Mikhail Mikhailovich Roshchin (russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Ро́щин; 10 February 1933 – 1 October 2010) was a Russian playwright, screenwriter and short story writer.
Biography
He was born to Mikhail Gibelman (born 1908) and Klavdiya Efimova-Tyurkina (born 1911), Roshchin spent his early childhood in
Sevastopol
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.
In 1943, during
World War II
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, the family moved to
Moscow
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.
After finishing school, Roshchin worked as a miner at fort rose, and attended night classes at the
Moscow State Lenin Pedagogical Institute.
In 1952, he published his first story in the Moscow daily newspaper, ''
Moskovsky Komsomolets
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''.
In 1953, he entered the Literary Institute and worked as a journalist of the regional newspaper, ''
Kamyshin
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'' in the city of
Volga
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.
Whilst there, in 1956 he wrote his first collection of his short stories ''In a Small Town'', published in 1957.
In 1963, Roshchin wrote the play ''The Seventh feat of Hercules'', which due to censorship was not fully published until 1988.
In 1968, he wrote the children's play, ''Rainbow in the Winter'', a play with was put on at the
Leningrad Youth Theatre under
Zinovy Karagodsky.
His most successful play, ''
Valentin and Valentina'' was written in 1971 and performed the same year at Moscow's
Sovremennik Theatre
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Valery Fokin. It was also performed at the
Bolshoi Drama Theatre in 1976 under the helm of
Georgi Tovstonogov
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He was the leader of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater which was renamed after ...
and by several other notable directors. In 1985, it was made into a film, directed by
Georgy Natanson
Georgy Grigorievich Nathanson (russian: Гео́ргий Григо́рьевич Натансо́н; 23 May 1921 – 17 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema director, screenwriter and playwright. Worked as director at Mosfilm ...
, which Roshchin also adapted the script for. His 1975 play ''
Echelon'' was staged at the Moscow Theatre, directed by
Galina Volchek
Galina Borisovna (Berovna) Volchek (russian: Гали́на Бори́совна Во́лчек; 19 December 1933 – 26 December 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR ...
.
In the 1980s, Roshchin was occupied with writing scripts for films. These include ''
Old New Year
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This tra ...
'' (1980), ''
Valentin and Valentina'' (1985) (film adaptation), ''
Shura i Prosvirnyak'' (1987) and ''
The New Adventures of Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1988). ''New Adventures of Yankee in King Arthur's Court'', an adventure comedy, was directed by
Viktor Gres
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Film
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* ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French sho ...
under the
Dovzhenko Film Studio
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banner and was based on
American
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author
Mark Twain's ''
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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''.
From 1993 to 1998, along with
Aleksei Kazantsev, Roshchin published the magazine ''Playwright''.
From 1998 on until his death Roshchin served as the Chairman of the Board of Creative Playwrights and Directors and in 2007 he was elected Chairman of the Arts Council of the Centre.
Roshchin was a recipient of the
Stanislavsky Prize of Moscow.
Roshchin was married fours times, to dramatist
Tatiana Butrova, journalist
Natalia Lavrentieva, and actresses
Lidiya Savchenko, and
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Yekaterina Sergeyevna Vasilyeva (russian: Екатерина Серге́евна Васильева; born 15 August 1945 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She performed in more than ninety films since 1967.
Vasilyeva ...
.
He has four children; Tatiana (born 1956), Natalia (born 1966), Dmitry (born 1973) and Aleksei (born 1985).
Works
English translations
* ''Twenty Minutes or So'', (story), from ''Anthology of Soviet Short Stories, Vol 2'', Progress Publishers, 1976.
* ''The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti'', (story), from ''The New Soviet Fiction'', Abbeville Press, 1989.
* ''First Love'', (novel), Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1991.
Plays
* ''Seventh Feat Hercules'' (1963)
* ''Militia'' (1965)
* ''Rainbow Winter'' (1968)
* ''Valentin and Valentina'' (1971)
* ''Echelon'' (1975)
Screen
* ''
I Love'' (1973)
* ''
Old New Year
The Old New Year or the Orthodox New Year is an informal traditional holiday, celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the Old New Year falls on January 14 in the Gregorian calendar.
This tra ...
'' (1980)
* ''
Valentin and Valentina'' (1985)
* ''
Shura i Prosvirnyak'' (1987)
* ''
The New Adventures of Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1988)
* ''
Fatal Error'' (1990)
References
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1933 births
2010 deaths
Russian dramatists and playwrights
Russian male dramatists and playwrights
Soviet dramatists and playwrights
Soviet male writers
20th-century Russian male writers
Soviet short story writers
20th-century Russian short story writers
20th-century Russian screenwriters
Male screenwriters
Soviet screenwriters
Writers from Kazan
Russian male short story writers
Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery