“Patience has come to an end”: Glushenko left Kalyagin and found happiness with a young man

The childhood of Alexander Kalyagin

The future actor spent his childhood in Moscow in a family of maternal relatives. As Kalyagin recalls, it was a real “woman’s kingdom”: numerous aunties raised a good boy. But when they decided to force Sasha to learn to play the violin, the “good boy” sat on the instrument, broke it and threw it under the closet!

Alexander Kalyagin in his youth

Like any late and only child, Sasha was surrounded by care and love, all his whims and desires were immediately fulfilled. From the age of five, the boy dreamed of becoming an artist and his mother ordered a small stage with backstage for him - a real small theater. On this stage, little Sasha constantly staged performances for the residents of the communal apartment.

At the age of thirteen, he mustered up the courage to write a letter to Raikin himself. And the great actor answered the teenager. Kalyagin keeps this letter to this day, and in 1978 he read it to Arkady Raikin on the air of the “Theater Meetings” program.

Political views[ | ]

According to the memoirs of Yuli Kim, in the 1970s Kalyagin kept the archive of the Chronicle of Current Events. [ source not specified 2681 days

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In 2003 he joined United Russia[13].

On June 28, 2005, he signed an Appeal from cultural figures, scientists, and members of the public in connection with the sentence imposed on the former leaders of the Yukos Oil Company[14]. The “Letter of Fifty” appeared in response to another letter in which other cultural figures demanded that Mikhail Khodorkovsky be recognized as a political prisoner. In 2011, he stated that he did not regret that he had signed this letter in 2005[15].

On February 6, 2012, he was officially registered as a proxy of Russian Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin[16].

Alexander Kalyagine's studies in Shchuk

Kalyagin’s dream came true very quickly - he entered the Shchukin Theater School the first time. In the second year, the question arose about the artist’s expulsion: not a single girl wanted to rehearse with an overweight and balding student. Kalyagin was saved by the production “Although the date took place, but...” based on Chekhov’s story, and the fact that first-year student Lyuba Koreneva agreed to play with him. Since then it has become clear that Kalyagin was created to play Chekhov’s heroes.

The “black” streak in Kalyagin’s student life is over. He fell in love with the talented actress Tatyana Korunova. Their romance was a secret to everyone; the young people got married secretly while they were second-year students.

Childhood and youth

The future People's Artist was born in the sparsely populated city of Malmyzh, located in the Kirov region. This long-awaited event took place on May 25, 1942. The boy's parents were educated people.

Sasha spent his childhood in the capital, his father Alexander Georgievich Kalyagin headed the Moscow Pedagogical Institute and also taught at the history department. Alexander does not remember his father; he passed away when he was one year old.

Mother Yulia Mironovna Kalyagina was of Jewish nationality; after the death of her husband, she took over all responsibilities. She was also involved in teaching, teaching children French.

Numerous maternal relatives helped with the housework. As the actor himself recalls, he spent his childhood and youth in the female kingdom. The women spoiled the future artist and fulfilled his every desire.

The boy’s artistic abilities manifested themselves in his youth; he often organized plays and performances for his relatives.

His idol from an early age was Arkady Raikin, he wrote letters to him, telling him how he wanted to be an actor. The great comedian answered one of them. Alexander Kalyagin still keeps this letter. And later he even starred with Arkady Isaakovich in a film, and reminded him of their long-standing correspondence.

After graduating from a general education institution, Alexander, at the insistence of his mother, entered medical college. After receiving his diploma, the young man worked in an ambulance for several years. True, the profession did not give him pleasure; he still dreamed of a stage and a film set.

After working as a paramedic for two years, Kalyagin finally applied to the Shchukin Theater School and was successfully enrolled. At first, things weren’t going well; the acting teachers were extremely dissatisfied with him.

They even wanted to expel Alexander for incompetence, but he showed them the three stages of intoxication and they changed their minds. As a result, he continued his studies and was able to successfully receive his graduation certificates.

Alexander Kalyagin's work in theaters

The artist’s creative biography is extremely rich - Kalyagin played on many theater stages.

In 1965, after graduating from college, Kalyagin and his wife joined the Taganka Theater troupe. But Kalyagin failed to “get along” with the chief director Lyubimov. After 2 years, the couple leave Taganka.

Alexander Kalyagin worked in theater and cinema

In 1967, Kalyagin began working at Ermolova's theater. Over the course of three years, he played many roles, the most significant of which was the role of Poprishin in “Notes of a Madman.”

After a year of work at the Sovremennik Theater, the actor ended up at the Moscow Art Theater. The artist “stayed” in this theater for more than a quarter of a century.

On the stage of the Moscow Art Theater, the artist shone in the role of Trigorin in Chekhov’s “The Seagull”, Fyodor Protasov in “The Living Corpse” by Leo Tolstoy, Leni Shindin in “We, the Undersigned” by A. Gelman and many others.

From 1991 to this day, Kalyagin has led his own team “Et cetera”. In this theater, Kalyagin staged several performances and acted in them himself.

Activities as Chairman of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia[ | ]

Meeting of Vladimir Putin with the Chairman of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia Alexander Kalyagin, October 17, 2001

In October 1996, Kalyagin was elected chairman of the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation.

The situation with the renovation of the House of Stage Veterans named after M. G. Savina[ | ]

According to expert estimates, a comprehensive overhaul, reconstruction and restoration of the House of Stage Veterans named after M. G. Savina required funds that the Union of Theater Workers of Russia did not have [ source not specified 2307 days

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During a discussion of plans for the reconstruction of the House of Stage Veterans in 2006, a scandal broke out related to the intention of the chairman of the Union of Theater Workers A. Kalyagin to sell part of the territory to the Sistema-Hals company and build a residential building on the territory of a monument of federal significance[17][18][19]. The agreement between STD and Sistema-Hals was opposed by stage veterans and a number of theater workers. The situation reached the attention of President V.V. Putin, who ordered an investigation into the conflict and promised to allocate funds for the renovation of the Veterans’ House from the budget[20]. As a result of the President’s intervention, Sistema-Hals abandoned plans to build a residential building, donating 5 million dollars (132 million rubles) to the Union of Theater Workers, which manages the Veterans’ House, for repairs [18][21]. The Governor of St. Petersburg V. Matvienko proposed to transfer the House to the city balance, but A. Kalyagin spoke out against this, since, in his opinion, in this case the House of Stage Veterans would lose its creative identity and become simply a city institution.[18] Kalyagin considered one of the numerous press publications offensive to his honor and dignity, estimating the damage at half a million rubles. However, the court reduced these demands by collecting one ruble from the Petersburg Theater Magazine, and one thousand rubles from the magazine’s journalist M. Dmitrievskaya[22].

Despite the allocation of funds for the renovation of the House back in 2006, work had not begun as of the spring of 2010. According to the director of the House of Stage Veterans, Alexander Belokobylsky, the Union of Theater Workers has already spent half of the specified funds, but repeated appeals on this issue to the prosecutor’s office and the Department of Economic Crimes have not yielded results.[21] In December 2010, the building of the House of Veterans of the Stage was included in the “black list” of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for fire safety[23].

Filmography of Alexander Kalyagin

Kalyagin played more than 100 roles in feature films! This is the tragic Vasily Zhukovsky and the opportunist Lyubomudrov, Fedya Protasov, Platonov, Orgon - the list goes on and on.

The range of the actor’s images is amazing, but there is one thing that unites all of Kaligin’s heroes – loneliness. Each of his heroes is lonely in their own way, even Chichikov and Aunt Charlie from Brazil are a wonderful paraphrase of the great Charlie Chaplin, a small but proud and free man. Even the cat Leopold, so brilliantly voiced by Kalyagin, is lonely, because he just can’t make friends with the little mice. Well, the phrase “Guys, let’s live together” became a catchphrase as soon as the cartoon was released.

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In films[ | ]

Doc film - Flowers during the occupation. reads the text

• 1974 - Agony - reads the text
• 1977 - Trans-Siberian Express - voiced by Asanali Ashimova

In cartoons[ | ]

• 1977 - Who am I? - reads the text
• 1979 - Tale of Tales - Spinning Top
• 1981 - Treasure of the cat Leopold - all roles
• 1981 - TV of Leopold the Cat - all roles
• 1982 - Walking the cat Leopold - all roles
• 1982 - Leopold's birthday - all roles
• 1983 - Summer of Leopold the Cat - all roles
• 1984 - Leopold the cat in dreams and in reality - all roles
• 1986 - Clinic of the cat Leopold - all roles
• 1987 - Leopold the cat's car - all roles
• 1987 - Mumu - from the author
• 1987 - Dialogue (The Mole and the Egg) - Mole
• 1993 - Bobe Mayses (Grandmother's Tales) - narrator
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• 2015 - New adventures of Leopold the cat - Leopold the cat

Personal life of Alexander Kalyagin

The artist’s personal life did not work out. His first wife, Tatyana, died of cancer. Alexander still has a four-year-old daughter, Ksenia, in his arms. A year after his wife’s death, Kalyagin’s mother died.

Alexander Kalyagin with his wife Evgenia Glushenko

The actor met his second wife on the set of the film “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano.” Ksyusha liked the young artist Glushenko and asked her father to let “this aunt” stay with them. Evgenia became the second mother for Kalyagin’s daughter, and soon the couple had a son, Denis. Having been married for almost 30 years, the star couple broke up. Dirty rumors and gossip about her husband's adventures did their job - Evgenia left her husband.

The wife kicked Alexander Kalyagin out of the house

Their love was born beautifully - under the gun of movie cameras during the filming of the magnificent film “Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano”. She ran after him, stumbling, towards the river. And then they hugged, standing knee-deep in the water, and cried - the most popular and beloved actor Alexander KALYAGIN and the then very young, charming Evgenia GLUSHENKO. Soon this wonderful acting couple could celebrate a pearl wedding - 30 years of marriage. But now there is a severe crisis in their family.

Alexander Kalyagin photography

For the first time, Express Gazeta reporters learned that something was wrong in the family of Kalyagin and Glushenko during the filming of the television series “Cop in Law.”
Some episodes of this film were played out in the center of Moscow, on 1905 Street near house No. 3. The main role in the film was played by the actor of the Et Cetera theater Sergei Plotnikov. After filming a noisy scene, he joked: Advertising:
“Well, we chose a place.” San Sanych lives in this house. Now he will look out of the window and say: “Come on, get out of here, stop yelling!”

As always, the set was crowded with onlookers. One of the old women, gawking at the filmmakers, responded to Plotnikov’s remark:

“Don’t worry, Kalyagin hasn’t shown up here for several months.” And my wife and son Denis live here.

This news seemed incredible. It seemed that no troubles in life could break this couple. After all, Kalyagin found a family after going through suffering.

Holy love

After the release of the film “Hello, I’m your aunt!” he found himself at the height of fame. The girls guarded him with flowers at the service entrance to the theater. And he was going through a difficult period in his personal life.

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His wife Tatyana, also an actress, with whom he worked together at the Taganka Theater, died of cancer when their daughter Ksyusha was only four years old. At first, his mother helped Kalyagin raise the girl. But a year later the same terrible disease killed her too. For seven years, Alexander Alexandrovich washed and ironed his daughter’s dresses, got up early in the morning, trying to have time to prepare porridge for breakfast and soup for lunch, ran away from rehearsals in a hurry to pick up the girl from school, did not stay anywhere in the evenings - he helped with homework. Kalyagin did not even think about getting married again for a long time, because a strange woman in the house could cause irreparable injury to the child.

Zhenya Glushenko, who talentedly played a naive simpleton in “The Unfinished Play...”, liked him immediately - sweet, kind, wise. Later, he admitted that, looking at her, he thought: “This is the kind of woman who could become an understanding and loving wife to him and a good mother to Ksyusha.” And only a year later the actor dared to take a step forward. I called Evgenia and suggested we go to the theater together. But the final word was with Ksyusha.

“Let Aunt Zhenya come to live with us,” said the daughter after several months of meeting her father’s chosen one.

Soon Evgenia gave birth to a son.

Rape victim

It all started with rumors about Alexander Alexandrovich’s romantic relationship with the young actress Ekaterina Rednikova. He invited the girl to his theater, offering leading roles in plays. Soon no one in the troupe doubted that Kalyagin appreciated not only Katya’s acting abilities. But then Rednikova became less accommodating. Her behavior immediately affected her employment in the theater. For several years she played in only one play...

And two years ago, newspapers excitedly discussed the disgusting story that involved the chairman of the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation, member of the Public Chamber, Alexander Kalyagin. The 64-year-old respected artist was accused of rape.

Oksana Gorbachova assured that she met the actor on the street, taking his autograph. And then she asked for help getting a job.

“It happened at four o’clock in the afternoon in his office,” Gorbachova claimed. “He took possession of me right there, he didn’t even bother to protect himself.”

The lady complained to the prosecutor's office. However, she later withdrew the rape complaint.

The sex scandal was actively discussed on the Internet. This is what a visitor to the wapbbs.com forum under the name Gek Finn wrote: “It was enough for me to work for his theater for a year to be forever disappointed in Kalyagin as a person. I remember very well the revelations of one young woman from the junior staff of Et Cetera, whom Kalyagin threatened to fire if she did not give him a blowjob... Well, who among us is not a womanizer. But to persuade people to have sex using administrative resources and threats is a bummer. His theater was once rightly criticized for the fact that it did not have a single character actor with brutal masculine charisma and a powerfully expressed libido. Well, except for the entrepreneurial Vladimir Simonov. All the others, from “heroes-lovers” to “extras,” were selected according to one criterion: only the boss tramples the chicken coop in this barn.”

Evgenia Konstantinovna, of course, had a hard time with all this gossip. She said that she trusted only her beloved husband. And like a wise woman, she turned a deaf ear to gossip about his adventures, believing that because of them, of course, it was not worth ruining the family. That was until a scandalous audio recording of an intimate conversation between the actor and a young fan was posted on the Internet. A male voice sounded with characteristic Kalyagin intonations:

- Do you want me to caress your ass? Do you like it when your butt is caressed? When do they go there? How I would like for you to have your ass sucked and for you to suck...

And this, it seems, was the last straw. For some time, Glushenko tried to extinguish her emotions. But it didn't work out. And then she invited Alexander Alexandrovich to leave.

Kalyagin is very worried about the divorce. According to the theater staff, San Sanych’s legs have been hurting a lot lately. Sometimes he even finds it difficult to walk. Doctors say that stress is contraindicated for the actor, and he had a lot of it after the sex scandals broke out.

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I didn’t want to believe that the wonderful acting couple had broken up. An Express Gazeta reporter called Evgenia Glushenko.

— It’s almost 30 years since you got married to Alexander Kalyagin.

“So what...” after a long silence, without any enthusiasm, Glushenko seemed to squeeze out of herself.

— Could you and your husband tell your love story?

- Oh, you know... I don't think so. And Alexander Alexandrovich, I think, will also answer you that this is impossible.

— Maybe you refuse to talk about this topic because you don’t live together?

“... Yes, I don’t want to interfere with the media in my personal life,” Kalyagin’s wife was indignant.

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* Evgenia GLUSHENKO - born in 1952, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, plays on the stage of the Maly Theater, starred in the films “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano”, “Married for the First Time”, “A Few Days in the Life of I.I. Oblomov”, “In Love with at your own request”, etc.

* Alexander KALYAGIN - born in 1942, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, artistic director of the Et Cetera theater, played more than 50 prominent roles in films. His best films are “Slave of Love”, “Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano”, “Hello, I am your Aunt!”, “Dead Souls”, “Prokhindiada, or Running in Place”, etc.

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Alexander Kalyagin and Evgenia Glushenko got married in 1978. Two years later their son Denis was born. After graduating from the prestigious George School in Philadelphia, he returned to Russia and works as a journalist. Ksenia Kalyagina, the actor’s 41-year-old daughter from his first marriage, lives in the USA.

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30.05.2012 05:11:04

So, really, everything was mixed up: personality and sexual deviations, and gossip, and gossip, creativity and sex entertainment, and fame, and personal achievements and his children - all on one citizen A. Kalyagin? Aren’t you ashamed to write about personal, even and bad! and mix everything up, as if they were rummaging through dirty linen and it doesn’t make it any easier for anyone, from your column of truth and exposure! There is no shame or conscience to measure the high enthusiasm of the life of Alexander Kalyagin and his spiritual achievements of art, such as theater and cinema, the union of theater theater workers, to measure with vulgar stories of mediocre, empty girls, and, in fact, to touch with the distant mind of the average man to life, a great artist and accomplish spontaneous trial of A. Kalyagin??? ?! I am not tempted to measure the merits of the leading actors and artists of my country with dirt and shortcomings! Therefore, I declare that Alexander has his own personal characteristics, shortcomings and quirks, and all brilliantly talented people should have them!!! Does this reduce their diligence and holiness of feelings! No! Who was strong in love and creativity (?), who, in the end, did NOT GIVE UP HOMELAND AND FRIENDS, and, the search for the eternal, is Alexander Kalyagin. “... Evgenia Konstantinovna, of course, had a hard time with all this gossip...” Evgenia Glushko has the right to be cowardly and get divorced as much as she wants, at least 10 times, but behind this she forever loses friendship and her dignity as a woman, because only the faithful and loving with prayer on their lips, women keep the family hearth from gossip, endowed with holiness, and the love of God, and the love of their husband! In conclusion, I want to say that dirty stories and gossip cannot be more important than the LOVE AND LIFE of its devoted enthusiasts, who try to do everything for the sake of the PEAKS of spiritual and pure LOVE, GOD AND PEOPLE, SPIRITUALLY PERFECT, RELATIONSHIPS!

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The first professional stage for Alexander Kalyagin was the Taganka Theater, but he did not find common ground with artistic director Yuri Lyubimov.

“Lyubimov was bursting with ideas, constantly coming up with something, changing it, altering it, manipulating the actors like pieces on a chessboard. At first, this was perceived as normal, but by the end of the 2nd season, the non-stop running and bustle began to tire me. I didn’t understand the meaning of these chaotic movements.”

The actor lasted for a year and a half, after which he moved to the Ermolova Theater. Following her husband, pregnant Tatyana Kalyagina also left, although Lyubimov did not have the right to fire a woman who was going on maternity leave. She no longer played in films or on stage. Later, Kalyagin will say that perhaps this event and further experiences provoked a fatal illness in his wife.

The artist had a specialized education behind him, plus two such famous scenes, but Alexander still did not feel like a real actor, he doubted whether he had made the right choice. Only after playing Poprishchin in Gogol’s “Notes of a Madman” did I realize that I was in the right place.

Alexander Kalyagin as Lenin (still from the film-play “So We Will Win!”)

It was not possible to stay in a particular theater for a long time. In 1970, Kalyagin moved to Sovremennik, and a few months later, together with Oleg Efremov, he moved to the Moscow Art Theater. This stage became home to Alexander Alexandrovich, on which the artist played the best theatrical roles in “Tartuffe”, “The Living Corpse” and “The Seagull”. But when the Moscow Art Theater split into pieces, Kalyagin remained faithful to Efremov and together with him joined the troupe of the Moscow Chekhov Art Theater.

The actor was so tired of the endless series of groups and scenes that Kalyagin decided to create his own troupe. In 1991, Alexander Kalyagin organized the Et Cetera theater, which he still heads. At first the band performed wherever they could, but after 4 years they rented a venue on Novy Arbat. In 2005, Alexander Kalyagin built a separate building for Et Cetera, and added new ideas that other theater institutions do not have.