Faina Ranevskaya. Life told by herself. Ranevskaya F.

“My father was a poor oil industry...” - it was believed that only this anecdotic phrase survived from the memoirs of Faina Ranevskaya: she burned all the other notes, returning the advance payment, and her legendary acuity and aphorisms are known mainly by retelling. But the Bulgakovsky Woland was right: the manuscripts are not burning, and this book was a unique opportunity to hear the lively voice of the great actress, who could only drop the usual mask with her and speak extremely frankly, not to public, “from the first person”...

Do you know that Faina Georgievna hated this “winged phrase” “Mule, do not nervous me!”, Having made her famous, and derogatoryly spoke about her cinema: “Again clowness, not Vassa Zheleznova!”, Afraid of staying in The memory of the audience is just a source of verbal “pearls” and jokes? Did you know that, in addition to the title of People's Artist of the USSR, the orders of Lenin and the Red Banner of Labor, she also received three Stalinist prizes, although she spoke about rewards as “funeral supplies”? Did you know that under the guise of “mults”, eternal mockingbirds and swearing, a creative tragedy of a brilliant actress, who had not learned to appreciate her comedy gift, was hidden?

This book is not memoirs, not a collection of well -known jokes and “HOHM” - from these pages the voice of a completely different, real, tragic Ranevskaya, whose caustic acuity has always been laugh through tears.