Era. Era. Era

Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov left

... He almost leaned over the table of the press conference. He rested his hands like a boy: “And I played?! I - played !! And they said: a me-tender, a me-e-spinning rod ... "

This is August 2015. The 80th anniversary of Tabakov. It is about his last great role-a fragile and fearless 90-year-old London jeweler, dying of cancer. He played in May 2015.

And from conversations about himself as a builder and the Savior of theaters has long been tired. The role is more valuable.

Now I recall flashes. 2002. November. Before the premiere of “terrorism”, Tabakov collects critics in a darkened, with a green lamp, an office in the chamberlain. Presents novice authors - the Presnyakov brothers. And the young director Serebrennikov. A little worried: he recently accepted the Moscow Art Theater (and not in good order).

Some of the colleagues have enough torture to ask: if they are captured by the Moscow Art Theater?! How did the Nord-Ost capture ten days ago? What will you do, Oleg Pavlovich?

“I thought about it, of course.” Now in all theaters they think about it. I will go on stage. I will say: “Let them go. Take me. This is my fault that everyone came here ... "

He lived on the stage and screen of the country for a lot of eras: from the “forever alive” of 1956 on the stage of “Contemporary” (dir. Oleg Efremov) - to the “Dragon” of 2017 (dir. - Konstantin Bogomolov). He was the director of Contemporary after the departure of Oleg Efremov. And the builder of the "Snufflery" - from the former coal basement on the street. Chaplygin in the late 1970s to the current building and status.

He headed the Moscow Art Theater in 2000-and it was with him that the heavy Shekhtelevsky ship sailed from the whirlpool of those years. He gave an example of a model: how to become successful (quite in a new way, in a business and even bourgeois manner)-without losing dignity and artistic quality.

And this was the most important model: Tabakov was the first to show that you can combine sonorous blockbusters on a large stage with a fearless searchater in two small ones.

Butusov, Zhenovach, Ryzhakov, Serebrennikov, Karbauskis, Bogomolov (and many others) - began to be placed in Kamerger -Lane in his era.

Among his students-actors are Evgeny Mironov, Vladimir Mashkov, Andrei Smolyakov, Evdokia Germanov (and dozens of names). He created four new stage spaces in Moscow. But Oleg Pavlovich called Tabakov’s Moscow Theater School the main work of his life in later interviews. The one whose teachers themselves are knitted in Russia, gathering gifted 15-year-olds in a building in clean ponds, for a two-year treasury kosht.

... and also in the roles of the last, “Mkhatov” period - whether it is the profit of profit or Niels Bor - he fulfilled the duty of the elder to the young. And he knew this well.

Debt is textured and clearly show a sample of a worthy person from the stage.

... Here-back in September 2016! -Under the thunder of the orchestra, in the splendor of pop stars (Oleg Pavlovich knew how to use the rules of the new era, but played in it according to his rules)-they open the new building of his theater-studio in Sukharevka (they built it for 20 years).

“Dad,” his youngest daughter, 10-year-old Masha, says loudly from the stage, “we forgot to let the cat go into a new house for happiness!”

“I never forget anything ...” Oleg Pavlovich responds ironically and imposingly. Due to the curtains, they bring to the chains a cat that applies to him-a trained tiger from a circus on color.

... And here-in the fall of 2001, even in Poluhaos, when no one is confident in either himself or the soil on which we all stand, someone tells him at the opening of the season at the Moscow Art Theater:

- What are the flowers on the table beautiful ...

- Yes! - responds tobakov. -I found a flalerist (it sounds in the old way) worthy of working for the Moscow Art Theater.

And it becomes clear on the years in advance: this is the theater. This is the building. This soil.

“The best performance that I saw in my life was Nemirovich-Danchenko’s“ three sisters ”,” he will say in 2016. He became a living bridge between the Moscow Art Theater of the Chekhovsky world prime ministers - and Moscow in 2018. A strong bridge of the school, traditions, traditions - and life.

... We always sigh: there are no people for truly large people for a long time. And we are aware of the genuine scale of each when he was left.

Oleg Tabakov was one of the main ones - and to that, the most powerful, reasonable and creative - figures of the Russian theater of the last century.