Vsevolod Sanayev Explained

Vsevolod Sanayev
Birth Date:	25 February 1912
Birth Place:	Tula, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Moscow, Russia
Occupation:	Actor, theater pedagogue
Years Active:	1934–1995
Awards:	People's Artist of the USSR (1969)
Birthname:	Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev

Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev (; 25 February 1912, Tula – 27 January 1996, Moscow) was a Soviet film and stage actor popular in the 1960s–1970s. Sanayev, a Moscow Art Theatre (and later Mossovet Theatre) actor, was honored in 1969 with the People's Artist of the USSR title; among his other accolades are the Order of Lenin (1971) and the Order of the October Revolution (1981).^[1] ^[2]

Biography

Vsevolod Sanayev was born in Tula. From 1926 to 1930 he worked as a bayan technician at the Tula factory of musical instruments. After a short stint at a local theatre, in 1931 he was invited to join the Tula-based Gorky Theatre of Drama and Comedy and soon enrolled in the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. After the graduation in 1937 he joined the Moscow Art Theatre troupe. In 1938, he debuted on screen in the film Volga-Volga (where he had two minor roles), and in 1940 enjoyed his first success as Dobryakov in the film The Girl I Love. In 1943, Sanayev joined the Mossovet Theatre and in 1952 moved to the Moscow Art Theatre.^[2]

The mass popularity came to Sanayev in the 1950s and 1960s; among his best known roles were Kantaurov in The Return of Vasily Bortnikov (1952), Dontsov in The First Echelon (1955), Kozlov in Five Days, Five Nights (1960), Siply (Husky) in Optimistic Tragedy (1962); later Colonel Lukin in the war epic Liberation (1968), Professor Stepanov in Pechki-lavochki (1972), and Colonel Zorin (The Return of St. Luca, 1970; The Black Prince, 1973, and The Version of Colonel Zorin, 1978). A staunch communist, Sanayev for many years was the head of the Mosfilm Communist Party committee (partkom).^[2]

Vsevolod Sanayev died on 27 January 1996 in Moscow. He is interred in Novodevichy Cemetery.^[2]

Family

Vsevolod Sanayev was married to Lidya Sanayeva (1918–1995). Their daughter, the actress Elena Sanayeva, is a widow of the actor and director Rolan Bykov.^[3] ^[4] His grandson Pavel Sanayev is an actor, scriptwriter, theatre director and playwright. His acclaimed 1995 autobiographical play Bury Me Under a Baseboard told the harrowing story of his life with a tyrannous grandmother, whom his mother left him with after her marriage.^[5]

Filmography

Volga-Volga (1938) as bearded lumberjack; member of the symphony orchestra (dual role)
If War Comes Tomorrow (1939) as paratrooper
A Girl with a Temper (1939) as Surkov, militia officer
The Youth of Commanders (1939) as Colonel Grishayev
The Beloved as Vasiliy Dobryakov, a working man
Ivan Fyodorov, The Pioneer Bookprinter (1941) as Petr Timofeev, Ivan's assistant
Four Hearts (1945) as Red Army fighter Yeremeev
Ivan Nikulin (1945) as Alyosha
In the Mountains of Yugoslavia (1947) as Alexey Gubanov
Diamonds (1947) as geologist Sergey Nesterov
Pages of Life (1948) as radio announcer (uncredited)
They've Got Their Motherland (1950) as Sorokin
Zhukovsky (1950) as student (uncredited)
In Steppe (1951, short) as Partkom secretary Tuzhikov
The Village Doctor (1951) as Nikolay Korotkov
The Return of Vasily Bortnikov (1953) as Kantaurov, the Telephone station director
Lawlessness (1954, short) as Yermolai, dustman
The First Echelon (Pervy eshelon, 1956) as sovkhoz director Dontsov
Different Fortunes (1956) as Zhukov, the Party official
Polyushko-pole (1956) as telephone station director Kholin
Stories About Lenin (1957) as Emelyyanov
The Swallow (1957) as Melgunov
Pages of the Past (1957) as Skvortsov
Esimese järgu kapten (1958) as sailor (voice)
Upon the Path of War (Na dorogakh voyny, 1959) as Uvarov
In the Still of the Steppe (1959) as Vetrov
The Unpaid Debt (1959) as Aleksey Okunchikov
Still They Are People (1959) as soldier
The Koltsov Song (1959) as Koltsov's father
Three Times Resurrected (1960) as Starodub
Five Days, Five Nights (1961) as Sergeant-major Kozlov
On the Road (1961) as the old man
Adult Children (1961) as Vasily Vasilyevich
An Optimistic Tragedy (Optimisticheskaya tragediya, 1963) - Siply [the Husky-voiced]
It Happened at the Police Station (1963) as Major Sazonov
Small Green Light (1964) as the pensioner
The Big Ore (1964) as Matsuev
The Meeting at the Crossover (1964) as kolkhoz chairman
The Roll-call (1966) as Varentsov
Your Son and Brother (1966) as Voyevodin
Not a Day Without an Adventure (1967) as old man Danilyuk
In the Trap (1967) as Kovacs
Moscow is Behind Our Backs (1968) as General Ivan Panfilov
Just for Fun (1968) as Gomozov
Used Cartridge Cases (1968) as father
Liberation (1968) as Colonel Lukin
The Major Witness (1969) as uncle
I Am His Bride (1969) as Mitrokhin
The Kremlin Chime (1970) as the old worker
Strange People (1970) as Matvey Ryazantsev
The Stolen Train (1971) as General Ivan Vasylievich
The Return of Saint Luke (1971) as Colonel Zorin
Not a Day Without Adventures (1971) as Danilyuk
Happy Go Lucky (1972) as Professor Sergey Fyodorovich
Eolomea (East Germany, 1972) as Kun
Nyurka's Life (1972) as Boris Gavrilovich
The Black Prince (1973) as Colonel Zorin
Here's Our Home (1973) as Alexander Pluzhin
There, Over the Horizon (1975) as the General constructor
The Closeness of Distant Things (1976) as Pogodin
The Moscow Time (1976) as Nazar Lukich Grigorenko
And Other Officials (1976) as Astakhov
The Long Days' Month (1978, TV Movie) as Pavel Stepanovich
The Colonel Zorin's Hypothesis (1979) as Colonel Zorin
Teheran 43 (1981) as Innkeeper (uncredited)
The Unwelcome Friend (1981) as Shlepyanov
From Winter Till Winter (1981) as the Minister
Private Life (1982) as Bit part (uncredited)
The Mystery of the Blackbirds (1982) as Mister George Forteskew
White Dew (1982) as Fedos Khodas
From Evening Till Noon (1982) as writer Andray Zharkov
Secret of the Black Birds (1983) as George Fortescue
Dead Souls (1984, TV Mini-Series) as the Court chairman
The Hope and the Stand-by (1985) as Kirill Rotov
In Bad Weather (1986) as Strogov
The Apellation (1987) as Mironov
Forgotten Melody for a Flute (1987) as Yaroslav Stepanovich
What a Mess! (1995) as the music fan (final film role)

Notes and References

Web site: Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev . rusactors.ru. 2012-12-01.
Web site: Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev. kino-teatr.ru. 2012-12-01.
Web site: Вдова Ролана Быкова: «Проклятый рак отнял у меня и мужа, и отца». StarHit. 2018-08-09. 2019-03-21. 2019-03-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20190321170638/http://www.starhit.ru/novosti/vdova-rolana-byikova-proklyatyiy-rak-otnyal-u-menya-i-muja-i-ottsa-149190/.
Web site: Елена Санаева: «Понимая, что у отца рак, я тянула с похоронами мамы» . 2018-06-11 . 2018-06-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141351/https://www.eg.ru/culture/30827/.
Web site: О книге. — Повесть «Похороните меня за плинтусом» Павла Санаева. // plintusbook.ru. 2013-02-28. https://www.webcitation.org/6F32KUuim?url=http://plintusbook.ru/about/. 2013-03-11.