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Russia (bbabo.net), - People's Artist of Russia Irina Kupchenko is one of the most mysterious contemporary actresses. Spiritual aristocrat. In 1970, the refined Irina came to the Vakhtangov Theater. There she met true love and the main man of her life - Vasily Lanovoy. A year ago, on January 28, 2021, he passed away. Vasily Lanovoy was a brilliant reader. Therefore, the idea was born to hold a creative competition "Awakening Hearts" in his memory, the jury of which will be headed by Irina Kupchenko... We managed to talk.

Irina Kupchenko: Vasily was born in the winter in the barracks of the ZIL plant. Mom gave birth to him in felt boots. One felt fell off, and the other remained on the leg. Lanovoy called himself a child of war. He was a bright person. He was loved, he was believed, because he never lied to himself or to others.

What was the main thing that shaped the personality of Vasily Semenovich?

Irina Kupchenko: Seven-year-old Vasya met the war in the village of Strimba in Ukraine with his grandparents, where he arrived on June 22, 1941.

The family was reunited only in the forty-fourth. In 1946, in order to feed herself, my mother sewed bags, and Vasya carried them to the market to sell. So he received an "earthly" upbringing, and therefore survived. Vasily grew up in a poor family. He repeatedly repeated that everything in life was given to him by the country - the USSR, Russia. And all his life he fiercely defended the interests of the country. And Nikolai Ostrovsky's work "How the Steel Was Tempered" shaped him as a person. Vasily admitted more than once: "I lived with Pavka, took an example from him, he gave me strength, taught me perseverance, patience and tolerance." Pavel Korchagin is an example of amazing devotion to the Motherland. What brought Lanovoy and Pavka closer was the fact that they were about the same age.

Tell me, how did Vasily Semenovich get into the profession?

Irina Kupchenko: In 1947, he began to study at the theater studio. When Vasily came to the ZIL Palace of Culture at the age of ten, the studio was led by Sergey Lvovich Stein. It was he who instilled a love for classical literature. The studio shaped Lanovoy creatively. Thoughts and feelings in a person are awakened by classical literature, and language and culture are indispensable elements of the existence of the state and people. Russia has a unique cultural code. Vasily Semenovich was an ardent propagandist of Russian literature. He considered it his duty, the mission of literature to awaken hearts. Respect for the history of one's country, pride in one's ancestors, the desire to be worthy of their exploits are indispensable conditions formation of a strong state. Memory is what unites people and illuminates their path.

You yourself have played teachers more than once. For example, in the film "Yulenka" by Belarusian screenwriter Andrei Kureichik. Are yesterday's and today's schoolchildren somehow different?

Irina Kupchenko: Young people have a big problem with reading. Everyone is on the Internet. How to preserve the Russian language in these conditions? We get used to expressing our feelings not with words, but with symbols - a smiley face with a smile, a smiley face with tears. A smiley face with tears and a smile is already a "gamut of feelings".

Arriving in Minsk, Vasily Lanovoy certainly went to the monument to Pushkin on the Svisloch embankment to bow to the genius

When "War and Peace" was removed from the school program, it was a blow to Vasily Semenovich, a shot in the heart. When he was awarded the star of the Hero of Labor, he began to read Natasha Rostova's First Ball. I internally went cold, as only three minutes were allotted for the performance. But he stopped just in time. And he went for it in order to fulfill his mission, to protect literature and the Russian language.

Do you believe this mission is possible?

Irina Kupchenko: Poetry evokes thoughts and feelings best of all. Art evokes a spark that both the actor and the audience need. In China, after the first performances of the Vakhtangov Theater, the entire "Eugene Onegin" was sold out.

Whose poems did Lanovoy love?

Irina Kupchenko:Pushkin. "The Prophet" was his favorite poem. He loved military poetry - Gudzenko, Samoilova.

How to preserve the spirit of Vasily Lanovoy, the memory of him?

Irina Kupchenko: The competition of his favorite poems should help with this. Entire families, folk theaters can participate in it ... Those who wish should send video recordings of artistic reading of excerpts from the works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Tvardovsky, poems about the Great Patriotic War. There are two nominations for works of his own composition dedicated to Lanovoy. The coming year is the Year of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia, the organizers decidedicate a separate nomination to it.

I know that an expert council has even been created. Who is included?

Irina Kupchenko: Igor Petrenko, Mikhail Nozhkin, Alexander Mikhailov, Oleg Gazmanov...

And what is more preferable: the participation of a child in the competition or the participation of the whole family? Irina Kupchenko: Both. You can participate in several categories at once. We welcome everyone who speaks Russian. The organizers of the competition interact with one hundred countries. And the school should not be left behind. Let the competition become a kind of literature lesson. Literature led Vasily Lanovoy through life, was his guiding star.

Do you think Vasily Semenovich would support the idea of ​​the contest?

Irina Kupchenko: Of course, he would, because he was a popularizer of classical literature. He was a very kind person. He treated his students like his own children. In the hospital, dying, I called them, found out how they pass exams.

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Russia - Actress Irina Kupchenko