In the annals of Soviet theater and cinema, the name of Veriko Andzhaparidze is mentioned only from the positive side. Her creative biography took shape in difficult social and political conditions.
Starting conditions
Art critics and connoisseurs of stage creativity call Veriko Ivlianovna Andjaparidze the same age as the century. The biography of the famous actress reads like an exciting novel. The future People's Artist of the Soviet Union was born on October 6, 1897 in a family of Georgian aristocrats. By that time, the elder sister and brother were already growing up in the house. Parents at that time lived in the sunny city of Kutaisi. His father, a descendant of an old noble family, worked as a notary. The mother was engaged in housekeeping and raising children.
According to established tradition, the girl received her primary education at home. Then she took a course at a parish school. From an early age, she demonstrated musical ability. She sang songs that she heard on the street. And those that sounded from gramophone records. Together with her father, acting chairman of the city theater society, Veriko often visited the local theater. Parents and acquaintances did not even doubt that she would become an actress. When the girl turned 16, she left for Moscow and entered the drama studio of the Maly Theater.
Creative activity
Veriko did not have time to complete the course of study in the drama studio. The events of 1917 confused all the plans, not only of the beginning actress. Due to circumstances beyond her control, she was forced to return to her homeland. She was willingly accepted into the troupe of the Georgian Academic Theater, which was located in Tbilisi. Despite the troubled times, the actors were enthusiastically engaged in creativity. At first, Anjaparidze did not get the main roles. In 1922 she went on an internship at one of the theaters in Berlin. The experience gained served as a good help in the future career of an actress.
In the early 1930s, Veriko served for several years in the troupe of the Moscow Realist Theater. During her three years in the capital, she managed to play one major role in the play based on the novel “Mother” by Maxim Gorky. The reason is simple - the actress was unable to establish relations with the chief director of the theater Nikolai Okhlopkov. Over time, Anjaparidze developed an individual acting style. She could transform into any, even an episodic character on stage and draw the attention of the audience to him.
Recognition and privacy
Nature has endowed the actress with magnificent external data and a velvet voice. For her creative life, Anjaparidze received all the highest awards that were only in the USSR. For her great contribution to the development of culture, she was awarded the honorary title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
The personal life of Veriko Ivlianovna has developed well. For the past fifty years, she has been married to the famous actor and director Mikhail Chaureli. The husband and wife raised and raised their daughter, who also became an actress. The great actress passed away in January 1987.
