- Excuse me, but who were these two men?

- The first one was Alexandrov, everyone knows that. We know that he had
a very long and, I would say, painful affair with Aleksandrov, which ended in betrayal.
And Eisenstein himself alluded to this many times, and the whole storyline
line of Kurbsky's relationship with Ivan the Terrible is about this. Note that Kurbsky in Ivan the Terrible is similar Alexanderov. Eisenstein purposely took an actor who looked like Aleksandrov.
The second man I know of... I was not told his name, but Eisenstein had some young man who was very devoted to him during the filming of "Ivan the Terrible." But that, as I understand it, was not very long and not very close - not like with Alexandrov, in whom he put a lot of fatherly feelings.
Aleksandrov was not a lover to him at all, but rather his alter ego, as if in part an extension of him. He wanted to make a good director out of Aleksandrov, he dreamed of him being... well, partly like a son, although he was not much younger, but much more childish.
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