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How the stars of the film 'D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers' passed away

'25.04.2021'

Source: StarHit

In December 2019, the four-episode tape about the adventures of the musketeers will be 40 years old. Unfortunately, not all the artists who graced the film with their participation survived to the anniversary year. Igor Starygin, Oleg Tabakov, Lev Durov - the stars of the telesagi died after serious illness.

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The adventure story, shot by Georgy Jungwald-Khilkevich, has been admiring the audience for decades. Success would not have been possible without the involvement of a whole galaxy of talented actors. Many of them became famous precisely after the premiere of "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers." So, Mikhail Boyarsky is still associated with the brave Gascon, and Valentin Smirnitsky - with the fashionist Portos, writes StarHit.

However, to celebrate the 40 anniversary in full force, the artists will not succeed. And the director of the picture, and some actors who played key roles in the tape, have already died. For Igor Starygin, the fourth part of the movie saga was the last in life, Oleg Tabakov and Vladimir Balon could not overcome serious illnesses. But until the very end, the stars of the film remained courageous and strong, as well as their prototypes on the screen.

Igor Starygin

After participating in the films “Let's Live Until Monday” and “Adjutant of His Excellency”, the actor became popular. However, especially the audience loved his role in the story of the royal musketeers. The image of a ladies man Aramis pursued Starygin: he believed that, due to the fame of the character, the directors no longer offered him work in other projects.

The only playwright invariably inviting the artist to the shooting was George Yungvald-Khilkevich, who risked creating three more films about musketeers.

“All my life being a hostage of the once created image is a dubious pleasure. But you have to put up. I understand that I will never have such a second role, which means that for many spectators I will forever remain a musketeer, ”reasoned Igor Starygin.

Over the years, the actor’s health was increasingly failing: his legs hurt, problems with blood vessels worsened. He underwent five operations in a year and a half and received disability. The artist worked in the theater, but quit when he realized that he no longer had the strength to go on stage. Starygin fell into a deep depression, feeling unnecessary and forgotten. Once, when asked by the press about why he disappeared from the radar, Igor Vladimirovich replied that he had long died.

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The artist fought with sadness with alcohol until he met journalist Yekaterina Tabashnikova. The woman came to interview the star, horrified to find that he lives in ruin and desolation. By that time, Starygin had four marriages behind him, but it was Catherine who turned out to be the chosen one who was able to return to him the joy of existence.

The actor's health improved, he again began to play in the entreprise. The new wife transformed the apartment of Igor Vladimirovich, provided him with expensive medicines, bought a car to carry her husband around the city. It seemed that life was getting better, when suddenly Starygin was struck by strokes one after another. 21 September 2009 th he was hospitalized in serious condition. The forecasts of the doctors were disappointing: the actor was prophesied to stay bedridden forever.

Catherine did not give up and was actively looking for a rehabilitation center for her husband, hoping for the best. However, on November 8, the actor died at the age of 63 years. Starygin was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery, and many colleagues in the film "D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers" came to say goodbye to him. The bitterness of the loss turned out to be too strong, especially for Mikhail Boyarsky: he could not give a speech to a friend, having cried the entire ceremony against the wall.

Catherine did not have enough funds for the monument to her husband, so the Mikhail Ulyanov Foundation took on these chores. Only three years later, the monument of the beloved Starygin of red color was erected on the grave: this shade symbolized the love that changed his life.

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Oleg Tabakov

For Oleg Pavlovich, the role of King Louis in D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers did not become the cornerstone of his career, but can anyone else be represented in this image now? Charming and charismatic actor, the head of the "Snuff-box" and the smoothie - those around him remembered the artist.

The master’s life was full of scandals, the main of which was his romance with student Marina Zudina, which lasted 10 years before Tabakov divorced his first wife. Lyudmila Krylova refused to communicate with Oleg Pavlovich, saying that she does not forgive betrayal. Shortly after breaking up with his wife, the director married Marina.

Family happiness was overshadowed by the grievances of children from the previous union: son Anton forgave dad only a few years later, and Alexander's daughter did not make peace with him. Her attitude did not change even after Tabakov became seriously ill. It all started with a dental procedure - the dental implants installed by the playwright did not take root. Blood poisoning, and then pneumonia - the artist was getting worse. In November 2017, Oleg Pavlovich was urgently hospitalized.

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Immediately, obstruction of the upper respiratory tract arose, and the 82-year-old director was connected to a ventilator. For several months, the best doctors fought for the life of the master, but on 12 of March last year, he died. Thousands of people came to say goodbye to the playwright at the Novodevichy cemetery, but among them there was no first wife and daughter Alexandra.

“I ceased to maintain contact with Tabakov a long time ago. I thought a new family was leaving him. I will recall Oleg Pavlovich with a kind word, but without your help, ”said Lyudmila Krylova later.

The artist’s business was continued by his relatives: his beloved student Vladimir Mashkov led the “Snuffbox”, the son Pavel and Marina Zudina took up creative projects. For friends and fans, Oleg Tabakov remains an outstanding actor and director, whose work has become the standard for contemporaries.

Lev Durov

For 60 years, the artist dedicated the stage and played more than 200 roles, among which the audience especially appreciated the images of de Treville in “D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers” and Jacob from the picture “Shouldn't we send ... a messenger?”. Lev Durov was called a sad clown who could embody anyone on the screen.

If he had problems on the set, as was the case with the vocal parts in the film by George Yungvald-Khilkevich, the artist covered his shortcomings with a brilliant and dedicated game, masterfully performing stunts without understudies.

“Until now, I can’t imagine any other captain de Treville except Lev Durov,” emphasized songwriter Yuri Ryashentsev.

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57 years Lev Konstantinovich lived with his wife Irina Kirichenko. With difficulty, he coped with the period when the beloved broke her thigh neck and was bedridden. The artist looked after his wife until her death, and after the tragedy he stayed only thanks to work in the theater. His own health began to fail him back in 1998: then, after an 10-hour shoot, Durov suffered a stroke. In 2008, the actor's heart problems worsened, but even after implanting a pacemaker, he did not leave the scene.

So the artist worked until 2013 broke his hip neck, as his wife had once done. Two years later, the actor again broke a stroke. After urgent hospitalization, it turned out that the 83-year-old Durov also had pneumonia. No operations could put the actor on his feet, and on 20 of August 2015 he died.

Lev Konstantinovich was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery, but, as often happens, relatives could not find money for the monument. Daughter Catherine turned for help to the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where Lev Durov served for half a century. After the assistance of Nikita Mikhalkov and Joseph Kobzon, the pedestal was finally erected on the grave of the artist.

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Vladimir Balon

The actor not only played the main enemy of the Musketeers de Jussac, but also engaged in the production of stunts, as he fenced and skillfully performed the work of a stuntman. In the novel by Alexander Dumas, the negative character appeared only once, but Vladimir Balon suggested that George Yungvald-Khilkevich create through him a collective image of the cardinal's supporters.

Balon also performed tricks in the trilogy about midshipmen, and starred in the TV series 2000's: Turetsky’s March, Detectives-3. Gradually, the artist disappeared from the radar, as it turned out, due to poor health.

Since childhood, Vladimir Yakovlevich was often ill, he was diagnosed with bronchial asthma and tuberculosis. Growing up, the actor believed that he got rid of all ailments and there was nothing more to worry about. However, in 2009, the artist found even more serious problems - bowel cancer. Mikhail Boyarsky and Valentin Smirnitsky, who became friends with Balon from the very first film about the musketeers, called him every day, asking about their well-being. Colleagues were delighted to learn that the tumor was removed, and the comrade felt better.

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Unfortunately, three years later, the insidious cancer returned. This time, the focus of the disease formed in the lungs of the Balon. He understood that the matter was bad, but he was very courageous.

“I try to hide that I'm sick, although everyone already thinks I'm dying,” the actor shared. - Even if Khilkevich’s unsuccessful painting “The Return of the Musketeers” holds us in this world, we returned to the viewer, readers, good people. And if they remember us, then it extends our life. ”

Neither optimism, nor the care of loved ones, nor the efforts of doctors helped. The artist was not able to overcome cancer and February 2 2013 died on the 76 year of life. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery, and a bronze blade was installed on the grave, reminiscent of the actor’s main talent, fencing.

Yuri Sherstnev

Yuri Borisovich belonged to the family of artists capable of playing the villain in such a way that the audience believed that they were a real killer. Sherstnev served in several theaters, and in the cinema he left his mark thanks to the roles of the leader of the gang from Gypsy and the executioner from D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers.

The artist’s personal life also developed successfully: he was happily married to actress Lyudmila Makeeva and raised his son Tamerlan. But the last years of Sherstnev’s life were difficult due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Yuri Borisovich was attached to an oxygen concentrator.

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“My lungs only work on 18 percent. We bought a hub, a large drawer on wheels. But I can’t not only act in films and play performances, but even get to the clinic. For such movements, you need a portable hub, the cost of which is from 135 to 365 thousand rubles. Such a purchase is impossible for our family. Our budget consists of two pensions: 15 385 rubles and 5 875 rubles, ”the actor addressed the people.

Fans responded to the idol's plea for help and for three months collected the right amount, and also paid Sherstnev for eye surgery. Unfortunately, the lung disease worsened due to pneumonia transferred to the clinic. The weakened body could not withstand the load, and the actor died on 12 on May 2017 from heart failure at 76 years. The family buried him in the Borisov cemetery.

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Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich

A turning point in the life of Georgy Emilievich came when he was 14. Then the future director got a leg injury and got osteomyelitis. A purulent necrotic process began in the bone, so that Jungwald-Khilkevich spent four years in a cast almost without movement. To entertain himself, the young man read Alexander Dumas. Over the years, he admitted that only the great works of the writer did not allow him to go crazy in a difficult period.

At the end of the university, Georgy Emilievich got a job as a director at the Odessa film studio. The film Dangerous Tours brought him the first wave of fame, but it was the film adaptation of The Three Musketeers that made Jungwald-Khilkevich a venerable playwright.

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Health let the director down at 60 when his hip joint failed. The director went to Canada for treatment, where he had a titanium alloy prosthesis installed instead of a part of his pelvis. Subsequently, Jungwald-Khilkevich emphasized: the nervous feelings associated with the filming of the movie saga about the musketeers had a much more serious effect on his health. Due to stress, he developed problems with the thyroid gland and heart.

On October 15 of the 2015, Georgy Emilievich was released for the last time, presenting a performance dedicated to the anniversary of the Yuri Kuklachev Cat Theater. Already on November 3, the director became ill, and he was taken to the Botkin Hospital. To facilitate the work of the playwright's heart, they were immersed in a medical dream. However, eight days after hospitalization, Jungwald-Khilkevich died at the age of 81.

Wife Nadira Sultanovna still has not reconciled with the departure of a loved one. The director’s wife is trying to participate in events dedicated to his memory and related to the cinema masterpieces created by him. The inconsolable widow often comes to the grave of her husband at the Troekurovsky cemetery. At the monument you can always find fresh flowers from fans and relatives of the director.

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