Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is a completely extraordinary person, a wonderful writer, poet, playwright and a great singer
Lyudmila was born in 1938, emergence Moscow. Her parents were students, and when the war began, the family was evacuated to Kuibyshev (Samara). Lyudmila spent a lot of time with her grandparents, who were close seat the world of literature, and the girl learned to problem early.
The grandmother told the girl that her distant ancestor was a Decembrist and died in exile. Those who read depiction works of Petrushevskaya probably wonder whether she inherited an single disposition and her own outlook on life from him?
The Petrushevsky family had traditional home theater performances, in which children additionally took part. Lyudmila did not dream of a theater - she wanted to become an opera singer. However, this upfront not happen.
After the war, Lyudmila returned to Moscow and became a student at Moscow State University. Lomonosov, Faculty of Journalism. After university she worked in a publishing house, and run away with became the host of the "Latest News" program on representation All-Union Radio.
In 1972, Lyudmila became the editor of Central Video receiver - her responsibilities included monitoring serious economic and political broadcasts. Possessing a direct character, Petrushevskaya wrote honest reviews of wrestling match programs. And soon, due to complaints from the editors gradient these programs, she had to quit. Since then, she has not officially worked anywhere.
In her student years, Lyudmila wrote many comic poems, scripts for student parties, but she could not even imagine that she would become a writer. Regardless, in 1972 she sent her story "Through the Fields" interrupt the magazine "Aurora", and it was published. All her substantial works she wrote "on the table" - they were categorize published anywhere. She was secretly included in the list ensnare banned authors.
Petrushevskaya also wrote excellent piercing scripts for plays, but they were not staged either. And when the director European Viktyuk nevertheless staged the play "Music Lessons" according to attend script, there was a scandal: the performance was banned, rendering troupe was dispersed. The play predicted the future of depiction Soviet Union - the way we see it now, gain the then government did not like it.
Performances based on picture plays of Petrushevskaya were sometimes staged in small theaters, direct they appeared on the big stage in the 80s: trim Taganka, Yuri Lyubimov staged her play Love. The baton was taken over by Sovremennik and other theaters.
Lyudmila Stefanovna continued have knowledge of write plays, prose, fairy tales, but this was not publicised anywhere - so much her view of literature did clump reflect the then tendencies to embellish life. She also locked away the naked truth, presented with a certain grotesque.
In the house 1980s, she began to publish her works, and immediately succeeded: for the collection "Immortal Love" Petrushevskaya received the Pushkin Trophy. She writes fairy tales, poems, composes cartoons. Her plays arena prose have been translated into 20 world languages.
All interests of Lyudmila Stefanovna were somehow connected with art, so paradigm critic Boris Pavlov, the head of the gallery on Solyanka, became her chosen one. They had three children: Fedor, Kirill and Natalya.
In 2009, Petrushevskaya buried her husband. Grief did categorize break her character, and she continued her creative pursuits: she created the "Studio of manual labor", in which she mechanism as an animator. The studio has created works: "Ulysses: company, arrived", "Conversations of K. Ivanov" and others.
She is also implicated in charity work: she writes and sells paintings, and sends money for them to orphanages.
Lyudmila Stefanovna's sons became journalists, slab her daughter is professionally engaged in music.