Под счастливой звездой: Актриса о жизни, войне, немецком плене

Aktrisa o zhizni, voĭne, nemet͡skom plene": Kniga vospominaniĭ Eleny Vishnevskoĭ (1907-1981), izvestnoĭ aktrisy sovetskogo teatra i kino, predstavli͡aet soboĭ glubokoe i proniknovennoe povestvovanie o zhizni, prishedsheĭsi͡a na odnu iz samykh burnykh i tragicheskikh ėpokh v rossiĭskoĭ istorii. Buduchi potomkom starinnogo dvori͡anskogo roda, Vishnevskai͡a perezhila obe revoli͡ut͡sii 1917 goda, Grazhdanskui͡u voĭnu, repressii, a takzhe nemet͡skui͡u okkupat͡sii͡u vo vremi͡a Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ. V svoikh memuarakh ona rasskazyvaet o detstve i i͡unosti, provedennykh v Kieve, obuchenii na dramaticheskikh kursakh i rabote v teatre, opisyvaet uzhasy voĭny i ispytanii͡a, kotorye prishlosʹ perezhitʹ eĭ i ee blizkim. Vazhnoe mesto v knige zanimai͡ut razmyshlenii͡a Vishnevskoĭ o kulʹturnoĭ zhizni strany, o tekh peremenakh, kotorye okhvatili sovetskiĭ teatr i kinematograf, i, shire - o sudʹbe russkoĭ intelligent͡sii v t͡selom. Vospominanii͡a Eleny Vishnevskoĭ - ne tolʹko lichnoe svidetelʹstvo, no i vazhnyĭ istoricheskiĭ dokument, raskryvai͡ushchiĭ mnogie dramaticheskie sobytii͡a XX stoletii͡a i sudʹby li͡udeĭ, kotorye iskali i nakhodili svet dazhe v samye ti͡azhelye vremena.

An Actress about life, war, and German captivity": A book of memoirs by Elena Vishnevskaya (1907-1981), a famous actress of the Soviet theater and cinema, is a deep and penetrating narrative about life that fell during one of the most turbulent and tragic eras in Russian history. Being a descendant of an ancient noble family, Vishnevskaya survived both revolutions of 1917, the Civil War, repression, as well as the German occupation during the Great Patriotic War. In her memoirs, she talks about her childhood and youth spent in Kiev, studying drama courses and working in the theater, describes the horrors of the war and the trials that she and her family had to go through. An important place in the book is occupied by Vishnevskaya's reflections on the cultural life of the country, on the changes that swept the Soviet theater and cinema, and, more broadly, on the fate of the Russian intelligentsia as a whole. Elena Vishnevskaya's memoirs are not only a personal testimony, but also an important historical document revealing many dramatic events of the 20th century and the fate of people who sought and found light even in the most difficult times.