Biography Kuklacheva Yuri

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. More purring creatures lives in the crystal castle created by him. I wrote more than a dozen books. Kulachev believes that “cats came to a person in order to save”, make him kinder, brighter, happier. The family lived very poorly, often there were problems even with food. Dmitry Semenovich had only four classes of education, worked as a driver, but all his life reached for knowledge and gathered an impressive library at home.

Valentina Ivanovna was a janitor. There was an episode in Yuri as a child, when his father was sitting under house arrest for a political joke.

For some time they lived on their mother’s salary and waited with horror. But shortly before the trial, Stalin died. And so, of course, a grandmother would have gone by the stage, ”the trainer later admitted. Remembering the early years, Yuri Dmitrievich talked about how he came to the dream of a circus career: ... The most important thing in my life began with the fact that when I was seven years old, my uncle came to visit us and asked what I am going to do: “If you don’t think about tomorrow, you will find a void.

You will grow up and you will, like a bob, run and look for you to pay more. ” I did not want to become a bobik, and I had a reflex of the goal that gives the desire, about which ... the great Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov spoke. And when I was eight years old, my father brought the TV. He turned it on, showed some kind of Charlie Chaplin’s film.

I jumped up, and began to walk like Chaplin - crossing. Someone laughed, and I felt such a joy! So I decided to become a clown. But the path to the arena was not easy. He began to engage in ballet, because, in his opinion, the clown should be able to dance. Then, seeing the performance of Mim Leonid Engibarov, the boy decided to learn to juggle, independently mastered the acrobatic tricks and mastered the Salto.

After graduating from the fourth grade, Yura made the first attempt to enter the circus school, but he was not accepted. From year to year, he stubbornly came to the exams, but they refused him, they said that he had no data for the clowning. In childhood, Yuri Kuklachev, after the eighth grade, Kuklachev entered the School on the printer. They paid a scholarship of 30 rubles, he worked part -time in the printing house of the “Young Guard”, and in the evenings he was diligently engaged in the people's circus at the Krasny October recreation center and studied at the school of working youth.

Having graduated from the eleventh grade, Yuri spoke in a circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in the shower of amateur performances dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the Soviet regime. After that, Kulachev was still admitted to the circus school. Yuri Kuklachev is the truth, and then fate threw him a test. On the eve of the entrance exams, he went to swim on the river and stepped on the broken glass.

An important vessel was hurt, the nerve was damaged, and the doctors did not guarantee that the leg would be restored to the end. The admission commission hesitated for a long time, but the ardent story of Kuklachev about the acrobat Leo Osinsky, who had no hand, nevertheless convinced them. The leg for a long time made itself felt with hellish pain, and at some point the clown added to the morphine, which he was pricked as an anesthetic.

Seeing tears on his mother’s face, he found the strength in himself and tore with a bad habit. In the year, Yuri became a graduate of the school with the specialty "Clown Parodist". Later he graduated from GITIS with a degree in the "theater critic", imbued with theatrical art and wrapped it for himself for his benefit, What was important to me first of all: to understand the principle.

Why does this actor captivate me with his game, but this one - no, why is it interesting to me, but is it boring? I tried to figure it out ... I went to the theater, maybe twice as a child with the school and, of course, was far from all this. And here I began to go to the theater every day, began to analyze, keep records of my impressions from what I saw and read. But the main thing, right there, seeing something bright on stage, tried to use in the circus.

The creative way to work as an artist of the Soyuzgoskirka Kulachev began in the year under the pseudonym Vasilye - in the image of a buffoon in a Russian shirt and a hat with bells. But then, according to the artist, the fate “gave a sign” - he and his wife picked up a little kitten on the street, which was named Kutei. Before that, he never had cats, there was only a cat Ryzhik in the village of grandfather with his grandmother, but relations with him did not ask him.

Yuri Kuklachev in his youth Kutya became the first cat with whom Yuri Dmitrievich went on stage. In the book “My Friends - Cats”, the trainer recalled how he came to this idea. The kitten scored in the kitchen, and the neighbor ordered to get rid of it, but the clown no longer imagined life without a new friend and settled him in a circus make -up artist. In his free minutes, Kuzlachev threw a ball to Kuta, and he very cleverly caught him.

Having decided to develop these abilities, Yuri coached a pet for six months, and then for a long time he taught not to be afraid of the public, bright light and loud music and finally went out with the cat in the arena.It was a children's performance, and we were preparing for it especially carefully. Kutka was a simple job: I went out, holding a large candy in my hands I opened the top cover of the “sweets”, and Kutka hidden there jumped out of it.

But now I uttered the laid words, opened the lid and Kutka as if nothing had happened peacefully in the box, curled up. I had to shake it. He walked along the arena, not paying attention to the applause, and then, arched his tail with a pipe, he suddenly easily jumped over the barrier and ran to the auditorium. I rushed after him. How much laughter was while I caught a cat between the rows!

Kutka was hiding under the chair, ran along the steps, and all the guys caught him with me. Finally, the fugitive was caught, and I went to the curtains under thunder applause. But the number “Cat and cook” with a cat arrow, which Kuklachev took “for overexposure” from the family of circus artists who went on tour, brought him real glory to him and hooked into the make -up to Kuta. The cat was jealous of the owner to a new neighbor and ran away.

Kulachev never saw his first favorite and was morally not ready to train a new cat. Yuri Kuklachev. The number “cook and cat” changed the case: Yuri noticed that the arrow loves to sleep in the pan, which stood on the table. For about a year they worked on a reprise about a cat and a cook. The arrow turned out to be surprisingly obedient and understood, the number was successful, I liked the performance of Leonid Brezhnev, and in the year the “partners” were called to the first foreign tours - for Kubu, for two months.

But he flew there not only with an arrow, but also with a paste, a white puppy of the Maltese Bolonka, whom the circus director bought for the performance and did not know where to put it after. In the end, Pate, also settled in Kuklachev’s make -up artist and became a full -fledged artist - they and the arrow learned to walk on the hind legs with a “train”. Many politicians favored Kuklachev, starting with Brezhnev to the Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau: when we began to perform in Canada, this sensation was.

He looked at our number, turned to the Soviet ambassador - and he was Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, the future "the forehead of the perestroika", and said: "We really liked these clowns, we invite them tomorrow for lunch." After lunch with the Trudo family, Lena and I drove throughout Canada like kings. Everyone knew that Trudeau invited these clowns to his home. The current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the eldest son of Pierre, was then very small.

When Lena and I were visiting his parents, he sat on my knees. There, in Canada, Kulachev was awarded the prestigious prize “The Golden Crown of the Clown”. The trainer, for whose speeches, Leonid Ilyich himself came every ten days, got the opportunity to travel with touring almost the whole world. And in the year, with the help of the capital's city hall, he founded and led the theater of cats, which was originally called "Koshkin House." His productions were invariably struck by the audience, because it is believed that cats are not lending on dressing, and Kuklachev represented performances with tailed artists one after another.

Yuri Kuklachev on the steps of his “Cat Theater” was expanding every year every year, the growing children who already staged performances were included in the family business. In the year, Yuri Dmitrievich achieved the status of a state organization and appropriate financing for the theater. More than once, Kuklachev had to defend the building on Kutuzovsky, in which instead of the theater, cats wanted to settle in a casino and a bank.

Some organizations accused the head of the theater of assigning state money, money laundering, but the audit showed the unfoundation and unprovenness of such sketches. Yuri Kuklachev in a colony for young people, meanwhile, the artist continued to play new performances, write books, and tour. In the framework of his own educational project “School of Kindness”, he regularly conducted “kindness lessons” in various children's institutions including correctional colonies for young people.

Especially for these children, the artist created the play "Sincere conversations with prisoners." An interview with Yuri Kuklachev, telling about his program, Kuklachev insisted that it is very relevant today: I have created a whole program of exercises that help the child to determine his gift, the ability to concentrate, and develop attention. This is a program that today begins to be introduced actively in schools.

I created it 20 years ago, “Lessons of Kindness” and “School of Kindness” - this is my intellectual property, whole textbooks are written! The fact is that terrible changes have occurred in the educational process. Someone “smart” in the years removed the word “upbringing”, and decided that the main task of the school was to give knowledge. Everyone should be smart.

However, they forgot the most important thing that without education you can grow a immoral, soulless, heartless person! With this performance, he seemed to give tribute to respect and veneration to the brightest representatives of the profession: Charlie Chaplin, the musical eccentric Gorka, Leonid Engibarov. The artist, along with cats and cats, recreated their numbers in the form of a friendly parody and many good tips, he received from Yuri Dmitrievich, who was Chaplin’s feat to become not just a clown, but a person in the circus arena.

They met at the wedding: he was a witness from the groom, she was from the bride. The girl at that time danced, studied in the folk dance studio Igor Moiseev. A year later, when the lovers officially formalized her relationship, Lena began to speak with her husband, creating the image of an assistant teenager in the circus arena.