STEPANOVA Angelina losifovna

ANGELINA losifovna STEPANOVA was the last actress "of the" Art Theater. "He" and "this" - these "definitions" included in our everyday life long before the section of the theater and have no relation to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater and the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky, . but to the theater, . which no longer exists, . founded in 98 th year (a little more - and will have to speak - the century before last), Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, . and to, . with whom they are dealing today's audience,
. Stepanova was ten (a little less - a little more) years younger Tarasova, Gribov, Elanskii, Androvskoy. Yet it can be called and called her an actress the same one on vnutriteatralnoy terminology - the second generation of the Moscow Art Theater. Beside her is played by those who were younger than she was quite a bit, but they - the actors have another generation of the Moscow Art Theater. She was a student of Stanislavsky himself, played with him in "Woe from Wit", in "Cherry Orchard". Beside played Knipper-Chekhov, Kachalov, Moskvin ... Actors first generation mhatchiki. Another teacher was her Nemirovich-Danchenko. By "ironically" - although the match in such a "fact" always get special weight and mystical sense - she died on the night of May 18, the birthday of Sofia Pilyavsky. Pilyavsky with which we parted long ago, was the penultimate.

The official information on the tape ITAR-TASS said that Stepanov gave the theater 75 years. It was not so. Section theater, she said, in recent years, she has not taken. But after the division remained with Ephraim (which is very respected, and because Century Theater, celebrated in Kamergersky, rather than on Tversky), played in the Moscow choir ". Then he fell ill, and when recovered, the theater were not returned. She left quietly. And died, as written in the same tassovke, in his sleep, in his Moscow apartment. Her life was real drama and tragedy. Sama - Partorg Theater, (there is also likely to have their drama), Stepanova, as is known, was the wife of Fadeev and the suicide of the writer learned in MAT tour in Yugoslavia. At the funeral, witnesses testified, did not cry. Then - back finish the game plays. The strict woman, masculine (enemies in all of this were, of course, other definitions), it has retained these qualities and in old age. Old age is hard to call it the last few years. She was sick, but people always appearing smart, in a strict, beautiful dresses, shoes on high heels. She spoke little, often preferring their own way somebody's great poems - Baratynsky, Pushkin, Tyutchev. Poetry she knew, loved and, by his own admission, gone from the theater, to engage in poetry. The last of its program on the radio date back almost the last year.

At the very presence of recent years was significantly. Recently published book of her correspondence with Erdmann only added respect for Stepanova, and without the knowledge of many experienced. The significance and greatness. It was probably a genius - in the sense that was used by David Samoilov, but to her, or rather, we are so suited to the final line of his famous poem: "There are no them, and everything is allowed". What we'll allow herself after her departure depends upon us

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. Nezavisimaya Gazeta on 19 May 2000

. FILMOGRAPHY:
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. 1951 Unforgettable 1919
. 1953 ANNA KARENINA
. 1964 BYE, boy!
. 1965-1967 WAR AND PEACE
. 1972 Day by Day
. 1975 ESCAPE MISTER McKinley
. 1975 THEY FOUGHT FOR THEIR MOTHERLAND
. 1976 always with me ..
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1976 Twenty Days Without War
1976 TALE OF unknown actor
1977 declaration of love
1983 SPEED