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Mikhail Shatrov
Born
Mikhail Marshak

April 3, 1932
DiedMay 24, 2010
Moscow, Russia
Alma materMoscow State Mining University
OccupationPlaywright
RelativesAlexei Rykov (uncle)
Samuil Marshak (cousin)

Mikhail Shatrov (1932-2010) was a Soviet playwright.[1][2] In 1958 he was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers. Member of the CPSU since 1961. In a series of historical plays, he shook up the genre of Leniniana.

He died in Moscow at the 79th year of his life from a heart attack in his apartment in the House on the Embankment. He was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.

References

  1. ^ Grimes, William (May 26, 2010). "Mikhail Shatrov, Outspoken Soviet Playwright, Dies at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  2. ^ Riley, John (August 24, 2010). "Mikhail Shatrov: Playwright whose work asserted that Stalinism was a deviation from Leninism". The Independent. Retrieved May 9, 2016.