On Friday, November 6, it became known about the death of the satirist, screenwriter and director, People's Artist of Russia Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
He was 86 years old.
The news of the death of the artist was announced on her Instagram by singer Alla Pugacheva.
"That's all.
You left us forever.
An irreparable loss.
My friend, you are unforgettable.
You are always in my heart, "wrote Pugacheva.
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That's all. 🙏 You left us forever. An irreparable loss. My friend, you are unforgettable. You are always in my heart. # Zhvanetsky # genius died.
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Also, information about the death of Zhvanetsky was confirmed by his representative.
The reasons for the incident have not yet been named.
However, a month ago, on October 7, Mikhail Zhvanetsky decided to leave the stage.
“He is a realist and said that you shouldn't go on stage.
You need to grow old at home.
A person loses some kind of working capacity of his usual, why demonstrate this?
Zhvanetsky closed the program, finished his concert activities, "- then the artist's representative Oleg Stashkevich told RIA Novosti.
In an interview with Channel Five, Stashkevich emphasized that the artist is on self-isolation.
According to the satirist Semyon Altov, Zhvanetsky has been feeling unwell lately.
“I know that he was bad, that he did not walk well.
They told me, ”Altov said to the“ 360 ”TV channel.
"The best satirist in our country"
Many of his friends, colleagues and fans have already expressed their condolences in connection with the death of Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
The host of the "Full House" program Regina Dubovitskaya, during a conversation with RT, noted that a whole era had passed with the death of the artist.
Actor and TV presenter Alexander Oleshko admitted that he was lucky to meet in person and work together with the legendary satirist.
“A huge, big man, big, immense talent, incredible mind, a special view of the world, people - everything that surrounds us.
He heard something special from space and, recording in an amazing way, told all of us, opening our eyes to seemingly obvious things, "Oleshko said in an interview with RT.
The artist added that he thanks Zhvanetsky for his work and "incredibly beautiful and grandiosely talented period of work with Arkady Raikin."
“Many reprises that we heard from the lips of the great artist Raikin were invented and written by Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
I thank him for the books, I thank him for once very timely said to me a kind word of support.
His memory is blessed, and it is a pity that people of this magnitude are leaving us, ”said Oleshko RT.
Soviet and Russian satirist, screenwriter and pop artist Lion Izmailov, in an interview with RT, emphasized that he had known Zhvanetsky since 1972.
“We went with the club“ 12 chairs ”and lived with him in the same room in the city of Tomsk.
I can say that until 1978 it was never published in the Literaturnaya Gazeta ... Today it is hard to believe it, but until 1980 it was never published in the club "12 chairs".
And only in 1978, the program "Around Laughter" began to show it, and it immediately became famous and popular throughout the country.
To this day, he was the best satirist in our country, ”Izmailov recalled.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky and Yuri Vizbor
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Theater and film actor, one of the founders of "Quartet I" Leonid Barats noted that a lot of good words can be said about Zhvanetsky.
“He was a great writer.
He started out as a satirist and became a great writer.
And not only a writer, but a great man.
This flight of insight, wit and, at the same time, philanthropy, which came through - he loved his heroes, no matter how monstrous they were - made him such Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky, "Barats said to RT.
He stressed that he does not think that Zhvanetsky was a sage: the sage knows the answer to all questions, and the writer was just looking for them.
“And I was looking for them paradoxically, witty, sometimes sad, sometimes sad.
And he loved life very much.
And therefore it is very sad that he passed away.
He had a big, bright, humanly enviable life.
And the loss for relatives is enormous, because when there is such a person next to you, it is he who shapes your life, he organizes it, he is your life.
And when such a person leaves, then you need to have the strength to find out how to live after such a person, ”added the artist.
He said that he had not called his father, journalist and director of the World Club of Odessa residents Grigory Barats yet.
“I think he is very worried now.
I saw him crying once.
I think this is the second time this happens, ”concluded the actor.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sent words of sympathy and support to Zhvanetsky's relatives.
“A real nugget, Mikhail Manyevich won really popular love, bringing an invaluable glimpse into the popularization of the satirical genre.
More than one generation of our citizens has grown up on his work, permeated with apt images and subtle humor.
And numerous quotes from his classic works and speeches have become truly winged, immortal - as they say, “went to the people,” Lavrov is quoted on the official Facebook page of the Foreign Ministry.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also expressed his condolences on the death of Mikhail Zhvanetsky.
“Mikhail Mikhailovich belonged to a brilliant galaxy of Russian art workers.
He was appreciated by his colleagues and sincerely loved by the audience for the highest professional skill, for his openness and inimitable sense of humor, "RIA Novosti quotes the head of the department.
The minister stressed that the satirist "made the viewer not only laugh, but also think."
Also, President of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) Yuri Kanner said about his condolences to the family of the satirist.
“We have lost a great man who“ wiped our glasses ”.
We looked at everything around us through his eyes, and this gave us the strength to live in very difficult times.
He brought into the culture the Jewish tradition of laughing at everything that you can laugh at, and laughing even louder at that that you cannot laugh at, ”Kanner told TASS.
1982 year
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky also spoke about the death of the satirist.
“As Mikhail Zhvanetsky said, it's okay if they laugh at you.
It is much worse when they cry over you.
Today is such a bitter day.
Condolences to everyone who loved and knew him.
I am among the ardent admirers of the power of thought of Mikhail Mikhailovich.
His satire has become wisdom for many, "Zelensky wrote on Twitter.
Satirist from Odessa
Soviet and Russian satirist Mikhail Mikhailovich (Manyevich) Zhvanetsky was born in Odessa on March 6, 1934.
He was educated at the Odessa Institute of Marine Engineers and worked for several years by profession.
While still a student, Zhvanetsky began to engage in creative work: he wrote monologues and miniatures and performed with them on the stage of the student theater of miniatures "Parnas-2" founded by him.
In 1963, the artist met Arkady Raikin, who highly appreciated the work of Zhvanetsky and included in the repertoire of the Leningrad Variety and Miniature Theater.
Soon the writer himself entered the theater staff.
At the same time, Zhvanetsky collaborated with other artists.
In subsequent years, the writer worked at the Odessa Philharmonic Society and at the Moscow Variety and Miniature Theater (later - the Moscow Hermitage Theater).
In the latter, he served as an assistant to the chief director.
In 1988, Mikhail Zhvanetsky opened his own Moscow Theater of Miniatures, which he directed until the end of his life.
Over the years of his creative activity, Mikhail Zhvanetsky has published more than ten books.
Among them - "Meetings on the streets", "A year in two", "My Odessa", "Carefully ...", "Do not continue short", "Hot summer".
In 2001, Mikhail Zhvanetsky received the title of Honored Artist of Russia.
He was also awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples and Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree.