Riga, August 14, 1987. Opera theatre. They give The Marriage of Figaro. On the stage in the role of Figaro is brilliant, as always, Andrei Mironov, whose filmography and theatrical work includes more than a dozen diverse characters. The action continues exactly as planned. Until the fifth scene in the third act begins.
Figaro-Mironov pronounces his text, when he suddenly takes steps back, leans his hand on the gazebo and slides along it to the floor. Count-Shirvind embraces him and, under the deafening silence of the auditorium, takes him backstage. "Shura, my head hurts" - the last words of the great actor.
The ambulance took him to the clinic. The best doctors tried to save the life of the pet of the whole country for two days. On the morning of August 16, he passed away. The cause of Andrei Mironov's death is a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
Gift for all women
On the eve of International Women's Day in the family of the most famous pop artists of the Soviet Union Maria Mironova andAlexander Menaker had a son. But my mother decided to write down the date of his birth on March 8, because this strong and intelligent woman was always sure that her son, a boy kissed by God, would be the best gift for all women of the USSR on their holiday. And many years later, he really became such a gift: few of the young ladies could resist Mironov's charm. But that's all later…
His father's career began with musical feuilletons. Later, Alexander Semenovich tried to combine his performance and directing. Mother performed at the 2nd Moscow Art Theater and at the Moscow State Music Hall.
Parents met in the recently created State Theater of Variety and Miniatures in the pre-war capital. Then they worked there and it was then that their famous pop duet was invented. Three years later, their son was born. Maria Vladimirovna went on stage until the very birth, and her contractions began directly during the performance. Andrei Mironov, whose filmography was replenished with each new film played, was born in a maternity hospital on the Arbat.
Childhood and war
Andryusha was only three months old when the Great Patriotic War began. Theater of Miniatures, where his parents served. was evacuated to Tashkent. In this city, the boy became very seriously ill. Doctors were sure that his strange illness was tropical dysentery. The baby had a hard time, the mother listened every minute: whether the baby was breathing or not. Andryusha was lying on the floor, on scraps of newspaper, and he had noI don't even have the strength to cry. His eyes were not closed. Invaluable help was provided at that difficult time by the wife of the famous pilot Gromov, who was able to get the necessary medicine in those difficult days.
T-shirt under torn sackcloth
It's 1948. Seven-year-old Andryusha (at this age still Menaker) went to first grade. And two years later, the bells of the "doctors' case" sounded like a bolt from the blue. The parents made an important decision: the boy's surname was changed. Now his name was Andrei Mironov. The roles of this one of the best actors of our time have been loved by his admirers for many years.
His childhood was no different from the childhood of boys and girls of those years. He loved to run with the ball, enjoyed going to the cinema to watch movies, and adored ice cream. His childhood hobby was collecting badges.
In his school years he was a very frisky boy, Andrey was recognized as a leader among his classmates. He studied average, the exact sciences were not included in the priority of his interests. With all this, when Andrei Mironov, whose filmography began to grow at a crazy pace a few years later, celebrated his 11th birthday, a story happened that could provide him with a debut in cinema. Director Ptushko began shooting the fairy tale "Sadko". For extras, he needed children. Among those selected was Andryusha. A small role of a beggar was intended for him. But Mironov's skate all his life was incredible cleanliness, so he did not dare to pull a holey sackcloth over his naked body and put it on a fashionable one in thoseyears of tennis. Noticing this, the director screamed and the boy was asked to leave the set. The debut of the future actor did not take place.
"Who will I be? Only an actor!”
In his childhood, Mironov Andrey Alexandrovich, whose filmography interests every viewer, spent almost every summer resting in Pestovo, where the rest house of the Art Theater was located in those years. He was familiar with the famous Moscow Art Theater. And at school, Andryusha participated with great pleasure in all kinds of theatrical productions. In 1958 he entered the Shchukin Theater School on the course of I. Rapoport. He was well-fed, pimply and polite, he didn’t particularly shine with talents - there were completely different leaders on that course. But he really wanted to get a red diploma. He studied quite diligently and immediately retaken any four. He differed from other classmates in accuracy, which sometimes even seemed a little out of place.
First role
Students, under pain of exclusion, were strictly forbidden to act in films. But many, making every effort to do so, tried to get into the crowd. Everyone except him. So, Andrey Mironov. The filmography of this unique actor of Soviet cinema began in the fourth year, thanks to Yuli Raizman. He invited him to his film "And if it's love?". Oddly enough, but no one scolded the novice actor. Perhaps due to the fact that Andrei was in high school in good standing. Perhaps the very influential family of Andrei Mironov interceded.
Debut theater role
In 1962 he received his diploma. His dream of working at the Vakhtangov Theater did notcame true, which plunged the impressionable Mironov into an abyss of frustration. Now he could not figure out which theater to go to work. He was helped by an absolute accident in the person of Pluchek, who invited him to his place.
Mironov allowed himself to be a little condescending, but he came to watch. And soon his debut took place: the performance - "24 hours a day", the character - Garik. After that, the roles fell like a cornucopia. But he became a real star of the theatrical stage, having embodied the role of Jerboa on the stage (the play "The Convent"). And now those who remember his game, talented and unique, the cause of Andrei Mironov's death seems to be some kind of absurd and sad accident, an evil joke of heaven. After all, he was always so real, so cheerful, so alive…
Screen Star
By the beginning of the seventies, the actor's film roles included the first rather serious role of Alexander Zakhri. Soon after that, the audience was able to watch the film "Three plus two" directed by G. Hovhannisyan. Mironov's character in this comedy - the veterinarian Roman - brought him some fame. For the next few years, he acted with enviable regularity, but not very often. 1965 An offer was received from Ryazanov to come to the screen test. The role of the scoundrel and cunning Dima Semitsvetov was recognized by critics as one of the best in the film. Moreover, the director himself said that this character was written out a little indistinctly, so such a masterpiece reading turned out precisely thanks to the skill and talent of Andrei Mironov. Then there were a few morepictures, until, finally, the shooting of one of the best Gaidai comedies - "The Diamond Hand" began. It was in this film that Mironov first sang on the screen. Despite the fact that his character is the crook Gennady Kazadoev, nicknamed the Count, millions of viewers fell in love with Mironov. The actor so charmingly, sincerely and easily played the role of a scoundrel that everyone who watched this picture was imbued with involuntary sympathy for him. Although later in an interview, Andrei Mironov, with a certain degree of sadness, shared his feelings that he was very hurt and it was not clear that for a huge number of viewers the highest point of his talent was this comedy. He really wanted to play with serious directors - Mikhalkov, Tarkovsky, but they did not see him as the heroes of their films.
1971. "Property of the Republic". In this film, the actor was lucky enough to play one of his most romantic roles (the character is a former court fencing teacher nicknamed the Marquis). It is practically he himself - charming, gambling, modest, gentle, kind, in his soul - a maximalist, giving everything of himself in the name of justice. His hero literally in a second becomes the idol of the boys of the seventies, and the song he sang became a hit.
And there were also the roles of a thieves' henchman in "Old Robbers" and a smart and handsome lieutenant of UgRo in "The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia". By the way, in the last picture, all the tricks, even the most difficult, Mironov performed himself, without needing the help of understudies and stuntmen. After this film, he was awarded the titleHonored Artist of the RSFSR.
Even the children loved him. Andrey Mironov was impossible not to love, not to admire him.
In the 80s, the most difficult years in the life of an actor, he still starred in spite of his illness. Back in 1978, he had his first hemorrhage, but after only two months he was back on stage. In the early 80s, terrible boils began to appear on his body, very painful and practically incurable. Nothing helped, except for ointments, which only slightly alleviated the condition. He decided to try a lymphadenectomy - removal of lymph nodes with a chronic infection. After the operation, he felt much better. He continued filming.
Worthy works of that period - the pictures "Be my husband" in a duet with Elena Proklova, "My friend Ivan Lapshin", "The Tale of Wanderings" and "The Man from Capuchin Boulevard" in the company of eminent actors of Soviet cinema - Karachentsev, Tabakov, Boyarsky, Kvasha. It was the role of Fest that became the last in the life of Andrei Mironov (director - Alla Surikova, who set to work only after the actor agreed to play in her film). The success exceeded all expectations. It was as if we had returned a couple of decades ago, to the Diamond Hand.
Two marriages of Andrei Mironov
The first time the actor married in 1971 was 24-year-old actress Ekaterina Gradova. This marriage was concluded for great love, but, unfortunately, did not last long. In this union, their daughter, Masha Mironova, was born. Mironov was a very conservative husband. Notallowed Katya to do makeup, even pick up a glass of wine. The maximum that the fingers of his beloved woman should have smelled of was berries and perfume. He was a very gentle husband and a funny dad, because he was afraid to stay alone with little Masha, because, as he himself said, he gets lost when a woman cries. Already in 1974, the couple broke up, and two years later, in 1976, they officially divorced.
With his second wife, also an actress, Larisa Golubkina, he met while still in his official first marriage. For ten years he tried to persuade her to get married. He did it. Now Golubkina is sure that what happened before Andrei was terribly frivolous. And Andrei even adopted her daughter, also Masha. So he became the father of two Mashenek.
The children of Andrei Mironov - both daughters - having matured, also followed in the footsteps of their parents. Now they are famous actresses.
So Andrei Mironov lived in two marriages. The personal life of the idol of millions has always caused, causes and will cause genuine interest. This is probably right, because people who respect him are interested in learning at least something new about him, despite the fact that he has not been with us for thirty years. But you don’t notice them, because when you turn on the TV, at least on one channel, such a familiar, almost familiar face flashes by. And it seems that Andrei Mironov will always be with us - both in joy and in sorrow …
