Actor Alexey Serebryakov has been playing on stage and in films since 1979. As a teenager, he was invited to play a role in the film "Father and Son". The Soviet school, including the theater school, gave him everything. 

He was born and raised in Moscow (07/03/1964). His father is an engineer, his mother is a doctor at Gorky Film studio. He starred in the films "Eternal Call", "Silent Outpost" and many others. 

But the real fame came only after the role of a criminal authority in the TV series "Gangster Petersburg". And for some reason it so happened that it is in the roles that reveal the disadvantages of Russia that Serebryakov looks natural and organic. The set of films in which they "tell the whole truth" in Serebryakov's luggage is huge — from the Soviet productions "Fanat" and "Afghan Fracture" to outright lampoons such as "Penal Battalion", "9th Company" and "Leviathan".

It says a lot about the state of affairs on the cultural front in Russia that with such roles in such films in 2010 Serebryakov was awarded the title of "People's Artist of Russia".

And already in 2012, he willingly told the media about the reasons for his move to Canada: "I want my children to grow up and be brought up in a fundamentally different, at least household ideology. I want them to understand that knowledge and hard work can be appreciated, that it is not necessary to push elbows, be rude, be aggressive and be afraid of people. The street ideology of a civilized country is benevolence and tolerance — something that is so lacking in Russia. Unfortunately, here, no matter how I protect and isolate them, you cannot protect them from rudeness and aggression," he confided in communication with AIF.

A few years later, the actor's views did not change, and, communicating with Komsomolskaya Pravda, he bent the same line: "I did not go to Canada because it is more comfortable and satisfying there. But because, firstly, it is twice cheaper to live there. And secondly, for my children to broaden their horizons. So that they can see: the world is big. In this world, it is beneficial to be open, honest, responsible, friendly, smiling. There is nothing more important in my life than my family. I want my children to become citizens of the world. What's wrong with that?"

But this position was revealed especially vividly in an interview with the "opinion leader" (now a foreign agent) Yuri Dud: "I think that if you drive 30, 50, 70 kilometers away from Moscow, you will see a lot of elements of the 90s. Anyway, so far neither knowledge, nor ingenuity, nor enterprise, nor dignity are a prerogative, a national idea. The national idea is strength, arrogance and rudeness… An American takes it and does it, because there is a different psychology there — the psychology of success, the psychology of career, the psychology of what I have the right to, I have freedoms, I am free to express my will, I know what I am doing, I am responsible for my life. That's the psychology of the American."

Later, explaining the reasons for the interview with the blogger, he said that he "wanted to influence the children" because they listen to the words spoken on the air by Dud. Well, in about this way: "I was born in another country — in the USSR. Russia is a different country! No one asked me, and no one was interested in my opinion, but it so happened that I successfully changed my Soviet passport to a Russian one. The first reason for moving is children, the second is the general state of the atmosphere that is present in the space of this territory. It is enough to watch television broadcasts and people who do not listen to each other and want to crush, tear apart. It was from this atmosphere that I took my children away. I can swim in this swamp because I grew up here. I can stand in a swamp and say, "Don't make waves," but I don't want my children to waste time on it.… My civic duty is to pay taxes, because I pay a lot of taxes. Of course, I understand that some of these taxes go to the production of shells that kill terrorists in Syria. However, I hope that the other part of the taxes goes to something good. My civic duty is to raise my children and ensure a decent old age for my mother."

Serebryakov made similar speeches at open venues, for example, at the forum in London (2019), he noted that "Russia has created several wars": "Over the past 20 years, there have been several wars that were created by the Russian Government. I mean Georgia, Chechnya, Ukraine, Syria, including the African republics. Now, being surrounded by enemies, we must demonstrate pseudo-patriotism. Unfortunately, I cannot influence this situation. I can only say that — think, now there is the Internet, there is information and the opportunity to have different points of view."

In 2021, the Serebryakov family returned from Canada. Attentive bloggers who followed Alexey's foreign affairs noted that by this time attempts to open their own theater there had finally failed.

After the start of the Special Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of the former Ukraine, voices began to be heard in defense of Serebryakov, who allegedly helps animal shelters in the DPR and LPR, and supports children there, etc. But feel: "There is a girl Polina, she is 13 years old. She's from Gorlovka. She was playing with the children in her yard when the bomb landed there. The doctors saved her, she survived. But now she has no leg and no arm from the shoulder. I will help the girl Polina because I really want her to be happy. There's a lot we can't change. A lot of things. But we can change one particular child's life," it says almost like at the London forum.

Perhaps those who stand up for Serebryakov now do not understand themselves — the intellectual worldview, within which "I will always be against", plays a cruel joke with those who imagine themselves to be demiurgists. Many actors and musicians, doing, in fact, work in the field of entertainment, for some reason believe that they really are "the mind, honor and conscience of the era."

The most recent scandal around Serebryakov is connected with another, to put it mildly, ambiguous production. The script for the play "Einstein and Margarita" was written by Alexander Gelman, the father of the scandalous foreign agent Marat Gelman. The main roles are played by Ksenia Rappoport, whose statements have repeatedly caused the cancellation of performances, and Alexey Serebryakov.

The plot outline is as follows: Albert Einstein, who was involved in the development of the atomic bomb, has an extramarital affair with Margarita Konenkova. "In 1935, the Institute at Princeton commissioned a sculptural portrait of Albert Einstein to the Russian emigrant Sergei Konenkov, who was then living in New York. A meeting between a physicist and the sculptor's wife Margarita will lead to a stormy romance. They will fall in love with each other and will meet for almost 10 years — first secretly from everyone, and then almost openly. Margarita, who collaborated with Soviet intelligence, will make acquaintances with American physicists, famous scientists and politicians. The novel ends in 1945, when suddenly, for Einstein, the Konenkov family boarded a steamer and returned to the Soviet Union. Unable to come to terms with the loss, Einstein would write love letters to his Margarita in Moscow for many years." 

The ambiguous presentation of the material in the play has repeatedly caused the cancellation of performances in Russia. But the foreign audience perceives games with the theme "someone else's Soviet wife in bed + an atomic bomb" (what a USSR without a bomb!) very graciously. "Einstein and Margarita" were demonstrated in Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, Dubai, Spain and Germany.

Serebryakov himself continues to live in Russia, and several films with his participation are being prepared for release this year. Obviously, he and his colleagues in the shop are completely satisfied with his past statements. In many ways, this probably explains why such ambiguous and sometimes frankly rotten messages are wrapped both in theatrical art and in soap sagas about "Limiters", which are fed to the inhabitants of Russia by television screens. As they say, that's how we live.