The volcano of Pani Monica's emotions: Why Olga Aroseva was compared to a hydrogen bomb

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Today, the famous theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR Olga Aroseva would have turned 92 years old, but for 4 years she has not been among the living. She played more than 50 roles in films and even more - on the stage of the Theater of Satire, but the audience remembered her for the role of Mrs. Monica from the show “Zucchini“13 Chairs”. On the screen, she gave the impression of a good-natured and talkative laugh, and in life, according to colleagues and acquaintances, she was distinguished by a very difficult character, which is why she earned the nickname "hydrogen bomb" and "volcano of emotions".

Olga Aroseva was born on December 21, 1925 in the family of a Soviet party leader and diplomat. When the girl was 5 years old, her mother met another man and left the family, leaving her daughters. Olga spent her childhood in France, where her father was the secretary of the Soviet embassy, and in 1933 they returned to the USSR. Aroseva often talked about how once, as a child, she stood at an aviation parade in Tushino next to Stalin, who even gave her a bouquet of flowers. However, the times of prosperity soon ended: in 1938, my father was arrested and then shot. Not knowing about this, Olga wrote a letter to Stalin, in which she assured him of his father's innocence. She never received an answer.

Olga Aroseva was considered the daughter of an "enemy of the people", but she did not betray her father's memory - she did not renounce him and did not join the ranks of the Komsomol. She did not manage to enter any university, but while still at school, she became interested in theater, participated in home theater productions and began to study in a drama circle. After graduating from the circus school, she entered the courses of the Moscow City Theater School.

Almost all her life Olga Aroseva performed on the stage of the Moscow Theater of Satire, although she became the first actress of the troupe only in the early 1990s. In cinema, her most famous works were the roles in the films "Girl without an address", "Beware of the car", "Intervention", "Old robbers", "Incredible adventures of Italians in Russia", "Matchmakers", but the greatest fame was brought to her role Mrs. Monica from The 13 Chairs Zucchini, with whom she has been associated all her life. The actress said about the reasons for such popularity: "".

Everyone who was personally acquainted with the actress spoke of her difficult and quarrelsome character. In the Theater of Satire, there were legends about her, she was considered an intriguer and a brawler, all newcomers were warned against communicating with her. Mikhail Derzhavin called her a hydrogen bomb, and Alexander Shirvindt delicately noted that "her character is not sugar." Aroseva enjoyed great success with men and was only officially married four times.

The actress did not deny her stormy temperament and incredible emotionality, justifying her excessive irascibility with the costs of the profession: "".

In her declining years, the actress regretted only that she had not given birth to a child. "", - Aroseva admitted.

Until the last days, she went on the stage of the theater and hoped that she could return there after her recovery. Already being bedridden, she constantly repeated: "". On October 13, 2013, actress Olga Aroseva died at the age of 88. She spent the last years in agony - she had cancer, and it was not possible to save the actress.

And who glorified Mrs. Monica the program "Zucchini" 13 chairs "became the most popular on Soviet TV.