Olga Androvskaya - one of the "great old men" of the Moscow Art Theater

The concept of "charming woman" seemed to have been created for Olga Nikolaevna Androvskaya. And the admired "devil" is very suitable for her. Or rather, she is what she was on stage and on the screen. And in the last of her deafeningly popular role, Pani Conti from the play "Solo for the hours with the battle", she played just such an old, fascinating and charming woman in the past.

Mother's genes

They say that she masterfully owned a laugh that had many intonations, and knew how to infect others. Olga Androvskaya was born in the century before last, in 1898, in the family of a future lawyer, and then a student at the law faculty of Nikolai Shultz. Her mother was a Frenchwoman Maria Rigule, who came to Russia to teach the language. Perhaps, this is the reason for the rare charm of Olga Nikolaevna? Maybe her mother's genes gave her a real French charm? If so, then her whole temperament, piquancy, humor and cunning took the scene.

Favorite and unique

Such were her heroines, but in life, according to the testimony of people who knew her well, Olga Androvskaya was a man rather sad and not a "fighter" at all. She herself said that she was sad to live, and it was fun to play. But, obviously, this phrase refers to that period of life when the ardently beloved husband - the then-famous theater and film actor who played the main role in the first Soviet sound film "A Voyage to Life", Nikolai Batalov - has already died. For some reason, all articles consider it necessary to emphasize the fact that he was an uncle to Alexei Batalov. So they write - Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Uncle A. Batalov. As if this title. Yes, A. Batalov himself, according to many evidences, is burdened by related ties to indecency.

Life before the theater

Olga Androvskaya graduated with honors in 1914 from the gymnasium. The future People's Artist of the USSR and the Stalin Prize laureate (1st degree) did not think about career of actress then, but as a girl from a good, well-off family entered medical courses. Olga Nikolaevna always treated her work in good faith. She professionally and mentally courted the numerous wounded who enter the clinic from the front. Later, the father insisted that her daughter follow in his footsteps, and the girl goes to the higher legal courses.

Carier start

It is during the training courses Olga Androvskaya begins to participate in performances, and later, determined on the choice of profession, takes the pseudonym "Androvskaya" in honor of his younger brother Andrew, who died in 1924 from wounds received in the war.

The famous actress of the Imperial Theaters, the teacher of the great Yablochkina Glikeria Fedotova noted the talent of the young Androvskaya and advised her to devote herself to the art of Melpomene.

Very suitable actress

And now, since 1916, Olga Androvskaya is an actress of the then very popular Krosh Theater. At the same time, she also visited the studio. Chaliapin. In 1919 Olga Nikolayevna entered the 2nd studio of the Moscow Art Theater, and from that time she took part in the performances of the famous Art Theater, and in 1924, together with the studio, was included in its composition. The first major role of Androvskaya on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater was the role of Isabel from the comedy of P. Calderon "The Lady of the Unknown". She was very supportive of the founding fathers of the Art Theater. AP Chekhov - KS Stanislavsky and VI Nemirovich-Danchenko. He also offered her the role of Lisa in "Woe from Wit," where Stanislavsky was in the role of Chatsky. It was impossible to single out it - Androvskaya was called a unique actress, who possessed an amazing charm, grace, craftiness and, most importantly, she had a fine stage technique.

One of the most successful roles

And, of course, Olga Androvskaya, an actress with such data, was shining in characteristic roles. For example, Suzanne in the "Marriage of Figaro" by Beaumarchais. In general, the cast of this performance was brilliant - Batalov (Figaro) and Shevchenko, Livanov and Zavadsky as Count Almaviva, Stepanova and Prudkin. Sketches of costumes were made by Golovin. The performance-carnival forever inscribed Androvskaya's name in the history of the Moscow Art Theater and did not leave the scene for more than 10 years.

Performances that made the theater famous

Maybe, according to theatrical standards, the actress played not so many roles, but absolutely all of them were memorable. Famous performances such as "The Ideal Husband" or "The Sinology School", where Androvskaya shone in the role of Mrs. Cheveley and Lady Thiesl (respectively), for a very long time did not go off the stage, and the beautifully staged "Slander School" was filmed. Actress Androvskaya, who has only her inherent, unique, brilliant style, has become famous. For this production, Olga Nikolayevna mastered the game on the harp, and her partner Mikhail Yanshin - on the flute.

Brilliant actress, any role on the shoulder

Actress Olga Androvskaya, whose biography was associated with the Moscow Art Theater until the end of the day, played another characteristic role of Roxy Hart in the play "Advertising" by M. Watkins, which later formed the basis for the acclaimed Broadway play "Chicago". For Androvskaya fame of the comedian actress. But Olga Nikolaevna any role was on the shoulder, for example Panova in "Lyubov Yarovoi." Many believe that this role has become the pinnacle of her work.

Personal life

In her personal life, Olga Androvskaya, whose biography from 1921 was connected with Nikolai Batalov, was happy. In 1923 in the family of talented actors, Svetlana's daughter was born, in which the mother of the soul did not desire. But the cold, which N. Batalov picked up on the set of the film "Aelita", developed into tuberculosis. And in 1937 the actor dies. Olga Androvskaya never married again. She had a daughter for her. Svetlana grew up, became an actress, but she did not succeed. Her husband was an actor Peter Chernov, who became extremely popular after playing the role of Davydov in the film "Virgin Soil Upturned."

Cinema and teaching activities

Olga Androvskaya, whose films remember a few, nevertheless, too, was shot quite successfully. And the role of the landowner Elena Ivanovna Popova in the short film "The Bear", in which her partner was the brilliant M. Zharov, glorified her throughout the country. The film is now broadcast on television. It should be noted her pedagogical activity (GITIS) - Olga Nikolayevna released several famous actors, in 1963 became a professor.

The Great Performance

And the beautiful final chord was the play "Solo for hours with the battle." Not every actor gets such a gift - so brilliantly, with such triumph to leave the stage. All the "great old men" were unusually good in "Solo ...", but Olga Androvskaya simply shone. At the rehearsal, she was brought from the hospital - she was already seriously ill. A unique actress died in 1975 from cancer. She was buried next to N. Batalov in the second section of the Novodevichy Cemetery.