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.