Georgiy Mikhailovich Vitsin was a Soviet and Russian cinema and theatre actor.
Background
Ethnicity:
His parents were from the Russian regions: mother Maria Matveyevna from Penza, father Mikhail Egorovich from the Vladimir region.
Georgiy Mikhailovich Vitsin was born on April 5, 1917. When George was eight months old, family moved to Moscow. Mother got a job as a ticket collector in the House of Unions Column Hall and often took her son with her. From the age of twelve, Vitsin began to perform on the school stage, usually in the role of negative characters.
Education
In 1926-1933 Georgiy Mikhailovich studied at the Moscow seven-year school № 26, in 1933-1934, at the Maly Theater School (now the Higher Theater School named after Schepkin), then he was expelled with the formulation "for careless attitude to the educational process". In 1934, Georgiy entered the Theater School at the Vakhtangov Theater (now the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute). In 1935 he moved to the theatrical studio of the Moscow Art Theater of the 2nd, where he studied under S.G. Birman, A.I. Blagonravov, V.N. Tatarinov (all in Moscow).
Career
Since 1936 an actor of the theater studio under the direction of N.P. Khmelev, in 1937-1969, of the Ermolova Moscow Drama Theater, where was the theater-studio, in 1969-2001 - the theater-studio of the actor (all in Moscow). The actor’s debut took place in the episodic role of the oprichnik in the "Ivan the Terrible" film by Eisenstein (1944). Fame came to the actor after the movie "The Reserve Player", in which he played the role of Vasya Vesnushkin.
Also, Vitsin was an artist - he drew caricatures of actors, tried his act in sculpture, drawing, painting.
With the advent of the 1990s, G.Vitsin, together with other participants of the famous trinity, began to tour the country a lot. Until the last days he played at the Theater actor. He lived very decently last years. After giving his big apartment in the center of Moscow to daughter Natalia, he moved to the "Khrushchev project" in Starokonyushenny Lane. He extremely limited communication with outside people, avoided meeting with journalists. He was in the apartment almost all the time, went out only to feed the pigeons.
Georgy Vitsin died on 22 October 2001 (according to other sources - on 23 October) in one of the Moscow hospitals. The cause of actor’s death was chronic liver and heart diseases. He was buried in Moscow, at the Vagankovskoye cemetery. Monument at the Vitsin’s grave is at the Vagankovskoye Cemetery.
Connections
Before the marriage, actor was in relationships with actress Nadezhda (Dina) Topolova, former wife of the director Nikolai Pavlovich Khmelev, who was much older than he was. After the breakup, he continued taking care of her, brought her medicines and food.
Father:
Mikhail Egorovich Vitsin
Mother:
Maria Matveyevna Vitsina
Spouse:
Tamara Fyodorovna Vitsina
She was a dresser, niece of biologist and breeder Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin.
