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Memory. Mikhail Zhvanetsky
Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky (85 years old) was born in Odessa in a family of doctors: his father Manet (Emmanuel) Moiseevich Zhvanetsky was a surgeon, mother Raisa Yakovlevna - a dentist.
“Born in Odessa, somewhere in Z4. Something recalls very sunny, beach, filled with women of my mother’s age. Until the war crashed. Next - train, burdocks, Central Asia, School, Victory, Return to Odessa, Institute of Motherland Engineers, ”the writer said about his youth.
In his student years, he performed with his monologues at the Parnas-2 miniature theater, created at the Odessa Institute of Marine Engineers. Together with him in amateur performances, Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko, well -known satirics participated in the subsequently, participated.
In 1956 he received a diploma of a mechanical engineer and got a job in the Odessa port. Then he switched to the Prodmash factory, after-to the Central Design and Description Bureau.
I recalled those times: “And here we are, together with Viktor Ilchenko (I was in the fourth, he - in the first year) began to write something like cabbage for our student theater. When we graduated from the institute, our theater not only did not fall apart, but, on the contrary, strengthened and received the name "Parnas-2". The authors were Ilchenko, Zhvanetsky and Koff. Our dream and idol, of course, was Raikin. We constantly listened to him on the radio. I worked in the port on the portal cranes and was upstairs, and Ilchenko - on the farmers, he was below. And at night, in a shift, on radio points, we continuously listened to Raikin. ”
In 1960, satirics were able to get to know Raikin live-they showed him their work during a trip to Leningrad, where Parnas-2 arrived on exchange with a local student team. A year later, Raikin invited Kartsev and Ilchenko to the Leningrad Theater of Miniatures, which he led.
Zhvanetsky soon quit his job in the port and also left for Leningrad, but in the first years he interrupted by random earnings. Finally, in 1964, he began to tightly cooperate with the Miniature Theater, and in 1967 he entered the state of the theater. He wrote for him the program “Traffic Light” (1969), which included the famous miniatures “Avas”, “Deficiency”, “Age of Technology”.
Also during this period he composed more than three hundred monologues for the novel by Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko, often he himself made his sketches.
In 1970, Zhvanetsky, Kartsev and Ilchenko returned to Odessa, where they created their own miniature theater under the Odessa Philharmonic.
In 1972, Zhvanetsky was invited to the Moscow Hermitage Theater as an assistant to the main director.
In 1972-1974, he worked as a director of the Union Concert.
From 1981 to 1983 he was a literary employee in the publishing house "Young Guard".
In 1988, Mikhail Zhvanetsky created the Moscow Theater of Miniatures and until 2016 was its artistic director.
“The Moscow Theater of Miniatures is three scenes, three artist’s beloved by the country, the leader of the theater, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Mikhail Zhvanetsky, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Klara Novikova and People's Artist of the Russian Federation Roman Kartsev,” the theater said on the website of the Moskontzers.
Zhvanetsky has been performing a lot with concerts, writes books and since 2002 is a constant host of the monthly program “On -duty in the country”, which is published on the channel “Russia”. The program twice became the laureate of the TEFI Award - in 2006 and 2011.
In 2012, Zhvanetsky received the honorary title "People's Artist of the Russian Federation."
By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 27, 2019, Mikhail Zhvanetsky was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland of the III degree - "For great contribution to the development of domestic culture and art, many years of fruitful activity."
Mikhail Zhvanetsky on the confession of the title "People's Artist of the Russian Federation" Kremlin.ruWhat is famous
The famous satirist author, whose performances have long been dismantled.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky composed hundreds of popular miniatures for himself and colleagues in the workshop - Arkady Raikin, Viktor Ilchenko, Roman Kartsev, Sergey Yursky, Lyubov Polishchuk.
He published the books: “Meetings on the streets”, “Year in two”, “When you need heroes”, “My Odessa”, “Collection of works” in five volumes, “Do not continue the short”, “Southern summer (read in the north)” and others.
What you need to know about
The humor of Zhvanetsky is intelligent and ornate, coming from the satire of the Soviet school, where household inconvenience and various restrictions were played with the help of a grotesque.
“Humor is a rare state of a talented person and talented time, when you are cheerful and smart at the same time. And you are having a merrily open the laws by which people walk ... ” - the author himself noted in one of the miniatures.
In the 1990s, when the prohibitions disappeared, and humor became more frank, the intellectual equalibrics of Zhvanetsky lost its former popularity. Subsequently, with the return of the country of some Soviet features, the work of the satirist, as he himself noted, again became in demand.
Direct speech
About parents ( Fakty.ua , September 2015): “In Odessa, I lived in a communal apartment. My parents are doctors, and very old, in order not to say worse, Odessa surname Zhvanetsky is associated exclusively with medicine. With Moldavanka, where my father worked in the clinic No. 7. When he walked along the hospital, the tenants whispered: "There is Dr. Zhvanetsky go" ...
My father told me: "Do not rush - everything will come true." And then it came true: I'm not in a hurry ...
Father died early, and mother - a dentist at a tin plant - brought up one further than me. Raised, it should be noted, strictly. When the first time I found in bed with a girl - she was offended and left home. There was no day she was not. I ran around the whole city, found my mother at some aunt. She did not want to return home. Offended scary. "
About the work of Arkady Raikin: “Work on the performance, which in the final version was called the“ Traffic Light ”, lasted three years, from 1964 to 1967. He lived through the hotels, but it was already easier, the copyrights were walking. During the wandering, I had to part with my wife, she rightly left. I had to be near Raikin, she had nowhere to be. If I left Raikin, I would have saved my family, but lost the excellent work to which I was called up. With the frivolity of youth, I then decided all this and still, maybe I regret it. In short, then it was not possible.
In 1967, I was issued to the state of the theater first by an artist, then, after the departure of Alexander Khazin, the head of the literary part, Arkady Isaakovich helped with a residence permit and an apartment. He began to receive already large copyrights. I went with the theater to Yugoslavia.
He began to write a new program. The fact that Arkady Isaakovich did not take, I performed myself at the copyright evenings. Gradually, I had a lot of them - in the house of scientists, the house of writers, etc. I read the things rather sharp, who could cause irritation. I did not understand well then, I believed that I was behind the stone wall under the protection of the theater. This wall, which had a strong look, actually kept only on Raikin. ”
About Ukraine (“Duty in the country”, January 2016, a quote for AIF.RU ): “Previously, I had a hour and a half before the summer house, I mean Odessa. Now 5 hours to fly through Minsk. At first we made them muck, then they made us muck ... Now they compete in these nasty things! And everything applies to me. As if I'm to blame! ”
About Jews (ibid.): “Jews in the USSR - we don’t know the language, we don’t know our history, we don’t know religion. So, the Jews are not real. At the same time, they don’t take it to the institute, they don’t take it to work. So real. We arrived in Israel - we don’t know the language, we don’t know history, we don’t know religion. So, fake. But they are taken into the army, they are taken to the state, they take it to the cemetery. So real. Eh, these fluctuations were hesitated ... then we are against life, then life against us. "
About the time (“Duty in the country”, February 2018, a quote for AIF.RU ): “I know that the movement occurs only when you scold yourself. When you strok yourself on the wool, the movement does not occur. When you brag, exaggerate the good, hide the bad - you cannot move forward. Therefore, we now have a motionless time.
We prefer to talk only about Russia's achievements and not to call problems, failures. It would be better if we said on the radio every day what we lack. Every day! From this, life would have changed for the better. And when we do not know why we praise ourselves daily, every second, hourly, there are no incentives for movement. ”
About visiting the Moscow Theater of Miniatures (spectator Rysalka_2016 in the review on Tripadvisor): “I was at the concert of Mikhail Zhvanetsky, there was an organized way out of work. There is little of what the author read which of us understood. One thing was good that the organization paid the money. I do not advise anyone to go there for my blood. "
5 facts about Mikhail Zhvanetsk
- Zhvanetsky was born into a Jewish family, because of nationality he was not taken to the shipyard. As he himself said : “I graduated from the Faculty of Mechanization of the Ports of the OIIIMF (Odessa Institute of Motherland Engineers). He entered the shipbuilding, but people like me were taken only to the machine -operator. I was honestly warned and graduated from what I was offered. "
- In his student years, he was engaged in sports gymnastics, performed at competitions for his institute, had a second category.
- The writer wears his texts in a very battered briefcase. “The famous portfolio with whom I go on stage is my father’s portfolio. He wore diseases in him. And I wear the history of diseases, only he had - people, I have society. My father taught me the ability to see the world, ” said the comedian.
- He is a People's Artist of Ukraine (1999) and an honorary citizen of Odessa (1994), President of the World Club of Odessa. For many years, he has come up with concerts in his hometown and is an invariable guest of the Odessa "humorin".
- Zhvanetsky was married several times, from different marriages - official and unofficial - he, according to various sources, or three children. The writer has been living with his current wife Natalia since 1991. Natalia is 32 years younger than her husband. They have a common son Dmitry (born in 1995).
Materials about Mikhail Zhvanetsky:
Biographical certificate in Wikipedia
Article on RIA Novosti
Biography on the official website of the satirist
Book of Elizabeth Uvarova "Arkady Raikin"