She was not afraid to dare even the secretaries general: the fate of the strong, but very lonely Faina Ranevskaya
'16.06.2021'
Source: Lady.tut.by
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya is a real phenomenon of the acting world, although she herself was never completely satisfied with herself. Apparently because, in her own words, "talent is self-doubt and painful dissatisfaction with oneself and one's own shortcomings, which I have never met with mediocrity," writes Lady.tut.by.
Surprisingly, directors rarely indulged her with main roles. But the whole country knew the phrases of the minor characters she performed by heart. They were immediately taken away for quotes immediately after the release of the picture.
Let's remember the best statements, the most interesting biographical facts and the most beautiful roles of Faina Ranevskaya.
She was born in the late summer of 1896 in the city of Taganrog. The Feldman family (the real name of the actress) was wealthy and large: Faya, Bella, Yakov, Rudolph and Lazar - the guys were incredibly friendly. Their parents - Girsh Khaimovich and Milka Rafailovna - surrounded their children with tenderness and care. Faina Feldman received a good education for those years: she graduated from a gymnasium, took music, singing, foreign language lessons and attended a theater studio.
“Once her elder brother, a schoolboy, said to her, obviously under the influence of democratic sentiments: 'Our father is a thief, and everything is stolen in our house.' Dejected Faina exclaimed: “Are my dolls stolen too?” “Yes,” the brother answered mercilessly. Faina imagined how her beloved mother was standing “on a half-dress”, and her father robbing a children's toy store with a big bag. Probably, for my brother, the concepts of “thief” and “exploiter” did not differ in meaning. The younger sister believed him infinitely, and they decided to run away from home. We prepared thoroughly: we bought one sunflower. On the way to the station, they divided it in half and husked the seeds with delight. Then the policeman caught up with them and took them to the police station where the parents were waiting. There was a flogging at home, "- from the book by A. Scheglov" Faina Ranevskaya: All Life "
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She was 19 when she moved to Moscow. Here she rented a room on Bolshaya Nikitskaya and met new friends: Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky and many, many other outstanding creative people. She carried her friendship with Anna Akhmatova through her whole life.
As well as a tender relationship with actress Pavel Wolf. She became a mentor for Faina Georgievna, an older friend. Many years later, they will go together to evacuate to Tashkent during the Great Patriotic War. And the grandson of Pavla will become the named grandson of Faina Ranevskaya - "ersatz-grandson", as she called him. He will write his book of memoirs about the great actress.
But so far she is only 19, and she plays in private entertainment theaters. She was invited "to the role of coquettish heroines with singing and dancing for 35 rubles with her wardrobe." First place of service - Summer Theater in Malakhovka near Moscow. The work did not bring much money, but, fortunately, my mother was very supportive, sending money orders every month. One of these trips to the bank (for the "allowance") made Fani Feldman Faina Ranevskaya.
- When we left the massive bank doors, a gust of wind snatched the bills from my hands - the entire amount. I stopped and, watching the flying away banknotes, said:
- It's a pity for money, but how beautiful they fly away!
- Why, you are Ranevskaya! The companion exclaimed. - Only she could say so!
When I later had to choose a pseudonym, I decided to take the name of the Chekhov heroine. We have something in common with her, far from everything, not everything at all ...
Faina Ranevskaya met revolutionary events in the south of Russia. Her family went to emigrate, and for some strange reason she stayed here. Then in the Crimea, many refugees accumulated, including actors, who united to go on stage again. Here Faina Ranevskaya spent several happy years working with real pros, including the famous satirist Arkady Averchenko.
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After a few years and cities, fate again brings her to Moscow, where not private semi-amateur troupes opened their arms to Ranevskaya, but the collectives of the Tairov Chamber Theater, the Central Theater of the Red Army, the Drama Theater (now Mayakovsky), the Pushkin Drama Theater and, finally, the Mossovet Theater , in which she served until her death.
“I am a provincial actress. Wherever she served! Only in the city of Vezdesransk did not serve! " - Faina Georgievna sarcastically.
She did not like cinema, preferring the temple of Melpomene to him: "The money is eaten, but the shame remains." But when Mikhail Romm invited her to star in Maupassant's drama Pyshka (1934), she could not refuse, and then she could not stop: she was filming and filming. That did not prevent her from sometimes rather harshly to speak out about the quality of those films in which she "appeared".
“She starred in Mikhalkov's shit“ They Have a Homeland ”(meaning the adaptation of Sergei Mikhalkov’s play“ I want to go home! ”, In which Soviet officers are looking for children abroad who ended up in orphanages during the war. - Approx. Ed.). As we are there amicably with Lydia Smirnova (actress-partner. - Approx. Ed.) suffered for their beloved - tears poured into four streams! .. When I talk about "shit", I mean one thing: did Sergei Vladimirovich know that all the children who after this film achieved a return to the Soviet Union were sent directly to camps and colonies? If you knew, then 30 pieces of silver did not burn your hands? " - asked the actress.
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The popularity of some of the characters she played did not always please Ranevskaya, but even annoyed. She could never have become an eternal musketeer like Boyarsky. And she was angry and snapped when they quoted the hot-tempered Lyalya from the comedy "Foundling" (1939) in front of her: "Mulya, don't make me nervous!"
“Its popularity was amazing. I remember how we once stood with her near the Serebryany Bor rest house, where we somehow rested at the same time. And from somewhere a group of soldiers was marching. As they passed us, they waved their hands in greeting. I imagined, I will not hide, that this applies to me, and was about to rejoice at my fame. But from the side of the soldiers it was unanimously heard: "Mulia, don't make me nervous!" Faina Georgievna waved her hand tiredly and said to me: “God, how tired I am of this 'Mulya, don't make me nervous!'
This line from the film "Foundling" became so winged that it pursued Ranevskaya at every step. I heard from her herself: once she was surrounded on the street by a group of guys shouting: “Mulya, don't make me nervous!” Having lost her temper, Ranevskaya commanded them: “PiONEry! Line up in pairs and fuck your ass! "
Brezhnev, presenting the Order of Lenin to Ranevskaya in the Kremlin, blurted out:
- Mulya! Don't make me nervous!
- Leonid Ilyich, - said Ranevskaya, offended, - this is how boys or hooligans turn to me.
The General Secretary was embarrassed, blushed and stammered, making excuses:
- Sorry, but I love you very much.
By the way, Ranevskaya attributed the authorship of the catch phrase to herself, for which she quarreled to death with the scriptwriter of the picture Agnia Barto: Barto said that she had come up with a joke.
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Brezhnev was not the only general secretary - a fan of Ranevskaya's talent. She could calmly joke with Stalin and not go to the Kolyma at the same time.
“There were jokes for which one could go far. But God had mercy on me. "
Reception at the Kremlin. His owner himself deigned to condescend to a conversation, but I, like a sin, something hurt, my mood was gloomy. The owner waited and waited for a joke on my part, did not wait, decided to set an example:
- You, comrade Ranevskaya, and the biggest fool in the world will not make you laugh.
- Try it.
One could hear the ringing in the ear and the chattering of the teeth of one of the ranks. What was due after such an answer?
Nothing happened. Why - I don’t know, maybe it didn’t come?
Or maybe because he liked her wicked stepmother from Cinderella (1947)? This role has become one of the brightest in her biography.
In the same year, another Soviet film hit, "Spring", was released. In it, Ranevskaya played with her longtime friend Lyubov Orlova. She got the small role of Margarita Lvovna's housekeeper. With her play, she overshadowed both the main characters of the picture performed by her friend (according to the plot, Orlova played two very similar, but completely different women).
By the way, the friendship of these two actresses - Orlova and Ranevskaya - still excites the imagination of historians, as it is full of mysteries. They even tried to catch them in a homosexual relationship, since Orlova called Ranevskaya "my fairy", and Ranevskaya did not consider same-sex love something reprehensible:
“Lesbianism, homosexuality are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: field hockey and ice ballet ”.
They had been friends for 40 years: from getting to know each other on the set of Pyshka to the very end. There was, however, an unpleasant episode: Grigory Alexandrov called Ranevskaya in the film "Russian Souvenir" (1960) for the role of the mother of the heroine Orlova. Faina Georgievna was offended: “Whom do you propose to me? Excuse me, but we are the same age! " But when, in 1972, Ranevskaya abandoned her beloved role of Mrs. Savage in the theater and Orlova was invited there instead, this did not change anything in their relationship.
“Lyubochka Orlova endowed me with her friendship, and to this day I miss my dear friend very much. During my more than half a century of life in the theater, I was not so friendly to any of my colleagues as to dear and kind Lyubochka Orlova, ”Ranevskaya said at one time.
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When her next acting anniversary was celebrated, Faina Georgievna gratefully lavished smiles around herself and accepted compliments. Arriving home, she burst into abuse:
“I hate anniversaries and celebrations. The actor sits like an idol, and around him they pour oil and bows. Nobody needs it. The actor has to act. What could be more disgusting than an old woman sitting in a chair smoking incense for her gout. Such an anniversary is a triumph for the glory of gout. A good performance is the best anniversary. ”
Her favorite dog, a boy, picked up on the street, sighed understandingly and listened to the hostess. The boy was her only truly close friend during the years of her hated old age. Even after death, he followed her. She died a month before her 88th birthday in 1984 from a heart attack and pneumonia. She was buried in the modest New Donskoy cemetery, next to her sister. The tombstone was adorned with a figurine of a small dog - a beloved Boy.
