"Daddy was ashamed of his beauty, she literally zadolbala!"
"The first childhood memories associated withdad – probably our walks when I was three or four years old. In rare moments, he would break away from filming and walk with me in the Bauman Garden – at that time we lived in a high-rise building near the Red Gate. I remember walking along the bridge over the railroad tracks to the garden, and there was dad’s garage nearby. My father always had a Volga car – an indispensable attribute of the Soviet era, sometimes one, sometimes another, but, as a rule, light gray. He would take me for rides in the car.”
A photo: frame from the film "Seventeen Moments of Spring" "During the walk to the Pope, everyone paid attention, approached - talked about something, asked for an autograph or take a picture together. No, I was not jealous of his fans, but they irritated me, I perceived such attention to him as an intrusion into our personal space. After all, for me he was not a famous actor, whom the whole country knows, but simply a father. At such moments I wanted to take it and run away from everyone somewhere far away, so that no one bothered. Vyacheslav Vasilyevich to such manifestations of fame treated with stoic patience, very rarely could say that he is in a hurry or he does not have time. True, when friends or relatives were with him, they tried to quickly get him out of the surrounding crowd. Gradually, I realized that Papa was really a star. He took me to a kindergarten, and the kids recognized him, it's clear that their parents told him. On May 1 they went to a demonstration, walked in a column, and then turned off. Then my father was noticed, someone shouted: "Stirlitz!", And the whole column followed us. Hiking with the pope on the market - a separate story, a real circus. Merchants ran up to him, tried to stick in even what was not needed, refused to take money. It was useless to object to them, Dad understood that they would be offended. It is curious that people of different nationalities considered Tikhonov their own. He had a unique appearance, and many saw the features of his relatives. "
This mysterious nobility
1/2Photo: personal archive of Anna TikhonovaPhoto:Anna Tikhonova's personal archive"Many people noted that my father looked like a refined intellectual. Where did he get that from? After all, he was born in a small Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow in a simple family, studied to be a turner... Of course, he made himself. Nevertheless, I believe that some genes of nobility were embedded in him from birth. I even asked to make his family tree, but, unfortunately, such work costs a lot of money, so we did not dig deep, only did a superficial job. There are also facts that hint that there was a breed in his pedigree. For example, if you look at the photo of his grandmother Alexandra Illarionovna with her sisters Ksenia and Ekaterina - they are such noble girls in beautiful clothes, and their names are worth something. The two-story house in Pavlovsky Posad was built by my father's grandfather Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Alekseev (by the way, my father was named after him). He was a respected man, and many people came to him for advice. According to one version, he took out a loan from a bank for the house, but according to another, the tsar gave him the money. Why? Dad's grandfather was an excellent machinist, which was valued at that time as much as the work of an astronaut today. In general, one can only guess about everything, and it is difficult to get to the truth. When dad decided to go to Moscow and enter the theater, his parents did not approve of his decision. Thanks to his grandmother, Alexandra Illarionovna, she said: "Don't interfere with him. He will go his own way anyway, and you will be blamed later." And since the grandmother enjoyed great authority in the family, my father's parents resigned themselves to it. Maybe they did not believe in his strength, they thought that he would try, fail and come back - go to study at a vocational school, and then to be an engineer. But Tikhonov entered VGIK. By the way, my father's uncle (his mother's brother) was a director in a small theater, he staged "The Gadfly". Dad often visited him at rehearsals and performances - hence the desire to become an actor."
He repulsed his wife from the Frenchman's fiancé
A photo: personal archive of Anna Tikhonova "My parents met at the Mosfilm during the dubbing of the French film" Man and Woman. " Papa was about forty then, her mother - 24 years old, she graduated from the Moscow State University, she worked at a school in Arbat as a teacher of French. A friend asked her to replace for one day and make simultaneous translation of some scenes of the picture. Jean-Louis Trintinyan voiced Tikhonov, and Nina Menshikova - Anouk Eme. My mother sat modestly and watched what was happening, and at the break Tikhonov approached her and invited him to smoke. She did not smoke and never even held a cigarette in her hands, but agreed with surprise - it was awkward to refuse the offer of a famous actor. They stood talking. Mom was an educated girl, enjoyed male attention and, of course, impressed Tikhonov with her erudition and dissimilarity towards actresses. And the fact that she did not know how to smoke and just blew smoke, without delaying, dad noticed, and this added her extra charm. That's how it all began. True, my mother had a French fiancé, the son of Russian emigrants, an educated person from a cultural family who knew Russian literature well. And everything went to the wedding, although my mother's relatives were against - marriage with a foreigner at that time was not welcomed in our country. But here there was a meeting with the pope, probably, it was destiny. I knew that my father used to have another family, but all this remained in the past and did not bother anyone, nobody bothered anyone, and in the press they distorted a lot. " "Wives of famous artists for years of life in marriage produce some kind of protective reaction, immunity. Mom was always confident and treated the fans of the pope ironically. In the notebook she wrote: "fools," was a colon followed by a list of names, of course, not all of them, but some who called to our phone and demanded Vyacheslav Vasilyevich's pipe. Yes, some fans even imagined. Many of my mother recognized by voice. Sometimes, when the most annoying people lingered in our entrance for a long time, we even had to call the police. At that time, it was not customary to call the actors sex symbols. But to the father, probably, this word approached. On the one hand, he liked popularity - this is part of the profession. But on the other - she was burdensome. He even tried to make himself worse in some roles, for example, he shaved his eyebrows to film in the film "It was in Penkovo." He was taught in VGIK that the external is secondary, the main thing is to show what is inside you. And somewhere Papa was ashamed of his beauty. She in the literal sense of zadolbal. And at school, the girls ran after him, pockets of his jacket tore, thrusting notes there, and at the institute they just did not get up. "
A house like Stirlitz's
A photo: personal archive of Anna Tikhonova "The first film that I remember was" Seventeen Moments of Spring ". I was very small then. I remember a close-up of my father, but the picture was shown late, and after some minutes of watching I was laid to sleep. I love this tape, and still "It was in Penkovo" and "PE." In them I like the reckless image of Tikhonov: courage, sly eyes, jokes, anecdotes - all this was in the nature of his father. But the directors, unfortunately, exploited other features in it. I watched "White Bima Black Ear" with my girlfriend a lot of times, as many times we had hysterics in the full sense. We did not just cry, but sobbed sobs. Those who liked this picture, we considered their people. By the way, when I'm walking with my dog today, I see someone smiling, brightens, looking at the dog. I think: our man. Dad always had a lot of dogs. One of them was called Idol. And I did not have a dog in my childhood. There was only a blue wavy speaking parrot Romochka. I remember his phrases: "Romochka Stirlitz", "Who came? The guests? What a nightmare! "... Everyone was amused. Then he flew away, got the second one, who also spoke. My dad and I always dreamed of a dog, but he always acted in film and could not convince my mother, who was absolutely against it. She understood that all care for the pet would lie on her shoulders. But my children now have a golden retriever - very smart, and the muzzle is similar to Bima. As a child, my mother treated me stricter than my dad. He adored me, never condemned, did not criticize. In his gaze I saw only admiration. I recently read one of his interviews. The journalist writes: "A girl of about ten entered here." Papa introduces me - Anna Vyacheslavovna - and asks me to go in for music. And I respond to his proposal with a refusal, to which my father, evidently, without finding the right answer, says: "Well, then do not." That's what he was like to me. I studied well, there was nothing to blame for - one five. A four or three could have made me very upset. I remember coming from school and burst into tears. The father asks: "What happened?" I, sobbing: "I got a three". He claps his hands and joyfully shouts: "Hurray, three!" "He had a beautiful Mkhatovsky beautiful tone and raised it rarely, but aptly. If he was angry at home, it was like an eruption of a volcano, it was necessary to hide. But he did not start from a half-turn, he had to bring something for a long time. Endured, endured, but then exploded, could slam the door and close in the office. However, departed quickly enough. I knew that if his mood is bad, it's better not to molest. The father kept the family, worked hard. Naturally, all the domestic duties were on my mother. Although the father in her absence could do everything perfectly by himself. When we were alone, he cooked scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, cooked soup ... I loved Papa's food. He was an entrepreneur. Our house on Nikolina Mountain is built according to its design. The building looks a bit like Stirlitz's cottage in "Seventeen Moments of Spring". And he planned a lot of the interior himself. I could smash something, change it ... In my childhood we all loved to go after mushrooms with the whole family, but not always it was time. Somehow Dad bought mushrooms in the market - white, boletus and not too lazy to bury them in different places on the site of the dacha. And in the morning he says: "Let's search mushrooms for us, and if we do not find it, go to the forest." And my friend and I went after him - we see one mushroom, the second, the third ... And everything is as in the picture - huge and beautiful. Daddy often fished with Stanislav Rostotsky. They organized real competitions - who will whom to catch. And more often my father won. He had a friend who, like Rostotsky, had no leg. Once they were fishing in Valdai, and then a foot prosthesis was broken at the friend, and it was going to night. And Tikhonov, like in the war, had to drag him eight kilometers, with two fishing boxes, on himself. A friend shouted: "Stop it! Plant me! Go for help! "And the father:" As I leave you, here eight kilometers there and eight - back. While we reach you - the darkness will come. How to find you then? "They loved to remember this story."
Saw the groom's running shoes and got scared
A photo: Anna Tikhonova's personal archive "Actors do not like their children to follow in the footsteps of their parents. And when I decided to go to VGIK, of course, my dad said that this should not be done. He liked the profession of a journalist, he seemed to idealize it and wanted me to go to journalism at the Moscow State University. We often talked with him on this topic, but I must say that he was not particularly persistent. In VGIK I met my future husband Nikolai Voronovsky. After some time she invited me home, my dad, when I saw Kolya's sneakers in the hallway - he had a very large foot size - was frightened. Maybe a little wary at first treated him, and when a few years later we got married, the husband and father became friends. They went out together to smoke, talked for a long time. Kolya liked to listen to the stories of Vyacheslav Vasilyevich. My sons Vyacheslav and Georgy are 13th year old, and it is already clear that they have a creative grandfather's vein. They made their video channels on the Internet, shoot different stories, put them online. Glory in general from four years can shoot and put in video music. And no one taught him this. Father loved grandchildren, but, strangely enough, he terribly spoiled me, but they are not. Maybe he understood that boys are future men. Even sometimes he scolded me because I was too soft with them (and the children were only four years old) and allow a lot. The guys are asking to eat, I give them a sandwich for a sandwich, and my grandfather: "Where are you to them so much ?!"
The Tikhonov Museum
Photo:personal archive of Anna Tikhonova“We used to come with my father to his home in Pavlovsky Posad. When I was very little, I even lived there for a while. In the 90s, my father gave this house to the city for free so that his grandmother, his mother, could get a separate apartment - it was already difficult for her to maintain a large house. And later the city decided that a Tikhonov museum would be created there. One room will be restored with furniture, my father's things, some will be brought from Mosfilm. And the rest of the premises will become a museum of his work. There is no final concept yet. A monument to Tikhonov will be erected in the courtyard. Some people think that my father should be depicted sitting on a bench near the house. But it seems to me that the monument should copy my father's recognizable role, so that people can see and immediately understand who it is. The opening of the museum is planned for August. Last year, together with the Vyacheslav Tikhonov Foundation and the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region, we organized the 17 Moments film festival. We present awards to multi-part feature films in order to raise the level of our series to full-length films, and we also celebrate the best family films, which Vyacheslav Vasilyevich basically promoted in his work. According to all ratings and surveys of TV and moviegoers, films with Tikhonov's participation are in leading positions. This year, our festival will be held as part of the celebration of my father's 90th birthday from February 7 to 11." Dossier Born: February 8, 1928 in Pavlovsky Posad, Moscow Region. Father, Vasily Romanovich, worked as a mechanic at a weaving factory; Mother, Valentina Vyacheslavovna, was a kindergarten teacher.Education: VGIK.Career: played more than 70 roles in films, including "Midshipman Panin", "War and Peace", "We'll Live Till Monday", "The Front Behind the Front Line", "17 Moments of Spring", "The Case Was in Penkovo", "TASS Is Authorized to Announce", "Burnt by the Sun".Personal life: First wife Nonna Mordyukova (from 1950 to 1963), from this marriage there was a son Vladimir (1950-1990). Second wife, Tamara Tikhonova (since 1967). Daughter Anna, 48, actress, film producer, president of the Vyacheslav Tikhonov Foundation, director of the creative production studio "Actor Cinema", son-in-law - director Nikolai Voronovsky, twin grandsons Vyacheslav and Georgy, 13 years old. Died: December 4, 2009. Buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
