Born September 6, 1986. Graduated from the Philological Department of St. Petersburg State University and earned a Master’s degree in Art History at St. Petersburg State University. By chance, at age twelve, I went with my parents to the shipyard where the frigate was “Shtandart” under construction. That hooked me for good. After the launch of “Shtandart” and its maiden voyage, I participated in building the captain’s gigs for the Atlantic Challenge Russia and sailed on them. In 2009, while a university student, I got acquainted with the Theater of Generations named after Z. Ya. Korogodsky and became a volunteer, and later a permanent employee of its literary and administrative department. Most of my work is connected with those two elements — the sea and the theater.

 

 

 

“WITHOUT LEAR”
On a production of “King Lear” at the Z. Ya. Korogodsky Generations Theater

 

Neither distance nor dust on the withering apple trees,

Nor the salt spray wreathing the air over Albion,

Nor the ashes will tell those alive, stronger or weaker,

Of this path and the ruler who’s stripped off his crown.

 

No less precious for that, the complicated truth

Slides away like a bar of soap slips from wet hands,

And the storm swirls — as close as the palisade it looms,

Where the questioning third trumpet’s blast comes to an end,

 

And death chases death, flashing it gestures,

Spinning its mill toward Judgment Day pell-mell…

 

Gone mad, the king speaks over the castle’s cinders,

And coldness slowly settles upon his soul.

 

2009