March 12, 1996: On the basis of a group of graduates of the VGIK course of Armen Dzhgarkhanyan, by the Decree of the Committee on Culture of the Government of Moscow, the Moscow Drama Theater was created under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan (originally under the name "Theatre" D ").
The theater gets a room on Kooperativnaya street with a tiny hall for 96 seats. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan's one-man show "Crapp's Last Tape" by S. Beckett was transferred to this stage, the premieres of "Twelfth Night, or As You Like" by W. Shakespeare (both performances directed by Krikor Azaryan), "Kazakin, or Kamzol from Mascaril" by J. Molière were released (staged by Karen Nersisyan), “...But the theater lives on!” (based on the vaudeville “Lev Gurych Sinichkin” by A. Lensky and A. Bondy, directed by Vlad Druzhinin), “Mozart and Salieri” by A. Pushkin (directed by Valery Sarkisov), two children's performances.
An appeal to the classics, to the plays of Moliere, Bulgakov, Vampilov, to the immortal "Little Tragedies" by A.S. Pushkin, even for venerable theaters, is sometimes a difficult task. Therefore, the success of the young theater was so noticeable, which created such a diverse and significant repertoire in a short time: "Little Tragedies" by A.S. Pushkin, "Kazakin or Kamzol from Mascaril" J.B. Molière, "Twelfth Night" by W. Shakespeare, "The Last Tape of Krapp" by S. Beckett, "Good People" by A. Vampilov, vaudeville "Lev Gurych Sinichkin", children's performances "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "Good Country Australia" . The most valuable thing in this undoubted success is the fact that all the work was carried out relying only on our own strengths and resources. Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, having also shown himself to be a talented teacher, gave a "start in life" to many young actors.
On November 23, 2002, in one of the most picturesque districts of the capital - on Sparrow Hills - the doors of the theater were hospitably opened at a new address: Lomonosovsky Prospekt, Building 17 (Progress cinema), with a hall for 500 seats.
The theater under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan tours a lot. The geography of tours is wide: Perm and Yekaterinburg, Cherepovets and Saratov, Kaluga and St. Petersburg, Kostroma and Yaroslavl, Lipetsk, Murmansk and numerous cities of the Moscow region.

Armen Borisovich believes that he is surrounded by idiots and vile personalities

Armen Borisovich believes that he is surrounded by idiots and vile personalities

Several popular Moscow theaters at once opened the next season without their former directors. "Taganka" - without Yuri LYUBIMOV, the Stanislavsky Theater - without Alexander GALIBIN, "Mayakovka" - without Sergei ARTSIBASHEV. The departure of these masters was preceded by noisy conflicts with artists. Express Gazeta became aware of a new rapidly escalating scandal. This time in a team headed by Armen DZHIGARKHANYAN. And if you believe the dissatisfied members of the troupe, the woman is to blame for everything - the current favorite of the 75-year-old aksakal.

Joined us a couple of years ago Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya- said the wards Dzhigarkhanyan. - She was offered to become an accompanist in the Ali Baba project, after working on which she decided to continue working under the wing of Armen Borisovich. It was noticeable: he favors Vitalina. Bold, decisive, not shy to express her opinion, and this despite the fact that she is not even 30.

According to our informants, Dzhigarkhanyan had previously tried to gently patronize the young employees he liked. But they often gently made it clear that they were not ready for an affair with the artistic director. Say, he is married and it is worthless to start novels, even if the wife of the master lives almost without a break in the USA. Armen Borisovich nodded his head, but immediately remarked slyly:

I gave the floor to my friend - the famous doctor, academician Badalyan that if the time comes when I can’t love women, I’ll die right there. Discussing this, the girls giggled among themselves, saying that it would hardly be better if the famous actor and director died in their arms. Chai, not a boy anymore.

But Vitalina was not afraid of difficulties, they say in the theater. - On the contrary, she herself fought with a vengeance for the attention of Dzhigarkhanyan. And at the same time as his sympathy grew, the appetites of the “garne maiden” also increased.

As it turned out, the owner beautiful surname Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, came to conquer Moscow from Ukraine. At first, she taught at the Jewish Academy named after Maimonides at the Faculty of World musical culture. And then the director Vladimir Yachmenev recommended her to the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater.

Fetid cloaca

IN Lately the favorite of Armen Borisovich began to take on more and more important issues, the artists assure. - No one has any doubts that an ordinary employee of the sound department, who quickly managed to compose the musical repertoire of performances, has a tremendous influence on the artistic director. And the fact that as many as eight artists lost their jobs, among whom there are acquaintances throughout the country, is also Vitalina's "merit".

Of course, the question arises: why excommunicate from the scene the people on whom the audience comes? But the victims also have an answer to this:

The stars have serious requests, and the theater budget is not rubber. It is enough to have only a couple of prims in the troupe, and the viewer will still watch the performances. Now this role has been Elena Ksenofontova And Olga Kuzina. Armen Borisovich continues to appreciate, cherish and cherish them. Which of the actors was left behind? Alexander Bukharov And Andrey Merzlikin. Alexey Shevchenkov and his wife Olga. Vladimir Kapustin And Valentin Samokhin. Olga Prikhudaylova and finally Stanislav Duzhnikov, who left the troupe a little earlier - went to the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, where his wife works Christina Babushkina.

Duzhnikov and Shevchenkov finally left the theater, - the participants of the “mighty bunch”, who were united by a common scandalous situation, told us. - And the rest are still on the staff - just do not play anything, of course, not of their own free will. By law, we cannot be fired. Would like to, but crap! We are even paid a small salary. At first, we were somehow embarrassed about this, and then we figured it out: the theater drank so much blood from us that it is not ashamed.

As for the role of Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya in their conflict with Dzhigarkhanyan, the artists sitting without work are categorical:

The gray mouse managed to quickly turn a decent theater into a fetid cesspool. Young artists are afraid of her like fire! They say that rumors about a lively lady have already reached the United States, where Dzhigarkhanyan's legal wife lives. At one time, Tatyana Sergeevna left to work for hire in Dallas - there she was offered to teach Russian. And recently, having learned that the faithful fell under the influence of a young lady, the wife allegedly threw a huge scandal at Armen and almost filed for divorce. Of course, we decided to call the master himself with a request to comment on the situation.

potassium cyanide for lunch

Hearing what we want to talk about, Dzhigarkhanyan was noticeably worried. He began to shout, to confuse the words:

Yes, in our theater there are eight actors with whom we actually broke up. They and I realized that in our country the birth rate is falling sharply. The master, most likely, is alluding to Andrey Merzlikin and Olga Prikhudaylova. Andrei is already a father three times, and Olga recently gave birth to a son. It is clear that, having become parents, they must not only work hard on the stage, but also educate the kids.

In fact, we have no right to fire anyone, - continued Armen Borisovich. - Soviet legislation for some reason firmly stands on the protection of such people. The state pays me a lot of money as the artistic director of the theater, but no one asks me if I can fire a person on my own initiative. If the actor does not want to, he does not leave. We have people, I will not name their names, who come to receive their salaries right before my eyes. For a long time they have not earned anything with their labor, but they receive money.

Here Armen Borisovich is probably alluding to Valentin Samokhin (father of Misha Dyatlov in the TV series "School"). They say that last week he came to the cashier and faced his opponent head-on. Both pretended not to notice each other.

The following words of Dzhigarkhanyan shocked us to the core. He nevertheless decided to get personal and give characteristics to former employees: - Stanislav Duzhnikov worked here. If you meet this fat idiot, know that he is lying! Big and loose fool! Alexey Shevchenkov is a vile person. I took him and his wife to the theatre. She is not an actress at all and, in fact, was not needed. But I gave her a salary.

And now Shevchenkov has gone against me, telling vile stories. You never know what they say about me and Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya! She music director theater - and all! When I need to separate Mozart from Mahler I ask her, of course, she is a good professional. Why is she called the second Marina Zudina? Oh, what you boring and sad people! There is a good anecdote. "Do you know that Chaikovsky- a bugger? - ask the Armenian radio. To which it replies: “Yes, we know, but we love him not only for this!” Tabakov- Well done. Even if Zudina spoils everything and sprinkles potassium cyanide on her husband for lunch, but this, of course, is not so, even in this case Oleg Palych has the right to choose the wife he wants. He did so much in the theater!

- And yet, dissatisfied artists keep saying that you and Vitalina are almost driving them into serfdom?- In the theater it does not happen that all the Hamlets. At best, there is one. When, for example, they tell me that in the Taganka Theater Lyubimov took the money and put it in his pocket, I remain on the side of Yuri Petrovich. After all, it was he who gave birth to these people, made them professionals. And this is the most important! Play well, then you will eat and drink well. Fight against gossips, give them something for lunch!

“Dzhigarkhanyan himself is to blame for everything!”

The Moscow police opened a criminal case after the appeal of the theater and film actor Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, who announced the theft of his passport. About it RIA News said a law enforcement source.

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan himself, who announced his intention to divorce Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, who served as director of his theater, promised that he would invite back everyone who last years was fired or quit because of Vitalina.

“This woman has broken firewood in the theater, I intend to correct the situation,” the master made a statement.

Have you been asked to return yet? - we asked Dana Nazarova a question. The actress, who had served at the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater for eight years, parted ugly - she gave birth to a child, and the contract was not renewed with her.

Until they called. I will not go to Armen Borisovich with this question. I feel uncomfortable, he has a lot of problems without me now, including health problems. But if he himself or the new director is invited, I will certainly return to the theater with pleasure.

The people's artist himself now assures that his wife hid from him almost all information about the true state of affairs in the theater. About the dismissed artists (to whom she literally pointed to the door) she said that they were leaving of their own free will.

For example, about the favorite of Armen Borisovich, Alexei Shevchenkova, she said that he intended to go to Oleg Tabakov. Dzhigarkhanyan was terribly angry with his artists, considered them traitors ...

But I didn’t understand what was happening: earlier, Armen Borisovich said that I was a wonderful artist, one of the best in his theater, he called me “baby” - and suddenly the contract was not renewed. Now I understand that he simply did not know what was really happening, he was given distorted information, - says Nazarova.

Why does she need all this? It’s very simple: to reduce the troupe and instead of dramatic performances put on their own, musical ones, which Vitalina did. After all, every performance is an income, - says another dismissed Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, costume designer Margarita Cheres.

She, unlike Nazarova, does not intend to return to the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater. Even if they beg.

I serve in a very worthy place - the Musical Theater. And happy!

Acting in films, playing in entreprises and, on the whole, former artists of the troupe are satisfied with their lives: Alexei Shevchenkov, and Elena Ksenofontova, and Stas Duzhnikov, and many others. Will they return? Unlikely.

Armen Borisovich himself is to blame for everything, - Margarita Cheres believes. - He was told, and intelligent people, that Vitalina is deceiving. But he waved it off. He renounced all those who faithfully served him for many years. And now comes the payback.

Meanwhile, the inside of the theater split in two. Some support the ex-director, assuring that "she did everything for the theater and for the sake of Armen Borisovich." Others hiss that "that's how it should be: there was nothing to intrigue."

Today it became known about the raider seizure of the building of the Moscow Drama Theater. As Elina Mazur, the representative of the spouse of the People's Artist of the USSR Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, told the 360 TV channel, the theater was seized by the "Armenian group". All management has been removed, accounting has been seized, and Dzhigarkhanyan himself "sits locked in his office without telephones." The representative of Dzhigarkhanyan's wife did not provide other details.

Martha Cheremnova.

Divorce scandal involving famous actor and artistic director own theater of 82-year-old Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and his current wife, 38-year-old Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, it would seem, began recently. Until recently, she was the general director of this theater, and even, as she herself admitted in a TV show, success appeared under her leadership, debts were reduced.

It turned out that back in 2011, newspapermen "took the fly" at Vitalina.

"Dzhigarkhanyan's favorite keeps the whole theater at bay," they wrote in the press six years ago. And she tirelessly fought for the attention of the figure. As the man got used to his passion, the demands of the girl also increased.

As you know, the owner of the sonorous surname Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya came to conquer the capital of Russia from Ukraine. At first she taught at the Jewish Academy named after Maimonides at the Faculty of World Musical Culture, and then director Vladimir Yachmenev recommended her to the Dzhigarkhanyan Theater.

Vitalina quickly achieved great influence on the artistic director, which is why everyone's favorite artists lost their jobs: Alexander Bukharov, Andrei Merzlikin, Alexei Shevchenkov and his wife Olga, Vladimir Kapustin and Valentin Samokhin, Olga Prikhudaylova and, finally, Stanislav Duzhnikov, wrote "Mir24 ".

Later, the media wrote that because of Vitalina, many actors left or were fired. She allegedly gave the main roles to her friend Oksana Golubeva, and she not so long ago said something out of place and was also fired.

The last loss of the theater is the actress Elena Ksenofontova, the prima who held the repertoire.

Uliana Chilindina, who left because of Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, starred in several popular TV series and films - Indigo, Yarik, Love as Love, Kukotsky's Case.

The star of the series "Eighties" Natalya Zemtsova also left of her own free will, but according to rumors, she was fired for being too beautiful.

Alexey Shevchenkov served in the Theater from 1997 to 2010 under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Since 2010, he moved to the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov.

Stanislav Duzhnikov became famous in a number of films, but especially in the STS sitcom Voronins, which got into the Guinness Book of Records.

Andrey Merzlikin in 2001-2011 was an actor of the Moscow Drama Theater under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Played 108 roles in movies and TV shows.