Mikhail Roshchin is a famous domestic playwright, prose writer and screenwriter. He became famous thanks to his plays, which still go on at the theater sites of the country, as well as their adaptations. His most famous works are Old New Year and Valentine and Valentine. In this article we will tell his biography, dwell on the main stages of creativity.
Childhood and youth
Mikhail Roshchin was born in Kazan in 1933. His father's name was Mikhail Naumovich Gibelman, and his mother was Klavdia Tarasovna Efimova-Turkina. So Roshchin is a pseudonym that he took when he began to seriously engage in literary work. All childhood Mikhail Mikhailovich Gibelman passed in Sevastopol. There he remained during the years of World War II. Only after graduation he moved with his parents to Moscow.
Education
Mikhail Roshchin studied at the Pedagogical Institute, and at the evening faculty, since he had to work in parallel to support himself.
The hero of our article began to print back in 1952. Initially, he was a correspondent for the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, in the 57th he began to collaborate with the Znamya magazine. For some time he had to leave Moscow in the Volgograd region. During this period of his biography, Mikhail Roshchin worked as a literary employee in one of the newspapers of the Volga city of Kamyshin.
When he returned to Moscow, he began to work with the magazine "New World", which was then led by Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky.
The Union of Writers of the USSR was adopted in 1966. In 1991, he became a member of the Union of Writers of Moscow, which was formed after a split in the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union.
Creation
Most famous as a playwright Mikhail Roshchin. He began to compose plays in 1963, but for the first time he managed to publish only in 88th. At first, they were not even put on the stage, since the very first works of the hero of our article seemed too bold and bold to those around.
For example, his first play, The Seventh Feat of Hercules, tells of a supposedly prosperous country, which is actually permeated by impurity and hypocrisy, where the goddess of lies subjugates everyone. It was she who was written in 1963, and was first published only in 1987.
In the 1965 play "The Druzhina", a small provincial town appears in the center of the story, in which the combatants seize power into their own hands. They begin to dictate to others norms of morality and behavior, which leads to disastrous consequences.
Only his third play, entitled Rainbow in Winter, was staged. Its premiere took place in 1968 at the Theater of the Young Spectator in Leningrad. This work is also known as the Girl Where Do You Live?
Heyday of popularity
In the 70-80s, Mikhail Roshchin finally became popular. They found out about him throughout the Soviet Union. At the same time, he often worked literally on the verge of what was permissible, but he always managed not to cross this verge. Gently, but consistently, he constantly criticized the mores of his contemporaries. Often his irony was involved in the lyrics. In the heroes of the plays, viewers and readers often recognized themselves, but the author sought never to judge them too harshly.
The popularity of the play "Valentine and Valentine." It was immediately put on two metropolitan venues - the Bolshoi Drama Theater and in Sovremennik.
"Valentine and Valentine"
This work tells of two young people with similar names in the title. They are only 18 years old, it is at this age that they begin to feel what is happening around them most vividly, their relationship is innocent and romantic. However, parents do not want to reckon with the feelings of their children, being confident that they know better what is necessary for their well-being and happiness.
For example, Valentina’s mother is convinced that her daughter deserves a more profitable party than unpromising Valentine. The parents of the young man are also not happy with the potential bride, believing that their son deserves the best. In this play, Mikhail Mikhailovich Roshchin seeks to show that true love is able to overcome any obstacles, which he proves with his work.
In 1985, the play was filmed. The melodrama was directed by director George Nathanson, who, together with Roshkin himself, acted as a screenwriter. The main roles of young lovers were performed by Nikolai Stotsky and Marina Zudina. Valentina's mother was played by Tatyana Doronina. At the moment, this remains her last role in the cinema.
Prose
In addition to dramatic works, in the work of Mikhail Roshchin there is a lot of prose, as well as scripts for films, which we will discuss separately. Roshchin wrote over ten short stories and collections of short stories. In the mid-90s he published his memoir and diary prose in the journal October.
He published his first collection of short stories in 1956; it was called "In a Small Town". This was followed by collections of novels and short stories “What do you do in the evening”, “From morning to night”, “24 days in paradise”, “River”, “Strip”, “On a gray horse in apples”, “My most platonic love "
Also in print were his short stories “The Back Door. Remembrance”, “Fatal Mistake”, a collection of short stories “Stories from the Road”, “Ferris Wheel in Kobuleti”. For the series “The Life of Wonderful People,” Roshchin wrote a biography of Ivan Bunin.
Screen version of "Fatal error"
The story of Roschin "Fatal mistake" was written in 1988. Then she was filmed by director Nikita Khubov. The main roles were played by Larisa Pavlova, Natalya Androsik, Olga Ageeva, Irina Kashalieva and Larisa Blinova.
This is a realistic drama about Soviet youth of the late 80s. The events of the film and the story unfold in the capital. The main character is Nadia Beloglazova, who grew up in an orphanage, because her mother left her in an orphanage.
Girl for innocent entertainment spends time with her friends. Before returning home, she is repainted in punk, shocking her adoptive mother Claudia Mikhailovna with her appearance.
In addition, Nadia falls in love with Afghan war veteran Sergei Orlovsky (played by Boris Shevchenko). A man is not only much older than her, but also married. She tries to achieve his reciprocity, volunteering to look after his son.
Ploshchina's plays
Among the plays of the hero of our article, it is necessary to note several more noteworthy dramatic works. In 1970, he wrote the play Treasure Island. This is a play-play of a playwright, based on the famous work of the same name by Robert Lewis Stevenson.
In 1973, he completed the Echelon work, which two years later was staged on the stage of the Sovremennik Theater in Moscow by director Galina Volchek, and at the Moscow Art Theater Anatoly Efros. Roshchin dedicated this play to his mother. Although it is connected with the Great Patriotic War, in reality it is not about heroic fighters and battles, but about simple and weak women, mothers.
In 1975, he composed a light and kind play with notes of nostalgia "Husband and wife will rent a room" and "Repair". In the late 70s, a fairy tale for adults “Galoshes of happiness” came out from under his pen, in which, among the characters, along with ordinary people, were Fairy of Sorrows Ursula and Fairy of Happiness Maria. The basis of his play "Hurry to do good", which dates back to the same period, is based on the amazing history of the Myakishevs. The head of the family brings a teenage girl from a business trip, which he saved from suicide. The tragic story of Olya Solentseva, which becomes a real moral test for everyone around, bursts into a measured and settled way of life.
Among his recent works are the plays “Twin”, “Pearly Zinaida”, “Shura and Prosvirnyak”, “Silver Age”.
The collapse of the USSR
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Roshchin’s work was forgotten and unclaimed. The period of his active independent creative activity is rapidly ending.
Until 1998, he, together with theatrical director and playwright Alexei Kazantsev, published the journal "Dramaturg". Then he worked as the art director of the Center for Directing and Drama, founded by the same Kazantsev. Held seminars for young playwrights in Lyubimovka in the Moscow region.
The last years of his life he spent at the cottage in Peredelkino. Roshchin died in 2010 of a heart attack. He was 77 years old.
A family
The personal life of Mikhail Roshchin was saturated. He has been married four times.
His first chosen one is theater expert Tatyana Butrova. Then he married the journalist Natalya Lavrentieva.
The third wife of the playwright was the Honored Artist of the RSFSR Lydia Savchenko. She became famous thanks to the main role of Lucy in the play by Anatoly Vasiliev entitled "The Adult Daughter of a Young Man", which premiered on the stage of the Stanislavsky Moscow Drama Theater in 1979. In 1990, she starred in the eponymous television version of the play.
The fourth wife of the hero of our article was the People's Artist of the RSFSR Ekaterina Vasilyeva. In addition to Roshchina, she was married to Sergei Solovyov.
In total, the hero of our article has four children. In 1956 Tatyana was born, ten years later - Natalya, in 1973 - son Dmitry. It is known about him that the young man graduated from VGIK, and then became a priest, married the daughter of the USSR State Prize laureate Vyacheslav Klykov - Lyubov.
In 1985, Roshchin had a son Alexei.
In total, the playwright has 11 grandchildren.
"Old New Year"
The most famous work in the work of the hero of our article is the play "Old New Year", which he wrote in 1966.
The events in this work unfold on the eve of January 13, when, in the Soviet Union, according to the established tradition, they celebrate the Old New Year. At the center of the story are two families who celebrate housewarming. These are the rustic Sebeikins and half-intellectuals.
Peter Poluorlov returns from work in a bad mood. A well-equipped apartment and material well-being do not please him, he understands that he has not achieved anything in his profession, all his efforts were in vain. People do not understand his disappointment from his fate, he throws TV, furniture and piano onto the stairs.
His neighbor Pyotr Sebeikin also has problems, who cannot find a common language with his family. He put his whole life in order to achieve prosperity in everything, but it turns out nobody needs it.
Having quarreled with relatives, both heads of the family leave home on holiday.
1980 film
The film "Old New Year" in 1980 was directed by Oleg Efremov and Naum Ardashnikov. For the latter, this work became the most significant in his career.
Interestingly, in this satirical comedy almost the same actors are involved who played in the performance of the same name by Efremov at the Moscow Art Theater. In a television format the two-part tape turned out. The film "Old New Year" in 1980 is still broadcast on the main channels of the country on the eve of January 13. This is almost the same tradition as showing on December 31 "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath".
Pyotr Sebeikin was played by Vyacheslav Nevinniy, his neighbor Polorlov - Alexander Kalyagin. Evgeny Evstigneev in the image of the ubiquitous neighbor Ivan Adamych, Irina Miroshnichenko - Klava Poluorlova, Ksenia Minina - Klava Sebeikina, Anastasia Nemolyaeva - Lisa, Georgy Burkov - father-in-law Sebeykin appeared in episodes, also appeared in episodes.
This is the most famous work in the career of Roshchin.