Background
Childhood lived with his mother Elena in the area Theater Vakhtangov. His father - a former White officer Anatoly Shalevich, defected to the Red Army and rose to the rank of General of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, was directly involved in the purges. His mother, though she loved Anatoly Shalevich, left him in the eighth month of pregnancy because of jealousy from Minsk to Moscow to aunt.
Son of a single mother.
Vyacheslav believed his father died in the Finnish war.
Education
In 1958 he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute.
Career
People"s Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Born in Moscow. True, he had learned only 38 years old when on tour in Biysk he met the man who introduced Anatoly Shalevich. After graduation was accepted into the troupe of the State Academic Theatre named after Vakhtangov.
Shalevich one of the few actors who played in two films with the same name, but are not remakes - Red Square.
Artistic director of the Moscow Drama Theater named Ruben Simonov (1998). Academician of the Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts Nika Award.
Associate Professor of Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.
Politics
Order "Foreign Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (27 May 2004) - for his great contribution in the development of theatrical art ".
