Russian character of Roman Kostomarov: “We will live!”

I rarely watch this show. The title is confusing, that is, for a million I will tell you all my cracks, undress in front of the party, expose myself. Just give it.

In reality, everything is not so simple. Have you seen Lera Kudryavtseva? Well, a glamorous diva, a bright blonde at her best. But she’s from MTV, and that explains a lot.

MTV is actually a school, it’s tact, it’s a pro. Yes, the American school, but it is universal. With a Russian twist, specificity, soul, I’m not afraid of this word.

All MTV people – Ivan Urgant, Anton Komolov, Olga Shelest, Sasha Pryanikov, Tatyana Gevorkyan, Yana Churikova, Tutta Larsen, Alexander Anatolyevich and Lera, having fluttered onto the “big screen”, federal TV, of course, have taken place. Yes, they have different fates (and we know this especially well now), but you can’t lose skill, it doesn’t disappear anywhere.

Here comes Kudryavtseva… An experienced woman in the most beautiful sense, she is simply filled with some incredible worldly experience, even wisdom. Appearance doesn’t matter here.

Roman Kostomarov trusted her not because they were colleagues in showbiz. Lera is really smart and talented (yes, the devil guessed that she would be born in Russia, just like Pushkin). She understands exactly where that very red line begins that cannot be crossed. He can act almost on the edge and is closer than ever to failure (Stirlitz in a skirt?), but he will always stop in time, and we will exhale. She will crawl into your very heart, reach your liver, but she will do it so skillfully – you yourself will not notice anything, but you will only want: give it more, give it.

An atmosphere of good spirit, faith, hope and love was created around Roman Kostomarov at the program. One might say: what did it cost him? You can also say: this is all artificial, a sublimation of optimism. But Kostomarov is real, in every sense. He is just such a person: he came out of a dive. Yes, with losses… But life is beautiful, no matter what. There are loved ones nearby, an excellent wife Oksana Domnina (everything happened between them, not without it, the life of two is a difficult thing in itself, but they got out, survived, rose, now there is no one more dear than him and her), wonderful children, whom Roman 1 September saw me off to school.

The atmosphere turned out to be the only correct one, and not a bit false.

And Roman… Well, what about Roman? You see, this is the very (notorious?) Russian character. Yes, through thorns to the stars, towards the wind, the storm. Eh, we’ll break through and come what may. And these are not big words, not pathos, this is how it really is.

He will break through, I know. Already broke through. He laughs no matter what. “Your Honor, Lady Luck…” – as Pavel Luspekayev sang in “White Sun of the Desert.” Good luck dear, it is so needed.

Roma, we will live!

THE LAST GREAT ACTRESS

All words have been said. The TV did not stop. And “Elder Sister”, “Once again about love” and this is the very best – “Three poplars on Plyushchikha”, “the earth is empty without you, oh…”, “one French pilot…”. Programs about her, interviews with her, “Life Line”…

What great words. However, the same thing could have been said 50 years ago. Nothing changed, Doronina had already become great, and everyone knew it.

This is how we usually honor people posthumously, after earthly life, when the hero of the day is there, on a cloud, in paradise, watching his heavenly TV. But Tatyana Vasilievna is here and now, these beautiful words were spoken by her directly, on this sinful earth.

You can imagine: here she is lying in the ward of a nursing home, not getting up. He lies and watches all these programs to himself, films. She is silent, she remembers. The last great actress.

This is what Edward Radzinsky, one of her five husbands, said about her. Who still loves her, and even worships her. After breaking up with Doronina, he married Elena Ukrashchenok, a supermodel whom you can admire in the film “Look for a Woman.” But Doronina…

And the director of her film life (the same “Big Sister” and “Once More About Love”) Georgy Natanson was crazy about Doronina and admired her. And you say “character”. Is it really easy with a goddess?

Everything for the theater, everything for victory. “Do you love theater as much as I love it..?” What kind of husbands are there! Magnificent husbands, smart, talented, handsome, but they were only squires under her, Sancho Panza under Dulcinea of ​​Toboso.

Everything is on the altar of theatre, high art without compromise. And children. Unborn children were also sacrificed to His Majesty the theater.

Here she lies in the ward of a nursing home and watches programs to herself, one after another.

Do you know which is the best? The interview from 1998 with Urmas Ott was repeated.

This was the second coming of Urmas to Russia. First in the USSR (there are still 5 years before the collapse), the very beginning of perestroika, and suddenly a dashing Estonian guy (he’s just over 30), chic, fashionable, appears on the Central Television. Western manner of speaking, light (no, not at all light) Baltic accent… Well, you have questions, sir! On Soviet TV they didn’t ask about this, they didn’t allow themselves to do this. But he can. Yes, he was different, as if from another world, extraordinary, unattainable, and all the queens with whom this Estonian prince met – Gurchenko, Mordyukova, Doronina, Pugacheva – looked at Urmas with loving eyes and were ready to tell literally everything about themselves.

The second time Mr. Ott came to Russia was as a foreigner, a representative of the free world (we also wanted to go there). The accent seemed to have changed, but not much, because it was still our Urmas, his own, and all these cool suits did not at all alienate him from us, quite the contrary.

So, 1998 is the default year, in the Prague restaurant, a great Russian actress and a foreign, but so dear TV presenter are sitting opposite each other. They chat over a glass of expensive red wine.

And Tatyana Vasilievna is all his. No sharp or personal question shocks her, she is ready. She answers immediately, without pause, just like Nyura, Anna Grigorievna, to the taxi driver Efremov in that same movie. “And you know everything, Anna Grigorieva, you have the answer to all questions.” Yes Yes Yes! If Urmas had asked her to sing, she would have sung without hesitation. Yes, even in a restaurant. It’s not necessarily “Tenderness”, because in every film she always has a hit. And the way she reads poetry, Tsvetaeva will rock you.

That heart-to-heart conversation took place 25 years ago, not in this life… Urmas Ott passed away in 2008, at the age of 53. He left forgotten, after a serious incurable illness. Tatyana Doronina probably watched this meeting with Urmas Ott. How good they were, man and woman.