Why was Livanov’s son convicted? Actor Vasily Livanov, whose son is in prison, achieved compulsory treatment for his daughter-in-law and custody of his granddaughter

Once upon a time this was a very happy, intelligent family. Father - Sherlock Holmes, famous throughout the country, Vasily Livanov. Mother is a cartoonist, Elena Livanova. Their son, Boris, seemed to have all the conditions to make a career and name for himself. But everything was ruined by envy own parents and a bottle... Terrible news that Livanov’s son is in New Year's Eve hacked to death a drinking companion with an ax, shocked the film circles of Moscow. But it didn’t seem to surprise the parents themselves, even though it almost gave them a heart attack. Just a few months before the tragedy, the Russian “Sherlock Holmes” said in an interview:

I myself am afraid of my son... After all, this is not the first time that he rushes at his mother, then at me. We are very unhappy...

Nikas Safronov, a friend of the accused’s mother, recalls the same thing:

There was an attempt to attack his mother; Boris did not respect his parents at all. But I believe that this is absolutely not their fault. After all, they forgave everything, literally everything... And hoped for the best.

Director Mark Zakharov confirms his words:

Livanov did not teach his son any of this...

But are the parents, especially the father, really innocent? There are other opinions...In the early 80s, the filming of the film "Sherlock Holmes" was underway in full swing. The first episodes, released in 1979, brought instant popularity to Vasily Livanov. But as often happens in the families of actors, who have been overwhelmed by enormous popular love and are extremely busy and have no time left for children, perhaps this is the reason that Boris and his parents moved away from each other.

For some reason Boris is very angry with us! - said Vasily Borisovich. – It seems to him that he is not in demand, he could achieve more...

Once upon a time, Boris wrote scripts and acted on the theater stage. But everything was abandoned for the sake of aimlessly drinking alcohol day after day. Even his own young daughter Eva. The Livanovs' entourage says that in lately the son and parents could not communicate calmly at all - it all ended in a scandal, almost a stabbing... It seems that the last incident was some kind of act of recognition of one’s own powerlessness in the face of circumstances...

Let us remember that during a showdown, Boris Livanov is believed to have hacked his friend to death with a kitchen hatchet.

As the police told KP, they walked in the apartment until 9 am. Meanwhile, the owner of the apartment fell asleep quite early. He opened his eyes only when the company gathered for more. He ran out after them with a meat hatchet. And, already at the entrance, Livanov hit 31-year-old Igor Khromov several times with it. He died on the spot.

Criminal investigation officers are looking for a chopping hatchet that Boris’s wife, Ekaterina, threw out the window. She says she doesn't remember where he fell. Now experts are working on the spot with metal detectors, searching the snowdrifts around the house.

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“They took a man out. He was drunk as hell. We were later told that this was the son of the famous artist Livanov...”

For residents of house number seven on Druzhby Street in Khimki near Moscow, where the emergency happened with their son famous actor, a drunken fight is, in general, a common occurrence.

Already on the first floor, KP correspondents were met by a local resident snoring peacefully right next to the elevator. The neighbors, who have not yet recovered from New Year's Eve, rattling string bags with “fuel”, indifferently step over the poor fellow.

Last year my grandfather’s father made a resolution on New Year’s Eve! To death! - an 18-year-old boy living in this house shared with KP. - They put me in prison! Now the guy has been killed. We think they hit him on the head with a bottle... We don’t know Livanov. The drinking party was on the seventh floor in Dimka Gorokhov's apartment. He drinks heavily, but the guy is sincere. Lives with his mother. And we learned about the son of actor Livanov from the police. They interrogated us as neighbors and said that a certain Livanov had killed a young guy.

Neighbors of Gorokhov, whom, according to them, Boris Livanov came to meet on the evening of December 31 New Year, they claim that they found the body on staircase between the sixth and seventh floors at nine in the morning.

I went to take out the garbage, and I saw a young guy lying on the stairs covered in blood! - one of the residents of the entrance told “KP”. - We all drank heavily yesterday, well, I thought that the guy just had too much. And then, when a couple of minutes later he went out to smoke, people were already milling around on the staircase, they said that the guy had been killed. His passport was found next to him. He was born in 86th year. Apparently he lived nearby, also from Khimki. But I haven't seen him here before.

There were still traces of blood at the murder scene. Scattered everywhere white powder- operatives were looking for the fingerprints of the criminal.

Our elevator was turned off this morning. Because he was covered in blood. Apparently, the fight had already started there,” a man living on the sixth floor shared with reporters.

Local residents only found out about the involvement of Vasily Livanov’s son Boris in the murder when the police arrived at around 10 am:

They took the man out. He was drunk as hell. We were later told that this was the son of the famous artist Livanov. At Gorokhov’s (the man whom Livanov came to visit - editor’s note) a drunken group gathered in the stairwell all the time.

I celebrated New Year at Gorokhov's. “I myself live in the next entrance,” 29-year-old Mikhail Izvolsky told us. - This is the first time I’ve heard about this Livanova. This surname is not familiar to me. There were many guests there. My friend Seryoga Glushko was also with me. By morning we ran out of booze and I was sent to the store to get a “bubble”. I went home to get money, and when I returned from the store, they didn’t let me into the entrance. I look: the police and the ambulance have arrived. Well, I went home to sleep. I still don’t know who killed and who was killed.

If Vasily Livanov’s filmography consisted only of a detective series based on works about the famous detective, the actor would forever occupy a star niche in Russian cinema. But the artist has dozens of interesting roles that reveal the versatility of Livanov’s talent.

Vasily Borisovich appeared on screen with the legends of Soviet cinema. But Livanov did not get lost in their radiance, but also became a legend.

The artist also paid attention to children, voicing his favorite cartoon characters Carlson and the crocodile Gena.

Vasily Livanov was born in the middle of summer 1935, into a creative Moscow family. His grandfather is actor Nikolai Livanov, known under the creative pseudonym Izvolsky, his father is a star of the Moscow Art Theater, People's Artist Soviet Union. Mom is an artist, devoted herself to home and raising her son. Evgenia Kazimirovna is Polish by nationality.

The roots of the Livanov family are in the Siberian Cossacks. The artist’s great-grandfather maintained a manufactory for the production of sails, but his son (Vasily Borisovich’s grandfather) did not continue the family business. At the age of 18, he saw an enterprise and joined the theater, giving rise to a glorious acting dynasty.

The creative elite gathered in the Livanovs' house; Alexander Dovzhenko, and. The Moscow Art Theater legend Vasily Kachalov stopped by. Since childhood, the boy heard conversations and heated debates about art, which died down long after midnight. Nobody sent Vasily to bed - parents and guests respected the teenager’s freedom. This is how the foundation for my future profession appeared.

Vasily Livanov studied at art school at the USSR Academy of Arts, from whose doors more than a dozen talents emerged. Among its graduates are. Classmates adored Livanov for his antics, epigrams and caricatures of teachers. The teachers forgave pranks, because the boy was an excellent student.

As a child, Livanov dreamed of being a military man and winning bloody battles. Then he wanted to become a doctor, a trainer or a traveler - the irrepressible temperament of his grandfather and father manifested itself.

In 1954, Vasily Livanov became a student at the Shchukin Theater School - the genes of his grandfather and father won. He mastered the basics of acting and was interested in directing.

Livanov staged his graduation performance “Three Fat Men” on his own, and was in charge of its artistic design.

In 1966, interest in directing brought Livanov a second diploma: he learned the skill of making films from, in courses at the USSR State Committee for Cinematography.

Movies

The creative biography of Vasily Livanov began on the stage of the Theatre, where he worked for a year, giving preference to cinema.

Vasily Livanov’s screen debut was successful: the young actor starred in the drama “An Unsent Letter” by Mikhail Kalatozov, in the title role. Partners for film set became Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Evgeny Urbansky and Tatyana Samoilova.

Vasily Livanov left the theater on the advice of the famous film director Yuli Raizman, who predicted a great future for the aspiring artist in cinema. Livanov moved to the Theater-Studio of the Film Actor, but did not stay there long.

Vasily Livanov played episodic and leading roles, but each turned out to be bright and piercing. The artist starred in the films “The Blind Musician”, “Colleagues”, “Green Light”.

In 1978, Igor Maslennikov’s film “Yaroslavna, Queen of France” was released, where Livanov got the role of the knight Benedictus.

The following year, having taken up the film adaptation of a detective film about the British detective Holmes, Maslennikov invited Vasily Livanov to play the role.

Fame fell on the artist in 1979, after the release of the detective story “Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.” played Sherlock's friend Watson. The brilliant duet of Livanov and Solomin was appreciated in the USSR and Great Britain. The British claimed that Soviet artists– the spitting image of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from the drawings of Sidney Paget.

In 1980, 1981, 1983 and 1986, Maslennikov filmed a continuation of the Sherlock Holmes saga without changing the actors of the two key roles.

In 2006, Vasily Livanov was awarded the Order of the Queen of England. In 2007, a monument to Holmes and Dr. Watson appeared on the Smolenskaya embankment of the capital, near the British embassy. Detective and him true friend sculptor Andrei Orlov gave the faces of Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin.

Since 2008, Vasily Livanov has not acted in films, although he receives offers from directors. The artist is disgusted by scenarios involving sex and blood.

Vasily Borisovich published memoirs that contain memories of his father and the great people of the era with whom he was lucky enough to communicate.

Personal life

The actor’s first wife is Alina Engelhardt, a professor’s daughter. In his first marriage, Vasily Livanov had a daughter, Anastasia. After 7 years, the couple separated. The actor explains the breakup by saying that he and Alina turned out to be too different people. But the ex-wife gives a different reason for the divorce: fatigue from Livanov’s drunkenness and the fact that he raised his hand to her.

The actor’s second wife is Elena, an animator. Vasily Livanov has lived with her for more than forty years. In the year of the silver wedding, the couple got married. Elena works as an animator.

They met in 1969 at Soyuzmultfilm. Seeing the girl, Livanov predicted that she would become his wife and give birth to two sons. And so it happened. In 1974, a son, Boris, was born into the Livanov family, and ten years later a second son, Nikolai, appeared. The eldest became a writer and artist. In 2009, Boris was accused of murder and sentenced to 9 years in prison.

In Nikolai’s marriage to a woman named Elena Khrustaleva, a girl was born, who was given the name Eva. The baby was diagnosed with deafness. Vasily Livanov won custody of his granddaughter from a mother who abused alcohol.

In 2014, the Livanovs and Eva met Boris from prison: he was released early.

Youngest son followed in his father's footsteps, graduated from VGIK and became an actor.

Boris Livanov and the star of “Destroy the Thirtieth!” - not relatives, the actors are connected only by their surname.

Vasily Livanov now

IN last time the artist starred in a new film in 2008: the 4-episode action film “Bear Hunt” was released, in which Vasily Livanov played a security adviser international relations Korsakov. He appeared in a film project in the company of star colleagues – “Figaro”. The artist received it in the “Knight of Art” nomination.

Filmography

• 1959 - “The Unsent Letter”
• 1960 - “The Blind Musician”
• 1962 - “Colleagues”
• 1962 - “Court of Madmen”
• 1963 - “Blue Notebook”
• 1963 - “Big and Small”
• 1964 - “The Return of Veronica”
• 1965 - “A Year Like Life”
• 1972 - “The Player”
• 1975 - “Star of Captivating Happiness”
• 1978 - “Yaroslavna, Queen of France”
• 1979 - “Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson”
• 1997 - “Don Quixote Returns”
• 2005 - “The Master and Margarita”
• 2006 - “Men’s season. Velvet Revolution"
• 2008 - “Bear Hunt”

Weil G./TASS, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

Vasily Borisovich was born into the family of the famous Moscow Art Theater actor Boris Livanov, who in turn was also born into the family of the famous artist Nikolai Aleksandrovich Livanov, known under the pseudonym Izvolsky.

The house was always full of guests, the boy grew up surrounded by real bohemia - writers, artists, directors, actors were part of the Livanov circle. Child with early years enjoyed the temperamental debates of the masters about art and absorbed the atmosphere of freedom and creativity.

Little Vasya, like all children, was sent to bed if guests stayed up late, but in one case an exception was made - when Pasternak came and began to read his poems. Vasily was allowed not to go to school after the poet’s visit, and he was happy to tell the master a forgotten line - he knew everything by heart.

At school, the boy, who was forbidden little at home, was the first rogue. But teachers could not punish or be angry with a talented student for a long time: he was not only a charming child, but also an excellent student!

IN at different ages Vasily Borisovich dreamed of a variety of professions. Including seriously thinking about becoming a doctor, animal trainer or traveler. But when the time came to enter the university, I still chose between “Surikovka” and “Pike”. At the last moment the young man leaned towards the theatrical.

Voice

Bracelet-2 (1967)

Throughout his years of study, student Livanov was in good standing with the teachers, although he still liked to engage in hooliganism. However, he was so passionate about his profession, so devoted to creative processes that sometimes he forgot to eat and sleep. But in his graduation performance, “Three Fat Men,” Vasily Borisovich also acted as a director, receiving a brilliant assessment.

After graduation, he was invited to the Vakhtangov Theater. A year of hard work on the stage made him noticeable to directors. Mikhail Kolatozov called Livanov to main role in "The Unsent Letter".

The director's unique idea - to perform voice acting in "natural" conditions - in the same place where the filming took place, and not in the studio, almost led to tragedy. Livanov and other members of the team went out into the blizzard cold and, trying to shout out the howls of the bad weather, lost their voice.

The actor was sent straight from the set to the hospital, Kolatozov’s idea never came to fruition, and Vasily Borisovich had to undergo treatment for several weeks before doctors allowed him to speak. The voice returned, but the characteristic cracking, recognizable “Holmes” hoarseness, remained with the artist forever.

Movie

In the early 60s, after hesitation and long conversations with directors, Livanov decided to leave the Vakhtangov Theater altogether because he saw his career as a film actor.

And indeed, the talented and characterful Vasily Borisovich has more than enough offers. But for a very long time he would call his favorite work the film “The Blind Musician,” because it was there that he had the opportunity to work with his own father for the only time in his life.

In the mid-60s, the actor graduated from the higher courses of directors - an area where he had long been drawn. And this time he chooses not cinema, but animation. In this genre, he will produce several amazing works that many generations of animation fans know and love.

For example, diploma work Livanov’s work was the cartoon “The Most, the Most, the Most,” and one of the most striking was his work on the musical cartoon “The Town Musicians of Bremen.” For the Soviet cartoon, Vasily Borisovich rewrote the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm, adding characters. It turned out to be an organic and charming story.

But the actor’s name was glorified and left for centuries by his work in the serial detective film based on the novels by Arthur Conan Doyle “Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.” Livanov not only managed to recreate the image of the described detective, but also gave the character a slightly extravagant, subtle English humor. As a result, it was the Soviet film adaptation that even the British recognized as the best in the world!

Rowdy

The Master and Margarita (2005)

The brilliant actor, who devotes a lot of energy and time to filming, has also succeeded in his personal life. He knew his first love, Alina Engelhardt, from childhood. Their parents lived nearby and had good friendly relations, and later they even built dachas next door - on Nikolina Gora.

Alina was friends with sister Vasily all her life - until her death. It’s no wonder that the passionate young man fell in love with the pretty professor’s daughter, who often visited their home. Livanov was not stopped by the fact that Alina already had a son from her first marriage.

After the wedding, the young couple settled with his wife’s family, in a house where thirteen of her relatives already lived. But the ex-wife says that the talented, sparkling and charming Vasily in his youth had a penchant for noisy parties, from which he would arrive heavily drunk and become aggressive.

First under Bad mood Vasily Borisovich got Alina. The grown-up son came to her defense and then the wrath of his drunken stepfather fell on him. As a result, the woman was forced to give up the child to be raised in new family his father. Livanov and I soon had a baby common daughter Nastenka.

However, such a marriage did not last long. Having received their own apartment, the young people began to quarrel even more often, until they came to the decision to dissolve the marriage. Vasily Borisovich was terribly worried about the divorce. When the man was packing his things and ex-wife they called from work and shouted into the phone that she had died. Alina, who arrived at work in the morning, greatly surprised her colleagues with her resurrection.

Love

Livanov had already taken up animation when he met the charming artist Elena at Soyuzmultfilm. “You will be my wife and give birth to two sons,” the actor immediately told her. His words turned out to be prophetic.

They lived together for more than forty years, and when their life together was 25 years old, Livanov invited his beloved to marry before God. On the day of the Silver Wedding, the couple got married.

They named their eldest son Boris in honor of Livanov Sr. Vasily Borisovich could not have done otherwise, because even before his death dad signed a booklet for his grandson: To Boris from Boris, 1973. Boris Nikolaevich died in 1972, and Vasily and Elena’s son was born only in 1974. They considered the entry on the booklet to be a parental will and, of course, carried out his will.

Unfortunately, the life of the master's eldest son did not work out. Having become an artist, he became addicted to alcohol, and then ended up in prison for murder.

Livanov's youngest son Nikolai continued the Livanov acting dynasty.

IN recent years the actor retired from work and devoted himself to his family.

The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Valya (1987)

Name: Vasiliy Livanov

Age: 82 years old

Place of birth: Moscow

Height: 177 cm

Weight: 77 cm

Activity: actor, director, writer, screenwriter

Marital status: married

Vasily Livanov - biography

In recent years, a real drama has played out in the life of Vasily Livanov, and all his strength has gone into solving family problems. We managed to get out of them, but at what cost...

Men from the Livanov family have always been famous in their biography stormy temperament, but at the same time they knew how to direct their energy in the right direction: Vasily Livanov, his father and grandfather became actors and played brilliantly on stage. Son Boris also wanted to choose the same path, but it didn’t work out - he ended up in prison on charges of murder.

The pioneer of the Livanov acting dynasty was Vasily’s grandfather, Nikolai. Coming from a merchant family, he went to the theater against the will of his parents. His son, People's Artist of the USSR Boris Livanov, continued family tradition. Vasily was next.

Childhood, family

Born on July 19, 1935 in Moscow, in the family of actor Boris Nikolaevich Livanov. Despite the fact that Vasya was brought up in an intelligent family, he grew up as an ordinary yard boy. He grew up during the harsh post-war period, when Moscow boys fought street to street, yard to yard.

IN student years Having experienced an unhappy love, Vasily went to great lengths: he changed girls like gloves, loved noisy companies and entertainment. How his life would have developed further if he had not met his soul mate is unknown. He was lucky: after an unsuccessful first marriage, after all the tossing and disappointments, fate gave the actor consolation.

“Lena is my everything,” Livanov repeats and adds that she alone, during the years of her stormy youth, knew how to keep him within limits. Moreover, she did it gently, unobtrusively, without tears or hysterics - and the wild life ended by itself.

Vasily did not doubt for a second that he would name his eldest son in honor of his father. Shortly before his death, his father said that he would be pleased if his first grandson was named Boris. The actor could not refuse to fulfill his father’s will. Perhaps this step became the cause of the subsequent tragedy.

Son Boris took the fact that he bears the name of his famous grandfather too seriously. He considered himself obligated to be worthy of this honor and continue the acting dynasty. When it was not possible to achieve success, I broke down internally and followed a crooked path.

...Borya was a creative and vulnerable child. He was interested in drawing, writing poetry and, of course, participating in school plays. He did well - his genes had an effect. No doubt about what he's doing right choice, after school Boris entered the theater. At first everything was fine, the talented young man was very soon invited to filming.

The only problem is that almost all the films with his participation did not reach the audience. The reasons were different, he himself had nothing to do with them, nevertheless, Boris became confident that he was a loser and an evil fate was looming over him.

The young actor sank deeper and deeper into depression, following which some rather strange acquaintances appeared in his circle. More and more often he looked at Katya, whom he met at the institute. Cheerful, reckless, she treated everything with amazing ease. The fact that this ease is achieved through excessive consumption of alcohol did not alarm Boris.

With the advent of Katya, Boris's life changed: he was no longer interested in being at home, with his family, and his old friends were not happy either. Now he disappeared for days in dubious companies, where an incredible amount of alcohol was destroyed in the evening. His parents were horrified and tried to stop him, but Livanov Jr. did not listen to anyone. For the first time in his life, he felt good - the burden of the destiny that he had invented for himself no longer weighed on him.

It was all over in an instant. After another multi-day drinking session, one of Boris’s drinking companions was found hacked to death with a kitchen hatchet. The son of a famous actor was accused of murder. The young man did not remember anything, but all the evidence pointed to him. Boris was sentenced to prison.

It was terrible blow for Vasily Livanov and his wife. The actor immediately aged several years, but bravely held on - for the sake of his son, who stumbled, but still remained a loved one, for the sake of his little granddaughter.

Eva, the daughter of Boris and Katya, was born with congenital deafness. This was not discovered immediately. When the girl turned one and a half years old, and she still did not start speaking, relatives sounded the alarm. The months-long preparation for the operation was difficult and expensive; Vasily Borisovich and Elena Artemyevna took it all upon themselves. Boris served his sentence, the child’s mother continued to lead a riotous lifestyle...

For many months the actor fought in court with ex-daughter-in-law for my granddaughter. Catherine used threats and hysterics, accusations that the Livanovs stole the child, and the involvement of the press, which shamelessly rinsed dirty linen in public. Vasily Borisovich behaved with cold equanimity, because he understood: every careless word, every outburst of emotion can be used against him. Only his wife knew what superhuman efforts this mask of detachment cost him.

As a result, he managed to convince the judges that it was better for Eva to live with her grandparents, and the Livanovs received custody of their granddaughter. Now all of Vasily Borisovich’s time was devoted to Eve. Every morning they got into the car and drove to the rehabilitation center, to the clinic, to special classes. The operation was performed on time, and the hearing was partially restored.

Livanov Jr. understood perfectly well that if it were not for his selfless parents, his daughter would have remained deaf forever. I felt that I was infinitely guilty before them and was unlikely to be able to atone for my guilt. He still could not believe that he had killed a man; he believed that the investigation had made a mistake. At the same time, he had no doubt: fate sent him this test for a reason.

There, in the colony, Boris had enough time to rethink his life. He again began to write poetry and stories, which he was fond of in his youth, he even managed to create a small film studio and film several documentaries about the life of prisoners. Boris was released on parole for good behavior.

The meeting between father and son after a long separation was restrained, as befits real men. They hugged tightly, and then Vasily Borisovich turned away to hide his tears. The daughter, to whom Boris wrote letters almost every day, threw herself on his neck and pressed herself against his prickly cheek... This was his happiest experience in recent years.

Vasily Livanov - biography of personal life

"All family dramas and tragedies have been experienced and left behind,” says Vasily Livanov today. Now calm and peace reign in his family and personal life. The granddaughter is seriously interested in swimming and conquers sporting peaks, the son is engaged in literary creativity, works in a publishing house.

Son famous actor Vasily Livanov Boris was released from a maximum security colony in the Voronezh region, where he spent the last five years. In 2009, Boris was convicted of murder and given nine years, but the actor’s son served only half of it. SUPER managed to witness the return of the actor’s son to Moscow.

Five years ago, the whole country was shocked by the tragedy that took place in the family of the people's favorite Sherlock Holmes, Vasily Livanov. His only son Boris, who took a lethal dose of alcohol on New Year's Eve, hacked to death his drinking companion with an ax. Livanov Jr. was immediately detained and sentenced to 9 years in a maximum security colony. The son of the 79-year-old actor had long suffered from alcoholism and behaved aggressively, but the truth about what was happening in the family of Vasily Livanov surfaced only when his son was in prison.

Despite felony and past sins (several years ago the actor’s son tried to attack his own mother, artist Elena Livanova. - Ed.), the family forgave Boris. The father repeatedly tried to appeal the verdict and petition for a mitigation of the sentence. As a result of repeated requests famous family The Moscow Regional Court nevertheless decided on the early release of 40-year-old Boris Livanov.

The man was released yesterday morning. Straight from the colony in the town of Rossoshi, in the Voronezh region, Boris went to the station. His parents, Vasily Livanov and his wife, came to Rossosh to meet their son. Together they boarded the train and arrived in Moscow late at night. On the platform, Vasily Livanov could not hide his excitement and tears in his eyes. His daughter, six-year-old Eva, also arrived to greet her father when he returned home. By the way, several years ago the child caused another family scandal in the family of actors. Immediately after the trial of Boris, his legal wife Ekaterina, deprived parental rights for alcoholism, she tried to take the girl away from her grandparents.

The Livanov family, who arrived in Moscow, refused all comments and explanations of how Boris, convicted of a serious crime, managed to serve only half of his sentence and be released. Livanov, his son, wife and granddaughter got into the car and drove home.