Director Roman Viktyuk passed away. The man who at one time turned the theatrical life of Moscow. His play "The Maids", where men play female roles, is still a success on stage. Made Leah Akhedzhakova cry “Leah, what are you doing? Everything is not so, manyurka, you are not an actress! " - Viktyuk shouts at Lia Akhedzhakova. She runs away from the stage in tears. This is a rehearsal in Sovremennik for the play Columbine's Apartment. At the rehearsal of Roman Grigorievich, the audience gathered as for a performance. It was a special sight! Viktyuk was so emotional at these moments that it seemed that the hall would explode - there was so much energy! “Call her already. Li-i-iya, how you behave like a girl, come out-odi! " He shouts in a chant. Akhedzhakova leaves, wiping away her tears, and the rehearsal continues. Viktyuk loved actors, but at the same time did not really appreciate them. He approached, admired, and then, it happened, cooled down. So it was, for example, with Irina Metlitskaya, or with Eric Kurmangaliev. The audience was bursting with the play "M. Butterfly", so the artists asked to increase the fee. Viktyuk refused. As a result, Irina and Eric left the performance, and soon from life. Few people know that in his youth Viktyuk had a marriage - a fictitious one, with actress Valentina Talyzina. For the sake of a Moscow residence permit. Valentina Talyzina // Photo: AGN "Moscow" - He amazed me with his inner freedom, self-confidence and some kind of reckless courage, bordering on impudence, recalls Valentina Illarionovna. - In our bunch, Viktyuk, of course, was the leader, and I was the follower. He commanded, and I obeyed without question. No one, not a single person in the world could have predicted then that Viktyuk, this provincial boy from Lvov, would blow up Moscow theatrical life. But already at that time a powerful charge was felt in him. What to hide? Of course, I was in love with him, - admits Talyzina. - All my natural amorousness rushed towards this boy. I adored him, and, apparently, it was striking, because the conductor and choirmaster Galina Petrovna Rozhdestvenskaya once said to me: "Valya, marry Viktyuk!" I just swallowed my tongue in amazement, and then muttered: “Well, how? He's … " Oh, Valya! - Galina Petrovna laughed. - It's all nonsense. The main thing is that he is his own! " Valentina Talyzina: my infinitely brave Roman Viktyuk The last words of Roman Viktyuk have become known Bowing is a performance after a performance. Viktyuk rehearsed it separately: who will come out how, what somersault will do. And at the end he came out. He liked to be liked. When they confessed their love to Roman Grigorievich, admired the next performance, he shone, although he shyly said: "Boy, well, don't!" One day we went to a music store together. Roman Grigorievich loved and appreciated music, especially bought CDs with classics. He did not have a wallet, a bundle of money was tied with an elastic band. He was recognized by dark glasses and flowered jackets a la Elton John. Roman Viktyuk // Photo: Global Look Press He knew how to make a performance even from a visit to a store. He admitted that he dreamed of living in the center of Moscow. He settled there, opposite the Kremlin. This apartment, where Stalin's son Vasily once lived, he received thanks to Mikhail Aleksandrovich Ulyanov. - When he went to the mayor Luzhkov and brought papers praising me in order to allow me to enter it, he received the answer that there are already people who will live in this apartment. Mikhail Aleksandrovich played Stalin in my production of "The Master's Lessons" and practically with these intonations asked: "But can I give you a surname?" Luzhkov answered: "Speak!" Ulyanov: "Viktyuk!" Mayor without pause: "He can!" - Always unpredictable, in every breath, in every word, so it was often fun with him, - tells us the actor of the Roman Viktyuk theater Dmitry Bozin. - He loved to laugh and laughed at our seriousness. Any conviction turned upside down. Viktyuk easily overturned that he would be with us forever. Yesterday he told me that he would be with us and left, - says Bozin.- He was very strong! He called women "manyurks" Everyone who collaborated with Viktyuk knows that his grandfather (as he was called behind his back) can shout, but he was quick-witted, not vindictive. Forgiven mistakes and misdeeds. I could scream and then ask for forgiveness. I remember how the play "Slingshot" was celebrated at the premiere. The non-drinker Roman Grigorievich raised a glass of wine and said: "Manyurki and boys, we did it!" He called all women manurk. The last time we saw each other was behind the scenes of the play "Incomparable". Viktyuk, who had recently suffered a stroke, looked cheerful. He did not like to show how bad he was, behaved. - Boy, how are you? Do you have some new? He asked. And to questions about health he answered: "Everything is fine!" He looked at the person and seemed to study. The Universe is in the eyes! Roman Viktyuk: I am a bacillus. But not deadly, but life-giving
