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Soviet and Russian actress

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Mironova. Not to be confused with Maria Mironova, her granddaughter.
Maria Vladimirovna Mironova
Мари́я Влади́мировна Миро́нова
Mironova in the 1940 film Crime and Punishment  [ru]
Born(1911-01-07)7 January 1911
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died13 November 1997(1997-11-13) (aged 86)
Moscow, Russia
Burial placeVagankovo Cemetery, Moscow
55°46′05″N 37°32′54″E / 55.76806°N 37.54833°E / 55.76806; 37.54833
Alma materLunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts
OccupationActress
Years active1927–1997
Notable workMironova and Menaker
Spouse Aleksandr Menaker [ru] ​ ​(died 1982)​
ChildrenAndrei Mironov
RelativesMaria Mironova (granddaughter)
AwardsPeople's Artist of the USSR (1991)

Maria Vladimirovna Mironova (Russian: Мари́я Влади́мировна Миро́нова; 7 January 1911 [O.S. 25 December 1910] – 13 November 1997) was a Soviet and Russian actress who worked in film, television and theatre. She was a member of the popular comedy-duo Mironova and Menaker (Russian: Миронова и Менакер), which she performed with her husband, Aleksandr Menaker [ru], for decades on stage. Her son, Andrei Mironov, was a well-known actor.

She was named People's Artist of the USSR by the Soviet government in 1991.

Life and career

Mironova was born in Moscow to Elizaveta Ivanovna Firsova, a schoolteacher, and Vladimir Nikolayevich Mironov, a merchant from a petite-bourgeoisie family.

In 1927, Mironova graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts (now the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts). She became a member of the popular comedy-duo Mironova and Menaker, which she performed on stage with her husband, Alexander Menaker, for about three and a half decades since the duo debuted in 1939, until Menaker's death in 1982. They typically acted out scenes of a quarrelling couple; Mironova's characters were often a domineering and ignorant wife, whilst Menaker always took the role of a weak-willed husband. Each sketch they performed took no more than five minutes.

The memoir ...In Their Repertoire (...В своём репертуаре) was published in 1984, written by Mironova in co-authorship with her husband, who had died two years prior to the publication. She acted on stage for the last time in Semyon Zlotnikov [ru]'s play The Old Man Left the Old Woman (Уходил старик от старухи) just a few days before her hospitalisation and death. Mironova died on 13 November 1997, at the age of 86, at the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. She was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery next to her son, who had died ten years earlier.

Selected filmography

Mironova (right) and Igor Ilyinsky in the 1938 film Volga-Volga

References

  1. ^ "Тайны Ваганьковского кладбища" [Secrets of Vagankovo Cemetery]. Argumenty i Fakty (in Russian). 14 April 2003. Archived from the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Миронова и Менакер" [Mironova and Menaker]. Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian). 2217408. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  3. ^ Егорова, Татьяна Николаевна (1999). "Глава 5. Мать Андрея — Мария Миронова" [Chapter 5. Andrei's Mother — Maria Mironova]. Андрей Миронов и я. Любовная драма жизни в 4-х частях [Andrei Mironov and I. The Love Drama of Life in 4 Parts] (in Russian). АСТ. pp. 29–30, 39. ISBN 5-8159-0027-3. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Скончалась Мария Миронова" [Maria Mironova Passed Away]. Kommersant (in Russian). 14 November 1997. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Мария Владимировна Миронова" [Maria Vladimirovna Mironova]. Универсальная научно-популярная энциклопедия Кругосвет (in Russian). 1997–2023. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  6. Мария Владимировна Миронова — «…В своём репертуаре». (Карточка) [Maria Vladimirovna Mironova — ...In Their Repertoire (Card)] (in Russian). Russian State Library. 1984. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2023.

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