A delightful adventurer and part-time actress Olga Aroseva outplayed many roles in her life, in cinema and on stage. She failed only one - the role of Pavlik Morozov: Arosev refused to renounce her father when he was arrested by the NKVD.
Her life since birth is like a kaleidoscope of events. She was born in December 1925 in Moscow, receiving the name Barbara from her father. But three days later, at the request of her mother, she became Olga. Her father, Alexander Arosev, was one of the leaders of the Bolshevik uprising in 1917 and later worked as a diplomat in Paris, Stockholm, and Prague. Mother - Olga Goppen - originally from Polish nobles, worked as a secretary-referent for Polina Zhemchuzhna (Molotov's wife). In 1933, the Arosevs returned to Moscow, often visiting their home. Nemirovich-Danchenko Romain Rolan, Tairov with Koonen, young Boris Livanov... When Olga was five years old, her mother left the family and went with another man to Sakhalin. Subsequently, this saved Olga and her two older sisters from the orphanage - the mother somehow managed to beg the Chekists to give her the girls, although for this she had to kneel in the literal sense of the word.
Artistic data in Olga appeared in early childhood. Once, having seen the Threepenny Opera, Olga, together with her Czech girlfriend, cut dresses, went to the streets of Prague to beg for alms. The case almost ended in a diplomatic scandal, the newspaper reported that the daughter of the Soviet ambassador collects alms. When Olga returned to Moscow, she began to play in the school theater.
After graduation, the future artist entered the circus school, and successfully mastered the professions of juggler and air gymnast. And she went to study at a landing school, but she never learned to parachute and was expelled. And then Aroseva entered the theater school, where her older sister had already studied.
At this time, the Leningrad Comedy Theater came to Moscow. Olga, having submitted her sister’s diploma to the personnel department, was enrolled in the state. Then she returned to Moscow and was accepted into the troupe of the Theater of Satire. Here she went on stage in productions of works. Erdman, Griboyedova, Calderon ... For the first time, she was nominated for the title of Honored Artist at the age of 25, received it at 50, and became a “people’s” at 60. The formal reason is the lack of any professional education (never completed her studies), although by the 80th anniversary of the Vakhtangov people handed Aroseva a diploma of graduation from the Shchukin School.
Her lady Monica from “Kakuka 13 chairs” was very popular, and roles in Ryazanov’s films were also successful.
"Beware of the car" and
"Old robbers" . She voiced Baba Yaga in cartoons.
"Baba Yaga vs. And Mrs. Belladonna from The Adventures of the Pig Funtica.
Aroseva was officially married four times. Her first husband was a musician who was 11 years her senior, and it was her happiest marriage. Then she married the actor of the Theater of Satire Yuri Khlopetsky, then there was the singer Arkady Pogodin, and the fourth -
actor Vladimir Soshalsky . /
