The screen master has repeatedly changed his public position.
The star of "Bandit Petersburg," Alexey Serebryakov, required urgent medical assistance in the midst of the winter holidays. The artist found himself in a very bad situation.
Serebryakov was hospitalized due to chronic bronchitis. It is known that the doctors were so concerned about the actor's condition that they even imposed a smoking ban. One can only imagine how difficult it will be for Alexey, who has been faithful to this habit since the age of 13 and smokes two packs a day.
"In December, the 61-year-old star of '9th Company,' 'Cargo 200,' and 'Leviathan' was hospitalized for four days in moderate condition. He suffered from shortness of breath and a persistent cough. Doctors diagnosed an exacerbation against the backdrop of enjoying nicotine. Serebryakov has long been gasping for breath and constantly coughing, but he still does not plan to quit this harmful habit," the source reports.
Currently, 61-year-old Serebryakov is already at home. If Alexey cannot quit smoking altogether, doctors advise him to at least reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day. The artist was also recommended to do breathing exercises. If Serebryakov does not listen to the doctors, he may face quite sad consequences. Among them is the risk of COPD — chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It cannot be cured. Moreover, the disease severely limits the patient's breathing. It is worth noting that this was the same diagnosis that Viktor Proskurin had.
We can only hope that Serebryakov will pull himself together. Especially since in 2018 he himself said in an interview that "good health is the key to success in life." It is unlikely that the artist has changed his mind over the past almost six years.
In early 2012, he emigrated with his family to Canada. According to the actor himself, the reason for leaving was the unfavorable social situation in Russia, associated with the rise of aggression and intolerance, and the authorities' failure to uphold the basic civil rights of the population. In a 2012 interview, Serebryakov explained his decision as follows: "I moved my family to Canada. I want my children to grow up and be raised in a fundamentally different everyday ideology. I want them to understand that knowledge and hard work can be valued, that it is not necessary to elbow one’s way through, to be rude, to be aggressive, and to fear people. The street ideology of a civilized country is kindness and tolerance — something that is sorely lacking in Russia. Unfortunately, here, no matter how I protect and isolate them, you cannot shield them from rudeness and aggression. It is in the air. Rudeness has triumphed... the last straw was the summer fires of 2010, when Central Russia was engulfed in a monstrous smog. And it’s not even about the smog, but that the authorities did not announce the need to evacuate at least the children, since the particulates that fill the smog irreversibly settle in the lungs. This absolutely indifferent attitude of those in power overflowed my cup of patience." As "Arguments and Facts" notes, Serebryakov's 2012 interview is his true program document, and what he said then is fundamentally no different from what he said in 2018.
In February 2018, he expressed his opinion on the state of affairs in modern Russia in an interview with Yuri Dud: "I think that if you go 30, 50, 70 kilometers away from Moscow, you will see many elements of the 1990s. Sooner or later, neither knowledge, nor resourcefulness, nor entrepreneurship, nor dignity are still the prerogative, the national idea. The national idea is strength, rudeness, and impudence!" Serebryakov's statement resonated widely in Russia, was widely discussed on social media, and was negatively assessed by many figures in culture and art in the country, but there were also those who supported the actor.
At the end of that year, at a business forum in London, he accused Russia of inciting wars over the past twenty years (Georgia, Chechnya, Ukraine, Syria, CAR).
In March 2021, the media reported that Alexey Serebryakov had returned to Russia. "I never actually left. I took the children out to educate them," the actor explained. He signed an open letter from the Cinema Union against Russia's military invasion of Ukraine.
He has known his current wife Maria since the 1980s, when she danced in the Igor Moiseyev Ensemble. Later, Maria went to work on a contract in Canada, got married there, and became a Canadian citizen. Then she divorced her husband after spending seven years in Canada. She was a choreographer at the Vakhtangov Theater. In the 1990s, she married Alexey. The family has three children: Maria's daughter from her first marriage, Dasha, and brothers Stepan and Danila, who were adopted from two different orphanages. Regarding the adoption of the children, the actor said in an interview: "The thing is, Maria and I didn't succeed with children twice."
