Alexander Sergeyevich Lazarev is a representative of that amazing generation of Russian artists who believed that everything should be thrown on the altar of art and serve their work with all fervor and dedication. He was born in Leningrad on the third of January 1938, and the horrors of the blockade, which little Sasha experienced together with his parents – Sergei Nikolaevich and Olympiad Kuzminichny – were cut into early memory. Having overcome all the hardships of the war, the family immediately after the break of the blockade returned to their gray city from the Orenburg evacuation. Shortly before graduating from school, Alexander felt a craving for acting - he liked to live the images seen in the cinema, to be imbued with other people's feelings. In the 10th grade, Lazarev passed the first round at the Leningrad Theatre Institute and tried his luck, appearing before the visiting commission of the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio headed by the studio director V.Z. Radomyslensky. Alexander was one of two applicants who were enrolled in the Studio (the other was a demobilized naval officer Anatoly Romashine). Lazarev passed the final exams at the school, already being an official student of the Studio School.
He had the opportunity to study together with the most famous (in the future) artists: V. Nevinny, A. Filozov, E. Lazarev, A. Romashin, T. Lavrova, A. Pokrovskaya - under the auspices of teachers E.N. Mores, A.M. Karev, S.K. Blinnikov, V.Y. Stanitsyn, S.S. Pilyavskaya, V.K. Monyukov. It was the most inspiring time – when the students disappeared in the studio all night long, reading Goethe, Verlena, Okudzhava... The “Contemporary” of Oleg Efremov was created – at that time the Theatre-Studio of Young Actors, in whose performances Lazarev took part. After graduating from the studio school, Alexander Sergeevich wanted to return to the city on the Neva, but Moscow did not let go - by the will of fate he got to the Mayakovsky Theater, where he found not only work, but also the greatest love: here he met his future wife, a charming woman.
film "Free Wind" (1961). Major roles in the movie came to the actor later - played the commander of the partisan detachment Fyodor in the series.
TV Movie "Calling Fire on Yourself" S. Kolosov and Evdokimov in
film "Again About Love" (1968) (Dir. G. Nathanson). In the second film, A. Lazarev showed himself as an “actor with a great future”, which was proved by his subsequent work in cinema.
"Flowers delayed" (1970, Dr. Toporkov),
"Demidovs" (1983, Peter I),
"Chelyuskintsy" (1984, O.Y. Schmidt),
"Children of the Sun" (1985, Vagin),
"On Main Street with Orchestra" (1986)
"The village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants" (1989, Egor Ilyich Rostanev),
"The little things of life" (series, 1992, Swedes) and others - more than fifty paintings.
A famous actor of cinema and theater, where Lazarev’s talent is manifested in a variety of images, Alexander Lazarev was awarded the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the IV degree, medals for creative achievements. His name is given to a star in the constellation Capricorn. A.S. Lazarev - People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, member of the Union of Theatre Workers (since 1962), the Union of Cinematographers (since 1973), the Academy of Cinematographic Arts (since 2002).
Alexander Sergeyevich Lazarev died on May 2, 2011. /