Director of the Rostov circus Dmitry Reznichenko said that the world-famous clown Oleg Popov died from a cardiac arrest, reports RIA “Novosti”. “His heart stopped, he complained, was just watching TV,” he said. According to him, after Popov became ill, was called the ambulance, which on arrival verified death of the entertainer.
Among the living circus, Oleg Popov, until recently, was the embodiment of the glory “of the Soviet circus”, which became a household name and has become proverbial. Glory is huge, comparable to the fame of the Russian ballet. The current forty know his middle name is Sunny the clown, but hardly guess that the way it is called English journalists after a tour of the UK Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard where he worked.
his classic biography of the Soviet ascetic — he was born in a village near Moscow, secretly from the parents ran away to circus school, from which he graduated and went on distribution in Tbilisi. Soon, however, returned at the invitation of another legendary clown Michael “Karandash” Rumyantsev, who is a long time assistant.
He played with sophisticated improvisations — parodied of these circus performers is a serious equilibrists and jugglers; did everything the same as they, only in funny pants and oversized plaid hat.
It quickly became popular — so popular, what is the envy of many serious artists. Among the most popular Reprise, indicates TASS, “Sleep on the wire”, “Cook”, “Ray”, “Whistle “, “the Drowned man”.
For those born in the 1970s, he was the hero of the Soviet happy childhood, which they now sometimes nostalgic sigh — the man-a holiday that was part of their life, great shading real signs of life in the Soviet republics of the Soviet Union and its capital.
He came to the children on weekends in the famous gear-long “the Clock”, appeared in films, recorded songs, he staged performances, toured the country with tours everywhere in his special outfit and makeup. The makeup, by the way, was as copyright notices, as without him were completely unrecognizable Oleg Popov — that’s why it, fortunately for him, did not recognize on the street; if there were, he would simply not let the passage of boys and girls and their parents.
In the early 1990s, the current of forty years, beginning then to grow up, received some bad news — their pet went abroad, to Germany. “Big money”, — hissed then, after detractors. In fact, the reason, apparently, was the acute sense of betrayal — in an interview with the then he admitted that the last straw that pushed him to accept the proposal of the foreign impresario, was the nearly complete loss of all savings, amassed literally back-breaking labor. To top it all off, in 1990 he dies his wife, a circus artist Alexander Popov.
Neither your own life nor the life of the country did not leave him a chance to stay “with his people where he, unfortunately, was.” By some kind of furious irony, in Germany he — and literally to the last years — appears under the pseudonym “Happy Hans”.
He returned to Russia in 2015, to speak at the presentation of the award the circus Master — and, as argued by a number of sources, with the intention to stay in Russia permanently. Everyone was talking about it — especially the pain, which middle-aged man spoke at the ceremony and talked about her, in fact, exile and separation from home.
Artists like to celebrate birthdays on the stage or the arena — not only because they are sensitive to attention, be sure to congratulate; just for them is the best way to spend the day. Popov, person-synonymous with “Soviet circus”, had a chance on the stage to die for — almost literally. Together with other artists “unique”, he was on tour in Rostov-on-don. The day before the performance, according to the interlocutors TASS, Oleg Popov was awake, watching TV and preparing for the performance. And in the evening came the news of his death.
Bury artist, most likely in Germany, where his family lives. And we will stay here to keep in memory his hat, his pants, his makeup, his light — and how soon this memory will begin to fade, now depends on us: he, on his part, it seems, did everything they were supposed to.
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