Significant events and names of celebrities of the twentieth century are gradually being erased from the memory of contemporaries. Today, few people remember the theater and film actor Mikhail Zharov. And he was an interesting person.
Starting conditions
People's Artist of the Soviet Union Mikhail Zharov was born on October 27, 1899 in a simple Russian family. Parents lived in Moscow. My father worked as a printer in a printing house. Mother was engaged in housekeeping. There were four children in the house. By a happy coincidence, the Zharovs' house was located next to the Catherine Park. Wandering actors performed regularly in this park. Mikhail loved to watch such performances. When the boy was 14 years old, his father arranged for him as a typesetter in his printing house.
Zharov from an early age was distinguished by energy and good reaction. He developed an interest in cinematography at an early age. Together with her sister, they loved to go to the nearest cinema, and watch all the pictures in a row. The work in the printing house was monotonous and boring. Once he dared and offered his services to the director of the opera house. The energetic lad was hired as an administrator. Then came to trust him cameo roles. When Mishka, as his older colleagues called him, turned 17, he played his first role on the theater stage. The role of the Jester in the comedy "The Wives of Windsor".
Performances and films
Zharov learned the basics of acting in the studio of the Artistic and Educational Union of Workers. Having received the necessary knowledge and skills, he entered the service at the Experimental Heroic Theater. After a while he moved to the Rogozhsko-Simonovsky Theater. The famous director Vsevolod Meyerhold staged his plays here. In the mid-1920s, Mikhail Zharov took an active part in the Blue Blouse theatrical movement. The actor convincingly and expressively sang the anthem of this movement: "We are blue-blouses, we are trade unionists, we are not nightingale guitars, we are just nuts of the great ridge of one working country."
When sound films began to appear on the screen, Zharov was fortunate enough to star in the film "Start to Life". He played the role of a bully named Zhigan, performed very convincingly. Then there were the filming of the films "Youth of Maxim" and "Vyborg Side". The thug song "Fried Chicken", which was performed by Mikhail Ivanovich, was sung by the entire Soviet Union after the film was released. In the second half of his life, Zharov took up directing. He directed and directed a real mini-series called "The Village Detective". He staged it himself, he played the main role.
Personal life of the artist
Hero of Socialist Labor Mikhail Zharov was legally married four times. He lived with his first wife Nadya Guzovskaya for 10 years. They had a son, Eugene, who later became an actor. The second marriage lasted only 4 years. The family had two boys, but died in infancy. Zharov's third wife was Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, an actress of Soviet theater and cinema, a written beauty. They lived together for 7 years, after which the actress became interested in another man. The fourth wife, Maya Goldstein, was thirty years younger. The actor lived with her for the rest of his life. They raised and raised two daughters. Zharov passed away in December 1981.
