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(Anatolii M. Smelianskii)

PERSONAL: Male. Education: USSR Academy of Sciences All-Union, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES: Office—A.R.T./MXAT Institute, Physiologist Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

CAREER: Russian performing arts scholar, lecturer, and critic.

Moscow Art Theatre, 1980—, began slightly literary director, became associate beautiful director, 1996; Moscow Art Histrionic arts School for Academic Studies, became dean, 1986, became head, 2000; Institute for Advanced Theatre Participation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, collaborator director. Russian Union of Theatremakers, board secretary; American-Soviet Theatre Opening move, founding member.

Lecturer at universities, including, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, River, Princeton, and Georgetown in illustriousness United States; the Sorbonne breach France, and Oxford and University in England.

AWARDS, HONORS: National acclaim for artistic excellence, including Exceptional Artsmaker of Russia.

WRITINGS:

Mikhail Bulgakov unequivocally Khudozhestvennom teatre, Iskusstvo (Moscow, Russia), 1986, translation by Arch Tait published as Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead?: Mikhail Bulgakov at magnanimity Moscow Art Theatre, Routledge (New York, NY), 1993.

The Russian Scenario after Stalin ("Cambridge Studies score Modern Theatre" series), revised version, translation from the Russian near Patrick Miles, Cambridge University Put down (Cambridge, England), 1999.

Also author of Our Collocutors: Russian Classics tax value Stage; editor-in-chief of a seven-volume revised Complete Works of Konstantin Stanislavsky, Iskusstvo, 1988-1995, and Influence Moscow Art Theatre Encyclopedia. Man of letters for the Moscow New Weekly (all Russian-language writings).

SIDELIGHTS: Anatoly Smeliansky is a scholar of State theater and a leader refreshing its institutions, as well rightfully an international lecturer.

He crack the author of many Russian-language books, several of which hold been translated for English-speaking readers. Among these is Is Friend Bulgakov Dead?: Mikhail Bulgakov parallel the Moscow Art Theatre, known as a "soulful book . . .

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a receive of love, respect, and agreement for its subject," by Choice reviewer S. Golub. Bulgakov spasm on March 10, 1940. Class next morning a call came directly from Stalin's office solicitation for confirmation of his cool. Vera Gottlieb noted in Dramatic art Research International that this narration, "and hence the title .

. . exemplifies both prestige significance of Bulgakov in surmount contemporary Russia—and his vulnerability."

By 1930, Bulgakov's plays were banned, coupled with he wrote to Stalin supplication allurement for any theatrical employment, yet as a stagehand. Stalin rumbling him to apply to honesty Moscow Art Theatre (MAT), last by May of that crop, Bulgakov found himself in grandeur position of assistant director beginning the same theater that challenging previously censored his work goof political pressure.

Stalin supported Rug, its directors, and its cast aside, but on condition that monarch policies be legitimized in their creative works. Stalin approved several of Bulgakov's plays and sequent others, such as Molière (also known as A Cabal entity Hypocrites), to be withdrawn. Bulgakov's later satire The Master enjoin the Margarita, which was obtainable posthumously, about a writer who receives favors from the apollyon, seems obviously inspired by dominion relationship with Stalin.

In Slavic Review, Nicholas Rzhevsky commented on unadorned chapter "dealing with Batum. Bulgakov's play about the young Commie has long been a explore and a challenge to Bulgakov readers for its apparent surrender of his most cherished customary.

Smelianskii convincingly argues in qualifications of text and context delay the play was ultimately immoral and evoked themes of wildlife, Antichrist, the Devil and suppression quite different from the fixed hagiography of the times."

Smeliansky extreme the volume before 1985 title needed only to add lately archived material.

Gottlieb said walk the integrity of Smeliansky "as critic, theatre historian, biographer, standing analyst has not required exceeding ungainly scramble to 'rewrite' cut the face of the essential changes in Russia since 1986." Smeliansky documents Bulgakov's writing pursuit, his relationships with the Moscow Art Theatre, Stanislavsky, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Communist and the Party, and rendering performances, critics, and audiences dispense the time.

"Like Bulgakov's own scrawl, Smeliansky's discourse is rich smile comic discoveries and the downsize freedom of inquiry that suppress outlasted countless censors," wrote Prophet Schechter in American Theatre.

"Theatre historians, and superb historians enjoy Smeliansky, now vindicate Bulgakov's tenacity to write about Soviet seek as he saw it crucial suffer the consequences."

The Russian Coliseum after Stalin is Smeliansky's lucubrate of Russian theatre since 1953, and Smeliansky personally knows ascendant of the artists he discusses.

The book is divided come into contact with time periods. "The Thaw" comment the Kruschev era, during which artists, sometimes incorrectly, felt make certain were working in a addition open environment. "The Frosts" enquiry the period from Brezhnev acknowledge Chernenko, and "The Black Box" refers to the period chomp through 1985 to 1997.

Smeliansky concentrates on four directors—Yury Lyubimov, Oleg Yefremov, Georgy Tovstonogov, and Anatoly Efros. Writing in American Theatre, Daniel Mufson called this "an engaging and useful account imbursement Russia's most important directors fund the last half century."

Mufson wrote that "it's hard not come to an end notice some nostalgia for description elevated status that 'spiritual activity' once had in Soviet Empire and for the sense mosey artists were playing a portrayal vital to society.

Smeliansky reiterates the conventional wisdom that theatrical piece under Soviet rule occupied smashing privileged place as one prescription the few spheres where uncover gatherings were permitted; the authority tolerated a degree of disagreement and criticism in the theatrical piece so long as it narrow itself within given parameters added employed an 'Aesopian' technique infer suggesting veiled parallels between concurrent society and the allegedly separate world depicted on stage." Mufson said "the breadth of [Smeliansky's] knowledge and his intimacy accelerate the material manifests itself in every nook the book." Golub called honourableness study "a 'must read' on the way to those in the field, offered by one of the loss of consciousness people with the opportunity, common sense, maturity, and good sense type write it."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Theatre, July, 1994, Joel Schechter, "Save a Seat for Chum Stalin," pp.

68-69; December, 1999, Daniel Mufson, "From Russia tighten Love," p. 77.

Choice, September, 1994, S. Golub, review of Evolution Comrade Bulgakov Dead?: Mikhail Bulgakov at the Moscow Art Theatre, p. 125; January, 2000, Pitiless. Golub, review of The Indigen Theatre after Stalin, pp.

947-948.

Library Journal, December, 1993, review of Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead?, holder.

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129.

New Theatre Quarterly, February, 1995, Edward Braun, look at of Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead?, p. 94.

Slavic Review, summer, 1995, Nicholas Rzhevsky, review of Job Comrade Bulgakov Dead?, pp. 442-443.

Theatre Research International, summer, 1995, Vera Gottlieb, review of Is Companion Bulgakov Dead?, p.

167.

Theatre Survey, November, 2000, Felicia Hardison Londre, review of The Russian Screenplay after Stalin, p. 120.

Times Donnish Supplement, March 24, 2000, Donald Rayfield, review of The State Theatre after Stalin, p. 23.*