Godunov biography of the dancer

He became a “irrevocable” - stayed during a tour in the United States, did not find himself in Hollywood and passed away at 45 years old. As his relatives believed, unable to withstand loneliness. His parents divorced when the boy was three years old. Mom and Alexander and his older brother Oleg moved to Riga. Godunov in childhood wanted to become a military man, but at the insistence of his mother at nine, he began to study at the Riga Choreographic School.

His classmate was Mikhail Baryshnikov. Alexander and Mikhail were the smallest in the school. For the machine, Sasha was put the last; To grow faster, he often hung on the horizontal bar, drank tomato juice. As a result, Godunov stretched out to centimeters, and the lady remained low - 20 centimeters lower. Photo: Pinterest. Over the year of work in the group, Godunov became a real handsome man: he grew up by 18 centimeters, “blinded” the athletic figure.

He hone the equipment in the “classic ballet” and, as a result, went to work in the Bolshoi Theater, where he was invited by the chief choreographer Yuri Grigorovich. The courageous and defenseless Alexander quickly became the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater. His debut role is Siegfried in Lake Swan: he performed the party brilliantly. The young artist was set in pair with Maya Plisetskaya.

She recalled that Alexander was “mighty, high. The sheaf of the straw hair, making it like Scandinava, blazed in the wind of Godunovsky unique pirouett. He danced better than holding a partner. The man was a faithful, decent and contrary to his courageous appearance completely defenseless.” The artist encountered intrigues - there were three groups in the theater, which were at enmity with each other.

One is the main choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, the other is the artist and choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev and the third - Maya Plisetskaya. The fact that Godunov agreed to speak in pairs with the legendary ballerina did not suit Grigorovich. As a result, Alexander did not go on stage as often as he could, and did not receive the desired parties. Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Godunov in the ballet "Death of the Rose".

Because of this, Alexander became a disaster. Later, Maya Plisetskaya said that Godunov needed freedom, and therefore his escape was not unexpected for her. When they met, she was 29, he was 22 the difference at that time is big, she was married to the artist Bolshoi Stanislav Vlasov. Their relationship began with the premiere of the film-ballet "Trapezius" in the All-Union Theater Society.

She recalled that in the buffet she saw a beautiful high blond in a fashionable suede jacket: "He did not take his eyes off me, and I asked: who was this? Hearing Godunov’s name in response, she realized that this was about him, as a young gift, all theatrical Moscow would be full of rumors." The artist did not dare to approach the ballerina, and she did it herself. She said that his button was poorly sewn on his jacket.

After that, he began to escape her in the evenings. The ballerina broke up with her husband and married Godunov. They were called the most beautiful pair of theater. Together they starred in the legendary film "June 31": she played the role of the court lady, he is a musician who is hopelessly in love with her. In this picture, Alexander uttered a prophetic, as it turned out later, for his life the phrase: "I am leaving nowhere.

You do not need me anymore." Together they lived for eight years - until August, when Godunov decided to stay in the United States. His long hair, a sheepskin coat, which the teacher gave him, the legendary ballet artist Alexei Ermolaev, was an independent character annoyed by the KGB officials and employees. For five years, Alexander was not released abroad, although, thanks to his talent, he was well known abroad.

Moreover, on the posters who were driving abroad, the surname of Godunov was. His absence was usually explained by an "unexpected disease." The Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, who loved the artist very much and appreciated his talent, caused him before the first tour in the United States and said that she had accumulated a stack of anonymity, that he would remain abroad: "I hope you promised to lay out my party ticket, if it really happens." However, Alexander was not released again.

The Bolshoi troupe with grandiose success was at the Metro. Lyudmila Vlasova recalled that they began to crush Alexander and Alexander: he was promised a career of a great and free dancer, and she was the best model agencies and a career in Hollywood. There are several versions of what happened next. One by Godunov allegedly decided not to tell his wife that he would remain in the USA.

According to the second, which the ballerina herself was voiced much later in an interview, it was arranged intentionally. Alexander Godunov is one of the most famous Soviet "defeators." Photo: Britannica. He did not return in the morning - she realized that he was just "taking away." According to her assumption, the old acquaintance of Alexander is the photographer Smoh, who emigrated to the United States, invited him to visit, “treated it to” well, and then took pictures of the drunk Godunov.

They were published in American newspapers. Vlasova says that her wife, apparently, began to blackmail - they said that after such publications he will definitely become a disintegrated.And all his dreams to dance with Maurice Bezhar, Roland Petit and other world -famous choreographers will be defeated. As a result, Godunov decided to stay - after three days of silence, he asked the American authorities of a political asylum.

After Godunov’s statement, Vlasov was hastily taken to the airport and put on the plane to Moscow. The Americans staged a protest - they believed that the ballerina wanted to stay with her husband in the United States, demanded her release. Alexander at that time was in a minibus near the airport, hoping that he would still meet with Lyudmila. She stated that she knew nothing about her husband's plans and wants to return to the USSR, where her mother remained.

The plane, where Lyudmila and more than a hundred passengers was located, did not allow to fly out for three days. Negotiations were negotiating with the ballerina, the Americans tried to check if she was under pressure whether they took psychotropic drugs. But in the end, Vlasov flew home. She later said that she loved her husband very much, but did not want to leave her mother alone: ​​“We had a rare relationship with her.

I stayed in America, she would never have reproached me, but would just have faded away. So it happened to Rudolf Nuriev’s mother ... I was rooted to my country, my parents' focus. They ask what I would do, if I would do this? ” During the year, Godunov tried to make his wife come to him in the United States, but to no avail. In the year they were officially divorced through the embassy.

Lyudmila married the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Yuri Statnik. Two films were shot about this tragic story: in the year, the film “Flight” was released in the USSR, and after 20 years - the series “Fantasy of the White Nights”, where the main roles were played by Elizabeth Boyarskaya and Pavel Trubiner. Godunov and Vlasov christened Romeo and Juliet of the Cold War.

The Americans admired the skill of the artist. Jacqueline Bisset and Alexander Godunov on the cover of PEOPLE. In Italy, he met the famous actress Jacqueline Bisset. They became a couple and lived together for seven years. On the advice of Bisset Godunov, in the year he left the ballet and began to take acting lessons - he decided to try to conquer Hollywood. He was taken to the cinema: thanks to bright appearance and charisma, he was remembered by the farmer’s roles in the “Witness” in the title role Harrison Ford, the conductor in the comedy “District Yama” with Tom Hanks, who opposed Bruce Willis in a “strong nut”, as well as Scarabis’s central tile in horror, “Museums of wax figures 2: Lost in time.

" Godunov broke up with the bisset - the crack in their relationship went due to the fact that the artist was very worried, that he was not given the main roles in the films. Plus, he could not forget Lyudmila Vlasov. He was asked: “Is this your wife? Alexander replied:“ My wife is in Russia. ”Subsequently, a friend of the artist, choreographer Mikhail Lavrovsky explained that“ Mila for Godunov was more than ballet, more than his homeland, more than life.

He could not breathe without her and therefore died. "The future remained last year Alexander returned to Riga, saw his mother and brother. Then he got the main role in the painting" Zone " - a chemist -terrorist who wants to capture the world. The shooting took place in Budapest, and Godunov decided to go to his relatives. He was amazed at the ruin, which was then in the city and decided to pick up his mother and his brother, as soon as he could, as soon as he could, as soon as he could.

The United States, on May 18, was found in his apartment in Los Angeles for several days: he was sitting in a chair, a wall with Russian landscapes. The relatives of the artist did not believe it - during their meeting, Alexander did not look sick or alcoholic, did not drink alcohol. Alexander Godunov in the film "Strong Nut". Photo: Wikipedia.