Nikolai Vladimirovich Olyalin - Honored and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, laureate of the Komsomol Prize of Ukraine, holder of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise of the V degree, screenwriter and film director.
Nikolay Vladimir Olyalin is an actor of rare talent and appearance. Anyone who has ever seen him on screen in films such as "Liberation" or "There is no turning back, " he is unlikely to forget.
The childhood of Nikolai Olyalin
On the Google map you can still find in the Vologda Oblast a point with several buildings, designated as Opikhalino. This is the birthplace of the famous actor. He was born here on May 22, 1941, exactly one month before the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union.
This fact seemed to predetermine the fact that the role of the military will become the main hypostasis in his acting life. As a child, he saw crippled soldiers returning home after World War II. Their male tears were imprinted in the childhood memory, when they, softened by the drunk, remembered the dead fellow soldiers and the horrors that they had to go through. The boy was surprised by the adult crying uncles. As he got older, he realized the cause of the tears of those big men without arms or legs. These impressions subsequently helped the actor create so authentic images of the cinema military that many front-line soldiers recognized him as a fellow soldier. So, not having been to the war by virtue of infancy, he was involved in it from childhood.
The Finnish War also affected him, which made his father disabled: Vladimir Olyalin was wounded in the stomach, and the intestines fell out. The comrades boiled melted snow in the basin, washed the insides and put them back into the peritoneum. Father was a tailor by profession and, according to the recollections of his children, worked for days without bending his back to feed his family.
Nikolay Olyalin with parents
Theater education and work in the Krasnoyarsk Youth Theater
Vladimir Olyalin wanted his sons to become military. When the time came he sent the youngest of the three, Kolya, to be educated at the military topographic school in Leningrad. But Nikolai by that time had been engaged in an amateur circle in Vologda for several years and was seriously carried away by the stage. Therefore, instead of a military school, he went to take exams at the Leningrad State Theater Institute and entered, having won a competition of 126 people per seat.
After graduation, he got a job at the Krasnoyarsk Theater of Young Spectators (1964-1969). He did not have a great artistic career because of the hostility of the theater leadership. The director was offended by the satirical rhyme that the artist wrote to him. Olyalin not only did not receive the title roles in the theater, but the leadership also hid from him invitations for auditions for filming in feature films.
Film career of Nikolai Olyalin
And yet he managed to star in a movie. The debut of the actor Olyalin was the role of the young lieutenant, fighter pilot Nikolai Boldyrev in the film "Flight Days" (1966). To some extent, my father’s dream came true to see his son in military uniform. In this picture, the phrase “Let's live!”, Which Leonid Bykov masterfully used in the cult film “Only Old Men Are Going to Battle, ” sounded for the first time from the mouth of the hero Olyalin.
Poster of the film "Flight Days". The author of the poster is Peskov Anatoly Foteevich (1923-2012). Film debut of Nikolai Olyalin.
This was followed by filming in films that immediately after the release brought the bright actor fame and popular love: "Running", "There is no turning back, " the epic "Liberation". The images of courageous heroes that Olyalin created in these films turned out to be perhaps the most piercing and memorable in his career. The actor’s grandson about his grandfather said: "My grandfather was the embodiment of a masculine character in the most powerful country in the world." This is exactly how Olyalina was perceived by the audience as a collective image of a soldier of a war that ended only 25 years ago.
More than once such situations occurred when the actor was mistaken for a real soldier. Once in Kiev, on Victory Day, a story happened, which was later told by Olyalin himself: he went with his little son Volodya and then a front-line soldier ran up to him, started shaking the actor by the arms and claiming that he was with him in the battles on the Kursk Bulge. Both moved men cried with overwhelming feelings.
Nikolay Olyalin. Exemption.
Those who knew Nikolai Olyalin said that the actor who played people with iron characters in life was a very vulnerable, sentimental, sympathetic and gentle person. Sometimes this led to unpleasant consequences: many wanted a drink with the famous actor and he almost drank. Realizing that addiction must be fought, he agreed to treatment. Nikolai Vladimirovich drank the last glass on December 2, 1973, when his daughter Olya was born, and never in her life touched alcohol.
The famous actor managed to save his family. Tall, handsome, with expressive features and a beautiful bewitching voice, he was extremely popular among women. But in the end, he did not exchange his Nellie for anyone.
Fame gave the actor the opportunity to change jobs. He was invited to Moscow, Minsk and Kiev. Nikolai Vladimirovich chose the Dovzhenko film studio and his family left the Krasnoyarsk Youth Theater, which was unfriendly for Olyalin.
The 70s of the last century were the most fruitful in the acting film career. He starred in almost two dozen films, mainly military-themed. His courageous appearance was ideal for creating images of war heroes. But the powerful masculine charm of Olyalin and artistic skill were subject to roles of a different plan.
The strength of the look of Nikolai Olyalin
In the lyrical film “I am coming to you”, Lesya Ukrainka’s words (Alla Demidova) sound about her beloved man, who died from tuberculosis, played by Olyanin: “You see, he has eyes
.something elusive
it all slips away like sand through your fingers."
Nikolp Olyalin. I am coming to you.
A quote from the film fully applies to the ascetic appearance of the northern type of male beauty, which was possessed by Olyalin, and to his acting ability to speak with one eye, one facial expression. He belongs to a small galaxy of actors, such as Vyacheslav Tikhonov, who knew how to be silent in the frame so masterfully and so “speakingly” that they could replace scenes with verbose dialogues.
In the film "Downpour, " Olyalin did not utter a single word at all, playing a forester who was speechless at the front. Communicating with the outside world, all the deep feelings the actor amazingly showed through the expression of his eyes.
Nikolay Olyalin. Shower
The son of the actor recalled that Nikolai Vladimirovich said: "In love scenes, you do not always need to kiss. Much more can be said with a look
.
Nikolay Olyalin. Shower
Fragment from the movie "There is no turning back":
“Well, we have at least lived our own, but the youth are sorry, ” Andreev (Alexei Chernov).
- Yes, we did. And how old are you, Andreev? - Toporkov (Nikolai Olyalin).
- 64th year. And you?
- 29.
- How 29 !?
- 29. Recently fulfilled.
- Ai! This war. War. That's what she does to people. They say it right - count the summer on the horse’s teeth, and on the man’s eyes. And in your eyes you are all 50.
At the time of the filming of this film, Olalyan himself was about 29 years old.
There is no turning back
Heart problems of Nikolai Olyalin
After the destruction of the Soviet Union, work in cinema almost disappeared. Olyalin wrote poetry, scripts, and shot several lyric films. But he was late with such a theme - films with frank bed scenes, horror pictures, fantasy with special effects, thrillers with a sea of blood poured into the post-Soviet space from the west. Moral values have given way to commercial values.
And Olyalin dreamed of making a film about Ivan the Terrible and tried to establish a film studio "Village" in Vologda. Unfortunately, these plans did not work out.
Nikolai Vladimirovich held the blows of fate with dignity, but his heart began to malfunction. He had to undergo two heart operations, one of which - coronary artery bypass grafting, was carried out with the help of the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force, General Peter Deinekin. It turned out that a decent amount was required for the operation, which neither Olyanin himself nor his relatives had. One of his comrades, a businessman, responded to the compelled numerous requests for help. He agreed to give the Honored Artist of Ukraine the required amount of debt at interest. When asked about what to do if he dies during the operation, Olyanin received an answer that the actor’s family will return the money. Nikolai Vladimirovich, who even theoretically could not put his family in such a situation, refused money.
When, finally, he called Deinekin, he instantly received an answer that the money for him would be found. And silence reigned in the receiver. Then someone on the other end of the wire whispered that Olyanin was crying.
Nikolai Vladimirovich lived for several more years and even starred in small roles in such films as Night Watch, Day Watch, Boomer-2.
However, since 2007, due to the deterioration of his health, he could no longer act in film.
He said that he had given himself up to people all his life, and now that he was deprived of this, he was probably deprived of life.
Nikolay Olyalin
Personal life of Nikolay Olyalin
Stay in Krasnoyarsk, despite the problems in the Youth Theater, nevertheless brought him great luck - love for life. For the first time, the future wife of the actor saw him at a poetic evening. They later met at a gala concert to celebrate the October Revolution Day. Nelli, as the second secretary of the Komsomol committee of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, organized the concert, and he read Mayakovsky’s poems on it. In the third meeting, Olyalin again saw the girl at some New Year's event, went up to her, hugged and kissed. Then they kissed all the frosty Siberian night on the warm porches, and after a week they signed. And they lived together until his death.
Nikolay Oalyalin with his family
The wife created for him a cozy house and a reliable rear, gave birth to a son, Vladimir and daughter Olga. Nelly Ivanovna became a distinguished teacher of Ukraine. The acting work of their children was not carried away, and the grandson Sasha became a multiplier.
Grandson of Nikolai Vladimirovich Olyalin Alexander Olyalin
The actor said that answering somehow the grandson’s question: “Grandfather, I didn’t even know that he was so famous. Why aren’t you the main one?”, Said that “we have the main grandmother, and I’m just Nikolai the saint”.
Nikolai Vladimirovich Olyalin died on November 17, 2009 from an extensive heart attack.
Relatives fulfilled the desire of the beloved husband and father not to put pompous monuments on his grave:"
I don’t need Paphos. I am a simple Orthodox person and I want an ordinary Orthodox cross. "On the tombstone of Olyalin at the Baykovsky cemetery of Kiev there is a black marble cross with a laconic inscription" Nikolai Vladimirovich Olyalin. 22.V.1941-19.XI.2009. Actor".
Monument to Nikolai Olyalin at the Baykovsky cemetery in Kiev
In memory of actor Nikolai Vladimirovich Olyalin
Director Nikolay Mashchenko about Nikolay Oalyalin: "There are such actors and such roles that there is a role because there is this actor
In this case, Olyalin. The scale of his personality is always huge
the most important thing for an actor to be a person
Still, the actor lives in the role. It seems that he does not speak his own words, but the great actor makes others' words, always not his own, independently of Shakespeare or unknown authors, making his own. Every word must be passed through the heart, so that this word, like a bullet passing through the heart, carries within itself your blood, your love, your hatred."
Remembering him, the confessor of Nikolai Olyalin said: “He was one of those about whom Tsvetaeva said: Doctors recognize us in the morgue Po too big hearts, ” but I think that this could be seen even without the morgue. ”
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There is such an episode in the film “There is no turning back”: the comrades buried Major Toporkov in the forest, whose role was played by Olyalin, and Andreev (actor Alexei Chernov) said: “Oh, major
When trouble comes, one takes nothing upon himself. The other as much as he can do. And the third - everything falls on itself. All the pain. And everyone has one heart
And one more fragment:
“Do you think they will remember us after the war?” I would like to remember … to cry some
- asks the fighter Levushkin (Nikolai Merzlikin).
- Here in 100 years the generations for which war is a pain will leave. And this war will become history. But do you think a lot about the war of 1812?
Everyone needs to do their own thing, like a major. A memory
this is how it will turn out, ”Bertolet (Igor Yasulovich) answers.
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In December 2016, a memorial stele with the image of Nikolai Vladimirovich in high relief was installed in Vologda.
Monument to Nikolai Olyalin in Vologda. Sculptor Arkhipov A.A. Architect Ragutsky L.N.
