It is not known what angered the wonderful actress Lilia Gritsenko, the leader of the German Communists Ernst Thalman, who died in Buchenwald, but to come to Telman Square in Moscow and maliciously threaten his monument with a cranberry in recent years has become the goal of Lilia Olympievna’s walks. What she saw, leaving, who knows: age changes a person, and in the gray old woman, few people recognized the beautiful actress who once had a charming operatic voice. . . Lilia Olimpievna Gritsenko
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It is not known what angered the wonderful actress Lilia Gritsenko, the leader of the German Communists Ernst Thalman, who died in Buchenwald, but to come to Telman Square in Moscow and maliciously threaten his monument with a cranberry in recent years has become the goal of Lilia Olympievna’s walks. What she saw, leaving, who knows: age changes a person, and in the gray old woman, few people recognized the beautiful actress who once had a charming operatic voice. . .
Lilia Olimpievna Gritsenko was born in Horlivka (Ukraine). She wanted to become an architect, and she could graduate from the Kiev Architectural Institute, but the girl was noticed in time at the First All-South Olympiad of Music, Singing and Dance of Metallurgists, in which she not only took part, but took first place. This success involuntarily inspired Lilia to go to Moscow, to enter the Stanislavsky Opera and Drama Studio. It was 1937.
Many at that time were not up to singing, but for Lily the thirties coincided with a single and unique youth, the desire to realize their cherished dreams. She graduated from the studio in no less tragic than the 37th, 1941, performing the parts of Cio-Cio-san, Iolanta, Parasi ("Sorochinsky Fair").
In 1957, having survived the war and all sorts of misfortunes, Lilia became the People’s Artist of the RSFSR, but this happened after the actress lost her invaluable vocal gift. Fortunately, the film adaptation of the opera Cherevichki, filmed in 1944, in which Gritsenko played the role of Oksana, remained. In 1948, Lilia Gritsenko began to work in the Stanislavsky Drama Theater, and until the year when she was awarded the title of People's Artist, she shone in the roles of Inessa ("Day of Miraculous Deceptions" by R. B. Sheridan), Laura ("They Don't Joke With Love" by P. Calderon), Larisa ("Besprinkler" by A. N. Ostrovsky), Nina ("Griboyedov" by S. Yermolinsky).
The films “Rimsky-Korsakov” and “Faithful Friends” captured the play of Lilia Gritsenko in film projects. Subsequently, it turned out that Lilia Olympievna starred mainly at the Kiev film studio, and the exception was the role of the mother in the film.
comedy "The Unable" .
Lilia Olympievna went into oblivion on an inconspicuous winter day. She was buried next to her brother, Nikolai Gritsenko, at the Novodevichy cemetery. Modest gray plate stores two dates: 24.12.1917 – 09.01.1989.