Maria Vladimirovna Mironova

Maria Vladimirovna Mironova (Russian: Мари́я Влади́мировна Миро́нова; 7 January 1911 [O.S. 25 December 1910] – 13 November 1997) was a Soviet and Russian actress who worked in film, television and theatre. She was a member of the popular comedy-duo "Mironova and Menaker (Миронова и Менакер)", which she performed with her husband, Aleksandr Menaker, for decades on stage.[4] Her son, Andrei Mironov, was a well-known actor.[1][3]

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Mironova.
Not to be confused with Maria Mironova, her granddaughter.
Maria Vladimirovna Mironova
Мари́я Влади́мировна Миро́нова
Mironova in the 1940 film Crime and Punishment 
Born(1911-01-07)7 January 1911
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died13 November 1997(1997-11-13) (aged 86)
Moscow, Russia
Burial placeVagankovo Cemetery, Moscow[1]
55°46′05″N 37°32′54″E
Alma materLunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts[2]
OccupationActress
Years active1927–1997
Notable work"Mironova and Menaker"
Spouse
Aleksandr Menaker
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(died 1982)​
ChildrenAndrei Mironov[1][3]
RelativesMaria Mironova (granddaughter)
AwardsPeople's Artist of the USSR (1991)[2]

She was named People's Artist of the USSR by the Soviet government in 1991.[2]

Life and career

Mironova was born in Moscow to Elizaveta Ivanovna Firsova, a schoolteacher, and Vladimir Nikolayevich Mironov, a merchant from a petite-bourgeoisie family.[3]

In 1927, Mironova graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts (now the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts).[2] She became a member of the popular comedy-duo "Mironova and Menaker (Миронова и Менакер)", which she performed on stage with her husband, Alexander Menaker, for about three and a half decades since the duo debuted in 1939, until Menaker's death in 1982.[4] They typically acted out scenes of a quarrelling couple; Mironova's characters were often a domineering and ignorant wife, whilst Menaker always took the role of a weak-willed husband.[5] Each sketch they performed took no more than five minutes.[5]

The memoir ...In Their Repertoire («...В своём репертуаре») was published in 1984, written by Mironova in co-authorship with her husband, who had died two years prior to the publication.[6] She acted on stage for the last time in Semyon Zlotnikov's play The Old Man Left the Old Woman («Уходил старик от старухи») just a few days before her hospitalisation and death.[4] Mironova died on 13 November 1997, at the age of 86, at the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital.[4] She was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery next to her son, who had died ten years earlier.[1]

Selected filmography
Mironova (right) and Igor Ilyinsky in the 1938 film Volga-Volga

References
  1. "Тайны Ваганьковского кладбища" [Secrets of Vagankovo Cemetery]. Argumenty i Fakty (in Russian). 14 April 2003. Archived from the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  2. "МИРО́НОВА И МЕНА́КЕР" [Mironova and Menaker]. Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian). 2217408. Archived from the original on 21 February 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  3. Егорова, Татьяна Николаевна (1999). "Глава 5. Мать Андрея — Мария Миронова" [Chapter 5. Andrei's Mother — Maria Mironova]. Андрей Миронов и я. Любовная драма жизни в 4-х частях [Andrei Mironov and I. The Love Drama of Life in 4 Parts] (in Russian). АСТ. pp. 29–30, 39. ISBN 5-8159-0027-3. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023 – via Google Books.
  4. "Скончалась Мария Миронова" [Maria Mironova Passed Away]. Kommersant (in Russian). 14 November 1997. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  5. "МИРОНОВА, МАРИЯ ВЛАДИМИРОВНА" [Mironova, Maria Vladimirovna]. Универсальная научно-популярная энциклопедия Кругосвет [The Universal Popular-Science Encyclopaedia of the World] (in Russian). 1997–2023. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  6. Миронова Мария Владимировна — «…В своём репертуаре». (Карточка) [Mironova, Maria Vladimirovna — ...In Their Repertoire (Card)] (in Russian). Russian State Library. 1984. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
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