Nikita Vysotsky family children. The fate of Vysotsky's possible illegitimate children

Nikita Vladimirovich Vysotsky. Born on August 8, 1964 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, director, screenwriter, producer. Son of Vladimir Vysotsky.

Father - famous Soviet poet, actor and songwriter.

Mother - Soviet actress.

His parents were married from July 25, 1965 to February 10, 1970 (in reality they separated in 1968).

Has an older brother, Arkady Vysotsky (born November 29, 1962), he is an actor and screenwriter.

There is also a younger maternal sister, Serafima Ovcharenko (born 1973).

His brother Arkady was named after Arkady Strugatsky, with whom his parents were friends. When he was born, they first wanted to name him Boris in honor of the second of the Strugatsky brothers. As a result, they decided that his name would be determined by lot. One of the names - Nikita - appeared in honor. He said: “Nikita “appeared” just like that - the sixties loved Khrushchev for the Thaw. Nikita was completely abandoned there. They threw pieces of paper into a hat and my older brother pulled out a note with the name Nikita.” So he received a name in honor of the Soviet leader.

His parents separated when he was 4 years old. Vladimir Vysotsky was a kind of Sunday dad for him: “He could take him to his place, he could come, go somewhere and so on. You could go up to him, call him, come. But we didn’t have such a common life,” Nikita recalled .

He studied at an experimental school with an automotive focus, the main subject was auto engineering. But he himself admitted that as a person not technical, but humanitarian, he did not do very well.

From an early age I felt the burden of my father’s popularity. “I felt it from a very early age. When I began to realize myself, he was already very popular. He was popular, and I understood it,” he recalled.

After graduating from school, he worked at a factory for a year. Then he served in the army, incl. the last six months - at the Theater of the Soviet Army.

In 1986 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, course, his teachers were and. Nikita’s decision to become an actor was largely influenced by his father’s performance at the Taganka Theater; the play “Hamlet” made a special impression on him.

In 1986-1988 he played at the Sovremennik-2 theater with Galina Volchek, where he was the head of the youth department, and participated in the plays “The Seventh Labor of Hercules”, “Darkness”, “Shadow”, “Envy”, “Hurdy Organ”.

Among his theatrical works: “Vladimir Vysotsky” (Taganka Theater); “A Lesson for Wives” (Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov); “Maximilian the Stylite” (Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov); "Old New Faust" (Moon Theater).

In 1996, he headed the State Museum named after Vladimir Vysotsky, whose building has been located on Taganka since 1992. According to Nikita, at first he refused and was generally against the museum, but over time he realized the importance of this idea.

He said: “The museum actually arose immediately after my father’s death. Not in the form that it exists now. People brought their poetic dedications, some photographs, even autographs to the Taganka Theater. And after the funeral, all this was brought into the literary part of the Taganka Theater. And then it was decided, it is not clear by whom, but somehow it was necessary to make a museum of Vysotsky. I was always an opponent of this idea. I generally thought that Vysotsky and the museum were boring, sad. which is in everyone’s heart. I pushed away from all this for a very long time, signed some papers. But, nevertheless, a collection was formed here... Those who love him, people want to know about him. And the museum is one of them. communications, one of the ways. But we must not forget that the museum is still a scientific institution. And the archive is no less than “come, come, look, look.” There are things that are closed. are closed and which, even if we want, we will not put them up for storage. What will happen there, what to do next. A museum lasts a very long time. A museum is a story that, of course, will outlive me and beyond.”

Since 1997 - founder and executive director of the Vladimir Vysotsky Charitable Foundation.

On October 18, 2011, he received the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize “for the creation of the Vladimir Vysotsky Center and the preservation of the poet’s creative heritage.”

Since 1987, he has acted in films, making his debut in the film anthology “Clinic”. In 1989, he played the role of a musician in the comedy “Deja Vu.”

Nikita Vysotsky in the film "Deja Vu"

He played his first leading role in the 1991 action film “Ghost” (Nikolai Grishaev).

In the 2000s, he played leading roles in the films “Life Goes On” (Pavel Kalinin), “The Listener” (Sergei Petrov), “Friday the 12th” (investigator Nikolai Zakharov), “House on Ozernaya” (Vyacheslav Teterin).

Nikita Vysotsky in the film "House on Ozernaya"

The roles of Admiral Karelin in the drama “House of the Sun” and Leonid Smirnov in the action film “Spiral” became notable.

Nikita Vysotsky in the film "House of the Sun"

In 2011, he acted as a screenwriter and producer of the film “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive,” dedicated to his father.

Since September 2012, he has been teaching at the Department of Directing and Acting at MGUKI. Director and teacher in the workshop of Nikolai Skorik.

On July 26, 2013, Nikita Vysotsky filed a lawsuit for protection of honor and dignity due to the publication of the book “Vladimir Vysotsky - KGB Super Agent” (Fedor Razzakov, Mikhail Kryzhanovsky, Moscow: Algorithm, 2012).

As a theater director, in 2014 he staged the play “Romeo and Juliet” at the N.L. Workshop. Skorika.

In 2014, he was awarded the title of Honorary Artist of Moscow.

In 2017, he wrote the script for the film “Union of Salvation”, and as a director, he directed the crime series “Safety”. Also in 2017, a number of theatrical directorial premieres by Nikita Vysotsky took place in the workshop of Nikolai Skorik: “The Cherry Orchard” by A.P. Chekhov and “I don’t like it when it’s half…” based on the works of Vladimir Vysotsky.

Nikita Vysotsky in the program "Alone with Everyone"

Nikita Vysotsky's height: 188 centimeters.

Personal life of Nikita Vysotsky:

He keeps his private life very secret. He got married in the mid-1980s, but does not show his wife to the public and does not tell anything about her. In one of the interviews he mentioned that she was from the Magadan region.

The actor has three children: Semyon (born 1986), Daniil (born 1988) and a daughter. The eldest son Semyon received a legal education.

He is a fan of the Moscow football club Lokomotiv.

Filmography of Nikita Vysotsky:

1987 - Clinic (film almanac)
1989 - Deja vu - musician (banjo)
1990 - Ha-bi-assy - Suzdaltsev, platoon commander
1990 - Nautilus - Sasha
1990 - Mousetrap - Sergeant Trotter
1991 - Ghost - Nikolai Grishaev
1992 - Casino - episode
1992 - Time of your life
1993 - Freak - "Freak"
1995 - Suspens. North South
1998 - Tests for real men - Nikita
1998 - To be remembered. Vladimir Vysotsky (documentary)
1998 - Vladimir Vysotsky. Documentary trilogy. I don't love (documentary)
1999 - Maximilian
2002 - Life goes on - Pavel Kalinin
2004 - Listener - Sergey Vasilyevich Petrov, listener "Ermolaev"
2005 - Spare instinct - Fedor Grekov
2006 - How idols left. Vsevolod Abdulov (documentary)
2006 - How idols left. Vladimir Vysotsky (documentary)
2008 - Friday 12 - Nikolai Pavlovich Zakharov, investigator
2008 - Stories and legends of Lenfilm. How the film "The One and Only" was filmed (documentary)
2008 - Vladimir Vysotsky. I will come for your souls! (documentary)
2008 - Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vladi. The Last Kiss (documentary)
2009 - Corner of Paradise
2009 - House on Ozernaya - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Teterin
2010 - House of the Sun - Alexey Ivanovich Karelin, admiral, father of the Sun
2010 - Sung in the USSR. Song about a friend (documentary)
2011 - Vysotsky. Last Year (documentary)
2011 - Vysotsky. So everything comes true. what is prophesied... (documentary)
2013 - World War III - Sergei Vasilyevich Bobrovsky, Sasha’s father, Central Committee employee
2013 - Courier from "Paradise" - mushroom picker
2013 - Marina Vladi. I carried my misfortune (documentary)
2013 - Irina Kupchenko. An extraordinary miracle (documentary)
2013 - Vladimir Vysotsky. I don't believe in fate (documentary)
2014 - Spiral - Leonid Smirnov
2014 - Not played, not sung (documentary)
2017 - Security - Tsarev, head of OSB

“DEAR MOMMY, I live well, I eat what I want, they bought me a new suit, they gave me a birthday party and I had 8 children. I’m learning to play the accordion, I’m doing poorly, in the class notebook for writing I have five D’s, I don’t listen to the teacher, I write dirty and with errors" (author's spelling preserved).

With errors, but very cleanly and diligently, 9-year-old Volodya Vysotsky wrote this letter to his mother when he lived in Eberswalde, Germany, with his father and stepmother.

Vladimir Vysotsky's relatives brought many of his personal belongings, letters, photographs, notes, diaries to the museum. “The museum has information that is enough for 50 issues of some yellow publication. But it is closed. Maybe in 50 years a researcher of Vysotsky’s work will come here and he will be allowed to see these materials. Now is not the time,” says the youngest son Nikita Vysotsky, who headed his father’s museum on Taganka.

I saw your father’s jacket in the museum and was very surprised by the words of the caretaker, who said that Vladimir Semenovich wore this jacket for 15 years.

There were actually three jackets made from the same cut for my father, grandfather and uncle. My father wore them in turns. The one on display in the museum lived longer than the others, and my grandmother kept it. Actually, I’m not a fetishist, I don’t think it’s necessary to say with pathos: “These things were touched by the great...” I remember with what aspiration the guide in the Lenin Museum said: “Here is the coat that Vladimir Ilyich was wearing when he was shot Kaplan". I really didn't like it. And, as you understand, I have seen my father’s things since childhood, and I am not in awe of the sight of, for example, Vysotsky’s guitar. But I understand that we need to show people things that characterize a person. Agree, the fact that my father wore the same clothes for 15 years speaks volumes. It is unlikely that anyone will wear identical jackets if there is an opportunity to buy others.

The museum also has a patent leather jacket...

He really loved this foppish shiny jacket. My father was 42 years old when he died, but his clothing style was boyish, youthful - he wore jeans and short jackets. Then, when money appeared, he began to treat his cars very warmly and reverently. He showed the last car he brought from abroad and said that even Brezhnev didn’t have such a car. It was a sports Mercedes. Then this model did not go into production, and remained intermediate. But in those days, when my father rode on it, the whole street turned around. True, he bought this Mercedes a year or two before his death, so he only drove it for a short time.

Is the car still there?

My father earned a lot, but after his death he still had debts that had to be repaid. The silver Mercedes was sold, but the sporty one was Marina ( Vladi. - Auto. ) took it with me. We then tried to find it and restore it, but nothing worked. So much time has passed, it must have been in the landfill for a long time.

"I saw Marina Vladi a couple of times, no more"

Why does the museum have only three photographs with your mother and at the same time several stands dedicated to the period of Vysotsky’s life with Marina Vladi?

My father’s first wife was Iza Konstantinovna Zhukova, whose name also appears in the museum. His mother was his wife for more than seven years, bore him two sons, and with her, from an unemployed and unknown actor, he became the Vysotsky we remember. This is also discussed on excursions. And, of course, about Marina, who was his wife for 13 years and did a lot for her father. She is his widow. There is no competition here: who is more important and who is better, who is more in the museum or who is less.

Was Marina Vladi here?

Marina knows that there is a museum, but she has not been here. Marina is going through a difficult period right now. Life seems to be testing her... She almost never happens in Moscow. Now her new autobiographical book is being prepared, the working title is “My Cherry Orchard,” which is being translated by the daughter of her father’s friend Seva Abdulov. I told Marina that if she came to Russia for the presentation, she could stay in her father’s apartment.

You are communcating?

There is business correspondence. At one time, our family (there is no particular secret about it) had a conflict with Marina. And it would be strange if in this conflict I ended up on her side, and not on the side of my father’s parents.

Your father broke up with your mother when you were 4 years old, and your brother Arkady was 6 years old. Did Vladimir Semenovich try to make you and Marina Vladi friends?

He tried, but it didn’t work out, and he didn’t insist. It’s not even that we were offended that she took our dad away from us. For us, her world was completely different. When my father was alive, I saw Marina a couple of times, no more. And there were no relationships - neither good nor bad.

My father wanted us to make friends with Volodya, Marina’s youngest son; he is exactly between Arkady and me in age. We didn’t fight, but somehow we didn’t become friends either. Then one day Volodya came here, and Arkady dragged him to the skating rink. They almost got hit in the face there. There were punks at the skating rink who didn’t skate, but just sat. Volodka is a sociable guy, for some reason he kept approaching them all the time, trying to light their cigarettes, and at the same time did not speak a word of Russian. I don’t understand how miraculously they managed to avoid a fight.

"Father knew a lot about toys"

Were your meetings with your father somehow regulated? Was he a “Sunday” dad or a “Friday” dad?

My grandmother, my father’s mother, was very careful that our communication with my father was regular. Sometimes it was very touching. I remember I was already quite old and went to a sports training camp. Suddenly, on my birthday, August 8, a telegram arrives: “Happy birthday, son. Dad.” I immediately realized that it was my grandmother who did it.

Dad sometimes didn’t show up for months, and sometimes he could drop by just like that, without calling, because he was passing by. Or, on the contrary, Arkady and I rushed to him without calling, afraid that if we called, he would say: “I’m busy,” and we needed something urgent from him. Everything happened very spontaneously. And believe me, I never exaggerated the role of me and my brother in my father’s life. Stanislav Govorukhin, when he was a deputy, helped us obtain the OVIR archive. It is very interesting for researchers because it contains exact data about where the father flew and when. In one of the questionnaires, he wrote in his own hand in the “children” column: number - 2, and then: Nikita Vladimirovich Vysotsky, born in 1965. And I was born in 1964. Moreover, it is written so uncertainly, it is immediately clear that he doubted which year to put. So there is no need to exaggerate and say that we had a friendly family. This did not happen. But he is my father, and that’s how we lived. He was interested in our lives and gave us some gifts.

The son of a famous person tells everyone how his father brought him a whole bowl of ice cream after the divorce. This became the most vivid childhood experience.

Now it may seem strange, but we lived quite modestly. Arkady and I had one bicycle between us, a very used “Eaglet”. My father was driving along our street and saw his brother sitting sadly on this bicycle. “What is this,” he says, “such a scary bicycle?” “Nikifor and I have a bicycle,” Arkasha answers him. My father immediately went to the nearest sports store and bought us a new luxurious “Ukraine” bicycle. It cost incredible amounts of money back then. I go out into the street and see my father’s car driving away, the “Eaglet” lying around, Arkady holding a healthy “Ukraine”, and on his head he is wearing a stupid felt hat with a pimply - my father has just returned from the Caucasus and brought it from there.

It may not be a bowl of ice cream, but it was some kind of tornado!

In general, my father had a very precise understanding of toys. Films about Indians were popular then, and I really loved playing with their figures. What Indians my father brought me! It was a blast! Any would have suited me, but he chose ones that no one else had. Their pistols were taken out and their hats taken off. Then one day we came to visit his friend Oleg Filimonov, and his son had small iron models of real cars. These days you can’t buy a three-year-old, but back then it was something. Dad saw how my eyes sparkled and began to bring these cars, and even with opening doors.

He knew a lot about toys. Apparently, he didn’t play enough at the time. After all, his childhood was more than modest. What kind of bicycles are there! He only owned a bicycle when he lived with his father in Germany.

Didn’t he “finish playing” cars or Indians with you?

He didn’t play, but he could make people laugh, he easily stood on his hands, did all sorts of acrobatic exercises or sang. He was generally a very enthusiastic person. I remember when I was little, I was lying at home sick, and my mother read aloud to me. according to the roles of Marshak’s play “12 Months”: one month she said it this way, another another. The father comes: “What are you doing?” “I’m reading to Nikita,” says mom. “Let me do it,” he suggests and begins to read. For dad it turned out the other way around. The good girl who found herself in a fairy-tale world turned out to be somehow mean and cunning in his performance, and all the months were complete mugs. A touching and kind fairy tale has turned into some kind of satirical pamphlet! I got upset and said, “Don’t read any more.”

Mikhail Boyarsky told “Superstars” that due to his popularity he was deprived of public walks with children.

If they recognized my father, then yes, I had to save myself. I remember leaving his concert, carrying his guitar, and everyone saw a guy walking with Vysotsky’s guitar. In general, I also became the hero of the evening. We got into the car, it was surrounded by people, and I felt really scared. It’s hard to imagine, but there was a complete feeling that they were going to crush the car.

But in life he was not always recognized. Once my father and I went to Gorky Park. The deputy director was his friend, he sent us to the attractions, and the adults sat in a cafe. We went for a ride, came to them and saw: they were sitting, drinking coffee, the cafe was full of people, but no one even turned towards Vysotsky. Probably because my father did not behave in such a way that “look who came to you! Run to me for autographs!”

"We might not have buried our father"

I don’t believe in omens, but... This morning a dove flew into our apartment. And the room was large, divided by wardrobes. The dove flew somewhere into a corner, fought there, fought. My mother and I somehow caught him and kicked him out. I didn’t know then that this was a bad omen. I went to the shower, then to the bakery. I returned from the store, they called us and said... Mom was very bad... And I walked around and didn’t know what to do, didn’t understand what was happening. I wandered around the house and chewed breadsticks that I had just bought at the bakery. And he ate all the sticks. Then I thought: “Why did I eat them, they’re for cutlets.”

Then we arrived at my father's apartment. There were a lot of people. I didn’t understand anything, everything was like a fog. Many people then had this feeling of the unreality of what was happening. At the same time, someone was doing some business. Joseph Davydovich Kobzon helped with the cemetery space, someone led the funeral, organized the wake.

The funeral was on July 28. Completely empty Moscow with a huge number of policemen, the heat is unbearable. We arrived at the theater very early, it was still dawn. I spent many hours in the theater, then came out of the service entrance to the Garden Ring and saw the square - it was “alive”. People filled the entire space, stood on the roofs, on the stalls. Horror... And then Arkady and I were almost left in the theater. The adults got on the bus, and I, as I was brought up, let the older ones go ahead. There were no empty seats left, the door closed, and the bus left... I’m standing next to Arkady, and there’s a crowd of strangers around me. And suddenly Kobzon grabs us and pushes us into his car. If it weren't for him, we simply wouldn't have buried my father.

The first days I walked in silence, and it seemed to me that it would never end. And only then did I burst into tears. When I came to my senses, the first feeling was not only that I would not see my father again, but that something had passed away from life that had to be seized every moment. I realized what a fool I was and didn’t appreciate who was next to me.

25 years have passed. Who is Vladimir Vysotsky for you today? A close person from whom you could shoot money, or a celestial being, a genius, an idol?

Many people close to me passed away much later than my father. And over time it became overgrown. Sometimes you remember: “Oh, it was my grandfather’s birthday, but I didn’t go to the cemetery.” It doesn’t work out that way with my father, because life constantly reminds me of him. You open the newspaper, and there is an article called “Wolf Hunting”, or familiar music starts playing. And then every morning I come to work and see the inscription “Vysotsky Museum”.

A lot has changed over these 25 years. And on the one hand, it was death, and on the other, the birth of his posthumous story. I am afraid of loud words, but these are not my words, Okudzhava wrote about this: “The white Moscow stork took off into the white sky, the black Moscow stork descended to the black earth.” Now Vysotsky is studied at school, his books are published in millions of copies and not only in Russian, his father’s notes have been published until the last apchha. This did not happen during his lifetime! For him, every recording of 3-4 songs was an event. One Bulgarian journalist told me that when he gave his father two songs translated into Bulgarian in a Bulgarian newspaper, his hands shook and he almost cried. Therefore, if we celebrate this day now, it is not in the sense of what grief it is (after all, 25 years have passed, and we will all be there someday), but to celebrate July 25 as the day of the beginning of his posthumous history.

On July 25 I will be in Novosibirsk, where the monument to Vysotsky is unveiling. Not oligarchs, but ordinary people who love Vysotsky, decided to erect a monument two years ago, collected money, selected projects. And on July 22, a private museum of Vysotsky opens in Krasnodar, which a guy my age decided to create in his city. He could have built a dacha, a bathhouse, a restaurant, but decided to open a museum. People write plays, a feature film about Vadim Tumanov is currently being shot, the script for which my father was going to write together with Leonid Monchinsky. I accidentally found out that the role of Tumanov, which my father wanted to play, would be played by the son of his friend and classmate Zhora Epifantsev. Volgograd hosts annual festivals in memory of Vysotsky, and in Samara there is a regatta for prizes named after him.

If all this happened after the government decree “it is necessary to perpetuate the memory of Vysotsky,” there would be nothing surprising. But there are no instructions from above! We participate as best we can, but we do not initiate anything ourselves.

Tell me, are your children fans of Vysotsky?

No. But they have no rejection, they listen to records, we have my father’s books, records, films at home. I see that Dani ( Nikita's youngest son. - Auto. ) among the discs there are many recordings by Vysotsky. But when he surfs the Internet, he plays his music. Russian rock, techno, some kind of English-language music - I don’t know exactly these directions, so I won’t name them, otherwise they’ll laugh at me later: they say, the ancient pope doesn’t understand anything.

Now is a slightly different time, and my sons are at a difficult age. One is 17 years old, the other is 19. When they were younger, they asked me about their father, I took them to performances at Taganka, to concerts that we organized. They were interested. Now they respect their grandfather, but they cannot love him because they did not know him. But there is no violent propaganda in our house.

Children, naturally, visited the museum. And one day Danya came here with his class. And he didn’t say anything to me; the museum workers recognized him. The guide says the class was very hectic. The children were calling on mobile phones, always trying to screw something up. But several people stood and listened attentively. Danya was among them.

Vysotsky's grandchildren live in America

CHILDREN

After Vysotsky’s death, dozens of “illegitimate children” appeared. Some even insisted on exhuming the body to conduct an examination to establish paternity, but to no avail.

Vladimir Vysotsky has two sons: Arkady, born in 1962, and Nikita, born in 1964.

Arkady Vysotsky graduated from the screenwriting department of VGIK. In his youth, he worked as a prospector in gold mines for his father’s friend Vadim Tumanov, then on television with Lev Novozhenov and Vladimir Pozner, then moved to the Rescue Service. Four years ago, Arkady Vysotsky’s script “Butterfly over the Herbarium” received the main prize at a professional script competition.

Nikita Vysotsky graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, course of Oleg Efremov. He played at the Soviet Army Theater, Sovremennik-2, and briefly worked at his own Moscow Small Theater. In 1996 he became director of the Vysotsky Museum.

GRANDCHILDREN

Vladimir Vysotsky has six grandchildren.

Arkady's two children from his first marriage now live in America with their mother. 22-year-old Natalya received a good education, 18-year-old Vladimir works and plays sports. In his second marriage, Arkady also had two children. 13-year-old Nikita is now studying at school, is interested in zoology, and the youngest granddaughter of Vladimir Vysotsky was born only a year and a half ago.

Nikita has two children. Semyon is 19 years old, he is receiving a law degree, Daniil is 17 years old, he graduated from school this year.

WIVES

Iza Konstantinovna Zhukova, the first wife of Vladimir Vysotsky, worked as an actress in Kyiv, at the Theater. Lesya Ukrainka, then in Rostov, Perm, Vladimir, Liepaja. Currently serves at the Nizhny Tagil Drama Theater.

Lyudmila Vladimirovna Abramova, Vysotsky’s second wife and mother of his sons, lives in Moscow, teaches cultural studies at the Lyceum and is involved in the Vysotsky Museum: collecting materials, training guides, preparing visiting exhibitions.

Marina Vladi lives in France and has published seven books.

The sons of Vladimir Vysotsky and actress Lyudmila Abramova, Arkady, born in 1962, and Nikita, born in 1964, are both screenwriters, actors and directors. Arkady graduated from the directing department of VGIK, starred in the films Alien White and Pockmarked, Green Fire of the Goat and more several. He was a co-author of the series Father. Currently, Arkady works on television and writes scripts in collaboration with other screenwriters for TV series. Nikita Vysotsky graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, studied with Andrei Myagkov, Doctor Lukashin. Worked at the Soviet Army Theater and Sovremennik Now he is a famous artist who has starred in many films, screenwriter, director and director of the house-museum of Vladimir Vysotsky. By the way, he wrote the script for the film Thank You for Being Alive.

Nikita Vysotsky is quite a media person; he often appears on the TV screen in various films, TV series and programs dedicated to the memory of his famous father Vladimir Vysotsky.

But it is known about Arkady that he is also associated with cinema, but personally I have never seen him on TV. I even came across a photo only once, small, with poor sharpness, in some magazine where it was written that he was a screenwriter. His script was also published there, which I liked, by the way.

But now I found a couple of his photos on the internet, which show that he doesn’t look like Vladimir Vysotsky at all. And Arkady never took part in various concerts and programs about his father.



The eldest son of Vladimir Vysotsky, Arkady (pictured), worked in the mines for 2 years, then graduated from the screenwriting department of VGIK, and works on NTV and TVC programs.

The youngest son Nikita graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and played in theater and cinema.

The brothers organized a house-museum of Vladimir Vysotsky and a charitable foundation in his name, which is managed by Nikita.

Both sons of Vladimir Semenovich are actors and screenwriters. The eldest - Arkady - graduated from VGIK. Starred in several films. The younger one, Nikita, is better known. Graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School. He played in several theaters. He starred in almost two dozen films. Vysotsky wrote the script for the film. Thank you for being alive, in which you voiced the role of your father. Nikita Vladimirovich is also the director of the State Cultural Center-Museum of V.S. Vysotsky.

Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky has two sons from his marriage to Lyudmila Abramova - Nikita and Arkady. And both are talented. No, such nuggets as their father are rarely born on earth. But the sons followed in their father's footsteps. They graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School Nikita) and VGIK (Arkady), they have many roles in films, they both write scripts and direct. But the main thing, in my opinion, is that they organized the Vladimir Vysotsky Museum, honor his memory, tell people about him.

The eldest son of Vladimir Vysotsky, Arkady, despite the fact that he was in one of the prestigious professions of cinema, and this is confirmed by the fact that he became a successful screenwriter, lives constantly trying not to show off his surname. Fortunately, the activity itself, although related to television, successfully allows him to do this.





As for the poet’s younger father, it is worth noting that purely physiognomically, he is much more like his father and he is compared with him in all respects much more.

Vysotsky himself.



Son Nikita:







Nikita, unlike his older brother, does not control the filming process, and that is why he is much more often on screen and famous. In addition, he is on his own, gravitates towards the media and can often be seen on various shows and programs.

Both brothers, sons of the famous Vladimir Vysotsky, are engaged in stage careers and can be seen in many films.

Nikita Vysotsky is a popular actor, screenwriter and even film director; his younger brother was born on August 8, 1964.



Arkady Vysotsky is Nikita's older brother and is also an actor and screenwriter, born on November 29, 1962.



Vysotsky’s eldest son’s name is Arkady, he graduated from the screenwriting department of VGIK. In his youth, he worked as a prospector in the gold mines of Vadim Tumanov, his father’s friend. Later he began working in the Rescue Service. Currently Arkady is a screenwriter. Arkady has a family and is not a public person.

Arkady Vladimirovich Vysotsky (November 29, 1962, Moscow) -

Russian actor and screenwriter.

Vladimir Vysotsky with his son Arkady at the dacha,

His script “Butterfly over the Herbarium” received the main prize at a professional script competition organized by the Screenwriters Guild in the Union of Cinematographers. “A clean, non-party and unmodern person,” his friends say about him. When Arkady studied at VGIK, several films were produced based on his scripts, which received prizes at various festivals, but Vysotsky’s eldest son never received any awards for a specific script, because he never participated in screenwriting competitions. It always seemed to him that there should be a demand for good drama without competition. When the studio headed by Eduard Volodarsky was working, this really was not practiced. In 2000, Arkady Vladimirovich submitted his script “Butterfly over the Herbarium” to the competition for the first time, because he simply did not see any other way, even for a professional playwright, to find opportunities to stage his work. Before this script entered the competition, it visited almost all the studios in the country, from Lenfilm to all Moscow studios and all major directors. Everyone liked him, but there were some things that bothered him. First of all, this is not a traditional Hollywood recording. After all, at the institute they taught how to write literary scripts using American, so to speak, technology: “He asked, she answered.” In addition, Arkady Vladimirovich took a bold, unusual theme, perhaps for too extravagant an amateur. After all, his woman becomes... a butterfly, or rather, her soul turns into a butterfly. But this is in the last frame, and the rest is a completely realistic film, a tragicomedy. This is the story of a woman who lived like Christ in her bosom. She was the wife of a very rich man, had every opportunity - and suddenly lost it all when her husband was simply killed. Then this world begins to collapse, and it turns out that she can no longer live in any other world, because she grew up in this environment. She is like Elena Solovey in the last frames of Mikhalkov’s “Slave of Love.”

In one of his interviews, Arkady Vladimirovich said that the script was written with actress Vera Sotnikova, a charming woman, in mind. “She asked me out of friendship to write to her so that she could actually play the proposed role. But, unfortunately, due to a number of objective reasons, Vera Sotnikova could not fulfill her word.”

We have to talk about the difficult life of a screenwriter. There are a lot of scripts to write. Sometimes they accumulate up to forty or more, but it is difficult to realize them. Often, out of such a large number, no more than four make it onto the screen. Many screenwriters in their prime find themselves rarely in demand. In Soviet times, there was a well-developed system for selecting scripts, which was later destroyed. People who had money began to select the scripts. They began to take not those scripts with an interesting literary basis, but those with a lot of vulgarity and no morality. Therefore, it is no coincidence that many screenwriters do not work in their profession.

Sometimes colleagues ask Arkady Vladimirovich:

Why did you go into screenwriting? And he sincerely answers: “Because I wanted to be a writer.” Not even a director, and certainly not an actor. And I had several acting appearances, as if in friendly companies. As you know, in 1963 Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev shot a wonderful film “Ilyich's Outpost” - and he filmed everyone who was studying at VGIK at that time at the May Day demonstration. I even saw my mother there, the famous actress Abramova Lyudmila Vladimirovna, in the crowd, Svetlana Svetlichnaya, in a word, there were many actresses I knew there.

That’s how I got into the movies. Sergei Solovyov was filming the film “Alien White and Pockmarked” in Almaty - I happened to be there at that time: “Wow, you’re going to play!” For the whole picture I had one phrase: “Terrible money - a hundred rubles.” Then I blew my nose and added: “Scary.”

I'm not an actor. And I never wanted to be one. After studying, he married early and quickly managed to have children, and therefore did not join the army. As they say, his family had to be fed, and he went to the gold mines to visit his father’s friend, prospector Vadim Tumanov. This was a bright spot in his life. Our hero remembers him with great warmth. As well as my father’s other friends – Volodarsky, Seva Abdulov. Moreover, Vysotsky’s eldest son could always turn to Abdulov for help. Arkady worked for V. Tumanov for two years. Gold was mined. Industrial method, open-pit mining, bulldozers, complex heavy equipment, dredgers. I had to quickly master all this... Arkady Vysotsky stood on the hydraulic control panel. This is a fire hose where water flows under very powerful pressure. And when you direct this stream, you wash away the water. Then it all goes to the gateway. In a word, this is a complex production technology. Needless to say, it was very difficult at first. But Arkady was young, and he pumped up very quickly, as his friends joked, “he gained health.” This was Southern Bashkiria - generally an ideal place in terms of climate and health. The earnings were great. The eldest son of the famous actor and singer learned a lot here. He was a carpenter, a welder, and a car driver. The builders lived in a kind of barracks, built with their own hands. The room was cozy and warm. The construction team even had a full-time artist who decorated the Lenin Room, painted banners, and participated in the production of a wall newspaper. “It was an interesting, touching life,” recalls Arkady Vladimirovich, “for two months I even worked in a pigsty: I got food for the animals, sometimes I stole food for them from the collective farm field - potatoes, beets. All these difficulties shaped my character. I lived among people who were quite courageous and strong. Weak people did not come to V. Tumanov. I received a thousand rubles (Soviet) a month. For a twenty-year-old boy this was, of course, a lot. A few months later, Tumanov came to us builders and told me: “I think Vysotsky’s son should study at the institute.

So I became a student at the screenwriting department of VGIK. For five years, Arkady Vladimirovich wrote scripts for films. It wasn't always easy to sell them. But there was enough money for a modest life.

And then he began working on NTV in Lev Novozhenov’s program “Vremechko”. He made several interesting programs, and he was offered to work for V. Posner as a story writer and editor. “Vladimir Pozner,” says Arkady Vysotsky, “is one of the most intelligent, smart, subtle and educated people of our time, which is very rare in our television world.”

In the editorial office of one of the Moscow newspapers, a journalist asked Arkady Vladimirovich a difficult question: “I’ve heard many stories related to your passion for alcohol and even drugs. Is it true? Arkady Vysotsky answered frankly:

Like every seeker, I, of course, tried everything. I don't know what I haven't tried yet. In my opinion, there is no such thing. But I can’t say that I was heavily dependent on drugs... And I began to drink alcohol less often. It is worth saying that I took appropriate measures for treatment in time. And it helped. And for several years now I have been working in a responsible organization - the Rescue Service. This is a reputable commercial organization that maintains the city rescue structure with its own money. The state does not help her, although she is considered a city service.

Arkady Vladimirovich heads the news agency of the Rescue Service. He is a democratic boss. He does not prohibit his subordinates from doing anything, does not scold them, and rarely fires them. His unit is doing well. Then the bell rings, which means something has happened to the person, and then a rescue crew is sent. At the same time, the crew of the news agency starts, equipped with a professional camera, cameraman, correspondent... The rescue service rescues up to 80 people a day.

Now I will talk about the personal life of A.V. Vysotsky. He is married for the second time. His first wife now lives in America. She married a second time very successfully, to a very decent man, and took her older children, which made Arkady Vladimirovich’s life much easier. He has a good relationship with his first wife and his children. They are already adults. The daughter is 22 years old, the son is 18 years old. Arkady Vysotsky has been married to his second wife for 14 years. My son Nikita is now 13 years old. He studies in a good school, is interested in animals, zoology, and reads a lot. Arkady's mother, Lyudmila Vladimirovna Abramova, lives with them in the next apartment, helping her son and grandson.

As you know, L.V. Abramova divorced V.S. Vysotsky in 1968, and in 1970 she married a first-class engineer. This modest man was seriously involved in raising Arkady and Nikita. The brothers have a little sister. My sister is now 32 years old. She is a novice in the monastery. He is engaged in icon painting and is a very religious person. Brother Nikita is the director of the Vladimir Vysotsky Museum.

And one last thing. I’ll briefly say about Arkady Vysotsky’s attitude towards Marina Vladi.

He himself talks about it this way: “I don’t communicate with Marina Vladi.” But I retained the most beautiful and wonderful memories of her. I never quarreled with her.

I corresponded with her children. When she brought her youngest Vovka to Moscow, I always went to the skating rink with him. And, in general, I never distanced myself from Vladi. The conflict with Marina did not occur with me, but with my beloved grandfather Semyon Vladimirovich Vysotsky, as they say, with my father’s father. The conflict, apparently, was based on some misunderstandings, clashes, and ambitions. My grandfather fought, was a colonel, a very principled man. He did not want his only son Vladimir to marry a “French woman of Russian origin.”

Nikita and I didn’t say a single bad word about Marina. We respect her very much, we read her magnificent book about her father, we know her biography well. We admire how she raised her entire family, her parents and all her sisters, gave birth to three children herself and raised them well, gave everyone an education... She had a very hard time in life. She deserves real deep respect. Our father would not have lived with a bad woman for 13 years.

It is no coincidence that my father dedicated his dying poem to Marina Vladi, which ends like this:

I am less than half a century old - forty-something,

I am alive, I am protected by you and the Lord.

I have something to sing when I appear before the Almighty.

I have something to justify myself before Him.

Anatoly Sviridov.

The heyday of Russian cinema came in the 20th century, and it was at this time that one of them appeared on the stage, the well-known Vladimir Vysotsky. His activities were continued by his equally talented son Arkady, whose personal life is of interest to journalists and ordinary people.

Arkady does not like to advertise his life and work too much, perhaps this comes from his childhood, because being the son of a great representative of the Soviet scene, he tried to appear under cameras and appear in public as little as possible. For this reason, Arkady Vysotsky, a biography whose personal life remains a mystery to many to this day, having chosen the life of a non-public person, did what he loved for his own pleasure, releasing films that almost instantly received recognition from viewers.

The childhood of Arkady Vysotsky

The talented actor, screenwriter and director Arkady Vysotsky, whose date of birth is November 29, 1962, is the son of the well-known great poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky. His mother is an actress. Born into an acting family, the boy inherited talent from both parents, which, of course, could not be hidden, but the stage was alien to Arkady and the acting future did not attract him in any way.

At the age of six, Arkady and his younger brother Nikita were left in the care of their mother, because their father left for another woman, Marina Vladi. Although Vladimir Vysotsky tried to see the children, there was no closeness between them; besides, the children had a grudge against their father’s new wife.

Mother Lyudmila Abramova was an Orthodox woman and followed all the rules of religion, for this reason Arkady also became a believer.

Carier start

Arkady studied at a school with a physics and mathematics focus, was interested in astronomy, the boy was indifferent to the theater from childhood and did not share the interests of his parents. The desire to write scripts came as a complete surprise to him.

However, talent takes its toll, and after school, after working in the mines for several years, Arkady entered VGIK and studied at the screenwriting faculty together with Renata Litvinova.

After graduating from university, Arkady had to work as a taxi driver, since people with his diploma were not in demand, and finding a job in his specialty was almost impossible. Fortunately, he didn’t have to stay as a driver for long, and Arkady managed to get a job on television. Later in his interviews, he admitted that the work did not bring him any pleasure.

If Arkady acted in films when he was young, then with age his interest in acting faded, and from an actor he turned into a screenwriter.

"I never trumped my last name"

Arkady tried to avoid mentioning his famous father and did not show off his surname. Even when entering VGIK, Vysotsky passed the exams on the same basis as everyone else, this indicates that the young man wanted to achieve everything through his own work, and not in the name of his father. He wanted to prove that he was an independent unit in society and did not need his father’s help.

Children of famous personalities often have to prove their self-sufficiency, but Arkady strove for this with great zeal.

Arkady family

Vysotsky's children are his greatest pride. Arkady had three marriages, in which five children appeared: Vladimir, Natalya, Nikita, Mikhail and Maria. The two eldest live in America with their mother. The third wife lives in Moscow and works as a translator and assistant.

It must be said that Vysotsky’s children are quite gifted individuals. Daughter Natalya studied at a university in America, Vladimir is interested in music, and Nikita loves history. The two youngest children, Misha, born in 2003, and Masha, born in 2004, are still going to school.

Unfortunately, the children did not follow in the footsteps of their talented father in acting and screenwriting.

Not every actor likes publicity, in particular Arkady Vysotsky; his biography and personal life are therefore only partially known.

Filmography of Arkady Vysotsky

As you know, not only did Arkady Vysotsky act as an actor, but films, quite well-known ones at that, were based on his scripts. So, we can highlight the main ones of his works as an actor, these are “Alien White and Pockmarked”, “Green Fire of the Goat”, “Humble Cemetery” and “Ha-bi-assy”, scripts - “Black Long Way”, “Green goat fire", "Ha-bi-assy", "Father" and 10 more films.

The first film based on Arkady’s script was shot in 1989 and was called “Green Fire of the Goat”, it was directed by Vysotsky. In the same film, Vysotsky played his first supporting role.

The great Russian actor and screenwriter Arkady Vysotsky, whose biography and personal life were quite eventful, is still doing what he loves - writing scripts, and viewers are looking forward to seeing films based on his ideas appear on screens.