Biography of Alexey Morozov
Alexey Valentinovich Morozov is a Russian actor who played the role of Vasily Aksenov in the serial adaptation of his autobiographical novel “Mysterious Passion”. Also familiar to Russian viewers from the historical drama “Angel’s Chapel”, the melodrama “Classmates”, the TV series “Split”, “Summer of Wolves” and “Gregory R.”. Since 2001 he has been an actor at the St. Petersburg MDT. Perhaps you were looking for the biography of the actor’s namesake, hockey player Alexei Morozov.
Theater and film star Alexey Morozov
Memory
The biography of Savva Morozov has repeatedly found a response in the works of Russian filmmakers. In the 1967 film “Nikolai Bauman” Morozov was played by Efim Kopelyan, in the historical drama “Red Diplomat. Pages of the life of Leonid Krasin” – Donatas Banionis.
Modern descendants of Savva Morozov
In 2007, the series “Savva Morozov” was released with Sergei Veksler in the title role. In 2011, the documentary film “The Fatal Love of Savva Morozov” was created, which was based on documents and photos from the personal archive of the Morozov family.
Childhood and family
Alexey was born into an artistic family - his father, Valentin Morozov, Honored Artist of Russia, puppet theater actor. The actor’s mother is far from art; she works as an economist, but always supports her husband and son in their endeavors. It is not surprising that Alexey spent his entire childhood behind the scenes of the theater, and in 1987, his father brought his second-grader son to audition for the film-play “Journey of the Blue Arrow.” Director Valery Sarukhanov was looking for an actor to play the main role of the poor boy Francesco, who finds himself in the land of living toys. At first, nothing worked for Alyosha during the audition (she couldn’t cry on command), but as a result, everything ended successfully and the younger Morozov was shown on TV for the first time.
Valentin Nikolaevich Morozov, father of actor Alexei Morozov
The impressions of working on the theater stage were not forgotten. By the age of 14, Alexei had firmly decided to follow in his father’s footsteps. In conversations with his son, Valentin Morozov more than once tried to find out the firmness of his son’s intentions, to make sure that he understood the complexity of the chosen path. Alexey invariably maintained that he wanted to engage in acting “for the soul,” and then his parents realized that their son could not be dissuaded.
In the image of Sukhotin from the series “Grigory R.”
While still a schoolboy, Alyosha entered the children's theater studio “Imagine”, which worked at Leningrad television. Wonderful teachers worked with the children: Maxim Demchenko and Leonid Sidorenko. During the entrance exams to the studio, the boy had to show a dying swan. Alexey did not succeed in a touching dance, but still the masters recognized acting talent in the teenager, and he was accepted. Together with other children, Morozov participated in the creation of television programs about the poetry of the Silver Age - teenagers read poems by Gumilyov and Akhmatova. Every day Alyosha realized that the path he had chosen was the right one, that this was exactly what he wanted to do.
On the set of the film "28 Panfilov's Men"
Immediately after graduating from school, Morozov took the documents to the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts. The entrance tests were successful, and in September the young man began his studies under the guidance of V.M. Filshtinsky, choosing the specialty “Theater and Film Actor”. Despite the fact that the choice of educational institution was deliberate, at the beginning of his studies Alexey often missed lectures, did not complete teachers’ assignments, and even tried to quit his studies. Having matured, the actor blamed his early age for such sloppiness, and became convinced that it is necessary to comprehend the basics of acting at least from the age of 18.
Alexey Morozov knew for sure from childhood that he would become an actor
Music
As a student at LTFKiS, Alexander Morozov put together a musical group, with which he performed at holidays and special events of the educational institution. In 1968, the young musician wrote his first hit based on the poems of Sergei Ilyasov, “Herbs Smell of Mint,” which influenced his creative biography. Bulgarian singer Boris Gudzhnov, having performed a hit song at the Song of the Year competition, received first prize, glorifying the names of the composer and poet.
In addition to all-Russian fame, the song also brought student Morozov a good income: the amount of royalties exceeded the salary of the university rector. The success inspired the musician to create a new popular composition, “Inconspicuous Beauty,” for the ensemble “Singing Guitars.” The next hit performed by Lyudmila Senchina, “In the meantime, while the river runs over the pebbles,” goes to the people.
After graduating from the pedagogical institute, Alexander Morozov went to the army, where he continued to write music for the sailor ensemble “Volna”. Having been demobilized, in 1975 the musician entered the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, from which he was unable to graduate due to his busy touring schedule. During these years, the musical style of the composer-songwriter was formed under the influence of the creativity of teachers V. Gavrilin and V. Solovyov-Sedoy.
Young Alexander Morozov at the piano
Since the late 70s, Alexander has been working fruitfully with poets Anatoly Poperechny, Mikhail Andreev, Leonid Derbenev, Sergei Romanov, Gleb Gorbovsky, Yuri Parkaev, Evgeny Muravyov, and writes song cycles based on poems by Nikolai Rubtsov. Morozov collaborates with the musical ensembles “Hello, Song” (“Old Fire”, “Night Beach”, “It’s Hard to Part”, “Meet Me”), “Jolly Fellows” (“Doll”), “Ariel” (“On Buyan Island ", "In the Land of Magnolias"). In the early 80s, Alexander Morozov’s songs entered the repertoire of Edita Piekha (“And life goes on,” “Old piano,” “On the big planet”).
In 1984, Alexander Morozov was invited to work in the Forum group. Under the leadership of the composer, the team releases two records - “Forum” and “Nobody is to Blame.” In 1987, Morozov left Moscow and moved to Ukraine, where he worked with local poets and musicians. At the very beginning of the 90s, he emigrated to Cyprus with his family, but already in 1992 he returned to the capital of Russia and opened his own recording studio, Moroz-Records.
Alexander Morozov - founder of Moroz-Records
Alexander Sergeevich's songs are performed by many pop stars: Alla Pugacheva (“My Blue-Winged Dove”), Philip Kirkorov (“Bird”), Valery Leontyev (“Bird in a Cage”), Nadezhda Babkina (“Thank You”), Mikhail Shufutinsky (“Bird in a Cage”), Nadezhda Babkina (“Thank You”), Mikhail Shufutinsky (“Bird in a Cage”), And you take care of yourself”, “The soul hurts”), Lev Leshchenko (“From St. Petersburg to Moscow”). Over time, many of Morozov’s songs lose their authorship and receive the status of folk songs: “Crimson Ringing”, “Scarlet Dawn”, “In the Upper Room”, “A Loon Flew”, “Pebbles”, “The Soul Hurts”, “In the Land of Magnolias”, “Leaves Flew Away” "
Alexander Morozov began his solo career in the mid-90s, releasing the album “Name Day of the Heart,” which includes the tracks “Stop the Earth” and “The Soul Hurts.” In 2002, the author begins concert activities. Over the course of 6 years, he creates 15 original albums, among which the most popular are “Little Station”, “In the Upper Room”, “Love While You Love”, “Life is Good in its Moments”.
Alexander Morozov and the team of the song theater "Nugget"
In 2003, Alexander, together with Marina Parusnikova, opened the “Nugget” song theater, which becomes a launching pad for many young musicians. Nikolai Baskov, Pelageya, Marina Kapuro, opera singers Andrei Valentiy, Andrei Savelyev, Alexey Safiullin begin their careers in the creative team. In 2010, under the leadership of Alexander Morozov, the Music Open Pafos opera music festival was held in Cyprus. In 2012, the composer was awarded a diploma “For his contribution to national culture.”
The beginning of a creative journey
Alexey graduated from St. Petersburg State Technical University in 2001, after which he received an invitation to the troupe of Lev Abramovich Dodin, head of the Academic Maly Drama Theater, Theater of Europe. During this period, the young actor took part in the productions “Claustrophobia” and “Gaudeamus”.
Still from the series “Cross in a Circle”
At the beginning of his career, Alexey tried his luck on television. For two years (from 2002 to 2004) he hosted the television magazine “Emergency Reserve” on the Ren-TV channel, and in 2003, together with Igor Botvin, he hosted a series of historical programs about duels and card games in Russian history on the “Culture” channel. Morozov later admitted that in this program he was more of an actor than a presenter.
On the set of the series "Split"
In 2002, Morozov played a small role as school theater director Veniamin Mikhailovich in the teenage series “OBZh”.
Young Alexey Morozov in the TV series “OBZh”
Doubts about choosing a path, a difficult financial situation, and loss of satisfaction from working on stage forced Morozov Jr. to leave the theater in 2004 and break with acting for some time. Alexey moved to Moscow, where he mastered a new profession - information management. For two years outside of acting, Morozov had the opportunity to advertise both children's toys and construction companies. Soon he managed to become the head of the Russian press service of the French singer and actress Patricia Kaas, and also create his own public relations agency. Alexey’s business was so successful that several brands competed for the right to invite him to work, including Nemiroff and British American Tobacco. “Who’s there”: actor Alexey Morozov In 2006, a bell rang in Morozov’s apartment. Lev Dodin invited the actor to audition for the play “King Lear”. Alexey was not given any guarantees, but he still risked returning to St. Petersburg.
Significant career milestones
From that moment on, Morozov played in several productions of the Maly Drama Theater: Biron in Love's Labour's Lost, Prince Gennaro in The Raven, Ralph in Lord of the Flies, Fedka Katorzhny in The Possessed. Alexey was also invited to other theaters - in the Comedian's Shelter theater he played Ivan Timofeevich in the play "Olesya" (2011), Rodolfo in the production of "Madame Bovary" (2013) in the Russian Entreprise Theater. Andrey Mironov.
Alexey Morozov serves in the St. Petersburg MDT (“Life and Fate”)
At the same time, work was going on on filming. The first notable film role of Morozov Jr. was the image of the son of a priest, Soviet commissar Maxim Proshin in the film “Angel's Chapel.” The film took place in the 20s of the 20th century against the backdrop of the conflict with Finland.
Still from the film "Angel's Chapel"
This was followed by work in the multi-part film “Cross in a Circle”, where the young actor also played the main role, or rather, two: an NKVD officer and his grandson-historian, and many scenes with the participation of these characters were filmed on the same day, so Alexei Morozov had to quickly change clothes, make up and transform into radically different people.
Alexey Morozov had a hard time on the set of “Cross in a Circle”
Then there were works in the series “Raskol” (Fyodor Rtishchev), “Gregory R.” (Sukhotin), “Dostoevsky” (terrorist), the paintings “Odessite”, “Bird”, “Report of Fate”, “Cop Wars”. Video presentation of Alexey Morozov Over the years, the actor managed to work with well-known people throughout the country: Sergei Bezrukov, Chulpan Khamatova, Roman Madyanov, Timofey Tribuntsev, Evgeny Mironov, Alexander Domogarov, Irina Rozanova and many, many others. Alexey has said more than once that the stars with whom he worked behave exclusively as professionals at work who do not allow themselves whims and shortcomings - this style of work has always aroused his genuine admiration.
In 2020, the jury of the Cannes Film Festival was impressed by the Russian-German short film “Exit”. In half an hour of screen time, the actors, among whom was Alexey Morozov, managed to embody a real tragedy tied to a difficult moral dilemma.
Fragments from the short film “Exit” with Alexei Morozov Working in cinema did not prevent Morozov from hosting television shows. From 2011 to 2014, he hosted a program about memorable places in the cultural capital, “The Reserved Region with Alexei Morozov,” and from 2020, he hosted the program “Petrograd-17” on the Russia-Petersburg channel.
His death
In 1905, Savva’s mother, the official owner of the Nikolskaya manufactory, concerned about his behavior and revolutionary views, took control of the enterprise from him. Morozov became isolated and stopped going out into society. Rumors spread that he had gone mad. In April 1905, a council created to assess his health decided that he was in a state of nervous disorder, which manifested itself either in excessive excitement, insomnia and anxiety, or in attacks of melancholy and a depressed state.
Morozov and his wife went abroad for treatment. On May 13, he was found dead in a hotel room in Cannes with a Browning in his hand. Nearby there was a note: “I ask you not to blame anyone for my death.” However, all family members and many friends were sure that Morozov had actually been killed. A possible motive was also mentioned - his insurance policy for 100 thousand rubles, which ended up with Andreeva. The news of the death of the industrialist led to panic on the stock exchange.
Morozov was buried according to Christian rites, in the Old Believer Rogozhskoe cemetery, next to his ancestors, as if there was no certificate from the French police about suicide.
Personal life of Alexey Morozov
Alexey met his first wife Marina via the Internet. Alas, the girl, far from creativity, did not understand her husband’s aspirations, and therefore family life did not work out.
Alexey Morozov and his wife
The second wife of Alexei Morozov is Dana Abyzova, an actress from Latvia. In 2012, Dana came to the Maly Drama Theater for an internship, and there they met Alexey. The actor was immediately attracted by the fire in the girl’s eyes, her amazing energy and charm. Soon they went to Moscow together for auditions. In the capital, the couple was together almost all the time, the young people enthusiastically communicated and got to know each other. Four months after the meeting, Alexey and Dana decided to legalize their relationship. They had a modest wedding and immediately after the ceremony they went on tour to Italy.
Wedding of Alexey Morozov and Dana Abyzova
Alexey tries to spend his free time with his son from his first marriage. Matvey loves skiing and, together with his father, enjoys conquering the snowy slopes. The actor sees the makings of a director in his son - the boy loves to write stories, stage them, and asks his father and grandfather for advice.
Dana Abyzova also serves in MDT
Morozov Jr. also loves to perform bard songs in the company of friends. Especially Russian rock: “DDT”, “Splin”, “Chizh & Co”, “Alice”, “Kino”. He often travels with his wife to her homeland to relax on a farm away from the bustle of the city. The actor’s favorite films are “The Godfather”, “Burnt by the Sun” and “Schindler’s List”.
Personal life
In 1888, Savva Morozov married his cousin’s ex-wife Zinaida Grigorievna Zimina, daughter of the Bogorodsk merchant of the second guild G. E. Zimin. The entrepreneur's love was so great that he went against the wishes of his parents. Marriage to a divorced woman was contrary to the Morozovs’ religion. 6 months after the wedding, the couple’s first child, Timofey, was born. Two years later, Zinaida Grigorievna gave her husband a daughter, Maria, Elena was born in 1895, and a son, Savva, in 1903.
Savva Morozov with his wife
In 1893, Savva Morozov purchased a house on Spiridonovka Street from the merchant A. N. Aksakov, which he rebuilt over five years according to the design of F. O. Shekhtel. In the new mansion, Morozov regularly organized balls to which Mamontov, Botkin, Chaliapin, Gorky, Chekhov, Knipper-Chekhova, Stanislavsky, Boborykin were invited.
Savva Morozov and Maria Andreeva
In 1898, Savva Morozov became interested in the Moscow theater actress Maria Fedorovna Zhelyabuzhskaya (Yurkovskaya), who performed under the name Andreeva. The girl was in the service of the Social Democrats, periodically carrying out orders from Lenin. Andreeva largely influenced Morozov’s political views. Maria Feodorovna convinced the entrepreneur to start financing the party. In 1904, the romance ended, the actress left the manufacturer for Maxim Gorky. Parting with his beloved was a blow for Savva Morozov.
Alexey Morozov now
Morozov Jr. does not slow down his work pace - the release of several films with his participation was planned for 2016–2017: “Hurray, Vacations!”, “You Can’t Forgive,” and the mini-series “The Forgotten Woman.”
Still from the series “The Forgotten Woman”
Also in the fall of 2020, the premiere of the long-awaited series “Mysterious Passion” took place, based on the novel by Vasily Aksenov. It was its author who was played by Alexei Morozov at a young age, while Aksyonov in his old age was played, or rather, voiced by People’s Artist Leonid Kulagin. Behind the fictitious names were hidden real prototypes from the world of art, for example, Robert R. - Robert Rozhdestvensky (Alexander Ilyin Jr.), Yan Tushinsky - Evgeny Yevtushenko (Philip Yankovsky), Anton Andreotis - Andrei Voznesensky (Evgeny Pavlov), etc. Morozov’s character also received a “code name” – Vaxon.
“Mysterious Passion”: Alexey Morozov in the role of Vaxon.
The premiere of the large-scale historical film “28 Panfilov’s Men” was scheduled for November of the same year. Morozov got the role of political instructor Vasily Klochkov, who, according to legend, uttered the words that later became popular: “Russia is great, but there is nowhere to retreat!” Along with the actor on the set of the military drama were Alexander Ustyugov, Yakov Kucherevsky, Oleg Fedorov and other wonderful actors. "28 Panfilov's men." Trailer
