Video: The Iron Lady: why Andrei Mironov considered his mother to be the main woman in his life
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
January 7 (December 24, old style) marks the 106th anniversary of the birth of the People's Artist of the USSR, mother of Andrei Mironov Maria Vladimirovna Mironova … The famous actor joked: "I am afraid of God, my mother and Olga Alexandrovna Aroseva." Maria Mironova remained for her son the only authority and adviser in love affairs until the end of his days. They called her the "iron lady" and it was no coincidence.
Maria Mironova knew that she would be an artist from her youth. After 7 classes of school, she entered the Theater College, and a year later she made her debut on the stage of the Theater of Modern Miniature. Later she admitted: “There were no prerequisites for this, I don’t know, I went and that was it. My mother was a teacher, my father was a specialist in the textile industry. No artists. It's just that our parents loved music, everything was very open with us…”.
For some time, Maria Mironova performed on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater, the Moscow State Music Hall, and in 1928 her parents died, she herself became seriously ill and did not work for some time. Then Mironova entered the Transport Theater (Gogol Theater) and began performing on stage. She herself was the author and director of her performances, she even came up with a new genre on the stage - telephone conversations. The image of the "telephone terrorist" Kapa was especially popular with the audience.
Since 1938, Maria Mironova began performing in the troupe of the State Variety and Miniature Theater. There she met the artist Alexander Menaker, and during the tour they began an affair. Mironova immediately wrote to her husband that she was going to divorce him and insisted that Menaker send the same letter to his wife. Since then, they have not parted.
In the fall of 1939, Mironova and Menaker first appeared on the stage along with satirical dialogues. This is how the duo was born, which for 30 years enjoyed incredible popularity with the public. Menaker played the role of a weak-willed henpecked husband, and Mironova played the role of a despotic wife.
Director Lvov-Anokhin recalled: “Unforgettable Theater of two actors - Mironova and Menaker. This duet was greeted with enthusiasm in all cities throughout Russia. Their conversations, disputes, quarrels, altercations made huge halls full of spectators groan with laughter. I had the good fortune to rehearse with them in their happy home. The house was happy because the game never stopped in it - again, humorous arguments, quarrels, bickering, exchange of barbs, - everyday life was theatrical … Very funny games in which great tenderness shone through humor."
In 1941, the couple had a son, Andrei, whom from childhood his mother surrounded him with such care and love that throughout his subsequent life he called her the main woman in his life. Wherever he was, he called her every day and wrote tender letters: "… I will do my best not to upset you and be a decent, decent person … Your son" movie actor "Andrei." Mother helped her son to choose clothes and … life partners. None of the women seemed to her worthy of a son.
When Andrei Mironov was about to marry Natalya Fateeva, who was older than him and also with a child, Maria Vladimirovna sharply opposed and did everything to prevent this marriage. Fateeva later admitted: "Andrei was a mama's boy, I'm tired of it."When he began an affair with Tatyana Egorova, Mironova again took the chosen one of her son with hostility, calling her a plebeian. However, after the death of her son, she changed her anger to mercy and began to communicate with Yegorova.
Maria Mironova steadfastly endured the death of her husband in 1982, and then the tragic death of her son in 1987. This was the worst loss for her, but no one ever saw her tears - the iron lady was true to herself. At the celebration of her 85th birthday, she brought her granddaughter Maria with her great-grandson Andryusha onto the stage and said: "Here's Maria Mironova, and here's Andrei Mironov!"
She died in 1997. She was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery next to her son, who, according to her, was born and died in the theater, like other great artists who burned down right on stage.
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