Yuri Solovey - a figure of culture and art, whose life and work began in the Soviet Union, continued in Germany. He is an actor, an artist, a sculptor, and a theater director. But in Russia, he is best known as the former third husband of the famous actress Alice Freindlich. And Yuri Solovey was burdened by this fact - it is not easy to live in the shadow of another, more successful creative person.
Biography Facts
Yuri Anisimovich Nightingale is a creative and enthusiastic person. It so happened that his talent was fully revealed only after 50 years, when he moved to live abroad. The birthplace of Yuri Solovyov is the Ukrainian city of Kirovograd, where he was born on May 23, 1949. Yuri’s father was a military pilot, so the boy’s childhood was constantly moving from one garrison to another.
In his youth, Jura Nightingale had two hobbies: theater and painting, and he could not choose which one was stronger. At the time of graduation, the theater won: the guy went to the Russian city of Yaroslavl and entered the theater school, where his teacher in acting was People's Artist of the USSR Firs Efimovich Shishigin, a famous director and teacher. During the years of study, Yuri Solovey was also engaged in painting.
Theater career and personal life
In 1969, Yuri Solovey completed his acting education and was assigned to work at the Odessa Theater for Young Spectators. The first role of the young actor in this scene was the role of the Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. Little spectators hated the Wolf, screamed with all their might and shot it with slingshots, and the Wolf pretended to be afraid of the children, which led them to indescribable delight.
In this Odessa period of his life, Yuri Solovey first married, his wife's name was Nelly Sobolkova. In 1969, she gave birth to the only son of Yuri Nightingale - Dmitry.
The marriage broke up a few years later, but father and son have been talking and being friends of families all their lives. Dmitry married, he has a son, Ivan Solovey, grandson of Yuri Anisimovich.
In the early 1970s, at the suggestion of former classmates at the theater school, Yuri Solovey became an actor in the Dostoevsky Novgorod Academic Drama Theater, and in 1975 he moved to Leningrad and joined the troupe of the Leningrad Lensovet Theater. By this time, the young actor was already a member of the Union of Theater Workers of the RSFSR, was full of hopes and career ambitions. In addition, in 1978-79, Nightingale tried himself and as a movie actor - starred in episodic roles in the film performances "People and Passions", "Wonderful Shoemaker" and "Ball" on Lenfilm.
Marriage with Alice Freindlich
At the Lensovet Theater, Yuri Solovey met the then-famous actress Alisa Brunovna Freindlich. Both actors were engaged in the play "Warsaw Melody", directed by Igor Vladimirov, the artistic director of the theater and second husband Freindlich, whom she divorced in 1981. Yuri was 15 years younger than Alice, but this did not stop the lovers from starting a family. The couple lived together for about 12 years, but the marriage could not stand the test.
As an actor, Yuri was constantly in the shadow of his famous wife, he was known as "Freundlich's husband." He rushed about, jealous, even scandalized. In addition, the Nightingale faced a choice of what to do next - acting, which was not very successful, or painting, which more and more fascinated him. Yuri Solovey began to realize his other talent - he began to engage in the design of performances, and also painted a lot at home.
The daughter of Freindlich from marriage with Vladimirov - Varvara became an obstacle to family life: being a teenager at that time, the girl disliked her stepfather, was rude, did not go out to talk, and deliberately interfered with work. Having matured, Varvara realized that her stepfather was a good person, and found a common language with him, but it was too late: Freindlich and Nightingale decided to leave. At the same time, they maintained a good relationship, Alice even bothered with the theater management to allocate an apartment to Yuri. Former spouses to this day communicate, Alisa Brunovna attends exhibitions that Nightingale periodically arranges in St. Petersburg.
