Father
Ivan Ivanovich Okhlobystin was born back in 1905. Therefore, it is not surprising that throughout his life he had to go through more than one war: Spanish, Korean, Finnish and the Great Patriotic War. Moreover, Okhlobystin Sr. received a medical education, and at the front doctors were always worth their weight in gold. In the ranks of the armed forces, Okhlobystin rose to the rank of colonel.
However, in peacetime, Ivan Ivanovich also managed to achieve great success in his professional activities. At least, as his son claims in his autobiographical book “Ulysses,” Okhlobystin was present at the execution of Lavrentiy Beria.
Lavrentiy Beria, as is known, was convicted in 1953. And in the 1960s, when fate brought Okhlobystin together with his next wife, he was already heading the Polenovo holiday home, located in the Tula region.
Policy
And in 2011, the name of Ivan Okhlobystin began to appear more and more often in the media. And all thanks to his political beliefs. That year, he announced that he planned to nominate his candidacy for the post of President of the Russian Federation, but a week later he abandoned the initiative. He also ran for the State Duma from the Kedr green party, but later admitted this was a mistake.
Politician Ivan Okhlobystin
In the spring of 2012 he created his own party “Coalition of Heaven”. But already in the summer he headed the Supreme Council of the Right Cause party. In October, the Holy Synod banned priests from joining political associations. As a result, he left Right Cause, but remained its spiritual mentor.
Ivan Ivanovich advocates the creation of an ideological patriotic program that will be aimed at educating young people. He is also a member of the public organization “Right to Arms” and is its honorary member. Okhlobystin not only fights for the rights of civilian gun owners, he has a collection of guns near his home.
Ivan Okhlobystin
The star has a categorical attitude towards sexual minorities; his homophobic views have been repeatedly emphasized in the media. In 2014, Ivan Okhlobystin wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin in which he asked the Russian leader to return the article in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for sodomy, since in his understanding a man cannot marry a man. Putin ignored this message.
In 2014, Okhlobystin came under sanctions from Ukrainian officials, who banned the actor from coming to the country and also appearing on Ukrainian television. The bans affected not only his person, but his entire filmography. In the same year, the actor was included in the lists of persons prohibited from entering the territory of Latvia and Estonia. The leaders of these countries commented on the decision, explaining that Okhlobystin, with his statements, incites ethnic hatred, as well as hatred based on sexual orientation.
Mother
Then young Albina Belyaeva, the future mother of Ivan Okhlobystin, was still a student at the Bauman Higher Technical School. 19-year-old Belyaeva came to Polenovo for an internship. The girl was placed in a rest home by her mother, who worked there as a nurse. This is how Albina met Ivan Okhlobystin. It was not difficult for an experienced 60-year-old man to turn the young lady’s head.
Belyaeva’s feelings turned out to be so strong that she was not stopped either by the huge age difference or by the fact that Okhlobystin’s children from a previous marriage were much older than her. Even Albina’s grandmother turned out to be the same age as Ivan Ivanovich. Be that as it may, Belyaeva and Okhlobystin soon became legal spouses. And in July 1966, the couple had a son, Ivan.
Ivan is Ivan's father. Pages from the biography of Guard Colonel of the Medical Service I. I. Okhlobystin
Kadira A.S. – senior researcher at the diorama museum “Battle of Kursk. Belgorod direction"Secretary of the Belgorod regional branch of the Russian Military Historical Society
Ivan Okhlobystin is one of the most controversial figures of the Russian mass media, whose figure and whose words and actions leave no one indifferent.
Actor, director, screenwriter, producer, priest of the Russian Orthodox Church temporarily banned from serving, public figure, loving husband and father of six children - all these are different facets of Ivan Ivanovich’s personality. Fans are delighted with his work in film and television. But there is one fact that few admirers of Ivan Okhlobystin’s work know about - Ivan Ivanovich is the son of a participant in the Great Patriotic War and the Battle of Kursk.
Moreover, the biography of his father is closely intertwined with the biographies of some of the characters in the museum’s exhibition - the diorama “Battle of Kursk. Belgorod direction".
The idea to write this material arose in 2013 after watching a TV show on one of the federal channels, where Ivan Okhlobystin, being invited as a guest, said a few words about his father, focusing on the fact that his father was a front-line soldier, a participant in the Great Patriotic War . Then a request was made in the electronic database “Feat of the People.” The results did not take long to wait: according to the request “Ivan Ivanovich Okhlobystin, born 1905. “Two award lists appeared - for the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree and the Order of the Red Banner.
Based on the data from these award sheets, as well as other materials, with the permission of Ivan Okhlobystin Jr., it was decided to try to recreate the life path of his father, an undoubtedly heroic personality.
In the reference book “Military Doctors - Participants in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945,” published in 1997 by the Military Medical Museum of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the following is said about Ivan Okhlobystin’s father:
“OKHLOBYSTIN Ivan Ivanovich (12/16/1905, Kimry, Tver province). Colonel of the medical service. In the Armed Forces since 1927. Graduate of the Military Medical Academy (1933). From July to October 1941 - brigade doctor of the 5th Airborne Brigade, then - divisional doctor of the 87th Infantry Division and (March - May 1942) 13th Guards. rifle division of the Southwestern Front. Then he served as a corps doctor of the 1st Airborne Corps (from Feb. 1943–4th Guards Airborne Division) as part of the Moscow Military District - Reserve Headquarters of the Supreme High Command (Jan. - Feb., Apr. - May 1943), Northwestern, Central (June - Oct. 1943), 1st and (March 1944 - Jan. 1945) 2nd Ukrainian Fronts. Later (until the end of the war) - corps doctor of the 1st Guards. long-range bomber aviation corps (Feb. - March 1945) and the 8th long-range aviation corps. He headed the medical service of the unit in the Battle of Smolensk and the Battle of Kursk, in the Korsun-Shevchenko, Yassy-Kishinev and Budapest operations. Dismissed from the Armed Forces in 1957. Awarded four orders and many medals.”
From the data on the award sheet and information from the directory, it follows that Ivan Okhlobystin Sr. was born on December 16, 1905 in the city of Kimry, Tver province, into the peasant family of Ivan and Evboria Okhlobystin. In 1927, he volunteered to join the Red Army. In a short essay published in one of the blogs and briefly and clearly titled “Papa,” Ivan Okhlobystin Jr. talked about his father like this:
“So: in the 20s of the 20th century, at the dawn of aviation, dad and his best Abkhaz friend wanted to become pilots, but the aircraft technology of those times did not inspire confidence in them, and they went to the Military Medical Academy. Kirov (I’m not sure if she was already named Kirov then, but it doesn’t matter).”
In 1933, Okhlobystin Sr. was awarded a gold watch by the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR K.E. Voroshilov. And then Okhlobystin, the elder , “was sent to the medical unit at the headquarters of Marshal Tukhachevsky. He instilled in him a taste for Beethoven and, in absentia, through correspondence, introduced him to Charles de Gaulle. From this intelligent man, dad left to serve in the Special Far Eastern Army under the command of one of the members of the Special Judicial Presence, Marshal Blucher. Apparently alarmed by the frequent changes of leadership and the lack of healthy revolutionary passion at the top, dad went to fight in Spain, where he met his future commander, General Rodimtsev.” Upon returning from Spain, Ivan Okhlobystin Sr. expanded his military biography with participation in the military conflict on Lake Khasan and the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.
Military doctor 2nd rank Ivan Okhlobystin met the Great Patriotic War as a brigade doctor of the 5th Airborne Brigade, commanded by his colleague in Spain, Colonel A.I. Rodimtsev, who took over the brigade in May 1941.
Rodimtsev himself recalled it this way: “The head of the political department of the brigade, senior political instructor Grigory Marchenko, the brigade commissioner Fyodor Chernyshev, the deputy for logistics Yuri Andriets, the head of the personnel department Pavel Shaposhnikov, the assistant to the head of the operational department Alexey Kolesnik, the head of the sanitary service Ivan Okhlobystin compiled, as I see it, I thought from the first minutes of meeting, an excellent team of officers, disciplined and friendly. Later, I became convinced that this first impression was not wrong: each of them showed great dedication and courage in the battles for their homeland.”
General Rodimtsev described Ivan Okhlobystin, the eldest, as a man of exceptional courage, a competent officer who did not lose his presence of mind at a critical moment and cared about his personnel:
“I really liked the character of this man: he never lost heart. Even during the furious bombing near Konotop, when we were almost buried alive under the rubble of the dugout, this man found the strength to joke and laugh. He looked cheerful even now, although his overcoat was torn by shrapnel
- Well, it's a hot day! - he spoke smiling. What are our paratroopers like? Fire guys! However, Comrade Colonel, I cannot cope with some of them. The man, you see, is seriously wounded, and he needs to immediately follow to the rear, but he does not want to leave the battlefield. I have already counted over a dozen of these. What to do with them?
— Provide medical assistance and leave in service. After the fight you will tell me their names
- Still, this is disobedience and disobedience! No, Ivan Ivanovich, this is a high example!
In the award sheet for the Order of the Red Banner, the actions of Okhlobystin Sr. are described as follows:
“During the Kyiv operation, he personally ensured the collection and evacuation of the wounded to hospitals with maximum speed. He himself was personally on the front line under fire and provided assistance to wounded soldiers. On an ambulance under the village. Red Tractor drove out for the wounded, picked them up under hurricane mortar fire, firing at cuckoos from a machine gun. Under the hut. Lizogubovsky at the moment of the tank breakthrough in the village. Vyrovka personally organized the evacuation of the wounded to the rear and took out the wounded under machine-gun fire. Near the village of Kazatskoye, at the moment of the tank breakthrough, he personally organized the sending of the wounded to the rear and left, firing back from the Germans. During the period when the 5th Airborne Brigade was leaving the encirclement, 18 seriously wounded people were taken out of the encirclement and delivered safely to the Sumy hospital.”
Rodimtsev recalled that during the breakthrough of the remnants of the brigade from the village of Kazatskoye, when the personnel and commanders had to fight their way through German positions, including crawling on their bellies, Okhlobystin did not lose his presence of mind and even found the strength to joke and raise morale fighters and commanders, which could not go unnoticed by the command staff of the brigade.
“— History with geography! — he said cheerfully, “However, I must note that for the first time in my life I studied the terrain with the help of my own belly!” I have made exactly three hundred parachute jumps. I assure you, I am ready to make another thousand three hundred jumps, just so as not to make such a “cross” again!.. By the way, as a doctor, I must note that the mud in which we swam cannot be healing at this time of year. Therefore, Comrade Colonel, with your permission, I will go looking for our rear. Really, it wouldn’t hurt for us to change clothes.”
Okhlobystin’s cheerful voice could already be heard from a distance. It was getting dark. Fireflies of cigarettes flashed and went out between the trees. Okhlobystin gave a speech to the circle of fighters:
-...And no surroundings, you understand? We are strength. We'll still count the Krauts' bones. It’s nothing that they occupied Kozatskoye. We will hit them from behind so that feathers will fly!
The commissar's mood changed, his voice became more cheerful.
- Listen, Alexander. Ilyich, this doctor is an excellent political worker.”
As Ivan Okhlobystin Jr. writes, the command “documentedly acknowledged that dad was a practicing optimist. During combat operations, this quality, controversial in peaceful conditions, is one of the irrefutable proofs of courage.”
Maria Sergeevna Borovichenko, later a participant in the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, depicted in the diorama “Battle of Kursk. Belgorod direction".
A.I. Rodimtsev recalled: “Among the nurses carrying the wounded to the cars, I noticed a girl I knew. Where did I see her? Having lowered the stretcher to the ground, she straightened up, almost a child, dark, thin, with winged eyebrows on her stern face.
- Listen, Ivan Ivanovich, who is this girl? How long has she been with us?
The head of the sanitation service smiled:
- Oh, this girl... A real eaglet! Absolutely fearless. Rarity! Today, under enemy fire, she managed to provide first aid to ten seriously wounded soldiers and take them out of the battlefield. Only the Krauts, apparently, do not recognize her as a warrior. The brand new overcoat was completely ruined.
He called out to the warrior, she ran up to us, froze, throwing her head back.
“Show me, Mashenka, your overcoat...” Okhlobystin bent down, took the tattered skirt of his overcoat, then lightly turned the warrior half-turn towards me. “Please note: seven bullet holes.”
In November 1941, on the basis of formations of the 3rd Airborne Corps, which included the 5th Airborne Brigade, the 87th Rifle Division was formed, which on January 19, 1942 was transformed into the 13th Guards Rifle Division. Thus, from a team doctor, Ivan Okhlobystin became a division doctor. As part of the division, he took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, often went into bayonet attacks and hand-to-hand combat, and on December 22, 1942 he was awarded a medal for the defense of Stalingrad.”
A.I. Rodimtsev and with representatives of the command staff of the 13th Guards Rifle Division. 4th from left – I. I. Okhlobystin Sr.
As General Rodimtsev recalled : “Once I.I. Okhlobystin said: “I got one impression: every wounded soldier has a great sense of moral satisfaction that he was in battle. The wounded strive to return to their unit as soon as possible.”
Judging by the words of his son, Ivan Okhlobystin Sr. did not like to remember the Battle of Stalingrad. He, according to Ivan, “never went on an excursion in Volgograd - during the Battle of Stalingrad he lost almost all his friends there. That was the only time I saw him cry."
After Stalingrad, Ivan Okhlobystin Sr. was appointed to the post of corps doctor of the 1st Airborne Corps, which in February 1943 was reorganized into the 4th Guards Airborne Division. As part of the division, he took part in the Battle of Kursk, then was transferred to the position of flag officer in the 8th Long-Range Aviation Corps, where he served until the end of the war. For the excellent performance of the command’s tasks in sanitary provision of corps units, Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Okhlobystin was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree.
After the war, Ivan Okhlobystin Sr. took part in the Korean War, served as head of the medical service of the Moscow Military District, and took part as a forensic expert in the execution of Lavrentiy Beria. In 1957, Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Okhlobystin retired.
After retiring, he worked as the head physician at the Polenovo rest home, where on July 22, 1966, he and his third wife Albina Belyaeva had a son, Ivan.
Five years later, Ivan Ivanovich and Albina Ivanovna divorced, but Ivan Ivanovich periodically met with his son Vanya, who at that time lived with his grandmother and great-grandmother on his mother’s side in a military boarding house in the village of Vorobyovo, Kaluga region, where Ivan Ivanovich Sr. was transferred as chief physician.
Periodically, father and son met and spent time together. Ivan Okhlobystin Jr. recalls it this way:
“Dad was present in my life fragmentarily. He was a very sick man, because his lung was shot twice and his liver several times, and he also had a concussion. Sometimes my mother left me with him on Sunday. He lived next to us, also on Voikovskaya. And he didn’t bother me too much: he gave me money, indicating the time when I should return. And I was absolutely happy. The route web extended from the Baikal cinema to the Leningrad cinema, with the Warsaw cinema in the middle. Then I would return and my mother would take me home. Sometimes dad took me with him on a boat ride along the Volga to Astrakhan. At night, together we stole ram from the stern, which the sailors dried on clotheslines.”
Judging by the memoirs of Ivan Okhlobystin, his father “was adored and idolized by everyone: from the chairman of the local collective farm to an ordinary milkmaid. Upon arrival, my father organized something like political information at the club. I don’t know what he said, but his lectures were like a hypnotic session, because the hall was always packed to capacity, like in films with Gojko Mitic.”
According to the actor, his father “did not have a single weakness except women and war, led an ascetic lifestyle, was not interested in the fate of his children, spoke five languages, adored the poetry of the Silver Age, was friends with the artist Cherkasov and considered Solzhenitsyn a traitor, and nuclear war is the only way to achieve world prosperity. For the reprint edition of “The Master and Margarita”, I swore to him that if I accidentally find myself at the “nuclear button”, then I am guaranteed to use the chance given to me, and if I don’t, then I will take this promise from my children, whom I should have, like him , at least five." He, a convinced atheist, reacted joyfully to his son’s decision to accept the sacrament of baptism and gave Ivan the 14 rubles necessary to perform the sacrament.
Ivan Ivanovich Okhlobystin Sr. died at the age of 76 in 1981 in the main military clinical hospital named after N.N. Burdenko. The Okhlobystin family preserves the memory of their heroic relative, because they believe that children should be raised by such examples and that it is the duty of every citizen of our country to be proud of their ancestors.
One of the daughters of Ivan Okhlobystin Jr., Evdokia, studies at a specialized school at the Moscow Medical Academy named after I.M. Sechenov, and it was not her father’s role in the series “Interns” that prompted her to choose a future profession, where Ivan Okhlobystin plays the head of the therapeutic department , but a biography of her heroic grandfather.
As Ivan Okhlobystin’s relatives say: “Genes are to blame for the fact that Dunya decided to connect her fate with medicine, and not with cinema, like her dad, because her grandfather, Ivan’s father, was an outstanding doctor.”
In addition, when creating the image of his hero, Doctor Bykov, Ivan Okhlobystin gave him some of the character traits of his father - inexhaustible optimism, a sense of humor and the ability to find a way out of any situation.
List of sources and literature used
1. Military doctors - participants in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. - St. Petersburg, 1997
2. Ivan Okhlobystin//Access mode// https://bogatov.info/cgi-bin/gw?b=Genbase;i=1584
3. Okhlobystin I.I. Dad // Dark album. - M.: Terirem, 2014. - P. 212-220
4. Okhlobystin I.I. “Above the Abyss” // Caravan of stories No. 01(11), 2008 P. 17-39
5. Rodimtsev A.I. Guardsmen stood to the death. M.: DOSAAF, 1969. P. 28-70
6. Rodimtsev A.I. Mashenka from the Mousetrap. - M., Politizdat, 1969.P. 75
7. Rodimtsev A.I. Yours, Fatherland, sons. — Kyiv: Publishing house. Political literature of Ukraine, 1982 P. 57-115
After divorce
Despite having a common child, love quickly disappeared, and Albina Belyaeva and Ivan Okhlobystin broke up. Due to the fact that after graduating from university, Belyaeva decided to continue her education and entered graduate school, her grandmother took up raising the future actor. Only when Okhlobystin Jr. entered fifth grade did his mother take him in with her. Having learned about Ivan’s dubious successes at school, Belyaeva turned to her ex-husband for help.
Okhlobystin Sr., who had previously appeared in his son’s field of vision only periodically, this time instantly responded to his ex-wife’s request. Thanks to the harsh educational process, Okhlobystin quickly corrected the deuces into fives.
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In the mid-90s, he starred with Alexei Uchitel. He played Serge Lifar in the film “Giselle Mania”, using the pseudonym Leopold Luxurious.
In the early 90s, in parallel with filming films, Okhlobystin began writing scripts. The first film filmed based on his script was the crime action film “The Arbiter.” At that time, he also acted as the director of the film, managing to attract Rolan Bykov, Kirill Kozakov and Fyodor Bondarchuk to the filming, and also played one of the roles himself. The film by Ivan Okhlobystin received one of the awards at the Kinotavr festival, and the soundtrack to The Arbiter was recorded by the groups Picnic and Obermaneken.
The script for the film “Freak” by Roman Kachanov was also a success. This work received a nomination for the Green Apple, Golden Leaf award.
Okhlobystin continued to collaborate with Kachanov in the future. It was he who wrote the scripts for the films “DMB” (together with Roman), “Maximilian” and “Down House”. Okhlobystin also took part in all films as an actor.
As a screenwriter, he also collaborated with Oleg Fomin (“The Publican”), Garik Sukachev (“Midlife Crisis”, “Holiday” and “House of the Sun”), Georgy Shengelia (“Garbage Man”), Eldar Salavatov (“Antikiller D.K. "), Mikhail Khleborodov ("Paragraph 78"), Yegor Baranov ("Nightingale the Robber" and "Priest-San"), Dina Shturmanova ("Bartender"). His last work in the screenwriting field was collaboration with Konstantin Khudyakov, who filmed “The Moth.”
Already in the 2010s, Okhlobystin became famous for his role as doctor Andrei Bykov in the series “Interns.” He also starred with Victor Ginzburg in “Generation P”, in the series “Freud’s Method” and with Roman Kachanov in the film “Gena-Concrete” together with Gosha Kutsenko.
His latest films were Klim Shipenko’s film “Slave” and the TV series “Polar”, where he played the crime author Mikhail “Bolt” Boltyaev.
New families
Nevertheless, Albina Ivanovna continued to tell her son that one day he would end up in a vocational school. And so it happened. After graduating from school, Okhlobystin actually entered a vocational school, where he received a specialty in computer operators. And then Ivan was drafted into the army. At this time, Belyaeva, still quite a young woman, married again and gave birth to her second son, Stanislav.
Ivan Okhlobystin's father also got married. However, Okhlobystin Jr. in his book “I bless you for a righteous fight! Resistance to World Evil” writes that no one remembered the name of his father’s last wife. However, Ivan Ivanovich soon divorced her.
Ivan Okhlobystin today
Ivan Okhlobystin, who combined seemingly incompatible spheres: cinema and church, took part in the filming of the program “The Fate of a Man.”
Many fans of the actor, director and screenwriter were stunned when he suddenly became a clergyman, especially since Ivan’s lifestyle before that was very far from the principles of life of a churchgoer. Ivan remembers how, after graduating from VGIK, he drove around Moscow without a helmet or other protective equipment. In addition, at some point he began to drink a lot, and once even rode a motorcycle into the subway.
“Booze, women, stabbings - this is youth,” Okhlobystin admits, adding that all this was, however, “within the limits of what is permissible.”
And this despite the fact that at first Ivan led a healthy lifestyle, took care of himself, and did not drink. However, in the world of cinema, “everyone drinks,” and as a result, he could not agree with anyone on joint ventures. After “seven drinks,” according to Ivan, we were able to immediately agree on two projects.
Soon, however, it turned out that stopping was not easy. For two years he led a riotous lifestyle, and one day he realized that he had to quit. In order to quit alcohol, Okhlobystin decided to get married. And soon, in one of the then fashionable clubs in the capital, he met actress Oksana Arbuzova.
They went for a motorcycle ride around Moscow at night and from that evening they never parted. Oksana gave birth to six children, and Ivan admits that she is his main treasure.
“The kind of jewel that needs to be taken out of a fire first. Even if there were children left there. She gives birth to new ones,” says Okhlobystin and admits that Oksana is also a “restraining factor” for him.
Who and how convinced Ivan to become a priest. How he remembers that period of his life, and why he was nevertheless forced to ask the patriarch to release him from serving in the church. What tragedies did the actor endure in his life, and what moments would he like to relive again? What Maria Golubkina and Garik Sukachev say about Okhlobystin and his wife. What kind of injury did the actor receive recently while filming? And what does he say about his role in the new comedy “Slave”? - about all this in Boris Korchevnikov’s next program “The Fate of a Man”.
One of the last “high-profile cases” in which Ivan Okhlobystin participated was a protest against the law on domestic violence. He recorded a video message in which he called on his fans to prevent the adoption of the law on domestic violence, which he called “a new reason to take away our children.”
“It is impossible to overlook the adoption of this law,” he concluded.
Okhlobystin is not the only celebrity to openly oppose the bill. Earlier, athlete and State Duma deputy Nikolai Valuev spoke in the same vein. He argues that the new law will destroy families rather than preserve them.
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