Zoya Boguslavskaya: biography and photos

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. In universities, many have learned from his monographs and scientific aids.

Zoya, despite being predisposed to science, chose literature as her own business. And it all began with a fascination with the school theater, where she not only played, but also acted as the author of the plays. No literary evening was held without the participation of Zoya Boguslavskaya.

After graduation she entered GITIS at the Faculty of Theater Studies, where she graduated with honors.

Then in her life was postgraduate study at the Institute of the History of Art at the USSR Academy of Sciences. Boguslavskaya Zoya Borisovna, whose biography will interest any literary critic, successfully defended her thesis. She got a job as an editor at the publishing house "Soviet Writer", and besides that she was a lecturer at the Higher Theater School of Moscow. Later, she was in charge of the department of literature at 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 about cinema and theater. She wrote monographs on outstanding cultural figures Vera Panova and Leonid Leonov.

In 1967, her literary debut took place. Zoe Boguslavskaya, whose biography attracts the attention of her fans, became the author of the story "And Tomorrow". It was published in the journal Znamya, 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 devotees of the new literature.

Direction of creativity and other publications

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

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

According to the prose writer, her works have always been aimed at generating in the souls of readers of the world, 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 proper optimism. They accept life as it is, and do not blame fate.

Zoya Boguslavskaya made the feature of her works complete absence of negative characters. She is not interested in their emotional conflicts. If there is an evil hero in her work, then in the end he will be just an entangled person who deserves 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," "Time is Lyubimov and Vysotsky." The collection of the essay "Non-Industrial Histories", where memories of meetings with outstanding people are collected, are also popular (Marc Chagall, Brigitte Bardot, Vladimir Vysotsky, Arkady Raikin and many others are mentioned).

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

Zoya Borisovna wrote a lot for the theater. One story in the dialogues ("Contact") was staged at the Theater. Vakhtangov. The other rehearsed at the Moscow Art Theater, but later did not play because of problems with censorship.

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

In 1998, a two-volume book was published under the name "Through the Looking Glass", which collected all the author's works.

Social activity

Boguslavskaya Zoya Borisovna created the Association of Women Writers in the USSR in the 1960s, and then became the head of an 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, with the submission of Boguslavskaya in the country, an independent award "Triumph" was established, which was awarded in all forms of art. Also, a fund was created under the same name, designed to help artists.

In 2010, for the first time, they awarded the Triumph Youth Prize and a scientific award for achievements in various fields of knowledge.

"Triumph" has become the main project of the last decades for Boguslavsky. Therefore, all the festivals, fairs, concerts held by it, are somehow connected with the prize and the foundation.

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

Personal life

Zoya Boguslavskaya married three times. Her first husband was Georgy Novitsky. He was an actor at the Leningrad Theater. It was the first dizzying love, Zoe was only nineteen years old. Maybe that's why the marriage quickly fell apart.

The second husband was Boris Kagan, a scientist. He was a doctor of technical sciences and received the Stalin Prize in his time . The couple had a son Leonid.

Soon Zoya Borisovna gets acquainted with 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 were not yet published in any magazine, marries a third time. This marriage was her last, it lasted 46 long happy years and ended because of the death of her husband in 2010.

In honor of Ascension, 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 online store Ozone.ru and the company "Yandex." In 2014, he was listed among the "Forbes" among the richest entrepreneurs.