Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is a completely extraordinary person, a wonderful writer, screenwriter, playwright and a great singer
Lyudmila was born in 1938, in 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 to the world of literature, and the girl learned to read early.
The grandmother told the girl that her distant ancestor was a Decembrist and died in exile. Those who read the works of Petrushevskaya probably wonder whether she inherited an independent disposition and her own outlook on life from him?
The Petrushevsky family had traditional home theater performances, in which children also took part. Lyudmila did not dream of a theater - she wanted to become an opera singer. However, this did 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 then became the host of the "Latest News" program on the All-Union Radio.
In 1972, Lyudmila became the editor of Central Television - her responsibilities included monitoring serious economic and political broadcasts. Possessing a direct character, Petrushevskaya wrote honest reviews of all programs. And soon, due to complaints from the editors of these programs, she had to quit. Since then, she has not officially worked anywhere.
Literary creativity
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. However, in 1972 she sent her story "Through the Fields" to the magazine "Aurora", and it was published. All her subsequent works she wrote "on the table" - they were not published anywhere. She was secretly included in the list of banned authors.
Petrushevskaya also wrote excellent piercing scripts for plays, but they were not staged either. And when the director Roman Viktyuk nevertheless staged the play "Music Lessons" according to her script, there was a scandal: the performance was banned, the troupe was dispersed. The play predicted the future of the Soviet Union - the way we see it now, and the then government did not like it.
Performances based on the plays of Petrushevskaya were sometimes staged in small theaters, and they appeared on the big stage in the 80s: in Taganka, Yuri Lyubimov staged her play Love. The baton was taken over by Sovremennik and other theaters.
Lyudmila Stefanovna continued to write plays, prose, fairy tales, but this was not published anywhere - so much her view of literature did not reflect the then tendencies to embellish life. She also had the naked truth, presented with a certain grotesque.
In the late 1980s, she began to publish her works, and immediately succeeded: for the collection "Immortal Love" Petrushevskaya received the Pushkin Prize. She writes fairy tales, poems, composes cartoons. Her plays and prose have been translated into 20 world languages.
Personal life
All interests of Lyudmila Stefanovna were somehow connected with art, so art 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 not break her character, and she continued her creative pursuits: she created the "Studio of manual labor", in which she works as an animator. The studio has created works: "Ulysses: drove, arrived", "Conversations of K. Ivanov" and others.
She is also involved in charity work: she writes and sells paintings, and sends money for them to orphanages.
Lyudmila Stefanovna's sons became journalists, and her daughter is professionally engaged in music.
