Biography
Veronica Polonskaya - actress theater and cinema, known as the last love of Vladimir Mayakovsky and testimonial of his suicide. The creative biography of the artist was not the most successful: she failed to build an outstanding career in cinema. She considered himself a dramatic actress.Childhood and youth
Veronica Polonskaya was born in Moscow on June 6, 1908. She was brought up in a family of actors who served in the Small Theater. Father Witold Polonsky shone in pre-revolutionary cinema. There was no doubt that Veronica would follow in the footsteps of the parents. From seven years, it appeared on the set and was involved in episodic roles in the paintings with the participation of the Father.
In 1917, the artist was offered work in Hollywood. The family plans appeared moving to the United States. True, he was not destined to take place due to the supreme death of Witold Polonsky in 1919. After his death, Veronica ceased to invite to shoot, but it did not prevent her to choose a creative direction for professional activities.
The girl entered the school of Mkhat, where the ward was Nikolai Batalov and Yuri Zavadsky. Subsequently, for a beginner actress, there was no question of professional implementation. She was sure that he should devote himself to the theater.
Personal life
In 1926, Veronica Polonskaya married actor Mikhail Yanshina. She began to receive the first roles in cinema. The debut took place in 1929 in the film "Glass Eye", whose shooting was under the leadership of Lily Bric and Vladimir Pearl. During this period, a fateful acquaintance with Vladimir Mayakovsky occurred. Poet actress introduced Osip BRIC. The writer at that time was 36 years old, and Polonskaya - 21.Their novel turned out to be passionate and rapid. The history of love has developed, despite the marital status of the girl and the difference in age. Understanding that relations with Mayakovsky cannot be called stable, Veronica did not decide to leave the legitimate spouse, although the poet in love insisted in every way.
In the 1930s, in the second year of the relationship of lovers, Vladimir Mayakovsky experienced a difficult period. He was in a deep creative and personal crisis and one of the possible options for salvation saw the creation of a family with an actress.
The tragic event that happened on Lubyanka on April 14, 1930, prevented the plans. The pair took place another scandalous scene. Veronica was late for a rehearsal to Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, and the Mayakovsky location of the doors of his room and resolutely demanded to leave the theater.
The quarrel ended with Polon's departure. As soon as she approached the door of the parade, he was shot. Returning, the actress discovered a shot at the poet. Mayakovsky left a suicide note in which he called his family Lil Bric, mother, sisters and Veronica Polonskaya.
The artist did not come to the funeral of the beloved due to the fact that the relatives of Vladimir Vladimirovich considered it guilty of the death of a loved one. BRIC supported this decision.
Arriving a personal life, afterwards the actress consisted in relations with criticism of Osip Beschen. After parting with Yansenin in 1933, after 3 years, she became his wife Valery of Agnecis, who was the victim of Stalin's repression. Veronica managed to give him a son and called the child in honor of Mayakovsky. The boy brought up the third satellite of the life of the artist Dimitri Fewan, who gave him his surname. Vladimir Fewissy received medical education and moved to the United States. Polonskaya has no other children.
Films
The theater career of Veronica Polonskaya developed more successfully by cinematographic. She happened to work in Mkate and even be busy in the play Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko "Our youth". After the "glass eye", the filmography was replenished with the role of the death conveyor belt. Then followed the work on the film "Three Comraternal".
From 1935 to 1936, Polonskaya was occupied in the studio of Yuri Zavadsky, then in the Rostov Drama Theater, and in 1938 returned to MCAT, in which he stayed in the corppet until 1940. Subsequently, until 1973, she served at the Moscow Theater named after Maria Yermolova.
Shut-down proposals received the artist rarely. In the 1960s, she starred in the project Sergey Bondarchuk "War and Peace", embodying the image of the aristocrat in the frame, and the restructuring era was involved in the filming of the film "Repentance".
Death
Up to the demolition itself, on September 14, 1994, the actress lived in the house of veterans of the scene. A woman believed that her son threw her in the shelter, leaving without support and livelihood.The cause of death became age-related diseases. The grave of the artist is located on the Vagankovsky cemetery. The photo of Polonskaya is preserved in youth, which suggests how she looked during a novel with Mayakovsky.
Filmography
- 1917 - "When lilac flowers"
- 1918 - "Ball of the Lord"
- 1918 - "Bolotnaya Mirage"
- 1928 - "Glass Eye"
- 1933 - "Death Conveyor"
- 1935 - "Three Comrades"
- 1965 - "War and Peace"
- 1968 - "Smile neighbor"
- 1982 - "Mother Maria"