Vyacheslav Shalevich Explained

Vyacheslav Shalevich
Honorific Suffix:	PAR
Birthname:	Vyacheslav Anatolievich Shalevich
Birth Date:	27 May 1934
Birth Place:	Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Death Place:	Moscow, Russia
Alma Mater:	Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute
Occupation:	Actor
Years Active:	1958–2016
People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1979)
Awards:	Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (4th class) Order of Honour Order of Friendship of Peoples State Prize of the Russian Federation

Vyacheslav Anatolievich Shalevich (Russian: Вячесла́в Анато́льевич Шале́вич; 27 May 1934 – 21 December 2016) was a Soviet-Russian film, theatre actor and a People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Biography

Vyacheslav Anatolievich Shalevich was born in Moscow in 1934.^[1] His father, Anatoly Shalevich, defected to the Red Army and rose to the rank of General of the NKVD.^[2] Vyacheslav believed his father had died in the Finnish war. Vyacheslav Anatolievich Shalevich spent his childhood with his mother, Elena.^[1]

In 1958 he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. After graduation he was accepted into the troupe of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre. Vyacheslav Shalevich was one of the few actors who played in two films with the same name, but are not remakes, Red Square.^[3]

Selected filmography

1958: The Captain's Daughter (Капитанская дочка) as Shvabrin
1961: Barrier of the Unknown (Барьер неизвестности) as Baykalov
1963: Now Let Him Go (Теперь пусть уходит) as Stan Beeston
1967: Three Poplars in Plyushcikha (Три тополя на Плющихе) as Grisha
1968: Virineya (Виринея) as Ivan Pavlovich
1968: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Портрет Дориана Грея) as Alan
1968: The Sixth of July (Шестое июля) as Yakov Blumkin
1970: Red Square (Красная площадь) as Kutasov
1970: My Street (Моя улица) as Semyon Semyonovich
1971: The City Under Lindens (Город под липами) as Boris Popov
1973: Seventeen Moments of Spring (Семнадцать мгновений весны) as Allen Dulles
1976: Carlos Espinola Diary (Дневник Карлоса Эспинолы) as school principal
1978: The Cure Against Fear (Лекарство против страха) as Panafidin
1980: Code Name Is 'South Thunder' (Кодовое название «Южный гром») as General Beryozov
1994: The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита) as Caiaphas
1999: It's Not Recommended To Offending Women (Женщин обижать не рекомендуется) as Admiral
2004: Red Square (Красная площадь) as Aleksandr Rekunkov (Soviet Union Attorney General in 1981–1988)
2004: Moscow Saga (Московская сага) as General

Honors

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1971)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1979)
State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art in 1994 (29 May 1995) ^[4]
Order of Friendship of Peoples (6 May 1994) - for his great contribution in the field of theatrical art ^[5]
Winner of the Government of Moscow (1996)
Order of Honour(1 November 2001) - for many years of fruitful activity in the field of culture and art, a great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between the nations ^[6]
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (27 May 2004) - for his great contribution in the development of theatrical art '.^[7]

External links

- - Вячеслав Шалевич // КиноПоиск
Корифеи Вахтангова (in Russian)

Notes and References

http://www.rusactors.ru/sh/shalevich Вячеслав Шалевич - Биография - Актеры советского и российского кино
http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/actor/shalevich/index1.html Биография Вячеслава Шалевича
http://izvestia.ru/news/653659 Вячеслав Шалевич, верный вахтанговец
Указ Президента РФ от 29 мая 1995 г. № 537
http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1172282 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 6 мая 1994 года № 884 «О награждении орденом Дружбы Народов Шалевича В.А.»
http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?697307 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 1 ноября 2001 года № 1267 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации.»
http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=022742 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 27 мая 2004 года № 692 «О награждении орденом "За заслуги перед Отечеством" IV степени Шалевича В.А.»