Zoya Boguslavskaya: biography and photos

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Boguslavskaya Zoya Borisovna, whose biography is described in this article, is a famous playwright and prose writer. She is the author of many cultural projects both in our country and abroad.

Childhood and youth

Zoya Borisovna was born in Moscow in 1929. Her family was very intelligent. Father Boris Lvovich was considered an outstanding scientist in the field of mechanical engineering. At universities, many studied from his monographs and scientific manuals.

Zoya, despite her predisposition to science, chose literature as her life's work. And it all started with a passion for the school theater, where she not only played, but also acted as the author of plays. Not a single literary evening passed without the participation of Zoya Boguslavskaya.

After graduating from school, she entered GITIS at the theater department, where she completed her studies with honors.

Then in her life there was a postgraduate study at the Institute of Art History at the USSR Academy of Sciences. Boguslavskaya Zoya Borisovna, whose biography will interest any literary critic, successfully defended her dissertation. She got a job as an editor at the Soviet Writer publishing house, and in addition was a lecturer at the Highertheater school in Moscow. Later she headed the department of literature in the Committee on Lenin and State Prizes.

The beginning of literary activity

Zoya Boguslavskaya started her career as a film critic. In the 1960s, she became famous for her articles on film and theater. Wrote monographs about prominent cultural figures Vera Panova and Leonid Leonov.

In 1967, her literary debut took place. Zoya Boguslavskaya, whose biography attracts the attention of her fans, became the author of the story "And Tomorrow". It was published in Znamya magazine and soon translated into French.

Since the early 1970s, Zoya Boguslavskaya has been in print a lot. Her prose works could be found in the magazines "New World", "Youth", "Znamya" and other devotees of new literature.

The direction of creativity and other publications

The public most appreciated such books by the writer as "Seven hundred new", "Close", "Delusion", "Protection".

At one time, critics were divided into two fronts. Someone sang the talent of a prose writer, someone shouted about apoliticality and excessive digging into the psychological depths of the human soul.

According to the prose writer himself, her works have always been aimed at generating peace, light and goodness in the souls of readers. She writes about people filled with optimism. Yes, sometimes they are in difficult life situations, but under no circumstances do they lose respect forand proper optimism. They accept life as it is and don't blame fate.

Zoya Boguslavskaya made the complete absence of negative characters a feature of her works. She is not interested in their spiritual conflicts. If there is an unkind hero in her work, then in the end he will turn out to be just a confused person who deserves sympathy, not contempt.

Zoya Boguslavskaya, whose biography contains meetings with many talented people of the 20th century, wrote a lot about her friends and comrades. These were her famous essays "Liza and Baryshnikov, Misha and Minelli", "The Time of Lyubimov and Vysotsky". The collection of essays "Unfictional Stories" has also gained popularity, which contains memories of meetings with prominent people (Marc Chagall, Brigitte Bardot, Vladimir Vysotsky, Arkady Raikin and many others are mentioned).

The writer found special approval in America. In addition to the above, Zoya Borisovna became the author of the book "American", written in an artistic and journalistic style. In the US, this work has received several literary awards and was filmed.

Zoya Borisovna wrote a lot for the theatre. One story in dialogues ("Contact") was staged at the Theater. Vakhtangov. The other one was rehearsed at the Moscow Art Theater, but subsequently was not played due to problems with censorship.

The main fruits of Boguslavskaya's work have been translated into many languages of the world, including Japanese, French, Italian, not to mention English.

In 1998, a two-volume book en titled "Through the Looking Glass" was released, which collected all the works of the author.

Community activities

Boguslavskaya Zoya Borisovna created the Association of Women Writers in the USSR in the 60s, and then became the head of the same international organization based in Paris.

She is a member of the PEN-club of Russia and is a member of the editorial board of many literary magazines.

In 1991, at the suggestion of Boguslavskaya, an independent award "Triumph" was established in the country, which was awarded in all types of art. A foundation was also created under the same name, designed to help artists.

In 2010, for the first time, the Triumph youth award and the scientific award for achievements in various fields of knowledge were awarded.

"Triumph" has become the main project of recent decades for Boguslavskaya. Therefore, all festivals, fairs, concerts held by her are somehow connected with the award and the fund.

She became the initiator of publications in the Eksmo publishing house of the "Golden Collection of Triumph", which included O. Tabakov, A. Voznesensky, Y. Davydov and many others.

Private life

Zoya Boguslavskaya got married three times. Her first husband was Georgy Novitsky. He was an actor in the Leningrad Theatre. It was the first dizzying love, Zoya was only nineteen years old. Maybe that's why the marriage broke up quickly.

The second husband was Boris Kagan, a scientist. He was a doctor of technical sciences andreceived the Stalin Prize. The couple had a son, Leonid.

Soon Zoya Borisovna meets Andrei Voznesensky, who literally turned her head. By her own admission, Voznesensky's influence was so great that she left her husband without hesitation.

In 1964, Zoya Boguslavskaya, whose photographs had not yet been published in any magazine, was getting married for the third time. This marriage was her last, it lasted 46 long happy years and ended due to the death of her husband in 2010.

In honor of Voznesensky, Zoya Borisovna established the Parabola Prize.

Interesting facts

1. Boguslavskaya speaks English, French and German.
2. Her son Leonid is a well-known investor and co-owner of the Ozon.ru online store and the Yandex company. In 2014, he was included in the Forbes list of the richest entrepreneurs.