Actress Kirichenko Irina. Happy life in the shadow of her husband

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Kirichenko Irina is a Soviet and Russian actress. Mostly played roles in television films, performances. There are 14 cinematographic works in the professional list of a native of Kyiv. Among the films in which she starred is the picture "Strange Adults". The first film experience for the actress was the role in the film "The Stone Master" in 1971. Actress Irina Kirichenko has served at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya for more than 40 years. In the frame she worked with actors: Lev Durov, Yuri Baginyan, Yuri Katin-Yartsev, Grigory Lyampe, Leonid Kanevsky.

According to the sign of the zodiac - Aquarius. Lev Durov's wife. The actress passed away on February 11, 2011 at the age of 80 in Moscow. Irina Kirichenko was buried at the Babushkinsky cemetery.

Biography

Was born in the city of Kyiv (USSR) on January 29, 1931. It is known that Irina's grandmother was close to the Empress, and her grandfather rose to the rank of general of the tsarist army.

In the early 1950s, she sat at the student bench of the Moscow Art Theater School. She then studied at the course of K. S. Blinnikov and G. A. Gerasimov. In 1954, she sealed a romantic relationship with herfellow student Lev Durov by marriage. After receiving a diploma, she got a job at the Sovremennik Theater. Later she served in the theater named after Lenin Komsomol. In 1967, she entered into an employment agreement with the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, in which she served until the end of her life.

Lev Durov and Irina Nikolaevna Kirichenko have a daughter, Ekaterina, who followed in her parents' footsteps and today works as an actress. In 2005 she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

Private life

Actress Irina Kirichenko met her future husband in 1953, when she came to Moscow to become a third-year student at the Moscow Art Theater School, to which she transferred from the Kyiv Theater Institute. As Lev Durov recalled, at the first meeting he was delighted with Irina, in whom aristocracy and sophistication were clearly visible. The artist who fell in love, who then studied at the same university as Irina, beautifully looked after his chosen one, constantly gave her flowers.

The wedding happened when young people were finishing their studies at the Moscow Art Theater School. The newlyweds at first lived with Leo's parents in a communal apartment. And although then they didn’t even have their own room and there were no normal living conditions, according to Irina and her husband, they were immensely happy. In 1959, their daughter Katya was born. The child slept in those years in a crib, which was made by Lev Durov.

It was not customary in the family to talk aboutmoney, although financial difficulties were present. According to Lev Durov, if you often think about money, it will not end well. Irina Kirichenko and Lev Durov worked in the same theater - the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Lev Durov once decided to put on a play in which he offered to play the main role to his wife. However, later he canceled his decision, and the main character in this performance was portrayed on stage by another actress. Irina Kirichenko then told her husband that he should do as he saw fit, although it was a blow to her.

However, she always understood that in the theater, even between close people, only official relations are allowed and there should be no concessions. It so happened that our heroine went out on the stage less and less and rarely appeared on large and small screens, unlike Lev Durov, whose fame only grew every year. But Irina Nikolaevna was never afraid to live in the shadow of her famous husband, making her family her main life priority.

Lev Durov, after her death, said that he always remembers Irina, with whom he lived for 57 wonderful years, with a kind and bright feeling that was present in their relationship all these years.

Movie roles

In 1972, actress Irina Kirichenko played the pilot's wife in the television project Buddenbrooks. In the 1973 film "In the Rooms" she portrayed Colonel Nashatyrina. In the same year, Madeleine Bejart becomes in the film "Just a few words in honor of Monsieur de Molière".

In 1974 becamepartner Lev Durov in the film "Strange Adults", where she reincarnated as the wife of his hero Ryabikov. A little later, she became a member of the actors of the Shagreen Skin project, which was based on the work of Honore de Balzac. This is a story about a poet who lost all his money. The hero, who intends to commit suicide, by chance becomes the owner of shagreen leather, which has the ability to bring to life everything that he wishes, but with each new fulfillment of his desire, it decreases in size and at the same time the minutes of life allotted to the poet are melting away.

The last role for Irina Kirichenko was the role in the series "Diamonds for Juliet", published in 2005.