Rodzinsky biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The author of fascinating historical and journalistic documentaries, scenarios and books related to key events and figures of Russian and world history. In the photo: Edward Radzinsky in the media called him “Karamzin of our time” and “secret Stalinist” for “the next promotion of the leader of the leader”, and professional historians often reproached for distorting facts and events.

In response, he emphasized that he is not a historian, but "a person who writes about history." He was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, marked by the Prize of the Literary Newspaper, the International Prize named after Cyril and Methodius, four National Television Awards TEFI, declared a “decade” in the “History” section according to Rambler. Childhood and family the future writer was born on September 23 in Moscow and became the only surviving children born in the marriage of his parents.

His mother, Sofya Yulianovna, in the girlishness of Kazakova, was from the Yaroslavl region and came from the merchant's merchant Pushnina. From her previous marriage, at that time, the 9-year-old daughter of Alexander Shchepkina-Kupernik grew at that time. The girl was the niece of the writer Tatyana Shchekkina-Kupernik from the family of a prominent lawyer Lev Cupernik and Olga Shchepkina, pianists, students of Nikolai Rubinstein, founder of the Moscow Conservatory, and great-granddaughter of one of the founders of the Russian acting school Mikhail Shchepkin.

In childhood, Edward Radzinsky, Stanislav Adolfovich Radzinsky, was the grandson of the Bessarabian Jew, who traded grain, and the wealthy Odessa banker, a native of the family of Polish textile manufacturers. He was a highly educated indigenous Odessa, who graduated from the Law Faculty of Novorossiysk University. But he devoted life to writerical creativity - he wrote stories, essays, reviews, worked as the head of the literary department of the Odessa film factory.

On the formation of Edward Radzinsky, his father moved to Moscow in X, he was engaged in translating plays with French, writing film scenarios, was friends with Sergey Eisenstein, Eduard Bagritsky, Isaac Babel, and became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. He was a man of the highest culture, had a huge spiritual influence on his son, taught him "to think, instead of acting." In life, he was guided by the motto: "Love for living, irony and compassion." Edward tried to follow this saying later.

The father was an intelligent, obsessed with European democracy. He often quoted Tomasha Masarika to me: “What is happiness? This is the right to go to the main square and yell into the whole throat: “Lord, what a bad government we have! Together with representatives of the Russian literary elite, they lived in the hostel of the Writers' Union. In the end, the Radzinsky returned to the capital.

At school, under the influence of his father and his environment, Edward especially fell in love with literature. In high school, he “was obsessed with Cicero” and trained to speak with stones in his mouth, like Demosthenes, telling the teacher that he wanted to become a speaker, a very puzzling her. Other, “normal” children dreamed of becoming astronauts, doctors, pilots.

Edward adored sport: played football, was engaged in boxing, skiing, running, swimming. And he also liked to eavesdrop on when his father talked for hours with Yuri Karlovich Olesha. True, noticing him, the adults switched to the French, German or English incomprehensible to him, because they were both graduates of the famous tsarist Richelian classical gymnasium, and he was just a student of the Soviet school, “fairly bearing the name of the middle one,” as the writer later joked.

Edward Radzinsky in his youth, he began to write as a teenager. The first story of a novice writer was published when he was barely 16 years old. Edward Radzinsky in a student after receiving the certificate, the young man became a student of the historical and archival institute. Already in the first year, he was incredibly fascinated by the fate of the mysterious researcher of the late XVIII century, the musician and pioneer of Indology Gerasim Lebedev, who created the first national theater of the European type on the edge of the world, in India.

Then he even received a letter from the Indian professor, who also studied Lebedev’s activities, and they began to exchange information and documents. The theater in parallel with a diploma, the young man wrote about his idol with white poems entitled “My dream in the Youth Theater premiered the play for this work. True, in an interview, Edward ironically, following the motto of his father, noted that "no one would have set her if Nikita Khrushchev had gone to India." The novice playwright received a huge number of laudatory reviews, although he himself considered the debut by a failure, because the performance from the repertoire was soon shot.

For young spectators, he was not very popular. Real glory came to Radzinsky as a playwright in - after Anatoly Efros staging his play “Pages of Love” in Lenkom. The story of the relationship between the stewardess Natasha and the physics of Evdokimova immediately hooked the director with unusual and honesty.He instantly started rehearsals. The role of the protagonist Efros was assigned to the debutant Olga Yakovleva, who became the first actress of the theater after the premiere, and Vladimir Koretsky, an already experienced artist, reincarnated in Evdokimov.

Koretsky and Chikurova in the play “Pages of Love” in the Ministry of Culture learned about the impending performance for the “absolutely immoral” play, without the obligatory acceptance by a special commission in those years, and were going to ban it. The officials were indignant that according to the plot, the girl remained at night with the protagonist just a few hours after meeting in the cafe.

The main role was played by Olga Yakovlev, the play was also taken to the famous Leningrad BDT under the leadership of George Tovstonogov, which was then the main theater of the country. The roles of key characters on his stage were played by Tatyana Doronina and Mikhail Volkov. The performance was a grand success and soon appeared on the stage of the theaters of the USSR. In the play, the film “Once again about Love” was shot, where the central characters were embodied on the screen of Doronin and Alexander Lazarev, Oleg Efremov played the storman of Leo, and Felix, the first love of Natasha - Alexander Shirvindt.

The film also had a great success, became a cult and received in the Grand Prix at the oldest in Latin America the International Film Festival in Cardeen Colombia. His remake entitled “Heaven, Girl, Air” with Renata Litvinova in a leading role came out. A frame from the film “Once again about Love” in a wake of success in X Radzinsky began to write a play behind the play.

Edward became one of the youngest and most popular playwrights in Russia. Each of his work became the nail of the theater season, especially the one where he explored the “matter of love” and sang the woman: “Monologue about the marriage”, “About the woman”, “Continuation of the Don-Juan”, “A pleasant woman with a flower and windows to the north”, etc.

At the end of X in the Russian capital, there were simultaneously 10 performances on the works of the Dramaturgy, including plays that opened the cycle about historical persons: “Lunin, or the death of Jacques”, “Theater of the times of Nero and Seneca” and “Conversations with Socrates”. The last drama of critics was called “a worthy entry in the Guinness Book of Records” - in anticipation of the resolution of the relevant authorities to exit the performance theater named after Mayakovsky rehearsed him for six years.

After the premiere, she became a theater long -liver, holding on to the stage of 14 seasons. Radzinsky reads his memoirs among more than two dozen plays belonging to Per Radzinsky, the audience also enjoyed the plays “I stand at the restaurant, married late, die - they were put early, like the first work that glorified the author, not only in the Soviet Union, but also abroad: in Denmark, Belgium, Japan.

In particular, the play “The Old Actress for the role of Dostoevsky’s wife”, where he combined everyday life with the iconic persons of Russian culture, was first delivered at the National Theater of France “Odeon” and triumphantly took place in twelve countries of the world. Radzinsky plays were played in New York at the famous Jean CoCteau Repertory repertoire “Repertoire of Jean Cocteau”, and the American publication “Back Stage” “Back Stage” at the end of X even called him the Russian writer most staged abroad after Anton Chekhov.

Cinema Radzinsky declared himself as a screenwriter. The melodrama “Newton Street, house 1” was shot, set according to his script and play “You are 22, old people”. Frame from the movie "Newton Street. House 1 ”The picture of Radzinsky’s script“ every evening at eleven ”, which he wrote based on the story of Anar,“ I, you, he and the phone ”, was released in the screens.

The audience watched her five to six times, and from ten in the evening they were busy with people who sought, like the hero of the film, to meet on the phone. The frame from the film “Every evening at eleven” was released by the Soviet-Japanese melodrama “Moscow, My Love” with Oleg Vidov and Komaki Kurikhara in central roles, a year later-the eight-part drama “Olga Sergeevna”, where the main roles were played by Tatyana Doronina, Rostislav Plyatt, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan.

Television and literary activity in X playwright and screenwriter rapidly won the hearts of viewers as an author and leading interesting programs on history, which were called monospreads in the media. Possessing the bewitching charm and unsurpassed oratory, Radzinsky represented the famous historical characters in the series of “Riddles of History”, put forward amazing interpretations of famous events, and solved the secrets of mysterious phenomena.

Riddles of history. The secret of False Dmitry among the cycles of his educational television programs, the audience also remembered the “Theater Roman”, “We have one grief from our mind”, “Love in the gallant age”. Edward was the author and host of television projects “On Lenin”, “Gods craving” about the great revolutions that changed the world, “Dynasty without makeup” about the representatives of the Imperial House of the Romanovs.

Edward Stanislavovich also toured a lot in different cities.Moreover, he did not specifically prepare for his creative evenings, believing that each of them should be an improvisation, not a lecture. It is interesting that after even three -hour performances, he felt not tired, but “happy and rested” in his words. Edward Radzinsky in his youth in perestroika years, when censorship weakened and archives opened, the writer released a series of prosaic works.

Basically, they were devoted to the events of the tragic periods of Russian history and major historical personalities: Napoleon, whom he idolized from childhood, the author of the “Seville Barbage” and “The Marriage of Figaro” Pierre Bomarsha, the French writer and the policy of Francois Renee de Chatebian, the Austrian composer Wolfgangu Mozarta. Among the many historical narratives, the biographies of the last Russian emperor Nicholas I, the “Russian man” and the “tsar’s friend” Grigory Rasputin, the “First Bolshevik Tsar” Joseph Stalin were included in the list of world bestsellers.

Radzinsky’s works were printed in the largest world publishing houses and translated into many foreign languages. In addition to the mentioned, such well -known works as “riddles of love”, “princess Tarakanov”, “games of writers”, “riddles of life and death”, “the beginning of the theater novel”, the writer in his office, presented a book about Alexander II, who completed the historical cycle “Three Tsars” belonged.

Her presentation took place in the residence of the Russian ambassador in Washington. He sent the author a “very nice letter” and, as a gift, a fountain pen with his autograph. Riddles of Stalin. Part 1 in Edward Stanislavovich wrote the book “My Theater Life” and published a new play “The Executioner, or Talking along the Way to the Guillotine”, which began to rehearse the theater to them.

This is a story about how people committed a revolution in the name of the highest goal - to create a kingdom of freedom, but in reality they founded the kingdom of the executioner. A year later, in Sochi, as the founder of the “Our Debts” foundation, the writer opened the monument to the leaders of the “Big Three” - Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. The writer-historian Edward Radzinsky in him presented the novel “Iron Mask and Count Saint-Germain” with his own version of who was hiding behind an iron mask.

And in him again after the biographical work “Stalin. Life and death ”turned to the personality of Stalin, writing the novel“ Apocalypse ”from Koba.” In the Maly Theater, the premiere of the play “The Empress Theater” was held based on the play of Radzinsky. In it, he emphasized that Catherine II was one of the most intelligent and deeper ruler of the Russian Empire, which managed to provide heyday in many areas, including science and culture.

The photo from the play “The Empress Theater” in the classic of modern drama was presented by the new collection “The daughter of Lenin. He included a look at the story in him, he included playing plays, united by a common topic-a witty look at the history of women from different eras. In the concert hall to them. Tchaikovsky took place the premiere of the experimental project of the writer - a monoscope of the play “The Last Night of the Last Tsar”, performed by him, accompanied by the Russian National Orchestra of the RNO.

A unique performance united the story of the execution of the royal family in the Ipatievsky house, fragments of the works of Sergey Rachmaninov, Dmitry Shostakovich, Mikhail Glinka, as well as the performance of the chamber chorus of the Moscow Conservatory of the anthem “God, keep the king! The last night of the last king at the same time he performed with the author’s program “Someone” in Riga, St.

Petersburg, London, where he was especially pleased with the full house, since the evening was charitable-to help sick children.