Konstantin Alexandrovich Konstantinovsky ( June 30, 1912 , Poltava - June 17, 1970 , Leningrad ) - theater figure, circus artist, trainer of predators, major of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR .
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| Birth name | Konstantin Alexandrovich Konstantinovsky | |||
| Date of Birth | June 30, 1912 | |||
| Place of Birth | Poltava , Poltava province , Russia | |||
| Date of death | June 17, 1970 (57 years old) | |||
| Place of death | Leningrad , RSFSR , USSR | |||
| Citizenship |  the USSR | |||
| Spouse | Margarita Petrovna Nazarova | |||
| Children | Alexey Konstantinovsky | |||
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Biography
Born June 30, 1912. At the age of 8, he ended up in the Poltava colony for juvenile delinquents (later the Labor Commune of the OGPU named after Maxim Gorky ).
Over the years, he entered the board of the labor colony and in 1928, Anton Semenovich Makarenko was selected to found the asset of the Trudkommuna named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky.
Military career
In 1933, he became a graduate of the Kharkov Livestock College Konstantinovsky and was sent to courses of the OGPU , and until 1938 he was a senior authorized representative of the NKVD .
Since 1938, State Security Lieutenant K.A. Konstantinovsky headed the cynological service of the Far Eastern Border District - according to the results of military operations in the area of Lake Khasan and the Khalkhin-Gol River, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In 1940, the captain of state security Konstantinovsky led the cynological service of the Western Special Border District . "Pets" Konstantinovsky took part in the elimination of fortifications and armored vehicles of the White Finns, and dog orderlies rescued many wounded soldiers.
During the Great Patriotic War, he served in a special unit that was engaged in the training of kamikaze dogs that blew up tanks [1] .
Artist career
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Since 1946 - Director of the Daugavpils Theater. Here he met actress Margarita Nazarova , who soon became his wife. Together with her, who played the main role, starred in the comedy of Vladimir Fetin " Striped Flight ". Konstantinovsky acted as a trainer in the films Dangerous Trails and Today is a New Attraction .
At the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in 1957 in Moscow, Nazarova and Konstantinovsky performed the program “Water extravaganza”, for which they received a gold medal and the title of laureates of this festival.
KA Konstantinovsky’s life ended tragically - the tigress Yulka, playing, injured his head with his claws, and the trainer started to have brain inflammation [2] [3] . He underwent an operation that failed, and he died on June 17, 1970 in Leningrad, at the 58th year of his life. He was buried in a cemetery in the village of Tolmachevo, Luga district, Leningrad region, next to his mother.
The wife of Konstantinovsky (Nazarov) at one time also received a serious injury from a tiger (his name was Pursh ) - rupture of the temporal artery .
Memory
The fate of the trainer and his wife is dedicated to the Russian television series Margarita Nazarova (television series) , which was released in 2016. The role of Konstantin Konstantinovsky was made by the actor Andrei Chernyshov [4] [5] [6] . Despite the rather large correspondence of the plot of the artist’s biography, many plot lines, including the main ones (primarily related to the illness and death of Konstantinovsky), are fiction [7] .
Family
- Wife - Margarita Nazarova (10.26.1926 - 10.25.2005)
- Son - Alexey Konstantinovsky (born 09.04.1960) - a trainer, in 1992 he moved to France. Married to the Russian artist Olga Strakhova (born 30.06.1963) - daughter of the acrobat Evgeny Strakhov;
- Granddaughter - Margarita Naskinova (Konstantinovskaya) (born January 25, 1985), works in a circus, performs with cats, snakes, and also an aerialist. Married to Bulgarian Stoyan Mitkov-Naskinov (born January 27, 1985);
- Great-grandson Evgeny (May 29, 2009);
- Great-granddaughter Ekaterina (05/15/2010);
- Grandson - Konstantin Konstantinovsky (06/08/1989) - aerial gymnast;
- Raisa's great-granddaughter (06/10/2012).
Rewards
- Order of the Red Star (1938)
- Order of the Red Banner (1948)
Notes
- ↑ Stalin used “kamikaze dogs” to win the Second World War
- ↑ Dmitry Tokman, Igor Shevelev. Tiger tamer died. Margarita Nazarova, who became famous for the film “Striped Flight” . Russian newspaper (October 29, 2005).
- ↑ The heroine of the comedy “Striped Flight” Margarita Nazarova turned 75 years old . NEWSru.com (November 26, 2001).
- ↑ Margarita Nazarova (TV series, 2016) - Russian TV series + - TV series.com
- ↑ Olga Pogodina revealed the secrets of the star of the Striped Flight . 7 days (March 30, 2016). Date of appeal April 24, 2016.
- ↑ “Margarita Nazarova”: interesting facts about the series in numbers . TV Week (April 22, 2016). Date of appeal April 24, 2016.
- ↑ The heroine of the comedy "Striped Flight" Margarita Nazarova turned 75 years old. . Date of treatment August 4, 2016.