Who does not know “Petrukha” from “White Sun in the Desert”, but who really knows the case of Nikolai Godovikov, a recidivist thief with 8 years of experience?
He was born on January 1, 1950 in Leningrad.
He made his debut in the film "Republic of Shkid" in 1966. Then he played the Red Army soldier in Wife, Zhenechka and Katyusha and in one of the takes almost died: the fuse, which broke off the pole during the staging of the machine gun line, “shot through” his leg.
For the first time "caught" Yearbooks during the filming of the third film "White Sun of the Desert" (1970). In the studio, unknown people appeared who were interested in finding Peter’s friend. When they left, part of the filming equipment was found missing. Petruha was placed in a pre-trial detention cell. .
After the White Sun of the Desert, the actor played several more roles, but in episodic roles. Then he served in the army, got married, and in 1974 he had a daughter.
In 1977, Godovikov almost died in a fight with a neighbor in a communal apartment, receiving a blow “rose”. The consequences of this wound did not allow him to work, and in 1979 he was jailed for parasitism. His role in this case and played hostility to Godovik local district.
Released in March 1980, he tried not to get in the eye, but friends almost forcibly led to “Lenfilm”. Director Otar Dugladze offered Godovikov to play a military telephone operator. In the story, a telephone operator is killed. And again, Godovik almost died on the set.
At the same time, he met his second wife, Rimma, and in 89 his son Artem was born. As before, he worked as a loader on an electric car, a watchman in a restaurant car. Life came to a dead end, I did not find a way out, although I tried. Nicholas did not expect help from anyone and did not seek it. I decided that I had to get out of the basements of Bomzhov, and for this I needed money. And this time Nicholas was caught red-handed.
The trial was held on 1 May 1991. Petruha got 2.5 years. His third “walker” he spent in the Vladimir colony of strict regime for repeat offenders.
Going outside the gates of the colony, Godovikov went to Moscow, to Major Staroverkin, then to St. Petersburg. In St. Petersburg he met his last wife Lyudmila. Searched for the phone of one of the friends, and he was given her number by mistake.
Lyudmila helped her husband get a job in the St. Petersburg “Metrostroy” surveyor workers. Then Godovikov returned to acting - he played a homeless dog named Head in the play "Goodbye, ravine!" on the St. Petersburg stage. In "Menta" he played a homeless man, in "National Security Agent" - a crook-vmag (the plot burns down with his warehouse), and in the series "Russian special forces" he got the role of a negative character.
Married, has a daughter Mary (25 years old) and a son Artem (11 years old). Works in St. Petersburg “Metrostroy”, on Saturdays plays in the theater “On Sofia”.
(Based on the article by Vladimir Kozhemyakin “Prison Odyssey of the Red Army Petrukha” )