Rozovsky, Mark G.

Mark Rozovsky was born on April 3, 1937 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in a family of engineers.

Six months after the birth of his son, his father was arrested and spent 18 years in camps.

“Rozovsky is not my last name. I was adopted by my stepfather. His name was Grigory Zakharovich Rozovsky, he was an engineer. He just felt sorry for my mom. It was, I think, a marriage of convenience. At least, they didn’t let me know that this was a real marriage. Mother all her life madly loved my father, whose name was Semyon Shlindman. I named my youngest son after him. My mother is a half-breed: Russian and Greek. So, my Russian grandmother alone ... "

In 1938, his grandmother transported him to Moscow.

He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. MV Lomonosov ( 1960 ) and the High Script Courses (1964). Member of the USSR Writers' Union (1976). Member of the public council of the Russian Jewish Congress ^[3] .

Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation for active participation in the work of the Commission for pardon under the President of the Russian Federation (2002)

Since 1958, he led the MSU student theater "Our Home", which became widely known ^[4] .

After the closure of the theater "Our Home" in 1969, he staged performances at the Moscow Art Theater , at the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad, in the Theater of Russian Drama , at the Opera and Ballet Theater named after Kirov , in the Academic Theater. Pushkin , in the Theater. Lensoveta in Leningrad , in the Theater. Mayakovsky , in the puppet theater. SV Obraztsova , in the Polish Theater in Wroclaw , in the cinema, on television and on the stage.

In the 1960s, he collaborated with the Literary Gazette . He worked in the magazine " Youth ", where he led the popular headings of satire and humor.

In 1975 he staged the first rock opera in the USSR “ Orpheus and Eurydice ”.

In 1983, Rozovsky organized the Theater “ At the Nikitsky Gate ” and became its artistic director. He staged performances: “Poor Liza”, “Doctor Chekhov” (1983), “History of a Horse”, “Romances with Oblomov” (1992), “Uncle Vanya” of Chekhov (1993), etc.

Author of the plays: “Concert of Vysotsky at the Scientific Research Institute”, “Kafka: Father and Son”, “Triumphal Square” (about Meyerhold ), “Songs of Our Court” ^[5] .

Rozovsky is the author of the screenplay of the movie “ D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers ”, the libretto of the opera “The Fifth Journey of Columbus”. The legendary performance of Mark Rozovsky “The Story of a Horse” (based on the story of L. Tolstoy) was staged on Broadway (USA), at the National London Theater, in Madrid, Stockholm, Tokyo, Seoul, Riga, Helsinki, etc.

He is a fan of Spartak Moscow .

Rozovsky is married to his fourth marriage to Tatyana Revzina, director and musical director of the Theater “At Nikitsky Gates”. In the family grows a son, Simon. From previous marriages, the director has two daughters - Maria and Alexandra. Maria Rozovskaya graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, she works as the head of the literary part of the Theater “At the Nikitsky Gates”. Her husband, Vladislav Flyarkovsky , is the host of Culture News on Kultura TV. Alexandra Rozovskaya - actress of the Russian Youth Theater.

In 1996 and 2003, he was among cultural and scientific workers who called on the Russian authorities to stop the war in Chechnya and move on to the negotiation process ^{[6] [7]} .

In October 2002, during the hostage-taking in the theatrical center on Dubrovka , Mark Rozovsky, who had Alexandra’s daughter as hostages, as part of a live talk show by Savik Shuster, “ Freedom of Speech ” on NTV, called on President Putin to immediately end the war in Chechnya ^[8] .

In 2007–2008, he was a member of the High Council of the “ Civil Force ” political party ^[9] .

In March 2014 , in the light of the annexation of Crimea to Russia , together with a number of other prominent figures of science and culture of Russia, he expressed his disagreement with the policy of the Russian authorities in Crimea. He stated his position in an open letter published in Novaya Gazeta ^[10] .

In 2018, on the TV show “ Live ” the former actress of the theater “At the Nikitsky Gate” Fatima Abasculieva accused Rozovsky of rape, allegedly took place 12 years ago. Subsequently, the actress left the theater. Rozovsky responded to the accusation, stating that he did not communicate with Abaskuliyeva at all, and she was dismissed from the theater for her unsatisfactory work. In the same issue of the transfer of charges of sexual harassment, Rozovsky was also nominated by the former actress of his theater Ekaterina Kmit . ^{[11] [12]}

• Order “For Services to the Fatherland” IV degree ( March 30, 2012 ) - for a great contribution to the development of national culture and many years of creative activity ^[13]
• Order of Honor ( July 9, 1998 ) - for services to the state, a great contribution to the strengthening of friendship and cooperation between nations, many years of fruitful work in the field of culture and art ^[14]
• People's Artist of the Russian Federation ( February 7, 2004 ) - for his great achievements in the field of art ^[15]
• Honored Artist of the Russian Federation ( February 18, 1994 ) - for merits in the field of theatrical art ^[16]
• Acknowledgment of the President of the Russian Federation ( January 7, 2002 ) - for active participation in the work of the Commission on Clemency under the President of the Russian Federation ^[17]
• Winner of the “ Golden Calf ” award in the Literary Gazette (“The Club of 12 Chairs ”) (twice - 1974 and 1996).
• Winner of the Crystal Turandot award in the 1992/1993 season for the production of Uncle Vanya by A. Chekhov at the Nikitsky Gate Theater ^[18]
• Crown Award (for a great contribution to modern drama and theatrical life of the country)
• Moscow Prize, the Award of the Moscow International Television and Theater Festival.
• Chekhov's medal (2005) ^[19]
• Twice winner of the national prize " Russian of the Year " (2006 and 2012) ^[20]
• Winner of the Prize of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia "Man of the Year" (2006)
• Public Awards ^[2] :
• Order of Lomonosov
• Star peacemaker
• Winner of the Edinburgh Festival for the play "Poor Lisa" (1989)

Theater

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Cinema

Poetry

• "Yablokon" Collection of poems

Prose

• Theater of the living newspaper. - M., Soviet Russia, 1970. (Library "To help artistic initiative", № 24)
• The director of the spectacle. M., Soviet Russia, 1973. - 61 000 copies (Library "To help the amateur"; № 22)
• Commitment: From the experience of one studio: Reflections and documents. M., Sov. Russia, 1976. (B-ka "To the aid of amateur art activities"; № 22)
• The transformation. M., Soviet Russia, 1983. - 160 p., 65,500 copies. (Library "To the aid of amateur art activities"; No. 23)
• Theater from nothing. - M., Soviet Russia, 1989. (Library "In aid of amateur performances" No. 21)
• To Chekhov ... M., Publishing House of the RSUH, 2003
• The case of "horse thief". - M .: Vagrius, 2006
• The invention of the theater. M .: AST: Zebra E; : VKT, 2010
• "Dad, Mom, I and Stalin." - M .: Zebra E; 2013
• "I put Hamlet." - M .: Zebra E; 2015
• Reading "Uncle Vanya." - M.: New York. Word-Word. 1996
• "They caught the bird vocalist." - M .: Zebra E;
• "Tales for Sasha." - M .: Ripol-classic, 2008. - 3 000 copies.
• "Anthology of satire and humor." - M .: Eksmo
• "Things" .— M .: Rinol-classic, 2008
• "New Things." - M .: Zebra E; 2013

• Theater "At the Nikitsky Gate" under the direction of Mark Rozovsky - Moscow
• Mark Rozovsky: “My Hamlet is a man of the game” in the Teatron magazine
• Mark Rozovsky on the Moscow Art Theater website. Chekhov
• Interview to the newspaper "New Humanity"
• Mark Rozovsky: I identify myself as a Jew
• Meetings on Mokhovaya. Mark Rozovsky
• Mark Rozovsky: “The songs of our communal flat” is the real END OF LIGHT! "