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Great actors will forever remain in the memory of generations thanks to their ingenious skill and talent. It was such a great and legendary, as well as a very sharp word, that the audience remembered Faina Ranevskaya - People's Artist of Theater and Cinema of the USSR. What was the life of the “queen of the episode” - one of the most mysterious women of the 20th century, and where is Faina Ranevskaya buried? Details in this article.
Prosperous Jewish childhood
When I start writing my memoirs, beyond the phrase: "I was born in the family of a poor oilman…" - nothing works for me.
F. Ranevskaya
The biography and personal life of Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna was full of many events. Born, then Fanny Girshevna Feldman, in the family of a we althy Jew in Taganrog in 1896.
They had their own house, and in addition to Fanny, the Feldmans had three more children -three brothers (one of whom died as an infant) and a sister, Bella. The Feldman family was patriarchal. Fanny's mother was engaged only in raising children, and her father maintained a factory, traded in oil raw materials, had a store, a lot of real estate, and even acquired a steamship.
However, the future actress did not feel happy in her childhood, as she suffered from stuttering. Fanny was a modest, shy and very lonely girl. So much so that she asked to be transferred from an all-girls school to home schooling, as she suffered so much in the company of her he althier peers.
Homeschooling soon gave its first fruits, and Fanny, who did not like to study, received an excellent education: she learned to sing, play the piano, knew several foreign languages and even began to read avidly to herself and aloud, completely forgetting about her speech defect.
Talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with yourself and your shortcomings, which I have never seen in mediocrity.
F. Ranevskaya
At the age of 10, Fanny suddenly turned her attention to cinema and theater. The biggest imprint on the fate of the future legend of the theatrical scene was left by the performance based on the play by A. P. Chekhov "The Cherry Orchard" seen at this age. Fanny immediately decided to become an actress for herself.
Moreover, it was theatrical, since this art captured a completely young girl.
This is interesting! Even later, being no longer young and quitea famous actress, Faina Ranevskaya spoke about her work in the cinema with some contempt: "The money ran out, but the shame remained." However, the mass audience remembers her bright episodic film roles, for example, in the film "Foundling", where Faina played a very eccentric mother.
After Fanny decided on a profession, she successfully passed her exams as an external student and began studying at a theater studio. The Feldman family greeted the news dryly, if not hostilely. That is why Fanny left in 1915 to conquer theatrical Moscow.
How was the pseudonym of the famous actress born?
Father, Hirsh Khaimovich Feldman, did not communicate with Fanny for a long time after leaving and completely deprived her of material assistance. More soft-hearted was the mother, Milka Rafailovna, who gave her daughter some money for the first time. She rented a room on them and began to make her way into the difficult profession of an actress, knocking over the thresholds of famous theatrical stages.
But Fanny Feldman was nowhere to be seen…
A young girl decided to take a pseudonym after one day, leaving the post office with a friend, she fell under a strong gust of wind, which pulled out of her hands a tiny amount of money sent by her mother. Fanny just looked after them gloomily and said: "Wow, the money is flying away quickly." To which her friend remarked that she was the real Ranevskaya from Chekhov's play. Fanny chuckled and agreed that they were similar in many ways.
Since then, Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya, the future star of theater and cinema, was born.
Theatrical successes
I don't recognize the word "play". You can play cards, horse races, checkers. You need to live on stage.
F. Ranevskaya
After arriving in Moscow, Faina was out of work - she was not taken to any theater school. There was only one way out - to go to a private theater school, but the young revolutionary and rebel had no money for this. The artist Geltser did not let the future talented "queen of the episode" disappear. She saw Faina's samples and got her a job at the Malakhov Summer Theater, which is located in the suburbs.
At this time, Faina revolved in the circles of famous bohemian youth. She knew Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, Akhmatova and even Mayakovsky. All of them were already very famous, and almost legendary personalities. Faina was already surrounded by great actors: her first unrequited love was Vasily Kachalov, Sadovskaya, Petipa and Pevtsova.
Faina watched them, adopted her skills, playing extras and dreaming of leading roles.
After the closing of the summer theatrical season, Faina worked in different cities:
- Kerch.
- Kislovodsk.
- Feodosia.
- Baku.
- Rostov.
- Smolensk.
On these stages, Ranevskaya has already begun to be noticed and, finally, appreciated, offering her a place in the capital's "Theater of the Actor". Faina finally lost contact with her parents in 1917, when they emigrated.
Famous theatrical roles
For an actress notthere is no inconvenience if it is necessary for the role.
F. Ranevskaya
The very first theatrical role of Ranevskaya was Margarita in the play "Roman". The most famous for connoisseurs of theatrical art are her roles in the following performances:
- "The Cherry Orchard" - the role of Charlotte.
- "Pathetic Sonata". Faina played this performance already at the Chamber Theater, having distinguished herself in one of the main roles.
- "Vassa Zheleznova" is one of Ranevskaya's most successful experiences already at the Mossovet Theatre. In this performance, Faina also plays a major role, bringing her own ideas to the director's script. Even then, in the 50s, Faina Ranevskaya's well-aimed quotes glorified the talented artist.
- In the Moscow City Council, Ranevskaya played her most notable roles - Lucy Cooper ("Further Silence"), Mrs. Savage ("Strange Mrs. Savage"), Manka-speculator in the play "Storm" and many others. The audience generally gave a standing ovation to Manka the speculator, not knowing that the whole role was not invented by the director himself, but completely rewritten by Faina herself. She played it so brightly that she overshadowed even the leading actors.
- "Law of Honor". Faina played this performance already during the war years at the Tashkent Drama Theater, where the actors of the Moscow Council were evacuated. Her wife Loseva turned out to be so convincing that after this role in the theater, the actress began to be invited to the cinema for a similar role.
- "Player", "Trees die standing" and "Obscurantists" - Ranevskaya's performances already at the Pushkin Moscow Drama Theater, where the artist played until her death. Even in this theaterinstalled a plaque reflecting the years of life of Faina Ranevskaya - 1896-1984.
Famous movie roles
Do you know what it's like to act in films? Imagine that you are washing in a bathhouse, and a tour is brought there.
F. Ranevskaya
After the debut on the theater stage, Faina Ranevskaya began to be invited to the cinema. Moreover, in her filmography there are almost no main film roles. Film images that glorified Ranevskaya throughout the Soviet Union, as a rule, are laconic. These roles are not even the second, but the third plan. However, even Faina was able to make them stellar. Colleagues in the shop, and the audience called Ranevskaya "the queen of the episode."
The most famous episodic images, as well as films starring Faina Ranevskaya:
- Mrs. Loiseau (Pushka, 1934).
- Popadya ("Thought about the Cossack Golgota", 1937).
- Ida Gurevich ("Engineer Kochin's Mistake", 1939).
- Lyalya ("Foundling", 1939) - the most famous role of Ranevskaya and the heroine's phrase that glorified her for centuries: "Mulya, don't make me nervous!".
- Manya, aunt Dobryakoa, an employee of the maternity hospital ("Beloved Girl", 1940).
- Rosa Skorokhod ("Dream", 1941).
- Gorpina (“How Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich”, 1941).
- Aunt Adele ("The New Adventures of Schweik", 1943).
- Professor of Medicine ("Heavenly slug", 1945).
- Stepmother (Cinderella, 1947).
- Zoya Sviristinskaya ("Girl with a Guitar", 1958).
- Grandmother ("Beware of Grandma!", 1960).
- Ada Brand - director of the circus("A New Attraction Today", 1966).
In addition, Faina Ranevskaya participated in the filming of the famous comic magazine "Wick", and also voiced the most famous and economic nanny of all times and peoples - Freken Bock in the cartoon "Baby and Carlson".
Last years of life
The cause of death of Faina Ranevskaya was pneumonia, which her body could not endure after a massive heart attack. At the end of her life, Faina Georgievna no longer played in the theater, because, according to her, she was tired of "feigning he alth." She ended her creative life in 1963, and lived with her sister Bella and her dog Boy.
Where is Faina Ranevskaya buried?
Before her death, the famous actress even bequeathed the inscription on her tombstone: "Died of disgust." The grave of Faina Ranevskaya at the Donskoy Cemetery is a fairly popular place. There are always flowers around from fans and admirers of her talent. Such an eccentric epitaph about a "disgusting life" was not accepted, and the place where Faina Ranevskaya is buried is only brightened up by a small bronze dog Boy, the actress's favorite dog.
Private life
Faina Ranevskaya's quotes made her famous not only among her colleagues, but also among ordinary people. She was not only sharp enough in her statements, but also an amazingly wise woman, sometimes shocking, and sometimes immediately falling in love with herself with the help of powerful charisma.
What is the case with the director in one of the theaters, whichburst into her dressing room, trying to make a fuss about the role, and froze on the threshold. Ranevskaya was completely naked and smoking a cigarette. Completely oblivious to the shock that she produced on her colleague, Ranevskaya asked: “Does it bother you that I smoke?”
However, many of the novels that were attributed to the great actress did not bring the Ranevskaya family and children. She has never been married, not wanting to enter into a relationship that would later bring pain. It began after an incident with a famous actor, with whom the then young Fanny was in love. He came to her house with a friend, and asked Ranevskaya, who was in love, to "take a walk." However, Faina was not lonely. She had many friends, and a beloved sister, Bella, who lived with her.
Aphorisms of the actress
All quotes of the great actress have long become aphorisms, and now they are gaining more and more popularity. They contain not only wisdom, but the sharp mind of this legendary woman.
The most famous of them:
- Lesbianism, homosexuality, masochism, sadism are not perversions. There are, in fact, only two perversions: field hockey and ballet on ice.
- Women are smarter, of course. Have you ever heard of a woman who would lose her head just because a man has beautiful legs?
- It's better to be a good man, "swearing" than a quiet, well-mannered creature.
- I'm watching this film for the fourth time and I must tell you that today the actors played like never before.
- Pee on the tram is all he did in art.
- I get letters: "Help me become an actor." I answer: “God will help!”.
- Everything that is pleasant in this world is either harmful, or immoral, or leads to obesity.
- Why are all women so stupid?
- We were taught to single-celled words, short thoughts, play after that Ostrovsky!
- All my life I've been swimming in the toilet with a butterfly stroke.
F. Ranevskaya
"To get recognition - it is necessary, even necessary, to die" - this phrase also belongs to the legendary actress. The universal recognition of her talent was enough during her lifetime, but each of her fans still knows where Faina Ranevskaya is buried, and where you can come to pay the last tribute to her great skill.
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