9-year-old Zhenya Abdulova decided to become a popular blogger. The girl publishes new videos almost every day on her YouTube page, in which she talks about her life or stages scenes with her favorite toys.
In total, Zhenya has already made more than a hundred videos. The number of views of the young talent is still in the dozens, and the quality of filming and editing is still inferior to top video bloggers, but who knows what awaits the girl in the future. She went to her famous dad- the child is growing up very artistic and is already taking his first steps as an actress.
IN this moment Zhenya is starring in the comedy “Love and Sax” by People’s Artist Alla Surikova, the author of the idea for the TV magazine “Yeralash”. She will play one of the main roles in it - the daughter of the main characters. They will be played by Maxim Averin and Ekaterina Klimova. In the film you can also see Mikhail Efremov, Alexander Peskov, Olga Kabo, Larisa Dolina and others famous people. According to the plot of the film, a talented but unsuccessful musician, married to a saxophonist, ends up in prison, where he begins to look at life differently. It is known that the soundtrack to the film will feature music by one of the most famous saxophonists in the world, Veronica Kozhukharova.
Ekaterina Klimova, Alla Surikova and Anna Ardova on the set of the film "Love and Sax" // Photo: Instagram
At the beginning of March, the first video with Zhenya’s participation was released. She starred in the video of the aspiring young performer Nastya Godunova, who received the audience award in the Little Miss Russia competition in 2015. In 2012, Zhenya was accepted into Lenkom, where Alexander Abdulov once shone.
May 29 marks 63 years since birth people's artist Alexander Abdulov, the legendary Soviet and Russian actor. After his death, all the star’s property went to Yulia Abdulova. The artist’s widow put his house in Valdai up for sale. For a long time they could not find a buyer for the property located near the protected lake. However, in 2014 it became known that Abdulov’s neighbor Roman Yakushevich decided to buy Abdulov’s housing. It was reported that a museum in his memory would appear on the site of the actor’s house.
By the way, at the end of May, the widow of Alexander Abdulov announced the sale of another property. This time, Yulia decided to sell her apartment near the Profsoyuznaya metro station. “I am selling my cozy and wonderful two-room apartment in a brick house. As it is: with furniture and wonderful energy. Inexpensive. Free from everything that could prevent you from living happily there!.. Or I can rent it out, but at a high price,” the woman wrote in social network Facebook.
Every year numerous fans and friends of Alexander Abdulov gather at his grave to remember the actor. There will always be a girl among this crowd with an armful of yellow roses. She has been consistently bringing them for 10 years now - a symbol of real feelings. This is Yulia Abdulova - last love great artist.
Yulia Meshina was born in 1975 in the Ukrainian city of Nikolaev. Since childhood, she grew up in a wealthy family - her father ran a business in France, and her uncle had a factory in her hometown. During the collapse of the Union, my father left for France due to legal persecution. After school, Yulia goes to Odessa and enters college at the Faculty of Law. She first married at the age of 18 to someone the same age from a wealthy family. The guy often cheated on the girl and the marriage broke up. After this, Meshina moves to Moscow. There the girl meets the son of the director of ITAR-TASS, Alexey Ignatenko. Julia always stood out for her bright appearance. The businessman began to court the girl and six months later they got married.
Meeting of Yulia and Alexander Abdulov
At the time of their acquaintance, both Alexander and Yulia were in a relationship.
The couple met at the airport when they were going to Kamchatka to fish in a company of friends. Friends immediately noticed that the actor fell in love. An adult, but he behaves like a boy. After Kamchatka, everyone left and everyone continued their own lives.
To the old one New Year A call came from Alexander - he invited Yulia to celebrate the holiday together. He just finished filming in St. Petersburg, returned to Moscow and rushed to Odessa for one day.
The girl and her husband had a good relationship, but boring. According to her, she lacked sparkle, emotions, feelings. But Abdulov had a similar temperament to her, he also could not sit still, his energy was in full swing. After the meeting in Odessa, Yulia returned to Moscow, took her things and left her husband.
Julia's family reacted negatively to the new relationship. A big difference Alexander's age, violent character - everything set them against. It got to the point that the girl did not communicate with her family for some time.
Despite everything, in 2006 the couple played a modest wedding, at which only the closest people were present, the couple glowed with happiness.
Birth of Abdulov's daughter
Alexander has another daughter - he adopted the child of Irina Alferova.
Abdulov tried to spend as much time as possible with his daughter. For some time he postponed all filming.
Daughter's baptism
Abdulov's disease
At the end of August 2007, the actor was urgently taken to surgery due to a perforated stomach ulcer. A few hours after it, Alexander’s heart begins to hurt. The actor spent about a week in intensive care, then he was sent to the Bakulev Cardiocenter. Upon careful examination, a neoplasm was discovered in the right lung, which put pressure on the spine and caused pain in the heart.
In September, Alexander and Yulia fly to the Israeli clinic “Ichilov”, which specializes in cancer tumors. The diagnosis was disappointing - stage 4 lung cancer. Metastases went to the organs, the case is inoperable.
After the prescribed course of chemotherapy, improvement is observed, then the actor is sent to Moscow, where he continues treatment. Doctors prescribe expensive drugs, the price of which reaches up to 10 thousand dollars. His friends come to the rescue and collect all the necessary amount. However, the treatment has no effect.
Alexander did not believe until the very end that he was doomed.
In December, the president awarded him the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.
Abdulov willingly shares his plans for the future and looks lively. This is the actor's last appearance on screen.
On New Year's Eve, the artist is taken by ambulance due to a hypertensive crisis. My heart couldn’t stand it anymore, it was getting worse every day. Expensive treatment did not produce any results.
The death of her husband was a real blow for Julia. Friends started arranging the funeral.
On the third day after the actor’s death, his brother came to his house and asked:
“Well, how are we going to divide the money?”
Julia went through this period with great difficulty. Everything reminded her of her late husband, the pain did not leave her even for a second. He admits that there were even thoughts of suicide.
Yulia Abdulova talks about her relationship with her husband:
Abdulov's daughter - Evgenia
Now Julia has completely devoted herself to raising her daughter.
She moved with her from a country house to Moscow, where the girl goes to a regular school. Julia notes that Evgenia is very similar to her father:
“She, like Sasha, is full of energy, it is very difficult for her to sit still. This is probably why my daughter has many different hobbies. In addition, she has a keen sense of justice: she always protects everyone, rushes to the rescue of those who need it.”
To channel her energy into the right direction, mom enrolls Zhenya for choreography, theater studio, and vocals. The girl also has her own channel on YouTube, which already has more than 1000 subscribers.
Despite all the variety of hobbies, after school the little girl plans to enter VGIK and follow in her father’s footsteps. Numerous offers for filming are already being received. But so far Zhenya has starred in only one film - “Love and Sax” directed by Alla Surikova.
The film, in which Abdulov’s daughter played the role of a schoolgirl, was based on Adil Alekperov’s story “What the Blind Puppies Sing About.” On film set the girl was lucky to work with famous Russian actors- Maxim Averin and Ekaterina Klimova, who played Evgenia’s parents. According to Alla Surikova, Zhenya inherited her father’s talent and character.
November 27, 2012, 04:49“When Sasha left, my life stopped,” says Yulia Abdulova, the actor’s widow. “For these five years, it was as if I hadn’t lived without him, but rather was watching a dream that never ended.” It’s as if all this - Sasha’s illness, his departure, life without him - did not happen to me...” - Julia, we are meeting with you in a Moscow apartment. But you loved your dacha in Vnukovo so much, where everything is permeated with the spirit of Abdulov... - Yes, all these years we lived with our daughter outside the city and only recently moved to Moscow. It’s very good at our dacha - fresh air, quiet and cozy, next to a kindergarten - the most ordinary, village one. You can't imagine anything better for a child. But next year daughter will go to school. This is a very responsible and difficult period in a child’s life. So that life in a large group does not become stressful for my daughter, I prepare it in advance. Gave Zhenya to preparatory group- again, in an ordinary, municipal kindergarten... By the way, my daughter categorically does not like city housing. Zhenya declares: “I don’t want to live here - it’s cramped here. Let's go back to the dacha." But the apartment is normal, big. We have to explain that there are families where mom, dad and three children live in one room. But this is difficult for her to understand. And in the store, like all children, Zhenya begins to whine: “Buy this, and this, and this.” And I explain to her that she has a million toys and she doesn’t need another teddy bear. I suggest: “Stop on one thing: a bear, a doll or children’s cosmetics...” And she has tears in her eyes - after all, it’s always difficult to make a choice. But I am teaching my daughter to do this. I don’t want to indulge all her desires, because nowadays it’s so easy to spoil a child. 
- Does Zhenya understand that her father was a famous actor?- Of course, she watches his films. And when she was two years old, she spent hours watching his 2000 film The Musicians of Bremen. But for her, this person on the screen is primarily her dad, not a star. Sasha left when Zhenya was nine months old. But my daughter still has some vague memories of him. For example, she remembers one of Sasha’s shirts, in which he held her in his arms... Zhenya is very similar to her father. The same leader and ringleader as Sasha. In kindergarten, he always protects the kids, resolves some situations so that everything is “fair.” At photo shoots he is constantly bursting with ideas. She’s bored of simply following someone’s commands, so she directs herself and offers something of her own. And she is also as hyperactive as Sasha was, always rushing somewhere. This year, my friend Oksana Korostyshevskaya and her three daughters and I went on vacation to Turkey. So my heart sank when Zhenya jumped into the pool - like a bomb, with wild screams. My daughter finds extreme sports everywhere, she is absolutely fearless - like Sasha... In order to channel Zhenya’s ebullient energy in the right direction, I take her to choreography. Last year I enrolled her in the Loktev ensemble, but Zhenya didn’t like it there - either she was still young, or the discipline there was too strict. In general, they abandoned it. In this case, we tried dancing again and... the process began. In a white swimsuit and Czech shoes, Zhenya is very funny. Especially compared to other girls - thin, with thin legs. My little one is large and tall. And this year Zhenya started studying in a theater studio. - Do you dream of your daughter becoming an actress?- Not at all, although she has both artistry and charisma. But I know too well what a hard life it is public people. It's only on top that it's beautiful and shiny. So she goes to the studio and to dances for general development... Recently Zhenya was invited to a troupe gathering at Lenkom - there was an idea to introduce her to one of the children's roles. It’s very nice to see the kind attitude towards Zhenya from Sasha’s “second home”, as her husband always called this theater... When the daughter saw dozens of cameras and heard the clicking of cameras, she - always so lively - was scared and almost burst into tears. After the words of Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov: “Evgenia Abdulova is present in the hall. Please stand up,” my daughter grabbed the chair and categorically refused to get up. Zhenya was looking forward to this day so much, I prepared her, told her that we would go to the theater where dad worked. And then I got confused... 
At Zhenya's christening: Alexander Abdulov with his daughter, mother Lyudmila Alexandrovna and Leonid Yarmolnik. July 2007
- What role was offered to Zhenya?- Little, in the play “ Royal Games" One rehearsal has already taken place. In the first take, Zhenya did everything as it should. And the second time she suddenly refused to go on stage and stayed behind the scenes. It turned out that my daughter didn’t see me in the hall and was scared: “I was so hoping that you would support me, but you disappeared...” But I left the hall so as not to disturb her, not to embarrass her... If there’s nothing wrong with this performance It will work out, I won’t be upset. Everyone has their own path, and I don’t want to push my daughter into becoming an actress. Although Sasha’s mother would be very pleased if her granddaughter continued family dynasty. Recently, the grandmother looked at Zhenya and stated: “I am very worried that my granddaughter will be large. Sasha was tall, you are quite big, and that’s how the child turned out. And with great height, it is very difficult for an actress to play in the theater.” - What is your relationship with your mother-in-law? The press wrote a lot about your conflict, that you cannot divide houses and apartments... - I have a wonderful relationship with Sasha’s mother. Recently, Zhenechka and I and Sasha’s niece Ira (the daughter of Sasha’s middle brother, Volodya) went to her in Ivanovo for her birthday - Lyudmila Alexandrovna turned 92 years old. She was really looking forward to her granddaughter’s arrival - they hadn’t seen each other for a year - she didn’t let Zhenya leave her side, she looked at her all the time, crying: “How she looks like Sasha...” And I smile: “Yes, she looks like you. Both in appearance and character. For both of you it is Nordic, firm, powerful...” As for the conflict, the situation was obvious, everyday. When only Robert of Lyudmila Alexandrovna’s three sons was alive, she, as a mother, primarily supported his interests. Which is actually understandable. And she chose to live with him and not with us... Now Robert is gone, the mother-in-law remains with her daughter-in-law Alya. And Zhenechka and I come to visit her. 
- Julia, you are young beautiful woman. Almost five years have passed since your spouse died. Have you tried to arrange your personal life? - You are just like my daughter, who dreams of marrying me off. (Laughs.) For Zhenya, this is task number one, she constantly asks: “Well, when?!” I introduced you to one driver, then to another. And you don’t like anyone...” The fact is that she dreams of a brother or sister, so she is looking for a husband for her mother. He worries: “I’ll grow up soon, but no one will appear for me.” And I laugh it off: “We’ll wait and see...” I didn’t take a vow of celibacy. It’s just that now my whole life is subordinated to Zhenya and her interests. Besides, I have a very high bar. In my life I have met few real - absolute, one hundred percent - men. Sasha was like that - absolutely reliable, who could solve everything. This is the standard of a man, rare as a fossil in our time. That's why it's very difficult to find someone like that. Yes, I’m not looking for anything - I only communicate with close friends. Moreover, it is impossible to “organize” such a meeting. It's a matter of chance: either it happens or it doesn't. This is how it was with Sasha... - Before you met Alexander Gavrilovich, you were probably in love with the artist Abdulov - like thousands of girls in our country - But not. It was my friend Natasha who was crazy about him... Years passed, my friend stayed to live in Odessa, I moved to Moscow. We rarely communicated. And so I call her: “Natasha, I’m getting married.” She was delighted: “Great! And for whom?” - “For Abdulov...” There is silence on the phone, and then Natasha says with playful offense: “Actually, Abdulov was my topic...” Yes, I didn’t expect this from myself. At that time I had a husband - intelligent, smart, educated, handsome. Wonderful man, but... not mine. Too cold or something, but I’ve always lived by feelings. I felt that our marriage was doomed - my soul was in disarray. Although outwardly everything was fine. When I met Abdulov (we met in the same company, it was in the Far East), I immediately felt - this is my man, hot-tempered, temperamental. We found ourselves next to each other at the same table, I looked at him, and suddenly a picture flashed before my eyes: Sasha and I have a family, a child - a son. I thought and was surprised: “Some kind of nonsense.” Because Sasha was a person from a completely different circle. And by the way, he felt it - as if he was afraid of me. However, when after Far East I went to Odessa, Sasha started calling me. He called me to St. Petersburg, where he was filming at that moment. I was taken aback by such pressure, I said: “You need to fly there yourself...” And then Sasha told his director Lena Chuprakova: “We are flying to Odessa - we just have a day off ahead.” Lena, with whom we later became friends, recalled: “Then I hated you. Who is she, this Yulia, that a people’s artist breaks off from filming because of her?” From Odessa I returned to Moscow, packed my things and told my husband that we would no longer live together... 
- How did your environment perceive your novel?- Many did not accept it. For example, my parents. They were terribly worried: “An artist in our family?! You’re always drawn somewhere in the wrong place...” My father didn’t even talk to me for several years. And Sasha’s fans reacted with hostility to me: “Half the country ran after Abdulov, and he married this one. Yes, she’s a witch - she bewitched him!..” And how they loved to reproach me for commercialism: they say, she coveted the position, apartment, dacha, car of a popular artist. But I never dreamed of entering the artistic circle - all this “gloss” is alien to me. And to be honest, by the time we met, Sasha had a much more modest standard of living than me. My dad is a successful oil businessman, my stepfather is a famous journalist, my uncle is Vitaly Meshin - long years led one of largest enterprises in the country, Nikolaev Alumina Refinery. So by the time I graduated from law school in Odessa, I already had an apartment in Moscow and a car. Maybe that's why I wasn't looking for a man with a big pocket. One friend once told me: “Why don’t you find yourself an oligarch?! When you have a lot of money, everything else will stop worrying you...” I answered: “Is it possible to kill your life to get money? When to live? No, I need feelings, emotions, passion...” Sasha had all this in abundance, and besides, he was smart - and this is the most erotic thing in a man. But there was no special wealth observed. - What about the famous dacha in Vnukovo?- The house, which haunts many, at the time of our meeting was a ruin covered with clapboard. Sasha loved his dacha very much, he was proud that on this foundation there used to be a small house in which Faina Ranevskaya lived. He constantly expanded the building and completed construction, but somehow chaotically. And Sasha couldn’t get around to making it feel comfortable. I remember when I first came here, I was amazed that there was a creepy iron lampshade hanging in the dining room, and the dining table was covered with an ordinary flowered oilcloth! However, this did not in the least prevent large groups of Sasha’s friends from gathering at the dacha and having fun from the heart... When I became pregnant with Zhenya, we immediately started at the dacha major renovation. The most amazing thing is that it was with the new nursery on the second floor that the facade became symmetrical, the house acquired a complete rectangular shape... After Sasha’s death, I decided to leave the dacha for Zhenya. Because this is her world - she grew up here. And here the spirit of her father remained. 
- Yulia, how did it happen that Abdulov’s standard of living, a people’s artist, a superstar, was lower than yours...- Yes, Sasha worked very hard, worked his ass off. Over the past two years, he has only had two days off! But theater artists started paying decent money only recently. In addition, the husband took great pleasure in making all kinds of surprises for his friends. Everyone knew his generosity and scope... Of course, sometimes I was choked by a toad: my husband works so much, travels around the country, but the salary does not bring home. And Sasha kept laughing: “We need to make a holiday for people!” - Did he spoil you with gifts?- Yes, he gave me all sorts of nice little things and amazing jewelry, the cost of which exceeded his capabilities. But he couldn't do it any other way. True, after Sasha’s death I gradually sold all the jewelry. Zhenya and I had to live on something... And what holidays he organized for me! One day we went with his entreprise to Sochi. The tour coincided with my birthday. Sasha made an agreement with his friend, the owner of the water park, and he closed it to visitors. They set tables for our company, lit candles and lanterns, and we sat until the morning... In the few years that we were together, there were a lot of such surprises. Sasha himself was a holiday man. - All the more unexpected for everyone was his rapid departure from life...- Yes, a year before his death everything was fine. I was pregnant, but I felt great and therefore continued to go on filming and tours with Sasha. In the seventh month, right after the New Year, we flew to China, to Hainan Island. There, Sasha’s enterprise was shown to Russian tourists, Larisa Dolina, Alexander Rosenbaum and Andrei Makarevich gave concerts. The trip was very fun, we took a lot of pictures. In those photos, Sasha is so strong and beautiful. No one could have thought that soon all this would end... Eight months later (Zhenechka was almost six months old), Sasha left for Crimea to film. I went with him. At night my husband became ill and was taken to the hospital... The most difficult operation it took almost six hours. The surgeon turned out to be a magician... As a memory of the day when Sasha was so successfully operated on, I kept a tear-off calendar. I thought that all the terrible things were behind me, that Sasha had taxied to white stripe. After all, even the day of the operation fell on the 17th, which Sasha considered lucky for himself, along with the numbers 18 and 21 (by the way, our Zhenya was born on March 21 at 18.17). But everything turned out differently... The surgeon who performed the operation advised Sasha to undergo an examination upon his return to Moscow: “I suspect oncology.” We went to Israel. Our friends decided to support Sasha and also flew to Tel Aviv. Zhenya had just turned six months old. We celebrated right in the hotel room at the clinic, the table turned out to be original. Sasha suddenly really wanted stewed meat and black soup :). And he asked Sasha Oleinikov to bring all this. He, fearing to run into endless questions from Israeli customs, nevertheless complied with the request... We set the table. The setting is surreal: Israel, clinic, pork stew. At some point, Sasha turned on the Russian channel. And on the screen there are two football teams- “Lokomotiv” and “Spartak” - in T-shirts with portraits. Look closely and see Abdulov! We are stunned, we don’t understand anything. Maybe Oleinikov recorded a certain story and played the disc without our noticing? And then we see: no, live broadcast! It’s the football players who support Abdulov like this: they say, we are with you. And at that moment Sasha had such a big tear running down his cheek... Then they raised a toast to Zhenechka’s birthday, and Sasha suddenly looked at his watch: “Guys, it’s 18.17. Zhenya was born at this time.” In general, sheer mysticism, miracles... I remember Sasha’s last day, January 3, 2008, as if in a fog. Sasha was in the hospital; early in the morning he became ill. I called the emergency room. The doctors came and the first thing they did was attack me: “Get out of the room!” And they themselves were confused, running around Abdulov, fussing: “Alexander Gavrilovich, Alexander Gavrilovich...” I look through the crack of the door, see all this and shout: “Why are you hysterical, do something!” Then everything calmed down, and the young doctor asked the older one: “There’s a wife outside the door, what should I tell her?” And he answers so indifferently: “Well, what should I tell her? He died and died...” I will not forget this calm voice for the rest of my life. I forgot the doctor’s face, but I recognize his voice from a thousand. She went out into the corridor and called Orlov: “Lesha, that’s it... Call Sasha’s mom - I can’t…” - Do you think your husband had a presentiment of his death?- I don’t know... When Sasha found out that he would become a father, he had a fix idea: he wanted to move to large apartment in the center, so that Lenkom and Zhenya’s school are nearby. The officials promised to help: Sasha rents out our old living space to the city and gets a new one with a small additional payment. He already felt completely bad, but still wandered around to some people “to resolve the issue.” I said: “God be with her, with the apartment, you feel bad.” But he got up and rode. He probably wanted to finish this topic to the end so that his family could be settled. But I didn’t have time. Then I didn’t call anyone. Because new flat without Sasha - why do I need her... 
- Having survived the unthinkable heartache, people recover from stress in different ways. Where did you find salvation?- Astrology saved me. When Sasha passed away and I didn’t understand why I should continue to live, I went to see an astrologer. We talked for a long time, and she advised me to find Teacher. And soon, by chance, I met Pavel Pavlovich Globa. Now I study at his institute. I don't know if astrology will become my profession. The main thing is that she helped me survive. - Did Abdulov’s many friends support you?- Sasha’s closest friends did not disappear even after his death. And I am very grateful to them for this. We meet at our dacha on January 3, the day of Sasha’s death, and May 29, his birthday. But these are different gatherings. And the point is not that instead of two hundred people thirty come. Well, Sasha always said that friendship is a 24-hour concept, what is it big job, which takes time and effort. The main thing is that Abdul’s spirit is gone. After all, the center of our company, its battery, was Sasha. And now he’s gone, and everything has “deflated”, become somehow insipid and boring... Abdulov was not only a brilliant artist, but above all, an amazing person. Sasha united the most different people, next to him everyone felt comfortable and warm. And now we all really miss him. 
- They say that time heals. Have you finally managed to cope with the loss?- Hard to say. Since then terrible day Almost five years have passed. All this time the world existed separately, and I - separately. I didn’t live, but quietly went crazy, plunging headlong into boundless, inescapable melancholy and despair. It was so hard for me that for the first two years I couldn’t look at my daughter without crying. When I look at it, my heart breaks - Zhenya looks very much like her dad. I had to entrust the care of her to a nanny, a wonderful woman. And I myself was tormented by a feeling of guilt in front of my daughter that I was not giving her enough tenderness and love (and these thoughts still gnaw at me). I couldn’t give them then, because I didn’t want to live. I often thought about how to quickly end this unbearable mental suffering. After all, life without Sasha has lost its meaning... Now I seem to have coped with the situation, but not completely - I still can’t watch Sasha’s films. We had such a strong connection with him that it did not break even after his death. If I have a difficult situation, I’m running out of strength - after all, I have a lot of everyday worries - I mentally ask Sasha to help me. And somehow magically the problem is being solved... For a long time I dreamed of Sasha. Often these were prophetic dreams. One day I see him surrounded by people, and next to him someone is digging the ground - a large hole. And Sasha says: “I’m in charge here, I have to prepare and decide everything.” The dream is both strange and scary. And three days later, our friend Anar from Baku unexpectedly died... But six months ago these dreams stopped. In that last time Sasha was with a huge bouquet of white roses. He smiled: “These flowers are for you. And I have to leave...” And since then I no longer dream, as if he let me go, calmed down. Maybe he sees that his “little mistress of the big house” is coping with everything. That’s what he once called me... It was six months before his death, we were going to celebrate Zhenya’s christening. As always, many guests arrived and large tables were laid on the veranda. The weather is great - it's July outside. And suddenly Sashka looked at me intently and somehow very seriously said: “You are the little mistress of a big house.” I didn’t understand what he was talking about... And on that day Godfather Zhenechki, Sasha close friend Lesha Orlov suggested celebrating in a chamber setting. Like, it’s an intimate, family holiday. But Sasha objected: “No, let everyone come. Maybe we’ll never get together like this again.” Neither Lesha nor I understood what he was talking about. We decided: well, Sasha just loves big companies collect at home. And six months later, when he was gone, we remembered these words, which turned out to be prophetic. After all, in that large group we really gathered for the last time... I have never been alone in my life. She got carried away easily, got married easily, and just like that, without hesitation, then she left. Everything I had before Sasha was easy and simple for me. But with him it’s different, for real. Once in my youth a friend asked me: “What is love?” I didn't know the answer then. Now, after Sasha’s death, I know. Love is when you are ready to sacrifice your life in order for a person to be healthy and live. If there was such an opportunity, I would not hesitate to give my life for Sasha... Exactly about this Great love I've always dreamed. Not about career, publicity, money, but about love. Therefore, I can call myself absolutely happy man- I had it. Despite the fact that Sasha greatly let me down: he didn’t love me, he didn’t live long enough...
On Alexander Abdulov’s birthday (the actor would have turned 65 on May 29), only his closest friends gathered in his native Lenkom. They told Zhenya, the daughter of Alexander Gavrilovich, about what her father was like, who grew up surprisingly similar to him. The girl spent the whole evening on stage. Together with artist Sergei Stepanchenko, she became the host of this long and eventful evening.
Surely, this turned out to be very difficult for an eleven-year-old girl, but the guests didn’t even feel it: Zhenya behaved very dignified, behaved at ease and even participated in some numbers - she danced during the performance of the Princess Song from “The Town Musicians of Bremen” and performed together with the artists of “Lenkom” » song “Hallelujah of Love!” from the legendary play “Juno and Avos”, in which Abdulov played.
“It is unknown who brought him to our theater,” says Mark Zakharov. - But around 1974 a very beautiful person with special charm. And I realized that he is incredibly capable. I immediately took it and gave it to him main role- Lieutenant Pluzhnikov in the play “Not on the Lists.” This was the only moment when we had disagreements. He said that playing in metal helmets is difficult and impossible. I objected: “Alexander Gavrilovich, our soldiers marched in these helmets from Moscow to Berlin.” He was ashamed and said that he would play. And received many awards later..."
Alexander Zbruev , who came to the theater 14 years earlier than Abdulov, saw him take his first steps on stage. “Friendship is like love. One can only feel sorry for those who have not experienced this feeling. All that remains for us is true feelings...” said Alexander Viktorovich. He also suggested: “There are so many nameless stars in the sky. And I would like to call one of these stars Abdulov’s star.” He hugged Zhenechka and kissed her hand. "Nice!" - she smiled. My closest friend and colleague turned out to be the only serious speaker on stage. Then the fun and hooliganism began, which was so typical of Alexander Abdulov.
Director Sergey Soloviev I remembered that I met the actor comically. In the House of Cinema restaurant, Abdulov put a cake box on the head of the director, who was peacefully drinking with Kaidanovsky, and he, right in the box, invited Alexander Gavrilovich to star in his film. Thus began friendship and work.
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