Biography of Alexander Today

Born on May 25 of the year in the city of Malmyzh, the Kirov region. Father - Kalyagin Alexander Georgievich - mother - Zaydeman Julia Mironovna is married to a second marriage, wife - Glushenko Evgenia Konstantinovna, People's Artist of Russia. The daughter from her first marriage is Ksenia. Lives and works in the USA. The son from the second marriage is Denis. Childhood Alexander Kalyagin was born in evacuation in a small town, where he lived for less than a year, but in Mamlyzh he continues to come to this day, his father was buried here.

And Alexander Alexandrovich is a frequent guest of the Vyatskopolyansk children's school of theatrical art, which bears his name. He not only representatives on her anniversaries and holidays, but also pays the scholarship from his personal funds to the most talented children. In the year, Alexander Kalyagin was awarded the title of honorary citizen of the Kirov region. Here they lived with their mother in a T -meter room in a communal apartment.

Nearby in the lane of Stopani was the house of pioneers, where he ran a schoolboy in the children's studio of art reading. Nearby was the Turgenev Library, here Sasha looked not only to read books, but also to watch TV, there was no TV house. There was another favorite place - bakery, where the most delicious high -calorie buns were sold. And when, after many years, the ET CETERA theater will be built on Turgenevskaya Square, a unique building, which is implemented in many ways, the ideas of Alexander Kalyagin himself, he admits: “This is a miracle!

In my hometown, on the street where I was running a boy, there is a luxurious theater, similar to a magical castle, a real dream of my childhood. ” Photo: Alexander Kalyagin 3 years Alexander Kalyagin was the only and late child in the family. His father, the dean of the Faculty of History, died shortly after the birth of his son, having only managed to give him a name.

Mom, the French teacher in all, mastered five languages, after the death of her husband, one lifted her only child. It is not surprising that all the wishes, all the whims of little Sasha were always performed. From 5 years old, Kalyagin dreamed of becoming an artist. From his memoirs: “From infancy, only the female aura surround me, I was enveloped in love and tenderness. As a boy, I felt it and immediately sat on my head.

And sowing, showed his persistent character. And this is with all the fact that I am a person not impudent, but lazy. Apparently, I realized early that croiling and nothing is my element. My relatives loved me just immensely and were admired by all my speeches.

It inspired and liberated me. Although they did not ask me: "Alika, stand on a stool and read something." They liked it when I portrayed someone. Then it seemed to me that the actor’s work was easy ... ”When Semlian Sasha wanted to have a home theater, his mother brought a joiner who“ according to the instructions ”of the young director made a real small theater - with curtains, a portal and a scene.

There were several wings, of different colors, and they could be hung in accordance with the "artistic intention." Sasha invited children in a communal apartment, and the performance began. Mamino necklace turned into a snake, a bottle of spirits - into a palace, men cut out of paper - into heroes. The plot was invented immediately - funny or terrible. The young author himself commented on what was happening on stage.

When, after many years, Alexander Kalyagin sees a real theater layout, he will have a feeling of something long experienced, as if he would return to his childhood again. Charlie Chaplin and Arkady Isaakovich Raikin became his idols as a child. At 13, he wrote to Arkady Isaakovich Raikin a letter in which he asked the question: “How did you achieve such talent? And the great artist answered a completely unfamiliar boy very seriously: “Talent is not achieved.

This is what is given or not given by nature. But I believe in life only in one thing: in labor. " Until now, Alexander Kalyagin carefully stores this letter as a “security letter”. He preserved his worship for the whole life, as well as the delight of the genius of Chaplin, in whom he fell in love with 7 years, seeing on TV - today in his office the artistic director of the theater "Et Cetera" hangs a portrait of Charlie Chaplin.

Sasha read poetry in the Palace of Pioneers, was one of those well -known in the old days of pretty chubby boys who congratulated adults and aunts at solemn meetings with calling votes. When he became older, he began to speak with the reading of serious literature, it was already at the People’s Theater of the Verkhnitz of the House of Culture of Heapers. Until now, with gratitude, Alexander Alexandrovich recalls Nina Adamovna Buyvan, who taught him the art of artistic reading when he was a student of a medical school, and then an ambulance paramedic.

Photo: year, Alexander Kalyagin - a student of the seventh grade, the mother of her son adored her son. Sometimes Sasha even wanted to break out, run away from guardianship, feel independent. There were many conflicts on this basis. There were problems in the school where the Mushtra reigned so, in any case, it seemed to the future actor.Mathematics and physics were given to Alexander with difficulty, he simply hated German.

He studied well and loved only literature and geography. I experienced failures very hard. If I received a deuce, he left the lessons, and my mother took his portfolio from school in the evening. Until the 4th grade, he studied only with boys; Later, when schools united and girls appeared in the classroom, internal conflicts became even sharper. It was unbearable to study Sasha, he hated school, and his mother decided that it was better to leave school, change the situation and get a secondary specialized education.

Photo album childhood choice of paths, despite Alexander’s desire to become an actor, at the home council mom and aunts decided: we must get a “normal” profession. He graduated from him in the year, after which he got a job as an ambulance paramedic. So two difficult years passed, for which Kalyagin found out what the wrong side of life is. After which he still decided to fulfill his childhood dream ...

He intended to study acting exclusively at the Schukin school. I submitted documents, the first tour went through. But then he was asked to bring a medical certificate of the condition of the ligaments. He had a voice, as they say, “with a sand” - the result of diligent imitations to Arkady Raikin. He was afraid of the medical commission and did not go to the next tours.

After the medical school, it was logic to enter the medical institute, but the wise mother realized that the son could not be broken, especially since the teacher of the People's Theater N. Buyvan, with whom she decided to consult, assured that Sasha had to go to the artists. Then Julia Mironovna did a fantastic thing: she found her former student, whose mother was the head of the Marxism and Leninism at the Schukinsky School.

Through it, listening was arranged, which was attended by Boris Evgenievich Zakhava. He listened to Kalyagin, was satisfied, but advised him to prepare another fable for the exam and wrote a note: to come to the third round. In the year, Kalyagin entered the Higher Theater School named after B. Schukin at the Evgen State Academic Theater. Photo: year.

The talented actress and the real beauty Tatyana Korunova came from Sverdlovsk, where she studied until the third year at the university at the Fizat. She was accepted to the Schukin school without any qualifying tours. Nobody knew about the novel by Alexander and Tatyana. They got married in the second year secretly, just signed at the registry office. Tatyana Korunova tragically early passed away, Yulia Mironovna was not soon, Alexander Kalyagin remained with a little daughter in her arms.

With the second wife, actress Evgenia Glushenko, Alexander Kalyagin met on the set of the painting “Unfinished play for a mechanical piano” soon they got married and since then live together there are two saints for Alexander Kalyagin, where no one is entered. This is his creative laboratory and his family. He is proud of his children Ksenia and Denis, and now the grandson of Matvey, who plays the cello, is engaged in football and at once at once two schools: Russian and English.

Recently, a daughter of Anechka appeared in the family of Ksenia. Photo album family Planet Kalyagin Kalyagin does not like to give interviews, to perform on television. He is annoyed by aimed camera, flashes of cameras. A public person does not like publicity - this happens today too. Over colleagues who allow reporting from their own bedrooms, chuckles.

Does not condemn, only chuckles. The commandments: “Do not judge, you will not be convicted” itself, ”but in his life this does not change anything - he is judged for everything: for success and failure, for recognition and awards, for the built theater and positions, for an expensive car and a good house and for a lot more. It annoys, no, not by his luck, there are more successful ones, but irritates that it escapes direct definitions.

They love him, not understanding why, and they hate it, without delving, whether there are reasons for that. Even from any role he falls out: not a tragic, and not a comedian, exists somewhere on the border, in that border zone, where few risk sticking. It seems that the element of the game is in everything that Alexander Kalyagin does. As a true Moscow Art Theater, he has been given to the Moscow Art Theater for almost 30 years of life clearly in accordance with the proposed circumstances, and always lives “in truth”.

But, being also a true Vakhtangov, he always ironizes this “truth” a little bit, and, above all, ironizes himself. Self -irony is his protection. He does not perceive people without humor, he interrupts flattering speeches immediately: "This is at the coffin ...".