Pavel Vitalievich Dmitrichenko. Pavel Dmitrichenko: “Everything that doesn’t kill us makes us stronger

Dmitrichenko was the first performer of the role of Ivan the Terrible after the resumption of ballet performances in 2012. Photo - RIA Novosti

The evil genius in Swan Lake, Ivan the Terrible, Spartak and Abderakhman in Raymond.

Before his arrest in the spring of 2013, the former soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Pavel Dmitrichenko was one of the favorite artists of the famous choreographer Yuri Grigorovich.

On January 17, 2013, the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet Company Sergei Filin near his house in the center of Moscow, as a result of which the victim received facial burns, partially lost his sight and underwent several expensive operations abroad.

Pavel Dmitrichenko and his friend Yuri Zarutsky were charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Filin. Zarutsky, as a performer, received 10 years, Dmitrichenko in a strict regime colony for organizing the attack.

According to investigators, Dmitrichenko was dissatisfied with the way Filin distributed the roles in the troupe, in connection with which he decided to organize an attack on the artistic director. To do this, he hired his dacha neighbor Zarutsky, who was brought to Filin's house by another person involved in the case, Andrei Lipatov.

On May 31, the following entry appeared on Pavel's Facebook page: “Thanks to everyone who supported me! Your kind hearts were a beacon of hope on a difficult road... See you, friends.” On this day, the leading artist of the Bolshoi Theater Dmitrichenko, convicted in the case of the attack on Sergei Filin, was released.

I spent three years in prison: the court decided to release me ahead of schedule. Fortunately, I managed to survive, despite the attempts on the part of those who planted me, to do everything to destroy the person they did not like. Indeed, whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Now I know - these are not just words. If you are given a test, you need to pass it with dignity.

I ended up in Moscow again, next to me were my parents, friends, my beloved, the most beautiful wife in the world. I don’t hold a grudge against anyone, although I consider myself punished for nothing. I let go of this situation. But my release from prison was greeted very violently. Sergey Filin's lawyer said in a TV interview that I was released illegally: “Dmitrichenko should be imprisoned. If he does not admit his guilt, then he is dangerous! After such statements, their legal illiteracy simply makes me laugh. I know perfectly well who is behind this whole story, but I do not feel hatred and thirst for revenge. There is only one question: why was three years of my life stolen from me?

It happened on January 17, 2013. Half an hour later, all TV channels, radio and the Internet exploded: “The artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater, Sergei Filin, was splashed with sulfuric acid in the face!”, “Filin has burns on his face!”, “An attempt was made on Filin!” The story, like a real thriller, was overgrown with new details, versions, conjectures. The journalists reacted with such lightning speed, as if they were sitting in ambush in the snowdrifts of the dark courtyard where the attack took place.

The Bolshoi Theater the next day resembled a military headquarters - there were many television cameras from all over the world behind the scenes. Journalists rushed to cover a high-profile criminal scandal. Endless press conferences, interviews, ballet dancers are confused and depressed... Everyone raced to build versions: someone said that this was revenge, someone thought that they wanted to take the artistic director's chair in this way, many were sure - "Cherchet la femme ”, even such an assumption was put forward - didn’t the theater management itself organize all this? Very quickly, literally from the first minutes, an attack began on Nicholas Tsiskaridze. Filin, who went to Germany for treatment, said in an interview with Der Spiegel: “Tsiskaridze should be in prison!” This produced the effect of an exploding bomb. The world-famous dancer was summoned for interrogation, he was pursued by the media. In an interview, Nikolai said: “This is bullying. I am sure that the case with Filin is an action planned against me. Indeed, savagery!

My part of the story began almost three months later. Before that, he lived a normal life. I went to the Benois de la Danse festival in Italy. He did not hide from anyone, did not hide. But he could have stayed abroad and never returned...

On the fifth of March at five in the morning in the apartment on Tverskaya, which I rented, the phone rang. On the threshold - seven, among them an investigator who came to the Bolshoi Theater: "We will conduct a search and look for material evidence."

In May 2016, Dmitrichenko was released from the colony on parole. He did not admit his guilt in the acid attack on Sergei Filin, but called the case fabricated. The version that Pavel took revenge on the artistic director of the ballet for the oppression of his girlfriend Anzhelina Vorontsova did not play out in court.

Shortly after his release, in an interview with the BBC, Pavel Dmitrichenko did not rule out the possibility of returning to the Bolshoi Theater.

I have a lot of offers, but I still consider the Bolshoi Theater my home, and the director officially said that I could safely return to the Bolshoi Theater. It was not an official invitation, but I can enter on a general basis. I am in shape, I have a lot of experience, I worked on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater for 10 years, - said the dancer.
According to him, he actively kept fit in the colony. And at the end of September, according to MK, Dmitrichenko began classes with teacher Vladimir Nikonov, to whom he goes to morning classes at the Bolshoi Theater.

It is impossible to get a permanent pass to the theater without the knowledge of Vladimir Urin, General Director. In a recent interview with the British magazine Dancing Times, Urin said: “There are rumors that Pavel Dmitrichenko is returning to the Bolshoi, and this will not be an easy situation. However, after 3 years in prison, he is no longer the same dancer, physically and emotionally. Therefore, the main question is whether he will be able to return the form that is necessary for the dancer of the Bolshoi? Big is work, and it should be built on professional principles.”

In the troupe, the appearance of Dmitrichenko within the walls of the theater was rather favorably treated. But the pros are well aware of how difficult it will be for the dancer to return to its former form. The same Nikolai Tsiskaridze not so long ago expressed great doubts about the happy scenario for Pavel Dmitrichenko. But what if? Pavel has a fighting character. In any case, he will return to the profession. The scenes of many theaters are open to him. But he's aiming for the Big One.

P.S. On September 21, 2015, Anzhelina Vorontsova married Mikhail Tatarnikov, chief conductor and musical director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre. There she is now in the state as a leading ballerina.

And already rehearsing new roles

Ex-soloist of the Bolshoi Pavel Dmitrichenko, convicted as the organizer of the "acid attack" on the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet Sergei Filin for 5.5 years in a penal colony, returned to the Bolshoi Theater. Recall that on May 18 he was released, having served half of the term on parole (three years and three months from the moment of detention in March 2013). As it became known to MK, Dmitrichenko has been going to the Bolshoi for a month now for morning classes with teacher Vladimir Nikonov in order to restore his form and subsequently try to return to his native stage.

Pavel Dmitrichenko himself prefers not to communicate with journalists, but how did the troupe react to his appearance? One of the soloists of the Bolshoi Theater agreed to tell us about this on condition of anonymity (the artists still do not want to be frank with the press) ...

He served his term, and it is believed that in this case a person has atoned for his guilt and, according to the law, he has the right to return to the profession. That is, to return your life, creativity, start all over again, from a blank sheet. And I respect this decision of his with respect and positively. Another thing is whether Pasha, after 3 years in prison, when there were no necessary conditions for ballet classes, will be able to return to the stage of the Bolshoi Theater? Although I know that he did not stop his studies under these conditions. And to what extent, after everything that happened, does he have the right to work at the Bolshoi? This is a question...

Is it known who made him a pass for classes and rehearsals in the classes of the Bolshoi Theater? And is the theater management aware of this?

I don’t know, I didn’t ask, and it’s hardly appropriate ... Anyone could make a pass for him. He has been taking classes in the theater for more than a month, and I have no doubt that the management knows about it.

- Did you see him in class?

He goes to the morning class with Vladimir Nikonov. If we talk about his form objectively, then now he is not, he has not put on weight ... But he has become more massive, or something, if I may say so, more pumped up, which, of course, is not very good for ballet. But I know that he is a stubborn person ... Even very stubborn ... Pasha knows how to achieve his goals, and he is quite capable of getting into the appropriate shape. And so everything is doing well in the classroom ... I heard out of the corner of my ear and even saw a photo from the performance on Facebook (if it’s not a photoshop), that he even, and more recently, for the first time after imprisonment, went on stage and already danced Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake with some kind of entreprise, or maybe in a concert. That is, a person really wants to return to the profession.

How did you react to his arrival? Indeed, after the attack, the troupe was divided in this regard, some condemned him, but the majority did not believe in his guilt and signed the corresponding letters in his defense ... What is the situation now?

Everyone calmly reacted to this, benevolently ... Many, of course, when they saw him for the first time after a long absence, could not hide their surprise. I know that for some time he himself was afraid to come to the theater ... Even in the summer before the end of last season, he came to the service entrance several times, met with friends, but did not go to the theater itself, because he was worried about how the team would meet him. And he was pleasantly surprised by the friendly attitude towards him. There is absolutely nothing negative about him. Maybe a few did not take it too well ... But I don’t even know such people ...

Nevertheless, we talked with the ill-wisher:

Yes, I went to classes, came, they say, in a new Mercedes. But they haven't seen him for a week already... Urin gave him a pass for 2 or 3 months. It is simply impossible to get a pass for such a long time without the order of the director. Ignorant people think that he did his time and is clean before society. But let me remind you that he did not repent of anything and was released only on parole, that is, he will remain under observation for the next 3 years. So with dancing on the stage of the Bolshoi - all this is a hopeless undertaking. He himself, probably, in general, understands this. At least in the theater, his claims to dancing are not taken seriously.

Cautious in his predictions about the dance future of Pavel Dmitricheko on the stage of the Bolshoi and the general director Vladimir Urin himself. In an interview with Dancing Times, he said: “There are rumors that Pavel Dmitrichenko is returning to the Bolshoi, and this will not be an easy situation. However, after 3 years in prison, he is no longer the same dancer, physically and emotionally. Therefore, the main question is whether he will be able to return the form that is necessary for the dancer of the Bolshoi? Big is work, and it should be built on professional principles.”

Pavel Dmitrichenko was born into a family of artists of the State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble under the direction of Igor Moiseev. In 2002 he graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography in the class of teacher Igor Uksusnikov, after which he was accepted into the Bolshoi Ballet Company. In 2004 he received a diploma from the International Ballet Competition in Rome (Italy). In 2005 he graduated from the Russian Theater Institute with a degree in choreography, class of Mikhail Lavrovsky.

At the Bolshoi Theater, Pavel Dmitrichenko rehearsed under the direction of Alexander Vetrov and Vasily Vorokhobko. Played major roles including:

Yashka ("Golden Age")

Evil Genius ("Swan Lake")

Abderakhman ("Raymonda")

Spartak (Spartak)

José (Carmen Suite)

Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet)

Hans (Giselle)

Ivan the Terrible (Ivan the Terrible, was the first performer of the part at the resumption of the ballet in 2012)

Abderakhman ballet "Raymonda":

Pavel Dmitrichenko as Tsar Ivan IV in the ballet "Ivan the Terrible":

Ivan IV in the ballet "Ivan the Terrible":

The part of the Evil Genius in the ballet "Swan Lake":

The part of Tybalt in the ballet "Romeo and Juliet":

Ballet "Romeo and Juliet" part of Tybalt. Choir.Yu.N.Grigorovich
Photo by Irina Lepneva:

Pavel Dmitrichenko in the ballet "Golden Age" - Tango:

Part of Spartacus in the ballet "Spartacus":

Pas de Deux from the ballet "Le Corsaire":

"Deep Lagoon" Naomi Campbell watches Dmitrichenko dance:

Nikolai Tsiskaridze: "I can say Dmitrichenko - Pasha, hold on!"

Pavel Dmitrichenko and Nikolai Tsiskaridze at the graduation party
Academy of Russian ballet im. A.Ya. Vaganova in the Kremlin. 06/22/2016.

“We must not forget that the victim and Pasha Dmitrichenko were on good terms”

"- I can't help but ask about the fate of Pavel Dmitrichenko, who was accused in 2013 of the attempt on the life of Sergei Filin and was released a month ago.

I respect Pasha very much and treat him very well. And he said more than once, including at the trial, that he did not believe and to this day do not believe in his guilt. Yes, he came out, we saw each other, and my attitude towards him did not change one iota.

Did he come to you in St. Petersburg?

No, I was in Moscow, we met. He expressed a desire to continue his dancing career. I supported him in this and advised him to go to study, and he said that he was already studying.

But how realistic is a return to the profession for him? After all, for three years the form has been lost. Yes, for three years - a week the artist will not stand at the machine ... you yourself know how the matter will end.

He says he did. And then, perhaps, he will not be a classical dancer, there were wonderful character roles in his repertoire.

Since Pavel Dmitrichenko was convicted, does he have a chance to enter a serious theater, or will the stigma of "inmate" not allow it?

By law, he has no right to hold positions in state institutions related to working with children. And in the rest, he can do everything. Why not? The most unpleasant thing for me in this situation is that no one is interested in the desire of the audience. The viewer spoke out so that I would not leave the Bolshoi - did anyone pay attention to this? It's the same with Pasha... He has a huge number of fans, and these people want to see him in the performances of the Bolshoi. And whether he will participate in them or not, it depends on the leadership. If he gets down to business with the mind, he has both opportunities and potential.

Are you ready to help him?

How can I help him? I work in another city and I can only say "Pasha, hold on." If you need any of my tutoring help, please.

Of course, I went to the trial of Pavel with an open visor, I did not hide anything from anyone.

Still, the guy has a hard life. Even the girl left him, because of which everything seemed to have happened?

I repeat once again: this situation had nothing to do with the girl. We must not forget that the victim and Pasha were on good terms. The rest is journalistic fiction.

But she didn't wait for him.

And why did she have to wait for him if he got married a year before she got married? They went their separate ways to all this mess. Do not confuse forks and bottles. It is Figaro at Beaumarchais who says: "I am much better than my reputation." How the whole situation of three years ago was covered at the Bolshoi Theater - not everything was as it was in reality.