Childhood and youth
Avdotya, or, as her family called her, Dunya, was born in Moscow. The writer is the daughter of popular parents - actress Natalya Rudnaya and her husband, the famous Soviet director Andrei Smirnov, author of the film "Belorussky Station".
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Avdotya Smirnova with her mother in childhood
Growing up in a family directly related to cinema, the girl herself was drawn to cinema. But Duna also liked to write various stories, so in high school the schoolgirl planned to go to the screenwriting department of VGIK. As a result, the domineering father intervened in the issue of choosing a university.
Andrei Smirnov knew firsthand how difficult life associated with cinema is, so he categorically forbade his daughter to follow in the footsteps of her parents. Agreeing with him, Avdotya became a student at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. After studying there for some time, she transferred to GITIS to major in theater studies.
As a result, Smirnova never received a higher education. In her youth, the girl became interested in journalism, began working as a book reviewer in the magazines “Capital” and “Afisha”, and then for a year she was an editor in Sergei Solovyov’s creative association “Circle”, at the Mosfilm film studio.
Avdotya Smirnova
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Avdotya Smirnova in her youth
This work distracted Dunya from her studies, and the student dropped out of university, especially since she had a new hobby - music. The girl began acting as an art manager in the underground punk band “Dumb” and even tried herself as a vocalist several times.
In 1989, Avdotya Smirnova moved to St. Petersburg. There, Dunya is engaged in art: she collaborates with the A-Z Society of Artists, organizes exhibitions of contemporary painting, and compiles a collection of paintings for the Petrovsky Bank. At the same time, the girl for the first time takes the road that will lead to all-Russian fame.
Family
Avdotya Smirnova is a Russian film critic, TV presenter, screenwriter, director, writer, and philanthropist. She was born on June 29, 1969 in Moscow and comes from an acting family. Her parents are Andrei Sergeevich Smirnov and Natalya Vladimirovna Rudnaya. Avdotya’s grandfather is the famous Soviet writer Sergei Sergeevich Smirnov.
Dunya spent her childhood in the society of the Moscow intelligentsia, because her parents’ social circle included Russian actors, playwrights and directors. True, Avdotya Smirnova was distinguished by an eccentric and eccentric character, which is why, according to her, she had a “very vain youth.”
Personal life
In Leningrad, Avdotya Smirnova met art critic Arkady Ippolitov, whom she soon married. In 1990, their son Danila was born, who later became the world champion in beach soccer as part of the Russian national team, and later for a short time was the producer of the Leningrad group. In 1996, the couple separated. Changes in Avdotya Smirnova’s personal life were not expected soon.
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Arkady Ippolitov, the first husband of Avdotya Smirnova
In 2012, the long-divorced Smirnova remarried. The film director's husband is politician Anatoly Chubais. The couple were friends for 10 years, after which the romance began. Anatoly proposed to his chosen one several times, but Avdotya did not immediately agree. After the wedding, the film director notified fans about the event with a small photo and a laconic commentary on it, which she posted on Facebook (Dunya does not have Instagram).
Chubais’s wife leads a public life, being the founder of the “Vykhod” foundation, which provides assistance and solves the problems of children suffering from autism.
According to Smirnova, her husband has remained the most demanding critic of her film works for many years, and the writer considers receiving a compliment from Chubais a great success. During filming, it is the husband who controls the issues of his wife’s rest, knowing that Avdotya is ready to work day and night.
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Avdotya Smirnova and Anatoly Chubais
Periodically, news appears on the Internet about the divorce of Smirnova and Chubais, but everything is fine in the family of the politician and writer.
Childhood
The childhood of the famous woman was nothing special. The only thing that caused her the most different experiences was her own name. There are interviews in which Avdotya Smirnova said that she was quite worried and tried to introduce herself to her peers as Juliet, Angela and Christina. In other words, she tried her best to hide her real name, since many children began to look at her askance after the moment they found out what her real name was.
Avdotya's father, who was tough and domineering, did not want his daughter to follow in his footsteps. In this he was guided by the fact that this path was given to him with great difficulty. This is probably why Dunya, as her first attempt, chose an institute that was in no way connected with the film industry.
Movies
In St. Petersburg, Smirnova meets director Alexei Uchitel, with whom she writes the first script for the documentary film “The Last Hero,” dedicated to the memory of Viktor Tsoi.
In partnership with Teacher, the aspiring screenwriter is working on two more documentary-biographical films - “Butterfly” about theatergoer Roman Viktyuk and “Red Giselle” about ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, which was then remade into a full-length film called “Giselle Mania”.
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Avdotya Smirnova and her films
In 2000, the screenwriter’s next work was released - the drama “The Diary of His Wife,” in which Andrei Smirnov played the main role. The film received a lot of prizes at film festivals, and Avdotya herself became the winner of the screenwriting competition The Hartley-Merrill International Screening Competition.
Subsequently, cooperation with Alexey Uchitel continued. Together, the directors created the melodrama “Walk” and were supposed to make a new film based on Dunya’s script, “Communication.” But the Teacher had an urgent project, and he recommended that Smirnova try to become a director herself. As a result, the film, in which, by the way, Avdotya’s mother Natalya Rudnaya starred, received the prize for best debut at the Kinotavr film festival.
Since then, Smirnova has often made films herself based on her own script developments. The film director worked on a new film adaptation of the classic novel “Fathers and Sons,” which she interpreted as a family story. The film was created on the former estate of Ivan Turgenev, now the Spasskoye-Lutovinovo museum complex.
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Yulia Snigir, Avdotya Smirnova, Evgeny Muravich and Gennady Smirnov on the set of the film “Cococo”.
Then the director filmed one episode of the detective series “Churchill”. The next work, for which Avdotya again chose a museum as the setting, was the romantic comedy “Two Days.” The main characters here are played by Fyodor Bondarchuk and Ksenia Rappoport. The interiors of the Kunstkamera were used in the social tragicomedy “Kokoko” about female friendship. Anna Mikhalkova and Yana Troyanova played in this film, which was awarded many awards.
Such an enthusiastic nature could not help but try herself as an actress, so Dunya Smirnova can be seen in the comedy “Till Night Do Part,” the crime film “I Want It Too,” and the drama “Lessons at the End of Spring.”
Avdotya Smirnova devotes most of her time to directing work. In 2020, she participated in the filming of the film almanac “Petersburg. Only for love". The writer got a part called “Walking the Dogs” about the fate of a young woman (Anna Mikhalkova), who, in search of personal happiness, tried a lot of methods: she went to witches, filled out a form on a dating site.
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In 2020, Smirnova presented the audience with the drama “The Story of One Destination,” which focused on the young years of Leo Tolstoy. The Count acts as a lawyer for one soldier who had a conflict with an officer. The film featured Alexey Smirnov, Evgeny Kharitonov and Irina Gorbacheva. According to tradition, filming took place in the Yasnaya Polyana museum complex and the Pushkin Mountains.
Criticism
Igor Mantsov in the magazine “Seance” notes that Avdotya, in her script work for Alexei Uchitel - “The Diary of His Wife” - responded to the public demand for artistic images of the cultural model[33]. Dmitry Bykov in the magazine “Seance” notes that Smirnova’s script reflects “something more serious and intelligible” than her other colleagues[34]. Alexey Gusev in the same magazine claims that Avdotya is an excellent screenwriter, and the technique of short remarks is her strong point. However, he notes that with all the talent, a corresponding talent of the director adapting the written script is also needed, and names Claude Sautet as a candidate[35]. Anna Sotnikova in the Afisha magazine, reviewing Smirnova’s film “Cococo,” notes that when watching, one gets the feeling of an analogy with the film “The Servant” by Joseph Losey, but unlike it, Avdotya demonstratively “refuses conclusions and morality”[36]. WITH
Television and books
Smirnova tried to gain a foothold on television back in 1989 with her own program on the Leningrad TV channel, but then Dunya switched to writing scripts and abandoned this type of creativity.
But in 2002, she again became a TV presenter and, together with the writer Tatyana Tolstaya, hosted the talk show “School of Scandal”, first on the “Culture” channel, and then on NTV. The program was repeatedly recognized as the best, and the TV presenter herself received a TEFI statuette in 2003.
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Avdotya Smirnova on the art of taking selfies in the elevator https://www.the-village.ru/village/city/opinion/145443 Published by The Village Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Avdotya Smirnova in the “School of Scandal” program
Writing books occupies an important place in Smirnova’s creative biography. I tried myself as a director and screenwriter in the literary genre. Together with co-host Tatyana Tolstaya, she released the literary work “The Kitchen of the School of Scandal,” and then she herself published the collection “From the Frost,” including articles, stories and essays from previous years. Also, the plots of the film “Communication” and other film scripts were compiled into a separate publication.
Bibliography
- Smirnova, A. A., Tolstaya, T. N.
Kitchen “School of Scandal.” - 2004. - 360 p. — 15,000 copies. — ISBN 5-98793-005-7. - Smirnova, A. A.
Communications and other film scripts. - Session, Amphora, 2006. - 352 p. - (Filmplaywright Library). — 5000 copies. — ISBN 5-367-00171-8. - Smirnova A.S.
Ilyin tried very hard; High jump; Screenwriters // [www.litkubiki.ru/page.php?pageId=78 Literary cubes: Artistic and journalistic almanac. No. 2]. - M.: KARO, 2006. - 526 p. — 5000 copies. - Smirnova, A. A.
From the frost. - Session, Amphora, 2007. - 272 p. - (Article). — 5000 copies. — ISBN 978-5-367-00379-6. - Smirnova, A. A.
In any case // The book for which writers united, but it is impossible to unite them. - M.: Hospice Assistance Fund "Vera", 2009. - 480 p. — 45,400 copies. — ISBN 978-5-699-34548-9.
The abandoned wife of Anatoly Chubais is seriously ill (photo)
Journalists concluded that the woman’s mental state at that time was also caused by her social work in a Moscow hospice, where people suffering from cancer are living out their last days. They say that Vishnevskaya spent a lot of energy on terminally ill people and this may have had a bad effect on her state of mind. Over time, Chubais’s wife, apparently, was able to cope with all her ailments and return to work. In 2010, for example, Anatoly Borisovich, as civil servant, published his family's income.
It turned out that Chubais himself and his significant other earn a very decent salary. In 2009, he earned over 202 million rubles (this amount includes salary at RUSNANOTECH, profit from securities and bank deposits, shares from participation in commercial organizations), it is almost 22 million. However, from a rare interview with Maria Davydovna it follows that Chubais’s financial viability is not in the first place for her.
Avdotya Smirnova and Chubais separated, what is the reason?
While the people were “playing” with “colored pieces of paper” - vouchers, a handful of cunning and smart people (future oligarchs) actually divided the country. According to polls conducted by various organizations, more than 90 percent of the Russian population consider Chubais one of the most unpopular government figures. The work of the reformer as a manager at RAO UES also received a negative assessment - even hospitals, schools, kindergartens and maternity hospitals that were in debt for electricity were cut off from electricity. And in hospitals, for example, electricity is also equipment on which human lives depend.
Chubais left his wife for Duna Smirnova
She denied in every possible way that her ex-husband Chubais provided her with any assistance in business. Anatoly CHUBAIS with his second wife Maria Little is known about Vishnevskaya, to whom 56-year-old Anatoly Borisovich now preferred 42-year-old Avdotya Smirnova.
The press wrote that economist Maria Davydovna constantly supported her husband in difficult work, sharing grief and joy with him. In 2007, reporters reported that Vishnevskaya was hospitalized in one of the capital’s clinics with some serious illness, which was complicated by depression.
Avdotya Smirnova: the fact that I married Chubais is a miracle
In 20 years of marriage, the couple never had children. Maria found something to do that was not typical for the wives of oligarchs - she began working (on a voluntary basis, for free) in a clinic for cancer patients.
She took care of patients. Through high-ranking acquaintances of her husband, she found money for expensive operations for complete strangers. “Maria Davydovna has been our guardian angel for many years,” the Clinic Foundation told us with undisguised warmth. There are people who immerse themselves in other people's problems in order to forget about their own.
It also happens that, moving in a certain environment (among the sick), people of a particularly subtle mental organization are imbued with someone else’s misfortune and become ill themselves. It’s as if they “take on” someone else’s pain. Many employees and even management of “cancer” hospitals become ill with oncology - this, alas, is a well-known fact. Although this disease is not transmitted... Several years ago, Maria was hospitalized.
Student years
After graduating from high school, Avdotya Smirnvoa was enrolled in the philological faculty of Moscow State University, which she, however, did not graduate from. Later, the girl was accepted into the State Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS), however, Avdotya did not receive a full education at this university, which did not stop her from starring in the cameo role of a simple girl in the film “Lessons at the End of Spring” in 1990.
Avdotya Andreevna Smirnova is one of the fairly prominent participants in cultural life. She took part in numerous performances that were dedicated to new artists. She also acted as a showman at some concerts. She was listed for some time on the staff of the Kommersant publication. Among other things, she worked as a book reviewer.
