Olga Aroseva: biography, personal life and family of the actress

Name: Olga Aroseva Date of birth: March 11, 1972 Date of death: October 13, 2013 Where was born: Moscow Height: 165 cm Nationality: Russian on father, Polish on mother Zodiac sign: Sagittarius Eastern horoscope: Ox Cause of death : oncology
At one time, every resident of our large country knew the name of this actress. We bring to your attention an article dedicated to the biography and personal life of Olga Aroseva, the famous Mrs. Monika from “The 13 Chairs Zucchini.”

Films with actress Olga Aroseva entered the treasury of Russian cinema, and roles in theater and cinema became familiar and recognizable to admirers of her talent. It all started in December 1925, when in the capital of the young Soviet state, a second daughter was born into the family of a high-ranking diplomat, who was named... Varvara.

Childhood and youth of the actress

Little Aroseva spent her childhood abroad. Father - Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev, due to the nature of his service, lived in Paris, then in Stockholm, then in Prague. Mother - Olga Vyacheslavovna Goppen, was from the Polish nobles, a graduate of the Institute of Noble Maidens, worked as a secretary-assistant for Polina Zhemchuzhina, the wife of Vyacheslav Molotov.

Then the couple already had two girls growing up - Natasha and Elena, and a few years later their parents had a boy, Dima. When the third daughter was born, at first the name Varvara was entered into the birth registration, but then the mother changed her mind, became hysterical and, on her initiative, the child was renamed Olga.

An interesting situation arose during the period when the Arosev family lived in Sweden: the mother left her children and husband and rushed to Sakhalin after her lover. By the way, Olya was only five years old at that time. In the fateful year of 1937, my father was arrested and subsequently shot. The children were sent to their unlucky mother.

It is curious that Olga was personally acquainted with Joseph Vissarionovich himself thanks to the position of the pope before his arrest. When the girl grew up, she decided to write a letter to Stalin, because she believed that she had the right to do so. In the message, Aroseva Jr. asked why her father suffered, what his guilt was. But there was no answer from the leader. In “revenge” the girl refused to join the Komsomol.

Olya was involved in art from childhood and adolescence: she was enrolled in a drama club, later in a theater studio, and worked as a model for professional artists. After school, she entered the circus school, then changed her mind and became a student at the capital’s theater school, but she didn’t stay there either. One day she followed the Leningrad Musical Comedy Theater, which was once on tour in Moscow. The talented girl was gladly accepted into the troupe. So the young actress found herself in the city on the Neva. To be fair, it is worth noting that the future star of Soviet cinema and television committed forgery of documents, namely: she presented at the theater a diploma from her sister Lena, who had already graduated from theater school by that time. Olya was no stranger to moving; since childhood she had traveled almost the entire continent. Aroseva was a Leningrad resident until 1950, after which she returned to the capital to work at the Satire Theater, where she served until the end of her career. Although for a short period - from 1969 to 1971, she went to the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.

AROSEVA Olga Alexandrovna

21.12.1925 — 13.10.2013

Olga Aroseva was born on December 21, 1925 in Moscow. Father, Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev, was one of the leaders of the Moscow revolutionary uprising in 1917, then was a diplomat. Mother, Olga Vyacheslavovna Goppen, was a native of Polish nobles and graduated from the Institute of Noble Maidens, worked as a secretary-assistant for Polina Zhemchuzhina, the wife of Vyacheslav Molotov. The Aroseva family included a Polish aristocrat, the pacifier of the Polish uprising of 1863-1864, Mikhail Muravyov, a merchant of the first guild and, of course, there were some actors. By the way, for the first three days the newborn enjoyed life under the name Varvara - this is how her happy dad registered her. However, at the request of her mother, Varvara successfully turned into Olga and remains so to this day. Later, the parents separated, and the children (Olya and older sisters Natasha and Elena) remained to live with their father.

Olga Aroseva spent her childhood abroad - in Paris, Stockholm and Prague. In 1933, the family returned to Moscow. In 1935, the future actress met with Stalin at an air parade in Tushino, where Olya and sister Elena were taken with her by her father. Stalin honored the girls with his attention and gave Olya flowers. The sisters gave an interview about this case to Komsomolskaya Pravda. On Stalin's birthday, Olya tried to take a gift to Stalin in the Kremlin - a blue hydrangea in a pot, but was not allowed through by the Kremlin guards.

Olga Alexandrovna still loves her father immensely. He recalls with pleasure the atmosphere in the house on the embankment where they lived upon returning from abroad. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Romain Roland, Tairov and Koonen, young Boris Livanov were in the apartment... All this ended in 1937, when Alexander Yakovlevich, feeling that something irreparable was happening around him, and in the country, he himself went to Yezhov, whom he knew as a civilian. Apparently, he wanted to talk “like a communist to a communist.” Didn't come back. Olya Aroseva was not afraid to write to Stalin that she did not believe in her father’s guilt, and when she did not receive an answer, she decided not to join the Komsomol: this required renouncing her father, the “enemy of the people.” She even beat up her older Komsomol sister, who was forced to do this. The frivolous, eccentric and naive Olga Vyacheslavovna managed to ensure that after the arrest of her ex-husband, her daughters, who had previously lived with their father, were given back. It seems she even knelt in front of high-ranking security officers. And she begged: the girls were not sent to the orphanage.

Ever since her childhood in Prague, it became clear that Olya Aroseva was a born actress. Once, after watching “The Threepenny Opera,” she cut her dress into rags, like the beggar characters in the play, and together with her Czech friend went to beg, telling the astonished bourgeois a touching legend that their mother had left them and their father was not giving them money. The matter almost ended in a diplomatic scandal: a newspaper article appeared about the daughter of the Soviet ambassador collecting alms; there were no beggars in Prague in those years.

During her school years, she participated in performances of the school drama club, and studied in the children's theater studio of N. I. Klyuchnikov. She played a Japanese spy who is detained by a vigilant pioneer.

One day, on the way to the stadium where Olga was doing gymnastics, a short man of not very remarkable appearance approached her and offered to paint her portrait. He paid her like a real model. It was Nikolai Romadin. The result of their friendship were two canvases, which later, as an adult, Olga Alexandrovna scratched out from the artist with great difficulty.

Her early youth coincided with the war. It was at this serious time that a young girl entered... a circus school. True, she dreamed of being a rider, but the horses, as luck would have it, were mobilized. The newly minted circus performer did not despair - she juggled and walked on the wire with enthusiasm. In parallel with the circus school, she managed to attend airborne school, and it is not known how it would have ended, but Aroseva’s childhood fear of heights, which had peacefully dozed in the arena, woke up during parachute jumping training. The girl literally fainted from horror and was expelled. But on the second attempt, like sister Elena, she passed into the Moscow City Theater School. The director of the school and artistic director of Olga Aroseva’s course was V. V. Gotovtsev, a student of K. S. Stanislavsky, thanks to whom the actress played several small roles in the second Moscow Art Theater.

The delightful adventurism inherent in Olga played a turning role in her fate. In 1946, the Leningrad Comedy Theater under the direction of the remarkable director and artist Nikolai Akimov toured Moscow while passing through evacuation. Aroseva, who had not yet completed her studies, came to show herself, was greeted favorably and, presenting a diploma from her sister, who had already graduated from theater, “fraudulently” infiltrated the troupe. She went to Leningrad, where she spent five happiest years, mastered the basics of the profession, and partnered with amazing actors. Here she got married for the first time and here... she ended up in court - when, due to a misunderstanding, she did not show up for the performance, and thereby disrupted it.

In 1950, Akimov was removed, blaming cosmopolitanism. Everyone renounced him, with the exception of two people: Boris Smirnov (he later successfully played Lenin at the Moscow Art Theater) and Olga Aroseva, surprisingly devoted to those who “tamed” her. She had nothing more to do in Leningrad, and she returned to Moscow.

Since 1950, Aroseva got a job at the Satire Theater, where she still works today. She is an actress of a certain role, but she is not burdened by this. However, some of the critics expressed their readiness to lament in print her failed fate as a large-scale dramatic actress, who “is accessible to both subtle psychologism and sharp forms of tragic farce.” Well, maybe. Although, if Aroseva had thought about this, then today, when she personally organizes enterprises and travels with performances to cities and villages, right up to America, organizing productions would be a piece of cake. But, most likely, Olga Aleksandrovna understands that she is more endearing to a grateful public in the image of the eccentric Mrs. Monica and the simple-minded heroines of Ryazanov’s comedies, so she does not break the boundaries of her own role. Moreover, at different times it allowed her to work in plays by Ostrovsky, Erdman, Beaumarchais, Griboedov, Calderon... By the way, despite her unheard-of popularity, Aroseva was not given the title for a long time: she never defended her diploma, did not finish her studies.

The artistic director of the Theater of Satire, Valentin Pluchek, at one time did not often spoil her with premieres, and in the late 1960s he practically did not notice her. The actress was literally saved by the television “Zucchini 13 Chairs” (1969) - the trendsetter, enterprising “socialite” Mrs. Monika fell in love with the whole country. O. Aroseva says: “The recognition everywhere was amazing. And how many times they wrote to me that newborn girls were called Monikas! It’s nice that other generations have grown up, but they still remember us and, fortunately, recognize us.”

Cinematography also helped Aroseva out. In the 50s, she starred in such popular films as “We met somewhere...” (1954) by N. Dostal, “Girl without an address” (1957) by E. Ryazanov and others.

But the first big success was the role of Lyuba in Eldar Ryazanov’s comedy “Beware of the Car” (1966), where a whole constellation of actors starred - I. Smoktunovsky, G. Zhzhenov, O. Efremov, A. Mironov, A. Papanov, E. Evstigneev and others. The film about the honest car thief Detochkin was a stunning success.

Then there was Madame Xydias in the tragicomedy “Intervention” (1968) and a role in the musical comedy “Trembita” (1968).

In the early 70s, Aroseva was again invited by Eldar Ryazanov. And again, in the company of Soviet cinema stars, she starred in films that later became classics of our cinema: in the comedies “Old Robbers” (1971), and “The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia” (1973).

In the tragicomedy “Old Robbers”, she played the collector Anechka Suzdaleva, who, together with the modest employee Vorobyov (E. Evstigneev), decides to help the investigator Myachikov (Yu. Nikulin), who is being fired. A funny and sad story about Soviet pensioners. Suzdaleva, played by Aroseva, is kind, a little simple-minded, defenseless and at the same time decisive, capable of anything for the sake of her loved one.

Since the 80s, working in films has become an extremely rare occurrence for Aroseva; she almost completely switched to theater

With the departure of Tatyana Peltzer from the Satire Theater, Olga Aroseva switched to older heroines, and finally, she was firmly occupied in the repertoire. Since the early 1990s, O.A. Aroseva becomes the first actress of the troupe.

Another page of Aroseva’s creative work is work in animation. The most popular actress has been working there since the 60s. Aroseva is one of the best performers of the roles of foxes and elephants. Her voice is also spoken by the eccentric Baba Yaga from the series of Olympic cartoons under the general title “Baba Yaga Vs” and Mrs. Belladonna from the television series “The Adventures of Pig Funtik”.

Among the characteristic features and peculiarities of our heroine, we note her love for animals, preference, travel, as well as her own dacha, where she spends most of her free time. Aroseva is distinguished by her incomparable charm, an exceptional sense of camaraderie and a difficult character, which she herself attributes to her birth between the signs of Sagittarius and Capricorn: December 21. (On the same day as Stalin, by the way.) The cheerful actress appreciates the joys of bathing and swimming in the pool, smokes Marlboro, and is not averse to drinking with her comrades after the performance, having a snack not on foppish delicacies, but on traditional sauerkraut. Aroseva has a weakness for bright jewelry (she does not accept costume jewelry), and she is convinced that in a past life she was a Thai jeweler. She never considered herself a beauty, but she did not doubt her ability to turn anyone’s head.

Olga Alexandrovna prefers blue-eyed blonds. Married four times. The first husband was a musician, the second was an artist of the Satire Theater Yuri Khlopetsky, the third was singer Arkady Pogodin, talk about the fourth O.A. For some reason he avoids it. She always parted with her chosen ones without a scandal, which subsequently made it possible to maintain the most friendly relations.

About her marriages, Aroseva notes: “These were my official, normal marriages. After them there were many civilians. I don't want to name any names. I can only say that these were playwrights, actors, musicians, painters and people who had nothing to do with art. And yet, in reality, I lived my whole life alone - all my husbands, unfortunately, turned out to be helpless and weak.”

Roles in the theater

On the theatrical stage, Olga shone in performances staged by many wonderful directors, among whom we can name directors such as Ravenskikh, Garin, Pluchek.

At the Musical Comedy Theater, Aroseva played in “Old Friends” by Malyugin, “No joke with love” by de Musset, “Taimyr is calling you” by Galich. At the Satire Theater she was entrusted with roles in productions of Schwartz’s “Shadow”, as well as in plays:

1. Shaw's "Heartbreak House";
2. Ostrovsky’s “Profitable Place”;
3. “Foam” by Mikhalkov;
4. “Little Comedies of a Big House” by Arkanov and Gorin;
5. "Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro" by Beaumarchais;
6. “Woe from Wit” by Griboyedov;
7. "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekhov;
8. "A Perfect Murder" by Popplewell and others.

According to Wikipedia, with the departure of Tatyana Peltzer from the Theater of Satire, who was assigned the main roles of older heroines, this privilege passed to Aroseva. In the nineties, the artist became the prima of the troupe. The latest work in the theater was the play “Requiem for Radames” directed by Roman Viktyuk.

Film roles

Olga Aroseva became famous in the mid-sixties, when she starred in Eldar Ryazanov’s legendary comedy “Beware of the Car.” In this film, the actress brilliantly played the role of the girlfriend of the main character, the thief Detochkin. In general, the artist began acting in films in the late forties, although more and more in episodes. However, even then, the great potential of the performer was felt, who had been waiting for her finest hour for a long time and still waited.

After collaborating with Ryazanov and Smoktunovsky, she was lucky enough to play in Gennady Poloka’s film “Intervention” together with Vladimir Vysotsky, and a little later - with Evgeny Vesnik and Savely Kramarov in the musical “Trembita”.

The films in which Aroseva starred can be counted on one hand. But in the early and mid-seventies she was invited to many projects. Among the successful films of that period, it is worth mentioning, first of all, Ryazanov’s “Old Robbers”, where the actress played the collector Anna Pavlovna. In this comedy, Aroseva’s company was made up of the incomparable Yuri Nikulin and Evgeny Evstigneev; in the same year she participated in the creation of the vaudeville “Shelmenko the Batman”. Together with her, the film crew in this film directed by Tutyshkin included Mikhail Pugovkin, Zoya Fedorova, Lyudmila Senchina.

In 1973, Ryazanov again turned to Aroseva’s services. He filmed “The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia.” In it, the master entrusted Olga Alexandrovna with the third-rate role of the mother of the main character, police captain Vasiliev, played by Andrei Mironov.

In the eighties, the performer was invited less often, let’s note the musical comedy “Seven Happy Notes” and the feature film “The Limit of Desires.” Even in the crisis nineties, Aroseva was filmed more often, for example, in “Old Songs about the Main Thing-2”

In any case, all the works with her participation were diverse. Albeit with an emphasis on musical comedy.

Other films from the actress’s filmography:

1. "Guest from Kuban";
2. "Girl without an address";
3. "In the city of S.";
4. "Two days of miracles";
5. “Cross the threshold”;
6. "Countess";
7. "Athenian Evenings";
8. "Matchmakers" and many others.

Movies

Olga Aroseva made her film debut immediately after the end of World War II. But for a long time she starred either in episodes or in small roles. The young actress can be seen in such films as the production drama “Precious Grains”, the biographical film “Belinsky”, the comedy “We Met Somewhere” by Arkady Raikin, and the melodrama “Guest from Kuban”. Olga also had a lot of television plays in her repertoire. Aroseva’s first fame came from Eldar Ryazanov’s social comedy “Beware of the Car,” in which she played the role of the bride of Yuri Detochkin, the character of actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky. Then the war film “Intervention” with Vladimir Vysotsky and the musical “Trembita” with Savely Kramarov were released. And in 1989, the entire Soviet Union clung to the television when the entertainment show “Zucchini “13 Chairs” began to be shown.

This program had the effect of a bomb exploding and won the love of viewers for more than 10 years. In addition to Aroseva, other artists of the Satire Theater regularly appeared there: Mikhail Derzhavin, Spartak Mishulin, Natalya Seleznyova, Andrei Mironov and many others.

At the same time, Olga Aleksandrovna, who became incredibly popular after the role of Mrs. Monica, starred in the children's fairy tale “Two Days of Miracles,” the philosophical comedy “Old Robbers,” the musical “Shelmenko the Batman,” the bright film comedy “The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia,” and the bourgeois tragicomedy “The Morals of the Lady.” Dulskoy."

In the 80-90s, the actress appeared in films only occasionally, playing more in theatrical productions. But in the 21st century, she returned to the set again. Among Aroseva’s latest works, it is worth noting the romantic comedy “Athenian Evenings,” two seasons of the melodramatic series “The Most Beautiful,” the social drama “Old Men” and the top-rated comedy “Matchmakers.” The actress’s voice also sounds in the ironic fairy tale “The Book of Masters,” in which she participated as a narrator.

TV programmes

In the period from 1969 to 1981, the program “Zucchini 13 Chairs” appeared on the country’s television screens, which became very popular from the first release. And a very important role in the meetings was played by Mrs. Monika, performed by Aroseva. The character's name became a kind of pseudonym for the actress. And although the plot of the show was simple, it was all presented so fun and easy that the audience could not take their eyes off the blue screens. Together with Aroseva, Spartak Mishulin, Natalya Selezneva, Mikhail Derzhavin and many other stars of that era performed in this performance.

Teleplays with the participation of Aroseva:

• “Nude with a violin”;
• "Sisyphus and Death";
• "Interview with Spring";
• "Ordinary person".

The actress worked as a TV presenter in the early 2000s. For about a year, Olga Alexandrovna was the co-host of the “Country of Soviets” program on NTV. Ruslana Pysanka, Valery Meladze, Lev Novozhenov, Boris Burda worked in duets with her. In 2004, Aroseva was invited to the Channel One program “Raffle”. Also in 2010, she became a participant in the Indian Summer project on the Domashny TV channel. In 2011, Aroseva was a guest of the “Smak” program.

In the summer of 2010, they decided to involve the People’s Artist in the program “Before Everyone” on First. Unfortunately, the program lasted only half a month and was replaced by “Live Healthy!” In 2011, Aroseva worked in the ensemble of presenters with Ekaterina Volkova and Ilya Noskov in the musical show “Long time no see!” on TV Center. A year later, the actress appeared on the Ukrainian TV channel Inter, where the half-hour film “Matchmakers at the Stove” was shown.

Awards and prizes

During her long and fruitful career, Olga received many awards and titles. Among them:

• prizes “Silver Mask” in 1976 and “Ostap Bender’s Golden Chair” in 2001;
• State Prize named after Stanislavsky in 1977;
• title of People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1984;
• Order of Honor, “For Services to the Fatherland”, IV and III degrees - for contribution to the development of theatrical art.

Recognition and awards are, of course, great, but the main thing is the love of a grateful audience.

Personal life and family of the actress

In her youth, Olya Aroseva was a fairly attractive girl. Her appearance attracted the attention of romantic natures, masters of brushes and palettes. The personal life of the actress was quite stormy. Over all the years of my life, four official marriages are no joke. And the number of common-law husbands is known only to people who knew her well. Let's dwell on those men with whom she finally reached the registry office.

Her first husband, Konstantin Zhukov, was 11 years older than Aroseva. They met in Leningrad, where the wedding took place in 1946. Kostya was a musician, the young people lived in marriage for a whole five years, and according to Olga Alexandrovna’s recollections, it was a happy time. Then the wife left to work in Moscow, and the marriage itself broke up.

Second husband Yuri Khlopetsky was listed as an actor at the Satire Theater in the fifties, and there the guys paid attention to each other. In 1953, they were supposed to have a child, but Aroseva had a miscarriage. Looking ahead, let's say that the actress did not have children. What caused the break between Yuri and Olga is not known for certain, but soon after that accident they broke up.

The third husband, singer Arkady Pogodin, did not revolve in the orbit of the Moscow actress for very long. Both were in demand in their professions, there was not enough time for a happy family life, and the gap between them was predetermined in advance.

The fourth husband, actor Vladimir Soshalsky, proposed to his colleague after Aroseva broke off relations with Pogodin. If this was the fourth marriage for the lady, then the gentleman got married for the first time. The bright personalities failed to get along together; the relationship first cracked and then completely fell apart.

Despite so many official husbands and numerous admirers, Olga Aleksandrovna Aroseva felt like a lonely person. She claimed that none of her partners was distinguished by a strong masculinity, there was no one on whose shoulder she could lean.

In the absence of her own children, the artist gave her unspent maternal feelings to numerous nephews and nieces. She was also rich in friends. They were mainly people of art, colleagues on stage and on the set - Vera Vasilyeva, Alexander Shirvindt, Tatyana Kravchenko, Roman Viktyuk. These comrades became practically family to her, they replaced family.

Aroseva was distinguished by her love for animals, some of them lived in a dacha near Moscow. In her free time from work, Olga Aleksandrovna loved to play preference, dig in the garden beds and steam the bones in the bathhouse.

Konstantin Zhukov

In 1946, the actress began her career at the Leningrad Comedy Theater. Musician Konstantin Zhukov saw her on stage and immediately lost his head. He was 11 years older than his chosen one. Worldly wisdom did not help Zhukov resolve the love triangle that arose: a famous Soviet playwright began to court the already married Olga Aroseva.

Young Olga Aroseva in the film “Crazy Day”

When the actress had the opportunity to return to Moscow, she immediately left her negligent husband. Despite the difficulties, Olga called her first marriage the happiest.

Illness and death of the actress

With age, the actress's health naturally deteriorated. In the 2000s, she was diagnosed with cancer. But Aroseva did not show it, did not complain to anyone and worked in the theater until the last opportunity. Which, most likely, extended her life. In 2013, Aroseva’s health worsened, and doctors advised her not to overexert herself and to stay in bed. In the last photos she looks very old and tired. In the fall, the actress underwent surgery for a complete blood transfusion, but the procedure did not help. The weakened body could not cope with the load. On October 13, 2013, the beloved artist died. 5 days later the funeral of Mrs. Monika took place. The farewell ceremony took place at the Satire Theater. Aroseva is buried at the Golovinsky cemetery - this is the north of Moscow.

Personal life

The actress was officially married 4 times. But only a nurse remained at the woman’s deathbed.

Quote: “These are official marriages. There were also many civilians. I don't want to name any names. Among them were people of art and those who by profession had nothing to do with it. But I lived my whole life alone. Alas, all my men turned out to be weak and helpless.”

We cannot give a complete list of Olga Aroseva’s men, but we know the names of her four legal spouses:

• In Leningrad, a woman married musician Konstantin Zhukov, 11 years older than her. The actress recalled the years spent with her husband as happy. Having changed her place of work and city of residence, the artist broke up with Zhukov.
• The second husband is a colleague at the Satire Theater Yuri Khlopetsky. In 1953, Olga became pregnant, but lost the child in a stampede at Stalin's funeral.
• The third husband of the actress was the famous tenor, jazz singer Arkady Pogodin. For the sake of Olga, 24 years younger, he divorced his wife.
• Finally, the actor Vladimir Soshalsky became the last official spouse. The loving man managed to be married to Alina Pokrovskaya, Nonna Mordyukova, Nelly Podgornaya, Nina Olkhina, Maria Skuratova.

Aroseva's 4th husband Vladimir Soshalsky