Biography of Artem Karasev
Artem Yurievich Karasev is a St. Petersburg actor who has won the love of the audience and professional recognition in Russian cinema. He starred in such films and television series as “B.O.M.J.”, “Trail of the Piranha”, “Plan B”, “Streets of Broken Lights”, “Between Love and Hate”, “The Spaniard”. Most often he appears on screens in the images of military and police officers.
Star of Russian TV series Artem Karasev
The talented artist with unbeatable appearance has not yet received worldwide fame, so he still has to overcome the thorny path to the pinnacle of fame.
Career development
The result of successful completion of schooling was the formation of a goal for future life: to influence processes that will help the native country reach the European standard of living. Kharkov State University was chosen for further study.
The level of knowledge allowed me to successfully pass the competition for the prestigious Faculty of Political Economics. Vadim Yurievich did not limit himself to receiving higher education and continued his education in graduate school. The hardworking young man was appreciated by the university leadership and retained at the department as a teacher.
His services to the first president of Ukraine were appreciated. For two years, Karasev had the status of chief adviser to the head of state
Ten years of work at the university allowed me to deepen my knowledge in the field of economics and political science, gave me the skills of oratory and communication with a large audience. Since 1992, the first steps towards political consulting began.
Childhood
Artem was born in the Northern capital on July 21, 1984 in the most ordinary family. His family had nothing to do with the world of theater or cinema. Perhaps that is why at an early age he did not dream of becoming an artist, although he always had a bright and attractive appearance.
Artem Karasev in his youth
In high school, he was keenly interested in issues of psychology and, after the 11th grade, planned to enter St. Petersburg State University at the relevant faculty. The idea of becoming an actor came to him quite by accident - after a casting, where he went with friends. After that, he realized that he wanted to connect his life with acting, and who doesn’t dream of becoming famous in their youth?
Artem Karasev with classmates at SPbGATI
After graduating from school, he applied to the Theater Academy of his hometown and managed to successfully pass the entrance exams. He studied the secrets of acting in the course of Professor Anatoly Shvedersky, who trained many famous actors, including Anna Kovalchuk and Mikhail Boyarsky. He received a diploma of higher theater education in 2006.
“Since I was seven years old, I’ve lived basketball”: player and coach, champion Vasily Karasev
Everyone who loves basketball knows the name of Vasily Karasev well, but Wikipedia, as usual, provides disappointingly little information about the life path of a wonderful player and coach - except for a list of teams and regalia. We will try to fill this annoying gap.
Vasily Karasev - basketball player
Vasily Nikolaevich Karasev was born in Leningrad on April 14, 1971. In 1978, he began playing basketball at a sports school. Later he entered the Leningrad Olympic Reserve School (boarding school), from which he graduated in 1988. The development of the talented young man was supervised by Anatoly Steinbok, an outstanding coach who raised many good athletes.
Since childhood, Vasily Karasev’s life principle has been to be first in everything. Achieve victory at any cost! And the young basketball player made progress quickly. Already in 1989, yesterday’s schoolboy joined the legendary Leningrad club “Spartak”, in which Olympic basketball champion Alexander Belov had previously played. As part of Spartak, Karasev was among the last silver medalists in the history of the Soviet Union (1991) and the first champions of Russia (1992). In 1993, he moved to the CSKA basketball club.
Karasev's playing role is point guard. Speed and athleticism, masterful dribbling, average height for a basketball player (Vasily Karasev’s height is 193 centimeters, weight is 93 kilograms), and most importantly, his “intelligent” style of play: all these factors made Vasily’s position in sports very significant. It should be taken into account that Karasev belonged to a happy generation of young basketball players who were able to quickly advance and take responsibility for the success of the team. There were no foreign players in Russia yet, but many experienced basketball players were leaving abroad. Karasev was able to use the chance and quickly develop, not only in clubs, but also in the national team. Already at the age of 20, he was called up to the Russian national team.
Vasily Karasev - winner
In the legendary 1994 World Championship, Vasily, together with the Russian team, won a silver medal, while the national team defeated many first-class opponents - Canadians, Argentines, Australians, the star team of Croats and lost only to the American “dream team” (“Dream Team”, one of the strongest in history).
At the 1998 championship, Karasev turned out to be the leader of the national team - he spent the most time in the game and gave the most assists. Russia was one step away from gold: in the final, we still lost with a minimal score to the Yugoslavs, having previously defeated the American Dream Team in the semifinals. Vasily Karasev entered the top five players of the championship (the symbolic team of the world).
There were remarkable achievements in club games as well. For example, in 1996, during a match between CSKA and the strong Greek team Olympiacos, Karasev scored 31 points - a European record.
Then the famous basketball player went abroad. In 1997, Russian champion Vasily Karasev also became the champion of Turkey together with the Efes Pilsen club, and in 1998, together with Alba, also the champion of Germany. In total, Karasev managed to play for a dozen different clubs.
He played for a very long time and ended his career only at the age of 39. “If I could combine my yesterday’s speed with today’s wisdom”... – Karasev once said at the end of his playing career.
Career
Artem took his first steps in the profession as a student - in 2004 he played an episodic role in the series “Moscow Saga”, based on the trilogy of the same name by Vasily Aksenov. This television project featured such screen stars as Inna Churikova, Yuri Solomin, Alexey Kortnev, Victoria Tolstoganova, Sergei Bezrukov and many others.
Then he starred in a small role (Ilya) in the melodrama “Daughter-in-Law.” Here his partners on the set were Ksenia Rappoport, Alexey Nilov, Vladislav Galkin. Their on-screen characters found themselves in a difficult situation when their son brought a pregnant bride into the house, who turned out to be his father’s illegitimate daughter.
In TV series, Artem Karasev usually plays law enforcement officers
The aspiring artist also honed his art of impersonation on the stage of the educational theater “On Mokhovaya”. In particular, during his student years he played in the production of “The Old House” based on the most famous play by Alexei Kazantsev, which tells the story of the love story of two high school students who lived in an old mansion that once belonged to Leo Tolstoy. At the center of the corner is the conflict between the characters’ relationships with their own conscience and the generally accepted system of moral values: justice, good and evil, happiness.
He also enthusiastically rehearsed the role of Raskolnikov, a character in Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment. The play based on it never came out. But the artist emphasized in an interview that he still had the dream of embodying this image on the theatrical stage (perhaps partly due to his youthful passion for psychology).
The actor still dreams of playing Raskolnikov
In 2006, the artist could be seen in the crime project “Plan B” in the role of Vitaly, a year later - in the detective story “A Dozen of Justice”, where he got the role of an assistant to practicing lawyer Krupnina.
One of Karasev’s first roles (“A Dozen of Justice”)
Then the St. Petersburg resident took part in the creation of the action-packed detective television series “The Age of the Sagittarius,” portraying on the screen Alexander Serebryakov, the husband of the main character in her younger years. The plot of the series, based on the book by Natalia Andreeva, is the investigation and solution of a complicated triple murder.
Artem also appeared in the continuation series of the popular television project “Opera-3. Chronicles of the Homicide Department" with the participation of the audience's favorite characters: "Mukhomor", Larin, Abdulova, Dukalis performed by Yuri Kuznetsov, Alexey Nilov, Anastasia Melnikova, Sergei Selin, respectively. He played Kirill Zavyalov in the 7th season of Precious Letters.
Still from the series “Chronicles of Homicide”
In 2008, a new multi-part project “Redistribution” was released. Blood with Milk”, where he got the role of Danila, the eldest son of the main character, director of the plant Svetlana. As it turned out, his biological mother was not she, but her sister Margarita, who abandoned him at birth. Now she has decided not only to lay claim to her abandoned son, but also to organize a raider takeover of her sister’s enterprise.
Artem Karasev in the multi-episode drama “Redistribution. Blood with milk"
The actor could also be seen in the company of Artem Alekseev, Alexandra Kulikova, Nikolai Fomenko, Ivan Urgant and other famous actors in the comedy film “The Wizard”. In addition, during the same period he was accepted into the troupe of one of the oldest Russian theaters, the Alexandrinsky Theater.
Artem Karasev in his youth and now
There he was involved, in particular, in the role of the Corinthian messenger in the play “Oedipus the King” based on the tragedy of the Athenian playwright Sophocles about the terrible fate of the king of Thebes, left in infancy to die in the mountains, but saved and raised by the king of Corinth. Unaware of the secret of his birth, he killed his real father and married his own mother. When the truth was revealed, his wife hanged herself in despair, and he blinded himself.
In 2009, the artist played one of the central roles – Valentin Danilov, the young head of the homicide department – in the detective film “B.O.M.Z.” His hero, an honest “cop,” together with the homeless tramp Boris Zhukov (Andrei Egorov) enters into a fight against a gang of criminals who traffic in children from disadvantaged families and their colleagues “protecting” them.
Artem Karasev's height is 178 centimeters
In 2010, Artem demonstrated his excellent acting skills in the series “Insurers”, playing the role of Anton Yezhov in the seventh episode entitled “Fire”, in 2012 he embodied on the screen the image of Pavel Kozyrev, a lieutenant of a special unit of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Northern capital, in the series “ External surveillance."
Also in the 12th season of the famous television series “Streets of Broken Lanterns,” he got a prominent role as Lieutenant Anton Barsky, a “new generation” police officer and a lover of club life.
“Streets of Broken Lanterns”: Artem Karasev as Anton Barsky
In 2014, the Rossiya 2 channel premiered the mini-series “Trace of Piranha,” based on the series of books by Krasnoyarsk writer Alexander Bushkov “Piranha.” Anton Karasev played the central role - the unbending, handsome super special forces soldier Kirill Mazur. His hero avenged the death of his wife and, together with FBI employee Jen (Natalya Dvoretskaya), overcame incredible obstacles, delivered to the command incriminating materials on the American politician obtained on the territory of the hunting village.
Artem Karasev in the series “Trace of the Piranha”
In the same year, the actor played Alex Martinez, the main character in the serial drama The Spaniard. This is an incredibly touching and intriguing story about two inseparable friends from an orphanage, one of whom was adopted by a couple from Spain. 20 years later, this boy became a successful dentist, but did not forget his childhood friend. In attempts to find him, he contacted detective agencies to no avail. But as soon as one of them managed to pick up the trail of a friend, the detective was killed. The young man immediately set off for his homeland in the hope of bringing this dangerous search to an end.
Still from the series “The Spaniard”
In 2020, fans of the actor could see him in a new project - “Aurora’s Glove”, the filming of historical scenes of which was carried out in beautiful ancient estates and picturesque places of the city on the Neva and its environs. He played the husband of the main character, who carelessly tried on the glove of the fatal beauty of Pushkin's era, bringing death to the men in love with her.
Movies
In 2004, important events took place in the creative biography of Artem Karasev. While still a student, he managed to star in the melodrama “Daughter-in-Law.” And although he had a small role, it was the first step towards success.
A couple of years later, Karasev appeared in the films “Plan B”, “A Dozen of Justice”, “Era of Sagittarius” and “The Wizard”. This time his roles were more interesting and significant. In 2008, he starred in the television series “Redistribution. Blood and Milk”, playing the son of the main character.
Soon, another joyful event occurred in Karasev’s biography. The talented actor was accepted into the troupe of the St. Petersburg Alexandrinsky Theater, where he continues to work today.
This was followed by several more films with Artem’s participation, but he gained the greatest popularity only in 2010, starring in the TV series “Bum.” He got the key role of Valentin Danilov, which he coped with perfectly.
In 2014, Karasev’s creative biography was supplemented with another successful work.
He was approved for the main role in the action-packed mini-series “Trace of the Piranha,” where he played the main character Kirill Mazur. In the film, he managed to demonstrate good physical fitness and endurance.
The following year, Artem Karasev appeared as Alex in the crime drama The Spaniard. He again got the main role, which helped the actor further reveal his talent.
Karasev then played key characters in the mini-series “Aurora’s Glove” and “Between Love and Hate.” In the last film, his partner was the charming Elena Shilova.
Personal life of Artem Karasev
While studying at SPbGATI, Artem Karasev met fellow student Karina Razumovskaya, the future star of the television series “Sea Devils. Destiny 2", "Adjutants of Love", "Undercover". Their romantic relationship began in 2001, and in December 2005 they got married. However, in 2007, the relationship exhausted itself, and the couple separated. The press cited Artem’s pathological jealousy of his wife’s on-screen partners and her rapidly growing popularity as the reason for the divorce. The couple had no children. Critics noted that after the divorce, the actor’s career skyrocketed.
Wedding of Artem Karasev and Karina Razumovskaya
Karasev loves his hometown very much, its white nights and spring, when nature wakes up. According to him, he likes the “depressive atmosphere of Dostoevsky” that reigns in the Northern capital in a good way. He gets similar feelings from Prague, full of myths and allegories, and the image of its native, the master of mystical stories, Franz Kafka. He happily travels to Italy, Germany, and other countries.
When asked by journalists about what kind of film he would like to make himself and who he would invite to play in it, the actor replied that it would definitely be his favorite childhood fantasy about the future of humanity, and he would invite Robert De Niro, Mark Wahlberg or Christian Bale.
Personal life
Karasev met his future wife, actress Karina Razumovskaya, while still studying at the Academy. A year before receiving their diploma, the young people got married. Initially, there was a complete idyll between them, which later disappeared somewhere.
After living together for about 2 years, the couple decided to leave. Razumovskaya’s acting career developed much more successfully than her husband’s.
Karina Razumovskaya and Artyom Karasev
In this regard, she was rarely at home, spending a lot of time on film sets. According to rumors, the reason for their divorce could be professional jealousy.
The former spouses still refuse to comment on their separation, considering it unnecessary. According to their friends and relatives, each of them suffered a very painful breakup.
An interesting fact is that as soon as Karasev became free, his creative biography began to be replenished with rating films.
As of today, Artem is a bachelor. His friends claim that he has a girlfriend, but what her name is and what she is like remains a mystery. Karasev prefers not to make his personal life public.
Artem Karasev in the film “Aurora’s Glove”
In his free time, the actor enjoys traveling. At the same time, Artem prefers to visit Russian cities. But St. Petersburg remains for him the most beautiful and beloved city in the world. It is curious that in one of the interviews he called the Czechs and Italians close in spirit and mentality to the Russians.
Karasev has his own account on Instagram, where he periodically posts photos. Thanks to this, fans can follow his life.
Artem Karasev now
In 2020, the Rossiya 1 channel premiered the Ukrainian-produced multi-part crime melodrama Between Love and Hate. Artem played the main role of the young operative Pavel, with whom two friends, Tatyana (Natalia Denisenko) and Lisa (Elena Shilova), were in love since school.
The charming actor continues his path to fame
According to the plot, his chosen one, Tanya, being pregnant, died on the eve of the wedding under the wheels of a car, but doctors managed to save their newborn daughter. However, the father of his deceased bride, an influential businessman Vasilyev (Stanislav Boklan), forbids the young father even to see the baby. Then he decides to enter into a difficult struggle for the child, because the grandfather has money and power on his side.
The actor’s skill, popularity and demand are growing every year, although he himself is quite critical of some of the characters he plays (for example, in “Streets of Broken Lanterns”). He dreams of new deep, multifaceted, characterful roles.
Further acting career
Now Artem is luckier with roles than before. In 2014, a television series called “The Spaniard” appeared. The project was positively received by television viewers. Artem Karasev appeared in the image of the main character Alex Martinez. When the hero was little, he was adopted by a Spanish couple. After thirty years, the hero returns to his native Russia to find his brother. At the beginning of 2020, viewers saw the artist in another project called “Aurora’s Glove.” The picture tells a story where two destinies are intertwined. Artem played the role of Victor, the husband of Aurora Sinitsyna.
Brief biography
- Full name in Russian and Ukrainian: Karasev, Vadim Yurievich; Karasev, Vadim Yuriyovich;
- Place of birth: Korostyshev, Zhitomir region, Ukraine (former Ukrainian SSR);
- Date of birth: 1956, May 18;
- Zodiac sign: Taurus; according to the eastern horoscope - Monkey (element of the year is fire); patron planet Venus;
- Higher education; graduated from Kharkov State University (specialty - political economy);
- Occupation: political scientist, writer;
- Place of work: Institute of Global Strategies;
- Political activity: one of the leaders of the Ukrainian party “United Center”;
- Marital status: Married; wife – Natalia Ushakova; have no children.
Interesting facts about Vadim Karasev
- Despite his frequent appearances on Russian TV, the political scientist permanently lives in Kyiv, and only comes to Moscow to film programs.
- In his free time from work, he allows himself to play music; another favorite pastime is walking in Kiev’s Shevchenko Park.
- His favorite style of music, according to him, is chanson. Although he also likes rock, both in his youth and now.
- The political scientist is not fond of alcohol; his favorite drinks are tea and coffee.
- The sixty-year-old political scientist recently changed his clothing style; he is not afraid to appear funny and appears on shows and takes photographs for social networks wearing branded items.
- When asked what needs to be done to look so good at an advanced age, Karasev replies: “Love rock music and work on yourself!”
- Favorite writer: Hegel: “From reading Hegel, the brain begins to work and receive blood.”
- Three words with which Karasev argues for Ukraine’s possible exit from the crisis: “Reasonableness, rationality, balance.”
Biography
Denis Karasev was born on August 1, 1963 in Estonia (Sillamae). As a child, the boy was actively involved in sports and studied at a music school, having naturally good hearing.
After school, Denis, dreaming of an acting career, goes to Moscow and enters GITIS (workshop of A. Goncharov).
Having received his diploma in 1985, he worked at the Mayakovsky Theater. Participated in the productions: “Not about Nightingales”, “A Plague on Both Your Houses”, “Dog Waltz”. Then Denis Karasev moved to Lenkom.
In 2004, as a director, he produced the entrepreneurial play “White Clothes”.
