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 precisely by his monographs and scientific aids.
Zoya, despite her predisposition to science, chose literature as the work of her life. And it all started with a passion for 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 Zoe Boguslavskaya.
After graduation, she entered GITIS at the theater department, where she graduated with honors.
Then in her life was a graduate school at the Institute of the History of Art at the USSR Academy of Sciences. Boguslavskaya Zoya Borisovna, whose biography will be of interest to any literary critic, successfully defended her thesis. She got a job as an editor in the publishing house "Soviet Writer", and in addition, she was a lecturer at the Higher Theater School of Moscow. Later she headed the department of literature in the Committee on Lenin and State Prizes.
The beginning of literary activity
Zoya Boguslavskaya began her career as a film critic. In the 1960s, she became famous for articles on cinema and theater. She wrote monographs about outstanding cultural figures Vera Panova and Leonid Leonov.
In 1967, she made her literary debut. Zoya Boguslavskaya, whose biography attracts the attention of her fans, became the author of the story "And Tomorrow." It was published in the Banner magazine and was soon translated into French.
Since the early 1970s, Zoya Boguslavskaya has been published a lot. Her prose works could be found in the magazines "New World", "Youth", "Banner" and other ascetics of new literature.
The direction of creativity and other publications
The audience most appreciated such books by the writer as "Seven Hundred New", "Close", "Obsession", "Protection".
At one time, critics divided into two fronts. Someone praised the talent of a prose writer, someone shouted about apoliticality and excessive digging in the psychological depths of the human soul.
According to the prose writer, her works have always been aimed at creating in the souls of readers of peace, light and good. She writes about people filled with optimism. Yes, sometimes they are in difficult life situations, but under no circumstances do they lose respect for themselves and due optimism. They accept life as it is, and do not blame fate.
Zoya Boguslavskaya made a 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 is worthy of sympathy, not contempt.
Zoya Boguslavskaya, whose biography contains meetings with many talented people of the twentieth century, wrote a lot about her friends and comrades. These were her famous essays "Lisa and Baryshnikov, Misha and Minelli", "The Time of Lyubimov and Vysotsky." The collection of essays "Fictional stories", which collected memories of meetings with prominent people (mentioned Marc Chagall, Brigitte Bardot, Vladimir Vysotsky, Arkady Raikin and many others), also gained popularity.
The writer has found particular 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 United States, this work received several literary awards and was filmed.
Zoya Borisovna wrote a lot for the theater. One story in the dialogues ("Contact") was put in the Theater. Vakhtangov. They rehearsed another at the Moscow Art Theater, but subsequently did not play because of problems with censorship.
The main fruits of Boguslavskaya’s work were translated into many languages of the world, including Japanese, French, Italian, not to mention English.
In 1998, a two-volume edition entitled "Through the Looking Glass" was released, which collected all the works of the author.
Social work
Boguslavskaya Zoya Borisovna in the 60s created the Association of Women Writers in the USSR, 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 request of Boguslavskaya, the country established the independent Triumph Prize, which was awarded in all forms of art. A fund was also created under the same name, designed to help artists.
In 2010, the Triumph Youth Prize and the Scientific Prize for achievements in various fields of knowledge were first awarded.
Triumph has become the main project of the last decades for Boguslavskaya. Therefore, all festivals, fairs, concerts held by her are somehow connected with the prize and the fund.
She initiated publications in the Eksmo publishing house of the Triumph Golden Collection, which included O. Tabakov, A. Voznesensky, Yu. Davydov and many others.
Personal life
Zoya Boguslavskaya got married three times. Her first husband was George Novitsky. He was an actor of the Leningrad Theater. It was the first dizzying love, Zoe was only nineteen years old. Maybe that's why the marriage quickly broke up.
The second husband was Boris Kagan, a scientist. He was a doctor of technical sciences and received at one time the Stalin Prize. The couple had a son, Leonid.
Soon Zoya Borisovna met with Andrei Voznesensky, who literally turned her head. By her own admission, the influence of Ascension was so great that she, without hesitation, left her husband.
In 1964, Zoya Boguslavskaya, whose photographs were not yet published in any magazine, was 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 instituted the Parabola Prize.
Interesting Facts
- Boguslavskaya speaks English, French and German.
- Her son Leonid is a well-known investor and co-owner of the Ozon.ru online store and the Yandex company. In 2014, he entered the Forbes list among the richest entrepreneurs.