Irakly Andronikov: biography and portrait of the narrator

An amazing literary critic, an exceptional narrator, a great TV presenter, an excellent Soviet writer - all this is Irakliy Andronikov. And even this is not all. He is also People's Artist of the USSR, Doctor of Philology, Laureate of Lenin and State Prizes, Honored Artist of Georgia and the RSFSR. He has five orders and many medals. His name is the planet.

A family

Irakli Andronikov, whose biography is wholly connected with Soviet culture, was born into a noble family. Father - a prominent lawyer, secretary of the Criminal Department, the mother - from the famous family of Gurevich.

Grandfather - a famous historian and cousin of the philosopher IA Il'in, great-grandfather - the founder of the Bestuzhev Courses, the author of textbooks, the editor of the magazine "Russian School". Great-grandmother - the daughter of the famous II Il'in, who built the Great Kremlin Palace. Brother Irakli Andronikov also had a wonderful - he is a doctor of physical sciences, an academician, director of the Institute of Physics of Georgia.

Biography: the beginning

He was born in 1908, on September 15. The family of the famous writer and artist lived in St. Petersburg, but in 1918 the head of the family was invited to teach history at the University of Tula. The times were heavy, hungry, and Andronikovs willingly moved to the village. Three years later, he moved to Moscow, then to Tiflis, where in 1925 Irakli graduated from high school and became a student at once two Leningrad universities: the Institute of Art History and the State University. Soon he became a lecturer at the Philharmonic. After graduating from the University of Irakliy Andronikov got a job in two humorous magazines again: "Chizh" and "Hedgehog".

Writer

In 1934, while working as a bibliographer at the GPB. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Andronikov continued studying the work of M. Yu. Lermontov, who carried him literally from school. Since 1936, he began publishing a series of articles, and in 1939 he published the book Life of Lermontov, which was so successful that Irakly Andronikov was almost immediately accepted into the Union of Writers of the USSR.

During the war he worked in the newspaper "Forward to the enemy", traveled the entire Kalinin front, and after the Victory returned to Lermontov and wrote a thesis on his research. In 1948 the second book about the poet, written by Irakli Andronikov, was published. These books were not the last - only about this poet of full books at least seven, and in general - more than thirty.

Reader

He began his career as a reader in his youth - in 1935, speaking at the writers' club with his stories. Irakly Andronikov, whose oral stories still do not come off the TV screen, quickly acquired, as they said, monstrous popularity. I must say that it has not abated until now.

The few films that were filmed for television only in 1954, the cycle "Irakli Andronikov tells" - this is a phenomenon of high art. They can be put on a par with the most fascinating cult comedies, judging by the impact on the viewer.

Humorist

Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky very picturesquely spoke about Irakli Andronikov as a man and a creator that if he made biographical directories, then near this name he would replace the words "writer", "literary critic" with "sorcerer", "sorcerer", "magician" "The Wonderworker". This is not an eccentric on the part of Chukovsky, he is absolutely right. Andronikov's talent is a phenomenon. This is not just a man of great charm and erudition, such, thank God, our country has not failed, it's like a man-orchestra, only a man-theater, one of the most outstanding phenomena of Soviet culture.

Unusual and unique Irakli Andronikov. It opens the way for a whole series of new genres close to the widest sections of the country's population. Zhvanetsky and Zadornov, many and many humorists on our stage continue what Andronikov started with. How many new sensations from the field of literature, music, theater he brought to the listener and spectator! How vivid the mysteries of art were perceived after the sound portraits, literary phenomena, musical secrets presented to them. Irakly Andronikov is one of those people who will never be forgotten.

Ending

The stories of Irakli Andronikov show how rich his life was in meeting with remarkable people and interesting situations, and he told about all this incredibly exciting. Andronikov lived for a long time, probably at times difficult, but definitely happy.

Wife - a wonderful actress Viviana Robinson, two wonderful daughters - Manana and Catherine, art critic and journalist. And of course, Lermontov, who overshadowed his genius the whole life of a remarkable writer, historian, artist, over a period of almost a century, became a relative not in blood - in spirit. Irakli Andronikov found even perestroika, but the disintegration of the Soviet Union that was nurturing him did not observe. In 1990, he was buried at the Vvedenskoye cemetery.

Viewers

Many outstanding people wrote about and wrote about Andronikov: Marietta Shaginyan, Igor Ilyinsky, Samuil Marshak, everyone can not list. And in one voice noted the amazing fusion of all his talents in oral stories: an unrivaled master of the scene, captivating the viewer from the first word, despite the fact that all his stories are absolutely real. His syllable differs not only in liveliness and freshness, but also in warmth, lyricism, and any man of art can envy such an observance.

Observance of it, merging with the musicality and the deepest knowledge of the subject, give an exceptionally high ability to communicate with the audience. Irakli Andronikov thought big, and reincarnated artfully down to the smallest details - all at the same time. He knew how to choose a characteristic situation, the most typical features of the person he is talking about, and then find the most accurate, most expressive form for this.

This quality of the artist was noted even by Maxim Gorky. Even the term "oral stories" appeared after the master praised the published stories of Andronikov, but complained that in isolation from the author's performance they lose a lot, although all the same, of course, very, very good, "exceptional talent."