Фаина Раневская. Жизнь проходит и не кланяется

Kakoĭ paradoks: ee teatralʹnye i ėkrannye raboty mozhno perechestʹ po palʹt͡sam, no, soglasno Britanskoĭ ėnt͡siklopedii "Who is who" ("Kto estʹ kto"), ona vkhodit v desi͡atku samykh vydai͡ushchikhsi͡a aktris XX stoletii͡a! Tak v chem sostoit unikalʹnostʹ Fainy Georgievny Ranevskoĭ, devochki-durnushki iz semʹi "bednogo neftepromyshlennika", stavsheĭ kharizmatichnoĭ aktrisoĭ ("Zolushka", "Podkidysh", "Pyshka", "Legkai͡a zhiznʹ" i dr.)? Avtor utverzhdaet: lichnostʹ Fainy Ranevskoĭ ostaëtsi͡a priti͡agatelʹnoĭ blagodari͡a nepovtorimomu ironichnomu vzgli͡adu na zhiznʹ: aktrisa nikogda ne stesni͡alasʹ v vyrazhenii͡akh i esli shutila, to vysmeivala napoval, do slëz. Odnako vovse ne sarkazm pomog eĭ, narodnoĭ artistke SSSR, poluchitʹ, kak ona vyrazhalasʹ, "pokhoronnye prinadlezhnosti": ordena Lenina i Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni, a eshche - tri Stalinskikh premii! I ne ostroty i vnet͡senzurnye vyrazhenii͡a ukrepli͡ali ee druzhbu s samymi izvestnymi li͡udʹmi toĭ ėpokhi: Annoĭ Akhmatovoĭ, Li͡ubovʹi͡u Orlovoĭ, Rostislavom Pli͡attom, Olʹgoĭ Arosevoĭ i mnogimi drugimi. Pokhozhe, chto iz vsekh sovetskikh znamenitosteĭ tolʹko ona odna mogla pozvolitʹ sebe bytʹ iskrenneĭ. V moment, kogda ee okruzhali deti s radostnymi vozglasami "Muli͡a! Muli͡a!", ona prenebrezhitelʹno otvechala: "Pionery, idite v zh*pu". I slozhno predstavitʹ, chto v ėtoĭ nezauri͡adnoĭ lichnosti tailasʹ strashno odinokai͡a, tonkai͡a i ranimai͡a dusha... Nesmotri͡a na desi͡atki knig, napisannykh o Ranevskoĭ, ee fenomen tak i ne raskryt do kont͡sa… i tolʹko seĭchas u chitateli͡a poi͡avli͡aetsi͡a vozmozhnostʹ vzgli͡anutʹ na protivorechivui͡u sudʹbu originalʹnoĭ aktrisy po-novomu.

What a paradox: her theatrical and screen works can be counted on the fingers, but, according to the British Encyclopedia "Who is who" ("Who is who"), she is among the ten most outstanding actresses of the XX century! So what is the uniqueness of Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya, a plain girl from the family of a "poor oil industrialist" who became a charismatic actress ("Cinderella", "Foundling", "Pyshka", "Easy Life", etc.)? The author claims: the personality of Faina Ranevskaya remains attractive due to a unique ironic view of life: the actress has never been shy in her expressions and if she was joking, she ridiculed on the spot, to tears. However, it was not sarcasm that helped her, the People's Artist of the USSR, to receive, as she put it, "funeral supplies": the Order of Lenin and the Red Banner of Labor, and also three Stalin prizes! And it was not witticisms and obscene expressions that strengthened her friendship with the most famous people of that era: Anna Akhmatova, Lyubov Orlova, Rostislav Plyatt, Olga Aroseva and many others. It seems that of all the Soviet celebrities, she was the only one who could afford to be sincere. At the moment when she was surrounded by children with joyful exclamations of "Mulya! Mulya!", she replied dismissively: "Pioneers, go to the f**k." And it's hard to imagine that in this extraordinary person there was a terribly lonely, delicate and vulnerable soul... Despite dozens of books written about Ranevskaya, her phenomenon has not been fully disclosed ... and only now the reader has the opportunity to look at the contradictory fate of the original actress in a new way.