Alexander Abdulov as Horatio Nelson 💙🌊

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Alexander Abdulov as Horatio Nelson 💙🌊
Alexander Adbulov
Viktor Tsoi was (and still is) so so so important
I need to rant about him later but you cannot even imagine how incredible this guy was. Also, that reminds me I need to rant about Vysotsky and Abdulov too and ESPECIALLY FAINA RANEVSKAYA (bc she was a strong, talented, incredible woman but didn't get enough appreciation in her time bc she was Jewish so IM GONNA GIVE HER THAT APPRECIATION NOW bc it's the least that I can do) and like 300 more amazing people and wow my thoughts r so unorganized and you know what I think I should do these rants in Russia as well bc I need to practice my Russian writing skills and я сейчас слишком уставшая чтоби как следует раскрыть свои мысли про этих людей но может бить завтра? By the way if anyone who speaks Russian/enjoys Russian/Soviet culture and media/wants to learn about it message me or leave an ask! I can't seem to figure out how to make an ask box but if you just add /ask to the URL it should take you to the ask box so yea.
Игорь Николаев/Igor Nikolaev (@igor_nikolaev_music) on Instagram
Igor Nikolaev, an infamous Russian composer and singer, just broke my heart a little with this post: “12 DAYS” (music by Igor Nikolaev, lyrics by Andrey Voznesenky). The third of January....a sad day forever for me....Sasha Abdulov was gone then...but we still sang our song together 12 years after his death... “From the first to the thirteenth of January, old numbers get dialed by themselves...”.
Got it ol in me ded moroz bag, eNJOY THE INFO DUMP, CHILDREN.
1. Andrey Mironov and his Interesting Facts
Lemme not be original and recite the facts that might just as well be very-well known but I myself constantly forget about these:
The dude suffered from skin boils (furuncles) all over his body: this is one of the reasons he always wore these never-ending turtlenecks, it was just a way to hide the skin horrors. Those fuks also hurt af which bothered Mironov’s stage partners and friends in scenes where he’d have to fall and/or get caught by other people, because that they’d have to grab all his 20359582 sore spots and deliver The Pain. Obvs they’d be like m8 lets just change this scene but Mironov insisted to do it for The Art, so all they were left with was to figure out how to grab him today to lessen the pain.
The dude got one real daughter and one fake daughter (stepdaughter ok ok), both were named Maria, which never fails to entertain me whenever pics of both of them show up and ppl are like HECK YEA MASHAS!!! WAIT WHICH MASHA IS THIS??? The fake daughter recently split up from Livanov’s murder son which is a shame imo, it really looked like there was something good going on but alas.
Mironov was the epitome of YOLO, in a positive way, all Mironov and His Friends ever cared about is how to make money and have a grand time, bc nobody was ever rich in the USSR and tbh not that happy either. They can and they WILL get across half of Russia on a scooter to make a show for the grandmas of the Meat Processing Factory No. 425 for em sweet sweet 100 roubles, the absolute SLÜTE for the cash and vodka, jump in for the Good Kush and do not look back. The shite they did on their international theater tours is something else entirely, ma dudes, but basically: THEY WILL EAT YOUR CROPS, STEAL THE FOOD FROM SQUIRRELS, BEG STRANGERS FOR MONEY, DO A GROUP PISSING.
The betch was a constant victim of pranks: whether it was from Livanov and his canteen sausages, or his bffs Shirvindt and Derzhavin who packed his bag for his honeymoon with bricks and a portrait of Lenin, but the pranking shitstorm was relentless and neverending and it looks like Mironov took it all with a big ol face of :’)
2. The most dramatic celebrity romance
I think we can agree it’s them fucking Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady, my gOD how fucknig dramatic and inflated and over-exposed and fucking overrated, the meaning of DRAMA itself. Yall know how much the government LOATHED every single breath Vysotsky took anyways, thenks to his poetry/songs that rightfully shat all over the most prominent aspects of living in the USSR, so the guy was rolling in constant drama 24/7 as it was, bUT THEN! He just HAD to get involved with a French fucking actress and make it serious: cue the absolute shitshow of them trying to get married, then an even bigger shitshow of Vysotsky getting so fearless he wanted visas to visit his wife in France and he gOT THEM in the end, possibly resulting in the government using his cutouts as target practice. So the betch keeps spitting out his Realest Songs despite them being forbidden, gets a free pass to teh fuckin ABROAD!!!!!! to dick his wife down, and gets away with it ol!!!!! The romance is so fucking shite lmao the gal is still trying to make it out as something Special when the motherfucker was quite openly cheating on her left and right, he literally died with his new burd at his bed (i am so sorry yarmolnik’s wife i luv ur husband and i hope yall still happy together). I think I’ve accidentally read a snippet from her book where she fuckien started describing them FUCKING in some cringy terms i was like hELLO???? THE SHIDD??? Basically, every aspect of Vysotsky’s life and their marriage was always some full-blown drama and tragically enough it still is bc all these other fucks are still alive and throbbing for attention i am so tired.
However, I cannot not include a VERY HONOURABLE ADDITION of uuh ~somewhat” celebs because this romance was GOOD, AND VERY GOOD, AND EXTREMELY GOOD!!!!!
Found this relic todays, a vid in color (!!!) of one football match between Samara’s local team and Lencom actors (Abdulov, Yankovsky, Proskurin (soviet Sholto), others). I have honestly never seen soviet actors like that, up close, and in color, in a real life setting, this was mesmerising.
0.23secs into the vid after the credits and yank is already fucking off to the bench to never be seen again
abdul who cares the most about this bs match and even tells off some people on the stadium to disperse since they were holding off the match and werent listening to previous warnings
proskurin who never flashed on the field and yet sat there on the bench trying his hardest to give the impression that he contributed
karachentsov (soviet jefferson hope) who injured his leg before the match and couldnt run away from the fans
the smiley dog and how they managed to wash it in a puddle in the middle of the match
how they all brutally fall and slip and are all covered in mud and yet none of them are making a show about it
the fact that the actors lost 6-5
the final photo montage and abdul/yank brotp
*Screaming intensifies*