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Awkwardly loud, or unbridled and aggressive in his Instagram stories, but in photographs - calm, intelligent: this is him, Anton Lapenko, a new star of social networks and YouTube, a talented theater and film actor. After working on stage and in cinema for several years, he decided to blow up the Internet with unusually funny stories, and several of his completely different heroes enjoyed equal success among fans. Anton Lapenko, of course, has a successful career ahead as a blogger, and this is not just getting into a fashion trend: the artist is a professional in his field, has a higher art education, and has already gained vast (and very successful) experience working on stage and in front of the camera. There are rumors that in 2020 he will appear in the leading role in the continuation of the famous series, and fans of the actor held their breath: “If only this were true!”

When will they finally get Zinka out of the pipe, who ended up there due to the fault of the malicious and always drunk Igor Natalevich? How to properly hunt mushrooms, and who are blue beetles? Why does the engineer at the research institute have a salary of two hundred kopecks, and the mysterious worker Katamaranov - five hundred? Anton’s fans hope to get answers to these questions every day by opening his Instagram and YouTube channel. They are also interested in facts about the biography of their pet. Where was actor Lapenko born, how many brothers and sisters does he have - eight, nine, fifteen? What else is sketch maker and blogger Lapenko known for, how active is he in the theater, what films has he starred in? Almost every day he posts new stories on Instagram, but he talks extremely sparingly about himself, and it’s so interesting to learn more about this talented person!

Official biography

Last name, first name, patronymic: Lapenko, Anton Vyacheslavovich;
Place of birth: Zelenograd, administrative district of Moscow, Russian Federation;
Date of birth: 1986, September 1;
Zodiac sign: Virgo; according to the eastern horoscope - Red Tiger (element of the year is fire); patron planet Mercury;
Height and weight: 179 cm, about 70 kg;
Higher education; graduate of the All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after. S. A. Gerasimova, acting department, workshop of Valery Fokin;
Occupation: theater actor, film actor, blogger;
Marital status: not married, no children.

About his childhood, parents, family

Some sites indicate that theater and film actor Anton Lapenko was born in Moscow, but this is incorrect information: his “small homeland” is the city of Zelenograd. There, in 1986, a boy Anton was born into a large family. And not just a large one! Information about the number of brothers and sisters the artist has differs in different sources of information: on some sites it is written that the Lapenko spouses have eight children, on others - nine; on Anton’s Instagram there is a photo where, besides him, there are eleven children around his parents.

Anton Lapenko in childhood

So how many children were born in this large family? In the commentary to another photo (his mother’s), the man himself lists his brothers and sisters, and there are... fifteen of them! Here are their names: Julia, Roman, Maxim, Mikhail, Alexey, Anastasia, Grigory, Ilya, Nikita, Slava, Vera, Ivan, Rodion, Vasilisa, Yuri. It seems that no one has been forgotten... Oh yes, and Anton is the sixteenth!

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“Sixteen children? Did you mix up anything? – the surprised reader will ask, citing other articles about Anton Lapenko, where this figure is much lower, as evidence of incorrect information. But on the artist’s Instagram there is a photograph of an old newspaper from the times of the USSR, which tells about a large family: “When Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (meaning Anton’s father) walks on the street with his wife and children, passers-by often ask: “Are these all yours?” - to which he replies: “Yes, and there are others!” Parents-heroes have problems, like in any family in our country, and they have to be multiplied by sixteen,” is an almost verbatim retelling of a fragment of the article. And from the same place: “Some prefer to save gold bars in a bank, others prefer to sew banknotes into a pillow or mattress, but the Lapenko spouses claim that their main wealth is their children.”

family

Dad and mom, loving and caring, friendly brothers and sisters - the Lapenko family was an example of an unusually close-knit family, and for the boy himself it became a real fortress, filled with happiness and mutual understanding. As for what his rank was, it’s impossible to establish for sure, because in some places it is written that he is the youngest, but personal confirmation of this from Anton cannot be found.

Unless, when listing his brothers and sisters, he mentions himself in the finale - maybe he really was the last born to mom and dad. But the fact that he was immensely pampered as a child and paid a lot of attention to the baby is absolutely certain. It was also mentioned that at one time the parents were worried that their son might grow up too spoiled because of such excessive care - and they gave him a dog so that the son would take care of it and be imbued with an understanding of responsibility. A golden retriever appeared in Anton's life when the boy was nine years old.

Anton Krasovsky

Anton Vyacheslavovich Krasovsky, a journalist, one of the few openly gay activists in Russia, was nominated as a candidate for the post of mayor of Moscow in 2020, but did not pass the municipal filter. In 2011, during the election campaign, Anton Krasovsky headed the headquarters of Mikhail Prokhorov . In 2017, he became a member of the headquarters of the new candidate Ksenia Sobchak , co-author of her journalistic literary work “Sobchak against everyone” and co-host of the show “We Can Repeat” on the channel “Friday!”

Childhood and education of Anton Krasovsky

Anton Krasovsky was born on July 18, 1975 in Podolsk, Moscow region. Krasovsky's parents worked as engineers. In 1980, my father was transferred to Polesie, where he began to service the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant, in the city of Kuznetsovsk. Vyacheslav Krasovsky worked as a representative of the design bureau.

Anton Krasovsky grew up as an impressionable boy; he fell in love with the nature of Polesie, which inspired him to write his first poems and stories, which young Anton sent to “Pionerskaya Pravda”.

Three years later, Krasovsky’s father was once again transferred to a new job: first to the village of Zheleznodorozhny (near Balashikha) in the Moscow region, and then to the capital, where Anton graduated from school No. 633.

In 1994, Anton Krasovsky became a student at the Literary Institute. Since Anton loved poetry since childhood, he became a student of the poetry seminar of Sergei Chuprinin and Tatyana Bek . A year later he began collaborating with Nezavisimaya Gazeta and the publication Voprosy Literatury. Tatyana Aleksandrovna Bek was a member of the editorial board, wrote her own column, and she helped Anton Krasovsky at the beginning of his literary career.

Career of Anton Krasovsky

In 1996, Anton Krasovsky got a new job. Tatyana Bek recommended the capable student to TV presenter Alexander Shatalov , and Anton began to make a career in television. Young Anton Krasovsky became editor-in-chief of the Book News program, and then worked as editor-in-chief at Teleproject CJSC.

In 1997, Anton Krasovsky became a theater columnist for the Evening Moscow magazine.

Anton Krasovsky also worked at the Kommersant publishing house, the Yandex Internet portal, the Independent Media publishing house, was a theater columnist for Nezavisimaya Gazeta and the culture editor of Vogue magazine.

In 1998, successful journalist Anton Krasovsky took over as director of special projects for Harper's Bazaar, a magazine about fashion and the lives of famous people. In 2005, Anton became the publisher of the design gloss Wallpaper Wallpaper, and also got a job at the headhunting company Pynes & Moerner. Anton Krasovsky has repeatedly published in various publications, including GQ, and has analyzed pressing issues in the business press and at conferences, offering, according to critics, many “paradoxical and clever judgments.”

Having created a name for himself in the journalistic field, Anton Krasovsky decided to try himself in politics. His first political test took place in September 1999, when Anton worked at the election headquarters of the Union of Right Forces.

However, Krasovsky continued his active journalistic activity. In 2006, Anton Krasovsky headed the organizing committee of the St. Petersburg Film Festival “Festival of Festivals”, in 2007 he was the editor and one of the creators of the reference publication “100 Best Restaurants in Moscow”, and was also a member of the jury of the “Bay Leaf” restaurant award, the statement says. biography of Anton Krasovsky on the “Find out everything” website.

From 2009 to 2012, Anton Krasovsky was the editor-in-chief of the TV show “Musical Ring on NTV” and the program “NTV People,” which became an arena for heated discussions on a variety of topics.

During the same period, Anton became a participant in the educational project “Expand Horizons-3” with the support of the Kazan mayor’s office - “MadeinKazan” (2011).

During the same period, Anton Krasovsky led the election headquarters of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who ran for the post of President of Russia within the framework of the Right Cause party.

The Kontr TV channel was also launched, one of the main topics of which was politics. Its creators were Anton, as well as the author of the book “Spiritless” Sergei Minaev and the former presenter of the “Comedy Club” Tash Gasparyan (2012).

Gay orientation of Anton Krasovsky

In 2013, during the “Angry Guezzz”, where a discussion took place in connection with the adoption of a law banning the promotion of homosexuality, Anton Krasovsky announced his gay orientation. After that, he lost his job at the Kontr-TV channel.

“I am gay, and at the same time I am the same person as you, my dear viewers, as President Putin , as Prime Minister Medvedev , as deputies of the State Duma,” said Anton Krasovsky.

Then the journalist opened the AIDS Center, which provides assistance to people with HIV-positive status. For the creation of this charitable scientific and educational foundation in 2020, he won the “Snob” publication award called “Made in Russia” in the “Social Projects” category.

In October 2020, journalist and publicist Anton Krasovsky supported Ksenia Sobchak’s nomination for presidential elections and became a member of her headquarters. As a supporter of opposition ideas, he called on the country's leadership to stop the war in Donbass and opposed the “annexation” of the Crimean Peninsula.

Participation of Anton Krasovsky in the elections of the mayor of Moscow

In 2020, Anton Krasovsky nominated himself for mayor of the capital: “I will run as an alternative to everything that happens in the city in which I have lived all my life. My nomination is already a victory, because try to find another openly gay person who decided to take such a step,” the social activist said.

At the same time, Krasovsky is convinced that he will not pass the municipal filter and is unlikely to be registered as a candidate.

Regarding the theses of his program, Anton Krasovsky briefly spoke as follows: “First, more local power, more power to municipalities. They must have access to funding and decision-making for the city's development. Urban planning should be under the control of Muscovites. City life is not only in the center; 19 million people cannot be located only there. People must make decisions about living in their yard. People must decide where what kind of transport should go.”

Anton Krasovsky failed to become one of the candidates who passed the municipal filter in the Moscow mayoral elections, as he had expected.

Personal life of Anton Krasovsky

In December 2020, the publicist admitted that he has a positive HIV status.

Anton Krasovsky noted that he did not consider it advisable to tell everyone with whom he lives. According to unofficial information, his boyfriend is a student of the directing department of one of the Moscow universities.

Anton has no children, but he really loves his godson Ostap, the son of journalist Ksenia Sokolova , and tries to pay attention to him at least once a month.

The journalist admitted that he did not recognize the value of family ties and was not interested in the lives of relatives, maintaining relationships only with his parents and older brother.

Youth, student life, acting and film career

The school that Anton Lapenko went to in Zelenograd is secondary educational institution No. 1150 named after twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal Rokossovsky. There is no information about whether the teenager went to a theater studio or music school. After school, Anton for some reason did not immediately enter a university, but decided, as mentioned in his biography on the resource "pirogova.tv", "to take a break from studying for a couple of years to decide what to do seriously next" (quote from the article). In 2006, he decided to enter the theater institute - and immediately entered not just anywhere, but VGIK. This is what undoubted talent means: from the very first time, without any actors, without cronyism, he becomes a student at the most prestigious Moscow theater university.

He has the most photographs of his student days on Facebook: this resource was most active during his last years of study at VGIK and several years later. During his studies there, he managed to show himself as a talented artist: at the VGIK International Festival in 2011, Anton Lapenko was awarded the prize for best actor. Still a young man, that same year he received a special prize from the S. Gerasimov and T. Makarova Foundation for his role in the production of Mandate. After receiving a diploma with a profession in acting, a young university graduate gets a job at the Stanislavsky Electrotheater, where he immediately begins to be given interesting roles.

Judging by the fact that until 2015 there was no data on special websites about Anton Lapenko’s significant roles in the Stanislavsky Electric Theatre, until this year he played episodic, minor roles. In 2015, it was already possible to find information about the actor of this theater Lapenko, who was involved in the performances:

"Anna in the Tropics";
"My generation";
"The Lady's Visit";
“Zoyka’s apartment”;
"Andromache".

Judging by the positive, cheerful photographs of that period, actor Anton Lapenko was completely satisfied with his acting career: according to information available on the Internet, the team at the Stanislavsky Electrotheater is very sincere, the performances have always been (and are still running) with great success, and periodically new ones appear roles. But is there at least one artist who does not dream of great fame, at least in the depths of his soul? Anton worked quite fruitfully not only in the theater - he also acted in films. His first role, recorded on official websites, was the film “Law and Order. Department of Operational Investigations - 4": filming took place in 2010, that is, it turns out that Lapenko acted in films while still a student.

Then there were the films “Chasing the Shadow”, “Coming Home”, “The Cure for Death”: interesting roles, but again secondary. Anton Lapenko was noticed by connoisseurs of interesting and high-quality cinema, as well as talented acting in the film “The Smell of Heather”. The film was actively discussed in Alexander Gordon’s “Closed Screening” program in 2013 (when “The Smell of Heather” appeared on screens). The main character is a modest and reserved office worker Nafanya, immersed in the computer world, periodically driving his boss into a terrible neurosis (“Does my subordinate hack secret sites at night?”) - no, he is not played by Anton, but by his employee, this is also one of the main roles in the film.

Office and virtual space - this is the environment in which the characters in the film constantly live, with a rare break for food and sleep. But it turns out that there is also a third world - living smiling people, nature, a river, sky and grass, and the smell of heather in a clearing next to the forest!

Anton’s character, a former poet who is now forced to write boring content for uninteresting sites, suddenly finds out about this. He is awkward, a little untidy, and loose (from excessive love for the food “joys of life”). Mr. Kondratyev (this is the hero in the film, played by Lapenko) always carries a bottle of alcohol with him in his bag to lift his spirits in moments of depression. The role is not too large, but characteristic, played brilliantly: the moments when Kondratiev seduces another hero of the film, the “correct” Robert, with the “joys of life” in the form of alcohol are especially well depicted.

Channel One correspondent Anton Vernitsky told how he fell ill and recovered from coronavirus

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Perhaps it’s too early, but maybe not. This is what I’m talking about: the first results of the epidemic. On the other hand, the sooner you start, the more reliably you will finish - with all this history. Any experience here is invaluable. Who has this experience? Well, yes - from doctors, of course, first of all. But you and I are not doctors. We are patients, mostly potential ones, thank God, but we can’t promise.

Or you can and, most importantly, you need to look at Anton Vernitsky’s material. It's not about how it happens to others. We've already seen a lot of this. It's about how it happens to you. Anton became infected, fell ill and recovered. And all this time he worked, recording all the details - at home, in the hospital and again at home. I didn't miss anything important. And this diary is like the blood plasma of a convalescent. Worth its weight in gold. Look here please.

- Thanks for all! Thank you!

- Be healthy!

This is a happy ending to a story that began two weeks earlier. At home. With a banal temperature and cough. The fourth day of illness, at night the temperature was 39. During the day, 37. Aches like a regular flu. Seven in the morning - 38.

And then - a computed tomography scan and the news of bilateral pneumonia. The same “frosted glass” characteristic of COVID-19. The area of lung tissue damage is more than 51%.

Fifth day of illness. The ambulance brings him to the Institute of Gerontology in Moscow, one of the buildings of which has been converted into a coronavirus hospital. This is the closest place where there were free beds. That same “red zone” from the inside. Most of the reception rooms do not have specialists. The doors are sealed with cellophane. The rest are wards. And almost constantly the sound of the panic button. For nurses, this means that someone is feeling unwell right now. Patients' wards are almost always bustling.

Sixth day of illness. You have to lie like this, on your stomach. This is how the distant parts of the lungs straighten out. And the treatment happens as if by itself. It’s so easy to lie down when the temperature is very high. You're in oblivion and it doesn't matter. But when the temperature is lower, it is very difficult. Generally, two or three days, but a week is very hard.

Seventh day of illness. At first, droppers every two hours. Around the clock. And also injections in the stomach. Blood thinners. The virus affects the blood, thickening it. Hence the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Eighth day of illness. The injections in the stomach continue. It is impossible to lower the temperature for a long time for the first few days. But the first briefing in the ward is easy to remember.

Ninth day of illness. Doctors definitely tell you to drink two liters of water a day. And if three is better.

Water is constantly in front of everyone. In addition to other duties - IVs, thermometers, measuring blood pressure - a young man named Anton monitors this.

— Are you a student?

- Volunteer. 6th year.

- Who are you studying to be?

- We have a medical business. It's all at once.

- How did you get here? Did you ask?

- Yes. Our university offered the opportunity to get a job for those who wanted it. And I was among those who asked.

- How long has it been?

- Month.

- Hard?

- No normal.

- Thank you.

Tenth day of illness. You begin to distinguish nurses only when the temperature drops slightly and briefly.

- We won’t recognize each other! By voice and figure.

— What do we have delicious there today?

- Porridge. Alive?

- Yes. I'm already starting to work.

- Come on, get to work. Bon appetit everyone.

- Thank you.

Food is brought directly to the room, from which you are strictly forbidden to leave. The food, by the way, is very tasty.

Eleventh day of illness. But the insidiousness of the disease is that the temperature changes are very sharp. When it’s high, of course, you have to lie down. When it drops a little, the doctors literally force me to walk around the ward. It is just as important as medications to restore damaged lungs. A neighbor nearby was taken to a ventilator. It sucked at night.

Twelfth day of illness. Nurse Yulia casts a spell on her roommate. They wanted to discharge him literally yesterday, but then the situation worsened. Left. Now she entertains him with stories about her children and grandchildren. Before this, the neighbor was sure that a very young girl was hidden under the tightly closed overalls.

Thirteenth day of illness. In fact, all those who have recovered in the clinic are taken either to their apartments or, if desired, to specially designated observation hotels that are closed from outsiders. For two weeks. And even though we were cured, we were still in that “red covid zone” all this time.

My two-week observation period has already begun.

The beginning of blogging, great success and popular love

“I was born in 1991, and I vaguely remember those times, but I can’t remember the eighties at all - I wasn’t even alive in those years! But after watching this blogger’s stories, I suddenly felt a bright nostalgic feeling for those years!” – the host of the YouTube channel “Umanchannel” said about the artist at the beginning of the story “Who is Anton Lapenko?! A brief analysis of creativity." The artist, who until 2019 was not particularly spoiled by Instagram visitors, suddenly loudly declared himself by starting to post short humorous stories on his feed. Immediately, Anton’s fans began to suspect that the novice blogger was following in the footsteps of Dmitry Nagiyev with his series “Caution – Modern!”, but the first impression was not entirely correct. Yes, the style is similar to “Modern”, but from the first episodes the main difference caught my eye: while in “Modern” there are many heroes, in Lapenko’s video the plot revolves strictly around one character.

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Anton has a lot of these heroes in his humorous episodes, and all of them, although played by the same actor, are strikingly different from each other:

the driver of the asphalt paver roller, Igor Natalevich Katamaranov: unshaven, almost always drunk, manages to start the roller with his bare hands, sometimes taxis (“his checkers” are a children’s bathtub with drawn squares);
the host of the mystical project “The Riddle of the Hole”, suspiciously similar in his manner of conversation to Leonid Parfenov, only wearing glasses with thick lenses;
a lover of nature, silence and pigeons - also wearing glasses, wearing a huge awkward beret, this person is also an irreconcilable fighter against “pigeon eaters” (these are probably those who lock pigeons in cages and then plan to feed on them);
the police officer who is chasing Igor Katamaranov periodically arrests him; the suspicion creeps in that this brave police officer himself will later release him;
a curly-haired employee of a small research institute who has developed a mysterious serum for “cat curliness”; from his hair it is clear that this would-be scientist has already successfully tested the serum on himself;

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This is not a complete list of characters in Anton Lapenko’s sketches: the list of characters also includes a brutal-looking blond rocker, his brunette friend, the leader of a criminal gang in a formal suit with “brothers” behind him . And yes, one hero (or rather, heroine!) is in no hurry to appear in person in the episodes: this is a certain Zinka, who, through the fault of Katamaran, got stuck in a pipe, either heating, or water supply, or sewerage. They are trying to find her in the pipe along the bends of the metal (“Look, her hips are visible in this place!”), Igor Natalevich is called to rescue the lady from captivity, “hot” reports are regularly published about the condition and possible location of the victim. And Mr. Katamaranov is not in too much of a hurry to help: either he sits in prison, then he gets drunk and sleeps, and then he suddenly goes for mushrooms, and collects them... diving into the swamp!

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“What have you done to me! You stole my soul with your hilarious episodes! Now, like an addict, I wait every day for a new video on your channel.”

“Hollywood is nervously crying on the sidelines! Where are their eyes and ears? We urgently need to cut down an advertisement for Anton Lapenko and send it to the best American film companies, they will thank you later!”

“How cool it is to convey the atmosphere of that time, thirty plus years ago. The old video format, the music of those years - everything is “at the box office”, and the humor is beyond praise.”

“The best thing I’ve seen on Instagram lately, bravo!”

This is a small selection of enthusiastic posts posted by the artist’s fans on his Instagram and YouTube channel. With great enthusiasm they greeted the release of the full-fledged series “Inside Lapenko” - the number of heroes increased there, even female characters appeared (but not Zinka - she still lives in a pipe).

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The series started on December 2, and five episodes were released as of mid-January 2020. The artist has almost one and a half million subscribers on Instagram, each video immediately begins to earn likes at breakneck speed (in a few days their number exceeds a million). And every day new posts appear: “Keep going! When will there be new episodes? We are waiting for the new season! An engineer must live, and let Zinka be expelled from the pipe using a compressor!”

About personal life

He doesn’t say anything about himself, and when was Anton able to answer questions about his personal life – journalists are in no hurry to interview him, but in vain! There is not a single photograph on VK or Instagram where the actor is captured exactly next to his female significant other. In his youth, he probably dated girls: there are several photos on VK with young ladies, and they don’t seem to look like his sisters.

According to official data, Anton Lapenko is currently single and has no children yet. He posted photos with his nephews and nieces many times, always signing them. True, there is one mysterious photo in his Instagram feed with a chubby-cheeked cute baby, without a comment. One of the subscribers asked: “Daughter honey?” – but the owner of the account did not answer anything. Most likely, this baby is also the child of the artist’s brother or sister.

Compatibility of the name Anton

A favorable alliance is formed with women bearing names such as Ekaterina, Valeria, Ira, Marina and Euphrosyne.

Anton develops difficult and short-lived relationships with Galya, Evgenia, Zoya, Zina, Oksana, Lara and Sveta.

Love and sexuality

For Anton, sex is an integral part of maintaining men's health. Draws attention to older women with quite a lot of experience. Loves variety in intimate life. This leads to frequent changes of partners.

Quite jealous, but hides his feelings, love experiences and grievances so skillfully and deeply that no one suspects the emotions raging inside Anton. Therefore, it is extremely rare to decide to let someone into your heart. He enjoys discussing the topic of ideal love, but understands it in a rather specific way.

In relationships with girls, he is too impulsive, falls in love easily, but is afraid of serious relationships and also quickly cools down, forgetting about his feelings. Anton is able to take out his resentment on a loved one.

Marriage and family have special meaning, so they take it very seriously. He decides to marry only the girl who is not afraid to take the initiative, even if he is interested in someone else. It’s hard to call Anton an ideal family man or homebody. He easily falls in love, but does not dare to take part in adventures due to his own indecisiveness.

Marriage and family

For a man named Anton, starting a family is not an important matter, so he constantly postpones this issue. Often he simply talks about a given topic or is engaged in drawing up grandiose plans, but he always finds a reason why he postpones making an important decision for an indefinite period of time.

Anton is very much afraid of the deceit and cunning of women, gray everyday life and deception that he may encounter in a serious relationship. Most often, he will not marry on his own initiative, because only a brave and persistent girl is able to marry him, presenting him with a fait accompli and, by and large, simply leaving no choice.

The other half should be a faithful, attentive and gentle spouse. However, Anton himself is confident that he has every right to lead a free intimate life even after marriage. He explains many love affairs as a necessary life experience.

Men bearing this name become ideal godfathers; nephews and children of friends love him. If he chooses to become a pediatrician, he will achieve great success in this field. She loves children, both her own and those of others, believing that family relationships between a man and a woman are a long-term, long-term, and most importantly, bilateral contract, the main purpose of which is to create comfortable and ideal conditions for raising a child.

Interesting Facts

What actor Anton Lapenko is interested in in his free time from creativity now is difficult to find out, because personal photographs of him do not provide any information on this matter. Collects mushrooms, breeds pigeons, like some of his heroes? In 2013, photos of ice fishing flashed on his Instagram feed - this is exactly what he was doing then, and maybe even now he indulges himself in fishing.
Actor and blogger Lapenko draws – his accounts contain many very good, almost professionally executed sketches. And there is also a suspicion that Anton is interested in... sewing! He has a photo on VK where he is wearing a fashionable coat, and next to it there is a comment: “It turns out it’s so nice to wear something that you made yourself. I did it - I sewed the coat myself!”
The brothers and sisters from the Lapenko family, even though they have grown up, still hold on tightly to each other, constantly communicate - some even sometimes appear in their brother’s video releases. Some went abroad, but Anton still keeps in touch with them. Judging by the accounts of the Lapenko brothers and sisters, they are all successful people in life. For example, Nikita Lapenko is a famous professional photographer.
Some critics say about Lapenko that he faces the fate of parasitizing on already created images, and that he will soon slide into primitivism and uninteresting banality. And others argue that the excessive simplicity of his plots is more than compensated by the variety of timbre and intonations of the artist’s voice, and the use of other means of visual expressiveness.
In June 2019, filming of the television series “Roots” began, one of the producers of the film is Maslyakov Jr. (many other actors are involved in the film crew - former KVN participants). Anton Lapenko was also invited to one of the roles; In addition to this film, in 2020, according to rumors, he began filming in two more promising TV series.
At the beginning of his feed on the VKontakte resource, back in the 2010s, Anton loved to publish wise sayings. Here is one of them: “Spring is the only revolution in this world.” Also: “We are all mired in a swamp, but some still look at the stars.” And this post perfectly reflects his position in life: “Life must be changed from time to time so that it does not turn sour!”

Yes, sometimes we praise something.

I always thought travel blogs were a boring and stuffy genre. It turns out that this can be done cool and talented - like Anton Ptushkin. Until recently, he was known as one of the most forgettable hosts of “Heads and Tails,” but now he has beautifully moved to YouTube, regularly appears in trends and gains respect. And this is not just like that.

If you think about it, there are not so many examples of successful migration from television to YouTube. “The Friend Show,” for example, was doomed to a short life because it was a planned meme, where everything was based on the wow effect. Leonid Parfenov did very well, there is nothing to say about Dudya, but there are only a few such cases. Ptushkin really showed himself to be a great content maker.

In general, it’s not like he moved - the channel existed for a long time, but it was after leaving “Heads and Tails” that it was transformed. Firstly, because Anton received his share of the fame and could monetize it. Secondly, he was able to pay more attention to YouTube.

What does he do that's so cool?

Great selection of topics. This is an extremely important skill. Ptushkin’s travel vlog is not just another country where he went. Often he does some research on the topic. Everyone is going crazy about Bali, and he explains why this happens. The series “Chernobyl” has gone viral – catch the episode about the Exclusion Zone, especially since Ptushkin himself once went there as an illegal immigrant. That's how it should be.

Something that won't be shown on TV. All reasonable people understand that a show like “Heads and Tails” is a beautiful fiction. In fact, there are always a lot of people behind the scenes: the presenters do not get the real experience of a poor or, conversely, extremely rich tourist. And there are always some limits. Here everything is much more honest, so the viewer can look at both a legal weed store in Canada and the same illegal stalkers.

The releases are compact, but super-textured. So much so that it is sometimes hard to believe. In Canada, Ptushkin shows Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and national parks in one hour. And everywhere you manage to absorb maximum information with minimal timing. It feels like the releases are about twice as long. But due to the ideal structure and the ability to present information concisely, you manage to receive gigantic volumes of content faster.

Some other blogger could easily stretch the same Canada into five to ten separate videos. But this would cost the viewer a considerable amount of useless information or lengthy monologues from the presenter. This is not the case here: texture, texture and more texture. Amazing.

Lots of communication with locals. If “Heads and Tails” is more of a traveler’s personal experience, albeit far-fetched, then on the channel Anton pays a lot of attention to local residents. Both native and Russian-speaking emigrants. Again, without turning the whole movement into an interview or reaction video.

This is good additional content, which also makes the releases more authoritative. Because instead of the opinion of only the author, you can get a little experience from other people.

There is a lot of Ptushkin himself in the video, but he knows when to stop. Apparently, his journalistic experience did not allow Anton to become infected with the main blogging disease - narcissism. The principle “You are on my channel, where everything revolves around me” does not smell here. At the same time, Ptushkin still reveals himself much better as a person, but due to what he shows, and not due to his stories to the camera.

When I knew him as a TV presenter, he seemed much more gray and boring. Here Anton shows himself to be a man who knows a lot and knows how to prepare. Extremely good for someone whose last name is an anagram of the word “PTU student.”

Short inserts of modern formats. Another good invention. Your knowledge about each country is replenished not only with footage of attractions, but also with some trivia from the outside. For example, a tour of Western memes about Canada. For many, this will say more than a stuffy lecture.

Balance between budget and luxury. The main disadvantage of “Heads and Tails” has always been the same as the main advantage – contrast. While one person is swimming in gold, another is homeless near the nearest glass container collection point.

I'm exaggerating, but you understand what I'm talking about. So, in his own videos, Ptushkin lives on a budget, but far from the format of 100 dollars for two days. Rather, he travels exactly as you would do if you saved up and were seriously planning on going on vacation abroad.

Ptushkin did not invent a new format, but he made the old one better than the rest. I find it quite difficult to gain weight in the world of travel blogging. There are many of them - the niche has already been formed. But I'm pretty sure that none of you can name at least a couple of quality YouTube shows about travel.

The only thing that comes to my mind is “It’s Time to Get Out” with Ruslan Usachev and Mikhail Kshishtovsky. But they still have media images coming to the fore. This is not a video about some country that Usachev and Krzysztan made, but rather a video of Usachev and Krzysztan filmed in another country. And this is a big difference. If you included Ptushkin, then in the video about Switzerland the main role will be played by Switzerland.

In short, it’s incredibly cool that Anton Ptushkin was able to spread this niche so tightly and beautifully and convince him that videos of strangers about other countries are sometimes interesting to watch. There's clearly a lot of work and talent put into these releases, so the success is well deserved. I wish there were more stories like this on YouTube than stuffiness and repetition.

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