Nikolai Nikolaevich Volkov is a brilliant actor of theater and cinema, who had the honorary title of People's Artist of the RSFSR and was a laureate of prestigious festivals.
October 3, 1934 the future actor was born inOdessa in the family of the acting actor Nikolai Volkov. Parents decided to name their child in honor of his father. The further fate of a child with a father, a famous actor, was predetermined: he also had to become a creative person.
At the age of twenty-two, Nikolai Nikolaevichhe graduated from the Odessa Art School and got a job as an assistant director. In fact, the year Volkov worked at the Odessa film studio of television, and resigned therefrom, decided to enter the theater department named after Shchukin, located at the Vakhtangov Theater. The future actor achieved this goal without difficulty, successfully passing the necessary exams and enrolling in an educational institution.
After studying at the Shchukin school until 1962 andNikolai Volkov, whose biography became firmly connected with creativity, becomes an actor of the Moscow Drama Theater, located in the capital on Malaya Bronnaya Street. Here his main roles of life will take place.
It is in this theater that Volkov gets acquainted with thethe famous director Efros Anatoly, who so much liked the actor's data Volkov, that he began to invite him to all his productions. A few years later, in 1968, Nikolai Nikolayevich became the leading actor of the theater.
Friends and colleagues at work recalled that he wasWe love very much not only the director Efros, but the rest of the actors and theater staff. For Efros, Volkov was a kind of muse in the male guise. Director's work was rarely done without the participation of Nicholas - he became an obligatory part of almost any Efrosovsky creation. Volkov performed excellent roles in the play "Summer and Smoke", staged by Williams. In the production of "Marriage" Volkov played the character Podkolesin. This role has seriously affected the acting personality of Volkov.
Literally every year Nikolai Volkov, whose photobecame quite recognizable not only in Moscow, but also in other cities of the country, played some main role, which made a real sensation in the theater community of the capital.
In 1987, the favorite director N.N.Volkova died, so the actor changed his place of work, moving to the Mayakovsky Theater, where he continued his work. In this theater, the actor had the opportunity to take part in such productions as "Clim Samghin" based on the work of Maxim Gorky, as well as "The Theater of the Time of Nero and Seneca." In the first Volkov played Samgin, in the second - Seneca. There were many other roles for Nikolai Nikolayevich.
Later Volkov moved to the Moscow Drama Theaterthe Stanislavsky Theater. It was in this theater that the actor played his final role. He played in the production of "Hamlet", playing the role of Claudius and the role of the shadow of the father of the protagonist.
Как рассказывала позже подруга и коллега Николая Nikolaevich Olga Yakovleva, that was some other person. Not that Volkov was just special - he was not like anyone else. This difference was in some special intelligence. People who work with him have never seen Nikolai Nikolaevich Volkov in a state of aggression, anger or some similar feeling. He was very reserved, but at the same time unpredictable. Nicholas was known as a natural person, not prone to self-praise. He was a good friend.
Back in 1960, before graduating from the Schukin School,Volkov begins to act in films. The passion for this kind of art in Nikolai Nikolayevich survived until the last years of his life. One of the most notable roles played by the brilliant actor was the work in the films “Night on the fourth round”, “The Woman Who Sings”, “Mikhail Lomonosov”, “Sicilian Defense” and many others.
However, many believe that the trueActor's talent of Nikolay Volkov in the movie was not disclosed. Perhaps this was due to the fact that there was no such director as, for example, Efros, who could help the actor to fully express himself in the movies. So Olga Yakovleva argued that if Volkov acted under the direction of Andrei Tarkovsky or Marlen Khutsiev, then the bright and unordinary gift of Nicholas would be revealed.
In the movie, Nikolai Nikolayevich performed morefifty roles. He became a laureate of several festivals for his role in the movie "The Moon was a Garden", released in 2000. However, in addition to this achievement, by some other awards Nikolai Volkov, whose filmography abounds in good films and roles, was not spoiled, despite the fact that he was really very famous.
Nikolai Volkov - an actor whose personal lifewas closely associated with family and work. He loved his family very much, but still his marriage broke up. The wife of the actor was the famous actress Olga Volkova. It is noteworthy that Olga received her last name not from a marriage with Nikolai Nikolayevich, but from a previous marriage. Prior to that, her husband was also Volkov, who was also involved in acting. Son of Volkov - Ivan - also followed in the footsteps of his father and is an actor of the theater, actively removed in various productions.
In the seventieth year of his life, Nikolai Nikolayevich died of cancer. It happened in 2003.
