Michael's story
Mikhail Sergeevich Kazakov is a famous Russian actor who has become a businessman today. He gained popularity while participating in the children's program "Yeralash". Misha played in the 21st episode of a charming and chubby good-natured man.
Since 2007, he began to play in the series "Daddy's Daughters". According to the actor, he had to gain weight for the role in order to look more sweet and good-natured. Therefore, during the filming of his food was not limited. But when the series ended, Misha returned to physical activity and changed beyond recognition.
What Kazakov looks like now
In January 2018, the actor turned 30 years old. Looking at the photo of Mikhail before and after losing weight, it is hard to imagine that this athletic, fit man was once well-fed. With a height of 180 cm, the actor weighs 77 kg.
The results of losing weight can be seen on Kazakov's personal page on Instagram. Now he has moved away from his acting career a little and has devoted himself to his family and business.
How Michael managed to lose weight
According to the actor, he has always been physically active. Kazakov ran, swam and was constantly on the move. There was a moment when during the filming he lost 30 kg, but he was told to gain weight back so as not to go out of character.
After "Daddy's Daughters" Mikhail lost a lot of weight and changed his hairstyle. Walking and playing sports helped the actor lose weight. He replaced the use of the car with walking and walked 30-40 km. As a result, I lost weight to 77 kg. With the newly acquired weight, Kazakov began to look completely different, and many acquaintances simply did not recognize him.
Interview with Mikhail Kazakov
Mikhail spoke about his weight loss in Malakhov's program "Hi, Andrey." The actor simply stunned everyone present with his incredible transformation. Read more about Mikhail Kazakov's weight loss here.
“The secret is very simple - walking. I devoted two months to walking, and here is the result. Many acquaintances simply don’t recognize me now,” Kazakov said about his weight loss.
Star Secrets
Artists often become role models, so their weight loss is of particular interest. Actor Mikhail Kazakov believes that you can lose weight through regular walking long distances. You will have to give up transport and use of the elevator. Of course, you need to make a lot of effort, but the result is worth it.
Not so long ago, Mikhail Kazakov appeared before the public in a completely new way. He lost a lot of weight, cut his hair and grew a small stubble. The transformed Misha was simply unrecognizable. The actor who played Ilya Polezhaykin lost weight due to physical activity, preferring walking. He did not use any strict restrictions in food. Read more about how the actor lost weight in the video below.
The young actor has always had an expressive appearance. At the same time, he did not worry about being overweight, because it was the pleasant plumpness that made his characters so cute and charming. But when Mikhail appeared in the studio, even Grachevsky could not recognize him. Kazakov lost a couple of tens of kilograms and began to look simply amazing.
Frame from the program
A 30-year-old guy shared the secret of such an amazing transformation. It turned out that he was helped by classes in the gym and many hours of walking. The artist completely abandoned the car, and he had to walk distances of 30-40 kilometers. The test was not easy, but the result was definitely worth it.
Photo: social networks
Kazakov said that the acting profession had ceased to interest him. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at a business school and returned to his native Tver, where he opened his own business. Mikhail got married, and soon his beloved wife Elena gave him a son, Miroslav. Although Kazakov decided to give up acting, the memories of working on Yeralash remain the most incredible and precious for him.
Photo: social networks
Among the guests of the program were also adult artists who were lucky enough to shoot with Grachevsky. Stanislav Sadalsky, Olga Prokofieva, Marina Fedunkiv expressed their endless gratitude to Boris Yuryevich for the amazing creative atmosphere on the site and his great work. "Yeralash" continues its victorious march on the screens, so "boys and girls, as well as their parents" will still be able to see many new exciting stories.
- March 9, 2016, 11:37
Igor Petrenko
In the biography of a handsome actor, winner of the State Prize and a father of many children, there is a terrible episode from his early youth, which fell on the “dashing 90s”. 15-year-old Igor, who hated school, but was fond of sports and wrestling, made friends with an older guy, a small businessman. Once they decided to pull off a speculative deal, for which they borrowed 100 thousand rubles from a friend. But in the end it was just a waste of money. There was nothing to repay.
The merchant did not think of any other way out but to kill the creditor. Having guessed the moment, he shot him with a sawn-off shotgun in the apartment. The underage Petrenko, although he did not kill himself, helped in the development of the plan and was present at the massacre, providing "safety net". As an accomplice, he spent about a year in Matrosskaya Tishina, then he was released before the trial.
The process took place only 5 years later, in 1997, when the future artist was in the first year of Sliver. Taking into account all the circumstances (age at the time of the crime, degree of participation, positive characteristics of neighbors, teachers and colleagues), Petrenko was sentenced conditionally (8 years with a probationary period of 3 years).
Leonid Yakubovich
On August 19, 2001, a famous actor and showman knocked down a pedestrian to death in the Moscow region, but was found not guilty. As the investigation established, his victim, a 30-year-old merchant from Kyrgyzstan, was drunk and thoughtlessly crossed the road under the very nose of an approaching car. Although the Hyundai Accent was moving at a speed of only 50 km / h, and Yakubovich slammed on the brakes, a collision was inevitable. The downed man died a few days later in the hospital. In October of the same year, the case was closed for lack of corpus delicti.
Mikhail Kazakov
On the eve of his 17th birthday in 2005, the Yeralash actor and future Ilya Polezhaikin from Daddy's Daughters got involved in teenage street fights and stabbed his opponent. Misha, whom everyone knew only as a “good-natured and open” person, like a professional killer, struck right in the heart and carotid artery. During interrogations, he said that he went to the showdown at the request of a school friend who had a fight with her boyfriend and wanted to reason with him, and took out a knife when he suddenly attacked the girl in a rage.
During the investigation, the murder case was reclassified as excess of self-defense, and then the relatives of the murdered man unexpectedly stood up for Kazakov, declaring that his family fully compensated them for moral and material damage. With this in mind, as well as Mikhail's "sincere repentance" for what had happened, the court decided to dismiss the case.
Alexander Kilin
A monstrous murder with rape crossed out the life and career of an aspiring actor who managed to play episodic roles in the TV series Real Boys and the film The Geographer Drank His Globe Away. In August 2014, the body of a 19-year-old student was found on a playground in Perm, hit on the head with a stone and strangled. Having established her identity, the investigators found out that the night before she was in a beer bar, where she met a group of guys. Late at night she was seen off by one of them, 22-year-old student of the Perm Institute of Culture Sasha Kilin. According to investigators, the guy on the way persuaded her to be close, and at some point he simply knocked her to the ground, raped her and killed her.
Before the start of the trial in May 2015, it was reported that Alexander partially admitted his guilt, but later he changed his testimony and completely denied his involvement in the crime. Nevertheless, the jury found Kilin guilty on all counts, and the court sentenced the actor to 18 years in a penal colony and a year of confinement after. In an attempt to achieve mitigation, the lawyers reached the Supreme Court, but it upheld the verdict.
Valentina Malyavina
The Honored Artist of Russia, who starred in Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood at the age of 20 and later played the main role in the musical fairy tale The Deer King, spent five years in prison on charges of killing her own husband. 24-year-old actor Stas Zhdanko died in April 1978 from a blow to the chest with a kitchen knife, it happened in Valentina's apartment on the Arbat.
That evening, the couple, together with the famous actor Viktor Proskurin, who was visiting them, washed the premiere of his performance, and when he left, they quarreled. It is still not clear exactly how Stas received a mortal wound, but Malyavina, who is now 74 years old, still does not admit her guilt and insists on the version of suicide by negligence. At first, the investigators also decided so and closed the case.
However, after the death of Brezhnev in 1982, the new General Secretary Andropov began to shake the police and prosecutor's offices, revealing abuses and violations. Among the cases that were ordered to be raised and reviewed was the Malyavina case. The 42-year-old actress was brought to trial, according to eyewitnesses, they were judged very biased. She was found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to 9 years in prison.
So the actress ended up in Butyrka, then there were the Krasnopresnenskaya prison, the Mozhaisk zone, the Voronezh prison and a settlement in the Rostov region. Valentina Malyavina was released under Gorbachev's amnesty in 1987 and later released an amazing book-confession Hear Me, Pure in Heart, in which she depicted her prison life, court ordeals and episodes from her past "free" life, including that fateful evening. She dedicated these memoirs to Stas Zhdanko.
Georgy Yumatov
On March 6, 1994, Georgy Yumatov shot a janitor from a hunting rifle, who helped the actor bury his beloved dog Frosya, who died the day before.
Yumatov, according to article 103 of the Criminal Code, was threatened with imprisonment for a term of 3 to 10 years. But after the lawyer was able to prove that the actions of his client were not a deliberate murder, but went beyond the scope of necessary defense, two months after his arrest, Georgy Alexandrovich was released from Matrosskaya Tishina on bail. Then, as a front-line soldier on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Victory, he fell under an amnesty, and at the end of 1995 the case was dismissed.
Childhood and the family of Mikhail Kazakov - it all started with "Yeralash"
Misha was born in Tver. His father was a well-known businessman who produces sparkling water of the Kazakov trademark.Misha starred in Yeralash since childhood. He is considered a record holder, since only Kazakov managed to star in the 21st episode. Despite the fact that children older than fourteen years old are not filmed in this humorous project, Mikhail was invited to shoot even at sixteen. This is largely due to the fact that the good-natured plump boy looked younger than his real age.
Their close-knit family traveled a lot, and the boy visited with his parents in many countries of the world. In the summer, most often, he lived in the village of Myalitsino. His hobbies were breeding exotic plants, growing hybrids and mountain biking.
Mikhail Kazakov I'm not a glutton!
Despite the fact that Misha starred in Yeralash a lot, the audience already knew and loved him, and he himself liked to play, he did not think about connecting his life with the acting profession.
Tragedy in the life of Mikhail Kazakov: murder
In 2005, at the end of January, a tragedy happened - Misha killed a man. That evening, he met his friend, who studied with him at the same school. She was very upset, because, according to her, she quarreled with her young man, Yevgeny Gurkin. Misha offered to help, and she asked him to talk to Gurkin. During a showdown, Eugene attacked his ex-girlfriend, and Mikhail, in order to protect her, stabbed Gurkin three times with a knife - in the carotid artery and heart. The young man died. Kazakov immediately confessed to the arriving police that he had killed Yevgeny in defense of a friend.At the end of the trial, the mother and grandmother of the murdered guy petitioned for no claims against the attacker, indicating that moral and material compensation was paid to them in full. As a result, Kazakov's case was reclassified as self-defense.
Two years before this tragedy, Misha's father was also killed, also with a knife. The killer was found, but the case was also reclassified as self-defense. After this murder, Misha became close to his older brother Stas, who became his best friend.
At school, the future actor was spoken of as a soft and kind boy, no one believed that he could kill whoever it was. Misha himself, according to him, was actually gouging, he liked to hooligan. The teachers were always kind to him.
After some time, Kazakov returned to school and, after graduating from it, went to Moscow, where he became a student at the Financial and Law Academy.
Acting career of Mikhail Kazakov, filmography
During his studies, he received an invitation to star in the films Day of Money and Escape, where he had small roles, and soon after that - in the TV series Daddy's Daughters as Polezhaikin. Despite the fact that the aspiring actor was already in his twentieth year, he played a ninth grader. He did it great. While watching the series, it really seems that a sixteen-year-old schoolboy is on the screen. His Polezhaikin is a cute gouging with a white-toothed smile, who has a hard time studying. According to the series, Galina Sergeevna, his classmate, played by Liza Arzamasova, helps him to study. The audience liked the hero so much that the actor is still often called Polezhaikin, meeting on the street.Mikhail Kazakov as Ilya Polezhaikin
Misha says that he never dreamed of becoming an actor, but the emotions experienced when entering the stage cannot be compared with anything, so he likes to perform.
Kazakov opened the casting agency KinoDom in his hometown. After a while, branches appeared in Cheboksary, Kazan, Moscow, Yoshkar-Ola, St. Petersburg. The actor devotes a lot of time and effort to the development of this idea. He has grandiose plans for the future, he wants to create a holding and is not going to be limited to the federal market.
Recently, the theater Stanislavsky invited Kazakov to play the role of the cat Behemoth in the production of The Master and Margarita.
Another project in which Kazakov worked was Stroibatya. Filming took place in Podolsk, where the actor lived right on the set for almost two months.
Personal life of Mikhail Kazakov
For six months of filming in "Daddy's Daughters" Misha lost a lot of weight. He lost twenty kilograms without any diets. According to him, in the morning and in the evening he drinks kefir and tries to go to the pool often.Michael married for the first time at twenty. His chosen one Julia was eighteen years old. The marriage did not last even a year. As the actor said, they did not agree on the characters. They had no children, and they had nothing to share, except for a dog named Marcel, who remained with Yulia. After the divorce, the actor left for Tver.
Mikhail does not know how to cook, but having participated in the recording of a program on the STS channel, where he cooked simple dishes together with the chefs, he became very interested in this, and, as he himself said, he would not mind learning a little about this profession.
Mikhail Kazakov today
Kazakov continues to act in film, is engaged in business. In addition to casting agencies, he has a clothing store in Tver, which was opened in 2012. He is an international economist by profession. Recently, the actor entered graduate school to continue his education in his specialty.Michael got married again in 2011. He had known his wife Elena for eight years before the wedding. She has a daughter from her first marriage. In 2012, Mikhail had a son, he was named Miroslav.
// Photo: frame from the series "Daddy's Daughters"
A new release of the program "Hi, Andrey!" on "Russia 1" was dedicated to the actors and creators of the film almanac "Yeralash". Boris Grachevsky and his many wards appeared in the studio. One of these wards was Mikhail Kazakov. Fans remembered the young artist due to his bright appearance. The boy has always been plump, but it seems that he was not at all embarrassed by being overweight.
When Kazakov entered the studio, even Grachevsky did not recognize him. It turned out that Polezhaikin from "Daddy's Daughters" had incredibly lost weight. According to Mikhail, he never exhausted himself with long workouts or diets.
“The secret is very simple - walking. I devoted two months to walking, and here is the result. Many acquaintances simply do not recognize me now, ”Kazakov said.
The man has really changed a lot. Moreover, he completely revised his views on life. According to Mikhail, at some point he was no longer interested in acting. That is why the ex-artist returned to his native Tver, where he opened a business. Now Kazakov is happily married, and in 2012 his wife gave him a son, Miroslav.
“Acting is still not mine. I graduated from business school, faculty of economics. Entrepreneurship has always been closer to me, although I am very grateful to Boris Yuryevich for incredible memories, ”the man shared.
On the air of the program "Hi, Andrey!" other stars of Yeralash appeared. So, the hero of the program was Alexander Golovin, who first became famous precisely during the filming of the children's film almanac. According to Grachevsky, dozens, hundreds of letters were written to the boy every day, but he refused to even look at messages from fans.
Adult actors also became a guest of the studio, who gladly took part in the filming of Yeralash, considering it an invaluable experience. Stas Sadalsky, Marina Fedunkiv, Olga Prokofieva and many others thanked Boris Grachevsky for his incredible work.
The creator of "Yeralash" came to the shooting with his young wife. He spoke about the true reason for the popularity of his main creative brainchild.
“Even in our song they sing “Boys and girls, as well as their parents” ... Each issue seems to be humorous, but it carries a certain meaning for children, their mothers and fathers. It is important for me that Yeralash is watched by the whole family, so that people see in it not only funny pictures, but morality, ”said Grachevsky.
At the end of the program, the guests of the studio thanked Boris Yuryevich for his incredible work. For several decades of the existence of Yeralash, Grachevsky managed to find and educate many stars. However, the man does not intend to stop there, dreaming of continuing to work on the film almanac.
