March 16, 1935
Born in Leningrad Sergey Yursky. Actor, director.
Happy is he who does not regret the choice he made. He who regrets is overcome by sadness. Then by melancholy. Then by despair.
A derivative of the name "Yursky" - the school stage name of the nobleman father, Yuri ZhikharevDuring Soviet times, the stage name became a surname. Yursky Sr. was the artistic director of the Moscow Circus and the Lenconcert. Yursky Jr.'s mother worked as a music director. Neither of his parents wanted an acting career for their son. Their son went into law. But not for long.
We attended lectures on criminal law, in which we were convincingly and irrefutably shown that the death penalty was necessary for the rehabilitation of society... But a year later, the death penalty was abolished, and the same professor just as brilliantly demonstrated that the death penalty could never effectively reduce crime... But another year later, the death penalty was reintroduced into the Criminal Code, and then... well, I don't know what happened then—I left the law faculty and went to the Theatre Institute.
After his second year, Yursky was invited to the Bolshoi Drama Theater. He became one of the leading actors in Tovstonogov's troupe. He played Chatsky in "Woe from Wit," Ferdyshchenko in "The Idiot," and Aesop in "The Fox and the Grapes." In 1974, he staged his own production of "Molière."
Goga (Georgy Tovstonogov) liked to repeat this formula: “A person is a fraction, the numerator of which is what others think of him, and the denominator is what he thinks of himself - the larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction”... I overestimated myself a little
He achieved film fame in the 60s, playing Vikniksor in "Republic of ShKID" and Ostap Bender in "The Golden Calf." He played the beloved Uncle Mitya in "Love and Doves" alongside his wife, Baba Shura. Natalia Tenyakova:
She says, "Grandpa, your grandmother, died... Myocardial infarction, this is the scar... How typical, they loved each other!"
He had a clear civic position. He called for an end to the war in Chechnya and the liberation of Grigory Pasko, Svetlana Bakhmina, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Kirill Serebrennikov. Condemned the annexation of Crimea.
Passed away in 2019.
