Tatyana Valentinovna Filatova - representative of one of the oldest circus dynasties, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of Russia.
History of the Filatov Dynasty
In 1836, a guide Filat with a bear and his wife, a servant of the monkeys, received permission from the governor of Nizhny Novgorod to work on the market square. However, the founder of the dynasty is the Russian trainer of predatory animals and the founder of the zoo circus system in the USSR, Ivan Lazarevich Filatov, who was born in 1873 in Saratov. Of his 13 children, only two continued to work in the circus - daughter Maria and son Valentin, who invented the Bear Circus attraction.
Valentin Ivanovich was born on August 12, 1920 in Yekaterinburg, he worked in the circus from the age of 6: he was an acrobat, a balancer, a trainer in the group of A.N. Kornilova. In 1935-1941 he was an animal caretaker, then a trainer and assistant at Kornilov.
With his own number, "Trained Bears" first appeared in 1941 in Kuibyshev. In 1941-1944 he toured with his father through the cities of Central Asia, showing a large mixed group (lions, tigers, cheetahs, as well as birds of different species). At the same time preparing a room with four bears.
In 1949 he created the famous attraction "Bear Circus" (premiered on November 6, 1949 at the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard), which brought Filatov great fame. Filatov’s troupe toured abroad and starred in films (“Arena of the Brave”, “Michelle and Mishutka”, “Not All Bears Sleep in the Winter”). He died on August 7, 1979.
In 1975, Valentin Filatov released a new program, The Circus of Animals, where his daughters Lyudmila and Tatyana and their spouses began working with him. Now the sixth generation of the Filatov dynasty is playing at the circus ring.
Biography of Tatyana Filatova
Tatyana Valentinovna Filatova was born on July 19, 1949. From childhood, she watched the work of her parents: her father is the star of the arena, and her mother worked behind the scenes. But she connected her fate with the circus only at the age of 21. Dad immediately set an ultimatum: until Tatyana receives a diploma of higher education - no circus. Only when she graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute with a degree in English and German, did he say: “Now we’ll go to the Russian State Circus, I will arrange you as an attraction assistant.” And three years later, Tatyana had the elephant Rada, with whom she worked for forty years. But the Bear’s Circus remains the brand number of the dynasty - 15 bears, they act as acrobats, jugglers and balancers, rollerblading, bicycles, motorcycles, playing in the orchestra.
People's Artist of the RSFSR Tatyana Valentinovna Filatova has been the artistic director of the team since 1994.
Personal life and family
Father - Valentin Ivanovich Filatov (1927-1979) - People's Artist of the USSR
Husband of Tatyana Valentinovna - Alexander Petrovich Gorin (born July 23, 1951) - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1994), in the circus since 1973, a member of the group of equilibrists on the perches of A. Sarach. Since 1978, he trained as a trainer with Valentin Filatov, and since 1979, he was an artist-trainer of the animal circus attraction.
The daughter of Tatyana and Alexander is Valentina (born July 24, 1979) - a ballet dancer, a participant in the program "Circus of the Beasts", her husband Vladimir Maximov.
Grandson - Alexander Filatov Jr. participates in the attraction "Bear Circus" as a clown and trainer.
Filmography
1970 - the short film "The performance begins!", The role of the trainer
1982 - the film "I do not want to be an adult", the role of a bear trainer
