Schwartz Evgeny Lvovich Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. From under his pen came more than 20 plays of fairy-tale productions for puppet and drama theaters. Also, according to his scripts, a lot of films and one animated film were shot. The birth and childhood of Yevgeny Schwartz Yevgeny Schwartz was born on October 9 in the city of Kazan in the family of the Orthodox Jewish doctor Leo Schwartz and Maria Silkaya, who was a midwife.

Both parents came from wealthy and intelligent families. Soon after the wedding of Leo and Mary, their firstborn Eugene was born. Evgeny Schwartz with his family: in his youth in Kazan, Little Zhenya did not remember, in early childhood he and his parents first moved to Dmitrov near Moscow, and then to the city of Armavir, then Akhtyri and finally in Maykop.

There was the youth of the future storyteller. These crossings can be safely considered the peculiar links of his father, who was often accused of revolutionary activity and was persecuted. Yevgeny Schwartz’s youth after graduating from the Maykop real school, in the year Eugene decided to enter the law faculty of Moscow University. However, Schwartz did not receive a diploma - after a couple of years of study, he realized that he had chosen the wrong way.

His stamping attracted theater and literature. After the October Revolution, he entered the Volunteer Army L. During one of the assaults, the ensign Schwartz received a contusion, from which he suffered all his subsequent life - his hands trembled. The playwright Evgeny Schwartz after the injury, Eugene was demobilized. He entered the university in Rostov-on-Don and firmly decided to connect his future with creativity.

At the same time, he began to work in the Theater Workshop. Critics spoke very favorably about the acting game of young Eugene Schwartz and prophesied him a brilliant future in the theater. However, after two years of acting, Eugene left the stage. In addition to working on theatrical stages, Schwartz wrote feuilletons and was the literary secretary of Korney Chukovsky, tried himself as a journalist in the city of Donetsk.

As a feuilletonist, under the pseudonym, Grandfather Sarai created for the newspaper Kochegar and the magazines "Vace" and "Leningrad". Evgeny Schwartz. At this time, Schwartz began working in Leningrad in the children's edition of Gosizdat. His main duty was to help beginners.

According to debutants, Eugene had an exceptional creative instinct and the ability to complement other people's ideas. To many newcomers, he helped to determine his literary path. Along with the members of the society, Schwartz wrote stories and poems for children in the magazines “Chizh” and “Hedgehog”. In the year he published his first children's book “Stories of the Old Balalaika”.

At this time, Schwartz had to be under constant supervision, because children's literature was considered an unnecessary and empty phenomenon. No matter what, the first book of Yevgeny Lvovich was successful. The performance "Shadow" of Eugene Schwartz on the stage of the Comedy Theater. Akimova inspired by him, Schwartz sat down to write the debut fairy -tale play “Underwood”.

In the year, the premiere of production in the Leningrad Youth Theater took place. They also put his subsequent works: “Island 5-K”, “The treasure”. In the year, the play “Shadow”, which Schwartz wrote based on the fairy tale Hans Christian Andersen, was removed from the theater’s repertoire immediately after the premiere, since the censors saw in it a political satire and hidden connotation.

In the war years, Yevgeny Schwartz first worked in the Leningrad radio center, continued to write plays. At the end of the year he was evacuated from a blocked city. In years, Schwartz first worked in the Kirov Theater, and after the Dushanbe Theater. In the year he moved with the theater to Moscow. His plays were again removed from the repertoire of the theater: during the life of Stalin, his works were not put in theaters.

His most significant works of that time: “Cinderella”, “first-grader”, “Marya-artisan”, “Don Quixote”. Scenarios to all these films were written by Schwartz. In the year, a significant event for the creator took place - the premiere of his epoch -making work “Ordinary Miracle”, on which the author worked for more than 10 years. In the same year, he became a member of the artistic council of the Comedy Theater of Leningrad.

She was the theater actress in Rostov-on-Don. Schwartz for a long time sought consent to marriage and achieved thanks to his extravagant act - in November he jumped into the ice Don in front of his lover. The couple got married and soon a daughter Natalya was born. Evgeny Schwartz and his first wife actress Gayan Khalaidzhiev in the year Evgeny met his friend's brother at one of the literary assembly.

He was with his wife Catherine, who at first glance conquered the heart of the storyteller. A long secret affair with Ekaterina Ivanovna tormented Eugene Schwartz, who did not want to hurt loved ones. However, in the end, the couple freed itself from previous marriages and connected. Evgeny lived with Ekaterina for 30 years, until his last breath. The last years of his life, he suffered from heart failure.

The writer is buried in the theological cemetery. Evgeny Schwartz: The latest news and articles.