Maria Vladimirovna Mironova
Мари́я Влади́мировна Миро́нова
Mironova in the 1940 film Crime and Punishment 
Born(1911-01-07)7 January 1911
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died13 November 1997(1997-11-13) (aged 86)
Moscow, Russia
Burial placeVagankovo Cemetery, Moscow[1]
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[2]
OccupationActress
Years active1927–1997
Notable work"Mironova and Menaker"
Spouse
Aleksandr Menaker
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(died 1982)​
ChildrenAndrei Mironov[1][3]
RelativesMaria Mironova (granddaughter)
AwardsPeople's Artist of the USSR (1991)[2]

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 (Миронова и Менакер)", which she performed with her husband, Aleksandr Menaker, for decades on stage.[4] Her son, Andrei Mironov, was a well-known actor.[1][3]

She was named People's Artist of the USSR by the Soviet government in 1991.[2]

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.[3]

In 1927, Mironova graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts (now the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts).[2] She became a member of the popular comedy-duo "Mironova and Menaker (Миронова и Менакер)", 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.[4] 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.[5] Each sketch they performed took no more than five minutes.[5]

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.[6] She acted on stage for the last time in Semyon Zlotnikov's play The Old Man Left the Old Woman («Уходил старик от старухи») just a few days before her hospitalisation and death.[4] Mironova died on 13 November 1997, at the age of 86, at the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital.[4] She was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery next to her son, who had died ten years earlier.[1]

Selected filmography

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "МИРО́НОВА И МЕНА́КЕР" [Mironova and Menaker]. Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian). 2217408. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  3. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 "МИРОНОВА, МАРИЯ ВЛАДИМИРОВНА" [Mironova, Maria Vladimirovna]. Универсальная научно-популярная энциклопедия Кругосвет [The Universal Popular-Science Encyclopaedia of the World] (in Russian). 1997–2023. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  6. ↑ Миронова Мария Владимировна — «…В своём репертуаре». (Карточка) [Mironova, Maria Vladimirovna — ...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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