He lived an amazing life - difficult, but interesting. Thanks to his skill, millions of viewers have been celebrating the New Year for forty years with Zhenya Lukashin and his beloved Nadia, not forgetting to sing along to “Comrade Krylova” about five minutes.
The funeral of Eldar Ryazanov were the last tribute to the love and respect of his colleagues in the workshop and admirers of his talent.
November night
On the night of November 30, 2015. In the hospital, at the venerable age of 87 years, one of the best directors of the twentieth century, Eldar Ryazanov, left this mortal world. He died in Moscow.
In sadness and sorrow, the funeral of Eldar Ryazanov took place. This mournful ceremony brought together all those who remembered, respected, appreciated and for many years was close. Those who became stars of the first magnitude thanks to the roles played in the master’s films.
Ryazanov Eldar Aleksandrovich was hospitalized due to shortness of breath on November 21. This was a requirement of his attending physician, because the age of his patient was very solid. In order to pump out the collected fluid, the doctors pierced his lung.
Despite all the measures taken, the director began to develop pulmonary insufficiency. In addition, doctors discovered heart failure.
Fight for life
For a whole week, a lot of effort was put into pulling Ryazanov out of the clutches of a serious illness to help him cope with it. Doctors did everything in their power. Unfortunately, it was not possible to save a person who embodies an entire era in cinema. He died on the last fall day of last year. The cause of his death was a serious illness.
Life path
Ryazanov Eldar Alexandrovich was born on November 18, 1927 in Samara. There then lived his grandmother and grandfather on my mother's side. Parents - mom Sofia Mikhailovna and dad - Alexander Semenovich, were employees of the Soviet trade mission in Tehran.
After the birth of the boy, very little time passed, and the Ryazanovs moved to Moscow. In the capital, his father was the head of the wine department. A little later he was repressed. The family broke up in the thirties. Eldara was now raised by one mother.
From childhood, Eldar Ryazanov, whose biography contains a huge number of friends, colleagues, good friends, became addicted to reading. The boy’s first childhood dream was to become a great writer. And he just dreamed of interesting long journeys. After he received a certificate of completion of the ten-year school, he wrote a kind of letter-application to the Odessa Naval College, because he really wanted to study there. Unfortunately, at that time there were war years. The answer never came to him.
Fate decreed completely differently: Ryazanov became a student at VGIK. Thanks to such a life turn, absolutely the majority of viewers got the opportunity to enjoy his melodramas and comedies, rejoicing and laughing with some characters of his paintings and empathizing to tears in the voice of others.
“If I were a sultan, I would have had three wives” ...
The first time, Eldar Ryazanov, whose filmography includes several dozens of magnificent paintings, married Zoia Fomina, a classmate at the VGIK director's course. The girl was a little older than her chosen one. She already managed to unlearn at another institute and transfer to VGIK. In this marriage, a daughter named Olya was born.
The couple lived together for many years, very little remained until the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding. But recently, they often have had conflicts, they have become not as close to each other as before.
The director had a second choice - Nina Skuybina, for the sake of which he left the first family. Nina from her first marriage left his son Kolya, who later, becoming a film director, helped his stepfather on the set of the film "Promised Heaven." In the fall of 1993, oncology was discovered in the second wife of the venerable director. Ryazanov grabbed at any possibility of cure, got scarce drugs, and drove to Germany for treatment. The magic did not happen. Soon his wife died.
Only six months after the death of Ryazanov’s second wife, he enters into a new relationship with his third life partner, journalist Emma Abaidullina, with whom he lived until the end of his days.
The daughter of the venerable director Olga became a film expert. His grandson Dmitry works on the Russia 24 television channel.
Contrary to will
On the day that Eldar Ryazanov’s funeral took place, Stas Sadalsky’s LiveJournal page posted tough enough information that the director’s widow went against his last wish - to calm his remains at the Novodevichy cemetery next to his second, beloved wife, Nina. When she died, Ryazanov erected a stone on the grave, split in two; one half to Nina, the second to him.
One of the most scandalous actors in Russian cinema is convinced that the third wife was neither a loved one nor a loving wife. Therefore, she ignored her husband's request. Indeed, almost immediately after his death, she turned for help to Mikhalkov, with whom Ryazanov, to put it mildly, had no friendship. According to Sadalsky, Eldar Aleksandrovich would never have allowed himself to turn to him, because even at the time when the director was sick, he did not take any medicine or products from the Union of Cinematographers.
Farewell to the great director was held on Thursday, December 3, in the Central House of Writers. Everyone who thanks to him became the star of Russian cinema, his friends, colleagues, fans came to say the last kind words. Everyone remembered the master with a kind smile that hid tears in his eyes.
The funeral of Eldar Ryazanov went to the Novodevichy cemetery, next to the grave of Yuri Levitan. On their last journey, the "father" of the best Soviet paintings was escorted to the tunes from the New Year's "Irony of Fate" ...