFSR came out until his death. One of the last theatrical works remembered by the audience was the character of the poet Dion in the production of "The Roman Comedy".
Georgy Taratorkin's cinematic debut took place in 1967 as a bomber in the film Sophia Perovskaya. And two years later the film "Crime and Punishment" was released, where the performer of the role of Raskolnikov immediately became famous throughout the camp. Despite the fact that the actor himself considers his contribution to domestic cinema to be less significant than to theatrical activity, his filmography is quite filled with talented films. Among the entire list of film projects with the participation of G. G. Taratorkin, I especially want to highlight the following: "Translation from English" (1972), "Purely English Murder" (1974), "Winner" (1975), "Open Book" (1979), " Little Tragedies "(1979)," Rich Man, Poor Man "(1982)," Dyuba-Dyuba "(1992)," Savior Under the Birches "(2003)," Where the Motherland Begins "(2014).
Personal life of the actor
Behind the shoulders of the family life of the People's Artist of the RSFSR, there is a single marriage with the artist and writer Ekaterina Markova. In this family union, a son Philip (an Orthodox priest) and a daughter Anna (an actress) were born.
On February 4, 2017, at the seventy-third year of his life, Georgy Georgievich Taratorkin died after a long illness. The famous actor was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.
