Andrey was born into the family of actress Maria Mironova and director and actor Alexander Menaker. When the parents of the future actor met, both were not free. But a small touring affair suddenly grew into a big, serious feeling that enveloped Masha and Sasha with such warmth that they decided to divorce their other halves and get married. The Menakers began working together - performing at the Variety and Miniature Theater. After some time, Maria became pregnant, but did not quit her job. The time for the first contractions came while the woman was on stage.
Little Andrei was born on March 7, but his parents decided that such an angelic boy should be a real gift for women, and recorded March 8 as his birthday.
This act was prophetic: Mironov would indeed enjoy enormous popularity among the fairer sex.
The boy was an average student, but was interested in exact sciences. And also fashion and girls! The modest and charming Mironov’s first love happened in the seventh grade. The chosen one was Galya Dykhovichnaya, the daughter of a famous poet. The families were friends, but the children only began to pay attention to each other when they became teenagers.
The children's friendship lasted a surprisingly long time, and by graduation the parents of both lovers were expecting an announcement of their engagement. But they didn’t wait. Both the beautiful Galya and the charming Andrei had too many fans. Once Dykhovichnaya found her beloved in the arms of another girl and was so offended that no amount of persuasion from Mironov could bring her back. Soon the girl got married, gave birth to a child, and forgot to even think about an affair with a bright, handsome man.
Mother
The fact that Mironov would try the theater was obvious: the child grew up in the theater, next to famous friends of his parents, vacationed at the same resorts with actors, and knew no life as well as acting. However, he went to enroll at Shchepka after making sure that no one knew whose son Andrei was. By that time, his parents had managed to change his surname from his father's to his mother's. Because of the famous “Doctors’ Plot,” he could fall out of favor with the authorities, so he immediately became Mironov from Menaker.
When the future celebrity entered the hall to the selection committee, blood gushed from his nose. But this did not stop the persistent and artistic boy. He finished his performance brilliantly and received an entrance ticket to the stage and to the cinema: he got in!
Andrey’s mother, Maria Mironova, was happy. She was proud of her son, but began to worry, because women liked the tall blond man with delicate features and an innate sense of tact so much!
She even had to rein in her nimble friends, the womanizers, who encouraged Andrei to meet more and more new girls. But having entered, the young man seemed to have torn himself away from home and no longer lived with his parents.
She and her special opinion will appear many times in Andrei’s novels and sometimes will be decisive. For example, it was her quarrel with Mironov’s student passion Tatyana Egorova that first separated her son’s beloved from their family, and then completely destroyed their relationship. However, the ardent young man was still ringed quite early.
Brief biography of actor Andrei Mironov
The future star of satire was born practically on the stage of the theater on March 7 (officially the 8th) 1941. Parents are famous actors. Mother - Maria Vladimirovna Mironova, father - Alexander Menaker.
Since childhood, the boy absorbed the creative atmosphere of art. Already at school, Andrei participated in the first theatrical productions. In 1958, he easily entered the VTU named after. Shchukin, while none of the members of the selection committee suspected whose son he was.
Having received a diploma with honors, Mironov was immediately taken to the Satire Theater, where he served until the end of his days. Inimitable artistry, amazing energy and charisma very quickly made Andrei the leading actor of the troupe.
Soon Mironov becomes the hallmark of the Satire Theater, the public comes to see the young artist play. In the 60s, Andrei Alexandrovich’s cinematic career began.
The audience accepted every picture with Mironov’s participation with admiration. After the comedy “The Diamond Arm,” the directors simply tore the actor apart.
People's Artist Mironov's track record includes more than 90 film works, many bright theater characters and 8 independent productions.
Quick marriage
After drama school, Mironov began playing at the Theater of Satire, and one day he went to the theater director Valentin Pluchek for a few words. Katya Gradova, a young actress familiar to the viewer from her role as radio operator Kat, timidly knocked there. Mironov really liked the girl, and, without being embarrassed by the director, he began to court her, ask for her phone number, give her his... Pluchek sent the actor out to talk with Gradova, and after the conversation he gave the girl advice - not to have affairs with Shirvindt, Derzhavin and Mironov.
Ekaterina Gradova. Photo: Vasily Malyshev / RIA Novosti
No sooner said than done. Katya, who then got a job in the same theater as Mironov, managed to avoid his company for a whole month. But he knew how to find an approach to everyone and, having marinated his heart, began calling the girl on the phone. She didn’t want to have “affairs,” which she informed the actor about. Already during the second meeting, Andrei proposed to her, and then, without warning anyone, the couple submitted an application to the registry office.
Filmography: films starring Andrei Mironov
The actor’s filmography begins with his debut role in the film “What if this is love?” However, both viewers and directors recognized him as a brilliant actor after the comedy “Three Plus Two” appeared on television. In 1965, Mironov played in another comedy, “Beware of the Car.” Andrei Mironov becomes the most sought-after actor.
The film “The Diamond Arm,” in which the actor played one of the main roles, is rightfully considered a masterpiece of Russian cinema.
In 1973, the film “The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia” was released, which was immediately called one of the cult films.
In 1987, the great legendary actor starred in his last film: “The Man from the Boulevard des Capucines.”
This great actor managed to play in more than 50 films.
Good girl
Suddenly brought into the house, and even as a wife, Gradova immediately felt the icy reception of the indignant Maria Mironova, who considered her daughter-in-law a real conqueror. However, Katya’s complaisance, ability to cook and obey her husband soon gave her the reputation of a “good girl.” Later, Maria Vladimirovna admitted that she was pleased with her son’s choice and did not want to lose such a daughter-in-law.
And when the young couple named their daughter in her honor, Masha, she completely melted away.
Photo: RIA Novosti
The young people lived separately and quite happily. It is known that Mironov could not stand women who did not know how to manage life, but he welcomed real housewives. So was his chosen one. In addition to the fact that there was always order at home, Katya could also step on the throat of her own song, refusing roles that her husband did not like.
Nevertheless, she loved Andrei, indulged him and always spoke of her husband as a kind and shy person, completely devoid of pathos and stardom, despite the fact that at that time he had already become the favorite of the entire USSR. However, their marriage broke up when little Masha was one year old. Gradova found Mironov with one of the actresses of the Satire Theater and could not forgive the betrayal. Feeling guilty, Mironov left the apartment for her and his daughter and went to live with his parents.
last love
Mironov had many more hobbies, but he had to hide them because he simply did not dare to drag a new girl into his parents’ house: his mother was very sad about the apartment that remained for Katya and Masha and could not forgive Andrey for this gentlemanly act.
Having left the constant demands for the filming of the famous “Three Plus Two,” Mironov fell madly in love with Natalya Fateeva. He confessed his love to her, truly suffered, courted her beautifully and almost cried. He called his mother several times a day and talked about his feelings. Natasha, who was seven years older than the actor, although she treated the sweet boy with warmth, could not reciprocate. Therefore, at her own birthday, she introduced Andrei to her friend, Larisa Golubkina.
It was to her that he moved out from his parents as soon as he again heard his mother’s next reproach. The girl raised her daughter Mashenka, the same age as Masha Mironova, and managed to recreate the usual family comfort for Andrei. He was flattered and grateful, many times he asked the star of the “Hussar Ballad” to marry, but she resisted, either believing that he did not love her, or not finding this feeling in her heart.
Meanwhile, Larisa established deep, warm relationships with Andrei’s parents and was favorably received by his mother.
What was the fate of Andrei Mironov’s widow, actress Larisa Golubkina?
Last week, the famous Russian actress, star of the cult musical comedy “The Hussar Ballad” and the lyrical film “Give me a book of complaints”, Larisa Ivanovna Golubkina, celebrated her 80th birthday. The People's Artist of the RSFSR is also the widow of the legendary Soviet actor Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov, who has not been with us for more than three decades.
Photo: uznayvse.ru Andrei Mironov with Larisa Golubkina
An attractive, charismatic young man from a famous acting family, many called him the “golden boy”, and they believed that he had pulled out his lucky ticket at birth. Andrei Alexandrovich was truly talented, successful and incredibly good-looking, so he never had a lot of fans. The actor was officially married twice, and also had many high-profile affairs with the first beauties of Russian cinema.
Mironov’s marriage to Larisa Golubkina lasted ten years, until the actor’s tragic death at the age of 46 from a massive cerebral hemorrhage. In this article we will tell you about the second wife of the untimely departed national favorite, as well as how her life developed after the death of the main man in her life.
Larisa Golubkina: biography before meeting Andrei Mironov
The future actress was born in Moscow, in 1940, on March 9, in the family of a teacher and a cutter. After the start of the Great Patriotic War, the head of the family changed his field of activity, became a military man and even rose to the rank of colonel. And after the birth of her daughter, my mother, at the insistence of her husband, left her job and devoted herself entirely to her family.
From an early age, little Larisa began to demonstrate innate artistry, an ear for music and good vocal abilities. Despite the fact that her parents tried to raise the heiress strictly, they never sought to suppress her creative impulses. As a child, Golubkina did not think about an acting career, but dreamed that one day she would become a famous opera singer. The girl organized her first impromptu concerts in the yard, and her neighbors were her listeners.
Photo: eg.ru Larisa Golubkina in her youth
While still a schoolgirl, Larisa began studying with a vocal teacher, and after finishing the eighth grade she entered a music school. But this information was hidden from dad for some time, because the man was very disapproving of his daughter’s passion for music, considering this activity frivolous. However, it soon became clear that her voice was not strong enough for opera singing. Parents insisted that Larisa, after graduating from school, go to study as a biologist, and her daughter even attended preparatory courses for some time, but in the end, she still did it her way and became a student at GITIS.
The father was in the dark for some time about where his daughter was studying, and when the truth was revealed, an unprecedented scandal erupted in the family. But by that time, the aspiring actress was invited to the musical film comedy “The Hussar Ballad”, immediately entrusting the girl with the main role. This work glorified the young beauty throughout the Soviet Union, and she immediately received offers from famous directors. A year later, Larisa was invited to the melodramatic film “Day of Happiness,” and a year later she played the main female role in the lyrical comedy “Give me a book of complaints.”
Larisa Golubkina: personal life
The actress met Andrei Mironov in the mid-60s. He was a year younger than her and was a graduate of the famous “Pike”. The young man liked the talented and charismatic girl so much that he soon decided to propose to her, which, however, she rejected. The thing is that Larisa in those years had not yet thought about starting a family, believing that this could harm her career. Then she was completely focused on work. True, according to the actress herself, her first man, nevertheless, was Mironov; at that time Golubkina herself was 23 years old. But soon after this their paths diverged for a long time.
Photo: biographe.ru Larisa Golubkina, film “The Hussar Ballad”
From the late 60s until 1974, the actress lived in a de facto marriage with screenwriter Nikolai Georgievich Shcherbinsky-Arsenyev. It is he who is credited with the paternity of Larisa Ivanovna’s only daughter, Maria Golubkina. The screenwriter himself claimed that he could not be the father of his common-law wife’s child “neither by divine nor by human laws.” As the alleged father, he named film director Vladimir Dostal, with whom Golubkina had a short relationship, but later she returned to Nikolai Georgievich.
Larisa Golubkina and Andrei Mironov: a love story
The actors met on December 23, 1963, while celebrating the birthday of their mutual friend, Natalya Fateeva. It was then that the aspiring actor was in love with Natalya: they played together in the romantic comedy “Three Plus Two,” and young Andrei, in the process of working together, simply lost his head over his charming partner. However, the girl did not reciprocate his feelings, and Mironov’s mother did not like her at all, and his parent was an unshakable authority for him.
It took the actor about ten years to win Larisa’s heart. During this time, he himself managed to marry another actress - the star of the cult series “Seventeen Moments of Spring,” Ekaterina Gradova. True, their marriage did not last long, and soon after the birth of their common daughter, Maria Mironova, their paths diverged. After separating from his wife, Andrei Aleksandrovich returned to his parents’ home for some time, but could not stay there for a long time, because his mother tormented him with her reproaches. Soon he literally ran away to Golubkina, settling in her apartment.
Photo: anews.com Larisa Golubkina and Andrei Mironov with daughter Masha
Larisa Ivanovna at that time already lived alone and raised her little daughter on her own. The unexpected tenant literally fell on her out of the blue, however, the woman did not even think about throwing him out the door. Some time later, they began to live in a de facto marriage, and in 1977, after the actor divorced his first wife, he legalized his relationship with his common-law wife.
Even at the dawn of their life together, the father of her chosen one, Alexander Menaker, visited Larisa and sternly asked why she needed Andrei, noting that his son had a very difficult character. The woman was then surprised by these words and stated that she and Andrey were not at all hard, but fun. However, Larisa soon became convinced from her own experience that Alexander Semenovich absolutely accurately assessed the character and disposition of his heir.
From the very beginning of their life together, Larisa unconditionally accepted the conditions of her chosen one: no scandals, less quarrels and more fun. True, in order to comply with these rules, the woman had to stock up on great patience. Golubkina admits that she was always a “lark”, and her lover was a “night owl”, so their biorhythms did not match: the actress went to bed early and got up early, but Mironov had a peak of activity at night, he wanted to go somewhere, have fun and involve others in this fun. Guests could simply come to them in the middle of the night, and the man was always happy to see them: he would throw a feast, turn on the music loudly, and could stay awake until the morning.
Photo: fb.ru Larisa Golubkina, Maria Golubkina, Andrei Mironov and Maria Vladimirovna Mironova (center)
Larisa had to break herself and accept such a nocturnal lifestyle of her husband. A similar situation developed with alcohol, because the actress couldn’t stand it, but she couldn’t refuse her husband’s persuasion to drink in the company of friends, and the next morning, even after a small portion of alcohol, she always had a terrible hangover. Andrei, looking at his beloved’s suffering, said that she was crazy for never learning to drink.
At times, the husband’s caustic statements and remarks hit the woman’s pride. So, for example, Andrei always criticized the vocal abilities of his chosen one, noting that she is not a very good singer. Therefore, the woman, no matter how much she wanted, never sang at home - this luxury was allowed only to Mironov. Larisa also spoke fluent English, but her husband ridiculed her pronunciation every time. Later in her interviews, the actress admitted that she could have caused a scandal to her husband and explained exactly what he was wrong about, but she never did this, because she understood that the chosen one in this case could leave for another, and “the women from his environment only this is what we dreamed about.” Larisa Ivanovna could not give them such joy.
They were also saved from divorce by the fact that the spouses worked in different theaters, and at concerts they never performed in the same department. And when rumors appeared that the handsome actor was unfaithful to his wife, many guessed that Golubkina was aware of what was happening, but wisely remained silent. After Andrei Alexandrovich died, the actress said that her husband never showed love for other women in front of her.
Larisa Golubkina: the life of an actress after the death of Mironov
Despite the fact that the family life of the actors was far from ideal, the sudden death of her beloved man was a huge shock for Larisa Ivanovna. Over the many years of marriage, the spouses did not have any common heirs, but Mironov adopted Masha Golubkina and always treated her as his own child.
Photo: biographe.ru Larisa Golubkina in the 90s
After the death of her husband, the actress no longer sought to arrange her personal life. She herself later said that after so many years of living with a man like Mironov, getting together with someone else would be simply ridiculous. Larisa Ivanovna focused on raising her teenage daughter, who was still in school at the time of her stepfather’s death. By the way, both heirs of Andrei Alexandrovich subsequently followed in their parents’ footsteps and became quite successful actresses.
In the apartment in which Golubkina lived with Mironov, she left everything in the same condition as it was during the life of her adored husband. The actress does not suffer from loneliness; she is regularly visited by her daughter and two grown-up grandchildren: Anastasia and Ivan. Larisa Ivanovna acted in films quite rarely, and, as a rule, she herself refused the directors’ offers if they seemed not interesting enough to her. Among her later works we can note the military series “Tragedy of the Century”, the adventure comedy film “Simplicity”, as well as the television play “The Heart is Not a Stone”.
In the mid-80s, when new offers from film directors practically stopped coming, Larisa Ivanovna realized that she was never lucky enough to meet her director who would be interested in her and her talent enough to fully unleash her entire creative potential . In this regard, decades later Golubkina regretted that she never became a singer.
After the final completion of her screen career, the actress played in the theater for some time, toured the country and neighboring countries, and also organized evenings of old romance. In addition, from time to time she accepted invitations to participate in popular television shows such as “Just the Same,” “My Hero,” and “Life Line.”
Photo: bulvar.com.ua Larisa Golubkina now
In recent years, Larisa Ivanovna has led a secluded life and very rarely agrees to interviews. She has not acted in films for more than ten years. According to the actress, even in her youth she never begged for roles from filmmakers, and now, even more so, she is not going to do this. In addition, her health no longer allows her to lead such an active lifestyle to which she is accustomed. And in 2019, numerous fans of Golubkina were seriously frightened by the news of the actress’s death. Later it turned out that this was not even a rumor, but, more correctly, an absurd mistake: Larisa Ivanovna’s namesake had died.
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Until death do us part...
In the late 70s, when the desperate Mironov once again created a romantic atmosphere for his beloved and proposed to her, Golubkina unexpectedly agreed. The secret of the strong marriage of the beautiful acting couple was revealed later: Andrei did not stop loving women. Simply calm, reasonable and passionate about her profession, Larisa accepted her husband’s adultery as part of her profession and knew how not to focus attention on them.
The marriage lasted ten years, until Mironov went on tour with the theater. While playing a scene with Shirvindt, without finishing his monologue, he suddenly backed away and began to slowly sag. A colleague picked him up and carried him backstage, shouting: “Curtain!” “Sasha, my head hurts,” whispered the confused Mironov. For the next two days, doctors fought for the life of the brilliant artist, but this was Andrei Alexandrovich’s second stroke, who had also previously undergone a serious operation related to the lymphatic system.
This time death won.
Evgeny Mironov with his good friend, actress Vera Vasilyeva
Personal life of Andrei Mironov
The personal life of Andrei Mironov interests viewers no less than the artist’s creative path. Possessing an outstanding appearance and natural intelligence, he could conquer any girl. Separate books could be written about his numerous novels. Some sources write that this was precisely the reason for the dissolution of the first marriage.
The actor’s colleagues claim that, while married to Larisa, Mironov never stopped having easy affairs on the side. Golubkina truly loved her husband, so she claimed that this was all gossip and nothing more.
The cause of death of Andrei Mironov was extensive cerebral hemorrhage. He became ill while performing on stage. The actor was taken to the hospital, where doctors fought for his life for two days. Unfortunately, the great artist died without regaining consciousness.
