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Maria Vladimirovna Mironova
Maria Vladimirovna Mironova (Russian: Мари́я Влади́мировна Миро́нова; 7 January 1911 [O.S. 25 December 1910] – 13 November 1997) was a Soviet and Russian actress who worked in film, television and theatre. She was a member of the popular comedy-duo Mironova and Menaker (Russian: Миронова и Менакер), which she performed with her husband, Aleksandr Menaker, for decades on stage.[4] Her son, Andrei Mironov, was a well-known actor.[1][3] She was named People's Artist of the USSR by the Soviet government in 1991.[2] Life and careerMironova was born in Moscow to Elizaveta Ivanovna Firsova, a schoolteacher, and Vladimir Nikolayevich Mironov, a merchant from a petite-bourgeoisie family.[3] In 1927, Mironova graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts (now[update] the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts).[2] She became a member of the popular comedy-duo Mironova and Menaker, which she performed on stage with her husband, Alexander Menaker, for about three and a half decades since the duo debuted in 1939, until Menaker's death in 1982.[4] They typically acted out scenes of a quarrelling couple; Mironova's characters were often a domineering and ignorant wife, whilst Menaker always took the role of a weak-willed husband.[5] Each sketch they performed took no more than five minutes.[5] The memoir ...In Their Repertoire (...В своём репертуаре) was published in 1984, written by Mironova in co-authorship with her husband, who had died two years prior to the publication.[6] She acted on stage for the last time in Semyon Zlotnikov's play The Old Man Left the Old Woman (Уходил старик от старухи) just a few days before her hospitalisation and death.[4] Mironova died on 13 November 1997, at the age of 86, at the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital.[4] She was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery next to her son, who had died ten years earlier.[1] Selected filmography
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