Yevgeny Tashkov

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Yevgeny Tashkov
USSR
Died15 February 2012(2012-02-15) (aged 85)
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, actor
Years active1954—2011
Spouses
(m. 1950; died 1970)
Tatiana Tashkova
(m. 1980)
ChildrenAndrey Tashkov, Aleksei Tashkov

Yevgeny Ivanovich Tashkov (

RSFSR in 1980 and People's Artist of Russia in 1995.[1][2]

Biography

Tashkov was born on 18 December 1926 in the Bykovo village (modern-day

Great Patriotic War. His father was arrested as an enemy of the people, he and his sister Maria were raised by their mother. As a teen he visited drama courses organized in his village by a visiting actress from the Alexandrinsky Theatre.[1][3][4]

He successfully entered VGIK. There was no free room at the dormitory, so he had to spend a night at a girls' room. As he was going to sleep, he heard the voice of Ekaterina Savinova (1926—1970) — a fellow student also from a peasant family from a far-away Siberian village — and fell in love with her. They got married in 1951.[5][6]

He studied acting under

Odessa Film Studio. The score was written by Andrei Eshpai
who turned into Tashkov's close friend and wrote music to the majority of his movies.

After her role in

Anatoly Papanov's first leading roles).[5][6]

After the movie came out, they toured with concerts around the country. During that time Tashkov noticed that his wife became seriously ill. She was diagnosed with brucellosis which influenced her brain and nervous system and led to sluggish schizophrenia. She spent nine years lying in clinics, took a lot of medicine, and in 1970 she committed suicide by throwing herself under a train. Tashkov received permission to conduct a memorial service.[6][7]

In 1967 he joined Mosfilm. He directed two popular spy mini-series: Major Whirlwind (1967) based on the novel by Yulian Semyonov and The Adjutant of His Excellency (1969) written by Georgy Seversky and Igor Bolgarin, although Tashkov claimed that the script was so poor that he had to rewrite it from scratch, but was left uncredited.[5] The latter movie was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR in 1971.[1] It was also one of the first attempts to show both Red and White Army in neutral light. As Tashkov described it, "Two revolutions and the civil war — the greatest tragedy of Russian people. Both "Reds" and "Whites" were Russian people, which means it was a tragedy for all of them. I wanted to show it in my film". As a result, it was banned for four months until Tashkov invited 12 KGB generals who watched and approved it.[8]

In 1987 he was fired from Mosfilm. After that he and his wife had to seek various opportunities to survive. Only in 2011, after 20 years of failed attempts to find sponsors, he finally got in touch with

Feodor Dostoevsky. It was released on TV 40 days after his death.[9]

Yevgeny Tashkov died from a stroke aged 85. He was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.[3]

Personal life

Yevgeny Tashkov and

novel of the same name
.

After Savinova's tragic death in 1970 Yevgeny lived in a civil union with an actress Valentina Sharykina, and in 1979 he married another actress Tatiana Vasilieva (born 1956) who played the main part in his movie French Lessons (1978) based on the story by Valentin Rasputin. She gave birth to Alexei Tashkov in 1983 who also became a TV and movie director and co-directed Tashkov's last film.

According to Andrei Tashkov, his father and his second wife were happily married, yet he couldn't talk about Savinova calmly, and when in 1995 Leonid Filatov interviewed him about Savinova for the documentary series To Be Remembered, he collapsed with a stroke.[7]

Yevgeny Tashkov belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church.[8]

Filmography

Year Title Original title
Director Screenwriter Role
1954 Commander of the Ship Командир корабля sailor
1955 The First Echelon Первый эшелон
assistant director
1956 Old Turtle Captain Капитан «Старой черепахи» Rep'ev
1957 Past Days Pages Страницы былого
Green tickY
1959 Thirst Жажда
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1962 Come Tomorrow, Please... Приходите завтра...
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Nikolai (voiceover); man in sunglasses (uncredited)
1966 False Name Чужое имя prosecutor Nikolay Glebov
I'm from Childhood Я родом из детства Fyodor Baran
1967 Major Whirlwind Майор Вихрь
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episode (uncredited)
1969 The Adjutant of His Excellency Адъютант его превосходительства
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Martin Latsis
1973 Vanyushin's Children Дети Ванюшина
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episode
1976 Crime Преступление
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film director (cameo)
1978 French Lessons Уроки французского
Green tickY
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episode (uncredited)
1983 The Raw Youth Подросток
Green tickY
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episode (uncredited)
1987 Dodgers Ловкачи
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episode (uncredited)
1990 Boys Мальчики Captain Snegiryov
1991 Clan Клан Nadein
1992 Smoke Дымъ episode
1994 The Lynx Follows the Trail Рысь идёт по следу episode (uncredited)
2005 Where Childhood Ends Там, где кончается детство episode
2011 The Three Women of Dostoevsky Три женщины Достоевского
Green tickY
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References

  1. ^ a b c Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary // ed. Sergei Yutkevich. — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987, p. 418
  2. ^ Presidential Decree № 1062 at Kremlin.ru (in Russian)
  3. ^ a b Yevgeny Tashkov's tomb
  4. ^ This Wonderful Life. Meeting with Yevgeny Tashkov several years before his death (in Russian)
  5. ^
  6. ^ a b c Ludmila Grabenko. Interview with Yevgeny Tashkov at the Gordon's Boulevard newspaper № 17, 27 April 2010 (in Russian)
  7. ^ a b Irina Kravchenko. Andrei Tashkov: "Everyone Is Alive in My Heart" interview from Story Caravan, 21 June 2012 (in Russian)
  8. ^ a b Alexander Novopashin. Evgeny Ivanovich Tashkov: "We need to think more about God" interview in the Radonezh newspaper, 2007 (in Russian)
  9. ^ Varvara Bogdanova. Tatiana Tashkova: "Many Were against Zhenia" interview from Seven Days, 18 July 2012 (in Russian)

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