Inna Solovyova
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- Theatre critic
- Film critic
- Scholar
Inna Solovyova | |
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Инна Соловьёва | |
| Born | 16 November 1927 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 29 May 2024 (aged 96) Moscow, Russia |
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| Years active | 1954–2024 |
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Inna Natanovna Solovyova (Russian: Инна Натановна Соловьёва; née Bazilevskaya; 16 November 1927 – 29 May 2024) was a Russian theatre and film critic and scholar. She wrote for the magazines Teatr. and Novy Mir as well as the newspaper Kultura. Solovyova taught a theatre criticism workshop at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts and taught the history of Russian theatre at the Moscow Art Theatre School. She was the author of books on cinema and theatre. Solovyova was a recipient of the Order of Friendship, the Order of Honour, the State Prize of the Russian Federation, the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", the Golden Mask and the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
Solovyova was born in Moscow on 16 November 1927.[1][2] Her father was the Soviet playwright Natan Bazilevsky-Blumkin.[3] In 1949,[1][2] Solovyova graduated the theatre studies department and postgraduate programme under the tutelage of the theatre critic Pavel Markov at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS).[3][4] She defended her defended her dissertation on The Moscow Art Theatre in the Period of Preparation for the 1905 Revolution in 1952,[3][5] a subject she was interested in since her youth.[6]
Career
Starting in 1954, Solovyova was a member of the circle of young critics who gathered to write for the magazine Teatr., the newspaper Kultura as well as the magazine Novy Mir.[3][7] In 1967, she joined the Moscow Art Theatre School Studio's Commission for the Study and Publication of the Legacy of Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, which later became, through her efforts, a research department of the school in 2008,[1][8] researching and analysing the Moscow Art Theater.[8] From 1982 to 2001, she taught a theatre criticism workshop at GITIS and was appointed head of the research sector of the Moscow Art Theatre School in 2000,[4] teaching the history of Russian theatre.[9] She administered examinations to graduate students, attended dissertation defences and was a lecturer.[3] According to The Economist, Solovyova would spend around 10 to 12 hours per day, almost uninterrupted, until she had completed her task.[10] Some of Solovyova's most notable students include the critics Marina Davidova, Dina Goder and Gleb Sitkovsky.[7][8]
She was the author of eight books on cinema and theatre.[4] These include Cinema of Italy (1945–1960), Essays in 1961, a collection of articles known as The Performance is on Today in 1966;[5] Jean Gabin (with Vera Shitova) about the French actor Jean Gabin in 1967; Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1979, Fourteen Sessions (with V. Shitova) in 1981, K.S. Stanislavsky (with V. Shitova) in 1985, and Branches and Roots in 1998.[3][4] Under her editorship, with her prefaces, Stanislavsky's director's manuscripts were included in the six-volume edition Director's Copies and published between 1980 and 1994; the six-volume edition of K.S. Stanislavsky's Director's Copies as well as the Director's Copies of Uncle Vanya were published.[1][4] She also wrote volumes 1 to 2 of Moscow Art Theatre. 100 Years with Anatoly Mironovich Smelyansky and Olga Egoshina in 1998 in which she authored around 200 articles for the book, Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. Creative Legacy volumes 1 to 4 in 2004, volumes 1 to 2 of Letters from O. Bokshanskaya to Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko in 2005, The Second Moscow Art Theatre. An Attempt to Reconstruct a Biography in 2010.[1][4] She wrote the book The First Studio – The Second Moscow Art Theatre in 2016.[11]
Solovyova became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1960.[2]
