Tatyana Doronina

On September 12, 1933, the actress and theater director Tatyana Doronina were born.

Personal business

Tatyana Vasilievna Doronina (87 years old) was born in Leningrad. The family lived in Ilyich Lane (until 1925 and from 1993 - Big Cossack Lane). Father, Vasily Ivanovich, worked as a cook. During the war, the mother with Tatyana and her older sister Galina was evacuated to the city of Danilov, her father served in the army.

After graduation, Tatyana Doronina entered the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio for Pavel Masalsky. During the years, she married her classmate Oleg Basilashvili. In 1955, Doronina debuted in the movie as Zoe in Mikhail Kalatozov’s film “The First Echelon”. In 1956 she graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, playing in the diploma performances “Wolves and Sheep” (director B. Vershilov) and “How important it is to be serious” (director A. Komissarov).

After the distribution, she worked in the theater in Volgograd, the next year Doronin and Basilashvili were invited to Leningrad, to the Leninsky Komsomol Theater. Soon she attracted the attention of George Tovstonogov, who invited the actress to the Big Drama Theater. There, Doronina became one of the leading actresses. Among her roles in the performances staged by Tovstonogov - Nadezhda Monakhov (“Barbarians” by M. Gorky), Valya (“Irkutsk history” by A. Arbuzov), Sofya (“Woe from the mind” by A. Griboedov), Nastasya Filippovna (“Idiot” by F. Dostoevsky), Nadia (“My older sister” A. Volodin), Masha (“Three Sisters” (“Three Sisters” A. Chekhova), Lushka (“Raised virgin” M. Sholokhov), Lollia (“Roman comedy” by L. Zorin).

In 1972, the actress moved to Moscow and enters the troupe of the Moscow Academic Theater. V. Mayakovsky. Since 1983 he has been playing at the Moscow Art Theater Gorky.

In 1981-1987 she also played in the performances of the Moscow Drama Theater "Sphere".

After the division of the Moscow Art Theater’s troupe into two theater, Tatyana Doronina headed the theater in a building on Tver Boulevard, which retained the name of the Moscow Art Theater Gorky. Now she is the artistic director and director of this theater.

What is famous

Tatyana Doronina, famous throughout the country, became, after the release of the “older sister” films, directed by Georgy Natanson in 1966 and “Three Topols on Plyushchiy”, Tatyana Liosoznova in 1967, where she was especially remembered for the rustic woman of Nyura who came to Moscow. Another Film of Natanson “Once again about Love”, in which Tatyana Doronina played the role of the flight attendant Natasha, was no less popular. Earlier, Doronina played Natasha on the BDT stage in the play by Eduard Radzinsky “104 pages about love” by which this film was shot. In 1973, another film appeared with the vivid role of Tatyana Doronina - the “stepmother” of director Oleg Bondarev, where her heroine tries to get closer to her husband’s daughter from another woman.

In 1981, Doronina received the title of People's Artist of the USSR.

What you need to know about

But the roles of Tatyana Doronina on the theater stage were even brighter. She attracted attention already at the Leningrad Theater named after the Lenin Komsomol, and in the BDT, the first role was the first role - Hope Monakhov in the “barbarians” Gorky. She was followed by Sophia in “Woe from Wit”, Nastasya Filipovna in “Idiot”, Masha in “Three Sister”, Lushka in “Raised virgin lands”. At the Mayakovsky Theater, the audience remembered Tatyana Doronina in the play and “Long live the queen, Vivat!”, Where she managed to play two women different in temperament and character: Maria Stuart and Elizabeth I.

As a director in Gorky’s Moscow Art Theater, Tatyana Doronina staged the performances “At the bottom”, “Three sisters”, “Zoikina apartment”, “French quarter”, “Crazy Jourder”, “White Guard”, “Forest”, “We are going to watch“ Chapaeva ”,“ Madame Alexander ”,“ Revenue place ”,“ The Terkin alive and will be! ”,“ The version of “Angletter”, “The version of“ Angletter ”,“ “Invisible lady”, “one love of my soul”, “guilty without guilt”, “humiliated and offended”, “farewell in June”, “Russian vaudeville”, “Belugin’s marriage”, “Comedians of the master ...”, “Street hunter”.

Direct speech

“My mother, her manner to speak, sing, her openness, gullibility and self -nonsense - I played in“ three poplars ”. The premiere of the film took place in Moscow, and the film was going on first in Moscow. Mom really wanted to see him, and she came from Leningrad. Suffering from awkwardness, from other people's views, from my inappropriateness in the cinema "Moscow" at the time when the film with my participation was going on, I stood in the lobby next to my mother. People crowded around us, pulled their hands with torn tickets, so that I put an autograph on these tickets, said kind words. Mom smiled at everyone and said: "Thank you very much." When the film began, the attention of the audience switched to the screen, and I could already observe the reaction, the expression of faces, be surprised at their tears and laughter. They gifted me directly and generously, enveloped their kindness, and during the scene with the keys, when my heroine fought on the closed door and could not open it, several voices shouted loudly: “The key was on the suitcase! On the suitcase! " They wanted to help, they believed in everything unconditionally, they sincerely loved, wished me a happy life. Mom did not recognize herself in the film, she along with everyone watched the plot and did not look for prototypes in the image of her namesake. We walked with her in an affectionate Moscow, she was silent for a long time, then quietly said: “True they shouted. The keys were lying side by side. On the suitcase. "

From the book of Tatyana Doronina "Diary of the actress"

“The actress has a huge creative imagination, and what he imagines, knows how to“ inspire ”the audience at every moment. She imperiously draws them into the sphere she created, includes in her special inner world. For the originality of the actress - a true nation. Not that painted, stylized, dressed up - "a la RUS" - but real, spontaneous. The one that manifests itself in the striking width of the characters, in their fearlessness, in the pursuit of truth, in the proximity to Russian nature. And maybe, even in that, unquenchable definitions that exciting secret, which always makes the new eternal beauty of the fields, rivers, birch, grass, a hesitation of the wind. ”

Raisa Benyash ("In makeup and without makeup", 1971)

“Her heroine declared herself right away. Zhenya Shulzhenko - an orphanage from the play by A. Volodin Factory girl, played in 1957 at the Leningrad Theater named after the Lenin Komsomol, claimed the right to his life, her truth. The human wealth of the soul has become the main quality of the images created by the actress. Attention was focused on the right to a free choice, the possibility of being complex, imperfect, alive. These were the heroines of Doronina, the element of emotionality and romanticism lived in them. She organically joined the ensemble of the Great Drama Theater, where her most significant roles were played. ”

Ekaterina Yudina

5 facts about Tatyana Doronina

• Returning after the war from Danilov to Leningrad, the family of Doronina brought a goat with him on the train, since relatives were afraid of hunger.
• The first time Tatyana Doronina came to go to the Moscow Art Theater School, having graduated from only eight classes. She successfully passed all the tours and passed the entrance exams. Only during the design it was found that the girl has no secondary education yet. Two years later I had to act again.
• The actress got married five times. After Oleg Basilashvili, her husband historian Anatoly Yufit, playwright Edward Radzinsky, actor Boris Khimichev, an employee of the headquarters of the oil industry Robert Tokhnenko became her husbands. The actress has no children.
• Tatyana Doronina three times became the actress of the year according to the survey of the magazine "Soviet screen".
• In 2003, the remake of the film “Once again about Love” was shot - “Heaven. Airplane. Girl ”, where Renata Litvinova played the role of a stewardess played in 1967 by Tatyana Doronina.
• Doronin is part of the Public Council under the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

Materials about Tatyana Doronina

Article about Tatyana Doronina on Russian Wikipedia

Tatyana Doronina in the Encyclopedia "Krugosvet"

Tatyana Doronina "Diary of Actress"

Tatyana Doronina page on the Moscow Art Theater

A multiple biography

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