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Leonid Broneva left

On December 9, in Moscow, at the 89th year of his life, artist Leonid Sergeyevich Broneva left. People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of all degrees - and many many professional awards.

And also - the son of a repressed Trotskyist. 13-year-old student of the baker and worker workshops of the puppet theater in evacuation, in Chimkent. Actor of the provincial troupes: Magnitogorsk, Orenburg, Grozny, Voronezh. And only from the beginning of the 1960s-an actor of the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where Anatoly Efros soon came.

Bronevo - (on stage most often - an actor of the “episode”, actor Camoo, but one that the viewer did not forget) brilliantly played with him in Romeo and Juliet, Marriage, a month in the village. In 1988 (at 60!), Leonid Sergeyevich moved to the Lenkoma troupe. His Krutitsky in the “wise”, insightful and slightly cynical-from increased vigilance-Dr. Dorn in the “Seagull”, the old servant Potapych is a faithful knight of a frantic granny-churikova in the “player” (“Barbarian and heretic”), his amazing firce in the play “Cherry Garden” was in the history of the best take-off of the theater.

The last role, Prince Sobakin in the terrible “day of the operator” by Mark Zakharov in Vladimir Sorokin, ”Leonid Sergeyevich played, sitting in a decorated chair on wheels. The brocade draped the wheels. The chair was taken along the stage.

But the popular glory of the armor and love for it - of course, this is a movie. Müller in “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, Velorov in the “Pokrovsky Gate”, a doctor in the “Formula of Love”, the Duke, obsessed with the passion for the couture, in “The same Munhgauzen”, Colonel Bakurin, the inhabitant of the landfill, in the “promised heaven” - Leonid Bronevo on the film screen became truly people who are unconstered.

Even when he played the chief of Gestapo.

Was he a comic actor? There is no answer. The words of Velyurov and the Duke - and, of course, the melancholy "And you, Stirlitz, I will ask you to stay!" - laughing, repeated the whole country of the Soviets. In the finest intonation of armor. But he was completely not a comic character of his firce-style. And Bakurin too. And in many very different images - from biblical prophets to business titans - Leonid Broneva would be magnificent. But these were not roles from our lives.

In the end, it was he who himself entered the life and in memory of several generations. Leonid armored vehicles. Regardless of the uniform or camisole in the frame.

The New Gazeta expresses condolences to the relatives of the artist, the Lenkom Theater and the audience.