Grishkovets, Evgeny Valerievich

Yevgeny Grishkovets was born on February 17, 1967 in the mining town of Kemerovo ( Kemerovo Oblast , RSFSR , USSR ).

In one of the periods of his childhood, being a schoolboy, Yevgeny Grishkovets with his whole family moved to Leningrad , since the father of Yevgeny Grishkovets, Valery Grishkovets, graduated from Leningrad FINEK . After some time, the family of Eugene Grishkovets again moved to Kemerovo. In 1984 he graduated from high school and entered the philological department of Kemerovo State University . From the second year he was called up for military service.

He served in the Pacific Fleet on Russky Island and in the village of Zavety Ilyich of the Sovetsko-Gavansky District ^{[5] [6]} . At this time he took part in amateur concerts. Engaged in a theater studio and played in the university pantomime theater .

In the summer of 1990, he tried to emigrate to the West, but soon changed his mind ^[7] .

In 1990, he organized the independent Lozha Theater in Kemerovo, in which for 7 years 10 performances were staged.

In 1998 he moved to Kaliningrad . At the same time, he presented his first one- man show “ How I ate a dog ” in Moscow for the audience, for which in 2000 he was awarded the national theatrical award “ Golden Mask ” in the “Innovation” and “Critics Prize” nominations ^[3] .

Living in Kaliningrad, Grishkovets often goes on tour with his theatrical works in the cities of Russia and Europe, taking part in many theater festivals ( in Avignon , Vienna , Paris , Brussels , Zurich , Munich , Berlin ). In addition to the plays, Grishkovets writes books and writes musical albums.

From January 2006 to March 2007, Grishkovets conducted his author's program on television - “Mood with Evgeny Grishkovets” on the CTC channel ^[8] . As part of his program in 2 minutes, he read one monologue on various topics.

In February 2011, he announced the closure of his blog in LiveJournal and the start of posting on odnovremenno.com ^[9] . There also moved the archive of records from the "Live Journal".

In the summer of 2012, Evgeny Grishkovets takes part in an expedition called “Russian Arctic” to the Far Arctic on the vessel “ Professor Molchanov ”. Initially, the expedition had one goal: to calculate all polar bears. During the expedition, E. V. Grishkovets keeps a diary, which will later be included in the book “Almost Manuscript Life”.

In May 2018, he entered the short list of the literary prize “ Big Book ” with the novel “Theater of Despair. Desperate Theater.

Family

• Wife Elena, three children ^[10] :
  • Natalia (1995);
  • Alexander (2004);
  • Maria (2010).
• Great-grandfather - Peter Ivanovich Grishkovets, a native of the Chernigov province.
• Great-grandfather - Peter Frolovich Sharapov, miner.
• Grandfather after his father’s grandfather - Taisia ​​Petrovna Sharapova (1894–1945), a member of the Kemerovo city committee of the AUCP, mother of five children. At the age of 16 she moved to Kuzbass, a lampman.
• Paternal grandfather - Vasily Petrovich Grishkovets (1884, Pokrovskoye, Altai Territory - 1920), a miner, served the cable car on the Tom River.
• Great-grandfather - Mikhail Arkadyevich Nevodchikov (1898, Yekaterinburg province - 1953), a soldier of the army of Kolchak, in 1942 he was arrested and sent to camps for 10 years.
  • Grandfather - Boris Vasilyevich Grishkovets (1919, Shcheglov - 1993), graduated from Tomsk State University, the principal.
  • Grandma - Sophia Aronovna Khaulina (born in 1921, Mariinsk), a teacher of biology
  • Mother - Sofya Nikolaevna Tsyganenko (born 1946), associate professor.
  • Father - Valery Borisovich Grishkovets (born 1946, Kemerovo), Candidate of Economic Sciences.
• Brother - Alexey V. Grishkovets.

Performances

• 1998 - “ How I ate a dog .”
• 1999 - “ Simultaneously ”, “ Winter ”, “ Notes of the Russian Traveler ”.
• 2001 - “City”, “ Planet ”, “ Dreadnoughts ”.
• 2003 - one- man show " How I ate a dog " released in the form of an audiobook.
• October 6, 2003 - premiere of the play "The Siege" in Moscow.
• May 2004 - Vienna Festival, the play "Uncle Otto is sick."
• 2005 - “ According to Po ” (the third edition of the play written at the time of the “Lodge”).
• 2009 - "The House" (in collaboration with Anna Mathison).
• May 2009 - the premiere of the play " +1 ".
• September 28, 2012 - the premiere of the play " Farewell to the paper ."
• March 1, 2015 - premiere of The Whisper of the Heart .
• March 24, 2017 - the premiere of the play "Scales" at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.
• April 13, 2018 - premiere of the play “ Preface ”.

The performances of “How I Ate a Dog”, “Simultaneously”, “Dreadnoughts”, “+1”, “Farewell to Paper”, “Heart Whisper”, “Preface” Yevgeny Grishkovets performs independently; “Planet”, “According to Po”, “Titanic” - as a member of the troupe; some (“The Siege”, “Winter”, etc.) go on the stages of various theaters staged by other directors.

As Grishkovets himself said about his place in contemporary art: “I believe that I belong to an important area of ​​Russian humanistic literature. This is from Bunin, Chekhov.

Books

• The first book, Shirt ^[11] , was released in April 2004 by Vremya Publishing House, Moscow.
• The second book, Rivers, was published in Moscow's Machaon Publishing House in April 2005.
• In 2005, the book “Winter” was also released, in which all the plays of Yevgeny Grishkovets were collected at that time.
• In April 2006, the Machaon Publishers published the fourth book, Planck, consisting of several short stories.

“One can hear the echo of Chekhov, Shukshin and his own monologue plays in Yevgeny Grishkovets' new stories. He wrote and continues to write modern stories about the funny and tragic trivia of which our life consists. A domestic quarrel, a chronic lack of sleep, a broken jar of pickled cucumbers ... Any nonsense under the writer's gaze becomes almost epic, makes you stop on the run and think deeply and deeply. These stories are the best therapy for a person who is tricked by the everyday race and forgetting to look in the mirror. You look - and it seems that your life is not so senseless. She has something to love. "

- Yan Shankman , Nezavisimaya Gazeta

• In September 2007, the Machaon Publishers published the fifth book by Yevgeny Grishkovets - “Traces on me”, consisting of nine stories that, it would seem, are not directly related to each other, but documentary about the childhood and youth of the writer. “Names, events, facts and place names are real. Everything else is literature, ”Grishkovets says about his book. In 2008, the audio book "Traces on me" in the author's version was released.
• On April 1, 2008, the sixth book of Asphalt by Yevgeny Grishkovets went into open sale. Like the previous ones, it was released by the Machaon Publishing House. The story is about the life and experiences of Misha, a middle-class businessman who earns by making road signs and road markings. The terrible news breaks into the calm and measured life of the main character: his long-time and close friend, comrade Yulia, committed suicide. What happened breaks his long and carefully built lifestyle. Work, wife, children, friends, past, life ... Misha looks at all this from a different angle. Through the whole book passes Julia and her deed.
• In 2008, the book “Year of Life” was released, which is based on the Internet diary of Yevgeny Grishkovets,
• In 2009, it continued its continuation, "The Continuation of Life".
• In May 2010, the book "A ... ..a" was published.
• In November 2010, the book “Satisfaction” (script of the same film) was published.
• In March 2011, “151 episodes of LifeLife,” a continuation of the Internet memoirs , are on sale.
• In 2012 and 2013, two more books appeared, based on the diary of Yevgeny Grishkovets: “From Life to Life” and “Almost Handwritten Life”.
• In April 2014, the collection “Pain”, consisting of a story and two short stories, and the play “Weekend”, written in collaboration with Anna Matison, is released.
• In the fall of 2015, the book Favorite Records was published, and it included selected entries from Yevgeny Grishkovets’s diary from 2007 to 2014.
• In February 2017, another diary-based book appears, Summer-Summer and Other Seasons.
• At the beginning of 2018, the collection of plays “Scales and other plays” was published.
• In May 2018, Grishkovtsa's third novel, “Theater of Despair. Desperate theater. Memoir novel.

Novels

• 2004 - “Shirt”
• 2008 - Asphalt
• 2018 - "Theater of Despair, or Desperate Theater"

Tale

• 2005 - “Rivers”
• 2010 - "A ... ..a"

Essay

• 2012 - “Letters to Andrey. Notes on Art " ^{[12] [13]}

Plays

• 1998 - " How I ate a dog ."
• 2005 - "Winter"
• 2008 - Dreadnoughts
• 2009 - "ONLY"
• 2010 - “Satisfaction”
• 2014 - "Weekend"
• 2018 - “Scales and other plays”
• Planet
• Whisper of the Heart
• +1

Collections

• 2006 - Planck
• 2007 - “Footprints on me”
• 2014 - "The Pain"

Books based on LiveJournal diary entries

• 2008 - "Year of Life"
• 2009 - “The Continuation of Life”
• 2011 - "151 episodes of life"
• 2012 - "From Life to Life"
• 2013 - "Almost handwritten life"
• 2014 - "At the same time: life"
• 2015 - “Favorite Records”
• 2017 - “Summer - summer and other seasons”

In December 2002, Grishkovets recorded with the group "Curlers" the first musical album "Now." Later three more albums were recorded.

“I can't sing. Not that I don't know how, but I don't sing at all. I like the way others sing and I would like to sing myself. But both the first and second albums from “Curlers” are just the voice of a non-singing person who can (I hope so, in any case, these two records are very reassuring) ... more than one thousand people who want to sing, but they can never sing. Not because nobody needs it, but because there is no voice, no hearing, and so on. ”

- Evgeny Grishkovets

In 2008, Eugene recorded a cover version of "At the Dawn" of the Alliance group with Renars Kaupers . In 2012, the project "Grishkovets and" Curlers "" ceased to exist. In the same year, Yevgeny Grishkovets began a musical collaboration with the Georgian group "Mgzavrebi" . The recording of the first joint concert of Grishkovets and the band “Mgzavrebi” in Moscow, which took place on June 15, 2013 in the “B2” club, is available on the portal Planeta.ru .

Discography

Joint projects with the Curlers group

Joint project with the Mgzabrebi group

• 2013 - the album “Wait-live-wait”

• 2002 - Azazel - Ahimas Velde
• 2003 - “Walk” - Seva
• 2005 - “Not by bread alone” - investigator
• 2005 - “In the First Circle” - Galakhov, writer
• 2008 - “ Thirteen Months ” - Stein
• 2009 - “ Moscow Fireworks ” - the brigadier of the Tajik Amak
• 2009 - “ Windows ” - Alexander Semenovich
• 2009 - “The mood improved ” (short film) - narrator ( cameo )
• 2010 - “Satisfaction” - Alexander G. Verkhozin, a major businessman
• 2014 - “ I am a local. Kemerovo "- (documentary) - the main character / narrator
• 2016 - “ Wake me up ” - Head
• 2017 - “ A Particle of the Universe ” - Father John
• 2018 - “ Short Waves ”
• 2018 - “ Ordinary Woman ” - Artem Lavrov, Marina's husband

Awards and rewards

• 1999 - Antibuker Prize in the nomination "Three Sisters" (dramaturgy) for sketches for the plays "Winter" and "Notes of the Russian Traveler" ^[2] .
• 2000 - Russian National Theater Award “ Golden Mask ” in the category “Drama” in the nomination “Novation” and the prize “Prize of Criticism” in the framework of the same festival - for the solo performance “ How I ate a dog ” ^[3] .
• 2000 - National Prize "Triumph" (incentive grant) ^[4] .
• 2004 (March 13) - Showing all the solo performances of Eugene Grishkovets on the same day of the Golden Mask festival was included in the Guinness Book of Records .
• 2004 (September 1) - The novel “Shirt” is recognized as the debut of the year. The book is included in the "long list" of "Booker" .
• 2007 - Medal "Symbol of Science" in the nomination "Symbol of Science - Man of Art" for 2006 - for the development of the scientific worldview in the performances "Planet" and "Simultaneously", for symbolic popularization of knowledge ^[14] .
• 2007 - Russian Diamond Award in the nomination “Exclusivity” ^[15] .
• 2009 - The Silver Bar award of the Silver Rain radio station (choice of Alex Dubas) for the novel Asphalt ^[16] .
• 2011 - The title of " Honorary Citizen of the city ​​of Kaliningrad " (Decision No. 266 of September 7, 2011) ^{[17] [18]} .

Military rank

• For the one- man show “ How I Ate a Dog ”, former sailor Yevgeny Grishkovets was given the military rank of “senior officer 2 articles” with the wording “for propaganda of the Russian fleet ” ^[19] .

• Official site
• Facebook Page
• Video channel Evgeny Grishkovets on YouTube
• Evgeny Grishkovets page on Kroogi .
• Evgeny Grishkovets: everything ingenious is simple
• Interview Rolling Stone magazine
• Presentation of the Planck Collection in Barnaul (inaccessible link)
• Evgeny Grishkovets: “I'm tired, but I'm not tired!” (Inaccessible link)
• ABC of people-brands. Evgeny Grishkovets
• Website group "Curlers"
• Grishkovets, Evgeny Valeryevich in the library of Maxim Moshkov