Is the story of how Yuri Nikulin worshiped 78 Japanese?

For several years, a story about the noble act of the Soviet artist, who struck his Japanese colleagues, has been spreading on social networks. We checked how true this bike is.

Viral publications begin with the fact that one morning on the way to work, Yuri Nikulin became a witness to the tragedy - at a pedestrian crossing, the car knocked out a young woman and her six -year -old son. The boy, as it turned out, was not injured, but his mother died on the spot. Then Nikulin took off his jacket and covered them with the woman’s body to protect the child from a terrible picture. After that, the artist spent some time in an attempt to console the boy, gave him his tie and eventually led him away by taxi to his grandmother.

Because of this incident, Nikulin at an hour and a half was late for a meeting with a Japanese delegation who had arrived in Moscow, and even violated the rules of etiquette: appeared without a jacket and tie, in a shirt with sleeves rolled up to his elbow. The head of the delegation of Kobayashi and his colleagues considered the appearance and late Nikulin with an insult and defiantly left the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.

Only five years later, Kobayasi learned the true reason for the late artist. Nikulin was invited to Tokyo, sending an airplane that belonged to Kobayashi company. The office of the Soviet artist met 78 low bowed Japanese without jackets, without ties and white shirts, whose sleeves were rolled up to the elbow.

This story can be read on numerous information and entertainment resources ("Picabu","New hearth","YaPlakal","We","Useful notes"), As well as in social networks. She gained widespread on Facebook - in particular, there are publications with 958, 453, 452, 377, 322 And 271 reposts at the time of writing this analysis.

“Verified” did not find traces of this story either in the Autobiographical Book of Nikulin "Almost serious", Not in the dedicated artist that From the series "Life of wonderful people", not in other authoritative sources.

Some details of viral publications cause separate issues. So, judging by the open sourcesNikulin was avid The motorist and to work was to drive by car - with the exception of the last years of his life, when a personal driver brought him to the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. From 1970 until his death in 1997 lived on Big Bronnaya, more than 2 km of path to the place of service. According to Google Maps, the pedestrian will take more than 30 minutes on this route.

In Japan, Nikulin really visited - for example, in 1965 he Refused From the main role in the film “Watch out the car” because of the tour in this country. Then the artist played Camo in the film "Little fugitive", Whose action takes place in the USSR and Japan.

Nevertheless, usually foreign delegations in their offices are accepted by heads of institutions and institutions, and Nikulin He headed The circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard only in 1982, at the age of 60, having completed the career of the clown. Thus, the viral story is unconvincing from at least a chronological point of view.

“Verified” did not find information about the Japanese figure of the XX century named Koboyashi, which was somehow connected with the circus in open sources. Moreover, Kobayashi - Eighth In terms of prevalence, the surname in Japan, and The results - The sixth (as a personal name is unpopular).

After the story of Nikulin became viral, publication Blitz.Style She talked about her with the grandson of the artist - his full hand. Yuri Nikulin - the youngest said: “As far as I know, it wasn’t. It happens that he did something good, human-he said one, the second, the third added his, the fourth still threw it. And this reaches such a scale. The story is beautiful, really. He has been going on the Internet for many years. ”

Regarding “many years”, Nikulin Jr. is not quite right. The case gained fame on the network only in the spring of 2022. On March 28, the deacon shared history in his blog in the “Live Journal” Andrey Kuraev, and after a few minutes, with reference to the latter, the text was replaced by the blogger Dmitry Chernyshev (mi3ch). It was thanks to them that the bike in a short time became viral.

As “verified”, for the first time this story appeared On the same day, March 28, 2022, in the community "Story for one stop" in Yandex.Zen. This page from 23,000 subscribers is conducted by a teacher of history and social studies, and a writer is part -time Vladimir Sedinkin From the mound. He confirmed his authorship in an interview with “verified”. The composition of Sedinkin Not the first time Dispersing along the rune under the guise of a real story and without instructing the author. However, the writer does not regret it. He is convinced that in difficult times, people need such good motivating stories - regardless of their truthfulness.

Photo on the cover: Wikimedia Commons

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