Having started the career of an actress with deception, she became famous “Pani Monica”
Olga Aleksandrovna Aroseva is a famous Soviet actress with a very interesting biography. As a child, she saw the world outside the Soviet Union, survived the difficult war years, became famous as “Mrs. Monika” and a socialite led a stormy personal life.
Foreign childhood, repressed father
Olga Aroseva was born in Moscow on December 21, 1925, in the family of a revolutionary, party Soviet leader and writer Alexander Yakovlevich Arosev. Her mother - Olga Vyacheslavovna Gopen - came from a clan of Polish noblemen. The childhood of Olga and her two older sisters (Natalia and Elena) passed in different countries of Europe - France, Sweden, Prague, Czechoslovakia, where their father served as ambassador and diplomat. When Olga was 5 years old, her mother fell in love with another man and left for him on Sakhalin. Children stayed with father.
In the 33rd year, Alexander Yakovlevich was recalled to Moscow. Upon his return, he was appointed to the post of chairman of the VOKS (cultural relations with foreign countries), which he would hold until his arrest in the 37th city. The man who stood at the origins of the revolution was accused of non-existent crimes and was soon shot. Fortunately, the mother managed to get permission from the authorities to take her daughters to her (by this time she and her new family had returned to Moscow).
Theatrical career began with an adventure
Sisters inherited the love of the scene from their father. Whatever country they lived in as a child, Alexander Yakovlevich never missed an opportunity to visit the theater with his daughters. Once in Prague, there was a curious incident: impressed by Bertold Brecht’s play “The Three-Penny Opera,” Olga turned her dress into rags and went with her friend to ask for alms on the street. To amazed passers-by (and there were simply no beggars in Prague at that time), she told how their mother had abandoned them, and dad did not give money at all. The story of the ambassador’s daughter asking for alms on the street hit the newspapers, which almost cost her father a political career.
Elena entered the Moscow theater school, and Olga with her eight education classes was not accepted there. In general, she did not graduate from any educational institution in which she studied: neither the circus, which she entered at the beginning, nor the theater subsequently (according to the actress herself, she received the only “crust” in her life about the completion of trolleybus driver courses, and that’s why that it was required for filming in the film “Watch Out for the Car”).
“Zucchini 13 chairs”
Glorified Olga Arosev the role of Mrs. Monica in the musical television play “Zucchini 13 chairs”, which first appeared on the screens in the 66th year and for 14 years was one of the most beloved programs of the Soviet television viewer. The best actors of that time were involved in it - Mikhail Derzhavin, Spartak Mishulin, Natalya Selezneva, Georgy Vitsin, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Tatyana Peltzer, etc.
The role of her on-screen daughter in the television play was performed by the charming Irene Abdurrezaevna Azer. But Pan Boniface, her husband in the story, never appeared in the frame.
For many years, “Zucchini” saved Aroseva from the lack of demand in the Tatra Satire, because his artistic director Valentin Pluchek did not give her roles for 10 years. The actress herself attributed this to the fact that Pluchek thus avenged her support for the director Evgeny Vesnik (he once opposed Pluchek at a meeting, and Aroseva sided with Vesnik, with whom she had many years of friendship and a similar childhood: both survived Stalin's repressions).
Last years
Despite the absence of native children and a spouse, Olga Alexandrovna did not feel lonely. She worked a lot, traveled the world, closely communicated with her sisters and their many offspring, close friends - Tatyana Peltzer, Vera Vasilyeva, Alexander Shirvindt.
Loved a fun feast and preference. She adored her country house in the village of Ababurovo, where she strove to spend every free minute with the onset of heat. She was active, cheerful and did not want to put up with old age ...
At the end of 2012, the actress was given a terrible diagnosis - oncology. Until the last moment, Olga Alexandrovna went on stage and hid even from relatives what she was sick with. She tried to fight the disease but to no avail. October 13, 2013, Aroseva died in one of Moscow hospitals in the 88th year of life. Farewell to the famous actress took place in her native theater on October 18 and on the same day she was buried in the Golovinsky cemetery.