Shatrov, Mikhail Filippovich

Mikhail Shatrov was born in the family of engineer Filipp Semenovich Marshak (1900-1938, executed) and Cecilia Alexandrovna Marshak (arrested in 1949 , amnestied in 1954 ) ^[3] . Relative of S. Ya. Marshak ^[4] . Aunt Mikhail Shatrov — Nina Semenovna Marshak (1884–1942) —the first marriage was married to the leader of the Comintern, Osip Pyatnitsky , and the second marriage — to the Soviet statesman Alexei Rykov .

He graduated from school with a silver medal and entered the Mining Institute (he studied on the same course as the future vice-mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin ) ^{[4] [5]} .

In the early 1950s, he completed practical training in Altai, where he worked as a driller, and there he began to write. In 1954, the first play was written, Clean Hands. Member of the CPSU since 1961 ^[6] .

Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1983), holder of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1982) and the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984).

In 1990, he became one of the co-chairs of the April organization. He was a member of the public council of the Russian United Social Democratic Party .

Since the mid-1990s, he has been president and chairman of the board of directors of Moscow - Red Hills, which manages the Russian cultural and business center Red Hills, opened in 2003 , which, in particular, includes Swissotel Red Hills . According to Shatrov himself, he had nothing to do with financial and economic activities, and was only involved in creative activities ^[7] .

He died in Moscow at the 79th year of his life from a heart attack ^[2] in his apartment in the House on the embankment ^[5] . He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery .

• The first wife is actress Irina Mironova.
  • Daughter Natalia Mironova (Shatrova, born 1958, Moscow), graduated from the philological department of Moscow State University, philologist-Slavic. Married to Andrey Karaulov . Mother of two children - Philip and Sophia Sarah.
• The second wife is actress Irina Miroshnichenko .
• Third wife - philologist Maria Viktorovna Mikhailova
• The fourth wife is Elena Gorbunova. 11 days after the wedding, she left home, later became the wife of Boris Berezovsky .
• The fifth wife is Julia Chernysheva.
  • The daughter of Alexander-Michel (2000), was born in the United States.

Faina Ranevskaya , alluding to his many plays about Lenin, said of him like this: “Tents are Krupskaya today” ^[9] .

The head of the Moscow Art Theater, Oleg Tabakov, People's Artist of the USSR, said after Shatrov’s death ^[10] :

Mikhail Shatrov is a very independent and special figure of the Soviet drama of the post-Khrushchev era. Shatrov’s death is a heavy loss for our theater.

Former Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Mikhail Shvydkoy ^[10] :

A whole era of our dramaturgy and Soviet public life is associated with his name. His plays on the life of our country during the era of revolution and civil war reflected the romance of those years with all their difficulties and contradictions.

According to Shvydkoi, Shatrov in his plays created a whole historical perspective of the formation and development of social forces in the Soviet Union. The playwright also with his inherent focus and depth analyzed the processes that took place during the Khrushchev thaw and Brezhnev stagnation .

Pieces

about Lenin

• • “In the Name of the Revolution” (1957)
  • The Sixth of July (1964)
  • The Bolsheviks (August Thirtieth, 1968)
  • “Blue Horses on Red Grass” (“ Revolutionary Study ”, 1979)
  • “So we will win!” (1982)
  • The Dictatorship of Conscience (1986)
  • The Brest Peace (1987)
  • “Further ... further ... further!” (1988)
• Clean Hands (1955)
• “A Place in Life” (1956) - created under the influence of the play by V. S. Rozov “Good morning”.
• Meridian 361st (1958)
• “Modern Guys” (1962)
• "Day of silence" (1965)
• "Przhevalsky's Horse" (1972) - about students in the development of virgin lands (film adaptation - "My love in the third year", 1976)
• “Weather for Tomorrow” (1974) - About the Automobile Plant
• “My Hopes” (1977) - about weavers of three generations
• “Gleb Kosmachev” (1961)
• “Rain poured out of a bucket” (1973, co-authored with A. Khmelik)
• "When Others Are Silent" (1986)

The last 5-volume collected works was published in the corporate publishing house of the Turkish construction company Enka. ^[five]

Stage plays

Shatrov’s plays were staged in many theaters in the country.
One of the most repertoire playwrights of the USSR .

• "Contemporary" .
  • 1967 - The Bolsheviks, dir. O. Efremov , G. Volchek , to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Revolution .
• " Lenkom ."
• Moscow Drama Theater. M.N. Ermolova .
• Arkhangelsk Drama Theater named after M.V. Lomonosov .
• Perm Drama Theater .
  • "Blue horses on red grass."
• Riga Theater of Young Spectators .
  • 1962 - “Gleb Kosmachev”

Movie Scenarios

• 1963 - In the Name of the Revolution
• 1967 - Strokes to the portrait of V.I. Lenin
• 1968 - July Sixth
• 1975 - Trust (together with Vladlen Loginov and Väinö Lynn)
• 1976 - My love in the third year (based on the play Przhevalsky’s Horse, 1972)
• 1980 - Tehran-43 (together with Alexander Alov and Vladimir Naumov )
• 1981 - Two lines in small print (together with Vladlen Loginov and Vitaly Melnikov )
• 1984 - When others were silent ( German: Wo andere schweigen , together with Ralph Kersten and Peter Wuss)
• 1987 - So we will win! (teleplay)
• 1988 - Seven Days of Hope (TV movie)

Editions

• Favorites. - M., Art, 1982
• Clean hands. - M., Art, 1956
• Place in life. - M., Art, 1957
• In the name of the revolution. - M., Art, 1958
• Meridian 361st. - M., Art, 1958
• Sixth of July. - M., Art, 1966
• 18th year. - M., Soviet writer, 1974
• Przewalski's horse. Weather for tomorrow. - M., Art, 1975
• Trust (in collaboration with V. Loginov). - M., Art, 1977
• February (co-authored with V. Loginov). - M., Soviet writer, 1989
• Two lines in small print. - M., Art, 1982
• Plays. - M., Soviet writer, 1983
• So win! - M., Art, 1985
• Tehran-43 (co-authored with A. Alov and V. Naumov). - M., Art, 1986
• The irreversibility of change. - M., True, 1988
• Further ... further ... further. - M., Book Chamber, 1989
• Dictatorship of conscience. - M., Art, 1989
• Further ... further ... further ... - Riga, 1990

• When Mikhail Marshak in 1955 brought his first play, Clean Hands, to the young director Oleg Efremov at the Central Children's Theater , he, having learned that the name of the young playwright was Marshak , considered him a psychopath who took an unsuccessful pseudonym ^[4] .
• When Mikhail Marshak began to write, his relative Samuel Marshak told him: “You understand that there cannot be two Marshaks.” Therefore, the playwright Mikhail Shatrov appeared.
• On the advice of Rolan Bykov, Mikhail Marshak took as a pseudonym the name of one of the heroes of his first play, Clean Hands ^[4] .
• In the summer of 2003, Mikhail Shatrov was threatened that a bomb was planted at his dacha in Peredelkino . Specialists who arrived did not find the bomb ^[7] .

• Shatrov Mikhail Filippovich // Who is who in modern culture: In 2 issue. / Ch. ed. S. M. Semenov, ed. and comp. N.I. Shadrina, R.V. Pigarev et al. - M .: MK-Periodika, 2006-2007. - ISBN 5-93696-007-3 , 5-93696-010-2.
• Interview in Novye Izvestia November 3, 2003 (inaccessible link)
• Mikhail Shatrov on the radio "Echo of Moscow" on August 11, 2002
• Skyscraper man