“Unfortunately, Valentin Iosifovich has been ill in recent years.
The last time we saw him in the city of Saratov, we brought there our concert "Eugene Onegin", where we all read parts of this poem, and the funds from this concert went to the charitable foundation "Artist" for elderly artists.
He himself did not walk very well, we held him by the arms and, nevertheless, he went to Saratov, for his senior colleagues he participated in this concert, "he shared in an interview with RT.
Mironov noted that he was simply shocked.
“He was going on stage, he had enough spirit even in such a difficult state.
I remember our shooting in "Anchor, more anchor!", Where we played together.
He was a very intelligent, wise, very courageous man and noble in every sense and as a partner as well.
I saw how he plays with women, how he gives in to them, how he always puts his partner a little ahead of himself.
Only real gentlemen could do this, ”added the source of RT.
According to him, "a whole echelon of our teachers is leaving, leaving forever, leaving for another world."
“We had a very friendly relationship with him.
For some reason I always asked him to write an epigram, I was offended: "You write to everyone, but not me."
He says that I am clean, that: “Zhenya, he says, I cannot think of an epigram on you, I don’t know what to cling to,” concluded Mironov.
Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, People's Artist of the RSFSR Valentin Gaft died on December 12 at the age of 85.