Why did Semyon Altshuler take the pseudonym Alts. Semyon Altov: “I met my wife three times

Soviet and Russian satirist, screenwriter. Honored Art Worker Russian Federation.

Biography of Semyon Altov

Semyon Teodorovich Altov (real name Altshuller) was born on January 17, 1945 in Sverdlovsk (later Yekaterinburg), where his relatives were then evacuated. After the family returned to Leningrad. His fatherTeodor Semyonovich Altshuller, a native of Ukraine, taught at Leningrad shipbuilding institute. Mother Lyubov Naumovna Zalesskaya, also originally from Ukraine, worked as an architect.

In his youth, Semyon was engaged in boxing. After school, he graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute named after the Lensoviet, where he studied at the Faculty of Chemical Technology. Then Altov tried himself in various professions: he worked in his specialty - a chemist, was in chargecreative department in the Actor's House, was a watchman and a bouncer in a restaurant.

The creative path of Semyon Altov

Write satirical stories Altov began at the age of 26, at the same time he began to read his works from the stage, becoming an artist of the Lenconcert. In the eighties, he traveled around the country as part of other comedians with the Show-01 program.

Altov about the life of artists in the 1980s: "Variety program" Show-01 ". The Soviet government was already creaking with weakness. The satirists boldly hinted at individual shortcomings. True connoisseurs of subtexts finished right in auditorium. Suddenly a hooligan program is a prank. There were many of us. Altov, Arlazorov, Billevich, Nikolenko, Gorodinsky. Young "Litsedei" traveled with us. From behind the scenes, everyone watched Polunin make "Asisyai" with phones! Every time in a new way! Big artist! Lenya Yakubovich went on stage and no one knew yet that this was the favorite of Russia, Leonid Arkadyevich! "Show-01" was funny, but not vulgar! A rare combination by today's standards! It was a stage that I'm not ashamed of."

With the works of Altov, who is the author last performance Arkady Raikin's "Peace to your house", performed by Efim Shifrin, Vladimir Vinokur, Gennady Khazanov, Klara Novikova and other comedians. Semyon Teodorovich is a fan of declaring his own texts. He is distinguished from other artists by the exceptional manner of presenting his works: Altov's voice is always monotonous and viscous, his face is impenetrable, almost gloomy, without any emotions. He is also known as a screenwriter. So, Altov worked on the creation of the comedy series of the NTV channel "Nedotepy", etc.

Altov in different time took part in such television humorous programs as"Room of laughter", " No intermission”, “Crooked Mirror” by Evgeny Petrosyan, “ gentleman show”,“ Evening quarter ”,“ Jurmala», « Full house”, etc. In 2017, Semyon Altov became a guest of the program “Alone with Everyone”, where he told the host Yulia Menshovawhen exactly he really felt like a comedian.

Semyon Altov's personal life

In his youth, Semyon Teodorovich married a choir conductor Larisa Altova who soon bore him a son Pavel Altov, who later became the producer of his father.

The satirist writer has three grandchildren: Varvara, Ekaterina and Vasily Altov.

Awards and achievements of Semyon Altov

1994: laureate of the international festival of satire and humor "Golden Ostap", received a gilded statuette after Sergei Dovlatov and Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
2001: Arkady Raikin Cup winner international festival More smeha in Riga.
2003: Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation.
2008: Laureate of the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize.

Filmography of Semyon Altov

Screenwriter
Idiots (1996, short)
Altshows (1994)
Chance (1993, short)
Who's there? (1992, short)
Good Luck Gentlemen (1992)

Peace to your house (TV Movie 1987)
BDT thirty years later (1986, film-play)
Pericola (TV Movie 1984)

Actor
Don't play the fool... (1997) (member of the expedition)
I don't understand (1989 short)

Semyon Altov was born in Sverdlovsk. It was to this city in the Urals that they were evacuated during the Great patriotic war his parents. There is also Semyon, whose real name is Altshuler and spent the first six months of his life, until the end of the war.

After the end of the war, the parents, Lyubov Naumovna and Teodor Semenovich, returned to Leningrad with little Semyon. In post-war Leningrad, the father of the future satirical writer read a course in electrical engineering at the shipbuilding institute, and his mother worked in the field of architecture.

Chemistry

On the day of his eighth birthday, Semyon received a Young Chemist set as a gift. According to the satirist, this gift turned out to be "fatal" and to a large extent influenced the choice of profession.

Semyon Altov graduated from the Chemical College, in 1968 - from the Leningrad Technological Institute. Lensoviet, specialty chemist-varnisher. After graduating from the institute, Semyon Teodorovich worked in his specialty at the State Institute of Mineral Pigments and at the plant named after. Shaumyan.

Writing activity of Semyon Altov

The author began to make his attempts at writing at a fairly mature age - 25-26 years old. Although in several interviews Semyon Teodorovich mentions that before starting to write satirical and humorous works, he composed poetry.

Altov began to appear in print in 1971, in the small genre - "phrases". The first publication took place in the Literary Gazette, in the section "Club of 12 chairs", in which there was a heading "Phrases". For writing aphorisms, the satirist received his first fee - "38 rubles 00 kopecks."

Now Semyon Altov is the author of 4 books: "Chance", "Dog's Joy", "Climb Height", "224 Selected Pages". Peru of the satirist owns many monologues that were performed and are performed on the stage by such famous artists, like: Efim Shifrin, Klara Novikova, Gennady Khazanov and others.

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In addition, Altov became a screenwriter for many television and variety comedy programs, performances, and films. In 1987, on the stage of the Moscow Variety Theater, on Bersenevskaya Embankment, the premiere of the last stage work of Arkady Raikin took place - the play “Peace to your home”, the author of the interludes in which was Semyon Altov.

Stage

Two years after the first publication, in 1973, Altov received a position at the Lenconcert. In the words of Semyon Teodorovich himself, “I climbed onto the stage, where I stick around” until now.

A distinctive performing style of Semyon Altov on the stage is the monotonous reading of monologues from a sheet in a low, slightly nasal and nasal voice. This characteristic has become so recognizable that Altov more than once became the hero of parodies. The author himself speaks about this manner of his, of course, with humor: “My voice calms men, and excites women. It's good that it's not the other way around." Viewers, on the other hand, claim that this style reminds them of how crime chronicles are read.

SHOW-01

In the eighties, Semyon Altov became one of the creators, authors and performers of the variety humorous program "SHOW-01", which actively gave concerts throughout Soviet Union and became a reference point of popularity for many artists original genre. The co-authors and performers in "SHOW-01" together with Semyon Altov were such famous people, as Viktor Billevich, Yan Arlazorov, Valery Nikolenko, Mikhail Gorodinsky, Vyacheslav Polunin, Leonid Yakubovich, the Theater "Litsedei". The program included great amount pranks, attracting viewers to participate in the performance, many hints and subtexts on Soviet power, whose blunders, boldly enough, were paid attention to by satirists in their show.

Semyon Altov - Bribe

"Klutzes"

Semyon Altov initiated the creation and became the author of the humorous television series "Klugs", which was released on the NTV channel in 1997. Interestingly, the humorist's son, Pavel Semenovich, also worked on the creation of the series as a director. "Klutzes" - small sitcoms, performed in the theatrical manner of the game, with virtually no words. In total, there were 24 episodes of the series.

Semyon Altov's personal life

Altov, jokingly, referring to a bad memory, reports that he met his wife Larisa Vasilievna three times. After the third acquaintance, they decided to get married and have been married for more than three decades. There is a son Pavel, director, businessman and producer of his father. Semyon Altov already has three grandchildren: Katya, Varya and Vasya. Semyon Altov's career in film and television

Altov has repeatedly taken part in the filming of television shows, shows and films as a screenwriter, artist and invited guest.

In 1984, Semyon Altov wrote dialogues for musical film based on the opera buff by Jacques Offenbach - "Perichole".

In 1997, he starred in the comedy Don't Play the Fool (directed by Valery Chikov). Altov played the role of a member of the expedition. In addition, the artist participated in such TV shows as: false mirror"," Gentleman Show "," Evening Quarter”,“ Room of laughter ”,“ Jurmala ”, and many others.

Awards, titles Semyon Altov

At the international festival of humor and satire "Golden Ostap" in 1994, Semyon Altov became a laureate. He was awarded the gilded statuette of the festival after Sergei Dovlatov and Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In 2005, the writer was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. In addition, Altov is an honorary professor at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology, an honorary chemist.

His clever humor impresses many, and the peculiar timbre of his voice captivates from the very first spoken words. He has been happily married for more than 40 years and, embarrassed, admits that the guarantee of his family happiness became a bad memory. He can be surprised every day at what a beautiful woman is next to him, and admits that he met his own wife three times.

Triple Acquaintance

Semyon Altov. / Photo: www.olga-luna.com

Semyon Altov is not ashamed that he has a bad memory. Even at concerts, he sometimes reads his own works and it becomes funny to him, because he may not remember his jokes.

He met a girl named Larisa three times. The first time he came to the Palace of Culture, where he led the Oral Journal after the institute, and saw a very pretty girl reading a book in the lobby. I decided to get acquainted, invited me on a date, to my "Oral Journal". Larisa came on a date, but he did not find her. However, that day she herself did not plan to continue the acquaintance, because Semyon did not make a special impression on her that day.

Larisa Altova. / Photo: www.bulvar.com.ua

The second time they met about a year later, in some common company. The girl played the guitar amazingly, and outwardly she was very good. And he met her again.
When, after some time, he saw in the trade union committee of his own technological institute, surprisingly beautiful girl, who was sitting at the piano and playing Grieg with inspiration. When Semyon approached her to get acquainted, she was simply indignant: how much is possible? But she still went on a date with him. At the same time, her boyfriend, in order not to forget about the date, marked the days of the meetings with a cross in a special calendar, which the spouses still keep.

And the fateful decision to marry Semyon Altov made the first time he visited Larisa at home. He saw on her bookshelf a single volume of Bunin. It was the fifth volume of the five volumes. The future satirist had the first four, he did not manage to get the fifth at that time. It seemed to both of them that this sign and property should be reunited. In fact, this was their first confession to each other in feelings.

The start of a long journey

Semyon and Larisa Altov. / Photo: www.kpcdn.net

The wedding was celebrated noisily and cheerfully. Most of all, Semyon Altov liked the toast that in this married couple the beauty of the mind of the groom and the amazing beauty of the bride were reunited.
Semyon Teodorovich still never ceases to admire the beauty of his wife. And she does not understand what she could find in him, an ordinary engineer at that time with a small salary. Larisa Vasilievna refuses to answer this question.

The satirist himself believes that without love they could not have lived together for so long. And at the same time, he does not forget to joke about his bad memory, even in such a serious matter as family relationships. He says that every morning he looks at beautiful woman nearby and only then remembers that this is his wife.

A home where everyone is warm and cozy

Semyon and Larisa Altov. / Photo: www.sobaka.ru

When a son appeared in the family, the spouses were very unanimous that small man- it's a personality. Therefore, they raised him with great respect, trying not to break or sculpt at their own discretion, but simply to support in the child the desire for what he liked.

Semyon Altov with his son. / Photo: www.liveinternet.ru

When Semyon Teodorovich decided to develop writing talent in his son, he offered to write only half a printed page a day on their typewriter. As a result, the boy brought his father a text that looked more like an accounting report. Pavel never became a writer, but at one time he was his father's producer, tried himself in directing, and then successfully began to do business.

Semyon Altov with his wife, son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. / Photo: www.documental.su

Semyon Teodorovich and Larisa Vasilievna are very different people both in character and temperament. But they live together easily and joyfully, for 40 years without having time to get bored with each other. They both have no idea how you can go on vacation separately, if there is an opportunity to spend time together. New Year and others family holidays they invariably try to celebrate at home, gathering under one roof the closest and dearest people.

Semyon Altov with his wife and son. / Photo: www.liveinternet.ru

They rarely quarrel seriously. Even when hot and hot-tempered Larisa Vasilyevna makes a scene because of a shirt of the wrong color worn by her husband, Semyon Teodorovich believes that she must first be allowed to calm down. But sometimes he can’t stand the intensity of the quarrel and calmly says something like that, because of which the flaring up scandal immediately turns into a comedy performance.

Semyon Altov collects plates from hotels. / Photo: www.ml-dom.ru

Even the satirist’s hobby is very unusual: he collects signs from hotels with inscriptions that are usually hung on the door of the room with requests “Do not disturb!”. He naturally stole his first copy from a hotel in Turkey, and then friends and acquaintances began to bring them to him from all over the world.

Semyon Altov believes that not so much is needed for happiness: “Rejoice at what is, and not suffer because of what is not.”

Semyon Teodorovich Altov(real name Semyon Teodorovich Altshuller; genus. January 17, Sverdlovsk) - Soviet and Russian satirist, screenwriter. Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation.

Biography

Born in the family of teacher Teodor Semyonovich Altshuller (born in Nizhyn) and architect Lyubov Naumovna Zalesskaya (born in Kremenchug). Graduated.

Altov's works were performed by Gennady Khazanov, Klara Novikova, Efim Shifrin, Vladimir Vinokur, in addition, the author also performs his works. Semyon Altov stands out among other writers-humorists with a peculiar performing style. Altov reads his monologues with an impenetrable and even gloomy expression, monotonous low voice with a peculiar accent. Altov's pronunciation style is parodied by many pop artists (Ponomarenko Brothers, Igor Khristenko, etc.).

Semyon Altov - the author of the last performance of Arkady Isaakovich Raikin "Peace to your house."

Altov took part in the creation of the comedy series "Klutzes".

Semyon Altov started writing at the age of 26.

A family

• Wife Larisa
  • son Paul.
    • Grandchildren: Varya, Katya, Vasya

Participation in TV shows

Altov also participated in the TV shows “The Room of Laughing”, “Crooked Mirror”, “No Intermission”, “Izmailovsky Park”, “Gentleman Show”, “Jurmala”, “Evening Quarter”, etc.

Awards

Bibliography

• "Chance",
• "Dog Joys"
• "Get Height"
• "224 Featured Pages"

Filmography

• - Pericola (writer of dialogues)
• - BDT thirty years later (film-play; participation)
• - Peace to your house (teleplay; author of reprises and interludes)
• - Good luck, gentlemen.
• - Who's there? (short; participation)
• - Chance (Ukraine, short film; screenwriter)
• - Altshows (director and screenwriter)
• - Idiots (short; screenwriter)
• - Don't play the fool - expedition member

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Notes

Links

• - official site Semyon Altov
• - official channel Semyon Altov
• on YouTube
• - broadcast October 5, 2008(video)
• on Last.fm
• . piter.tv (May 6, 2014).

An excerpt characterizing Altov, Semyon

The regimental commander turned to Prince Bagration, begging him to drive back, as it was too dangerous here. "Have mercy, your Excellency, for God's sake!" he said, looking for confirmation at the retinue officer, who was turning away from him. “Here, if you please, see!” He let them see the bullets, which incessantly squealed, sang and whistled around them. He spoke in such a tone of request and reproach, with which a carpenter says to a master holding an ax: “Our business is familiar, but you will get your hands wet.” He spoke as if he himself could not be killed by these bullets, and his half-closed eyes made his words even more convincing. The staff officer joined in the exhortations of the regimental commander; but Prince Bagration did not answer them and only ordered them to stop firing and line up in such a way as to make room for the two battalions that were approaching. While he was talking, as if by an invisible hand stretched from right to left, from the rising wind, a canopy of smoke that hid the hollow, and the opposite mountain with the French moving along it opened up before them. All eyes were involuntarily fixed on this French column, moving towards us and meandering along the ledges of the terrain. The furry hats of the soldiers were already visible; it was already possible to distinguish officers from privates; one could see how their banner fluttered on the staff.
“They are going well,” said someone in Bagration’s retinue.
The head of the column had already descended into the hollow. The collision must have taken place on this side of the descent...
The remnants of our regiment, which was in action, hastily forming up, retreated to the right; from behind them, dispersing the stragglers, two battalions of the 6th Chasseurs approached harmoniously. They had not yet reached Bagration, and already a heavy, heavy step was heard, beaten in the leg by the whole mass of people. From the left flank, the company commander walked closest to Bagration, a round-faced, stately man with a stupid, happy expression on his face, the same one who ran out of the booth. He apparently did not think of anything at that moment, except that he would pass by the authorities as a fine fellow.
With ruthless self-satisfaction, he walked lightly on muscular legs, as if he were swimming, stretching himself without the slightest effort and differing in this lightness from the heavy step of the soldiers walking along his step. He carried at his foot a thin, narrow sword (a bent skewer that did not look like a weapon) at his foot, and, looking now at his superiors, then back, without losing a step, flexibly turned with his whole strong camp. It seemed that all the forces of his soul were aimed at the best way walk past the authorities, and feeling that he was doing this job well, he was happy. “Left ... left ... left ...”, he seemed to say inwardly every step, and according to this tact with variously stern faces, a wall of soldier figures, weighed down with satchels and guns, moved, as if each of these hundreds of soldiers mentally sentenced every step: “ left ... left ... left ... ". The fat major, puffing and breaking his pace, went around the bush along the road; a lagging soldier, out of breath, with a frightened face for his malfunction, was trotting up to the company; the ball, pressing the air, flew over the head of Prince Bagration and his retinue and in time: “left - left!” hit the column. "Close up!" I heard the flaunting voice of the company commander. The soldiers arced around something in the place where the ball fell; the old gentleman, a flank non-commissioned officer, lagging behind the dead, caught up with his line, jumped up, changed his foot, caught a step and looked around angrily. “Left…left…left…” seemed to be heard from behind the menacing silence and the monotonous sound of feet hitting the ground at the same time.
- Well done guys! - said Prince Bagration.
"For the sake of ... hoo ho ho ho! ..." resounded through the ranks. The gloomy soldier who was walking on the left, shouting, looked round at Bagration with such an expression as if he were saying: "we know ourselves"; the other, without looking back and as if afraid of being entertained, with his mouth open, shouted and passed.
They were ordered to stop and take off their knapsacks.
Bagration rode around the rows that passed by him and dismounted from his horse. He gave the Cossack the reins, took off and handed over the cloak, straightened his legs and straightened his cap on his head. The head of the French column, with officers in front, appeared from under the mountain.
"With God!" Bagration said firmly, audible voice, turned for a moment to the front and, slightly waving his arms, with the awkward step of a cavalryman, as if laboring, went forward across the uneven field. Prince Andrei felt that some irresistible force was drawing him forward, and he experienced great happiness. [Here the attack occurred, about which Thiers says: “Les russes se conduisirent vaillamment, et chose rare a la guerre, on vit deux masses d" infanterie Mariecher resolument l "une contre l" autre sans qu "aucune des deux ceda avant d "etre abordee"; and Napoleon on St. Helena said: "Quelques bataillons russes montrerent de l" intrepidite ". [The Russians behaved valiantly, and a rare thing in war, two masses of infantry marched decisively against one another, and neither of the two gave way until the very collision. Napoleon's words: [Several Russian battalions showed fearlessness.]

Semyon Teodorovich Altov (1945), (real name Altshuller) - Russian and Soviet satirist, screenwriter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Semyon Altov was born on January 17, 1945 in Sverdlovsk, where his parents were evacuated during the Great Patriotic War. His father, Teodor Semyonovich Altshuller, was a teacher at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, and his mother, Lyubov Naumovna Zalesskaya, was an architect. After the end of the war, they returned to native city- Leningrad.

When Semyon was 8 years old, his parents gave him a Young Chemist set, which captivated young Semyon so much that in the future he chose the profession of a chemist. After graduating from a chemical college, he enters the Leningrad Technological Institute. Lensoviet, specialty chemist-varnisher. In 1968, after graduating from the institute, he got a job in his specialty at the State Institute of Mineral Pigments and at the plant. Shaumyan.

Writing activity Altova seeds.

The biography of the satirist writer Semyon Altov begins in the 1970s, when he was 26 years old, with the first satirical and humorous works. Although in several interviews Semyon Teodorovich admitted that he initially tried to write poetry.

Altov's first publication was in the "Phrases" section of the Literary Gazette, in the "12 Chairs Club" section. For writing aphorisms, the satirist received his first fee - in the amount of 38 rubles.

In 1973, two years after the first publication, Semyon Altov was invited to the Lenconcert. In the words of Semyon Teodorovich himself, “I climbed onto the stage, where I stick around” until now.

Currently, Semyon Altov is the author of 4 books: "Get Height", "Dog's Joys", "224 Selected Pages", "Chance". He also wrote many monologues that were performed on the stage by such famous comedians like Gennady Khazanov, Vladimir Vinokur, Klara Novikova, Efim Shifrin, and, of course, the author himself.

In addition, Semyon Altov wrote many scripts for television and variety programs, plays and films.

In 1987, on the stage of the Moscow Variety Theater, the premiere of the last stage work of Arkady Raikin took place - the play "Peace to your house", the author of the interludes in which was Semyon Altov.

Participation in TV shows.

On December 1, 1995, Altov took part in the Field of Miracles capital show dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Gennady Khazanov.

Also was frequent guest in such humorous TV programs as "Around Laughter", "Gentleman Show", "Without intermission", "Laugh room", "Crooked Mirror", "Izmailovsky Park", "Jurmala", "Evening Quarter". Repeatedly took part in the filming of television shows, shows and films as a screenwriter, artist and invited guest.

In 1997, the NTV channel released the humorous television series “Nuts” (24 episodes), the author and initiator of which was Semyon Altov, and the director of this series was his son, Pavel Semenovich Altov.

In the 80s, Semyon Altov, in collaboration with Leonid Yakubovich, Mikhail Gorodinsky, Yan Arlazorov, Vyacheslav Polunin, Valery Nikolenko, Viktor Billevich and the Litsedei Theater, created a new pop humorous program"SHOW-01". The program actively and successfully gave concerts throughout the Soviet Union and included drawings, attracting viewers to participate in the performance.

Semyon Altov's Peru also owns the dialogues for the musical film based on the buff opera by Jacques Offenbach - Pericola.

The peculiar performing style of Semyon Altov noticeably distinguishes him from other artists of the humorous genre. He reads his monologues without smiling, monotonously, with the same frozen expression on his face, monotonous with a nasal voice. Thanks to this style of his, he more than once became the hero of parodies.

His wife - Larisa Vasilievna Altova - specializes in choral conductor. They have been married for over thirty years.

Son - Pavel Semyonovich Altov - director, businessman and producer of his father (director of the TV series "Klutzes" on NTV). Daughter-in-law - Anna Altova.

Grandchildren - Varvara Pavlovna Altova, Ekaterina Pavlovna Altova, Vasily Pavlovna Altov.

In 1994, Semyon Altov became a laureate of the international festival of satire and humor "Golden Ostap". He was awarded a gilded statuette after Sergei Dovlatov and Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
in 2001 he received the Arkady Raikin Cup at the Riga International Festival "Sea of ​​Laughter".
2003 receives the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
2008 - Laureate of the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize.

Filmography

1984 - Pericola (writer of dialogues)
1986 - BDT thirty years later (film-play; participation)
1987 - Peace to your house (teleplay; author of reprises and interludes)
1992 - Good luck to you, gentlemen
1992 - Who's there? (short; participation)
1993 - Chance (Ukraine, short; screenwriter)
1994 - Altshows (director and screenwriter)
1996 - Idiots (short; screenwriter)
1997 - Don't play the fool - member of the expedition