Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev (Russian: Ю́рий Васи́льевич Я́ковлев; 25 April 1928 – 30 November 2013[1][2]) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.[3]
From a young age he was fond of acting and theatre. At the turn of the 1940s, he studied acting at Shchukin Theatrical School of Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow starting to work as an actor at Vakhtangov Theatre.[5]
Theatrical career
Yakovlev joined the ensemble of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre in 1952. He played over seventy roles onstage, including Casanova in Three Ages of Casanova, Duke Bolingbroke in Glass of Water, and Prokofiev in Lessons of Master.
Film career
Yakovlev became really famous as a cinema actor in 1958, after his inimitable complicated psychological role of the Prince Myshkin in The Idiot directed by Ivan Pyryev. He achieved international fame playing the role as Prince Myshkin.[5] Yakovlev made his first appearance in an Eldar Ryazanov comedy in 1961, in The Man From Nowhere. Yakovlev followed his first success with regular appearances in Ryazanov's comedies, most notably splendid film Hussar Ballad in 1962, in which he played phantasmagoric role of Poruchik Rzhevsky. The feature was such a resounding success that Rzhevsky's character gave rise to innumerable Russian jokes.
His participation in two-part film "Love Earth" and "Destiny" – a series of movies about the World War II brought him the USSR State Prize for 1979.[6] His film career effectively came to a halt after the role of the alien Bi in Georgiy Daneliya’s 1986 sci-fi comedy Kin-dza-dza! where he starred alongside Yevgeny Leonov and Stanislav Lyubshin. The last role in Ikno was the role in the film The Irony of Fate 2 (Ирония судьбы. Продолжение) as Ippolit Georgievich.
Death
Yakovlev felt ill in early morning of 29 November 2013. He soon fainted in his home. He was rushed to a Moscow hospital where he died there on 30 November 2013 from heart failure, aged 85. On the same day, the death of Yuri Yakovlev was reported by RIA Novosti to Times.am 'with reference to the theater's press service.
Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Soviet film actors, died today in Moscow hospital. Ria Novosti informs about this referring to the Vakhtangov's theatre press service.
— TIMES, USSR People's Artist Yury Yakovlev died in the hospital, [7]
RIA News posted that day the information:
Юрий Васильевич скончался сегодня ночью в больнице. Прощание состоится в театре Вахтангова. Дата будет определена позже.
Yuri Vasilyevich died in the hospital tonight. His funeral will be held at the Vakhtangov Theater. The date will be announced later
— the director of the Vakhtangov Theater in RIA News, Theater and film actor Yuri Yakovlev died, [8]
Прощание с Юрием Васильевичем Яковлевым состоится на основной сцене Вахтанговского театре во вторник в 10.00, а похоронен артист будет на Новодевичьем кладбище.
Farewell to Yuri Vasilyevich Yakovlev will take place on the main stage of the Vakhtangov Theater on Tuesday at 10.00, and the artist will be buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
— the director of the Vakhtangov Theater in RIA News, Theater and film actor Yuri Yakovlev died, [8]
Bibliography
In 1997, the publishing house Art (Iskusstvo) published a book by Yakovlev entitled Album of my destiny (Russian: Альбом судьбы моей, romanized: Al'bom sud'by moyey)
USSR State Prize (1979) – for his role Tikhon Ivanovich Bryukhanova in two-part film "Love Earth" and "Destiny"
Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR (1970) – for his performance as Yegor Dmitrievich Glumov in the play "The Wise Man Stumbles" by Alexander Ostrovsky
Russian Federation President Prize in Literature and Art in 2003 (13 February 2004) – for outstanding creative and scientific contribution to the artistic culture of Russia
^Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 281–283. ISBN978-0-8108-6072-8.
^Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service. BELOVED RUSSIAN ACTOR YURI YAKOVLEV DIES AT AGE OF 85 Article BELOVED RUSSIAN ACTOR YURI YAKOVLEV DIES AT AGE OF 85 (02.12.2013) RUSSKIY MIR FOUNDATION. Moscow. Retrieved 2021/01/19 (19 January 2021)
^ abcRuggero. Yuri Yakovlevfindagrave. Moscow. Retrieved 2021/01/19 (19 January 2021)
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